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Chapter 213 Choosing an Actor

The office area of ​​Nanjing Entertainment is only one floor, more than 300 square meters is not small, and the middle is filled with desks and chairs, but now most of them are empty, and the three or four offices on the side are separated by glass doors.

"This is my office?" Fang Jing pointed to a dusty single room with two broken tables and said incredulously.

He raised his head and glanced at the word "chairman" on the door plate, are he sure it's spelled correctly?
"Ahem! It was just renovated, and you didn't come. It will be fine in a few days. Let's not talk about this, let's get you to know someone first."

Xu Shi's previous company was too small. Considering that the plate would get bigger and bigger in the future, he simply rented a new one. Because of too much work, he moved in before the renovation was completed.

"Director Luo, Director Guo, Lao Zhou, there is a meeting in the office!"

Xu Shi turned his head and shouted, the busy people looked at each other, put down their work and came over.

The bare walls in the meeting room were unpainted, with a long table and a few chairs.

The director Luo Yongchang met when he was filming Notes on Tomb Raiders, and the assistant director Guo Qi and the prop Zhou Jiang belonged to Huang Bo.

"Hello Director Guo, hello Brother Zhou, I've been busy a while ago, and I didn't have time to meet you. Tonight, I'm going to treat you to a gathering."

"Hello Mr. Fang! Don't get in the way, everyone performs their own duties, it's all for this drama, understand."

Xu Shi connected the computer to the projector, lowered his head and adjusted the screen, "Don't be restrained, Mr. Guo, Fang Jing is quite easy to talk to, and there is no need to say that he is righteous. You will know after a while."

Open the video file, and a series of small videos appear, about seven or eight, ranging from five to six minutes long to tens of seconds short.

Clicking on the first one, Xu Shi seriously said to the other party, "I need to set up some real scenes during the shooting. This is a 3D simulation I asked someone to do. Let's see how it goes first."

The first one is an ancient building with three upper and lower floors, in the shape of a circular study room, but the piles are full of coffins, the light is dim, and it looks gloomy.

Click to play at 0.5 times, Xu Shi explained slowly, "This is the ancient building of the Zhang family, nearly [-] square meters, an indispensable part of the play, I searched the top ten film and television bases in the country, and I couldn't find anything similar."

"Old Zhou has estimated that if it is built, the material cost will be more than 300 million, and the combined labor and land rent will be at least 500 million. The cost is too large, and I can't make the decision."

"And this." Xu Shi continued, pointing to an old mobile train from the period of the Republic of China, "This is the biggest problem at present. There are many train scenes, but we can't really build a train. Lao Zhou means to build a model , the picture flashed by during the shooting, so I didn’t shoot outside, or posted a few pictures outside the window, but the two directors disagreed.”

Luo Yongchang said, "Now the audience is not an idiot. How can there be a scene outside the window on the train? What I mean is to rent a carriage, decorate it and start filming, and shoot on the spot."

The corner of Fang Jing's mouth twitched, how much would it cost to pack a train carriage, fortunately they figured it out?Shooting is not enough for three to five hours.

The scene outside the window passed by in a flash, and if it didn’t work, I had to wait for one day and shoot again when I passed by this point the next day. If there were not millions of dollars in a scene, I might not be able to shoot it.

He has read the script, seven or eight train scenes, the entire crew will go bankrupt, and there is no need to shoot other scenes.

Under Xu Shi's explanation, the videos were broadcast one by one, all of which were money-burning projects, with a minimum of 60 million yuan and an excess of 600 million yuan. According to the budget of more than [-] million yuan, it can be completed.

Several people all stared at Fang Jing, he paid for it here, without his nodding, these projects that have been worked on all day and night would be wasted.

Without speaking, Fang Jing asked Xu Shi to play it again, this time without explaining, combined with the script in his brain, the plot of the picture flashed quickly in his head.

"Everything else is fine, the Zhang family's ancient building and trains are the ones that burn the most money, right?"

"Yes!" Lao Zhou nodded heavily.

"Have you seen A World Without Thieves?"

"Seen!"

A World Without Thieves aired a few years ago was a sensation, breaking the Chinese language record with a box office of 14 billion.

"70.00% of the scenes in it were filmed on the train, but as far as I know they didn't rent the train."

Lao Zhou smiled wryly, "Of course we know that there is no rent. In fact, the first thing I thought of was World Without Thieves, but they don't give the technology, so I don't know how to make it. I can't figure it out. I have tried many methods. Neither will work."

"I know!" Fang Jing chuckled, "It's the same as you thought, take a model train."

"Impossible. The scene outside the window is real. The cattle and sheep are still running. There are clips of farmers working in the fields. How did the special effects come out?"

"It's simple, take a train and record the scene outside the window. When shooting, the window of the model car is covered with a green cloth, and the video can be connected in the later stage. This is the technology of World Without Thieves."

Quiet!

Several people opened their mouths wide, as if they had seen a ghost, Fang Jing cracked the technology that they couldn't get by life or death, and the key was so simple.

The special effects team of A World Without Thieves belongs to Xiangjiang. They even offered to spend money to buy it before, but they refused when they heard that it was an online drama, and they didn't like it at all.

In fact, Fang Jing also took advantage of the rebirth. No one knew the filming method of A World Without Thieves in the previous life, but time has passed and the technology has become more mature. It is not a secret in a few years. As long as you have the heart, you can find out after a little research.

The development level of China's film industry in this life is a bit slow. Fang Jing feels that it is similar to the previous life ten years ago, and even many movies that appeared in the past two years are from that time.

"As for the Zhang family's ancient building, I have some ideas. I heard that Rongcheng in your province is developing tourism and spent several hundred million to build the ancient city."

"Anyway, they are all ancient buildings. What is built is not built. Contact us for cooperation. One family will pay half of the construction of the Zhang Family Ancient Building and the other ancient streets. We will send them to them for free after shooting."

Coincidentally, a few days ago Fang Jing saw Fang Hui taking a selfie in Penguin Space, and the background was the ancient city under construction in Rongcheng.

Just thought of the above in my mind, and then I came up with the idea of ​​cooperating with the local area.

They only shoot for a period of time, and send it to the ancient building after they are done, and after the broadcast, they can also play a wave of advertisements for the local area, which is equivalent to free publicity, and only fools will refuse.

Niubi!

Xu Shi was dumbfounded, Fang Jing solved the biggest problem surrounding the crew, saving at least sixty-seven million.

"Are there any questions?" Fang Jing was very hungry, "'What about the takeaway you ordered?'

"Oh! Wait, let me see where I am."

Just as Xu Shi was about to take out his mobile phone to check, a guy in a yellow vest and a helmet came in with a box of things at the door.

"coming!"

"Xiao Wang, choose five and come in!" Xu Shi got up and stood by the door and shouted to the outside.

"Roger that!"

Fang Jing had a black face, "It's not over yet?"

"It's a little bit close. Leading role, supporting role, where can I find extras? Nortel, Chinese opera or Shanghai opera? What price is right? First-line or amateur?"

"I have a candidate for the male lead, Cheng Weiting, I will ask him to talk with him in a few days, other male and female supporting roles will go to Chinese dramas, this director Guo is an expert, let him choose, the price is extremely high, except for the appearance. If you have to pass the acting skills, it's best to find a third-year and fourth-year student."

"In addition, there are a few places left for the supporting cast. On the top of the old drama, there is an actor's union in Hengdian. Where can I choose the actor's role? Director Luo is a local snake, and he will handle this matter."

(End of this chapter)