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Chapter 733: Girlfriends do have similarities

Li Yu stayed in the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" for a few days and then left.

In recent times, Li Yu has been relatively free.

Therefore, many domestic programs have invited Li Yu, hoping that Li Yu will be on their shows.

The most famous of them should be "A Date with the Bass".

Li Yu said he was not interested in any of these programs, especially "A Date with the Bass".

"A Date with the Bass" was once very popular, but it has become less and less popular in recent years, with the ratings dropping lower and lower, and it is not far from being discontinued.

This show is really a success or failure of the show.

Objectively speaking, Ba Yu’s hosting skills are not as bad as everyone says, but he is not a top-notch host either.

There are so many flaws in her talk show that Li Yu doesn't want to talk to her face to face.

That would be a disaster.

As for other programs, he was also not interested.

So he was free during this period of time, polishing the scripts of "Mulan" and "Joker", and drawing his ideas for the two films into very detailed storyboards.

The benefits of doing this are enormous. When shooting, having very detailed storyboards can save a lot of time and money.

It costs so much money for King of Sunglasses to make movies, and the overspending is often so severe that investors want to jump off the building. This has a lot to do with the fact that he has no scripts or storyboards.

When filming his movies, the actors often don't have scripts. He just gives them a piece of paper with one or two sentences written on it and then lets the actors act.

It is possible that even he himself does not know what kind of picture he wants to shoot.

He let the actors keep performing until the performance satisfied him.

It would be strange if he didn't go over budget with the way he shoots.

Even now, except for a few directors and photographers who insist on using film, most directors have switched to digital photography, which can save film expenses.

But it must be very time-consuming and laborious to just let the actors act without telling them what kind of picture or effect you want.

If you spend one more day, your expenses will start to increase by 100,000 yuan.

Apart from the King of Sunglasses, who else could be so arrogant and treat money as nothing?

Especially a director like Li Yu, who is both a director and an investor, he doesn't like that kind of play.

He prefers a more detailed approach, explaining the scenes to the actors, telling them what effects he wants, and then telling the photographer what kind of images he wants.

If the photographer couldn't understand, he would just throw out the storyboard.

This is clean and neat, and the number of retakes will be greatly reduced.

Of course, Li Yu can do the work of drawing storyboards, but he will not draw all the pictures by himself.

There is a profession called storyboard artist, who specializes in this profession.

For the classic 1960s war film "The Longest Day", the crew hand-drew a total of storyboards.

The future "The Wandering Earth 2" will have 9989 hand-drawn storyboards.

Although Li Yu is not as "crazy" as these two films, a movie still needs hundreds to a thousand storyboards.

There was no storyboard artist to help him, so he had to draw alone. His hands got cramps and he couldn't draw that much.

So Li Yu found some very professional storyboard artists, told them what he imagined the picture to look like in his mind for a certain shot, and asked the storyboard artists to draw it.

Most of the time, the finished products produced by the storyboard artists satisfy Li Yu.

There are some more complicated shots where Li Yu feels that what the storyboard artist draws is a little off, so he will choose to do it himself.

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A few months later, the filming of "Dream of Splendor" was completed.

Liu Yifei finished filming a month before the filming of Dream of Splendor was finished because Li Yu arranged for Li Muge to finish filming Zhao Paner's scenes first.

After finishing the filming, Liu Yifei followed Li Yu's advice and sought out an equestrian, archery and martial arts teacher for a month of training.

In fact, Liu Yifei’s training lasted less than a month.

Because a few days before the filming of "Dream of Red Mansions" was officially completed, Li Muge called her back from the training to reshoot some scenes.

This is normal, she ran away early.

As Li Muge was filming, she got inspiration and thought that some of her scenes should be revised and re-shot, or that one more scene should be shot, which was normal.

In short, these are all small things and don’t take much time. They can be done in a few days.

By the way, during the time when Li Muge was filming "Dream of Red Mansions", Li Yu and Cao Qing discussed and decided on the leading actors of "Mulan".

It was mainly Cao Qing who made the final decision during the audition.

Cao Qing is already a mature director, and Li Yu has chosen to delegate power, but of course he has to delegate it completely.

Except for the role of He Tingyu's daughter He Min, which was chosen by Li Yuqin, the rest of the roles were chosen by Cao Qingding.

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But before he made the decision, he talked to Li Yu and asked for Li Yu's opinion.

Li Yu decided to give the role of He Min to Liu Yifei's best friend Shu Chang.

Liu Yifei has experienced backstabbing by friends and classmates over the years, and finally found that he has very few true friends, and Shu Chang is one of them.

As Liu Yifei's best friend, Shu Chang's star journey can be said to be very bumpy.

However, most of these setbacks were her own fault. She was the typical person who lost the watermelon but picked up the sesame seeds.

She debuted as a child star. She was selected by a director while taking photos in a photo studio at the age of five and entered the entertainment industry since then.

Compared with many child stars, she is very lucky, many of whom not only grow up to be ugly but also become obscure when they grow up.

She is different. Not only did she not grow ugly, she also has acting skills. At the age of 20, she starred in the "Magic Phone", which would make her a lifelong favorite, and became the goddess in the hearts of countless people.

After the broadcast of "Magic Phone", she became extremely popular.

Then... she made an outrageous decision. She did not go to Beijing Film Academy or the Central Academy of Drama, but went to Beijing University of Foreign Languages ​​to study foreign languages.

It is really difficult to learn a foreign language when you are at the peak of your career.

She is so naive that she may not even know that it is difficult for a star to become popular, but very easy to become out of fashion.

Some people wait for more than ten or twenty years before they get a chance to become famous.

It only takes one or two years to become outdated.

When she came back from studying foreign languages, she realized she was out of fashion.

At that time, fantasy dramas were very popular, and she could no longer compete with those little stars for roles.

In order to change the status quo, she actually did another outrageous thing.

She had plastic surgery. She wanted to make herself look more popular and expand her acting range, but she ended up becoming even more obscure.

This is another person who started with good cards but played them badly.

But this can't be blamed entirely on her.

She and Liu Yifei are good friends, and their teams are very similar.

Liu Yifei's mother helps her make decisions, while Shu Chang's agents are her aunt and cousin.

Without exception, these people are all outsiders and their career planning is terrible.

The difference is that Liu Yifei is prettier, her mother is more reliable, and her blood is thicker.

The two of them have a lot of similarities, which may be why they can become good friends.

(End of this chapter)