Xu Shangchu was so angry when he heard that the budget made by the crew of "Hoe Rape" was as high as 950,000 yuan, and felt that Xu Wangqiu and they were simply messing around, so he scolded Xu Wangqiu and Sun Wangquan, and then held a crew meeting to discuss the budget.

A film budget is crucial to the overall film and is arguably one of the most important parts of the filmmaking process. Forty years from now, if the budget for the film is exceeded, it may be increased. Now it is a planned economy, and once the plan is ready, the allocation will be as much as possible, and it is impossible to add more.

Xu Shangchu pointed at Sun Wangquan and scolded: "You report the budget for me, and report it to me one by one!"

Sun Wangquan took the budget table made by the production team and began to report the data: "First of all, the upfront cost of the film, including the script fee of 1,500 yuan, the cost of sub-shots of 500 yuan, and the travel expenses, accommodation expenses, and location survey expenses of Wangqiu and them from Beiping, as well as the food, housing and transportation expenses for selecting actors, holding meetings, and contacting the main creators, the entire budget is 20,000 yuan." ”

Xu Shangchu waved his hand impatiently: "Don't talk about these small money, talk about the main place to spend money." ”

Sun Wangquan glanced at Xu Shangchu and continued to report: "The medium-term cost of the entire film is 750,000 yuan, and this cost mainly includes three items, the remuneration of the staff, accommodation and subsidies, a total of 150,000 yuan; the production cost of equipment and props and other projects is 400,000 yuan, the production team costs 100,000 yuan, and the remaining 50,000 yuan is used as a mobile fund and is a reserve fund. ”

Xu Shangchu shouted when he heard that the equipment and props cost 400,000 yuan: "How can the equipment and props cost be so high, and where is the money mainly spent?"

Sun Wangquan explained: "It is mainly spent on two aspects, the first is the cost of film, "Hoe Rape" due to the special shooting method, the shooting difficulty is much greater than that of ordinary films, and the film consumption is much higher than that of ordinary films, we give a film consumption ratio of 1:6, and we use Agfa film. ”

Xu Shangchu heard that the consumption ratio was 1:6, and he was still using imported Aica Hair film, and roared angrily: "Your consumption is too high, it must be reduced, at most 1:4, if it is a domestic film, I can put it to 1:5 for you." He turned his head to Xu Wangqiu and said: "Do you know what our Magic Shadow Factory's requirements are for the consumption ratio? Imported film is 1:2, domestic film is 1:3, you use Agfa film, you dare to ask for a 1:6 consumption ratio, absolutely not!"

In this era, there are no requirements for the shooting cycle of filmmaking, you can shoot slowly, but you are very concerned about film consumption. The general standard of domestic film studios is 1:3, that is, to choose 1 out of 3 films, even if it is an old director, the film consumption ratio is strictly controlled within 1:6. A big name like Xie Jin is famous for making movies for "how fast and good it is", and the film ratio never exceeds 1:6.

In fact, the 1:3 film consumption ratio is already very low, but the Film Bureau is still very dissatisfied, saying that this film consumption ratio is too high, and everyone in North Korea controls the production of movies within 2 o'clock, and they must learn from the North Korean comrades. In order to reduce the consumption ratio, the director and cinematographer will carefully study the filming site and let the actors rehearse repeatedly. Like Jiang Wen, the act of burning hundreds of thousands of meters of film in a movie is unimaginable and not allowed in this era.

Xu Wangqiu knows that the ratio of 1:4 to imported film is already relatively high in this era, but for a film like "Hoe Rape", which has a large number of sports shots and a large number of handheld photography, this ratio is still too low. But there is no way, the budget is exceeded too much, and it must be cut. Now Xu Wangqiu is particularly nostalgic for the digital age, and he doesn't have to think about the problem of consumable film ratio at all.

However, although the 1:4 consumption ratio is low, it is possible to rehearse a few more times before filming and make preparations, and Xu Shangchu's request is not too much. Xu Wangqiu said to Sun Wangquan: "According to Director Xu's requirements, the consumption ratio should be 1:4!"

Sun Wangquan made a note and continued: "Another place that spends special money is the need to build a street. There are two war scenes in the movie, the second one is slightly better, but the first one is particularly complicated, there are pistols, rifles, machine guns, and grenades, and there are a lot of bombing points and impact points, as well as a scene of bombing the house. It's impossible to shoot on the street, people don't let us do it at all, we can only do it by setting up the scene, and the director requires natural light, you can't set up the scene in the studio, you have to build it outside, which is equivalent to building a street outside. We calculated that it would cost about 240,000 to build this street. ”

Xu Shangchu almost fainted when he heard that Xu Wangqiu and they wanted to spend 240,000 yuan to build a street, and shouted at Xu Wangqiu: "This is not your money, so you don't feel distressed, in order to film "The Rape", you want to build a street, then you want to shoot the Three Kingdoms or something, then do you still want to build a city? This is simply not treating money as money, we will never allow you to mess around!"

Xu Wangqiu heard Xu Shangchu ask himself if he was going to build a city in the Three Kingdoms, and he thought to himself that of course he was going to build a city, isn't this how the Three Kingdoms City and the Water Margin City came about! But this must not be said, if the old man is angry and waves his hand and says that he will not shoot, then Xu Wangqiu has no place to cry, so he hurriedly comforted: "Director Xu, our drama is a war drama, there are many explosion scenes, and there are scenes of bombing houses, and there are scenes of bombing houses, and it is impossible to shoot without repairing the exterior scenes!"

Xu Shangchu said categorically: "I don't care, if we can't find a solution, then we'd rather not shoot." If you want to build a street, you can't do it! It's not spending your own money, you really don't know how to feel distressed!"

The two war scenes are the highlight of "The Rape", and they are also the attraction of the show. If these two scenes can't be shot as expected, the whole movie will be greatly reduced. Xu Wangqiu still wanted to build a street to shoot, so he said: "Director Xu, we can save money in other places, and this street should still be repaired." ”

Xu Shangchu couldn't accept building a street for filming, and felt that it was purely a waste of money, so he didn't listen to Xu Wangqiu's explanation at all: "No, I don't care if you save money elsewhere, but building a street just won't work." ”

When Xu Wangqiu heard Xu Shangchu say this, his brows furrowed, if he didn't specialize in building a street, he wouldn't be able to shoot the desired effect at all. But Xu Shangchu's attitude was so resolute that it was undoubtedly very difficult to convince him. Xu Wangqiu pondered for a few seconds, looked at Xu Shangchu and said slowly: "Director Xu, there are many unemployed young people in your Demon Shadow Factory now, and there is no way to settle them, right?"

At present, the whole country is faced with the problem of resettlement of unemployed youths, and educated youths who have gone to the countryside are returning to the cities one after another; because there are too many people to resettle them, there are not so many jobs to be resettled, and these people can only be unemployed and have nothing to do all day long, which has simply become a factor of instability in factories and society. Film studios are different from other factories, other factories can recruit a little more, but film studios can't recruit people at all.

During the movement, in order to control the film studio, the Gang of Four not only drove the film studio employees to the countryside to settle down, but also stuffed a large number of veterans into the film studio in the name of reorganizing the team, which was called mixed sand. Each studio was stuffed with a few hundred people, including more than 300 people at the Magic Studio. In addition to the fact that the show film studio itself needs to recruit people, this problem is not obvious, old factories such as the Magic Film Studio and the Beijing Film Studio have become extremely bloated, and the people who are stuffed in are difficult to digest, and it is impossible to recruit people anymore.

Xu Shangchu saw that Xu Wangqiu suddenly put the problem on the unemployed youth, and frowned slightly: "Why are you asking this, can you still resettle the unemployed young people in our factory by repairing your street?"

Xu Wangqiu smiled lightly and said slowly: "I don't dare to say that they have all been settled, but it is no problem to place more than 100 people." ”

Xu Shangchu was stunned when he heard this, the problem of unemployed young people in the Magic Shadow Factory was a headache for him, because his children could not find a job, many technicians were clamoring to retire early and let their children take over, these technicians, especially the seventh and eighth level technicians were treasures in the factory, how could they retire early.

Xu Shangchu had a headache for this, but he was helpless, and now when he heard Xu Wangqiu say that he could place more than 100 people, it was like a drowning person seeing the floating lifebuoy, and said excitedly: "Hurry up and talk about it, how to solve the problem of unemployed youth?"

Xu Wangqiu saw that Xu Shangchu was so anxious, and a smile appeared on his face: "I'll give you a few foreign examples, Dongying's film company often shoots movies in Kyoto, and because the film companies gather to set up scenes, a movie street has slowly formed, and many people will go to the movie street when they travel to Kyoto." For example, Universal Pictures in the United States has a shooting base in Los Angeles, and this base is not only used to make movies, but they also keep many scenes from the movies and make them into theme parks for tourists to visit, do you know how much this theme park earns every year? More than a billion dollars!"

Everyone present exclaimed when they heard this figure, the filming base of the film company can earn more than one billion dollars a year, which is also terrifying!

Xu Wangqiu continued: "The Magic Shadow Studio is a big film studio, and it will make a lot of movies every year, and it will shoot more and more, and some of them need to be set. For example, filming costume dramas, such as filming "Three Kingdoms", such as filming Qin Shi Huang, must be set up. It would be a shame if you set up a set in a studio and then tear it down after shooting. In the future, it will be very wasteful to shoot similar themes and re-match.

I think it's better to ask the city government to approve a piece of land in the suburbs and set up the scenery there. For example, if we shoot "Three Kingdoms" and set up a scene there, then we don't have to re-set the scene when we make a film about the Three Kingdoms or the Han Dynasty in the future; if other people want to shoot a Three Kingdoms movie, they don't need to set up the scene themselves, they just come to us to shoot it; we can charge them venue fees. The same is true of the street we built this time, although we spend a lot of money to build this street now, but in the future, when we shoot the magic capital of the Republic of China, we don't need to set up a scene, we can shoot here directly. If other film studios want to shoot similar scenes, they can also come to us, and we can charge them venue fees!"

The earliest film and television base in China is the Ming and Qing Dynasty Style Street of Beijing Film Studio. In 1982, Beijing Film Studio filmed the movie "Camel Xiangzi", and in order to set up the scenery, a small street was built, called Xisi Street, which was later rebuilt and expanded several times to become "Ming and Qing Dynasty Style Street". The most successful film and television base in China is undoubtedly Hengdian, in 1997, Xie Jin made a Ming and Qing style ancient buildings in order to shoot "Opium War", which later developed into the largest film and television production base in China.

In the future, the Magic Shadow Factory will also build its own film and television base, Chedun Base, which is mainly based on the buildings of the Republic of China, retains the taste of the Republic of China, and is the preferred film and television base for filming Republic of China dramas.

The idea of a film and television base or a film and television city is not a new thing abroad, but at this time it is unheard of in China, Xu Shangchu and everyone at the scene were shocked by Xu Wangqiu's idea, and they were stunned and stuck with Xu Wangqiu, everyone's reaction was, it sounds so reasonable, it turns out that it can be like this!