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Not just actors, but also behind the scenes.

In fact, among the budget of the entire film, the director received 10, which is considered the highest.For the rest, the members behind the scenes receive roughly 3 to [-] yuan.After all, the filming time of this movie is not long, more than a month, and the longest will not exceed two months.

In general, the salary of the behind-the-scenes team is more than 60, and the rest is the cost of some equipment and equipment.

Although the crew comes from Hong Kong, the labor costs are not necessarily more expensive than those from mainland China, and may even be cheaper.Moreover, these are experienced and skilled workers, so the price/performance ratio is even higher.

Essentially, at this time, people in the film and television industry in Hong Kong are either at the top or their livelihood is in question.

In the past, at its peak, Hong Kong films produced hundreds of movies a year, and there were hundreds of TV series.As a result, there are tens of thousands of people working in the Hong Kong film and television industry. This is based on the fact that Hong Kong films are not only popular in the local market, but also sold in the mainland.Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and other markets.

However, it seems that due to the squeeze of Hollywood films in the 90s, the output of Hong Kong films dropped sharply. The local box office market for Hong Kong films shrank to HK$[-] billion, and most of it was occupied by Hollywood films.

The domestic film market... well, it is still hovering at 10 billion yuan in size and has not yet entered a real blowout stage.

Generally speaking, it was not until after 06 that mainland films gradually exploded, and the market grew larger year by year, and the Chinese film industry began to bottom out.

Of course, it is not a good thing if the market grows too fast. For example, the various chaos in the entertainment industry that followed were essentially the result of the market expanding too fast and the salaries of stars rising too fast, so that ethics did not match their standards.

The market is fully competitive and that kind of environment can truly screen out those with more creative ability and professionalism.

Generally speaking, except for a few people who have relatively high production standards in Hong Kong films, most of them are just makeshift.

For example, Chung Chi-chang, a group of newcomers, might have been able to make a living during the boom era of Hong Kong films. During the recession of Hong Kong films, these middle-level industry insiders who had not made it to the top were the most difficult to endure.

Even so, Zhao Han still makes some behind-the-scenes work from Hong Kong films, mainly because they are more cost-effective. They are the kind of films that if you don't do it, there are many people in the Hong Kong circle rushing to do it, and they are not afraid of these people charging too high prices.

On the contrary, these days, the salaries of mainland insiders will rise very quickly, and gradually the level of wealth will not match their ability.

Of course, the ones with the most outrageous salary increases are actually some of the stars who have become famous.Therefore, Zhao Han focuses on the behind-the-scenes, not the stars.

There are enough teams behind the scenes, and stars are continuously cultivated like an assembly line, but the craftsmanship and technology behind the scenes are actually much more difficult than cultivating stars.

The Hong Kong industry has a master-apprentice system. After Zhao Han invited more people from Hong Kong, over time, he asked him to bring out some apprentices. The behind-the-scenes team he cultivated at home was actually more controllable than those cultivated by the film and television academy system.

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After the movie started filming, Zhao Han also looked for opportunities to visit the cast.

Then, I looked at the crew, who were speaking in Hong Kong and doing dialect translation.

Well, there are quite a few local amateur actors, some of whom speak Mandarin quite well, and some of whom speak Mandarin like Wan Pu.

Just the communication between the crew and the crew was a complete mess.

However, everyone's attitude is relatively good.Mainly they are ordinary people who have finally gotten into movies and are very cooperative with directors and behind-the-scenes work.

Most of the shots in the movie are easy to solve, after all, there are no special effects.But it was mainly a time travel shot, which really tested the crew’s wisdom.

The crew seems to have created a glowing door.

Put a calendar on the door.

And paired with a ticking alarm clock.

Then, after the protagonist fell asleep due to fatigue, the door suddenly opened, and then, the calendar on it continued to regress from 2005 to 2004, 2003... until 1995.

"Boss..." Zhong Jichang pointed to the shot and said, "This part was thought up by the actor Li Ergou who plays Huang Xiaoshan in my studio. This Li Ergou has written a rebirth novel and has a lot of clever ideas. And when he acted, he was pretty good at it.”

"Li Ergou?" Zhao Han quickly remembered that this guy should be Miss Chunhua's dog?

The well-known author of Jingjing Reading Network is also somewhat famous.

The recent updates have suddenly become weekly updates. It turns out... that someone got into the crew.

"Two dogs!" Zhao Han waved casually.

"Brother Zhao!" Li Ergou and Zhao Han are from the same hometown. In fact, they have met before. Although the relationship is not close, at least they are acquaintances.

"You don't write novels, but come to make movies?" Zhao Han couldn't help but laugh.

"I didn't want to come here. I came with my neighbor brother to watch the excitement. The neighbor was removed and I was selected." Li Ergou said, "However, my book is almost over. The next one I have the inspiration, and I am going to write about the entertainment industry! I will be reborn in the entertainment industry and become a superstar, a singer, and a well-known director. While I was acting, I kept looking for the crew to learn some details about the industry."

"Oh!" Zhao Han smiled, "Then come on!"

It seems that there are already online articles about the rebirth of the entertainment industry. The author of "The Legend of the Tycoon" by pastry is very ecstatic. He has an extremely good understanding of Hong Kong movies in the 90s and [-]s, which can be regarded as a pioneer.

The rebirth of entertainment, there is still a big market even in 2023.It's just that I was too disenchanted to write about "mountain monsters", so later, "mountain monsters" with this theme were also lumped into the street.

Chapter 434: Confrontation with the Street Fighting Director

"What difficulties did you face during filming in Jiangcheng County?" Zhao Han turned to Zhong Jichang.

"It's mainly difficult to communicate with the accents of the two places. However, everyone tries to communicate in Mandarin as much as possible, and occasionally speaks a few words in English." Zhong Jichang said sincerely, "We now agree that we should learn Mandarin well."

"Well, learn more Mandarin. In the future, the opportunities in the mainland will be much greater than those in Hong Kong. There is currently a lack of commercial film production teams in the mainland. The sooner you develop in the mainland and make commercial films that cater to the market, the more money you can make.

If you hesitate, you will find that the market has become bigger after many years, and if you look for opportunities again, the market will be occupied in advance by some foresighted people.

The current development opportunities for the mainland's film and television market will most likely grow into a market like the Eagle Sauce market in the future, but it is still very early and the market is expanding at a rate of hundreds of movie screens a year.In the future, it will definitely accelerate. "

Zhao Han thought for a while and said, "Yu Weiwei was in Beijing recently and met Mr. Han from China Film Group. Mr. Han has a good relationship with the film bureau. Many of them are former acquaintances and colleagues. The script of "Rebirth" has been filed.

When it is released, the main thing to review is to check for all kinds of things that have a negative impact.For example, some ghost movies and zombies in Hong Kong movies involve feudal superstition.But... if you raise these to the level of myths and legends such as Journey to the West and The List of Gods, it will be fine.

Hong Kong movies inevitably involve gangsters. The problem with gangsters is that they are almost extinct in the mainland.When children watch Hong Kong gangster movies, they may imitate them. Therefore, only a handful of gangster-themed movies that use the police to fight crime can enter the mainland box office market.

For other things that are too sensitive to be screened, you can generally avoid them!If you don’t understand, the company can prepare a batch of themes that can pass the review and choose from these scripts! "

Zhong Jichang nodded and said, "This is the best!"

Zhao Han laughed and said: "Don't feel confused about the review of mainland film themes. In fact, there is probably no problem in bypassing some taboos, such as normal comedies, romances, martial arts, myths and other commercial films.

There is no need to consider market audience preferences. There are many mainland audiences and everyone has different preferences.

As long as you tell a story about a theme well, for example, rebirth, this theme!By then, it will probably be the first movie to be reborn in the online genre and have a certain box office base.

Don’t think that film theme creativity is a matter for the film industry. In other industries, such as novel creativity, sometimes story routines have been verified by the market.

If you honestly understand the essence of the selling point of the story routine and turn it into a film and television, it will be a creative film and television theme, and it will be difficult not to be a hit! "

As for the selling point of the essence of online articles, later domestic film and television dramas often have flaws.There are so many rebirths and the audience likes to see them. Wouldn't it be better for you to film more rebirths?

As a result, there are very few rebirths in the film and television industry.

At that time, Japan and South Korea later invested in some rebirth-themed films or animations. Basically, as long as you make something, it is difficult not to be a hit. As a result, the film and television industry just doesn’t know how to use popular themes in online texts, and they have to wait until the film is cool before filming.

Well, the later "Charlotte Troubles" was a movie about rebirth. It was a hit at the box office and made the Happy Twist gang famous.

Although it is a comedy, during the initial promotion, the element of rebirth was heavily promoted, attracting readers from all walks of life to buy tickets and support the show.

In addition to rebirth, many online time-travel dramas later had to downplay the time-travel element.Isn't there something wrong with this?

Zhong Jichang nodded in agreement naturally: "Li Ergou has communicated with me a lot, and we learn from each other. There are indeed many subject treasures in online literature, some of which have never been filmed in Hong Kong films before! Some new subjects, I don’t dare to mess with it, I still stick to the essence of the original work!”

Li Ergou next to him smiled and said: "Thanks to Director Zhong for your guidance! I learned screenwriting and some film shooting skills from Director Zhong!"

Zhao Han smiled: "I'm not saying that the original work has not been changed at all, but that the original work has been changed to conform to the spirit of the original work.

If so, focus on the essence and selling points of the original work.

If you can become a director who is loyal to the original work and mainly adapts Internet IP.I can keep investing in you and make as many movies as you want.Gain experience and invest more than tens of millions in the future, and control more funds step by step.

After becoming a master, even if you can't become a master, you can still become Wang Jing. "

Zhong Jichang couldn't help but nodded repeatedly, his eyes shining.

Wong Jing is one of the few. Even if the Hong Kong film market is sluggish, he is still a director who is soft-handed in making films. On the one hand, Wong Jing makes films at a fast pace. In addition, even if the films made by Wong Jing suffer losses, they will not lose much. .

Occasionally, Wang Jing can make a surprise and produce a work that makes a lot of money.

This kind of director is generally the envy of ordinary Hong Kong film directors.At least Wong Jing can always make movies, and he can make movies if he wants to.

"If you are willing, you can join Wenjing Holdings Company and become a long-term director." Zhao Han smiled, "You can also gradually transform into a management team, similar to Wang Tianlin. Use your connections in the film and television industry to let others make films. You Supervise production on behalf of the company.”

Wang Tianlin is Wang Jing’s father.

Wang Jing was able to debut in the early stage because the scripts could be sold at the beginning and Wang Tianlin's connections came into play.

Later, Wang Jing was a genius and created quickly. Driven by Wang Tianlin's connections, he soon became more famous than Wang Tianlin.

But Wang Tianlin is definitely a legend. He started making movies in the 50s.He is a well-known director with a good reputation. He later joined TVB in the 70s and transitioned into making TV series. He was also a TVB executive. Wang Tianlin was the producer of various martial arts dramas.

At TVB Wang Tianlin has always had a huge say in the content production of TV series.

During the recession of Hong Kong films, many people began to envy TVB's iron rice bowl.

TVB salaries are not high, and a lot of TVB artists, screenwriters, and directors want to go overseas to make movies. This is something that happened in the past.

Now, it is...it is very difficult to join the TVB establishment.

Some actors who had some respectability in the past were affiliated with TVB and received a guaranteed monthly salary of several thousand, which is obviously very low in Hong Kong.

However, if you can have a guaranteed salary, at least you will not starve to death, and you can film movies, you will get another salary.

Although the benefits of TVB's stable staffing restrict artists and prevent them from developing freely, at least TVB will not starve the contracted artists to death.

Therefore, compared to the king of bad movies like Wang Jing, TVB's number one producer like Wang Tianlin is even more enviable at this time.

"Boss Zhao, I will work hard!" Zhong Jichang felt for a moment that his day of success was just around the corner.

really……

A few months ago, I met a fortune teller who told me that he would meet a noble person, and the noble person would be located in the north.

Sure enough, the noble man comes from the mainland, which is naturally farther north than Hong Kong Island.

Chapter 435 Cognition determines the pattern

After chatting with the crew, the takeout ordered online by the staff was also delivered.

During this period, most of the meals the crew ate while filming were takeaways from Wenwen Service Network.

Mai Xiaoling couldn't help but sigh: "All small counties in the mainland can order food online. In this regard, Hong Kong cities are indeed a bit unprogressive. The Cyberport that was launched with great fanfare a few years ago was later turned into a real estate development project. ”

"Normally, the Hong Kong government has entrusted it to someone else. The Li family itself started from real estate. Any project can be turned into real estate."

Zhao Han shook his head and said, "It is unrealistic to rely on aging traditional chaebols for innovation! These consortiums are path dependent, and some of the past paths have been beneficial to the consortium itself, but are actually harmful to the long-term development of the local economy and employment.

For example, real estate has pushed up labor costs. If housing prices are high, rents will be high. Some industries cannot recruit people in Hong Kong cities, further strangling many industries.

The Hong Kong government should believe that high housing prices have inhibited the possibility of landing and developing many industries. Except for port transportation, re-export foreign trade, and finance, which are not very affected, other industries are generally lackluster.

In essence, Hong Kong cities have capital advantages. If they seize the opportunity, they can hope to develop the Internet industry.

However, traditional wealth has pushed up housing prices in a short period of time, and the cost of starting a business is extremely expensive, which has inhibited the soil for Internet start-ups in Hong Kong.

Even if Internet venture capital invests money in this emerging industry, a bunch of consortiums in Hong Kong City show little interest.

So now, in the face of the Internet economy, Hong Kong City, like most other regions in the world, has become a bystander and has not eaten this piece of the cake.

It’s not that you can’t eat it, but that many wealthy giants don’t know enough about it, so they don’t have the opportunity to make money in this market. "

"Actually, I think you are so awesome, boss." Mai Xiaoling said with emotion, "If Mr. Yu hadn't told me, I really wouldn't have known that the boss only spent tens of thousands of yuan to start a business more than a year ago, and it was like magic. Quickly became the super rich man he is now."

The valuation of Wenjing Media Holdings, where Mai Xiaoling works, alone is US$5000 million.

This is a project that venture capital has given real money to, and Wenjing Media Holdings, as a platform, has blossomed in Yingtu and Rabbit, and has successfully completed many projects.

For example, Jingjing Duyingyingjiang and Weibo International are essentially operated by Wenjing Media Holdings.

After Mai Xiaoling joined the company, she knew she had joined a large company with a bright future just by learning about the company's rapid rise in the hawker sauce market.

Not to mention, after entering the mainland, I found that the boss's business model in the mainland market was far better than overseas.

For example, this Wenwen Service Network is a website that Mai Xiaoling can't live without after coming to the mainland for all kinds of shopping.

Well, the prices in the mainland are too cheap. Basically, all kinds of delicacies are available. She thinks they are okay, so she orders them.

Sometimes, if you order too much food and can’t eat it, you can also give it to the crew as a favor to taste.

"I don't really care how much money I have or how much I'm worth. Anyway, even if I don't start a business and just write novels, it's easy to earn hundreds of thousands a month." Zhao Han smiled, "That's why, The main reason for starting a business is that I feel that the world should become what I want it to be. If I don't change it, either the world will remain unchanged or it will be changed by others into what others want it to be. So, why can't I change the world to what I want it to be? How do you hope?"

For a moment, Mai Xiaoling couldn't help but marvel. Sure enough, the genius Internet entrepreneur was different, and the pattern was beyond her imagination.

Mai Xiaoling is lucky. She lives in a public housing estate. Although it is a bit crowded, she still has a place to stay.Because of the crowding, all she could think about when she grew up was that she would be developed... the symbol of development, well, that is, buying a big house. The big house in her imagination should be a mansion with thousands of square feet, which is more than 100 square meters in the mainland. commercial housing.

Thousand-foot mansion!

The main reason is that the housing prices in Hong Kong are too outrageous. The price of a house of about 100 square meters is probably at least 2000 to [-] million Hong Kong dollars.

In Jiangcheng County, where Zhao Han is located, about 200 commercial houses can be sold at the same price.

If house prices are so expensive that most people only have the thought of buying a house, then... the soil for innovation will cease to exist.