Chapter 41 The ceremony cannot be lost
Hou Xiaoxian is investing and paying for the film, so naturally it is not because of his kindness.
The reason why his current producer, Qiu Fusheng, signed a two-film contract with Zhang Yimou is to join forces with the mainland to promote Chinese films to the world.
Chinese films have performed well abroad in the past two years, with Chen Kaige's "Yellow Earth", Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" and Hou Xiaoxian's "Sad City" all winning international awards.
For these films to achieve good results, the quality itself is naturally an important factor, followed by publicity. In addition to their own publicity, the famous Italian film critic Marco Muller also played an important role. effect.
At the Venice Film Festival last September, Hou Xiaoxian had a chat with Marco Muller. Marco Muller continued to support Chinese films, but he also mentioned that China’s output of short films was too small, which was a factor in the film industry. It is a lack in development.
Whether it is Italy or France, they attach great importance to the development of short films, especially France, and even the state intervenes to encourage more directors to invest in short film shooting. There are many independent short film festivals in France. There are also many major film festivals that set up short film awards, and France is now the country that produces the most short films in the world.
Qiu Fusheng was also there when they were chatting.
Qiu Fusheng didn’t know much about movies, but he kept Marco Muller’s words in mind. After returning to China, Qiu Fusheng began to collect short films.
In more than a year, they have collected a lot of short films, but the quality varies, and they also spent a lot of money to collect these short films.
Why is it difficult to collect? Because no one took pictures.
In France, the government will fund and approve some people to shoot short films. After the short films are produced, they can participate in various film festivals. Local TV stations may also fund the purchase of the copyright of the short films.
But in China, these are not available.
Although it seems that they invested and paid for Zhou Yan's short film, the cost was very small, only tens of thousands of yuan in total.
The key is that it doesn’t take much effort. The filming of "Raise the Red Lantern" has just been completed, and the machines and staff are still there. I can finish the film in a day or two, just by the way. There is no need to set up separate projects at all.
In addition, Hou Xiaoxian is not only investing in movies, but also investing in Zhou Yan. He is very optimistic about Zhou Yan. Even if Zhou Yan does not continue to develop his film career in the future, he will probably become a well-known composer, which is worthy of his early investment.
Tens of thousands of dollars and a good relationship, why not?
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Zhou Yan no matter what Hou Xiaoxian thinks, he is now focused on finishing the filming of "Antfly".
After negotiating with Hou Xiaoxian, Zhou Yan ran directly to find Zhao Fei. He had to ask Zhao Fei to help with the photography.
When he heard about the new project, Zhao Fei didn't hesitate and agreed immediately. Anyway, it would take a few days for him to leave. He was idle here for the past few days, and he was also very curious about what Zhou Yan wanted to shoot.
After finishing the photography, Zhou Yan went to find a makeup artist.
When he arrived at the makeup studio, Hong Xin and the others were already packing their things. Apart from the actors, the makeup team was the first to leave the set, saying they would be leaving the day after tomorrow.
After entering the room, Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Guantou Hong, you may stay for two more days."
Hearing what Zhou Yan said, Hong Xin's first reaction was that there was something going on. Reshooting, "Which scene needs to be reshot?"
Zhou Yan shook his head, "It's not that we need to reshoot, but there is another short film to be shot. I have told Director Hou that I may need to second someone from your team."
Hong Xin asked, "Can one be enough? "
"Just one person." Zhou Yan nodded.
Lin Juan, who was packing her tools, had already stopped her work and looked at Hong Xin eagerly. How could Hong Xin not know what Lin Juan was thinking? She pondered for a moment and said, "Is it difficult to put on makeup? Can you ask Lin Juan to come with you?"
"Lin Juan?" He glanced at Lin Juan and nodded with a smile, "Okay."
Although Lin Juan's skills are not as good as Hong Xin's, she can do simple makeup. There is no makeup in "Antfly". If it weren't for the fear of problems, Zhou Yan would not come to make up the crew.
Hearing Zhou Yan said she could do it, Lin Juan smiled like a flower, "Brother Zhou Yan, when will we start filming?"
"Just these two days, 伱Wait for me to notify you." Zhou Yan smiled, "Then you guys are busy, I'll go to the scene and lighting side."
When Zhou Yan left, Hong Xin walked over and waved in front of Lin Juan's eyes. , "My eyes are about to fall out. If you really like it, just tell someone. As long as you are like this, there will never be a chance for you two."
Now Hong Xin has also looked away, instead of letting Lin Juan be single every day Acacia, it's better to tell her to be bolder and pursue happiness. It's naturally a good thing if it works out. If it doesn't work out, it's better to stop thinking about it as soon as possible.
There are many little girls in the crew who are interested in Zhou Yan, but Lin Juan is the only one who is so infatuated.
"I'm afraid..." Lin Juan lowered her head and pinched the corner of her clothes, "If he doesn't agree, it will be so embarrassing in the future. I'm very happy to be able to play cards with him."
Hong Xin was angry that he refused to argue, "I can't live up to my expectations."...
Zhou Yan once again visited various departments such as the lighting team and the production team to discuss the shooting with them. Among these departments, the most important ones are photography and lighting. Makeup is optional, and the work of the production team is simple, and Zhou Yan can do it himself.
After the contact was established, Zhou Yan asked Liu Qing to drive him to the county to look for a house and buy the props needed for the shooting.
"Antfly" does not involve many props, such as leather shoes, telephones, quartz clocks...the telephone may be the only one that is more difficult to obtain, but they quickly found one in the scrap market.
As for the house, they asked around and finally chose a hotel because there were too many problems involved in residential housing.
Most people are not willing to rent their house to others for filming movies. Even if they are willing to rent it, they don't want to talk to Zhou Yan when they hear that it will only be rented for a few days.
The hotel is very good, the environment is suitable, you can rent it if you want, and you can return it if you want to.
Zhou Yan spent two and a half days doing these things.
When he finished all this and returned to the Qiao family compound to inform Zhao Fei and them to start filming, he happened to meet Gong Li and the other leading actors leaving.
Seeing Zhou Yan and Liu Qing come back, Gong Li said with a smile, "I just told He Saifei that you won't be able to come back in time to say goodbye to us."
Other groups have Many people came out to see them off. Although it was said to be farewell, the scene was not filled with too much sadness because everyone felt that they should see each other again soon.
In fact, some of them will indeed meet soon. As long as Zhang Yimou makes another movie, they will get together. For some people, it's not necessarily the case. They may never see each other again after this farewell, but they don't realize it yet.
Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Aren't you going to Chang'an? I'm going there in two days. How long will you stay?"
"A little more than a week." Gong Li said.
Zhou Yan counted the days and said with a smile, "We should still see each other."
He Saifei asked curiously, "If you don't go back to Jinling to celebrate the New Year, why are you going to Chang'an? There won't be any later. What's wrong with you?"
"It's still early for the New Year, Sister Fei, you forgot, I'm a music assistant. I must report to Teacher Zhao after I finish this work. Teacher Zhao is in Chang'an."< br>
"Oh, I almost forgot that you were a soundtrack assistant."
Gong Li said with a smile, "His identity changes. The next time I see him, he might be the director."
"I It’s more likely that the assistant director will do all the work of the assistant director in the end, isn’t it?”
A few people chatted for a while, and the driver began to urge them.
Gong Li got in the car and waved to Zhou Yan, "Let's leave first. See you in Chang'an later."
"Well, see you in Chang'an."
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Early the next morning, the temporarily formed "Antfly" crew crowded into a van and headed towards the county town.
After entering the hotel room, Zhou Yan was about to start setting up the scene, but Liu Qing stopped him.
“A short film is also a movie, how can you be so careless in making a movie?”
Seeing his blabbering look, Zhou Yan was a little confused, "Brother Liu, what do you say?"
"When making a movie, the ceremony cannot be lost."
With that said, Liu Qing started from He took out a stack of red cloth from his pocket.
He slowly unfolded the red cloth. It was a banner about three meters long, with a line of crooked large characters written on it with a black brush.
【Wish director Zhou Yan good luck in launching the movie "Antfly"】
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