Chapter 188 A One-Man Show
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April ends and May comes.
The first thing is the official opening of the College Student Film Festival.
Two weeks in advance, the participating guests submitted their works through the website.
Starting from the 1st, for a period of one month, the 35 participating films will be screened at the Film Academy.
Online, voting will be conducted on iQiyi.
In June, a 12-member jury composed of the China Film Association conducted the final review of the film.
Based on the online click rate, ratings and judges' scores, the top ten will receive a fund as a reward.
Filmmaking is an art, but it is also a craft.
The foundation is the ability of the film team, but it also requires funds and resources.
Except for a few people who come from famous schools, have family backgrounds or have good background resources, it is really not easy for ordinary people to make movies.
Therefore, film festivals have become an outlet for many college student directors, allowing them to be seen by the academic community.
Although it was difficult at the beginning, it did not prevent college students across the country from producing 35 works, setting a new record.
Therefore, this event has also attracted much attention, and everyone wants to see whether the new generation of Daxia Film can create some waves.
The film festival opened on May 1st.
Daxia Film Academy, as the strongest academy of Daxia films, is the organizer of the film festival.
Starting today, 35 films will be screened at the academy.
The publicity has been done at the entrance and 35 posters have been put up in all the windows of the college.
No one passing by will miss it.
There are really not many subjects that ordinary college students can shoot.
So many of them are youth films and romance films, and some of them are more realistic.
Chi Yizhi is a second-year graduate student at the Film Academy. His advisor is Guo Zhenqi, a first-generation director and a member of the Film Association.
He has a famous teacher and all the technical resources, and he is the type who shoots realistic themes.
His work "Wild Child" also participated in this film festival, which tells the story of the growth issues of left-behind children.
He is regarded as a seeded player in this competition.
He spent his entire undergraduate studies honing his skills and improving himself on the set, and this was his first time on set.
Both he and Coach Guo attach great importance to this competition.
So the first thing he wanted to do was to see his competitors in this competition.
After scanning through it, I found basically no unexpected topics. My junior brother Hao Lei from Shanghai Arts Institute also shot a youth film.
Artistically, his side currently looks to have more depth.
"Huh? A thriller?"
"Is there anyone still shooting a thriller or suspense film at this kind of film festival?"
It's no wonder he was surprised. Thrillers are a niche series in Daxia. They are usually about ghosts and murders, with a little bit of sex and sex to stimulate the audience. They make money by stepping on the gray area and are not worthy of being seen in the mainstream.
They are usually broadcast on websites or in old movie theaters and video halls. Who can still use them to participate in the competition?
"Buried Alive? Directors: Rocky and Zhang Wen, screenwriter: Rocky?"
"? Zhang Wen from Beijing Art Institute?"
"'Wulin Wai Zhuan'? The director of 'I Photograph Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City' is here too?"
"I'm afraid it's not that simple. Let's take a look at this first!"
After saying that, he found the screening schedule for "Buried Alive", and the first show was about to start.
When you arrive at the exhibition hall, there is a large poster of "Buried Alive" at the door.
The poster shows a man buried in a coffin, deep underground.
His profile was blurry, but the feeling of despair and suffocation was conveyed.
Chi Yizhi picked a good seat and sat down.
"Buried alive? Is it really that simple to just bury him underground?"
I can't figure out what kind of story this is.
He turned around and looked around. There were only seven or eight people in the hall.
Some people also complained that there were no seats available for Hao Lei's youth film "Miss You", so they could only watch "Buried Alive".
The movie started soon.
There was no preparation at the beginning, just the sound of a man's nervous and rapid breathing coming from the darkness.
Hearing the sound, the attention of several people who were still talking in the audience was drawn over.
The male protagonist woke up from his coma and found that it was pitch black around him and he was trapped in a coffin.
“!!!”
"Damn! Buried alive really is buried alive!"
"This is...Teacher Zhang Xuejun?"
"Oh wow, these are great resources!"
The people in the audience began to pay attention.
"Interesting, isn't it? It's not the traditional Daxia horror..."
"But...how can we film this subject? Can it last 90 minutes?"
Chi Yizhi's interest was completely piqued, but he couldn't help but feel worried because he had never seen such a novel approach before, and it was completely inconsistent with the topics he could think of in his daily life.
As the plot progresses, the male protagonist discovers that there is only a pen and a lighter in the coffin.
At the beginning, the hero seemed to have a chance to escape, and there were limited things in the coffin, so he kept trying in the face of adversity.
At first, the male protagonist relied on the nails on the wooden board to finally open the ropes that bound his hands.
He planned to use brute force to open the coffin, but found the space too small to use his strength, and his physical strength was almost exhausted.
Just when he was in despair, he heard a noise under his feet and the kidnapper seemed to have left him a mobile phone.
“There’s a cell phone!”
Chi Yizhi seemed relieved for the male protagonist.
Looking at the audience, everyone was staring at the screen with great interest, and the two students at the back didn't even eat their popcorn.
"Monologues also have this appeal!"
The male protagonist went to great lengths to get the phone.
He called 911 directly and told the police that he was a truck driver on the overseas battlefield and had been attacked. When he woke up, he found himself in a coffin.
However, the operator told him that the call showed that he was in the country.
When no one answered his wife's call, he called the FBI, but this call made him feel desperate again.
Just when he was about to ask the other party to use GPS to locate his position, the phone lost signal.
"grass!"
"Oh my god! I'm so anxious!"
Many people at the scene were worried about the male lead.
He began making numerous calls to try to save himself: the overseas hostage rescue team, the kidnappers, and his wife.
At the same time, he discovered through mobile phone video that the kidnappers had executed his colleague for ransom.
He felt scared and desperate, and had no choice but to take a video at the other party's request.
The overseas hostage group was forced to say they would try their best to rescue him.
However, the phone was almost out of battery.
Zhang Xuejun perfectly portrayed the male protagonist's various emotional changes such as nervousness, fear, and anger.
"A one-man show, filmed to this extent!"
The movie is coming to an end, and Zhang Xuejun's performance is truly amazing.
The moviegoers did not leave at all, and some even came back to continue watching.
The hero becomes increasingly desperate and prepares to face death.
At this moment, sand in the coffin began to leak out.
On the other end of the phone, the hostage rescue team said that they had captured a kidnapper and they would find him in three minutes.
The hero pinned his hopes on the last phone call.
The wooden boards and sand gradually pressed down, and he began to roar in despair.
"Hurry, hurry! Are you there yet?"
He had heard the sound of the coffin being dug up over the phone.
As if seeing hope, he was still crying for help.
"Push harder, we're there!"
"Hurry up, this place is almost full!"
"Hold on, we're right here on top of you!"
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