Chapter 62 Praying for Rain Promotional Video (First update 3k, please vote for me)
Wang Junzheng’s decision suddenly made the filming of the movie much more difficult.
According to her plan, this scene will be shot in two places. First, the scene of pulling the string in the morning will be shot in the Forbidden City Square, and then she will go to the countryside to shoot the scene of the kite floating in the rain.
The latter one is easy to handle. You can just find a water spray truck.
But the scene shot in the Forbidden City Square was difficult. They couldn't drive the water spray truck to the Forbidden City Square, so they had to wait for the real rainy day to arrive.
There is very little rainfall in Yanjing in April, and it is not easy to wait for a rainy day, so Wang Junzheng and the others can only wait while filming other scenes.
The crew is watching the weather forecast every day, hoping that it will rain soon in Yanjing.
More than half a month passed, and by the end of April, the weather in Yanjing began to get cloudy, and the weather forecast also said that it might rain recently.
As soon as the weather forecast said there might be rain, Wang Junzheng put down other shooting work he was doing and led his team to the Forbidden City Square to wait for rain.
When Zhou Yan has nothing to do, he occasionally goes to the scene to take a look.
Unfortunately, the whole team stayed in the Forbidden City Square for three or four days. Although the weather was extremely cloudy, the rain still did not fall.
Zhou Yan sat on the pony, looked at the sky full of dark clouds, and said with a smile, "Sister Wang, looking at the situation today, it is very likely to rain."
Wang Junzheng also raised his head. She glanced at the sky and then shook her head, "It was the same yesterday afternoon. Didn't the dark clouds drift away afterwards?"
Before, like Zhou Yan, when she saw dark clouds, she happily thought that it was going to rain. It rained, but in the end all I got was disappointment.
Even though Wang Junzheng was patient, she was also a little anxious staying in the Forbidden City Square like this every day.
And this is not a matter of patience or impatience. If they stay here for a day, they will be wasted. It consumes not only funds but also personnel energy.
There are still many scenes in the movie that have not been shot, and she is also considering whether to go and finish shooting the remaining scenes before coming back, but she is worried that after they moved here, it will rain again. , I thought of having to wait until the next rain, but I didn’t know when it would be.
Others in the team are also listless. Being idle like this every day is indeed very draining of people's energy.
In the past two days, some people have begun to study "metaphysics".
Xiao Li from the logistics team learned the trick from somewhere. He was wearing a big coat and was dancing and chanting spells.
"The wind is coming."
"The rain is coming."
"Tai Shang Laojun, hurry up like a law."
But this thing is of no use, it should not come , still didn’t come, but this weird ritual made everyone in the crew relax a little.
After waiting for a while, there was still no movement at all, and Zhou Yan was ready to leave.
At this time, three young men came over. The one in the lead smiled and said to Wang Junzheng, "Director Wang, are you still waiting for the rain?"
Wang Junzheng sighed, "Yes, there is no way, wait. It’s been a long time, so it’s a pity to withdraw now.” Filming your crew?”
“What can we film?”
Xiao Sun said with a smile, “Isn’t it true that Director Wang is filming the film here to show the cultural atmosphere of the Forbidden City? ”
Wang Junzheng smiled and nodded, "Okay, you go ahead and shoot. Is there anything we need to cooperate with?"
"No, no, you can just do your own thing. We will shoot next to you and won't disturb you."< br>
“Okay, you are free to do as you like.”
With Wang Junzheng’s consent, Xiao Sun was very happy and led two other young people to carry the machine and start filming the crew.
The originally listless crew members cheered up when they saw someone was filming, and faced the camera with their best spirit.
Because everyone was waiting for it to rain, there was nothing to take pictures of. The three young people took a photo of the young actor Shi Chen and put away the machine.
However, they did not leave immediately and joined the large army waiting for the rain.
Wang Junzheng glanced at Xiao Sun, "Have you finished shooting?"
"I'm going to wait for you to start shooting before I take some more shots." Xiao Sun said with a smile.
Wang Junzheng smiled and shook his head, "Then you may have to wait for a long time. We have been waiting for this rain for a long time and haven't gotten it yet."
"It doesn't matter, we still have plenty of time, and maybe the rain will come as soon as we come."
"Then I have to thank you." Then Wang Junzheng said with emotion, "It's still you The TV station is very comfortable. When will your promotional video be delivered?"
"September at the latest," Xiao Sun replied.
"That's really plenty of time. A few minutes of filming is longer than the time it takes us to make a movie. This should be your first independent film, right?" Wang Junzheng asked.
Xiao Sun nodded, "Yes, I have been working behind Team Leader Sun before, but this time the film is mainly controlled by Team Leader Sun."
Zhou Yan was listening to their conversation and asked curiously, "What kind of film are you making?"
Xiao Sun glanced at Zhou Yan and thought he was an actor, and replied with a smile, "A city promotional film. "
Seeing them chatting, Wang Junzheng introduced to Zhou Yan, "This is Sun Qin, the director of the special feature department of Yanjing TV station. Their station will release a Yanjing city promotional video this year. In the next two days, We collect materials here in the Forbidden City." After introducing Sun Qin, she introduced Zhou Yan with a smile, "Xiao Sun, this is Zhou Yan, the soundtrack director of our film."
Sun. Qin was stunned for a moment, then shook hands with Zhou Yan very enthusiastically, "Hello, Director Zhou."
"Hello, hello."
Sun Qin is much older than Zhou Yan. If it weren't for the title of soundtrack director, he would probably call Zhou Yan Xiao Zhou.
Most of the time, the title is very useful. Now that Zhou Yan has the title of "soundtrack director", he will naturally get more respect.
"Director Zhou looks very young." Sun Qin said with a smile.
“I’m actually still studying.”
Wang Junzheng took over the conversation and said, "Xiao Sun, don't look at Zhou Yan. He hasn't graduated yet. He has participated in quite a few projects. Last year, he was credited with the soundtrack for the movie "Raise the Red Lantern" made by Zhang Yimou and others. It was also hard for me to do it. I invited him here.”
Zhou Yan is now the soundtrack director of her movie. To promote Zhou Yan is to promote their movie.
When Sun Qin heard that Zhou Yan had also participated in the soundtrack of "Raise the Red Lantern", the smile on his face became more enthusiastic.
Although this movie has not been released yet, it has attracted a lot of attention. Their Yanjing TV station has reported news about the movie before.
“It’s true that people should not be judged by their appearance. Director Zhou looks too young. When I was your age, I was still fooling around in school.”
"Director Sun is joking, if you can get into Yanjing TV Station just by fooling around, how embarrassing will it be for other students who can't get in."
"Haha, I'm just lucky."
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The two exchanged a few words of mutual commercial praise, and Zhou Yan once again inquired about the promotional video, "How long is your promotional video?"
"Not long, probably Three to five minutes.”
"How much material is there related to the Forbidden City?" Zhou Yan asked again.
Sun Qin thought for a while and said, "It's okay, because it is a city promotional video. It must highlight the key points while trying to take into account most of the highlights of the entire city. The material on the Forbidden City accounts for about Ten to twenty percent of the total is still relatively large compared to the material from other places."
Zhou Yan calculated in his mind, that is to say, the material from the Forbidden City is only one minute at most.
Wang Junzheng glanced at Zhou Yan and said with a smile, "What? Are you interested in their promotional video?"
Zhou Yan smiled and waved his hand, "No, I just asked casually."
"It's okay if you're interested. Xiao Sun, are you going to do the soundtrack for this promotional video yourself or hire someone from outside?"
Sun Qin scratched his head, "We haven't decided on the soundtrack yet."
In fact, it’s not that it hasn’t been decided, it’s that it hasn’t been considered at all.
After all, in their view, the soundtrack is a very late stage matter, and they can wait until the film is completely edited before finding someone to do it.
Besides, it’s just a few minutes of promotional video, what kind of fun can the soundtrack bring? When the time comes, can’t we just ask the soundtrack engineer inside the station to play some classic music? There is no need to hire someone from outside to do it.
Therefore, their special team has not paid much attention to the soundtrack.
Wang Junzheng said with a serious face, "This can't be done, Xiao Sun. We still need to pay attention to the soundtrack. Don't think it's okay to wait until the film comes out. Put the soundtrack work in advance, It can bring you unexpected effects.”
This is Wang Junzheng’s personal experience. Before, she had the same idea as Sun Qin and others, just put the music work behind. After this period of cooperation with Zhou Yan, her idea was completely different. change.
Now that I see Sun Qin and the others paying so little attention to the soundtrack, I can’t help but give them a warning.
"Director Wang is right, we will pay attention to it..."
Before Sun Qin finished speaking, Wang Junzheng suddenly jumped up.
"Coming!" she shouted excitedly.
“Coming, coming!”
The rest of the crew also started to move.
At this time Zhou Yan looked up at the sky, and a raindrop fell on the tip of his nose without any bias.
The raindrops melted on the tip of Zhou Yan's nose, turning into a bright smile on his face.
After waiting for so long, the rain finally came.
There was a burst of cheerful laughter at the scene. If I could use one sentence to describe the scene in front of me, it would be "a long drought brings good rain".
Of course, now is not the time to be immersed in joy, they must complete the work before the rain stops.
It didn’t take long for the crew to be ready. This time, God did not disappoint them again, and the rainfall gradually increased.
After the crew started moving, Sun Qin and the others quickly followed suit and filmed the crew rushing to the scene nearby.
In the past few days while waiting for the rain, they had rehearsed this scene countless times in advance, so the scene in the rain passed quickly, but because this rain was hard-won, even if it was extremely Wang Junzheng, who was saving film, couldn't help but take two more shots when there were no problems in the scene.
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