A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 301 A perfect match between micro-film and song

In the career guidance planning class, the teacher who has always stayed in school and has never set foot in society is reading the concept, purpose and significance of career planning according to the textbook, guiding students on how to find employment in society.

The students sit below, quietly browsing their phones and sleeping soundly amid the earnest teachings, creating a harmonious picture of no one interfering with each other and yet everyone having fun.

"Hey, hey, are you done with your work? We're playing King of Glory with five friends, and we're short one." Li Haochen asked in a low voice, covering his mouth with his hand.

"No, you guys go have fun, I haven't finished writing yet." Chen Jinnian replied with a frown.

He was writing the lyrics for the May Fourth special edition of "Misplaced Time and Space", but it had been a long time since he wrote it, and he couldn't remember many parts clearly, so he could only fill in the gaps based on his sense of language. Therefore, he had been writing for most of the class and still hadn't finished it.

Jiang Zhongce, who was sitting at the front table, leaned back against his chair, tilted his head slightly, and quietly offered himself, "Brother Chen doesn't want to play, so take me with you."

Li Haochen pushed his shoulder forward in disdain, "Stay away, your lousy Han Xin is giving me a headache, you should go and cause trouble for other people."

"No, I don't play Han Xin anymore. I just learned a new move for Zhao Yun, who is equipped with a tank. The thief can resist the ice fountain."

"Okay then, I'll trust you one last time."

"Invite me, invite me."

As the roommates fought bravely in the canyon, Chen Jinnian's lyrics gradually began to improve.

The original version of this song describes a broken heart, which is a fairly standard type of song. The overall emotion it conveys is very sad. Later, after being rewritten by a military writer, it presented a completely different sense of family and country, and gave birth to a completely different vitality.

I look up at the starry sky you have seen,

We meet again after a hundred years of time and space,

The smile before you turned around,

I understand.

I look up at the starry sky you have seen,

The ground beneath my feet has changed time and space,

The red you left swaying in the wind,

In the heart.

……

Silently reading the lyrics on the paper, Chen Jinnian's inner emotions began to surge like the sea, and his eyes couldn't help but become moist.

The lyrics and the content of the movie really match, they are almost the same.

The short film tells the story of an old man who is looking for cotton clothes in modern society. He walks out of the alley, passes the square, enters the primary school, and finally leans under a tree beside the playground. He listens to the physical education teacher calling the students' names, looks at the fluttering five-star red flag, and slowly closes his eyes.

As the camera turns, the answer to the first half of the plot is revealed. In fact, this old man is the quartermaster who gave all his cotton clothes to his comrades and was frozen to death on the snowy battlefield.

Everything that has just happened in modern society does not actually exist. It is just that the deceased revolutionary martyrs, through the perspective of the camera, see again the peaceful and prosperous world they fought for but never saw.

After Chen Jinnian finished going over the content of the movie in his mind, he began to choose actors.

In fact, the first person he thought of was Mr. Wei Zongwan. The Sima Yi played by him was almost a textbook case. However, the reason Chen Jinnian thought of the old man first was not because of the Three Kingdoms, but because of another movie role, that is, the old ghost in Sanmao's Military Diary.

There is no problem with his acting. The only problem is that the old man is almost eighty years old, a little too old, and he doesn't live in the capital.

However, he still planned to give it a try. If Mr. Wei refused, he would look for other people. He couldn't hire popular actors, but he could afford veteran actors.

In addition, as the singer of the song, he plans to invite teachers Yang Hongji and Wang Yidi to sing a duet and record the entire song in chorus.

After making a rough plan, Chen Jinnian used the break time to run to the counselor's office again.

"Why are you here again?"

Teacher Gao now has a headache when he sees him. Sometimes it is not a good thing for students to be too outstanding.

Chen Jinnian saw several cups of milk tea on the desk. Without any hesitation, he picked up one cup, put a straw in it and started drinking.

"Hey, you're quite self-aware. Those were given to me by my students."

"Teacher, I'm just helping you share the burden. You're old, and consuming too much sugar is not good for your health."

Looking at that giggling face, Teacher Gao wanted to kick him out. After all, you are a star. Can't you pay attention to your image? No wonder you were secretly photographed.

After complaining in his heart, he sighed and said, "What's the matter? Tell me quickly."

"I heard that the recording studio of the School of Music and Recording is pretty good. I plan to borrow it." Chen Jinnian said straight to the point. As a first-class art university, the supporting facilities of Communication University of China are absolutely impeccable.

"Get lost." Teacher Gao couldn't hold it in any longer. "You treat me like Doraemon. Why not just borrow me too?"

The other teachers in the office all laughed. It was rare to see Gao Xu so angry.

Chen Jinnian showed a surprised expression, "What? Teacher, can I borrow it too? Then I'll take it as your consent. The filming starts this Friday, don't forget to come then."

The teachers were all stunned, and Gao Xu was also stunned.

"What? It's going to start on Friday. Are you sure?"

"Well, I've calculated everything. On Friday, we'll go to shoot the scenes around my elementary school. On Saturday, we'll go to Huairou to shoot the exteriors. On Sunday, we'll go to the studio to shoot the interiors. That's exactly three days to finish the movie."

Chen Jinnian counted on his fingers and said, to be honest, if the shooting scene did not need to be changed, it would only take him one day to complete the small part in the movie.

"No, the script is good. Don't mess it up. Although this is a non-commercial micro-film, you still have to pay attention to the quality. The 90th anniversary of the founding of the army is a serious matter. You can't just deal with it perfunctorily."

Teacher Gao quickly advised, he thought the other party treated this shoot as a perfunctory assignment.

"I'm very serious. I spent three days shooting a few minutes' scene. Isn't that serious enough?"

"Seriously, you're going to shoot for three days?"

Both of them were shocked by each other's logic.

Microfilms are a common form of creation among school students. In Teacher Gao's opinion, if a microfilm of less than ten minutes is completed within two weeks, including rehearsal time, it is considered fast.

If we add the early preparation period such as script writing, shooting plan formulation, actor list proofreading, equipment and venue communication, the time will be even longer and it is impossible to calculate accurately.

"Chen Jinnian, how long was the actual shooting period for your first two films?" asked a female teacher at the adjacent workstation.

"The first part took more than 30 days to shoot, and the second part took more than 20 days." He answered truthfully.

Everyone gasped.

Teacher Gao patted his shoulder in admiration and said, "You're lucky you didn't enroll in the directing department. Otherwise, with your progress, which is just like shooting blindly, the teachers in the directing department would break your hands with sticks and scold you for not understanding art."

He was really enlightened today. He shot a movie in just over twenty days, and it grossed 300 million yuan after its release. It was too easy for Chen Jinnian to make money.

The teachers in the directing department have a hard time getting their films approved. Haven’t you seen that the head of the department at Beijing Film Academy banned himself for ten years because of one movie. After the ban on directing was finally over, he made another one, but it was still withheld from review and no one knows when it will be released.

"Hehe, it's okay. I just make commercial films. I'm not on the same track as those teachers." After Chen Jinnian finished speaking, he picked up a cup of milk tea from the table and wanted to take it back for Wang Yidi.

"By the way, teacher, don't forget about my business. You don't teach classes anyway, so you can keep the dean busy."

"Get out of here right now." Teacher Gao yelled directly.