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"Becoming a qualified director is my biggest dream in life." On August 2, the opening forum of the 37th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards was held in Chengdu. At the scene, director Guo Fan, vice chairman of the China Film Association, vice president of the China Film Directors Association, and director, delivered a keynote speech titled "Strive to Become a Qualified Director", reviewing the pursuit of dreams in the past ten years and discussing how to promote Development of China’s film industry.
In Guo Fan's view, the career of directing is not only a job, but also a responsibility and mission. It is a never-ending learning process. For him, this is a career full of dreams, responsibility and pride. “I hope that in the next ten years, I can join hands with everyone and contribute to Chinese films,” he said.
Guo Fan gave a speech
"Strive to be a qualified director"
Ten years ago, Guo Fan shot the second feature film of his creative career - " My Deskmate ". He admitted that due to his lack of experience as a director at the time, he was often secretly nervous and fearful on the set. "But in the past ten years, I have been very lucky to have the support of some seniors and teachers. Their encouragement and guidance have allowed me to still have the courage and confidence to move forward in difficult and difficult times." Coincidentally, , among the guests in the audience, Fu Ruoqing, vice chairman of the China Film Association, and Wang Changtian, chairman of Enlight Media, had provided help to Guo Fan when he was filming "My Deskmate". Guo Fan also expressed his gratitude to them again on the spot.
In 2011, Guo Fan's self-written and directed debut film "The Adventures of Li Xian" was released and won the Best Asian Film Award at the 16th Bucheon International Fantasy Film Festival in South Korea the following year. Guo Fan recalled what the famous photographer Bao Dexi taught him when filming the film: "The more you give, the less you see." But until " The Wandering Earth 2" was released, Guo Fan was still an audience member. It was only after research that I truly understood the meaning of this sentence.
“In the past ten years, through continuous learning, practice, and exploration, I have gradually understood that becoming a qualified director requires not only a love for film art, proficiency in film technology, application of the film industry, and the cohesion of a film team. What is more needed is an instinctive and profound understanding and insight into the needs of the world, the needs of society, and the needs of the audience,” he said.
Guo Fan
Challenges and breakthroughs in creation in the past ten years
"The biggest challenge in my creation in the past ten years is how to make a science fiction movie that is qualified, does not lose money, and is recognized by the audience." At the scene, Guo Fan told everyone Sharing, when he was preparing for " The Wandering Earth ", the difficulties he faced were unprecedented. From lack of ability to budget crisis, from world view building to scientific consultants, from script creation to aesthetic context, from scene design to on-site shooting, from post-production editing to visual special effects, etc., they all need to be overcome at every level. "Every link is full of challenges, and I now say that there will still be PTSD in every link."
And it was during this extremely challenging process that Guo Fan began to gradually realize some potential problems in the film market. He summarized the following points that need to be improved: First, there is the lack of methodology. We need to introduce modern management concepts and systems, involving project management, risk control, resource allocation and other aspects; Second, there is the lack of standardization. In the early days, we We often encounter non-standard operating methods and working methods, which also makes it difficult to effectively connect various links; finally, there is a lack of industrialization. Guo Fan also quoted the point of view put forward by director Wu Ershan, "Our lack of industrialization will cause us to be inefficient and have unsmooth processes. This is the main problem we face."
In order to overcome the existing difficulties, in 2019, Guo Fan After Fan jointly established a film industrialization laboratory with the Beijing Film Academy, in 2023, it established strategic cooperative relationships with domestic and foreign brother units and high-tech enterprises in the industry."After six years of various experiences and lessons learned, review and review, as well as the exploration, practice and application of new technologies, our film industrialization laboratory has completed the results of the first batch of projects." Guo Fan revealed that his team is now working on The research results will be compiled into a volume and will be available to everyone in the near future. Your support, criticism and corrections are also welcome.
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Plan for the next ten years
"Continue to delve into science fiction movies and create more science fiction movies with Chinese characteristics and highlight Chinese culture." Guo Fan bluntly said that this is his primary goal in the next ten years. He believes that science fiction movies can not only show our style, technological development and comprehensive national strength, but also spread our values and ideas, demonstrate our mind and goodwill, practice the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind with practical actions, and let Chinese movies, China Science fiction movies are blooming on the world stage.
Secondly, Guo Fan plans to continue to invest new productivity into more actual shooting. "For example, language models and generative models in the field of artificial intelligence can be used, including world models, etc. I hope to work with colleagues to initially establish a complete industrialized system."
"Finally, I hope that I can be more effective in my next creations. , to provide more support and help to young creators. "Last year, Guo Fan and Wu Jing established "Yixin Pictures", a film company specifically designed to cultivate and support new directors. Not only that, in the same year he and Wang Hongwei launched the "Little Moss Project" in Chengdu. He said, "We successfully completed the first training course of this science fiction film training camp and will launch the second training course at the end of this year. We hope to help more young creators complete their films through these two platforms."
