Li Shi first sent a message to Wang Jianmu: "Brother, are you busy? I have something to ask you."
After sending it, I went to the study room and tidied it up a little. The phone on the desk rang. I walked over and saw that it was Wang Jianmu calling, so I quickly answered the call.
"Brother, what's going on?"
Li Shi explained the situation a little bit.
After hearing this, Wang Jianmu said directly: "Brother, I used to be an action director for a few years, but at that time I just didn't want to stay at home and dawdle, and I didn't want to develop into a director, so I just did my job, only action design and direction. I don’t know much about casting, but I know a few directors, and one of them has been the assistant director of several TV series now. If necessary, I can help you ask."
Li Shi immediately said: "That's great, please help Senior Brother Wang contact me."
"Okay, just wait for my news."
After a while, Wang Jianmu called again: "I called him but he didn't answer. Maybe he was busy. Working on the crew often works day and night. I have already left him a message. He will definitely know it after seeing it. Call me back, but you may not hear anything until tomorrow.”
"it's okay no problem."
Li Shi expressed his understanding.
After thanking Wang Jianmu again, we chatted for a few more words before hanging up the phone.
He stood there and thought for a while, then turned to Zhang Jingyi's WeChat account and edited the message: "School girl, long time no see, do you have time to chat?"
After sending it, I put the phone directly into my trouser pocket and continued to organize the study.
He put all the manuscripts into several large boxes, then took out his notebook and started writing a short story shooting plan - he found that making the story into a short film was more difficult than he thought. In order to ensure smooth production To produce a quality film and try my best to express my thoughts on calligraphy in the film, I feel that I still need to sort out my thoughts.
"The first step: the core and outline of the story, and biographies of characters. (Completed)"
"The first step: text script. (The third draft will be published tonight, remember, in addition to reviewing the story itself, the calligraphy-related parts must also be reviewed) (Unfinished)"
"The second step: Storyboard script. (After all, this is my first time filming a short drama, so try to draw a storyboard to ensure the quality of the finished film) (First find a storyboard drawing online to learn from) (Unfinished)"
"The third step: casting of main characters. (Male protagonist, to be determined) (Female protagonist, tentatively named Zhao Lu) (County calligrapher, to be determined) (Secondary roles in the early stage: the heroine's parents, high school principal, etc.) (Second in the later stage Roles: elite men, busty women, etc.)"
…
Li Shi organized the steps based on his previous experience in photography and filming. He immediately knew what to do when making a short story, and he felt much safer.
I took out my phone and took a look. Seeing that there was no activity on WeChat, I put the phone on the desk.
I took my tablet, turned it on, and searched online for storyboards, and soon found the storyboard for Zhang Yimou's movie "Hero."
After downloading it, because I had never come into contact with it before, I initially had the mentality to face the difficulties, but when I took a look, I found that——
"Hey, it doesn't seem difficult for me to draw this."
I have the advantages of painting skills and drama imagination, and I also have the ability to script.
After Li Shi carefully read the storyboard script of this great director who was called "National Master" by netizens, he immediately tried to write a storyboard imitating the painting.
What he chose was the scene where the male protagonist parted ways with his first love, Yu Ye.
[Certain scene, street on a rainy night, outside]
(Near my first love’s home, ten o’clock at night)
picture
1 [Special or close] (steps step on puddles, water splashes everywhere)
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2 [Near or Medium] (First Love’s snow-white and smooth calves are reflected in the street advertising lights, from the calf, thigh and buttocks, from the buttocks to the waist) (highlighting the white and smooth skin)
…
He started writing very quickly, and within a short time, he had roughly drawn the storyboards of the scene.
"When the script comes out, I will imagine the scene based on the script, and then draw the scene. This is the split-shot script."
"It doesn't necessarily have to be based on Lao Mouzi's model. Just be able to understand it yourself."
"Chinese, photography, painting... the things I have accumulated in the past feel like they are preparing me for becoming a director, hi!"
“so easy!”
In the past, what Li Shi was most worried about was the positioning when shooting the short film. Now he discovered that after the storyboards were drawn, how to set up the camera position also came out.
He suddenly had more confidence and expectations for the first short story he was going to make.
After being in seclusion for such a long time, Li Shi was a little tired, so he put his calligraphy creation aside for the time being.
He turned on the TV and casually looked at the recently released new dramas and variety shows. After scanning around, he found that they were all idol dramas, and the key quality was still very low. There was really nothing interesting to watch. He simply picked up the tablet again and searched online. I used storyboards from other directors’ movies to read as comic strips.
"Tsui Hark's storyboards are different from Lao Mouzi's. They are quite delicate, even the excitement of riding a horse and the dust are shown."
"Haha, Jiang Wen is such a sloppy painter."
…
Li Shi is in a relaxed mood. Through different storyboards, he can feel the differences in the styles of these great directors, which he finds quite interesting.
When it was quiet, he suddenly heard the sound of cicadas chirping outside the window. At first, he thought it was an illusion.
"This is the twelfth floor."
After listening carefully, I realized that it was indeed the chirping of cicadas, and I heard it right.
He became serious and had excellent hearing, and soon discovered that the noise was coming from the green belt of the community downstairs.
Got up, took the phone and took the elevator downstairs.
The weather today is very good, sunny, but it will be three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun has already set, and the sunlight under the community has long been blocked by tall buildings.
Walking along the cicada's chirp, I felt that the chirp was getting louder and louder, and soon I actually found a small insect on a five-needled pine tree.
As soon as Li Shi came closer, it stopped barking.
When I got farther away, the cicada sound I often heard in my hometown when I was a child started to sound again.
The sound of cicadas may sound like noise to others, but when Li Shi heard it, he was in a good mood and thought it was a small surprise he encountered today!
He found a bench in the shade and sat down, thinking about nothing for a while.
Until my phone vibrated in my trouser pocket, I took it out and saw that it was Zhang Jingyi who had replied to the message.
"Senior, I was working before and my phone was turned off. I only saw it now. Now that I have time, what can I do for you?"
Li Shi thought for a while and felt that it was better to make a phone call to explain things more clearly, so he asked, "Is it convenient for you to answer the phone?"
Unexpectedly, Zhang Jingyi called directly after half a minute.
"Senior, long time no see."
"Long time no see, here's the thing, I'm going to..."
Li Shi briefly told the whole story, and then asked her about their filming and casting.
Zhang Jingyi's voice was very calm, without too many tone fluctuations, but she spoke directly without hiding anything. She directly told Li Shi in detail about the several casting auditions she had participated in when she entered the industry.
"My suggestion is, senior, before you look for actors, you should first have a clear imagination of what the character is like, so that the goal is clear... I heard that some powerful directors often choose actors at a glance. You know if this is the person you want."
At the end of the sentence, she suddenly sighed quietly: "However, nine times out of ten things in the world are not satisfactory. When people live in the world, they always have to compromise, not with others, but also with themselves."
Li Shi was originally thinking about his imagination of several main characters, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but blinked, thinking that her tone was not quite right.
Did something bad happen to you? Are you depressed?
After chatting for a few more words, I thanked the other person and hung up the phone.
He got up and went upstairs, but when he entered the elevator, he was still thinking about Zhang Jingyi's uncomfortable state and all the bad rumors in the entertainment industry. He unlocked the screen and typed a message: "Senior sister, thank you again. You told me so much and helped me a lot, but you don't seem to be in a good state when you talk. Did you encounter something unhappy?"
You help me, I'll help you. Apart from being high school alumni, the two of them can barely be considered friends now.
Zhang Jingyi's typing speed was also relatively fast, and the message was quickly replied: "I am really not in a good state. Maybe the role I played this time is too deep."
The two of them chatted without a word.
Zhang Jingyi talked about her situation. It turned out that she played a young murderer this time, and she had a particularly miserable experience. She was raped twice by school bullies... and finally killed everyone who hurt her.
"I am a monk halfway, so I can only follow the experiential path. I really listen, watch and feel, and act in a way that embodies emotions, so I am deeply involved in the drama."
Li Shi was stunned. Putting his emotions into this kind of role, this school girl was quite cruel to him.
He asked: "Then there must be some way to make a show, right?"
Zhang Jingyi: "Yes, as time goes by, drama will naturally occur. Time is always the best medicine to cure everything - otherwise, we should replace it with another emotion, such as playing a specific role, or..."
Li Shi asked curiously: "Or what?"
After a while, Zhang Jingyi said: "Senior, let's change the topic."
…
At about five o'clock in the afternoon, Li Shi asked his assistant Zhang Huijing to bring him five dishes and one soup. After eating and drinking, he went to bed early and lay down, integrating some of the physical attributes added by promoting calligraphy to (professional-).
When I woke up at around 11 o'clock in the night, my physical attributes increased to 34.9.
He moved his body and came out of the bedroom, feeling like he could punch through the floor with one punch.
"But you can't really smash it. Even if it doesn't penetrate, with my current strength, if I hit it with all my strength, I'm afraid people upstairs and downstairs will mistakenly think there was an explosion somewhere."
Li Shi came to the kitchen, drank three cartons of milk in one go, then picked up a bag of bread and a bottle of water, then put on his sneakers and went downstairs.
When we arrived at the gate of the community, we finished eating, threw them into the trash can on the roadside, and walked towards the river.
It will be almost midnight.
The river breeze is blowing, but there is no one there.
He walked to a place where there was no surveillance, opened up his fists, and started a routine with one move after another.
I punched all the boxing styles I learned three times. Although I didn’t sweat much, my body felt warm and comfortable, and all the energy and blood in my body were activated.
"It's a pity that with my current physique, it is no longer possible to completely move around in a place like this, unless I go to an activity base in the suburbs. However... I will go back to Baoqing and Zhaoyang for filming in a while, and the plan is to have a For the small town series, I definitely have to go there often, but I can still find a place to stay there.”
“Also, take time to go to the mountains.”
Li Shi thought about the sea view villa again.
"I have also made arrangements to go to the beach for vacation occasionally in the future. It will be quite pleasant to eat abalone and seafood on the beach or in the sea and admire the colorful flower bones!"
It was almost one o'clock in the morning when he returned to Phoenix Bay. He took a shower and then checked WeChat and found that both Zhang Huijing and Zhao Lingfang had sent him messages at night.
The assistant was reporting on the actor interview tomorrow, while Zhao Lingfang told him that the script had been revised and sent to his work email.
After replying respectively, Li Shi turned on his tablet, logged into his email, and downloaded the third version of the script sent by Zhao Lingfang to the tablet. Then he went to the study room, connected to the printer via Bluetooth and printed it out, and then took the thick physical script. I took out a pencil from the desk, came to the topic, sat back comfortably on the massage chair, and started reading.
The third draft of the script was already very complete. He read it through quickly and felt pretty good about it.
Then he began to use his imagination, and while reading, he transformed the words into pictures and scenes in his mind. As the text turned page by page, the whole story also played out in Li Shi's mind.
Whenever he encountered something that was wrong, he would mark it with a pencil, and after finishing the second pass, he would start correcting it.
There are not many flaws, just three times, five times, five times and two times are enough to correct them.
Looking at the entire script again, each character suddenly became particularly three-dimensional in his mind. The male Zhang Shan, who looks like a dog but is passionate at heart, his first love Zhou Yan who looks pure but is rebellious at heart, and Principal Peng who looks stern but is actually heartwarming...
"Although I am making a short film, the core of the characters is relatively rich. It is not easy to act. The stupid way is to directly find someone who is more similar to the character."
After sleeping for a few hours after integrating physical attributes, Li Shi felt very energetic now. He got up and went to the study, took a stack of A4 paper, and started drawing the storyboard directly.
It was relatively slow at first, but after I became familiar with the routines of storyboard creation, the speed picked up instantly. There was no one around, and all I could hear was the swishing sound in the study.
Suddenly, the sound of a WeChat message broke the quiet atmosphere of the night.
Li Shi stopped writing, picked up his phone and checked the time first.
It's already two forty-six in the morning.
Looking at the message again, it was from Zhang Jingyi, with an inexplicable sentence: "Senior, are you willing to trap me?"
what does this mean?
Li Shi was in a daze for a second, and suddenly remembered that "sleep" is a dialect in his hometown, which means "sleep".
Old folks say "I'm going to sleep", which means "I'm going to sleep".
That's what Ah Q in Brother Xun's novel told Wu Ma back then.
so--
Li Shi was startled and came back to his senses instantly.
Looking at the screen again, I found that the other party had withdrawn the message.
Li Shi frowned slightly, suddenly remembering that she was too involved in the drama: "Should I pretend not to see it, or... say something back?"
This was the first time Li Shi had encountered this kind of thing. Even a wise man like him didn't know how to deal with it for a while.
After hesitating, he clicked on her profile picture and entered her circle of friends.
The latest news was posted three days ago: Finished successfully, happy! (cake) (flowers)
In addition to the emoticons in the copy, she also attached a photo taken when the filming was finalized. In the photo, she was wearing a white coat and standing there with flowers in her hands. She was pretty and innocent, with a smile on her face, and she also made a loving gesture towards the camera. posture.
No matter the copy or the photos, there is nothing unusual about it.
At this moment, perhaps in order to cover up the previously withdrawn message, Zhang Jingyi sent another message: "Senior, while you are filming, can I go and watch?" (End of Chapter)
