"Gary, we have a new release idea. Little Miss Daylights will be shot on film."
In the CPO office of Playtone headquarters, Gary Goetzman looked at the phone on his desk and frowned because of the words of Terry Price, director of the distribution department of DreamWorks.
In fact, he had already expected what was happening in front of him. The entire LM project plan was built by Ye Weiyi. In order to attract investors from the beginning, this talented kid used the sign of saving money to produce, like going to Toronto. Shooting, using high-definition digital cameras, etc., in order to spend more money on the online lineup and the film itself.
This is a very good and professional plan, which won a lot of goodwill for his project, which is one of the reasons for what happened later.
However, the situation is different now, especially after Hanks and Roberts joined the cast, the LM project has undergone earth-shaking changes, and it has become inappropriate to shoot digitally again.
Goetzman knows that the superstars definitely want to use film. The reason is very simple. Film is still the only king today. Its quality, its status, and even the way of working are all liked by the superstars. Many actors will be attracted by the sound of film running. It affects the performance, but these superstars who have become superstars by relying on film movies are not used to losing their voice.
The most important thing is safety, they have taken enough risks by playing LM.
"We mainly consider several aspects." Terry Price continued, "One is the impact on the box office. Although film or digital is not promoted, the audience will not feel much. This is also a variable, and the audience People prefer the imaging effect of film, which will have a subconscious impact.
The other is the impact on awards. If the quality of the film is enough to hit the awards season, then digital shooting will become its major flaw. You also know the thoughts of those in the academy. Whether digital shooting counts as a movie has not yet been truly understood. admit. "
"I know" Of course Gotzman understands that maybe one day in the near future, digital will replace film. For now, especially for a literary film, film is still the best choice. If it is shot digitally, If the result is B, then if you switch to film shooting, it will be A or even A
This is a common view in the industry. Compared with digital, film shooting is a greater challenge, more difficult, more professional, and more respected.
Before the trend of the times changed our views, the Oscar halls of honor belonged to film, and the NTV Awards and youth-oriented awards did not care about them. Young people always accept new things faster than the old stubborns in the academy.
The question is, he laughed bitterly in his heart: "Thinking about Oscars? Have you really positioned Little Miss Sunshine in this way?"
He should be happy, but the mediocre results of "The Polar Express" really made him unhappy. It took more than three years from project establishment to release, but the results of the large-scale production with high hopes turned out to be dismal. Once again, he felt first-hand the cruelty of the film industry, and the Lesson: No matter what your mother says, don¡¯t think your project will be successful.
The ultimate lesson of many fantasies is that the more you fall into a hot-headed situation, the more likely tragedy will occur, and now many people are hot-headed towards Ye Wei.
Goetzman poured cold water on him and said: "But we also have to consider whether it would be feasible for the project to suddenly switch to film shooting? It's still early before the shooting period, and the shooting schedule can be adjusted, but no matter how you adjust it, the total time will be nine weeks. Film shooting If the actual working time per day is reduced to at least 10 hours, is it even enough?¡±
"You can seize the time, it depends on how well Weige does his job." Price said, "He also has a filming team."
Hey Gaosman is a bit slander. The issuer is the issuer. There are not many on -the -spot experience, and the actual situation is unclear.
Yes, Ye Wei is the director, not the photographer. He does not need to operate the machine. The same scene scheduling, film and digital are no different to the director. Sean Maurer, the photographer of the LM crew, has rich experience in film shooting. , should be able to lead the film crew to solve technical problems.
Some directors don¡¯t even recognize all the photography equipment when shooting their debut film.
But in comparison, film shooting will create many new problems. The director is always the one who makes the decision. When faced with those emergencies, does Ye Wei have enough ability to deal with them? Who knows, who can tell the answer with confidence?
"Dance of the Angels" and "The Wedding Day", which Weige proved to be a child prodigy, are both digital works. He may not even be able to distinguish between negatives and positives. Why make it so difficult for him? After all, he is still a 6-year-old boy
There is a big difference between being more difficult and less difficult. Goetzman thinks that instead of thinking about the awards season, think about something more practical first.
But he couldn¡¯t say that directly. He was the supervisor of the LM project. He wanted to give DreamWorks confidence, so he said: ¡°Teli, ask Wei Ge about this first.
"You can do as many things as you have the ability. Remember to tell him that if you really have the confidence and ability to impact the awards season, but use digital shooting, everyone will be"?Regretful. "
Terry seemed to hear that he was not very active and his words were quite meaningful. After hanging up the phone, Goetzman immediately complained: "The film was not filmed well, and everyone will regret it even more."
He could almost see a disaster in the future. During the preparation period, there was no problem and everything seemed to go smoothly. However, during the shooting period, many problems occurred on the first day of shooting. Ye Wei was unable to solve the mess because he was not familiar with the film set. It happened one after another, and the worst thing was that there was not enough time, and nothing was filmed in the whole day.
But in order to catch up with the schedule, we had to adjust the schedule and delete some scenes from the script. Those decisions should have been left to the editing room, but the decision was made on the set. However, deletion still doesn't work. All you can do is sacrifice the quality, rush every day, and shoot a bunch of mediocre images with no lens language and exquisite performances.
Fighting for awards season? First of all, you have to have quality to be able to impact. A bad movie can only impact the Golden Raspberry Awards. At that time, whether it was digital or film, who would care
Thinking of this, Gotzman almost wanted to reply for Ye Wei, no, it really can¡¯t.
The biggest question now is, when Tom knows and when Weige knows, how will they react? Is Haodaxi Gong really switching to film? Open Pandora's Box
"You must not let them slap their heads and act recklessly. What should you tell them?"
Toronto, the snow is falling.
Ye Wei was in a good mood, and Nina, this silly girl, was so cute. Once she chose understanding and trust, her enthusiasm for him quickly rose from 6 below the passing line, almost in the blink of an eye, she returned to 3
Before leaving the cliff park, I went back to the car and took a SLR camera to take pictures. She seemed to be back all over again, making funny expressions and movements next to the various snow sculptures, relying on her body's flexibility to make some incredible moves. , using the snow fitness ball as a real fitness ball, bending and leaning back above the Snow Palace, riding on the snow pig and rushing forward
It really made him sweat, fearing that she would lose her balance and fall down, smashing his precious artwork.
After having enough fun, I left the park, had breakfast at a nearby restaurant, and went to school.
Starting today, Ye Wei no longer wears glasses to school and no longer deliberately conceals his identity. The power of that pair of glasses was once again proven, and because VIY was in the limelight, he was recognized several times in the morning. When eating in the cafeteria at noon, it inevitably caused a sensation.
What started as an Asian female student turned into a group of people of all ethnic groups laughing and shouting around, attracting the attention of everyone in the cafeteria at the same time.
"Are you really VIY?", "Oh my God, you are studying here too? How long have you been studying here?", "I can't believe you can give me an autograph?", "VIY, I like you so much"
Ye Wei glanced at the smiling faces of the people around the dining table, and there were more and more people around. Through the gaps in the crowd, he saw Nina standing not far away looking at it, and Damian, who was sitting opposite, looking dull.
"Guys, thank you, thank you." Ye Wei raised his right hand, "It's me, the God of Weddings. Those who like me, cheers."
"Ah!" A burst of excited shouts suddenly erupted in the cafeteria. Both boys and girls were excited. The teachers were also surprised and came to disperse the crowd.
¡°It¡¯s great, it¡¯s great.¡± Some Asian girls were so excited that they burst into tears. An atmosphere of surprise, wantonness, and fanaticism filled the air, making the young men and women feel like they were at a party.
Ye Wei smiled, never letting people who like him down, and he was happy again today. He said loudly: "You know when I was filming on the set of "Wedding Day is Coming", when I kicked the cake to the ground, it What happened in the end?"
Under the smiling faces of everyone, he stood up and continued: "It was very angry and said, 'Director, although I am a cake, I am also an actor. Sometimes you have to kick the actor, sometimes you can't. You can¡¯t kick it so hard and I won¡¯t shoot it, and then it will go away.¡±
Before he finished speaking, he danced an impromptu gait dance into the crowd (aaI, "Come on, baby, let's walk"
Now everyone burst out laughing, not only laughing at his humor, but also excited by his dancing. This is really VIY
The entire cafeteria was detonated. Everyone who thought Ye Wei would be arrogant, unapproachable, and putting on celebrity airs cheered, and some people joined in to dance. The free atmosphere of the art school, his proficiency in dance, and the passion brought by Ye Wei , all letting them enjoy this flash-like CaaI. It would be perfect if there was a B¡Í DJing.
Nina watched, laughed, and applauded from a distance. Yunik was so cool. She had always wanted him to be a cool kid, but she couldn't get used to it.
Wexford was shocked and enthusiastic that day. Thousands of students in the school knew that Ye Wei was studying here.
Not everyone likes him, and not everyone cares, but for the supporters, it's like winning the lottery
"Nina, that neighbor of yours turns out to be a big star. Are you going to hide it?"When will we be here?"
"I want to sign an autograph and take a photo, it's great"
Things that she was not used to were like a sudden outburst. She was chatted by her classmates and friends at school, and by Hai Lei and others after school. Nina's cell phone was about to explode. They said they must see Ye Wei today, otherwise they would not let her go. She really couldn't bear it, so she made an appointment with them to meet them at the "Mandarin Restaurant" in Golden Square in the evening, and she would take him there.
"But we can't let those crazy girls know that Yunik lives in her house, otherwise there will be no peace every day."
Nina went to practice ballet for two hours first. Nina was quite satisfied with her performance today. Unfortunately, she saw Yunik dozing off on the sidelines. After that, the two drove to Golden Square.
When she reached the street outside the Mandarin restaurant, she finally let go of the little guilt she had about giving her friends bad nicknames, crazy girl
It was as if the dream had come true. On the street under the night, a group of nearly ten girls were already waiting there. Hai Lei, Alice, Monica, Liz all of them were exactly the same. When she and Unique walked away, They all screamed in unison and rushed over to surround Younick, saying "VIY" and "Oh my God, I really saw you."
Regardless of whether they were fans of VIY before or not, they are all crazy now. Hai Lei, who is a big fan, is about to cry. She ignores her existence and hugs Younick.
"Hailei" Nina suddenly became anxious, "I told you you can't do this"
"You are so stingy. I have to hug you every day, so I will hug you for a while." Hai Lei hugged her tighter. Alice also squeezed up and said, "I want to hug you too, Wei, do you mind?" It's so shameless to actually call "Wei" so affectionately. Fortunately, it didn't taint "Yunique", Alice said with a smile. Saying: "My name is Alice. I have liked you for a long time. Can we be friends? This is my dream."
dream? Nina was almost pissed off. Alice was never a fan of VIYR before. She just gossiped about all the celebrities. If the dream meant having a celebrity friend, that would make sense.
But what happened to Liz? In the past, when Hai Lei and the others occasionally talked about VIY, Liz did not join the discussion, but now she behaved like a senior fan, rushing to hug Yunique's other arm, as if she was his girlfriend. I can't believe it
"Can you kiss me? Just on the cheek" Liz asked.
¡°Uh, you have to ask Nina about this, that¡¯s her territory.¡± Ye Wei smiled.
"Oh" the girls screamed in envy, why didn't their boyfriends understand how to say this?
Nina put her hands on her hips. She originally wanted to scold them, but suddenly she thought, forget it, what¡¯s the point of arguing with them? Look at how happy Hai Lei is, don¡¯t let it down. Alas, who calls me a good person? She curled her lips and said: "If you want to kiss, then kiss, if you want to hug, then hug, just for one minute, no kissing, I2B starts."
"Wow!" The girls immediately rushed to kiss and hug Ye Wei. A hug was indispensable. They kissed him on the cheek and their faces turned red with excitement. They also hugged him hard with both hands and buried their heads in it. He chested, one after another.
Why did time pass so slowly? Nina looked at the time on her phone anxiously. It didn't matter at the beginning and quickly became important. She wasn't such a good person either. She couldn't stand it. She really couldn't stand it. No matter if it was time or not, she hurriedly shouted: " One minute is over, stop, stop.¡±
"Hahaha" Liz and Monica walked away contentedly. Although Hai Lei was reluctant to leave, she did not continue. Alice pinched Yunik's butt obscenely, with a look of joy on her face, as if to say: I earned it. Make a lot of money
"Uh OK." Ye Wei shrugged.
It was impossible for Nina not to be angry. She would not even rush up to wipe his wet cheeks. She glared at them and declared her sovereignty: "Don't go too far."
"Relax, we are just too happy.", "Yeah", "The photo session has just begun"
This buffet party was crazy and playful, but fortunately it was short-lived. Everyone had a full meal, took photos and signed autographs, etc. After that, they said goodbye. She and Yunique got into the Land Rover and left. Crazy girls There was another envious and ambiguous cry from the side of the car, thinking that they still had the second half of the event, and it was SP¡§
God, for the first time, Nina felt ashamed of these bad friends she knew. These people were so embarrassing to her and so bad.
"Younick is right. If she had known he was VIY from the beginning, she might have become one of them. It's really too bad.
Under the night sky, the Land Rover was driving on the road home. It had already driven for a while. Ye Wei was still laughing, feeling very amused, "Nina, your friends on the gymnastics team are so enthusiastic. I like them." ,Hahaha"
"Humph." Nina pursed her lips, suddenly a little unhappy, "Yeah, I'm no different from them, I'm just lucky"
Ye Wei stopped laughing and looked at her. Knowing that Sha Niu's mood was still unstable, he coaxed: "You know what I'm feeling"??Only you. Anyway, you have clearly seen everyone's VIY today, right? Is there any difference from Yunique? "
"Of course" Nina muttered. Of course she had this feeling at the end of the day. Which one is true and which one is false? If Unique is real, then the situation is really not that bad. They know nothing and understand nothing. , and she understood.
"Nina, I'm sorry. Falling in love with me will indeed be a lot different. It's okay that there are no paparazzi in Toronto, but sooner or later you will also enter the public eye, and you will have pressure. I can do this The only thing I can do is protect you." Ye Wei said, "This problem cannot be solved, we can only adapt and face it."
Nina smiled lightly, "I don't think these are problems, aren't they just some media attention? I'm fine, just don't lie to me again."
At this time, Ye Wei's cell phone suddenly rang. He looked at it as a work cell phone. He usually paid attention to hiding his identity and forwarded it to the voice mailbox before replying. Now he didn't use it anymore. He answered the call immediately, put on his earplugs, and said: "You good?"
"Weige, it's me." Gozman's voice came from the earbuds, "Today the DreamWorks Publishing Department has a new idea. We want to hear your thoughts first. They hope that "Little Miss Sunshine" will be changed. Shot on film.¡±
"What? Are you kidding me? Shooting with film instead?" Ye Wei was shocked when he heard this, "That would add a lot of work, and it would also be a waste of time. Just the time spent changing film adds up, and I have to lose several days." On the shooting day, why do you have this idea?¡±