Chapter 55: The Part is Subordinate to the Whole
The fifteen super-English series took only half a year to play the script, and it was still super efficient.
In the past six months, the Super English series has also been revised several times.
Although this is a masterpiece of cheating money, Li Xianyun is still very serious and responsible for his pursuit.
For this reason, he copied the Holai model.
The Holy Mode has its own script production process.
Their process is generally like this:
The producer first found a bunch of screenwriters and asked each of them to write an outline of the sentence.
Just one sentence!
This sentence mainly refers to subject matter, elements, etc., and you don’t mention anything else, and you can’t read it if you write it more.
For example, the outline of the Super English series is: the story of a group of Chinese superheroes saving the world. Modern super-powered themes.
Then the producer made a choice after reading it, and asked the screenwriter to expand the sentence chosen to one hundred words, which are the style of the script, selling points, etc.
A week later, the content of 100 words was expanded to 500 words. At this time, we needed an overall framework, such as who are superheroes, what is the main plot, etc. The relevant character list also began to appear, and more than a dozen were made to make choices.
In another week, it will be one thousand words, and this is the main outline.
In another week, there are three thousand words. This is a detailed outline and the character list needs to be fully prepared. If it is an overview of the world, it also needs to be a world background - Avatar Light World background made a book.
At this point, another week later, the producer called all the screenwriters over and said: overturn and rewrite.
So I continued to start with one sentence and start over.
Just repeat several rounds of tossing and creating, breaking, giving up, and recreating, and finally forming a script.
During this period, there will be a set of summarized routine patterns, including paving, development, motivation, small climax, turning point, low trough period, further turning point, big climax, etc., which will be accurate to the time point.
What is the goal to achieve in minutes and seconds.
In the Chinese words, it is beginning, inheritance, turn, and turn, in Hollywood, that is...Fuck, I can't say one English name, but it's just eight steps anyway. If you recite the beginning, inheritance, turn, turn, and turn twice, that's about that.
This is a very scientific approach and the key to the rise of Hollywood.
Of course it is not invincible, and the video should still be bad, but from the perspective of production, it is indeed the most standardized.
This is a bit rigid and is not suitable for artistic creation, but is suitable for assembly line production.
If a company wants to grow bigger, it must be like this - the contradiction between art and business is fully reflected on this issue!
So in the past period of time, Li Xianyun has been grinding this with everyone except for the Doomsday Crazy Flower, Doomsday Crisis and the nine hand-made works - Producer Liu said, "Where did I agree to be the director of the production department?"
OK, your boss loves to interfere, and I am happy to be relaxed.
Everyone has their own ideas. There are more than a dozen or twenty screenwriters, and they just throw the scripts into a bunch every time they throw them away.
Looking at the frame, Li Xianyun made the sky dark and inexplicably envious of Shi Jun.
Judging from what the boss does, why is his boss so hard?
But thinking about his company is about to collapse, he feels better to be more miserable.
Fortunately, Li Xianyun still survived, and the basic framework, outline, character list, and world background of the 15th Internet series have gradually taken shape.
Now that the director has decided and the script is completed, the next step is to be the director to explain, make a big plan, and then do a storyboard.
The director's explanation is to put forward his own views on the tone of the entire film, and the big plan is related implementation plans.
Storyboards are generally the world of directors’ personal art development, but this time it is different. Li Xianyun has strict requirements on all storyboards. In fact, the director’s personal performance is greatly restricted. They are essentially more about executing Li Xianyun’s meaning, and only a small part of the space has room for self-exercise.
This made Rong Dasheng very dissatisfied.
He felt that Li Xianyun's approach was too rigid. He had consulted Li Xianyun more than once and told him that artistic creation could not be fully in place at once. Many times it was performed on the spot. Sometimes an inspiration came, but due to script restrictions, the creativity would be unusable.
Li Xianyun was very confused. I didn’t decide you to be a director, so I just gave you a photographer. Why are you doing so hard?
However, Li Xianyun also understands Rong Dasheng's personality. This guy probably wants to prove himself in this way and save the defeat.
And what he said was not all wrong.
Many major directors do show off on the spot, after all, the shooting itself is part of artistic creation.
For example, the famous director Jiang has revised the script on the spot countless times.
There is also the famous Director Du, who found that the duration was not enough when shooting guns, so he simply made a group of killers dazed during the showdown, creating death silence, which turned out to be a classic shot.
The more famous one is King of Sunglasses. When filming, he didn’t even have a script, which was even more terrifying than the author who wrote an article without an outline.
The author can at least be able to make a fortune. If you don’t sell well, it’s all right. If you make any changes at will, you will cheat the investors’ money. After all, the crew will have a day of money.
But this is how people play, so many directors are so urinary that they hate shooting that cannot be modified.
Li Xianyun's approach, let alone the possibility of changing the script on the spot, even the storyboard was locked.
But this cannot be blamed on Li Xianyun.
After all, this is a fifteen series.
A small detail change here will be fine in this movie, but there may be problems in other series.
For example, in the decisive battle of Sky City, the junior sister saved people and changed it to the senior sister saved people. In this change, at least one senior sister had to hand over the rescued person to the junior sister to reconcile the plot again. Then in the subsequent lines, the rescued male protagonist had to slightly modify the lines and the thanks to the life-saving gratitude from the junior sister to the senior sister. If necessary, even the emotional performance must be adjusted. After all, the direction of gratitude has changed. Then the emotional scene with the junior sister must be added, otherwise the relationship between the male and female protagonists will be lacking in basics.
It is required to be more detailed, even the plot details need to be changed, and the senior sister will also add scenes.
This is still a movie, with a minimal change.
Where are the fifteen pieces?
When you move here, all other movies follow you?
All directors move, and the play will collapse - everyone doesn't need to have a lot of inspiration, and everyone will break down as soon as they move.
It moves the whole body with one move!
So Li Xianyun's reply was sneering.
Of course, he could also understand Rong Dasheng's idea - it is indeed easy to limit inspiration according to the framework.
Not to mention Rong Dasheng, even the author of the online literature, including Li Xianyun, has had such experiences.
The outline is done, but it does not mean that I have to write it according to the outline.
I often go off when I write, but in the end I go crazy. Let me go, mom's outline, I can write whatever I want.
Li Xianyun wrote a novel with a 100,000-word outline, but he often went astray and turned around to change the outline - the creator did not adapt to the truth, but to adapt to me!
But in this process, Li Xianyun would not lie to himself.
He firmly believes that this approach is a manifestation of insufficient control.
It is wrong to sacrifice the whole for inspiration!
Now fifteen movies are going to be filmed continuously, so you must not do this.
The key is that even if he agrees, the ghost treasures are not easy to cooperate - this time he is the director, so if he doesn’t set a good path, what should he do if something goes wrong?
So under the forced suppression of Li Xianyun, a group of directors began their hard-working storyboard creation, which should be suitable for their own needs and the boss's taste.
It takes several months to do the storyboards of the fifteenth part well and meticulously, and Li Xianyun was not idle during this period.
Yisheng Media now relies on special effects to make movies, so it is basically stable to make money, so it must work hard quickly. So Li Xianyun turned around and started planning the film that promoted the ghost city.
I have had ideas for a long time, and the specific ideas were provided by Sun Shi.
Sun Shi means that this time, the documentary about the secret story of the ghost town’s predecessor.
To put it bluntly, it tells the story of the ghost town haunted: why people suddenly die on the construction site, why blood is dry? Is it a distortion of human nature? Or a degradation of morality?
After that, it turned out that there was never a monster, there were only murderers who harmed people.
This is mainly to cleanse up haunted rumors and stabilize the local area.
Li Xianyun was a little hesitant, but after Sun Shi told him that this could become a promotional video for the local government, Li Xianyun happily agreed.
The Ze County Government is willing to give a bonus of one million for this and promises to repair the broken road that Jiang Zheng had not solved after running for a long time.
So after that, Li Xianyun and them made a pseudo-documentary script.
To be precise, it is a documentary-like movie. The movie is developed from the perspective of a female reporter. After entering the ghost town, it shows the appearance of the ghost town while unraveling the "year-old past" "has been covered for a long time" through review.
There are construction sites in the ghost town that have not been completed. The busy construction site is mainly gray to create suspense. The gloomy and horrifying style of the ghost town creates pictures, thus forming a super-large haunted house to detect and solve puzzles.
Li Xianyun even added another reversal at the end: after pushing everything to the real murderer, the female reporter was killed by a sudden ghost, forming a shocking reversal, and leaving endless suspense.
But Ze County Government will not accept this.
What we want is to clarify. If you do this, the story will be beautiful and the political purpose cannot be achieved!
For one million, I can only give up.
Li Xianyun sighed at the fact that his artistic creativity was strangled by money.
In this way, there are stories and scenery. The only shame is that this kind of pseudo-documentary movie is not suitable for any love story.
The script has been completed long ago, and Lao Gui's crew is still filming in other places. Because Jiang Zheng is going to work for them, he will come here at the last moment. It is expected that it will arrive in two months. Li Xianyun doesn't want to waste time, so it's best to catch the two months to shoot the film.
The question now is, who should I find as the heroine?
While thinking, Yang Yuan called.
Chapter completed!