Chapter 384

The meeting lasted all morning.

The drama "Legend of the New White Snake" has come to the present, and the crew formation stage is only the first step, but there are already many people who need to participate in it.

Although they are both producers, Feng Yumin and Yu Bojun are both named. The former is for the convenience of borrowing each other's contacts and resources, while the latter is simply for the convenience of recruiting young men from Yu Bojun's team. So Li Qian is the only producer who will really participate in the entire production and shooting process.

Then, the director, Li Qian, needless to say.

Producer Han Shunzhang, this is the money bag and the big housekeeper. In terms of the system, if the crew of this drama is replaced by Minghu Culture, then his position is equivalent to Qi Jie, who is the general manager. And Li Qian, and others, are only in charge of artistic creation. Therefore, of course, contacting actors and agents, negotiating contracts, going out to buy props, hiring people, making costumes, etc., must also be the job of the production director.

Art director, Cao Zhan, under him, art, costumes, props, sets, makeup and many other aspects are in charge of him, and he is responsible for ensuring the gold content of the whole drama beyond the plot.

The director of photography, Jin Han, is mainly in charge of the photography team and lighting team.

For the photography team, it is relatively easy to solve, because they are all their own people, and they can use it as soon as they are brought in. They all know the basics. At present, Jin Han must be the top spot, the number one camera, and the main photographer.

In addition to him, Yang Jie, the photographer in his small film team in the past few years, although he was only from Yeluzi, and later went to the Huaxia Drama Academy for two years of training, his standard is also quite good, ranking No. number two.

Du Yuchun, a photographer Yu Bojun helped to contact, is an old Jianghu who has been in the arena for many years. He has taken pictures of many big directors in the film industry. The two parties have agreed that he will also come to the group. And the specific shooting needs to adjust the division of labor between him and Yang Jie.

Then, after the above three can guarantee the quality of the lens, it is a waste to hire a photographer of sufficient standard, but sometimes four cameras will be used to work at the same time, or occasionally someone has an unexpected situation, so, Among Li Qian and his group of classmates, Fu Xuelong, the fifth in the dormitory who was considered to be the highest level, and even Li Qian thought his photography talent was full of talent, became the backup photographer of the group.

Of course, in addition to him, Lu Bin will also follow. They can be regarded as drama managers and errands, and they can be pulled over temporarily to make do with it. In addition, Li Qian also learned this, so there is no need to worry about not enough photographers, but the standard is high or low. That's all.

In addition, there is another very important person joining in, that is Zhao He, the second director of the film and television production company in Yu Bojun's family besides Yu Bojun.

To be honest, apart from occasionally helping Yu Bojun's films as producer or assistant director, he is also a person who produces a film in a year or two. He is not a big man, but he is still very experienced in making commercial films. of! In terms of pure celebrity status, he is no less than Yu Bojun, and Li Qian, a new director, is even more incomparable.

However, I don't know if I feel that I have to be busy with the later stage of "Love of Green Onion", so I can't help, I can't help my brother, or I'm really afraid that Li Qian will pay for it, anyway, he doesn't know He thought of some way, he just brought such a director who has been in the film industry for many years to shoot a TV series, and he was still an assistant director for Li Qian.

In short, his arrival can be regarded as a kind of escort.

And this time the meeting will be mainly Li Qian, Zhao He, Han Shunzhang, Cao Zhan and Jin Han.

At the beginning, Zhu Mingyu was also there, because she was responsible for determining the style of the crew's costume design, modeling design, art, set, etc., so she participated in the discussion. In her office, she started to summarize and sort out the whole thing, and when the meeting was over, she would start to do these things together with Cao Zhan and Han Shunzhang.

After Zhu Mingyu left, everyone started discussing the lighting team and Wu Zhi.

Both of these belong to the technical side, and they cannot be sloppy, but they are not very selective-there are only so many famous lighting teams and martial arts teams in the country, and so many movies and TV series are being filmed every year. Unless you want to take a vacation by yourself, there are almost endless jobs, so each has its own work circle, and people don't need to jump out of the fixed circle to pick up the work, and even in the fixed circle, you have to use other people's work circles. Teams, that also have to be scheduled in advance, so unless you're willing to wait, there's very little to choose from.

However, don't look down upon it. When watching movies and TV shows, few people will pay attention to the lighting team of a play. There are people in the lighting team, and there are very few people who will watch Wuzhi, but for a play, Wuzhi decides. Whether the martial arts scenes are good-looking or not is a big selling point under the background that domestic martial arts are always very hot, and the lighting team is even more critical. It even directly determines whether the scenes of a movie are good-looking or not-whether the shots are good or not , at least half of it depends on how well you play!

Half of the so-called layering and the so-called beauty of the lens are in the lighting team!

Especially for Jin Han and Li Qian, who respect the beauty of the lens, even the martial arts can do it, but the lighting is definitely not enough!

As for martial arts, Yu Bojun has already contacted Lu Jiaban for help, and the other party has promised to join the group in early October. This class is not as famous as the Niujia class in the industry, but it is also a master who participates in many martial arts movies and TV dramas every year. Although the price is not cheap, Li Qian still settled down.

As for the lighting group, Jin Han has his own regular team, and the cooperation with him must be quite tacit, and it is obvious that the two sides have a good friendship. Although Jin Han often takes other people's work, as long as Jin Han says hello, then The brothers are coming right away, but...there are too few people!

What Jin Han used to do in the past was to focus on the brothers before the shooting started, and then temporarily find a few lighting engineers from the running order gang to pinch together, adjust and shoot while adjusting, that's all. Because the lighting team almost always runs after a certain fixed object, some chase the director, and some chase the production company. If you want to use someone else's formed lighting team, it is not easy to find.

But this time, although he still planned to adopt Jin Han's old method, Li Qian planned to make some adjustments, that is, to recruit a group of people into the group, let Jin Han teach while working, and sign a long-term employment contract directly after teaching. Including Jin Han's photography, lighting and other teams, Li Qian is ready to get in touch with them, and when the filming of the film is finished, they will all sign in.

Looking at the development history of commercial films and TV series for decades, behind every successful director and film and TV series, there must be a creative team above the level of long-term cooperation.

Art design, costume design, photographer, lighting engineer, editing, soundtrack... Although these technical personnel may be unknown in the market, they are even more important to producers and directors than those famous actors!

After these two points are settled, we discuss the issue of scene selection.

When it comes to scene selection, there is some controversy.

It is helpless to say that because of the problem of age, film and television studios have been in existence since the 1980s when it comes to filming domestic costume dramas, but they have always focused on the architectural styles of the Ming and Shun dynasties. Later, there were film and television cities in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and when "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" started filming, Huaxia TV spent huge sums of money to build the Three Kingdoms and Qin-Han Film and Television City. There is only one, and it is located in Kaifeng Prefecture, Hen Province. It mainly presents the standard style of Bianliang City in the Northern Song Dynasty, while the other buildings are relatively simple.

However, "Legend of the New White Snake" is set in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is not a court drama.

But there is no way, even if Li Qian has some money in his pocket, he can’t afford to build a film and television city, so after discussion, everyone can only temporarily decide that all the interior scenes will be shot in the Ming Dynasty Film and Television City in Shuntianfu, and the town market will go to Kaifeng If you need to take pictures of a large-scale water scene, you must go to the Canal Film and Television City or the Film and Television City in Zhejiang after field inspections.

Then, for the big location, we mainly consider Qingcheng Mountain, Emei Mountain, Zhangjiajie and the West Lake scenic spot in Hangzhou Prefecture.

After discussing this, the people in charge of the technical part of the production team will have a working direction next. Li Qian and Zhao He will go out to conduct field surveys first, and Jin Han will also go out to see after filming the MV. The couple, Zhu Mingyu, are responsible for organizing the work team.

Of course, before that, there is still a very important thing to discuss, and that is the actors.

The most important actors in the whole play are the trio first: Xu Xian and Xu Shilin are one, Bai Suzhen and Hu Meiniang are one, and then there are Green Snake and Xiaoqing.

In addition, monk Fahai, Xu Xian's sister Xu Jiaorong, and Xu Xian's brother-in-law Li Gongfu played more important roles. Thirdly, Xu Shilin's brother Qi Baoshan, Li Gongfu's daughter Li Bilian, and the villain Xiao Wangye.

And then next, people like the Five Ghosts, King Jinbo, Maoshan Taoist priest, Hu Meiniang's servant girl Caiyin, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Yang Zhixian, Mrs. Yang, the prince and others.

Casting is an extremely important job. The degree of fit between actors and roles directly determines the success or failure of a play.

In this regard, Zhao He, the assistant director, has been in the industry for the longest time, so he has the most experience. Jin Han, although he has always been on the street, is considered an expert. On the contrary, Cao Zhan is only familiar with individual actors and can Put forward some important suggestions, specific to ordinary actors, among other things, the range of people he knows alone determines that he cannot give very good suggestions.

As for Li Qian, as a newcomer, his field of vision is limited to the movies and TV series he watched before, and the people he met when he was filming "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Although this is his TV series, and he has a classic for reference in his heart, he has a clearer and almost clear understanding of the needs of actors, so he can target the target, but he still listens patiently to everyone recommending actors for each role.

Unlike the previous things, the choice of actors involves too many things, so once discussed, time flies by. It was noon, and the meeting hadn't finished yet. The company ordered a working meal, and the few of them chatted while eating, and continued the meeting after the meal.

Anyway, for a relatively important role, everyone worked together and discussed several candidates for candidates. In the end, Han Shunzhang, who was in charge of the meeting minutes, took several pages of notes just for the names of the actors.

Next, the main task of Li Qian and Zhao He is to choose the cast.

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In one breath until 3:30 in the afternoon, the meeting was finally over.

Fruitful, but also exhausted.

After the meeting, everyone will split up to do things.

Assistant director Zhao He has to go out to conduct on-site surveys first, so as to provide Li Qian with shooting suggestions. About 20 days of work, Han Shunzhang is responsible for giving out the approximate budget of the whole play first, and then he will go to the lighting team and martial arts team that have been finalized, including photographers, drama managers and other staff. Negotiate the remuneration and sign the contract one by one.

Then, he didn't even bother to take care of the costumes and props, because next, once he started contacting actors and discussing film contracts, it was his job again, and it was the bulk of the job. Of course, Zou Wenhuai will assist in specific negotiations. After all, when it comes to the entertainment industry, he is a veteran, and when it comes to negotiations, he is also a master.

As for the actors who have been recorded in the meeting memorandum, Lu Bin, the theater manager who has already been set, will be responsible for collecting information, including acting experience, personal photos, stills, personal performance styles, etc., all gathered together, and then handed over to Li Qian, after Li Qian has formed a certain amount of thinking, he will start to have specific contact with the actors.

After the meeting was over, everyone went about their own business without even drinking a pot of tea.

On the ninth floor of Minghu Culture, which had been vacant until now, there were a few offices that had been simply decorated, and they were already coming in handy at this time. Zhu Mingyu took up one of the offices. And ideas, to refine into a real and visible specific plan, and Han Shunzhang also occupied a room, for now, just a little, to make a budget.

At 5:30 in the afternoon, the ordinary staff of Minghu Culture left one after another as soon as it was time to get off work. With the completion of the recording of Rose Power, many musicians who had been a little idle recently even left two hours in advance. Well, on the eighth floor, only a few people are still busy. As for the ninth floor, there are only a couple of Han Shunzhang and Zhu Mingyu left.

Night, half past seven.

After Zhu Mingyu's work came to an end, he felt that his stomach was rumbling, so he stood up and stretched, then simply sorted out the things he made today, put them in his bag, and then opened the door and went out.

A light was still on in the next room.

She knocked on the door, opened it and went in.

The strange thing is that Han Shunzhang didn't work at his desk, but was standing in front of the window smoking a cigarette.

The central air conditioner is off, and the room is a little hot, but the windows are open, and the night breeze is blowing, and the air feels transparent.

Hearing the knock on the door, Han Shunzhang had already turned around, and when Zhu Mingyu pushed the door in, he smiled, raised his right hand, shook the cigarette in his hand, and said with a smile: "I just lit it, and you just happened to catch me!" in force."

Zhu Mingyu smiled and walked over.

The night outside the window was already dark, the upstairs on the opposite side and the upstairs on the side had occasional lights, but most of them were dark.

The street lights on the main road downstairs are yellow, and there is a constant flow of cars.

Farther away, on the Fourth Ring Road, there is a lot of traffic, and the lights of one car after another add up, shining like the Milky Way.

Han Shunzhang was facing the window, blowing the night wind, looking out the window calmly, raising his hand to take a puff of cigarette from time to time.

Standing beside her, Zhu Mingyu felt the scorching wind blowing his hair, stared outside for a long time, then turned his head and asked, "How are you doing?"

"Budget?" Han Shunzhang said: "It's almost the same. Li Qian has already made a budget before. Frankly speaking, there are not many things I can change. He has indeed worked hard. The budget is relatively in place. It is already It’s not bad! It’s just that some details may need to be picked, but after all, it’s just a budget, and it’s not too detailed.”

Zhu Mingyu nodded, thought for a while, reached out to take the cigarette from his hand, took a puff, blown it away with the wind, and then handed the cigarette back. Han Shunzhang asked while picking up the cigarette: "What about you? Do you have any clues?"

Zhu Mingyu nodded, and said: "The idea he gave is very clear. My work is relatively simple, that is..." At this point, seeing Han Shunzhang handing over the cigarette again, she took a puff and handed it back. He spit it out and said with a smile: "I just don't know why, I think the simpler the job, the more troublesome it may be in the future."

Han Shunzhang was amazed when he heard the words, and asked, "Why?"

Zhu Mingyu frowned slightly, raised his face to think for a while, and said with a smile: "I don't know if I'm thinking right, anyway, it seems to me that the whole play has already been in his mind, you can read it from his It can be seen from the shot, what kind of costume he wants, what kind of set, and even what each actor should look like, how to speak, he already has a definite idea in his mind. And this kind of idea……"

Having said that, she shook her head, and said with a little distress: "I don't know if you understand what I mean, what I want to say is... well, it seems that he has already filmed this TV series, and he has already seen it. The appearance of this TV series is the same after the filming, so for him, everything involved in this drama is not just a matter of thinking and direction, but everything has been fixed! It must be like this, and it must not be So...do you understand what I mean?"

Han Shunzhang looked at her in surprise, then laughed, and said, "So, you don't really have much room to play?"

"YES!" Zhu Mingyu nodded in response, took a puff of the cigarette, and said, "So, this job seems simple, because as long as you do what he wants, you can go through it once, it's completely OK, but as long as it doesn't meet the requirements, I'm sure, he will ask me to change, change, change over and over again!" After finishing speaking, she took another puff of cigarette and shrugged.

Han Shunzhang smiled and shook his head, and while taking the cigarette back, he said, "You think too much! Before the filming of a film, the director already has a rough picture in his mind. This is something that many directors can indeed do. Even, if you want to be successful, you still have to do it. Judging from the storyboard script, Qian may indeed have a plan in mind, but it will not be as exaggerated as you said! The whole play was shot in his mind, After the cut, he even saw it? How is that possible!"

After a pause, he said with a smile: "No matter how powerful a person is, his brain capacity is limited. Even if he thinks carefully, it is impossible to directly complete the film in his mind and then go to shoot it! People, not directors, are gods!"

Zhu Mingyu wanted to argue without words, so he shrugged.

So, the two of them stopped talking at the same time and just looked out of the window.

It was getting dark outside the window, and the two of them stood by the window, sharing cigarettes one by one, until one cigarette was exhausted, Han Shunzhang pinched the cigarette butt, and then said: "Go, pack your things, get off work!"

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It’s 10,000 words today, and the curtain is slowly opening. Everyone, can you give the monthly pass more power?