Chapter 18 No, I mean the budget is too low
Just like what he promised Sun Yan before, after a hearty lunch, Ren He took Song Xiaoxuan back to the set.
Like the words "work hard to act", Ren He didn't say it, Song Xiaoxuan's "thank you" and the deep hug before had already indicated her attitude.
No matter what he says, it will not affect Song Xiaoxuan's determination to go all out and put all her efforts into acting.
However, this is actually not a good phenomenon in Ren He's view.
"Obviously the acting skills are so bad, and I have been in this situation for so many years, but I have such a deep obsession...... I feel like Xiaoxuan is about to fall into a demon......"
In martial arts novels, the martial arts masters who go crazy are all miserable to die by exploding without exception.
The key is that Song Xiaoxuan, an actor like her who is outside the eighteenth line, is not even a martial arts master......
God knows what kind of ending Song Xiaoxuan will end up with if she is paranoid all the way like this.
It is a trivial matter to go on the road of acting and get nothing in the end, and it is a big thing for girls that the entire youth is wasted.
Ren He knew that his time was short, so after finding out Song Xiaoxuan's current attitude through the temptation in the restaurant, he felt that he must make Song Xiaoxuan completely dead to his acting career while he was alive.
This is an imminent and time-sensitive matter, because Ren He doesn't know how much time he has.
So before leaving the set, Ren He pulled Sun Yan alone into a small dark room.
"Director Sun, according to this original film, how long will it take for the film to be released at the earliest?" asked Ren He.
"This ...... We've only set up the crew now, and the main actors haven't been gathered yet...... I feel that it will be turned on in half a month at the earliest...... If everything goes well, it will be released on the National Day file at the earliest. ”
"Isn't that eight or nine months left?"
Ren He was speechless for a while when he heard this.
If this continues, maybe everyone else will be gone by the time the film is released......
"yes, it's not very fast, but it's fast enough...... After all, this is a science fiction film, and the shooting is more complicated than other themes. Sun Yan explained.
"It's too slow, I'll only give you two months, if you want the little wrecking ball to be released, can you do it?" Ren He asked.
Sun Yan was stunned.
He suddenly didn't know what to say.
Does it mean that his gold owner is a layman, or does his gold master have a bag in his brain?
"Can't you do it?"
Mr. Ren...... Are you ...... I'll be honest with you, it's not possible...... According to the script you gave, it will take a long time to complete the post-production special effects, let alone the shooting time. Sun Yan looked bitter: "We haven't finished selecting the actors now, if we follow the normal process, not to mention that the film will start in half a month, it will take at least more than a week...... How can it be released in two months?"
Ren He frowned slightly.
He understands the reason, but he must see the little wrecking ball come out when he is alive and see the little wrecking ball hitting the street.
"Shooting and post-production should be able to shorten the time by at least half, right?" Ren He asked.
Sun Yan was a little dumbfounded: "That being said, it's too unprofessional to shoot a scene and do a scene of special effects......, right?
"Why isn't it professional?" As a layman, Ren He asked a question that matched his identity as a layman.
"In terms of actual operation and effect......" Sun Yan quickly stopped as soon as he spoke.
talked about a bunch of professional things with a layman like Ren He, and in the end, I guess I didn't understand a word.
So, he changed his direction to explain to Ren He: "To put it simply, the most intuitive and unprofessional place is in the budget, usually post-production is after the director and editing team work together to process the film, and then the post-production team joins to complete the process of continuing editing and post-production."
As far as science fiction films are concerned, it is a normal process to finish filming and go through preliminary editing, and then hand it over to a professional special effects team to render and provide film special effects, which is the most time-saving and labor-saving way and the best effect.
You should also know that a movie is finally born after many edits, if you want to do it like you, it means that there are quite a lot of special effects shots that will be scrapped in the future, although we give up the shots, but the cost of special effects still has to pay...... And in this way, the post-production and shooting schedules have to be almost synchronized, and the difficulty of both shooting and post-production will increase exponentially, not to mention how much the corresponding budget cost will increase......"
Sun Yan said it bluntly enough, Ren He also understood a general idea after listening to it, and he sighed in his heart.
What he is afraid of is that there is no way to speed up the schedule, not how much the budget for shooting and post-production will increase.
As a damned person, money is this thing...... That's it.
What's the use? Can you bring it into the soil?
"Didn't you have a meeting with the people in our company yesterday?, and what is the total budget you are currently making?" Ren He asked.
"Because there are too many big scenes you give, and there are too many places that need special effects to deal with, according to the price of the domestic first-class special effects team, the preliminary conclusion of our discussion is estimated to be hundreds of millions, and the specific number will be determined in these two days. ”
Hundreds of millions?
Ren He was a little surprised.
It's not that he was shocked by the amount of money, but because it was too little.
He read the whole script of the fat man, and even read it a few times.
Although the many bullshit settings in it are indeed spicy, this is indeed a science fiction book with quite a lot of scenes.
Just like Sun Yan said, there are many places in this book that have to be post-processed.
However, under such circumstances, the budget was set to be hundreds of millions......
Finding that Ren He's expression had changed, Sun Yan coughed dryly: "Actually, if you reduce some of the scenes in the script, I don't think you need more than 100 million, at most 100 million can be won, after all, we actors don't need to look for any wrists, and the expenditure in terms of remuneration is not high, and the largest proportion of the budget is just special effects." ”
Ren He was slightly stunned.
He remembered that Sun Yan didn't have this attitude towards his next movie a few days ago.
In the past, as long as the sci-fi films were willing to spend money on special effects, no matter how bad they were, they would not be bad, but now they have to take the initiative to reduce the budget in this area?
After thinking of this, Ren He suddenly felt a touch of emotion in his heart.
It seems that because the script of the little wrecking ball is really outrageous to a certain level, Sun Yan really made up his mind to retire from the circle after this movie......
Otherwise, with Sun Yan's picky personality about his works, he would not be able to say such a thing about reducing the budget.
However, Ren He didn't want to do such a thing as reducing the budget.
He really has to make Song Xiaoxuan completely dead to acting, but according to Sun Yan's way to reduce the budget and make a bad movie, now he already knows that this movie is invested by him Song Xiaoxuan, who is invested by Ren He, maybe what will he think of himself after the movie is released......
If you want to make a bad movie, Ren He is serious, but the premise is that Song Xiaoxuan can't see it.
So, Ren He shook his head at Sun Yan: "This budget is not good. ”
Sun Yan asked tentatively, "Then it's up to me to shrink some scenes to avoid that part of the special effects expenses?"
"No, I mean the budget is too low. ”