Huayu Entertainment: Tianxian really wants to improve

Chapter 39 What do you think?

The 2007rd Sundance Film Festival opened in 23.

This year's opening film is "Chicago 10: Speak Your Peace," a documentary animated film.

Sundance has always treated documentaries well, setting up two competition units for documentary feature films, each with 16 documentary feature films, and the treatment is equal to that of feature films.

But this had nothing to do with Gu Bei and the others, as their short film premiered the next day.

"Bruce, should we print some flyers to encourage more visitors to the film festival to come and see our movies?" Antonio took a flyer, handed it to Gu Bei, and made a suggestion.

"Theirs is a feature film, ours is a short film."

Gu Bei took the flyer, glanced at it, and threw it back to Antonio.

During the conversation, they came to the Polo Club Cinema, a 602-seat theater that will be the venue for the premiere of their film "The Tuner".

At this time, there were still a few people in the theater. Eight o'clock was a time when film festival visitors could not get up.

"Why don't I see our poster for "The Tuner"? " Antonio walked around the entire hall but didn't see their poster.

"Let me check the official manual. We are in the second short film group."

Gu Bei pointed to a poster not far away with black letters on a red background. There were eight names written on it, including their "The Tuner".

Antonio was suddenly struck by lightning: "That's it?"

There are 43 short films shortlisted for the short film section of this Sundance Film Festival. Naturally, it is impossible to assign a theater to play each short film.

So these 43 short films were divided into five groups.
Each group is about a little over 90 minutes long, which is the length of a standard movie.

Each short film group will be screened five times throughout the eleven days of the festival.

It was shown four times in Park City and once at the festival's branch in Salt Lake City.

“If we win the award,
At the award-winning short film screening on the last day of the film festival,

We will have our own poster!"

Gu Bei looked at the poster with black text on a red background with an indifferent expression.

"Bruce, I believe you!"

Antonio is quite confident.

Upon hearing this, Gu Bei smiled and did not comment.

The second short film show was about to begin, and Gu Bei and the others also got their standby tickets.

The price of a single reserved ticket to the Sundance Film Festival is $15, plus telephone service charges or Internet service charges.

Waiting list tickets available on-site only cost $10, with no service fee.

Popular movies have already been booked out, and there are no standby tickets available.

But obviously, the second group of short films does not belong to this category.

After Gu Bei and Antonio went in and sat down,
I found that although the theater was not full, the occupancy rate was at least about 80%.

This is a good beginning!
"Snapped!"

The lights dimmed.

The movie starts.

A list of lists appeared, and Gu Bei saw the name "The Tuner" at first glance.

This section is a brief introduction to each short film.

A few minutes later, a transition similar to that of a black and white movie appeared.

Tell the audience that the next short film is called:
"The Tuner"!
“We’re actually the first!”

Antonio whispered excitedly.

Gu Bei had some enlightenment in his mind.

Although all five short films will premiere today, the theaters where they premiere are different and the number of seats is also different.

The Polo Club Theatre, with 602 seats, is the second largest theatre at the festival.

Second only to the 1270-seat Eccles Center Theatre.

The Eccles Center Theater is currently showing the opening film of the film festival.

The black-and-white movie-like transition disappears, and a melodious piano music begins.

At the same time, there is also a close-up shot of the constantly jumping piano hammers.

This shot lasts only a few seconds, and immediately switches to a close-up of Gu Bei's face, with the murderer, the old woman, blurred behind him.

At this moment, as the piano music and the emotions of the camera gradually deepened, the noise of the audience gradually subsided.

until……

A close-up shot of the old man's body appears.
There was a small scream at the scene.

The corners of Gu Bei's mouth curved slightly.

This God-like feeling of controlling the audience’s emotions is really interesting!
The screen switched to a medium shot, with Gu Bei's face still in the center, but compared to the previous close-up, more of the surrounding environment was revealed.

The camera slowly moves forward.

The table lamp, the wall mirror and the murderous old woman form a composition triangle.
This triangle is slowly deforming and is oppressing Gu Bei, the tuner, bit by bit.

until……

"clatter!"

The three big words "Tuner" appeared.

"call!"

Gu Bei could clearly hear the black guy next to him heaving a sigh of relief.

Obviously, the scene just now caused enough psychological pressure on him, making him forget to breathe for a moment.

That's the beauty of movie lenses.

Gu Bei's revised storyboard consists of four shots, dozens of seconds, and no dialogue.

But it is enough to give the audience a complete emotional process and empathize with the male protagonist's situation.

The short film continues, explaining that the male protagonist encountered setbacks and chose to become a blind tuner, taking advantage of human psychological weaknesses to make money. In the end, because of his arrogance, he stepped into the home of the murderer old woman and was pushed against the piano by the murderer old woman with a nail gun.

Still with the melodious piano music playing, the cast and crew list slowly scrolled by.

"F*ck! Is that arrogant bastard dead or not?"

"I think he should be dead. That old b*tch with the nail gun will definitely kill him!"

"Killing him is pointless. We were seen by the people next door when we went in."

"Then kill the one next door too!"

"I think that's the way it should be."

"F*ck! That arrogant bastard is actually the director. He acted so well, I want to hit him!"

"Me too!"

While the credits were rolling, a few black guys next to me started a heated discussion.

But...isn't this statement too heroic?

Another black and white movie-style transition, followed by the next short film.

All eight short films have been shown, and the first round of the second group of short films has ended, with four left.

Gu Bei was about to stand up when the black guy next to him immediately recognized him: "Are you that arrogant bastard... uh, the director of the tuner?"

"it's me."

Gu Bei nodded.

"OMG! The short film you shot is so good. I just have one question, did you die in it?" The black guy was not as arrogant as he was when he was watching the movie.

At the same time, his friends also looked at Gu Bei expectantly.

"you guess?"

Gu Bei did not give a clear answer.

As he left, he could still hear a loud quarrel coming from behind.

As I walked out, the most common thing I heard was discussions about their song "The Tuner".

(End of this chapter)