Reborn Hong Kong Wild Age

Chapter 28 The Tyrant on the Set
"Cut! Andy, how many times have I told you, don't always mess with your hair! Every time you take off the helmet, what do you always do with your hair, you idols, you love beauty like your life, I will lose your mother ..."

At the shooting scene, as Du Qifeng yelled cut, all the on-site staff looked tense.

Liu Dehua's face turned red, and he pursed his lips and said, "Director, I forgot..."

During the filming during this period, no one in the whole set knew that Du Qifeng was a tyrant, the little girl Zhou Huimin was scolded and cried by him many times, let alone the leading actor Liu Dehua.

On the contrary, Wu Mengda, who Du Qifeng has always said that mud can't support the wall, may have really lost his way. During the performance, he received a lot of praise from Du Qifeng, and he began to call him Brother Da again.

"Ayang, I regret it. I found that I can't act, it's much more difficult than singing."

Gu Xiayang happened to come to the shooting site today, and Zhou Huimin, who was resting, sat on the side and pouted when she saw this scene.

Perhaps because she was too afraid of Du Qifeng, what Zhou Huimin was happiest about was that one day without her part, she could hide in the recording studio of Huaxing Records without coming to the set.

Gu Xiayang laughed uncontrollably, and said: "Du sir actually praised you with me in private, saying that you have made great progress in filming for the first time, and you will definitely be a good actor in the future."

Zhou Huimin said in disbelief, "Really?"

"Fake, I just want to comfort you." Gu Xiayang stretched out his hand and patted her on the head, laughing loudly: "Little Jew, the contract has been signed, you can't escape, let's act well."

Zhou Huimin squinted and muttered, "I knew it, you liar."

Over there, when Du Qifeng caught Liu Dehua, he gave a crazy meal. As the official director, Chen Musheng could only act as a peacemaker and stepped forward to comfort him.

In fact, both of them grew up in Kowloon. When Du Qifeng was a child, he secretly went to Changle Cinema to watch movies, while Andy Lau's family ran an ice room in Diamond Hill, near the ice room was the Kin Shing studio.

Liu Dehua helps his father deliver food to celebrities every day, and even works part-time as a door-to-door hairdresser. Liu Dehua has cut hair for Zeng Zhiwei, Zhou Runfa and others.

Liu Dehua and Du Qifeng did not just meet each other, they were both in TVB for the first time, but they never saw eye to eye.At first, Du Qifeng looked down on Liu Dehua, and later Du Qifeng also said that "his problem is not deep enough".

Two years ago, TVB's famous TV series "The Deer and Ding Tale" was directed by Du Qifeng. Obviously, he prefers the lead actor Liang Chaowei, and the lead actor Liu Dehua has never been approved by the director.

This kind of situation has completely continued to the shooting scene of "If there is love in the sky".

The reason is that Liu Dehua would subconsciously remove his flattened hair every time he finished filming the scenes where he took off his helmet, and Du Qifeng couldn't help but yelled.But every time he scolded, Liu Dehua seemed to forget the next time, and habitually let his hair down.

Once or twice, you can say that Liu Dehua forgot, but three times or four times, Du Qifeng saw that this guy was deliberately against him, and he would go to hell if he didn't scold him.

That is to say, Liu Dehua has just lifted Xuezang, otherwise he would even ask the makeup artist to fix his hair, and even retaliate.

Gu Xiayang was aware of the shooting situation on the set, but had no intention of intervening.Since Du Qifeng has handed over all the crew management to Du Qifeng, he believes that the other party can handle it well.

Moreover, the shooting on the set is coming to an end, and there will be a lot of location shooting in the future, but there is no need for Gu Xiayang to worry about the rental of public venues for shooting.

Most of the Hong Kong film crew’s public shootings are sneak shots. The director and the leading actors and some of the staff will sneak away after the shooting. There is really no way. Just need to spend some money.

As for the shooting of drag racing, Chen Musheng is very experienced. This guy used to be a drag racing party, and he has a natural sense of camera for this part of the scene.

As the filming of "If there is love in the sky", Gu Xiayang has not been idle at all.

In addition to the concerted efforts of the crew, the filming of a film also includes post-production, printing, publicity and even the production of video tapes.

Tianxiayi is now a small workshop, without its own printing room and other departments, and needs help in these matters.

In the office of Tianxiayi, Ju Jueliang, who is also from the TVB artist training class, is Du Qifeng's fellow apprentice. Because of his ability to coordinate, he was invited to Tianxiayi to take charge of the behind-the-scenes coordination.

Gu Xiayang knew that this person was one of Du Qifeng's right-hand men. As a filmmaker who appeared in the heyday of the Hong Kong entertainment industry, almost every filmmaker was an all-around player who could write, direct, and produce. Ju Jueliang was such an all-rounder.

"Boss, our film has been filming for more than half a month. I estimate it will be completed within a month at the most. For our post-production and printing, I think we should borrow Shaw Brothers. They are very empty now."

"As for publicity, besides your own "cool!" weekly magazine, the boss, other press releases will also be published. As the first film of our company, "If there is love in the sky", it must be well-known. I suggest recruiting a few to do it. Propaganda professionals, devising a plan, and then implementing it...”

"Well, we have plenty of publicity funds to stay, so you can handle this matter well."

Gu Xiayang didn't intend to be stingy with the announcement of the movie.In fact, the Hong Kong films of this period have always been very mediocre in terms of publicity, and it can even be said that they don't care.Even for some slightly larger productions, they still focus on starring stars, and there is no systematic means of publicity.

Therefore, Gu Xiayang very much agrees with Ju Jueliang's proposal.The entire Hong Kong film company has done the best in this regard, so far, only New Arts City.

Their publicity is planned, so New Art City's publicity offensive is considered to be the strongest in Hong Kong at present.

Even New Art City formed a club - "Friends of New Art City", with the highest number of members reaching [-]; and a program "Friends of New Art City" was held on Commercial One, introducing New Art City movies for a long time trend.

Before the release of the new film, members of Friends of New Art City should also be given a preview, and then they will be surveyed to collect their feedback.These surveys are of great benefit to editing commercials, modifying movies, and determining schedules.

The biggest difference between "Friends of New Art City" and ordinary star clubs is that: not only meet the audience with stars, but also communicate and interact with members as a company of New Art City, so as to strengthen the goodwill relationship between the company and the audience, Establish a gold-lettered signboard with the words "New Art City".

New Art City has a strong marketing mind, its film production is based on market research, and its advertising campaigns focus on building the company's brand image.In order to establish the company's image, Xinyi City spared no expense, and used a high cost of nearly one million yuan to promote films such as "Ghost Horse, Smart Stars" and "Chasing Girls".

The marketing strategy of "better to make money than to polish the signboard" made New Art City stand out almost overnight and established the company's image in the minds of the audience.

This kind of marketing awareness was lacking in Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest at that time.New Art City's brand strategy is quite effective, greatly enhancing the audience's loyalty to the brand.At that time, someone said that as long as there are three words of New Art City, the audience will buy tickets to watch the movie no matter whether it is good or bad.

In Hong Kong before New Arts City, it was not a very common practice to let singers go on the screen, or to market movies and the music of movies as a whole.

New Art City has made a bold attempt in this regard. When filming the movie "Hit the Wrong Car", New Art City allocated 100 million Taiwan dollars from the production fee to make records.

Soon, the original soundtrack of the movie was released in conjunction with the movie, and it was a big seller.

Then, "Merry Christmas" invited singers Xu Xiaofeng and Chen Baiqiang to participate in the performance.

"Happy Ghosts on Summer Vacation" uses newcomers Yuan Jieying, Luo Meiwei, and Chen Jialing to form the "Happy Girls Group". Not only did the film sell well, but the album "Happy Girls Group" also sold well and won the Golden Disk Award.

New Art City signs actors, and if the actors are also singers, the company will also sign a record contract by the way.It is precisely because of the booming sales of the original soundtrack of "Hitch the Wrong Car" and "Happy Girls Group" that Xinyicheng decided to form a record company.So he cooperated with PolyGram to create a record company called Xinyibao.

Gu Xiayang's Tianxiayi is currently only a small workshop and has no capital to set up his own record company, but this does not affect his current cooperation with Huaxing Records.

Because Gu Xiayang managed to get Liu Dehua out of TVB's iceberg, and Liu Dehua's manager contract was signed with Tianxiayi, Gu Xiayang naturally wanted to make him the company's signature artist.

On the other hand, although Zhou Huimin's manager contract is with Huaxing Records, it is only for two years. After two years, Gu Xiayang has the confidence to bring her back.

"Boss, in terms of distribution, have you thought about the local theaters?" Ju Jueliang suggested: "My opinion is that our first film should be released on the Golden Harvest Cinemas. Whether it is the quality or quantity of theaters, Golden Harvest Theaters The line is currently the best in Hong Kong.”

At present, there are three major cinema lines in Hong Kong, including the Golden Princess Cinema Line in Art City, the Golden Harvest Cinema Line in Golden Harvest, and the current Debao Cinema Line (formerly Shaw Cinemas).

In terms of quantity, Debao has more cinemas than Golden Harvest, but the Shaw Cinemas that Debao took over, the decoration of leading theaters is not as new as Golden Harvest, and ordinary theaters only have more than 300 seats, and the location is remote and the flow of people is small.

Gu Xiayang thought for a while and asked, "Why don't you suggest that our movie try to talk to Princess Jin?"

Ju Jueliang said: "There are too many film companies under the Golden Princess, and the annual film schedule is very tight. They will definitely not give us a good grade. Although Jiahe's terms are harsh, it is not impossible to talk about it!"

"Golden Harvest's production volume is no less than that of New Art City, right? And this year they are so powerful that they have overwhelmed New Art City..."

(End of this chapter)