Chapter 50 Movie Debut
Chapter 50 Movie Debut
The failure of Ma Bo's film is actually nothing surprising. Instead, it is a very normal thing at the screening of graduate works.
After all, they have just graduated. It would be a strange thing if they could really make a good movie that is both commercially and artistically worthy.
Therefore, after witnessing the other party's failure, Wang Hao did not care too much. Instead, he became interested in a female classmate named Li Qian from Ma Bo's team.
This kind of interest is not the interest between men and women. After all, the other party is not good-looking and wears glasses. He is not the type that Wang Hao likes.
The reason why he paid attention to this girl was simply because in Ma Bo's films, there were several love scenes between men and women that were shot very well and left a very deep impression on people.
Most male directors are not very good at this kind of scenes.
On the contrary, female directors, because of their gender, are more talented in shooting such scenes.
So just by using his brain, Wang Hao guessed that those emotional scenes were most likely the work of this person.
His next movie happens to have a female perspective, and as the science fiction movie universe gradually develops in the future, there will be more filming opportunities. In addition to Zhang Yang and Li Kui, the two people he is training, Wang Hao also needs more good directors to participate.
It would be best if they could have a female director who is proficient in emotional dramas join them.
So after the other party's movie was over, Wang Hao whispered a few words to Zhang Yang, asking him to contact Li Qian first to see if he could recruit her to strengthen his company's talent pool.
Zhang Yang naturally nodded in agreement, and the three of them then continued to watch two short films shot by their classmates, which had their highlights as well as their shortcomings.
Wang Hao did not look down on others just because he made a feature film. He would secretly note down the highlights and savor them over and over again.
As for those shortcomings, he would point out the problems directly to Zhang Yang and Li Kui, and make an analysis, thereby instilling his own film creation theory into them.
Soon, it got dark. After having dinner in the school cafeteria, Wang Hao and the other two returned to the auditorium.
But this time, they are no longer sitting in the audience watching other people's movies.
The three of them came to the backstage of the screening room, communicated with the teacher in charge of the projector, handed in the movie tapes, and then took out the posters and other materials prepared in advance and set them up in the auditorium.
After eating and drinking, more free students came and entered the auditorium.
Compared to the shows in the afternoon, the audience for this movie screening increased instead of decreased.
In the end, even Wang Hao and his class teacher from the directing department and several department leaders appeared at the entrance of the auditorium.
This is, of course, also due to Huang Lei's participation and director Tian Zhuang's appreciation of him after watching his movie.
"Teacher, this way please!"
Wang Hao, who was always keeping an eye on everything, saw this scene and was very happy. He immediately rushed to the door and greeted them, and led several teachers to sit in the best seats in the front row, which also attracted the attention of the students present.
After these people took their seats, the auditorium was almost full. Wang Hao looked at his watch and confirmed the time before he raised his hand to signal the projectionist in the distance.
The lights went out, and bright beams of light were projected onto the wide screen, interweaving into a brilliant display of light and shadow.
At the same time, in thousands of households, anyone who had their televisions tuned to the movie channel saw the same scene as them. As the most ordinary opening credits ended, the big screen suddenly went black, and the entire auditorium fell into complete darkness.
The darkness was so depressing and terrifying that many timid girls became nervous and spoke in low voices.
It was amidst the buzzing sound of conversation that some heavy breathing, as if suppressed to the extreme, accompanied by dull coughs, sounded in the auditorium.
And when this kind of oppression reached its peak accompanied by gasps, a few crisp metal friction sounds suddenly rang out, and the screen flickered, scaring many people present.
Then the fire lit up, and a frightened eye suddenly flashed on the big screen.
“This is an interesting beginning.”
Several department leaders sitting in the front row whispered to each other, and Wang Hao's head teacher nodded in agreement.
Just with just an opening, it successfully caught the audience's attention, which is enough to show Wang Hao's skill.
On the big screen, as the fire burned steadily, the camera gradually pulled away. The male protagonist Huang Lei was biting a dirty strip of cloth, with wooden boards on his head, looking down at the people outside the screen.
This situation, combined with the title of the movie, almost everyone understood that he was locked in a wooden box and buried alive.
But who was the murderer? Why was he buried alive? These are all unknown.
So at this moment, the audience sitting in front of the screen and the TV were all affected by the tense atmosphere created by the opening. They couldn't help but be attracted to it. Even their breathing seemed to be synchronized with the male protagonist and became a little heavier.
As the plot progresses, all the truth seems to gradually surface.
It turns out that Zhang Wei, played by Huang Lei, is actually a construction engineer.
In order to earn money to support his family and send his son to the art college of his dreams, Zhang Wei found a construction project that required him to go abroad and traveled all the way to Africa to carry out the aid work.
However, what was unexpected was that Zhang Wei's luck was extremely bad. Not long after arriving in Africa, he was unfortunately separated from the team due to a riot during an outing, and was captured by the rebels and buried alive in the desert.
After waking up, Zhang Wei used the protruding nails on the wooden board to cut the cloth that bound his wrists, and then used the lighter he carried with him to see clearly the environment he was in.
He tried to save himself, but the heavy gravel above his head forced him to pound on the wooden board in despair.
Throughout this entire process, Huang Lei can be said to have vividly displayed the protagonist's emotional changes from confusion to fear to horror to despair to collapse, successfully bringing the audience into the scene of being buried alive, and feeling the extreme depression together.
Fortunately, it is impossible for a movie to last forever with one emotion. When everyone is tense, the story soon comes to the relaxing part.
Zhang Wei, who was in despair, felt the vibration and sound coming from the soles of his feet. He reached down with difficulty and finally took out an old mobile phone from the cloth bag at the end of the wooden box.
Of course, it is called an old phone, but in terms of appearance and functions alone, it is actually more advanced than all current mobile phones.
(End of this chapter)