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Chapter Eleven Go to Karuizawa

It was very late to discuss with Director Zhou Fang. Chen Yu made an appointment with him to go to Karuizawa the next day, and then he left his home.

When he got home, he saw Chen Yu who had just returned so late, Chen Meiyang hurriedly asked with concern: "A Yu, why are you back so late? Have you had dinner? There are noodles in the refrigerator. I'll cook a bowl of noodles for you?"

"No need, I've already eaten when I came back." Chen Yu said to his aunt, then walked upstairs, but walked to the middle of the stairs, but he turned back to his aunt and said, "By the way, aunt, I'm going to Karuizawa with Director Zhou Fang tomorrow. I may not be back until the day after tomorrow, so I don't have to prepare my meal."

"Didn't you just been there yesterday? Why are you going again today?" Chen Meiyang looked at Chen Yu with some surprise, not understanding why he had to go to Karuizawa again as soon as he came back.

"Because I plan to take pictures of the outdoor scenes at our hot spring hotel and ski resort, but some details must be viewed by Director Zhou Fang before confirming, so I have to go there with him again. I'll take a shower first." After that, Chen Yu went upstairs, found his clothes and went to the bathroom to cool off.

After packing up his condition, Chen Yu returned to his desk and took out his record book again.

"The funds for the movie have been raised and the heroine has been in place, so the next step is the real shooting." Chen Yu checked out the two entries of the heroine and the movie fund in the recording book, and also wrote his next action goal on another piece of paper.

Chen Yu has never been exposed to filming the movie before. Although he knows how to write the script, it is not something that Chen Yu can do alone to transform what was originally expressed in words in a script into a movie scene, and to attract the audience and be willing to devote himself to it.

It is precisely because of this that he found Zhou Fangzhengxing.

Because I want to convert text into pictures, the director is the most professional person.

However, as the person who wrote the script, the screenwriter is the one who knows the script the best. If you want the director to show everything he wants to show in the movie, in addition to having good communication with the director, the screenwriter's work is not easy.

Perhaps some screenwriters will finish writing the script and leave the script to the crew as soon as they meet, but for Chen Yu, this movie is of great significance to him and is the beginning of his entire plan. He must do his best to do it well.

So after clarifying what he wanted to do, Chen Yu took out a sketchbook and began to draw a storyboard with a pencil on it.

Of course, Chen Yu did not understand film storyboards and composition, and even painting was only apart from the level of a soul painter. But for Chen Yu, one of his biggest advantages was that he had watched the movie "Love Letter". When he was studying in school before traveling through time, his teacher had carefully explained the use of colors and light and shadow in the movie in the art appreciation class, and compared it with several subsequent remakes.

With the original movie as a reference and the script as a reference, Chen Yu wanted to draw a rough and understandable storyboard is not a very complicated thing.

It’s just that there are not many contents in a movie, and the same is true for storyboarding. In addition, Chen Yu is not familiar with this kind of work, so when he fell asleep on his desk, he completed one-third of the work.

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"What are Chen Yujun drawing?" On the train to Karuizawa, Zhou Fangzhengxing looked at Chen Yu holding a sketchbook and kept drawing something, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Storyboard." Chen Yu raised his eyebrows, stopped the brush in his hand, and handed the sketchbook to Zhou Fangzhengxing: "Because the funds and the most important heroine have been finalized, and the filming of the movie is about to enter the preparation stage, so I want to draw the storyboard."

"Is that so? Chen Yujun, your painting skills are good!" Looking through the storyboards of Chen Yu's paintings, Zhou Fangzhengxing praised and raised his own questions: "According to your idea, Chen Yujun, there are a total of the heroines in this movie, the second female protagonist who looks exactly the same as the heroine, the male protagonist who died unexpectedly three years ago, the main characters of the second male protagonist who has a crush on the heroine, and there are also the male protagonist and the second female protagonist in high school. If the actor cannot adjust his age by applying makeup, he can only find a young actor to replace it... You have already chosen the heroine Chen Yujun, so what about the other roles? How did you consider it?"

"Since the second female lead looks exactly the same as the heroine in terms of setting, it is naturally the heroine who plays it. We have discussed this before." Hearing Zhou Fang Zhengxing's question raised, Chen Yu nodded in understanding and began to explain his thoughts: "The heroine I was looking for is the top of the current female lead of the Takarazuka Opera Troupe, who is now 24 years old. At this age, whether it is mature or youthful, it can be adjusted through makeup and dressing, so the role of the second female lead in high school can also be handed over to her."

"The Takarazuka Opera Troupe is of course trustworthy, so what about the male actors?" As the Takarazuka Opera Troupe, which has been operating since the Taisho era, the level of its members is naturally guaranteed, and Zhou Fangmasato naturally trusts it. The key issue is the male actors.

As a time traveler, although Chen Yu is not very familiar with RB actors in the 1980s, he still knows some of the existences that will become famous in later generations. However, he does not want to designate all the actors by himself: "I didn't think much about the male actor. During this period, I spent most of my energy convincing the top of that mother. Does director Zhou Fang have any more suitable candidates to recommend?"

"If you ask me like this, I will never think of a suitable candidate for a while!" Zhou Fang Zhengxing laughed, but he still thought for a while and said, "Your setting is a senior company who is bigger than the heroine. So you should find a more mature and steady male actor to play. For the hero, he should be about the same age as the heroine, and he also has to play the male protagonist in high school, so he should be handsome and young... What do you think of Johnny's Kondo Mahiko? His performance in "Love? Traveling" is still good."

During this period, Mahiko Kondo was a popular male idol at the time. In the movie mentioned by Zhou Fangmasato, he and Akina Nakamori played a couple together, and finally got together in a fake role. Zhou Fangmasato, who is familiar with this story, happened to remember him and mentioned his name casually.
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