Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 51: Write a Script
You still have to praise yourself!

Shen Yan is a reborn person, the kind with his own memories...

'Writing' a script that suits you is easy!

Actually, the most suitable one is "You Are the Apple of My Eye", but Giddens is unwilling to sell the adaptation rights, he wants to direct it himself...

But it doesn’t matter. For a youth film, the important thing is two words: regret!

The pain of youth is that girls are always more mature than boys of the same age.

As long as it fits the theme, it won’t be too bad!

Shen Yan tells the story of "Introduction to Architecture"...

Shen Yan quite likes this movie. The male protagonist is a typical person with low emotional intelligence. He feels inferior because of his poor family background, but he can't bring himself to express his feelings. He always says one thing and means another. He clearly cares about others to death, but he always pretends not to care about them, and even avoids and ignores others...

Of course, Shen Yan watched "Architecture 101" because of Cho Jung-seok from "Hospital Playlist"...

Jo Jung-seok won the Best New Actor award for this movie.

The acting was really good, especially the kissing scene where they used the seven-step hand washing method...

"It's a good script," Ji Xiang asked after listening to Shen Yan's story. "But why is it called 'Introduction to Architecture'? Do you know how much this crappy name will affect the audience's admission?"

"The male protagonist is studying architecture, and the two of them met by chance in an Introduction to Architecture class. Furthermore, fifteen years later, the female protagonist commissioned the male protagonist to design a house for her, and they met again...it's all about architecture!"

"...No, think of another name that has something to do with first love..."

"'Not Yet First Love'? 'The Flowers Haven't Bloomed Yet'?"

“…be more straightforward…”

"How can I be more straightforward?"

Chen Xu: "I think it can be called "Secretly Loving You"!"

"Not artistic... we'll talk about it later."

Shen Yan: "When?"

Ji Xiang immediately said, "You write the script, and I'll find Li Bingbing and ask her to play the adult female lead, and then find Ren Quan to play the adult male lead..."

"what?"

"Oh shit... You play the male lead... Oh, and let Liu Shishi play the female lead... I still need to contact the director. Taiwanese directors are better at this kind of fresh and simple plot..."

"No... If you find a Taiwanese director, they might not hire me, right?"

"I'll solve the funding problem... Why wouldn't they listen to me?" Ji Xiang was already caught up in his plan. "According to Liu Shishi, Tangren should also invest a little... It doesn't matter if they don't. With Li Bingbing and Ren Quan, the filming funding problem is easy to solve... This story is simple to shoot, and there's no need for additional sets. We can also get some commercial sponsorship. I estimate that it will only cost about 10 million yuan at most... However, we can't ask Huayi. Once we ask Huayi, we won't have the final say. I heard that Perfect World and Zhang Zhao are both recruiting... Perfect World can't do it, Chi Yufeng is busy promoting his honey... I'll go back and discuss it with Sister Hua, she knows more people than I do..."

Shen Yan couldn't help but interrupt him: "Brother, how did you convince Sister Bingbing to act?"

Ji Xiang said matter-of-factly, "This script has a high probability of breaking 5000 million at the box office. Why wouldn't she star in it?"

"Wait a minute," Chen Xu said, "Who is Chi Yufeng's honey?"

"Yao Di...you don't know her? That's right," Ji Xiang nodded. "You don't know her, but you will soon!"

"What's wrong?"

"She is Wang Xifeng from Dream of the Red Chamber!" Ji Xiang looked at Shen Yan and said, "I tell you, you should respect a woman like this..."

Shen Yan was speechless: "...No, brother, I haven't even seen her!"

"I'm just giving you a heads up."

Shen Yan: "...You should remind others, I don't need it! By the way, director, who are you going to look for?"

"I'm just thinking about it!"

"I think this plot can be directed by any novice..."

Ji Xiang looked at him: "...What's wrong? You want to be a director?"

“…What I mean is that instead of looking for a director with a masterpiece, let’s look for a novice director!”

"What?"

"A novice director will only shoot according to the script, while a famous director has too many ideas!" Ji Xiang agreed: "That's right..."

"Let's go..."

"Don't you want to eat?"

"Eat shit, I'm going to go back and work overtime to finish the script!"

……

Script writing is not that easy...

But not too complicated!

Once you have a general plot idea, you can start writing!
Three Acts…

No matter who writes the film, the script is always structured in three acts.

This is a customary rule!

The length of a movie is usually between 90 and 120 minutes. The script is one page per minute, so a complete movie script is about to pages...

Usually around 30,000 to 50,000...

If dialogues make up a large proportion of the script, the total word count will be relatively small;

On the contrary, if there are more descriptive words, the total number of words will increase relatively.

A simple example: the script of "Charlotte's Troubles" is 6 words; the script of "The Golden Age" is a full words - more than half of which are narration!
"Introduction to Architecture" has a lot of blank space to create atmosphere...

In short, Shen Yan wrote all night long to finish the script!
He knew that today they were going to film Fang Ning's heroic sacrifice, so he stood up at the last moment, hugged Zhao Zhe, and rolled down the cliff together, perishing together with him...

This status is right!

While having breakfast, Shen Yan ran into Ji Xiang and said, "...I've sent the script to your email!"

"…Send it to my email? Have you finished writing it?"

"Yes!"

Ji Xiang swallowed his saliva: "...You finished writing it in one night?"

“…” Shen Yan yawned: “Yes, it was done in one night.”

“…You’re leaving too soon! I was planning to stay in Xiangshan for a week!”

"A week?"

"Wait until you finish writing the script, then we'll go back to BJ together!"

Shen Yan: "...My part will be finished in two days..."

"I looked at the shooting schedule... Oh, by the way," Ji Xiang remembered something: "...your relationship with Liu Shishi..."

"What's wrong? You're not allowed to have a relationship?"

"It's not that we're not allowed to date...it's that we can't make it public right now!" After a pause, Ji Xiang added, "This is also what Cai Yinong meant!"

Although Shen Yan stayed up late, his mind was clear. He also knew that it would be best for Shi Shi not to make her boyfriend public at this stage...

So, nodding: “…Okay, I get it!”

"In fact, it's best for idols not to make their relationships public. Look at Andy Lau, who went public with his relationship in his forties and lost a lot of fans!"

"He's secretly married..." Shen Yan shook his head: "He belongs to the idol of the previous generation. Times are progressing..."

"That won't work either. If you want to be an idol, don't even think about making your relationship public before you're 30!"

Shen Yan shook his head: "I don't want to be an idol!"

"You don't want to be an idol?" Ji Xiang was stunned for a moment: "Then you want to be a talented actor?"

"I want to be an artist! A people's artist!"

"Artist? People's Artist?"

(End of this chapter)