Bright Era of China Entertainment

"Brother Liu."

In the underground parking lot of the office building where the film and television company is located, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei got off and turned to the elevator, and Liu Yi got off from another parking area and walked.

Seeing Concubine Liu Yi waving her hand in greeting, Liu Yi raised his eyebrows in surprise, and immediately smiled: "I'm back."

"Well, I came back yesterday." Concubine Liu Yi replied, walking side by side with Chu Xuan and Liu Yi to the elevator entrance.

"Brother Liu." Concubine Liu Yi held Chu Xuan with her left hand, raised her right hand to stroke her hair, and asked, "Is the screenwriting going well?"

When I went to the United States, the industrialization of screenwriting was still in the training stage.

The past few months have passed, and she is a little curious about what is going on now.

She forgot to ask Chu Xuan about it since she came back yesterday, but seeing Liu Yi now reminded her.

"It's okay." Liu Yi pressed the elevator button, and waited at the door with the two of them: "It's not going well, and it's not going badly, it's just that it takes time to get used to it."

"The script has only reached the initial stage of climax and tsunami. According to the outline, the estimated plot time of just over 2 hours has only been written to 15 minutes." Chu Xuan said.

"Ah?" Concubine Liu Yi blinked, looked at Chu Xuan and said, "This is too slow, it took three months to finish one-eighth of the script, and there are still so many people in the scriptwriting team."

She also had a premonition that there would be some surprises, and now it seemed that the sci-fi series that she and Chu Xuan were focusing on seemed a bit far away.

The elevator door opened, and she, Chu Xuan and Liu Yi walked in.

Chu Xuan pressed the elevator floor button, and Liu Yi turned around and said, "During our practice, our screenwriting software needs to be updated at any time according to our needs. The current software is a semi-finished product that is updated while using it. To adapt, it will delay some efficiency."

Chu Xuan took a step back to Liu Yifei's side, and rubbed her hands: "I used to write things in word documents, but now I work with specially designed new gadgets, and there are many functions, so it takes time to get familiar with."

Liu Yi folded his hands and nodded: "We also said before that if there are few screenwriters, the efficiency of script creation must be low; but if there are many screenwriters, the efficiency may not increase immediately."

He looked at Liu Yifei's side face from behind: "Although we fragmented the script creation method, so that each screenwriter does not interfere with each other to improve efficiency, it is no longer as important as the teamwork and tacit understanding in the overall creation as before."

"But they also need to spend time to adapt and understand our sci-fi style, but the teachers in the coordinating team are not sure about the specific style."

Concubine Liu Yi understood and nodded slowly: "This is like Disney's Marvel movies. They are all the ones with a unified fast pace and scene climax. This is the style of Marvel movies."

"Brother Liu, the screenwriters trained by you have to create a sci-fi style that belongs to the bright era, and reach an agreement with the artistic ideas of the teachers, but now the teachers don't have a definite style of thinking."

"So, the current situation is that each link is still being explored, and it still takes time to adapt, and constantly create content with different styles, and finally achieve a unified tonality."

With a "ding", the elevator door opened.

Chu Xuan led Liu Yifei to walk out, and said: "Software is a creative tool, which needs to be perfected; the overall planning team is the creator and controller of the creative direction, and needs to set the tone; the screenwriter is the content provider, and the creative ideas and thinking need to be coordinated with the overall maintain a high degree of unity; the director group is the final decision-maker and needs to be reviewed and decided.”

"The software is perfect, and the artistic thinking and scheduling of the three parties are unified."

"Then each screenwriter is a point, and the coordinating team connects multiple screenwriting points and points into a network, and the director team decides whether this network is feasible."

"If feasible, a sci-fi-style assembly line for the industrialization of screenwriting is basically achieved. The second and third parts of "Hope" will use the first part as a template. The efficiency of script creation for this type of film and television drama will be very fast in the future."

Concubine Liu Yi remained silent, understanding what Chu Xuan said.

"By the end of the year, or early next year, the script should be ready." Liu Yi said, and the two walked into the company: "It will start up in a few days, and this time I won't be with the team. The screenwriter still has "Soldiers Coming to the City" Say hello to everything about the script."

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei nodded, greeted the passing teachers, and responded to the enthusiasm of the company staff.

After not coming for a long time, Concubine Liu Yi also looked left and right with great interest on the way to the office.

""I'm an Actor" will be aired next month, right?" She looked at a computer, and there were staff operating the edited variety show screen, including her and Chu Xuan.

"The broadcast will start on July 7, behind-the-scenes broadcast on Friday, and the feature film on Saturday. The trailer will start next week, and the promotion will be half a month in advance." Chu Xuan glanced at the editing screen on the computer.

Concubine Liu Yi has expectations in her heart. Although she will be filming in a few days, she can also watch variety shows on the hotel TV, which can be regarded as an extra entertainment item.

She looked to the left again and saw "The Deer and Cauldron" on the computer screen. Xia Yu's braided hair from the Qing Dynasty made her laugh, he really had Wei Xiaobao's temperament.

"When will "The Deer and Ding Tale" be broadcast? Is it fixed?" she asked.

"No, Brother Zhang is still arguing with several TV stations, but Sister Hua is back, so it should be settled soon, probably in September or October." Chu Xuan said.

Liu Yi knocked on the door and pushed it open. Kong Sheng, Li Xue and others in the office looked over.

Seeing Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi appear, everyone smiled.

"Sissy is back."

"Welcome to the hostess."

"..."

Having not seen these familiar teachers for a long time, Concubine Liu Yi happily greeted them one by one.

After exchanging pleasantries, the young couple and Concubine Liu Yi sat down on the sofa.

"Brother Li, because of me, I didn't have time to take a makeup photo for the publicity, sorry." Concubine Liu Yi said.

As a heroine, it is normal to take makeup photos in advance to warm up the promotional drama.

But she went to the United States, separated the two places, and there was no space or appropriate makeup to cooperate with this matter.

Although due to my special status, the crew will not say anything, and the original publicity plan has been put on hold due to public opinion, but I still have to say sorry, this is the minimum respect.

"It's nothing to worry about." Li Xue shook her head: "It's enough to take some stills during the filming process, don't make it too easy to promote something with your fame, and besides, the boss is sitting here, you have the final say on what to do. "

Everyone raised their smiling faces, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

"You haven't read it yet." Kong Sheng handed over the outline text of "Legend of Red Flame".

Concubine Liu Yi became interested, took the text and opened it to read.

Before going to the United States, she and Chu Xuan had discussed the story line and structure with Liu Yi and Kong Sheng, but she hadn't seen the details yet, and she was also very curious.

Seeing the emotional category along the catalog, she opened the corresponding page number, but the content items on the page number surprised her: "Are there so few emotional scenes?"

Chu Xuan plays Lin Shu, and she plays Princess Nihuang.

The two are childhood sweethearts and have made a marriage contract, but the former died on the battlefield and there is no news, and the latter is looking for and wants to know whether the former is dead or alive.

All of Lin Shu's roles are stored in the memory screen of the play, not in the timeline of the main film in the play.

In order to pave the way for the relationship between the two of them, she also wants to play with Chu Xuan in the memories of the past, that is, the emotional scene.

Like "Fairy Sword", the theme of "Legend of Red Flame" does not talk about love, and the love element is only used as an embellishment.

But she didn't expect that the final script would have so few emotional scenes.

45 episodes, 50 minutes each, a total of 2250 minutes.

There are only a few emotional scenes between her and Chu Xuan, and the total is less than 20 minutes!

The proportion is only one percent!

What is this concept?
To some extent, it can be said that there is no love element in this drama.

However, this drama relies on love as a dark thread to promote the plot.

There are so few emotional scenes, how can this be done?
"There are very few emotional dramas. Princess Nihuang is a great heroine, and it is indeed difficult to act." Li Xue said.

Kong Sheng compared the painting and said: "In my imagination, Lin Shu and Nihuang are separated by Yin and Yang, but the artistic conception of Qin, Se and Ming is constant."

Concubine Liu Yi listened and thought about it.

Kong Sheng looked at her and said: "In the timeline of the feature film, you didn't act together. It can be said that there are almost no emotional scenes, but this is the case. The finale scene can trigger a very strong emotional outburst. , let the audience have a strong sympathy, seeing your shocking love, love for family and country."

Concubine Liu Yi bent slightly, flipping through the text on her lap with her right hand, resting her elbow on her left leg, resting her cheek on her palm, and looked at Chu Xuan with a frown.

There is no emotional drama, and you want to stage a love story that shocks the world and weeps ghosts and gods?

"Boss Chu, can I break the contract and not act?" She bit her lower lip.

Everyone present laughed when they heard the words, and they all knew that Concubine Liu Yi was joking.

Chu Xuan took the tea poured by Assistant Kong Sheng, said "Thank you", and took a sip of the tea from the teacup.

Liu Yi finally distributed the layers of the script structure in this way, which he didn't expect after reading it at the time.

There are not many emotional scenes, but the audience needs to feel the empathy brought by love, so as to transform it into the love of family and country...

This presentation method is similar to "Legend of Sword and Sword 1", and there are not many emotional dramas. In the end, the audience felt the love between Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Linger very strongly.

But the problem is that "Legend of Sword and Sword 1" doesn't have much emotional drama, but Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er are at the same time on the timeline of the feature film.

"Legend of Red Flame" is not, Lin Shu is dead, how could there be an intersection with Princess Nihuang in the timeline of the feature film.

In other words, a living person and a dead person will not see each other from beginning to end, nor will they appear in the same frame, but they want the audience to witness an epic and vigorous love, which will resonate emotionally.

He's fine, and there's no need for emotional emotion in his parts.

All these emotions need to be presented by Concubine Liu Yi, which undoubtedly adds several levels of difficulty to Concubine Liu's performance.

Such a script design method is rare, and it seems that there is no such script on the market, at most it is similar.

He chatted with Liu Yi and knew what Liu Yi was thinking.

Everyone in the film and television industry knows that 99% of the images presented in global film and television dramas are called "montage".

Montage is a theory put forward by foreigners in early ancient times, which refers to editing, combining and splicing the captured things into a final film.

It is also because of this theory that various editing styles of film and television dramas have appeared.

With the development of the global film and television industry, the styles of film and television drama editing are also very diverse.

Among them, there is a style called "film industry sense", or "film industry type style".

How this style is specifically defined is varied and each has its own understanding, but there is also a general standard.

For example, "Resident Evil" has an element from the beginning to the end of the film, horror.

Moreover, "Resident Evil" has only this theme element from beginning to end.

It has no comedy elements, no love elements, no family affection elements, and no other elements that can break up the "horror" elements.

In short, "Resident Evil" only has "horror", and there are no other miscellaneous things. In addition, the theme elements are highly matched with the style of painting and soundtrack, and the performance style and image of the actors are highly matched. Called "Film Industry Type Style".

The reason why it is called so is because the matching degree is so high in all aspects, and it maintains a highly unified tonality, without mixing anything else. This is the same as the assembly line operation, with high consistency and completeness in all aspects.

The assembly line operation is the foundation and embodiment of film industrialization.

When Liu Yi designed the script of "Legend of Red Flame", he borrowed from the theory of "type and style of the film industry", and only transformed the things in the film into TV dramas.

Under Liu Yi's design, the current "Legend of Red Flame" script is highly unified and tonally adapted. The novel, which is obviously an overhead history, is abruptly adapted into a literary script that seems to be a piece of Chinese history. Both the rights framework and laws are self-created and filled relatively completely.

Under such a tone, the story is given the only style-suspense.

"Langya Bang", which was supposed to be 55 episodes, was cut by Liu Yi to "Legend of Red Flame" with 45 episodes. Any comedy, light comedy, lighthearted, funny, daily and other elements are all gone, and only "suspense" remains an element.

The main line of the story produced by this element is that Princess Nihuang suspected that the Chiyan Army was wiped out in Meiling, and she was solving the case for Lin Shu from the beginning to the end, trying to avenge Lin Shu.

This is the main line of the story, and the whole play only talks about this, and nothing else is talked about.

This is similar to "Detective Di Renjie". It solves the case from beginning to end, and there are basically no other elements.

But there is also the emotional line between Lin Shu and Nihuang in the novel, which is also an indispensable thing for this drama.

But in Liu Yi's view, adding too much emotional drama to highlight the emotional line will destroy the unified style and style of "suspense".

But without adding emotional drama, the emotional explosion in the finale will not be enough, and it will not reflect the great love of the family and the country.

Therefore, Liu Yi thought of a way—dramatic contrast.

There are two kinds of dramatic contrast, one is normal contrast.

For example, Mr. Lin Zhengying's zombie film is obviously a ghost film with "horror" as the theme element, but it also has a lot of comedy elements.

Horror and comedy are opposites, and the proportion of comedy elements is very high. This kind of script design is called dramatic contrast, which can make the work present a different effect. This is also a normal contrast technique.

Another technique of dramatic contrast is called "anti-film industry type design", also known as "film industry type contrast element construction".

This is a theory that focuses on adding micro-contrast elements to a unified style and tonality of film and television dramas.

For example, adding funny elements to "Resident Evil" and adding horror elements to "Titanic"...

The elements added are contrary to the overall atmosphere of the film and television drama, and cannot be added more, and can only be added occasionally to meet the general standard of this theory.

The script design under such a theory will produce and can only produce two consequences.

Either superfluous to the liking and let the work collapse.

Or add the finishing touch to sublimate the work.

For Liu Yi, the expectation is of course the latter.

In the overall suspenseful atmosphere, add a little love element, and then burst out strong emotions because of love, intending to resonate with audiences across the country and cry, in an attempt to make "Legend of Red Flame" a classic of this type of drama.

This is Liu Yi's ambition.

Regardless of previous works, there was "Sculpture of God" and "Hope" later, and now he is the leader of screenwriting industrialization, and he has higher requirements and pursuits for himself.

If "Legend of Red Flame" is successful, then Liu Yi will only add a few strokes of love, so that the whole drama will not explode due to the theme element "suspense", but a reversal will erupt due to a few strokes of "love", and Does not affect "suspense".

This kind of script construction ability is enough to be called a stroke of genius, and it is also ingenious.

At that time, Liu Yi's reputation and status in the industry will definitely increase.

Liu Yi has Liu Yi's pursuit, and he is willing to support it.

However, this put a lot of pressure on Concubine Liu Yi.

To achieve the effect Liu Yi needs, it is closely related to Liu Yifei's performance, Kong Sheng's shooting, and post-editing.

The first factor is Concubine Liu Yi's performance.

"Come on." Chu Xuan put down the teacup and smiled slightly: "It's not difficult, just believe in yourself."

"Of course it's not difficult for you, and I don't want you to act." Concubine Liu Yi bulged her eyes.

She looked at Kong Sheng: "Brother Kong, where is the theme song?"

Kong Sheng pointed to the computer on the desk: "It's on the computer desktop, "The Old Beauty", go and listen."

Concubine Liu Yi stuffed the outline text into Chu Xuan's hand, got up from the sofa and walked to the desk.

She temporarily let go of the sudden pressure and focused on the theme song.

With the script written in this way, the role of Nihuang is completely different from what was written in the novel, and the difficulty of acting has also increased significantly.

But it doesn't matter, with Chu Xuan around, can you still watch her collapse?

With a treasure by her side, Concubine Liu Yi felt relieved. (end of this chapter)