I am a leader in the entertainment industry

Chapter 87: Fine Production

Simply put, a storyboard is a transitional method used by a director to transform a flat, one-dimensional text story into a three-dimensional, audio-visual image.

Of course, with concrete images and storyboards, it is already two-dimensional.

With the storyboard, the director has directly embodied his ideas and the ideas he needs. Then, he showed it to the costume designer, who immediately understood: Oh, so it should be like this! He showed it to the cameraman, who also understood at once: So this shot needs this angle!

Even once the storyboards were out, even the choice of actors had already had an accurate direction to a large extent.

Of course, for the director, the storyboard script is not completely necessary.

Let alone the storyboards, some directors even start filming without a script. They are very skilled and shoot blindly, with everything in mind, and they still produce classics.

But in the director’s circle, this is still rare. Basically, movie directors, no matter how big they are, will have their own storyboards before filming.

First of all, the requirements for pictures, costumes, and shots in movies are much higher than those in TV series. Secondly, to be honest, movies are short after all. A movie is generally 90 to 120 minutes long, and the shots are limited, so this work is not that time-consuming and laborious.

But for TV series, especially domestic TV series, to be honest, it is extremely rare for the director to draw the script for each episode and each shot before filming…

Firstly, TV series are really too long, with at least 20 episodes and at most 30 or 50 episodes. Even if you just draw the main shots roughly, the workload is extremely large. Secondly, the quality requirements for TV series are not that high, especially for domestic TV series, which are even lower.

Nothing else to say, just talk about lenses and photography

Li Qi didn’t understand these things at first, until he acted in two TV series and later joined the crew of”Crazy Stone”. He began to help Ning Hao manage the set, basically doing the work of an assistant director, and then he began to gradually study this area.

For example, on the Internet in the later days of Li Qi’s original time and space, many netizens often took screenshots to compare the scenes of domestic TV series with those of some famous European and American TV series.——《game of Thrones》、《Rome》、《House of Cards and other well-known high-quality dramas are often compared.

In contrast, it is easy to find that on the TV screens of these famous American TV series, almost every shot, every scene, and every prop is very exquisite. The angle of each shot, the layering and three-dimensional sense of light and shadow will make you feel very delicate, attentive, and particular.

In contrast, most of the domestic TV series, even the famous ones, are still very flat – just a scene. A few characters stand there and start talking directly, and the story goes on and on.

So, many people say that there is no aftertaste.

This is not only the current situation of TV dramas in 2009, but also the current situation of TV dramas in 2002 in another time and space.

As for the reason, it is certainly not because Chinese people cannot shoot or play such good shots, because theoretically, if movies can shoot exquisite shots, then TV series can definitely do so. The main reasons are:

The first point is that the overall atmosphere is not good. And not only the audience’s consumption atmosphere is not good, even the production psychology of the producers does not support this kind of creation.

Frankly speaking, even though it has been 2002, domestic audiences have been bombarded with European and American blockbusters for many years, and many viewers on the Internet have even been watching American dramas for many years. Wouldn’t the producers not know that this is better?

But first of all, it is too expensive to do so. You know, even in the year 22 of that other time and space. The actor’s salary has been rising again and again, but the production cost of TV series is still around the tens of millions. It is often heard that a certain drama has an investment of over 100 million or even hundreds of millions, but the majority of it is spent on the star’s salary, and other production costs have basically not increased.

Simply put, the result of making a high-quality drama is likely to be that you invest but cannot earn back.

However, despite the many complaints about domestic TV series on the Internet, TV series producers still shoot them in the old way. As long as the story is good, you have to watch it. What’s more, the people who are truly baptized by American TV series are only the young generation, and they are not the group of people who will contribute to the ratings of TV stations.

So after all, considering the return on investment, the producers have no courage or ambition to make high-quality, sophisticated dramas, and most viewers can watch normal dramas. The producers simply don’t care how those young people on the Internet criticize them, and just do what they should do. If you want to watch exquisite dramas, just watch American dramas!

The second point is the staffing… there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Even in the 2002s of another time and space, to be honest, there are only a few people in China who are really good at making movies and can play with the layering of shots to perfection.

The vast majority of domestic films are just making up stories and finding a bunch of celebrities to make money.

It is rare to be able to tell stories seriously to the audience, and it is enough to make a lot of money.

The development of the entire industry has not evolved to the point where it can really play with those deeper things.

This is the case with movies, let alone television.

���? Even if someone is willing to spend money to shoot it, the question is, who will shoot it? (To read exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!

)

Let Zhang Yimou, Wang Jiawei and Jiang Dabing shoot a TV series?

That’s obviously not very realistic

In fact, among the TV series produced by British, American and Hollywood movies, there are indeed many high-quality ones, but the proportion of high-quality works is only slightly higher than that in China. This is because most of the works that can be transmitted to China are high-quality. So if we talk seriously, there are few high-quality dramas. This is a thing all over the world, not just in China.

In any industry or art, the best are always in the minority.

So, at this time, is it feasible to spend a lot of money to make a high-quality TV series? Not to mention whether it will make money or not, at least, can it earn back the cost?

Li Qi didn’t know if others had considered this question, but he had been thinking about it for two or three years. After thinking about it, he came to the answer that as long as the script was good, in the short term, even if it didn’t make money, it wouldn’t lose money; in the long term, it would be a huge profit!