The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 340 Game Development

At 2005 o'clock in the morning on October 10, 6, the Yanjing area was covered with overcast clouds, and it looked like a storm was coming.

Landmark Building Fenghua Film and Television Company, Special Effects Studio.

Li Shengyao sat on one side, Wang Xuan sat on the other side, and a staff member sat beside Wang Xuan, and the three were discussing the digital special effects of "Extreme Escape".

After "Extreme Escape" was finished, Li Shengyao quickly rushed to Yanjing with the film, and then edited it.

Edited last night.

The soundtrack will start this year.

The reason why Li Shengyao came to the company's digital special effects team was for part of the digital special effects in "Extreme Escape".

There are a lot of poisonous scenes in the plot, which naturally cannot be shot in real scene, and digital special effects are needed to complete them.

It shouldn't be a difficult special effect, but if this thing is vivid and lifelike, it will take a long time.

Wang Xuan thought for a while, and then said: "Boss, if all our people come back, it should be completed in 20 days. If it's just the two of us, it should take about two months."

Feng Xiaogang's "Night Banquet" also has digital special effects, and there are many, so he placed an order with Fenghua.

Before Li Shengyao returned to Yanjing.

Wang Xuan brought his partners to do special effects for "The Banquet".

Now that Fenghua has something to do, Wang Xuan naturally came back, and he also brought back a skilled employee.

Li Shengyao was a little surprised when he heard this, he knew that doing special effects would cost money and time.

But he didn't expect that it would take two months to simply spread the poisonous gas.

This time he miscalculated.

Fortunately, there are still two and a half months before the Lunar New Year holiday.

In terms of time, there is absolutely no time, but there is no need to continue to pull people from "The Banquet".

"Then work hard for the two of you. Since the "Night Banquet" has signed a contract, don't break the contract and let them continue to do it."

Wang Xuan nodded, "Boss, do you want the picture to be more colorful, prettier, or more realistic?"

"Night Banquet" went to many places for filming this time, and Feng Xiaogang has a little intention of learning from Lao Mouzi.

Several locations are very beautiful.

After their post-production special effects processing, it is even more beautiful.

It can be regarded as a new attempt in the technology of small steel cannons.

Li Shengyao heard the words, "Don't pursue good looks, I hope to be more realistic, the more realistic the better."

Wang Xuan understood what Li Shengyao meant, and Zheng nodded.

He went on to say, "Boss, in terms of funds?"

"How much do you expect to spend?"

"Two million."

The previous budget was 4000 million, and 500 million has been set aside until now. Excluding dubbing, soundtrack, and secondary editing, there should be 400 million.

Li Shengyao nodded, "Okay, you can figure it out. If there is more than a dozen or 20, you can decide for yourself. If it exceeds more, then report to me."

……

The budget of "Extreme Escape" is only 4000 million, which does not include the money for later promotion.

Now that the special effects cost so much money, Li Shengyao estimates that he will have to pay about 100 million in publicity fees in the future.

If it is seven or eight years later, the publicity will cost tens of millions, even higher than the cost of production, it will be really expensive.

And this time publicity is much cheaper.

Regarding "Extreme Escape", Fenghua Video has been promoting it, and the navy of the studio is also promoting it.

Lee Sing Yew does not intend to continue to spend a lot of money on publicity.

His plan is to make some posters next and put them in various movie theaters.

The total cost should not need to be 100 million.

In fact, as far as this year's Lunar New Year movies are concerned, the promotion can be said to be varied.

When the premiere of "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles" in December, Zhang Weiping will hold a grand banquet with thousands of tables in Yunan.

All travelers and locals are invited to dine together.

It is said that this celebration banquet cost a total of 250 million.

The announcement of "If Love" has already been carried out.

"If You Love" is a song and dance film with many songs, it has been played on major TV stations and subways, and posters are posted everywhere.

The cost of this publicity must be very high, at least five or six million.

"The Great Sage of Love Epilepsy" is a bit less, they are mainly media operations.

Huayi has been operating in the mainland for many years, and naturally cooperates with many media.

Today there is speculation that Nicholas Tse has an affair with Jian Bingbing, tomorrow there is speculation that Chen Bolin is having a room with Ah Sa.

Both Huayi and Yinghuang like this routine.

After seeing Wang Xuan, Li Shengyao returned to his own office.

The assistant then rushed over, "Boss, this is a promotional poster designed by the company, please see which one is more suitable."

Since a large number of promotional posters are to be placed, it is natural to create an attractive poster.

Fenghua specially found a well-known design company in the industry to make it.

In order to attract such a big client as Fenghua, the company only offered [-] yuan for the first business.

Although the money given was less, Li Shengyao's request would not weaken.

This time the assistant handed over a total of five pictures.

Li Shengyao glanced at it, then frowned, and pushed back, "Why is Brother Cheng Long standing in the most prominent position in the five pictures?"

Cheng Long is indeed the biggest actor in "Extreme Escape", and also the most charismatic actor in "Extreme Escape".

But his role is only 2 minutes, and he just came to play a cameo.

Li Shengyao didn't want the audience to think Cheng Long was the highlight.

This is not only deceiving the audience, but also disrespecting Cheng Long.

Upon hearing this, the assistant looked at Li Shengyao in puzzlement, "Isn't brother Cheng Long the most popular actor in the crew?"

Li Shengyao shook his head, "He's just a cameo, leave a profile picture on the side, just write a special role, don't put him in the middle of the poster."

"This……"

No matter at this time or more than ten years later, there are behaviors of stealing big-name traffic.

Especially after more than ten years, Shen Teng cameoed in several movies, one of which only appeared in his portrait, and Shen Teng was placed in the most prominent position on the movie poster. It can be said that there is no bottom line for the sake of food.

Director Li has an unusual status, so naturally he would not do such a low-level thing.

He ordered the table, and said earnestly: "Hurry up and change it, Deng Chao and Li Lianhua are standing in the middle, they are the core of the movie."

The assistant nodded, but hesitated a little, and did not leave immediately.

"Boss, there is one more thing."

"Say something quickly."

"That's right, Li Lianhua's assistant contacted me and asked me if "Extreme Escape" should arrange actors to hype up relationship issues?"

"Does Deng Chao agree? Doesn't he have a girlfriend?"

It seems that Deng Chao has never hyped up such a scandal. In this respect, he is quite pure.

"Deng Chao should disagree. What Li Wei means is that Li Lianhua can be arranged to hype with you."

Hearing this, Li Shengyao couldn't help looking out.

The sky is gloomy today, and it looks like it's going to rain, but the dark clouds have been squatting for two or three hours, and it hasn't rained yet.

It's so weird.

The world is so big that there are indeed no surprises.

Director Li has established his girlfriend Chen Xun long ago, but everyone in the circle basically knows that he still has a few women.

Netizens have heard similar reports more or less.

Such things have no effect on Director Li.

The assistant then added: "Li Wei said that if you agree, I can arrange for Li Lianhua to come to your house."

Go to my house, isn't that a home-delivered dish?

But well...

"I disagree."

Li Shengyao didn't like Li Lianhua's looks very much,
Moreover, he is a great director, so it is too shameful to hype up relationship issues like this.

Lao Mouzi, brother Kaizi's movie will be released, and he won't hype such a topic.

The assistant nodded, looked at Li Shengyao with admiration, and left in a hurry.

Li Shengyao stood up and came to the glass window.

The street below was crowded with people, and there was a street performer who set up a stereo and sang. At this time, seven or eight people still stopped to watch.

Li Shengyao opened the window, and could faintly hear some singing, which seemed quite pleasant.

But such a singer, without Bole, would never be famous.

No matter what time it is, being talented does not mean being famous.

Marketing is still important.

Li Shengyao closed the window and returned to his desk.

The last time "Let's Punch, Dad" was screened at the Shanghai Film Festival and gained word of mouth.

"Extreme Escape" cannot be screened this time, and he will order screenings seven days in advance.

But in addition to screenings, as well as posters, Fenghua videos, and navy.

Is there any other way of publicity?
The promotion of "Extreme Escape" is incomparable with "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles" and "If You Love".

"If Love" has posters in subway and bus stations in major cities across the country.

So should "Extreme Escape" do the same?
Li Shengyao thought for a while, but still shook his head, then he closed his eyes, lit the table, and opened his eyes suddenly after a while.

He suddenly thought of a coup.

Isn't "Extreme Escape" a lot like "Temple Run"?

So can they find a game company to make a simple "Extreme Escape" web game?

In this way, both publicity and money can be made.

The more Li Shengyao thought about it, the more he felt that this idea was good.

Games are a powerful tool for attracting money, and he somewhat knows that some games can become popular in the mainland.

Games can also be regarded as entertainment products, there is no reason not to use them.

Li Shengyao then asked his assistant to call Wu Wenhui over.

After a while, he told Wu Wenhui his thoughts.

Old Wu's eyes lit up when he heard this, "Boss, this is a good idea. It's very feasible, and not only movies, but many books from our starting point can also be made into games. We should make use of this."

In fact, just this year, Shanda has proposed to Fenghua the intention to purchase the starting point.

But now Fenghua is not short of money, so he naturally refused.

Wu Wenhui then thought of Shanda's intention, which is the novel that wants to use the starting point.

He was looking for an opportunity to talk to Li Shengyao about this matter.

However, Li Shengyao has been busy recently, and Fenghua now needs a lot of money.

Now that Li Shengyao proposed it himself, Wu Wenhui naturally agreed.

When Li Shengyao heard Wu Wenhui's words, he immediately understood that Wu Wenhui had related ideas a long time ago, and smiled slightly, "Let's find a powerful but relatively cheap game company first. Let's buy it and make the web game "Extreme Escape" first, and wait for us next year." Once you have money, consider other games.”

"it is good."

Wu Wenhui then left excitedly.

Li Shengyao closed his eyes and praised his brain.

(End of this chapter)