Chapter 77: Prelude to Shooting

"Director, Brother Far Away"

A man in his early thirties with an elite figure immediately ran over to greet the two after seeing Li Qingfeng and his party.

Wei Yuanxing nodded, and introduced to Li Qingfeng: "This is our logistics director, Chen Yongqiang, our crew has a total of more than 50 people, and Yongqiang is managing all of them." ”

Chen Yongqiang smiled at Li Qingfeng with a smile on his face: "Director, there is no problem with more than 100 people in our last crew, you can leave this to me with confidence."

Li Qingfeng nodded, there are many people in a crew, and there are more than 50 members of a small-budget film crew like him with an investment of five million, and those movies with tens of millions of dollars, not to mention, are often two or three hundred people.

Therefore, the director must not only have a high level of film shooting, but also have a strong ability to manage the entire crew.

"It's okay, I'll leave these to you, communicate with Yuanxing about financial issues, I only have one request, that is, I can't suffer these staff who are filming together"

In my previous life, I knew too much about the hard work of filming, especially these low-level staff, pouring cold water in winter and wearing cotton pants in summer are very common operations.

Those leading actors are not necessarily much better, sometimes they are busy, it is normal to stay up late for several days to work, it even takes two or three hours to put on one costume, and they have to change another makeup after three minutes of shooting.

Under the glamorous appearance, what is indispensable is the sweat behind it, and no industry is simple.

Li Qingfeng will never be stingy in this regard, he will not be short of money in this life, and he will not be guilty of treating his employees badly in this regard.

There are only a few celebrities in the entertainment industry, how many of the millions of practitioners can be paid millions?

The celebrities I usually see are only a very small number of millions of employees, ordinary behind-the-scenes workers, and some are even not as good as ordinary workers.

The pyramid is a model that cannot be avoided in every industry, the high-end is always the least, and the salary of tens of millions of dollars for a movie is a myth in the industry, which is too far away from ordinary people.

"No problem, you can rest assured, feel free to mention any requests"

The skinny face revealed a shrewd look, with a bit of compliment in his eyes, which made people know at a glance that he was an old fritter.

Li Qingfeng nodded and didn't speak, he didn't care if the fritters were not fritters, as long as he was obedient.

Under Wei Yuanhang's introduction, Li Qingfeng got to know the heads of various departments of the crew one by one.

When the photographer was introduced, Li Qingfeng mentioned some interest, the photography department is not big, just three photographers and a few assistants.

The first photographer was small and small, as if he had escaped from the wilderness, and his yellow teeth were impressive.

The other photographer is a tall and chubby, fat man with a fat face, a northeast accent, very bold.

The last one is a middle-aged woman, tall and burly, with a fierce face, and a Northeast photographer.

This made Li Qingfeng a little surprised, photography can be regarded as a man's world, and good female photographers are very rare.

A good photographer is definitely of great help to shooting, Li Qingfeng communicated with the three of them in detail, and collided his inner shooting ideas with the thoughts of several people.

A good photographer is hard to find, and Li Qingfeng didn't report much, looking forward to what big-name photographers such a small investment crew could invite.

There are a few people who can't say that they are the top, but they are experienced and not bad, and Li Qingfeng's intentions can be understood by several people.

After a short time, I got to know all the heads of various departments.

He just arrived today, so the shooting task has not been notified for the time being, and the following staff have not received the notice of shooting, most of them are familiar with the venue, and they seem a little scattered.

Li Qingfeng frowned at this scene, but he didn't say much, a new crew needs a certain amount of time to run in with each other in order to play the highest efficiency.

What he needs in the past two days is not to shoot immediately, but to control the entire crew, which is the key, just like a new general manager of the company, the first thing is definitely to control the company and nothing else.

After two rounds of patrolling the Luohan Temple, the props team has already transformed most of the scenes needed for filming, and they will be able to shoot tomorrow.

"Crazy Stone" is set in a Chongqing handicraft factory that is on the verge of closure, and has not paid its workers for eight months.

One day, when the abandoned men's toilet was demolished, a piece of jadeite was found to be worth a lot, and an exhibition was specially held for economic benefits, hoping to sell it at a sky-high price to improve the situation of not being able to pay wages for several months.

Bao Shihong, head of the security section, negotiated with Lao Xie, the head of the factory, that Bao Shihong, who had attended the police academy, would be in charge of the security work, and Lao Xie would use the money from the auction of jade to reopen the factory.

Feng Dong is a real estate developer who wants to develop a high-rise building for commercial and residential purposes on the site of the original craft factory. Therefore, it is necessary to buy the craft factory at all costs. He first sent his secretary to persuade the factory director to comply.

Later, because the factory director wanted to sell jadeite to save the factory, seeing that the land was hopeless, he started the idea of stealing jade, and assigned the secretary to go to Hong Kong to invite the top master Mike to complete the plan.

Unexpectedly, there were twists and turns, and the master frequently missed, so he had no choice but to increase the price to buy the factory director, and finally got the land. At the end of the story, Feng Dong is killed by Mike, a thief who is eager to complete the task.

Brother Dao's subordinates with two brothers, Xiaojun and Heipi, who usually make a living by stealing, also started the idea of jade after stealing the theft kit of the international thief Mike at the airport.

The three thieves worked together and won the first battle, but who knew that what they stole was a fake. In the second operation, Heipi was trapped in the sewer and lost contact, Xiaojun was beaten and imprisoned in the police station, Brother Dao was unavailable, and single-handedly proposed Jade to Bao Shihong for hostage, and died in Huangquan because of a series of accidents.

This is an extremely wonderful movie, Huang Bo in his previous life has become famous since then, accumulated a good reputation in the industry, and slowly became a well-known actor.

Li Qingfeng likes this movie full of black humor very much, and has watched it at least seven or eight times, and he has this opportunity to reproduce the classics of his previous life in this life, and he has an indescribable excitement in his heart.

In the entertainment industry, directors have always been at the top of the food chain, directors, actors, singers, this is a level of pressure, under the same reputation, the status of directors is far from being comparable to actors and singers.

To outsiders, it seems that actors and singers are more famous, but insiders are not so superficial.

Any company of celebrities can be praised, even if you are incomplete, you can be a mentor in the show.

Look at the strength of the company, not the strength of the star.

But what about the director? No matter how much you praise the director, the garbage is still garbage, the box office and awards can explain everything, only talent can be on the top, and only the work can be respected by others.

You can see a lot of stars who are popular without even being able to name their works, but you definitely don't see well-known directors who don't have works.