my crew is not human

Chapter 120 Superhero Preparations
The shooting time of the decisive battle in Sky City was two and a half months, but Li Xianyun would not give Yang Yuan so much time.

After confirming that there is not much to learn from this broken crew, Li Xianyun handed over the remaining ghosts to Xuandong, and then went back to Jiangcheng to prepare the Chaoying script.

Because it is necessary to shoot fifteen books in one go, it is also a one-time production of fifteen books, and the amount of work is huge.

Chaoying's script preparation started at the beginning of the year, and there were many scripts needed, and the result was a large number of screenwriters gathered together.

More people means more trouble, and the result is extremely low efficiency.

You talk to me and argue endlessly.

Seventeen or eighteen solutions are given for just one infrastructure.

Although Li Xianyun divided them into several groups, it was useless.

When we first started meeting and discussing together, we didn't decide the infrastructure for three days.

Li Xianyun was still busy with the preparations for Doomsday Crazy Flower, so he didn't care much about it. When he looked back three days later, hey, the world background and frame didn't come out?

What do you eat?
But he also knew that it wasn't that there were no results, but that there were too many fucking results.

But after taking a look at these results, Li Xianyun was not satisfied with any of them.

All fucking crap.

Yes, in Li Xianyun's eyes, these things are fucking useless!
Of course, this is not to say that those screenwriters and directors are really incompetent, but in this area, they are really inferior to Li Xianyun.

Because what Li Xianyun is best at is making frames.He is not the best at writing online articles, but he is definitely the best at making outlines. A novel is 300 million words, and Li Xianyun can write [-] words even with a setting background and an outline.

And the vast majority of authors are actually not good at making frameworks.

Many people often think about where to write, and there is no overall plan. This is especially true for network authors, and screenwriters are much better.But the screenwriter's framework pays too much attention to the film and television structure and cannot escape.

This time it's the general frame of a fifteen-part series, and they're not good at that.

You can ask them to make a single film, if you want one to cover fifteen films, I will go for it, this has never been done!

Of course, a professional screenwriter can definitely do it. The problem is that Li Xianyun is not looking for a professional screenwriter.

And even a professional screenwriter would not find it easy to do this job.

On the contrary, web writers are good at it. After all, they write in lengths of millions of words—they are good at big, but not good at detail!

As for the director, let alone, it is often a drag.

The most typical one is Rong Dasheng.

In the original world, Li Xianyun and Rong Dasheng had a script collaboration.

That cooperation was invested by Rong Dasheng and the photographer named Geng Biao, so the two of them decided the whole process and asked Li Xianyun to help write a notebook.

Li Xianyun, Rong Dasheng and Geng Biao were responsible for the script production process.

The entire script production process was so painful that Li Xianyun once doubted his life, and even didn't want to discuss the script with anyone anymore.

There is a paragraph in that book that goes like this.

The male protagonist, Xiao Fei, owed a sum of money to Brother B, a gangster boss, and happened to meet Brother B in the elevator.

So the following conversation took place.

Brother B (arrogant): Oops, isn’t this Xiaofei? What’s the matter?Did you pretend you didn't see it?

Xiaofei (helpless): Hello, Brother B.

Brother B (fierce): Stop talking nonsense, when will you pay back the 30 you owe me?

Xiaofei (complaining): Didn’t I only borrow you one hundred thousand?How did it become 30 in just three months?

Brother B lights up a big golden watch: Xiaofei!Take a look, what is this?Patek Philippe 5270P, 130 million, what does it mean?An inch of time is an inch of gold!How much time do you calculate these three months?

It is such a simple plot, its function is to explain the relationship between the hero and the villain, and at the same time show the greedy face of the villain, the last sentence is to use the robber logic to sublimate the effect.

Then Rong Dasheng thought about it and said: "I think the paragraph showing the gold watch should be the first sentence of the meeting. You see, after Brother B saw Xiao Fei, he showed the big gold watch when he came up and said, Xiao Fei , Do you think how much my watch is worth? The picture is better."

Li Xianyun was dumbfounded at the time.

Bright gold watch when you come up?Not even a foreshadowing?
Brother B lights up the big gold watch: Oh, isn’t this Xiao Fei? What do you think of my Patek Philippe 5270P?
Xiao Fei (helplessly): Very good.

Brother B (fierce): When will you pay back the 30 you owe me?
Xiaofei (complaining): Isn’t it 10 yuan?How come the interest of 20 is only borrowed for three months?
Brother B (pointing to the watch): 130 million, an inch of time is worth an inch of gold.

If you change it like this, the taste will be wrong!

But Rong Dasheng insisted on such a change, the reason is that the big gold watch is bright when it comes up, which has a good visual effect.

My visual effect, sister, have the audience never seen a gold watch or what?

But both Rong Dasheng and Geng Biao insisted on such a change. They kept saying that it was two to one, and they even called for the minority to obey the majority.

They are attracting investment, they are the leading party, and there are so many people... These days, people do things not by profession but by numbers.

Li Xianyun couldn't hold back the other party, so he had no choice but to agree.

Things like this happened many times throughout the script creation process, Li Xianyun backed down step by step, and the final turning point was: the investor withdrew the capital and stopped filming, everyone was busy, but fortunately, they got the advance payment, so it was not too wasteful Dry.

At that time, Li Xianyun's first reaction was to breathe a sigh of relief: I finally don't have to hand over such a rubbish script under the guidance of two laymen.

But it would be wrong to say that Rong Dasheng is a substandard director.

Rong Dasheng is just not good at scripts, but he still has two talents in lens language, photography technology and post-editing.He just didn't know how weak his script ability was, and his wrong perception made it impossible for him to make use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses.

For this reason, he even invented a set of anchor point theory: the production of scripts should be anchored to a few points like rivets and cannot be moved!

The big gold watch is his anchor, and the whole plot revolves around this anchor!

Also so fucked up.

A Patek Philippe 5270P lens is the core selling point of the movie!

How ignorant are the audience?
Are you targeting the mentally handicapped children?

In the original world, it took Li Xianyun two full years to let Rong Dasheng realize the fact that his scripting ability was insufficient, and he improved significantly later.But now... I'm sorry, I don't have the time to give you advice.

What's more, there are still many directors who support his idea!

This caused Li Xianyun a lot of headaches. He didn't understand why it happened. It wasn't until he came into contact with more directors that he finally realized it.

The reason why they support this thing is actually one reason:
They don't know how to frame at all! ! !

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How good can a person find reasons for himself?
It's weaving theory!

Rong Dasheng has "anchor point theory", Yang Yuan has "multi-flying is beneficial to control artists", Dou Lingling has her "trouble is profit theory", Xuandong has "a boss with a black conscience is a good boss", even That Sati also kept saying "I'm eating with you to save face", which made her artist look like a big name.

In the future, more people will come up with more god theories.

It doesn't matter if I don't know how to make a framework, I can invent the anchor point theory, and then just mess around with confidence.

And examples like this abound.

Even those big directors can't get rid of this situation, often trying their best for a shot.

In fact, didn't Li Xianyun and the others also appear in them?
Just for the sake of a surround shot, he made a piaopiao ah piaolai, which finally led Dong Zixin to discover the truth.

The pursuit of art is a kind of persistence, it can fulfill you, but also destroy you.

Because there is no set of mechanisms to judge the boundaries and good or bad of this attachment.

Everyone has their own best in mind.

Even Marvel is actually like this-they don't set all the style direction framework content at the beginning, but step by step according to the development of the movie.

This is because Marvel doesn't know which content is more popular. The so-called funny style is also gradually established in the popularity.

But Li Xianyun doesn't need this.

This is the Internet University, and the sum of fifteen movies is not as good as the investment of a Marvel movie.

The filming was completed at one time, which can be regarded as a [-]-level set, which is unprecedented. Some people even joked that this is not a movie, but a fucking TV series.

For those high-quality TV dramas that cost a lot of money, the investment can reach 1000 million an episode.

But in any case, in this shooting method, it is necessary to unify all content and styles in advance, and will not make adjustments due to market trends.

So after three days, the series of movies couldn't even come out with a frame direction.

Seeing this situation, Li Xianyun knew that he could not wait for them to discuss, and had to decide the general direction by himself.

So that day he directly called everyone together, making it look like a meeting.

Li Xianyun stood in front of the stage with a loudspeaker, wrote to the blackboard, and shouted while writing:

"Set the direction first, in fact, it has already been set. Doomsday, super power, ghosts! The core elements are these three points."

Write it down.

Li Xianyun continued: "Lanyuan Group, as a brand owner, is equivalent to S.H.I.E.L.D., saving the world, and reviving the wasteland. There is nothing to change. The other core elements, one, are the culprits that lead to the end. Since there is an end, then There must be a source. Going back is the solution. This is the main line of the story. The two-hero team. Since there are fifteen movies, five core superheroes are set, and each of them is a trilogy. Three divisions, the entire wasteland The world is divided into five regions, each with its own characteristics, forming different forces, abilities, cultures, habits, and each region has a core superhero, plus some support."

"Five heroes need three men and two women, and find a group of people to be villains. We have a sponsor who doesn't mind being villains, as long as they publicize their products well, find some from their products, and be the culprits who destroyed the world in the first place. Key props. Find a few more to form a suit."

"Arrange another secret organization, named by a third sponsor. Their role is to thread the needle and create suspense, so that all unconnectable plots can be connected. It doesn't matter even if it contradicts itself, because large organizations can also have internal connections. Splitting, this gang, and that dismantling can form self-contradictory behaviors, wouldn't it be more convenient to create a reversal?"

"Personal trilogy, the first part focuses on personal growth, and mainly operates in this area, and does not need to be linked with heroes in other areas. The second part needs to form a linkage, which is the most troublesome part. The third part is simple , are mutual sequels. For example, after the third part of the story of hero A is finished, the follow-up story will continue to be told in hero B, so that the third part of the five heroes forms a complete story line. Therefore, the first part of the five heroes It exists independently and does not need to consider other people, the second part is linked to each other, and the third part develops in stages."

After finishing speaking, Li Xianyun put down the loudspeaker and shouted at everyone: "Isn't this basic framework formed?"

Everyone looked at each other.

This... seems to be the case, right?
It's right to say it's right, it's not right to say it's wrong.

If there is room for improvement, there must be, but the overall structure is in line with existing operations.

A truly excellent framework does not define a story, but that the framework must be comprehensive, able to diverge and converge.

For example, Li Xianyun said that if there is a division within a certain company, in the eyes of a layman, it is as simple as an internal division. In the eyes of an insider, fuck it, it is easy for me to do a reversal. I am not afraid that the story will contradict itself, because the internal division You can slap yourself in the face.

It is logical and confident.

Therefore, the content in the eyes of the layman is the method in the eyes of the insider.

The key to Li Xianyun's framework lies here, which not only limits the subject, but also gives room for change.

Of course, not only because the framework itself is fine, but the most important thing is that you are the boss.

If the boss speaks, it’s okay!
So I didn't discuss the completed framework for three days, and it was completed under Li Xianyun's 3-minute explanation.

In fact, despite the simplicity of what Li Xianyun said, many screenwriters and authors couldn't figure out just this little thing.

I have written hundreds of thousands of words, but when it comes to background and outline, my eyes still turn white.

will not!

Fortunately, once the overall framework has been settled down and entered the single-part level, those screenwriters will be able to operate immediately.

I don't need to think about the whole, I just need to think about my trilogy of heroes.

So group again, let everyone discuss and designate a plan.

From then on, under the guidance of Li Xianyun, the scripts of the Chaoying series have embarked on the fast track.

(End of this chapter)