Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 303 Science Fiction Stories
After asking the crew members for the room numbers of the teachers, Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi wanted to say hello to Zhao Jian first, but Zhao Jian had already gone to the studio to watch the set.

Came to Huang Lei's room and knocked on the door, the door was opened not long after.

Huang Lei half-opened the door and looked around. Seeing that it was Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi, he couldn't help but joked, "The two big star producers are back?"

Big star producer... This title made Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi laugh.

Huang Lei thought that the two of them had something to do with him, so he opened the door wide and motioned for the two of them to enter.

Chu Xuan grabbed Huang Lei's shoulder and led him out.

"Brother Lei, I need help." He said.

"What's the matter?" Huang Lei reached out and closed the door.

"About the microfilm of the graduation project." Chu Xuan pawed him along the corridor of the hotel.

Huang Lei frowned, and said, "Yes, I still remember, I'm going to remind you both."

"You must remember, otherwise you will not be able to graduate." Concubine Liu Yi walked beside Chu Xuan.

Huang Lei smiled slightly and said, "It's good to know, what kind of micro-movie are you going to shoot? Youth? City? Campus?"

"Brother Lei, you have the same idea as I did at the beginning!" Concubine Liu Yi glanced at Huang Lei and said.

Huang Lei was slightly taken aback, what was his initial thought?Does that mean it's not these themes?

In his imagination, at the age of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, with their good looks, they are just right for making urban, youth, and campus micro-films. This type of micro-film is also the subject matter chosen by many senior students of Beijing Film Academy in the past.

One is that it is easy to shoot, the other is that it does not cost much money, the third is that the script is simpler, and the fourth is that it fits their basic personality.

Just hearing what Liu Yifei said, the themes they chose were obviously not these few, so he became interested, and wanted to see what tricks Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei were going to play.

In Huang Lei's eyes, Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi invited Liu Yi first, and without thinking too much, they knew that Liu Yi was the one who helped polish the script.

Then Wen Muye was invited.

Huang Lei nodded. Wen Muye had made several good-quality micro-films in school, and the teachers of the directing department praised him very much, so he was recommended to bring Wen Muye to the "Zhu Xian" crew to study.

In his opinion, it was a good choice for Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi to choose Wen Muye as the director of the microfilm, and it would also give Wen Muye a chance to hone his skills.

Huang Lei also praised the elder brother and elder sister leading the younger brother in his heart.

However, the people Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi invited next caught him off guard for a moment.

Zeng Zhengzong of the special effects team?Zheng Min?

"Do you want to shoot martial arts? Xianxia? Mythology?" He guessed several themes in a row. After all, he hired a special effects teacher, which was also his subconscious thought.

Liu Yi, Wen Muye, Zeng Zhengzong and Zheng Min were called out by Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi, so they became curious.

On the sofa of the suite, everyone took their seats and looked at Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi together, waiting for them to speak.

"Teachers, Sissi and I want to make a sci-fi micro-movie with special effects as a graduation project. We have a rough outline of the story, and I would like to ask you to help me as a consultant." Chu Xuan said sincerely.

"Special effects sci-fi?!" Huang Lei said in a daze. He really didn't expect that the micro-movie that Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei would shoot would be of this kind.

Instead of taking a more conservative path, go to an unknown path?

However, the next moment Huang Lei grinned again.

Both Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi became famous at a young age. In just two or three years, they became top executives in the circle, and then became producers at a young age. This is simply not the path that ordinary people can develop.

Therefore, the thinking of these two people cannot be viewed according to common sense. Whether it is the group portrait of "Zhu Xian" or the sci-fi that has never been done in China, it is obvious that the thinking of these two people is very detached and is not affected by the current domestic film and television industry. Influence of market style.

In his opinion, the word escape means that if you fail, you are fooling around, and if you succeed, you are advanced and ahead of others.

But no matter what, with the support of the bright era, Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi have the confidence to "break away".

Moreover, there are indeed no films of this type in China, so Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei might as well try micro-movies.

As for the cost of special effects?Chu Xuan is not short of money either.

In this way, Huang Lei had nothing to say, and only Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi dared to play like this.

"What story?"

Zeng Zhengzong and Zheng Min were in high spirits, but they didn't expect to be surprised by being called out by Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi.

Whether it is visual effects technology or original film and television paintings, they all serve the display of film and television special effects.

In which type of movie can special effects be presented to the extreme?Naturally, it is science fiction, disaster, magic and fantasy.

Those who have worked in Hollywood are most interested in this type of film, because once they receive a job in this type of film, they can not only hone their skills to the greatest extent, but also learn a lot.

It's just that when I return to work in China, the domestic film and television industry does not make such film and television dramas, and the capital is not willing to spend money on this, which makes it difficult for them, special effects practitioners, to take over jobs.

Now I heard Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei say they want to make a science fiction movie with special effects?Even if it's just a micro movie, it makes them very interested.

"Let's read the story first." Liu Yi said, he knew that Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi were going to work on their graduation project, so he also knew that Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi must have called him to help with the script.

Science fiction?He has never written such a script, and few screenwriters in China have written science fiction scripts.

Just because you haven't written it doesn't mean you can't do it, it's just that you don't have the opportunity to get in touch with this aspect of the script.

Now that Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi gave him the opportunity to get in touch with this unknown field, he is still very interested.

Even if it's just a script for a sci-fi micro-movie, that means he's gone a step further than his peers, doesn't it?
"Teachers." Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei distributed copies of manuscripts, which contained a rough outline of a science fiction story they had pondered during the 20 days in Star City.

Wen Muye received a manuscript, feeling faintly excited.

Hearing that the conversation just now was about the microfilm of the senior brother and sister's graduation work, so the senior brother and sister can invite him to come, which is undoubtedly letting him be the director.

Although he didn't know if it would be possible, but this trust made him both excited and moved.

Moreover, as a student of the directing department, he studied genre films from his freshman year, including science fiction, and often read the theoretical knowledge in textbooks that took foreign blockbusters as examples. As young people, based on unconstrained imagination, he and his classmates naturally I also have great fantasies about science fiction.

If he has the opportunity to lead a sci-fi film, this is something he looks forward to very much.

He took the manuscript paper and looked down.

[In a certain year, the earth's ozone layer dissipated abruptly and slowly, the sun's ultraviolet rays gradually diffused to irradiate the earth, sea water evaporated, buildings burned and collapsed, and human beings died instantly when they encountered it.

Then, huge waves of hundreds of meters high were set off from the sea and flooded the city, major earthquakes occurred frequently all over the world, and poisonous gas inexplicably emerged from the ground and spread on the ground.

In just one year, the city either collapsed or sank into the sea, and the earth was covered with thick poisonous gas. The survivors could only live in the dark underground world.

Humans around the world call this year: the year of the end of the world.

Thirty years later, scientists worked together in the underground world to develop an interstellar spacecraft. Under the attention of the world, a group of scientists left the earth on this spacecraft and went to unknown star fields, intending to find a planet suitable for human survival.

Although this may seem unthinkable, it is the only remaining hope for all mankind.

Therefore, this interstellar journey is called by human beings: hope.

After a long journey, scientists still haven't found a planet suitable for human survival, but they have not found nothing. They have collected a lot of cosmic information and data through the artificial intelligence brain of the spacecraft, and have developed one after another with this information and data. theoretical technology.

Perhaps, even if they do not find a planet suitable for human survival, they can find a solution to human survival when they return to Earth with these data theories.

However, when passing through an unknown star field, it was pulled and disturbed by mysterious gravity, the spacecraft failed, the brain went dormant, the gravity system failed, and the oxygen system leaked.

The entire spacecraft plummeted towards a planet, and in the process, the scientists on the spacecraft died due to lack of oxygen or impact.

When the spacecraft crashed on an unknown planet, there were only two people alive, a man and a woman.

The structure inside the spacecraft was not damaged, but the lack of oxygen made them have to try their best to leave the closed cabin as soon as possible and find a way to survive.

They went through various cabins, and seeing the tragic death of scientists in the cabins, they were deeply saddened.

With this grief, they found a hatch to open the spaceship, facing the unknown situation outside, when they mustered up the courage to open the hatch...

They found that this is a planet suitable for human habitation. 】

"This story attracted me, it has the feel of a literary science fiction film." Huang Lei moved his body to make himself sit more comfortably.

"The so-called hope finally fell on the heads of the hero and heroine, but the story ended abruptly, with no follow-up and an open ending." He said.

"It's a big brain hole." He added.

Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi glanced at each other without speaking, waiting for the other teachers' words.

"The story itself is good. The final ending is a double tragedy. The first is the tragedy of almost all the scientists dying, and the second is the tragedy of finally finding a planet suitable for human survival but the people are almost dead. Then all The responsibility rests on the shoulders of the hero and heroine, but just like Teacher Huang Lei said, this is an open ending with no follow-up." Liu Yidao.

In his opinion, although the outline of the story has no details, and the logic in some places does not make sense, the details and logic can be filled in by the screenwriter. It is quite attractive to just read the story.

However, if this story is turned into a script, there is still a big problem.

Liu Yi looked up at Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi, and said, "It's the end of the world again, it's building a spaceship, it's an interstellar voyage, and finally it's crashing again. Not to mention the plot, the production time of these special effects is enough. You should be Homework due in June?"

Liu Yi turned his head slightly to look at Zeng Zhengzong and Zheng Min, and said, "Is there enough time?"

Although Zeng Zhengzong was attracted by this story, to be more precise, he was attracted by the special effects scenes covered in the story, but he didn't think too much about it, and based on his years of experience in the special effects industry, he knew that timing was indeed a problem.

"There is no shot script, and I don't know the actual time of special effects shots, so I can't judge the approximate time of post-production, but just looking at this story, taking the 20-minute micro-movie as an example, this story is almost full of special effects, six months. There is not enough time at all, and you still need to make preliminary preparations." He shook his head and said, although it is a pity for this, he must tell the truth.

Liu Yi, Huang Lei and Zheng Min, including Wen Muye, nodded. They also guessed this after reading the story.

Huang Lei raised his eyebrows at Chu Xuan, and said, "I don't have enough time, what should I do?"

Concubine Liu Yi turned her head to look at Chu Xuan, who smiled slightly and said, "So I'm looking for your help as a consultant. If this story can be made into a work within a limited time, that would be the best. If not, then Qianqian and I can only Think of another story."

Hearing this, Zeng Zhengzong and Zheng Min lowered their heads and continued to read the manuscript paper. They were not screenwriters, and they couldn't solve Chu Xuan's problem, so they could only listen in on it.

Wen Muye looked at Huang Lei and Liu Yi, and wanted to see what the two teachers had to say. He hoped that the two teachers could give a good and implementable suggestion. He was also attracted by this science fiction story. pity.

Huang Lei and Liu Yi became deep in thought, one of them folded their hands, and the other raised their legs.

In private, as a friend of Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi, he can also be regarded as a teacher.

Officially, as the chief screenwriter and producer of "Zhu Xian", he is also a colleague.

Facing Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi's request for help, they were also thinking and helping with their best abilities and years of accumulated experience.

For such a good-looking sci-fi story, it's fun for them to help.

"There is a logical structure to this story." Huang Lei said.

"Yes. At the end of the world, human beings live underground. They built spaceships to search for planets to survive. In the end, the spaceship crashed and the two survivors found a living planet. The logic makes sense." Liu Yi nodded.

"But this logical structure is too big. Each link can actually be unfolded to make a story, but now it is integrated into one chain. If you want to explain everything clearly, you can't finish a movie, let alone a movie. Micro movies." Huang Lei analyzed.

"Yes." Liu Yi nodded slowly.

Listen, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, leave the professional work to professional people, at least in terms of screenwriting skills, they are still not qualified.

Huang Lei lowered his eyebrows and thought for a while, then said: "We need to compress the structure. The last surviving man and woman are played by Chu Xuan and Qianqian, so let's focus the plot after the spaceship crashes, whether it's the end of the world ahead or building a spaceship Well, it doesn’t matter whether it’s an interstellar voyage, or a spaceship crashes, it’s all in one stroke.”

Liu Yi looked at Huang Lei and said, "It's the same as I thought. Just look at the outline of the story. The hero and heroine are looking for an escape route in the spaceship, and they can set up scenes for shooting without any post-production special effects. Then we will focus on the main plot. It can be done in the spaceship, which greatly saves the time of post-production.”

Huang Lei said: "Then the end of the world and other plots in the front use CG images?"

"Yes." Liu Yi nodded, put down Erlang's legs, reached out and took out a pen from his arms, put the manuscript paper on the coffee table, and leaned over to start writing.

Huang Lei put down his embracing hands, and looked together with Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, and Wen Muye.

Liu Yi wrote while writing: "Chu Xuan, the story between you and Qianqian is an obvious and simple linear script structure with one line going straight."

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei nodded. The linear script structure is the simplest story frame structure based on the three-act composition. Based on the two of them's understanding of the script composition, they can only write stories with this structure at present.

"The story itself is fine, but the composition of each link is too wide. Just now, Teacher Huang Lei and I also said that a normal movie can't finish the story you wrote, let alone a micro movie. .”

Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi listened quietly and were also studying.

"So break up the structure, turn the linear structure into a nonlinear structure."

Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi watched Liu Yi write and listened to him speak.

"The story of the end of the world, the story of the underground world, the story of building the spaceship, and the story of the spaceship taking off, we use 2 minutes of CG to show the story, and this CG picture is used as the [preface] of the micro-movie. "

"As for the plot of the spacecraft sailing in space, the plot of the spacecraft falling, and the plot of the death of scientists, it is most taboo to have too many characters in a micro-movie. Due to the length of time, the branch lines will interfere with the main line and cannot grasp the main point, so these three plots are different. Shoot, remove them all."

"So, at the beginning of the feature film, I think it can start with the hero and heroine escaping with all their strength due to the lack of oxygen in the cabin after the spaceship fell."

Huang Lei folded his hands on his knees, bent over to look at the manuscript paper on the table, and said, "A non-linear story structure that Hollywood dramas like to use, starting with the end?"

Liu Yi looked up at him, shook his head and smiled: "Yes and no."

He lowered his head and took a pen to continue writing, saying: "The end of the world is the beginning, building a spaceship and searching for living planets in the universe is the process, and the crash of the spaceship is the end. This is the three-act composition of the CG screen. The beginning of the main plot of the hero and heroine seems to be a structure that starts with the end, but it is not, we can hide this beginning to increase the sense of suspense."

"Suspenseful science fiction?" Chu Xuan raised his eyebrows and asked.

Liu Yi nodded, "This is the best way I can think of to interpret your story."

Huang Lei frowned and said, "The audience didn't know about the crash of the spaceship when it started to be hidden? But you removed all the plot of the crash of the spaceship, and the audience didn't know about the crash of the spaceship."

Liu Yi said: "Not only the audience didn't know about the crash of the spaceship, but the hero and heroine couldn't know either."

"The hero and heroine are on the spaceship, how could they not know?" Concubine Liu Yi said in a dazed voice.

Liu Yi raised his mouth slightly, looked at Concubine Liu Yi and said, "Leave the logic to the screenwriter, we only talk about the structure of the story."

"Alright." Concubine Liu Yi said.

Liu Yi went on to say: "Suppose the hero and heroine have amnesia, so you can understand it better."

Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi nodded, and now they understood.

"Then, the spaceship crashes, the hero and heroine wake up, but when they open their eyes, they find that it is a strange environment, everything is strange, and the hero and heroine don't know each other."

"Lonely men and widows appear in such an environment, and they will be suspicious of each other and wary of each other. In other words, Chu Xuan and Qianqian are going to play against each other."

"This is good!" Chu Xuan patted his thigh, he was very much looking forward to playing against Concubine Liu Yi, and he was very interested in Liu Yi's thoughts.

"You can also add a fight scene." He suggested.

Concubine Liu Yi found it very exciting when Liu Yi said that she wanted to act opposite Chu Xuan. After all, she and Chu Xuan had never acted opposite each other.

But after hearing Chu Xuan's suggestion, she was slightly taken aback, then turned her head to look at Chu Xuan quietly, and said with a very dangerous look: "You want to hit me?"

Chu Xuan looked at her and said, "You can also hit me."

Concubine Liu Yi's mouth turned up, and she winked at Chu Xuan playfully.

Liu Yi, Huang Lei and the others smiled.

"During the process of mutual suspicion and wariness, the male and female protagonists discovered the lack of oxygen, and then cooperated while suspicious to find a way out."

"Then, I found and opened the hatch of the spaceship, and found that the outside is an unknown world, and the sky is the universe starry sky. This ending may shock the audience even more."

"Then, in the form of CG images, the camera is pulled up to show the audience the scene where the spaceship has fallen, and the audience will understand that something happened to the spaceship."

"Finally, the immersive way of CG lens runs through the entire spaceship, presenting the corpses floating in the vacuum in the spaceship, and recording or intercom conversations, etc., to show the chaos of the spaceship falling before the death of the scientists through sound. passed on to the audience."

"That is to say, the CG footage was given to the corpse, and the sound came from the walkie-talkie."

"Old Liu." Huang Lei gave a thumbs up and said: "As expected of a gold medal screenwriter, the story is full of camera sense. I can imagine this scene, which is very weird, suspenseful, and heavy."

Liu Yi waved his hand, and said again: "Think about a few more lines and present them with the voice of the walkie-talkie in the form of concluding remarks, to point out the theme of [Hope], and show the final scene of the finale to the hero and heroine. Get in touch, this micro-movie ends here."

"Brother Liu." Chu Xuan smiled and cupped his fists and said, "That's amazing, I'm convinced and I've learned it."

The sci-fi story of him and Concubine Liu Yi, if you break the surface and look at the structure, it is very simple.

After Liu Yi narrates it in a screenwriter style, the whole story frame is still there, but after the structure is broken and reorganized, it becomes a new way of telling the story, and the language of the camera is everywhere, which is quite awesome. .

If the script is written according to the structure Liu Yi said, from his point of view, this is a very good script.

Hearing Chu Xuan's praise, Liu Yi smiled and said: "In my humble opinion, it is the best way to tell the story of this microfilm. It not only saves the cost, but also saves the time of post-production. The suspense and suspense also increase the point of view, and also retain the special effects of the big scene."

"Brother Liu is amazing!" Concubine Liu Yi admired. Like Chu Xuan, she couldn't believe that the story written by the two of them could be told like this?Non-linear story structure?Begin with the end in mind?Learned new knowledge points.

"I like the structure of this story very much." She said jovially again.

"It's really good." Wen Muye nodded again and again. A director's desire for a good script is stronger than that of an actor. Hearing the story structure told by Mr. Liu, his desire to shoot rose sharply.

"This is literary science fiction." Zeng Zhengzong said.

"There is a sense of literature and art." Zheng Min nodded in agreement.

Huang Lei straightened up and leaned back against the sofa, and said, "Our teacher Liu is still very good. Not only has he injected artistry, but he has also retained the commercial aspect, and added a lot of camera language. The script is written according to this structure, and it will be a good book."

"But there is only one question." Huang Lei said to Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi: "A nearly 20-minute micro-movie, from the beginning to the end, only you two actors, without any supporting roles to highlight you, can you afford it?"

Liu Yi raised his eyebrows, but couldn't help but laugh.

He only wanted to write the story of Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi, under the constraints of the established time and conditions, and scripted it with his screenwriting thinking, but he forgot to write the script according to his thinking, and the only characters were Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi .

It is very difficult for two actors to hold up the big screen for 10 minutes, and it lasts for 10 minutes.

Chu Xuan turned his head to look at Concubine Liu Yi, and Concubine Liu Yi turned her head to look at him.

"Challenge?" Chu Xuan asked.

"Acting with you, I can explode my emotions without any scruples, so let's challenge it." Concubine Liu Yi raised her eyebrows, full of fighting spirit, as if she regarded Chu Xuan as her opponent.

"How do you prepare for the shooting location?" Huang Lei asked.

Chu Xuan looked at Liu Yi: "Brother Liu, help me out and coordinate the script. According to the structure of the story, you can pay as much as you want. This is a private matter between Qianqian and me. We pay for it ourselves."

Everyone laughed.

Liu Yi thought for a while and said: "Call three more screenwriters from the company. I will control the story structure, outline, and character design. The screenwriter will write the plot and fill in the logic of the details. If there are only two of you actors, the overall planning of the script will not cost much. Too much time, take a 20 to 30 minute micro movie as an example, I spare time from "Zhu Xian" to do this, and it can be done in half a month at the latest."

Chu Xuan nodded, and looked at Wen Muye: "Munye, then you and Brother Liu will coordinate the script together, and as an assistant, the main thing is that you have to clear up the script, and then bring the script to the "Tianlong" Film and Television City in Yunnan Province set up a green cloth scene inside the spaceship, and the props should be properly prepared, is it feasible?"

"I..." Wen Muye was stunned for a while, and then confirmed with a hint of joy: "I'm the director?"

"Otherwise, why did I ask you to come?" Chu Xuan smiled back.

Wen Muye was overjoyed, and then hid his joy and said: "Then "Zhu Xian"..."

Huang Lei stretched out his hand and gave him a hammer, and said, "You are just an assistant director, and you usually do odd jobs. You are not like you."

Wen Muye was slightly embarrassed.

"I'm going to tell Brother Zhao about "Zhu Xian" to coordinate the script. Your senior sister and I will use the shot script to make the special effects budget with Mr. Zeng and Mr. Zheng. You and the props team will do the scene, props and labor budget. Report the budget to me when the time comes, and I will give you a sum of money, and you can go to Yundian to set up the scene."

"The next stop for the shooting of "Zhu Xian" is Yandang Mountain Scenic Area, and the next stop is the final stop, which is also the film and television city on the side of Yundian. They are all in one place, and there will be no delay on both sides."

"Okay senior brother." Wen Muye replied.

"The arrangement is so good, are you going to leave again?" Huang Lei asked with his hands clasped.

Chu Xuan nodded and said: "In a few days, Brilliant Times will establish a film and television company. In the middle of the month, there will be a micro-entertainment shareholder meeting, and there will be an awards ceremony for micro-entertainment night. The Chinese New Year will be at the end of the month. The mother-in-law is too lonely, so she asks us to buy it with her. New Year's goods..."

Concubine Liu Yi covered her mouth and laughed.

Everyone couldn't help but laugh.

Huang Lei raised his hand and looked at his watch: "It's over, let's go to the studio?"

"Let's go." Chu Xuan said, standing up with Concubine Liu Yi.

Immediately, a group of people left the hotel and took a car to the studio.

(End of this chapter)