my crew is not human

Chapter 169 Partial Obedience to the Whole

It took more than half a year for the scripts of the fifteen superhero series, which is still super efficient.

In the past six months, the Super British series has also changed several drafts.

Don't look at this as a money-making masterpiece, but for the pursuit in his heart, Li Xianyun is still very serious and responsible.

For this he copied the Hollywood model.

The Hollywood model has its own script production process.

Their process generally looks like this:
The producer first finds a bunch of screenwriters and asks them each to write a one-sentence outline.

Just a word!

This sentence is mainly about the subject matter, elements, etc. Don't mention anything else, and don't read more.

For example, the one-sentence outline of the Chaoying series is: a story about a group of Chinese superheroes saving the world.Modern super power theme.

Then the producer made a choice after reading it, and asked the screenwriter to expand the sentence selected to one hundred characters. These one hundred characters are the style and selling point of the script.

A week later, the content of [-] characters was expanded to [-] characters. At this time, the overall framework is needed, such as who are the superheroes, what is the main plot, etc., and the relevant character list has also begun to appear, and it is also a dozen to choose from.

Another week, it will be a thousand words, and this is the main outline.

In another week, it will be [-] words. This is the detailed outline, and the character list must be completed. If it is an overhead world, the world background must be done——Avatar only made a book with the world background.

At this point, in another week, the producer called all the screenwriters and said: overthrow and rewrite.

So continue to start with one sentence and start over.

Just repeated several rounds of tossing, creating, breaking, giving up, and recreating, a script will finally be formed.

During this period, there will also be a set of summarized routine patterns, including foreshadowing, development, motivation, small climax, turning point, trough period, turning point, big climax, etc., and the details will be accurate to the time point.

What is the purpose to be achieved in a few minutes and a few seconds.

In Huaguo's words, it's Qi Cheng Zhuan He, in Hollywood terms, it's... Fuck, I can't name it in English, anyway, it's a total of eight steps, you read Qi Cheng Zhuan He twice, that's almost what it means.

This is a very scientific approach, and it is also the key to the rise of Hollywood.

Of course, it is not invincible, and the film is as bad as it should be, but from a production point of view, it is indeed the most standardized.

This is somewhat rigid, not suitable for artistic creation, but suitable for assembly line production.

And this is what a company must do if it wants to grow big——the contradiction between art and business is vividly expressed on this issue!

So in the past period of time, besides Doomsday Crazy Flowers, Doomsday Crisis and the nine hand-practice works, Li Xianyun has been working on this with everyone——President Liu said that I was the production department Where is the supervisor?
All right, your boss likes to meddle, and I'm happy to relax, too.

Everyone has their own ideas. There are more than a dozen or twenty screenwriters, and the scripts alone are piled up every time they are thrown.

Even looking at the frame, Li Xianyun could see the sky and the ground were dark, and he was inexplicably envious of Shi Jun.

Seeing what other people's bosses do, why is my own boss so hard-working?
But thinking that his company is about to collapse, I think it's better to work hard.

Fortunately, Li Xianyun survived, and the basic framework, outline, character list, and world background of the Fifteen Online Series have gradually taken shape.

Now that the director has decided and the script is completed, the next step is for the director to explain the director, make a big plan, and then do the storyboarding.

The director's explanation is to put forward his own views on the tone and style of the whole film, and the big plan is the related implementation plan.

Storyboards are generally the space for a director to express his personal art, but this time is different. Li Xianyun has strict requirements for all storyboards. In fact, the director’s personal performance is greatly restricted. They are essentially more about execution. Li Xianyun meant that only a small part of the space had room for self-expression.

This made Rong Dasheng very dissatisfied.

He felt that Li Xianyun's approach was too rigid, so he approached Li Xianyun more than once and told him that artistic creation cannot be done all at once, and there are many times when there is improvisation.Sometimes an inspiration comes, but due to script limitations, this idea cannot be used.

Li Xianyun was very puzzled, I didn't appoint you as the director, I just gave you the position of photographer, why are you working so hard?
But Li Xianyun also understands Rong Dasheng's character, this guy probably wants to prove himself in this way and save the defeat.

And not everything he said was wrong.

Many great directors do act on the spot, after all, the shooting scene itself is part of artistic creation.

For example, the famous Director Jiang changed the script on the spot many times.

There is also the famous director Du, who found that the shooting time was not enough when shooting the gunfire, so he simply let a group of killers be in a daze during the duel, creating the silence of death, and it turned out to be a classic shot.

The more famous one is Sunglasses King, who didn't even have a script when he was filming, which is more terrifying than an author who writes a text without an outline.

The author can at least make money all the way, it doesn't matter if it doesn't sell well, if you change it at will, you'll be robbed of the investors' money, after all, every day the crew exists is just one day's money.

But that's just how people play, so many directors are so pissed, and they hate shooting where the script cannot be changed.

As for Li Xianyun's approach, not to mention that it was impossible to change the script on the spot, even the storyboard was locked.

But this cannot be blamed on Li Xianyun.

After all, this is a fifteen-part series.

A small detail change on your side is fine in this movie, but it may cause problems in other series.

For example, in the decisive battle against Sky City, the junior sister saving people was changed to the senior sister saving people. In this change, at least one more drama of the senior sister handing over the rescued people to the junior sister can make the plot reconnected, and then in the follow-up lines , the rescued male protagonist had to modify his lines slightly, and his gratitude for saving his life changed from junior junior sister to senior senior sister.If necessary, even the emotional performance has to be adjusted, after all, the direction of gratitude has changed.Then the emotional scene with the junior sister has to be added, otherwise the relationship between the hero and the heroine will be lacking in foundation.

The requirements are more detailed, even the details of the plot have to be changed, and the elder sister will also add roles to the show.

It's still a movie, with a minimal change.

What about fifteen?

If you move here, other movies will follow you?

If all the directors make a move, the show will collapse-it doesn't take everyone to make a clever move, and it will collapse when everyone makes a move.

Move the whole body by pulling a hair!
So Li Xianyun's reply to this was to sneer.

Of course, he can also understand Rong Dasheng's thoughts - it is indeed easy to limit inspiration by following the framework.

Not to mention Rong Dasheng, even the authors of online articles, including Li Xianyun himself, have had such experiences.

The outline is ready, but it doesn't mean I have to write according to the outline.

I often write and write in a wrong way, and in the end I go crazy. I'll go to your mother's outline, and I can write whatever I want.

Li Xianyun has made a novel with a [-]-word outline, but he often deviates, and then turns around and changes the outline-the creator does not adapt to the truth, but the truth adapts to me!
But in this process, Li Xianyun will not lie to herself.

He firmly believes that this approach is a manifestation of insufficient control.

It is wrong to sacrifice wholeness for inspiration!

Now [-] movies have to be shot continuously, absolutely not.

The key point is that even if he agrees, the ghost treasures will not be easy to cooperate - this time he is the chief director, if he doesn't set a good path, what if something goes wrong?
So under Li Xianyun's forcible suppression, a group of directors started their hard-working storyboard creation, which should not only suit their own needs, but also suit the taste of the boss.

It will take a few months for the storyboard of the fifteenth part to be done and detailed, and Li Xianyun was not idle during this time.

Yisheng Media now relies on special effects to make movies, and it is basically stable to make money, so it must be done quickly, so Li Xianyun turned around and started planning the movie to promote the ghost town.

He had an idea a long time ago, and Sun Shi provided him with the specific idea.

What Sun Shi meant was that this time he was filming a documentary about the secrets of the ghost town's predecessor.

To put it bluntly, it tells the story of the haunted ghost town: Why did people die suddenly on the construction site, and why did the blood flow dry?Is it a distortion of human nature?Or moral decay?

Flip it over after that, and it turns out that there were never any ghosts, only murderers.

The main purpose of doing this is to wash away the haunted rumors and stabilize the local area.

Li Xianyun was hesitant at first, but after Sun Shi told him that this could become a promotional video for the local government, Li Xianyun readily agreed.

The Ze County government is willing to give a reward of 100 million yuan for this, and promises to repair the broken road that Jiang Zheng has been running for a long time.

So after that, Li Xianyun and them made a pseudo-documentary script.

To be precise, it is a documentary film. The film starts from the perspective of a female reporter. After entering the ghost town, while showing the ghost town, it unravels the "long-standing" "past events" through retrospect.

There are unfinished construction sites in the ghost town, and the busy construction site is dominated by gray to create suspense. The eerie and terrifying style of the ghost town shapes the picture, thus forming a super-large haunted house detective and puzzle story.

Li Xianyun even added a reversal at the end: After pushing everything to the real culprit, the female reporter was killed by a ghost that suddenly appeared, forming a shocking reversal and leaving endless suspense.

But the Ze county government will not accept this.

What we want is clarification, if you do this, the story will be good, and the political goal will not be achieved!

For 100 million, I can only give up.

Li Xianyun lamented that his artistic creativity was stifled by money.

In this way, there are also stories and scenery. The only pity is that this kind of pseudo-documentary film is not suitable for any love story.

The script has been completed long ago, and the old ghost's crew is still filming in other places. Because Jiang Zheng has to rush work for them, he will come here to film at the last moment. It is expected to arrive in two months. Li Xianyun doesn't want to waste time, It is best to seize the two months to shoot the film.

The question now is, who will be the heroine?

While thinking, Yang Yuan called.

The crew of the big drama in cooperation with Shengda Media is coming to the scene to make preparations.

(End of this chapter)