Chapter 238 The Golden Age of the Literary Circle is Coming
Shooting a documentary is by no means an easy job, especially when it comes to filming.

Take the Forbidden City for example; when they record the Forbidden City, they don’t simply take pictures of the Forbidden City gate, but capture pictures from many places.

For example, a panoramic view should be shot from Jingshan Mountain.

At this moment, Li Changhe and his friends were climbing Jingshan Park.

Because I wanted to take a panoramic photo of the Forbidden City, Wanchun Pavilion in Jingshan Park was the best place to take the photo.

At this moment, a group of people walked up the stone steps. Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Li Changhe and others took turns carrying the camera.

The main reason is that this thing is really too expensive. There are only a few of them in the entire Qingying Studio. This one was just purchased, it’s new.

Only someone like Tian Zhuangzhuang, who is very skilled in using cameras and has enough connections, can borrow it.

"Hey, wait!"

When the group was halfway through the walk, Li Changhe suddenly stopped everyone.

"Lao Zhang, take a picture of them!"

Li Changhe pointed at a group of people in the park and said with a smile.

There was a group of young people, about a dozen in total, dancing ballroom dance under the shade of a tree.

In the 79 Spring Festival Gala, the director changed the gala into a ballroom dance party, giving the audience a brand new experience.

This year's National Day Gala once again adopted the form of a ballroom dance and was presented to audiences across the country.

As a result, the dancing passion of people all over the country was completely ignited.

If the Spring Festival Gala at the beginning of the year was a special display, then on such a special day as National Day this year, the evening banquet was also a ballroom dance, which was enough to show the attitude of the top leaders.

Ballroom dancing began to move from small circles to the general public, and a large number of young college students on the campuses of major universities also began to dance openly.

Especially by the Weiming Lake of Peking University, people can often be seen practicing there.

"Record dancing?"

Tian Zhuangzhuang looked at them and became interested.

"Yes, since this year is the first year of reform, in addition to the appearance, of course the change starts with the people."

"Wouldn't ballroom dancing be a great change?"

"Lao Zhang, take a picture and record it."

Zhang Yimou is today's photographer. In fact, Tian Zhuangzhuang can also take pictures. After all, he wanted to apply for the photography department in the beginning.

Before entering the Beijing Film Academy, he worked as a photographer at the Agricultural Film Studio for several years.

But after entering the Beijing Film Academy, this guy recognized Zhang Yimou's cinematography skills and liked to let Zhang Yimou take the cinematography.

So this group of people came out to shoot and brought Zhang Yimou along.

Let him take charge of the camera.

Zhang Yimou quickly turned on the camera, set it up at a distance, and started filming.

After the filming was finished, Chen Kaige was about to walk towards them, but was stopped by Li Changhe.

"Why are you pulling me? Aren't we going up to interview him?"

Chen Kaige asked in surprise.

Li Changhe shook his head: "No need to interview them, let's just record it."

"Ah? Didn't you say we should do an interview as well?"

Chen Kaige was a little confused, since this was clearly a suggestion made by Li Changhe before.

Li Changhe was somewhat helpless when he heard this: "Then can you learn to adapt to changing circumstances?"

"In this kind of interview, what if they are not dating? What if they both have families? What if after 30 years, the two of them don't succeed?"

"Oh, this is impossible, right?"

Chen Kaige's brain froze. What does it mean that everyone has a family?

"For this kind of thing, just take a distant view. There's no need to interview them. It's better to choose someone with some characteristics!"

Li Changhe said casually.

The main reason is that he feels that those who are obsessed with dancing, especially those who dare to dance openly on Jingshan Mountain, may not have a good ending in two years.

"Yeah, what if they're not dating each other in the future? It would be so embarrassing to interview them again thirty years later!"

Tian Zhuangzhuang also said with a smile.

"Let's go, let's continue up the mountain to Wanchun Pavilion"

Soon, the group arrived at Wanchun Pavilion, which was at the highest point of the central axis of the capital, overlooking the entire Forbidden City and the capital in the distance.

"Okay, let's shoot from here, from above, and then slowly move down, and then..."

Once on location, the filming began with Tian Zhuangzhuang and his friends. In fact, it was mainly Tian Zhuangzhuang and Zhang Yimou who discussed how to shoot.

In photography, both of them are veterans with their own understandings, while Zhu Lin and Chen Kaige are relatively newcomers.

They can operate the camera, but to be honest, they are not as proficient in many shooting techniques as the other two.

Therefore, the main filmmakers of the documentary are still Tian Zhuangzhuang and Zhang Yimou.

The two people were discussing there, while Li Changhe, Zhu Lin and Chen Kaige were standing here, looking at the Forbidden City.

"If it were winter, it would be very beautiful to take a photo of the Forbidden City covered in snow from here."

Li Changhe said with a smile at this time.

"It is very beautiful, but the problem is that if it really snows, you can't borrow a camera."

Chen Kaige said this at this time, which ruined the mood.

On snowy days, unless you have a filming mission, it is impossible to borrow a camera like this.

"Why borrow it? I'll buy one for myself later and we can shoot it then!"

Li Changhe said casually at this time. Chen Kaige, who was standing beside him, looked at Li Changhe in shock.

"What did you say? You want to buy one?"

“This stuff is expensive”

Halfway through his speech, Chen Kaige shut up.

This guy spent tens of thousands of dollars on furniture at the foreign exchange store, so he can afford a camera no matter how expensive it is.

Li Changhe did consider buying a camera, not only to take pictures of the snow scene, but mainly to give Zhu Lin some practice.

Directing skills are something that requires talent, but they are also something that can be acquired through practice.

Many of the shooting techniques are actually referenced from foreign countries. I learned them by watching the shooting techniques in foreign power sources.

Just like some scenes in Red Sorghum, the scene where Yu Zhan'ao and Jiuer are lying on the bed together is actually a movie scene based on the reference book.

Nowadays directors don’t actually shoot very often. The crews that shoot have photographers, but the director is in control of the overall picture, so when shooting, you must have the overall image in your mind.

This cannot rely solely on imagination, you have to have a real sense of picture, and the sense of picture is nothing more than practiced by taking more photos.

"All right!"

On the other side, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Zhang Yimou, who had finished filming, had put away their cameras.

The group climbed up Jingshan Mountain just to take a panoramic shot. After taking the shot, they left and went to the Forbidden City to shoot.

Then, Li Changhe and his team wandered around the Forbidden City all day and interviewed a few passers-by.

In the evening, we had a mutton hotpot nearby before returning home.

"Huh, why does it feel like shooting a documentary is more tiring than shooting a movie in the mountains?"

After returning home, Zhu Lin sat down on the sofa and said tiredly.

"We mainly walked a lot today, unlike the previous filming in the mountains, where we didn't walk much after we got to the top and fixed the scenery."

"Take a rest first. I'll boil some hot water for you to soak your feet."

Li Changhe then walked into the kitchen, picked up the electric kettle and boiled a pot of water.

He also brought a washbasin from the bathroom to Zhu Lin.

Looking at Li Changhe busying around, Zhu Lin leaned on the sofa, her eyes full of tenderness.

Soon, the hot water was ready.

Li Changhe poured it into the basin for her and added some cold water to test the water temperature.

"Okay, soak it first!"

"how about you!"

"Let me read the newspaper first!"

When he came back just now, he took out today's newspaper from the mailbox.

I picked up one at random, and it happened to be today's Beijing Evening News.

The first page was a black-and-white photo of the Great Hall of the People, with the words "Warmly Celebrate the Fourth National Literature Congress Opening in Beijing"

and a high-level speech at the opening ceremony of the conference.

The following was a description of the conference. Upon seeing this, Li Changhe began to read it carefully.

The main content of the conference mentioned in it is nothing more than an acknowledgment of the wrong path of previous years and a reaffirmation of the great man's "Two Hundred and One Hundred" policy.

In addition, another incident was mentioned at the conference that shocked Li Changhe.

Because someone at the meeting also cited the recent book "The Rise of Great Powers" as an example.

"Recently, there is a very popular book in society, which is "The Rise of Great Powers" compiled by some of our Peking University students. Many people have raised objections and criticisms, saying how can you introduce capitalist countries."

"I think this is very wrong. I think this book is very good. It objectively tells us the process of the economic rise of these Western countries. It has great scientific and reference significance for us."

“I think this is the role of us artists.”

"In the future, we can't stick to the old ways. What writers write and how they write are their own responsibilities. Others should not interfere."

In addition, the conference also emphasized that literature and art should no longer be subordinated to "temporary, concrete, and direct upright tasks!"

It was hard for Li Changhe to imagine how these words were spoken at the meeting, but according to the description in the newspaper, after they were spoken, the entire venue was immediately in an uproar, and all members applauded collectively for more than three minutes.

There is no doubt that this speech from the top leadership directly points out the direction for future literary and artistic work.

This sentence of "do not interfere with literary and artistic creation" provides review guarantee for subsequent literary creation or the entire literary and artistic front.

It is no wonder that the works in the 1980s dared to write and depict anything, and the scale was astonishingly large.

Li Changhe had never been able to figure it out before, but now it seems that the root cause lies here.

"Changhe, is there any big news that you are so fascinated by?"

Seeing Li Changhe sitting there reading seriously, Zhu Lin asked curiously.

"see this!"

Li Changhe handed the newspaper to Zhu Lin.

Zhu Lin took it curiously, and after reading it, she was a little surprised.

"This is using The Rise of Great Powers as an example. No one will dare to criticize this book anymore."

"not only that!"

Li Changhe shook his head, and then explained to Zhu Lin: "Did you see this? Art creation should adapt ideas, don't interfere!"

"This has almost set the tone for artists, and the standards for future censorship will probably be extremely relaxed."

"A golden age for the literary and artistic circles is about to arrive!"

(End of this chapter)