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- As the Thanksgiving holiday has passed and December 2003 has arrived, the Christmas atmosphere has gradually spread across the United States.
At school on Monday, Ye Wei was reluctant to receive Thanksgiving gifts. In addition to Lev, Bud, Chen Nuo, Kerwin and other friends, as well as club members, there were also many strange girls who expressed their kindness. Various deeds in the past month , making him extremely popular.
Then don¡¯t let it stop! Ye Wei announced to the dream chasers the company¡¯s recent focus, which is to shoot a professional short film! And more than half of the preparation work has been completed.
There is still a very important department that the crew has yet to implement: food supply!
There is a wise saying on the set: If the director can serve the stomachs of the cast and crew, he can have their hearts.
This is not a joke. You must know that enthusiasm cannot be eaten. For most people, the filming work on the set is long and monotonous. Even the director himself will feel dull!
The great French director Truffaut described the work of directing as "Imagine yourself sitting on an old stagecoach on a trip to the Old West: at the beginning you are full of expectations that you will visit the famous places and historical sites in person, and imagine that you will experience countless A thrilling and exciting adventureand in the end, you just want to get there quickly."
Therefore, delicious food is so important, not only to keep everyone strong, but also to make them happy, so as to maintain high efficiency and high quality.
It is even the most important thing on the set, director or food, which one to choose? If you randomly interview a hundred people on the set, ninety-nine of them will choose gourmet food, and the remaining one will be the director or the director¡¯s mother.
In addition to a hearty and nutritious lunch (lunch on the set is not a lunch in the traditional sense, it is the middle meal after 6 hours of shooting every day, so if the shooting starts at 5 pm that day and takes a break for dinner at 11 pm, then (a meal is also called lunch), the set also needs to provide snacks for a long time. In almost every set, you can find a snack table in the logistics department. The long square table is filled with various snacks for you to take. In this regard, the group Acting and big stars are fair game.
Of course, if there is only one bagel left, and the big shot wants it, and you have it all in your mouth, you¡¯d better give it to him.
Naturally, we can¡¯t be careless on the set of "Dance of Angels". Ye Wei originally planned to find a special catering supply company to cooperate, but Bud clamored and volunteered. His restaurant "Good Taste Country" can take on this important task!
??The Country of Good Taste is located in Santa Monica, which is quite close. Ye Wei has eaten there before. The meals and desserts are both good, and the Baders are willing to help. They only charge the cost price, and that¡¯s it!
After the most important aspect of logistics was implemented, he began to recruit theater audiences for group performances. When they heard the news, the young students cheered!
"I want to participate!! Brother Wei, can you give me a close-up shot?"
¡°Oh my God, BOSS, you mean you have a bunch of USC college students helping you film? Haha, that¡¯s crazy!!¡±
"What about college students, they all have to listen to VIY!"
How can anyone not join in? Even if we had to put down any plans we had on the 14th, this short film VIY will probably create a miracle. How lucky we are to be featured in it! College students all help him!
The pride on the faces of the twelve disciples who knew the news early turned into arrogance. It was so cool to follow Brother Wei to pursue his dream.
"Guys, I almost forgot to mention that three of those college students are beauties."
Ye Wei's words made everyone even more enthusiastic, with excited and childish smiling faces, and cheers resounding throughout the utility room!
On this day, Ye Wei also fulfilled a promise he had made before, sending a text message to Connie to come to the library where he worked, and gave her a five-minute script "Winter Girl" that he wrote in his spare time. Taking into account Lev's production ability and the acting ability of Connie and other girls, the story is very simple:
Because of the cold weather in winter, Connie put on heavy clothes, but was ridiculed by her classmates. However, with the help and encouragement of Lily and Trieste, she wore the same thick clothes and looked like a hot girl, making the previous ridicule The classmates were dumbfounded and had a wonderful day, and their youth was also shown and left in the camera.
"Wow!" Connie was so pleasantly surprised when she got the script. Looking at his smiling face, she was almost moved to tears, "Yi, I almost forgot about this. I didn't expect you to actually write it. I thought you were just I agreed casuallyOh, wow!"
"How dare I not write? Do you think I'm not afraid of being chased to an alien planet by you? Hunter."
"Wei, you are so interesting I told Lily that if you and her don't get along, I will date you."
"Thank you Well, then you ask her if we can have a three-person date? It's just a joke, don't ask."
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On December 2, four days after Thanksgiving, Arndt still hadn¡¯t waited for Ye Wei¡¯s call. His frustration became heavier and heavier. Sure enough, movie screenwriters are like toilet paper. Although it will be troublesome to run out of it, it is very troublesome to use it. After that, it will be thrown into the trash can
He remembered the regretful words of Ron Jexa and Albert Berger: "Michael, I'm sorry, the project was bought by a rich kid, and it's over. Alas"
Is it over? "Little Miss Sunshine", is it over? Arndt was so worried that he couldn't eat anything for the past few days, and it felt really uncomfortable to have his dream shattered.
However, that night, Ye Wei's call came unexpectedly.
"Michael, I'm sorry, I've been busy making a short film recently and I'm too busy, so our meeting has to be postponed. Let's wait until my short film is finished, before the Christmas vacation, just in time for you to see what I can do. Not some random kid."
"Oh, okay, okay" What else can Arndt say besides being happy? He no longer has any delusions.
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Ye Wei didn¡¯t lie to Arndt. He was really busy. He was so busy that he didn¡¯t even have time to date and talk on the phone with Lily. He only sent a few text messages from time to time.
From the 1st to the 8th, for a whole week, whether at school or at home, he spent most of his time doing various paperwork.
Originally, if he only had to shoot a short film, since there was only a three-day shooting period, a lot of copywriting could be omitted, but he still had to show off his professional abilities!
So not only do you have to do it, you don¡¯t need a computer, you do it all by hand with a pen! It is simply an old antique among old antiques.
As a director, he wanted to draw storyboard scripts. Instead of using software such as Storyboard-Quick, he went to an art store and bought a lot of storyboard drawings with wide screen frame sizes. He planned to draw storyboard concept drawings for 99% of the shots before drawing them. Detailed storyboard, this time, he would make Hitchcock, who promoted the storyboard, feel ashamed when he saw it!
The so-called concept drawing is a draft, usually sketched with lines, or more simply with stick figures. The key is to clearly draw the camera position and movement.
When Spielberg was filming "Raiders of the Lost Ark", he drew 70% of the storyboard concept drawings, and then his team of storyboard artists drew storyboards to deepen his visual concept.
He did both by himself because he likes to read comics. He has been learning painting since he was a child. Although it was a three-minute passion, he still has certain basic skills. And because he practiced hard in that dream, his current painting skills are It's quite good, not as good as a professional painter, but it's definitely enough for a director.
Scenes are drawn on the storyboard drawings, from simple lines to clear sketches, and some are even detailed sketches
On the other hand, as a producer, he has to make a shooting plan.
First, break down the script, sort out every shooting location, every character, every prop, every costume everything that needs to appear in the script, and then make a scene breakdown table.
This breakdown list will be the bible for the crew during the filming stage. Each department head must have a copy to carry out their work. If there are any changes, they must be notified in time.
Next, it is necessary to formulate the number of shooting days and daily shooting plan.
The number of days has been determined in advance as 3 days. No matter what, he has to finish filming the script in those 3 days. If he can't even control the shooting of a ten-minute short film, how can people believe that he can make a feature film?
So daily arrangements have become crucial. How to maximize efficiency? The answer is simple, let's spend as much time as possible in the 10 hours of shooting every day, instead of constantly changing shooting locations, skipping lunch for 8 hours, everyone is starving, a scene shoots overtime, and it rains. I couldn¡¯t shoot the exterior scenes, but I had no backup plan for interior shots¡
"Dance of Angels" has fewer scenes and fewer days. As a person with professional skills, Ye Wei arranged it with no difficulty and no sloppiness. Making the production schedule was like playing with a Rubik's Cube, working hard to flip, adjust, and sort until Each side is the same color.
Next, you have to make a filming schedule. This thing is for the cast and crew. In a regular large-scale production crew, it is produced and distributed by the second assistant director.
??Everyone involved in the filming relies on it to know where to go and what work to do on which day, which department head to contact, etc. Remember to write down the driving route to the filming location as well! If you don¡¯t want to delay a day of filming because a leading actor gets lost.
Making these things is far from fun, but Ye Wei has the patience to do it, and he feels a full sense of accomplishment after finishing it.
If not, then it¡¯s best to give up the idea of ??becoming a producer. The production work of a feature film is more complicated than this short film.?More than a hundred times more.
After finishing it, Ye Wei distributed these things to the eight Arhats, and then they were shocked!
"Dalum, we really encountered something strange this time." Parela said with emotion.
"I don't understand why he knows this. Then what are we going to school for?" Darum was hit hard.
A decent script is understandable, but these copywriters were written by a middle school student? This fact is difficult for them to comprehend.
These storyboards and production sheets completely demonstrate Ye Wei's ability in copywriting work, which is at the same level of professionalism as them! Evenbetter
Why? They couldn't figure it out. No one could figure it out. In the end, they had to accept Ye Wei's careless statement: "Because I am a genius! And I have learned it."
But after this shock, the work enthusiasm of the Eight Arhats became even higher. They knew that this was not a game for middle school students to make elementary school students happy. Maybe they could actually shoot something decent
??In fact, it¡¯s not just the copywriting work, but also the selection of actors.
On Sunday the 7th, Ye Wei conducted a collective interview with 12 second-round actor candidates for the four main roles, and determined the leading actors and substitutes. The professionalism he displayed during the process also convinced Darum and others to join the cast. The sigh.
The extras were also found, and all the actors had to sign contracts. As for the legal matters, Ye Wei still asked Lawyer Salton to handle them all for free. He only needed to put the sentence "Thanks Greg Solton" in the end credits. Lawyer Dun provided legal consultation and assistance for this film!¡±
December 8th is Monday, which is also Anna¡¯s 10th birthday. In the evening, Ye Wei¡¯s family went to Anna¡¯s house to attend her birthday party. - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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