Chapter 450 I remembered something happy
"Boss Meng, this is the connecting line of the Blue Island Bay Bridge. The main paving has been completed, but it will not be officially opened to traffic until next year. If our crew needs to shoot, this is the most convenient place."
Blue Island, a brand new bridge in the coastal bay area, the leader of the Blue Island Cultural Tourism Department is introducing the location of the shooting to Meng Bai, followed by seven or eight staff members and project leaders.
Looking around, Meng Bai nodded. Just as the cultural and tourism leader said just now, this empty bridge is indeed very suitable as the location of "The Beginning".
As one of the trilogy of the "Retrospective Series", "The Beginning" and "Twinkle, Twinkle Star" are both about stories about time travel.
Female college student Li Shiqing found in her dream that the bus she was riding exploded when it drove to the cross-river bridge. I thought it was just a dream, but I didn't expect to experience exactly the same thing after waking up. However, she did not die after the explosion, but returned to the time when she just got on the bus and started a new round of reincarnation.
Li Shiqing hoped to find the cause of the explosion again and again to save everyone on the bus, and accidentally brought another passenger, Xiao Heyun, into the cycle. In the cycle again and again, the two ordinary young people experienced life and death challenges, learned the stories behind the passengers on the bus, and finally found the truth of the explosion.
Because the explosion only occurred on the cross-river bridge every time, most of the climax of the whole story took place on the bridge, so it was natural to find a suitable shooting location.
The crew chose Jiangcheng from several places at the beginning. After all, Jiangcheng Yangtze River Bridge, as a landmark building, is as representative as the Golden Gate Bridge in Hollywood.
It's just that Jiangcheng has suddenly had an unknown flu recently, and it seems to be quite serious. In order to reduce trouble, Meng Bai asked the crew to change the location to Blue Island.
As a "five-star VVIP" customer enterprise of Blue Island Culture and Tourism, the leaders of the cultural and tourism department heard that Arc Light Film and Television was looking for a location for a new drama, and they took the distribution map of all the bridges in the city without hesitation, saying that they could pick any one they liked.
It just so happens that there is a branch road connecting the Blue Island Bay Bridge, which has just been built but has not yet been opened to traffic. It is perfect for filming.
"This place is indeed suitable for filming." Meng Baihe and the leader of the cultural and tourism department next to him smiled and said, "Sorry to bother Director Wang. It's almost the end of the year. I'm really sorry that you still take time out of your busy schedule to accompany us."
"Haha, Mr. Meng, you're going too far." Director Wang waved his hand and smiled, "For us, Mr. Meng is our own family in Blue Island. This family helps each other, and what's the trouble?"
He was really not polite. It's hard to say about other departments in Blue Island, but if the cultural and tourism department is asked to select the most popular companies, then Arc Light Film and Television will definitely be the first.
It is precisely because of Arc Light's annual hit dramas that many crews have been attracted to Blue Island to shoot, which in turn has led to more audiences to check in and travel here. Against the background of various public opinions on Blue Island in recent years, it is an extremely rare positive effect.
With good publicity and the economic benefits brought by the crew's filming, the cultural and tourism department of Landao naturally treated Arclight Films as a guest of honor.
For today's filming, it would have been enough to arrange a section chief to come. But when he heard that Meng Bai was coming, Director Wang, the top leader, immediately came to greet him in person.
After looking around, Meng Bai asked the staff of Arclight to coordinate the necessary preparations with the bridge project department, and then declined Director Wang's invitation for a dinner and took a car back to the city.
"Boss, where are we going next?" Hua Yan, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, turned around and asked.
"Let's go find Director Yan. It's just right to have lunch at noon and talk about the recording of the program group."
"Okay."
The car turned east, and high-rise buildings gradually appeared on both sides of the road, showing the prosperous scene of Landao, a new first-tier city. It
was the noon rush hour, and Meng Bai and his team drove for more than an hour before they arrived at their destination.
"Haha, President Meng, welcome, welcome."
As soon as he got off the car, Li Suo, who hadn't seen him for a long time, came over enthusiastically.
"Chief Li, I've been in trouble recently."
"No, our program team won't bother you and has helped you a lot. What's the trouble?"
Chief Li introduced with a smile. Originally, for a grassroots police station like theirs located in a busy city, the biggest work and difficulty is civil mediation. Many old hands, out of their own interests, know that the police station dare not do anything to them, and often choose to make trouble.
Now, as soon as they come in, seven or eight cameras are pointed at them, and they are also told that the follow-up will be posted online for the whole country to watch. Although ordinary citizens will use code and audio to avoid being recognized, it still has a considerable deterrent effect on those who know they are in the wrong.
These days, detention is only fifteen days, but social death is a lifetime.
The two entered the office and sat and chatted for a while, and then there was a knock on the door. Then, a middle-aged man with sparse hair walked in.
"Sorry, Mr. Meng, I was just sorting out the materials and was delayed for a while."
"It's okay, I just came to see you, business is more important." Meng Bai said, "Director Yan looks a lot older than the last time we met."
The man who entered the room was Yan Min, the chief director of the program "Guarding Blue Mountain Shanxi".
Hearing Meng Bai's words, he smiled with emotion: "It's not bad, mainly because our police station has more police incidents at night, so we stay up late more often."
"Is the material easy to choose?"
Yan Min shook his head.
Meng Bai raised his eyebrows: "Not enough?"
"Not too little, too much."
Before taking over this program, Yan Min always thought that the cases that the police station could receive should be ordinary fights and petty thefts, and the most worrying thing was that there would not be enough materials at that time.
What he didn't expect was that after the actual recording, he found that his worries were purely unnecessary.
During the day, everyone went to work, went to school, and those who didn't have a job were all sleeping, so the market was peaceful. But when it came to the evening, especially after drinking in the second half of the night, it was simply "a kind of star-studded crowd."
Yan Min cited a few recent cases -
a girl was dissatisfied with her boyfriend looking at a passing beauty while driving, so she called the police to report her boyfriend for drunk driving;
There was a case where the other party ran away with the money, so he resolutely reported himself in the spirit of "I would rather the money be fined by the state than be cheated by a swindler";
there was a young man who was robbed after falling asleep in a KTV, and the surveillance found that the thief was an uncle, who not only took his mobile phone and valuables, but also smelled his socks and shoes, and kissed him before leaving;
there was a girl who was taken back by the police station after getting drunk and fighting, she shouted "I am the boss of the entire Blue Island", and then looked at her boyfriend who came to pick her up and cried "I gave up the entire Blue Island for you"...
Yan Min looked at Meng Bai who pursed his lips tightly: "Mr. Meng, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, I just thought of some happy things." Meng Bai took a deep breath, "You continue."
"Oh, there are also people who watched the fun of drunk driving and ended up driving drunk themselves, people who set up honey traps but couldn't beat the other party and called the police for help, people who stole the hardcover Ultraman cards from the store and sold them to primary school students for profit..."
Yan Min shook his head and sighed: "There are new materials every day, and we can never use them up. We can never use them up at all."
Chief Li on the side said with a little embarrassment: "It's almost the end of the year, and many people haven't made much money all year round. They will start to have evil thoughts, so the crime rate is relatively high."
"It's okay, Chief Li, I can understand. Our police station is in charge of this, and it's normal to have more things to do... haha!"
Meng Bai pinched his eyebrows and suppressed his smile: "It shouldn't be just this kind of... interesting cases, right?"
Chief Li continued: "There are also some more serious and harmful cases, but many involve the privacy of the victims or are more vicious. We are still discussing internally whether they are suitable to be reported as program content."
Meng Bai nodded, and instructed Yan Min: "This is indeed something we need to pay attention to. It is mainly to confirm with the parties involved to avoid causing secondary harm to others or disputes later."
"Don't worry, Mr. Meng, when we record this kind of case material, we will talk to the other party in advance."
Yan Min is also a veteran variety show host, so he naturally knows what the program crew should pay attention to.
"Also, the eliminated materials will be kept and can be used as the source for film and television adaptations."
"Why, Mr. Meng is planning to make a TV series later?" Li Suo asked curiously.
"It's hard to say now." Meng Bai said: "Let's wait and see the response after the show is broadcast. If the audience is interested in such grassroots things, then we can continue to prepare the film and television scripts."
"That's great, we'll wait and see."
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After having lunch together at noon, Meng Bai, Li Suo and Yan Min said goodbye and left. After driving for more than ten minutes, they stopped in front of a wedding dress shop with green plants on the door wall.
"Old Wang!"
As soon as Meng Bai got off the car, he saw Wang Wei and others waiting at the door.
"I thought you guys would come over at noon."
"I went to see the program group of Director Yan Min next door, and had a meal together."
Meng Bai walked over and looked up at the sign of the bridal shop: "Why is this scene being filmed so late?"
"We had originally arranged to shoot at a shop, but it leaked and couldn't be used. Plus we had to grab time at the lighthouse, so it has been delayed until now."
As the next key project of Arclight Films, the "Retrospection Series" trilogy all uses top-level configurations.
Meng Bai personally served as producer and screenwriter, and the directors of the three projects were Wu Bai, Wang Wei and Yang Lei, who had previously collaborated with "Peace Hotel".
Among them, Wang Wei is in charge of "Twinkle Twinkle Star" which is currently being filmed. This drama is also about "traveling back in time", but it is not the same as the reincarnation of "The Beginning".
The heroine Lin Beixing is a "older girl" in her thirties. She has a boyfriend she has liked since high school and is preparing to get married recently. As the date approaches, she is suddenly broken up unilaterally by her fiancé, and the other party also cheats on her.
Sad Lin Beixing took her old mobile phone to recall the past, accidentally deleted a message, and unexpectedly returned to high school ten years ago. But she only stayed there for a short time and returned to the present.
Faced with a strange fate, Lin Beixing turned grief and anger into motivation, carefully recited the answers to the college entrance examination of that year, and prepared to live a new life. However, she discovered in many times of crossing that her crossing was related to a boy named Zhang Wansen in the same class, and the other party died in an accident after the college entrance examination.
In order to find the truth of the year, and to save Zhang Wansen, who had secretly loved and silently helped her for many years, Lin Beixing went back to the past again and again, hoping to change the destined cause and effect.
According to the plot, Lin Beixing's brother owed a loan shark and ran away, and the gangsters who were chasing debts wanted to kidnap Lin Beixing and force him out. Zhang Wansen silently helped Lin Beixing block the gangsters, but he slipped and fell from the lighthouse on the seaside during the chase and was buried in the sea.
This is the climax of the whole story. It just so happens that the pier lighthouse of Blue Island is also a famous tourist attraction, which is perfect as a filming location.
However, since it is a tourist attraction, the time available for the crew to shoot is limited. Once the date is set in advance, it is difficult to change it.
In comparison, although the scene in the bridal shop was in the plot of the previous episodes, there were no requirements for the venue. So in order to grab the filming time for the lighthouse, they have waited until now to shoot.
"Have you started shooting?"
"Not yet, Xiao Meng and the others are changing into wedding dresses."
"Them?" Meng Bai was stunned, "Isn't this scene about the heroine and her mother?"
This plot is that after the heroine Lin Beixing broke up, she was dragged by her mother to try on wedding dresses before she told her family. As a result, she finally couldn't help but break down and say that the wedding was cancelled.
According to the script, this scene should only have two people, Meng Ziyi and the actor who plays her mother, plus at most two extras and shop assistants.
"Xiao Meng has a friend visiting the set, so she happened to be asked to guest-star as a bestie."
"Her friend?" Meng Bai's mind moved, "Is it Yang Chaoyue?"
"Hey, it really is." Wang Wei said with a smile: "It would be a waste if we don't take advantage of this traffic that comes to our door."
As the most popular female idol in the past two years, Yang Chaoyue's popularity is unquestionable. Anyway, it's just a guest role with one or two appearances, with only one line in total, and there is no demand for acting skills, so Wang Wei naturally won't miss this opportunity.
The two went up to the second floor, and they could vaguely hear the voices inside through the heavy curtain. It was obvious that Meng Ziyi and the others were changing their wedding dresses inside.
"How long will it take?"
"It should be soon." Wang Wei said: "They started changing when you sent me a message. It's been so long, they should be changed."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of the door opening inside, and the noisy female voice suddenly became louder.
The next second, the heavy and closed curtain was pulled open, and the afternoon sun shone through the window, making the whole room bright.
Meng Bai squinted his eyes, adjusted to the light, and looked up.
He saw Meng Ziyi, wearing a snow-white wedding dress, standing in the sun and walking towards him.
(End of this chapter)
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