What kind of bad thoughts can the director have?

Chapter 42 Happier than Twist

There is a shortage of good photographers everywhere. Ning Song started working before graduation, shooting some advertisements for people, more weddings, and the bottom line is not to shoot funerals.

Yang Shu didn't understand this: "Is anyone taking photos of funerals? Who will watch this thing again?"

"Yes, not many. For example, if someone who is not so high-ranking but has historical significance dies, some memorial hall or cultural center may commission a record."

Wedding celebrations are an absolute priority for photographers, and it's beyond ordinary people's imagination. If calculated by pure profit, the most profitable film and television company in the capital is actually a wedding photography company.

Ning Song made a lot of money and lived a good life. He bought a BMW off-road vehicle worth 40 in his junior year, and he used it this time. Jiang Shiyu brought Liu Man's running license, and he brought Yangshu rental equipment.

Equipment is the bread and butter of film and television companies. Now the threshold for shooting works is very low, and the equipment of many video production companies is quite simple.

For example, to buy a Canon 5D series camera with several lenses, the cost is less than 5 yuan.

As long as a set of green screen equipment does not require too much scope, [-] can solve it.

Aerial cameras are not expensive, and some domestic drones can carry SLRs.

Get some simple lights and recording equipment represented by Roland R88, set up a tripod of several thousand yuan, and start working.

However, these devices can only be used for wedding dresses and wedding celebrations, and it is more than enough for Douyin and Kuaishou live streaming, but it is far from enough for making movies and TV shows.

Many newcomers who are determined to engage in film and television creation are easily misled by some unprofessional articles on the Internet, thinking that as long as they buy enough equipment and shoot professional enough works, they can be released and broadcast.

The radio and television department has regulations on equipment. For example, the minimum equipment standard required for digital movies is similar to that of Sony HDW-F900, and those with worse data indicators cannot be released commercially. The current price of this machine is 70.

70 is too expensive, poplar can't afford it.

There is no need to consider film cameras. Bare cameras start at 300 million, and a full set of lenses is more expensive than the machine.

Will other professional digital cameras be cheaper?
Even if it’s cheap, it’s not much cheaper. Although the price of bare metal cameras of different grades ranges from RMB 20 to RMB 80, you still need to buy lenses for film and television productions, at least a few basic fixed focus and zoom, which add up to 50 million , and some anamorphic widescreen lenses cost more than one million each, and the lens group is even more expensive. Therefore, the cheapest price is 60 to [-] for a bare camera plus a lens.

There are also some top-level machines that manufacturers only rent and do not sell. For example, IMAX digital movie machines, works with an investment of less than tens of millions cannot even be rented.

This is just the camera and lens, and the lighting equipment is not cheap. A professional set costs more than one million, and one hundred and eighty thousand is the level of a high-end wedding studio.

As for the kind of thousands or hundreds of dollars, it is basically useless in film and television shooting. On the contrary, it may be more than enough to succeed, and it is only suitable for Taobao shooting.

Recording and post-production equipment are also bottomless pits. If you don’t have spare money, don’t consider buying them yourself. This is also a realistic factor for the existence of post-production companies.

Because of the long-term cooperative relationship, Ning Song is familiar with the equipment leasing market in Beijing. The advantage of having him lead the way is that you can pay less deposit and bargain prices.

The equipment rental company Ning Song chose was in Tongzhou, not too far from Zicaowu, where Yang Shu lived, and it was next to Happy Twist Company.

When passing by, Ning Song pointed to Yang Shu: "See that signboard, I'm so happy, it's the company of Hao Jian in the Spring Festival Gala. I have filmed materials for their stage play. The boss of the company is always a student of architecture. 12 years ago, 30 yuan It started in the Yuan Dynasty, and it took ten years to make it through."

Happy Twist is the company where Shen Teng and Ma Li work. Shen Teng has become famous for his sketches in the past two years, but he lacks other works. Many people don't know his real name and think his name is Hao Jian.

He joined Happy Twist when it was established, but in the first seven or eight years he played supporting roles and even secondary roles, and only starred in one stage play before Xiaopin Huo.

Happy Twist has specialized in stage comedies for ten years, and its achievements have improved a little bit. In the past two years, it has also started to produce online dramas. It has produced two seasons of "Happy Twist Theater" and "Jianghu Academy", both of which are 15-minute short dramas. generally.

However, I read the news that Happy Twist is filming the big-screen movie "Charlotte Annoyance", which is based on a stage play, and it can be regarded as a lot of accumulation.

This movie later became the biggest dark horse of the year. Yang Shu remembered that the box office seemed to exceed 14 billion.

He looked at Happy Twist's signboard with different characters in red and felt a little bit emotional. If his work has not been outstanding, he is really not sure whether he can persevere for ten years like them.

He has been working on online dramas for the past few months, and he is very interested in doing them. However, as a director, he always takes the big screen as his goal.

"When we have collected enough money, we will also make a movie, and we will have more fun than mahua."

This can be regarded as an obsession, and there is also a chain of contempt among directors. At present, movies are undoubtedly the highest-end, and the movies that make money are the high-end of the high-end.

The rental equipment went smoothly, and the deposit of [-] yuan was mainly to prevent abnormal scratches. If the machine was accidentally broken, the insurance company would pay for it, but it is basically impossible to get the deposit back.

Ning Song's acquaintance's price, and finally confirmed that the full set of shooting, lighting, and recording equipment will be rented from NO.20 for 9 days, with a total rent of [-] yuan.

This price is really not expensive, a complete set of equipment is worth more than 260 million, and renting a luxury car of more than 200 million in the capital costs more than half a month.

However, as a play with a budget of 45, this took up 20.00% of the cost, but there is no way.

In comparison, large-scale productions such as "Langya Bang" and "The Legend of Miyue" require two or three film crews, and various equipment add up to 3000 to 400 million. It's an embarrassing question.

If you buy all of them yourself, it will take up a lot of funds. Over the years, it will be several million for each of several plays.

Therefore, large-scale productions often cooperate with several companies to collect the most critical equipment, and only temporarily rent it if the utilization rate is really not high.

The matter of the machine is basically settled, just bring someone with the deposit to pick it up in the afternoon of NO.19.

On the way to send Yang Shu back, Ning Song was a little envious of his co-rental with Liu Man and Jiang Shiyu: "What kind of relative are you and Liu Man? They are so close, and they don't even call me when they co-rent. How nice it is for us to live together. "

Before filming "Lovers at the Table", he heard Liu Man call Yang Shu "Shu Shu", so he thought the two were relatives, so Liu Tao took care of producing the work together, and he still thinks so.

Yang Shu smiled and didn't explain much, so it's okay to let everyone misunderstand like this.

Some things come step by step, and there is a clear context in the eyes of the parties involved: common ideals, starting a business together, lack of funds, two divorced families without supervision, and a child who has not yet come out of the rebellious period. All kinds of factors are combined together , So they share the office and live freely in the office.

But it is very troublesome to explain to outsiders, so Liu Man told Sister Tao that he was staying at Jiang Shiyu's house, and Jiang Shiyu told his parents that he went to work with Sister Tao.

There was still a week before the filming started. Before getting off the bus, Yang Shu gave Ning Song a copy of the storyboard scripts of the three plays: "Take it back and have a look. The order of filming is "Beauty Tax", "Taxi Reasoning", "Future Classmates" ", if you have any suggestions, put them up early, after four days, you will join the group, the actors will be rehearsing with makeup, and we will start to discuss the shooting style in detail."

(End of this chapter)