Chapter 77: Preparation
The script of "Terminator" is very simple and it was written in more than an hour. The difficult part is the storyboard and conceptual pictures.
Unlike the two movies he made before, "Terminator" is a science fiction thriller with future science fiction war scenes in the film, and Terminator itself is a mechanical body wrapped in flesh and blood. These all require director Duane to design the image. It is not something that can be understood by just using text descriptions, so Duane took out another notebook and drew out the things in his mind bit by bit.
First, there is the concept diagram of the Terminator: all-metal architecture, human-imitated skeleton design, infrared electronic eyes, titanium alloy coverage, cable wires, hydraulic tubes...
As Duane's ballpoint pen slides back and forth, his imagined image of the Terminator appeared on the notebook: a large vertical cylinder in the middle, four smaller cylinders on the edge, and many black lines were drawn on the five cylinders; the top of the large cylinder in the middle was a large circle, and several small circles in the large circle.
The house was very quiet, with dim incandescent lights sprinkled from the top of the head and spread onto the notebook to clearly reflect the image of the cylindrical man.
The pen tip in his hand did not move against the notebook, Duane stared at this surrealist, postmodern style cylinder man looked at it for a long time, and sighed helplessly.
He really doesn't have the talent for painting.
Sorry...
As a director, the ability to draw storyboards is very important. Many directors themselves have extremely high painting skills. For example, Xu Ke and Xu Da, the level is comparable to that of professional comics, but Du An, who can draw the Terminator into a cylinder, obviously does not have this ability.
He was an ordinary child who studied all the time since childhood and only attended art classes in elementary school. He had long forgotten that his current level is just the degree to draw a chicken pecking rice picture. How can he draw something as complicated as the Terminator?
Du An held the pen, nipped it on the notebook, and looked out the window in a dim sense: Learning to draw, well, you have to learn to draw, and the male and female protagonists also have to look for it. The heroine asked Zhu Qian if it was okay, if the price was too high, it would be fine. Anyway, the heroine didn't need such good acting skills. If the hero... I couldn't think of any suitable candidate for a while, so I'd better leave it to the actors union to worry about it. Anyway, he wouldn't act by himself anymore - acting is too tiring, and he really didn't want to do such a thing anymore. The photographer also wanted to find one. Kang Junan's style is not suitable for this drama, but maybe? You can come and try it out first. He still has his abilities...
There were too many things to consider. After thinking about it, he didn't know how long it took, but he heard the slight sound of opening and closing the door. It must be that Song Zhen in the living room had finally gone to bed, and Du An finally felt sleepy and went to bed to fall asleep.
It was already past ten o'clock after getting up the next day. After washing up, Duan went to DreamWorks with the script, but he didn't look for Shu Yu. He first solved the lunch in the cafeteria of the building, and then went to her office.
Seeing that it was Du An, the secretary who was about to stand up smiled at him, said hello, "It's so early for Director Du" and sat down, without stopping him.
Duane knocked on the door.
"Please come in."
When I pushed the door open, I saw Shu Yu lowering his head and writing and drawing on a document. When I heard that he came in, I didn't even raise his head.
He walked to Shu Yu's desk and threw the script on her desk.
A light sound.
Shu Yutou raised her head slightly, glanced at the book, stopped the movement in her hand, pushed the document aside, took the notebook and flipped it up. The notebook was very short, and it took her roughly five or six minutes to browse it. Then Duan saw her put down the notebook and looked at her.
"New movie?"
Du An nodded, glanced at her head, and saw that the chopstick was still stuck in her head like he did when he first met Shu Yu. He couldn't help but speak, "Dreamworks is now a company with assets of over 100 million yuan. Why do you always use that chopstick as a hairpin? You can change it, and you can use diamonds for tacky gold and silver."
As soon as this said, I felt a little closer to the style of a billionaire - he has been adapting to the life of a billionaire early recently.
"My mom left it to me."
Shu Yu retorted the words of this nouveau riche in the country bun, Du An shrugged his eyebrows and stopped talking: The dead are the most important.
"If you want to shoot, just take a photo, but you can't take it for the time being."
Shu Yu said: "The Wind and Moon have not yet been removed. I can still charge some more money after reducing the screening volume for another week. Therefore, the box office of "The Wind and Moon" has to be at least another week. Its box office is so high. It has to be replaced by the past, and the statistics work is very busy. Fortunately, the cinema electronic bills are now popular and can be much faster, but it is estimated that they will be like in September and October."
Duane had no objection to this, "It's okay, I'm going to learn painting. If you ask me to take pictures now, I can't take pictures for the time being." Speaking of Fengyue, Duane remembered another thing, "Have you been on overseas?"
Shu Yu said: "In August, Lu Fanghe has already paved the way. The screening conditions and quantity of the two major markets in North America and Europe are good, and Asia and South America are also OK."
Du An thought of a farther place, "What if Lu Fanghe left? Those people in your company followed him, have they stepped on the distribution channel?" This was also the plan they made at the beginning. Follow Xiaoma Film and Television first to see if they could use this to establish their own distribution channel.
"He won't leave." Shu Yu said.
Du An looked at Shu Yu quickly, and after a while, he smiled, "I have some skills, do Qi Sheng know?"
Shu Yu had already brought the document just now, lowered her head and made a scheming change, and said, "I know."
Du An did not ask again: This must be another unknown deal. After all, he is not from DreamWorks and is only a cooperative relationship with Shu Yu. It is not convenient for him to ask about the company's secrets, and he doesn't want to force him to ask what Shu Yu doesn't want to say.
He just needs to know that when the two of them work together in the next movie, they will not be divided by the third distributor.
After chatting with Shu Yu for a few more casual words. Seeing that she was busy with work, Du An tactfully stepped out and was about to go to his office to visit the Internet for a while, but stopped when he passed by Secretary Shu Yu's desk.
"Fei Fei,"
Feifei is the name of the secretary Shu Yu, and her full name is Ling Fei.
"When you have time, you can find an art teacher and the kind that can teach me how to draw."
I really don’t know where to look for Du An himself, but Shu Yu’s secretary is different: Shu Yu said that she has a wide connection in the circle, and even if she doesn’t know her, there are always people she knows.
"good,"
Ling Fei immediately responded with a sweet smile, looking at Du An with a pair of eyes watery, wanting to hear if he had anything else to say.
It’s good to have a secretary. If you have something to do, it’s okay...that’s what.
Duan did not notice her expression. After thanking her, he went to his office with random thoughts.
This "Di Director Du's Office" was sealed after the crew started filming. After the film was released, it was opened again. It was still a rhythm of only providing food, no preparation, and no salary payment.
I just turned on the computer and the minesweeping system was ringing before I could turn on it.
An unfamiliar number.
"who?"
Duan is also very idle now. No matter what number, I will answer it first.
"Hello,"
There was a rough man's voice on the other end of the phone, "Director Du?"
"yes."
When he heard that yes, the man's voice on the other end of the phone immediately became enthusiastic, "Ah, Director Du, that's right. We are here in the 'Lu Yu's appointment' column group. We want to invite you to be a guest in the next issue. Now I'm going to ask about your general intention first. I don't know when you have time, so why don't you make an appointment for a time and place to meet and discuss in detail?"
Du An sat upright, "Have you an appointment?"
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