The Best Director

"Yang, I can learn it!" Jessica hurriedly interrupted Wang Yang, preventing him from saying "I need someone who can dance, but you can't dance". 's next movie.

Jessica recalls moving to Los Angeles as a child and begging her dad to let her go to acting school. At that time, Dad’s business had just started, and the family’s financial situation was not as good as it is now. But in order to give her and Joshua the best environment for growing up, they lived in the smallest house in a rich community. Too busy to see anyone, and my mother has to work several part-time jobs. They work exhaustingly every day, just to pay for her and Joshua to attend a prestigious private Catholic school with expensive tuition.

But she and Joshua had no friends in the community or at school, and those arrogant rich kids looked down on them at all, and no one played with them. At that time, she was very lonely and missed the happy days in San Francisco. She thought about the agreement with Yang, but to become an actress, she had to go to acting school. So she ignored her parents' expectations and boldly asked her father to help her transfer schools. Dad was a stubborn person who called her "willful" and ignored her words; she fought for a long time, crying and fussing, before he softened his heart and agreed to her transfer.

At that time, didn't she just want to make a movie with Yang when she grew up, so she was so "willful"? She wants to be an excellent actor, which is her pursuit; she wants to act in Young's movie, which is also her pursuit since she was a child.

She watched how Young made his first movie, watched him succeed step by step. She was even the first person to know "Ghost Story", but she was always like a passerby, watching by the side, but not participating; but this time, she would not allow herself to miss it again, no matter what, she All want to be in Young's movie! Even if it is a mass character without lines.

These thoughts flashed through her mind quickly, and Jessica said with a firm face, "I can learn any dance I need to learn."

"Jessica, don't worry." Wang Yang comforted her, and he could hear her nervousness, so he explained: "It doesn't matter if you can't dance now, we are not going to participate in any international competition. As long as we are shooting, Just let the choreographer give you dance lessons."

"Oh, God." Jessica breathed a sigh of relief, and then smiled happily, her eyes were radiant, and said with a smile, "It's great to hear you say that!" She was really planning to go right away Contact the dance teacher to learn the dance types needed for that campus musical. But now she still plans to do this, and she will apply for dance classes later, and Yang will shoot musicals, which shows that he likes to dance. If one day Yang invites her to dance, what will he do then? And dancing is fun too! She asked again: "By the way, Yang, why did you suddenly want to make a campus musical?"

Wang Yang came to the kitchen, poured warm water into the water glass, and smiled at the phone: "It's not a sudden, I started thinking about it when I was in Chicago, and the plan was confirmed in the past two days."

Hearing "Chicago", Jessica suddenly had an impulse in her heart, and wanted to ask Wang Yang, "Does Rachel know?"

"I just think 'it's time', and now is the right time to release campus musicals, and maybe it can revive musicals in an all-round way, haha!" Wang Yang laughed a few times, walked back to the computer with a water glass, Half-jokingly: "And campus movies are also very suitable for you, isn't it? I'm fed up with those bullshit producers and directors, why don't you even give you the role of a waiter? You don't have the temperament of a waiter? Oh, Please!"

Jessica smiled, her heart was sweet, she rolled her hair, and said with a smile: "Yang, then what kind of role would be suitable for me to play?"

"Well, I don't know yet, but what is certain is that the character must have lines." Wang Yang said a joke with a smile, but he needed to say the next thing seriously, with a serious tone: "Jessica, Seriously, I would invite you to audition for the lead actress in this movie.

Jessica was stunned for a moment, and lost her voice: "Oh, my God!" "Wang Yang smiled and continued: "You are completely qualified to be the heroine in terms of appearance, but I can't make a decision yet. You know, there are many factors to consider for a heroine. "

"I know, Jan, I know..." Jessica responded again and again, her face was burning with joy, and she said excitedly: "God, it's so exciting!" She has the opportunity to be the heroine of Jan's movie , compared to this, what else can make people happier? "When I grow up, I will be the director, you will be the heroine, and then..." Is this agreement going to be fulfilled?

Wang Yang said with a smile: "Jessica, then you have to practice your acting skills well." He thought about the performances that Jessica had tried before going to the casting of "Ghost Story" before, talking about himself Suggestion: "Sometimes acting needs to be natural, and sometimes it has to deviate from the truth. You are very sad in reality, and you may be expressionless, but under the camera, you need to express your sadness so that everyone can see... …Happy, angry, sad, to express these emotions, the change of demeanor is very important, there needs to be a sense of hierarchy, not just one expression..."

Although "High School Musical" does not seem to have high requirements for acting skills, but now it is going to be put on the big screen directly, and there is no room for any mistakes, and his attitude towards casting has always been absolutely rational. If Jessica can't meet him He will not talk about any kindness, if you can do it, if you can't do it, you can't do it. He said seriously: "Jessica, I don't want to hand over the heroine to others, you understand?"

Jessica listened to his words, took a deep breath, nodded and said: "Yang, I will work hard to practice acting, I will."

The two chatted for a while, and the call ended. Jessica said that she was going to practice acting in front of the mirror. And Wang Yang sat at the computer desk, looked at the screen, tapped the keyboard with both hands, and began to write the script of "High School Musical".

The story of "High School Musical" is actually very simple in content and structure. The hero Troy Burton is the captain of the basketball team "Wildcats" in Eastern High School. He has been taught by his father since he was a child. His father is the coach of the Wildcats. When he was young, he once won the league championship for the Wildcats; and the heroine Gabriela Mantis is a science genius who has won numerous awards in academic competitions and is a "nerd" type.

Reluctantly pushed onto a small stage at a New Year's holiday holiday party, Troy and Gabriela sing a song together, only to discover another side of themselves, a love of singing and dancing.

After the party, the two went back to their respective cities, but one day, Gabriela suddenly transferred to East High School, and Troy, who reunited with her, was naturally very happy. And a musical at school began casting for roles. Troy and Gabriela, who knew they liked to sing and dance, auditioned and passed the first round; Friends are holding them back from the musical, trying to get them back on the "normal track".

Under their sabotage, Troy and Gabriela had a misunderstanding, and both gave up on the second round of auditions, but they both became very unhappy, so their friends reflected on it, knowing that they should be encouraged to pursue their dreams, and asked Troy The two confessed to their previous sabotage.

After resolving the misunderstanding, Troy and Gabriela became happy again and actively prepared for the second round of auditions again. But the brother and sister Sharpay-Evans and Ryan-Evans came out to spoil the situation again. They have always been the protagonists of the Eastern High School Musical. Mr. Si modified the time of the second round of auditions so that it overlapped with the basketball finals and academic competitions.

But with the help of their friends, accidents happened in the basketball game and academic competition. Troy and Gabriela finally participated in the second round of selection and were chosen as the leading actors and actresses of the musical. Afterwards, Troy won the finals, and Gabriela also won the academic competition, a happy ending. This is the story of "High School Musical", simple but inspirational.

This script is written for the actors, and the singing and dancing part only needs to be pointed out. It is not necessary to write the specifics of how to dance, and it cannot be written. Those tasks are still left to the choreographer. However, when writing this script, compared with the original version, Wang Yang added some content. For example, he felt that in the latter part of the movie, the attitude of the good friends of the hero and heroine became too abrupt, so he needed to add a short section of them discussing with themselves. reflective content.

These contents belong to the material of the movie, and they are all shot when shooting, and then in the post-editing stage of the movie, the choice is made.

It took two days to write the script before Wang Yang finalized the first version. The general structure of the story has not changed, but he has made some changes in how to express the story and tell it in details, in order to make the rhythm of the film more natural. Also better suited for the big screen.

Next, Wang Yang began to write the storyboard script of "High School Musical", that is, to write clearly how to turn the contents of the script into scenes on the screen, and how to shoot these scenes, etc.

There are many differences in the expression techniques of TV movies and movies. There are reasons for cost constraints, and there are also reasons for the different viewing experience between the small screen and the big screen. Anyway, Wang Yang had to redesign more than half of the scenes in "High School Musical". He didn't consider the cost, but only considered the best effect.

For example, at the beginning of High School Musical, Troy and Gabriela are outside the resort hotel for the New Years holidays, watching the brilliant fireworks that are set off to welcome the new year. This group of shots is expressed in this way in the original version. The camera is aimed at the hero and heroine looking up, and then the picture changes, only the brilliant fireworks in the sky, computer special effects that look fake. Cut the camera back to the hero and heroine, and the crowd behind them.

Very obvious set sense. When they shoot this group of shots, they must be indoors. Even if they are outdoors, there will be no fireworks in the sky, and they are not willing to spend money to make special effects in post-production. This is a TV movie.

As for Wang Yang's "High School Musical" sub-camera script, this group of shots is going to be shot in this way. When the hero and heroine look up to watch the fireworks, the camera will go up and shoot down, and then turn to a long-distance look-up angle to shoot Troy and Gabriel. Ella, the crowd and the resort shop, the sky, and the fireworks are all shot in one frame, showing a sense of romance, which is the big screen movie.

Wang Yang wrote this sub-shot script very slowly. He had to consider the consistency of the style and make the shots have the atmosphere of a youthful campus. He was almost reorganizing the entire movie. This is a very thoughtful and painstaking work. He is not in a hurry, and of course there is no need to be in a hurry. It will be fine if the film can be written until the filming officially starts. However, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done in the early stage of filming a film. ,a lot of.

"Hi, Hebrew, it's me, Yang." Wang Yang leaned on the rattan sofa in the apartment, and called Hebrew Karl with his mobile phone, who was the lawyer from the "Integrity" law firm. As early as many days ago, when he consulted with Hebrew-Carl on taxes and fees, Wang Yang invited him to be his own legal consultant. There are also discounts when there is a lawsuit. The price is that Wang Yang has to pay Hebrew Karl 10,000 U.S. dollars every month.

The fee is considered cheap, but Hebrew Karl is not the only client. Being a lawyer is a very well paid and respected profession in this country.

Hearing the Hebrew greeting, Wang Yang asked directly: "I'm going to make a new movie, and the investment is about 5 million. I want to ask if I should register a production company?"

"5 million? Oh, of course, if there are multiple investors in this movie, you need a company; if you are the only investor in the movie, you still need a company." Hebrew Carlton paused and gave Wang Yang Analysis: "First of all, you can't do it alone to make a 5 million movie. If there is no company responsible for the overall work, the financial situation will be messed up."

Wang Yang nodded silently. It was in consideration of this that he prepared to register a company. Making DV movies and film movies are two different things. "Ghost Story" costs 10,000 yuan. There are only two actors, and the entire crew only has three people, so it can be played without a company; Millions, there will be more than a dozen contracted actors, and there will be hundreds of people in the production crew, photographers, lighting engineers, makeup artists, set designers, etc... If there is no company, it is just a joke.

Unless he finds a production company to cooperate with and throw the work to them, but why not just start a company himself? He didn't come from a business school, he didn't know and didn't need to manage the daily affairs of the company, he just needed to be the chairman and hire someone like Jon Filtimer to run the company.

Hebrew continued: "I'm not a professional on these financial matters, so I can't give you more advice. But the second point, our California government still has some preferential treatment for those small film companies. Register in California, If you shoot in California, you will get some movie tax refund in the end. In fact, other places have similar policies. The tax return may not be much, but it is better than nothing.”

"Yeah." Wang Yang thought for a while, then said: "Hebrew, I know. Then tell me, the procedure for registering a production company?"

But Hebrew laughed and said, "No, Jan, I don't recommend you to register a company yourself. Even if it is established, it is just a shell company. It needs to find an office and hire new people. There are many things to do, which is very annoying. Isn’t it?” Then he offered his suggestion: “Actually, you can buy an existing production company, you know, Los Angeles has never been short of those film companies that are on the verge of bankruptcy and waiting for capital injection, and there are companies every day Established, there are companies closing down every day. But most of the time, the reason for these companies closing down is that they invested in a movie that failed at the box office, which led to serious losses for the company; There is no problem with the internal operation of the company. You find a company with no debt and inject funds, which is much more convenient than starting a new company.”

Putting down his mobile phone, Wang Yang crossed his arms and frowned slightly thinking about Hebrew Karl's suggestion. Indeed, buying a financially sound independent production company is less troublesome than starting a new one, and an established production company The company with film experience can also make up for his unfamiliarity in the field of film production, and can start filming "High School Musical" as soon as possible.

After thinking for a while, Wang Yang picked up his phone again, called Jon Filtimer, and said, "Hi, Jon."

"Hi, Jan, what's the matter?" Jon's voice came over, very casual, as if he wasn't busy. Wang Yang said with a smile, "I want to make another movie." Jon said "Oh", as if frowning: "The campus musical you mentioned last time? Yang, I'm sorry, our company just decided The plan of "Ghost Story 2", you know, was eaten by you for 5 million, and we have no spare funds to invest again..." His current achievements are enough to compete for the company's CEO, there is no need to do it again An investment with an unknown future, everything will wait until he becomes the CEO.

Wang Yang knew Jon's psychology, and he had never planned to cooperate with these companies. To maximize the benefits, he only needed to share it with the distribution company; more importantly, when he was still studying at Southern University, he used to He once went to a production crew to do chores part-time, that is, the kind of lifting and lifting, but he saw a scene where "the director and the producer made a big fuss on the set", and he felt a little creepy thinking about it.

In fact, when James Cameron was young, when he was filming his debut film "Piranha 2: Breeding", he had a very unpleasant dispute with the producer. In the later editing stage of the film, the producer did not even let James - Cameron participated. Fed up with James Cameron, he will be the producer and director of his films from now on.

Wang Yang thought that if any producer told him what to do, he might punch him. He adjusted his sitting posture and said to Jon: "I know, I'm not trying to attract investment, I invest in my movie myself." Jon was surprised and said: "Wow! All?" Wang Yang nodded and smiled: "Yes , all, I don't want to fight with any producer. So, I want to own my own production company, and I plan to directly acquire a financially healthy company, do you have anything to introduce?"

"Oh! Are you kidding me?" Jon was stunned. Although he didn't know the specific investment amount of Wang Yang's campus musical, Wang Yang had mentioned "maybe several million" to him before! The young man seemed blinded by success? There is no comparison between film movies and DV movies, let alone musicals, which have been silent for a long time, but this young man is worth millions. Isn't he too blindly confident! ? Jon frowned and asked, "Jan, are you serious? Are you really going to do this?"

Wang Yang said with certainty: "Jon, I am serious. I need a high-quality small production company that is for sale. You know, there is no debt. It's not that there is something wrong with the internal operation, but they just can't sustain it. Yes, a failed investment made the chairman of the company disheartened, and he wants to sell." He smiled and said, "And I want to buy."

As the distribution manager of Lionsgate, Jon is naturally very familiar with the competitors in this industry. It can be said that which film company has been established and closed down, and which company has plans to shoot new films and show new films. They are all clear. . Naturally, it is also possible to know which film companies have financial problems and know which companies are for sale. This is not a secret, but just information in the industry.

"Let's think about it, oh, I can't say it for a while, my memory has deteriorated." Jon thought for a while, laughed at himself, and said, "Well, Jan, after I get off work, I'll come home at night. I'll look it up for you, and I'll pass on their information to you tomorrow."

"OK, then I'll wait for your information." After pressing the end call button, Wang Yang stood up with his hands outstretched, and punched a few combinations excitedly. He wants to buy an independent production company? Wow, like Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, that's one small step for man, one giant leap for film industry... that's awesome, it's crazy! Okay, what's the name of this company? "Young movie?" Well, why does it sound like Fu Ji Restaurant, and his family's Wang's restaurant...

Wang Yang walked to the computer in a wild way of thinking, and continued to write the unfinished "High School Musical" storyboard script.

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