This director needs to apologize

Chapter 245: Treasure the youthful excitement for a lifetime

There are not many surprises in the subsequent plot. Xiangrui did a solid on-the-spot interview for more than a month before filming started, so there are no bloody plots like other youth movies.

The campus in "Love Letter" is simple and unpretentious, and there are not many real rivalry scenes between the male and female protagonists.

In the first half of the movie, the male protagonist is in a state of full of longing and exerting force from afar.

Of course the heroine was aware of it, and Xiangrui did not arrange any low-level misunderstandings. An Xixi well presented the psychological state of a high-quality girl facing a potential suitor, and she was probably acting in her true colors.

The male protagonist and the second male protagonist each have their own interpretations of the test paper that the female protagonist sent back with the letter.

The male protagonist was mainly surprised, but also secretly happy because the female protagonist still remembered the "fate" of having the same name.

Of course, he didn't dare to have the illusion that "she likes me."

The second male lead is just watching the fun and not taking it too seriously, trying his best to encourage the male lead to "renew their relationship". Naturally, the rhetoric is that if the female lead keeps your low-scoring paper until now, it can't be to motivate herself to work hard, right?

The second male protagonist suggested that the male protagonist continue to write letters and take the female protagonist to reminisce about the past together. Only with a common past can we have a future holding hands.

Chen Yiming directly cut off the scene of the male protagonist writing a letter and changed it to the voice-over from the original "Love Letter", continuing to use the previous transition method of the same scene.

It may seem a bit stereotyped, but it will help the audience clarify the logic of the plot and follow the ideas of the director and screenwriter.

After all, playback is not allowed in the cinema. This is another movie in which the male and female protagonists recall two-line narratives. The same transition method, coupled with distinctive tonal indicators, can serve as a "signpost" to prevent the audience from not understanding it.

Since the male protagonist is pretending to be a female colleague, the voice-over is naturally a female voice, and the matching scene is a fixed perspective in the conference room, watching the male protagonist confidently speaking.

The camera then moved to the whiteboard behind him as he moved. The male protagonist was holding a marker and swiping freely on it, showing his style.

There is a fade-in, and when the camera zooms out again, it has returned to the high school era again, and the camera is focused on the blackboard on the back wall of the classroom.

This time, the perspective is fixed on the seat near the door where the male protagonist is. The one standing in front of the blackboard, writing and drawing with chalk, becomes the female protagonist An Xixi.

The soft light filter is reduced by two degrees, and the dreamy and hazy atmosphere fades slightly, suggesting that the time in the memory has been advanced.

The scenes in the classroom are the most unrestrained part for Xiangrui. Combined with her experience of collecting stories on campus, she filmed a lot of scenes both in the script and outside the script.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the original subplots of the supporting characters are added back, it will be more than enough to cut out a campus TV series with more than ten episodes.

Chen Yiming directed Wang Suqiu to edit strictly according to the formula of Hollywood commercial films, and each paragraph had a predetermined maximum duration.

Coupled with the empty shots and slow motion that are indispensable for creating an atmosphere in romance films, the information that can be contained in a single clip is bound to be extremely limited.

As a result, many of Xiangrui's passionate scenes were "cut away" by Chen Yiming.

The male protagonist's second memory is very simple. As the class monitor, the female protagonist has to post a blackboard report on the back wall of the classroom while studying intensely.

And the male protagonist in the last row of the classroom enjoys an unforgettable happy time.

While the heroine was writing the blackboard report, he would lie on the table and pretend to be asleep, tilting his head and looking at the beautiful figure walking not far away.

So much time has passed, but the male protagonist still remembers many of the contents on the blackboard newspaper at that time.

Xiangrui made full use of the results of campus collecting here, and the blackboard newspaper was very down-to-earth. After all, she synthesized the essence of more than 30 blackboard newspapers from more than 30 classes in the school.

One shot in particular was really impressive.

In the afternoon, the classroom windows were half-opened, the curtains moved slightly, and the laughter and laughter from the playground could be heard through the windows.

In the empty classroom, there was only the sound of chalk touching the blackboard.

Xiangrui controls the camera to "circle with the magic of love", filling the ambiguous atmosphere.

First, take the male protagonist as a close shot, and the female protagonist standing not far away facing the blackboard as a long shot.

After freezing, the camera rotates, penetrating the fourth wall enclosed by the blackboard, and turns to a close-up of the heroine's front.

With focused eyes, a slightly upturned nose, playfully pursed lips, and slightly moist sideburns, the camera continued to rotate 180 degrees, looking past the heroine who was working hard, revealing the girl lying on the side of the desk in the distance. Male protagonist.

Next, Zoom!

The camera shows the male protagonist's shining and frozen eyes.

At that moment, Chen Yiming, the "film judge", was also deeply moved. This was a youthful excitement worth cherishing for a lifetime.

After a class, the teacher asked a classmate to take the initiative to share the blackboard report task of the heroine. Under the hesitation of the naughty classmates, the hero was designated because he had the same name.

So the clumsy male protagonist, as the female protagonist's assistant, finally has a chance to get along with each other in an honest manner.

The so-called "getting along" is naturally beautified subjectively, but what is beautified is not the male protagonist's performance, but the female protagonist's reaction.

The male protagonist's calligraphy and paintings are all terrible, so he can only do some hard work of jumping up and down or filling in color blocks. Under the beautification of the male protagonist's filter, the heroine is naturally a gentle, enthusiastic and patient loving sister.

An Xixi still performed in his true self, but Liu Dongjun put his acting skills to the test. This kid came from the Maple Leaf Country as a versatile "campus love saint", but now he is required to play a reserved "dog licker" who is awkward in his heart and hard on his face. .

There are a lot of samples in this material library. It can be seen that Xiangrui put a lot of effort into it, and Liu Dongjun was also tortured a lot.

Compared with the new soldier played by Liu Dongjun in "1951", this character only has dullness in common on the surface, but in fact the psychological level is huge.

Fortunately, Liu Dongjun has not wasted his time in the past year or so. He is very serious about submitting assignments in the magic performance department. The requirements for acting skills in campus dramas are indeed not too high, so he still has to hone the feeling of the character. .

Chen Yiming will not comment on the sequential editing. Wang Suqiu's professionalism is trustworthy.

Since the male protagonist's letter is written in a tone of admiration for his female colleague, the content of the letter naturally revolves around the "advantages" of the real male protagonist. For example, before this memory, the voice-over talks about the void "female colleague"'s feelings for the male protagonist. The envy of beautiful handwriting.

The perspective shifts to the heroine again, and there is no need to add any more transitions at this time, because the change in tone alone, coupled with the previous plot foreshadowing, is enough to make the audience notice the switch in time and space.

The heroine's knowing smile when reading the letter, combined with the comical performance of the male protagonist stumbling before, immediately brought out the contrast.

This time the heroine was more straightforward. After reading the letter, she immediately wrote a reply, and followed the voice-over into the second heroine's memory.

The two-digit countdown to the college entrance examination on the blackboard in the center of the screen indicates that it is already the senior year of high school.

The person standing in front of the blackboard becomes the male protagonist.

Junxiu's writing on the blackboard, beautiful illustrations, and a quick cut shot constitute the male protagonist's personal appearance.

The male protagonist tried his best to suppress the turbulence in his heart, and his expression begging for praise could not be concealed. However, the next moment the camera followed his gaze, but there was no one behind him, and there was no trace of the female protagonist at all.

The next shot cuts to the corridor outside the classroom, hinting at the heroine's previous gaze and subsequent departure.

Taking over the heroine's reply to the hero's improvement in painting and calligraphy, the perspective once again returns to the heroine.

This is a clip of a girl with worries on her senior high school campus.

Xiangrui did not say clearly whether it was a complete day.

It's just that in all the clips, either a sudden glance at the corner of the camera, or a passing conversation between the girl and her classmates, in short, the male protagonist has enough sense of presence.

It stands to reason that the ambiguity level has been reached and the final step is just around the corner, but An Xixi's expression clearly tells the audience that the girl is too preoccupied to care about her feelings.

Sure enough, a conversation with the teacher in the office revealed the answer. Because of her parents' job changes, the heroine was facing a life decision. Whether to drop out of school and go abroad or drop out of school directly. This is a question.

At the end of this paragraph, the scene is fixed in the corridor on the second floor of the teaching building. After leaving the office, the heroine stood in front of the corridor window and looked at the basketball court downstairs.

There, the male protagonist had just scored a goal with a three-step layup. He was trotting back and high-fiving his teammates. The afternoon sun made the sweat on his face glisten.

As if he noticed something, the male protagonist raised his head, met the female protagonist's eyes from a distance, and then smiled, revealing two rows of white teeth.

Although Xiangrui was extremely unrestrained and shot the footage of Da Bei, Chen Yiming still discovered some omissions.

"Xiangrui, don't you think this scene of looking at each other is a bit off?"

Xiangrui was heartbroken because of Chen Yiming's scissoring behavior. He had no curiosity at all about the "enemy" and said with a look of self-deprecation, "Ah, right, right, right."

Chen Yiming didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Be serious, who am I working hard for?"

Wang Suqiu, who was sitting in the middle, couldn't help but make a "poof" sound. He quickly picked up the thermos cup and drank tea to hide his smile.

Xiangrui cheered up, and finally sat up straight and looked at the monitor, "What's wrong? How beautiful. If you think this angle is inappropriate, there are clips of the same scene from different camera positions in the material library."

Chen Yiming reminded, “It’s not about the angle, it’s about the hero’s reaction.

Think about it, this paragraph is the penultimate memory in the timeline. At this time, the male protagonist is no longer the salty fish he used to be. He has many highlights, but emotionally, he is still passive.

And it is precisely because of his unremitting efforts that he hopes to get positive feedback from the heroine.

But in this whole scene, the heroine is worrying about her own affairs. Whether she is deliberately avoiding it or not paying attention to him, all the hero gets is disappointment.

But look at what you did with the last two people looking at each other. It was clearly the boyfriend trying to be cool with his girlfriend, wasn't it? "

　I’m updating outside, please forgive me.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)