I'm a Director, I'm Not Bad Chapter 148

  Chapter 148 146. The first hidden egg in "SECRET"

   "Don't renew?"

"Um."

   "Hmm... So, she is the same as Jay Chou?"

   "That's right. Anyway, it's New Year's Day. At dinner today, I don't think Director Li and the others have any intention of keeping her."

   "Tsk...then what do you think?"

"I don't have any thoughts at the moment. My contract expires in 2009, which happens to be when I graduated. I don't want to think about it so much... I will watch it then. In fact, the company's commission is indeed quite high, mainly for transportation expenses, training fees, or what Yes, it's very expensive. When she told me about the Audi car today, I understood that she must have left because she didn't make enough money."

   "But at least it's a peaceful breakup, right? It's better than embarrassing yourself and making outsiders laugh."

   "That's true... Hey, brother, as a director, what do you think of her acting skills?"

"Well... To be honest, the scene that impressed me the most about her was the scene in "Daming Palace Ci" in which Princess Taiping frightened the son-in-law and gnawed on her own fingers. But it made me sick...I thought it was scary at the time, but Thinking about it now, there is actually a reason why she can be called Mr. Zhou. Acting skills are really interesting."

   "What about me What about me?"

   "You?...You are probably three Jay Chou behind her."

   "Boom!"

   Jay Chou, who was playing the piano there, was unhappy:

   "Hey, can you speak well?"

  Xu Xin waved his hand casually, ignored his grievances, and continued to his girlfriend:

   "Don't compare yourself with others, actors, suitable scripts, suitable roles, you will have suitable performances... Well, it's getting late, come back early tomorrow, did you hear that?"

   "Hmm... you're staying at his place tonight? Is your party over?"

   "Ha...uh~"

  Lazily yawned, Xu Xin responded:

   "It's over, I'm going to sleep too."

   "Okay, see you tomorrow, I'm hanging up, good night."

   "Good night~"

  The phone hung up, Xu Xin rubbed his eyes, got up and said:

   "I went to bed."

"okay."

   Jay Chou, who seemed to have some inspiration, responded, and the piano sounded again.

   New Year's Day.

  There is only one piece of entertainment news that is overwhelming.

  Jay Chou and his former club Hao Le Di officially broke up, and jointly established JVR Jewel Music Company with Fang Wenshan and Yang Junrong.

  Taiwan media broke news about Jewel's company location and information on the Internet at the same time.

  The company address is set up in an office building on Changchun Road, where you can overlook the landmark 101 Building in Taipei. On the same day, the media went to watch, thinking that they could wait until Jay Chou appeared downstairs in the company.

   Don't you want to be blind?

   It is impossible for Jay Chou to go, because he went to Taichung Film and Television City with Xu Xin that day.

  However, the newly opened Jewel official website still announced a series of "three fires" for new officials to take office.

  One is that even though Jay Chou hoped to break up peacefully with his old club, Yang Junrong directly started negotiating the copyright of the song.

   Moreover, according to Yang Junrong's words, the person who should be most grateful for being able to directly start the negotiation is actually Jay Chou's father, Mr. Zhou Yaozhong. When signing the contract with Alpha, one of the items was specially changed: Party A is the sole agent for the works of Party B (Jay Chou). And the original "agent" is "owning".

   If it's "owning", then you're in big trouble.

  Because even if Jay Chou wants to sing his own songs in the future, he will have to buy the copyright with Alpha...or Hao Ledi.

  But "agent" means that it will be returned to Jay Chou after the expiration of the term.

  So, the return of copyright is a matter of time. And here Xu Xin also learned one thing...

   That is something like a contract, and you still have to find a professional lawyer to operate it.

   Otherwise...there are too many traps.

   And the second point is the announcement of the first male artist and the first female artist signed by JVR.

  The first male artist is called Yang Ruidai.

  Old Jay fans know that this person is the first generation of "Nanquan Mama", and is the designated sound engineer for each of Jay Chou's albums.

  In 2004, after Jay Chou found out that he could write songs, he recommended it to Alpha, forming the Nanquan Mom Generation. However, Yang Ruidai's temper was a bit boring. After joining the group, he found that he could not freely create and play music, so he quit.

   As the Queen's sound engineer, Jay Chou left, so he must have left, so he came directly to JVR.

  The media is not curious about this.

   After all, we are old acquaintances.

   But the first female artist made everyone a little confused.

  Guo Caijie?

  Who?

Have not heard.

   And the profile on the PO on the official website shows that it is a girl who looks like a baby with a baby face. And then check your resume...National Taipei University?

College Students?

  Taiwanese media was a little confused, and then started to dig out information through relationships. As a result, after digging, they found two pieces of information. One was that she had won the sixth prize in a singing competition in college.

   Note, it is the sixth prize.

  Not the first, not the second...but the sixth prize with 5 winners...

  This kind of person can also be a singer?

  The second one is that she was once a signed artist of a small agency founded by the artist nicknamed "Milk" Ye Naiwen.

  I found an announcement on the official website of the Entertainment Maternity Room in December, announcing that Guo Caijie had paid the termination fee to end the contract with the Entertainment Maternity Room. And then check other things, it seems that the other party has acted in the MV... and then it's gone.

   Nothing left.

Although it is too late to dig out more information, I have to admit that after JVR's actions, the name "Guo Caijie" has never been well-known, and it has been directly filled with "Jay Chou's hand-picked", "Jay Chou's praise" " female artist.

  Before debuting, he has already gained a lot of attention from both coasts and coasts.

  At the same time, JVR's official website also announced that Guo Caijie's new album is in production, and the title song will be written by Jay Chou himself.

  Although I didn't mention when it will be posted, it is “expected” to meet you soon.

  And if the first two points can barely be regarded as "news", then the third point is a big move in the true sense.

   Jay Chou's original script, the movie "The Untold Secret" was officially approved. The revised script was written by Jay Chou himself! "Mou Girl" Yang Mi joins again!

   Although the overseas box office of "Curse of the Golden Flower" is not satisfactory, at least in the past two months, its popularity has been flourishing.

  The appearance of Prince Jie and Jiang Chan is tantamount to quietly "digging" the cake of "Golden Armor in the City", which immediately heightened the heat.

   What's more, on the list of starring roles, there is Gui Lunmei, who has just recently served as the film and television ambassador of the Wanwan International Film and Television Expo, as the heroine! As well as Huang Qiusheng who formed a "father and son" in "Initial D", "In the Name of the Father", "The General", "The Seventh Chapter of the Night", the lyricist music geek Huang Junlang, bullets and a series of actors And... the photographer turned out to be Hou Xiaoxian and Wang Jiawei's royal photographer Li Pingdong!

  While joining such a lineup, the filming started after New Year's Day!

  Although the total investment, casting, director, etc. have not been disclosed yet, as soon as this news came out, it still sent a wave of New Year's Day gifts to all Jay Chou fans!

  Jay Chou + New Girl Mou + Literary Girl Gui Lunmei!

   No matter how you look at this combination, the gimmick is enough.

   Just…

  Who is the director?

  Why didn't you give me any news?

   "Hey, are you sure you won't announce your name yet?"

"Sure."

  Seeing Xu Xin's insistence, Jay Chou had no choice but to nod.

  Taichung Film and Television City, in Studio No. 7.

  Xu Xin looked at the staff who were also busy making arrangements for New Year's Day. After answering "OK", he didn't say a word.

   Instead, he was staring at the set and wondering what he was thinking.

   Seeing this, Jay Chou didn't bother, but walked to the side of Yang Mi who was also silent while holding the script in his hand.

   Seeing him coming, Yang Mi raised her head and glanced at him, and said:

   "Are you silent again?"

"Um."

  Because there was no stool, Jay Chou simply squatted next to Yang Mi, looked at Xu Xin whose figure was frozen, and suddenly said something out of nowhere:

   "Have you noticed... Ah Xin looks a lot like Director Zhang?"

"Well…"

  Yang Mi was a little taken aback.

  Looking at the back of her boyfriend, she blinked and nodded:

   "Don't talk about it... especially this posture, it really looks like it."

   After finishing speaking, she quickly took out her mobile phone, took a photo of her boyfriend, and sent it to Wei Lanfang:

   "Sister Wei, Sister Wei, look quickly...do you look like Director Zhang..."

"Ding."

  Because of the time difference, Wei Lanfang's side was already late at night.

  But the people gathered in Zhai Guoqiang's art studio haven't rested yet, but are discussing creative plans.

  As the coordinator, Wei Lanfang, who came to New York with Zhang Yimou, glanced at the message, and suddenly burst out laughing.

   "Hahahaha~"

  Her laughter caught everyone's attention.

   Zhang Yimou didn't know why, but Wei Lanfang quickly handed over the phone:

   "Director Zhang, look...hahahaha..."

   After taking the phone, Zhang Yimou held it a little farther away. Zhang Yimou squinted his eyes and saw Xu Xin with his arms folded and his chin frowning with one hand.

   "...What's the matter? Isn't this Xiao Xu."

  He didn't understand it at first, but he heard Wei Lanfang say:

   "Scroll down... It's from Mimi. Didn't you find that Xiao Xu's actions in this photo are very similar to yours, hahaha~"

   Upon hearing this, Fan Yue and Wang Chaoge all came over.

  After looking at it...

   "Don't say it, it's exactly the same."

   "Like, really like."

   "Posting? Or what's going on?"

   "Don't know...but it looks like it."

   "Hahahahaha~"

  Everyone in the room laughed out loud.

   And Zhang Yimou was also happy:

   "Am I usually like this? ... Give her a reply, let Xiao Xu work hard, and the film will come out for all of us to watch."

"okay."

   Wei Lanfang responded.

   "Director, the wire brush you want."

   Just as Xu Xin was frowning in thought, two directors walked over.

  Xu Xin nodded after recovering:

   "Oh, okay... calling some people over."

  Looking at the crew members holding a bunch of steel **** in their hands, Xu Xin led them directly to the corridor outside the set of the old piano room.

  Including Jay Chou, a total of 7 people came out.

  Xu Xin pointed to the direction of the entrance of the set:

"Take a steel wool ball and start to brush the floor. The floor is too new. You know the feeling of the wooden floor in the house without waxing for a long time? The feeling of rubbing is worn out, starting from the door...Come on, field manager, Come here with the tape in your hand."

  The field manager looked puzzled, but still followed Xu Xin with tape.

   Xu Xin walked a few steps ahead, turned his head to look at the assumed seat, squinted his eyes and thought about it, then turned to look at Jay Chou:

   "Do you remember the few simple notes you taught me to play? It's the prelude to your theme song."

   "Uh... what's up?"

   "Didn't you notice, this is very similar to a piano...Have you ever played the Jin Band?"

   Jay Chou became more and more puzzled.

   But there was a strange smile on Xu Xin's face, like a child about to play a prank:

   "Let's leave the first easter egg for the movie, shall we?"

   "...say?"

   "Here, don't you think it looks like a piano?"

  He stepped on the long strip of floor under his feet:

   "It's like the falling beat of the power band... You see, in the movie frame, here is the dividing line."

   Following the direction of his finger, everyone saw a place a distance away from a wooden board in front of the plane.

  Yang Mi, who followed her, suddenly understood what her boyfriend was doing, and her eyes lit up:

   "You're going to turn the board into that falling note?"

   "BINGO!"

  Xu Xin nodded vigorously:

   "Your rhythm, come and find it. Just that 52, 52, 52, 555444666444 thing..."

   "Please, that's 1645 in G major, the number you're talking about is SOSOSORERERE..."

   Jay Chou was a little speechless.

  I'll teach you how to play the prelude, how about you memorize the numbers here?

   Who knew Xu Xin waved his hand:

"Just tell me if it can be done. You see, this kind of misplaced and stacked wooden boards, you can try according to the arrangement of the piano... ten keys or a few keys, which is the arrangement of doremi, and then put that into the orchestra. That kind of rhythmic arrangement of falling notes, get it out. Can it be done?"

   Jay Chou has played in Jin Band, so he naturally knows what Xu Xin is talking about.

   After hearing this, he looked at the boards and nodded:

   "Yes. Can you splice the intro?"

"right."

  Xu Xin pointed to the field management:

"You follow him, wherever he steps, you paste it, and then other people take steel wool and make the wooden floor that is not pasted mottled, you know? I want the kind that is often rubbed by shoes. Is there any problem with the texture of the wooden floor?"

   What could be wrong?

  Of course it's no problem.

  The director has spoken, so let's do it.

  So...

  When the heroine Gui Lunmei who played Lu Xiaoyu joined the group on the first day, she saw a group of people "kneeling to welcome" her.

   Obviously, standing at the door, she was at a loss.

  After thinking about it, she squatted down and asked politely:

   "Ying's talking about HIA~is "SECRET"?"

"…What?"

  Xu Xin, who took the lead in brushing the ground, raised his head subconsciously. After seeing this face, he immediately understood:

   "Gui Lunmei, right? Lu Xiaoyu?"

  Gui Lunmei was taken aback.

mandarin?

  He speaks Mandarin?

   Mainlanders?

  So he nodded quickly:

   "Yes, yes... this is the crew of "SECRET", right?"

"Ah hello…"

  Xu Xin just wanted to stretch out his hand, but when he realized that his hand was still wearing gloves, he retracted it again.

   After standing up, he took a look at the floor in front of him, and after confirming that the wood grain on the floor was all scratched, and there was a mottled mark, he said to the others:

   "Just follow my piece, what I want is this kind of texture that is not particularly flowery. Do you understand?"

   "Okay, Director."

   Several field props responded.

   And Gui Lunmei was dumbfounded after hearing this name...

   Director! ?

   Looking straight at the short-haired young man in front of her, she was full of doubts.

   Xu Xin who took off his gloves also nodded with a smile:

   "Welcome...A Wei, Gui Lunmei is here, take her to change clothes to see how she feels."

   "Oh, here we come."

  A fat man with glasses came out of a room, and Gui Lunmei's director, who still felt that the style of painting was not right, stole her attention:

   "Hello, Miss Gui Lunmei, come to try on makeup?"

"Well…"

  Gui Lunmei finally realized it, and then bowed politely:

   "Hi director. I'm Gui Lunmei..."

"Well, I know. You go and change your clothes first, and we'll talk when you come out later... Ah Wei, it's just right, let Jie Lun and Yang Mi go change their clothes, and call Teacher Li over by the way, let him stand in the old piano room A seat, let's see the effect."

   "Okay, Director."

  As the assistant director, Zhang Xunwei responded, guiding Gui Lunmei:

"Come with me."

"…OK."

   Still feeling a little absurd in her heart, Gui Lunmei followed Zhang Xunwei into the house step by step.

   After walking a few steps, I couldn't help asking:

   "Then...is the director?"

   "That's right. The director hand-picked by Jay Chou."

  Because Zhang Xunwei's accent should be "local", she couldn't help asking:

   "Are all directors in mainland China doing this by themselves? ... What is he doing?"

   "Buried eggs... Hey, let me remind you, Jay Chou really hates people talking about the distinction between continents and bends, so don't use this name here."

   "Uh... ok ok."

  Gui Lunmei hurriedly nodded to express her understanding, and finally when she entered a set room, she took a last look at Xu Xin who was standing at the door, the absurdity still remained in her eyes.

   "Director, is this light okay?"

   "No, make it brighter."

   "Is it still bright?"

   "Well, go on, how much is it now?"

   "3000W."

   "Use 4000...Ms. Li, try removing the filter."

"good."

  Xu Xin's words resounded in the old piano room, while three people who had changed into school uniforms stood beside them.

  Gui Lunmei is actually quite curious here, even if it's just a test shoot, but... After all, standing next to him is Jay Chou, and the recently fired very hot girl...

  Adding this young director...

  This crew always gives her a sense of "unreliable".

  She didn't know how this impression came about.

and…

  As the 4000W lighting was turned on, and the slightly harsh light from the three windows of the old piano room came in, she squinted her eyes and couldn't help but think:

   "Is this really not going to be exposed?"

   But at this moment, Xu Xin looked at the monitor on the camera, and after finding a satisfactory effect, he came to the side near the door and found the lamp placed at the door.

   Press once, and the desk lamp is powered on.

  The dim yellow light came on.

   "Okay, Jaylen, come here."

"good."

  Jay Chou came to the piano, Xu Xin pointed:

   "You just sit here."

   "Sitting in the light?"

   Looking at the light shining straight through the glass onto the piano, Jay Chou asked.

"right."

  Xu Xin nodded.

   After Jay Chou sat down, he looked at the monitor again and said:

   "Take off your coat."

"good."

   Having already cooperated once, Jay Chou naturally didn't ask any more questions, and took off his coat directly, revealing the gray fleece underneath.

   Then Li Pingdong nodded:

   "Well... the gray fleece is really the right choice."

"right?"

  Xu Xin responded with a smile.

  Li Pingdong has some emotion:

   "The texture of this gray fleece is like a fuzzy feathering effect on the entire silhouette of a human figure. It looks very good."

   "Ha~!"

  Xu Xin was quite happy to be recognized by photography.

   Then he beckoned to Gui Lunmei:

   "You sit next to him."

"OK."

  Gui Lunmei quickly sat next to Jay Chou.

   After the two of them sat down, Xu Xin took a look and pointed to the desk lamp next to him:

   "Change the light bulb and make it brighter... 5000, 5000K neutral light."

  Hearing what he said, the lighting engineer quickly found a light bulb, removed the original 6000K cool color light, and turned it into a 5000K warm color light that looks yellowish.

   "What do you think?"

   After changing, Li Pingdong thought for a while after hearing what Xu Xin said, and said:

   "The contrast is a little too obvious. The old piano room itself is a bit old, and with Jay Lun's sweater, Lu Xiaoyu will look dim in the camera, and there is no feeling of shining."

"Because she and him are not of the same era. What I want is the old time symbol that has always been marked on Lu Xiaoyu. As long as she appears in the old piano room, this desk lamp will definitely light up. And when it lights up , the color of this age will appear on her body. Because...she herself does not belong to this age."

"Well…"

  Li Pingdong frowned...

   Then he looked at Gui Lunmei, who was on the monitor, after specially adjusting the exposure, which was clearer than Jay Chou's blur due to the strong light... but darker. He thought for a while and asked:

   "You want this gloom throughout?"

   "Yes. Until the end, at the end, his light will dim, but Lu Xiaoyu's light will be completely brightened. It is the light of the turning point of life and fate, and the color of Lu Xiaoyu itself in normal time and space."

   "Is that so..."

  After hearing Xu Xin's shooting ideas, Li Pingdong couldn't help saying:

   "The difficulty of shooting is not low."

   "That's why you need a god-level task like yours to take the camera."

   "...haha~"

  Praise from the younger generation made Li Pingdong laugh out loud.

  But I have to admit...

   This young man's camera sense is really strong.

   Who did you learn from...

  The use of color language…

  With some emotion, he nodded:

   "No problem. But it can't be too dark...Hey, Aaron, add a set of reflectors under the piano."

  Lighting director Li Yongyu nodded:

"OK."

  After the reflectors were placed on Gui Lunmei's knees and the shadow under her neck was dissolved.

  In Xu Xin's eyes, the pictures seemed to complement each other more and more.

  A kind of feathered unreality and the mottled falsehood of time filled the lens at once.

  Looking at him, he nodded:

   "It works better."

   After finishing speaking, he looked at the two people who seemed to have no understanding of what he and Director Li said:

   "Four-hand play, play again."

  Gui Lunmei was taken aback...

   Immediately revealed a guilty look.

  She doesn't know how to play the piano, so she practiced hard for a month for this script.

  But on the spot, she and Jay Chou played four hands together...

  She must be a little guilty.

  But for Jay Chou, this four-hand combo was created by him, so there must be no problem with holding it with both hands.

   And Xu Xin seemed to see her nervousness, and waved his hand:

   "It's okay, don't be nervous, it's a trial shot in itself. I won't give you close-ups of your hands. You two just need to show the feeling of "communicating each other's thoughts with the piano". "

"OK…"

  Gui Lunmei nodded.

  This piano is a real piano, the kind that produces a normal tone.

  Jay Chou has already put his hands on the keys that belong to him.

  He knew that Gui Lunmei didn't know how to play the piano, so the parts he gave her were all very simple repeated scales. On Gui Lunmei's side, it's the same as when he taught Xu Xin to play the piano, and the opening chapters are all repeating scales.

   "Three, two, one, go..."

   "Ding dong ding dong ding dong..."

  After hearing Xu Xin's movement, Gui Lunmei pressed her fingers to the top of the three scales.

  Repeated piano sound appears.

  But Xu Xin frowned.

  She's... nervous.

   Or the performance is very rusty.

  The body is stiff, and the expression on the face is also stiff.

  The movements of the shoulders and arms are also stiff.

  No need to look at it, the fingers must be stiff.

  Compared to it...Jay Chou's performance may be because of the piano, it seems extremely natural.

   It's not that his acting skills are better than Gui Lunmei, but that when he plays the piano, he will fall into a very confident mode.

  Adding the piano music I created, and the body language accompanied by the music shaking, I feel very good.

   Compare it and it will come out.

  Li Pingdong subconsciously looked at Xu Xin.

  Xu Xin is the director, he can just say what is good or bad.

But Xu Xin didn't say anything, but waited until later, when there were all kinds of note errors, and after the solo of the noise was over, Gui Lunmei's somewhat shy "sorry" apologized. , Xu Xin waved his hands and silently returned to the seat facing the two of them.

  The picture taken is actually very discordant.

  However, as a director, in the test shots, what he wants is to look at the light and the camera, not the reaction of the actors.

  So, he directly regarded these two people as replacements.

   After confirming that the texture of the whole shot is okay, Xu Xin nodded:

   "Change the lights, Qingyi solo, come and get ready."

  With a "click", the light that illuminated the entire old piano room dimmed.

  Jay Chou and Gui Lunmei stood up at the same time, while Yang Mi sat down.

  Gui Lunmei actually knew that she performed poorly in that one just now, but it seems...the director didn't seem to communicate with her. Instead, holding the walkie-talkie, he began to adjust little by little for Qingyi's actor, Yang Mi, in the cold-colored setting.

   Then, in the cooler light, Xu Xin said "are you ready" after the debugging was completed.

  The girl who seemed to be "inexistent" suddenly straightened her waist.

  Her back was straight, her hands were on the piano keys, and she nodded directly to her boyfriend:

"Um."

   "OK, three, two, one..."

   "Ding, ding, ding, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang..."

   A mess of notes that didn't know what they were playing suddenly appeared.

  The corner of Jay Chou's mouth twitched when he heard it...

  Gui Lunmei thought the director would call CUT, and subconsciously raised her head. However, there was a smile on the faces of both Xu Xin and Li Pingdong who was sitting on the slide rail.

  She instinctively turned her eyes away and landed on "Qingyi".

  The girl strumming notes has a straight back, loose shoulders, a dignified and quiet expression...

  As if he didn't know how bad his playing was.

  The relaxed limbs appeared in her eyes.

  Piano, it's hard to hear.

   But the posture is extremely graceful.

  Actors.

  Learn what to look like.

  Never mind whether it sounds bad or not.

   At least at this moment, under the cold light, she looks extremely beautiful.

  (end of this chapter)

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