Become a dramatist from today

Huang Baiyou definitely has a separate dressing room. He is the only one in the entire crew. Even Li Menglu shares it with the Buddhist Zheng Shaojun.

Before Wei Ming could speak, he heard Huang Baiyou say on his own initiative: "Director Wei, there is something else I want to discuss about the plot."

Um? Why were the lines stolen? Wei Ming was a little dazed for a moment, but it was okay to discuss the plot. He liked discussing the plot.

"The script is well written, and there are no problems with the logic of the script, but I have something to say about Xiao Tu's behavior as a reporter." Huang Baiyou added when he saw the director's confusion.

"Teacher Huang, you said that discussing the plot is helpful for understanding the script, of course there is no problem." Wei Ming likes to discuss the plot the most.

"We can add a little plot to show Xiao Tu's identity as a reporter." Huang Baiyou said.

Show yourself as a journalist? Wei Ming didn't quite understand how to present the plot, and whether it involved interviewing other people, but this seemed too cumbersome and affected the rhythm of watching the movie.

"Can you print these articles into props and sign them with the name of the actor Xiao Tu?" Huang Baiyou handed over a stack of draft paper.

Wei Ming took it and wrote several articles.

"On the Characteristics of Popular Reports on Jazzism"

"News cannot be used as a profit-making tool,"

"Impressions from Journalism Legal Theory and Journalism Psychology"

"Focus on historical materialism to solve practical problems in the journalism industry"

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"What is this?" Wei Ming looked at one of the articles intently.

[News should pay attention to the working people, and the working people must not become the objects of news reports.

"Complain and let society know about human suffering."

I suggest that the newspaper should set up a special section to report on "What's happening on the streets of Shanghai" and "Factory News". The methods of presenting the lives of the people at the bottom include but are not limited to: publishing photos and including workers.

Journalists need to denounce the darkness of the old system.

If we want to write reportage, then good reportage must use naked facts to explain, inspire and encourage; use unembellished and unexaggerated reports to lead people in the direction of socialism.

...]

…

Wei Ming felt that his brain was itchy. He scratched it, but it was too bad that he was about to grow a brain. He put down the manuscript and looked up and asked, "What are these?"

"Director, you told me that Xiao Tu's prototype character is Comrade Yuan Shu, so I looked up some information. Some of these things are what Comrade Yuan Shu wrote at the time, and some of them were written by me based on the information." Huang Baiyou said , "Comrade Yuan Shu's thinking is very advanced. He saw decades ago that more waitresses and waitresses will not change the status of women. If we want everyone to be equal, we must let women receive knowledge and education. He is very forward-looking. Sex, by comparison I’m just a second edit.”

One by one, Wei Ming roughly calculated that there were at least more than 20 articles. He couldn't help but wonder how much preparation work the young actor in front of him had done? !

"I asked the prop team to print out all these contents as props." Wei Ming agreed directly and asked, "I remember that Mr. Huang did not graduate from the journalism department, right?"

"Of course not, this is just my design. Thanks to Director Wei for his support, so even if the audience is Leeuwenhoek, there will be no problem." Huang Baiyou said.

"Leewenhoek?" Wei Ming didn't understand this joke.

"It is used to describe netizens who watch movies with a magnifying glass and like to see each frame in detail." Huang Baiyou explained.

"What does Director Wei think of the character Xiao Tu?" Huang Baiyou was previously troubled by whether to follow himself or conform to the public, but later he made his own choice.

Now that the director is here, Huang Baiyou wants to know the director's intention.

Does this way of asking sound familiar? Wei Ming was in a daze for a moment.

"During the audition, Mr. Huang, you also told me about the mother body I photographed." Wei Ming organized the language and then said, "For me, [discussing self-identity] has always been a motif, and Xiao Tu was invested in it. For a man in purgatory, his fate has already been determined, and his contribution is unknown.”

Huang Baiyou thought of some of what Mr. Zeng said when talking about his grandfather.

In the following conversation, Wei Ming realized that even if he wrote the script himself, his performance of the prototype character Yuan Shu was definitely not as good as the actor in front of him.

Not only the prototype character, but also the familiarity with the script, Wei Ming was surprised that this guy just opened his mouth.

"In scene 53, the protagonist talks to Li Feng. Although we are both called traitors, we have different ambitions. I hope that neither of us will regret it when we reach the end of the road. This line is very good, and it is also what the protagonist is saying to himself. .”

…

It was the first time, it was really the first time. It was the first time that Wei Ming felt that discussing the plot with the actors was a little difficult, because he said that any plot could be seamlessly connected by the other party.

The key was during the conversation that Wei Ming realized that the other party had designed too many details. For example, the script mentioned that Xiao Tu was smoking for the first time. The script was set to express the emotions of cigarettes, that is, the increasing addiction to smoking means increasing pressure. big.

Huang Baiyou has a little suggestion. You can also change the brand of cigarettes. Start with Lao Dao brand, and then switch to Double Happiness.

The real name of Lao Dao Brand is Pirate Brand. It is owned by the same company as Red Tin Bao and Hardman. It often appears in spy dramas.

At that time, Double Happiness was the only local cigarette brand that could compete with foreign capital. "My wandering heart wanted to find identity through everything." I have to say that Wei Ming was struck by this sentence.

"Director Wei, I think I don't need narration in this place." Huang Baiyou pointed to the narration in the script. These narrations require post-dubbing.

[Xiao Tu (internally): There is no way Teacher Fang can survive in the hands of the Neon Man.

Xiao Tu (inner): He will either be forced to confess and become a traitor, or he will experience endless reincarnation under the torture of the Neon Man.

…]

"I understand that Director Wei wanted to show Xiao Tu's mental journey in this section and find sufficient reasons for himself to convince himself to live." Huang Baiyou said, "But..."

"Stop being stubborn. This section is originally meant to support the role. If you are confident that you can express it with your expressions and body, you can remove this monologue." Of course Wei Ming knows that inner monologues are helpless most of the time.

"We have been chatting for more than 40 minutes. It's time to go and shoot." Wei Ming glanced at the time on his phone. He held the handset in his hand. This was the first time in seven or eight years that he had taken the initiative to end the chat.

"It really delayed the director's time." Huang Baiyou said apologetically, but these details still need to be mentioned.

The two of them walked over quickly in three steps and two steps at a time. With the two key parts of the male lead and the director arriving on the scene, the big machine of the crew was able to operate again.

"Old Wei Niu, our conversation lasted longer than before," the assistant director said.

Don't look for Huang Baiyou next time. Although chatting with the actor about the character helps to understand, Wei Ming can't stand the actor's too many ideas.

The viewpoints presented in the plot are indeed Yuan Shu’s journalism theory and are not made up.