From janitor to actor

Chapter 203 Big Production

After Ren Shuai watched the film, he finally understood why the crew's budget was insufficient in the later stage.

Burning money is not enough to describe this kind of intensive battle special effects, it is simply the evaporation of banknotes visible to the naked eye.

Although the movie was watched at double speed, Ren Shuai felt that this work was really sincere, no expense was spared in the special effects and scenery, and the performances of the actors were above the standard.

Through the video, we can see the energy and effort put in by the producer, which is absolutely full of sincerity.

Once the production is completed and released in theaters, it is very likely to become a blockbuster.

And it’s still that kind of word-of-mouth masterpiece.

Ren Shuai thought to himself, no wonder Mai Ran's reaction was so big when Mr. Sun laughed at the work and felt sorry for the audience.

It is conceivable that as a semi-local science fiction that is rare in Yezhou, the producer must have great ambitions and goals.

Judging by the intensity of the production, we can tell that they definitely want to open up the film market for local science fiction films through this work.

If it weren't for the lack of funds, the producer would never have wanted to invite Ren Shuai to do the vocal dubbing.

At the beginning, Mai Ran spent a lot of effort in persuading the production team and investors to agree to the human voice dubbing plan.

In the end, they took out the video clips of Ren Shuai dubbing the robot and the battle scenes, which made them agree.

After the video finished playing, Mai Ran said, "Mr. Li, do you need to do some preparations before dubbing?"

Ren Shuai shook his head. He doesn't need to prepare for this kind of party, he just needs to use the dubbing card silently.

Although Ren Shuai now has a relatively high degree of recognition, he still hopes to make a quick decision and save one item card.

"Let's start right away."

After finishing speaking, Ren Shuai walked into the dubbing room, put on his earphones, looked at the screen, and raised his hand to indicate that he was ready to start.

At this moment, a bald middle-aged man opened the door and entered the dubbing room.

Mai Ran looked worried when he saw this, there was an indicator light outside the door of the dubbing room, it would light up when the dubbing was ready, telling people outside not to enter at will.

But the middle-aged Xie Ding still walked in.

"Director Qian, go out and talk about something."

Mai Ran's voice was extremely low, and she took the initiative to walk over, opened the door, and walked into the corridor with the middle-aged Xieding.

"Mr. Mai, I went to enlighten Mr. Sun just now. He knows that his attitude is wrong. Let me apologize for him." Director Qian said.

"It's not an urgent matter, you can say it at any time, haven't you seen the light in the dubbing room?" Mai Ran asked without expression.

Director Qian made a quick haha, and said, "I'm really sorry, I thought you just went in and didn't start so quickly, so you didn't look at the indicator light."

Mai Ran didn't just nodded and said: "Then you have nothing else to do, go back and do your work."

"Uh, actually, there's one more thing." Director Qian smiled and continued: "I recently contacted an investor. They are very interested in the film and have the intention to invest."

Mai Ran heard the words: "Then you should hurry up and connect with them to see what the other party wants."

Director Qian rubbed his hands, hesitant to speak, and said: "The other party watched our pre-promotional video and felt that the production is very good, especially the background sound effects are very grand, so they have an investment intention."

Mai Ran felt that there was something in his words, and said directly: "We are all colleagues, if you have anything to say, you may as well speak up."

"Well, I think so. We invested a lot in the early stage, and the overall production is very delicate, but if there is a shortcoming in dubbing due to post-production funding problems, it will be a bit outweighed by the loss."

Director Zhao went around in a circle, and finally said the purpose of the trip.

Mai Ran's face remained unchanged and said: "The plan to use human voice dubbing has already been decided before."

Director Zhao said with a smile: "Before, it was because of a shortage of funds. Isn't there a new investor now?"

"The investor is just interested, can they get the money out immediately?"

After Mai Ran asked back, he continued: "Don't say whether the other party will actually invest in the end, it will take half a month just to go through the process, and when the funds are in place, the day lily will be cold."

Director Qian obviously thought of this question long ago, and replied directly: "Mr. Sun can also discuss it with us. Our money may not necessarily be in place in one go, but it can be implemented in installments."

Mai Ran continued to ask: "What about the construction period, can you guarantee that they will not get the final payment and deliver the work on time?"

Director Qian said with a smile: "This point can be written in the contract. If they pay one day late, they will compensate us for the corresponding losses."

Mai Ran sighed, seeing that Director Qian was determined to persuade her to use a computer to dub.

However, due to a shortage of funds, the dubbing work that was supposed to start has been delayed for a week. Even if it is restarted now, there is no way to rush back.

But artificial dubbing is different. It does not require cumbersome programming and debugging. It only uses a microphone to record, and the progress is much faster.

Seeing that Mai Ran was silent, Director Qian felt that she should be moved, so he hit the rails while it was hot: "No matter how good the dubbing effect of human voice is, it is definitely not as good as computer synthesis. This film is the hard work of everyone in our team. Everyone agrees." Hope it turns out flawed."

Mai Ran had analyzed the situation a long time ago, and he also had some ideas for the plan proposed by Director Qian.

However, for that plan, first, the time must be too late, and second, the funds are indeed insufficient. Even if there is additional investment in the follow-up, it will not be able to avoid the hundreds or even tens of millions of losses incurred during the delay.

"Since Teacher Li has already come to dub for us, why bother to use a computer to dub it? It's a waste of time and money."

With Mai Ran's words, it was regarded as a rejection of Director Qian's proposal.

The smile on Director Qian's face suddenly dimmed. He thought that the persuasion was successful, but unexpectedly, Mai Ran vetoed it.

But Mai Ran has the final say on the crew, he could only squeeze out a smile and said: "Vocal dubbing is cheap and fast, that's right, but you get what you pay for, I don't believe that Li Laifu can do it again." It produces the same effect as special effects."

His words also made Mai Ran slightly stiff.

Mai Ran had only seen Ren Shuai's dubbing performance on the Internet before, and she didn't know if she could dub the desired effect of the film.

But Ren Shuai was invited by her, and he is also a big name in the dubbing industry. This time, he was invited for a mere 20 yuan, all because of Cui Shaoyu's face.

"Ms. Li's dubbing ability does not need to be questioned, otherwise he would not be Meiying's dubbing teacher." Mai Ran said with affirmative tone.

When Director Qian heard the words, he immediately answered: "That's good, isn't he dubbing in it? If the effect is good, let's go in and listen to it and then we'll know?"

"Okay, but I have something to say first. If Mr. Li's dubbing is okay, then you should stop talking about special effects dubbing."

"Okay, it's a deal."

After all, the two opened the door and entered the dubbing room.

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