Chapter 16 The screenwriter is the mother, the director is the father
For a work, the screenwriter is the mother. It is she who creates the script. If there is no script, then the work will no longer exist.
The director is the father, he and the screenwriter work together to create the work.
The screenwriter and director are husband and wife.
It takes a hundred years to be able to share the same bed and a thousand years to sleep on the same pillow. This proves that good couples are hard to find, and the same is true for screenwriters and directors.
Just think about the TV series "Soldier Assault" that made all the cast members on Earth become popular. The collaboration between director Kang Honglei and screenwriter Lan Xiaolong was seamless. The later collaboration between the two, "My Captain, My Regiment", was also a classic.
As for the works shot after the two stopped working together, they were never as sensational as this.
Every director has a different style, so the same script will naturally turn out differently when shot by different directors.
After a few days of filming, Yu Xiaoshu had an understanding of Sun Hei's directing style.
Love details.
And this attention to detail is everywhere.
For example, when a new scene is set up, he has to take a look through the viewfinder, and he needs to make sure he is happy with the beginning and ending framing of the shot.
Sun Hei also pays great attention to some key compositions.
Because of this carefulness and seriousness, the filming of "I Am Yu Huanshui" progressed a bit slowly.
Sun Hei has to shoot one day's scene for three to four days.
As a producer, Xia Qing certainly has strong opinions about this.
The two even slammed the table during the meeting.
"As a director, you have to separate your personal life from your work. You can be a nice guy in your personal life, but sometimes you have to be a tyrant on the set."
Yu Xiaoshu would record it in his diary every time.
As an agent in his previous life, he had naturally seen too many tyrants on the set, but he and the director would never become friends because he needed to protect his artists, so he and the director would definitely be enemies.
He needs to communicate with the director about the role requirements, schedule requirements, lines requirements, etc.
Sometimes, in order to protect his artists, he even needs to play the bad guy, and then go back to the wrap party to apologize to the director and offer some benefits.
But now it's different.
He is the screenwriter, and Sun Hei asks for his opinion on everything.
After each day of filming, Sun Hei would keep the screenwriter, producer, lighting technician, photographer, script supervisor and other staff to watch the sample film together.
Today, although Sun Hei and Xia Qing had a quarrel on the set, they still continued to watch the daily sample films together.
Today's shoot is still about office scenes.
There are roughly several orders for shooting film and television dramas. The first is to arrange the shooting order according to the scene, and the second is to arrange the shooting order according to the script.
Most people generally choose the first one.
The filming of "I Am Yu Huanshui" was like this. The office scenes were shot in the first three episodes, and then some other scenes in the hospital and Yu Huanshui's home were shot.
"Okay, everyone, take a look at the sample first, and then express your opinions."
Sun Hei said as he started playing today's episode.
Today's protagonists are Wu Antong and Liang Annie.
The first scenes to be filmed were those of Wu Antong.
In the original novel of "I Am Yu Huanshui", Wu Antong had cancer. Because the blood samples of two people were labeled oppositely when they had the blood test, Yu Huanshui got Wu Antong's physical examination results.
The adaptation made Wu Antong and Yu Huanshui into master and apprentice, and Wu Antong humiliated Yu Huanshui at the same time.
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"You have been doing pretty well lately."
"No, my performance was bad that month? No, just tell me what you have to say."
"You are so busy, and your performance has reached the target. If you have any unfinished work, give it to me, and go drink with your girlfriend and have some fun."
"Are you asking me for performance?"
"Why do you say that?"
"No, Lao Yu, you've gone too far. You're my master, and I've given you so much credit before. You have to show your worth sometimes, and I can't support you forever."
Wu Antong gently patted Yu Huanshui's shoulder, then turned around and prepared to leave. Halfway through, he suddenly turned back and said, "Master, this guy, it's okay if he hurts his legs, but don't hurt his brain."
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This scene is still very good.
The actor who plays Wu Antong is called Qin Cheng, who is actually Yu Xiaoshu's senior. He graduated from the Imperial Capital Film and Television Academy and has been basically idle in the past two years.
This made his figure a little out of shape.
It can be used to play Wu Antong just right.
Compared to Qin Cheng, the actor Ying Zhao who plays Liang Annie is a little worse, and he is obviously inferior to the veteran actor.
After watching the sample film, Sun Hei asked, "What do you think?"
"Over the past few days, Ying Zhao's acting skills seem to be a little worse."
The assistant director frowned and said, "How should I put it? It's just a little stiff and unnatural, especially when acting with other people, her shortcomings are fully displayed."
The others all nodded slightly.
After listening to everyone's opinions, Sun Hei said, "Yes, I thought the same thing. In this case, while we haven't filmed the subsequent scenes yet, let's remove Ying Zhao and replace him with a backup actor."
"Director Sun..."
Xia Qing got anxious when she heard this: "We have already been shooting for 5 days, and we have only shot one-tenth of the progress. If we replace Ying Zhao, it will be almost like starting all over again. Do you think it is still in time?"
"It's too late to change it."
Sun Hei said to Xia Qing seriously: "Old Xia, I understand what you mean. I also want to save money for the company, but you know we can't fail in this play."
"this…"
Xia Qing hesitated for a moment but still said, "The others, please go out first."
At this time, the assistant director, lighting technician, sound engineer, script supervisor and others all stood up and left, and Yu Xiaoshu was also ready to pick up the script and leave.
"Xiaoshu, you stay."
Xia Qing couldn't help but shout when she saw Yu Xiaoshu was about to leave.
In the blink of an eye, there were only three people left in the room.
"The web series I Am Yu Huanshui is of great significance to us, and we cannot afford to lose it. But Lao Sun, if you continue with your current filming schedule and your attitude of striving for perfection, I'm afraid our web series will be stopped by the company, because we said it was a low-budget series before, but now it's overspending every day."
Xia Qing said to Sun Hei, "That's fine, as long as the first three episodes of I Am Yu Huanshui are well shot. But now you want to cut out all of Ying Zhao's scenes and reshoot them. That's absolutely not okay."
Sun Hei shook his head and said, "Why not? Old Xia, you are too stubborn. Our last web series failed because we didn't strive for perfection in the first three episodes. I will never make the same mistake this time."
Xia Qing: "Absolutely not. Even if you ask Mr. Wu about this, he won't agree."
The two started arguing again at this time.
But no one can convince anyone else.
"Okay, let's stop arguing. Xiaoshu, you speak."
Sun Hei looked at Yu Xiaoshu: "You are the screenwriter, so you must know the role of Liang Annie."
Yu Xiaoshu nodded gently: "Yes, the role of Liang Annie is also very important, and she is the glue of the plot."
"Right, this character is sexy, but not just sexy."
Sun Hei clapped his hands and said, "Old Xia, even Xiao Shu has said so, what else do you have to say?"
Xia Qing looked at Yu Xiaoshu: "Xiaoshu, do you really want to change Ying Zhao?"
"Director Sun, Teacher Xia, I have said before that the soul of "I Am Yu Huanshui" is Yu Huanshui. As long as this character can stand out, then the success is almost certain. However, the success of a drama requires the supporting roles to be equally outstanding."
Yu Xiaoshu smiled and said, "Zhao Juemin, Wei Guangjun, Wu Antong, Lu Fumeng, Gan Hong and even Gan Hong's family are all veteran actors. There is nothing wrong with their acting skills. The role of Liang Annie actually requires sexiness the most. As long as the acting skills don't lag behind..."
A truly excellent director must have the Midas touch to turn everything into gold.
An actor may not understand acting, but a director can train him or her to do so.
Think about it, the same actor has explosive acting skills in the works of big directors, but becomes an expressionless man in the works of some directors.
Think about the national masters on Earth. Even young and handsome guys can be trained properly, not to mention newcomers. They can turn stones into gold.
This is also Yu Xiaoshu's judgment about Sun Hei.
Sun Hei's strength is his attention to detail, but he also has many shortcomings, and his shortcomings are even greater when it comes to training actors.
Let me put it this way, Sun Heixiu said that he still has a long way to go before he can become a famous director, or an excellent director.
Ying Zhao graduated from the Shanghai Theatre Academy. Her acting skills are good enough, but because Ying Zhao hasn't had many opportunities in recent years and she doesn't want to rely on selling her breasts to gain fame, her acting career has not been smooth.
Acting skills need to be honed.
This Ying Zhao was naturally a little bit short of the mark.
However, Yu Xiaoshu feels that Ying Zhao's performance in "I Am Yu Huanshui" is acceptable. More importantly, Ying Zhao's sexiness seems to be innate and unique. She is a perfect fit to play Liang Annie.
Beauty.
This was the first word that flashed into Yu Xiaoshu’s mind when he saw Ying Zhao.
For this reason, he felt there was no need to replace Ying Zhao.
But Yu Xiaoshu would not say this too bluntly. After all, Sun Hei was the director and the boss of the crew. As the screenwriter, Yu Xiaoshu only had the right to make suggestions, and he could not take the lead.
Talented people are stubborn.
Especially directors like Sun Hei, they don’t trust others, they only trust themselves.
Sun Hei's last web drama flopped, and he stubbornly believed that it was because his rhythm was wrong and he did not strive for perfection. However, Yu Xiaoshu watched Sun Hei's last web drama these days, and found that the reason for the failure was not this.
Of course, Yu Xiaoshu won’t say these for the time being.
He has been careful with his words and actions these past few days. He would never say a word unless Sun Hei asked for his opinion. When Xia Qing didn't need him, he would disappear.
In fact, at the beginning, the crew were a little curious and expectant about Yu Xiaoshu. After all, Yu Xiaoshu was once a platinum screenwriter, and he had recently had a big fight with Ding Xiaoman.
In the end, who could have expected that Yu Xiaoshu would be so quiet on the set.
Apart from holding a small notebook, he was silent during meetings and was equally unspeakably quiet during filming.
Even Sun Hei and Xia Qing began to ignore Yu Xiaoshu.
Today, Xia Qing kept Yu Xiaoshu just because he thought that Yu Xiaoshu was the screenwriter after all, and he didn't think about what Yu Xiaoshu could say.
But now.
It's really shocking.
The same is true for Xia Qing and Sun Hei.
Yu Xiaoshu explained the advantages and disadvantages of the role of Liang Annie. The role required a sexiness and acting skills ratio of 7 to 3. At the same time, he explained the particularity of this character to Sun Hei and Xia Qing.
Some women don't need acting skills, they just need to show off their stunning figure.
Ying Zhao is not on this list, but in "I Am Yu Huanshui" her figure is another layer of support for her acting skills.
"become."
Sun Hei hesitated for a moment and said, "Then don't change it."
"Xiao Shu, if you have such an idea, you should have said it earlier."
Xia Qing let out a long sigh, and then he complained to Yu Xiaoshu: "If you have any opinions in the future, just speak up."
Sun Hei also said: "That's right, Xiaoshu, I said that we are all in the same boat, so there are some things we don't need to worry about."
Yu Xiaoshu laughed: "I just thought of it just now."
Are you kidding?
Sometimes, just being polite will do.
Don't take it seriously.
After finishing the business, Sun Hei and Xia Qing took Yu Xiaoshu to have dinner together, and during the meal they talked about tomorrow's filming scenes again.
Tomorrow, we will shoot the group scenes at KTV and Gan Hong’s home.
"Xiaoshu, go to bed early tonight."
Sun Hei gently patted Yu Xiaoshu on the shoulder and said, "Be more alert tomorrow."
Yu Xiaoshu also wants to go to bed early today.
but.
At 10 o'clock in the evening, the doorbell of his room rang.
"Teacher Yu, I want to go over the script with you."
Outside the door, a woman in pajamas holding a script spoke to Yu Xiaoshu in a slightly lazily tone.
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(End of this chapter)
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