Chapter 228 You don’t understand him


Chapter 228 You don’t understand him

After Xu Junrong hung up the phone, he couldn’t help but touch his forehead. The two brothers of the Zhou family were really completely different.

The big boss Zhou Hong looks relatively cold on the outside. When communicating with others, he has very few expressions on his face. Some people even nicknamed him Zhou Mutou in private.

But Zhou Hong is very flexible when he does things, and he doesn't look like a fool at all.

To say that the end justifies the means may be a bit too much, or it can be said to be "relaxing".

As for the second boss, Zhou Yan, he is usually amiable to everyone, and he seems to be a smooth person, but when you get to know him, you will find that he sometimes sticks to his principles to the point of being stubborn.

Take today's matter as an example. Chen Hong is an actor for the Zhou family, helping the two brothers make money, and Zhou Yan himself is the director. It is not easy to arrange more scenes for Chen Hong. Something?

But Zhou Yan just doesn’t know how to do it.

He also knew Zhou Yan somewhat, so he just asked a question and didn't go any further.

……

The next day, Zhou Yan received a call from Panasonic, who told him that it had been confirmed with Chen Hong.

Zhou Yan didn't say anything else, except that he wanted them to prepare to start shooting the advertisement.

Two days later, Zhou Yan got the team together, everything was ready, and he made an appointment with Panasonic people to start shooting the commercial.

This advertisement is very simple. The general content is that when a woman was closing the curtains at home at night, she suddenly saw through the window a house in the building opposite, and a man was holding a guitar and playing.

The music is good, the man is good-looking, and the woman is attracted.

After the man finished playing the song, he suddenly raised his head and smiled and waved in the direction of the woman. The woman waved back shyly and happily.

At this moment, the curtains on the opposite side were suddenly blown open more by the wind, and a hand appeared holding a remote control to change the channel.

The woman discovered that the man she saw playing the guitar was not a real person at all, but a picture on the TV opposite. By this time, the TV had changed the channel and turned into a football game.

After discovering that it was an error, the woman was very embarrassed and quickly closed her curtains.

The advertisement ends here.

The reason for taking this shot is to reflect the clarity and color reproduction of Panasonic's new TV.

But in fact, if you really use a TV to shoot like this, it will definitely not work, because today’s TVs simply cannot achieve such an effect.

So Zhou Yan planned to first shoot with real people in the room, and finally use editing to splice the TV screen with the real screen.

Zhou Yan didn’t look for any other location for the filming location, so he arranged it here in the studio.

Building No. 3, which I just rented, is right across from the warehouse. It fits the scene perfectly. All I have to do is arrange two rooms on both sides.

The layout of the room was very simple. The official shooting took place in the evening and was completed in the morning of the shooting day.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Hong, who was supposed to arrive at the scene, had not arrived yet.

Zhou Yan found Ryosuke Kawabata from Panasonic Electric and asked him: "What's going on with the actress? Why hasn't she come yet?"

Kawabata Ryosuke was also confused, "We have already told him She made the connection and told her to arrive before two o'clock this afternoon. Don't worry, Mr. Zhou Yan, I will contact you now."

"As soon as possible, I don't want to affect the progress of our entire team because of one actor. .”

The official filming starts at seven o'clock in the evening, but before that, Zhou Yan must communicate with the actors first, and then the actors will have to put on makeup and rehearse.

The five hours reserved in the middle are used to do this. If the time is delayed, their filming will definitely be postponed.

Kawabata Ryosuke nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, I will communicate as soon as possible."

After saying that, he hurriedly ran to contact Chen Hong.

More than forty minutes later, Chen Hong arrived late.

When she arrived at the scene, Chen Hong had a very good attitude and apologized to the staff on site.

In the team for this shooting, many people made movies with Zhou Yan, such as the two brothers Hong Xin and Hong Ben.

Hong Xin and Hong Ben are not actually siblings, but their surname is Hong and they look a bit similar, so everyone jokes that they are siblings.

They themselves also like to joke like this, and they all say that they are brother and sister.

Hong Xin and Zhou Yan are old acquaintances. They have been collaborating since Zhou Yan participated in the first movie, while Hong Ben started working with "The Sixth Sense". They had a great time cooperating before. This time I heard that Zhou Yan wanted someone, so he responded immediately.

Both Hong Xin and Hong Ben are very familiar with Chen Hong. When they were filming "Westward Journey", Chen Hong had many contacts with these people at Chang'an Studio.

In the eyes of Hong Xin and others, Chen Hong and they are both their own people.

So when Chen Hong apologized, Hong Xin smiled and helped smooth things over, "It must have been delayed on the road, Hongmei, the traffic in Yanjing is not very smooth to begin with."

Then Hong Xin looked at Zhou Yan again, "Director Zhou, since the actress is here, let's start quickly without wasting time. You tell her the story while I put makeup on her."

Zhou Yan originally wanted to say something to Chen Hong, but Hong Xin blocked his words. He glanced at Chen Hong and said in a deep voice, "I'll give you fifteen minutes. Go try on clothes first."


Seeing that Zhou Yan didn't scold Chen Hong, Hong Xin took Chen Hong's hand and went to the dressing room.

Arrived in the dressing room, Hong Xin smiled and said, "Hong sister, what did you do today? You know that Director Zhou hates people who are not punctual, but you are still late for so long."

Chen Hong did not explain why she was late, but just thanked Hong Xin, "Sister Xin, thank you. If it hadn't been for you just now, I would have been scolded badly."

"Hey, it doesn't matter if we are scolded. Director Zhou didn't scold him, he was just strict. You're okay. When you met him, he was already Director Zhou. When I met him, he was still a student, and I only regarded him as his younger brother. I'm a little uncomfortable being scolded by him."

Chen Hong walked to the clothes rack and asked Hong Xin, "Sister Xin, how are his preparations for his new movie this time?" ?”

"The school is about to start construction. Anyway, we are all here. There is actually nothing to do during this period. Let's shoot a commercial and practice our skills. What about you, what have you filmed after "Westward Journey"? Do you want to play?”

“I have filmed a TV series and it is almost over.”

“It’s good to keep filming. You are still young and you are so beautiful. You will definitely develop in the future. "

Chen Hong sighed slightly, "There are so many beautiful girls, how many can have a good development?"

Hong Xin laughed, "You are so good. You are so beautiful, you still have this trouble. If I were as beautiful as you, I would wake up with a smile every morning. When you came here just now, those men’s eyes would look straight.”

"Some people don't have straight eyes." Chen Hong muttered in a low voice.

Her voice was too soft and Hong Xin didn't hear her clearly, "What?"

"Nothing, I said I don't know which clothes to choose."

Hong Xin looked up He glanced at the clothes on the hanger and smiled, "Hey, isn't this simple? One is white and the other is sky blue. Just choose one of these two dresses. White looks best on you, what about blue? , Director Zhou likes it best.”

“Then I’ll choose the white one.” If it were before, Chen Hong would probably choose the blue one because she wanted to please Zhou Yan, but now she figured it out. To please Zhou Yan is not as beautiful as yourself.

......

Fifteen minutes later, Zhou Yan brought the storyboard to the dressing room.

Seeing Chen Hong wearing a white dress, his eyes lit up slightly. He had to say that Chen Hong was indeed suitable for such simple and plain clothes.

I haven’t seen him for a few days. Chen Hong seems to have lost some weight, and the smile on her face is less than before, but she has become more and more classically beautiful.

Hong Xin was doing Chen Hong's hair. When she saw Zhou Yan come in, she said with a smile, "Director Zhou, is Hong Mei's dress okay?"

"It's okay." Zhou Yan's tone was indifferent, but he didn't mean it.

Hong Xin pouted, "It looks so good, but it's just okay. Why don't you try the blue one?"

"No need to worry, just this one." Zhou Yan Looking at Chen Hong's face through the dressing mirror, "The eyebrows should be lighter and thinner, and the lip color should be lighter. Her skin color is already fair enough, and she doesn't need too much powder."

"Close Arrived.”

Zhou Yan nodded, walked closer and handed a storyboard to Chen Hong, "Let's take a look at the shots first. There are not many shots in the advertisement, so it's not difficult."

Chen Hong looked up at Zhou Yan, and quickly He withdrew his eyes and said, "Yeah, I got it."

After a while, when Chen Hong read the storyboard over, Zhou Yan asked her, "Is there anything you don't understand?"

Chen Hong asked , "Will the scenes on both sides be carried out at the same time?"

"No, shoot your scene first, and then shoot mine."

"Oh." Chen Hong thought for a while and then asked: "Who recorded this narration advertisement? You or me?"

"It's you, so I will arrange for you after the filming starts. Go and record.”

In this advertisement, the two actors did not have a single line in the whole process. There was only one slogan at the end of the advertisement: “Panasonic TV, bigger and clearer.” This advertisement was originally intended for women. Recorded by actors.

"Well, I understand, there is no other problem."

"After your makeup is finished, go to point B opposite to rehearse. Half an hour later, I will be there Waiting for you.”

After saying that, Zhou Yan left the dressing room without waiting for Chen Hong to respond.

After Zhou Yan left, Chen Hong looked in the mirror in a daze, and Hong Xin asked with a smile, "What's wrong?"

"Sure enough, Director Zhou was not very satisfied with my clothes."< br>
"Haha, I think you still don't know him well enough. If he is really dissatisfied, he will definitely ask you to change it directly. There won't be any other possibility. He pays great attention to these details and won't do it at all. Just make do. Since he didn't ask you to change, it means he is satisfied."

"Then he..."

"It's probably because you're late. Let me give you a look. This is normal and nothing."

Half an hour later, Chen Hong put on makeup and went to room b.

Zhou Yan didn't waste any time and directly took her to familiarize herself with the position and camera position.

Until six o'clock, machines began to be set up on site to make final preparations before shooting.

At seven o'clock, the shooting started on time.

There were only a few scenes in the first place, but Zhou Yan had familiarized himself with Chen Hong many times in advance, so it took less than an hour to shoot all the scenes with Chen Hong.

After Chen Hong finished filming, Zhou Yan asked her to record the advertising slogan, while he took the team to room A to shoot his own shots.

He needs more shots, but he has to play the guitar, so the filming difficulty is also higher.

The most critical point is that when filming, he has to take into account the difficulty of post-editing, so the section of the TV video must perfectly match the background of the room, and it must not be exactly the same.

Also, when shooting at the beginning, you can only reserve space for one TV, otherwise the post-editing effect will be very poor.

In addition, because we need to shoot the TV video footage, we need to put the real-life footage shot in the early stage on the TV to play, so after the first segment is shot, we have to quickly wash, cut and blow out the video.

This process is very time consuming.

It wasn’t until half past twelve that Zhou Yan’s shots were completed.

After Zhou Yan said "call it a day", the staff on the scene breathed a sigh of relief. Although it was just a commercial, the filming was no different from a movie. Zhou Yan's requirements were very high.

Fortunately, the commercial film is relatively short. If it exceeds one minute, they will definitely have to stay up all night today, and they may not be able to finish filming.

Ryosuke Kawabata, the representative of Panasonic Electric, has been watching from the side. As the client, he couldn't find any fault with Zhou Yan's shooting. Many times he felt that the shooting was very good, but Zhou Yan was still not satisfied.

When all the filming was over, he also breathed a sigh of relief.

At the end of the work, Zhou Yan asked them to collect the films and send them to the printing room, and said to Hong Ben, "Go and tell the canteen to start preparing for the meal. After you put it away here, Everyone goes to eat.”

In order to get this commercial out, most people didn’t eat at night, and they kept going until now. Zhou Yan also made the kitchen work harder and worked overtime until now.

“Director Zhou, won’t you have dinner with us?”

"I won't eat for now. I'll go to the developing room to see the films that have been developed."

"How about we wait..."

Zhou Yan waved his hand, "Don't wait for me, eat." You can go back and rest after that.”

“Okay.”

Looking at Zhou Yan’s leaving figure, Hong Ben sighed deeply, otherwise Director Zhou would have succeeded. The passion for this work is completely unmatched by ordinary people.

After working in the industry for so long, Hong Ben has only seen one person who is more passionate about work than Zhou Yan, and that is Zhang Yimou.

Of course, compared to Zhang Yimou, Zhou Yan is still considered a normal human being. Zhang Yimou is not a human at all. Hong Ben has never seen Zhang Yimou sleeping.

After Zhou Yan arrived at the developing room, he said a few words to the staff in charge of developing and printing, then took the film to the editing room, where he started editing himself.

He is not a professional editor, but there is no problem in editing a commercial.

The sound track of the lines recorded by Chen Hong has been released. Several versions have been recorded, and Zhou Yan also listened to them one by one.

(End of this chapter)

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