I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

Chapter 39 039. Great movie, right?

In the second room, Xu Xin's broken singing voice and the "Happy Birthday Sissy" kept popping up to change cups, forming a seemingly messy, but really incomparable group portrait.

The screen paused, Yu Zhen held the remote control in her hand and said:

"I have to praise the shooting style here. First of all, the difficulty in group portrait scenes is how to highlight the key points, how to effectively sort out each shot, change from dynamic vision to static vision, and explain it to the audience through the picture, so that they can find the key points. ."

After speaking, point at the screen:

"The film's director of photography did a very good job here. Using a handheld camera to advance, he first determined the character Xu Sanjin as the main prototype, and all other characters were extended and started from his picture, allowing the audience to find out. His. He did a great job with that.”

After praising Fang Xiu in a subtext, Yu Zhen continued to ask:

"So, here comes the question. In the first room, he saw that he was so poor. So what does Xu Xin want to express in the second room?"

Yu Zhen had already helped everyone clarify their thoughts before, so after hearing her words, many people raised their hands following her thoughts:

"Is it possible to be friends with anyone?"

"We are all brothers from all over the world?"

"I think it's a disguise, right? That's why he shouted Happy Birthday to Sissi in that voice..."

The various discussions were heard by Yu Zhen and Xu Xin.

After hearing the discussion of these people, Yu Zhen was uncharacteristically:

"Xu Xin, please speak for yourself this time and tell me what you want to express."

The human voice in the classroom disappeared instantly.

Under the attention of the whole class, Xu Xin stood up:

"Actually, someone has already answered this question just now. When I was drafting the script, my real idea was to express that there are friends everywhere in the world. But as Teacher Yu said, this proposition was too big, so I improved it in details. From the sudden entry into the room at the beginning, to being accepted by the group, after expressing the friendliness of the crowd, through those few lines of happy birthday, and the drunken Xu Sanjin getting toasted by others, the first reaction was the details of the reciprocation, etc., What it expresses is the maturity of accepting kindness, hiding one's own personality, and integrating into the group. Of course..."

He shook his head slightly:

"This is just my personal opinion. The main reason is that I don't like Western movies that focus on highlighting the distinctive style of individual heroism. In my concept, people are social animals. Only by accepting the collective first can they be accepted by the collective. Accepted, and any individualistic heroic style should be based on the collective, rather than running counter to it like Western movies.

Now there is a strange group that is willing to accept Xu Sanjin and release goodwill, so Xu Sanjin's maturity is destined that he will not say to that "Sissy": Hey, what a coincidence, today is also my birthday.

But through the voice of happy birthday, firstly, it is to express goodwill, and secondly, it is to give an explanation of one's personal will for the "sacrifice" of this collective. So, after I discovered a story that could dig deep into the room, I defined the depth of the story as: maturity with good intentions. "

After he finished speaking, everyone looked thoughtful.

But Yu Zhen asked:

"Then do you think your handling of this story was successful?"

"No."

Xu Xin shook his head directly.

In fact, he had discussed this issue with Teacher Yu before, and it was also a big minus for the whole story.

The story of his room was conceptualized, but the script was not deep enough.

And combined with Yu Zhen’s words, it is:

"The reason why Xu Xin failed to successfully handle the story is because the footage did not give Xu Sanjin enough hints of his psychological activities or the transformation process. Therefore, he only brought the superficial meaning of the script to the audience, and the core theme was very weak.

He made a mistake that inexperienced directors make, that is, he wanted to fill the story with too much content at once, but did not do enough foreshadowing. And this is also the main reason why when we go to watch some specific types of movies, most of us feel that the role positioning is very baffling and somewhat confusing. "

After saying that, the conversation changed:

"Of course, I'm not saying that his story was poorly shot. On the contrary, as a freshman, he was able to express a main theme in a short thirteen-minute story. In my opinion, he has succeeded. . So, I define the story of this second room as one with no flaws, because at least the surface of his story is very clear. I believe that as long as he accumulates enough experience, then this story will be more perfect. Okay, next Let’s look at the third story… Actually, I think the third room is very interesting…”

As she spoke, the movie continued to advance, and for some reason, Yu Zhen suddenly and deliberately increased the volume so that people could hear the slightly noisy background music.

That's an English song.

But no one cared about it at the moment, just listening to her continue:

"Here we can actually see that Xu Xin had some unique ideas in terms of scenery and sound effects. First of all, what did you see?"

Pointing at the green screen, Yu Zhen asked, and someone answered:

"beer."

"...I mean what does it represent and what meaning does it have? You are the director, not the audience. You have to think from the movie instead of giving a straightforward answer."

After speaking, Yu Zhen looked at her watch and said directly:

"It's green. Green wine bottles cover the table. In the middle, this man is crying. Note that he has no lines. He has been crying. But through the language of the camera, what will this green make you think of? Why does he Will you cry?... Think about it, what does green mean?"

The increasingly straightforward words naturally led everyone's thoughts to feelings.

"It's very green, green, right?"

"right."

"Then in this room, we will see a very interesting connection between the past and the future. As I said before, it seems that the drunk Xu Sanjin just entered this room by mistake, and then drank a glass of wine with this crying man , I persuaded her not to cry with a few words.

But, do you still remember what Xu Xin said just now? He said that in his second room, he was talking about the maturity of goodwill he felt from the collective system. And in this third room, notice, his body language is very interesting. He hesitated at first, then asked. After getting no answer, he picked up the wine and made physical comfort contact with the other party. After confirming again that it was invalid, he turned around and left the room after drinking a glass of wine. What does this mean? "

Without waiting for the students to answer, Yu Zhen said directly:

"It shows that after accepting the goodwill he received from the previous room, he also passed it on to the next person. Through the hints in the camera, it was suggested that this person may have been cheated, but the other party's refusal to communicate made people feel Some couldn't figure out what happened to the other party. Then... just like the previous room, no one knew why Xu Sanjin appeared here, or whether he went to the wrong room.

In short, the collective accepted him and released goodwill, and this goodwill was released by Xu Sanjin in this room. The same two propositions, the big proposition: Correct values ​​have a conductive effect. As for the small proposition...Xu Xin, tell me. "

"..."

Xu Xin, who had just sat down for a short time, had to stand up again:

"After seeing that the other party cannot communicate, release the goodwill and stay away from the frustration and pain in time. So in the final shot, I will freeze the scene in the third room, wait until Xu Sanjin closes the door, isolating the sounds inside and outside, and The sudden disappearance of the sound represents complete closure. But it is not closure to others, but isolation from oneself.

Teacher Yu, the reason why you turned up the volume just now is to let everyone hear clearly the background music in the KTV, which is selected from Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling In Love", and the lyrics between the opening and closing of the door... My English is not very standard, but the translation is that a wise man does not fall in love, and a fool is trapped by love. But in fact this part was added later, and the song was not in the KTV at the filming location. So in order to make the sound less abrupt, I reduced the volume..."

"...????"

"????"

As Xu Xin explained, the students in the class looked confused.

no……

Where did you come from?

Also used the lyrics of an English song to express the theme of the script?

Are you... pressing us to the ground and rubbing us?

We are still struggling to find a camera position to learn focus and composition, but you are doing well, are you starting to play matryoshka dolls for us?

One link after another?

Brother, what are you doing?

Everyone was speechless and confused, and underneath these expressions, there was...a rather desperate feeling of shame.

I was a bad student in the first half of my freshman year.

The second half of the semester has just started. What kind of tricks are you doing?

At this time, they heard the somewhat noisy but extremely affectionate voice singing affectionately in the TV speakers:

"Wise men say~

only fools rush in,

but I can't help~ falling in love with~~~ you~~~~~"

After coming back to his senses, he looked at Yu Zhen.

But I saw Teacher Yu squinting his eyes, and the hand holding the remote control was waving gently in accordance with Elvis Presley's voice, his eyes full of intoxication.

It wasn't until the sound of the door slamming sounded, the scene froze, and the background music disappeared that she opened her eyes and said with a smile:

"So, Elvis is great, the story is great, and Xu Xin is great, right? Classmates."

"..."

"..."

"..."

The whole place fell silent.

But after being still for a second, I don’t know who took the lead.

"Snapped."

"Bah bang bang."

Blah blah blah...

Applause formed a sea of ​​reverberation in the classroom.

Xu Xin was in this ocean, sitting up straight and nodding slightly to everyone.

His face was unusually calm.

Thanks.

Thank you very much for your compliments though.

But I know, and I hope...it's inevitable!

Will do better.

(I would also like to explain here that many people say that the words "Wise men never fall in love" were said by Bob Dylan, but in fact they were not. There are two versions of this word on the Internet, one is from Sir Francis Bacon, and the other is from Although Bob Dylan also covered this song, Elvis Presley did not say it. Just like Lu Xun must have said something about chicken soup, it is a deceptive and fake literary youth joke. There is no need to be more truthful. Just laugh it off.)