Chapter 9 Chapter 9 The God of Editing
The audition for "Mistaken Identity" has been confirmed to be passed, and there are still some necessary procedures to go through before the formal signing of the contract, including negotiating the split of the film remuneration, determining the content of the publicity and promotion activities that need to be completed in cooperation, and understanding the crew's confidentiality agreement, etc.
These will be discussed by the agent, and during the discussion, Liu Xiaodong further understood Director Zhao Qing's shooting habits.
Simply put, the shooting period of "Mistaken Identity" will definitely not be short, and Yin Yan may have to spend more than half a year on a movie with a niche theme.
Liu Xiaodong actually had some hesitations. Even if the director was Zhao Qing, there was no way he could guarantee that every one of his films would make someone famous.
The last person Zhao Qing made famous was Yu Xiangwen. Yu Xiangwen, who had been a child star for several years, became the youngest film emperor in the country, marking a complete transformation.
But the subject matter of Yin Yan's play is different from that of Yu Xiangwen's, so Liu Xiaodong doesn't dare to hope for the best actor award. He only hopes that Yin Yan can use this to move into the second-tier.
Even though Yin Yan was already very popular last summer, giving people the illusion that he was only a second-tier star, anyone in the circle knew how fast the industry was updating and iterating.
Being popular during the summer vacation doesn’t mean you can stay firmly in the second tier. If you make the wrong choice, you may not even be able to rank in the third tier when the popularity passes.
Compared with Liu Xiaodong's anxiety, Yin Yan's mentality is much more relaxed.
Rather than whether he could achieve success overnight, he was more curious about who the other male lead in "Mistaken Identity" was.
"The crew said they haven't decided yet." Liu Xiaodong said, "It may also be because of the confidentiality agreement. We have to wait until we officially sign the contract to know the exact news. I heard that in order to make the film appear as fresh as possible when it is released, Director Zhao did not do any external publicity during the entire filming period."
“…Oh, so that’s it.” Yin Yan was a little distracted.
"But I also made a rough guess. Your current strength is not enough to carry the box office. To ensure that the movie does not lose money, the other male lead will most likely be an old actor with relatively stable traffic. Considering that he will play a supporting role for you, the other party should not be very famous, otherwise it would be a lowering of his status." Liu Xiaodong usually thinks about problems from the perspective of interests, and there is nothing wrong with thinking this way.
Yin Yan did have his own guesses about the casting of the other male lead, but he didn't want to mention Yu Xiangwen at this time.
After all, no one had ever admitted whether Yu Xiangwen was the leading actor from the beginning to the end. He was afraid that Yu Xiangwen would not be the one to play He Xiandu in the end, which would disappoint Liu Xiaodong.
Rather than being disappointed afterwards, it’s better to lower your expectations first. You might even get a pleasant surprise.
After Liu Xiaodong discussed with Yin Yan for an entire afternoon, he gritted his teeth and cleared Yin Yan's schedule so that he could devote himself to the film directed by Zhao Qing.
After all, among the famous directors currently, only Zhao Qing's plays would use a new actor with no background as the protagonist. This is an adventure, but also an opportunity.
It depends on whether Yin Yan has the ability and luck to seize this opportunity.
Liu Xiaodong continued to confirm the details of the contract with the crew, while Yin Yan was arranged to return to the company to take classes, mainly acting, body shape, and lines.
Yin Yan successfully graduated from university last June. He did not major in acting in undergraduate studies, nor did he go to an art college. Instead, he studied Chinese language and literature at a normal university.
According to the route his family had originally set for him, Yin Yan should have taken the teaching qualification exam in college, graduated and worked as a glorious people's teacher in primary and secondary schools, and then taken the teacher qualification exam to get a permanent position. With two short holidays every year, wouldn't life be wonderful?
But Yin Yan knew that this was not the case. Every walk of life has its own hardships. Besides, he was not interested in this and did not want the kind of stable life where he could foresee the end of it.
During that time, Yin Yan was confused about his future. Very confused. He once thought that this would be his life, destined to do a job that he didn't like but that his family would be relieved of.
Then he saw Yu Xiangwen, a person who could devote himself completely to film creation.
Yin Yan saw in Yu Xiangwen his genuine love for his career.
“The pronunciation and rhythm of your lines are very good, but you need to pay more attention to your breathing. When you get emotional during performance, your breathing will easily become disordered, which will affect the accurate expression of your emotions.” The lines teacher taught Yin Yan when he first entered the industry. He has watched him grow from a complete amateur to a well-known and talented young actor step by step. He feels proud of him and very pleased.
"Xiaoyan, you have a talent for acting. Don't worry about some minor problems. Act in more dramas. The environment on the set is the best for honing people. You must feel and understand more, and you will be able to practice slowly. Keep it up."
"Thank you, teacher. I will try my best." After saying goodbye to the teacher, Yin Yan finished all his classes for the day.
Liu Xiaodong was waiting for him at the door and wanted to take him to sign the contract.
"Guess who the other male lead you're working with is?" Liu Xiaodong couldn't help but asked mysteriously as he got in the car.
Yin Yan: “…I can’t guess.”
"It's Yu Xiangwen!!" Liu Xiaodong was obviously very excited, his eyes were shining, "I even suspected that Director Yang was lying to me. Yu Xiangwen, if it's true, we will make a lot of money!!"
Yin Yan had been prepared for this, but now that he was sure that he could work with Yu Xiangwen, his heartbeat still quietly quickened.
"Why aren't you excited at all?" Liu Xiaodong had just been waiting for Yin Yan at the door. When he heard the news, he wanted to go out for a run or two to cool down.
On the other hand, Yin Yan didn't show any surprise at all when he heard Yu Xiangwen's name.
Yin Yan raised the corner of his mouth and said dryly: "I'm so happy that I don't know what to say, yeah."
Liu Xiaodong: “…”
Liu Xiaodong: “There’s something wrong with you.”
But Liu Xiaodong didn't have time to figure out why Yin Yan was so calm.
His mind began to picture the scene of Yin Yan rushing into the front line in one breath and walking the red carpet with Yu Xiangwen. By then, the flash lights would surely be as bright as daylight.
All right.
The first line is a bit far-fetched.
But with the combination of Zhao Qing and Yu Xiangwen, Yin Yan can be a pig and stay in the second line this time. (Liu Xiaodong: This does not mean that Yin Yan is a pig.)
…
The contract signing process went quite smoothly. Yin Yan took a quick look at the terms and signed his name after finding no problem. He added the director's assistant on WeChat and got the script, so the matter was settled.
The Spring Festival is less than half a month away, and the crew has not yet determined the specific start time of filming. After the Spring Festival, the main creative team should be organized to meet and get to know each other.
The assistant said that a group would be set up in a few days and everyone would be invited to join. Yin Yan could read the script during this time.
Yin Yan, who had been quite calm the whole day, returned to his nest and gradually could not contain his excitement.
After he entered the room and changed his shoes, he stood there for a while. Suddenly, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he jumped up and down, turning into a monkey, dancing and hopping around the apartment for a long time before he ran out of energy and fell on the sofa.
Hugging the sad cat pillow beside him, Yin Yan looked at the ceiling and felt like he was dreaming.
I’m actually going to join Director Zhao’s crew!
Still the leading actor!
Still working with Yu Xiangwen!!
At this moment, Yin Yan felt that he was the happiest person in the world.
…
The crew’s small group didn’t make Yin Yan wait long. The group was set up before he finished reading the script for the first time.
The sunlight that fell into the room brought a little warmth. Yin Yan was lying on the lazy sofa. When he saw the new group appearing in the message list, he sat up straight and the script with many small labels fell off his body.
Yin Yan closed the script, took his phone and went to the sofa where there was no sunlight.
A row of avatars appeared on the bright mobile phone screen. Among them was a green mountain. The one with the first character "青" in the WeChat name should be Director Zhao Qing; the one with the avatar of a forest was assistant director Yang Jiashu; there were also a few others that Yin Yan recognized, some of whom he didn't. They should all be actors.
He stared at the two simple circle eyes and a yellow oval duck beak on the screen and fell into deep thought. Why did this picture look so familiar?
The avatar is a person with two eyes and a mouth on a white background. His WeChat name is Arlan.
Arlan is Yu Xiangwen's English name.
Yin Yan clicked on Yu Xiangwen's profile picture and frowned as he looked at the somewhat magical pattern. The white edges were gradually filled with lines and a name was about to emerge in his mind.
A banner above the screen popped up in Yin Yan's mind before he could think of it, interrupting his suddenly stuck train of thought.
"@Fu Nuan Si Yin Yu: Yu Xiangwen x Yin Yan | Delusion·When the dream wakes up"
Wow, it's my wife's update.
As expected, Mrs. Bao Nuan Si Yin Yu edited the video of him and Yu Xiangwen again this time.
Yin Yan's attention shifted from the avatar to his wife's latest clip, and he clicked on the push pop-up window faster than his brain.
The screen jumped to the video website, and the first scene that appeared on the screen made Yin Yan recognize which work it was a clip from.
"The Road to Choice" is Yu Xiangwen's famous work that won him various awards. It was also the last work he collaborated with director Zhao Qing.
…
Sparkling golden light leaped onto the surface of the sea. A young man was sitting on a small boat at the harbor. His long slanting shadow left a lonely trail on the boat.
The young man gazed at the distant sun, and even though he couldn't open his eyes because of the bright sunlight, he tried hard to see it.
Look at that round sun that breaks out of the sea and hangs high in the sky.
「Episode 1: Delusion」
The two words in the center of the screen set the tone for this video.
The young man who dropped out of school early to go fishing to support his family stepped into the university campus for the first time. He was there to look for someone and even changed into a new T-shirt for this purpose, but he still couldn't block the fishy smell on his body, nor could he open his timid shoulders.
On the busy main street of the university at the beginning of the school year, he was the only big guy standing there, looking out of place.
"Senior? Can I ask how to get to the South Campus dormitory?"
The young man turned his head and couldn't see his friend. Only a boy with a suitcase was looking at him and smiling.
Those were a pair of bright and clear eyes, more dazzling and warm than the pearls he pried out of the shells.
For the first time, the young man had some inappropriate thoughts in his mind.
Episode 2: Desire
The young man followed the boy's words and admitted his identity as a senior.
After that, he would come to school whenever he had time, borrow his friend's campus card, go to the cafeteria with the boys, go to the library with them, and go to class with them...
He took him to the harbor to see the rising sun rising out of the water.
But lies will be exposed one day.
The questioning and arguments on the rainy night completely washed away all traces of the daily interactions on campus.
Those are lies that shouldn't exist.
The young man was just a fisherman who had dropped out of high school, and the boy was the apple of his eye whom he could not keep.
「Episode 3: Waking Up」
The young man would still come to school, and every time thereafter, he was just a peeper standing in the shadows.
He watched the boy eat with other people, study with others, and spend four vibrant years in college together.
He could only stand on the sea with the moonlight hanging low, quietly looking at the blurry moon in the water.
On the day the boy graduated, the young man also went.
He held a beautifully wrapped bouquet of flowers and watched the boys in bachelor's gowns jump onto others' backs with a smile.
Amid the laughter, the boy turned around as if he had sensed something, only to see a familiar figure disappearing in the crowd.
The scene turns to an orange-red sunset.
The young man was running desperately.
Run into his sunset.
…
This is a video with a completely different style from the one on "How to Cultivate Cuscuta".
Even until the progress bar reached the end, Yin Yan was still a little dazed.
He clicked on it too quickly, and there were only a few comments while he was watching. At this time, the video automatically looped and reloaded. The comments filled the screen one after another, pulling Yin Yan back to his senses.
"Here I come!"
"My wife is very productive"
"It's Yu Xiangwen and Yin Yan again. Madam likes them so much."
"Take it first as a sign of respect"
"It's over. I think I'm a little overwhelmed."
"It's Wu Xiaobai! I love this movie the most!"
…
This time, the video does not have any high-energy clips. The whole video is in a light style. The soundtrack is the same as before, nice and very suitable for the editing content. Yin Yan did not press pause again, and went to the comment area while listening to the music.
In such a short time, some people have already finished watching the show and are discussing the plot in the comment section.
"Ma'am, you're so good at editing! And the editing this time is also very consistent with the character setting. It's as if Wu Xiaobai, who longs to go to college, really meets the lively Xia Yu in school. Even if he has to rely on lies, he still wants to get closer to the bright sun."
"They actually used black technology to let Xia Yu and Xiao Bai watch the sunrise together! What a strong technical ability!! But why is it be again... No wow, I want to see a sweet he (/crying)"
"Xiao Bai was miserable enough in "The Road to Choice", why was he abandoned in the dating video too? Xia Yu in the youthful and energetic video also became sad."
"They really have a CP feeling. Last time I thought it was because the car was going too fast that I put on a CP filter. How come they are so well matched this time?"
"I have to say that Zhao Qing really made Yu Xiangwen look good in "The Road of Choice". Many scenes are life shots. Who else can capture the loneliness and vitality of Yu Xiangwen in his early twenties in such a clean and pure way?"
Yin Yan liked the last comment, went back to the homepage and clicked three times with one click, then switched to Weibo and used a small account to repost, like and comment on the post.
@金煜良言: My wife is the god of editing (/tears) //@饱暖思尹虞: Being close to you is a delusion in my heart. If this is a dream, I hope I will never wake up from it. (Video link)
Just as Yin Yan finished sending the message, a private message popped up.
[Bao Nuan Si Yin Yu]: Will your wife write a spin-off article this time?
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