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Chapter 86: Movie-level TV series (banned reissue)

Yang Xue and Xiao Jiaer turned their heads and looked at each other at the same time.

Then, Yang Xue subconsciously reached out to touch her chest.”My heart is beating a little fast! He looks serious, hardworking, talented, and good-looking. I was struck by him.”

Fortunately, Li Qi didn’t notice her little action.

At this time, Xiao Jiaer had already randomly picked up another storyboard from the pile of storyboards and opened it to read. No matter which one she picked, it would be right.

Not only were they all drawn by Li Qi himself, but even the shot numbers, the minutes in which they appear in the final edited episode, how many seconds the shot will be given during editing, what attempts can be made when shooting a certain shot, the requirements for the shot for each attempt, etc., are all marked!

The more Xiao Jiaer looked at it, the more speechless she became.”

A TV series, with 32 episodes, each episode is about 45 minutes long. If you remove the prologue and ending credits, there is still 40 minutes of main drama. The 32 episodes add up to 1,280 minutes, which is more than 21 hours!

Twenty-one hours, how many shots does it need?

No matter how bad a TV series is compared to a movie, no matter how simple the shots are, it still takes 21 hours! How much work does it take to think through so many shots in advance?

These more than 1,300 storyboards… well, this guy actually took a year and a half to draw them!

What a huge amount of effort this took!

You know, during this year and a half, he was not just doing this one thing. He had to write novels, write songs and albums, learn acting, and film movies… He actually put so much energy into drawing the storyboard scripts for all the shots of the entire TV series!

After a pause, Xiao Jiaer put down the storyboard booklet in her hand, looked at Li Qi helplessly, and said,”You are planning to shoot the TV series as a movie!”

Hearing this, Yang Xue turned her head to look at Xiao Jiaer, then at Li Qi, and pointed at the storyboard script she had just put down on the coffee table, and said,”I have been in the film and television industry for several years, and I have met a lot of TV directors, but you are the first one who seriously draws storyboards for TV series, Li Qi!”

Li Qi felt a little timid. Actually, all these were copied through the system, and it took less than half a month. But he still had to exaggerate to convince the two. He shrugged and said,”Because I am more serious than anyone else.””

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Yang Xue and said with a smile:”Actually, what Sister Jiaer said is not wrong. I am indeed planning to make this TV series as if it were a movie!”

“I will not only do……”He said seriously:”And it has to be a quality product!”

The so-called split shot is actually an auxiliary means in film and television production.

A story may be a simple idea from a director or screenwriter or someone else. If you detail it and put it into words, it can become a story. If you write it down, it is a story. If you write it down, it is a story.

The story itself, whether it is a novel or a script, or exists only in words, is the starting point of most entertainment in the world.

But, up to this point, the story is still just words. (To read the exciting novel, go to Faloo Novel Network!)

Words are one of the most wonderful things in the world.

A talented writer can, through simple descriptions, let the readers naturally form a sense of presence and substitution in their hearts, so that they can deeply feel the joys and sorrows and ups and downs of the characters in the story – as the saying goes,”There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people”.

The scenes and characters in the story, at the text stage, are entirely up to the readers to imagine and construct in their minds, and each person is different.

Then, there were ventriloquists, storytellers, ditty singers, drummers, crosstalk performers, and even talk shows from abroad, as well as radio dramas after the emergence of modern communication means such as radio… Of course, the oldest way is definitely the stories that parents or grandparents tell before going to bed. In short, at this point, stories began to move away from the scope of pure text.

When anyone tells a story, there will be a certain tone of voice, even an accent, exaggeration and reduction in words, and even the simulation of the sounds of specific characters and animals, etc. All of these make the story more specific.

If for a story, words are a one-dimensional world…If it is a very flat thing, then when it comes to the”narration” stage, with the addition of sound, the story begins to become a two-dimensional narrative.

Two-dimensional is more concrete than one-dimensional. But the so-called concreteness, from another perspective, greatly shrinks the capacity of the story itself – a person who knows the story by listening to it, his imagination of certain sounds in the story is greatly limited, while a person who knows the story through words can imagine everything.

Movies, TV series, plays, dramas…are all three-dimensional art.

《When the book Journey to the West mentions the Flaming Mountain, readers will think about it and draw a picture of it in their minds. But when the play is released, what does the Flaming Mountain look like? The stage design will give you a model. And when the TV series is released, what does the Flaming Mountain look like? The TV series will even give you a very realistic picture of the Flaming Mountain.

From then on, the Flaming Mountain was like this, and no longer any other way.

So, at the beginning of the creation of the stage plays and the screen pictures of the movies and TV series, should the Flaming Mountain be like this or like that?

For the stage designers of dramas, the selection of filming locations for TV dramas, and the work direction of the set design staff, how can we turn the Flaming Mountain in the text into a real, tangible, and credible Flaming Mountain?[]

Of course, there is a lot of design and creation work to be done, but first of all, the staff must do, design, and create everything. They must adhere to the intentions of the main creator of the play, that is, the director.

And, on top of that, photography, costumes, makeup, etc. How do you deal with that character in the script? How do you deal with that fight scene in the plot?

Whatever the director wants, that’s what it must be.

Therefore, directors who are particular about filming will spend a lot of effort to give a rough outline of the film’s shots before filming begins – even if it is sloppy, even if it is not all the shots, but the most critical information must be included. For example, clothing style, lens style, scene selection, etc.