1990: Starting from Baojia Street

After Xu Junrong hung up the phone, he couldn't help but touch his forehead. The two Zhou brothers were really completely different.

The big boss Zhou Hong looks relatively cold on the outside. When communicating with others, he has very few expressions on his face. Some people even nicknamed him Zhou Mutou in private.

But Zhou Hong is very flexible when he does things, and he doesn't look like a fool at all.

It might be too much to say that the end justifies the means, or it can be said to be relaxing.

As for the second boss, Zhou Yan, he is usually amiable to everyone, and he seems to be a smooth person, but when you get to know him, you will find that he sometimes sticks to his principles to the point of being stubborn.

Take today's matter as an example. Chen Hong is an actor for the Zhou family, helping the two brothers make money, and Zhou Yan is the director himself. Wouldn't it be easy to arrange more scenes for Chen Hong?

But Zhou Yan just can’t do it.

He knew Zhou Yan somewhat, so he just asked a question and didn't go any further.

…

The next day, Zhou Yan received a call from Panasonic, who told him that it had been confirmed with Chen Hong.

Zhou Yan didn't say anything else, he just asked them to prepare to start shooting the advertisement.

Two days later, Zhou Yan pulled the team together, everything was ready, and he made an appointment with Panasonic people to start shooting the commercial.

This advertisement is very simple. The general content is that when a woman was closing the curtains at home at night, she suddenly saw through the window a house in the building opposite, and a man was holding a guitar and playing.

The music is good, the man is good-looking, and the woman is attracted.

After the man finished playing the song, he suddenly raised his head and smiled and waved in the direction of the woman. The woman waved back shyly and happily.

At this moment, the curtains on the opposite side were suddenly blown open more by the wind, and a hand appeared holding a remote control to change the channel.

The woman discovered that the man she saw playing the guitar was not a real person at all, but a picture on the TV opposite. By this time, the TV had changed the channel and turned into a football game.

After discovering that it was an error, the woman was very embarrassed and quickly closed her curtains.

The commercial ends here.

The reason for taking this shot is to reflect the clarity and color reproduction of Panasonic's new TV.

But in fact, if you really use a TV to shoot like this, it will definitely not work, because today’s TVs simply cannot achieve such an effect.

So Zhou Yan planned to first use real people to shoot in the room, and finally use editing methods to splice the TV picture and the real picture together.

Zhou Yan didn't look for any other place to shoot the scene, so he arranged it here in the studio.

Building No. 3, which we just rented, is right across from the warehouse. It fits the scene perfectly. All we need to do is arrange two rooms on both sides.

The layout of the room was very simple. The official shooting took place in the evening and was completed in the morning of the shooting day.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Hong, who was supposed to arrive at the scene, had not arrived yet.

Zhou Yan found Ryosuke Kawabata from Panasonic Electric and asked him: What's going on with the actress? Why hasn't she come yet?

Kawabata Ryosuke was also confused, We have already contacted her and told her to arrive before two o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Zhou Yan, don't worry, I will contact you now.

As soon as possible, I don't want to affect the progress of our entire team because of one actor.

The official filming starts at seven o'clock in the evening, but before that, Zhou Yan must communicate with the actors first, and then the actors will have to put on makeup and rehearse.

The five hours reserved in the middle are used to do this. If the time is delayed, their filming will definitely be postponed.

Kawabata Ryosuke nodded repeatedly, Yes, yes, I will communicate as soon as possible.

After saying that, he hurriedly ran to contact Chen Hong.

After more than forty minutes, Chen Hong arrived late.

When she arrived at the scene, Chen Hong had a very good attitude and apologized to the staff on site.

In the team for this filming, many people made movies with Zhou Yan, such as the two brothers Hong Xin and Hong Ben.

Hong Xin and Hong Ben are not actually siblings, but their surname is Hong and they look a bit similar, so everyone jokes that they are siblings.

They themselves also like to joke like this, and they all say that they are brother and sister.

Hong Xin and Zhou Yan are old acquaintances. They have been collaborating since the first movie Zhou Yan participated in, while Hong Ben started from The Sixth Sense. They had a great time working together before. This time I heard that Zhou Yan was going to People also respond immediately.

Both Hong Xin and Hong Ben are very familiar with Chen Hong. When they were filming Westward Journey, Chen Hong had many contacts with these people at Chang'an Studio.

In the eyes of Hong Xin and the others, Chen Hong and they were both of their own.

So when Chen Hong apologized, Hong Xin smiled and helped smooth things over, It must have been delayed on the road, Hongmei, the traffic in Yanjing is not very smooth to begin with.

Then Hong Xin looked at Zhou Yan again, Director Zhou, since the actress is here, let's start quickly without wasting time. You tell her the story while I put makeup on her.

Zhou Yan originally wanted to say something to Chen Hong, but Hong Xin blocked his words. He glanced at Chen Hong and said in a deep voice, I'll give you fifteen minutes, go try on clothes first.

Seeing that Zhou Yan didn't scold Chen Hong, Hong Xin took Chen Hong's hand and went to the dressing room.

Arriving at the dressing room, Hong Xin smiled and said, Hong sister, what did you do today? You know that Director Zhou hates people being unpunctual, but you are still late for so long.

Chen Hong did not explain why she was late, but just thanked Hong Xin, Sister Xin, thank you. If it weren't for you just now, I would have been scolded badly.

Hey, it's nothing to be scolded. None of us have ever been scolded by Director Zhou. He's just strict. You're okay. When you met him, he was already Director Zhou. When I met him, he was already Director Zhou. When I was still a student, I only regarded him as my younger brother, but when he scolded me later, I felt a little uncomfortable.

Chen Hong walked to the clothes rack and asked Hong Xin while choosing clothes, Sister Xin, how are the preparations for his new movie this time?

The school is about to start construction. Anyway, we are already here. There is actually nothing to do during this period. Let's shoot a commercial and practice our skills. What about you, what have you filmed after Westward Journey? Is it a show?

I filmed a TV series and it's almost over.

As long as you keep filming, you are still young and so beautiful. You will definitely develop greatly in the future.

Chen Hong sighed slightly, There are so many beautiful girls, how many can develop well?

Hong Xin laughed, You are so beautiful, how can you still have such troubles? If I were as beautiful as you, I would wake up smiling every morning. When you came just now, those men's eyes were straight.

Some people don't have straight eyes. Chen Hong muttered in a low voice.

Her voice was too soft and Hong Xin didn't hear her clearly, What?

It's nothing, I said I don't know which clothes to choose.

Hong Xin looked up at the clothes on the hanger and smiled, Hey, isn't this simple? One white and one sky blue. Just choose one of these two dresses. You look best in white. , blue is my favorite, Director Zhou.

Then I'll choose the white one.

If it were before, Chen Hong would probably choose blue because she wanted to please Zhou Yan, but now she has figured out that it is better to be beautiful than to please Zhou Yan.

…

Fifteen minutes later, Zhou Yan brought the storyboard to the dressing room.

Seeing Chen Hong wearing a white dress, his eyes lit up slightly. He had to say that Chen Hong was indeed suitable for such simple and plain clothes.

I haven't seen her for a few days. Chen Hong seems to have lost some weight, and the smile on her face is less than before, but she has more of an oriental classical beauty.

Hong Xin was doing Chen Hong's hair. When she saw Zhou Yan come in, she said with a smile, Director Zhou, is Hongmei's dress okay?

It's okay. Zhou Yan's tone was calm, but he didn't mean what he said.

Hong Xin pouted, It looks so good, but it's just okay. Why don't you change it to the blue one?

No need to bother, just keep it this way. Zhou Yan looked at Chen Hong's face through the dressing mirror, The eyebrows should be lighter and thinner, and the lip color should be lighter. Her skin color is already fair enough, and she doesn't need too much powder. many.

received.

Zhou Yan nodded, walked closer and handed a storyboard to Chen Hong, Let's take a look at the shots first. There are not many shots in the advertisement, so it's not difficult.

Chen Hong raised her head and glanced at Zhou Yan, then quickly looked away, Yeah, I got it.

After a while, when Chen Hong read the storyboard over, Zhou Yan asked her, Is there anything you don't understand?

Chen Hong asked, Will the dramas on both sides be carried out at the same time?

No, take your shot first, then mine.

Oh. Chen Hong thought for a while and then asked: Who recorded this narration for the advertisement? You or me?

It's you, so after my camera starts shooting, I will arrange for you to record it.

In this commercial, the two actors did not have a single line throughout the whole process. There was only a slogan at the end of the commercial: Panasonic TV, bigger and clearer. This slogan was originally arranged for the actress to record.

Well, I understand, there's no other problem.

After you finish putting on your makeup, go to point B opposite to rehearse. I'll wait for you there in half an hour.

After saying that, Zhou Yan left the dressing room without waiting for Chen Hong to respond.

After Zhou Yan left, Chen Hong looked in the mirror in a daze, and Hong Xin asked with a smile, What's wrong?

Sure enough, Director Zhou is not very satisfied with my clothes.

Haha, I think you still don't know him well enough. If he is really dissatisfied, he will definitely ask you to change him without any other possibility. He pays great attention to these details and will not compromise at all. Since he If he didn't ask you to change, that means he is satisfied.

Then he...

It's probably because you're late. I'll give you a look. It's normal. It's nothing.

Half an hour later, Chen Hong put on makeup and went to room b.

Zhou Yan didn't waste any time and directly led her to familiarize herself with the movements and camera positions.

Until six o'clock, machines began to be set up on site to make final preparations before shooting.

At seven o'clock, the shooting started on time.

There were only a few scenes in the first place, but Zhou Yan had familiarized himself with Chen Hong many times in advance, so it took less than an hour to shoot all the scenes with Chen Hong.

After Chen Hong finished filming, Zhou Yan asked her to record the commercials, while he took the team to room A to shoot his own shots.

He needs more shots, but he has to play the guitar, so the filming difficulty is also higher.

The most critical point is that he has to take into account the difficulty of post-editing when filming, so the section of the TV video must perfectly match the background of the room, and it must not be exactly the same.

Also, when shooting at the beginning, you can only reserve space for one TV, otherwise the post-editing effect will be very poor.

In addition, because we need to shoot the TV video footage, we need to put the real-life footage shot in the early stage on the TV to play, so after the first segment is shot, we have to quickly wash, cut and blow out the video.

This process is very time consuming.

It wasn't until half past twelve that all the shots of Zhou Yan were completed.

After Zhou Yan said call it a day, the staff on the scene breathed a sigh of relief. Although it was just a commercial, the filming was no different from a movie. Zhou Yan's requirements were very high.

Fortunately, the commercial was relatively short. If it was longer than one minute, they would have had to stay up all night and might not be able to finish filming.

Ryosuke Kawabata, the representative of Panasonic Electric, has been watching from the side. As the client, he couldn't find any fault with Zhou Yan's shooting. Many times he felt that the shooting was very good, but Zhou Yan was still not satisfied.

When all the filming was over, he breathed a sigh of relief.

At the end of the work, Zhou Yan asked them to collect the films and send them to the developing room, and said to Hong Ben, Go and tell the canteen to start preparing the food. After it is packed here, everyone will go to eat.

In order to drive out this commercial, most of the people did not eat at night and have persisted until now. Zhou Yan also asked the kitchen side to work harder and worked overtime until now.

Director Zhou, won't you have dinner with us?

I won't eat for now. I'll go to the developing room to take a look at the films that have been developed.

How about we wait...

Zhou Yan waved his hand, No need to wait for me, you can go back and rest after eating.

Oh well.

Looking at Zhou Yan's leaving figure, Hong Ben sighed deeply. Otherwise, Director Zhou would have succeeded. The passion for this work is completely beyond what ordinary people can compare with.

After working in the industry for so long, Hong Ben has only seen one person who is more passionate about his work than Zhou Yan, and that is Zhang Yimou.

Of course, compared to Zhang Yimou, Zhou Yan was still considered a normal human being. Zhang Yimou was not a human at all. Hong Ben had never seen Zhang Yimou sleeping.

After Zhou Yan arrived at the developing room, he said a few words to the staff in charge of developing and printing, then took the film to the editing room, where he started editing himself.

He is not a professional editor, but there is no problem in editing a commercial.

The sound track of the lines recorded by Chen Hong has been released. Several versions have been recorded, and Zhou Yan also listened to them one by one.