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  Wednesday, Oct 17, 2007 4:44PM / Standard Entry / Sina Blog Import / Members only
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  [Translated into English by AliveNotDead:]
  The comments posted when I didn't blog made me laugh, haha. Thanks for the concern & support! The reason I didn't blog was because I was busy preparing my next film. I have been developing several projects since last year, and decided the project which I most wanted to shoot in Jan this year. This project is an idea I had for few years but hadn't writing down completely. I blocked out about 8 months of my time to finish it (I'm always slow writing- but it seems this time was quicker than "Waiting Alone". Progress!) The good news is we've attached the main cast this past last month.

  
  When I was busy on my film project, Zhou Jianping from the Film Association contacted me, said Association and CCTV Film Channel wanted me to shoot their first-ever short film for the Chinese academy award (Golden Rooster) opening ceremony. I was afraid it would conflict with my film at first. But while they persuade me, I came to an idea that maybe we could do it in a brand new way. The different heads asked me to write a project plan about that, the only requirement is mention the "Gold Rooster Lake" in Suzhou (yes, it's really called that) and to try to include "action". I could decide the rest freely. I figured since it's just a few minutes film and I don't know how to write a proposal, I ended up writing a complete scrīpt. They thought my mini-action short film is funny and approved it with only a few changes. After I decided the final scrīpt, they asked me whom I want to star in it. I said the final scrīpt was written for Ziyi Zhang, Liu Ye and Ge You. So I had them contact them first. The three were willing to star in it after read the scrīpt. And Tang and Xiao Zhang began their complex work in contacting and adjustment of shooting date. Several times we thought we might have to cancel because of scheduling, but finally, after everyones hard work, we went into pre-production! (although we have a very very short amount of time to prepare and shoot!)

  Hope audiences and net heads like it! You can check out it on Oct 27, CCTV-6 during the Golden Rooster Awards!

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