After getting an investment of 3 million from Huaying, Chen Hao has begun to consider the role selection of the film and the post-production of special effects.

As for the filming funds, Chen Hao is ready to invest another 2 million by himself, and a total of 5 million is enough for filming and production.

The sci-fi film that Chen Hao wants to shoot is still a small budget, and the production cost of this film in 2009 in his previous life was 5 million US dollars.

Considering the inflation in the past eight years, the cost of manpower and special effects in the United States are higher than those in the mainland, and the production of this film in the mainland in 2001 actually did not cost 5 million.

But just in case, Chen Hao decided to prepare 2 million first, if it is really not needed, of course it is the best.

However, Chen Hao feels that it is still necessary to declare the shooting cost of 10 million to the outside world, in that case, Haotian Studio can have about 20% of the box office share.

As for how to go financially, Chen Hao naturally knows it very well after filming for so many years.

It's also because I'm so poor now, and I can't help but do 1 straw hat for 2,000 yuan at a time.

At the same time, Chen Hao is not ready to ask Davis of Colombia to invest, otherwise the money will be diluted when he sells to Colombia in the future.

As for pulling in Huaying, on the one hand, it is to express the sincerity of their cooperation and establish a cooperative relationship between them, and on the other hand, because Huaying's distribution ability is the best in the country, which will be of great benefit to the box office of the movie.

The next thing is the choice of characters, of which the casting of the male protagonist is undoubtedly the top priority, because this movie is basically a one-man show for the male protagonist alone.

is about thirty years old, not long after becoming a father, he still needs one person to play two roles, and he must have excellent acting skills.

As for the heroine, she is not so much the heroine, but in fact, she does not have many scenes, and she is not much different from a supporting role.

The number of other roles is not much, and the roles are even less, but they are not very demanding.

Therefore, the main problem of the role is to find a suitable actor first.

However, Chen Hao already has a suitable candidate in his mind, so he can be invited to give it a try first, and it shouldn't be a big problem.

The biggest problem in front of Chen Hao now is actually the problem of special effects.

Limited by the downturn in the mainland film market, Chen Hao can only choose to make low-cost sci-fi films, and the low cost means that Chen Hao does not have enough money to go to the United States to do special effects.

Fortunately, the special effects of this movie are not very difficult, there is no dazzling magic, not a volcanic eruption, a mountain of water, and no high-rise collapse.

The special effects requirements of the movie are relatively simple, so Chen Hao decided to do special effects in China.

However, when it comes to domestic special effects blockbusters, everyone's first reaction may be Wumao special effects.

How to say it, special effects, in fact, are what you pay for, and the filmmaker gives little money, so naturally you can only make special effects for five cents.

If the filmmaker is willing to invest, even before the start of filming, the special effects production project is booked at the beginning of the script preparation, and the preparation of the script and the director is entered from the beginning, the more money the filmmaker gives, the more exquisite the special effects.

Therefore, film and television special effects are the business of burning money to make money from works, and you can't make money without burning money.

Of course, you can't make money by burning money, but you can't make money if you can't burn it.

Film and television special effects are industrial production lines, and they will start burning money from the preparation stage of the film, do you think it is easy?

In Hollywood, the special effects production budget of a blockbuster film generally accounts for 1/3 of the entire film investment, and "Transformers" even accounts for 80%.

But in China, most of the movies with special effects production, the special effects budget is 10%-15%, and some movies are even less than 1%.

Domestic film and television special effects production is often squeezed by pre-shooting, and most of the funds are paid to star actors as salaries, so the investment in special effects is naturally less, and it is no wonder that there are so many five-cent special effects.

But in fact, the development of domestic special effects is still good, thanks to the film market has entered a golden age, more and more international special effects companies have entered China.

In addition, local special effects companies have also sprung up, and many well-known special effects companies with first-class technology have emerged, such as Tiangong Color, MORE VFX, Imperial Capital Wisdom and so on.

All these have allowed the mainland to enter the era of special effects, although it is more than 20 years later than Hollywood, but the special effects technology has been developing rapidly.

Later, many domestic CG and animation companies have actually been OEM for overseas, and some have even directly joined the production of Hollywood movies.

However, most of the special effects companies in the mainland of China were only established in 2006 and later, and now in 2001, there are really no special effects companies in the mainland that can be used.

In fact, if you look at the box office of movies in the mainland now, you probably know why.

If you want to say that the current Chinese special effects, and even the best special effects in Asia, it should be in Xiangjiang!

After all, since the mid-80s, Xiangjiang Films has dominated the whole of Asia, known as Oriental Hollywood, and it is also because Xiangjiang Films can always be a big seller that they can support their own special effects company.

If "Star Wars" in 1977 opened the era of heavy industrial special effects for Hollywood, then it should be "Storm and Clouds" that used a lot of CG special effects in 1998 on behalf of China to officially enter the era of special effects!

Now the level of special effects of Xiangjiang is steadily suppressing South Korea, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the first in Asia!

Therefore, Chen Hao is ready to go to Xiangjiang and talk about the production of special effects in person.

Although the special effects of the movie are not very difficult, in order to be able to better shoot realistic special effects films, Chen Hao decided to let the special effects team enter the crew from the beginning.

From the preparation stage of the crew, we discussed the special effects production plan together and tailored special effects for the film, so that every penny can be spent on the blade and big things can be done with small money.

However, Chen Hao is not familiar with the current Xiangjiang special effects company.

If you want to understand, you will know the new visual effects company of special effects maniac Xu Ke.

Fortunately, Chen Hao doesn't know him, but Yu Dong should be familiar with it, he has now established a relationship with Xiangjiang filmmakers, and won the distribution rights of "The Legend of Tianmai" by virtue of the guaranteed account sharing model.

"Hey, Brother Dong, what are you busy with?" Chen Hao dialed Yu Dong's phone.

"I'm busy with the release of "Legend of the Heavenly Pulse". Yu Dong smiled happily and snatched "The Legend of Tianmai" from Huaying, obviously making him happy, "Is there something wrong with my brother?"

Obviously, Yu Dong also knows Chen Hao very well, and he has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace!

"That's right, my second movie needs special effects, and I'm going to ask a special effects company in Xiangjiang to help produce it, but I'm not familiar with this part, can you please contact Brother Dong. Chen Hao said.

"No problem, you wait a while, I'll help you ask now. After Yu Dong finished speaking, he hung up the phone directly, and acted resolutely.