my time as a director

My Director's Era Author: Eating and Fighting Monsters

brief introduction:

I am a director, a director who makes good movies───Li Qian

Chapter 1 "Sniping the Phone Booth"

On April 2007, 4, Shanghai Railway Station.

"Master, go to the Drama Arts Center."

Li Qian, who came out of the station in a hurry, stopped a taxi without stopping.

Although it was his first visit to Shanghai, Li Qian was not in the mood to appreciate the scenery along the way of this metropolis.

As soon as he got in the car, Li Qian took out a folder from his bag and looked through it.

Li Qian opened a photography studio in Donghua City, thanks to the fact that Hengdian Film and Television City, the largest film and television shooting base in the country, is located in Donghua City.

The studio has also been open for almost a year, shooting unnutritious things every day, and Li Qian is about to start making his first film as a director.

Of course, it's just an online movie, and last year it was also called a micro movie.

At the beginning of this year, Donghua, a studio specializing in micro-movies and online unit dramas, made a micro-movie called Daochang, which was launched on Yinhe Video. With a production cost of 14 yuan, it hit the box office of 800 million yuan, shocking the entire micro-film market.

You know, last year's dark horse Crazy Gem only won 2300 million at the box office, but the cost was 300 million.

Since then, micro-movies have a new name: big online movies.

The cost of 10,000+, the shooting time of more than ten days, and the production team of more than ten people are the standard mode of big online movies.

After successfully descending from Daochang, in just over two months, Donghua City has newly established more than 80 film and television production studios, and dozens of online movies have successively landed on the three major video websites of Penguin, Tomato, and Yinhe.

Although the response from these online majors has been mediocre, only three have a box office of more than one million, and none have exceeded 300 million, but compared with the previous micro-movie market, it is already a huge leap forward.

Of course, more is lost.

But the cost is low, so it's just a matter of practice. Li Qian stopped the business of the studio without thinking about it, and started preparing for his first online university.

No matter what kind of movie you want to make, you need actors. Li Qian came to Magic City this time to find actors.

Now most of the actors that these online big players are looking for are group performers and group specials from Hengdian, and Li Qian really doesn't like them.

Moreover, this movie is basically a one-man show for the male protagonist, and the requirements are not low.

Li Qian is at best a fringe person in the entertainment industry, he has no connections and doesn't know anyone. The only person he has friendship with is a neighbor who lived on the same street when he was a child. Lu Entai, who played the role of a scholar in the popular sitcom Wulin Biography the year before last, more than a week ago Just ask him to help find an actor.

Two days ago, Lu Entai gave a reply, recommending an actor from Shanghai Drama Art Center. It happened that it was the turn of the national tour of the drama Secret Love Peach Blossom Land he participated in, and Li Qian rushed over today.

The train station is not far from the drama center, only a 20-minute drive away. When I was about to arrive, I called Lu Entai in the car, and I saw him waiting at the entrance of the drama center from a distance, wearing a suit. The patched coarse clothes are the same as the poor in the old society.

After getting out of the car, Li Qian walked forward quickly. It is not easy to see his relatives when he is away from home.

Although it was just a neighbor on the same street, the neighborhood relationship when I was a child was much deeper than it is now.

"Brother Tai, are you rehearsing?"

Lu Entai looked at his attire, and said with a smile, "The performance the day after tomorrow is in line, let's go, come in first."

Li Qian followed him into the theater, and said with some embarrassment, "I didn't delay your rehearsal, why don't I go and talk to him by myself."

"It's okay, it doesn't matter." Lu Entai waved his hand, "It's mainly Huang Lei and Yuan Quan, and I'm also very interested in your script. I didn't talk about it on QQ before."

Li Qian has also paid attention to the drama Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land. According to media reports, in terms of the audience effect, the response of Peach Blossom Spring is stronger than that of Crush Love. Huang Lei is good at playing people from the old age. He played the young Jiang Binliu very successfully, but the old Jiang Binliu It's almost meaningless.

Yun Zhifan is the most important role, before Yuan Quan, the director actually looked for Tang Wei first, but she accepted Li An's Lust, Caution.

Later, I planned to find Sun Li, but she had to take care of the child again.

It would be a good story if Tang Wei and Sun Li were cast as Yun Zhifan.

Playing Lao Tao with Lu Entai is another actor named Tian Yu, who is Tang Wei's boyfriend.

There is more than one actor for a role in a drama. Otherwise, popular dramas are performed for several years. Not everyone has the time. It is normal for two people to play a role together.

Huang Lei and Sun Li are a couple, and Tian Yu and Tang Wei are also a couple. If there are two couples in a drama, it is also fate.

However, Li Qian has seen the film Lust, Caution, and the indescribable scenes in it are too much for a man to stand. It is estimated that the couple will have to separate sooner or later.

Along the way, we chatted about the drama Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, Lu Entai led Li Qian to a lounge in the theater, and began to talk about business.

"The idea of ​​this script is very good. There are very few high-IQ suspense crime films in China, but it is a bit like a Hollywood movie. How did you come up with this story?"

sniper phone booth

Lu Entai looked at the script in his hand, it was sent by Li Qian's email a week ago, and he printed it out.

Originally, I didn't expect much from this script. After all, Li Qian is only a young man. He just graduated for a year, and he didn't work as an editor or director in this year. He just opened a photography studio.

But after reading the script and the storyboard, even with his Ph.D. in theater directing, it was surprisingly good.

"When I was bored at home during Chinese New Year this year, I made a movie, David Fincher's Seven Deadly Sins, and I got some inspiration at that time."

Li Qian explained.

. . .

Li Qian and Lu Entai chatted about the perverted sniper who appeared in the script for less than a minute. The film of sniping a phone booth does not need any artistry, nor does it need to make the sniper so tall.

Moreover, even Li Qian can't control the complexity, the first feature-length film, it's better to keep it simple.

Finally, Lu Entai asked again.

"Have you found an actor for this role?"

"Not yet, I'll look for other actors after the protagonist is settled." Li Qian said.

"How about I make a guest appearance, what do you think?" Lu Entai said with a smile.

Li Qian was slightly taken aback. Lu Entai had no shortage of drama appointments. Since the martial arts rumors became popular the year before last, he turned down more than a dozen film appointments in one go, and only guest-starred in two dramas directed by Shang Jing, and went back to school to continue his studies.

As for the reason, Li Qian also knew that Lu Entai got a perfect score in a junior high school math test, and his father thought it was a material for studying, so he didn't let him watch TV much after that.

I was rebellious when I was a child, the more I was not allowed to do it, the more I wanted to do it.

So Lu Entai began to have an obsession with TV. When he was admitted to the Shanghai Drama Academy, he did not apply for the popular acting and directing department, but instead applied for the TV art department.

Later, he worked as a host on Travel Satellite TV and filmed TV series.