Not to mention, this opportunity is to give the position first and then the assessment. As Nakamura Sakami responded loudly and a smile appeared on Ping Qingshan's face again, the atmosphere in the conference room finally became much more harmonious and warm applause rang out again. After being promoted to the position of Nakamura Sake. Everyone in the conference room looked at Ping Qingshan with different eyes. If before everyone was convinced of Ping Qingshan's identity, now everyone has a clearer understanding of what Ping Qingshan can do with his identity. This is a man who can break the rules!!! Anyone who has a bit of ambition would look at Ping Qingshan with a straight gaze at this moment. Ping Qingshan glanced around the conference room and nodded. It was worth the call. Isn’t the effect achieved? A simple personnel arrangement achieved the effect he wanted. "Okay, let's have a meeting."
In the following meetings, people from all departments were as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood, especially when it came to the planning section for next week's work. These people were even more excited, and they patted their chests and assured Ping Qingshan that they would be able to make preparations and start filming on time. Even if Ping Qingshan is willing, they can work overtime and advance the shooting date. Time flies and two hours have passed. After each department reported their situation, the meeting ended. However, Ping Qingshan's work is not over yet. After the general meeting, it is natural to hold a small meeting. "The creators please stay, we will discuss this further." In this movie, the only people who can be called the main creators, besides Hirakiyosugi, are the newly promoted Nakamura Sakami and assistant director Oosuke Akimitsu. An Shangxiong Yi from the screenwriter team was also retained by Ping Qingshan. In addition, Miyamori Aoi was also retained by Ping Qingshan, although she was purely a bystander. Then it was gone. Compared with the creative groups of dozens of people, the creative circle of Battle Royale is not large, even a bit shabby. But even with such a shabby creative team, there are so many people who may never be able to get in their entire life. For Nakamura Sakami, Ansho Kumatake and Osawa Mingguang, this also carries their career prospects. at the conference. Ping Qingshan didn't say much throughout the whole process, just nodded and occasionally responded, mostly with praise. But it was time for the main creative meeting. His demeanor changed completely. He looked around carefully and said directly to Nakamura Sakegami, "Nakamura-kun, I just listened to their report. The overall progress is good. The next step is to confirm the first part of the storyboard made by Assistant Director Osawa, and confirm the shooting location, right?"
"Yes, Supervisor." "Da Ze, show the storyboard to the supervisor." After Nakamura Sakami finished his reply, Oozawa Mingguang on the other side took out a copy of the storyboard script that he had prepared long ago from his backpack and gave it to the people at the meeting. Ping Qingshan lowered his head, took it, and began to look through it. The meeting room soon became quiet, leaving only the sound of people turning pages. Chapter 18 Storyboard Daze Mingguang is not very old. He is only about 30 years old, and the most distinctive feature of his body is his bald head. It is said that in his previous crew he often stayed up all night drawing storyboards and was too lazy to take care of his hair, so he simply shaved it off. In this way, it is in line with his name Mingguang. This is the first time that Ohsawa Akimitsu has served as an assistant director, but this does not mean that he has no experience. Before this, he had been a storyboard director for many years. The reason I was able to serve as an assistant director on the Battle Royale crew is that all the current assistant directors at Sony Pictures have their own things to do. It can be said that he was promoted on the front line. His position at Sony actually didn't change, he was just simply accumulating experience, but today Ping Qingshan was so excited that he was actually a little nervous when he saw everyone flipping through the storyboards. He touched his bald head and whispered to Ping Qingshan, "This is the temporary decision. If Director Qingshan has any ideas, or if the effect during filming is not ideal, we can change it." Storyboards basically make the contents of the script concrete. Most of the content is text, with a small amount of graphics. There is no specific format. For some individual directors, hand-drawn sketches can also be used as storyboards. In Japan, due to the popularity of comics, Japanese directors often directly draw an outline in addition to the text content. This is what Da Ze Ming Guang did. His storyboard script is a bit like a comic draft, and even has details drawn in some places. He is very rigorous in his work and gives people a good feeling. However, due to the limitations of the times, although his storyboard script is considered good nowadays, if it is placed around 23 years before Ping Qingshan's previous life, there are many obvious problems. Ping Qingshan read a few more pages and frowned. "Osawa, why is there no shot number sequence on the storyboard?" Da Ze Mingguang was stunned for a moment, then blurted out subconsciously. "Mirror number sequence? This... Director Qingshan, I marked the mirror numbers below the storyboards, and I drew them in order..." Da Ze Ming Guang naturally knew what the mirror number was. Simply put, all film works are composed of several segments of varying duration, which are usually called "shots". For example, the protagonist drinking water is a shot. In order to facilitate the organization of shooting and post-production, all "shots" are numbered sequentially, and these numbers are referred to as shot numbers.
But the mirror number sequence is a completely unfamiliar term to Daze Mingguang. Ping Qingshan did not keep the audience in suspense and began to explain. He had noticed that although Da Ze Ming Guang was experienced and his storyboards were very detailed, they were far inferior to those of a famous Chinese director. But at the same time, Daze Mingguang's working methods are obviously still stuck in the past few years, or even more than a decade ago. Not to mention measuring it by the storyboard standards of 23 years in later generations, judging from what Taira no Kiyonari learned at university in this life, Oosuke Meiko's storyboard is also missing a lot of things. And putting all that aside, the whole storyboard idea is too old-fashioned. "Daze, come over here and take a look at this scene. Why is it divided like this?" Da Ze Mingguang stood up and didn't dare to sit down. He just stood aside and took a look at the storyboard in Ping Qingshan's hand. Here’s a shot from the first part. The footage depicts the students' reactions after the killing rules were played on TV. In the storyboard of Daze Mingguang. According to the description in the script, he made a horizontal transition, that is, the camera first pointed at the TV and then slowly turned to the students. This is a very short shot, and Da Ze Ming Guang doesn’t think there is anything wrong with this shot. But under the pressure of Ping Qingshan's majesty, he did not dare to speak. He just listened without expressing his opinion, and used silence to express a certain emotion. Ping Qingshan didn't care about this. After pulling him over, he started talking about this scene. "What do we want in this shot? Impact!" "What do the audience want to see after reading the rules? It's the students' reaction to the rules. When these students hear that only one person can survive in the next three days, what is their reaction? This is what the audience wants to see." "Tell me, what lens should we use in this situation?" "Should we just cut to the camera?" Da Ze Mingguang was no longer silent. He found that this young director seemed to really understand. "Yes, cut directly, and cut three times in a row. First cut to a close-up of a character, then immediately cut to all the students. The close-up allows the audience to get feedback immediately, and the close-up can better express emotions. Cutting to the panoramic view is to express..." As Ping Qingshan began to explain his ideas, Da Ze Mingguang seemed to be lost in thought. As someone who has been in the industry for almost ten years, he is not completely without talent, but this talent has been almost worn out over the past decade. Once he reached the position of storyboard director, he couldn't climb any higher. On the one hand, this involves problems in Japanese society, and on the other hand, no one told him these things during the filming. The storyboards he submitted would sometimes be adopted by the director, and sometimes the director would re-shoot them. But no one ever told him why his lens was not good. Over the years, he has often studied the shots that were abandoned by directors, but due to his busy work, he has never been able to calm down and naturally could not figure out any reason.
However, Ping Qingshan's explanation made him suddenly realize. He immediately recalled that the last time he was a storyboard director, it seemed that there were several similar shots that were abandoned by the director during filming. Now, he finally understood why. Moreover, Ping Qingshan's explanation did not stop at the lens. After explaining why the lens was wrong, he also drew a table for Da Ze Mingguang on the spot. It contains notes on what needs to be noted in a storyboard, such as lens, lighting, props, etc. At first glance, these things may seem to have little impact on the quality of the storyboard, but during the filming process, they will greatly reduce the communication costs of the crew. The production manager only needs to take the script to connect with the entire crew and let each department work according to the director's desired effect. To be honest, if the age difference between him and Ping Qingshan wasn't so huge, at this moment Daze Mingguang would have wanted to kneel down and kowtow to Ping Qingshan and take him as his master. You know, the atmosphere in the Japanese director circle is quite old-fashioned, and those who like to teach others are almost non-existent. Even many simple things are hidden by them, under the pretext that you have to figure them out yourself. Now, although Ping Qingshan's tone was stern, what he said was truly teaching something. It is not difficult to understand Da Ze Ming Guang’s excitement. Although Nakamura Shugami, Anjo Xiongyi, and Miyamori Aoi did not understand the storyboard script, Oozawa Mingguang looked as if he had learned it and suddenly realized it. Especially Nakamura Shukami, he and Oozawa Mingguang are friends in private, so he naturally knows his friend's ability in storyboarding, and now Ping Qingshan can actually make Mingguang admire him so much. This is really, really amazing. After telling the story like this for about ten minutes, Ping Qingshan put down the storyboard, picked up his water cup, drank a sip of water to moisten his throat. Actually, this storyboard script looks pretty good overall. However, as it is his first film, he still hopes to do his best in every aspect and wants to do his best. Chapter 19: Seeing Sakurajima Mai Again Movies want to be successful. In addition to his own efforts, the help of others is also indispensable. Among them, how much power the assistant director can exert is also of paramount importance. Therefore, Ping Qingshan still values the bald man Da Ze Mingguang very much. Only then would I break a scene apart and explain it to him. Fortunately, Da Ze Mingguang has been able to stay at Sony for so many years, and his basic skills are really solid. Progress should be rapid. After drinking the water, Ping Qingshan closed the script in his hand. Although there are some things that need to be adjusted here, they are obviously not suitable for discussion here. "Thank you for your hard work, Da Ze-kun. Please adjust the ideas I just mentioned first, and we will discuss the storyboard separately tomorrow."
"Yes! Supervisor Qingshan. I have benefited a lot today. Thank you for your guidance!" In just over ten minutes, Daze Mingguang's attitude towards Ping Qingshan had completely changed. Since Da Ze Ming Guang's script needed to be revised, the content of the meeting naturally jumped to the next link.