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Chapter 188 Rubik's Cube Literature
"Cut! This scene is over!"

Holding a megaphone, Li Boda looked at the crowd, all eyes on him, and smiled slightly: "I hereby announce! [Night Shop] has officially wrapped filming!!!"

As soon as Li Boda finished speaking, the crew cheered.

Speaking of which, the filming of "Night Shop" was very fast.

Except for the first week, only one-fifth of the filming was completed due to the need for adjustment among the actors, crew, and director.

But later on, once the coordination improved, the shooting speed increased, and even got faster and faster.

Even the remaining four-fifths of the scenes were filmed in less than two weeks.

The entire filming process took only twenty days.

Filming a movie in just twenty days is a speed that is practically unheard of in mainland China.

It's fortunate that Li Boda's directing skills are quite good, and the script is really simple, so the filming location doesn't even need to be changed, and the number of actors is small.

These factors combined are what made the filming so fast.

However, it was precisely because of the fast filming speed that the movie "Night Shop" was completed in just twenty days that the film wrapped up just before the New Year. It's the 29th of the lunar year now, and tomorrow is the 30th of the lunar year.

So everyone in the crew was genuinely happy at that moment.

I can go home for the New Year right after filming is finished.

You should know that as an actor, there are generally no holidays when filming.

The film crew doesn't give holidays for any kind of festivals, such as Labor Day, Children's Day, National Day, or even the New Year.

Some film crews are kind enough to give you a day off during the Lunar New Year so you can rest, which is considered very kind. Many film crews don't give you a day off during the Lunar New Year; at most, they might give you half a day off, or the whole crew might get together to sing and dance, which is how you celebrate the New Year together.

Therefore, for a film like "Night Shop," the filming was rushed, and it just so happened that filming wrapped up the day before the New Year. This was a huge blessing for the actors and the entire crew.

The entire crew cheered with joy, without any discount whatsoever.

Even the entire crew was genuinely grateful to director Li Boda, because who wouldn't want to go home for the Chinese New Year?

It's fair to say that the wrap-up of filming for "Night Shop" at this time is a dream come true for everyone.

Originally, Li Boda was planning to hold a wrap party after filming wrapped on [Night Shop].

However, Xu Shanzheng and the others all refused, saying that they had already booked train or plane tickets and wanted to go home for the Chinese New Year.

Li Boda expressed his understanding of this.

After all, Li Boda didn't have any relatives to spend the New Year with, but that doesn't mean others didn't.

So Li Boda waved his hand and said that the wrap party for "Night Shop" would be postponed until the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. If everyone had time, they were welcome to attend. If not, that was fine too.

In fact, Li Boda had intended not to hold a wrap party, but he felt it was better to go through the proper formalities.

Especially since this was Li Boda's first film as a director, it felt like it would be a bit unlucky not to have a wrap party, so he decided to hold all the necessary ones.

When Xu Shanzheng and the others heard that Li Boda was going to postpone the wrap party for "Night Shop" until the sixth day of the first lunar month after the New Year, they all patted their chests and promised that they would definitely come back to attend the wrap party.

So, the entire crew happily went home to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

As for Li Boda, he packed up the filmed footage and put it away, preparing to go to the editing room for post-production after the New Year.

Previously, almost all films were shot on film. However, with the passage of time and the development of technology, fewer films are shot on film, and more directors choose to use digital.

Nowadays, only renowned directors like Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Jiang Wen still choose to shoot films on film.

Because they have plenty of money to make movies, even though film stock is expensive, movies shot on film have a better visual quality, so these directors prefer to use film when making movies.

Using digital devices also has many advantages. The first is that they are cheaper; you can save a lot of money by using digital devices.

Similarly, using digital devices is also very convenient. Whether it's taking pictures or storing them, a small memory card is all you need.

If it's film, you need to transport the film by truck to shoot a movie.

In the film "Night Shop," Li Boda used digital technology.

Regardless of whether it's cheap or convenient, the main issue is that a film like "Nightclub" doesn't quite deserve to be made on film.

A single setting, a simple plot, few characters, and no grand scenes. Digital technology was more than sufficient; using film would have been a true waste. After putting away the memory card, Li Boda decided to rest for two days.

Although Li Boda was not physically tired at all, he was still somewhat tense mentally from concentrating on filming. So it would be good for him to relax and rest.

Moreover, Li Boda is now the boss of the company, and he no longer needs to do commercial performances, sing for people, or perform magic tricks to make money, so he does have free time.

At this time before, Li Boda had already started earning money through commercial performances and gigs.

On the eve of the Lunar New Year, Li Boda's phone started ringing non-stop. Many people were calling or texting him to wish him a Happy New Year.

Finally, Li Boda got annoyed. Since it wasn't anything serious, he simply turned off his phone, and suddenly it was quiet.

Sitting in front of the television, Li Boda watched the Spring Festival Gala on TV, with a laptop beside him displaying his completed novel, "Infinite Terror."

After Sister Wang acquired the film and television adaptation rights to the novel "Infinite Terror," Li Boda also obtained the contact information of the novel's author, Zhang Heng.

However, Li Boda had only exchanged a greeting with the other party on QQ before.

Now that Li Boda has finished filming, he has a lot of free time, so he and Zhang Heng started chatting.

Of course, the main purpose was to consult Zhang Heng about the setting of "Infinite Terror" and the character settings.

As they chatted, Zhang Heng mentioned to Li Boda that Shanda Literature website wanted to revise its contracts with authors like them.

Li Boda, having nothing better to do, casually asked the question.

"Modify the contract? How do I modify the contract?"

"It seems that it's because I sold the film and television adaptation rights to your novel 'Infinite Terror'. So Shanda Literature seems to have its eye on film and television rights. They plan to amend the contract to stipulate that if we authors write novels on their website in the future, all the copyrights of the novels will belong to them."

"All kinds of copyrights? All copyrights?" Li Boda was also stunned.

"Yes! It seems to be all the copyrights. After our novel is serialized on their website, the physical book publication, comic book adaptation, anime adaptation, film and television adaptation, etc., all of these have to be arranged by them."

"No, what is Shanda Literature trying to do? Are they trying to force you authors to sell yourselves to them?"

"Probably. Anyway, many authors are already opposing this behind the scenes, and quite a few are thinking about switching companies."

After Li Boda finished chatting with Zhang Heng, he couldn't help but start thinking about whether this matter would be of any help to him.

Although Li Boda has only purchased the film and television adaptation rights to the novel "Infinite Terror" so far, it is undeniable that many online novels are well-written. Li Boda even believes that these online novels may well be adapted into TV series or movies.

Although these online novels have many flaws in terms of culture and vocabulary, they should be able to be adapted into a very good and excellent script with the help of professional screenwriters.

In other words, owning a novel website is almost like owning a script library, even though most of them are not worth adapting into scripts.

“Perhaps I could also start a novel website to play around with.” Li Boda’s eyes lit up slightly.

Normally, it wouldn't be easy to get involved in the online novel market, but Shanda Literature suddenly made a foolish decision.

Li Boda felt that it would be incredibly foolish of him not to take action at this point.

When Li Boda was developing the mobile phone operating system, it happened to coincide with the gap when Symbian was bought out and domestic mobile phones could not use the Symbian system, and then it took off.

The current situation with Shanda Literature is quite similar to the situation with Saipan being bought out back then! Li Boda certainly has to seize such a good opportunity.

Li Boda can also be a person with strong execution skills at times.

If you're interested, take action immediately.

Li Boda picked up his computer and started typing away at the keyboard.

For Li Boda, who can even independently develop a mobile phone operating system, creating a novel website is really not difficult at all.

He possesses exceptional and advanced programming skills, and Li Boda also has extraordinary energy; when he writes code, he doesn't even need to sleep.

By the time the wrap party for "Night Shop" was to be held on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Boda had already almost completely taken over the Magic Cube Literature website.

However, after writing code for several days and nights without sleep, Li Boda also felt mentally exhausted. Fortunately, holding the wrap party for "Night Shop" would allow Li Boda to relax.

As for how to hold it, where to hold it, etc., Sister Wang is in charge of that. Li Boda only needs to be there, and then eat and drink.

(End of this chapter)