I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

  Chapter 141 139. Idea·Music

  The little jokes between friends are over, and then it is the business part.

   "Should we stay in Taipei for one night and go to Tamsui tomorrow? Or just go there? I have all my luggage with me~ and then the film crew can join me tomorrow."

   "Just go. How long will it take to get there?"

  Xu Xin didn't mean to procrastinate in the slightest.

   After hearing this, Jay Chou did not show any surprise, and said:

   "It takes about an hour from here. You can stay at my house over there. My grandma and mother are both in Taipei now. It is very empty and the room is big enough."

   "Okay. Then go straight, get up early tomorrow... you can see the sunrise and sunset over there, right?"

   "It's all right. The scenery of Fisherman's Wharf is very good..."

   "Then get up early tomorrow, go to the harbor first, and then what... tide... tide..."

   "Chaoyinhai."

   "Yes, including Chaoyinhai, Linshan Trail, etc., let the photographer come over early tomorrow, I will go to all your filming locations in these two days, remember to ask him to bring a camera."

"good."

   "And what about her, what should she do?"

  Xu Xin pointed at his girlfriend.

  Jay Chou nodded immediately:

   "Dani, when can your friends be here?"

   "Tomorrow, hyung JAY. I will come with my luggage tomorrow."

"good."

  Xu Xin nodded.

  Xu Xin does not intend to use dubbing for the role of Qingyi, because Jay Chou’s voice is very recognizable, and there is still a big difference between recording and live recording. So Yang Mi had to speak in a standard Wanwan accent.

  Wanwan accent looks easy to imitate at first glance, but it is actually the same as many dialect accents. Beginners don't think there is anything, but there is still a difference when you listen carefully.

  So Xu Xin came up with an idea for her, asking Jay Chou to find two Wanwan friends to eat and live with the girl for a month, and try to bring her into a Mandarin-speaking atmosphere as much as possible.

   This month, the first half of the month will be very hard, because Yang Mi still has a series of intensive promotional schedules for "Golden Armor". These two days have been specially adjusted, otherwise she should have participated in the publicity meeting in Shanghai this week.

   And when the promotion of "Golden Armor" is over, she will fly directly to Wanwan and live here. And Dani and those friends practiced the crooked Mandarin accent as soon as possible.

Very hard.

   Very compact.

   But as an actor, you have to do this.

   Otherwise, in the play of the two of them, Jay Chou speaks a Wan Wan accent, but she speaks an authentic Beijing film... If the audience does not vomit blood, Xu Xin will also vomit blood.

  …

   When we arrived at Danshui Town below New Taipei City, it was past 12 o'clock.

   And the group finally got off at the door of Jay Chou's renovated house.

  The house has been tidied up, and the Japanese island style has a strong sense of space. There are five rooms in total. At first glance, it looks like a lot, but in fact, there are only three rooms where you can sleep.

  So, Xu Xin said directly to Sun Ting at the door:

"You and Sister Zeng, go with Dani, the hotel has already been booked. If you want to follow, Sister Zeng, then go together. You don't need to go shopping with me. Sun Ting, you will go with Dani in a while. Let me know what you need to prepare for the usual itinerary here, remember to bring it, come here early, we have to go to the pier by the time of sunrise tomorrow morning, don't be late."

   "Uh... ok."

   Seeing that Sister Zeng was silent, Sun Ting nodded.

  Xu Xin waved his hand:

   "Disbanded, everyone should rest early, tomorrow will be a busy day."

   After speaking, Jay Chou opened the door of the house, and Xu Xin, who was carrying two suitcases, followed in with the empty-handed girl.

  …

   "Hey, do you want to drink?"

   "Drink a fart, go straight to sleep, and sleep for four or five hours at most, what else do you drink?"

  Xu Xin didn't even intend to visit Jay Chou's house, so he said it directly.

   "Time is tight."

   "...Okay, then you two should go to bed early, I'm upstairs, I need some water, here's..."

"Uh-huh."

  Xu Xin responded and walked directly into the guest bedroom.

  The guest bedroom was cleaned very clean, and Yang Mi, as a fan, must be curious to "stay" directly at the idol's house.

  Looked east and west, and was stunned by Xu Xin who just came out of the bathroom:

   "What are you wandering around without sleeping?"

"Well…"

   "Hurry up and go to bed, you have to get up early tomorrow."

   "...you don't take a shower?"

   "No wash, I set an alarm for 5 o'clock, and after I wake up, I will feel refreshed after taking a shower. Hurry up."

   "..."

   It was the first time she saw her boyfriend's real working state, she was obviously a little dazed.

  But Xu Xin has already turned off the lights.

Firstly, I didn’t go to the night market, secondly, I didn’t watch the night scene, thirdly, I didn’t take a closer look at the various rooms in the idol’s house, and searched for traces of the other party’s growth. The girl who didn’t even have to take a bath for the fourth time could only go into the bathroom silently. Went for skin care.

  Skin management is very important for every star.

   Especially girls who are prone to endocrine disorders, acne on any face is unacceptable.

She didn't think it was anything before, but since she joined Renyi, she listened to some teachers chatting there in her spare time. When a teacher said that she only ate light vegetables, porridge and so on in the ten days before filming, When preventing acne on her face, she suddenly realized what "face" means to an actor.

  So I used to be lazy about skin care once in a while, but I dare not miss it once.

   When she came out again, her boyfriend in pajamas had already fallen asleep on the other side of the bed.

   "Tsk."

  She shook her head regretfully.

  …

   5 am.

  When the alarm clock rang, Xu Xin jumped up from the bed.

   shook the girl a bit:

"Woke up."

"Um…"

   The dazed Yang Mi responded, but it was obvious that she couldn't get up.

   Shaking again...

   "Brother, go... I'll find you later..."

   Take a look, is this a human language?

   But in the end, Xu Xin relented.

   Indeed, I slept more than 12 o'clock last night, and it's only been less than 5 hours now.

  Today is just to verify the filming location, if you can’t get up, you can’t get up.

  He walked directly into the bathroom by himself, and the sound of splashing water sounded.

  The hot water quickly brought him back to his senses.

   But when the washing was about to finish, the bathroom door was opened.

   Yang Mi walked in with a confused face, squeezed the toothpaste and sat directly on the toilet.

   "Why are you up?"

   "I want to watch the sunrise with you..."

   "..."

  Xu Xin froze for a moment, his eyes became more gentle:

"Um."

  Then, when Xu Xin, who had finished taking a shower, dragged his girlfriend who didn't even put on makeup, and wore a peaked cap and sunglasses after washing her face, she saw Jay Chou on the sofa...

  The clothes are all put on.

   "...Hey, time to go."

   "...huh?...oh...ok..."

   Jay Chou sat up in a daze with his head on the chicken coop.

   "Why are you sleeping here?"

  "...Afraid that I wouldn't be able to wake up, I put on my clothes and slept here. Hey~ It's so cold...Give me a minute, I'll brush my teeth, wait for me."

   After he finished speaking, he went upstairs, while Xu Xin put on a coat and went out directly. The temperature in December is about 8 to 15 degrees. Although it is not cold, but you must wear a coat.

   Sun Ting, Dani and the driver's commercial vehicle are already waiting at the door.

   "Brother Xu, Sister Mi, good morning."

  Dani greeted her under the pale sky.

  Xu Xin nodded and just stood by the car to smoke.

  Yang Mi got into the car and went to sleep.

   Soon, Jay Chou also came out.

   Squeezing out the cigarette butt, with a faint smell of smoke, the commercial vehicle walked towards Fisherman's Wharf.

   Along the way, everyone looked tired and no one spoke.

  Only Xu Xin kept adjusting the Nikon lens in his hand. After the adjustment, he turned on the DV and began to adjust the color.

   When we arrived at the pier, the pier was actually empty. He didn't know if there was a fishing moratorium on Wanwan or what, anyway, he didn't see many fishing boats.

  Beach, sunrise, beach, pier...

  These words seem to be very romantic no matter where they are placed, but when they come to Xu Xin, they seem to be isolated from the world.

After arriving at the place, he ignored the intention of Dani, Sun Ting and Yang Mi to go to the beach. Instead, he found a high ground, set up a tripod, mounted the DV, and started pointing the camera at different angles. The vision twisted for a while.

   Jay Chou doesn't know what he's shooting with the camera... It's a mess.

   But not next to him watching the picture in the DV video.

   "... Is your DV broken? It's still not adjusted properly? It's so popular."

   "It's not broken."

  Xu Xin responded:

   "Don't move, I will see the effect later."

   "So red?"

   "To compare the chromatic aberration... You don't understand if you tell me. Just contact the photographer and come over."

"…All right."

   Just like that, Xu Xin first searched around, and then directed Jay Chou to carry the camera, and the two began to walk up the seawall.

  There are several seawalls here, long or short.

  Xu Xin looked at the first article first, and seemed dissatisfied, and then began to read the second article... and when he reached the second article, the shadow of the sun could already be seen in the sky.

   "Sunrise!"

  Yang Mi shouted.

  Unexpectedly, upon hearing her movement, Xu Xin yelled as if waking up from a dream:

"come here!"

"…ah?"

   "Hurry up, come here!"

"Well…"

   There was no way, the girl who was wearing a big sunglasses to cover her swollen eyes trotted over.

   "Both of you, go, walk this way from the end. Make a show of talking and laughing."

   "..."

   "..."

  The moment Jay Chou and Yang Mi heard this, the corners of their mouths twitched at the same time. Even Jay Chou's eyes were full of doubts.

   "Talking and laughing?"

  Yang Mi couldn't help asking back.

  Xu Xin, who was talking about color contrast on the DV, nodded:

   "Yes. Ye Xianglun, Lu Xiaoyu. Hurry up."

   "..."

  Before Jay Chou spoke, the girl suddenly took off her sunglasses:

   "Brother... Look at my eyes are swollen to such a virtue, can I be Lu Xiaoyu?"

  Almost half smaller than usual, coupled with the red blood from lack of sleep, her painting style suddenly became a bit fragmented...

   As if to reflect her words, Jay Chou on the side also took off his woolen hat. A head full of exploding heads...

  The peculiar painting style instantly made Dani and Sun Ting turn their heads away.

   Trying to hold back, not letting myself laugh out loud.

   "It's not that you are really asked to play Lu Xiaoyu, you are playing Qingyi... Okay, hurry up, don't waste time."

   "..."

   "..."

have to.

  The words of the director are bigger than the sky.

  The two looked at each other...

  Yang Mi muttered:

   "Why do you have to watch the sunrise with your boyfriend for the first time, such a romantic thing, but you have to come with a friend who is not a boyfriend!"

   The corner of Jay Chou's mouth twitched, and he sighed helplessly:

   "Please, I don't use this image to walk on the **** line at sunrise with friends who are not girlfriends~"

   "..."

   "..."

  Finally, the two sighed again:

"well…"

   "Hurry up, you two, what are the ink marks!"

  Xu Xin was not happy anymore.

  Thus, Jay Chou, who looked like a **** and put on his hat again, and the girl who couldn't wear sunglasses stepped on the steps that the boss didn't like, and stood with him at the end of the seawall.

   Then Xu Xin made a gesture:

"Walk."

  At the beginning, the limbs of the two were still a little stiff.

   But after walking a few steps, it seems that in order to take care of Jay Chou's emotions, the girl said:

   "Hey, your afro is so funny."

   "...ha~"

   Jay Chou showed a much more natural smile.

   Then he turned his head and glanced at the gradually emerging sun, and said:

   "Don't worry, when the sun rises to two-thirds of the most beautiful, I will definitely bring Xu Xin over to watch with you!"

"do not."

  Unexpectedly, the girl shook her head.

   Jay Chou asked with some doubts:

"Why?"

   "He looks so handsome when he's working hard~ I don't want to bother him."

   "...Tsk, can you stop being so nasty."

   "Are you two disgusting?"

   "...please, what does this mean?"

   "Do you still need to ask? My boyfriend didn't call me in the middle of the night, but recently I have been chatting with you for more than an hour every day. Why don't you two get married."

   "Pfft...hahaha~ Is this like this? Are you jealous?"

   "Tch~ I'm not jealous, I just feel my status is being threatened."

   "Haha, is that so? I'll pay more attention next time, take a shorter time hum~"

   "Cut, if you are capable, you can give him a baby~"

   "Pfft...hahahahahaha..."

   Now, Jay Chou couldn't walk anymore.

   Laughing so hard that he couldn't even straighten his waist.

  The girl, like a little **** who won a fight, raised her chest and stared at the swollen eyes, and came to Xu Xin:

"How about it?"

   "...Not bad... What are you two talking about? How did he become so virtuous?"

   "Hey, this is "The Untold Secret"."

   "..."

  Xu Xin rolled his eyes and waved to Jay Chou:

   "Look at the shots I took."

  Jay Chou hurried over with a speechless smile on his face.

  The three squeezed together on the small screen of the DV and began to watch.

  Actually, the cutting angle of this shot does not have any technical content. Because the seawall is just an extension line made of cement with a width of about two meters. Therefore, his angle is to go straight... because if you want to find other angles, you have to jump into the sea.

   And Xu Xin didn't ask them to look at the angle, but the texture of the picture.

  In the camera, two people who don't have a good image are walking here step by step in front of the camera.

   When it comes to pace, there is definitely no such thing as camera position.

   But it’s a state of relaxation that comes naturally, and…

   "Why so white?"

  Yang Mi was a little surprised.

  She didn't put cold white on her face, why did she look so pale when she looked at it?

  Xu Xin ignored her, but looked at Jay Chou who had been silent.

   After Jay Chou finished reading and straightened up, he asked:

   "See what?"

  “…the light is dim, but the picture is bright…”

   "How does it feel?"

"Well…"

   Jay Chou thought for a while and said:

   "Although we were joking, you look quite melancholy in the photo."

"The saturation has been adjusted up a bit. I used the blue color compensation and adjusted the brightness. The white she said is because of the saturation and brightness. Because of the current light, if there is no light, this DV can do this at most. This is the limit. After using blue light complementary color, you can see the sky... the sky is actually very dark, this is because the blue light complementary color law and the reddish color of the sky form a black color.

  Black often expresses depression, but because I don't use it obviously, it will only make you feel a little uncomfortable. And the blue light throughout the story is matched with this kind of saturated innocence, so the melancholy is highlighted. And if you think about it, if you can hear the sound of the waves at this time, in this picture composed of sound and light and shadow, the happier you two chat, the stronger the melancholy in your heart. right? "

   "..."

   Jay Chou frowned, thought for a while, and re-watched the DV just now.

  Looking at it again, while ignoring the surrounding noises, I listened carefully to the sound of the waves.

  Let's not talk about it... what the other party said is not wrong at all.

  The sea waves are repetitive and monotonous, and the sky is gray, but both of them are very "white", smiling very happily.

  The feeling of melancholy came out of the contrast.

   "So, the tone of the music should be slower hum?"

   He suddenly said this.

  Yang Mi was taken aback for a moment.

   Let you look at the camera, why did you suddenly start talking about the soundtrack?

   But Xu Xin was not surprised at all, and nodded directly:

"Yes, this shot is the tone I set for the soundtrack. We need to combine the three elements of music, picture, and characters to construct the world. When I shoot with bright colors, I need to make the soundtrack It's quiet and soothing. But when I start to use darker tones, I need you to play different levels of melancholy according to the rhythm of my shots... This story has to be shot beautifully, you know?"

   "..."

"Because it's a campus story, except for a few scenes, the soundtrack should be a single-line narrative. Don't make it complicated and changeable. And the same, the tone of this play... Or, the scene I'm shooting for you now, actually It is the keynote of the movie after Lu Xiaoyu and Ye Xianglun parted. In the script, Ye Xianglun was misunderstood after kissing Qingyi in the piano room, until the day of the graduation ceremony, the whole scene has this texture. But in music, this scene The soundtrack should range from rush to slow, understand?"

  The two of them have talked too much about the script of "The Unspeakable Secret", from the shooting technique to other things, including various sub-shots. Xu Xin helped him make ready-made ones.

   It's like feeding bread, I can't wait to feed it into his mouth.

  Now that I have taken over, there is actually no need to go into details about the lens feel or how to shoot. Just like what Yang Mi said, the two spent countless nights talking on the phone, chatting about the processing of one scene after another.

  Although Jay Chou himself was the director and Xu Xin was the proposer at the time, it also represented Xu Xin's shooting philosophy.

  But the only thing the two haven't touched is the concept of soundtrack.

   Now, without direct communication, Jay Chou understands what Xu Xin wants just by relying on this one shot...

   What he showed was not the shot, but the music requirements required by the various colors in the shot.

   "OK, I'll make a note of that."

   "Hmm. And here..."

  The two of them chatted as if no one was there.

  The eyes of the neglected girl gradually became a little strange.

  It was just a casual joke just now, but it seems to suddenly become a reality.

   You two don't really want to get together, do you?

   She has strange eyes.

   But immediately shook his head...

  Although just thinking about it is exciting, but... this is my boyfriend!

   Isn’t this just like watching a short movie, before I saw the face, I thought it was so exciting, but when I saw the face, I suddenly realized that this is my girlfriend like that...

   No no no!

  Be careful in the future.

   What if my man is really taken away!

  …

  The sun rises slightly.

   Great light from heaven.

  Under the fiery red sky, the girl sitting on the seawall glanced at her boyfriend who was sitting next to her with a camera, and asked rather strangely:

   "Aren't you going to accompany your eldest baby?"

   "Ha~"

  Xu Xin couldn't help laughing.

  Pinched her chin and turned her head, gave her a big sip, and said:

   "It's beautiful, isn't it?"

   "I thought it was the two of us sitting like this before the sun came out, and then quietly waiting for the sunrise..."

   "There will be opportunities in the future. What's the rush?"

"There will be no chance in the future... Watching the sunrise is too painful, I think it's better for us to sleep until we wake up naturally, and then watch the sunset together. Waking up early is too painful... Ha~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "

  Suddenly, she yawned hugely.

   Then I heard a "click".

  The girl shut up instinctively, turned her head, and when she saw her boyfriend holding a camera, her eyes suddenly became fierce:

   "Oops you're annoying! Delete! Delete now!!"

   "It's not a digital DV...it's a film, delete it if you say so?"

   "I don't care! You give me the camera!"

   "Don't grab it! It's more than ten thousand!"

   "I don't care! Ah!! It must be ugly! Don't!!!"

   "Hahahaha~"

  The movement of the two caught the attention of Jay Chou, who was holding a DV for a test shoot.

   And when the camera was aimed at the two of them, the corner of his mouth twitched and he couldn't help sighing.

   Please...

  Does it have to be like this?

   Trick the dog in to kill?

   Immediately showed a disdainful sneer, thinking that Patty and I...

  In an instant, the sneer turned into rigidity.

   Finally turned into a sad silent sigh.

"well…"

   But this sigh was attracted by the noise of squabbling again, seeing the two people who somehow changed from squabbling to kissing together, Jay Chou gradually showed a smile on his face.

  I hope you two are doing well.

do not learn from me.

   Don’t be like me either.

  At this time, a call came... Jay Chou answered a few times after connecting, hung up the phone, and shouted:

   "Hey, they've arrived, you two don't act like this~"

  Hearing this movement, Xu Xin responded:

"good."

  Turning his head to his girlfriend with tender eyes, he said:

   "Let's go?"

"Um."

  The girl got up directly, and by the way, she pulled her boyfriend to stand up together.

   Didn't let go, just took his hand in front of him, and pulled him towards the beach.

  For some reason, an idea suddenly popped up in Xu Xin's mind.

  Full of soul, he raised the camera in his hand.

   Leaning back, after a sufficient distance, looking at the back of the girl who appeared in the camera holding his hand, with a "click", this scene was frozen forever.

  After filming, he nodded in satisfaction, and shouted to Jay Chou, who was holding a DV next to him with an uncomfortable face:

   "Hey, smelly man, sing a song to cheer up~"

  Smelly man...

   The corner of Jay Chou’s mouth twitched, and the original "Simple Love" quietly cut the song:

   "Happy breakup~ I wish you happiness~ You will find someone better than me~"

   "Pfft... goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose~"

  For some reason, under the twitching corner of Xu Xin's mouth, the girl seemed to have been poked at a certain point of laughter.

   Goose hooting again.

   Very unhappy.

  (end of this chapter)