1novels Chapter 11 The Lack of Aesthetic Training
Chapter 11 The Lack of Aesthetic Training
Huang Anzhong thought that perhaps it was worth putting in some effort to get Wang Xiaohao's movie released as soon as possible, and to make it as entertaining as possible. Otherwise, Wang Xiaohao might be ruined by those investors!
On the other side, hearing Huang Anzhong say this made Wang Xiaoshuang's heart skip a beat. Could it be that Wang Xiaohao has really become so powerful? That shouldn't be possible, right?
She really wanted to make a comeback with this movie.
But ever since Huang An got the plate worth 50 million, Wang Xiaoshuang knew it was impossible!
An investment of 30 million can break even with a box office of 90 million.
An investment of 50 million would require at least 150 million to break even!
The difficulty of these two is incomparable.
How many directors in China today have reached the threshold of the 100 million yuan club?
Therefore, Wang Xiaoshuang has completely given up hope and is ready to give up!
But now Huang Anzhong's words have brought Wang Xiaoshuang renewed hope.
If you can be a movie actor, who the hell wants to be a TV drama actor?
Laymen only see the spectacle, while experts see the details.
To the untrained eye, watching TV actors, well, at most Wang Xiaoshuang can talk about how glamorous movie stars are, how much buzz they generate, and how they become famous.
However, within the industry as a whole, their status is actually very low!
This isn't just a problem in the film and television industry; it applies to every industry.
People who appear glamorous on the outside don't necessarily have any real status.
Conversely, it's pretty much the same!
While Huang Anzhong and Wang Xiaoshuang were talking, Wang Xiaohao was gathering the crew for a final meeting before filming began.
"I'll say it again! This time we're filming an urban romantic comedy, and I want the art style to be fashionable and trendy, even close to that of an idol drama."
But it's definitely not like those corny idol dramas currently being produced in China; it's more like the art style of idol dramas from Japan and South Korea.
If you really don't know, you can go back and watch a few more movies.
"Have you understood the camera and lighting procedures?"
Ding Binbai made a hand gesture to indicate OK.
He has collaborated with Wang Xiaohao the longest, and their creative ideas are most in sync, so there is no need for further explanation.
Wang Le'an, the lighting director, also nodded. He was personally recruited by Wang Xiaohao, and the two had sufficient communication regarding the shooting style.
He laughed and said, "I understand. Highlights, for aesthetics!"
The art, costume, and prop teams all nodded in agreement, indicating that they understood.
Wang Xiaohao looked at the clothes, pointed at his nose and yelled, "Why did you raise your hand? You don't understand anything!"
Is this the outfit you found for me?
I already told you, the clothes need to be fashionable and sophisticated!
You freaking prepared these clothes for me? Who the freaking are you trying to fool?
Can you do the job or not? Can you do the job? If you can't, get out of here today, I'll find someone else right now!
"Damn, is this clothing for people living in the rural-urban fringe?"
The woman in the clothing was so berated by Wang Xiaohao that she couldn't even lift her head, but she was very resentful.
He already thought the clothes he found were quite pretty and fashionable! Where was it tacky?
This style is very popular right now!
Before the clothing could even open its mouth to argue, Wang Xiaohao yelled, "What I want is fashion, you know what fashion is? I don't want trendiness!"
You wouldn't understand even if I explained!
Alright, you don't need to worry about this! I'll figure out a way to get the female lead's clothes myself.
"You just need to take care of the other characters' clothes!"
Wang Xiaohao's throat was so sore he could barely breathe, so he took a sip of water to moisten it.
It's not that he likes to swear!
Rather, there were simply too many people in the crew—over a hundred people, with over a hundred ideas. Whenever something happened, they would all come to the director.
Try to communicate with them patiently and patiently. There are so many people, you couldn't communicate with them even if you didn't sleep.
That's when you have to yell at them! Force them to do things your way.
Otherwise, if these guys are left to their own devices, nobody knows what they'll end up with!
Of course, Wang Xiaohao couldn't just rely on scolding to solve some problems that his subordinates couldn't handle; he also had to help them.
Take clothing as an example. This era is a period of transformation with rapid economic development.
To put it bluntly, Chinese people have only recently become wealthy and have just escaped the nouveau riche standard, but their aesthetic sense has not yet been developed.
Even the "Shamate" trend hasn't completely passed.
You can imagine what mainstream aesthetics look like now.
For a time traveler like Wang Xiaohao, the currently popular fashionable clothes and hairstyles seem like a disaster.
She has thick bangs, likes to wear big hair clips, has exaggerated eye makeup, and even her clothes have a complicated tacky style.
I reckon that if people look at it themselves more than ten years from now, they'll be ashamed!
Wang Xiaohao would never dress up the female lead of his movie like that!
What he wants to do is set a trend!
Being fashionable means wearing whatever is popular on the street; I want to lead the way!
No one dressed like this before, but after watching my movie, everyone started dressing like this!
Just like with Chow Yun-fat, once the movie came out, the streets were full of trench coats, sunglasses, and toothpicks.
What he wanted was for the female lead to have a deeply memorable, idealized image.
In this way, no matter how outrageous the female lead's pranks are, the audience will not feel any ill will!
The female lead should be plain and simple, giving off a pure and innocent vibe.
What I'm looking for is that kind of minimalist aesthetic, the kind that won't go out of style even in twenty or thirty years.
This requires very careful dressing and styling; it requires clothes and outfits that look simple but have a high-quality feel.
No matter how hard you try to communicate with these things and the costume design, you can't reach a consensus.
So Wang Xiaohao made a special trip to a luxury store of the long-established Dai Ying brand and spent 20,000 to 30,000 yuan to buy several sets of clothes.
Fortunately, these are all autumn and summer clothes, so the prices aren't too expensive.
If it were winter clothing, it wouldn't be surprising if the price doubled!
This isn't Wang Xiaohao being a Western worshipper; it's just that in this era, domestic aesthetic standards are simply lagging behind.
The clothes Wang Xiaohao chose were all basic solid-color denim pieces, but the quality and fit were definitely not comparable to cheap ones!
Only this kind of old capitalist money, after being tempered and refined over the years, possesses such elegance.
Of course, it only took China a little over a decade to catch up in terms of aesthetics!
To be honest, Wang Xiaohao has always felt that the aesthetic appreciation of music in China is terrible and has never improved much.
The general public's appreciation level has always been limited to ballads or sad love songs.
Some attribute the cause to the lack of music education during most people's school years.
But fashion sense can improve, so why has musical aesthetics remained the same?
Does this mean that everyone just missed music class, but took other art classes?
Later, Wang Xiaohao discovered that there were comments on Douyin (TikTok) calling Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Orchid Pavilion "ugly calligraphy".
Suddenly it dawned on me that this was due to a lack of aesthetic training!