Chapter 262 MV

In mid-September, Shuntian Prefecture, a stage theater.

"Prepare for each department, lighting team?...OK, Ms. He, are you ready?"

"I'm ready."

"OK...start!"

The headlights go out momentarily.

The surrounding wall lamps are shining, emitting a faint light.

A woman in a long skirt walked slowly against the light.

What appeared on the monitor was her slender figure and elegant long skirt, enveloped in a thin light curtain.

Around her, there is a faint light, but she herself is dark.

She lowered her head, folded her hands in front of her, clasped her fingers, and walked forward slowly.

The camera backs up slowly, following her closely.

Da da da.

The crisp sound of high heels sounded in the empty theater.

Until he felt that the length of this scene was enough, the director shouted decisively, "Crack!"

The lighting lights came back on.

The cameraman skillfully jumped off the stage carrying the machine, came to the shelf that had been set up in front of the stage, adjusted the machine, adjusted the focus, framed the lens, and said: "Director, I'm ready."

The director nodded, and said: "Pay attention next, Miss He, have you made sure to move? You must go to that circle, otherwise our headlights will not be able to find you in a hurry, and then we will not be able to shoot To the proper screen!"

"I have no problem directing, I remember."

"OK... Headlights... Okay, then everyone is ready... Let's go!"

The lighting lights went out again.

It's still the camera, and it's still the same glowing light.

High heels da, da, da.

The woman's whole body appeared in the camera, and she walked to the center of the stage with her head down.

Her long hair is draped over her shoulders. From a distance, she has a unique and lonely beauty.

Then she stood still.

But still bowed his head.

With a "snap", a straight beam of light came down and shone right on her body.

The light was very bright, but when viewed from outside the range of the light, the straight light in the dark night seemed to be scattered into countless shining particles.

In such a beam of light, her white clothes were like snow, her lowered face was still vague, but her slightly pursed lips appeared incomparably clearly on the monitor.

After a moment, she finally looked up.

The makeup is exquisite, elegant and charming.

However, she had a sad face and distant eyes.

Such distant eyes seemed to have no focus, just looking into the surrounding darkness, as if looking for something.

Then, she raised her head, exhaled, and slowly spread her arms.

"Standing alone on this stage, I heard applause..."

... ... ...

"Crack!"

The lights come on.

The director stood up and commanded: "This one is over too! Then what, get ready, we will take a few more shots with the whole scene lit up later."

After finishing speaking, he looked back at Li Qian who had been standing behind the monitor holding his chin as if he was thinking about something, and said with a smile, "How about the boss? Would you like to carry the machine this afternoon?"

At this time, He Runqing, who was still on the stage, had already come down and was walking this way. Hearing this, she smiled and said, "Yes, yes, boss, come and take pictures for me this afternoon!"

Li Qian smiled, "Don't make trouble, I'm still in the learning period, learning, pure learning!"

Director Jin Han laughed when he heard the words, and first praised He Runqing, saying that her expressions and movements were very well handled just now, then after the flattery was done, he turned his head winkingly and went to direct the crew in a pretentious manner.

Well, that's right, this is the shooting site of He Runqing's new album MV.

What I'm filming today is the MV for "Applause".

The venue is a small theater rented by someone else. Of course, He Runqing is the only actor. Even the shots of the audience that need to appear in the auditorium below the stage, as well as the cut shots of the audience entering the venue, the crew has negotiated with the theater. When I am going to go back to other people's theater performances, I will shoot a section and cut it in.

The director, Jin Han, was recommended by Yu Bojun. He graduated from the Photography Department of Shuntian Film Academy and is Li Qian's senior brother. After graduating, he carried a camera for three years and had a good reputation in the industry, but his ambitions also arose, and he began to make his own movies. Now, he is only in his early thirties, and he has already directed two feature films independently, and it is said that he has worked on several short films before.

His image style is very delicate, but the story is too literary and artistic, so in the box office, he has basically made no achievements, almost shooting one after another. Up to now, no one has dared to invest in him anymore, and he is currently running around doing odd jobs for others. Yu Bojun's new film starts shooting, and he is the scheduled assistant director and director of photography.

Later, Li Qian’s studio wanted to shoot MVs for Liao Liao and He Runqing. Li Qian asked Yu Bojun for an important person, and Yu Bojun sent him over first. The 20-song MV is not a big job, but it’s not a small job. Well, for Jin Han, who basically has no chance of starting a new drama at present, taking this order will at least keep his job first.

Although Li Qian's requirements are very strict, he requires that every song must come up with a story to shoot, instead of taking pictures of some scenery casually like those MVs of singers in the domestic music scene, and then inserting some scenes of singers singing. confessed. But to be honest, the more this is the case, the more it suits Jin Han's appetite. If you really ask him to shoot such simple things, he may tell you directly that the job is too difficult. If you can't do it, you should find a TV director!

Therefore, the work is decent, and at least it can't be regarded as a loss of status if it is said. In addition, he is poor and short-sighted, and the price offered by Li Qian's studio can still satisfy him, so he came over here.

When recommending him, Yu Bojun spoke highly of him, and from Liao Liao's MV shooting to He Runqing's MV shooting, Li Qian watched and listened to him all the way, and he also spoke very well of him.

He is very good at catching details, and the image style is just like his movies, delicate and smooth, with a unique silk-like smoothness, and this guy is worthy of having played several movies by himself. After finding him, Everyone agrees on requirements and remuneration, and you don't have to worry about anything else. You just need to pay, and they will build up a small crew for you in minutes, and it will run like a finger. For Li Qian, this It is really the most suitable introductory mentor.

There are a total of 20 MVs. Liao Liao’s was filmed first. He only spent 13 days from writing the script to filming. Up to now, He Runqing’s MV has only been filmed in 4 days. It is already the sixth song, and Liao Liao’s He has already roughly cut the MVs of the ten songs - even though Li Qian has seen many fast shooters in his previous life, he still has to admire that this guy is so fast.

Moreover, when he was editing the film, Li Qian had watched and studied several times in the past. Although his editing style was generally slow in pace, he was full of skill, and almost all the taste that should be in the script was given out—— Style, it may be difficult to catch on in the film market, but it is definitely overkill to make a song MV.

Audiences buy tickets to watch your 90-minute movie in the theater to watch the story, so Jin Han must not do it. His stories are always slow and hesitant. No, either they left early or they yawned, but the fans bought the MV and went home to appreciate every frame of the idol. Jin Han’s way, for the fans, is definitely a very advanced enjoyment!

Movie-level cameras, movie-level directors, movie-level editing, and movie-level visuals—Qi Jie had already come up with the MV shooting plan before the new albums of Liao Liao and He Runqing were released, but at that time Li Qian At first glance, she saw that she was still planning to follow the practice of today's music scene, each person only selected two title songs to shoot, and then packaged them with CDs for sale, so she rejected that plan at the time. The two sentences he gave at the time First, all ten songs must be filmed without bundling them, and the MV version will be sold separately. Second, everything must reach the level of a movie.

Qi Jie may not know it, but Li Qian, who has come from that period of history, is very clear about it: the future era will be the era of the fan economy.

So, either don't do it, or do something exciting, and build a fan base in advance.

Others have bundled two MV set CDs, one set sells for 15 yuan and 13 yuan. Liao Liao and He Runqing's new album does not have a MV, so it is priced at 12 yuan. Look forward to it first, and then, after swiping, take out ten wonderful MVs, and you can directly price a box of 20 yuan, or even 25 yuan.

That is to say, for Liao Liao and He Runqing, the MV is no longer a means of publicity when the album is released, it is purely independent and has become a separately sold audio-visual product.

General fans will definitely find it too expensive and reluctant to buy it, but they are not afraid. Just because the die-hard fans of the two are willing to pay the bill and buy it back for collection, it is enough to sell hundreds of thousands of sets twice.

Then, after the second batch of CDs are out of stock, you can reduce the shipment of CD single boxes, directly bundle the CD and ten MVs together, add some song recording highlights and MV shooting highlights, and produce a single box. The so-called "Collector's Edition" and "Hardcover Edition" are directly priced at 40 or 50, and people buy them... This is another huge sum of money.

And in this way, even if the fans' money is earned, and the profit output of the two albums of Liao Liao and He Runqing is squeezed to the extreme, it is enough for these fans to recall it many years later, and still remember it clearly. A set of MV, and praise for it - in Li Qian's view, this is the way to do things well.

... ... ...

Jin Han was busy instructing the crew to make adjustments, while Li Qian squatted in front of the monitor, switched the screen back, and watched from the beginning again, thinking while watching.

At this moment, He Runqing hesitated for a moment, and said, "Last time you took pictures of Liao Liao and me on the cover and inside pages, I think it was quite good. Many fans posted on the Internet and said that your pictures were very good. Beautiful, why are you so humble now?"

Li Qian smiled when he heard this, and without turning his head, he said directly: "Sister, the distance between shooting stills and dynamics, the distance between cameras and cameras, that is the distance from the moon to the sun! I shoot stills, and now I still have a little Confidence, if I take a video, let me tell you, it won’t take an hour, and Jin Han will want to kill me!"

He Runqing chuckled when he heard this.

Anyway, Li Qian was staring at the monitor screen intently, so she stared at Li Qian unscrupulously.

After a while, she seemed to have suddenly remembered, and said: "By the way, I said that I would invite you to my house for dinner last time. When are you free? Can you do it today? I will call the nanny in advance. Call and ask her to go out and buy the food for me."

Li Qian was watching intently. He was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then turned to look at her, but quickly returned to the screen, and said nonchalantly: "Don't worry, anyway, you owe me a lot. When you look back, I will definitely Go and eat these few meals back. But let’s forget about it today, we have classes in the afternoon, and I have some personal affairs in the evening.”

He Runqing's heart was moved when he heard the words, and he said in a teasing manner: "I understand that there is class in the afternoon, and something tonight? I seem to have heard Liao Liao say the day before yesterday that your girlfriend is still filming outside? You can still do it at night. What's the matter?"

Hearing her question, Li Qian turned around with a smile, looked at her, and said, "Sister, you've been a bit gossip lately, and you've been asking around for several times! Tonight we had a dinner with our classmates, and a buddy got engaged. , it was arranged by the family, we didn’t go there during the summer vacation, so we made an appointment to celebrate him tonight.”

"Oh, that's how it is!"

He Runqing smiled awkwardly, seeing Li Qian turned back to look at the monitor again, a look of disappointment flashed across his face.

... ... ...

Liu Xueyi, the boss of Li Qian's dormitory, is engaged.

The girl is holding a kiss with their family. It is said that she is the niece of the aunt’s family. Anyway, it’s a bit of a kiss. The girl is one year younger than him. She just graduated from high school this year. It is said that she originally wanted to enter a women’s college, but the result was poor. After a few points, she didn't pass the exam, and she didn't plan to repeat her studies, so she was ready to get married. It happened that the two families knew each other. After the introduction, Liu Xueyi's parents were very satisfied with the girl.

Liu Xueyi went home during the summer vacation, and the two met several times, and both sides looked very pleasing to each other, so while Liu Xueyi was at home, they got engaged properly, and the wedding date was set at the end of this year.

There are six people in Li Qian's dormitory, plus two buddies who usually have a good time with Liu Xueyi, and then one Sun Yuting, a total of nine people. When they met after class in the afternoon, they all went out the back door in groups. When you go to a stall that everyone often goes to, you need to serve two hundred skewers, a beer, and seven or eight cold dishes, and this is considered a start.

They were both eighteen or nineteen years old, drinking beer was all about blowing the bottle, so the scene was naturally too lively.

Li Qian is not addicted to alcohol, he has always been like this from his previous life to this life, and he rarely drinks alcohol, so after everyone toasted and congratulated Liu Xueyi, he ate skewers slowly and chatted with everyone.

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The first chapter of the new year!