Become Famous Another Day

Chapter 630 The Director’s Eyes

With Luo Yuzhong filming "Legend of Sword and Fairy", and with a sufficient budget, the filming scene of this drama has an momentum that is almost as good as that of movie production.

Lu Yanhe was actually shocked when he arrived on the set on the first day.

Because this drama will use a lot of CG special effects, many scenes are shot in the studio.

However, there are also many scenes that were shot in real locations.

The production cost of this show is very high, and a large part of it comes from the cost of on-site stage design and props.

Not only Luo Yuzhong has very high requirements in this area, but Lu Yanhe also has high requirements.

Since we want to film a drama with this theme, the world view constructed must be convincing to the audience.

However, if "Legend of Sword and Fairy", which lasts for more than 30 episodes, wants to achieve their ideal production effects, even the current high production costs cannot cover it.

Under the current production costs, it will be difficult to achieve profitability if we further increase production funds. After all, they still have to leave sufficient budget for the later production of CG special effects.

It can be said that "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is the most expensive domestic Chinese drama to produce in the past three years, reaching the top.

Top director + top screenwriter + the most popular starring lineup + the most expensive subject matter.

Lu Yanhe was vaguely worried. With such a high production cost, the final profit of this project was actually not as good as "Love Letter". Well, basically it can be concluded that it was not as good as "Love Letter".

However, due to the box office hit of "Love Letter", Linghe now has sufficient cash flow reserves, easing the tension in the summer.

Xu Tianming also said: "As long as the normal broadcast rights income of this drama can cover the production cost, I will let this drama make money back in other ways. The costumes, hair accessories, and character models of this drama , pillows and other peripheral development, I have already contacted a company. By then, the peripheral development of this drama will earn us back our money. "

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However, filming this drama is much harder for the actors than filming modern dramas.

Not to mention the various action scenes, just because I do modeling every day, I need to get up two hours early to leave time for modeling.

Lu Yanhe has relatively few scenes, which is relatively good. Li Zhibai basically gets up at five or six o'clock every morning, and has to arrive at the set with makeup and hair neatly before nine o'clock.

The same goes for Yan Lingyu.

Of course, according to the rules of the photo studio, these already famous actors are relatively better. For example, the newcomer Jiang Lingyi who plays Lin Yueru usually has her scenes scheduled at the earliest or the latest time.

This is what happens on a set, the best time is always reserved for the big shots.

Of course, for newcomers, they don't care about the hardships they have to endure. For newcomers, what they are afraid of is the hardships of not knowing whether they have a future.

Jiang Lingyi won the second female lead in "Legend of Sword and Fairy", a pre-produced hit drama. Under such circumstances, she felt like taking a shot of chicken blood every day, with 100% energy. I never complained about being tired while filming this drama.

As the only new actor among the leading actors to win this role through an audition, Jiang Lingyi knows how lucky she is.

On the set, Jiang Lingyi is also a girl who has a similar personality to Lin Yueru - it seems that when newcomers win a role through audition, it is like this, more or less close to their true character.

She got along well with almost all the crew members and had a good rapport with them.

However, she was a little reserved in front of Li Zhibai and Lu Yanhe.

Fortunately, there is Yan Lingyu in the crew. Yan Lingyu usually doesn't like to talk to others, but she and Jiang Lingyi often get together and talk quietly on the set. It seems that the girls always have endless topics to talk about.

Lu Yanhe had no plans for him in the past few days.

However, he didn't stay in the hotel. Basically, he went to the set early every morning and stayed with Luo Yuzhong all day long. Let's see how he does as a director.

After Lu Yanhe himself became a director in "Love Letter", he deeply realized his shortcomings in this aspect.

The director has too many things to do. Every day when he opens his eyes, there are countless decisions waiting for him to make a decision.

Fortunately, "Love Letter" is basically a very simple movie, with few big scenes, no complicated scheduling, and a small crew.

But "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is different. This is a huge crew with hundreds of people.

Luo Yuzhong alone has four people in his assistant director team.

Each assistant director is responsible for different things, and they share a lot of things with Luo Yuzhong.

Lu Yanhe was amazed.

The crew also has Group B. According to usual practice, Group B will shoot simultaneously with Group A. This is to save the crew’s shooting time.

The B group formed by Luo Yuzhong was mainly used to shoot some cutscenes and some empty shots.

Luo Yuzhong saw that Lu Yanhe had been following him to observe, and he curiously asked Lu Yanhe if he wanted to start filming a few scenes directly.

Lu Yanhe shook his head and refused.

If he was asked to shoot it, what he would shoot would definitely be the same as the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" in his memory.

However, this version is very different. This version has some changes from the original version in terms of camera quality, shot scheduling and style.

Luo Yuzhong is filming this fairy tale drama using the techniques and style of a real drama.

Of course, in fact, Lu Yanhe himself felt that the original version of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" was not the way to shoot an idol drama. The costume dramas at that time still used a lot of expression techniques from serious dramas.

The scenes between Li Zhibai and Yan Lingyu did not have any rotating shots, nor any of the popular CP ambiguous shooting methods.

The photo was taken very accurately.

The man is chivalrous and the woman is simple.

Lu Yanhe noticed that on the set, Luo Yuzhong asked all the staff to call Yan Ling Yu Ling'er instead of her real name.

Luo Yuzhong also gave a lot of guidance on Yan Lingyu's performance.

"You smile so much."

"You are too cold, give me a pure and cute smile."

"Don't be coquettish. You are not a coquettish girl to begin with. It's very strange for you to pretend to be coquettish."

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This was what shocked Lu Yanhe. Judging from his experience of working with Luo Yuzhong, Luo Yuzhong often directs actors in a way of breaking it apart and crushing it to tell the story, instead of like now, where he often uses a negative sentence structure to tell Yan Ling Yu, what did she do wrong?

However, what also surprised Lu Yanhe was that Yan Lingyu did not fall into a low mood because of Luo Yuzhong's criticisms. He basically listened to them and adjusted his state.

"Yan Lingyu has too much self-esteem and is too proud." This is what Li Zhibai told Lu Yanhe. "Although her appearance is very suitable for Ling'er, it is easy for her to act like a gentle person like Ling'er. The pretty girl turned into a cold goddess.”

Luo Yuzhong has been correcting Yan Lingyu tirelessly.

Although he had been criticizing Yan Lingyu, he was not angry.

This is what surprised Lu Yanhe.

After Lu Yanhe stayed at the scene for three days, Luo Yuzhong took Lu Yanhe to the computer room.

The material he shot was always being edited by someone, checking to see if there was any material that could not be used. These problems must be discovered in time to facilitate reshoots.

Lu Yanhe didn't understand why Luo Yuzhong brought him here at first, until Luo Yuzhong asked the editor to open a few videos.

They are all videos of Linger played by Yan Lingyu.

In the video, Yan Lingyu almost showed different reactions, such as smiling at Li Zhibai, or sulking. Each shot only lasted a few seconds. However, Yan Lingyu in the camera was different from what he usually saw most of the time. Yan Lingyu is different. He really has the innocent, ignorant, smart and cute temperament of Ling'er.

"Wow—" Lu Yanhe exclaimed.

Luo Yuzhong said: "At first, did you think Yan Lingyu was not suitable for the role of Ling'er?"

Lu Yanhe nodded honestly.

The actress Yan Lingyu was chosen by Luo Yuzhong.

Not Lu Yanhe—even if Lu Yanhe collaborated with her in "Late Spring".

Luo Yuzhong said: "I read "Love Letter", and the girl named Zhang Ruozhi in it is very impressive. I heard that you fell in love with her at first sight?"

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"She happens to be studying in Jiangzhi."

Luo Yuzhong: "Should it be the true character?"

"Yes, she looks just like the girl in the movie."

"But you should know that you are not always lucky enough to find an actor who fits the role so well."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Luo Yuzhong pointed to Yan Lingyu in the camera.

"She herself is indeed not very similar to the character Ling'er. However, movies and TV dramas are all about the art of editing. We don't need an actor to look like a character all the time. As long as she can have some moments that make you believe that she is, that's enough. "Luo Yuzhong said, "Yan Lingyu is such an actor in this drama. Many of her materials are actually unusable. It may take two hours to shoot, but only ten minutes can be used in the end, but these ten minutes are very good. , that’s enough.”

Lu Yanhe listened thoughtfully to Luo Yuzhong's words.

"Being a director means knowing very clearly what you want. You may not be able to describe it in detail, but you have to know what you want." Luo Yuzhong said, "When you were on the set of "Love Letter", this was It’s clear, so everyone’s job is easier. In fact, many veterans in the film and television industry are not willing to work with new directors. Do you know why?”

Lu Yanhe: "Inexperienced?"

"Lack of experience is just a symptom. It's more because new directors often don't know what they want to shoot, or what they want is not obtainable based on the actual shooting situation." Luo Yuzhong said, "This will make it difficult to start over. and double the work.”

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"The same principle applies to selecting actors." Luo Yuzhong said, "You still remember when I went to Star Entertainment to interview actors. Star Entertainment invited more than a hundred idols to come over and let me interview for your role."

"Remember." Lu Yanhe nodded, how could he forget.

That was the day that changed his destiny.

Luo Yuzhong said: "With more than a hundred candidates, do you think you can really say that one of them is the most suitable and the best? Among the actors at that time, there were Li Zhibai, Yan Liang, and a few others. I think Your performance was excellent, but I decided on you in the end.”

"Yes, teacher, why did you decide me then?"

"Do you want to hear the truth?"

"think."

"The main reason is that Jiang Yuqian told me that she saw in you the shadow of a person she once loved. She would feel very good if she acted with you in college dramas." Luo Yuzhong said, "Actually, with you That audition had nothing to do with it. Of course, the performance you gave in that audition surprised me. It made me feel relieved and let me know that you are a person who can act. "

Lu Yanhe looked at Luo Yuzhong in surprise.

"Sometimes, as a director, I don't choose the one I think is the best. Like your character in "The Golden Age", his importance is actually to Jiang Yuqian, and Jiang Yuqian is like you. This scene determines the tone of Jiang Yuqian's entire drama, so her attitude is the most important. Facts have proved that it is indeed the case. You surprised the audience as soon as you appeared, and the college love between you and Jiang Yuqian... Now some people are mentioning it and feeling sorry for it.”

Lu Yanhe nodded.

When "Love Letter" was first released, some viewers said that he would play the role of Bai Yueguang again, whose heroine died.

There was a hot search at that time, called Lu Yanhe’s return to the Baiyueguang track.

Luo Yuzhong said: "However, the role of Ling'er cannot be chosen like this. In fact, this is also to blame for the script you wrote. In your script, the female image of Ling'er can almost be said to be a perfect one that satisfies the imagination of all Chinese people. She has all the good qualities in her image. It’s basically unrealistic to find an actress who matches her in reality.”

Lu Yanhe nodded and agreed with what Luo Yuzhong said.

Otherwise, it is said that the fairy sister has a lot of blood. There is no big company or big capital. It all depends on the blood of the classic characters. She has survived the era of big flowers competing for hegemony, and the era of 85 flowers. In the era of popular female competitions and Internet celebrities , she is still top-notch when she returns.

She is the only one who can carry three generations.

There is no way he can choose a fairy sister in this world. "At this time, you can only find a raw material suitable for carving into this character." Luo Yuzhong finally got to the point of why he brought Lu Yanhe to the editing room today, "An actor only needs a few moments to make you feel that she is that character. , that’s it, on the set, you have to dig out this side and inspire more moments. Use the camera, editing, service and various film and television methods to completely shape her into that in the camera. Role."

Luo Yuzhong nodded at Lu Yanhe sincerely.

"Your "Love Letter" was well shot, but you relied too much on the suitability of actors and roles, on the actors' own acting skills and shaping abilities, but ignored the various conveniences that the film and television industry can provide."

"If it weren't for Chen Bige, who could have brought out the effect of two people who are so similar?" Luo Yuzhong said to Lu Yanhe, "To be honest, "Love Letter" is top-notch in terms of photography, music, performance, and editing rhythm. However, The camera doesn't fool you, you rely on the actor to completely become the character in the performance, and what if you have a role and you can't find an actor who can achieve that?"

There was a bang in Lu Yanhe's head.

At this moment, what he was thinking about was the gold inlaid with jade in "Dragon Gate Inn".

To this day, he can't think of any actress who can play this role, so when Liu Bige said he wanted to film this script, he almost gave it away with relief.

Luo Yuzhong hit the nail on the head in his weakness and the shortcomings that he had been avoiding.

"You have been following me these past few days. Do you want to see how a director works?" Luo Yuzhong asked.

Lu Yanhe nodded.

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"Do you want to continue to be a director in the future?"

"For some scenes, I think it's better for me to be the director myself, so that I can better capture the feeling I wanted when I wrote the script."

Luo Yuzhong laughed.

"Who was the person who said he never wanted to be a director again?" He looked at Lu Yanhe jokingly.

Lu Yanhe lowered his head and chuckled.

Deep down in his heart at this moment, he only had admiration for Luo Yuzhong.

Luo Yuzhong only watched one "Love Letter" and saw his shortcomings and flaws as a director. Luo Yuzhong only used Yan Lingyu as an example to make him deeply aware of the difference between his perspective as an actor and Luo Yuzhong's perspective as a director.

At this moment, Lu Yanhe suddenly understood a truth.

Why are many directors famous for training actors?

Actually, it’s not about training actors.

It's that they can see things in the actors that others can't.

Just like Luo Yuzhong was able to see things about Ling'er that others couldn't see from Yan Lingyu.

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After being taken to the editing room by Luo Yuzhong, Lu Yanhe saw Yan Lingyu acting on the scene again, and what he saw was different.

He noticed that Yan Lingyu was indeed a relatively cold person, which basically constituted the main tone of her image.

However, sometimes, when she chatted with everyone more and became a little more enthusiastic, it was like breaking the ice, and there was a little more warmth in her eyes and face.

And as long as there was this little warmth, her temperament changed, giving her a little spirit feeling.

But she's not like this all the time. If she doesn't talk to anyone for a while, her state will go back to that cold state, and she needs to lure the warmth in her body bit by bit like luring a snake out of its hole. come out.

Lu Yanhe once again thought of what Li Zhibai had told him before, and he suddenly wondered whether Yan Lingyu's coldness came from her own self-esteem.

He knows that many people have strong self-esteem, so under normal circumstances, they will subconsciously hold on and be unable to let go.

Looking at Jiang Lingyi, who plays Lin Yueru, when she is with Yan Lingyu, Yan Lingyu is often the most lively, but it is also the time when Jiang Lingyi is the least noisy.

She actually has a bit of boyishness about her, which just goes well with Lin Yueru's charlatanism. Only when she was with Yan Lingyu, she acted like a little girl.

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On this day, Li Zhibai asked Lu Yanhe.

"You've been staring at Yan Lingyu and Jiang Lingyi for the past two days. What are you doing?"

Lu Yanhe told Li Zhibai what Luo Yuzhong told him.

Li Zhibai was stunned.

"Are you trying to practice your ability to observe people?"

"Absolutely. I always thought I was good at observing people, but after my teacher told me, I found that I had really overestimated myself."

Li Zhibai: "How old are you? You are too exaggerated. Director Luo is just reminding you what you didn't notice before. It's better for you. You want to cultivate a pair of piercing eyes now."

Lu Yanhe: "I didn't, don't slander me."

"Then what are you thinking about?"

"I just want to see what I didn't see from Yan Lingyu before, why I didn't see it, and why Director Luo could see it."

"Tch, that's not what I meant." Li Zhibai rolled his eyes at Lu Yanhe speechlessly, "I said, have you watched "Liu Guang Yin"?"

"See." Lu Yanhe nodded.

"What do you think?"

"Uh, okay?" Lu Yanhe said, "I think Yan Liang's performance is pretty good, and his role is pretty good, but Zhang Lan..."

"Really? You think so too?" Li Zhibai said, "Why do I feel that Zhang Lan's performance in this drama has no sense? There is no sense of camaraderie between her and Yan Liang at all."

"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded, "The camera and the soundtrack have already created the atmosphere, but there is no sense of pull between Zhang Lan and Yan Liang."

Li Zhibai: "There are many people scolding Zhang Lan on the Internet."

"This cannot be done accurately. Zhang Lan and her group of actresses have many fans and anti-fans, and they are very active. It is basically invisible in the early stage." Lu Yanhe said, "The performance of this drama is not bad now. I just don’t know what will happen in the later stage, but both of us feel that there is no feeling between them, and the audience may feel the same way?”

Li Zhibai: "But I took a look and found that everyone is mostly satisfied with Yan Liang. Many people praised him for being very handsome in this drama."

"Mainly because in fairy tales, I have basically never seen an image like him." Lu Yanhe said, "His character is well-shaped, heroic, and has the demeanor of a young general, plus his body shape , very handsome.”

"Zhou Ping'an specially found someone to style him, instead of using a stylist hired by the crew." Li Zhibai said, "Zhou Ping'an still has two skills in this regard. He felt that the style given by the crew of "Liu Guang Yin" was different from The images of characters such as generals and gods of war in other ancient puppets are too similar, there is no difference.”

"Nowadays, everyone imitates whatever drama is popular."

"What if the follow-up drama "Liu Guang Yin" has a bad reputation?" Li Zhibai asked, "It won't drag down Yan Liang, right?"

"How could this happen? This drama is Zhang Lan's heroine ancient puppet show, and she is the one who carries the show." Lu Yanhe said, "Moreover, with Yan Liang's performance, you can't laugh at him. It was obvious that the ancient puppets were Zhang Lan’s comfort zone, I don’t know why she acted so poorly this time.”

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When Yan Liang returned to the set of "Sword and Fairy", "Liu Guang Yin" had been airing for a few days.

In the past few days, Yan Liang has had positive hot searches on social platforms basically every day.

However, at the same time, Zhang Lan had several negative hot searches.

One of them is "poor acting".

It can be said that "Liuguang Yin" is indeed quite controversial.

Yan Liang's mood was also a little affected.

Li Zhibai said: "Everyone is praising you, what are you afraid of?"

"Those are all hot searches bought by Zhou Ping'an for me. He doesn't want everyone's negative comments about this show to spread to me."

"But your performance is indeed good." Lu Yanhe said, "Li Zhibai and I have watched it. Believe us, we are not saying this because you are our friend."

Yan Liang: "Okay."

"Hey!" Luo Yuzhong suddenly came over and patted Yan Liang's shoulder from behind.

Yan Liang looked at him in surprise, "Director."

"Although I have only watched a little bit, you performed well in your new play. Although it is the kind of ancient puppet show that I don't like very much, it can be seen that you are seriously shaping a character and acting like your peers. Actors in genre dramas are different." Luo Yuzhong nodded affirmatively to Yan Liang.

Yan Liang was flattered and said thank you.

Luo Yuzhong said: "However, now that we are back on set, we should focus on the drama we are filming."

"Okay." Yan Liang nodded immediately, "Director, don't worry, I will concentrate on filming this drama."

As soon as Luo Yuzhong left, Li Zhibai hooked his arm around Yan Liang's neck.

"You guy, if we say it won't work, you don't believe it. As soon as the director said it, you immediately grinned."

Yan Liang had to struggle for a while before he could free himself from Li Zhibai's "control".

"Damn it, why do you have so much strength now?"

"You can do it with practice." Li Zhibai hummed proudly.

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On this day, Chen Yin came over, firstly to see the filming situation of "Sword of Immortality". As the deputy general manager of Linghe, he is the producer and producer of this project.

By the way, he also reported to Lu Yanhe the progress of several projects of the company.

"The production of "Houseshare" has been completed, and the editing is expected to be completed in October. Hu Siwei finally decided to broadcast this drama for Northern Lights, and agreed to Northern Lights' new bill-sharing model."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"The project for the "Home Alone" movie has been approved, and we are in the process of contacting suitable directors. As for the two stupid thieves in the movie, we are still preparing to hold auditions to find suitable actors."

"When can the movie start shooting?"

"In January next year, when Huang Feng goes on winter vacation, the background of the script happens to be the Chinese New Year."

"Um."

"TVN said that the Korean version of "Rouge" will be broadcast in November this year. They hope that you can go to South Korea to participate in the global launch ceremony of this drama."

"They also held a global launch ceremony?" Lu Yanhe was a little surprised, "Is it so exaggerated?"

"Yes." Chen Yin said, "Actually, it will be broadcast simultaneously on Maxine streaming media around the world."

"Okay." Lu Yanhe said, "I can't agree to them right now. You can talk to Wang Biao and Sister Ziyan and see if my time can be arranged by then."

"OK."

"Besides that, the movie "Telephone" written by you is scheduled to be released on New Year's Day. "Journey to Thailand" will be released during the Spring Festival next year, and the second season of "Wulin Gaiden" is also scheduled to be released during the Chinese New Year. broadcast."

"Also, director Wang Zhong is planning to send "Raise the Red Lantern" to the West Tour Film Festival, which may collide with director Huang Tianlin's "Tropical Rainy Season." Director Huang Tianlin's first choice seems to be the West Tour Film Festival as well. ”

There was a fight.

Lu Yanhe thought for a moment and said, "Let's just bump into each other. One is a movie written by me, and the other is a movie I participated in. Anyway, I'm not fighting against myself."

When Chen Yin saw Lu Yanhe say this, he said nothing more.

After Lu Yanhe listened, he had only one feeling in his heart.

There are many weird projects.

Since when did you slowly accumulate so many projects?

I have an inexplicable feeling that every month in the future, there will be projects related to him, and even at the same time, there will be movies and TV series.

“…”

As productive as that.

Never before has a work bombarded it with such intensity.

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