rising director

"I'm hot and thirsty."

"Be patient."

"Oh, I'm already treating you, go and buy two bottles of mineral water."

"I didn't bring a wallet." Wan Xiaohu was too lazy to walk.

"I'll give you the money." As she said that, Su Ya took out her wallet, took out a piece of ten yuan, and handed it to Wan Xiaohu.

Wan Xiaohu stared on the spot: "Nonsense."

"what's wrong?"

"I'm a big man. I take the woman's money to buy drinks. Come on, big sister, I can't afford to lose this man. I want to buy it myself."

"You... Oh, I beg you. Look at the road so far, and there is no shade. I went, and my skin hasn't been tanned yet. Since you are a big man, you have the heart to let Did I get tanned for a beautiful woman like me?" Su Ya began to pretend to be pitiful.

"Beauty tricks don't work on me."

"going or not?"

"Don't go."

"Okay, Wan Xiaohu, you are ruthless!"

"Come out to hang out, just to be cruel to yourself!"

Su Ya's seven orifices were filled with smoke, and Wan Xiaohu felt a chill down his back. He opened the door of the Volkswagen, and it was not so hot inside, so he jumped in.Liu Suya stomped her feet angrily outside, but in the end she failed to break through the power of the sun. Instead, she opened the car door and said to Wan Xiaohu through gritted teeth, "Go and drive, I'll take the co-pilot."

The air conditioner was blowing, and the road was quiet.

Wan Xiaohu drove the car leisurely, but his driving skills were not very good, so he had to concentrate.Su Ya was still angry and didn't want to speak.

Seeing that she was about to drive to the Lihuayuan community, Su Ya said angrily: "Don't go back to the company, there are too many employees recently, the office is not enough, and they are always in the community, it seems irregular, let's contact and see if there is any Appropriate office space."

The employees and management of Dandelion Film Company have already broken through the 20-person mark, and it is indeed inconvenient to be squeezed into one suite in the summer.

And the company is not out of money now.

Excluding the 500 million operating expenses of "Legend 2", the company still has 100 million on its books.Last month, the DVD sales of "Waiting Alone" were divided into 380 million, and this month is about to split the account. According to Bonahua's estimate, there is still about 140 million to be divided.

In other words, the company has more than 500 million liquidity.

"Okay, let's find a better office building." Wan Xiaohu thought about it in his heart, even if he built a novel website, it would not cost much money at present, and he could definitely improve the company's office environment.

The capital city in 2000 was in a period of great development, and there were row upon row of newly completed buildings. Near Lihuayuan Community, there was the Sitong Flyover business district. Both of them wanted to find office buildings in this place.Firstly, it is not far from Lihuayuan Community, secondly, it is not far from Peking University, thirdly, it is a new business district, relatively clean and tidy.

After comparing the rent and design of several real estate projects, Su Ya finally chose Sitong CBD Building, which is a newly built 16-story building.Although the rent is a bit expensive, the scenery is very good, especially from the 10th floor up, overlooking the entire overpass and the park north of the bridge.

"Below the high-rise, it is 85 yuan per square meter per month, and above the high-rise is 90 yuan per square meter per month." In the empty room on the 12th floor, the property manager introduced, "Our high-rise buildings all use integrated floor-to-ceiling windows, which do not affect the outside. The scenery, and the floors are all unrenovated, which can be decorated according to the wishes of the merchants."

"Hey, what do you think?" Su Ya asked, her tone was still a bit unfriendly, obviously her anger was still there.

Wan Xiaohu walked around the elevator room, thought about it and said: "The conditions here are good, with a usable area of ​​1200 square meters on the first floor, and we can rent half of the floor to meet the current use and the development needs in the next year. It’s 5 a month’s rent, which is a bit expensive.”

90 yuan per square meter, 600 square meters for half a floor, [-] a month, and more than [-] a year, which is quite ruthless.

Expensive is a bit expensive, but the scenery and location are very good. In the end, the two of them nodded and agreed to rent here.

"Sign a preferential price, and we will rent out half of the 12th floor."

"The discount is fine, but one year's rent must be paid in advance..."

0083【Zhao Wei as director】

After signing the lease agreement, Su Ya and Wan Xiaohu returned to the company.

When the company changes location, it is necessary to communicate with the employees. Li Xia has shares in the company and needs to be notified.Then it needs to be decorated and furnished. I don’t know how long it will take to actually move in.Wan Xiaohu didn't follow up on the follow-up questions. He has enough things on his body now, and he is almost overwhelmed.

In the evening, Wan Xiaohu originally wanted to invite some friends to Happy, but considering that there were too many drinking and dinners this time, he decided not to go on like this.

"Be invigorated, don't be captured by the colorful world outside!"

He yelled at himself twice, took a taxi to the editing room of Huayi Brothers, checked the copy, and sorted out the shooting progress of more than a month.

After saying hello to the person on duty, Wan Xiaohu hid in the editing room.

From the first shot to the most recent shot, Wan Xiaohu finished watching it completely. It was past ten o'clock, and he made a cup of tea by himself, and began to try to set the sequence of editing.

The editing of a movie can be understood at four levels.First, the combination of shots; second, the editing of several scenes into paragraphs; third, the editing of the overall structure of the film; fourth, the editing of the combination of screen materials and audio materials.

Now that "The Butterfly Effect" is only half shot, it is not possible to edit the overall structure.However, it can be effectively used in the connection between lenses.As a remake of a sci-fi film from Europe and the United States, due to the localization of the content, the plot has also undergone a lot of changes. How to edit it can not refer to the original version, which takes a lot of thinking.

"Here I set up a metaphor montage, so when editing, only by fitting these two sets of shots together can the way of metaphor be expressed in a superficial way..."

Wan Xiaohu wrote down the serial numbers of the two copies in his notebook, and wrote another paragraph of analysis.

"The dialogue in my heart needs to be highlighted with the help of narration, so why not set up a contrast between these two shots and turn it into a contrast montage?"

"These two sets of shots are long shots, and the superposition of the two will be lengthy. This set of shots should be added..."

Almost in the middle of the night, Wan Xiaohu wrote down a dozen or so pages densely in his notebook, most of which were the numbers of some shots, as well as ideas for various montage techniques.At the current stage, it is not possible to actually edit, but only to imagine on paper.

Montage is the meaning of editing, which originated in France and refers to the combination of various shots with depth.After arriving in China, montage has been localized. It is no longer just defined as editing, but means of editing with special effects, such as parallel montage, narrative montage, metaphor montage, contrast montage, etc.

The montage method pays the most attention to the manipulation of time and space, and can make large jumps in the time and space of movies. "Butterfly Effect" talks about the theme of time and space travel, and it is inevitable to cooperate with montage.

Moreover, in the original version of this movie, the theme is wonderful, but the plot is lacklustre, especially a strong sense of fate.Wan Xiaohu wants to save the essence from the chaff, keep the beauty of the subject matter, make the plot fuller and smoother, and change and break the fateful flavor of the theme.

Whether it is the open ending version he is going to shoot, or the dark version, whether the protagonist is dead or alive, fatalism must be thrown away and defined as the future can be changed.After all, positive thoughts are easier to be accepted by the audience, which is also Wan Xiaohu's own feeling.

When he lives again, he must break the old self and gain a new life!

In this way, over and over again.

Wan Xiaohu didn't go back to rest until after one o'clock in the morning.

In the early morning of the next day, I rushed to the crew early again to hurry up and shoot the scenes.

……

On August 8th, Zhao Wei's schedule was adjusted out of vacancy, and the crew rushed to film the cameo scene.

"Zhao Wei, you are here, welcome."

Wan Xiaohu led the director team to personally welcome Zhao Wei's arrival.

As one of the Four Little Stars, Zhao Wei has not shown much in movies, but with "My Fair Princess" and "My Fair Princess Part II", she has already become a pop idol in Asia, and her popularity cannot be increased.Soaring to the sky, known as "Xiaoyan Storm" and "Zhao Wei Phenomenon", he is the first pop idol in the history of mainland China.