Chapter 435 Four Women

"The blue-faced Dou Erdun steals the horse, the red-faced Guan Gong fights in Changsha, the yellow-faced Dian Wei, the white-faced Cao Cao, the black-faced Zhang Fei, called Chacha..."

After a few days of cultivation, the fatigue in Liao Liao's voice quickly disappeared, and the high-pitched high notes unique to Peking Opera rang out, even the two Peking Opera masters present were delighted to hear it.

Of course, after finishing this trial recording, Fang Shaobai, who managed to find some time to come here, couldn't help but point out from a professional point of view: "Sister and sister, your singing style is very nice, but to be honest, it's too delicious. If you have a bad voice, if you finish it once, or sing it three or five times, then it’s probably fine, but if you keep recording like this, and you have to pull out this high-pitched voice, I don’t think you can hold it!”

While he was talking, Mr. Cheng kept nodding his head. Then, the old man couldn't help pointing out: "Girl, I told you about the pronunciation of the Beijing opera singing, especially this part, Xiaoqian's song, it is pure Beijing opera in the singing of old people." Ga tune, this accent is very high, not to mention that many opera singers don’t have a voice as good as yours, even if they sing a scene a day, they dare not play like this, so I teach you That technique is a relatively throat-saving singing method summed up by generations of ancestors through the accumulation of experience, purely relying on a fleshy voice, but it can sing broken notes, and it will not be able to be cultivated in ten and a half months by then!"

Liao Liao nodded first when she heard the words, and then she couldn't help but look at Li Qian in embarrassment.

Since the old man accepted Li Qian as his disciple, he didn't intend to hide his secrets. Except that Li Qian couldn't go because he had something to do, he basically held a big class twice a week, teaching solid skills. To record Peking opera-style works, the old man even gave guidance, and passed on the ability to press the bottom of the box directly to his apprentice and daughter-in-law. However, how should I put it, the vocal skills, luck skills and special control of the voice of Peking opera actors are all necessary. It took years of hard training to come up with "jobs". Don't say that Liao Liao rushed into battle, even Li Qian, who has been learning from the old man for two years now, gets up every morning and hangs his throat without daring to say How high is your level.

But unfortunately, the recording rhythm of this record is very rushed.

Time has not allowed Liao Liao to seriously master the vocal skills of Peking Opera.

So, according to the score, she quickly researched a set of skills for singing the last part of the song, and then, yes, it is indeed very nice, but the shortcoming of the throat is very obvious. .

Because... Well, considering Liao Liao's voice advantage, Li Qian raised the original K of this song by half a K, so, um, in fact, the last part of the Ga tune, most people still don't like it. It's really not easy to sing so calmly and chicly at this height.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Qian looked at Liao Liao first, and said, "Either... lower half a K?"

Liao Liao immediately shook his head to express his disapproval, "No! It sounds good on the half K. If I lower it, my voice will suddenly become a little deeper, and it won't be so loud."

Li Qian held his chin, thought for a moment, then patted the table, turned to Shaobai and said, "Brother, how about it, time is too tight, Liao Liao feels that using the luck method taught by the master in a hurry will make him appear timid instead. So... Let's record "The Hairpin Head Phoenix" first. That song will not put too much pressure on your voice for you and Liao Liao. When the song is finished recording, turn around and ask her to press this Singing method, sing once and record once, just record three or four times, and then just choose the best one, how about it?"

After hesitating for a moment, Fang Shaobai turned his head and looked at Mr. Cheng. In the end, both of them looked over and nodded. Fang Shaobai said: "It's okay... It's okay! For the time being, this is the best There is a solution! Anyway, there is the last song left, even if the voice is broken, it will not delay the matter."

After a pause, he still smiled and said to Liao Liao: "Sisters and sisters, since you say so, then don't be afraid, there are secret recipes for raising your voice that have been handed down from our teacher's school, even if your voice is broken, I will give you a few Secondary decoction, you will be back to normal after a few doses!"

Liao Liao smiled when he heard the words, "Thank you, brother."

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After Li Qian came back from Tianshui Mansion, he couldn't even take care of the company. The first thing he did was to find Fang Shaobai to practice singing. This made Li Qian quite satisfied.

As the number one Peking opera student in China, the level of his senior disciple of Chengmen is not a joke. Even if he breaks the inherent rigidity of Peking opera, his singing will be a little jerky at the beginning, but he is proficient. After listening, the high pitched voice fluttered and flickered, and the words could be as thin as whispering in the ear, and the high pitched ones could make people's scalp burst and hairs stand up.

Not to mention Liao Liao, in this duet of Beijing opera style, Liao Liao has always been most familiar with the requirements for female vocals.

So, just record what you say.

Still in this recording studio, when Fang Shaobai's iconic high-pitched voice was thrown up, but Liao Liao was able to catch it up with his very textured voice steadily, even Mr. Cheng felt emotional when he heard it.

Listening to the recordings of the two of them, for the person in charge of recording, basically every time is enjoyable.

The word love is too much pain in the heart.

Lu You and Tang Wan, two lovers, exchange their heartfelt complaints in the two "Phoenix Hairpins", naturally every word is about love, and the voice is full of tears.

In the beginning, there were some minor flaws in the connection between the two, but after Li Qian slightly adjusted the discrepancy, the cooperation between the two quickly became smooth, and they recorded it together seven or eight times. Li Qian felt that It was good enough, even with a guarantee, and it was decisively announced that the recording was completed.

After the recording was over, everyone discussed briefly, because the next song "Rap Face" will be more throat-intensive, so it was finally decided to let Liao Liao rest for an afternoon and start recording again tomorrow morning.

Moreover, in order to protect Liao Liao's throat from being injured as much as possible, he had to fight for it to end within five times.

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At the beginning of May, Li Qian was so busy that he hit the back of his head.

Although he was thinking about it all the time, he really didn't have enough time to spare, and finally finished recording another song. Anyway, Liao Liao also needed to rest, so Li Qian thought about "Love of Scallions" again.

During the period when he, Liao Liao, and Xie Mingyuan went to Los Angeles to make the soundtrack and Liao Liao's new album, Cao Zhan wrote the soundtrack for "Love in Green Onion" three times before he finally satisfied himself. When it came to Yu Bojun, he I have nothing to say.

So, in mid-April, after nearly a year of production cycle, "Scallion Love" was finally announced to be completely completed - investors, producers, and future announcements and theaters all affirmed that Yu Bojun made it himself, so his edited version must be the final release version. Unlike other directors, who often need to cut out a version for release according to the requirements of the producer, but the version I like the most has to be named "Director's Cut". A handful of ideas will allow this version to meet audiences who are willing to collect discs.

Since the two sides met, Yu Bojun naturally had nothing to say to Li Qian, especially when Li Qian was preparing to film "Legend of the New White Snake", he absolutely supported him. Therefore, although he himself provided the script support, but for "Scallion" For such a long period of time from filming to post-production of "Love", he has not been able to give any help, and Li Qian has always felt ashamed in his heart.

So, after finishing the recording of "The Hairpin Phoenix", he sent Liao Liao back to rest, but he called Yu Bojun and Cao Zhan to make an appointment, and then drove over directly. Tianfu's studio met, and Yu Bojun took Li Qian to the viewing room to watch the final edited version of the movie.

As for Cao Zhan, he waved his hand directly, "I've watched this film no less than fifty times, and I'm sick of it. I'm not like Bo Jun. My own child, no matter how good it looks, I can't stand it! Go in and watch it." , I’d better smoke a cigarette outside! After you finish reading, let’s find a place to have a few drinks to be serious.”

Li Qian laughed, and Yu Bojun laughed too.

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At first glance, the drama "Love of Scallion" seems to be a story of love and hatred in troubled times, but in the final analysis, it is about human nature.

The final edited version given by Yu Bojun, including the ending credits, is more than 140 minutes long. Even if the credits and credits of more than five minutes of the final credits are removed, it means that the audience who bought tickets to enter the movie theater in the future will need to sit for two minutes. more than an hour.

Therefore, it is not easy for this kind of art film with extremely poor entertainment to catch the audience and keep the audience sitting in their chairs without leaving early-this is the biggest problem of niche films, and The only way to solve this problem is to be yourself, and then "wait" for your part of the audience.

But, fortunately... the heroine is prettier.

Moreover, Jin Han's photography level is not covered, the picture of the camera comes out with an indescribable glamorous and bright taste, which is relatively rare in the current domestic film industry. The picture makes people feel that there is an image style that is exuding flavor, and this style coincides with the story background and core direction of this movie.

After watching it for only ten minutes, Li Qian couldn't help expressing emotion in his heart again: Later, I must make a commercial film for myself by Lakinham! At least earn back the millions he spent first!

Compared with the original cut version that Li Qian had seen before, Yu Bojun made a lot of edits in this version.

It involved the part where he, Cao Zhan and Li Qian were in dispute before. Yu Bojun, who had been filming urban commercial films for so many years before, did not know whether he suddenly understood, or whether he subconsciously believed in the judgment of Li Qian and Cao Zhan. , he still made adjustments, and re-cut the scene where Li Qian and Cao Zhan were written into the script.

In this way, the whole story will of course appear more rounded and accessible, but the price is that the whole movie seems to be more lengthy.

After watching the whole film, Yu Bojun couldn't wait to turn on the light, and asked, "How is it? Do you want to comment?"

Li Qian smiled and said, "You've already edited the final version, and I'm still commenting on it, so let's just upload it! I just think that the picture is very beautiful, and my senior sister... is very beautiful!"

Yu Bojun was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then burst out laughing.

When we went out to meet Cao Zhan, we all went out together to find a place to have a drink and get together, and chatted about the future release plan, Li Qian suddenly understood why Yu Bojun made such a joke - it turned out that Cao Zhan had said this before.

That's right, a literary film, even if it's a literary film made by a director like Yu Bojun who has a theater at home, if you want to buy a box office that doesn't hit the market, you must find out the gimmicks during the promotional period!

Therefore, Cao Zhan and Li Qian said to Yu Bojun at the same time: the heroine is very beautiful!

The first play of a Peking opera star? Sorry, this doesn't work! At least for the vast majority of audiences, especially those who have no interest in or understanding of Beijing opera, this promotion plan is very bad.

And considering the previous performance contract, which was very strict in many aspects, plus Cheng Suping's relationship with Li Qian, it is of course impossible for Yu Bojun to do something for the box office, which will have no effect on Cheng Suping's personal life and reputation. Influenced publicity planning.

Otherwise, to be honest, anyway, it is true and false. In fact, the crew can create some news. For example, this drama was rejected several times during the script stage because of its large scale. Some passionate scenes were forced to be deleted in order to be finally released... In short, how to seduce hormones, to create hot news.

But now, this method cannot be used, so the easiest way is: the heroine is very beautiful!

Release the amazing makeup photos that I took in advance, including her extremely beautiful Peking Opera Huadan makeup photos, and choose the right time to release them, so that they can be hyped first on the Internet, which is becoming more and more influential. Once the speculation is almost over, the trailer will be released, and it will be pushed down step by step. When it is released, it will be released on a small scale first, so as to accumulate the reputation of a small audience, and then strive for as many theaters as possible. Screening - this is also the plan given by Yu Bojun's gang.

However, it is a pity that Yu Bojun has always followed the route of low-budget urban romance films before. In the industry of art films, he really has no influence. Therefore, he did not catch up in Cannes, and the Venice Film Festival , although he said he had sent it to the exhibition, but after review, the organizer of the film festival only gave him a spot in one screening unit, which was finally rejected by Yu Bojun. As for the Berlin Film Festival... it is impossible for this film to wait until then.

Therefore, Yu Bojun has already decided to go out with this film to test the waters and build a reputation. As for the film festival, he decided not to get involved.

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Because of drinking, Liao Liao was the one who drove over to pick him up in the end.

On the car going back, looking at the rapidly receding trees, lights, and pedestrians on both sides of the road, and seeing the blurred urban colors, Li Qian suddenly thought of the innocent smile of the movie Li Cheng Suying.

He took out his phone and dialed it.

When the phone was connected, he smiled and said, "Sister, it's me, didn't you sleep?"

Cheng Suping's voice was more or less tired and slightly hoarse, "Well, no, I'm watching a TV series with my little sister! A Japanese romance movie... What's the matter?"

Li Qian blinked his eyes - he had been learning opera with the old man for a long time, but he didn't know that Cheng Suping had a "little sister", but he didn't ask too much, just said: "Your voice... ..."

"Oh, it's okay. After two games in the afternoon, my throat is a bit tired. I'll be fine after a night's rest." She explained slowly.

"Oh, that's good." Li Qian nodded, and then said: "I went to see Brother Yu in the afternoon, and watched the final edited version of that movie... You should have watched it too, right?"

On the other end of the phone, Cheng Suping gave a "hmm" and said with a smile: "After finishing the final editing, Director Yu called and made an appointment with a few of us. I happened to be free at the time, so I went over to take a look. I don't know if it is Inexperienced, anyway, I watched the movie pretty well, and I think my acting is pretty good too...Why, you didn’t call to compliment me on purpose, did you?”

That's exactly what it means!

Li Qian smiled awkwardly, then reacted immediately, and said, "That's not true, but, indeed, as an actor who is acting in a movie for the first time, your performance is really remarkable."

On the other end of the phone, Cheng Suping laughed softly when she heard the words, and before she could speak, a girl's voice suddenly said from the side: "Oh, well, it's not a boyfriend, how can there be so much to talk about?" If you want to talk about it, go and talk, don't disturb me watching TV!"

Li Qian was stunned.

On the other end of the phone, Cheng Suping said helplessly: "Okay, okay, this is what you said, I won't accompany you to read it!"

Then, there was no extra sound over there very quickly.

After a while, Cheng Suping said again: "I can't help it, my little sister has such a spoiled temper. Well, what did you say just now? You called on purpose, what's the matter?"

"Uh..." Li Qian hesitated for a moment, smiled helplessly, and said, "It's really nothing else, you guessed it right, I just want to praise your performance!"

Cheng Suping smiled lightly upon hearing this.

After a while, she said slowly as always: "Okay, your sister knows what you want."

Li Qian rubbed his nose, and said: "That's fine, then go to sleep, I'm dead!"

On the other end of the phone, Cheng Suping responded lightly, "Well, good night. Don't keep yourself too busy. When you have time, come over to have a meal at home. The old man and the old lady talk about you all day long, saying that you have I'm too busy, I haven't come here for a long time."

Li Qian was silent for a moment, agreed, and said, "I'll go when I turn around."

"Well, good." Cheng Suping said: "Remember to call before you come, sister will go back and cook for you."

Li Qian smiled, and agreed again, and waited for the other side to hang up the phone first, then hung up, and put away the phone.

Liao Liao, who was driving, couldn't help turning his head to take a look at this moment. Seeing Li Qian's bewildered face, he couldn't help but sneered, "Hey, sir, can you save me some face! Just hook up with sister like this in front of me , isn't that good?"

Listening to this yin and yang tone, Li Qian couldn't help leaning on his seat and laughing.

"Don't tell me I almost forgot, get up and go to Yangpen Alley!"

"Let me drive you over there...to dream!"

Li Qian laughed loudly when he heard the words, and soon, he couldn't help complaining, "Your driving skills... are really scumbags!"

Liao Liao smiled disdainfully at the time, "Conscientious brother, it's good if you can learn it! I studied it for more than three months last year!"

Li Qian laughed again when he heard this.

If being with Wang Jinglu would make him feel close to each other, then Xie Bing could really make him, a person who is used to the social fad of small men and big women in another time and space, truly feel in this time and space. I feel a sense of accomplishment like a man with three wives and four concubines. When I got to Zhou Mo's place, the feeling was hard to describe, it seemed a bit... Once the golden wind and the jade dew meet, it is better than the countless feelings in the world.

And Liao Liao... Whenever he was with her, when two people started arguing subconsciously, it would always make him unknowingly let the thoughts go in his head , pulled back in an instant.

She made him realize: I am now truly living in this time and space.

My name is Li Qian.

Drama is like life, but life is not necessarily drama.

As long as you stretch out your hand, you can touch everything that is real in front of you!

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After a while, Liao Liao couldn't help but said, "Oh, it's alright, itchy...Brother, I'm driving! You can touch as much as you want when you go back, okay? Okay, stop..."

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Feel like you don’t have enough time every day!

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So, sometimes more, sometimes less, but the effort I put into daily updates is never compromised.