The style of this dress is designed based on the character of the heroine. The character of the heroine in the movie is a bit playful, which is different from traditional girls.
Dong Wenmiao stood not far away, looking at Wang Zuxian at the entrance of the embankment with very complicated eyes.
This is not the first time she has designed character costumes for Joey Wong. When she was filming "The Sixth Sense", she designed many sets of clothes for Joey Wong.
And many of the clothes in "The Sixth Sense" are out of fashion, and sometimes you can see girls wearing them when walking on the street.
However, most of the same-style clothes in China are not authorized. "The Sixth Sense" has only authorized one set of clothes in China.
Not to mention China, where intellectual property rights are currently chaotic, even in Europe and the United States, "The Sixth Sense" has not made much money from clothing design. Some brands have simply changed the designs and made new models for sale.
An American magazine reported this before. After "The Sixth Sense" became a hit in the United States, a brand immediately released two sets of new clothes, the styles of which were similar to those in "The Sixth Sense". The heroine's clothes are very similar.
Plagiarism in clothing design is very difficult to define. Even if it can be finally determined, it will take a lot of time and effort.
Many fashion brands have dedicated legal teams. These teams mainly do two things. One is to accuse other brands of plagiarizing their designs, and the other is to respond to other brands’ accusations against them.
There are also some brands like Zara. They even have a dedicated team and a fixed amount of compensation to compensate designers who have been copied by them.
The meaning is obvious. It doesn't matter if you sue me for copyright infringement or plagiarism. I'll just compensate you.
In this case, many designers will be forced to accept compensation and even give them authorization.
This is equivalent to boarding the ship first and then paying for the ticket. Faced with this situation, the designers have no choice because they can't afford to go to court. They might as well step back and take the money to settle the matter.
Similar things are very common in the intellectual property world.
Among the many actresses Dong Wenmiao has worked with, Wang Zuxian's clothes are easier to make, because Wang Zuxian has a tall figure and very good proportions, and can be styled in many clothes.
When he first cooperated with Wang Zuxian, Dong Wenmiao regarded her more as an ordinary star and a qualified clothes hanger.
But this time of cooperation, especially when designing wedding clothes for Wang Zuxian, Dong Wenmiao had some different emotions in his heart.
This different kind of emotion comes entirely from Zhou Yan.
The contact between Dong Wenmiao and Zhou Yan is not as much as in previous years. If it were not for work, they might not be able to talk on the phone once a year.
Zhou Yan basically doesn't ask about Qizhi Company's business. Even if he does ask, he always contacts Huo Siqi, so there is no contact between them in normal work.
In fact, Dong Wenmiao basically won't take on film and television dramas now, and she doesn't like ordinary film and television dramas. If it's just to make money, it's totally unnecessary. Now her studio can earn her a lot of money every year. .
In recent years, many directors in the industry have wanted to hire her as a costume designer for movies. Not to mention her own high level, her resume alone is scary enough.
"Raise the Red Lantern", "Farewell My Concubine" and Zhou Yan's three movies, each one has achieved great success.
However, faced with the numerous film offers, she refused them all.
But when Zhou Yan went to find her, she agreed immediately without any hesitation.
"Teacher Dong, this dress you designed is so beautiful."
Xiao Yuan, the leader of the clothing group, stood next to Dong Wenmiao and praised him heartily.
When the dress was designed, Xiao Yuan and the others thought it looked very good after seeing it. Now the dress is made and worn on Wang Zuxian, and combined with the surrounding dreamy scenes, it makes this dress even more unique.
Dong Wenmiao smiled and said nothing. Xiao Yuan said with a longing face, "It would be great if I could wear such a beautiful dress when I get married. But I will definitely not be as good as Xiao Yuan when I wear it. Sister Xian looks good in her clothes."
This time Dong Wenmiao said, "Whether you look good or not depends on yourself and the person standing opposite you, as long as the person opposite you is worthy, even if you are wearing the most ordinary clothes. All styles are dazzling.”
"Haha, I really want Director Zhou to stand opposite me when we get married. The main reason is that Director Zhou will definitely not want to." Xiao Yuan made a joke, then suddenly thought of something, and quickly changed the subject and said, "The test shooting will be done later. I don’t know if it will go smoothly. I heard that this scene cost a lot of money, hundreds of thousands.”
Xiao Yuan is also from Dong Wenmiao’s studio, although she has known Dong Wenmiao for a long time. It's not too long, but I have heard some things about Dong Wenmiao and Zhou Yan privately.
In Xiao Yuan’s eyes, Teacher Dong is the representative of perfect girls.
Beautiful, from a good family, talented, well-educated, and she also opened a studio and made a lot of money.
For those who admire Teacher Dong, even if they are dissatisfied with the third ring, there is no problem in filling the second ring.
But Teacher Dong has never been with a partner for so many years, so the rumors between her and Zhou Yan seem to be based on speculation, but it also makes people feel very possible.
“More than that.” Dong Wenmiao spoke slowly.
“Huh?”
“Today’s scene cost more than hundreds of thousands.”
“Oh, then it’s millions?”
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Xiao Yuan was amazed. She didn't expect that one scene could cost six figures.
It’s really a big production.
Although Xiao Yuan is the leader of the costume team, she doesn’t know much about filming, so most of the work in the costume team is performed by another deputy team leader and other members.
When she was on site, she did more technical things, such as leading people to change clothes.
Having never been involved in film shooting, she had no way of imagining what it was like to spend over a million dollars on a scene.
She had heard before that many movies cost less than one million in total, which meant that one scene by Zhou Yan could cover the cost of an ordinary movie.
……
After Wang Zuxian is in place, trial filming can begin.
This scene is not long, but there are many shots and different scenes, including medium shots, long shots, and close-ups, and each group has many shots.
The key is that many shots are difficult to execute, so it is not easy during test shooting.
The tourists who were watching from a distance did not understand the filming and thought that the wedding scene was just like a real wedding. After the bride appeared, the wedding officially started.
The process is to worship heaven and earth first, bow twice to the high hall, worship each other as husband and wife, and then send them to the bridal chamber.
Many people were looking forward to watching a complete wedding, but after watching it for a while, they found that things were not as simple as they thought.
Wang Zuxian stood at one fixed point for more than ten minutes.
When the fixed-point shooting was completed, she hugged her "father"'s arm and walked together in the direction of Zhou Yan.
It was just the action of her hugging her "father's" arm, going back and forth for more than ten minutes.
After hugging "father's" arm, the few steps they took towards Zhou Yan were even more exaggerated.
For a full hour, they walked back and forth like this.
After filming Wang Zuxian, I started filming Zhou Yan again.
Actually, there were very few scenes of Zhou Yan, but it still took more than two hours of back and forth filming. This is not over yet, we will have to shoot medium shots and long shots later, and then make up for the reactions of the guests.
After the whole scene, Zhou Yan and Wang Zuxian didn't even touch each other.
In Zhou Yan's design, this scene ended with the bride walking towards Zhou Yan.
Li Hong and Xiao Can felt that it was a bit wasteful to shoot like this. It was better to shoot the scene of the bride and groom putting on each other's rings together. However, Zhou Yan did not adopt this suggestion and still maintained the original design.
On the one hand, the movie does not have much time to waste on this, on the other hand, he also wants to leave some space for the wedding.
The wedding scene is bound to impress the audience, but Zhou Yan did not give it too much space because the wedding only occupies a very small part of the theme of the movie.
After the trial shooting of the wedding scene ended, the scene began to be rescheduled and the camera positions were also rearranged.
Seeing the staff on site packing up their things, the tourists thought that today’s shooting was over and began to leave one after another.
But after a while, someone suddenly pointed at the sky and shouted, "Helicopter!"
Everyone looked in the direction of the person's finger, and sure enough they saw a helicopter coming from a distance. Flying everywhere.
Is the filming not over yet?
The tourists turned back one after another, wanting to see what this helicopter was for?
"Is this helicopter coming to pick up the bride and groom?" someone speculated.
“Wow, that’s quite romantic.”
“Can the bride get on a helicopter if she wears this dress?”
"Will two banners fall from the helicopter in a while, saying congratulations on so-and-so's happy wedding?"
"Oh, yes, this is how it is shot in some movies. A rich man expresses his love for the heroine. , I like to use this trick.”
“That’s very romantic.”
“What’s romantic? Don’t you think that’s a bit cheesy? It’s a bloody scene.”
“It’s not bloody, I think it’s pretty good.”
"If it were filmed like this, I would definitely not go to the cinema to watch it."
"Whether you want to watch it or not, I don't need a movie ticket for you."
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While the tourists were arguing, the helicopter suddenly swooped down and passed over the pier at low altitude.
When the helicopter flew over the pier, the flowers scattered on the pier were instantly lifted by the wind brought by the helicopter. All the balloons that were originally floating were blown in one direction.
Some balloons were not tied tightly and were blown away.
The guests at the scene were even more embarrassed. Some female guests had to cover their skirts to prevent them from being exposed, while some male guests held down their hats tightly.
The water-spreading boat on the shore also started working, spreading water towards the pier.
For a time, the pier was in chaos and everyone ran towards the shore.
Zhou Yan also grabbed Wang Zuxian's hand and walked quickly to the shore.
When they first saw the helicopter diving towards the pier, tourists in the distance were startled, thinking that something unexpected had happened.
But when the helicopter flew over and the water boat started drying up, some tourists suddenly understood.
“This is creating typhoon weather.”
“It’s so generous to get on the helicopter directly.”
“Isn’t this wedding too miserable? .”
"Yeah, it's really tragic. I was drowned on the wedding day."
"Is it necessary to have such a strong wind? Many girls' skirts almost blew away."
"That's it. It’s interesting, haha.”
“If you get married in this weather, you won’t say it’s interesting.”
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In fact, Zhou Yan originally considered using a blower to create windy and rainy weather, but he tried the blower and found that no matter how many blowers or how powerful the blower was, he could not achieve the effect he wanted.
Later, he had a sudden idea and said he would try using a helicopter.
Actually, it can’t be regarded as a sudden thought, because when thinking about this shot, Zhou Yan thought of a movie he liked very much - Mirror.
"Mirror" is an autobiographical film directed by the famous Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, which was released in the 1970s.
This movie has a rich history in film history. One of the scenes is very famous. When the doctor walked to the middle of the grass and turned back, a strong wind blew through the wilderness and caused the grass to form a wave.
Many film critics are keen to discuss the profound meaning contained in this shot, but Tarkovsky scorned this. He believed that what those who studied the meaning of the shot were doing was simply meaningless.
Zhou Yan didn't think about studying the significance of this lens, but the shooting technique of this lens left a deep impression on him.
In such an environment, it is difficult to cause strong winds in such a large area.
Usually, if you want to create wind during movie shooting, you will use a blower.
If the wind produced by the blower does not meet the director's requirements, a propeller aircraft head will also be used.
To put it bluntly, the propeller aircraft head is an oversized fan, which produces stronger wind than a blower.
That's not a strange thing. Zhou Yan had seen a propeller aircraft head before when he was at the Chang'an Factory. Later, when "Westward Journey" was being filmed, there was also a propeller aircraft head on set.
If we encounter some places where a large area of wind is needed, the crew will use a car to carry the nose of the aircraft forward.
But the propeller aircraft nose also has disadvantages, that is, it is difficult to use in complex terrain.
For the shot in "Mirror", using a propeller aircraft head could not achieve good results, so Tarkovsky directly used a helicopter.
When Zhou Yan was filming the wedding scene this time, he thought of the movie "Mirror". Because of the terrain on the dock, it was impossible for him to use a propeller aircraft head to create wind, so he decided to work with Tarkovsky. Learn to use a helicopter to shoot.
I have to thank Zhou Hong for borrowing the helicopter.
Zhou Yan made a phone call, and Zhou Hong finalized the helicopter matter that day. Zhou Hong was even worried that one helicopter was not enough, so he got two for Zhou Yan.
There is still a plane parked on the shore, ready for action at any time. (End of this chapter)