1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Chapter 39 I made up one myself

Although Zhou Yan was very interested in the beauty, in front of everyone, he still said righteously and sternly, "Director Hou, I am still a student now, so I will not consider emotional issues for the time being."

"That's right. A man should put his career first." Hou Xiaoxian nodded, and then asked, "Aren't you practicing split shots recently? How are you doing?"

Zhou Yan's eyes lit up when he heard Hou Xiaoxian ask this. He was thinking about whether he could find an opportunity to ask Hou Xiaoxian and others about borrowing a camera, but he never found the opportunity. Hou Xiaoxian took the initiative to send it to his door.

"It's almost there, there's still one last bit left to go." Zhou Yan replied.

Next to him, Zhang Yimou also became interested and asked, "Which script are you demolishing?"

During this period, when Zhou Yan was drawing the storyboards, he often went to Zhang Yimou and others for advice, so Zhang Yimou had some understanding of Zhou Yan's short film.

It's just that Zhang Yimou has not read the entire script, only knows a few of the shots, and these shots are not familiar to him at all, so he is curious about what script Zhou Yan used to practice storyboarding.

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "After hearing what the two directors said last time, I went back and racked my brains but couldn't think of any suitable script, so I just made up one myself."

"Did you write it yourself?" Zhang Yimou looked surprised. He never expected that Zhou Yan actually wrote a script by himself.

Hou Xiaoxian was also a little surprised. He burped and asked, "How long did it take to shoot your script?"

"About 3 minutes."

After hearing that it only lasted about 3 minutes, Zhang Yimou and Hou Xiaoxian both nodded, thinking that Zhou Yan was not too outrageous.

In fact, if Zhou Yan really wrote a long script, Zhang Yimou and others' first reaction would be that he was messing around. Whoever has not learned to crawl has to learn to run.

"Show me the script and footage tomorrow, and I'll study." Hou Xiaoxian said with a smile.

Before Zhou Yan could say anything, Gong Li, who was sitting next to Zhang Yimou, smiled and said, "Director Hou, when he is a child, you should stop teasing him. Zhou Yan, show the script to Director Hou tomorrow and let Director Hou give you guidance." "

"Hey, okay." Zhou Yan nodded and raised his glass again, "Director Hou, let me toast you again."

"You're trying to get me drunk, okay, come and drink, I'm not afraid."

……

It was a wedding banquet, and a lot of people were drunk, but the next day was a holiday, so it didn't matter if they were drunk.

Fortunately for Zhou Yan, he used the guerrilla tactic of "when the enemy advances, we retreat, and when the enemy retreats, we harass" at the wine table. It seemed that he paid tribute to a lot of people, but in fact, they only drank half a catty of wine in total. After dinner, they returned The dormitory also took the time to perfect the storyboards of "Antfly".

At around eight o'clock the next morning, Zhou Yan took the script and storyboards of "Antfly" and knocked on the door of Zhang Yimou's dormitory. He knew that he had drunk a lot of wine last night and knocking on the door so early today might disturb Hou Xiaoxian. Their dreams, but Zhou Yan doesn't care about that now, he just wants to strike while the iron is hot and get the filming of "Antfly" done.

Zhou Yan knocked lightly on the door twice first, but no one responded, and then knocked harder three times. At this time, Zhang Yimou's voice came from inside, "Who is it?"

"I, Zhou Yan."

"Zhou Yan, what's the matter?"

"Director Hou said he wanted to read my script, so I sent it to you."

"That's it."

Zhou Yan heard the sound of someone walking inside. After a while, Zhang Yimou, who was wrapped in a quilt, came over and opened the door, and then he quickly ran back to the bed.

After running back to bed, Zhang Yimou shouted to Hou Xiaoxian who was still sleeping, "Director Hou, Zhou Yan is here."

Hou Xiaoxian turned over and did not respond.

Zhang Yimou smiled and said, "Director Hou drank quite happily last night. It will probably take a while before he wakes up. Please show it to me first."

Zhou Yan nodded and handed the script and storyboard to Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou was wrapped in a quilt. No matter how he held the script, the quilt would leak out and his arms would be exposed. He simply got out of bed and put on his clothes.

While getting dressed, he said with a smile, "I knew you didn't drink much last night, so you could get up so early in the morning."

Zhou Yan chuckled and said, "I'm young and can sober up quickly."

"Indeed." Zhang Yimou nodded and began to read Zhou Yan's script seriously.The film is very short and there are no lines, so the script is even shorter. Most of it is action description, which creates a little sense of mystery and tension, but there is nothing special about it.

This script was not interesting until the twist in the last paragraph.

"The reversal at the end of the film is a very interesting design." Zhang Yimou commented with a smile, "It's a bit like an infinite loop."

Then he started looking through the footage of Zhou Yan's painting.

Zhou Yan's painting skills are average, the storyboarding is quite rough, and he uses a lot of text for annotations.

But no matter how rough it is, it is still more vivid than the script.

In Zhou Yan's storyboards, the sense of mystery and tension instantly increased by several levels, especially some details in the storyboards that were not reflected in the script.

The ending design of the storyboard is also more interesting than the script. The script only states that a giant who looks like a man appears behind and slams the leather shoes off.

But in the storyboard, you can see the sharp contrast between the giant and the "middle man", and in the last shot, the leather shoes occupy half of the frame.

After reading the storyboard, Zhang Yimou commented again, "A very good short story."

Although Zhou Yan's storyboard has many flaws, the angles of many of the shots are not particularly good, and some details are also a little off. For example, a man looks at the clock on the wall. In Zhou Yan's draft, the man stands in the middle of the screen, and the clock But it is very small, which does not highlight the element of the clock.

But even with these minor flaws, Zhang Yimou would like to say that this short film is quite good. If it is shot according to these shots, there will be no major problems.

After looking at the script and then at Zhou Yan, Zhang Yimou couldn't help but sigh. Zhou Yan's feeling on the screen was not outstanding, but Zhou Yan's narrative ability was very strong. Whether it was the script or the storyboard, Zhou Yan's personality could be seen in it. The narrative structure is complete and skillful.

Zhang Yimou glanced at the sleeping Hou Xiaoxian again, lowered his voice and said, "Please ask Director Hou if you want to make this film."

Being guessed, Zhou Yan didn't feel embarrassed at all. He smiled and nodded, "I want to borrow the camera on the set to shoot the movie. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't have a chance to shoot for a while."

Zhang Yimou shook his head, "It's difficult."

Hearing Zhang Yimou's difficulty, Zhou Yan asked, "Director Zhang, are you saying it's difficult to borrow the machine?"

"No, if there is any difficulty in borrowing the machine, I can make the decision. Film is no problem, you won't use it much anyway. But do you think that all you need to make a movie is a camera and film? It's not that simple."

Zhou Yan humbly said, "Please give me some advice from Director Zhang."

Zhang Yimou waved his hand and said, "I'm not talking about teaching you. Let me talk to you about film production. You can be said to have followed the whole process of filming, so you understand it relatively well. However, you did not participate in the early preparations and post-production. You For this short film, there is nothing to prepare for in the early stage. As you can imagine, you only need to prepare a camera, an actor, some ordinary props, and even a photographer. But post-production is unavoidable. Once the film is shot, it will be delivered soon. To develop, edit, and copy, this process not only costs money, but is also time-consuming and labor-intensive.”

Zhou Yan nodded, he really didn't understand much about the later stage.

"Raise the Red Lantern" was edited while filming. There was a small dark room on the set that was specially used for editing. However, most people were not allowed to enter that small dark room. Only Zhang Yimou and Zhao Fei could enter.

Editor Du Yuan followed the team with the equipment for more than two months. She just returned some time ago, and the studio equipment also went back with her.

Zhou Yan did not have the opportunity to go to the dark room, but he did chat with the editor Du Yuan several times. However, because he could not see the specific operation process, he could not understand many things Du Yuan said. He only roughly knew that film is physically edited and pasted. of.

Seeing that Zhou Yan remained silent, Zhang Yimou continued, "And your short film also involves special effects. Although it is not a difficult special effect, it still requires a professional organization to do it."

Because there are people of different sizes in "Antfly", it is impossible to capture the images of giants and small people with a camera, so special effects must be used.

Hearing what Zhang Yimou said, Zhou Yan also felt that he was keeping things simple. What he thought before was to shoot the film, and at worst, find a place to edit it later.

"Director Zhang, how much will the follow-up expenses cost?" Zhou Yan asked the price, wanting to know it well.

Zhang Yimou shook his head, "I really don't know much about this, but it will definitely not be cheap. The salary you earn here is definitely not enough."

Zhou Yan was already thinking about whether he had enough money, but when he heard these words, he suddenly became silent.

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