Chapter 323 Ambition

Minghu Culture, ninth floor.

In a room of about 30 square meters, the curtains almost blocked all the light.

There are only 12 seats in the three rows. Right in front of it is a 120-inch medium-sized curtain. What is being shown on the curtain at the moment are some fragmented images of the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

Of course, there is no doubt that they are all plots related to Sun Ce played by Li Qian.

And this viewing room has just been renovated not long ago.

It's just that Li Qian is more used to calling it the "pull film room".

Of course, this film room that only belonged to him so far is obviously more luxurious than the film room in the film school. From the decoration, to the playback equipment, audio equipment, and even the seats and the carpet under the feet, they are all decorated according to the standards of top hotel suites.

At the beginning, Li Qian bought the eighth and ninth floors of this building in one go, and also finished the overall basic decoration together, but for Li Qian's studio, which had just started at that time, let alone two floors, an eighth floor After the building was installed, most of it was empty and unusable, so the ninth floor has always only maintained basic decoration, without specific division and functional decoration.

Until last year, because the scale of the company has been continuously expanding, although even in 1998, the eighth floor is still enough, but in October last year, Li Qian decided to clean up the ninth floor. Out.

At present, there will be no people staying and working here, but in the near future, there will definitely be people staying here.

And Li Qian must be the first one.

With the remote control in his hand, Li Qian can stop, rewind and fast-forward at any time, but in fact, since the playback started, he has never done any operations.

Such a copy was sent to him by Feng Yumin not long ago. It not only includes the scenes that have been edited into the version that will be broadcasted publicly, but also many waste shots, even NG shots at the time of filming. .

These things are worth nothing to the audience, but they are very interested in the film and television industry, especially Li Qian, who is very interested in photography, directing, screenwriting and acting, and has actually engaged in related work in various industries. In other words, it is quite valuable.

Through these multiple shots that may be a copy of the same scene, or even through one after another abolished performances and useless shots that have been edited out, he can see the advantages of his performance from another angle. Inferior, he can observe the director's control over the actors' performance to a certain extent, and of course, he can see a lot of the director's adjustments and manipulations of camera angles.

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is just a TV series. It is said that its technical content is incomparable even with ordinary movies. But you have to know that this drama is concentrated on the top domestic TV directors and photographers. If these people go to make movies, they may not be able to succeed, but they have no doubts about the TV dramas. It is the top spot in the country! It can be called proficiency!

So, although there was no time-out or regress, in fact Li Qian had always been serious about it.

And while watching, he still frowned and thought.

Sun Ce's roles in the whole TV series are not too long together, but including various NG shots, etc., the weight of this copy is not small, and the combined playing time is nearly four hours.

Li Qian divided them into four parts, and took an hour to read one part every day. Then, after watching the first time, he would start from the beginning and watch the second time.

And today, he started to watch it for the third time.

For the art industry, including literature, painting, music, film and television, etc., it is a creative industry. In this industry, the most difficult thing is actually the creation of the soul.

There is no other reason, a successful, soul-level creation can open up ideas for countless art practitioners who are stuck in place, and at the same time provide a landmark that can be located.

Take the music industry as an example, just like Zhen Zhen is to the female singer group in China, just like the Beatles are to rock and roll.

Without them, maybe what should rise will still rise, but it will definitely look different.

Even... Without those genius-level creations, maybe some things would never appear.

After all, the so-called art is really something that only a few people can afford and enjoy.

The simplest example is that there is no Cao Xueqin in this time and space, so until now, the four major domestic masterpieces, except for the Water Margin and Three Kingdoms Journey to the West, have always been "Jin Ping Mei", and none of them can reach the level and influence of " Literary works of the level of A Dream of Red Mansions appeared.

Without Pu Songling, there is no "Liao Zhai" that talks about ghosts and foxes.

It can be said that these geniuses are the guiding lighthouses for all art practitioners, and they are the things that can really survive hundreds of thousands of years later and are called art by later generations.

However, for everyone, it is destined to be the most rare thing, but for Li Qian, it is the most worry-free thing.

If he wants to be a commercial musician, then he has at least a thousand classic songs in his hands, and he can easily make a newcomer with some qualifications popular. To be an art explorer, he can play "Erquan Yingyue" for the erhu, compose "The Butterfly Lovers" for the violin, "Yellow River Cantata" for the concerto, and even create a set of adaptations for playing the suona The new song from "Hundred Birds" is called "Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix".

And if he wants to be a writer, let alone other things, even if he just fiddles with the famous short stories he can remember in "Liao Zhai", it will be scary enough. What's more, he still has Jin Yong and Gu Long. If he really plays literature and art, it's not like he hasn't read the things of Lu Guomao, Lao Cao, and "White Deer Plain". Maybe the writing style is far worse, but... There is still no problem with eating.

And if he wanted to be a filmmaker, he would definitely be able to be a screenwriter. Just because he had seen so many blockbuster movies in Hong Kong, the Mainland, and Hollywood in his previous life, even if the screenwriting level was not good, just copying them would be enough to make him a professional filmmaker in the industry. The most famous screenwriter.

Even, with so many good books to base on, plus his rich experience in the industry in his previous life, even if he used a little snack, he would pay for it himself, and he would be a director for dinner, and there would be no problem.

So, here comes the problem.

He does not lack these so-called high-rise and original things that are obtained in a lifetime in the eyes of others, but what he lacks is only the most basic basic skills.

A scene description that appears in a novel, as a director, how do you turn it into a scene that is at least qualified to present to the audience? What lens language should you use? What kind of light do you need a gaffer to help you adjust? Need a photographer to help you capture what shots?

For a character line, what emotion and performance do you need the actor to give?

In the end, all the shots required by the script have been shot, how do you edit them into a coherent, smooth movie or TV series story?

Being an actor, especially a good one, is never easy.

But there is no doubt that it is even more difficult to be a good director.

Now, Li Qian is making up lessons bit by bit.

Even before he had this film studio, the goal he set for himself was to go to the cinema to watch at least 20 to 30 movies every year, and when he returned home, he would watch another 50 or so old movies with home playback equipment. .

He went to study photography, and he was exposed to the most top-level teaching in the top film hall in China. At the same time, he also especially liked to communicate with the students of the directing department. He not only borrowed their textbooks to read and take notes. , would occasionally go to other people's classrooms to listen in, and even often went to the film studio to watch movies with people from the directing department, discussing and communicating with each other.

In fact, he might not have to try so hard.

With only the treasure trove of art in his memory, no matter what he does, in fact, there will not be too many obstacles, at least compared to most people in this world, he is a genius himself! But in fact, if the ambition is not big, just a music circle is enough for him to gain both fame and fortune.

It's not even an exaggeration to say that it doesn't take too long, just give him ten years, and after ten years, he will be eligible to be honored as "Godfather of Music" by everyone!

He can even take a bunch of classic English songs, and directly take Liao Liao, He Runqing, Zhou Mo, Xie Bing, and the others to compete in international competitions, and let them upgrade to become the queens of the international music scene!

But just, for him, is not enough.

Whether it's ambition or ambition, in short, with such unique conditions, he is not prepared to give up so easily. He is full of energy and wants to do something bigger.

Besides, he loves movies.

Yes, he loves music, but he also loves movies.

And the same love comes from the heart.

Therefore, as an absolutely powerful figure that almost no one can match in today's music scene, as a man of two great queens, as the boss of Minghu Culture who controls a powerful music scene, he has not stopped his pursuit for a single day. pace.

He always knew exactly what he needed.

He also always knew exactly what he was going to do next.

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Although it is already 1998, the era of rapid development of electronic technology has already begun, but the mainstream storage format of current films is still the traditional film copy.

Film is very expensive. Even though the requirements for film are relatively low when making TV dramas, it is still expensive. Moreover, even copies that require lower standards such as clarity and sensitivity are really heavy.

Li Qian is the only one on the entire ninth floor. In Minghu Culture, he is the only one who can play the playback equipment in this small movie theater. Therefore, even though it has been compressed to almost the worst standard, one copy can play The 30-minute copy still weighs more than ten catties, and every time a copy is played, he needs to get up and change the copy by himself.

After reading the two copies, more than an hour has passed.

The sound of the projector turning has stopped, and all the images on the curtain have disappeared, leaving only the light of the projector, reflecting it white.

Li Qian was sitting in a comfortable seat, thinking about something, and didn't get up for a long time.

After a full cigarette, he stood up, first walked to the window and pulled open the thick blackout curtains with a "chi la", so that the sunlight outside could illuminate the room brightly, and then turned around to take the After copying it, putting it away, and turning off the power of the playback device, I opened the door and went downstairs slowly.

For the art business, good things are like lighthouses and coordinates, which can be pondered and used for reference by people over and over again, and from this, they can be extended and finally developed in their own artistic imagination. But bad things, such as NG shots, such as scrapped demos, are not completely worthless.

To give the simplest example, Li Qian helped Liao Liao make adjustments to "Women's Flower" in the recording studio, canceling the version that was nearly completed before, and then re-recorded a new version .

Then there is no doubt that for the recording industry, only the adjusted version is the version that will eventually flow to the market and be heard by everyone, and the version that has been nearly finished recording before is the abolished version , People who have heard that version may not add up to more than ten people. What's more, perhaps in the future, these obsolete versions will be silently destroyed one day, and no more people will ever be able to hear them.

But Zhou Ye was lucky enough to catch up and experience that adjustment himself, and he also heard the version before and after the adjustment with his own ears. If he only heard the previous version, or only heard the latter version, perhaps to him, it was just another emotion: Sister Liao Liao is really strong! that is it. However, hearing these two versions within 20 to 30 minutes, compared with each other, was enough to give him a strong shock.

So, he seemed to be in a trance.

This is the so-called "waste product", or in other words, a comparison, which can be used as a reference for practitioners in the art industry.

Especially for Li Qian, watching this "waste collection" over and over again, combined with the memories left by the other two versions of the finished product in his mind, made him gain quite a lot.

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When walking down the stairs, Li Qian was still in a trance, as if he hadn't broken free from those thoughts. But soon, before he reached his office, Huang Wenjuan suddenly pushed the door out from a lounge, just in time to see Li Qian, and stopped him at that time.

"Brother, Zhuang Meiyue has been waiting for you for a long time."

When Li Qian was stopped by her, he was stunned for a moment, and then he patted his forehead, "I was reading something, I almost forgot, please ask her to come to my office, I will talk to her."

In the blink of an eye, the three newcomers signed by the company last year, Ge Rilen, Zhao Yuan and Zhuang Meiyue, have now completed the half-year professional training. In other words, according to the company's plan for them, Li Qian must consider making records for them in the next step.

Among the three, after combining the opinions given by the special training teacher, the first person Li Qian wanted to see was Zhuang Meiyue.

After all, compared to the current step-by-step cautiousness, step-by-step exploration and step-by-step accumulation of film and television, making music, especially pop music, is his basic plan.

But now, his basic disk needs to be expanded.

Zhuang Meiyue was the first one he chose.