Years later, Zhuang Yan threw himself into the preparatory work for the film.
Zhao Yang was also very relieved to hear that he had found Xie Ning, the main artist.
The art department is the second largest department in the film after the director department, and its importance is unusual.
In addition to conceptual design and scene design for the film, in a broad sense, the art department is also responsible for the "future" of the entire film, that is, costumes, makeup, and props.
It's impossible to give Xie Ning a single person to coordinate. Zhuang Yan's production team has an art director, called Wang gradually, known as brother Jian, the name is very cute, but the character is ruffian, and he also keeps his chin on the trend. A small stubble of beard.
Many domestic crews, especially small crews, do not have the distinction between art direction and main art, but they are clearly distinguished abroad. Zhuang Yan has been abroad for a long time, and the division of the art group also has certain rules.
The art director generally does not participate in the design specifically, but only controls the general direction, mainly supervises and manages, coordinates the work of each team, designs the overall visual style, and makes the style and tone of the film neat and unified.
The main artist is responsible for the design of the main concepts and scenes, and sometimes participates in the design of important props and the shape of the protagonist.
Of course, there are deputy artists and art assistants under the main art. Most of the drawings are drawn by these people, and their usual job is to draw pictures.
Some large-scale movies may require hundreds of draftsmen, including but not limited to various buildings, costumes, and props. Large and small designs must be drawn and handed over to the props team for production.
For a crew like Zhuang Yan, there are only a dozen of Xie Ning's deputy artists and art assistants.
Most of them were recruited by Zhao Yang at home, which is why he recommended Zheng Jing in the first place.
Zheng Jing's subordinates have their own studio, and taking him is equivalent to contracting more than half of the art team.
When Zhuang Yan brought Xie Ning to the company, Zhao Yang and Wang gradually were taken aback.
At first Zhao Yang thought he was an amateur discovered by Zhuang Yan, with a good image and temperament, but he looked a little cold and didn't know how the camera felt.
Zhuang Yan glanced at him: "This is the main art I mentioned to you before, Xie Ning."
Zhao Yang: "..."
In these days, Zhuang Yan, the director, is so handsome, does he even need a good face to be the main artist
Zhuang Yan introduced Zhao Yang and Wang gradually to Xie Ning.
"This is the producer Zhao Yang, and you discuss the budget of the art team with him; this is the art director Wang Jiancheng, you can call him Brother Jian after others."
The name "Jiange" is homophonic to "Jiange", which sounds quite unique.
Xie Ning: "Brother Zhao, Brother Jian."
Wang gradually touched the stubble of his chin and teased, "So you are Director Zhuang's latest love?"
Zhuang Yan frowned: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
He turned his head and explained to Xie Ning, "Don't listen to his nonsense, I don't even have an old love."
Xie Ning nodded with a smile.
Wang gradually took Xie Ning's shoulder carelessly: "Since it's the main beauty, it's mine."
"Let's go." Zhuang Yan was rude this time, slapped his hand away and snorted, "This is my person, don't do anything."
Wang gradually became very surprised.
Zhuang Yan mentioned Xie Ning's situation a little, and then said: "I will communicate with Xie Ning directly about the concept and the design of the main scene, and tell him my thoughts. He is not very familiar with the production of props and the implementation of the set. You can have more snacks and arrange for him a deputy artist who knows more about this."
"Okay, I see." Wang gradually smiled sullenly, "So precious, you won't even touch it?"
Zhuang Yan raised his chin and glanced at Wang Chengcheng with a warning: "I don't care what you do outside, but you are not allowed to tease him blindly."
Wang gradually became helpless: "My fault, I will be more restrained in the crew."
Xie Ning blinked and couldn't help laughing.
Before he came, Zhuang Yan mentioned Wang gradually to him, saying that he was rather rambunctious in his behavior, but he was neither married nor a girlfriend.
With Xu Qing's lessons learned, Zhuang Yan specially instructed him to keep less contact with Wang in private except for the necessary work.
Xie Ning responded obediently.
He wasn't the type to love interacting with people.
The script of Zhuang Yan's new film has just been released. Although there will definitely be various changes to be made in the future, the birth of the first version also means that many things can be put on the itinerary.
Shainin was one of the first to see the script.
The background era of the new movie was chosen in the Republic of China.
The Republic of China was an era with a strong sense of conflict and resistance, the alternation of old and new ideas, and the drastic changes in society...
When countless people think of the Republic of China, the first thing that comes to mind, apart from those black and white photos, is the righteousness of the family and the country, and the revolutionary struggle.
Zhuang Yan has continued his usual style. You say that you want the righteousness of the family and the country, but he wants to tell lingering love stories and the great power of art and love.
But in the details, it reveals the alternation of the old and the new, the contradiction between feudalism and democracy.
After Xie Ning read the script, Zhuang Yan asked him how he felt.
Xie Ning blinked: "Is this a love triangle of red and white roses?"
Zhuang Yan: "Yes."
Sounds like a very old-fashioned plot.
But Zhuang Yan was good at portraying love in a romantic and moving way with camera and pictures. Xie Ning had seen his delicate observation and handling of emotions, and he was looking forward to it.
This time he also personally participated in the art design of the film, and Xie Ning couldn't help being a little nervous.
He asked, "I don't have much experience, so I'll take the lead as soon as I come up, will it be too fast?"
Zhuang Yan raised his eyebrows: "Ningning, when did you become so unconfident about your professional level?"
Xie Ning shook his head and said, "I heard Mr. Yang Rui say that the main beauty of the film is not just to immerse yourself in the painting, but to communicate in various aspects, and sometimes it needs to be processed and reconstructed according to the actual scene."
Communication is the most difficult thing for Shainin.
"And even graduates from famous art schools start their studies as assistants. Few of them are directly parachuted into the main beauty."
Zhuang Yan chuckled: "Do you know what art assistants usually do?"
Xie Ning shook his head: "Not very clear, assist the artist to draw?"
Zhuang Yan said: "The professional requirements are not high for drawing, making forms, writing copywriting, printing documents and other auxiliary work. It is said that it is an art assistant, and the last two words are the key."
Art assistants are used for people who are entering the industry to make connections. They don't have much technical content. You can go directly to assistant art after doing it once.
Xie Ning: "...There is also a deputy artist."
Zhuang Yan looked at him and said solemnly: "As an assistant artist, to put it bluntly, it means to start with the main beauty. Ning Ning, your skills are not bad at all. With your creative ability and design level, you are working hard in the assistant art group to paint. , Every day running at both ends of the studio and the props factory is too good for you. Like youth, human talent cannot be squandered, which is why Mr. Yang wants to recommend you to me so much."
Xie Ning was startled.
Zhuang Yan said seriously: "Trust me, believe in yourself, and your ability, you can be the main beauty of any crew."
Xie Ning nodded slowly: "Yes."
"And besides you, I really can't find any other main beauty that I like." Zhuang Yan added, "I wanted you to draw the scene map of "Monologue" before, just to see your level, but I didn't know it at the time. Do you have the intention to enter the art of film and television, dare not speak rashly, I didn't expect that Mr. Yang just happened to recommend you to me."
Xie Ning blinked: "What a coincidence?"
Zhuang Yan smiled: "It means that this is the fate between us. You are destined to come to my crew and be my main beauty."
The word main beauty is nothing, and the word "my" is added in front, and the atmosphere instantly becomes ambiguous.
Xie Ning's face burned again in disappointment. He lowered his head and pretended to continue reading the script, but was exposed by the tips of his red ears.
Zhuang Yan couldn't help but smile.
After the script is out, the art team can carry out the conceptual design, determine the overall style, and design the atmosphere map.
Xie Ning also met with several deputy artists to learn about it. After seeing their works, Xie Ning was relieved.
If nothing else, his design level and art skills are indeed much higher.
I don't know if it is an invisible rule in the industry. Most people call the main beauty the art boss, and the deputy art and art assistants omit the first two words and call them the boss directly.
Xie Ning was very uncomfortable listening to it, and he didn't respond several times because he was calling him.
The first time I came into contact with a film and television project, Xie Ning's work enthusiasm was very high. Zhuang Yan, the director, was about to go home. When he turned around, he saw that Xie Ning was still busy.
Zhuang Yan couldn't help feeling distressed: "Why do you need to work so hard?"
Shaining told the truth: "I'm afraid I'm not good enough to design and ruin your movie, so I try to make it as perfect as possible."
"Being arrogant." Zhuang Yan glanced at his design draft, because it was still a draft, so it didn't take shape and couldn't see the specific appearance.
But looking at the messy piles of paper on the table, it can be seen that he probably scrapped a lot of drafts.
Zhuang Yan forcibly dragged him away: "I, the director, didn't say that you were ruined, so don't think about all this mess, so many people in the art team are spending time with you, you are their boss now, if you don't leave, how dare they One step ahead."
Xie Ning took a look, and sure enough, the deputy art and two art assistants in the same room with him were still sitting in their seats.
So he was taken away by Zhuang Yan without any resistance and stuffed into the car.
Recently, Zhuang Yan will send him home when he is busy, because it is on the way.
Xie Ning has not had time to move to the house given by Mr. Xie, and still lives in the lakeside villa. Zhuang Yan picks him up and down every morning and evening.
Halfway through the car, Zhuang Yan asked, "Are your ingredients running out?"
Xie Ning recalled: "It seems that there are not many."
Zhuang Yan turned the steering wheel and drove the car to another road.
"I just didn't start too much." He said, "I'm going to the market to buy some food, and let you see my craft tonight?"
Xie Ning's eyes lit up: "Okay!"
Zhuang Yan's cooking skills are completely different from his, and Xie Ning is full of praise for the taste no matter how many times he eats it.
It's just that he is usually too busy, and Xie Ning is reluctant to watch him cook with fatigue.
Xie Ning likes to eat hot and sour food, and loves sweet and sour fish and sweet and sour pork ribs. It is not easy to buy live wild fish this season, and Zhuang Yan, the farmer, dislikes it, so he only chooses spare ribs and chicken wings.
Buy some more vegetables and eggs, the portion is just right.
Back at the lakeside villa, the car stopped directly in front of Xie Ning's house.
"You go first." After Xie Ning got out of the car, Zhuang Yan was still sitting in the cab, "I'll park the car in the garage first, so that I don't have to drive it again at night."
Xie Ning nodded: "Then I'll wait for you at the door for a while."
Zhuang Yan refused: "It's windy outside, go in and wait."
That being said, after he drove the car away, Xie Ning thought about it, and stayed at the door for a while.
He enjoyed the journey from the gate to the house side by side with Zhuang Yan.
That kind of home-like warmth was a feeling he had forgotten for a long, long time.
The wind was a little cold, Xie Ning shrank his neck and couldn't help rubbing his hands.
On the opposite side of the road came a black figure with two gift boxes in his hands. It was estimated that he was visiting someone.
When he walked near Xie Ning, he saw a person standing here, looked over subconsciously, and was taken aback for a moment.
He rubbed his eyes and looked again, with a surprised expression on his face.
"Thank you, Xie Ning?!"
Hearing someone calling his name, Xie Ning turned his head in astonishment.
"It's really you!" he asked in shock. "Why are you here?"
Xie Ning was stunned.
It is Xu Qing.
The author has something to say: Zhuang Zhuang: (face expressionless) Why did I just leave for a few minutes and someone with short eyes attached to Ning Ning.
Ningning: I don't know qaq either.
Xu Qing doesn't have many roles, and he won't have too much contact with Ning Ning. Let Zhuangzhuang solve him, this time to assist.
The content of the film art is all made up with reference to a little information.
There is no professionalism. When I checked the information, I found that most of the domestic production crews seem to be the same person as the art director and the main beauty. I felt that Ningning couldn't afford the work of the beauty finger at this time, so I separated.
As if I was writing blindly! ! ! Don't take the test seriously! !
The entertainment industry is mainly related to the career lines of Zhuang Zhuang and Ning Ning, most of which are behind-the-scenes work. The director of literary and artistic films and the original artist of the art may write for the crew and film, and the film is released to participate in awards, etc., but it should only be a little bit.
Neither Zhuangzhuang nor Ningning will become stars, so I apologize to the little angel who was attracted by the entertainment industry label.
PS: I updated it in advance again today! ! ! Rounding up is an hour ahead! ! !