Behind the scenes of the entertainment industry

Zhou Cheng has never written a drama script. Even when he was in school, he majored in film and television scripts rather than drama creation, which is a drama script.

Compared with film and television scripts, drama scripts are more visual and concrete.

Just as He Jiping once taught Zhou Cheng and others in Nortel, all drama literature is produced based on the author's interpretation of events. A mature drama literature author will pay attention to it throughout his life.

Whether "events" and "actions" rather than words are beautiful.

Therefore, the drama script needs to grasp the "events" and "actions" well. All your lines, inner conflicts, and subtexts must have very clear action capabilities.

For example, if you want to express a scene at night, in a film or television drama, you can use the camera to show the entire night sky, a sky full of stars, a bright moon, a street lamp or even a few fireflies. The audience will naturally understand that this happened at night.

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This does not work in stage dramas. Although the stage can be darkened by lighting, it will also make the audience unable to see the actors' movements clearly and lose their understanding of the play.

Therefore, a stage drama must express the events originally shown through the camera without any trace in the lines or actions. This requires the screenwriter to have some profound experience in creating stage dramas.

Moreover, the movie script Zhou Cheng gave Chen Li was only a framework and some main lines. After all, he could not completely remember the entire plot of each play.

Sometimes, when it comes to a plot that is unclear or seems unreasonable, Zhou Cheng would add some details to rationalize it.

This is why every movie script will not be a full ninety minutes, but two hours or two and a half hours. After the filming is completed, the director will work with the editor to edit it into one based on the main outline of the script.

A ninety-minute or one-hundred-and-twenty-minute finished product.

Dramas are different. They also have a time limit. In order to consider the audience's concentration, a normal drama usually lasts from two hours to two and a half hours, which also includes the time for stage transitions to change backgrounds and actors to change costumes.

If it's a play like "Tea House", the actors will have to spend more time putting on makeup.

Therefore, drama scripts must control this time limit. A complete drama script must be a finished product that is completely presented in front of the audience. This requires the screenwriter's time control ability to be considered. This is why the adaptation of drama scripts requires the participation of the director.

Among them, because the director needs to completely present the play in his mind, so that there will be no mistakes during the live performance and he will be in a hurry.

These abilities are all lacking in Zhou Cheng, so he handed over this part of the work to Chen Li and Chu Ran, and his main work was on the lines.

After a week of hard work, the first draft of the script was finally completed. Zhou Cheng summarized the contents that several people were responsible for, and then printed it out for proofreading.

Regarding the lines that Zhou Cheng was responsible for, he used many jokes that would appear only after more than ten years, which made Chu Ran and Chen Li burst into laughter.

Chu Ran took the script and read: "'Zhou Tienan said: If there is no accident, there will be an accident.' Brother Chen, do you think this is an accident or not?"

"It must have been an accident." Chen Li smiled, pointed to another line and said to Chu Ran: "There is also this sentence the principal said: 'I have eaten more rice than you have eaten salt. I'm leaving.

There are more roads to cross than there are bridges to cross.' Don't you think this is nonsense, but the effect is very good."

"I can only say that Zhou Cheng has been a slut in school for so many years, and it really turned out to be a slut." Chu Ran sometimes marveled at Zhou Cheng's imaginative thinking. In the past, when he was in school, Zhou Cheng was mostly

He is silent and rarely communicates with others. I didn't expect him to have such a funny side.

"You can't understand. I can only say that your level is too low." Zhou Cheng said disdainfully: "You must know that this drama is a story cloaked in comedy. If there are no such jokes, how can we make the audience laugh and how can we make the audience laugh?

They realize the core of tragedy in their laughter."

Chen Li said with some worry: "I was mainly worried that there were too many jokes in it. In the end, when the screenwriters at the theater were reviewing it, they said we were not rigorous and they called us back."

Zhou Cheng curled his lips unconvinced: "Brother Li, I think you are worried about my comedy jokes, so why not worry about the lines written by Chu Ran."

"What's wrong with what I wrote?" Chu Ran looked puzzled: "These lines of mine are all normal."

"Normal?" Zhou Cheng opened the first draft of the script and turned to a few pages of Zhang Yiman's lines: "'Are you hard everywhere? Stick your tongue out and let your sister relax.' Chu Ran, you

Did you use the love words Jiang Yan said to you? Aren't you afraid that this line will make those big men wet? "

"Zhou Cheng is right." Chen Li sided with Zhou Cheng again this time: "And the sentence 'I'll sleep with him' is too straightforward, isn't it?"

"Brother Li, this is a drama, this is elegant art. Sometimes there must be some vulgar things in it. Isn't there a saying: elegance is vulgarity, vulgarity is also elegance. As long as vulgarity reaches the extreme, that is

Elegance is as natural as possible. Only in this way can both elegance and vulgarity be appreciated..."

Chu Ran's fallacy of "appreciating both refined and popular tastes" successfully convinced Zhou Cheng and Chen Li. They had been working in this shabby hotel for five days and were already tired of it. Now, the first draft of the draft has been published and given directly to others.

Let's review it with the creative department of the film. If they really think there is a problem, then delete it and change it again. Anyway, Zhou Cheng has decided to use these lines in the movie script.

"First Youth Film Festival" Zhou Cheng has not given up. In the past few days, he has also sent the film script of this film to the organizing committee of the film exhibition by email. If it is really appreciated by the organizing committee, he will get it before

Three people, with at least 100,000 yuan in start-up capital, which is also a considerable income for Zhou Cheng now.

"Since you don't want to change it, let's do it like this." Chen Li said: "After so many days of work, it's finally over. And it's almost four o'clock. Let's finish handing in the manuscript later and find a place to have a drink.

Let’s celebrate together.”

As soon as Chen Li finished speaking, Chu Ran hurriedly expressed his position: "Brother Li, Zhou Cheng, you two celebrate, I have to leave beforehand."

"What do you have that is more important than celebrating with your brothers?" Zhou Cheng blocked him in the room dissatisfied. At this time, Chu Ran's cell phone rang again. Zhou Cheng glanced at him and mocked him:

"Don't you, Mr. Chu, never hang on a tree for a month? You have been hanging on this crooked-neck tree for almost two months."

Chu Ran smiled sheepishly: "Hey, I have been with you two gentlemen for five days, and now I feel excited when I see donuts, let alone this charming beauty."

"Let's go quickly. You are an animal dominated by the lower body. I finally know how you wrote those lines." Zhou Cheng stepped aside from the door, watched Chu Ran leave with his bag on his back, and said to his back: "Follow me.

Jiang Yan says hello."

Hearing Zhou Cheng's words, Chu Ran staggered, then turned around and made an international gesture to Zhou Cheng.

Li Li's wish for a drink was still not fulfilled. After Zhou Cheng accompanied him to hand over the script to the creative department, Zhou Cheng saw a silver Golf under the door of the guest house.

Seeing Zhou Cheng return, the driver's cab window rolled down, revealing a pretty face.

"Brother Li, I won't accompany you tonight. You can find a place to have a drink by yourself." After Zhou Cheng saw this, he just said one sentence to Li Li, then ran to the vehicle, pulled away the co-pilot and got in. Then the engine roared, and there was a sudden explosion.

The blue smoke flew away.

"You idiot, you said that Chu Ran is an animal dominated by the lower body. I think you are too." Li Li pointed at the back of the vehicle and made the same international gesture.

Li Li looked at the sunset, alone, and took out his mobile phone helplessly: "Honey, when will you come to Yanjing..."