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September 11, 2009.

Kyoto.

In a luxurious private room of a large hotel

On the dining table, there are several exquisite dishes.

Xu Shan was facing the door of the room. Opposite him were three people, all of whom were wearing suits.

"The first scene, the first shot of [The Journey of Spring] has officially begun."

"action."

Xu Shan no longer had a bald head at this time, but wore a wig. At this time, he was slowly eating food with a fork, and while eating, he glanced at the three people opposite him.

"Getting to know you makes me realize that everything is destiny."

"Perhaps God has already destined us to go through this."

"Now what I want to say is, what evil did I do in my previous life? The national animation market is so hot, and you actually rewarded me with such performance."

Having said this, I looked at the leftmost person of the three people opposite:

"Your IQ is really refreshing."

The person named on the far left smiled awkwardly.

Xu Shan looked at the person in the middle again:

"And you, Xiao Zhang, you have made some progress this year."

The young man in the middle, named Xiao Zhang, smiled happily when he heard this.

"You were mentally retarded last year, but you have become stupid this year."

Xiao Zhang's happy face froze and turned into embarrassment.

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...

Filming is a fun and boring thing.

Qin Dong waited until the crew was assembled and the actors were recruited before the filming officially started.

Because of the reputation issue now, I keep a low profile and forget about the opening ceremony. Let’s do it for the next movie.

"Embarrassed in Spring" is a movie about Spring Festival travel, so it must be during the winter New Year period. It's only September and it's still early, so we can only shoot some indoor scenes first.

After filming the indoor scenes in Kyoto, the crew borrowed Xu Shan's home in Kyoto, a villa, as Xu Shan's hometown in the movie.

By the way, Tao Caihong made a cameo appearance, also playing the role of Xu Shan's character Li Chenggong's wife in the movie.

Nothing bothers the two masters.

...

After filming these, the entire crew rushed to Hanwu City, which is where most of the movie's scenes were shot.

At this time, a scrapped train carriage has been rented.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner.

Qin Dong has blocked everything from the outside world and is waiting for him to return from filming.

This is his own money, so Qin used his heart and must get off to a good start.

The director has worked hard, so why should others not work hard?

The atmosphere of the crew is going on in this environment...

...

Several months passed in the blink of an eye.

Qin Dong held up a loudspeaker and shouted to everyone:

"Now, I announce that [The Lost Journey of Spring] is officially finished."

"yeah...."

"It's finalized..."

"Long live the director."

Qin Dong looked at everyone's happy expressions and was very happy. He took the trumpet and coughed, and everyone immediately became quiet:

"Everyone will clean up the scene and have a dinner together in the evening. It will be regarded as the closing banquet. I would like to thank everyone for their hard work over the past few months."

"yeah..."

Now everyone was even happier.

...

In the evening, a small two-story hotel in Hanwu City was completely booked by Qin Dong.

"Director Qin, I respect you and thank you for giving me the opportunity."

At Qin Dong's table, except for a few main actors in the movie, they were all the heads of various departments of the crew. At this time, Wang Baobao was the first to thank Qin Dong with a glass of wine, and after speaking, he raised his head and drank it in a gulp.

Qin Dong stretched out his hand and pressed it down:

"Sit down and talk."

After saying that, he picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

Xu Shan picked up the wine glass for the second time with a smile:

"Director Qin, I won't say any more, Lao Xu. There are still many opportunities for us to cooperate. Let's go have a drink."

Regarding Qin Dong, from the initial suspicion to the current admiration, this person's directorial talent is not fake, and it is definitely not comparable to him, a monk who has become a monk on the way.

What else could Qin Dong say, just keep drinking.

The result was good, this one started, and other people came to toast after seeing it.

Some supporting characters, people whom Qin Dong was not very familiar with, were also there at this time and joined in the fun and came to toast. Qin Dong had no choice but to drink one by one. Fortunately, regardless of his previous life, he was still a good drinker in this life.

Both of them have dimples on their cheeks, and the dimples represent the person's ability to drink.

However, Qin Dong was very self-aware and had no intention of getting drunk, so when he felt tipsy, he immediately stopped this behavior and refused to drink no matter how much others made fun of him.

Why? Because there is no woman he likes here.

What if you get too drunk and someone picks up your body? Wouldn't it be an advantage to other women?

After three drinks, Qin Dong left the table early, returned to the hotel, locked the door and went to sleep.

The next day I got up, took a shower, and led the crew back to Kyoto again.

It is now November 25, 2009.

...

The post-production of a film also takes time, but fortunately the budget is sufficient.

A few more months are enough.

All this is because Qin Dong shoots very quickly and has a clear rhythm, so he will not waste time and shoot according to the videos of his previous life.

Therefore, Qin Dong consumed less film and did not take any useless shots at all.

Normally, for a 90-minute movie, the director will shoot more than 120 minutes of footage to ensure the selection of materials during post-editing.

Even though some scenes of supporting characters were filmed, they were deleted in the end and did not appear in the main film at all.

This is a waste, increasing the cost of the film and delaying the filming time.

But, this is the normal director's mode.

Unless it's wall mounted.

After Qin Dong finished the post-production, he cut several trailers himself.

...

On December 14th, [Pandora] officially ushered in the global 3D film era.

Faced with such an ambitious film, Qin Dong took the initiative to avoid it and didn't even bother to do publicity for this period of time.

We have to wait until this trend subsides before it’s time to promote it.

As time passed, Pandora became a whirlwind all over the world.

During this period, Qin Dong chartered a plane and filmed for a day. He also took a few people, Wang Baobao and Xu Shan with him to fly to Thailand, stayed there for a day and then flew back to Kyoto.

I went to capture some scenes as Easter eggs at the end of the first movie.

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After that, I took people from the company and my mentor Lao Liu to China Film Studio.

The finished film needs to be seen by China Film.

"Very good. The movie is very funny. China Film will invest millions in promoting it."

Qin Dong walked out of China Film Group Corporation two hours later with the assurance from Gao Liang, Director of China Film Publishing Department, and left with peace of mind.

Is it more than a few million? It's not much, it's still very little, but that's all it can do. Qin Dong doesn't overestimate his ability to strive for it. How much publicity does Sanwu's film still want?

It was not until January 20, 2010 on the Gregorian calendar that Qin Dong contacted China Film and began to build momentum for the film.

The hurricane of "Pandora" which has been released for more than a month has subsided, and now the time has come.

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"Recently, Daqin Empire Entertainment Company formally sued Apple Daily and more than a dozen other media."

"What kind of confidence does this student who hit a girl have to dare to act like this?"

"I beat a girl from the same school in public and got expelled. Is it true or is it a slander?"

"It has been found that Qin Dong has been a student with excellent academic performance since he was a child. Why did he hit a girl in the school when he was about to graduate in his senior year?"

"Rookie director Qin Dong, who was expelled from school, has finished filming his first film in his directorial career [Journey to the Road: Springtime]."

China Film Group is not a small company. As soon as it was launched, many entertainment newspapers reported on Qin Dong and his personal affairs, once again stirring up the turmoil for several months.

The reports on the Internet are even more diverse, and they come in whatever way they attract people.

"The sows in the pig pen kept screaming in the middle of the night. Why did the eighty-year-old grandmother get on the sedan chair?"

"Is this a moral decline or a distortion of human nature?"

"Revealing the unknown secrets of director Qin Dong of "On the Road to Misfortune".

"The story that has to be told between Qin Dong and the girl who was beaten at the Chinese Artist Training Academy."

"Qin Dong, a lawless student? Or a fighter who dares to fight against injustice?"

Qin Dong had seen too many of these routines in his previous life, and they became even crazier later on. At this time, the era had just started, and Qin Dong had his subordinates secretly fuel the situation, which immediately attracted the attention of the public.

The type of navy army has appeared very early. Since others can use it, Qin Dong is not polite and wants to use it anyway. It is just a matter of throwing money.

As long as ordinary people read newspapers or surf the Internet, they have seen the news, remembered Qin Dong's name, and also remembered the first movie he shot [On the Road to Misfortune: Spring].

"The trailer can be released."

A few days after the news spread, the first trailer for "Embarrassing Spring" was released.