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After some negotiations that were not too difficult, everyone was settled.

Zhang Hong fully inherited the style of "the world's first veteran", and vowed to be hard steel with "Sinky Sony" to the end.

As for the first movie, Columbia Pictures invested 200 million dollars, and then as long as the cost was recovered, Zhang Hong could get 50% of the rest of the money earned, and other small things, anyway, Zhang Hong didn't care.

He just can't get used to Sony, nothing else.

Unless Sony gives him a PS5 limited edition.

One thing to say, Columbia Pictures is still very efficient.

It may also be that the company's efficiency is much higher due to the fact that it is life and death.

Anyway, all the steps that should have been taken have been completed, but no one is stuck in the progress.

So although Zhang Hong still didn't meet other high-level executives, it took less than two days to complete all the processes.

There is no need for Zhang Hong to worry about the crew, Columbia directly spent a lot of money to find particularly professional players.

is the kind of guy who is not the top boss, but he is the top type in the second echelon.

The main thing is to find the big guy, they are afraid that Zhang Hong will not be able to hold it.

In terms of actors, they fully absorbed Zhang Hong's advice, and did not choose the kind of first-line super big names with a salary of 20 million and box office dividends, but chose eight-tier actors.

It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that the eighth line is actually a TV actor named Alex Mercer.

He is also well-known in the TV drama industry, and has participated in many popular TV series, but most of them are played as male second to various male supporting actors, so he has no steam after coming this time, and even he has prepared a small book, planning to record what Zhang Hong said at any time.

And he also plans to discuss with Zhang Hong if he has nothing to do, and he will regard it as studying.

As for Zhang Hong's lack of fame in Hollywood......

A director hired by a group like Columbia Pictures, even if he is not famous, will not be far behind, he thinks so.

Zhang Hong is quite satisfied.

The leading actor is humble enough, and then the producer sent by Columbia is still Donald.

That's stable!

Lao Tang first took Zhang Hong to get to know the main members of the crew.

Of course, it is not possible to see them all.

The film is the result of the collapse of Columbia Pictures, so the total number of participants in this film alone is more than 3,000.

In Zhang Hong's previous life, the total number of participants in "Avatar" and "Black Panther" was almost that much.

The most fierce was "Avengers 3: Infinity War", which had a total of 4,500 participants!

Only here did Zhang Hong know how awesome Hollywood's professionalism really was.

Just the screenwriters, there are sixteen!

Counting Zhang Hong, he is seventeen people.

However, Zhang Hong only came up with a synopsis of the story, and it was the work of the remaining sixteen screenwriters to turn this synopsis into a complete script and dialogue lines.

Because Donald himself is in charge, these screenwriters did not ****, but strictly followed the direction of Zhang Hong's story to write the script.

Even these sixteen screenwriters are divided into two groups, one group is responsible for writing story scripts, and the other group is responsible for writing script scripts.

A storyscript is all about describing the storyline, the relationships between the characters, and most importantly, the theme of the movie.

The script is more detailed, such as what scene the story takes place in, what is in the scene, the characters' facial expressions, detailed dialogue lines and transitions between scenes, etc.

It's really professional!

Zhang Hong used to make films, whether it was movies or TV series, he basically did it alone.

It is also common to change lines and shooting shots at will on the set.

Even if there is something that needs to be changed, it is a meeting with everyone to discuss.

And according to his understanding, domestic directors basically do this.

The assistant director won't mention it, it's basically the domestic team.

Zhang Hong temporarily called Wang Ye and Li Hua over.

After all, the assistant director is an extension of the director's tentacles, and his own talents are easy to use.

The field notes are also their own people, after all, the role of the field notes is very important.

If you encounter an unfamiliar scene, if you give a wrong mark during the footage or radio, it will be very troublesome later.

Zhang Hong didn't want to add anything to the crew in vain, and he would do it again in his crew.

Even this time the storyboard is different from the previous ones.

Donald prepared two storyboard modes for Zhang Hong.

One is a traditional 2D hand-drawn storyboard, and the other is a 3D storyboard.

The 2D hand-drawn team didn't know where Colombia was looking for people, and the thief who drew it was professional, and at a glance it was >>

It's a master of comics.

Zhang Hong only needs to draw the stickman and then instruct them to draw a more perfect storyboard.

The 3D side is even more ruthless, and the software is directly used to simulate the rough but reasonably modeled dynamic storyboard, which can basically be said to be an assembly line operation.

With the combination of these two storyboards, the camera crew and the actors can basically perfectly understand Zhang Hong's meaning.

Down is the photography group.

The director of photography hired by Colombia has a rich resume, and can basically be said to be the queen director of photography of Columbia Pictures.

However, due to the popularity of movies in the past few years, he is not well-known.

But the strength is definitely there.

The radio director, simultaneous voice, and mixer of the radio group in the back are a large number of people.

Zhang Hong just remembered the boss anyway.

It was a bald white guy.

The lighting team also has a separate lighting director with a large number of people under him.

This is not the same as Zhang Hong's crew, where only a few people are in charge.

Martial arts instructor Zhang Hong directly asked Bai Tian to help introduce him, and he introduced a middle-aged man named Gu Shaoxing.

I heard that this guy came out of the martial arts sect, and now he is the top martial arts instructor in China, and many Hollywood movies have looked for him, but people are reluctant to go abroad.

This time, it was also for the sake of Bai Tian's face that he agreed to help.

The rest is the matter of the later group.

That's also a large group of people, no less than the camera crew and the radio crew.

Since we don't use a film machine, we use all memory cards.

The person who manages these is the DIT, which is basically responsible for material management, generation, copying, and registering material timecode and so on.

After that, there is the art department.

An art director is someone who coordinates photography, lighting, special effects, costumes, props, makeup, and more.

Basically, the director determined what kind of artistic style the scene was, and they were the ones who coordinated the execution of each group.

These places are also where a movie spends the most money.

Finally, there is the field department in charge of logistics.

A lot of people say they are miscellaneous.

Yes, they are indeed miscellaneous, but without them, it is impossible for a movie to be made well, or even filmed.

Because it is necessary to coordinate the eating, drinking, and sleeping of thousands of people in the entire crew, they are actually the hardest.

For example, if you go to the deep mountains and old forests or desert rainforests, you are responsible for the food, housing and transportation of at least a few hundred people, so how to make them eat hot meals and eat enough for every meal, and have a place to sleep, these are quite difficult.

If you want to add chicken legs to the lunch box, you have to have a good relationship with them.

In fact, it is not a halfway monk like Zhang Hong, many directors started from the scene at the beginning.

Even Bai Tian, the "domestic movie Long Aotian", started from this step.

Because the field management department has to connect with all departments of the entire crew, if you have the heart, although this department is tired, you can learn what the whole process of a movie is.

Needless to say, the rest of the editing and special effects, Zhang Hong is clear about these doors.

But there is another department that he is not very clear.

After the introduction was finished, Zhang Hong whispered to the few people in the distance and asked Donald, "Old Tang, what are they doing?"

Donald glanced at it and said with a smile: "Zhang, this is a surprise for you." That's the team of virtual shoots that we paid a lot of money for. ”

Zhang Hong raised his eyebrows, "Virtual shooting?"

"It's to surround the shooting scene with a huge surround LED screen, and then you can achieve the desired exterior or special effects without props, sets, and post-production special effects. ”

Donald squeezed his eyes, "They're a new tech team, and they're not going to be liked in a lot of die-hard Hollywood that insists on shooting on film cameras."

But I think it will help the actors' performances, after all, it's still more difficult to act on a green screen, and we didn't look for those big-name top actors. ”

In fact, he still has a reason not to say.

That's saving money.

It did cost a lot of money to ask this team, but compared with the money spent on props, sets and post-production special effects, it was all drizzle~

He is a producer, although he doesn't dare to raise the bar with Zhang Hong to pick up money, but he still has to save the place that can be saved.

As long as it doesn't affect the final result.

Zhang Hong was thoughtful.

Actually, he doesn't understand, but people in Hollywood professional companies say it's no problem, what else can he say as a semi-professional player?

Say too much timidity.

Nodding, Zhang Hong said: "Okay, then let's start filming tomorrow!"