my time as a director

Just like a hero, what foreigners see is the overwhelming array of arrows of the Qin army, the movements of the clouds and flowing water, and the shock brought by the uniform slogan of "Great Wind".

But these alone are not enough, otherwise the overseas box office of these three films will not be lower than that of the other, and foreigners will get tired of it.

Being able to do art in Zhang Yimou's crew, of course, needless to say about his ability, but what Li Qian recruited was execution after all.

However, I continued to ask, "Can you tell me why you applied for the executive position? Do you have any similar experience before?"

"I once applied for the directing department of the Beijing Film Academy, but unfortunately my professional grades were a little bit poor. I have been teaching myself the knowledge of directing in the past few years, and I have also worked in several crews. I still understand the work..."

Guo Fan looks relatively low-key and introverted, but he still speaks clearly.

He was almost admitted to the Directing Department of the Beijing Film Academy, and he has been teaching himself how to direct. He has worked in such big crews as Ambush on Daggers and Golden Armor all over the city, and he is familiar with all the work of the crew.

He is very smart and uses his strengths to avoid weaknesses. He didn't say a word about whether he has work experience.

But this is far from enough, the executive director is not the assistant director, otherwise Li Qian wouldn't have been looking for it for so many days.

For example, if the director in the crew is equivalent to the chairman of a company, then the executive director is equivalent to the CEO, and its importance is self-evident.

Although Sniping the Phone Booth was only a small crew of more than ten people, it was also Li Qian's first time directing, so he tried to find a reliable executive.

In order to make a good shot of Chibi, Wu Baige also asked Zhang Jinzhan to do the execution, otherwise he might not be able to do it.

In this way, Zhang Jinzhan appeared to be the executive director, but he was no different from the director in reality. He and Wu Baige were in charge of a director team. Almost all the big scenes were shot by Zhang Jinzhan, and Wu Baige was also appointed as the chief director.

The same is true for Chen Kexin, another great director who made his first costume blockbuster. Zhang Jinzhan was invited to be in charge of the large-scale war scene of the award.

As a big scene director who is well-known overseas and is called "The General" by Hollywood, Zhang Jinzhan is also the executive director of movies such as Hero, Golden Armor in the City, and Farewell My Concubine.

It can be said that in the past ten years, half of the domestic blockbusters have been related to Zhang Jinzhan.

Brother Cheng Kai hasn't cooperated with Zhang Jinzhan since Farewell My Concubine and Jing Ke's assassination of King Qin, and ended up shooting Wuji.

It's not that Lizhang Jinzhan can't do it, it's somewhat affected. No one can figure out that Wuji and Farewell My Concubine were filmed by one director.

Of course, this kind of big guy has nothing to do with Li Qian, he just wants to find someone who is familiar with all the work of the crew and has some experience.

Guo Fan was obviously not suitable. He originally thought that Zhang Yimou's crew would give him some surprises.

Seeing that Li Qian was about to decline, Guo Fan hurriedly said, "Director Li, can you please take a look at this first."

As he spoke, he took out a large stack of manuscripts from his bag and handed them to Li Qian.

Guo Fan, who has always dreamed of becoming a director, did not want to give up the opportunity to be an executive director. During this period of time, he also ran a few major online film crews, but they all recruited assistant directors.

Moreover, Li Qian looks a few years younger than himself, and it is probably his first time making a movie.

When filming, I can at least be a real executive director. Maybe Li Qian is inexperienced, and many things have to be discussed between the two.

There was still some time before the next interviewer, so Li Qian took over the stack of manuscripts.

Take a look, is it a comic?

"Director Li, this is the prequel of the Kung Fu King comic: Fate, authorized by Huayang Brothers Media, for the promotion of the Kung Fu King movie." Guo Fan introduced.

Li Qian, the king of kung fu, knows that Cheng Long and Li Lianjie starred in it, which is a proper big production.

Li Qian flipped through it with interest. The first chapter was in 578 A.D., in Huaguo Mountain in Dongsheng Shenzhou, where the essence of the sun and moon weathered a stone monkey.

Li Qian felt somewhat familiar with the simple three frames.

The first frame is dominated by the background of mountains, and the figure of the stone monkey sitting on it is blurred, and only a rough outline can be seen.

In the second frame, it seems that the camera starts to zoom in, and the hands and feet can be seen clearly, but the face is still not clear.

And the third frame is like a close-up of the face, the hideous face, and the eyes are still shining.

Isn't this the most used storyboard in movies, the appearance of key characters is always slowly approached from far to near.

This is actually more like a movie storyboard than a comic.

However, the removal of the name of the underworld, the search for treasures in the Dragon Palace, and the havoc in the Heavenly Palace are normal comic storyboards.

But then, the golden cudgel fell into the world, and it was a continuous storyboard of the same three frames.

Guo Fan also said, "I tried to apply the composition and montage techniques in movies to comics, using multiple key frames of film and television to express action scenes, and using continuous frame-by-frame pictures, which changed the logic of action in the past. Designing the way for fundamental shots..."

Li Qian was noncommittal, "The film storyboard and comic storyboard are completely different things, fundamentally different."

Guo Fan's face darkened, and then he heard Li Qian laugh again.

"However, if you want, you can come and work as an assistant director for me. How about being an art director?"

The assistant director is far from the executive director. The executive director is the leader of the director team. Most of the time, the person who shouts "Start" is the executive director, and the person who manages the scene is also the executive director. Most of the assistant directors are the director and the executive director. Followers, the two are very different.

Seeing the hesitation on Guo Fan's face, before he could refuse, Li Qian took out two copies and handed them over, "Here is the script and storyboard of our movie, you should take a look first, after a couple of minutes, you can read it." Let’s talk to the photographer again in a few days.”

Guo Fan was still thinking whether to agree or not. Looking at the script and storyboard in front of him, he took it subconsciously and looked at the title of the film on it.

Sniping a phone booth?

The title of the movie is quite interesting, so I just flipped through it.

Li Qian was not angry when he saw that he ignored him and read the script on his own.

However, after waiting for a long time, he turned to the storyboard after reading the script.

Li Qian couldn't help interrupting him, and said, "Old Guo, take the script back and read it carefully. It will start up in a few days."

"Oh, okay."

Only then did Guo Fan come to his senses, and smiled embarrassedly.

Li Qian got up and shook his hand with a smile, "That's it, welcome to the crew."

......

After Guo Fan signed the contract, he held the storyboard script and walked while watching it. He didn't react until he left Li Qian's studio.

Originally interviewed the executive director, but signed a contract as an assistant director in a daze.

"However, the script is very well written. The 60-minute plot has a tight rhythm. The murderer in the end is a person who has never appeared before. The storyboard script is also very mature. You can immediately imagine the picture in your mind."

Guo Fan was so shocked that he couldn't even believe that this was written by a young man younger than himself.

"The assistant director is the assistant director. Fortunately, he also serves as the art director, and the art director can also participate in the creation of the play."

Guo Fan muttered, stretched out his hand and hailed a car on the side of the road, got in the car and left.