my crew is not human

Chapter 40
On December 12, The Record of Appreciating Ghosts was officially launched.

Don't look at it as a set of three films, compared to before, this time can be regarded as Li Xianyun's most dedicated creation.

Li Xianyun's requirements are also extraordinarily high.

From setting up the scene, Li Xianyun was deeply involved in every link.

Whether it's scene layout, art, or actors' action choreography, Li Xianyun takes care of it all the way to the end, watching and grinding over and over again.

For him, The Record of Ghosts is the most important growth work for him to improve his director level.

"Crack!"

On today's set, Li Xianyun yelled.

Several actors stopped to watch Li Xianyun together.

Li Xianyun rubbed his chin and said, "The camera doesn't feel right. Dasheng, please help me to see if there is any problem."

Rong Dasheng came over to have a look, and said, "There is a problem with the lens design."

"How to deal with it?"

Rong Dasheng smiled: "You asked me to be the director, and I will do it."

"Damn!" Li Xianyun gave him a middle finger.

People are selfish. We used to be friends, so it’s okay to give some pointers, but now you are the director and I’m the cameraman. Why should I teach you?
Of course, you can pay if you want, that is a single charge.

Li Xianyun can understand and will not resent Rong Dasheng because of this, but the problem must always be solved.

Looking at the camera at this moment is a bit of a headache.

This shot captures the panic of the heroine when she encounters a supernatural phenomenon for the first time, but the effect is not very good.

Zhao Yunyang next to him came over to have a look, and said, "It might be better to use Hitchcock zoom for this lens."

Hitchcock zoom is a sliding zoom method invented by Hitchcock, the master of horror films. By changing the focal length, the background is continuously enlarged and reduced. It is most suitable for creating a horror atmosphere, and it is also a commonly used method in horror films.

Li Xianyun sighed: "I know Hitchcock's zoom, but isn't the quality of the Alai mini not good enough and the effect not good?"

"Who told you that Alai's shooting is not good?" Zhao Yunyang was surprised: "Alai has no problem at all, and the technology can be taken with a mobile phone."

"What did you say?" Li Xianyun was startled, and looked at Baihe not far away.

Bai He lowered his head and didn't speak.

Rong Dasheng was also a little strange: "What's the situation?"

Li Xianyun's face turned slightly gloomy and cold: "When filming the ghost battle in the chamber of secrets, I wanted to use Hitchcock's zoom. They said that the effect of Alai's filming was not good."

Zhao Yunyang and Rong Dasheng understood, and looked at Baihe together.

The photographers at that time, one was the expelled Group B photographer, and the other was Baihe.

Rong Dasheng understood a little bit, and said with a smile: "Sliding zoom has certain technical requirements, and the income of small films is low, and everyone is generally unwilling to go through such trouble."

Li Xianyun snorted: "It should be because I feel that there may not be opportunities for cooperation in the future. But I understand that as a director, you not only need to understand the language of the camera, but also understand the technology, otherwise the people below will fool you. , you don't even know."

Speaking of which, Li Xianyun said: "Hitchcock zooms, just press this."

He didn't care about Baihe. At the beginning, everyone was unfamiliar with each other, so it was normal to play tricks on each other. If he didn't continue to do this in the future, it would still work, but if there was one more time, Li Xianyun would let him go as far as he could. Far.

What happened to Bai He and the others made Li Xianyun further realize that to become an excellent director, one needs not only the basic skills of directing, but also many other professional standards.

Originally, Li Xianyun was in the same room as Jiang Zheng, but in order to improve his photography knowledge, he switched Zhao Yunyang and Jiang Zheng.

Every night, Li Xianyun and Zhao Yunyang will discuss learning photography knowledge, understand their own deficiencies during the day, prepare for tomorrow's plan, and correct the next work content.

Soon, however, a new situation emerged.

After filming today, Li Xianyun returned to the room and carefully read the crew's report.

In addition to being a director, he is also a producer, so he is also responsible for the operation of the crew, including various financial expenses.

Looking at it at this moment, his face suddenly became gloomy.

Li Xianyun frowned and said, "What's going on with the artist? Why does the garden behind the villa cost so much 5 yuan?"

"Let me take a look." Zhao Yunyang, who went to bed without taking a bath, leaned over to have a look in briefs, and said with a smile, "Well, it's a little wet. I guess [-] can handle it."

"No, it's [-]." Li Xianyun replied with certainty.

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Speaking of which, it's not a producer's business to cheat the crew, but there is no cheating money from top to bottom.

Producers want to steal money to attract investment, and the people below also have their own ways.

The actor's assistant director contacted the actor. An actor is 3 yuan, and the actor may be given [-]. The group leader steals money from the group performer. A group performer may give [-] to [-], but he can ask you for two to three hundred.But these are not cheating money, but industry rules-after all, this is what people eat.

But some are pits.

For example, if the producer of Wailian contacted the venue, the rent of a venue is [-], and he can ask you for [-]. According to the regulations, you can't go past him to find someone else, otherwise you will lose their job.Therefore, the rules are sometimes used to protect black hands.

In addition, the service group needs to rent clothing, so clothing and cosmetics also have to make money; the prop group needs to make props, and there are also ways to make money;And the methods are hidden, even people in Hollywood can't solve it-their only solution is to pay high salaries and keep honesty.

Even the actors cheated. This time when Shen Rong came here, she changed her mind and asked for leave. In fact, she went to a commercial performance, which was also a disguised form of cheating money, and this was already the least cheating category.

It can be said that there is room for cheating money everywhere on the crew, and it is difficult to verify.

Because many crew members are self-employed, they don’t have a company, and they can’t issue you a ticket—you can’t give a speech to the group. Today’s 200 yuan, can you issue me a ticket?
Then the group performer went to the group leader: You took half of it, let's go buy an invoice, one hundred each?
Isn't this nonsense?
The group leader had to hop around to find the producer: who the hell told you to tell the group performers that you gave two hundred?You don't follow the rules, I told him the total is only one hundred and fifty!I want to tell everyone that I will not cooperate with you in the future.

Then your reputation in this industry will be bad, and all kinds of brokers will really ignore this kind of person, unless you ask ten times the price.

The same is true for buying materials, isn't it just a receipt, it is very difficult to open a high point?For a small business, you only need to give him an extra 100 yuan in profit, and he dares to give you a [-] yuan note.

When he was in the original world, Li Xianyun met a boss by chance.

The boss just invested 100 million yuan to be an online university. He was full of confidence at the time. Maybe he felt something was wrong later, so he asked Li Xianyun to help check the accounts.

To verify the accounts, you have to look at the crew, and you have to look at the finished film.

The finished film is at the on-site DIT, and where the on-site DIT lives, only the producer and the on-site producer responsible for delivering the film know-the producer is cunning and does not let others touch it.

So Li Xianyun first found the film sender as an investor and gave him some benefits, and then found the hotel where DIT was staying. When he touched it, he bluffed: "I am an investor, so don't be nervous. I know you are only interested in film producers." Someone is in charge, but I'm not here to check the accounts, I just came to see how the director's standard is. I had a good director, but because the director couldn't shoot for a while, I don't feel at ease with the current director's level, so I came here Look at his level. But you also know that if the news gets out and the producers and directors know, you must be in a bad mood, and then you won’t be able to do the rest of the work... But if you don’t let me see it, the follow-up money The payment cannot be settled..."

With just such a bluff and threat, Li Xianyun saw the film smoothly, and he could even find out where the master disc was. If necessary, taking the master disc away directly is also a means.

After watching the finished part of the film, and then groping for the cast and progress of the crew, Li Xianyun went to tell the investors that at least 70 yuan was lost to the crew.

Investors were stunned at the time - they thought there were black spots, but they didn't expect them to be so big!

Afterwards, Li Xianyun checked further, and found out that there was an intermediary—the purpose of the intermediary was to cut off the connection between the investors and the crew, otherwise Li Xianyun would not have to check the accounts in this way.

There is no doubt that some of the money that was cheated was taken advantage of by the middleman, and some of it was done by the producer and other crew members.

At that time, Li Xianyun told investors that the middleman is not a fund, and there are no strict methods. He can help to get it back, but it is difficult to get back the money that has been invested in the film crew.

Because the production crew has already started, some of the money was actually paid.

It will be difficult to deal with false contributions and real contributions mixed together.

In addition, there is another reason, that is, this part of the crew is not taken by the producer alone, it is likely to include the director and the bosses of each group.The people led by the boss of each group will only listen to the boss. If you ask for the money, it is tantamount to fighting against the whole crew, and no one will cooperate with you.

In the end, the production crew has already started up. Once such a thing happens, the production crew will definitely be paralyzed, but the money may not be returned. The crew does not care whether you are filming or what you are doing. Staying here for a day is a day’s money.You don't have to do the work, but you have to give the money.

In the end, Li Xianyun discussed with the investor and decided that Li Xianyun was responsible for getting back the money from the middleman.For the money back, Li Xianyun takes 20.00%.

The money that went into the crew can be given up appropriately, and it will be treated as a high-priced film, at least not for nothing.

So Li Xianyun ran over to find the middleman and asked for an audit. The middleman was not as professional as Li Xianyun, so how could he stand up to the investigation?Life and death disagreed, Li Xianyun called the police directly, the middleman did not participate in the production, the accounts were not so detailed, and the key point was that investors would come to check the accounts, so he had to spit out money to eliminate the disaster after Li Xianyun promised not to trouble him .

Cao Temei is a full 50 yuan, which means that the producer should still have a problem of about 20 yuan.

After asking for the money back, Li Xianyun thought of another trick, and went to talk to the producer again.

He told the producer: I know that the crew is tricky, and the actual cost of the film will not exceed 30.If you give me a bribe of 5 yuan, I will let you go, or else I will stop the crew and conduct a comprehensive investigation. It is not impossible to find out, and no one will benefit at that time, and you may have to sue.

Spitting money and bribery are two concepts.

Spitting out money is a confession, and all of it is spat out, there is no possibility of keeping a little bit. Of course, everyone can refuse to admit it, and they can do it for money. Payment, the key is also safe.

So in the end the producer discussed with the director and several bosses, and gave Li Xianyun 5 yuan.

But these guys are not easy to get along with either.

In particular, the producer communicated with the intermediary, knowing that Li Xianyun got 50 back, the investors have long distrusted them, and they will still keep an eye on the subsequent accounts. The film may now cost 30 yuan.

That is to say, everyone is busy until the end, in addition to wages, there may be an additional benefit of 5 yuan. With so many people sharing, how much money can you still have in your hands?

I am annoyed.

So as soon as the filming was finished, the crew called the investors, saying that Li Xianyun had taken 5 yuan from us—how dare you have the nerve to make such a call.

Unexpectedly, the investor yelled at them directly, telling them to take the film back, and you don't have to worry about the post-publication.

The producer was confused.

They didn't know about the 5 yuan in bribes, and Li Xianyun immediately told the investors: I used bribery to get back another [-] yuan, but I want half of the money.

That's it, the investor and Li Xianyun each share [-].

In Li Xianyun's words, this is called: the agreed remuneration is in accordance with the rules, and the extra income is half.

Interests must be contested, principles must be spoken, there is no cheating and abducting, and it is natural to ask for it.

This is Li Xianyun's principle.

The producer didn't expect that Li Xianyun would turn the black money into bright money. The villain's heart has turned into a gentleman's belly, and instead he spit out some of the benefits he got, so angry that he wanted to vomit blood.And Li Xianyun was also taken aback when he got the investor's call: I really underestimated the villain, but fortunately, I don't act like a monster and I am not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door.

As for the investor, this film is actually doomed to lose money, but because of Li Xianyun, the loss amount has dropped significantly, so the two have become good friends.

Originally, the investor wanted to continue making films and asked Li Xianyun to help as the producer, but unfortunately, the epidemic did not take long, and the boss's headquarters had business problems, and there was no extra funds to make films for the time being.

Li Xianyun was so regretful that a good thigh that was inexorable in friendship just flew away like this - the only luck was that the movie that was originally planned to be made was Hunting Against Time, and was also rejected by the review.

Being shot at both ends made Li Xianyun feel much better - at least it didn't fall short.

Then pass through.

(End of this chapter)