Chapter 61: What I Value Is You (1/5)

Film processing is mainly aimed at film films, and digital films are rarely used.

Zhang Junsheng makes movies, basically don't use film, that thing is too expensive, in addition to shooting some big scenes, you must use film - film can be in a large format, and the number is not so large!

Since last year, films released in cinemas have basically been digital screenings, uploaded to digital servers through program hard drives, and decoded and played by digital projectors through keys.

Film films, after which only exist in some academic screenings, etc.

But for Yu Feihong, the film must be film!

Therefore, the investment in "Love Has an Afterlife" is as high as 45 million!

Yu Feihong really deserves to be the old Yu family in Shaoxing, and she dared to shoot a big scene in the first movie, it was a horse battle, a fire attack, a knife and a blood, and every frame was smashed with money!

After listening to what Yu Feihong said, Zhang Junsheng instantly understood: "... So, you're short of money?"

"In fact, I filled in the original shooting cost of 8 million myself, and the house was sold..."

Yu Feihong whispered to herself...

“…”

Speechless...

45 million plus 8 million, 53 million just for a literary film?

Zhang Junsheng is a little embarrassed, it's not that an increase of 5 million will affect the overall situation or anything, anyway, his box office prediction for "Love Has an Afterlife" is a maximum of 200 million, and an increase of 5 million will not affect the profitability, but this opening can't be opened!

Budgets are something that has been done before the film starts, if it's like Yu Feihong, then why do you want the producer to do it?

“… Let me ask Zhao Yijun!"

Yu Feihong hurriedly explained: "This is my own mistake, and it has nothing to do with Producer Zhao..."

"No, I have to verify, it's not that I can't get 5 million, it's just that it's the first time in Yuehua to temporarily increase the budget, and I need the approval of the film department!"

“… Huh?"

Aren't you the boss?

It's similar to what Yu Feihong said, there was a problem with that batch of copies!

The main color difference: "The copy was soaked by the printing factory, and the washed out lens turned red into pink!"

We know that theatrical films have strict requirements for chromatic aberration.

That's why the wages of printers are so high!

Actually, there are ghosts in "Love Has an Afterlife", if it was earlier, it would be a little more suspenseful...

"I didn't want to make a thriller, it didn't fit my aesthetic. I don't want to make people scared or scary, I think of it as a love epic. ”

"You wait for me to finish calling!"

This woman is terrible!

The quintessential idealist!

She is not the kind of female star who relies on acupuncture and endorsement to make money, just a few million, others may just pick it up, and she may have to borrow money.

I didn't hear her, the house was sold...

……

Pull tab room.

The screen is shown in front of the editing table, and the footage of "Love Has an Afterlife" is played slowly.

The whole movie, 100 minutes did not arrive.

"Love Has an Afterlife" is adapted from "Ginkgo, Ginkgo", how about the original work, Zhang Junsheng has not read it.

As far as this film is concerned, it is a love story with a smooth pace and a smooth narrative.

"Love Has an Afterlife" tells a story that can be summed up in one sentence, a ghost under a thousand-year-old ginkgo tree, and tactfully expresses his memories of his past life to the woman he loved in his previous life.

The movie is beautiful and sentimental, but Zhang Junsheng frowns...

It's not easy to deceive...

Nearly 60 million made such a thing?

The Giant Pit!

Zhang Junsheng looked at Yu Feihong: "Making movies is the same as doing business, you must know how big the market for your product is, who are your customers, if you don't even know this problem, then the business will definitely not be able to continue." Sister Feihong, who is the target audience of "Love Has an Afterlife", and how big is such a group?"

“… It's supposed to be a female audience, right? How big is it? I really don't know. ”

Yu Feihong has never considered this, she only thinks about how to make the movie better - this is her dream for ten years!

Here's the problem, what investors hope is that the movie can make money, at least not at a loss!

However, listening to Sister Yu, she just made movies to satisfy herself...

If this movie is handed over to Zhang Junsheng, he can finish filming it for 10 million, and the effect will not be bad at all - find a local political axe to ask for policies, find a travel company to partner, this is all money!

Sister Yu just chose the scenery, ran all over the ancient temples in Yunnan Province, and finally found a suitable temple in an extremely remote place.

Then, I just rented it...

It was Zhao Yijun who helped to build a line with the local political axe, which saved 10 million production costs...

The devil knows how she spends her money!

60 million to make a literary film...

"At present, the main moviegoers in China are still office workers, and the most popular among female audiences in this group are comedies and romances. Among the young women born in the 85s and 80s, the preference for romance films reached 67.9% and 66.3% respectively. According to the corresponding data analysis, the current ceiling of romance films is about 100 million!"

"100 million... Then I might want you to lose money..."

Although Yu Feihong is not very sensitive to film production, she also knows that the producer can earn up to 40 percent, that is to say, for a box office of 100 million, the producer can share up to 40 million...

Zhang Junsheng smiled: "... Romance films are a big concept and can be subdivided into many kinds, and "Love Has an Afterlife" is not an urban romance favored by female white-collar workers, but a story of the Republic of China, which is very far away from everyone's life, and has almost no attraction for this ethnic group, and it is under the banner of ghost love, this theme may have been more popular in the eighties and nineties, but it is somewhat outdated now, therefore, the audience of "Love Has an Afterlife" is actually very narrow. ”

"The group of female white-collar workers has grown up with the Internet, watching Korean dramas, Japanese dramas, American dramas, British dramas, watching various Hollywood movies, the amount of reading is relatively high, and the requirements for movies are relatively high.

"As for the star cast... Lao Duan's box office appeal is not high, your box office appeal... It's not very high, let's put it this way, if you follow the regular publicity channels, the box office of "Love Has an Afterlife" will be at most 40 million!"

Yu Feihong's face was a little ugly...

She may think that Zhang Junsheng is Kuang her...

Or maybe you really believed it!

Zhang Junsheng continued: "The French director of "Love in Hiroshima", Alain Resnais, once said that it is best for me not to invest more than 750,000 US dollars in films, because I only have so many audiences. My film is extremely niche, if it exceeds 750,000 US dollars, I can't guarantee that I will be able to recover the capital, it will make the boss suffer losses, this is something I can't do!"

"No matter how you create it, as long as the story is good. In other words, you will produce a commodity in various ways, but you have only one purpose, as an investor, you must reduce the cost, in the absence of profits, you must protect the capital, this is the most basic requirement in business, because capital must be returned. ”

"Then why did you agree to invest in the first place?"

“… I value you as a person!"

Zhao Yijun coughed...