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Chapter 31 I want to be a director

The novel was a bestseller, Xiao Jian was in a good mood, not only recovered after waking up, but he was more energetic than before rehearsing and acting well.After he was busy with the director team, he often went to the photography team to steal the teacher, and he learned a lot.

The sales performance of the novel in the next few days was also good. Although it was not as hot as it was on the first day of publication due to the support of a large number of book fans, the average daily sales of more than [-] copies in the first week was still enviable.

In Xinwei Space Company in Beijing, Wen Yong and others were very motivated, contacted the printing factory for reprinting, and urged Xiao Jian for the manuscript. At the same time, they recruited troops and contacted potential online novel authors to prepare to show their strengths.

Xiao Jian has never been involved in the company's affairs, and even the publication of traditional novels, Xiao Jian only asked to retain its copyright, and other royalties sharing negotiations were handed over to his sister Xiao Xiao.

The crew of "Stone" was still very busy, Xiao Jian admired the director Ning Hao, who obviously slept less than everyone else and worried the most, but he woke up the next day with more energy than anyone else.

More than half a month later, with the end of the exterior part of the scene, the filming of the crew moved indoors, and the group performances were greatly reduced. The workload of Xiao Jian, the assistant director responsible for coordinating the work of the extras, was greatly reduced.As an actor, he still has several "beaten" scenes. In short, he now has more free time to do other things.

I don't know when it started, every time Xiao Jian saw Ning Hao sitting on the "director's special" chair, holding a guide tube and directing the entire crew to take pictures under the mirror one by one, he felt a sense of envy and longing , I always think that one day I will sit on it and shoot my own movie.

"Jianzi's done, what are you thinking, why don't you answer?" Huang Bo came over and put his arms around Xiao Jian's neck and said.

"I was thinking what every assistant director would think?"

"What is the thing that every assistant director thinks about?" Huang Bo seemed to think of something for a moment, looked at Xiao Jian with lewd eyes and said, "Wow, what does the assistant director think about? Tell me, who do you like?" , my buddy will give you a staff officer, if it is good, I will dive, and I will end you as soon as possible."

Xiao Jian rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Please don't be so unreliable in your thinking, okay? Although there are indeed a small group of scum, it is definitely an isolated phenomenon. Don't kill a boatload of people with one shot, okay?"

Huang Bo nodded and said solemnly: "You're right, there are several assistant directors in one production crew, and someone like you who is ranked last without qualifications really doesn't have that chance."

Xiao Jian was speechless, "I'm just thinking about when I can be a director and make a movie, that's all, I have no other thoughts, really."

"What is there to think about being a director? Making a movie is not like playing? The first movie we directed was shot with a DV. If you are a director and make a movie, my buddy will be the leading actor for you. If you have money, we will Just shoot a long one, if you don’t have money, let’s shoot a short one to enjoy yourself. But before you shoot, you have to get a script, and you’d better find a good investment, so you won’t be afraid of losing your money, haha.” Huang Bo said carelessly.

"That's right, I have been the assistant director of two films, and I understand the shooting process, why can't I shoot? It's just a script, it's not difficult for me." Thinking of this, Xiao Jian stood up. go outside.

"Jianzi, what are you doing?"

Xiao Jian replied without turning his head: "Go back and write the script."

Huang Bo was stunned: "No, you really want to shoot?"

The idea of ​​being a director popped up in Xiao Jian's mind, but he couldn't stop it, movie script?He immediately thought of Long Teng, and the plot of Long Teng played in his mind like a movie.

After thinking about it, I decided to forget about writing the script of "Dragon Teng". It's not that the story is not good enough, but it's too good, but the cost of shooting is too high.If you want to rely on someone who has never been a director, or even a person who has not graduated from a director degree, to hold a sci-fi film script and find hundreds of millions of investment, the picture is drunk just thinking about it.

"The cost of the film should be low, the scenes should not be too many, and the shooting difficulty should not be high. At the same time, the film itself must be interesting and interesting, at least it must be watched by people."

After Xiao Jian drew up the requirements for his script, he thought about it for a long time, but he didn't think of any good ideas, and his head was overthinking.

"It seems that it is not as easy as I thought to come up with a script, and I can't think of it in a short while."

Xiao Jian, who still had no idea what story to film, temporarily put the script aside, did the urgent things first, and opened the notebook to type.

Wen Yong called the manuscript almost every day, saying that he wanted to release the second volume while the first volume of Longteng was selling well.

In the past, Xiao Jian didn't bother to talk about it, and wrote one or two chapters every day to deal with his reminders, but when he thought of being a director, he had to think about money.

Looking for someone to invest?

Don't be kidding, who would give money to a kid who has never made a film independently, is not a graduate of a professional school, and has little qualifications in the industry?Only fools would do this kind of thing that is [-]% non-existent, and no one's money is blown by the wind.

For example, Xiao Jian has already become an assistant director, and if he wants to become a director, he can stay in various crews for ten or eight years. Only when he has enough contacts and good low-cost scripts can someone invest in him. director.But as long as the movie hits the street and immediately returns to its original form, the ten or eight years of experience are considered in vain.

In addition, there is another way, which is to pay for it yourself, but poor people like Xiao Jian can only earn money by desperately writing code words.

It's hard to imagine that a few months ago, Xiao Jian, who couldn't type 150 words in an hour, can now type out more than [-] words per minute on the laptop with his fingers like a convulsion.Therefore, this person's potential is like a woman's career line, there will always be a squeeze.

Two hours later, Xiao Jian, who had coded out more than [-] characters and four chapters, took out the tablet and connected it to a notebook to start drawing comics.In order to raise money to make a movie, Xiao Jian worked hard. He decided to make Longteng comics, which were originally planned to be released after the middle of next year, ahead of schedule, and put them on the market when the novels are popular. sales.

Of course, in the end, under Huang Bo's "urging", I had to spend more than 20 minutes every day to write a chapter of "Heart Defense" with more than [-] words.

A few days later, Huang Bo finally waited for the finale of "Heart Defense". After watching it, he asked Xiao Jian: "Jianzi, why did I feel a little weird about what Zhao Siqi said at the end?"

What Huang Bo asked was at the end of the book. The male protagonist Zhang Ruiyang found the female protagonist Anxi, and the two finally got together. Zhang Ruiyang’s first love, Zhao Siqi, finally gave up on trying to save Zhang Ruiyang’s relationship, and said to Zhang Ruiyang and Anxi: Ruiyang, you will be my brother from now on. Bar.Anxi, you are my sister.

Xiao Jian smiled and said, "Is it strange? No."

"Sure, tell me what's wrong with this sentence?"

"Haha, think about it slowly, it won't be interesting to say it."

In the end, Xiao Jian did not tell Huang Bo the meaning of that sentence, and asked the crew for three days off to fly to the capital to discuss the publication of the comics with Wen Yong.

(End of this chapter)