Chapter 1139 Sino-US Cooperative Film Crew
Bai Weiren personally ordered to shoot a first-class documentary, which can be seen that he attaches great importance to it, Zhu Hongyuan immediately nodded and agreed, but he was bitter in his heart, he was from a professional background, and he knew that documentaries were a thankless task, and he needed to shoot all over the country, not to mention the hard work, the most important thing was the funds, equipment, vehicles, logistics, transportation, and so on, which is not money? And he had to shoot three documentaries, damn! This is really going to kill you.
Liu Lang understood the other party's mind and immediately continued.
"Minister Zhu, Bai Lao just said only half of what he said, it's right that these three documentaries should reach the world-class level, but it is naturally impossible to have no money, I am ready to spend four million US dollars, well, our Chinese food is broad and profound, and there are characteristics everywhere, so we need to shoot all over the country, this cost is the highest, just spend two million, the remaining two documentaries are less difficult to shoot, each with a budget of one million, US dollars, do you think this money is enough?"
"Ah............h
Zhu Hongyuan stayed on the spot.
What kind of concept is this concept of 4 million? Or US dollars, which translates into nearly 30 million yuan? The advertising revenue of the national television station is only 100 million yuan a year, good guys, the budget for three documentaries is 30 million, and according to the original cost of shooting documentaries, this money can shoot 100 films.
Zhu Hongyuan really didn't know what to say, just now he was worried about the funds, and now a mountain of gold fell from the sky and smashed on his head, but he didn't know how to use it.
"Minister Zhu, this fee is the common fund of our domestic film crew and the American film crew, the US side will provide the best equipment, and our domestic side will provide materials and directions, of course, their labor is very expensive, and most of the four million US dollars will be scored, and in the end, our domestic film crew will probably have more than one million US dollars. ”
"One million is enough, enough, Liu Lang, I'll go back to find someone right away, find the best photographers in the country, and it's no problem to assist the Americans, we will shoot when you say!"
Since the funds are sufficient, Zhu Hongyuan immediately came to answer three times, in a word: no problem!
Bai Weiren shook his head with a smile on the side, all departments are short of money, of course his Bai Weiren's order is good, but it is the people below who suffer, and they can only do their best when the time comes, as for the effect, it is difficult to say, it is said that it is world-class, how to get it without money, people can work hard, and no matter how much the equipment is pieced together, it is impossible to put together the equipment.
The reason why Liu Lang dares to say this is because he is rich, and being rich is a thick waist, if you don't accept it, you can't make a program with a budget of 100,000 yuan, which can't compare to a program with a budget of 1 million, this is an objective fact, and you can't accept it.
This matter was Bai Weiren begging Liu Lang, but in the end, Liu Lang paid out of his own pocket, Bai Weiren was a little reluctant to go, but there was no way, the state funds were very tight, and it was impossible to come up with so much money to shoot a documentary, anyway, Liu Lang was rich, and four million US dollars was really nothing to him, so I would find a chance to compensate him later..........
However, in terms of funds, it seems that Liu Lang will not ask others for help, after all, he now has a bank of his own, and it is not wrong to evaluate him as rich and rival the country, but Bai Weiren is still pleased with Liu Lang's spirit of dedication to the country, not every rich person is as generous as him.
In fact, Liu Lang filmed these three documentaries not only to justify the name of the country, he really wanted to record all this, especially the two documentaries of the Youth Development Foundation and the Three North Shelter Forest, it is also a responsibility to record the hardships of the staff behind it, and when you watch it again in ten or twenty years, it will definitely cause memories of an era.
In that poor era, there was always a group of people with faith who worked in the worst environment, day after day, year after year, not for the pursuit of material, but for their own dreams, in the process of sublimation of the realm, but also changed the fate of countless people, they are the most unknown people in this era, but at the same time they are also the greatest people in this era, recording this group of talents is what Liu Lang wants to do.
Liu Lang did not delay, after participating in the unveiling of the "China Town" project, he immediately took a plane and flew directly to Los Angeles, the two places are thousands of miles apart, for most ordinary people, these thousands of miles can not be flown in a lifetime, but for Liu Lang, it is a matter of more than 20 hours.
Ye Jinsheng is not in Los Angeles, he is busy with the national tour of the "Male God Group", Lucas is also very busy, preparing for the filming of the fourth part of "Star Wars" every day, Liu Lang did not look for them, and directly met with Fuller, the chairman of the Los Angeles Today Times, and talked to him about shooting a documentary.
Fullers is the chairman of the board of directors of the Los Angeles Today Times, this company was established by his father 40 years ago, from a small newspaper to the current 700 million dollar market value of the large company is not easy, especially in the last five or six years, relying on the market value of Shengtang Company has quadrupled, Liu Lang's importance in his eyes is self-evident, although Americans talk about interests, but if it is just for Liu Lang to shoot three documentaries, it is no problem, not to mention that this fee is still Liu Lang, then it is even more necessary to vigorously support.
As for the nine people on the documentary channel, they almost fainted when they heard that Liu Lang was going to spend $4 million to shoot three documentaries, which was a lifesaver!
The producer immediately made three sets of plans overnight, and put them in front of Liu Lang the next day, and the efficiency was really fast.
Liu Lang took a look, it is not a loss to be a professional, well-organized, of course, this is the shooting method of the Americans, this shooting has to go to China, many have to follow the local customs, but the power of the dollar is strong, and the two sides will definitely cooperate well.
Liu Lang directly paid the other party $1 million first, let them buy the equipment, and after the matter was completed, he would pay them $1.5 million, a total of $2.5 million, as for the profits, Shengtang Company, Los Angeles Today Times and the film crew shared the three, in fact, except for Liu Lang, the two are net profits, only Liu Lang suffers, fortunately, he doesn't care about profits, he only needs one result, that is, to shoot a documentary with the best quality that best represents China's tenacity and optimism, that's all.
With money, everything is easy to do, the film crew immediately ordered equipment, and producers Thomson and Liu Lang left the United States for China first, and immediately found Zhu Hongyuan after getting off the plane.
Similarly, Zhu Hongyuan also has confidence, and as the head of the cultural department, there is no difficulty in finding the best film crew in the country.
"Liu Lang, these are the best videographers in our country, he, Gu is the elder, haven't you seen the sorghum red two years ago?
Zhu Hongyuan pointed to a thirty-six or seventeen-year-old man and said.
"I know!"
Liu Lang nodded, the other party is indeed the best cameraman in the country, won the Cannes Best Cinematography Award, and the other two are also very famous cameramen in their previous lives, and there are six other people, all of whom are national-level directors and have shot more than ten documentaries, each of them can take charge on their own, but Zhu Hongyuan is their top boss, and he will be in place immediately after an order, and he does not dare to have any hesitation.