1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Chapter 58 I am responsible for testing him (first update 3.2k)

Zhou Yan didn't know that Wang Junzheng was already thinking about changing the shots. He smiled and said, After the movie is shot, the soundtrack will still be modified according to the finished film. When are you going to Zhu City to shoot?

Starting next Wednesday, the filming will take about two months.

Then we won't see you for a while.

Wang Junzheng nodded, Well, when I come back, I will trouble you to come to the factory more often.

It should.

Hearing Wang Junzheng say that they are going to Zhu City next week, Zhou Yan felt a pity. If this movie was shot in Yanjing, he could go to the filming site and observe it if he had nothing to do.

Up to now, Zhou Yan has only participated in the production of one film, Raise the Red Lantern, except for his own short film Antfly, and his understanding of the film industry basically comes from Zhang Yimou's team.

How do other directors shoot movies? What is the difference from Zhang Yimou?

What means are used to express different expression techniques?

Zhou Yan is quite curious about these things.

When he walked to the door of the director's office, Wang Junzheng suddenly stopped and said, By the way, regarding salary, do you think you should go through the formalities with us directly, or should you find an employer first?

Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, Let's do it in my own name.

It's better to work alone. He doesn't care about the establishment. The key is that after joining the company, most of the money earned must be distributed to the company, and the individual can only receive salary.

For a hundred and ten dollars a month, Zhou Yan wouldn't do it.

Wang Junzheng was not surprised at all. In the past two years, more and more people have started working alone. That's okay. If you sign in your own name, the total will be 1,400 yuan. Do you think it's okay?

Zhou Yan nodded, No problem.

Wang Junzheng smiled and said, Well, I will trouble you to come again tomorrow to complete the procedures.

Fourteen hundred yuan is a lot of money, and this is the soundtrack budget Wang Junzheng obtained for his movie.

That is to say, the market has improved a lot in the past two years, so there are so many. If we put it aside two or three years ago, it would be good to have half of this.

When Zhao Jiping filmed Yellow Earth, it only cost 300 yuan, Red Sorghum cost 600 yuan, and when it came to Ju Dou, it cost 800 yuan.

In other words, Raise the Red Lantern was co-produced by the Mainland and Taiwan and had relatively sufficient funds, so Zhao Jiping received a bit more remuneration.

Remuneration for film and television dramas has been rising in the past two years, and there is a huge gap between different places. Especially after the capital from Hong Kong and Taiwan entered the industry, the salary gap between different projects is too big.

The salary of the same actor in different crews may vary hundreds of times, or even more.

Take Gong Li for example. If she went to Hong Kong to make a movie, her salary would be in the tens or even millions. But in the Mainland, the salary would only be more than a thousand yuan a month at most, and most of it would have to be turned over to her employer. She could only I got the salary within the establishment, about one hundred yuan.

Such a huge gap naturally makes actors feel unbalanced, and gradually some actors begin to choose to work alone.

After making an appointment with Wang Junzheng to go through the formalities tomorrow, Zhou Yan took the tape back to school.

…

After Zhou Yan left, Chen Kaige came next to Wang Junzheng.

Director Wang, what happened just now? Are those songs played by the director the soundtrack for your new movie?

Wang Junzheng glanced at Chen Kaige and said with a smile, Why are you asking about this? Hasn't your soundtrack director for Farewell My Concubine already been decided on to be Teacher Zhao?

Chen Kaige scratched his head and said, Hey, I'm just curious. The song Kite just now is quite interesting. I just can't think of any music teacher with such a style.

Don't you know Zhou Yan? He didn't tell you.

Wang Junzheng just saw Zhou Yan greeting Chen Kaige, and thought that Zhou Yan and Chen Kaige knew each other because of Farewell My Concubine, but now that Chen Kaige asked this question, it seemed that he was not very familiar with Zhou Yan.

Chen Kaige raised his eyebrows. It turned out that his name was Zhou Yan. Now he remembered his name.

I met him before at Chang'an Studio. He provided the soundtrack for Raise the Red Lantern to Teacher Zhao.

Wang Junzheng smiled and said, He is now the soundtrack director of Heaven Replies.

He? A surprised expression appeared on Chen Kaige's dark face, He is the soundtrack director, not the soundtrack assistant?

Wang Junzheng curled his lips and said, Well, for this small project of ours, it would be nice to have a music director. How can we still have the funds to hire a music assistant?

Although there was something in Wang Junzheng's words, implying that Chen Kaige and others had large projects and sufficient funds, what she said was also true.

There is a big gap in level and reputation between soundtrack assistants and soundtrack directors, but there is actually not much difference in salary and benefits. On the project Raise the Lantern, Zhou Yan's job as a soundtrack assistant alone earned him $100 a month. Five, after working for more than half a year, I got about a thousand yuan, not much less than Zhao Jiping.

These days, no matter what the position, the salary gap is not that big. Hiring an extra soundtrack assistant will cost you thousands of dollars more.

Chen Kaige pretended not to understand what Wang Jun was saying. He smiled and said, Then the Kite just now was written by Zhou Yan?

Chen Kaige knows the personality of the director better than anyone. If he can agree to let Zhou Yan serve as the soundtrack director, then Zhou Yan must have particularly outstanding talents.

Based on the situation just now, Chen Kaige naturally guessed that Kite was written by Zhou Yan.

You guessed it right, the music just now was written by Zhou Yan.

Oh, it turns out he wrote it.

Chen Kaige nodded and returned to his seat.

Although he had just guessed this result, Wang Junzheng confirmed it himself, and he was still very surprised. This Zhou Yan really had something.

…

The next morning, Zhou Yan went to Yanjing Studio again and completed the procedures. From then on, he was the soundtrack director of Reply from Heaven.

When the movie is shown later, the word Zhou Yan will also be written in the column of the soundtrack guide.

After completing the formalities, Zhou Yan returned to school and went directly to Shi Wanchun's office.

During this period, he came to Shi Wanchun's office twice, but he didn't see anyone either time.

This time, I was lucky. The office door was open, and Shi Wanchun was reading in the office.

Boom boom.

Zhou Yan knocked on the door.

Shi Wanchun looked up and saw Zhou Yan at the door. A hint of joy appeared on his brow, and then he said with a straight face, Come in.

Zhou Yan walked in with a smile, took out two packets of Hongtashan from his pocket and presented them to Shi Wanchun.

Shi Wanchun looked at Hongtashan, Why, you want to try smoking again, but you're not used to it, so you gave it to me?

I bought this specifically to honor the teacher.

Shi Wanchun rolled his eyes, In broad daylight, are you trying to bribe me?

Although he said this, Shi Wanchun still opened one of the packs of cigarettes, took one out, and lit it for himself.

After the smoke started to rise, he pointed to the chair opposite and said, Sit down.

Thank you, teacher, for the seat.

Don't talk weird to me. Shi Wanchun puffed out his smoke and asked again, You haven't caused me any trouble outside during this time, have you?

Teacher, I will strictly abide by the teacher's instructions when I am outside, and I will not cause any trouble.

Shi Wanchun was also amused by Zhou Yan's lazy look, but he still looked serious when he smiled, I heard that you not only wrote a song for them on the set, but also played a role?

It was all an accident.

Shi Wanchun snorted, Accident, what? Someone took the music you wrote in your hand?

It's hard to help yourself.

Don't do such nonsense with me. Shi Wanchun waved his hand, Whether you are acting or writing music for movies, I have no objection. But again, you can't fall behind on your homework. In the new semester, you continue You are in the third grade, but if you perform well, you can still hope to graduate next year, or the year after. Opportunities are there, it just depends on whether you can seize them.

If Zhou Yan hadn't gotten sick last year and hadn't dropped out of school, then Shi Wanchun most likely wouldn't have agreed to him spending time on film soundtracks.

If you want to score movies, you can wait until your career is successful and do it for fun in your free time, but now, Zhou Yan should focus on his profession and strive to show his talents on a larger stage.

But later Zhou Yan fell ill and took a leave of absence from school, and Shi Wanchun's mentality also changed. He hoped that Zhou Yan could relax a little more and not be as stubborn as before.

In the past, Zhou Yan had a somewhat paranoid personality. Although this paranoia allowed him to perform better in music, it also caused him great troubles in life.

Of course Zhou Yan knew that Shi Wanchun was doing it for his own good, and he said with a smile, Teacher, don't worry, I won't fall behind on professional matters. Then in April, should I go find Senior Brother Li Bingyang, the 88th grade teacher?

Li Bingyang, the class teacher of composition in 1988, also stayed at the school after graduating from his department.

Shi Wanchun shook his head, No, you go find Jia Guoping.

Ah? Zhou Yan said in surprise, Why are you looking for him?

Because he will be your class teacher from now on.

Hasn't he graduated yet? Even if he stays in school to teach, he will start next semester.

Li Bingyang is going to study abroad at the University of Louisiana and will leave in a while. Although Jia Guoping has not graduated yet, he will start handing over work to Li Bingyang this semester. There is no point in asking Li Bingyang now about your repeating the grade. How can he have the heart to do it for you?

Zhou Yan nodded. No wonder he was so anxious to let Jia Guoping stay in school. It turned out that another carrot was gone and a hole was left.

It has become the norm in the Composition Department of Yangyin University in recent years for teachers to study abroad. Most of the senior students who stay in the school will go abroad for further study within a few years. This was the case for Qu Xiaosong before, and it is also the case for Li Bingyang now.

The school is also used to it, with iron-clad camps and flowing soldiers. As long as leaders like Shi Wanchun and others are here, the teachers will be replaced. Yangyin will not be short of teachers, and after these teachers go abroad to study, they may come back to continue. Teach.

Then Brother Guoping will be my class teacher from now on.

Shi Wanchun smiled and said, Why, are you feeling unbalanced?

Zhou Yan smiled and waved his hand, That's not true. It's a good thing that the head teacher is an acquaintance.

Hearing this, Shi Wanchun grimaced, Don't just rely on the fact that you are good friends with the class teacher to go through the back door and ask him to facilitate you. If I knew that something like this happened, neither of you would have done it. Eat the good fruit.”

Teacher, don't worry, Brother Guoping is selfless and will definitely be able to withstand the test.

how about you?

Zhou Yan chuckled and said, I am responsible for testing him.

Shi Wanchun put out the butt of his cigarette, waved his hand and said, It's nothing, go away.

It's an order.

I hope there is a moon tonight