Chapter 293 Bringing the Heroine to Discuss the Script with You

"Sense and Sensibility" is a popular movie at this year's film festival. It is originally adapted from a famous novel, and it has earned more than 60 million US dollars in North America. Therefore, the tickets for this show are sold the fastest and best.

Zhou Yan is an "insider", so of course he doesn't need to buy his own ticket, as someone has already arranged it for him.

After entering the movie palace, Jia Guoping said with a smile, "I also got a seat in the first row because of you."

Zhou Yan smiled. In fact, the viewing effect in the first row is not the best. If you want a good viewing effect, you still have to sit back.

As soon as they found their seats, they saw Bregman and others sitting nearby.

The main creative staff of "Sense and Sensibility" are basically here, even Alan Rickman is here.

The movie is about to start, and Zhou Yan just waved and said hello to them, but didn't go over to chat.

Jia Guoping glanced at An Li and the others, "That's An Li, right?"

"Yes, it's him. Next to him is producer Bregman, and the male and female protagonists."

"How many of the main creative staff of "The Chorus" came this time? You're not the only one, are you?"

"Of course not, Li Xuejian and Zhu Lin arrived two days ago, and Sister Feng also attended the opening ceremony."

Zhou Yan turned his head and looked, "They should have come to see this show, but I don't know where they are."

Before he finished speaking, he saw a few people in the middle waving at him. Looking closely, it was Xu Feng and the others.

Next to Xu Feng sat Li Xuejian and Zhu Lin, and Zhang Youan also came.

Just as Zhou Yan was about to wave in response, another person waved at him not far away. He looked again and found that it was Hou Hsiao-hsien.

There were quite a lot of familiar faces in this show.

Zhou Yan waved to the two groups of people. Now the movie was about to start, so he turned around and watched the movie seriously.

Zhou Yan is so familiar with this movie that he doesn't know how many times he has watched it over and over again when he composed the music for the movie. Later, he watched it again at the premiere.

However, Zhou Yan didn't feel bored, because now he watches movies not only from the perspective of an ordinary audience, but also from a professional perspective.

A two-hour movie, watched over and over again, and every time he can see details that he didn't find before. As a master, An Li is very good at adding details to the movie. The average audience may not notice it when watching it, but these things will never be in vain. It is because of these details that the movie is so excellent.

Now Zhou Yan has lost a lot of direct fun when watching movies, but he can find some different pleasures.

The screening of "Sense and Sensibility" was very successful. When the movie ended, the applause on the scene lasted for a long time.

As one of the creators, Zhou Yan was also very happy to hear these applause.

When the show ended, An Li and Bregman walked to Zhou Yan.

"I thought you were not coming." An Li said with a smile.

"He shouldn't miss this year, after all, The Chorus is also a favorite for an award. We watched the movie two days ago, it was so well made." Bregman said.

At this time, Alan Rickman also came from behind, "Mr. Bregman is right, The Chorus is a very good movie, this movie is tailor-made for you, the music in it is so beautiful."

Bregman laughed, "This is originally a movie he wrote, directed and voiced himself, of course it is tailor-made for him."

Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson also came, the latter said, "I heard that this movie has a good box office in China, right?"

"It's okay." Zhou Yan smiled and said modestly, "It's mainly because the original version is very good, I was just inspired by the original version."

"I've seen the original version of A Cage of Nightingales. Although the story is generally similar, it gives people a completely different feeling, especially in the music creation. Your version is obviously much better." An Li said.

Zhou Yan didn't want to answer this question, so he changed the subject and asked, "Sense and Sensibility will be released in Europe, right?"

"It was released in Spain yesterday, and today it will be released in Norway, the UK, and Italy, and in a few days it will be released in Belgium, France, and Australia." Bregman replied.

Zhou Yan nodded. In this way, several major ticket markets in Europe and Oceania are covered.

This means that the global box office of "Sense and Sensibility" will soon be determined.

Although there will be many countries and regions to release it in the future, it will not affect the overall situation. The total population of Europe is not large, and it is mainly concentrated in a few countries. Britain, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain are traditionally large ticket markets.

"Then wait until the end of this awards ceremony, and the box office data for the next few days should be out."

"Yes." Bregman nodded, without saying much.

The reason why they arranged the release time around here is, of course, to rely on the Berlin Film Festival to promote the movie, just like they arranged the release time of "The Sixth Sense" around the Oscars.

If "Sense and Sensibility" can really win the grand prize at the Berlin Film Festival, it will definitely have a positive impact on the box office in these countries.

Everyone knows this, but Bregman can't say it in front of Zhou Yan, after all, Zhou Yan is now their competitor, and "The Chorus" is also competing for awards.

In fact, Bregman thinks that "The Chorus" is really well made, even better than "Sense and Sensibility", and Zhou Yan's talent is fully demonstrated in this movie.

As Alan Rickman said, this movie is like tailor-made for Zhou Yan, music and education are closely related to Zhou Yan.

And compared with the "love" theme of "Sense and Sensibility", the theme of "The Chorus" is obviously more profound. He is sure that "The Chorus" will definitely be a movie that will stand the test of time.

But Bregman did not regard "The Chorus" as an opponent in his heart, because their goal is to win the Golden Bear Award of this film festival, and the possibility of "The Chorus" winning the Golden Bear Award is very low.

Even if the Berlin Film Festival is more friendly to new directors than the Venice Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival, it is not enough to award the Golden Bear Award to a director in his twenties.

Zhou Yan is really too young, and age is his biggest disadvantage.

It is difficult for a director who is not yet 26 years old to gain anything at such a big film festival.

If Zhou Yan was 45 instead of 25, he would have a very high chance of winning the award. He doesn't even need to be 45. If Zhou Yan is 35, he has a good chance.

...

Zhou Yan didn't stay in the Film Palace for too long. He quickly returned to the hotel with Jia Guoping.

There was another movie to be screened at the Film Palace, but Zhou Yan was not interested. Besides, he was a little tired after the long journey, so he went back to rest.

In the evening, Zhou Yan and Jia Guoping had just finished dinner and were chatting in the room. There was a knock on the door.

"It should be Sister Feng and the others." Zhou Yan said, and then he got up to open the door.

But after the door was opened, Zhou Yan found that it was Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman standing at the door.

"Emma, ​​Alan, why are you here?" Zhou Yan asked in surprise, "Are you two the only ones here?"

Alan raised the script in his hand, "I brought the heroine to discuss the script with you."

Zhou Yan then remembered that he had promised to help him with the soundtrack for his movie "Winter Visitors". At that time, Alan said that he wanted Emma to play the heroine.

"Please come in, both of you." Zhou Yan stepped aside.

Entering the room, Alan greeted Jia Guoping with a smile, "Mr. Jia, we meet again."

"Hello." Jia Guoping responded with a smile.

"Alan is going to make a movie, I will be the soundtrack, Emma is the heroine, and they came to talk to me about the script." Zhou Yan explained.

"Then I'll go back to the room first, you guys talk."

Zhou Yan nodded, "Well, you go back first."

Although Zhou Yan didn't think there was anything wrong with Jia Guoping being here, after all, it involved Alan Rickman's script that hadn't been filmed yet, so he still had to consider their feelings.

After Jia Guoping left, Alan Rickman handed the script to Zhou Yan, "I have made some revisions to the script, take a look."

Zhou Yan took the script and took a general look at it.

He finished reading the script quickly, because the story did not change much from before, just a few more details.

It was a literary script before, but now it is more like a movie script.

It can be seen that Alan Rickman has been seriously thinking about how to make this script into a movie during this period.

Although Zhou Yan felt that the script had many shortcomings, he did not point out these shortcomings from the perspective of a director or screenwriter. Instead, he smiled and said, "In fact, the plot of this movie is relatively simple. It mainly takes more thought to arrange the shots and design the lines. I think there are no problems with the lines design now. Emma, ​​what do you think?"

Emma Thompson nodded, "I feel the same way. When Allen showed me the script before, I was deeply fascinated by the story. But to be honest, it is not an easy thing to film what is expressed in the script."

"Well, I believe Allen can do this. When is the movie going to be filmed? This winter?"

"Yes, if there are no accidents, it will be filmed this winter. We need to find a day with stable weather."

The stories in "Winter Visitors" all take place on the same day, so it is best to have a more stable weather when filming.

Fortunately, the climate is relatively stable in winter, so this should not be difficult.

There are still ten months before the film starts. For Zhou Yan, there is no need to rush. The soundtrack was involved relatively late, and there was no preparation work in the early stage.

But Alan Rickman took it very seriously, and he did not simply regard Zhou Yan as a composer. After all, Zhou Yan was an excellent director and screenwriter, and he also hoped to get some useful suggestions from Zhou Yan related to filming.

The content of the three people's chat has completely exceeded the scope of music. From script writing to the subsequent filming, Alan Rickman asked Zhou Yan many questions.

Zhou Yan had a good impression of Alan Rickman, and he also liked the script of "Winter Visitors", so Zhou Yan also answered his questions without reservation.

Sometimes, when you think about things alone, you are always prone to situations where you can't push them forward, but if you discuss with more people, you will suddenly see the light.

The same goes for Alan Rickman. He had a lot of questions that he couldn't figure out before, but after chatting with Zhou Yan and Emma Thompson for a while, he figured them out.

After all, when it comes to movies, both Zhou Yan and Emma Thompson have more experience than him.

As they chatted, Zhou Yan couldn't help but expand a little more and talk about some specific issues.

"Actually, in the first shot, you set the scene where the heroine's mother walks to the door of the heroine's home. But I think you can change the scene, for example, the heroine's mother is walking on the endless snow. Not only will the scene look better, , and it can also reflect the heroine’s mother’s rush and long journey.”

In fact, Alan Rickman's design in the script also reflects the heroine's mother's long journey. For example, the heroine's mother is flushed and panting.

Alan Rickman used a lot of words to describe this scene. If you just read the script as a novel, there will definitely be no problem.

However, such a design may not be good when photographed, because it is not visually intuitive enough and does not stimulate the audience enough.

The lens designed by Zhou Yan can express more things and is more intuitive.

The most important thing is that it looks good.

Whether the shot looks good or not is very important to a movie.

In addition, in terms of lens processing, it is actually a bit simpler, because when shooting this scene, you only need to fix the lens and directly apply the classic composition.

Place the boundary line between the snow and the sky at one-third of the screen, and place the character's feet at two-thirds of the screen. This divides the screen into three equal parts, which is a common composition used in many movies.

After listening to Zhou Yan's suggestion, Alan Rickman was very pleasantly surprised, "I have been considering whether to make some modifications to this lens. Your suggestion is really great. Moreover, if this lens of yours is used, the post-processing When making music, you have more room to play, right? ”

Zhou Yan nodded, "That's right. For such a simple and layered shot, it is indeed easier to do the soundtrack. In other words, this kind of shot is more suitable for the soundtrack."

Movies need a soundtrack, but not every shot is suitable for a soundtrack. Some movies tend to make a mistake, that is, they like to pile up the soundtrack. No matter where it is, they will insert some music. In fact, for many shots, some music is added to the soundtrack. Leaving it blank is more appropriate.

For example, between the lens Allen designed before and the lens suggested by Zhou Yan, the former is obviously not suitable for matching music, while the latter is very suitable. (End of chapter)