This director needs to apologize

Chapter 247 It’s so subtle yet so straightforward

After the heroine's third memory was processed, most of the editing progress of the entire movie was completed. Chen Yiming looked at his watch and saw that it was already past 4 pm. He simply announced that the day was over and stood up to greet Xiangrui and Wang Suqiu to go out for dinner together. .

Xiangrui refused and went to arrange reshoots on his own.

Wang Suqiu also declined, saying that he wanted to go home to be with his children. "Love Letter" had tied him up for nearly half a month.

Chen Yiming left the meal alone and simply took a taxi back to Bojue. He said he hadn't eaten in the park cafeteria in a while and really missed it.

In the evening, Chen Yiming walked into the company after eating and drinking, said hello to the new receptionist, and entered the office silently.

Nowadays, Platinum Jue's front desk is considered a position with high promotion potential. Due to three rounds of rapid expansion in the past two years, the front desk's "rich connections" are particularly easy to be promoted to deputy positions in new departments.

Xiaomei, as the first generation receptionist, is now the big boss of the company's production department.

The twins are the second generation of receptionists. Currently, one is following Lao Niu and the other is following Lao Jia. They are also the backbone of the company.

The person Chen Yiming just greeted was the fourth generation receptionist. Her predecessor was sent by Da Zhuang to stay at Jueji Vision, specifically responsible for connecting with Sister Shen Pengfeishen.

However, due to the company's rapid expansion, every time Chen Yiming returns to the company, he will find many new faces.

After entering the office and making tea, the girl at the front desk knocked on the door and came in. She opened her notebook and started "reciting a spell."

Chen Yiming sighed and could only put down his teacup resignedly, sit upright and listen.

In his previous life, he was just a tool man. What he did was actually an ordinary worker's job, and he had no in-depth contact with the director's circle.

Therefore, Chen Yiming felt that he couldn't answer the nagging question, "What does a director do when he is not filming?"

After traveling through time for three years and barely achieving success, Chen Yiming was finally qualified to answer that question, but unfortunately he was no longer interested.

For example, the girl at the front desk is looking at the notebook and reading out the itinerary. It is roughly the pastime that a director can engage in when he is not filming.

""Watching Movies" would like to ask you to do an exclusive interview."

"Push it off."

"The 5th Xijing Independent Film Festival invites you to serve as the chairman of the jury."

"Ask Lao Jia to ask the penman of the public relations department to help draft a reply letter. Please decline."

"Inspur Media invites you to attend the charity dinner at the end of the month."

"Turn it down. Ignore similar activities in the future and don't ask for instructions again."

"Director Luo Hao invites you to attend the movie premiere."

"Huh? Which movie and what time?"

"In late July, the specific time is to be determined. The movie is called "The Robbery"."

"Contact Mr. Bao and ask her to understand the situation."

"Five companies contacted us and wanted to hire Director Chen to shoot creative advertisements."

"No outside work will be accepted during the production of "Mulan". In the future, such needs will be directly transferred to Lao Jia."

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After pushing or refusing, it took a quarter of an hour for Chen Yiming to finally send the girl at the front desk away. When he touched the tea cup, he found that it was completely cold.

Chen Yiming now only feels that participating in random activities or making extra money by filming commercials as a judge are not considered pastimes.

Only the few months he spent visiting Chinatowns around the world last year did allow him to find some fun.

Sometimes he himself feels that his life is too monotonous, either making movies or preparing to make movies. Now that he is barely financially free, why should he keep working like a fully wound clock?

Is it time to find a girlfriend?

As a result, Chen Yiming's reverie had just started to take shape, and he thought of the "Mulan" crew that he had left in the imperial town, as well as the two filming locations on the schedule in Dunhuang and Xiangcheng.

Oh yes, there is also "Love Letter" which still has a long tail.

Thinking of this, Chen Yiming slumped again. He didn't want to drink tea, so he put on his computer and left the office.

He ran home in a hurry, cleaned it inside and out by himself, then put work behind him and played in the game room until midnight.

If nothing else, I had a great sleep that night.

Chen Yiming slept until he woke up naturally. After breakfast downstairs, Shi Shiran rushed to the Magic Film Factory. When he walked into the editing room, as expected, Xiangrui and Wang Suqiu were already there.

The two of them were a little surprised that Chen Yiming arrived just before noon, but they didn't say anything.

But when work actually started, Chen Yiming's style changed 180 degrees, making the two of them even more surprised.

Chen Yiming still suppressed Xiangrui to prevent her from jumping around, but he no longer told Wang Suqiu, but gave her full authorization and respect, letting Lao Wang do whatever she wanted.

In fact, the editing of "Love Letter" is nearing completion, and the general framework has been decided. After getting along with each other for this period of time, Chen Yiming also trusts Wang Suqiu's skills.

In the picture on the monitor, as the heroine recovered from the unpleasant memories of the parent-teacher meeting, she once again took a pen and paper and wrote a reply to the hero. The movie also enters the last memory, the second half of the second semester of high school, the golden autumn sports meeting in October.

Fortunately, there is not much difference between spring and autumn in the Magic City, so shooting the sports meeting scenes in April didn't have much of a problem in post-production to pretend it was October.

Before the sports meeting, no one wanted to sign up for the most difficult long-distance run. As a last resort, the heroine signed up for the 3-kilometer race, and the man then took the initiative to sign up for the 5-kilometer race.

In the next few days, the two practiced long-distance running together after school every day, and had some real alone time.

The processing of the shots here is an artistic conception between fantasy and reality. Xiangrui's shot language of the entire movie is just right. Seeing now, Chen Yiming feels the emotions that the director wants the audience to feel.

The subjective beautification of the male protagonist's perspective and the deliberate alienation from the female protagonist's perspective achieve a neutrality in color and tone in this scene where the two lines of memory converge.

The "alone time" between the two is still filled with the emotional tension of being separated. The male protagonist runs faster because he hopes for the overlap and transcendence again and again.

The next moment, the rhythm suddenly turned comical. After three or two laps, the male protagonist's true colors were revealed. The female protagonist caught up and stood shoulder to shoulder with the panting male protagonist, actively slowing down to encourage the male protagonist to persist.

The sun was setting in the west, lengthening the shadows of the two of them.

On the day of the sports meeting, the heroine took the stage first, continued her consistent excellence, and successfully obtained the ranking.

As for the male protagonist, under the witness of the female protagonist and the cheers of the whole class, he ran slower and slower until he faltered.

Obviously, short-term assault training is of no use, and the male protagonist's talent is not in running at all.

Xiangrui filmed the male protagonist's struggle to finish the race in a very exciting way, switching back and forth between the chasing angle and the close-up of the female protagonist, whether it was the vivid expressions of the classmates on both sides of the finish line, or the female protagonist's first exposure in the entire movie The true temperament gives this paragraph extraordinary appeal.

As the white light faded out after the male protagonist crossed the line, the memory part ended, and the emotional bond between the two protagonists was marked with a rest.

Obviously Xiangrui and Chen Yiming had the same idea during the filming, because only the shot of the male protagonist crossing the finish line was in a post-production state.

The male protagonist who received the letter received sincere encouragement from the second male protagonist and the second female protagonist. Now that he knows the whereabouts of the female protagonist, he should boldly pursue it.

The scene regains a warm and soft atmosphere, and the male protagonist rides through the city and arrives at his former high school alma mater.

Next, of course, it was a perfect miss.

It's a bit cheesy, but it actually works in a romance movie.

After visiting the campus, the male protagonist took the first "love letter" from two time and space and dropped it into the mailbox at the school gate.

Strictly speaking, this is a BUG. Nowadays, no school will set up a mailbox outside the communication room.

However, Chen Yiming did not find fault with Xiangrui. The artistic conception was enough, and some things that did not conform to the logic of reality were harmless.

The heroine went to work the next day and received a letter from the hero. Following the instructions in the letter, she went to the school library and found the "secret" that the hero had left here in the corner of the reference books that no one cared about.

Chen Yiming watched Wang Suqiu smoothly pull the material into orbit and push the movie to the end, and he suddenly said to Xiangrui.

“I think the voiceover could be removed here, what do you think?

A true love letter is not about what the person who writes the letter writes, but how the person who reads it reacts. "

Xiangrui turned his head and glanced at Chen Yiming, then looked back at the monitor.

In the picture, An Xixi raised her head just after reading the letter. Her eyes were shining with joy and surprise.

She stood up and walked out of the office, walking quickly down the corridor, ignoring the greetings as she passed.

She walked faster and faster until she couldn't help but start trotting, like a gazelle on the grassland, into the quiet and deserted library.

Even a silent shot is enough to illustrate the heroine's mood and immerse the audience in similar emotions.

The bottom row of the innermost bookshelf contains large reference books that have not been touched for thousands of years. Every time the heroine opens one, she can find a bookmark the size of a postcard inside.

On the back of the bookmark, there are pictures drawn in memory, which are exactly the blackboard newspapers the two of them published together.

Wang Suqiu skillfully pulled out a clip of the two making a blackboard newspaper together from the material library, and mixed it with the scene of the heroine flipping through bookmarks.

Picture after picture, memories are restarted, until the last bookmark, returning to the beginning of the male protagonist's memory, the crystal clear profile in front of the blackboard, with the hair flowing lightly.

In the corner of the quiet library, light slanted down from the transom window, illuminating the dust in the corner.

The heroine held the postcard in her hand and smiled knowingly. Her profile coincided with the face in the memory again, and it was so beautiful.

There was an ending in the original script where the male and female protagonists were called by name at a certain meeting, and the two stood up at the same time and looked at each other and smiled.

This scene was filmed by Xiangrui, but she felt that it was good enough for the movie to stop at the bookmark.

Chen Yiming had no opinion on this and fully respected the director's ideas.

There's something good about being subtle, and there's something wonderful about being straightforward. Xiangrui's movie tells this youth love song very well and completely, and there's nothing wrong with leaving an open ending in the end.

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