Chapter 289: Funds are burning
Wang Xueqing is just a small episode in Chen Minhao's life, like an inconspicuous little wave, Chen Minhao got up very early the next morning, and he planned to let Chen Qiang send him to the crew.
"Detective" gave Chen Minhao a salary of 15 million, and Chen Minhao felt that he had to be worthy of this salary.
Chen Minhao arrived at the crew at half past seven in the morning, but Chen Minhao saw that director Hu Defa was already adjusting the camera position for filming.
Investor Tian Lin stood beside him without a smile, looking at the busy staff, after he saw Chen Minhao, he just nodded slightly, and had no intention of stepping forward to communicate further.
He was dissatisfied with Chen Minhao playing the role of Shao Fei from the beginning, and he preferred Jing Yongchang to play the role of Shao Fei, on the one hand, because he had experience in fighting the box office, and there was historical data that could be used as a reference to evaluate the return on investment of Jing Yongchang.
More importantly, I think Jing Yongchang may seem a little dull, while Chen Minhao seems to be a smart and capable type, which is actually different from Shao Fei's character.
But at the beginning, Wang Ruozhou and Huang Feifei were on the side of director Hu Defa, that is, Chen Minhao's side, so that Chen Minhao won this role. For Chen Minhao, this is a small step in his career as an artist, and for producer Tian Lin, using Chen Minhao is exquisite.
And today, after Tian Lin saw Chen Minhao, the retreat in his heart sounded "Knock, knock, knock", what he wanted was the shy stammering teenager Shao Fei with the detective's talent, Tian Lin expected Shao Fei's character to have a cute appearance, and there was a big contrast with the smart heart, rather than a social elite who looked smart and had high emotional intelligence.
Tian Lin frowned, he regretted it, he felt that he should have insisted on his idea a little longer. "Detective" is a detective film, but the overall tone is a witty and humorous comedy, Chen Minhao is too positive, and Chen Minhao's online partners in the past few days have left people with the stereotype of "he is very smart", Tian Lin is worried that such a stereotype will make the audience play when watching "Detective".
Tian Lin's mind was spinning rapidly, and he was already thinking about how to replace Chen Minhao under various acceptable circumstances, because the movie "Detective" was under great pressure in the company.
Investing in movies has always been a high-risk, high-yield investment activity. Therefore, even if it is a large film investor, if a movie does not return to its original cost at the box office, it may affect the financial situation of the entire company and even cause bankruptcy. This is also the reason why a movie often has a lot of investors:
On the one hand, it is to alleviate the financial pressure of a film and television company to come up with a lot of money in a short period of time, but on the other hand, it is to reduce the risk.
When Chen Minhao was putting on makeup and changing clothes, Tian Lin had a general idea in his mind: that is, to introduce a new film investor, and to disagree with Chen Minhao's performance of Shao Fei from the perspective of a new investor, and then he would kill Chen Minhao in a boat down the river.
Tian Lin's mind was running rapidly, and he was thinking in his mind about which film investor would be more suitable to introduce at this stage. You must have the right to speak, but you can't be too strong.
As a result, forty minutes later, a brand-new Chen Minhao, no, it should be said that Shao Fei stood in front of Tian Lin.
The light blue jeans are a slim fit with a white shirt and are very simple to wear. And Chen Minhao's hair, which has been combed backwards, was combed to the front by the makeup artist, and turned into slightly fluffy natural broken hair.
He also carried a blue schoolbag behind his back, and in general, Chen Minhao felt that Shao Fei looked stupid now. It's like a high school class where you can't be the best no matter how good you are.
Tian Lin suddenly cited Hu Defa as a director for so many years, and his vision is still unique. Now in his opinion, Chen Minhao, who has entered the state, looks like a different person, a bit of a nerdy expression just right, so that Chen Minhao didn't say a word, but the people in the entire crew felt that the person in front of him was Shao Fei.
Director Hu Defa was still adjusting the lighting, and producer Tian Lin took the lead in speaking and laughed: "Not bad, it's this kind of tone, it feels very tasteful." ”
Chen Minhao stammered: "Don't, don't praise me, I'll be proud." ”
The whole team remembered the good-natured laughter. After all, if the actor enters the play quickly and the shooting efficiency is high, it is equivalent to reducing the working time of the director, photography, lighting, and recording.
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After the start of "Detective", the work efficiency of the entire crew was very high, and by the time the shooting reached the 9th day, the filming progress had reached the planned 11-day shooting content.
Chen Minhao began to doubt the correctness of a sentence, and all the work was a physical struggle in the end. Director Hu Defa worked too hard, the camera, lighting, and props were basically done by Director Hu Defa himself, and he arrived at the crew at 7 o'clock in the morning every day, and left the crew at 12 o'clock every day and 1 o'clock in the evening. But every day is still full of energy.
The crew of "Detective" is catching up with the schedule every day, and the reason for directing Hu Defa is:
The movie "Detective" mainly tells the story of Jiang Long and Shao Fei while evading police pursuit, gangster pursuit, and gangster encirclement, and at the same time, they completed the "ungodly" tasks of finding the "lost gold", identifying the "real murderer", and "clearing the charges" for themselves in just seven days.
Jiang Long and Shao Fei have a lot of things to do in seven days, so there must be a sense of urgency, if the filming process of the crew is relatively fast, it is easy to show a certain sense of urgency if it causes a certain amount of pressure on the two actors. ”
However, the crew members, including Chen Minhao, all think that Director Hu Defa is to save money, after all, it costs an extra day to open the machine.
On the tenth day of filming, the crew was going to shoot a big scene, and the crew even chartered a whole street to shoot, mainly filming the plot of Jiang Long and Shao Fei running past the police with their legs when the police found Jiang Long and wanted to arrest him. ”
Although this episode appears in the movie for a maximum of 5 minutes, it burns nearly 17% of the crew's budget.
First of all, it is necessary to close the road for filming, and secondly, to mobilize group performances, and the most important thing is that this will become a long shot, and there will be a lot of action of the protagonist, supporting roles, and extras in this long shot, after all, this is a chase scene.
Every time Hu Defa shouted "card", the shooting of the long shot had to be done again, so when Hu Defa shouted "card", Tian Lin heard not a card, but "the sound of money burning".