Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 462 Attending Class ([-])

There were rustling sounds in the meeting room, and twenty or so men and women were communicating in low voices.

These people are generally very young, with an average age of about 25 or [-] years old.

According to the current situation in film and television, young screenwriters represent a lack of experience. Even if they join the screenwriting group to participate in the creation of the script, at most they are just starting out and writing leftovers, and they are not qualified to involve the core part of the play.

But in the face of screenwriter film and television, in the face of the new concept proposed by Chu Xuan and Han Sanping, in the face of such a very new thing, Liu Yi and several teachers changed their minds.

Since it was something new, they thought it would be more acceptable for young people to get involved.

Ideological conflicts are often difficult to entangle. Basically, it is a situation where the mother says the woman is right, and the public says the public is right. The stubbornness in each other's hearts is almost the result of no one trying to persuade the other.

The artistic thinking of the older generation of practitioners in the cultural industry is deeply ingrained, and these people have to abandon the traditional way of drama writing and accept the new way. Liu Yi and the others are afraid that they will quarrel with these people at that time.

Besides, since it is necessary to cultivate the background of the film and television screenwriters of the Brilliant Times, it is obviously more beneficial to cultivate these people from the very beginning. It is obviously more beneficial for these people to be dependent on the Brilliant Times and tied to the Brilliant Times.

"What is the new play mode?"

"I do not know."

"Then why are you here?"

"During the training period, food and lodging are included, and round-trip tickets are also included. If you fail the assessment, you don't need to spend money to go home. If you pass the assessment and officially join the company, the benefits will be half as high as those of your peers, and there will be additional incentive bonuses. Why not come."

Some are authors of online novels, some are authors of traditional literature, some are editors of magazines, some are writers of news articles, and some are practitioners of typesetting and proofreading...

The occupations are different, but the common denominator is that they are writers.

For them, the current writing industry is extremely unstable, and the best places to go are major TV stations, where they participate in program script creation or copywriting. Although the income is not high, it is better than stability.

But TV stations don’t just go there whenever they want. There are more wolves and less meat, and they also need to have a high degree of education, so most of the practitioners don’t have the tickets to get started.

As a result, most people muddle along in the industry, submitting manuscripts to major news agencies, magazines, novel websites, and literature departments of entertainment companies. After passing the manuscript, they get the manuscript fee and live a good life for a few months. Before the manuscript is passed, they eat instant noodles every day and continue. The code word waits for an opportunity.

This kind of life is very unstable and boring, and staying at home every day at a desk makes them have few friends in life.

Maybe it's laziness, or maybe it's because they really have a dream of writing, but there are still many people who persist in the industry.

The personnel department of Brilliant Times commissioned a headhunting company to help. From the list given by the headhunting company, under the joint recruitment of the Human Resources Department and the Department of Literature, the attractive salary and benefits made these people sign up one after another eager to join Brilliant Times.

Liu Yi led a group of screenwriter teachers from the literature department to conduct simple questions and answers to these people via email or QQ as an interview, and finally screened the twenty or so who appeared.

"Yeah, I've been a screenwriter for two years, and it's the first time I've heard that screenwriters can get a fixed salary."

"Indeed, we are engaged in writing work, we all depend on the sky for our food. If you submit a manuscript, you will get a manuscript fee. If you don't pass it, your income may be 0 for a year or so. The atmosphere of the bright era, giving screenwriters a stable income and job position, this temptation. too big."

"If things go on like this, Brilliant Times will be a holy place for screenwriters."

When Liu Yihe's HR department recruited people, they didn't say anything about screenwriting and filming, and directly used high salaries and benefits as a gimmick. For these people who are in danger, nothing is more important than money.

As the old saying goes, if you have money, let's talk about dreams.

The benefits of this high salary are obviously very useful. At least when Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi first came in, they could still see passion and longing for the future from the eyes of these people.

"Chu Xuan, Concubine Liu Yi!" A woman with curly hair covered her mouth and exclaimed in a low voice when she saw the two of them appearing. She was obviously a fan of the young couple.

The rest of the people heard the sound and looked, seeing Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi's eyes lit up.

Some people think about whether they can see Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi when they come to Brilliant Times for training, but Brilliant Times Entertainment and Brilliant Times Film and Television belong to two office buildings. Unexpectedly, the young couple came.

Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi smiled back and waved.

Under the gaze of everyone, the young couple came to the last row.

"Mr. Gong, Mr. Ye, Mr. Yang." The two greeted each other and sat down side by side.

Gong Geer, Ye Junbian, and Yang Dongxu nodded slightly. These three, together with Liu Yi, were called the "Big Four" of the Brilliant Times Literature Department. They control the company's script resources and are responsible for the creation and guidance of scripts. They are also the core figures of screenwriters and filmmakers.

Seeing that the Lord is coming, the meeting room slowly fell silent.

Liu Yi went to the first lecture, turned on his laptop, took out a USB flash drive and plugged it into the interface, and started the projector, saying, "We had a gathering a few days ago, and everyone is familiar with each other."

A few days ago when the staff gathered in Beijing, Liu Yi and Gong Geer invited these people to dinner on behalf of the company.

If it is normal, any company may not be so enthusiastic about new employees.

But these people are different, and some of them are likely to join the core work of screenwriting and filming in the near future.

And today's twenty or so are the first batch of talents, and there will be a steady stream of recruits in the future to create an exclusive team of film and television industrialized screenwriters in science fiction, costume, magic, modern and other types.

It is impossible for Liu Yi and Gong Geer to train all the time. Of course, these veteran screenwriters have more important things to do.

Then for batch after batch of newcomers in the future, the current personnel who have to be trained and passed the examination will be needed to guide them.

Therefore, the salary and benefits offered by the company are very high, and the treatment for them is naturally different from that of other departments.

"Our industry is difficult to mix." Liu Yi pressed the remote control to let the curtain fall automatically, and he sat on the chair and faced the crowd: "But our company intends to conduct in-depth discussions and researches on screenwriting, which requires many like-minded friends. participate."

"I sincerely invite everyone, I, President Chu, Producer Liu, and Teacher Ye, Teacher Gong and Teacher Yang. Welcome everyone."

Everyone smiled and applauded while turning their heads to look at Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi. Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi waved their hands warmly to them, and they turned their heads back again.

"Many people have doubts about what we want everyone to do." Liu Yi paused and looked at many curious faces: "It's very complicated to explain, but it's nothing more than one sentence: improve the efficiency of script creation."

Everyone was surprised, to improve the efficiency of script creation?

They finally knew the purpose of the Brilliant Era, and they didn't expect that the Brilliant Era would devote great efforts to researching this issue.

In their minds, any company wants to improve the efficiency of script creation. After all, time is money. The faster the script is created, the shorter the timeline of revenue, and the relative profit efficiency will be improved.

But how can this thing be improved?

Script writing is a mental activity. If the screenwriter doesn't get inspiration, even if you force him to write with a knife, he won't be able to write it.

Here, everyone has different thoughts, and they are all curious.

"At this stage, everyone will stay in the capital for two months."

"This month, I, Teacher Ye, Teacher Gong and Teacher Yang, each teacher will train you for a week, and tell you something every afternoon."

Everyone nodded, the training had already been known in advance through email and QQ.

"Next month, we will start the proposition assessment. I can tell you in advance that the type of proposition is science fiction."

Science fiction? ! ... Everyone was a little surprised. They knew that there was an assessment, but they didn't expect that the proposition of the assessment was science fiction.

Many people nodded in understanding at the next moment, "Hope" is a work of Brilliant Era, so it looks like what was predicted on the Internet, is Brilliant Era really going to create a complete science fiction movie?
Some people are not interested. Domestic science fiction entertainment is still limited to certain magazines, and there are almost no such things in film and television dramas.

Brilliant Times wants to engage in science fiction and invite them to participate in it. Does that mean they are asked to write the script?
In the face of new and unknown things, this moment successfully aroused their curiosity.

"This week is my time to tell you something."

"Today is also the first day of training. I will talk about the creation and framework of the script, how to improve the efficiency of script creation, and the future development path of everyone in the company."

What Liu Yi said was what everyone was willing to listen to, and everyone was very interested.

"During my lecture, if you have any questions, discuss them together after I finish the lecture."

The crowd nodded.

Some people who have never been a screenwriter have a learning attitude.

Some people who used to be screenwriters also looked like scholars in front of Liu Yi, a gold medal screenwriter.

Seeing that Liu Yi was about to give a lecture, everyone cheered up.

Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi sat in the back row, and they looked at each other with interest in their eyes, as if they had returned to the old school days.

"What's the script?" Liu Yi said, waving his hands: "Facing this problem, don't think about some complicated theories, and don't use the so-called professional jargon that sounds cloudy to explain."

"What is a script? In a simple sentence, it is the basis for the content of film and television dramas and the core text of the art of film and television dramas. This sentence alone is enough to explain the status and importance of scripts in the composition of various parts of film and television dramas."

Hearing Liu Yi's words, everyone understood, but at the same time lamented the importance of the script, but the status of the screenwriter is so low in the industry.

Liu Yi raised three fingers: "There are three kinds of scripts, literary scripts, filming scripts, and shot scripts."

He glanced at everyone: "Some friends have never been in contact with this industry, and maybe they don't know. Some screenwriter friends here must understand. Whether you understand it or not, I will roughly talk about the purpose and structure of the three types of scripts." .”

In the eyes of everyone, when Liu Yi opened the word document, it seemed that he was going to use examples to explain the differences and functions of these three types of scripts.

Liu Yi tapped the keyboard, and words appeared in the word document as he tapped——

[At noon, the clouds are overcast, and there are signs of a storm.

Liu Da stood under a tree, and Liu Er was hung from the tree.

Liu Da raised his head and looked indifferently, while Liu Er was hung up speechless.

At this time, Liu Da approached slowly.

Liu Da: If you offend me, you should be able to imagine the ending of today.

Liu Er's breath became weaker and weaker.

Liu Da: I will burn paper for you on this day next year.

Liu Er's eyes turned white, and he slowly suffocated to death.

Liu Da was cold, turned and left.

"Boom", there was a heavy rain in the world. 】

"I wrote it casually, so I don't care about the embellishments of the writing. Don't joke." Liu Yi raised his head and said.

The corners of everyone's mouths raised slightly, and they looked at the words in the word document on the screen.

"This is the plot of a literary script. Its format is to write the scene first, roughly describe what is happening in the scene, and then write the dialogue." Liu Yi looked at everyone.

Seeing everyone nodding, Liu Yi continued: "It's very simple and easy to understand, but its biggest difference from novels and magazine stories is that you only need to write the names of the characters before the dialogue, and don't write any expressions or detailed actions of the characters. description above."

Seeing doubts on someone's face, Liu Yi continued, "Why? Because after the characters and plots in the literary script are separated and reorganized, the character scripts of each character will be formed."

"Character scripts are scripts for actors, and each actor's performance style and performance effect are different. If you fix the expression and action of each character to death, but it is not suitable for this actor to play, then you The script written is equivalent to limiting the performance of the actors."

"So, whether it is domestic or foreign, literary scripts do not mark the character's demeanor and actions before the dialogue, do not interfere with the actor's performance thinking, and let the actors play and the director guide the play. This is the development of the global film and television screenwriting industry. results over the years."

"It is also the rule for screenwriters in the creation of literary scripts, and it can be regarded as a standard format."

Those who were born as screenwriters nodded, and those who were not born as screenwriters suddenly understood a creative format and some meanings of literary scripts.

Liu Yi raised a finger: "Above, I have mentioned two steps in script creation. The first is to write a literary script, and the second is to split and reorganize the literary script according to the plot of the characters to form a character script for the actors to refer to."

Seeing that everyone nodded in understanding, Liu Yi continued: "Then, since the actors are acting according to literary scripts, we can draw a conclusion that the images presented on the screen in any film and television drama all come from literature. content and sequence in the script."

"In short, a literary play is for an audience."

"The quality of a literary script will directly affect the perception of the audience."

"This is the status of literary scripts, which are the cornerstone of film and television dramas."

Everyone nodded in understanding, absorbing the points of information Liu Yi said.

Liu Yi picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, and said: "The film and television drama has the content provided by the literary script, and the actors are ready to go with the character script. The next step is to combine the two and move them. This is the director's vision." Already working."

Liu Yi put down his teacup and said, "But literary scripts are just two-dimensional language. They don't have a sense of three-dimensionality, and the space for people's imagination is limited. They can't make it concrete or dynamic in their minds."

"So, we're going to animate it and make it change from flat to three-dimensional."

"In the words of the industry, it is to make it have a sense of lens, to convert from text language to lens language."

Everyone nodded, and some were taking notes with pens and paper.

Liu Yi manipulated the word document, and said: "How to convert the literary script from the text language to the lens language? For this reason, after the exploration of the senior screenwriters, the filming script was derived from the literary script."

"What's the shooting script?" He said to himself, typing on the keyboard with both hands.

Everyone looked up, and new text appeared in the word document——

[Mirror number: 1; scene type: large panorama; content: big tree; camera position: upward shot; sound: panting.

Shot number: 2; Scene type: Panorama; Content: Liu Da; Camera position: Back shot; Sound: The sound of feet stepping on leaves.

Shot number: 3; scene type: medium scene; content: Liu Er: camera position: flat shot; sound: weak breathing. 】

Seeing this, the sound of typing on the keyboard stopped abruptly.

Liu Yi raised his head and faced the crowd: "This is the filming script. Isn't it very different from the literary script, but if you try to make up your mind, you will have a three-dimensional picture that the literary script does not have."

A man in white clothes with a crew cut raised his hand: "Mr. Liu, what's the difference between this and the storyboard script?"

He is not a screenwriter, but he has read some scripts.

Under his vague impression, the shooting script written by Liu Yi is almost the same as the shooting script in his memory.

He was a little puzzled.

But at the next moment, his heart skipped a beat. Liu Yi said that he would wait until he finished speaking before asking questions. If he couldn't help asking, it wouldn't have a bad effect, right?

Liu Yi didn't care about this. Seeing the same doubts on many people's faces, he didn't speak, and started typing on the keyboard again.

[Mirror number: 1; Scene type: Panorama; Content: The big tree hanging Liu Er; Camera position: 45-degree upward shooting; Action: Pushing the mirror; Sound: Breathing.

Shot number: 2; Scene type: Panorama; Content: The back of Liu Da walking forward;

Shot No.: 3; Scene: Middle Scene; Content: Liu Er's dying state: camera position: flat shot; action: pan the mirror upward from under the tree to Liu Er's face; sound: weak breathing. 】

Liu Yi stopped typing on the keyboard, looked at the crowd and said, "What's the difference?"

A person with a square face said: "The content is more detailed, and the camera has moved."

Seeing that many people still have doubts, Liu Yi said: "Why is there such a difference between the front and the back? It's very simple. The shooting script is for the director's reference, and the shot script is for the director to shoot."

"What does that mean?"

"The screenwriter finished writing the shooting script and sent it to the director for review."

"By shooting the script, the director tells the screenwriter his artistic thoughts and ideas, as well as the effect to be achieved by the plot, and then the screenwriter writes the shot script according to the director's concept."

"And the reason why the shooting script is left blank, there are key details and camera action vacancies, is because these two parts are filled by the director, not the screenwriter."

"The reason is very simple. Film and television dramas are filmed by directors, not screenwriters. The screenwriter has done the work of the director, so what does the director do?"

"And if the screenwriter's ideology does not match the director's, but the filming script is full, it will limit the director's thinking and performance."

Liu Yi smiled: "Don't think it's a trivial matter. Words have a great influence on people. If you fix all the details to death, no matter how imaginative a person is, his imagination will be limited."

"This involves things at the neurological level of the human brain. People's subconscious will be deeply affected by the things they see at first sight, but we are talking about scripts, not this."

"You just need to know that the filming script is equivalent to a blank book of the storyboard script, and the blanks in it must be filled by the director."

"To sum up, when writing a literary script, the screenwriter can write the story in his mind completely according to his own thinking."

"When writing the shooting script, the screenwriter can make preliminary arrangements for the shots."

"When writing a shot script, the screenwriter is the director's ghostwriter and must be written in accordance with the director's artistic direction."

"This is the difference and structure of the three types of scripts."

After Liu Yi finished speaking, the men and women who were screenwriters applauded. Although they also understood these things, they also gained something from Liu Yi's more thorough description just now.

The men and women who were not screenwriters were silent for a while, and after absorbing some information, they applauded along with the people present.

After the applause fell, Liu Yi said: "The above are the structure and steps of script creation, and also include what the screenwriter should do at each step."

He looked at the crowd and asked, "Everyone probably understands it."

Everyone nodded slightly to show their understanding.

Liu Yi nodded: "This is the current script creation process, but what I'm going to say next will break this process to improve the efficiency of script creation."

Everyone's heart was shocked, and the point came.

From what Liu Yi said just now, we can see that the current process of script creation is from literary scripts, to filming scripts, and then to storyboard scripts. Among them, literary scripts and character scripts are a branch process.

Although what Liu Yi said was the general situation, they could still understand and figure out the work flow by imagining the production process of film and television dramas.

Now Liu Yi said he wanted to break it?

They are surprised, especially those who are screenwriters. In their perception, this creative structure has been maintained for decades. Some people may think of accelerating a certain link in this process, but no one would think of it. The whole process is broken, right?

This is the rhythm that completely changes the creative process.

Chu Xuan folded his hands and leaned against the back of the chair. Previously, he and Liu Yi had been thinking about and discussing issues in the big picture every day, and he didn't know the details. Seeing that Liu Yi was going to focus, he Here comes some interest.

Concubine Liu Yi opened the small white backpack in her arms, took out a notebook and pen from it, opened the notebook and placed it on the table, holding the pen in her right hand while spinning, looking up at Liu Yi, waiting for his narration.

(End of this chapter)