You Made Me a Superstar

Chapter 48: You Have To Be Cool

Chapter 48 You have to be cool

The crew of “The Crow” is located in a small village in the southern city of Shaanxi.

This is a relatively backward place where everyone lives in yellow adobe houses.

Looking at the rows of historic adobe houses, Feng Kai couldn’t believe it.

He originally thought that the quality of the temporary houses in “The Bottom of the Mine” was worrying, but he didn’t expect that the quality of the adobe houses in “The Crow” seemed to be even more worrying.

The conditions of the crew were very bitter. When the cold melted, you didn’t even have hot water, you were lying on the bed, itching all over your body, and you could often see fleas…

There is a song called “Bend the Mountain Road”, which depicts a small closed village. The tractor has to travel a long, long mountain road to transport the food out, and then exchange for some basic living materials.

When the crew went up the mountain, they did not take a van, but an old electric mountain bike. The equipment of the crew was placed in one mountain bike, and people took turns to pull it up.

There is no stone road, no cement road, and no oil parking road. The whole process is muddy, and even a little bit around the mountains is a cliff to the side, which makes people shiver and chills!

This kind of suffering is not because of investment, it is completely requested by Wang Shuai.

Not only do they have to walk on the mountain road often, they even have to live in this small village where birds don’t **** for a month. During the period, when they go down the mountain, whatever the villagers use, they have to use whatever.

Director Wang Shuai requested.

He asked for that kind of realism, and he felt that the real realism was not the performance, but the figure that came from the heart.

After Feng Kai went up the mountain, he vomited to the death, he was in a trance, and felt like he was going crazy.

However, everyone in the crew squinted at him, occasionally showing bursts of contempt and disdain in private mockery.

Feng Kai knew that they looked down on him.

I can’t look down on it!

They felt that his spiritual level was not rich enough, he had no comprehension of art, and he had no sense of devotion to movies.

Well, like an embroidered pillow.

Feng Kai is really hard to bear this feeling. He lost sleep on the first day on the mountain. After he was bitten by fleas for an unknown number of bags, he felt very painful and lonely!

He used to be a man with stars holding the moon.

And now…

Wang Shuai also followed up the mountain.

Although he took Feng Kai’s notebook and stayed in the director’s room all day, he seldom paid attention to Feng Kai.

Occasionally met in the pit, and Wang Shuai just nodded at him expressionlessly, as a greeting.

Feng Kai felt like an abandoned outsider, full of self-doubt and despair.

but…

In Wang Shuai’s inadvertent words, Feng Kai realized that the movie “The Bottom of the Mine” might be awesome!

There is no edited movie, so Wang Shuai keeps watching it all day long, seems to be pondering, and occasionally watches it with the crew, then the edited movie, maybe…

Really **** shortlisted for Berlin?

but…

That movie was obviously made by him!

He also helped with most of the shots, Zhou Yang didn’t know much about photography skills at all!

Why the **** still look down on him?

Why!

This kind of emotion has been reverberating in Feng Kai’s heart. Several times, he wanted to directly ask Wang Shuai to show off his importance in “The Bottom of the Mine”, explaining that if “The Bottom of the Mine” did not have him, it would not have been filmed at all…

However…

“Director Wang, why don’t you let this **** go? I see this guy staying here all day and don’t understand anything. What are you doing here with such a drag oil bottle? That’s not how stuffers are stuffed, right?”

“Wait a minute…”

“Director Wang, I don’t think we can wait any longer. If this guy really participated in the movie “The Bottom of the Mine”, why did the editing people not let him participate in the editing, but instead put it into our crew at the critical moment of the movie? I I think this guy is an out-of-the-ordinary relationship person who came here to brush his qualifications, and he himself admitted that the director of “The Bottom of the Mine” is Zhou Yang, the screenwriter is Zhou Yang, and the starring is also Zhou Yang… I don’t deny this. The film is shot at a high level even if it’s the material, but what does this level have to do with him?”

“…”

Feng Kai heard the chattering voices beside the earth house.

He suddenly lost his mind.

………………

Zhou Yang, who is immersed in editing and learning, simply doesn’t care what’s going on outside.

He just felt like a sponge, frantically absorbing all kinds of moisture and nutrients.

After getting up and having breakfast every day, he squatted in the editing room and watched the samples over and over again, constantly pondering the shots and recalling the plot of “Blind Well”.

When the staff is editing, Zhou Yang will pick up a small notebook and record all the shortcut keys and operation methods of the video editing software in the notebook. If he encounters a little problem that he does not understand, he will ask him immediately. If the staff can’t solve it, Zhou Yang will write down the problem, and after a busy day’s work, he will continue to read relevant books in bed to find the answer.

actually…

Learning software, it is not difficult to learn various editing basics and post-production.

The real hard part is the art of editing.

Art is really hard to understand. It is not something you can achieve with more effort and effort.

This thing is pure talent!

Inevitably, Zhou Yang had an indescribable sense of frustration deep in his heart.

He has more than once felt that he has no artistic talent, and even the more he learns these tedious lens arts, the more he feels like an ignorant idiot, very unsuitable for the film industry!

even…

Even the most basic editing video, he is not suitable.

He only knows the technique of cutting, but he has no idea what it means to cut it, and what kind of feeling it will give the audience…

He felt ashamed.

Confidence started to take a hit.

certainly…

Although his self-confidence was severely beaten, the editing process of “The Bottom of the Mine” was not cumbersome, and the time was not as long as he thought. After carving, there is not so much bullshit.

February 7th, year twenty-nine.

“So be it!”

“…”

When the final version of the sample was cut, Zhang Lei looked at Zhou Yang very carefully.

After seeing Zhou Yang frowning for a long time and finally nodding, Zhang Lei let out a long sigh of relief, and he almost collapsed on the chair.

He felt relieved!

Although the editing work of “The Bottom of the Mine” was completed ahead of schedule, Zhou Yang’s severity caused his nerves to collapse for a time, and he was busy until nine o’clock at night every day. More importantly, Zhou Yang didn’t even let him take care of himself. When he sleeps, he knocks on the door of his dormitory early every morning. After he knocks on the door and comes in, he always asks some weird questions…

Cooperating with Zhou Yang is definitely a very tormenting thing.

but…

Finally finished the cut!

“Thanks for your hard work!”

“No hard work, no hard work, Director Zhou, are you sure you won’t go home for the New Year?”

“No…”

Zhou Yang watched it several times when he got the sample, and finally felt that he had nothing to choose from, and he breathed a long sigh of relief.

But later, he felt that he cut it very twisted. He couldn’t tell what was wrong, and Zhang Lei, Qian Wei and others couldn’t tell…

Just as he was leaving, Zhang Lei’s inadvertent question made him tremble slightly in the depths of his heart, diluting the awkward feeling.

Family?

The company is his home.

………………

“Dong dong.”

“Come in!”

“Mr. An, “The Bottom of the Mine” has been edited, please take a look at it.”

“OK.”

Zhou Yang has not seen An Xiao for a long time.

Zhou Yang was still amazed when he saw it again.

An Xiao wears a pair of rimless glasses, and her slightly curly hair is draped over her shoulders at will, soft and supple. She is wearing a beige small fragrance suit, the top two buttons are unbuttoned, revealing the lace bottoming inside…

At this moment, she was looking down at a report, with two strands of hair hanging by her ears, and the wind blew and moved slightly.

Zhou Yang’s hanging hand couldn’t help but tick, and his gaze shifted to the coffee machine beside him.

“Come on.” Seeing Zhou Yang, An Xiao showed a rare smile, put down the document, raised her hand and fluttered gently, her drooping hair was hooked behind her ear.

“Drink coffee?” He got up, revealing a pair of straight and slender legs, smooth and delicate, that is…

Isn’t she cold?

“No, no.” Zhou Yang became more and more at a loss: “Mr. An, this is a cut movie.”

Zhou Yang stretched out his hand and handed her the USB flash drive from a distance.

“Pfft.” An Xiao laughed. After plugging in the USB flash drive, he looked at it seriously.

“Sit, don’t stand like this, otherwise I think you have to look up…” When she realized that Zhou Yang was dumbfounded, she showed a bit of helplessness “Don’t be so restrained, just treat it like your own home.”

“Oh, good.” Zhou Yang nodded and sat opposite An Xiao, but still didn’t look directly at her.

“Well…there is one place to revise.”

“Where?”

“You can’t add Director Feng in the director column…”

“Huh? Why?”

“Director Feng himself strongly requested, and even in the footage or recordings that will be played later in the movie, you also have to cut Director Feng…”

“He also asked for it?”

“Yes, this is the contract requirement when he directed this movie before, let me show you a look.”

“Oh, good” Zhou Yang glanced at the agreement requirements that An Xiao took out, and saw that the first column was that he was not allowed to add his name in any way, in any form, or appear on the scene in any way.

“But, Director Feng has a role…”

“That’s okay, as long as he agrees.”

“Oh, okay!” Zhou Yang nodded honestly, and wrote down all the revisions in the notebook.

“I’ll keep looking.”

“it is good.”

Just when An Xiao was about to watch the movie seriously again, her phone rang.

When she answered the phone, her slightly cold eyes suddenly flashed a hint of surprise.

“You’re here! Good! I’m in the office!”

“…”

“Director Zhou, Director Wang Shuai and Director Wang will come in later, you don’t have to be nervous, just be natural… Well, it’s better to act cold…”

“Huh?” Zhou Yang was at a loss.

High and cold?

(end of this chapter)