Director's Eyes

Chapter 630 Director's Eyes

With Luo Yuzhong shooting "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" and with sufficient budget, the shooting scene of this drama has the momentum that is almost as good as movie production.

Lu Yanhe was actually shocked when he arrived at the set on the first day.

Because this drama will use a lot of CG special effects, many scenes are shot in the studio.

However, there are also many scenes that are shot in real scenes.

The high production cost of this drama comes largely from the expenses of stage design and props on site.

Not only Luo Yuzhong has high requirements in this regard, but Lu Yanhe is the same.

Since this kind of drama is to be shot, the world view constructed must convince the audience.

However, if the more than 30 episodes of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" want to achieve their ideal production effect, even with such high production costs at present, there is no way to cover it.

And under the current production cost, it will be difficult to make a profit if the production funds are further added. After all, they still have to leave enough budget for the production of CG special effects in the later stage.

It can be said that "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is the most expensive Chinese drama in China in the past three years. It has reached the top.

Top director + top screenwriter + the most popular cast + the most expensive subject matter.

Lu Yanhe was a little worried that with such a high production cost, the final profit of this project would not be as good as "Love Letter". Well, it can be basically concluded that it is not as good as "Love Letter".

However, because of the box office explosion of "Love Letter", Linghe now has sufficient cash flow reserves, which relieved the tension in the summer.

Xu Tianming also said: "As long as the normal broadcast rights income of this drama can cover the production cost, I will make money back in other aspects of this drama. I have contacted a company for the development of the costumes, hair accessories, character models, pillows and other peripherals of this drama. At that time, the peripheral development of this drama will make us money back."

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However, shooting this drama is much harder for actors than shooting modern dramas.

Not to mention the various action scenes, just because of the styling every day, you need to get up two hours earlier to leave time for styling.

Lu Yanhe has fewer scenes, so it's relatively okay. Li Zhibai basically has to get up at five or six in the morning every day, and arrive at the set with his hair and makeup done before nine o'clock.

The same goes for Yan Lingyu.

Of course, according to the rules of the set, those famous actors are relatively better off. For example, Jiang Lingyi, a new actor who plays Lin Yueru, usually has her scenes scheduled at the earliest or latest time.

The set is like this, the best time slots are always reserved for big names.

Of course, for newcomers, they don't care about the hardship they have to endure. For newcomers, what they are afraid of is to endure some hardship that they don't know if there is a future.

Jiang Lingyi won the second female role in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", a pre-made hit drama. In this case, she herself is like a chicken blood every day, with 100% energy to shoot this drama, and never complains about hardship or tiredness.

As the only new actor among several leading actors who won this role through auditions and from thousands of people, Jiang Lingyi knows how lucky she is.

On the set, Jiang Lingyi herself was a girl with a personality similar to Lin Yueru - it seemed that if a newcomer got a role through an audition, it would be like this, more or less close to her true nature.

She got along well with almost all the staff of the crew and had a good relationship with them.

However, she was a little reserved in front of Li Zhibai and Lu Yanhe.

Fortunately, there was Yan Lingyu in the crew. Yan Lingyu usually didn't like to talk to people, but she and Jiang Lingyi often talked quietly together on the set, and it seemed that there was always endless topics to talk about between girls.

Lu Yanhe had no plans for him a few days ago.

However, he didn't stay in the hotel either. Basically, he arrived at the set early every morning and stayed with Luo Yuzhong, and stayed all day to see how he did it as a director.

After Lu Yanhe himself directed "Love Letter", he deeply realized his shortcomings in this regard.

There are too many things a director has to do. Every day when he opens his eyes, there are countless decisions waiting for him to make.

Fortunately, "Love Letter" is basically a very simple movie, with almost no big scenes, no complicated scheduling, and a small crew.

But "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is different. It is a huge crew with hundreds of people.

Luo Yuzhong's assistant director team alone has four people.

Each assistant director is responsible for different things, which helps Luo Yuzhong share a lot of things.

Lu Yanhe was amazed.

The crew also has a B group. According to the usual practice, the B group will shoot at the same time as the A group, which is to save the crew's shooting time.

The B group formed by Luo Yuzhong is mainly used to shoot some transition scenes and some empty shots.

Luo Yuzhong saw that Lu Yanhe had been following him to observe, and curiously asked Lu Yanhe if he wanted to shoot a few scenes directly.

Lu Yanhe shook his head and refused.

If he were to shoot, he would definitely shoot the same thing as the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" in his memory.

However, this version is already very different. This version has some changes from the original version in terms of camera quality, lens scheduling and style.

Luo Yuzhong is using the techniques and style of shooting a serious drama to shoot this fairy tale drama.

Of course, in fact, Lu Yanhe himself felt that the original version of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" was not the way to shoot an idol drama. The costume dramas at that time still used a lot of expression techniques from serious dramas.

The scenes between Li Zhibai and Yan Lingyu did not have any rotating shots, nor any of the popular CP ambiguous shooting methods.

The photo was taken very accurately.

The man is chivalrous and the woman is simple.

Lu Yanhe noticed that on the set, Luo Yuzhong asked all the staff to call Yan Ling Yu Ling'er instead of her real name.

Luo Yuzhong also gave a lot of guidance on Yan Lingyu's performance.

"You smile so much."

"You are too cold, give me a pure and cute smile."

"Don't be coquettish. You are not a coquettish girl to begin with. It's very strange for you to pretend to be coquettish."

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This was what shocked Lu Yanhe. Judging from his experience of working with Luo Yuzhong, Luo Yuzhong often directs actors in a way of breaking it apart and crushing it to tell the story, instead of like now, where he often uses a negative sentence structure to tell Yan Ling Yu, what did she do wrong?

However, what also surprised Lu Yanhe was that Yan Lingyu did not fall into a low mood because of these criticisms from Luo Yuzhong. He basically listened to them and adjusted his state.

"Yan Lingyu has too much self-esteem and is too proud." Li Zhibai told Lu Yanhe this way. "Although her appearance is very suitable for Ling'er, it is easy for her to act like a gentle person like Ling'er. The pretty girl turned into a cold goddess.”

Luo Yuzhong has been correcting Yan Lingyu tirelessly.

Although he had been criticizing Yan Lingyu, he was not angry.

This is what surprised Lu Yanhe.

After Lu Yanhe stayed at the scene for three days, Luo Yuzhong took Lu Yanhe to the computer room.

The material he shot was always being edited by someone, checking to see if there was any material that could not be used. These problems must be discovered in time to facilitate reshoots.

Lu Yanhe didn't understand why Luo Yuzhong brought him here at first, until Luo Yuzhong asked the editor to open a few videos.

They are all videos of Linger played by Yan Lingyu.

In the video, Yan Lingyu almost showed different reactions, such as smiling at Li Zhibai, or sulking. Each shot only lasted a few seconds, but the Yan Lingyu in the camera was different from what he usually saw most of the time. Yan Lingyu is different. He really has the innocent, ignorant, smart and cute temperament of Ling'er.

"Wow -" Lu Yanhe exclaimed.

Luo Yuzhong said: "At first, did you think Yan Lingyu was not suitable for the role of Ling'er?"

Lu Yanhe nodded honestly.

The actress Yan Lingyu was chosen by Luo Yuzhong.

Not Lu Yanhe - even if Lu Yanhe collaborated with her in "Late Spring".

Luo Yuzhong said: "I read "Love Letter", and the girl named Zhang Ruozhi in it is very impressive. I heard that you fell in love with her at first sight?"

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"She happens to be studying in Jiangzhi."

Luo Yuzhong: "Should it be the true character?"

"Yes, she looks just like the girl in the movie."

"But you should know that you are not always lucky enough to find an actor who fits the role so well."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Luo Yuzhong pointed to Yan Lingyu in the camera.

"She herself is indeed not very similar to the character Ling'er. However, movies and TV dramas are all about the art of editing. We don't need an actor to look like a character all the time. As long as she can have some moments that make you believe that she is, that's enough. "Luo Yuzhong said, "Yan Lingyu is such an actor in this drama. Many of her materials are actually unusable. It may take two hours to shoot, but only ten minutes can be used in the end, but these ten minutes are very good. , that’s enough.”

Lu Yanhe listened thoughtfully to Luo Yuzhong's words.

"Being a director means knowing very clearly what you want. You may not be able to describe it in detail, but you have to know what you want." Luo Yuzhong said, "When you were on the set of "Love Letter", this was It’s clear, so everyone’s job is easier. In fact, many veterans in the film and television industry are not willing to work with new directors. Do you know why?”

Lu Yanhe: "Inexperienced?"

"Lack of experience is just a symptom. It's more because new directors often don't know what they want to shoot, or what they want is not obtainable based on the actual shooting situation." Luo Yuzhong said, "This will make people come back. and double the work.”

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"The same principle applies to selecting actors." Luo Yuzhong said, "You still remember when I went to Star Entertainment to interview actors. Star Entertainment invited more than a hundred idols to come over and let me interview for your role."

"Remember." Lu Yanhe nodded, how could he forget.

That was the day that changed his destiny.

Luo Yuzhong said: "With more than a hundred candidates, do you think you can really say that one of them is the most suitable and the best? Among the actors at that time, there were Li Zhibai, Yan Liang, and a few others. I think Your performance was excellent, but I decided on you in the end.”

"Yes, teacher, why did you decide me then?"

"Do you want to hear the truth?"

"think."

"The main reason is that Jiang Yuqian told me that she saw the shadow of someone she once loved in you, and she felt very emotional when she acted with you in the drama of college days." Luo Yuzhong said, "It actually has nothing to do with your audition that time. Of course, the performance you gave in the audition that time surprised me and made me feel relieved. It made me know that you are a person who can act."

Lu Yanhe looked at Luo Yuzhong in surprise.

"Sometimes, as a director, I don't want to choose the one I think is the best. Like your role in "The Golden Age", his importance is actually to Jiang Yuqian, and Jiang Yuqian's scene with you determines the tone of Jiang Yuqian's character in the whole play, so her attitude is the most important. Facts have proved that it is true. You surprised the audience as soon as you appeared, and your college love with Jiang Yuqian is still mentioned and regretted by people until now."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

When "Love Letter" was first released, some viewers said that he was playing the role of the dead heroine Bai Yueguang again.

At that time, there was a hot search called Lu Yanhe returns to the track of Bai Yueguang.

Luo Yuzhong said: "But, the role of Ling'er cannot be chosen in this way. In fact, this is also to blame the script you wrote. In your script, the female image of Ling'er can almost be said to be a perfect image that satisfies the imagination of all Chinese people. All the good qualities are in her. It is basically unrealistic for you to find an actress who matches her in real life."

Lu Yanhe nodded and agreed with what Luo Yuzhong said.

Otherwise, it is said that the fairy sister has a thick blood. Without a big company or big capital, she relies on the thick blood of classic roles. She has survived the era of big flowers competing for hegemony, and the era of 85 flowers. In the era of Internet celebrities competing for ordinary women, she is still the top stream after her return.

One person carries three generations, and she is the only one in the family.

He also has no way to select a fairy sister in this world.

"At this time, you can only find a raw material suitable for carving into this role." Luo Yuzhong finally talked about the main topic of why he brought Lu Yanhe to the editing room today. "As long as an actor has a few moments that make you feel that she is that role, then it is done. On the set, you have to explore this side and inspire more moments. Use the camera, editing, costumes, props and various film and television methods to completely shape her into that role in the lens." Luo Yuzhong nodded at Lu Yanhe sincerely. "Your "Love Letter" was shot very well, but you rely too much on the adaptability of the actor and the role, on the actor's own acting skills and shaping ability, but ignore the various conveniences that the film and television industry can provide." "If it weren't for Chen Bige, who could make two people so similar perform the effect of two people?" Luo Yuzhong said to Lu Yanhe, "To be honest, "Love Letter" is first-class in terms of photography, music, performance and editing rhythm, but the lens can't deceive people. You rely on the actor to completely become that role in the performance. What if you have a role and can't find an actor who can achieve this?" Lu Yanhe's head banged. At this moment, what he was thinking about was Jin Xiangyu in "Dragon Inn".

To this day, he couldn't think of which actress could play this role, so when Liu Bige said he wanted to shoot this script, he almost gave the script away with a sense of relief.

Luo Yuzhong hit his soft spot and the shortcoming he had been avoiding.

"You have been following me these days. Do you want to see how a director works?" Luo Yuzhong asked.

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"Do you want to continue to be a director in the future?"

"For some plays, I think it is better for me to be the director myself, so that I can better shoot the feeling I want when I write the script."

Luo Yuzhong laughed.

"Who was the one who said that he never wanted to be a director again?" He looked at Lu Yanhe jokingly.

Lu Yanhe lowered his head and chuckled.

At this moment, he only admired Luo Yuzhong in his heart.

Luo Yuzhong only watched "Love Letter" and saw his shortcomings and defects as a director. Luo Yuzhong only used Yan Lingyu as an example to make him deeply aware of the difference between his perspective as an actor and Luo Yuzhong as a director.

At this moment, Lu Yanhe suddenly understood a truth.

Why are many directors famous for training actors?

In fact, it is not training actors.

It is that they can see things in actors that others cannot see.

Just like Luo Yuzhong can see things that others cannot see in Yan Lingyu, which belong to Ling'er.

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After being taken to the editing room by Luo Yuzhong, Lu Yanhe saw Yan Lingyu acting on the spot again, and what he saw was different.

He noticed that Yan Lingyu herself was indeed a relatively cold person, which basically constituted the main color of her image.

However, sometimes, when she talked more with everyone and became a little enthusiastic, it was like breaking the ice, and there was a little more warmth in her eyes and face.

And as long as there was this little warmth, her temperament changed, making her feel a little like Ling'er.

But she is not like this all the time. If she does not talk to anyone for a while, her state will return to that cold and lonely state, and she needs to be lured out of her body bit by bit, just like luring a snake out of its hole.

Lu Yanhe thought about what Li Zhibai had said to him before, and he suddenly wondered if Yan Lingyu's coldness came from her own self-esteem.

He knew that many people would subconsciously hold back and not let go under normal circumstances because of their strong self-esteem.

Looking at Jiang Lingyi, who played Lin Yueru, when she was with Yan Lingyu, Yan Lingyu was often the most lively, but also the least noisy.

She was actually a bit boyish, which happened to complement the chivalrous spirit of Lin Yueru. Only when she was with Yan Lingyu, she was particularly girlish.

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That day, Li Zhibai asked Lu Yanhe.

"You have been staring at Yan Lingyu and Jiang Lingyi these two days. What are you doing?"

Lu Yanhe told Li Zhibai what Luo Yuzhong had said to him.

Li Zhibai suddenly realized.

"Are you training your ability to observe people?"

"Almost. I always thought I was good at observing people, but after my teacher told me, I found that I really overestimated myself."

Li Zhibai: "How old are you? You are exaggerating. Director Luo just reminded you what you didn't notice before, but you want to cultivate a pair of fiery eyes now."

Lu Yanhe: "I didn't, don't slander me."

"Then what are you thinking about?"

"I just want to see what I didn't see from Yan Lingyu before, why didn't I see it, why can Director Luo see it."

"Tsk, isn't that what I mean." Li Zhibai speechlessly rolled his eyes at Lu Yanhe, "I said, have you read "Liu Guang Yin"?"

"I have." Lu Yanhe nodded.

"What do you think?"

"Uh, it's OK?" Lu Yanhe said, "I think Yan Liang's acting is not bad, his role is good, but Zhang Lan..."

"Really? You think so too?" Li Zhibai said, "Why do I feel that Zhang Lan's acting in this play has no feeling at all? There is no CP feeling between her and Yan Liang at all."

"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded, "The camera and the soundtrack have already created the atmosphere, but there is no such feeling of pulling between Zhang Lan and Yan Liang."

Li Zhibai: "There are many people scolding Zhang Lan on the Internet."

"This is not accurate. Zhang Lan and her group of actresses have many fans and black fans, and they are all very active. It is basically impossible to see in the early stage." Lu Yanhe said, "The performance of this drama is okay now, but I don't know how it will be in the later stage, but we both feel that there is no feeling between them. The audience may feel the same way, right?"

Li Zhibai: "But I took a look, everyone is still satisfied with Yan Liang, and many people are praising him for being handsome in this drama."

"It's mainly a fairy tale In the drama, his image is basically unseen. "Lu Yanhe said, "His character modeling is well done, heroic, very much like the style of a young general, plus his body shape, very handsome."

"Zhou Pingan specially found someone to do his modeling, without using the stylist hired by the crew." Li Zhibai said, "Zhou Pingan is still quite good at this. He thinks the modeling given by the crew of "Liu Guang Yin" is too similar to the image of generals and war gods in other ancient idols, and there is no difference."

"Now everyone is talking about which drama is popular, Imitate everything from a certain drama."

"What if the subsequent reputation of "Liu Guang Yin" is not good?" Li Zhibai asked, "Will it not drag Yan Liang down?"

"How could that happen? This drama is a female-led ancient puppet drama with Zhang Lan as the main character, and she is the one who carries the drama." Lu Yanhe said, "Besides, with Yan Liang's performance, it is impossible to mock him. Ancient puppet dramas were obviously Zhang Lan's comfort zone before, and I don't know why she acted so badly this time."

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When Yan Liang returned to the "Xianjian" crew, "Liu Guang Yin" had been broadcast for a few days.

These days, Yan Liang basically had positive hot searches on social platforms every day.

But at the same time, Zhang Lan had several negative hot searches.

One of them was "poor acting skills."

It can be said that "Liu Guang Yin" is indeed controversial.

Yan Liang's mood was also affected a little.

Li Zhibai said, "Everyone is praising you, what are you afraid of?"

"Those are all hot searches Zhou Pingan bought for me. He doesn't want the bad reviews of the show to affect me."

"But your performance is indeed good." Lu Yanhe said, "Li Zhibai and I have watched it. Believe us, we are not saying this just because you are our friend."

Yan Liang: "Okay."

"Hey!" Luo Yuzhong suddenly came over and patted Yan Liang's shoulder from behind.

Yan Liang looked at him in surprise, "Director."

"Although I only watched a little bit, you acted well in your new drama. Although it is the kind of ancient puppet drama that I don't like very much, I can see that you are seriously shaping a role and acting differently from those actors in the same type of drama." Luo Yuzhong nodded affirmatively to Yan Liang.

Yan Liang was flattered and said thank you.

Luo Yuzhong said: "However, since we are back to the crew, let's focus on the drama we are filming."

"Okay." Yan Liang nodded immediately, "Director, don't worry, I will concentrate on filming this drama."

As soon as Luo Yuzhong left, Li Zhibai hooked his arm around Yan Liang's neck.

"You guy, our words don't work, you don't believe it, and you grinned as soon as the director said it."

Yan Liang had to struggle for a while before he could free himself from Li Zhibai's "control".

"Damn, how come you have so much strength now?"

"I practiced it." Li Zhibai hummed proudly.

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That day, Chen Yin came over to see the filming of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy". As the deputy general manager of Linghe, he is the producer and producer of this project.

He also reported to Lu Yanhe on the progress of several projects of the company.

"The filming of "Men and Women Living Together" has been completed, and the editing is expected to be completed in October. Hu Siwei finally decided to let Northern Lights broadcast this drama, and agreed to the new profit-sharing model launched by Northern Lights."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"The movie of "Home Alone" has been approved, and we are contacting the right director. As for the two stupid thieves in the movie, we are still preparing to hold auditions to find the right actors."

"When can the filming of this movie start?"

"Next January, when Huang Feng is on winter vacation, the background of the script happens to be the Chinese New Year."

"Yes."

"TVN said that the Korean version of "Rouge" will be broadcast in November this year, and they hope you can go to Korea at that time to participate in the global launch ceremony of this drama."

"They also held a global launch ceremony?" Lu Yanhe was a little surprised, "Is it so exaggerated?"

"Yes." Chen Yin said, "In fact, it is simultaneous on Maxi ne streaming media will be broadcast globally."

"Okay." Lu Yanhe said, "I can't agree to them for now. You should talk to Wang Biao and Sister Zi Yan to see if I can arrange my time by then."

"Okay."

"In addition, there is the movie "Telephone" written by you, which is scheduled to be released on New Year's Day. "Lost in Thailand" will be released during the Spring Festival next year, and the second season of "Wulin Waijia" is also scheduled to be broadcast during the Spring Festival."

"Also, Director Wang Zhong is going to send "Raise the Red Lantern" to the West Tuol Film Festival, which may collide with "Tropical Rain Season" directed by Huang Tianlin. Director Huang Tianlin's first choice seems to be the West Tuol Film Festival. "

Fight.

Lu Yanhe thought about it and said, "Let's collide. One is a movie I wrote and the other is a movie I participated in. Anyway, it's not me fighting with myself."

Seeing Lu Yanhe say this, Chen Yin didn't say anything else.

After listening to Lu Yanhe, Lu Yanhe had only one feeling in his heart.

There are so many projects.

When did you slowly accumulate so many projects?

I feel that there will be projects related to him every month, even movies and TV series at the same time.

"..."

It's so prolific.

I've never had such a dense bombardment of works before.

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