After half a month in the United States, I finally finished filming this movie.

Seeing that the other 15 people in the shooting team were also hugging one by one and congratulating each other, Zhou Chen was happy, but his mood was a little complicated.

When I was in school, I made short movies with my classmates, and at that time, how many people did it together, I didn't feel that it was too difficult, but the standard of the film was not high.

But really asking him to make a movie, it is much more difficult than he thinks.

If it weren't for Zhang Kejia and his mentor Sherra Ram, he would probably not have come to the United States to make this movie.

"Thank you so much, Professor Ram. ”

After Zhou Chen hugged the others one by one, he came to Professor Ram and sincerely thanked her.

"You're welcome, you have to dare to dream when you're young. Professor Ram smiled and patted Zhou Chen on the shoulder and left.

Zhou Chen took a deep breath, his luck was not bad, he met a nobleman.

This wise and rigorous, friendly and kind female professor in her fifties is an Irish-American with red hair and dark green eyes, and she is very conscientious and responsible.

She is not only the deputy director of the directing department at USLA, but also the director of the Los Angeles Directors Guild, who has directed seven films, and is deeply influenced by Italian realism, advocating the use of simple film language to record the most authentic world.

She likes Zhou Chen's script very much.

Through simple scenes and very few characters, the plot is promoted by chatting with old friends, and grand themes such as time, space, faith, and reality are explored, which is the simplest and most essential form of expression of the movie.

Therefore, she decided to help Zhou Chen, a young man on the other side of the ocean who has a dream of film, to come to the United States to shoot this movie.

Besides.

She also did the production of this movie, helped Zhou Chen recruit suitable professional actors with Zhang Kejia, and recommended four excellent professional students at USCLA, who were photographers, makeup artists, lighting artists, and scene artists.

This movie is more life-oriented, the scenes, makeup, and lighting are natural and simple, and the actors can bring their own costumes and come in a natural state, so these students are more here to help and practice.

In this UCLA, there is a large secluded wooden house with a meadow in front of the door, as well as cameras and other filming equipment, which Professor Ram also applied for from the school in the name of students to shoot this experimental film.

In this way, about 30,000 US dollars of scenery and equipment rental costs were saved for the movie.

Of course, because the film is co-produced and a project initiated by the Film Lab of the Director's Department of USLA, the subsequent income such as the copyright of the film is also distributed according to the proportion of investment from both parties.

Zhou Chen, that is, Zhou Chen's director's studio, as the owner of the script, and invested 20,000 US dollars in filming costs, so he obtained 49% of the relevant rights.

These are all reasonable distributions of the legitimate rights and interests of both parties after various inputs, and Zhou Chen did not suffer a loss.

As for the realistic cost budget of 20,000 US dollars given by the system, Zhou Chen now thinks it is a joke.

Of course, the system may also be calculated according to the cost of his remake of Chinese films, finding a few ordinary actors in Hengdian, finding a scene for free, renting a camera, and finding a few friends to help, and shooting a TV movie.

Now they have shot this film, nominally a student experimental film, but the quality is very high and professional, and the cost has reached 80,000 US dollars, and if you count the post-production, it will not be less than 100,000 US dollars.

As for publicity or something, it is impossible for Zhou Chen to invest a lot of money.

As for Professor Ram's proposal to attend the Venice Film Festival in September, it may be a good plan, but Zhou Chen is not very happy.

He thinks it's best to plan a perfect marketing plan, and after promoting the movie, he can release the movie as soon as possible.

He is eager to see how the film will perform after it is released on a small scale in art theaters, and whether it can expand the large-scale screening and create miracles.

In the data given by the system, the box office income of 350 million US dollars, he always feels like a fantasy.

But it made him feel like a cat scratching his heart, and he couldn't help but want to see what was going on.

If it is really so powerful, or worse, then he will not come to the United States for nothing, and he will have enough capital to return to China to shoot "Machine Ji".

If it doesn't work, then quickly sell it to online video playback platforms, as well as enter the videotape market and cable TV broadcast channels, and make some money.

After all, the last time he really pressed the treasure was the film "Blair the Witch".

Moreover, he and Zhang Kejia have found the 'Witchcraft Film Company' to cooperate, and the official website of the film and the poster of the missing person were all produced immediately, completely replicating the publicity method of the original movie.

Therefore, the movie must also start shooting as soon as possible.

Relatively speaking, this kind of low-budget horror film is much more popular in the United States than "This Man is from Earth".

Zhou Chen didn't have to find other companies, he was worried that the store would bully customers, and he didn't dare to find a film and television company that was too big, and after carefully considering and screening with Zhang Kejia, he found this company that is not large in scale and is famous for specializing in the production of horror films, and the cooperation was negotiated at one time!

"Zhou, thank you for giving me the opportunity to participate in this interesting movie, after the finale banquet is over, I don't know if you have time in the evening?"

Megan Lee, who plays Sandy Chow, a Chinese female history student in the movie, stepped forward and asked Zhou Chen, who looked thoughtful.

Zhou Chen came back to his senses.

Megan, a Californian-Chinese girl four years older than him, has graduated from the university.

She has a tanned skin that is rare for domestic girls, and due to the needs of the role, she is dressed as a typical female student at the moment.

With shoulder-length short hair, powerless prop glasses with thick lenses in his hand, and a pair of bright black eyes, he was carefully observing Zhou Chen's expression.

Zhou Chen's gaze swept over her delicate oriental face with a little mixed blood, and he couldn't help but miss Gu Xiaojiao on the other side of the ocean even more.

"Thanks, I'll have to deal with the movie editing in the evening, next time. Zhou Chen declined.

"Wow, Zhou, you are very ungentlemanly, you actually refused the invitation of such a beautiful girl. ”

A sturdy man with curly brown hair, Elken, a Mexican student in charge of the set, saw this scene and stepped forward with some envy and quipped.

"Erken, I'm afraid you forgot a very important thing, we have to help people restore these scenes, other props and materials, and pack up the car. ”

Zhou Chen looked at this mouthy guy angrily.

"Oh, shit, you can't let me do this alone. ”

"Don't worry, I'll help you. Zhou Chen and Megan smiled apologetically, patted Elken's shoulder, and went to clean up together.

………………

Domestic, Hengdian Film and Television City, in the luxury suite of Dream Hotel.

Qiao Fei looked puzzled: "Xiao Jiao, what did you say? You didn't sign a contract with Tang Feng Pictures and played the female number three, and you added a lot of scenes, why is this?"

"Don't mention it, I don't know how to explain it to Zhou Chen now. Gu Xiaojiao looked depressed.

"Why is it still related to Zhou Chen? Isn't he filming in the United States?"

"Of course it's related, because the actor of the second male lead has changed and has become Zhang Xuyang, and he has a lot of emotional scenes with my character. ”

"What's going on? Who is Zhang Xuyang? What's wrong with the emotional drama, Zhou Chen is not a layman, and he is not so careful, he can't accept this?" Qiao Fei was even more puzzled.

"No, the situation is a little complicated, that Zhang Xuyang pursued me, he must have used some method to change the male number two, I'm afraid that when the time comes, filming will start and add some intimate scenes or something. ”

Gu Xiaojiao said worriedly.