You made me a superstar

Chapter 48

The crew of "The Crow" is in a small village in southern Shaanxi.

This is a relatively backward place, and 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 "Mine Bottom" was worrying, but unexpectedly, the quality of the adobe houses in "The Crow" seemed to be even more worrying.

The conditions of the production crew are very bitter. When the cold melts, you don’t even have hot water. You lie on the bed and feel itchy all over your body. You can often see fleas...

There is a song called "Curved Mountain Road", which depicts a small closed village. Tractors have to travel a long, long mountain road to transport food out and exchange some basic living materials.

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

There are no stone roads, no cement roads, and no asphalt roads. The whole process is muddy, and even a little around the mountains are cliffs, which makes people tremble and chill!

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

Not only do they often have to walk the mountain roads, but they even have to live in this small village for a month. When they go down the mountain, they must use whatever the villagers use.

Director Wang Shuai requested it.

He asked for that sense of reality, and he felt that the real sense of reality was not performed, but the figure from the heart.

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

However, everyone in the crew looked at him sideways, occasionally revealing bursts of contempt and private ridicule full of disdain.

Feng Kai knew they looked down on him.

I look down upon it from the bottom of my heart!
They feel that his spiritual level is not rich enough, he has no understanding of art, let alone a sense of devotion to movies.

Well, like an embroidered pillow.

It was really hard for Feng Kai to bear this feeling. He suffered from insomnia on the first day on the mountain, and after being bitten by fleas for countless times, he felt very painful and lonely!

He used to be a man of many stars.

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 long, he rarely talked to Feng Kai.

Occasionally, when they met in the latrine, 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 "Mine Bottom" might be awesome!
Unedited movies, let Wang Shuai watch them all day, seems to be lost in thought, and occasionally watch them with the crew, so the edited movies, maybe...

Can he really be shortlisted for Berlin?

but……

That movie was obviously made by him!

Most of the shots were also helped by him, Zhou Yang didn't know much about photography skills at all!
Why do these people still fucking look down on him?
Why!
This emotion has been echoing in Feng Kai's heart. Several times, he wanted to directly confront Wang Shuai to explain his importance in "Mine Bottom", explaining that "Mine Bottom" would not have been filmed without him...

however……

"Director Wang, why don't you let this idiot go? I watched this guy stay here all day and don't understand anything. What is this kind of oil bottle here? Isn't the plug like this?"

"Wait a minute..."

"Director Wang, I don't think we can wait any longer. If this guy really participated in the movie "Mine Bottom", why didn't the editors let him participate in the editing? Instead, he was added to our crew at a critical moment in the movie? I I think this guy is an out-and-out relational accountant who came here to check his qualifications, and he himself admitted that the director of this "Mine Bottom" is Zhou Yang, the screenwriter is Zhou Yang, and the starring role is also Zhou Yang... I don't deny it Even the material of this movie is shot to a very high level, but what does this level have to do with him?"

"..."

Feng Kai heard chattering voices beside the earthen house.

He suddenly lost his mind.

....................................

Zhou Yang, who was immersed in editing and studying, didn't pay attention to what happened outside.

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

After getting up and having breakfast every day, he would squat in the editing room and watch 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 write down all the shortcut keys and operation methods of the video editing software in the notebook. If the staff can't solve it, Zhou Yang will write down the problem, and after a busy day's work, he will lie on the bed and continue to read related books to find the answer.

in fact……

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

What's really hard is the art of editing.

Art is really very difficult to understand, and it is simply not something you can achieve with a lot of hard work.

This stuff is all about pure talent!
Inevitably, Zhou Yang felt an indescribable sense of frustration deep in his heart.

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

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

He only knows the cutting skills, but he doesn't understand what it means to express, what kind of feeling it will give the audience...

He felt ashamed of himself.

Self-confidence began to be hit a bit.

of course……

Although his self-confidence was hit badly, the editing process of "Mine Bottom" was not cumbersome, and the time was far less than I imagined. After all, Zhou Yang was already strict enough to cut out the details when filming, and then finished the film. After sculpting, there is not so much fuss.

February 29, Year [-].

"So be it!"

"..."

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

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

He felt relieved!

Although the editing work of "Mine Bottom" was completed ahead of schedule, Zhou Yang's strictness caused his nerves to collapse for a while, and he was busy until nine o'clock in the evening every day. Sleeping, knocking on the door of his dormitory early in the morning every day, after knocking on the door and coming in, he would always ask some weird questions...

Working with Zhou Yang is definitely a very torturous thing.

but……

Finally cut the film!
"Thanks for your hard work!"

"No hard work, no hard work, Director Zhou, are you sure you don't want to go home for the New Year?"

"No..."

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

It was only later that he felt that his cut was particularly awkward. He couldn't tell where it was awkward, and Zhang Lei, Qian Wei and others couldn't tell either...

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 cut of "Mine Bottom" has been finished, please take a look at it."

"Ok."

Zhou Yang hadn't seen An Xiao for a long time.

When seeing him again, Zhou Yang was still amazed.

An Xiao is wearing a pair of rimless glasses, her slightly curly hair is casually draped over her shoulders, soft and smooth, she is wearing a small beige fragrance suit, the top two buttons are unbuttoned, revealing the lace underlay... …

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

Zhou Yang hooked his hanging hand involuntarily, and turned his eyes to the coffee machine next to him.

"Here we come." Seeing Zhou Yang, An Xiao showed a rare smile, put down the document, raised her hand and gently brushed her hair behind her ears.

"Do you want coffee?" He stood 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 pre-edited movie."

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

"Pfft." An Xiao laughed, and after plugging in the USB flash drive, she looked at it seriously.

"Sit, don't stand like this, or I think you will have to look up..." When she realized Zhou Yang was standing still, she showed a bit of helplessness, "Don't be so restrained, just treat yourself like your own home."

"Oh, good." Zhou Yang nodded, sitting opposite An Xiao, but still did not look directly at her.

"Well... there is one place that needs to be revised."

"Where?"

"You can't add Director Feng in the director column..."

"Huh? Why?"

"Director Feng himself strongly requested, and you also have to cut Director Feng out of the clips or shooting records that will be played later in the movie..."

"He asked for it too?"

"Yes, this is the agreement requirement when he directed this movie before, let me show you."

"Oh, okay." Zhou Yang glanced at the agreement requirements that An Xiao had brought out, and seeing the first column, he was not allowed to add his name in any form, and he was also not allowed to appear on camera.

"But Director Feng has a role..."

"That's okay, as long as he agrees."

"Oh, yes!" Zhou Yang nodded honestly, and wrote down all the revisions in his notebook.

"I'll keep watching."

"it is good."

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

After answering the phone, a hint of surprise flashed across her slightly cold eyes.

"You're here! Good! I'm in the office!"

"..."

"Director Zhou, Director Wang Shuai and others will come in later, you don't have to be nervous, just be natural... well, it's better to be aloof..."

"Huh?" Zhou Yang was at a loss.

Cold?

(End of this chapter)