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Chapter 201 I Like You

"She's very popular now."

Wang Sheng was smoking a cigarette with a smile on his face. He was in a very good mood. After all, no director would not want his male and female protagonists to have extraordinary acting skills.

Now Hong Shaorong's performance was completely beyond his expectation.

And Zhou Dingran's acting skills are even more silky smooth, and his speech and conversation are exactly like the temperament of a top costume drama actor.

The most important thing is that the collision between the male and female protagonists in the first scene is completely pink.

Even as a director, Wang Sheng watched it with gusto and the corners of his mouth raised unconsciously, not to mention the audience in front of the TV, who definitely had a strong sense of immersion.

A good start created a positive atmosphere for the entire crew.

So in the next week, Zhou Dingran continued to devote himself to the filming of the crew.

During the crew's free time, Zhou Dingran went to a recording studio in the town, borrowed their recording equipment, and produced the song "Drowning" he had just picked up bit by bit.

Zhou Dingran's arrival did not surprise the owner of this music studio. After all, there are too many actors and entertainers in Hengdian, including singers.

This boss opened a music studio in Hengdian on a whim. The most important thing is to facilitate the work. After all, many domestic small-production films or web dramas' OSTs are produced here, which can be said to be of high quality and low price.

In addition, the boss was not familiar with Zhou Dingran. Although he thought he looked familiar, he did not ask too much and lent the recording studio team to Zhou Dingran for the usual usage fee of 2000 yuan a day.

It only took Zhou Dingran an hour or two to complete the song. When he was leaving, the boss was still immersed in the music accompaniment that had just been playing, especially Zhou Dingran's brainwashing melody in the chorus, which fascinated him even more. He kept humming along like a demon.

After Zhou Dingran left, the boss was humming a tune while searching for some new generation singers on his computer. In less than a minute, he saw a singer who was among the top ten in the search results list. That's what the boy looked like just now.

"Zhou Dingran? Is he Zhou Dingran?"

The boss was completely surprised. He was not familiar with Zhou Dingran himself, but he was very familiar with the name Zhou Dingran. After all, he was also a user of Haijiao.com. The name always appeared on the new song list and hot song list recently. How could he feel unfamiliar?
Moreover, news is spreading everywhere on the Internet that the real identity of the fat-headed fish in "The King of Masked Singer" may be Zhou Dingran. The owner of the recording studio is a loyal audience of "The King of Masked Singer", which makes his blood boil.

Recalling the scene just now of Zhou Dingran skillfully operating various equipment in the recording studio, and the fact that Zhou Dingran only recorded his movements twice and then ended it, the owner of the recording studio immediately said: "Can Zhou Dingran still write songs this time?"

On the other side, Zhou Dingran returned to the crew with the "Drowning" he had just recorded, found Wang Ke, and talked about the idea of ​​filming a Douyin work.

When Wang Ke heard this, he immediately agreed: "I have all the time. When will I take the photo? I have my notebook and camera with me, and I can serve the boss at any time!"

Zhou Dingran smiled and said: "Now?"

Wang Ke nodded: "Okay, now!"

After saying that, he turned around and went back to the rest room to get his backpack. There was a notebook and camera in the backpack. It seemed that he was ready at any time as he said.

To be honest, Zhou Dingran was really moved and patted Wang Ke on the shoulder: "Wait for me for a while."

He walked straight to the dressing room. At this moment, Hong Shaorong was sitting in front of the dressing mirror, joking with her assistant. When she saw Zhou Dingran's arrival, she immediately stood up and shouted: "Master!"

Zhou Dingran nodded and looked at her assistant: "Please help me tell Chen Fengdan that I want to collaborate with Shao Rong to shoot a MV. The MV will be posted on my Douyin account. Can you ask her if you can do it? Performance fee not a problem."

The assistant yelled and reacted immediately. He immediately stood up in a panic, picked up the phone and was about to call his agent Chen Fengdan.

However, Hong Shaorong stopped the assistant's movements and said to Zhou Dingran with a smile: "Master, I have already called you master, how can you really see me outside? If you ask me to shoot the MV, I agree, just tell me directly."

Zhou Dingran smiled: "One code is one code, and the process that needs to be followed still needs to be followed."

He actually felt that what he did was right. If Tianmang came back to "settlement the accounts" afterwards, who would he ask to reason?
Seeing Zhou Dingran's insistence, Hong Shaorong said nothing more and signaled his assistant to make a call. After the call was connected, the assistant explained the reason and heard a categorical sentence coming from the phone: "No way! Tell Shaorong, you can never agree. !”

Because the dressing room was very quiet, this sentence came to Zhou Dingran's ears very clearly. His expression did not change at all. Seeing this, Hong Shaorong directly answered the phone and said: "I have recognized Zhou Dingran as the master. From now on, he will Taught me acting skills, now I just appear in a MV, nothing much."

"Shao Rong, you are stupid, he is just using you..."

"Then I'll tell Mr. Xiong directly."

"Hey, wait."

Hearing that Hong Shaorong mentioned the title of General Manager of Tianmang, Chen Fengdan softened his tone and asked: "What MV is he going to shoot? Song?"

After receiving a positive reply, Chen Fengdan continued: "Shao Rong, I can agree, but he must pay according to your current price for foreign performances. Your current quotation for foreign commercial performances is 200 million per show. If he agrees, I will Just send me the contract template."

Hong Shaorong's face turned red. She signaled Zhou Dingran to wait, then walked to the corner and whispered: "Sister Dan, you are going too far. I can act as a friend."

Not to mention that Zhou Dingran was currently her master, even though Zhou Dingran had helped her before, she was embarrassed to accept the money.

"Friendly appearance?" Chen Fengdan was ready to start preaching again.

After all, 200 million is not a small amount. What kind of friendship is worth this price?

Hong Shaorong whispered: "Sister Dan, in fact, Mr. Xiong has always intended to arrange a new management team for me. I have always missed my old friendship, so I didn't agree. But if you continue like this, I may be shaken."

Now it was Chen Fengdan's turn to be silent, and after a long time he said, "Okay, you make the decision on everything yourself, but I will go to Mr. Xiong in person to ask about the situation."

Hong Shaorong hummed and said, "Are you sure you want to ask clearly? Then there may be no room for recovery."

Chen Fengdan was completely speechless.

After hanging up the phone, Hong Shaorong turned around and smiled: "It's done, master, where should we go to shoot?"

"Where's the contract?" Zhou Dingran asked.When Hong Shaorong heard this, she immediately asked her assistant to print out two copies of the regular contract to sign, and then directly wrote one dollar as the performance fee.

Seeing this, Zhou Dingran smiled and did not insist. After both parties signed the contract, Zhou Dingran drove directly to Lu Tao's car, driving Wang Ke, Hong Shaorong and their assistant to a hotel that had been booked.

When they entered the hotel, the assistant realized something was wrong belatedly, pulled Hong Shaorong's sleeve, and asked quietly: "Isn't it good to come to the hotel with a member of the opposite sex to book a room?"

"You're here too, what's wrong?" Hong Shaorong felt a little baffled.

The assistant suppressed her blush, but didn't dare to say anything.

Seeing this, Zhou Dingran smiled and led a few people towards the reserved suite. When he opened the door, he saw four or five people already busy in the room. Seeing the arrival of Zhou Dingran and others, several people immediately He nodded and said: "Mr. Zhou, the room has been decorated and we can get to work at any time."

They were all photographers that Zhou Dingran had found in advance through Zhenshijia, and the tools in the room were all available. Lights, radios, cameras, etc. were all placed in fixed positions.

Shooting a song's MV in a hotel room is not new. It is common in the market, such as Lu Qiaoyin and Wang Leehom's love song "Good Will Break Up", etc., which not only saves costs but also saves time.

Zhou Dingran is not shooting art, so as long as the atmosphere is there, that's fine.

The curtains in the hotel room are darkened, and under the lighting, all artistic conceptions can be shaped. There is even a green cloth pulled up in the room. If necessary, it can be edited and produced through post-production special effects.

So everyone started shooting immediately.

Before and after the filming, the song "Drowning" was played throughout the room in order to allow the two actors to find their feelings through the melody of the song.

At this time, Hong Shaorong also got the complete lyrics and music of the song "Drowning".

In terms of arrangement, "Drowning" actually only has a cycle of four chords. The whole song is in the key of C, and the melody sounds a little sad.

The beginning of the arrangement gives people a very spacious and surrounding feeling, but in fact the orchestration is not complicated. The solid drum rhythm progression will make people feel a faint sense of sadness. In addition, the arrangement Most of the bass lines that appear in the song are played on the root bass of chords. Overall, it seems that not many playing techniques are used.

But just such a seemingly simple melody, combined with Zhou Dingran's singing, suddenly made the atmosphere stronger, especially the intro part, which made Hong Shaorong's skin crawl.

It's like seeing a person. At that moment, there is an everlasting heartbeat, but after returning to reality, we will clearly realize that it is absolutely impossible for us.

She raised her head and looked at Zhou Dingran, who was carefully introducing the shooting idea to the photography and lighting. Her eyes were complicated and confused for a moment.

Wang Ke is always looking for a feeling while holding the camera.

What he wanted to shoot was a Douyin work, not a genuine MV, so there were serious photographers, lighting and sound engineers on site, but he only needed one camera.

At this time, he was turning on the phone to find a feeling. He happened to see Hong Shaorong raising his head in the camera. There was a complicated look on her beautiful face as she looked at Zhou Dingran. Wang Ke's scalp was numb in an instant. Why? What's going on?Has the show started yet?
No, it hasn’t started yet!
Wang Ke suddenly raised his head and looked at Hong Shaorong, only to find that the other person had regained his composure, as if the look in his eyes just now had never existed.

This made Wang Kedu feel suspicious. Was he wrong?

So he played it back, and when he saw the look in the camera that actually recorded that moment, Wang Ke was extremely excited.

Just this look is definitely enough for countless young actors to learn from. Lao Zhou is really amazing. He can find such a beautiful actor with such strong acting skills...

Soon, after communicating with several photography teachers, the filming of "Drowning" began.

Before filming, Hong Shaorong asked Zhou Dingran a question: "This song is called "Drowning", what does it mean?"

Zhou Dingran was a little confused. How did he know what the song given by the system meant?
But he pretended to think, and then gave a perfect answer: "Hangdong... Literally speaking, hanging means fruitless, and drowning means indulging without any mistakes. So it can be said that it is Fruitless addiction.”

Hong Shaorong was thoughtful and asked: "Where are the lyrics? What do the lyrics mean? After I read it, I always felt like I was hurt in love."

"The lyrics...oh yes, they express love. Just like the title of the song, it is a fruitless addiction. Well, let me think about it, yes, that's it. It expresses a fruitless but unresolved love affair, so It sounds like you only feel hurt or abandoned. That feeling is that you don't think you are enough to live alone, so you turn off the lights..."

Zhou Dingran finally successfully solved the problem of the lyrics of the entire song.

During the process of his explanation, everyone at the scene also listened carefully, and they all felt a sudden enlightenment after listening.

Only Hong Shaorong was muttering to herself: Xuandong, Xuandong, doesn't it mean "I like you"?

Thinking of this, she looked at the busy Zhou Dingran, and smiled after a while, feeling that she might have thought too much.

Soon, the filming officially started.

The content of the shooting was very simple. It was to shoot Hong Shaorong sitting in front of the window, in front of the TV, and finally quietly indulging in the bathtub.

In addition, some memory scenes will be added, where Zhou Dingran and Hong Shaorong are back to back on the same wall, or they are lying on the same bed and in the same position.

The entire MV shooting style reveals a montage feeling.

But combined with the melody of the song, it gives people an absolutely special and sad feeling.

Of course, during the filming process, the actions of the two actors were all external. The most important thing was the eye scene between the two parties. Fortunately, with Zhou Dingran's training, this aspect was not difficult to shoot, so the two only used The MV was shot in about an hour.

And Wang Ke also recorded everything that was shot in the hotel "studio" today intact into his laptop, and then on the way back, in less than half an hour, he recorded a section of about 60 The short video is shot in about seconds.

When Zhou Dingran saw Hong Shaorong's look in this video before the MV shooting started, his whole body was shocked.

That look...

(End of this chapter)