Unboxing, Director!

Chapter 40 Awesome
Saturday, April 1999, 4.

After a week of preparation, Lu Jiang's new album officially entered the MV shooting stage.

This new album has 8 songs, and as usual, each song will be accompanied by a MV.

However, not every MV is directed by Lu Jiang.

Lu Jiang is mainly responsible for "Not Drunk", "Dongfeng Po", "Lanting Preface" and "Ten Years".

These are also the four most important works in this album.

The MVs for the remaining four songs are stream-of-consciousness, completed by the rest of the team working in groups, with Lu Jiang as the producer.

Now Lu Jiang's team, in addition to Zhang Jingchu and Ning Hao, has expanded to 24 people.

These 24 people have different majors, including students who are about to graduate and industry veterans. They are Lu Jiang’s real production team.

As for Zhang Jingchu and Ning Hao.

Lu Jiang’s positioning of Zhang Jingchu is very simple, pure friendship. They can visit each other occasionally, but as for participating in the production, forget it, they will talk about it when there is a chance in the future.

Ning Hao is actually also a member of Lu Jiang's team now.

But now he is shooting his graduation work.

That was Thursday Wednesday.

Ning Hao said that since he was about to graduate, he had to make a movie to get his diploma.

After he finished filming, he came back to take the camera and assist Lu Jiang in filming "Not Drunk".

Now that the team has grown in size, the process of establishing a film and television company must begin.

But currently stuck on naming.

Lu Jiang was not in a hurry either. After all, the salary would be paid as usual and everyone could not run away.

At 8 a.m., the team arrived at the set of "Dongfeng Po".

This is a courtyard house with a dilapidated appearance.

Also present were Wang Changtian's film crew.

They came to collect materials for the first issue of "China Entertainment Report".

The two sides met and exchanged a few pleasantries. Wang Changtian then became curious about the green screens on the set: "What are these green screens for?"

"I told you before that the special effects in the new song are a highlight. Look, this is what's used for high-end special effects. These days, Hollywood special effects are basically all done this way."

Lu Jiang briefly explained the principle.

At this time, many green screens have been set up in the courtyard.

The original MV of "Dongfengpo" involved special effects.

That is, where Jay Chou touches his fingers, special effects sweep over and the object changes from old to new.

The seemingly simple special effects were not easy to achieve in 99.

Fortunately, Goldfinger also provided methods for producing special effects for these shots.

How to shoot and what to do in post-production.

Gold Finger teaches you how to place the green screen, how to do post-production in film format, how to do post-production in digital format, what software and hardware to use for post-production, how to operate it, etc.

As long as Lu Jiang is willing to learn, he can learn it. It’s just a matter of time.

In fact, in terms of special effects, the level of special effects has been well developed internationally.

Many effects are actually not difficult to achieve.

But most of the time we have to find foreigners.

There is no way, there are too few relevant talents in the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places.

The current way of making special effects in the mainland film and television industry is very old-fashioned.

There is no green screen production involved.

Only Hong Kong films were involved on a large scale, such as last year's "Storm Warriors 1".

Therefore, if you want to achieve green screen production, these days you basically have to find a Hong Kong team or foreigners, and the price will naturally not be low.

Zhou Jianhui then suggested using other ways to present the “old becoming new”, or using 50-cent special effects.

After all, it's just a MV, there's no need.

But Lu Jiang insisted on striving for excellence.

Since Golden Finger can teach you, why not just form a small team and do it yourself?

Special effects represent the future of the film industry. They'll be used sooner or later, so why not start gaining experience now?

Even if the effect is a little worse, it’s not a big problem.

It's just a MV anyway.

As long as the song is good.

After hearing this, Wang Changtian felt his eyes were broadened.

Then he quickly called the crew to collect materials.

By 8:, the interior scene was basically set up, and the heroine Fan Binbin also arrived at the scene.

The first time I saw Fan Binbin.

Everyone in the crew was immediately dazzled.

On the one hand, it’s because she is Jinsuo.

More importantly, it is because Fan Binbin is really beautiful now.

The last time I saw Fan Binbin was more than two months ago. At that time, she still had a bit of baby fat.

Now, Fan Binbin has lost some weight, her facial features have fully grown, and she has put on her signature makeup, making her eyebrows and eyes more bright and eye-catching.

It can be said that compared with her in the "Fairy Tale" period, to exaggerate a bit, they can even be said to be two different people.

"The old saying is true, girls really change a lot when they grow up!"

Lu Jiang smiled and gave her a thumbs up.

"of course."

Fan Binbin also had a smile on her face. She was very satisfied with everyone's reactions, and even more satisfied with Lu Jiang's eyes.

This shows that the ten pounds of weight lost in the past two months was not in vain.

It’s a pity that there are outsiders here today, otherwise I would definitely show off my figure to him and charm him to death!
"Hello Lu Jiang, I'm Fan Binbin's agent."

Then the agent from Qiong Yao's company who came with Fan Binbin took over the situation.

Both Lu Jiang and Fan Binbin knew that it was not appropriate to be too intimate or ambiguous in such occasions, so after exchanging glances, they reached a consensus and decided to talk about it later.

Then Fan Binbin went to change clothes and put on makeup, while Lu Jiang had a brief conversation with her agent.

As a quasi-superstar, Lu Jiang is still highly valued by Qiong Yao Company.

So I followed along today, firstly as a normal artist joining the crew, to be responsible for real-time care.

Second, he also planned to make further friends with Lu Jiang.

See if we can achieve more cooperation, such as MV cooperation, singing invitations, and film and television invitations.

The agent even directly revealed that Qiong Yao herself intended to invite Lu Jiang to star in a Qiong Yao drama.

This is a huge opportunity for ordinary actors.

But Lu Jiang was not very interested in it.

So after simply expressing surprise, he said, "I'll think about it."

The other party was not in a hurry either. After all, she was just a messenger and all she had to do was complete the mission.

Next, Fan Binbin changed into a cheongsam and the MV shooting officially began.

In the original MV of "Dong Feng Po", Jay Chou cosplayed as Xu Zhimo.

The hero and heroine were originally in love, but they separated for some reason.

Many years later, the male protagonist returned to the old place where they were together. He walked and reminisced about the past. Wherever he went, he saw the beautiful memories of their time together.

Lu Jiang didn't plan to make too many changes in this version.

As I said, the plot is not important, what is important is the special effects experiment.

It's too complicated, and I feel uncomfortable.

Because his agent and lighting people were watching, Fan Binbin took the initiative to maintain a relationship limited to that of friends during the MV filming. He looked polite and did not cross the line at all, and his eyes were not drawn.

She didn't want Lu Jiang to think that she wanted to rely on him to get ahead.

Lu Jiang is the same. He does his work seriously and discusses other things in private.

However, when filming the scene where the male lead held the female lead's hand and wrote calligraphy together, Lu Jiang still played it like the original Jay Chou.

I saw him holding Fan Binbin's hand and writing on the rice paper.

This scene looks romantic and beautiful in front of the camera, with handsome men and beautiful women, and full of literary spirit. But when everyone saw that the words written by Lu Jiang with a brush turned out to be his catchphrase "Niu Cha", everyone burst into laughter.
(End of this chapter)