Chapter 4 Film Preparation
If a celebrity posts such a Weibo and says that he has released a new work, it may not take long to be on the hot search, but when he comes here, an hour has passed, and there has been no increase in the number of readers.
Well, I'm still a street fighter.
'Ding Dong. ’
There was a new message on Weibo.
Animator Wu Daoyi: ", brother, is the book really published?" It looks good, you must give me a set." ”
Chen Xiao: "Go and buy it yourself." ”
Chen Xiao: "How is the animation doing now, I haven't seen you update." ”
"Hey, it's not like you don't know, the more things happen in the later stages of the animation, and it's all piled up, and I haven't slept all day, I'm afraid I'm going to be cut (tired). ”
"I said that animation is easy to die suddenly, you have to take it easy. ”
"Get out of your uncle, don't talk about it, I'm too busy. ”
Closing Weibo, Chen Xiao smiled bitterly, it seems that his classmate is not doing well.
When I was in school.
Wu Daoyi is the best animation in his class, and his graduation project is the second place in the school, and he is very talented in animation.
When I walked out of school, I was full of enthusiasm, but there are nails everywhere in society, and I don't just have to be passionate.
Who is the first place winner in the graduation project?
That's our copyist.
Chen Xiao won the first level in the school with an animated short film "Hiring Life" in one fell swoop.
But it was such a simple monochrome animation, and it took him nearly a month to draw.
In terms of painting style, "Hired Life" may lose to other animations, but the brain hole in it is unique and amazes the whole school.
Especially his teacher, the look in his eyes seemed to be re-acquainted with him.
Retracted his thoughts.
There is no news on the phone that the money has arrived, but Chen Xiao feels that he can't wait any longer, he must act immediately, and then wait until the funds are in place, and then start shooting directly.
After making a decision, Chen Xiao began to write the script.
He doesn't have much money now, even if the money from the publishing house arrives, it is less than 900,000 yuan, and generally speaking, if the money is invested in the movie, I am afraid that it can only make a wave.
But who is Chen Xiao, he has people from a world in his previous life who support him.
Can you still be stumped by these questions?
There are big-cost shooting methods, and some movies just invite a star, and the salary is hundreds of millions, but this is a movie played by rich people.
There is a small-cost shooting method with a small cost, no stars, no big scenes, no complex special effects, and the plot alone is enough to complete those big scenes.
There are many such movies in previous lives.
The movie that Chen Xiao is going to make is such a movie, called "The Night the Comet Comed".
The film was only invested in tens of thousands of dollars and took only five nights to shoot, but it was shortlisted for Rotten Tomatoes' '100 Best Films of the Year', known as the 'low-cost science fiction bible', and has long occupied the top of the major 'brain-burning film lists'.
Chen Xiao calculated that if he shoots this movie now, he only needs 300,000 yuan to get it all, and he is about to have nearly 900,000 now, which is absolutely more than enough.
Even the filming tools that this film doesn't need, just a handheld camera is enough.
Although Chen Xiao is not a professional director, he is still confident in filming this drama.
He can act as a director, producer, and do the set work with the actors, but now it is enough to recruit actors and makeup artists.
He had already applied for a business license, and he was looking for a financial company to help him do it, and it only cost 3,000 yuan to register a business license, and he didn't need to advance the registered capital, which was very convenient.
An announcement was made to recruit actors at the Actor's House.
This place is not far from Hengdian, and I believe there will still be actors who will try to come to audition.
Then he started browsing those photography studios online and asking makeup artists for prices.
The prices of these studios are different, the cheap ones are only 200 yuan a day, and the expensive ones are four or five thousand yuan a day.
After having the bottom in his heart, he did not communicate further for the time being, but began to prepare to find a shooting location.
Of course, this only needs to find a detached house.
In his previous life, the director of this drama directly used his own house, which simply exerted the economy to the extreme.
This is also because Chen Xiao doesn't have a house, otherwise he would have to do it.
After running for a whole day, Chen Xiao found such a rental villa in a mixed community, the villa was not particularly luxurious, which just matched his idea of the house.
The house is ready for rent and the price is 6,000 a month, but a deposit of 20,000 is required.
Chen Xiao said that he only needs to rent it for half a month to make a movie, and he can pay a deposit, but after the movie is finished, the deposit needs to be returned.
The owner of the house seemed very interested in his film, constantly asking, and finally asking if he could play a role in it, without money.
Chen Xiao looked at his body type and seemed to fit one of the roles, but in the end he politely refused.
Although he can't afford to hire too good actors, professionalism still needs to be guaranteed.
"That's it, then forget it, then let's sign the contract, three thousand in half a month, plus a deposit of 20,000, transfer or cash?" Although the landlord didn't say anything, he was still a little unhappy.
"That...... I don't have the actors in place yet, and I need to sign ...... in a few days."
The landlord glanced at him a few times: "How do I feel that you are so unreliable, you tell me the truth, are you a liar, are you going to deceive the little girl in the name of making a movie, let me tell you, your trick has long been rotten on the street, be careful of squatting in prison." ”
"No, how could it be. ”
"It's good if you don't, I think you're pretty good-looking, but don't follow those hooligans. ”
"Won't ......"
"No, then call me directly when your actors arrive, I'll tell you first, if someone else wants to come to rent a house, I won't wait for you." ”
"Okay, I'll definitely prepare as soon as possible. ”
Then the landlord went back, Chen Xiao watched the other party walk to a villa on the side, took the previous set of keys, found one of the keys, opened the door, and then walked in.
Chen Xiao: "......"
Local tyrant, did he meet a legendary landlord who got up early every day and was greedy for darkness, had no days off, and relied on rent to make ends meet? !
I envy this kind of life.
"Ding-dong......"
SMS reminder, Chen Xiao opened his mobile phone, the bank received 691,320 yuan, and the balance on the card was 694021 yuan......
"Aha!"
Rich.
But then I reacted, and in the end, 8.9 million only received less than 700,000 yuan, which is a bit of a powerful tax.