You Made Me a Superstar

  Chapter 41 Bad movie?

   Early morning on January 28.

   "It's snowing!"

   "Wow, it's snowing!"

  “…”

   Zhou Yang leaned his back on the pillow, sat on the bed in the single dormitory, put down the book "The Art of Shooting Lens" that he brought back from the office, and glanced at the window.

   He saw outside the window, there was a flurry of goose feather snow.

  The goose feather snow looks particularly beautiful under the street lights...

   Not far away, several girls shouted excitedly, even holding cameras, under the street lights, patted here and there, and posed in various poses as if they had never seen the world before.

   Zhou Yang wondered why he was so excited about the next snow.

   He rubbed his dry eyes, and after checking the time, he knew it was time for him to sleep.

   Maybe it was because the girls outside were too noisy, or maybe it was because of the sound of firecrackers from time to time, in short, Zhou Yang, who was lying on the bed with the lights turned off, couldn't sleep.

New Year approached!

   This idea suddenly popped into Zhou Yang's mind!

  When this idea appeared, Zhou Yang thought of the Spring Festival Gala for no reason, of everyone having a New Year's Eve dinner together, and of New Year's greetings...

  Some happy pictures appeared in Zhou Yang's mind...

   Finally, he turned on the light again and continued to read the book "The Art of Shooting Lenses".

   Looking at it, he finally felt sleepy, and then put down the book in a daze and lay back on the bed.

  …………………………

  Feng Kai left the company at four in the morning on January 28.

   As the end of the year was approaching, he had planned to go back to his villa in Yanjing to take an annual leave after he had finished dealing with the situation of "The Bottom of the Mine".

   The shooting of "The Bottom of the Mine" really exhausted him.

   He doesn't want to do any more work.

   However, things backfired. Instead of waiting for the next annual leave, he waited for an invitation from a crew called "The Crow".

   The director of "The Crow" is Wang Shuai, one of the five generations of literary and art directors, and is a veteran literary and art director among the directors in the Beijing circle.

The full name of the Beijing Circle is actually the Yanjing Literature and Art Circle. It was originally a circle established by a group of cultural people from the Yanjing Army compound. They are also called the children of the compound. Everyone has a very strong background, so they are pulled out individually. Stomping can shock the existence of three shocks.

  The representative directors of the Five Dynasties of China, directors Zhou Yilin, Shen Changwei and others are one of the famous directors in this circle...

Of course, if you have the ability to dig deeper, you will even find that 80% of the stars, emerging directors, and those with big traffic from 2001 to 2006 are all related to this circle. inextricably linked.

   This circle represents resources, money, rights...

   Although Feng Kai has a villa in Yanjing, his family also has a not-so-small listed company, and he is well-known in the circle of cutting-edge directors, he is not a figure in the circle of Beijing.

   Over the years, he has been relying on his family's financial resources to clear up the relationship. He has been in contact with all the big names in the Beijing circle through the docks. He dreams of wanting to integrate into this circle and complete a gorgeous transformation.

  Unfortunately, there are some things that you can't integrate into if you want to. Feng Kai has always been on the fringes of this circle, and has never really integrated into it.

   And this time he suddenly received an invitation from the crew of "The Crow", which was really unexpected!

   The accident made him feel shocked, unbelievable, and even almost crazy with excitement, and almost lost his mind and shouted at the door of Huaxing.

   Of course, he had some doubts.

In his impression, he and Director Wang Shuai only met at the Golden Horse Film Festival dinner a year ago. He and a group of people came together to toast Wang Shuai. Wang Shuai nodded at him symbolically, even knowing each other. It's all very reluctant, and there is no deep friendship at all.

  It stands to reason that Wang Shuai doesn't know him at all.

  Why now, Wang Shuai will invite him to join the crew of "The Crow"?

   Did my talent attract the attention of Wang Shuai and Wang Dao?

  Although he was a little confused, it was a great thing after all. After receiving the invitation from the crew, he packed up his luggage the next day, bought a ticket impatiently and ran towards the crew.

   Chinese New Year?

   It’s also a Year of the Rooster!

   It's not enough!

   "Mining Bottom" editing review work?

   He hesitated for a while, and suddenly felt a little bit sorry for Zhou Yang, but then he felt that it was impossible to have both fish and bear's paw...

"Director Zhou, the post review of "The Bottom of the Mine" will be handed over to you. If you have any questions that you don't understand, you can call me at any time, but there may not be a signal in the crew, you can text me... I When I see the text message, I will find a place with a signal to get back to you immediately."

   "I have already arranged the editing."

   "Alright! Come on, Director Zhou!"

  “…”

   Six o'clock in the morning.

   Zhou Yang received a call from Feng Kai.

   On the phone, Feng Kai looked extremely excited, and his words were high-spirited, as if he was about to take off.

   Zhou Yang was a little dazed after answering the phone.

   After filming "The Bottom of the Mine", Feng Kai said more than once that he would take a break. At least before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, he would not be involved in any work related to the film.

  He wants to have a good New Year...

   But it has only been a day since Director Feng joined the new crew and started a new journey?

   This face slap came too fast, right?

   Zhou Yang shook his head but didn't really care.

  After having breakfast in the company's cafeteria, Zhou Yang walked towards the post-editing department of "The Bottom of the Mine" with a book in between.

  A good movie, shooting is one thing, and post-editing is another.

  Many films were shot perfectly during the shooting period, but the outsourced editing was not handled properly in the post-production.

  The registration deadline for the Berlin International Film Festival in 2006 is around February 10, so if "The Bottom of the Mine" wants to participate in the film festival, they must officially send the copy samples to Berlin before the 10th.

  Although the post-editing difficulty of the film "The Bottom of the Mine" was not very difficult, the time was not particularly abundant.

   The person in charge of the post-editing project of "The Bottom of the Mine" is called Zhang Lei. Zhou Yang has read his resume. He is one of the top post-processing personnel in China. Feng Kai is full of praise for this person.

   "Brother Zhang..."

   "Oh, you are Director Zhou, hello Director Zhou, hello..."

   "Viagra, where are you?"

   "Well, Director Zhou, Director Zhou, sit down..."

  “…”

   Zhou Yang walked into the editing room, greeted everyone very politely, and then looked at the dense computer equipment in the editing room and the post-processing tools that he could not name.

   After seeing him, the staff suddenly had a strange expression on their faces.

   Especially Qian Wei, when Qian Wei saw him, his expression was embarrassed and he dared not look at himself.

   Zhang Lei lowered his head even more, and was silent after responding.

   "Viagra...The editing sample of "The Bottom of the Mine", which part is processed now?"

  "..." The embarrassed expression on Qian Wei's face became heavier, he hesitated for a while, and finally said with a complex emotion: "Director Zhou, the editing of "The Bottom of the Mine" has not started..."

   "Huh?" Zhou Yang was stunned, "Didn't you say you started cutting yesterday?"

   "The original plan was to start cutting yesterday, but..." Qian Wei glanced at the costumes on Zhang Lei's computer screen: "The post-processing of "Warring States" is very urgent, and we were all pulled over to help..."

"Ah?" Zhou Yang fell into a short silence when he heard this, and then, he seemed to think of something and stared at Qian Wei: "Viagra, the post-processing of "Warring States", didn't it start a month ago? ?"

   He was a little puzzled.

   This is what Qian Wei said a few days ago.

  Qian Wei lowered his head. He remained silent, as if he didn't know what to explain.

"Because "Warring States" was registered at the Berlin International Film Festival, it was to compete with "Heroes", so Director Zhou, um, Zhou Yilin, Director Zhou attached great importance to the later editing of this film, and "Warring States" itself is a Large scenes, there are some special effects factors, so the post-processing will be more troublesome, and it requires a little more manpower, and it is very troublesome for us to cut..." In the end, Zhang Lei controlled the computer and answered Zhou Yang's words while working.

   "Oh...Brother Zhang, I want to ask, when will the later stage of "Warring States" be completed?" Zhou Yang also expressed his understanding after listening to it.

   "According to this progress, if we add more work in the evening, we may be able to finish cutting around February 7, depending on the satisfaction of Zhou Yilin and Director Zhou..."

   "Huh? Then there are only two days left for "The Bottom of the Mine"?" Zhou Yang was stunned when he heard this.

  “…”

  No one answered Zhou Yang's words.

  Qian Wei's head lowered even more.

   He is the default.

   Zhou Yang glanced at the editing room.

  The sound of the instruments in the editing room was constantly ringing, and all the staff in the post-production team were busy editing "Warring States".

   "What kind of film can be edited in two days?" Zhou Yang looked at Qian Wei and added another sentence when he saw that everyone was silent.

   "I'm sorry, Director Zhou..."

  “…”

  Silence...

   Another long, long silence.

   Just when there was silence, the company's editing room door opened again.

   Then walked in a young man with glasses.

   When he walked in, he didn't even look at Zhou Yang, he just went straight to Zhang Lei's side and asked Zhang Lei to call up the finished sample of "Warring States".

   Zhou Yang stood beside him and heard this person say a lot of technical terms...

   He didn't understand.

   About half an hour later...

   "Manager Xu, if I cut it like this, I'm afraid the editing time of "Warring States" will be extended, at least until the 9th..."

   "No. 9 is too late..."

   "Then we may not have time for the movie "The Bottom of the Mine"..."

   "Warring States is going to apply for the Berlin International Film Festival!"

   ""Mine Bottom" also needs to sign up..."

"Do you really think that the nouveau riche investment, where the stupid kid who came out of the movie made a movie that can be shortlisted in Berlin? It's not bad if it can be finished smoothly. Then, you can just cut it for a few hours and deal with it..." After the young man had said everything he had to say, his voice was a little disdainful.

  Qian Wei became embarrassed...

   He suddenly wanted to find a hole to burrow into.

"Little Qian, help the "Warring States" project well, our crew will not treat you badly, and we will never forget your help. Before the "Warring States" is released, we will add your name in the post-processing... I know you are in "The Bottom of the Mine". Participate in the filming, have feelings, but there is no need to spend time on some meaningless bad movies, your future is in your hands..."

  "..." Qian Wei was even more embarrassed. He glanced in Zhou Yang's direction subconsciously, showing a troubled expression.

   Then, he found that Zhou Yang didn't know when to start, he had already turned and left.

  The door in the distance is still open...

   (end of this chapter)