Chapter 81: Teach you to write a novel. To be frank, this martial arts novel...
To be honest, this martial arts novel seems to be rather bland. Compared to long martial arts novels that easily cost millions of readers, the world is smaller and there aren't many conflicts.
However, Li Daohua does not intend to publish this novel. It will be adapted into a script later, and the most important thing is filming.
As a martial arts drama, Li Daohua had to find people who could really perform martial arts fighting scenes to shoot and act in them.
Fortunately, the actors at that time were more professional, especially those acting in martial arts dramas, most of them were quite skilled.
"Martial arts drama? This is our strong point! It will be a perfect follow-up to Yang Yuhuan. Many of our actors have acted in martial arts dramas before."
Zhang Xinyan felt that it was a good idea for Li Daohua to switch to acting in costume dramas. After all, in the last drama "Yang Yuhuan", they were able to achieve great success with little money.
Filming Yang Yuhuan in the inland didn't cost much, and the quality of the resulting TV series is simply too good to be true. It is indeed more attractive than the fake mountains and fake waters they had filmed before.
They hit it off immediately, and a bunch of people left a message on Hong Kong Island that they were going to shoot inland, and then disappeared without a trace.
Because the requirements for the actors in this drama are relatively high, Li Daohua did not choose to use only mainland actors. Whoever is suitable will be cast, as long as all the actors can perform.
"Children also need to know how to fight?"
"Of course, when Song Qing and Feng Jian met, one was seven years old and the other was six years old. According to martial arts standards, Feng Jian should have started practicing martial arts since he was a child.
When the two meet, Xiao Fengjian must at least know some moves, and Xiao Songqing's conditions can be slightly more relaxed."
"Oh, this is not easy to find." Originally, there were relatively few children practicing martial arts.
Among these children, we have to select those who are of the right size and who are smart, which adds to the restrictions.
Of course, they are not looking for them like headless flies. There are many young people in the martial arts team, and they know where to find such children.
Half a month later, when other actors were ready, Xiao Songqing and Xiao Fengjian finally arrived.
When they were filming this drama, they reported it to the inland film studio, and the film studio also joined in, so that after the filming was completed, it could be broadcast directly in the inland.
The equipment invested and rented by Li Daohua are all the best.
"The filming effect is better this way, and I want to watch it after it's filmed. I don't want to watch shoddy TV series."
She has watched too many shoddy TV dramas. Now that she is an investor, she has the final say, she is rich and willful.
Li Daohua's wealth was so great that even Zhang Xinyan found it unbelievable. Normally, cost control was done in order to make more money, and there was no certainty as to whether the TV series would be a hit. If it was not, they had to ensure that they did not lose money as much as possible.
“Save where you can, spend where you can.” It’s true that the equipment is expensive, but filming on location in the inland is much cheaper than renting a place and building a set in Hong Kong Island.
In the script, they fled from a border town to a small mountain village. The scene chosen by Li Daohua for the border town is the frontier and the endless grassland.
On a sunny day, the sky is blue, and Xiao Songqing is driving his not-so-white sheep on the green grass, stopping every step. The small flowers that sway without wind are soon splashed with blood.
"The transition should be natural and the whole thing should be real."
For the sake of authenticity, the sheep were borrowed from local herdsmen. Under normal circumstances, the sheep raised at home are dirty most of the time, so there is no time to clean them.
Xiao Songqing's face has two patches of high altitude redness because he didn't take good care of it, so they don't need to put on makeup or ask the actors to dress like this.
In martial arts dramas, everyone can ride a horse, and those who can’t are just passers-by.
Li Daohua also took the opportunity to learn how to ride horses from the crew members and followed them to learn a few steps. She was able to at least get on a horse and take a few steps.
The small mountain village is in Yunnan Province. They didn’t dare go to the mountains, but that was enough for them to shoot.
On the first day of filming, we heard the sound of folk songs coming from somewhere. The sound seemed even more profound in the mountains and forests.
"Let's add this scene!" Zhang Xinyan said excitedly to Li Daohua.
Accompanied by mountain songs, the camera scans the entire valley, highlighting the isolation of this small mountain village.
The staff of the local government department accompanied them: "We have nothing else here, but there are countless views like this. You can take pictures so that people all over the country can see our scenery."
After that, he turned to Li Daohua and said, "Teacher Daohua, we all like you very much. The writing in your book Wind and Rain is so good!
If it is ever made into a TV series, please come to our place to shoot it. We will definitely support you and watch it at home every day!"
Yunnan Province has a hard life. Not only does it have a border area, but it also has many mountains. It was not until the 21st century, when transportation across the country developed, that Yunnan Province began to develop, relying on the tourism industry.
For lunch, they ate local delicacies.
"This mushroom is very fragrant! Try it. We love to eat this here. It tastes good whether it's fresh or dried."
Zhang Xinyan and his friends also praised the meal.
They have eaten a lot of fancy food in Hong Kong Island. As they have money, they like to eat something different and have very high requirements for ingredients.
The ingredients from Yunnan Province are what they are pursuing. These ingredients, grown deep in the mountains, far away from human pollution and absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, are of the best quality.
"If this table of food were placed in a high-end restaurant in Hong Kong Island, it would cost more than a thousand yuan per table."
The accompanying staff were stunned. They couldn't even imagine a table of food costing thousands of dollars.
At the current wage level, a table costs over a thousand yuan, which is equivalent to several years' salary for a worker.
“Is it really that much money?”
Zhang Xinyan said as he ate: "That's for sure, those rich people like to eat wild ones, but I like to eat fresh ones."
Hearing this new thing, the staff sighed. They currently mainly sell dried goods. Every year, the mountain people go to the mountains to collect various mountain products, dry them, and then purchase them layer by layer. Finally, they transport them to all parts of the country.
After being dried, the mountain products are light in weight and not expensive. The mountain people work hard for a long time every year but do not earn much money.
"Wait, I know."
Things like transportation can be handled by their remote logistics.
Yuanfang Logistics purchases fresh mountain products picked that day directly from Yunnan Province, and then transports them to Hong Kong Island through the entire cold chain.
However, whether there is any profit to be made still needs to be calculated by the people in the company.
It was difficult to make phone calls in the mountains of Yunnan Province, so Li Daohua spent a day outside the mountains to make phone calls and asked Ouyang Yuan to go and investigate the market situation.
Many mountain products cannot be sold at a high price in Yunnan Province. They are all available in the mountains, so you can just dig them yourself. If you spend money to buy them, you would be a fool.
Before Li Daohua and his team finished filming, Yuanfang Logistics had already started purchasing fresh mountain products in Yunnan Province, collecting and shipping them on the same day, using refrigerated trucks throughout the process.
The bigger the logistics company is, the cheaper it can be to do this. It can reduce the freight costs to the extreme, and the rest is profit.
Towards the end of the filming of "Green Mountains and Pines", they often saw villagers going up the mountain to collect products.
Many villagers who accidentally appeared in the camera were directly filmed after obtaining their consent. These mountain people wore ethnic costumes that they made themselves, so it would not be out of place for them to appear in a martial arts drama.
It would be more reasonable to have villagers collecting mountain products on the mountain. If a mountain is empty, it must be a deep forest. Even in the small village where the heroine lives in seclusion, the villagers are all human beings.
The village where the filming was done was an existing village, and the villagers directly switched to being extras, all wearing their own traditional costumes which they had kept in their closets.
When Xiao Songqing and his group arrived here, they seemed out of place, as if they were isolated from the world.
During the filming, Li Daohua's one-year ban had passed unknowingly.
Many stubborn schools wanted to invite Li Daohua to hold exchange meetings, and universities in Yunnan Province were the most enthusiastic.
Li Daohua finally came to Yunnan Province, so of course she had to find opportunities for her children.
You have to be cautious when it comes to personnel selection and never look for people like Dong Yu.
"Then how can we communicate? If everyone looks for people who like her and flatter her, then Li Daohua will have the final say."
"You? Don't you like Teacher Daohua? If you don't look for someone like Dong Yu, then you will only look for someone who flatters Teacher Daohua? And Dong Yu becomes the messenger of justice?
He is a complete scum. Look at other people who criticize Teacher Daohua. Did Teacher Daohua say anything? Criticism should be based on reason and evidence. You can’t just make a fuss.”
Their place is relatively remote and a lot of information is delayed, which leads to not many people criticizing Li Daohua.
In addition, the novels Li Daohua wrote before spoke for Yunnan Province. If someone were to take advantage of the popularity and deliberately belittle Li Daohua, the people of Yunnan Province would be the first to disagree.
There was a small show before the exchange meeting started, which was a singing and dancing performance unique to Yunnan Province.
They thought that since Li Daohua wrote it, he must be familiar with their singing and dancing, so of course they should invite him in.
At the Yunnan Province exchange meeting, the focus of everyone's discussion was also "In the Storm", which shows that each place has its own special circumstances and different hobbies.
"Yunnan Province has its own characteristics. When written down, these characteristics are attractive. My understanding of Yunnan Province is only superficial. Many of the students here grew up in Yunnan Province and must know more about it. They can explore it in depth based on their own lives."
Many local TV dramas that followed had good ratings.
At this time, a boy raised his hand and said, "Teacher, I wrote a story before about my cousin who was tricked into the Golden Triangle and finally escaped by pretending to be a fool.
This should be one of the featured stories you mentioned, right? But this story was rejected in the end. "
"Did you bring your manuscript?"
"I have it."
The boy took out a notebook from his bag, opened it and handed it to Li Daohua.
The manuscript is not long, only a few thousand words, and you can finish it quickly if you read ten lines at a glance.
"The story itself is very unique, but your writing is not distinctive. It's like an ordinary rumor. The stories I heard at the intelligence office at the entrance of the village during the New Year were more dramatic than what you wrote."
Seriously, the Intelligence Department is good at keeping people in suspense. At the beginning, you know what? It arouses people's curiosity.
When you speak next, don't finish it in one breath, but say a few sentences to give you time to react. It is equivalent to leaving a hook in a novel. Please note that this hook must be there.
The plot is full of ups and downs and twists and turns.
These intelligence agents are experienced fighters. If they have poor abilities, they will not be able to organize people at the village entrance.
What Li Daohua said was a bit too insulting. This was a university exchange meeting after all. She said that people would not go to the village to meet illiterate old men and women. Of course the boys were not convinced.
“You can write this story as a novella or even a novel in the first person, which will make it more immersive.
Before writing, go visit your cousin and ask him how he met the scammer, the scammer’s rhetoric, how he got there, his mental journey of pretending to be stupid after he got there, the specific time and place of his escape, and why he chose this time and place…”
Li Daohua said a lot of things, just this much, and after the boys asked questions, there were basically tens of thousands of words. With a little more padding, hundreds of thousands of words would not be a problem.
The teacher next to the boy urged him to write it down quickly. This was like teaching you how to write a novel step by step.
Smart students are already taking notes and applying what they have learned to other situations. This method can be used to write not only the story of the boy’s cousin, but also any story they have heard.
There are so many strange stories in Yunnan Province that they have endless materials.
Write a single story, write two stories in random combination, write multiple stories in random combination...
Master, I understand!
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