Hu Mei took the students to have dinner and got up and left. They had some plays to arrange behind.
After eating, Zhou Yan went back to the office directly.
The short script collection activity has brought a lot of scripts. Their judges team sifted a few pretty good scripts to come over and wanted to show them to Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan just happened to have nothing to do today, so he decided to read the script.
When returning to the office, Zhou Yan took out the box containing the script.
A total of three scripts were sent, which were placed in three folders, and the script information was written outside each folder.
Zhou Yan took out the top script, just glanced at the name, and raised his eyebrows.
This name is too long and several lines are written on the label paper.
Because the title is too long and the label paper is too small, the words have to be written smaller.
Zhou Yan narrowed his eyes and looked at the note, and saw that it read: Jin Xiaoyong's buddy, Hu Meimei's escort family, Liang Changyou's son: Xiaowu.
The entire title, punctuation marks, and there are twenty words.
But when Zhou Yan finished reading his name, his eyes lit up.
Isn't this "Xiao Wu"?
He was sure that this was "Xiao Wu", not only because of the word "Xiao Wu" behind it, but also because the other names appear in the title are all characters in "Xiao Wu".
Below the label with the name written, there is another label, which writes the contributor, and there are three names written on it, namely Jia Zhangke, Gu Zheng and Wang Hongwei.
Seeing these three names, Zhou Yan smiled, it was indeed them.
I didn't expect that a short script collection activity could actually bring "Xiao Wu", which is a feature film.
But Zhou Yan can understand it. After all, for students, such an activity is very rare, and Jia Zhangke and the others are not willing to miss it.
I know it was "Xiao Wu", Zhou Yan became interested and immediately opened the folder and read the script.
Although it is a short film, the script is not short at all, probably because there are many plays, Jia Zhangke and others are reluctant to delete them.
But there is nothing special about this thing.
The film festival stipulates the duration of the work to be submitted, which is clearly visible. It is said to be thirty minutes, but more than one minute does not meet the requirements.
But the script collection is different.
Although it is a short script, there is no specified number of words in the script, and it is no big deal to have a long script.
Initially, the length of the script cannot determine the length of the final film.
A script worth 50,000 words can be filmed for an hour, and a script worth 200,000 words can still be filmed for an hour.
Zhou Yan roughly estimated that after the script of "Xiao Wu" deleted by Jia Zhangke and others, it should be between 40 minutes and an hour. This time is obviously not a short film.
But at the same time, it is not a feature film.
At this time, Zhou Yan saw a small paragraph of words written on the last line of the last page of the script.
【This script can be deleted, but it can also be increased. 】
Seeing this small word, Zhou Yan couldn't help laughing.
These guys Jia Zhangke are playing tricks with him.
They want to meet the requirements of this event, but they are also lucky and want to get more funding to make a movie into a long-term film.
Zhou Yan smiled and shook his head, put the script of "Xiao Wu" aside first, and then looked at the other two scripts.
The other two scripts were also voted by students from Yanjing Film Academy, but their level was slightly worse and did not make Zhou Yan interested.
After reading the last two scripts, Zhou Yan turned his attention to "Xiao Wu" again and pondered.
He must use this script, and the reason why he hesitated now is because he was considering making "Xiao Wu" into a short film first, or making a new film in one step.
After pondering for a while, Zhou Yan called Liu Hang's office from the inside line.
The phone was picked up as soon as it rang twice.
"Hey?"
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "You haven't gotten off work yet?"
"No, boss, are you okay?"
"You come here and I'll tell you about the short script."< br>
"Well, I'll go there now."
The phone hung up, and after a while, Liu Hang arrived at Zhou Yan's office.
"Boss, how do you read the script?"
Zhou Yan did not rush to express his opinion, but asked Liu Hang first, "Have you read the script?"
Liu Hang nodded. "I've read it."
"Then what do you think of these three scripts?"
Liu Hang looked at the script on the table and tried to figure out what Zhou Yan meant, but there was no When I found any clues, I said according to my true intentions, "I think the script with a very long name is good, but it is too long. The other two scripts are also good, but they lack the intention and the content is a bit empty."
Zhou Yan nodded and said, "You contact the author of "Xiao Wu" tomorrow and ask him to come to the studio."
Liu Hang also knew that Zhou Yan should be optimistic about "Xiao Wu" 》, he nodded, "Okay, no problem, I will arrange for someone to contact you."
These students did not have a contact number, and they were all left with the contact address, so if you want to contact them, you either give them to the hospital The department called the office or sent someone to find it.
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"Old Wang, have you sent the script?"
On the way back to the dormitory after class, Jia Zhangke, Wang Hongwei and Gu Zheng walked together, and Gu Zheng suddenly asked.
Wang Hongwei yawned, "You just remembered to ask, and I sent it the day before yesterday."
Wang Hongwei has been working on his homework recently and has not had a good sleep for several days. "Have both been sent?" Gu Zheng asked again.
"It's all sent."
This time they prepared two scripts, one is "Xiao Wu" and the other is written by Wang Hongwei himself.
"Then do they respond?"
Wang Hongwei rolled his eyes, "How could it be so fast? Their solicitation activity lasted for one month. Logically speaking, it would take at least one month to wait for it. It will be announced later. I guess the script is sent over and no one has read it yet. "
"Oh, it's me that's too anxious." "You're just too anxious." br>
Jia Zhangke smiled and said, "It's useless to be anxious. No matter how anxious we are, we can't change the result." "Old Jia, do you think our script is too long? Should we delete it?" Gu Zheng said worriedly. "It's okay, the script cannot determine the length of the film, and did I add a sentence to explain this?"
"I'm afraid that people haven't even finished watching the script. I can't see the lines you wrote."
Jia Zhangke curled his lips, "That's because they have no vision."
He said this very confidently because he was very confident in the script "Xiao Wu".
And even if the other party doesn't like it after the vote in "Xiao Wu", he doesn't care. Anyway, he is now preparing to raise money to film "Xiao Wu" himself.
No matter what, this movie must be made.
Although Jia Zhangke is very confident, Gu Zheng is still very worried. After all, they have encountered failures before.
As for raising money to make a movie, Gu Zheng is not optimistic. If he really wants to shoot "Xiao Wu", it may not work without hundreds of thousands.
Not to mention whether they can raise hundreds of thousands, even if they have enough money, if the movie is sold and cannot be sold, they will lose all their money.
Jia Zhangke saw that Gu Zheng was very worried, but he didn't say anything.
Gu Zheng is like this. His mentality is not stable enough. He always cares about everything he does. He is at a loss when he encounters a little failure. Even if he says he is useless now.
No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one read!
Jia Zhangke has already made plans. If Gu Zheng is really so worried later, he will not take him in filming "Xiao Wu".
When the three of them were about to arrive at the dormitory, Liu Wen, who was in the same class, chased him from behind. "Jia Zhangke, Gu Zheng, Wang Hongwei."
The three of them turned their heads at the same time when they heard the shout. "What's the matter, Old Liu?" Wang Hongwei asked. "Teacher Wang is looking for you." Liu Wen said.
Teacher Wang, who Liu Wen mentioned, is their chief teacher Wang Zhimin, similar to their class teacher.
"What did Teacher Wang ask us for?" Wang Hongwei looked curious, "We haven't caused trouble recently."
Liu Wen smiled, "It shouldn't be asking you for trouble. I see one. The man talked to Teacher Wang in the office, and it seemed that he was looking for you. "
"Man?"
The three of them were a little puzzled. Who would look for them three?
"You three will know if you go and have a look?" Liu Wen said.
The three of them looked at each other and nodded together, and they could only do this.
Then the three of them went to Wang Zhiming's office together. As soon as they entered the office, they saw a young man in his twenties sitting in front of Wang Zhimin.
The three of them shook their heads and said that they did not know this man.
At this time, Wang Zhimin saw the three of them and waved to them with a smile, "Come here for the three of you."
Seeing Wang Zhimin's smile, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief. This should not be a trouble for them.
After posing with the three of them, Wang Zhimin smiled and said to the man in front of him, "Assistant Li, these three are Jia Zhangke, Wang Hongwei and Gu Zheng."
After introducing the three, they were introduced. , Wang Zhimin said to Jia Zhangke and the others, "This is Assistant Li from Zhou Yan's studio. He is here to find you this time."
Assistant Li also continued Wang Zhimin's words and said, "Hello, three classmates, this The time I came to you was because you submitted the script to our studio, "Jin Xiaoyong's buddy, Hu Meimei's escort, Liang Changyou's son: Xiaowu." "
Somehow, I heard Assistant Li say it. The three of them felt a little embarrassed about the name of the script.
When they gave the script this name before, they didn't feel this way.
The main reason is that Assistant Li speaks very slowly. Just pronounce this name, it will take seven or eight seconds.
Wang Zhimin next to him also twitched when he heard this name.
She had published an article in "Movie Creation" before, mentioning the name of the movie and saying that the name of the movie should not be too long.
But her student gave the movie such a long name.
After a brief period of embarrassment, Jia Zhangke and the others all showed an excited expression on their faces.
At the time they were on the way back to the dormitory, they were discussing the scripts for the collection, but they didn't expect that they would find them all.
This studio is too efficient.
Wang Hongwei reacted the fastest, and he said with a smile, "Hello Assistant Li, we really invested in this script. This is Jia Zhangke, and he wrote the script."
Assistant Li dialed in the words Head, "Director Zhou appreciates this script very much. I wonder if you have time to go to our studio?"
"Today?"
"Well, if possible, you can come with me now."
Jia Zhangke looked at Wang Zhimin hesitantly, "There is time now, but we have five or six taels of five or six taels." There are classes for the holiday, but I don’t know if there is enough time.”
Wang Zhimin smiled and said, “You go with Assistant Li, I’ll give you a leave.”
The reason why Jia Zhangke saw Wang Zhimin is I just want Wang Zhimin to give them a green light. Now that I have been approved for leave, I am naturally happy.
"Thank you, Teacher Wang."
Wang Zhimin waved his hand, "Go, when you see Director Zhou, you must seize the opportunity and learn more from him."
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From Yan The distance from the Beijing Film Academy to the studio is very close, and it doesn’t take long to walk.
Assistant Li drove here, and Jia Zhangke and the others sat in the car and felt that Assistant Li had just stepped on the accelerator and arrived at the place.
When he arrived at the studio, Assistant Li first informed Zhou Yan, and then took Jia Zhangke and the others to Zhou Yan's office.
When they arrived at the office, Zhou Yan had just hung up Xu Xiangjie's phone number. When they saw them coming, Zhou Yan smiled and stood up, "Three classmates, please sit down, Xiao Li, help pour three cups of tea."
After Jia Zhangke and the others sat down, they wanted to look at Zhou Yan's office, but they were embarrassed. They just sat upright on the sofa, looking at the coffee table in front of them.
Zhou Yan looked at the three people in front of him with a smile, with a smile on his lips. He thought Jia Zhangke was very young at this time, but he was still a student after all. He didn't expect that Jia Zhangke would look quite old now.
Of course, Jia Zhangke himself is not young. He was born in 1970 and was the same age as Zhou Yan.
When Zhou Yan looked at him, the three of them were a little nervous. After all, Zhou Yan was famous and was a noble person in their hearts.
Zhou Yan saw their nervousness and said with a smile, "You should know too. I asked you to come here because of "Xiao Wu". There is a problem with the length of this script, and I'm afraid it has not been passed through this short script. Recruited."
When hearing Zhou Yan's words, the three of them were stunned and a burst of disappointment surged in their hearts.
They originally thought that Zhou Yan specially sent someone to call them over because the script was collected through the event. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yan's first sentence was eliminated.
Of course, they also felt strange. Since they were eliminated, why did they still call them over with great fanfare? It wasn't just to announce the result of the elimination in person, right?
Can a busy person like Zhou Yan have such a bad taste?
Before they figured it out, Zhou Yan continued, "But I'm going to invest in them and make this script into a long-term film. I wonder if you have confidence?"
Zhou Yan As soon as they finished speaking, they saw the three of them growing in height. They looked at each other in surprise, and then Jia Zhangke nodded repeatedly, "I have confidence, of course I have confidence." Wang Hongwei couldn't help but say, "Actually, we originally wrote the script according to the feature film, but it was deleted because of this short film activity." Zhou Yan smiled. Since that's the case, "then you tell me how much this movie requires Budget? ”(The end of this chapter)