Chapter 404 Wedding

When Zhou Yan heard about the sales of "Snow Flower" in Neon and Xiangjiang, it was already September 14th. However, because the release time was too short, he did not hear too specific data. He only heard that the sales were indeed good.

However, no matter how well a single sells, the profit is far less than that of an album.

In fact, based on the unit price, the price of a single is not cheap, but the cost of a single cannot be avoided at all.

Putting aside the upfront cost, the production cost after the album is recorded is not much different from that of a single, because it must be carried by CD or cassette.

No matter how many songs are contained in the carrier, the materials of the CD and cassette themselves will not change, and the labor costs are almost the same.

Tomson also considered making a new album for Nakamori Akina before, but there were no new songs. If a bunch of old songs were used to make a selection to fool the fans, it might not be worth the gain.

Of course, the main role of singles is not to make money, but to accumulate popularity. Akina Nakamori relied on "Snow Flower" to make a comeback.

As long as this turnaround battle is won, it will be much easier to make a new album later.

Regarding the situation of "Snow Flower", Zhou Yan only paid a little attention to it. The filming of "Time Traveler" was coming to an end at the end of the scene, and all his attention was here.

On the 14th, the last big scene at the end of the show, the wedding scene, was about to start shooting, and the whole show was very lively.

Zhou Yan and the others did not publicize it to the outside world, but there were too many tourists at the end of the venue, and when the wedding was arranged in advance, some tourists saw it.

The tourists knew that the wedding scene was going to be filmed, and they were quite interested. Many tourists were planning to return, so they stayed for two days to watch them film the wedding scene.

On the day of the shooting, many tourists wanted to come and watch, which also caused a lot of trouble for the shooting.

In order to avoid confusion, the crew had to allocate some extra people to maintain order at the scene and "pull" the tourists to the farther shore to prevent them from entering the painting.

Fortunately, although the location arranged by the crew for the tourists was relatively far away, the view was wide and they could see the situation on the other side of the pier, so the tourists did not have much objection.

As soon as Zhou Yan left the dormitory area in the morning, he saw several villagers in Jiaochangwei, led by village chief Huang Youfa, selling telescopes to tourists.

It seems that the sales situation is not bad, Huang Youfa and his telescopes were quickly sold out.

Zhou Yan was stunned by this scene, and he couldn't help but turn around and ask Ana Shen behind him, "When did Village Chief Huang and the others get so many telescopes?"

Ana Shen smiled and said: "Maybe Lao Huang had this idea a few days ago when he heard that we were going to shoot a wedding scene and have to stop tourists. I have to say that Lao Huang is quite business-minded. These telescopes of his cost more than ten yuan each, but they cost at least fifty or sixty yuan each. I heard that there are also high-end ones that cost more than two hundred yuan each."

Zhou Yan was amazed when he heard this. Sure enough, there are smart people everywhere. It's no wonder that Huang Youfa can become the village chief. This guy's brain is a little smarter than ordinary people, and he immediately discovered business opportunities.

At this stage, what tourists coming to the end of the field need most is a telescope. Moreover, this item has high profits, low losses, can be stored in large quantities, and can be sold later, so there is no need to worry about running out of stocks.

Zhou Yan has passed through many places over the years, and he finally understood that although local development is closely related to national policies, if a place can develop rapidly, there will always be one or two smart people in power.

Zhou Yan had somewhat underestimated grassroots cadres such as village chiefs before, but later gradually discovered that in many places, it was these grassroots cadres that played a crucial role in development.

When national policies are formulated, they are all the same in black and white, but they are handed down from level to level. When it comes to the lowest level, these grassroots cadres have the final power of interpretation.

As long as a grassroots cadre is a little left or a little right ideologically, his implementation of policies will be very different.

In two neighboring villages, the cadres of one village are bold and courageous, while the cadres of the other village are timid. Within three to five years, there will be a significant difference in the development level of the two villages.

Why is it said that governing a big country is like cooking a small one? This is the reason. Because of the complexity of society, it is impossible to achieve perfect immediacy and accuracy. When policies are communicated and implemented, they will be dragged down by the inertia formed over a long time. live.

On the contrary, the grassroots level has flexibility. A grassroots cadre with a slightly forward vision can use the flexibility of this class to perfectly respond to policies.

"Director Zhou, do you want to tell Lao Huang and ask them to calm down?" Ana Shen asked.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "As you said, when can we take charge of local cadres? Moreover, we borrowed other people's places to film, so it would be a good thing for them to make some profit from us."

Ana Shen nodded, "Indeed, because he saw this business opportunity, Lao Huang was also very active in this matter. He specially arranged some villagers to help us maintain order and ensure that tourists can stay in the specific areas we arranged in advance. With their Help, our people will be much more relaxed, and Lao Liu and the others can withdraw. Otherwise, our people will be really struggling. "

People must have some driving force. Village Chief Huang and others are not helping the crew maintain order, but helping their village maintain the interests.

There is a serious shortage of labor in the village, but there are also many people who have no work. Of course they cherish the opportunity to make money.

As long as the tourists are stopped, they will have business.

If the tourists run around, their telescopes will be hard to sell.

Zhou Yan glanced at the direction of Huang Youfa, smiled, and said nothing more. Then he went to the male lead's house and started to put on makeup and change clothes.

After making preparations, they went to the pier.

The pier was no longer the same as when Zhou Yan and his team came before. The entire embankment was renovated by the crew.

The entire walkway was not carpeted, but petals were scattered all over the ground, forming a flower path.

Four rows of seats were arranged on both sides for relatives and friends to sit. The embankment is wide enough, and there are four rows of seats, and the space is still spacious, so that the middle walkway will not appear cramped.

From the entrance of the embankment to the end, a distance of dozens of meters, there are flowers and balloons everywhere, and even the stage is a flower house made of flowers and wooden frames.

The layout of the entire pier is like a dream.

Although the layout is very fresh and not luxurious at all, there are actually many places to spend money.

Apart from anything else, if there are fewer flowers on the pier, there is no way to create such an effect now.

Originally, they could have chosen to use plastic flowers. As long as the camera was not pointed at the flowers, they would not be satisfied with the embarrassment. However, Zhou Yan did not choose to save money on this. After all, no matter how well plastic flowers are made, they are not as vivid and beautiful as real flowers.

And this also involves environmental protection issues. For example, if the petals scattered on the ground are replaced with plastic flowers, even if they are more careful, many of them will definitely fall into the sea.

It is very troublesome for plastic flowers to fall into the sea. If environmentalists know about it, it will be another trouble.

In fact, this is not the final effect. Many flowers are still wrapped in the soil, and some flowers have not been put up. Because today is just a test shoot, it is a bit wasteful to arrange all the flowers.

When the formal shooting comes, all the flowers will be taken out and put up, and the effect will be better.

These flowers scattered on the ground today will also be replaced with new ones when the formal shooting comes.

The camera position and the actor's position have been arranged in advance. It is OK to test shoot directly when you arrive today, and the test shoot is also done with real knives and guns, which is not much different from the real shooting.

At this time, there were several ships parked at the side of the dock, two of which were equipped with small ship cranes.

Zhou Yan walked to the dock, and Shen Yan said with a walkie-talkie: "Move the basket over."

Soon, the crane of one of the ships came to the dock with a basket.

After the basket was stable, Zhou Yan stepped directly on it, and then he was lifted into the air with the basket.

Compared with the large crane used in the filming of "Titanic", the height of the crane they used was much lower. At the highest point, it was only a dozen meters above the horizontal surface of the dock.

However, although the height was not as high as James's, the effect was actually similar. He stood on it with a loudspeaker, and felt like he could see all the mountains.

Standing on a high place has its advantages. At least the scene is in full view, and he can see at a glance if there is a problem.

As soon as he went up, he saw that there was something wrong with the arrangement of the seats below, so he raised the loudspeaker and shouted, "Brother Liu, move the second row of seats a little to the east."

Liu Qing raised his head and made an "OK" gesture, then ran to move the chair.

Just after talking about the problem with the chair, Zhou Yan looked in the direction of Chen Derong, "Chen Derong, are you wearing the wrong clothes? You should wear size 7 clothes for this scene."

Hearing Zhou Yan's words, Chen Derong's heart trembled. She didn't expect Zhou Yan to find such details.

For this scene today, she should indeed wear size 7 clothes.

It's just that size 7 clothes are a bit inconvenient to wear. She thought that since today was a trial shoot, it didn't matter if the clothes were not worn correctly, so she tried to get away with it.

She didn't dare to explain anything, and immediately responded, "I'll go change now."

After saying yes, she got up and ran away.

Zhou Yan frowned and said, "What's wrong with the costume team? Do I have to supervise the clothes? Check immediately to see if everyone's clothes are correct. Although today is a trial shoot, these things must be done according to the formal shooting, and we can't be careless at all."

Several people in the costume team didn't dare to speak, and silently checked the clothes of other actors.

Most people are actually used to Zhou Yan's attention to details, while people like Xu Guanwen who have not worked with Zhou Yan for a long time are secretly amazed.

Director Zhou's memory is too good, he can even remember what clothes the actors wear in which scene?

What surprised them was still to come. Zhou Yan could not only remember what clothes the actors should wear, but also remember the seats of the guests.

If an actor sat in the wrong position on the scene, Zhou Yan would always point it out in the first time and then guide them to the correct position.

No one felt that Zhou Yan was making a fuss. Things like guest seats may seem small, but in fact they are likely to affect the final shooting effect.

The seating arrangement for guests should not only consider the rationality of reality, but also the coordination of the picture. Different people are different in height, weight, and color. When they are put together, the effect presented is also different.

The colors of the flowers arranged on the embankment are not fixed. From the entrance to the stage, the colors gradually become brighter and brighter, and gradually become bluer, which can be more integrated with the sea and the sky.

When shooting the push-in shot later, there is a change in color tone.

The colors of the actors' costumes are not randomly arranged. Their costumes will change with the colors of the flowers, so they will not appear abrupt when the camera moves forward.

Of course, the arrangement of these details is not all Zhou Yan's credit. In order to arrange the desired effect, Zhou Yan and Dong Wenmiao, the costume designer and visual director, studied for several days and finally decided on this plan.

Even for this plan, Dong Wenmiao took several people from the costume group to make several sets of clothes for the actors temporarily.

After all, when designing this scene, there were no such ideas.

The changes in this scene also made Dong Wenmiao worry a lot. Originally, she was not going to come to the scene, and all the affairs were done by other colleagues, but because of this scene, she had to come to the scene and contact Zhou Yan in person.

Zhou Yan directed on the hanging basket for more than an hour, and waited until the details were almost grasped before letting the crane lower him.

If he hadn't performed this scene himself, he would have stayed on it and didn't come down. The effect of standing on it to direct was too good.

This is also the disadvantage of directing and acting by oneself. Many things must be handed over to others. This time, when filming "Time Traveler", many of the things he was responsible for before were handed over to Zhao Fei and several assistant directors.

Zhou Yan had just come down here, and Wang Zuxian had already walked to the entrance of the embankment surrounded by people, like a bride waiting to enter.

When Wang Zuxian, wearing a red dress, appeared, cheers came from a distance. These sounds came from the tourists who were watching in the distance.

Although the distance was far, they could still hear some of them because of the large number of people.

Many tourists were waiting there early in the morning for this moment. When they saw Wang Zuxian appear, they thought that the scene was about to start shooting, so it was inevitable that the cheers were a little louder.

This was not the first time Zhou Yan saw Wang Zuxian wearing this dress, but at this moment, seeing her standing at the entrance of the embankment surrounded by flowers, he still raised his eyebrows.

This dress was made by Dong Wenmiao herself. From a distance, it looks like a traditional Chinese dress, but when you get closer, you can find many small details that make your eyes shine. The lace edge of the cuffs and the large U-shaped neckline make the overall style playful, unlike the solemn traditional dress. (End of this chapter)