Chapter 16 Righteous Path Corps
Just as Xu Zhengdao and Tian Shishi said, if he gets a new star director quota and gets investment from Liu Dehua, he will shoot "Zone B No. 32"; if he fails to get a new star director quota and does not get financial support from Liu Dehua, he will also shoot the movie. In short, he will definitely shoot "Zone B No. 32".
After visiting the field, Xu Zhengdao spent a week to polish the script and made key modifications to the 20 minutes of the movie's opening, adding some weird and terrifying details to prevent the audience from getting bored.
After the script was polished, Xu Zhengdao began to build a crew.
The film preparation stage is a meticulous and strategic process, just like building a house to do design drawings, all aspects of the problem that needs to be considered and improved as much as possible before. Before the official start-up, every prop, every shot, and every person must be considered thoroughly, otherwise problems will easily occur during shooting.
Hollywood movies are generally in a U-line structure, which means that the preparation period and post-production are particularly long, and the shooting time is relatively short. The same is true for domestic regular crews; while the preparation period of the straw crew is generally very short, and they start working as soon as they pull people up, but they are often in a lot of situations when shooting.
As a professional director, Xu Zhengdao certainly does not want his crew to be a turf team. He hopes that all the crew will follow the formal process from preparation to later stages, and hopes to make the movie the best possible.
Although Xu Zhengdao has not completed a feature film, he has filmed homework and has taken on many outsourcing advertisements and MVs. He not only has filming experience, but also has a group of friends who have good relationships.
Now that he wants to film "Zone B No. 32", he must call his friends over and complete the movie together.
The first person Xu Zhengdao contacted was photography Li Chengfeng.
Li Chengfeng is from Peking and is famous for his charm. Xu Zhengdao and others call him Lao Sex. Li Chengfeng is from the photography department of level 2000. He has good photos, so he takes photos and chats with girls on and off campus. During college, there were no less than twenty girls this guy slept in. His family has something to do with Peking University. After graduating from Beijing Film Academy, he joined Peking TV and worked as a photography assistant.
Not long after entering the TV station, Fan Binbin went to the TV station to do a show. Li Chengfeng helped the photographer. Fan Binbin was dressed more exposed that day, with a pair of bright meteor hammers hanging on his chest. Li Chengfeng was excited as he watched and sneaked to the bathroom. In his mind, he used the Li family gun to fight back and forth with Fan Binbin holding the meteor hammer.
Just when Li Chengfeng was fighting with heaven and earth, there was a problem at the shooting site. The photographer asked Li Chengfeng to help, but found that the person was not there. The photographer was very angry and later said that it was an accident caused by Li Chengfeng's abandonment during working hours. The scapegoat Li Chengfeng was directly fired.
Li Chengfeng didn't take it seriously, thinking that the TV station was too rigid and boring to stay. But he thought about Fan Binbin and sweared to the sky that one day he would fight with her for 800 rounds and become a friend of Guan and Bao.
Xu Zhengdao heard a lazy "heat" sound on the other end of the phone, and said, "Old Scoundrel, have you been free recently? I am going to make a feature film and need a photographer. If you have time, come and help me."
"Of course I have time. I just had a fight for the idiot photography on the crew today. You don't know how idiot that guy is. I'm just about to give up and leave!" Li Chengfeng scolded the photography director, remembering Xu Zhengdao asking him to make a movie, and said, "You can do it, you've invested again. I won't lose this time, right?"
Xu Zhengdao said confidently: "It will definitely not happen this time. I will pay for the photo myself!"
Li Chengfeng said in surprise: "My God! You will be kept by a rich woman, right? You are so rich!"
Xu Zhengdao smiled and scolded: "I'll give you a girl! I'm going to make a pseudo-documentary similar to "The Witch Blair". The cost is very low, only tens of thousands of yuan. Are you coming? If you don't come, just crawl for me!"
"You beast, my sister is still in junior high school, you are actually thinking about it!" Li Chengfeng cursed with a smile, and patted his chest, "I have made all the pornographic films, but I have never made fake documentaries. You can wait, I will buy the tickets immediately."
After Li Chengfeng agreed to come back, Xu Zhengdao called Jiang Tianxing, Fu Yan and the others again. They were all from the 00s in the Beijing Film Academy and were doing photography assistants and other jobs in the crew. They were at the bottom of the food chain and were very angry. When they heard that Xu Zhengdao had filming movies here, they all gave up and left, and like a hero from Liangshan to join Song Jiang, he came to him, the leader.
Jiang Tianxing is a famous nightclub prince and likes to go to nightclubs. Xu Zhengdao and others call him Lao Ye. Jiang Tianxing is a Chinese Canadian. In the early 1990s, his family immigrated to Canada from Peking. Jiang Tianxing didn’t like Canada and felt it was too deserted and it was boring to stay. He still liked the lively Peking. After graduating from high school, he entered the Beijing Film Academy production major.
Beijing Film Academy should be one of the least popular foreigners in Haitang University. Beijing Film Academy also has international students, but very few girls take the initiative to post it when they see foreign students. Because studying movies and being an actor, they must be in China. Clutching foreigners will not benefit from future development. No girl will feel that she will be hung up to the sky when she hugs a foreigner, which will only make people feel idiot.
Jiang Tianxing's Canadian identity is not very good among the girls of Beijing Film Academy, and he hasn't slept much. However, the foreign identity is very good in society. There are girls called "Foreign Gun Team" in many bars. In their eyes, as long as they hold a foreigner, whether it is Palestinian or Ethiopian, it is like they are at the peak of their lives.
According to Jiang Tianxing himself, he has slept with no less than a hundred girls in the past few years, including college students, teachers, civil servants, and housewives. This number sounds exaggerated, but Xu Zhengdao believes it is true. Because Fu Yan's first time was with Jiang Tianxing in a bar that pretended to be a foreigner.
If Li Chengfeng and Jiang Tianxing died of waterlogging, then Fu Yan died of drought. Fu Yan nicknamed Fu Yan Jie, a native of Lingnan, is a classmate of Xu Zhengdao. Fu Yan is not tall, only 1.7 meters tall, with a sharp-mouthed and monkey cheeks, and is somewhat similar to Gu Changwei. In fact, if a person is ugly, as long as he is talented, he can still win the favor of beauties. Gu Changwei's wife Jiang Wenli is a great beauty.
Unfortunately, Fu Yan has no talent, at least he has not shown it. A boy like him who is ugly, talented, and has a relatively average family background will naturally not be favored by beauties. In the four years of college, he chased no less than five girls in school, and he hooked up with no less than ten online, but none of them caught up with him. He once hooked up with a girl online, and the two had a chat for a while. However, after the two met, the girl replied, "I don't fall in love with Sun Wukong", and completely blocked him.
In the lonely days, Fu Yan could only use his left and right hand to relieve the emptiness. In the end, Jiang Tianxing saw him pitiful and took him to a bar to pretend to be a foreigner, and then he completed the transformation from a boy to a man.
Li Jie is a graduate of the art department. He is from Shandong. He is burly and has a good appearance. He has a bit of Wu Erlang. Everyone calls him his second brother. Li Jie is handsome and plays basketball well. He is very fond of girls. However, he is different from Li Chengfeng and Jiang Tianxing, and he is very dedicated to his relationship. He started dating with Zhang Ruyu from the makeup class in his freshman year and has been talking about it until now. The relationship between them is very stable, and they have even met their parents. It is only a matter of time before they get married.
Zhang Ruyu is the only woman in the small group of Xu Zhengdao and others. She is from Northeast China. She has a rather stingy personality. Her catchphrase is "I kill you with a knife". Everyone calls her Sister Dao. However, her toughness is only to outsiders, but she is as gentle as a kitten in front of Li Jie. Xu Zhengdao and the others say that in the future, they will find Zhang Ruyu like her when they look for a wife.
Huang Haoran is a top student in the recording department and a person from Jiangnan. He looks a bit like a talented man in Jiangnan. He is clean and bright, clear and thin, and is a type that is very popular with girls.
However, Huang Haoran's relationship journey was always unhappy. When he was in the first year of high school, he fell in love with a quiet girl in the next class. He liked that girl very much and regarded it as a treasure. After the two had been dating for more than half a year, the girl met a gangster at the roller skate rink. After a few days, the gangster got it to bed and then broke up with him on his own initiative.
When he was in his sophomore year, Huang Haoran fell in love with a girl from a higher vocational class. The girl was also the kind of literary and quiet, elegant and beautiful. The two talked for nearly a year. In order to go to the theater, the girl slept with the director of the crew and became the lover of the third-rate director. Huang Haoran was a little depressed, but after that, he became even more depressed and was called the Prince of Melancholy by Xu Zhengdao and others. Italian star Robert Baggio was a famous prince of Melancholy, and Xu Zhengdao and others later directly called Huang Haoran Baggio.
Xu Zhengdao and his group have very different personalities, their outlook on life and ideas. Logically speaking, it is difficult for people like them to become friends. But the movie let them go together and make them friends who can talk about everything.
After receiving Xu Zhengdao's movie, people from other places rushed to Peiping, and Li Chengfeng was the last one to return to Peiping. After Li Chengfeng came back, Xu Zhengdao called them to Beijing Film Academy and found a room to discuss the filming of "No. 32 in Area B". Xu Zhengdao sent the script to Li Chengfeng and others, asking them to read the script first and then discuss it after reading the script.
After waiting for nearly twenty minutes, Li Chengfeng and the others finished reading the script.
Xu Zhengdao looked at Li Chengfeng and the others, cleared his throat, and said solemnly: "Everyone has watched the script. Our drama is a pseudo-documentary, similar to "The Witch Blair". The movie cost is very low, and the budget is only 100,000 yuan. I paid this money, so I can pay so much. So, I will say again, I can't pay everyone. After the movie is finished, I will be going to send it to a fantasy film festival that specializes in horror films and fantasy films to sell copyrights. If I can sell it, I will share the money for everyone at that time. If I can't sell it, there is really nothing I can do."
Li Chengfeng and the others have worked with Xu Zhengdao many times and know that he is a loyal person who is generous to the crew members and is also quite talented. They always believe that Xu Zhengdao can soar into the sky and make a splash. As long as Xu Zhengdao can become famous, they will naturally have a status in this circle. This is also the fundamental reason why they are willing to put down their lives and join Xu Zhengdao.
At this moment, when Xu Zhengdao said that there was no reward, they all said indifferently: "Cao. I came to join you, not for money, but for the real movie. Instead of following those idiot directors and fiddling with the trash. You don't know how mentally retarded the TV series I filmed is. Do you know what the scene I filmed is? Telling nuns to fight the Japanese! That content is simply not mentioned, it's too insulting the IQ!"
"Yes, the drama I filmed is also rubbish. The director is a pure idiot with a brain that is poured with sulfuric acid. I want to shoot good works now. As long as I can shoot good works, what is the money."
"It's okay, I'll just call us if you have any money-making jobs in the future."
Chapter completed!