I really want to pounce

Chapter 498 Adding [-] Details to the Script

In the production department of Duoyu, Liu Ming talked eloquently.

"During the communication between Mr. Zhang and Mr. Pu, Mr. Pu repeatedly emphasized his four requirements and affirmed Mr. Zhang's script many times. It is obvious. Mr. Pu has seen the final effect he wants through Mr. Zhang's simple script. "

"But Mr. Pu didn't mention the details, we need to improve it. First of all, we have to eliminate the low-level cognition that the movie Mr. Pu wants is a bad movie!"

"So our task is how to perfectly find a way to a good film under the circumstances of so many constraints, so that the investment of 3.6 million yuan can be doubled!"

"The script must stand scrutiny, and at the same time meet the quality requirements of commercial science fiction blockbusters, so as to guarantee our box office."

"The outline of Mr. Zhang's original story is: the spaceship of aliens landed in a certain area of ​​the earth, and then began to invade the earth. Humans and aliens are constantly rubbing against each other. That place is called the alien restricted area. He felt that humans and aliens are intelligent beings, and they should shake hands to make peace, and then went to the alien restricted area alone, and had a vigorous relationship with the aliens, and finally influenced the aliens with emotion, and let them leave the earth. , became an ambassador of peace between the two civilizations."

"And after adding billions of details, the real story is like this."

"On a certain day in a certain year, an alien spaceship was suddenly discovered over Cape Town, South Africa, and armies from various countries swarmed in. Before we retreated into the spaceship, we found that those aliens seemed to be very natural and hostile. Come here Scientists have found that the social structure of aliens is similar to that of ants under the earth, but we seem to have lost the front of the ant, which poses a threat to humans, because it looks exactly like a standing shrimp, and is called by humans: shrimp people, formerly Later, the United Nations decided to set up an Alien-inhabited area in Cape Town, South Africa, called the Alien Forbidden Zone.

Come here again because the aliens reproduce too little, so the United Nations decided to relocate the alien settlements. Because the task was too small, the United Nations outsourced the population statistics of the aliens to a company, and the protagonist Xiao Zhuang belonged to that company. An employee and a reporter at the same time, I cherish my hairstyle very much. It seems that I am strong and rude. In fact, I am the same as others. I don’t treat the shrimp people as human beings. I think the shrimp people are a group of people who only eat garbage As a higher creature, in the alien forbidden zone, I am like a prophet who is inferior to others.

When Xiao Zhuang was doing statistics and interviews, he broke into a shrimp man's residence and found a laboratory, found a jar of mysterious liquid, and was sprayed in the face before opening it.Then my body reacted normally, and ended up mutating into a shrimp.

It is said that Xiao Zhuang was forced into a bag by the company's people and transported to the laboratory to end the endless human experiment. All around me were the dead shrimps. Because the weapons of the shrimps were very advanced, It is hundreds of years ahead of humans, but it can only be turned on by our genes. The protagonist has the conditions to use it before it mutates, and has become the most expensive experimental body in one fell swoop.

So, the news exposed me and falsely accused me of having sex with the shrimp. My wife also wanted to sever ties with Xiao Zhuang because of your father's deceitful lobbying. It was colleagues who knew the truth who also persuaded me to surrender.I managed to escape to the alien restricted area, a shrimp man rescued me in a coma, and the friendly shrimp man said that if I returned to the mother ship, my illness would be cured. Xiao Zhuang discovered that at that time, all human beings were Greedy, only the beautiful little shrimp that I once despised was helping me sincerely, I decided to help the little shrimp escape back to the mother ship, and I stayed alone to resist the pursuit of the army.The shrimp man swore he would come back to find me, so I must wait for him to come back!In the fierce battle between Xiao Zhuang and humans, the spaceship took off. "

Zhang Yang: "."

Ma Xing: "."

The two pondered for a while, then stared at Wu Ma, and asked in unison: "And what about now?"

"Then that movie is over!"

"Grass!"

"Shit!"

"It's good to learn, learn from the dog author who writes online articles, right?"

"Man can, at most should"

Zhang Yang and Ma Xing looked at Wu Ma with resentful eyes, as if watching a big movie about to be launched, the network suddenly got stuck, the heroine's movements froze on the screen, and the hero's ecstatic voice stopped abruptly.

At that moment, there was a dilemma.

But at the last moment, as a director, Ma Xing immediately reacted.

"Good! Great script! Even just listening to his narration, the huge plot tension is already rushing! It is definitely a hardcore sci-fi short! Without that script, you really have no confidence to make something good, right! Your junior brother It will definitely be of interest!"

Compared with the excited Ma Xing, Zhang Yang's expression is not a bit strange.

The story Wu Ma told just now seems to have nothing to do with what I wrote later, or whether it has anything to do with it.

"Then that's your script?"

Wu Ma looked directly into Zhang Yang's eyes with certainty: "There's a mistake, that's what your script looked like before you added billions of details."

Zhang Yang asked: "Xiang Chen requested that it be an emotional story in a sci-fi cloak, and that he wants to fall in love with a alien, does he have that element?"

Wu Ma asked: "Who said that emotions can only include romantic couples? Is friendship across races weak and shocking enough?"

Ma Xing: "Hiss~ It's low! It's low as soon as the intention is raised!"

Zhang Yang thought about it for a while, and felt that it was more reasonable and less interesting than the initial version he had just finished writing, but in fact, whether there is any story outline beyond his own, it still focuses on the friendship between the protagonist and the aliens.

The top topic is also under trust.

After thinking about it, Zhang Yang was shocked to find that Xiang Chen's perfect and supplemented script actually fully met Xiang Chen's requirements and the outline of the script I wrote later!

It's just the details.

It was the most puzzling that Xiang Chen didn't have a single request.

"Xiang Chen also said that the special effects are the best, but the most expensive. There is a little sense of cheapness in the price, so that the audience can see that you have invested so little money. It is best to bring some physiological comfort to the audience. The best. How do you do it in filming?"

"Uh, that may be beyond the scope of a screenwriter's ability. Maybe you can ask Director Wu what Liu Ming's request is expressing."

Xiang Chen is also omnipotent.

"There is no such strange request?" Ma Xing was also shocked. Although I have been in the film and television industry for ten years, I have never heard such a strange request.

After spending money, you still want to make a cheap photo?
People enjoy watching movies, but he actually makes the audience physically comfortable?
Is that disease-free?

It's nothing but a lot of bosses, who gave me a little investment, which made me feel like an international small film.
No disease either!
But Ma Xing directly expressed his opinion, but said cautiously: "You are not specialized in science fiction, that question may not be answered until your junior brother arrives."

Xiang Chen took a deep breath: "In short, since Liu Ming asked so much, there must be no reason for it."

The other two nodded in conviction.

Liu Ming can always give us a bad idea, deliberately let the movie hit the street, right?
Seventh day.

Mr. Pu, the Hollywood sea turtle sci-fi director, came to Shaoyu Company.

It can be seen that the 1000 million director's fee has very little support for people's subjective initiative.

I opened my mouth and said, "You know what kind of film your boss wants to make!"

Eight people:"!!!"

Zhang Yang: "Speak carefully!"

Before Xiang Chen learned that there was no one stupid company with little money, he set off overnight from Magic City to Kyoto by plane last night, and chatted with Ma Xing in detail for a long time. requirements.

My first reaction was that the boss was messing with us, deliberately making us make a bad movie.

But after some psychological counseling by Ma Xing, and the fact that every decision Xiang Chen made was a prerequisite for making the company lose money, he thought about it all night. Finally, I figured it out!
Before taking a sip of tea, Mr. Pu said excitedly: "The seemingly reasonable request actually hides the precise guidance of their boss for that film! Their boss only gave the only way to write the script, and also asked you how to write it." The shooting and scheduling of the shots made a low-level command."

"Actually, Liu Ming wanted to make that movie like that."

"Have you ever heard of a pseudo-documentary? A film that looks like a documentary, but looks like it was filmed by a camera on the surface. The shaking of the lens, the blurring of the picture, and ordinary marks make the audience mistakenly believe that it is really filming. documentary!"

"And what Liu Ming said about spending a small price to make special effects so that the audience can see it is what he meant! To shoot a sci-fi documentary that is fake and real, and the special effects are made. There is no trace of special effects, and I even feel that the shooting is not cheap at all. , so that the audience can immerse themselves into the movie, and after watching it, they will never have the same feeling that the alien forbidden zone exists beside you, so that their goal of Liu Ming will be achieved!"

"As for the physical shock that Liu Ming mentioned, what caused the audience is adaptation. It's very complicated. Thai horror, American blood plasma, and European exorcism all use that kind of technique in a small amount, which is to stimulate the audience's senses to achieve a certain level. This is an ordinary feeling, and then let the cerebellum of the audience consciously secrete a small amount of dopamine, so as to relax the body. When the filmmaker realizes that he is in a dangerous environment and the movie is false, the sense of relaxation is eliminated, Only the slow pleasure brought by the serotonin hormone is left, so that many viewers will hate watching this type of film and feel refreshed."

"Liu Ming. That's obviously what it means. We need to add that kind of elements to that movie, stimulate the audience through visual images, and produce a physiological reaction. Nausea, fear, and fear can be used. Wait until the audience finishes watching it and call it out—that's cool." !"

"Then. Do you think the design of the Alien Shrimp in the script is very wrong. If the model is done well, the disgusting Alien on the outside will cause the audience to feel uncomfortable at the first time. The alien rejection psychology will take the lead, and they will follow the movie. In the beginning of the story, I hated aliens consciously, and thought that kind of high-level creatures were disgusting, but the previous plot was just the opposite. Humans who seemed to be clean and sunny were doing dirty things, but the real shrimp lacked low-tech weapons. I once hurt a human being, even if I was oppressed by human beings, I am willing to accept human beings and save human beings, and I promised the protagonist that he will come back to treat me. What an ironic comparison!"

"The more disgusting and beautiful you make Xiaoxia, the more moving the friendship between humans and shrimps in that movie is! The contrast between before and after. Sigh~ Do you think it is better than a quiet male teacher on Weibo being blasted to be a parent in class? Group rbq is too weak!"

Zhang Yang, Wu Ma, Ma Xing: "?"

Zhang Yang's eyes shined brightly: "Whispering!"

Mr. Pu said suspiciously: "Uh, you have finished your analysis."

"Yes, you said something about contrasting male teachers."

Mr. Pu: "Uh, let's have a private chat on WeChat later. You don't have many videos outside. What if we talk about business first?"

"Ahem! Yes. You think that Director Ma's words are very ignorant! It's basically very close to Liu Ming's idea." Zhang Yang's face became serious.

Wu Ma also nodded: "Indeed. In that way, you can perfectly explain what Xiang Chen's conditions mean. Did you still think about making such a bad domestic movie? Have you ever thought of Liu Ming's real That was the intention."

Ma Xing: "Junior Brother, there is really nothing to learn in it. The next time I see him so innocent, it will be the next time. I hope that the last time I saw him so innocent is the last time."

Several people were in the conference room of the production department, and basically discussed and finalized the script and shooting techniques of the entire movie.

Before we needed to perfect fewer details.

Mr. Pu said without any worries: "You have problems with the shooting of sci-fi movies, but you need to find a reliable special effects team, especially if you want to shoot a pseudo-documentary, you need a top-level special effects team in the industry to be able to complete the film in 11 months. Filming is complete."

Zhang Yang waved his little hand: "Spread coins! Scatter for you! Problems that can be solved with money are problems. The company's 3.6 million investment is all real money spent outside the movie. Just worry about it!"

Zhang Yang understands that some production crews say that they have invested billions or less, but in reality, half of the production crew can be allocated to it. As for what they do, they understand everything.

And we actually returned 3.6 million investment, which is indeed too much in domestic films.

Ma Xing was concerned: "How about your choice of actors?"

"The leading actress must be a fresh meat. Liu Ming doesn't have that requirement. The rest is mine. Let's see for ourselves."

Ma Xing frowned: "Xiang Chen is also going to be a traffic star? I'm afraid."

In the industry, the eight characters of "big fresh meat" are basically equated with "acting skills". Although our film is a science fiction film, for the role of the protagonist who switches between human and alien, the actor's acting skills are required. is very low.

It is necessary to show the protagonist's arrogance, confusion, fatigue, fear, gratitude, relief... and many other emotions.

If the female lead fails, the impact it will have on our film with such a small investment is absolutely devastating.

If it is done well, the word-of-mouth will collapse, and the money will be returned!
When the time comes, Liu Ming's side. How to explain it?
The question of how to choose the leading actress made several people fall into deep thought again.

(End of this chapter)