my crew is not human

Chapter 38 Preparations for Ghost Appraisal Crew
Although the series of Appreciation of Ghosts is a three-part set, the production cost is 800 million in real money. If you include the ghost special effects in the later stage, it is worth 3000 million. According to Mr. Chen's bragging mode, the price is OK Achieve [-] million.

A big production of [-] million yuan!

Looking for young actors can make them bring money into the group and actively ask for potential. No matter men or women, they will give whatever poses they want.

So Ren Zhi, you still have the nerve to ask for 20?I will not bring you a hundred thousand!
Yang Enjun's acting skills are very bad, he can throw a stone out of a random crowd like him, so Li Xianyun simply ignored Ren Zhi, and directly found a few actors he knew in the original world according to his memory.

The first one I was looking for was Lin Xiaoyu, who had worked with him in the original world, his acting skills are good, his image is good, he is tall and handsome, his key character is good, he is obedient, and works hard.

Lin Xiaoyu didn't know Li Xianyun before, and he was also confused when he received his call, especially after confirming that he was the director and producer: "How did you find me?"

Shouldn't you come to me through an actor's agent?
Nonsense, if I want to go through an actor's agent, don't I have to pay extra money?Boss Li had just debuted and started his business at low cost. If he could do it himself, he didn’t need others. He also took on the role of actor and assistant director.

Li Xianyun doesn't talk nonsense to him, I have a 2000 million online big movie to shoot, big production, big scenes, big special effects, big investment... It's a lot bigger, and the last sentence is 2 yuan, can you do it? Dry?
After all, it is a new producer, so I dare not brag too much.But at least he knew that he couldn’t say that he would shoot three films at once, but only one film—I just filmed one film and then cut it into three films.

This is also a common operation of film and television companies, otherwise it is not easy to fool around-you give 2 yuan for the leading role of three plays?What about trouble?

Even Lin Xiaoyu didn't believe it.

2000 million investment, you give me 2 yuan in salary?Are you fooling an idiot?

Everyone is an insider, and they habitually compress each other's speech.Li Xianyun bragged about investing 2000 million yuan, but Lin Xiaoyu directly reduced it to 200 million yuan, which was smaller than the real size, so he wanted to hang up the phone at that time.

Li Xianyun quickly posted a video: "Special effects of this level."

Five minutes later, Lin Xiaoyu wrote back: "How many days?"

"45 days."

"Is [-] good? But the level of special effects must be limited."

Lin Xiaoyu had made some films before. Although he was not well-known, his acting skills crushed Yang Enjun. The normal quotation was [-] a day for the leading role.

So his 45 yuan for 8 days is indeed cheap. Firstly, he is not an agent, and the agent’s commission has been removed, and secondly, it is because of the "special effects" face-small actors are still willing to lower their value for big productions.

Otherwise, why do the producers always say "our family is a big production" when they talk about cooperation?Indeed, this is an important support for lower prices!

When directors like Zhang Feng, Chen Wuxu make films, they are willing to let newcomers borrow money from loan sharks to join the team.

Another important support is the follow-up film appointment, but the follow-up film appointment without a formal agreement is all nonsense and purely fooling people.

Yisheng Media is essentially a late-stage company and a small company.If you want to tell him about a follow-up film appointment, the other party may not be sure and thinks that he is selling himself at a low price, so there is no need to mention it.

So Li Xianyun said directly: "Okay, let's audition."

It's about the audition, but Li Xianyun has already decided on him.

Next, Li Xianyun used the same method to find a few more actors, some of whom had starred in these films in the original world, and some of them were some relatively powerful actors he found based on his impressions, but he hoped that Dahong would make a lot of money. Never mind.

The prices of these actors are almost in the range of 45 to [-], depending on the person watching the show.There are also cheap ones, you can shoot for [-] days for a few thousand yuan, and you don’t dare to ask for it...The junk thing is not as good as just grabbing a random one on the street.

The 800 million investment still needs a star to carry the box office after all, and this needs to be used on Huayou's side. Li Xianyun also contacted Huayou for this reason.

When Huayou heard this, he took an out-of-date star to offer 300 million yuan, and kept saying the price.

It was indeed the street price—the price for the uninitiated.

In the past two years of film and television winter, the value of actors has shrunk. 300 million was a thing of the past, but now it is not.

Li Xianyun didn't talk too much, just let Ren Zhi go.

This product is really good at bargaining, the price reduction plus the agreed resource discount, it just talked about 60.

In addition to the three leading actors, there are also eight supporting roles in the three plays, twelve special guest actors, and more than a dozen extras. Among them, the special extras are basically negotiated on a daily basis, so they don't have to talk to the crew often.

The production team itself is divided into production team, director team, art team, photography team, lighting team, make-up team, props team, post-production team and recording team, etc. It depends on what kind of drama you watch, such as martial arts dramas, action groups, explosion scenes, etc. There are pyrotechnic groups.

Among them, Li Xianyun is the producer and director, Ren Zhi is the producer and external contact, responsible for helping him manage the crew and contact venues, Jiang Zheng is the production director, responsible for the account entry and exit, the coordinator is Ren Zhi from outside, called Zhang Xueluo is also an old coordinator, and he is not bad. He has cooperated with Li Xianyun in the original world, and this is the first time in this world.

Liu Yijiang was in charge of the on-site production. Boss Liu had sold the company and had nowhere to go, so he was pulled over by Li Xianyun to help again, which meant that his ex-husband was working for his ex-wife.

For the photography team, the photographers are Zhao Yunyang and the photographer from group A named Baihe who was shooting the ghost battle in the secret room, and the other one is Rong Dasheng.

Rong Dasheng was very dissatisfied with this, saying that I am a director, and being a photographer is too shameful. Li Xianyun promised him that he would give him the opportunity to direct in the future - besides, you have done it before.

Rong Dasheng began to snap his fingers, thinking when did I have it before?
Li Xianyun himself is the producer, director and producer.

There are not many permanent members of the crew, about 50 people in total. Because it is an indoor ghost hunting film, there are not many main venues, most of which are indoor scenes, and a small amount of outdoor scenes.

There is no big art, big setting, except for the one from Huayou, there is no big name, the costumes are rented modern clothes, the props are relatively simple, and many of the staff are their own people. Say 800 million, even 80 can be done.

The reason for spending so much money is, to put it bluntly, quality!

The quality of a movie is composed of many factors.

Big scenes, great special effects, top actors and performances, excellent lens language, photography technology, lighting application, high-quality service, sound effects, a large number of excellent details, etc. are the basis of top-level films.

Going down on this basis, going back 20 years and watching many movies in that time period, you will find that the really good movies are actually not these things.

It's basic skills!

Doing every scene, every shot, and every performance well requires a lot of energy.

Especially suspense thrillers, pay more attention to the rendering of the atmosphere, a shot, a picture, each has a unique role, the performance of the actors, the scheduling of the camera, the combination of lighting and makeup, can just rightly realize the kind of film that the director needs. Artistic sense.

The black-and-white films made during the founding of Huaguo back then can be said to have nothing to do with it, but there are quite a few classics, because the basic skills are in place!

If you really want to learn how to direct, you have to watch this kind of classic old movies!

So for these same things, 80 yuan can be photographed, 800 million yuan can be photographed, and even 8000 million yuan can be photographed.

Take the famous low-budget movie "Hard Candy" as an example. The film took 100 days and cost [-] million US dollars.

The whole film is the story of the hero and heroine in a room, if Huaguo.com came to film it, haha.

It can be shot for 10 yuan.

Road to the Dead has more actors and scenes than it does.

So why do hard fruit candies cost so much?

detail!

The quality of a good movie is polished through countless details.

With the script that has been polished repeatedly, every line and every plot has meaning; the actors who have repeated NG, hundreds of times of shooting are only for a moment of perfection; The service of the link.

Regardless of performances, scenes, and shots, every detail must be considered in place to form a truly good movie.

Details constitute quality!

Take "Titanic" as an example. During the filming, Cameron found that many tablecloths, tableware, and even some walls on the ship did not have the Titanic logo printed on it. He thought this was not in line with the real situation, so Directly ordered to replace all the props with logos.

That alone cost millions.

This is a relatively well-known shooting story.

Say another unknown.

It’s also the Titanic. In the opening shot, there is an old heroine appearing on the scene. The camera flashes, first falling on a bouquet of roses in a bottle, and then falling on the profile of the old lady. The old lady is wearing a earrings.

The shape of the earrings is exactly the shape of the heart of the ocean, an important prop in the movie, and the bouquet of roses represents the name of the old lady—Rose.

Here are the details!
Does this detail contribute to the overall plot?

fart useless!

Isn't it just a rose on the table?Can you explain anything?
The Titanic does not have the roses, the diamond earrings of the same style, and even the tableware with the logo, which will not affect the quality of the movie in the slightest, and it will not even lose a dollar at the box office.

But on the other hand, the pursuit of details is a habit.

A director can "make do with it here" today, and "make do with it there" tomorrow.

In the end, there are countless improvisations to produce a bad movie.

Li Xianyun Of course, he can't keep improving like Cameron.

So his detailed requirements are: as long as this thing does not cost money or costs less, then give it to me!

As for things like changing the logo temporarily, if it costs more than 1000 yuan, go to hell with it—this belongs to the producer’s thinking, and the cost of the province has to be saved.

What Li Xianyun wants now is to improve his soft power in this area as much as possible.

In addition to that is the acting skills of the actors!

The actor's acting skills test the actor, but it also tests the director.

Even the on-site work of the director, in addition to scheduling the crew, the first priority is the director's "acting skills".

Acting skills are very talented, not to say that they cannot be cultivated, but actors who are cultivated all day after tomorrow, in the case of lack of talent, [-] is the limit.

A real top actor must be talented enough.

Li Xianyun can't find talented actors, but as an online university, he can at least achieve the [-]% in his mind through acquired efforts.

(End of this chapter)