Chapter 219 Just because I Looked at You One More Time in the Crowd... (Please Subscribe)
Not to mention...
Gu Miao and Ma Kui benefited a lot from the half-month observation experience of "high school students".
They discovered something.
The only difference between today's high school students and those of the past is that they hold smartphones, have better food and clothing, and have better physical development.
Other behaviors, especially emotional expressions, are actually exactly the same as those of high school students more than ten years ago.
This is an amazing discovery!
Times are developing and technology is changing with each passing day. Gu Miao originally thought that today's high school students may be very different from before, at least in terms of emotional expression, there will be obvious "generational" differences.
But it turns out...
No matter how the times change, the emotional expression of boys and girls entering adolescence remains the same, and has not changed due to this.
What?
You say that today’s students are all experienced and know as much as adults?
Gu Miao admitted this.
Thanks to the development of the Internet, today's students do know a lot about driving. Sometimes when hearing them talk about similar topics, Gu Miao felt that they were too "precocious".
But this is not a variable.
So what if you have excellent driving skills? When you hold the hand of a girl you like, aren't you still blushing, secretly so excited that you yell like a monkey?
There are also amorous students.
But after all, they are only a minority. Most children at this stage of adolescence are relatively reserved and shy in expressing their emotions.
This is especially obvious for boys.
Yes!
At first, Gu Miao thought she had made a mistake, but later she discovered that adolescent boys and girls were not at the same level of emotional expression.
Girls are generally more mature than boys.
This is the conclusion Gu Miao finally reached through observation.
At this stage, boys will have a strong "desire for expression". To describe it in terms of the animal world, there will be more "courtship" behavior.
On the contrary, at this stage, girls' emotions are more reserved and unknown. If you don't know a girl very well, you won't be able to sense her inner emotional fluctuations at all.
"Can!"
After listening to Gu Miao's description, Jiang Keke agreed and said, "Boys and girls in adolescence do look similar to what you see."
"I didn't expect you to be a paparazzi for half a month, you will really gain a lot!"
"What paparazzi? Don't be embarrassed!"
Gu Miao frowned and said, "I'm calling this a behavioral and emotional analysis survey of high school students. How can I call it a paparazzi?"
"Okay, okay, emotional investigation."
"Then your investigation is over, can you get down to business quickly? Mr. Tan is calling once a day to inquire about the progress of the animation production."
"You tell him..."
Gu Miao casually dismissed: "The progress of the animation production is gratifying, and the finished product will be submitted soon. You call me every day when you have time, so you might as well pay the balance as soon as possible."
One hundred million!
If it weren't for this 100 million, Gu Miao would not give up the opportunity to direct the "Pokémon" animation and become a pure love warrior.
How long has this been going on?
In addition to the initial start-up capital of 30 million, the final payment of 70 million has not been paid yet! If he doesn't get money for a day, Gu Miao always feels uneasy.
"He told me about the final payment."
Jiang Keke explained with a smile: "He has to see the samples before he will pay the balance."
Samples?
Gu Miao scratched her head and thought for a while.
The animation "Moonlight Is So Beautiful" has only twelve or thirteen episodes in total, and even including the extras, it only has fourteen or five episodes. Based on a 20-minute episode, the entire project totals about 300 minutes.
very short! Really short.
It can be said that this is one of the shortest works that Gu Miao has ever directed.
According to this standard, it seems that it is not difficult to produce a sample episode in advance for Mr. Tan to watch. It can be solved in a week at most.
That being the case, let’s get started!
After calling all the members of the animation production team into the conference room, Gu Miao wrote a line of words on the whiteboard: Spring and Shura.
The title Spring and Asura comes from the collection of poems "Spring and Asura" by neon poet Kenji Miyazawa. After Gu Miao learned that this collection of poems existed in this world, she chose to use the title without hesitation.
This is really to the point.
Miyazawa Kenji's "mental sketch" poems mainly record emotions and images that are difficult to describe rationally but actually exist.
What a coincidence!
The ignorant, vague, and unspeakable emotions between boys and girls perfectly fit this image, and there is no problem in making this point.
The story begins in March, when warblers are flying and grass is growing, after the winter vacation, on the eve of the placement of arts and science classes in the first semester of high school.
Tan An and two good gay friends were assigned to the same liberal arts class, but Ye Qian was separated from her friends.
Strange classmates, strange classes, strange teachers...
Thinking of this, Xiaoqian would inevitably feel a little nervous and uneasy. At this time, the only thing that can make her feel at ease is the "sweet potato" mascot that runs through the entire plot.
Gu Miao drew a prototype on the whiteboard.
"Don't underestimate this prop. This sweet potato mascot will play a vital role throughout the play."
"Mr. Gu..."
An original artist raised his hand and asked, "I have no objection to this mascot setting, but I think the art design is too hasty?"
Hearing this, many people nodded.
Just looking at the script planning, you might not think there is anything wrong with it. But as soon as Mr. Gu took a pen to draw on the whiteboard, he immediately felt something was wrong.
This mascot...
Why do you look so abstract?
It was said to be a sweet potato, but the more everyone looked at the pattern on the whiteboard, the more they thought, why does it look like an eggplant?
"Ahem!"
Quietly wiping away the prototype she had drawn, Gu Miao explained without changing her expression: "It doesn't matter what it looks like. If you really don't like it, you can just redesign it later."
This is not the point!
Why did no one care about what he said after he talked for a long time, but instead stared at the mascot he drew and pointed at it?
That thing...
All right!
Sweet potatoes must look like sweet potatoes.
But this is not the point. Sweet potatoes or eggplants have no impact on the plot. Anyway, Xiaoqian successfully integrated into the class after being talked to by an enthusiastic female classmate.
But she didn't notice.
In the corner by the window in the back row, a male classmate glanced at her one more time in the crowd.
This glance is eternity.
Gu Miao didn't want to admit that there were such superstitious terms as "destiny" or "marriage" in this world.
But in the plot, there is indeed a "mysterious" power in the acquaintance and encounter between Tan An and Ye Qian. It was as if a pair of invisible hands were pushing them closer to each other.
In the plot, Tan An went out for dinner with his parents, and Ye Qian also went out for dinner with her parents. The two chose to sit in the same restaurant and sat next to each other...
Is this a coincidence?
Yes and no!
For Tan An and Ye Qian, this encounter was a coincidence. But for the screenwriter or animation production team, this is a "fateful" encounter that has been arranged in advance.
If there is no dinner party, there will be other events! If there is no restaurant, there will be other places...
Tips: The animation "Moonlight Is Beautiful" is a work influenced by the theatrical version of "Tamako Love Story"... I recommend book friends who have never seen it to watch the theatrical version. It is very sweet!