Chapter 193: The Dawn of the Screenwriter (Fifth Update!)
It took 16 days for Huang Baiming to revise the script of "The Owl and Dumbo" to Yin Jun's satisfaction. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
This includes drama scripts and storyboard scripts.
The plot script is relatively easy, but when it comes to the storyboard script, Huang Baiming is a little unaccustomed.
As far as filming is concerned, Xiangjiang people like to let the actors and directors play freely to a large extent, and if the constraints are too strong, they will feel very awkward.
Huang Baiming also specifically asked Yin Jun why he did this.
Yin Jun told him that making a good script, storyboard script is to help the director and actors better understand their roles and plot development, not something that binds them, they can play freely on the basis of not violating the central point, but they can't deviate from the main line.
Otherwise, the movie will look very scattered and make people feel uninteresting to watch.
Whether a movie will be good-looking, whether it can be good-looking, is actually driven by the storyline.
Once the plot is messy and all of them are casual performances, then this movie will make many people baffle to watch, and then go out and feel like they have been fooled.
This is how the Hong Kong movies flocked to the mainland after the box office market soared after 2010.
If they take out those movies from the 80s and 90s, they will definitely sell very well, but after twenty or thirty years, they still haven't grown at all, but they are becoming more and more insincere, which makes people feel unhappy.
Rigid, patchwork, self-righteousness, and boredom...... and so on, all of which are the evaluations of most of the Xiangjiang movies given by mainland fans who have matured.
When it comes to the deepest reason, it is still that they don't have a good story at all, and they just take it for granted to make a movie, and of course they won't be bought.
One of the typical is Huang Baiming, who was recruited by Yin Juncai to help with the screenwriting.
For a few years, he came to a Chinese New Year film of a similar type every year, and not only the mainland audience vomited, but the locals in Xiangjiang also shouted that they couldn't bear it.
We must be sincere in doing things, and if we don't have sincerity, we will naturally be abandoned by the market.
Now Yin Jun asked Huang Baiming to write the storyboard script of "The Owl and Dumbo", just to want him to know the whole story by heart, so that he has a complete story system, no matter how the director and actors play, it will not go beyond the framework and will not fall apart.
Huang Baiming listened to Yin Jun's explanation, although he didn't say it, Yin Jun knew that he felt that this was too troublesome in his heart.
It's just that Huang Baiming is now learning with Yin Jun, and of course he will not go against Yin Jun's intentions.
But Huang Baiming will definitely not know how powerful the subtle power is.
In the future, when countless scripts written by Yin Jun in Xiangjiang made the movie a big hit, he couldn't help but learn from Yin Jun and learn from this successful experience.
After writing "The Owl and Dumbo", Yin Jun turned to give the script outline of "The Loser" to Huang Baiming.
Huang Baiming is also a person who can endure hardships, he didn't take a break, so he came to fill in another script to fill in and expand, he didn't complain, he took it back and started working.
Hong Jinbao here, who had been waiting for a long time, watched Yin Jun take the notebook, and couldn't wait to look at it for a day, and the cash check of 1 million was handed over by him with both hands, followed by a contract that was not very formal, which said that Yin Jun could enjoy 10% of the profit income of "The Owl and Dumbo".
Of course, this 10% profit is limited to the part that Hung Jinbao can get.
Hung Jinbao's vision is very good, although he also has his own limitations, but his ability is definitely counted among the stars of the same era.
As the saying goes, when the waves are gone, is when the hero reveals his true colors.
Hung Jinbao can still play a role on the screen in 2020, and his acting career has continued for nearly 50 years, which is a remarkable performance.
Therefore, as soon as he saw Yin Jun's script, he knew that it was very distinctive and very interesting.
It's like tailor-made for him and Mecca.
Urban stories are close to life.
The thief plot makes people can't help but explore.
The suspenseful setting makes people want to think further.
The thrilling fights will make people watch heartily.
A love story can also make people feel good.
Abandoning evil and turning to good is in line with the eternal theme.
……
and so on, but it is not a random stuffing, but it is arranged reasonably and wonderfully, which is a great test of a screenwriter's skills.
If Hong Jinbao pays for it, if he does it, he will make a difference in comedy at most, and in terms of plot arrangement, he must have done an average job, especially compared with Yin Jun's script, it is simply weak.
Even people like Mai Jia, who don't approve of buying high-priced scripts, couldn't help but say to Hung Jinbao after reading the script and storyboard scripts several times, "If Ah Jun can't come out in the future, it's just God's eyes." ”
Hung Jinbao's script has been obtained, and with their Xiangjiang people's style of doing things, they must have prepared the crew in three or five days, and usually finished filming and releasing the movie in one month.
With Yin Jun's good script, Hong Jinbao and Mai Jia will definitely have to polish it well, but it will not be released in more than two months at most.
Hong Jinbao was preparing to make a movie with great fanfare, but Wu Siyuan never got news of Yin Jun, and he was a little panicked, so he simply invited Yin Jun to attend a friend's party, and by the way, he also wanted to urge.
Originally, Yin Jun didn't like to participate in any dinner parties, but Wu Siyuan pleaded hard, and Yin Jun couldn't shirk it, so he came to Hongde Restaurant where he had set a banquet according to the agreed time.
Before 37 years, most of the restaurants in Xiangjiang were migrated from eastern Guangdong, and later with the progress of the Anti-Japanese War, many well-known restaurants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, in order to escape the war, also came to the relatively stable Xiangjiang.
Therefore, the restaurants in Xiangjiang are the same as those on Baodao, basically a hundred flowers are blooming, and many century-old shops have branched out here, gaining a good reputation and financial luck.
Hongde Restaurant is not famous in eastern Guangdong, but their main Shunde dishes are still good, light and delicious, which has attracted the favor of many customers.
When Yin Jun arrived, the first thing he saw was the square-faced man with curly hair and a thick beard, and the one holding his arm was a beautiful girl with a big mouth, just a little thin.
Next to him was an ordinary-looking man with glasses, about twenty years old.
"Come on, Junshao, let me introduce you. Wu Siyuan, who was on the side, stood up with them and said with a smile: "These two are Xu Ke and Shi Lansheng, you have heard their names before, right? This is also the screenwriter of Jiashi, called Shu Qi!"
"Hello, hello!"
Yin Jun reached out and shook hands with them, and after everyone greeted them warmly, they sat down.
Originally, Shu Qi was a little worried that Yin Jun would be arrogant and unruly, but he didn't expect him to be such a gentle and even a shy young man.
Shu Qi sighed unconsciously in his heart, what a person can't look at, who would know, it is such a 16-year-old boy who actually fights invincible opponents all over the world, so that all the screenwriters in Xiangjiang bow down in front of him?
However, everyone will also be somewhat grateful to Yin Jun.
Because before Yin Jun, screenwriters were worthless, and in the TV station, the status of screenwriters was very low, and everyone felt that the TV series was brilliant because of the credit of the producer, the credit of the leading actor, and the screenwriter's script was the same thing.
The same is true for movies.
As a result, after Yin Jun was born, Jiashi was such a crumbling TV station, and it was supported by his two scripts - "Bao Qingtian" and "Wulin Gaiden", which swept all Asian TV stations, and even in Japan and South Korea.
And that's not all.
Before writing "Bao Qingtian" and "Wulin Gaiden", a "Seven Days of Wrong Love" made the declining former actor shine again, breaking the box office record in Xiangjiang, not to mention that the box office in Asia was also as high as more than 60 million, second only to Li Xiaolong, shocking all filmmakers in Xiangjiang.
After that, Yin Jun adapted a "Chu Liuxiang" to Li's TV station, which was originally only a famous novel in Treasure Island, after Yin Jun's polishing and screenwriting, and then through the interpretation of Zheng Shaoqiu and Zhao Yazhi, it suddenly created a crazy record of more than 80% of the average ratings of the whole Asian broadcast TV station that neither "Bao Qingtian" nor "Wulin Gaiden" could create!
So much so that Gu Long, the original author of "Chu Liuxiang", couldn't help but say sourly, people only knew that Chu Xiangshuai was Zheng Shaoqiu, and thought that "Chu Liuxiang" was Yin Jun's work, which was really depressing.
Not only are the ratings impressive, but Yin Jun's income is even more impressive.
In the past, when I made TV dramas and movies, I only heard that the filming was good, the box office and ratings were high, and the TV station gave red envelopes to actors and producers, but I never heard of giving red envelopes to screenwriters.
The screenwriter not only has a very small income, but also has a very abnormal schedule, usually when the task comes, he has to complete the task while holding back, so it is not a 9-to-5, but an all-night job.
Everyone knows that staying up late is not good.
But for the sake of this job, which screenwriter dares to say that he hasn't stayed up all night?—oh, I'm afraid only Yin Jun hasn't stayed up late to write.
With so much to pay and such little income, screenwriters have always been very depressed.
But Yin Jun is different, he can earn hundreds of thousands, millions or even millions with a script, and after several TV series and movies, he seems to earn more than any star!
This brings the power of light to the screenwriters, and everyone knows that in fact, screenwriters can be brilliant and make a lot of money.
The suffering they suffer now is only because they are not as good as Yin Jun, as long as they can learn from Yin Jun and constantly surpass themselves, they will definitely be able to succeed!
Huang Baiming thought like this, so once he had the opportunity to accept Yin Jun's guidance, he quit his job without saying a word and came to follow Yin Jun.
Moreover, the benefits that Yin Jun brought to the screenwriters are not only to let them see the bright future, but also to have substantial benefits.
For example, the three major TV stations have gradually improved the treatment of screenwriters, with an average salary increase of more than 30%, hoping to find a person close to Yin Jun among their own people, so that they can also make good scripts.
It's the same with studios.
Shaw Brothers' company, which is so picky, is now also asking for good scripts at high prices everywhere, which has caused many talented editors to invest in the past.
Shu Qi is a screenwriter on Jiayi TV.
His imagination is good, and after a few years of hard work in Jiashi, he was entrusted with an important task this year as the main creator of "Celebrity Love History" to write this TV series of great significance to Jiashi.
At that time, Jiashi was thinking that if she could make a beautiful comeback, she would rely on "The Love History of Celebrities" to take the lead.
Shu Qi and a group of partners are also gearing up, wanting to save their TV stations from danger.
What I didn't expect was that as soon as I came out, I encountered wireless's annual drama "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", and the TV series performed by Zheng Shaoqiu, Wang Minquan, Zhao Yazhi and other superstars chased and beat fiercely, and the ratings were simply overwhelming.
If Yin Jun's "Bao Qingtian" hadn't come out, "The Love History of Celebrities" would have been nailed to the record of Jiashi, a short-lived TV station, as the final pillar of shame.
At first, Shu Qi was not convinced, he didn't think "Bao Qingtian" was so good.
But seeing that "Bao Qingtian" beat "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" to the point that it was about to be cut in half, and it created such good ratings and copyright income in other cities, Shu Qi knew how big the gap between himself and Yin Jun was - the people of Xiangjiang are blind, and they will not even affect hundreds of millions of viewers from other countries.
Then there is "Wulin Gaiden", Shu Qi is completely indifferent to such a playful chapter back to the TV series, and feels that Yin Jun is completely nonsense, and he belongs to the person who gets carried away as soon as he succeeds.
At the beginning, the ratings on Jiashi seemed to confirm Shu Qi's opinion.
But what he didn't expect was that in less than a week, "Wulin Gaiden" suddenly broke out, advancing by leaps and bounds, killing the heroes at 7 o'clock in one go, and getting a solipsistic rating.
Similarly, in the ratings and buyouts in other cities, "Wulin Gaiden" is not inferior to "Bao Qingtian", and even in the minds of young people, "Bao Qingtian" is not as good as "Wulin Gaiden" - this can be seen from the popularity of the stars of "Wulin Gaiden".
Whether it is Lao Bai, Tong Xiangyu, Xiucai, Guo Furong, or Wushuang Senior Sister and Mo Da Devil, they are all very favored by advertisers, and even the advertising fee of Zhu Wushuang, who is not the protagonist, is higher than Bao Qingtian, which is really jaw-dropping!
And a large group of stars created through "Wulin Gaiden" have also embarked on their own star paths, which has made countless unambitious actors pay close attention to Yin Jun.
If it weren't for Yin Jun, who is too rare to approach, and is very low-key and rarely attends any private dinners, maybe there would have been a beautiful woman willing to dedicate herself to this opportunity to win a position.
Through Yin Jun's two successes, Shu Qi is already convinced of Yin Jun.
As for the amazing talent of "Chu Liuxiang" in the back, Shu Qi is not surprised.
Even everyone thinks that Yin Jun's success is normal, but it is not normal if he is not successful.
With such a change of thought, Shu Qi now admires Yin Jun very much, and today he heard his good friend Xu Ke say that he wanted to have dinner with Yin Jun, and he followed him with a dead face, just to meet Yin Jun.
Among the people present, Wu Siyuan is the owner of the film company, Xu Ke is the producer of the cutting-edge famous TV series, Shi Lansheng is the producer of "Millionaire", not to mention Yin Jun, a genius screenwriter.
There is only this Shu Qi left, who is a very unpopular person.
But Yin Jun did not despise him because of this, but after sitting down, he exchanged some views with him on the form and method of screenwriting, and explained some of Shu Qi's problems in detail.
Xu Ke was very satisfied when he watched it on the side, Yin Jun's approachable attitude showed that he was a gentle gentleman as rumored, not as impetuous as ordinary Xiangjiang people.
Xu Ke came from Vietnam, and his sense of identity with Xiangjiang is not so deep, on the contrary, he feels more affectionate to people from the mainland.
Shi Lansheng looked at Yin Jun and Shu Qi with a smile, she had a good relationship with Yin Jun, and they had discussed the production plan of "Millionaire" several times together, and they were also the people who were most familiar with Yin Jun, and they knew that Yin Jun's character was so good.
Wu Siyuan was a little anxious in his heart, because Yin Jun didn't tell him the latest developments in the script, when would it be written and brought over.
These people don't know, in fact, among them in the future, this most unknown young man with glasses is the most famous person in the academic world.
He has served as the founder and chairman of the Xiangjiang Film Awards, and the dean of the Film and Television School of the Xiangjiang Academy of Performing Arts, and has a very high reputation in the Xiangjiang entertainment industry.
If he wants to praise any actor, then he has already taken a head in terms of favors.
But from beginning to end, I have never heard of any favoritism and malpractice by the father of the Academy Awards.
It's just that with the decline of Xiangjiang films, the Academy Awards have also become a chicken rib, which is not as good as the Golden Horse Awards on Treasure Island, which is probably something that Shu Qi never thought about at the beginning of its establishment, right?
Historically, Shu Qi will create the source of the evaluation of the Xiangjiang Film Awards next year - "Film Fortnightly".
In three years, "Film Fortnightly" will start to create the Xiangjiang Film Awards, and the first awards will be awarded.
In another year or two, with the continuous prosperity and influence of Xiangjiang films, the Xiangjiang Film Awards will continue to expand their influence, becoming the first award in the Chinese film industry, and the limelight is unparalleled for a while.
It's a pity that the Xiangjiang Awards are too narrow, and the award is judged on Xiangjiang, which has a population of only more than 5 million, so what good and competitive works can appear?
It was only in the ten years when Xiangjiang's movies were deformed and prosperous that the Academy Awards had a little bit of a look, and after that, there were only twenty or thirty movies left in Xiangjiang a year, and the ones selected were all rubbish, what else did the Academy Awards have to look at, and what authority did they have?
Although in the end, Xiangjiang's films also went to the mainland to invest and shoot, compared with the hundreds of movies released in the mainland every year and hundreds of excellent works appeared, Xiangjiang's review base is simply like a child's play, and it can't become a climate at all.
Yin Jun has a clear step-by-step arrangement for his future career plan.
Regarding this Academy Award, Yin Jun has long regarded it as his bag.
Even if he can't start "Film Biweekly" in time, before 82 years, Yin Jun's influence will definitely allow him to win the Academy Award in advance.
Shu Qi in front of him, in Yin Jun's heart, is actually the most trusted person in charge of the Academy Awards.
But it is rumored that Shu Qi is very stubborn, thinking that the Xiangjiang Academy Awards should be a Xiangjiang film to be eligible to participate in the competition, which is also an important reason why the Academy Awards were quickly excluded from mainstream Chinese films in the future.
If this is the case, Yin Jun will not hesitate to let Shu Qi go away and choose a new manager to do the Academy Awards.
For example, that cute little fat man Wen Jun is a good candidate! )