Chapter 446: Start filming (10,000-word update!)

"Ma Zhiyuan's work for this week has been canceled."

Li Zhibai opened whiskey and ordered takeout of braised food, happily starting a sharing session for the three of them at Ziyuanqiao.

Calling it a sharing session, in reality, it was just Li Zhibai telling the various news he collected to Lu Yan He and Yan Liang.

He had never been so active in asking about gossip; everyone who received his call heard his gloating from his eager tentative questions.

"Zhou Ping'an is putting out fires everywhere, but several endorsement brands already want to terminate contracts with Ma Zhiyuan," Li Zhibai laughed loudly. "Several collaborations that were being negotiated also directly went yellow."

Yan Liang said: "Zhou Ping'an wants to give several resources that were originally his to me."

Li Zhibai immediately said: "You must not accept it. This person is really dog-like. Giving Ma Zhiyuan's resources to you at this time, those crazy fans of Ma Zhiyuan will chase you and scold you, scolding you to the sky."

Yan Liang nodded, "I think so too. Taking over Ma Zhiyuan's resources at this time makes it seem like I'm taking advantage of the situation."

Lu Yan He: "Mainly because you don't lack these at all now, why go and take over Ma Zhiyuan's and bury such a mine for yourself? Zhou Ping'an really has an unclear brain, only thinking about keeping things in his own bowl, not afraid of messing around and spilling the rice all over the floor."

Li Zhibai: "If his brain were clear, he wouldn't be able to do so many broken things."

"However, Ma Zhiyuan also doesn't respond?"

"How can he respond, what can he respond?" Li Zhibai said. "If I were him, I wouldn't have the face to see people at this time."

"But things always have to be solved; he can't never stand up and respond to this question."

Yan Liang said: "I guess we have to wait for this wave of turmoil to pass first. Zhou Ping'an can't be seen at all these two days; I guess he is solving this matter. Before responding, he must also reach an agreement with Xu Qinyin and her company to unify the caliber."

"I am very curious, with this kind of thing happening, will Ma Zhiyuan's fans continue to like him?"

"Some will definitely unfollow, but some will definitely not mind and continue to like him," Lu Yan He said. "If you are counting on this matter to completely defeat him, then you'd better not think about it."

Li Zhibai sighed with regret.

In this entertainment industry, the two people Li Zhibai hates the most are Ma Zhiyuan for men and Meng Li for women.

If one day they quit the entertainment industry, Li Zhibai would definitely open champagne to celebrate this matter.

Yan Liang asked: "Ma Zhiyuan and Xu Qinyin keep not responding to this matter, and this matter might slowly cool down."

Li Zhibai said: "Then I really want to @Ma Zhiyuan on Weibo directly, telling him to take responsibility like a man."

Lu Yan He: "Don't do that. This matter isn't just Ma Zhiyuan's business; it also involves others. Making things too big isn't good for others either."

Li Zhibai: "I know, otherwise I would have posted on Weibo on the first day I knew this news."

Just as Yan Liang said, Ma Zhiyuan and Xu Qinyin never came out to respond or show their faces, and the heat of this matter slowly passed.

Speaking of which, this wasn't a groundbreaking major event. For unrelated people, this was just a somewhat explosive melon.

Liu Bige's new film, because of this matter, vacated a female lead position, which instead attracted more attention from brokerage companies and actresses.

Liu Bige and Long Yan Film Industry held a small private audition.

Li Zhibai was also there, mainly to let Li Zhibai act with them and see the CP feeling.

Only five people received audition invitations, including Wang Jing, recommended by Lu Yan He.

All five people acted a segment with Li Zhibai and then chatted with everyone.

There was no result on the spot.

After the actors left, Huang Tai asked for the opinions of Liu Bige and Li Zhibai.

Liu Bige didn't speak first, but looked at Li Zhibai.

Li Zhibai was also very direct, saying: "The one I felt most when acting myself was Wang Jing; she is crazy enough. When she raged at me, I was startled."

Others laughed.

Huang Tai also smiled and said: "Wang Jing's acting is not bad."

Someone else mentioned: "Actually, Ji Miao is also very good; she also won the Feihong Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her acting is also very good."

"Ji Miao is indeed not bad, but her CP feeling with Li Zhibai is not that strong," someone said. "Although our film is mainly comedy, the relationship between the two characters is still related to love. Without CP feeling, in the end, the audience won't be moved."

Huang Tai asked: "Why would there be no CP feeling? Can't this be adjusted later?"

Liu Bige said: "Relying on some shooting angles and guidance, it's not that we can't create this feeling, but it's definitely better to have the kind of CP feeling that can spark sparks on its own, which is more moving to the audience. Ji Miao is actually a bit proud; when acting with Li Zhibai, she also gave people the feeling that she was more than enough to act in this film and it was not a problem. She herself is too arrogant."

Li Zhibai said: "Among the five people just now, the one I felt worst acting with was Ji Miao, but people might have the confidence; after all, she won the Feihong Award."

Among the five, Ji Miao was the only one who had won a mainstream award.

Huang Tai smiled and said: "Our film is centered on you as the core character; if she holds such an idea, then she can only be disappointed."

She asked Liu Bige: "You haven't said your opinion yet?"

"I think both Wang Jing and Sun Ruoyao are quite good," Liu Bige said. "Wang Jing is just that her overall feeling is very similar to the character in the script, and her acting explosive power and other aspects are quite good, acting with spirit. Sun Ruoyao's advantage is that she is very beautiful, beautiful enough to be amazing but not the kind of aggressive beauty. There are very few actresses with such looks. I imagine her acting this character with Zhibai, the picture will actually look better."

"Sun Ruoyao only acted in one play before, right? Acted a character in a costume idol drama," Huang Tai looked at the information in front of her and pondered for a moment. "By comparison, Wang Jing is still more reassuring and has cooperated with you."

"She is a reassuring actor," Liu Bige nodded. "It depends on how to choose."

Originally, Li Zhibai felt that from his own feeling, Wang Jing gave him the best feeling.

But hearing Liu Bige say this, he thought about the effect of him and Sun Ruoyao appearing in the picture, which indeed had more of a film feeling than standing with Wang Jing.

It's not to say that Wang Jing isn't beautiful enough to be worse than Sun Ruoyao. It's just that for this character and this subject matter, Sun Ruoyao acting it will form a stronger contrast in image and personality, similar to the contrast between a goddess and a goddess-crazy, which is easier to produce results and can make the audience unexpected and laugh out loud.

Huang Tai said: "We actually know the advantages and disadvantages of the two actresses very well."

Since she said so, others didn't speak again.

Huang Tai said: "Why don't we try filming a segment? See the effect of filming, whoever is better, we will use whoever."

"That's fine too," Liu Bige nodded.

After Li Zhibai returned, he told Lu Yan He about the audition situation.

"Sun Ruoyao?" Lu Yan He didn't expect a Sun Ruoyao to kill halfway, and he didn't even know this actress.

Lu Yan He checked Sun Ruoyao's information online, especially some clips of her acting before.

Just as they said, Sun Ruoyao indeed has a bright and atmospheric look. Although because she is very young, she doesn't have that "big woman" feeling, but between her eyebrows, there is a bit of the charm of the Hong Kong film actresses in Lu Yan He's impression.

Li Zhibai said: "Compared to her, Wang Jing is indeed a bit worse in image, and the contrast effect that comes out is not that big."

Li Zhibai is also an actor who doesn't have much understanding of acting. He should have graduated this year, but because he missed too many classes and didn't earn enough credits, he could only postpone it.

Li Zhibai really didn't understand much of the theoretical knowledge in school.

But he has a talent for acting. Regarding what is good acting, Li Zhibai also has his own insights. This is the place where a good actor is different from an ordinary actor; there is a difference in aesthetics. Li Zhibai doesn't act much, and the time isn't long, but he has already been able to distinguish clearly the difference between Wang Jing and Sun Ruoyao, as well as their advantages and disadvantages for a film and a character.

Many actors actually don't have this ability to distinguish at all—which actually also means they don't have the ability to distinguish what is a good script and what is a good team.

"Trying to film a segment is actually a safer approach," Lu Yan He also agreed with this point. "This can most intuitively see who is more suitable."

Li Zhibai said: "I heard from Liu Bige that Wang Jing was recommended by you."

"It was recommended by me, because I felt Wang Jing was actually very suitable when I heard her talk at the time, but if there is a more suitable candidate, of course, find a more suitable person to act," Lu Yan He said. "Everything is to make this film better."

"Looking at Huang Tai's meaning, it seems she doesn't want to use Wang Jing, although she hasn't expressed it like that, and she hides her meaning very deeply."

"Maybe. When she filmed *Late Spring* with Liu Bige, Long Yan Film Industry definitely wanted to sign Wang Jing, but Wang Jing finally signed her contract to Arctic Light Video. Huang Tai probably has some opinions about Wang Jing because of this matter. This opinion doesn't count as anything; once Wang Jing becomes popular, Huang Tai will probably throw it to the back of her head."

Li Zhibai: "No wonder."

"Why didn't Wang Jing sign to Long Yan Film Industry at the time?"

"It must be that Arctic Light Video gave better conditions," Lu Yan He said. "She acted a very important character in *Squid Game*. This wasn't arranged by me; it was Arctic Light Video that gave the character to her. If Wang Jing signed to Long Yan Film Industry, Long Yan might not be able to give her good resources."

Li Zhibai nodded.

Yan Liang said: "I remember you said before that there is another play to find Wang Jing to act together, right?"

Lu Yan He nodded and said: "Yes, I wrote a script for Sister Yuqian called *Phone*, a story about two time-spaces and two female leads connecting through a phone. I think Wang Jing is the most suitable to act the young girl character."

Yan Liang nodded.

Li Zhibai said: "Didn't you say before that your work pressure was very great? How come you still have so many projects to push forward?"

"That's a script written before; now I don't manage it anymore," Lu Yan He said. "I won't participate deeply in this film anymore; I'll hang the names of producer and screenwriter, decide the two female leads, and next Sister Ziyan will go to negotiate with various film companies to see which one is willing to do it."

Li Zhibai: "That's more like it."

"How is the preparation for your drama version of *Nineteen Years of Crime Records*?" Lu Yan He asked.

Li Zhibai said: "I found Ice Plains Video to develop it with me. The first draft of the script is out, and I just got the first fund from Ice Plains Video and built the group. However, it will definitely be the end of the year or next year to officially start filming. I still have to film Liu Bige's movie first."

"Hmm," Lu Yan He nodded. "The film version of this story was filmed very rottenly; you must learn from their lessons."

"Rest assured, I won't find a drama bully to act in this play with me," Li Zhibai said.

Yan Liang pouted and said: "You two have started to be producers now; it really puts a lot of pressure on me; it's too rolled."

Lu Yan He said: "We all started by chance; if there are suitable opportunities in the future, you can do the same."

Lu Yan He actually quite hopes that everyone can participate more deeply in this industry, not just as actors.

If only as actors, it is indeed too passive. But if they have the ability to operate a project themselves, then when there is no suitable project looking for them, they can do projects themselves, do projects they really want to do, instead of always passively waiting.

Li Zhibai's phone suddenly rang.

He answered a call and came back saying: "A play I acted in before suddenly dropped from the sky and will be broadcast tonight. They asked me to forward the trailer and do some publicity."

"What play?"

"*Woshe*," Li Zhibai said.

At this time, Lu Yan He's phone also rang.

It was Su Xiao sending a message in the *Young Days* group chat, saying that the play *Woshe* she starred in would be broadcast tonight, asking everyone to help forward her Weibo and help promote it.

This play was starred by Li Zhibai and Su Xiao and broadcast on Ice Plains Video.

Lu Yan He: "This play was filmed at the end of the year before last, right? It was dragged for so long to be broadcast."

Li Zhibai said: "It is said that the post-production took a long time because it is a fantasy-themed love story."

"Then the investment shouldn't be small? Why did it suddenly drop from the sky?"

"Don't know why, we don't know either," Li Zhibai said. "It was scheduled several times before, but suddenly canceled."

Li Zhibai indeed hadn't had a play broadcast for a long time.

The last play was *White Jade Ballad* broadcast last spring, a hit in the fairy drama.

A year passed, and Li Zhibai finally had a new play broadcast.

Lu Yan He forwarded the scheduled news released by the drama party and forwarded the trailer.

This drama *Woshe*, when filmed, was a total of twenty episodes, and now broadcast, only eighteen episodes remained.

Because there was a popular top traffic star like Li Zhibai, the news was quite concerned once released.

Because of the variety show *Young Days*, Su Xiao also gradually had popularity and a batch of loyal fans in recent years.

Ice Plains Video put *Woshe* on the shelves as the pillar drama of June.

However, after the first episode of *Woshe* was updated, it was mocked by Li Zhibai's black fans because of zero advertising patches, and it hit the hot search.

"This play dropped from the sky, and it's normal to have no advertising patches. It's too unreasonable for them to take this to mock you," Lu Yan He said.

The three of them accompanied Li Zhibai to watch the premiere in the room.

Brushing the hot search on the internet, Lu Yan He complained for Li Zhibai.

Li Zhibai said: "Don't pay attention to these words for the sake of blacking."

Actually, the phenomenon in the fan circle now is indeed strange.

Everything has to be compared, even starring in a play, how many advertising patches have to be compared.

Compare the artist's investment attraction ability... the more patches, the more popular the drama, the more favored by advertisers.

And the first episode patch rate is actually looking at the advertiser's recognition of the lead.

*Woshe* is a play carried by Li Zhibai alone—this play has only one big star, him.

The zero advertising patch matter naturally attracted the mockery of black fans.

Shielding these disturbing voices, and watching the first episode seriously, Lu Yan He said: "This drama is filmed quite romantically, much better-looking than I expected."

In this drama, Li Zhibai finally didn't play an exaggerated character who was noisy or a bit neurotic, but played a bookstore owner with a mysterious past—he could take others to shuttle to the world in dreams, but also faced the attack of unknown creatures at any time.

Su Xiao played an ordinary girl who was accidentally attacked by unknown creatures, accidentally entered the dream world of others with the character played by Li Zhibai, solved the fears, worries, and pains in their hearts for people one by one in the dream world, and at the same time resisted the attack of unknown creatures together.

In the first episode, there were not many special effects parts, only a few shots of unknown creatures appearing, and a few shots of Li Zhibai using superpowers in others' dream worlds made special effects.

The effect was also amazing, not the kind of five-cent special effects.

After the first episode was broadcast, the discussion of *Woshe* on the internet was set off.

Mainly Li Zhibai's fans were doing promotion, and at the same time, Ice Plains Video also bought several hot searches, letting more people come to watch this drama.

Li Zhibai watched it himself and was satisfied.

Actually, since his debut, the plays he acted in basically had a large proportion of love parts.

This was also related to the positioning of him in the market.

Female audiences just wanted to watch his love plays and substitute themselves.

Including *Moonlight Symphony* he just finished filming, and the movie by Liu Bige he was going to film next, were all themes like this.

However, although the plays Li Zhibai acted in had a large proportion of love, the subject matter was different. From fairy drama, to urban fantasy, to comedy, Li Zhibai was still in his safe zone, challenging different character types and subject matters as much as possible.

Such attempts didn't let the audience have aesthetic fatigue of him very quickly.

Just like the mysterious male shop owner he played in *Woshe* this time, he was usually a young man who was silent, advancing and retreating with measure, and not in line with his age in reality, while in the dream world, he had a bravery and firmness as if he had changed into a person. This contrast of characters not only brought his fans great freshness, but also made the media evaluate it highly.

Many people felt that the media's evaluation of artists was basically taking money to do things.

Actually, many media outlets, besides taking money to do things, were also normal audiences. Their attitude towards star artists was also related to the artist's own performance and the touch the work brought to them.

Why was Chen Ziliang scolded?

Because he didn't act well, and not only didn't act well, but also let everyone not see his sincerity in acting.

Did Li Zhibai really act that well? Gifted? Of course not. But he acted in roles he could control and in his comfort zone, and he was seeking something different in every play, not repeating himself, bringing a lot of freshness.

This is the most basic thing as an actor. In the comparison of peers, his attitude appeared particularly professional.

*Woshe* became a dark horse that emerged in June, and the drama market rarely appeared a drama with relatively high discussion and relatively popular viewing numbers.

But this drama still faced the characteristic of mainly female audiences like the plays Li Zhibai starred in before. This is a good thing, but it has limitations for Li Zhibai to further broaden his acting path and let his own actor path go further.

Of course, no matter what, at least Li Zhibai brought out another hit drama.

After zero patch advertising in the first episode, the second episode directly dropped six patch advertisements, four at the beginning of the film, two in the middle of the film, breaking the previous attacks of black fans.

And besides the popularity of *Woshe* in the drama market, in the film market, the youth love topic work *You Ten Years Ago and Me Ten Years Later* starred by Ji Miao, under the condition of high heat in the early stage, only got 21 million box office in the first weekend, far from the industry estimate, and plummeted in the second week's working days, with a daily box office of more than 2 million, and the final box office was expected to be difficult to pass 50 million, making people sigh.

On the contrary, the action comedy *33 Days* starred by Cheng Shiyan performed stably, winning 540 million box office in one week of release, and the final box office was still expected to be able to pass 1 billion. This also made the industry more confident in *Beetle Plan 2* to be released next Spring Festival. Cheng Shiyan's box office appeal still didn't decrease.

And besides these two Chinese films, other Chinese films basically didn't have much volume in June. The box office was mostly flat, and no dark horse appeared. On the contrary, an American animation *Stray Dog Wendy* swept 600 million box office in the country without any publicity, making people look sideways.

The performance of these films also affected the films to be released later.

The film *Lost in Journey* starred by Jia Long and written by Lu Yan He was scheduled for release on July 12, Thursday.

The film *Flowers on the Stars* written by Yu Jiang and starred by Lang Xia was scheduled for release on August 14, Qixi Festival.

*Rouge* directed by Wang Zhong, starred by Chen Bige and Huang Kai, and written by Lu Yan He was scheduled for release on the Mid-Autumn Festival in mid-September.

Besides this, several heavyweight films were scheduled one after another.

As a box office heavy warehouse schedule, the summer schedule is the largest schedule in the country besides the Spring Festival schedule, and the duration is the longest in the country.

The *Love Letter* crew of Lu Yan He started to camp in Jiangzhi seriously in this summer schedule that was about to open the curtain.

Lu Yan He went only after finishing the last exam.

Summer had already come.

When Lu Yan He got off the plane, he felt a heat wave coming towards him.

Obviously, there was a corridor bridge in the middle, but between the air-conditioned airport and the cabin, the heat wave was still rolling.

Luo Yuzhong had already taken Zhao Yuheng to comb through the filming plan of the crew from beginning to end, and went through the work plans of various departments, just to make the basic framework of the filming preparation work ready when Lu Yan He arrived.

The crew must have an old-school director like Luo Yuzhong sitting in town, so the crew staff wouldn't dare to fool around.

Otherwise, others would see Lu Yan He as a new director and might not necessarily not have the heart to fool around.

At this time, Jiangzhi had entered the best-looking time of the year.

The sun was bright, and the whole city was shrouded in golden sunlight or green tree shade, as if it were a small city summer common in cartoons, in the scorching heat, holding a popsicle, lying on a cool mat with a fan or air conditioning on, slowly cooling off.

The news that *Love Letter* came to Jiangzhi to film had already been known by many people.

After all, in the days Lu Yan He didn't come, the *Love Letter* crew had already come several batches of people, stepping on points, building scenes, the movement was quite big, and it was impossible not to be known.

There were not many scenes to be filmed in summer.

It also just happened to let Lu Yan He be able to familiarize himself with the situation.

Summer scenes were basically scenes of youth, and Chen Bige didn't even need to appear.

However, Lu Yan He didn't expect that Chen Bige actually still came.

She said that anyway, she didn't take other plays, and now there was no other work temporarily, so she could come over to see, and by the way, it was also to see who the girl acting as her high school time was.

"Also, you have already officially announced that the female lead of this film is me. If I don't appear in Jiangzhi, aren't you afraid that those media reporters will make some bad guesses?" Chen Bige said with a smile. "If so, then your mysterious female lead might only be exposed."

Lu Yan He didn't expect that Chen Bige would consider so much.

The people who gathered in Jiangzhi because of this play were not few at all.

Along with many fans, in order to see their favorite stars, they also came.

The *Love Letter* crew directly booked two inns in Jiangzhi to be used for the crew to live in.

This booking cost a lot, but it was more convenient for the crew to manage and could avoid others disturbing the crew's rest.

Zhang Ruozhi hadn't had a holiday yet.

Lu Yan He and the others didn't urge her either.

They were prepared to film other scenes first, including some empty shots.

Because Lu Yan He was doing it for the first time as a director, he was also really ignorant of what he should do. He hadn't observed carefully before what kind of things a director had to do in a play.

Telling actors about the play was definitely only a very small part.

Fortunately, they reserved sufficient time to sit down with people from various departments to discuss filming plans, discuss storyboards, and conduct trial filming.

And the trial filming clips were all tried and performed by Lu Yan He himself.

Among them, for this film, the most critical scenes almost all happened in the library.

This play was filmed at the Jiangzhi High School where Zhang Ruozhi studied.

With He Yunlan coordinating, and students from her own school participating, the school also agreed very readily.

Fortunately, the high school library generally wasn't used much—

Especially in this era, basically few students would go to the library anymore.

He found a very suitable room on the second floor of the library to film the segment of the two Huai Jingshu in the library in *Love Letter*.

Lu Yan He stood in front of the window and let the photographer try filming a segment for him.

Liu Bige was also there.

After the photographer filmed one take, Lu Yan He hadn't looked at it yet, and Liu Bige said it wouldn't work.

"Your lens is too idol drama." Liu Bige took over the camera himself and personally operated the lens.

Because it was just trial filming, there was no track laid for the camera to move, and no design for any lighting.

But Liu Bige directly constructed a camera movement in a short time.

From behind the bookshelf to film the figure revealed in the gap, simulating a person's perspective, with slight movement, probing, even hiding a bit of cautious shyness, and then slowly pushing the lens out.

Liu Bige carried the camera on his shoulder.

He slowly walked out from behind the bookshelf, walked to the front of Lu Yan He, facing the sunlight spilling in from outside the window.

Lu Yan He's figure was covered with a layer of light.

"The lens must not be flat and straightforward; it must have its own language," Liu Bige said to the photographer. "Especially for this film *Love Letter*, you have to think about what kind of story this is, and what this scene is filming. It's not only the director and actors who need to look at the script; even those doing technical work need to ponder the script. Once you eat through what a scene should look like, the technology in your hands can also speak; don't do line work."

The photographer was very young, named Wu Zhou, and was a member of the photography team when Liu Bige filmed *Late Spring*. This time, Wu Zhou was also one of the photography teams personally brought by Liu Bige.

Lu Yan He watched the playback with them.

Without post-production, and without changing the light, this segment filmed by Liu Bige was only about twenty seconds long, but, as he said, without any lines and voice-over, it could present the emotion this lens wanted to express from the change of such a lens perspective.

The emotion of secret love, cautious, and secretly observing.

Liu Bige said to Lu Yan He again: "My judgment shouldn't be wrong, right? Is this the filming effect you wanted?"

Lu Yan He nodded, "Right, for this scene, I indeed wanted to film it like this, from my perspective and her perspective, the angle of the two people filming each other, forming a relationship of secretly looking at each other."

At noon, Lu Yan He went to the school cafeteria to eat with everyone.

The principal specifically asked the faculty cafeteria to make a meal for them, expressing his welcome to them.

"Oh, especially welcome you to come here to film," the principal said, his eyes shining when he saw Lu Yan He. "I really hope that among the high school seniors in our school this year, there can be children who become your junior brothers and sisters."

Lu Yan He: "There definitely will be."

He said to the principal.

Principal: "Sigh, our school's faculty strength is not as strong as other places, and the children are also difficult. I hope that you coming here to film this film can bring us some good luck."

Lu Yan He didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

After lunch, Lu Yan He wanted to go to the restroom, but the restroom was full, so he had to go nearby to find other restrooms.

At the corner of the corridor, two men were standing there smoking, not noticing Lu Yan He coming from behind.

"Lu Yan He being a director, filming a play, Liu Bige doing the photographer for him, Luo Yuzhong helping him do department management, Chen Bige coming to do the lead for him, hehe, there's no one else."

"What's wrong?"

"I just feel that this world is sometimes really unfair."

"Unfair?"

"Everyone's starting point is different. We want to be directors, starting from the field staff, working hard for more than ten years, seeing no opportunity, but stars like Lu Yan He want to be directors, and everyone is helping him. I know, he is very amazing, a genius, he can succeed in whatever he does, but I can't help it, I just can't help but envy him."

"You'd better adjust your mentality quickly; if you hold such an idea, you will only feel more and more uncomfortable."

"I'm just complaining to you. Before, I tried to write a script and found a producer to help me look at it. Do you know how long he looked at it? He looked at it for five minutes, and then told me the script was very rotten, as rotten as shit, saying I didn't have any talent for telling stories. I really wanted to smear shit on his face."

"You can submit the script to some youth film festival venture capital fund projects, since you have a script."

"Hehe, do you really believe those are selected from the sea? They are all relationship households with intricate backgrounds behind them. People like me without any background, when they see my name, this script won't even be opened."

"You are too pessimistic."

"Don't you believe it? Hehe, you are really naive."

Lu Yan He listened, feeling a bit unbearable in his heart, unbearable that for people who want to start from scratch, "fewer opportunities" is an indisputable fact. At the same time, he was also a bit annoyed, annoyed by this cynical mentality.

He didn't take being whispered about behind his back too seriously, but the attitude that the world was full of relationship households and ordinary people had no future made Lu Yan He very much want to stand out and ask a question: is it because you have no background that people don't choose your script, or is your script itself not written well enough?

Lu Yan He had been in the entertainment industry for so long, of course he knew that many people were truly talented but unrecognized, but whether it was the youth film festival's venture capital fund or other platforms or projects, they were still supporting people by discovering their talent.

Every year, young directors still emerge. So many people in the entertainment industry have resources and abilities; they don't choose projects based on whose background is bigger, but look at the script, look at the script itself.

He is like this, Chen Bige is like this, Shang Yongzhou is also like this.

People who do better themselves will discard all interference and only look at what really needs to be seen.

He didn't believe that the youth film festival's venture capital funds were all selected by relationship households.

Lu Yan He had also received the request for this project to be a judge. It was just because he was very busy, so he declined. But many actors and directors in the circle had received invitations to be judges, and they were seriously reading scripts and selecting scripts. Seeing a good script, they would even be moved and use all their strength to support the director to film this script into a movie.

But Lu Yan He didn't stand out to refute him.

He just walked away silently.

Before walking away, he glanced at the two people talking; they were both from the photography group.

The cynical one was the older Bao Wenliang, and the younger one was Wu Zhou.

The reason Lu Yan He didn't stand out to refute was because it was unnecessary, and because, in front of cynical people, whatever he said was "standing and talking without back pain," "you succeeded, so of course what you say makes sense."

Before, when Lu Yan He was an actor, he actually rarely needed to deal with every staff member of every department.

Communication with the photography team was often communicating with the photography director about how a lens would move, to facilitate him finding the lens accurately when performing. Of course, if he met Liu Bige, then he didn't need to find the lens. Liu Bige didn't even want you to know where the lens was; he liked to capture the state of the actor closest to reality and nature.

Now Lu Yan He needed to communicate deeply with people in various departments because how each department did, and to what extent, had to listen to him.

Lu Yan He's advantage in directing *Love Letter* was that he had a very clear original film in his mind of what it should look like, so he could give very clear instructions.

At the same time, he specifically found someone who could draw storyboards to help him draw the filming storyboards for this script first.

If a film has a complete storyboard draft before filming, it is a particularly good thing for any department. Each department will know very clearly what kind of lens they are filming, and what they need to do.

And now this trial filming is actually the stage for them to run-in.

The requirements for photography, Liu Bige had actually explained very clearly to the photography group, and the follow-up was the problem of how to execute it. Liu Bige said that if he had time for several heavy scenes in the script, he would personally supervise them on the spot, and if he didn't have time, he would hand them over to the two photographers in the photography group; their technology had no problems.

Lu Yan He said okay.

For a film, the photographer is too important.

Generally speaking, photography teams are completed by industry big names bringing their own teams.

Bao Wenliang and Wu Zhou were the photography team formed by Liu Bige when filming *Late Spring*, and they had cooperated on one play, so they were relatively familiar.

It was just that Lu Yan He heard Bao Wenliang say those words at noon, and he felt a bit uncomfortable in his heart, and couldn't express it.

However, Liu Bige couldn't stay in the *Love Letter* crew to personally operate the lens for Lu Yan He forever.

He still had his own movie to prepare in the second half of the year.

He could come to serve as this photography director, and lend Bao Wenliang and Wu Zhou to him, which was already very loyal.

Lu Yan He tried filming with the crew for three days, gradually becoming familiar with how to be a director, and becoming more and more familiar with people in various departments.

And taking advantage of the fact that school hadn't had a holiday yet, the film had to start filming some shots first.

For example, shots of students going to school.

In high school, there were many shots of students going to school and leaving school, and the pictures were very beautiful.

Lu Yan He took the photography team to guard outside Jiangzhi Middle School, filmed for several days, filmed satisfactory shots, and if he felt they might be used in the film, he had to find the people who appeared in the shots and ask them to agree to appear in the shots.

If they didn't agree to appear in the shots, this shot couldn't be used.

The college entrance examination had ended, and currently, only high school freshman and sophomore students were at Jiangzhi Middle School.

Lu Yan He took the photography team to stay near the school every day at the time of going to school and leaving school, filming some shots, which made the students very excited. There would be many students curiously looking towards the camera, and there would also be students shyly turning their heads away, avoiding the camera.

After the final exams of the freshman and sophomore students ended, the formal filming began. ===== CHAPTER 447 =====