Super entertainment red envelope

Chapter 646 Talk about money!

"China's first overhead historical TV series is about to start filming! "

"Li Zhifan's new play, the writer and director made alternate historical themes! "

"A new attempt, the fictional historical theme is brought to the screen for the first time! "

"The mainland TV drama market is facing a crisis of large-scale banning, and Mango TV seeks out Li Zhifan to save it!" "

"The strictest film and television restriction order in history strikes!Radio and Television: It is necessary to vigorously support the film and television culture of the country! "

……

A few days later, news spread on the Internet that Li Zhifan was about to start filming a new drama. Although the title of the drama has not been revealed yet, the "historical theme of ancient costume" has been confirmed.

In fact, after fantasy dramas became popular, many film and television professionals set their sights on works with fictional historical themes. Compared with fantasy dramas, television dramas with fictional historical themes are actually easier to produce, but the processing of the background structure and the adaptation of drama tension , the adaptation of the storyline design, etc., are also very deep knowledge.

Many online literature IPs of fictional history have been looted by film and television companies, but they can only be hoarded.

There was even an adaptation of a fictional online novel before, but the background of the time was replaced with real history. Although the court and the time were downplayed, the scenes related to the imperial power of the court were also removed, and it was made into a film and television drama about unofficial history. I was caught and sprayed by the original party for a long time.

As soon as the news came out, Hu Xiaolong couldn't sit still.

"What? He wants to make a costume drama? Or a fictional historical theme?"

Hu Xiaolong chuckled, "He can't make it, and it's impossible for the radio and television company to pass it on to him. Over the years, many film and television companies have wanted to make TV dramas with fictional historical themes, but none of them can be judged. He'll just wait and see!"

"It's no wonder that "Gun Dynasty" was changed to "Gunman Romance", and a historical background of the Ming Dynasty was inserted. It turned out to be the reason!"

Wu Kele echoed that, in fact, he knew all of these things. "Gun Dynasty" was also a very popular Internet IP back then, but unfortunately it was changed beyond recognition. The reason for saying this is to praise Hu Xiaolong.

"Haha, you don't know, do you? Not many people know about this, because I wanted to make a film back then, but unfortunately I didn't make it. It was only later that I found out that this kind of fictional historical subject matter was restricted by radio and television!"

Hu Xiaolong smiled, "Mango TV is in such a hurry, it must have bought some IP and asked Li Zhifan to direct it temporarily, but they miscalculated, hahaha!"

"Director Hu, you have a clever plan, it must be like this!" Wu Kele echoed again.

……

Inside the circle.

After learning that Li Zhifan was about to direct a new play, many actors contacted one after another, asking for the opportunity to cooperate and participate in the performance.

The success of "Latent" has already proved Li Zhifan's ability in the TV drama market, and this time the costume drama is still a fictional historical theme, and there must be a lot of young actors, so those first- and second-tier fresh meat actors, all of them have their own. Lower your value and take the initiative to ask for a job.

Due to time constraints, the casting work was carried out through three aspects.

One aspect is the on-site audition. The audition will select three candidates for each role.

The second aspect is to select through video materials. Those who are too busy to get to the audition site can send video materials, but after the materials are screened, only one place can be selected.

The third aspect is Li Zhifan's own invitations to actors, but any invitations he sends out must be those he thinks are suitable and can act.

This time Li Zhifan is not only the editor and director, but also the lead actor.

For the role of Mei Changsu, he decided to play it himself. Looking at the entire entertainment circle, he was not at ease to give it to anyone.

In this way, his workload has increased exponentially, and it will not be as easy as when filming "Latent".

……

a.

The ten-episode script is freshly released.

After Li Zhifan finished writing these ten episodes, he slept hard on it for a day and a night before recovering his spirit.

This time he set a challenging task for himself, instead of following the normal shooting process, after taking all the scenes in one scenic spot, he then changed to another.

Instead, they shoot at the same time according to the plots and scenes within ten episodes.

That is to say, in a scene, only the scenes from the first ten episodes are taken first, and then the next scene is changed. When waiting for the second ten episodes to be shot, I will come back to shoot again.

This morning.

The casting work is not over yet, only a few leading actors and supporting roles needed for the first ten episodes have been confirmed, and the opening ceremony is urgently held.

"Zhifan, can you do this?"

Zhou Shilei, who was cast to play the role of Emperor Liang in the play, was very speechless about Li Zhifan's decision, "Isn't it too hasty? Ten episodes and ten episodes? It's too wasteful!"

"No way, but it's too urgent!"

Li Zhifan said, "But trust me, it will be fine!"

"I can't believe it!"

Zhou Shilei shook his head, and said jokingly, "I shouldn't have agreed to you so hastily, I have never seen a director filming like this!"

"I just saw it!"

Li Zhifan smiled, "Don't worry, I have a comprehensive plan!"

"Are you afraid they won't give you money?"

Zhou Shilei said, "If we don't give money, we can invest by ourselves? We brothers can pool together, and we can still get [-] to [-] million. Besides, your family is rich, so you still care about the money?"

"It's not about the money!"

Li Zhifan shook his head, "We have a lot of things to do at the same time. I plan to hold a viewing meeting when the first [-] episodes are filmed, and sell all the rights to broadcast the show. The ground and ground entered at the same time, all right! No more talk, let's start shooting!"

Except for Li Zhifan himself as Mei Changsu, Zhou Shilei as Emperor Liang, Wang Yue as Uncle Guo Yanque, and Wang Ye as Ningguo Marquis Xie Yu, they are all elders.

Among the younger generation, Li Zhifan invited several actors in the industry, all of whom have starred in many TV dramas and have strong acting skills, but they are not well-known.

The actor who plays Jing Wang Xiao Jingyan is called Jiang Hai, and he has always acted in dramas, including costume dramas.

And the one who plays the role of the great commander Meng Zhi is called Liu Di. He has acted in many costume dramas, especially CCTV's main costume dramas. He can basically be seen. He starred in some martial arts dramas in the early years, but he was not warm Not popular, not to mention acting skills.

Fei Liu found a young actor who is very popular in China. Regardless of his small size, he is also a veteran actor. He started acting in children's dramas at the age of 6 and has been popular until now. As he grows older, his popularity has not declined. Maybe it has something to do with him getting more and more handsome.

In addition, the same is true for King Yu and the prince, named Luo Qiang and Liu Yibai respectively.

Special mention should be made of Fu Cai and Sun Youbin.

This time, Fu Xing was promoted to be the assistant director of the play, and he was assigned to play the role of Yan Yujin, who acted as Wang Yue's son in the play, while Sun Youbin played the role of Lin Chen, the young master of Langya Pavilion, regardless of his appearance. In terms of character design, this role is very suitable for him.

The arrangement of female characters is even more numerous.

The heroine is still Qi Feiling. Finding her this time is much easier than finding her when filming "Latent", because "Latent" is a challenge for her, because it is a real drama, and when she heard that Li Zhifan was going to shoot a costume drama, she still had to Acting as the princess, he agreed without blinking an eye.

Other actresses arrange their own people first, and then arrange the chosen ones.

Bai Qingqing, Wu Moli, and Zhou Ke were all assigned roles by Li Zhifan, and it was mainly because it was easy to bargain with his own people, and it was not too long-winded.

……

The first scenic spot is Qinwang Palace in Hengdian Film and Television City.

Although Li Zhifan asked Mango TV to rent the whole place, it was not so easy to implement it, because there were other crews filming here, so they only rented the main palace and apse.

During the shooting, there are often two scenes in one room, half of which is a study room and the other half is a bedroom.

The most important scene in this drama is Su Zhai.

The construction of Su's house was actually very time-consuming and laborious. Although we directly rented a house for renovation, those organs and secret rooms were not easy, and Li Zhifan also required real scenes, so the crew directly invited more than 100 people. 24 Hours of continuous rotation to build.

the first week.

Because of the running-in period, only most of the first ten episodes in Qin Palace were filmed.

Entering the second week, everyone has almost gotten used to it, and the pace of shooting has gradually accelerated.

At the same time, Li Zhifan has already started post-production when everyone is resting at night.

The current post-production can only be simple editing, and it is impossible to make a soundtrack or dub.

Including the first ten episodes that were produced and shown to Mango Channel, they are also "gross" films that have only been edited but not post-processed, and will not be the final product.

This requires that the actor's lines must be fluent and clear, and cannot be replaced by numbers or nonsense.

Only with strict requirements and high standards can he produce high-quality films and convince the actors.

And Li Zhifan himself is everyone's "model", he doesn't need to memorize his lines, he blurts out everything, everything is in his mind.

Sometimes even when the actor who plays the opposite actor forgets his lines for a while, he can directly remind him.

This trick surprised all the actors.

Even if you are an editor or a director, can you memorize every line of dialogue in the whole script?

It is obviously impossible for ordinary people, unless they have a photographic memory!

But Li Zhifan was able to do it, so he gained the title of "Remember Live Script" in the crew.

In three weeks, five scenes were removed, and the first ten episodes were finally filmed.

In the past three weeks, Li Zhifan's script has also been written for [-] episodes. Since it is a pity that some parts were not filmed consecutively, he filmed about three more episodes.

"Old Zhao, thank you for your hard work. Call and arrange a remote video conference with the people from Mango Channel, and show them the first ten episodes of porn. If there is no problem, let them pay for it, and say that we can't solve the problem here! "

"The matter of bargaining..."

"You have full power to decide, but you can't be inferior to Hu Xiaolong and the others!"

"Okay, I know!"

Turning around, Zhao Yiduo immediately arranged a conference call appointment with Mango Channel, and formed a powerful negotiation think tank, preparing to have a hard fight on the price of a single set.

However, what ushered in was not a bitter battle, but a particularly smooth negotiation.

After watching the first ten episodes, Mango TV couldn’t help but agree to pay for the first ten episodes, and also agreed to pay all the purchase fees of the show at one time, but they made a request, that is, the advertising fees of the TV drama station and Mango TV, One-size-fits-all buyout, all future profits will belong to Mango Station.

Zhao Yiduo couldn't decide this kind of thing alone, so he had to ask Li Zhifan for instructions.

Li Zhifan was stunned when he heard that Mango TV was willing to pay for the purchase of the whole drama.

As for the advertising fee, he also hesitated.

One disadvantage of costume dramas is that they are not as convenient for advertising placement as modern dramas, so if you buy out all the advertisements on the TV station and the Mango TV network platform, you will definitely earn a lot less.

After thinking about it, Li Zhifan still agreed, but he raised the price to 2000 million per episode.

Is it expensive?

It is indeed expensive!
But is it worth it?

He thinks it's worth it, but he doesn't know what Mango Terrace thinks!

……

Online.

Hu Xiaolong's "Legend of Allure" suddenly spread the news that the broadcast platform was confirmed, and the price of the first round of broadcast rights was exposed - 8.3 million!
The 8.3 million includes the total price of two joint broadcast TV stations and an exclusive broadcast on the entire network of an online broadcast platform.

Advertising costs are also one size fits all, including online broadcast platforms.

And it is estimated that the total number of episodes of "Legend of Allure" is 2075 episodes, equivalent to the price of one episode, which is [-] million episodes!
For a while, netizens were arguing.

"Wow! So expensive? 8.3 million?"

"Now TV dramas are so expensive!"

"The three partnerships paid for it. I guess I watched the video for the most money, and they actually won the exclusive rights to broadcast the entire network!"

"This is a record breaker. The premiere rights of "Latent" were only sold for 2 million yuan. Adding 1.5 rounds and advertising revenue, it didn't exceed [-] million yuan!"

"Don't forget that "Latent" also has an online platform, and "Legend of Allure" is included in the online broadcast platform."

"I heard that "Latent" sold two, but because there is Mango TV as the third one, the online broadcasting rights are not sold very high. Even if the total is over [-] million, it is not as good as this one that has not yet been filmed. The finished "Legend of the Fallen City"!"

"Yeah, what a money grab!"

"Hey, in fact, comparing the movie box office market, you would think that this 40-episode TV series is only 8.3 million, right?"

"Silly! Can TV dramas compare to movies?"

"Why can't it be compared? Not all movies are art, and there are also high-quality TV dramas, okay?"

"..."

Crew.

Li Zhifan was arguing with Mango TV while filming.

2000 million per episode is indeed too high. Since Li Zhifan said it is higher than "Legend of Allure", then "Legend of Allure" excludes the 3.5 million who like to watch videos, and the two TV stations jointly paid 4.8 million, 1200 million per episode. Counting the price, it is much lower than the original 1500 million episodes posted on the Internet.

So on the Mango TV side, I really want to win the drama "Langya Bang" at a price that is only slightly higher than "Legend of Allure", but I don't care about the previous promise to Li Zhifan, so the price and whether to buy it out across the board , held a whole day meeting.

Finally, it was Li Zhifan who spoke.

"The minimum is 1500 million episodes, including Mango TV, but it is not an exclusive broadcast right on the Internet, and Mango TV has to be a member to watch it. Advertising TV plus the Internet can be used across the board."

The reason why membership is required is because Li Zhifan wants to use this bargaining chip to contact a suitable online exclusive broadcasting platform.

And besides these, he also plans to open up the Hong Kong and Taiwan market, and broadcast it directly in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the first round of broadcast!
(End of this chapter)