Chapter 405 Strong Wind

The style of this dress is designed according to the character of the heroine. The character of the heroine in the movie is a bit playful, which is different from traditional girls.

Dong Wenmiao stood not far away, looking at Wang Zuxian at the entrance of the embankment, with a very complicated look in her eyes.

This is not the first time she has designed character costumes for Wang Zuxian. When she was filming "The Sixth Sense" before, she designed many sets of clothes for Wang Zuxian.

Moreover, many clothes in "The Sixth Sense" have gone viral. Sometimes you can see girls wearing them on the street.

However, most of the same clothes in China are not authorized. "The Sixth Sense" has only authorized one set of clothes in China.

Not to mention the current chaos of intellectual property rights in China, even in Europe and the United States, "The Sixth Sense" did not make any money from clothing design. Some brands directly changed the design inside and made it into a new style for sale.

An American magazine reported this matter before. After "The Sixth Sense" became popular in the United States, a brand immediately released two new sets of clothes, which were very similar to the clothes of the heroine in "The Sixth Sense".

It is very difficult to define the plagiarism of clothing design. Even if it can be finally determined, it will take a lot of time and energy.

Many fashion brands have special legal teams. These teams mainly do two things: one is to sue the brands that plagiarize their designs, and the other is to deal with the complaints of other brands against them.

There are also some brands like Zara, they even have a special team and a fixed amount of compensation to compensate the designers who were plagiarized by them.

The meaning is very clear, it doesn’t matter if you sue me for infringement and plagiarism, I will just pay you money directly.

Many designers will be forced to accept the compensation in this case, and even give them authorization.

This is equivalent to getting on the boat first and then buying the ticket. Faced with this situation, the designers have no choice, because they can’t afford to fight the lawsuit, it’s better to step back and take the money.

Similar things are very common in the intellectual property industry.

Among the many actresses that Dong Wenmiao has worked with, Wang Zuxian’s clothes are easier to make, because Wang Zuxian is tall and has a very good proportion, and many clothes can be worn in style.

When she first worked with Joey Wong, Dong Wenmiao treated her more as an ordinary star and a qualified clothes hanger.

But this time, especially when she designed wedding clothes for Joey Wong, Dong Wenmiao felt some different emotions in her heart.

And this different emotion came entirely from Zhou Yan.

The contact between Dong Wenmiao and Zhou Yan is no longer as frequent as in previous years. If it were not for work, they might not talk on the phone once a year.

Zhou Yan basically does not ask about the business of Qizhi Company. Even if he does, he will contact Huo Siqi, so there is no contact between the two of them in normal work.

In fact, Dong Wenmiao basically does not take on film and television dramas now. She does not like ordinary film and television dramas. If it is just to make money, it is completely unnecessary. Now her studio can make a lot of money for her every year.

In recent years, many directors in the industry have wanted to invite her to be the costume designer of the movie. Not to mention that her own level is indeed high, her resume alone is scary enough.

"Raise the Red Lantern", "Farewell My Concubine" and Zhou Yan's three movies, each of which has achieved great success.

However, she rejected all the film offers that came her way.

But when Zhou Yan went to see her, she agreed without hesitation.

"Teacher Dong, the dress you designed is really beautiful."

Xiao Yuan, the head of the costume team, stood next to Dong Wenmiao and praised her sincerely.

When the dress was designed, Xiao Yuan and his team thought it was very beautiful. Now that the dress is made and worn by Joey Wong, coupled with the dreamy scene around it, this dress looks even more unique.

Dong Wenmiao smiled but didn't say anything. Xiao Yuan said with a look of longing, "It would be nice if I could wear such a beautiful dress when I get married. But I definitely won't look as good as Xiaoxian."

This time Dong Wenmiao spoke up, "Whether it looks good or not depends on yourself and the person standing opposite you. As long as the person opposite is worthy, even if you wear the most ordinary style, you can be dazzling."

"Haha, I would like Director Zhou to stand opposite me when I get married, but Director Zhou will definitely not want to." Xiao Yuan made a joke, then suddenly thought of something and quickly changed the subject, "I don't know if the test shoot will go smoothly. I heard that this scene cost a lot of money, hundreds of thousands."

Xiao Yuan is also from Dong Wenmiao's studio. Although she has not known Dong Wenmiao for too long, she has heard about some things about Dong Wenmiao and Zhou Yan in private.

In Xiao Yuan's eyes, Teacher Dong is the representative of a perfect girl.

Beautiful, good family, talented, well-educated, and she also opened a studio and made a lot of money.

For those who admire Teacher Dong, even if the third ring is not full, there is no problem filling the second ring.

But Teacher Dong has never been in a relationship for so many years, so the rumors between her and Zhou Yan seem to be groundless, but it makes people feel very likely.

"More than that." Dong Wenmiao spoke slowly.

"Ah?"

"Today's play cost more than hundreds of thousands."

"Oh, then millions?"

Xiao Yuan was amazed. She didn't expect that a play could cost six figures.

It really is a big production.

Although Xiao Yuan is the leader of the costume team, she doesn't know much about the filming of the crew, so most of the work of the costume team is performed by another deputy leader and other members.

She is on the scene, doing more technical things, such as leading people to modify clothes.

She has never been involved in filming a movie, so she has no way of imagining what it means to spend more than one million for a scene.

She has heard before that many movies cost less than one million in total, which means that Zhou Yan's scene can cover the cost of an ordinary movie.

…

After Wang Zuxian arrived, the play can start trial shooting.

This scene is not long, but there are many shots and many scenes, including medium shots, long shots, and close-ups, and each group has many shots.

The key is that many shots are more troublesome to execute, so it is not easy to test shoot.

The tourists standing in the distance and watching, who don't know much about filming, thought that the wedding scene is the same as a real wedding. After the bride appears, the wedding officially begins.

The process is to bow to heaven and earth, bow to parents, and then the couple bow to each other, and then send them to the bridal chamber.

Many people were looking forward to watching a complete wedding, but after watching for a while, they found that things were not as simple as they imagined.

Wang Zuxian stood for more than ten minutes just for one fixed point.

When the fixed point shooting was completed, she hugged her "father's" arm again and walked towards Zhou Yan together.

And just the action of her hugging her "father's" arm took more than ten minutes to shoot back and forth.

After hugging her "father's" arm, the steps they took towards Zhou Yan were even more exaggerated.

For a full hour, they walked back and forth like this.

After shooting Wang Zuxian, they started shooting Zhou Yan.

In fact, there were very few shots of Zhou Yan, but it still took more than two hours to shoot back and forth.

This is not over yet, and there will be medium shots and long shots later, and then the reactions of the guests will be added.

And throughout the whole scene, Zhou Yan and Wang Zuxian did not even touch each other.

In Zhou Yan's design, this scene ended when the bride walked towards Zhou Yan.

Li Hong and Xiao Can thought that it was a bit of a waste to shoot like this, and it would be better to shoot the scene of the bride and groom putting rings on each other later. However, Zhou Yan did not accept this suggestion and still kept the original design.

On the one hand, the movie did not have too much time to waste on this, and on the other hand, he also wanted to leave some blank space for the wedding.

The wedding scene is bound to impress the audience, but Zhou Yan did not give it too much space, because under the theme of this movie, the wedding only occupies a small part of it.

After the trial shooting of the wedding scene was over, the scene began to be re-dispatched and the camera positions were rearranged.

Seeing the staff on the scene packing up, the tourists thought that today's shooting was over and began to leave one after another.

But after a while, someone suddenly pointed to the sky and shouted, "Helicopter!"

Everyone looked in the direction of the man's finger, and sure enough, they saw a helicopter flying from a distance.

Is the shooting not over yet?

The tourists turned back again, wanting to see what this helicopter was doing?

"Will this helicopter come to pick up the bride and groom?" Someone speculated.

"Wow, that's quite romantic."

"Can the bride get on the helicopter wearing this dress?"

"Will two banners fall from the helicopter in a while, with words saying congratulations to someone on their wedding?"

"Oh, yes, that's how it's shot in some movies. Rich young men like to use this trick to express their love to the heroine."

"That's also very romantic."

"What's romantic? Don't you think that's a bit tacky? I don't believe Zhou Yan's movie can use such a melodramatic plot."

"It's not melodramatic, I think it's good."

"If it's shot like this, I definitely won't go to the cinema to watch it."

"You can watch it or not, you don't need a movie ticket."

...

Just as the tourists were arguing, the helicopter in the sky suddenly dived and glided over the pier at a low altitude.

When the helicopter glided over the pier, the flowers scattered on the pier were instantly lifted up by the wind brought by the helicopter, and all the balloons that were originally floating were blown in one direction.

Some balloons were not tied tightly and were blown away directly.

The guests at the scene were even more embarrassed. Some female guests had to cover their skirts to prevent exposure, while some male guests held their hats tightly on their heads.

The water-spraying boats on the shore also started working, spraying water on the dock.

For a while, the dock was in chaos, and everyone ran to the shore.

Zhou Yan also grabbed Wang Zuxian's hand and walked quickly to the shore.

When they first saw the helicopter swooping towards the dock, the tourists in the distance were shocked, thinking that something unexpected had happened.

But when the helicopter flew over and the water-spraying boat started working, some tourists suddenly understood.

"This is creating typhoon weather."

"They actually went directly on a helicopter, what a big deal."

"Isn't this wedding too miserable."

"Yes, it's really miserable. I was soaked on the wedding day."

"Is it necessary to have such a strong wind? Many girls' skirts are almost blown away."

"This is interesting, haha."

"If you get married in this weather, you won't say it's interesting."

...

In fact, Zhou Yan originally considered using a blower to create wind and rain, but he tried the blower and found that no matter how many blowers he used or how powerful the blowers were, he could not achieve the effect he wanted.

Later, he suddenly had an idea and said he would try using a helicopter.

In fact, it was not a sudden idea, because when thinking about this shot, Zhou Yan thought of a movie he liked very much - Mirror.

"Mirror" is an autobiographical film directed by the famous Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, which was released in the 1970s.

This movie has a strong influence in film history. One of the shots is very famous. When the doctor walked to the middle of the grass and looked back, a strong wind blew across the wilderness, causing the grass to form a wave.

Many film critics are keen to discuss the profound meaning of this shot, but Tarkovsky sneered at this. He believed that what these people who studied the meaning of the shot did was simply meaningless.

Zhou Yan did not think about studying the meaning of this shot, but the shooting technique of this shot left a deep impression on him.

In such an environment, it is difficult to create such a large area of ​​strong wind.

Usually, when a movie is filmed, a blower is used to create wind.

If the wind created by the blower does not meet the director's requirements, a propeller plane head will be used.

To put it bluntly, a propeller plane head is an oversized fan, which is stronger than the wind created by a blower.

It is not a rare thing. Zhou Yan saw a propeller plane head when he was in Chang'an Factory before. Later, when "A Chinese Odyssey" was filmed, there was also a propeller plane head on the scene.

If there are some places where a large area of ​​wind is needed, the crew will use a car to carry the plane head all the way forward.

However, the propeller plane head also has a disadvantage, that is, it is difficult to use in complex terrain.

The shot in "Mirror" did not achieve a good effect with a propeller plane head, so Tarkovsky directly used a helicopter.

When Zhou Yan was shooting the wedding scene this time, he thought of the movie "Mirror". Because the terrain on the dock side made it impossible for him to use the propeller head of the plane to create wind, so he decided to learn from Tarkovsky and use a helicopter to shoot.

I have to thank Zhou Hong for borrowing the helicopter.

Zhou Yan made a phone call, and Zhou Hong settled the helicopter matter on the same day. Zhou Hong even worried that one helicopter was not enough, so he got two for Zhou Yan.

There is still a plane parked on the shore, ready to be used at any time. (End of this chapter)