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Chapter 89: Preparation

While Li Qi was busy preparing for his first TV series, on Monday, July 18, the music album sales rankings were announced in real time under the attention of the entire music industry.

Li Qi’s new album”The Wind Rises” is both reasonable and somewhat surprising, and it has delivered a beautiful result that has amazed the music industry.

It has been three weeks since the album was released, and the total sales have reached 300,000 copies, ranking third on the total sales list. The first and second places are Jay Chou and Rene Liu respectively.

Li Qi is the only mainland singer in the top five. Moreover, with his current popularity, the popularity and spread of his new album after its release, the sales curve can still rise in the third week, which in itself represents the outstanding quality of the album itself.

As a result, Li Qi’s status as a musical talent was completely established.

During this period, Li Qi and Ning Hao read the script and had secret talks behind closed doors. The final result was that Ning Hao became the director of photography for the TV series”Legend of the White Snake”. Li Qi also promised that after finishing this TV series, he would invest in his next movie, the second part of the Crazy Series, and Li Qi promised that the final editing rights would belong to Ning Hao himself.

On July 21, the three producers Li Qi, Xiao Jiaer and Yang Xue went to the higher authorities to register the script of the TV series”Legend of the New White Snake” and formally submitted the filming application.

With Xiao Jiaer’s face and connections, this very clean costume love drama encountered almost no difficulties. After only five days, all the approval procedures were completed and the filming permit was officially obtained.

July 26

The main creative staff of the TV series”Legend of the New White Snake” gathered together for the first time to discuss the specific preparations for the next filming. The most critical point of this meeting was to preliminarily select the main actors of this TV series.

The meeting lasted the whole morning.

《The TV series”Legend of the White Snake” has only taken the first step in the crew formation stage, but there are already many people who need to participate.

Xiao Jiaer is only responsible for artistic creation. So, of course, it is also the job of the production director to contact actors and agents, negotiate contracts, buy props, hire people, make costumes, etc.

Yang Xue is the art director. She is in charge of many aspects, including art, costumes, props, scenery, makeup, etc. She is responsible for ensuring the quality of the whole drama beyond the plot.

Director of photography, Ning Hao, is mainly responsible for the photography and lighting teams.

For the photography team, it is relatively easy to solve the problem, because they are all our own people, and we can just pull them over and use them. We all know each other well. At present, Ning Hao is definitely the top spot, the number one camera, and the main photographer.

In addition to him, his assistant in the MV team in recent years is Shen Ao, who is a formal professional. He graduated from the directing department of Beijing Film Academy two years ago. He is recognized as a good seedling with a formal background and his level is also quite good. He ranks second.

Of course, in addition to him, the original”Crazy Stone” crew was pulled over by Li Qi and Ning Hao to use directly

The purpose of this meeting was to determine the styles of costume design, modeling design, art, and scenery of the crew.

The problem of lighting team and martial arts director.

Both of them belong to the technical field, which cannot be sloppy.

Don’t look down on them.

When watching movies and TV series, few people will pay attention to the lighting team of a play, and few people will pay attention to the martial arts director.

But for a play, the martial arts director determines whether the martial arts shots are good-looking or not.

In the context of the popularity of martial arts in China, this is a big selling point, and the lighting team is even more important.

It even directly determines whether the shots of a play are good-looking or not.

Whether the shots are good or not, at least half of it depends on whether your lighting is good!

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The so-called sense of layering and the beauty of the lens depend half on the lighting team!

Especially for technology geeks like Ning Hao and Li Qi who value the beauty of the lens, even the martial arts director can be compromised, but the lighting is the only thing that cannot be compromised!

As for the martial arts director, Yang Xue has already helped contact the Yuan Family Team, who have agreed to let him join the crew in early August. This team is not as well-known as the Cheng Family Team in the industry, but they are also big names who participate in the filming of many martial arts movies and TV series every year. Although the price is not cheap, Li Qi still made the decision.

As for the lighting group, Ning Hao has his own regular team, and the cooperation with them must be quite tacit, and it is obvious that the two sides have a good relationship. Although they often take on other people’s work, as long as Ning Hao says hello, those guys will come immediately, but there are too few people![]

In the past, Ning Hao would always find a few lighting technicians who worked alone before filming started, and then put them together to train them while filming. Because the lighting team almost always follows a certain fixed target. Some follow the director, some follow the production company. If you want to use someone else’s lighting team, it is not easy to find one.

This time, although he was still going to use Ning Hao’s old method, Li Qi was going to make some adjustments, that is, recruit a group of people to join the team.

Ning Hao would teach them while they were working, and if they could teach them well, they would be directly signed to long-term employment contracts.

This included Ning Hao’s photography, lighting and other teams.

Li Qi was going to have a good contact with them, and once the filming of this drama was finished, he would sign them all in.