How small does the cost have to be to be a low-budget movie?

In Hollywood circles, big-budget movies are usually invested in hundreds of millions of dollars, and tens of millions of dollars in investment are not uncommon.

One million dollars, which can be said to be a low-budget movie in Hollywood. This amount of money can't even invite a star.

As for the existence of the lower .... That's the micro cost.

In Liu Pian's impression, small-budget movies can win high reputation and high box office, all of which are very good scripts, or this idea is a particularly novel and good idea that can attract attention.

Therefore, most of the small-budget movies that can be successful are suspense and thriller movies, or soft science fiction movies.

It's the plot, not the special effects.

A big popcorn-style movie is not something that can be played at a small cost.

Occasionally, there are also that kind of small and fresh love movies, either urban or campus, many young people like to watch this kind of movie, and they are particularly obsessed. Directors in the mainland of China especially like to play this set, the cost is not high, the plot is simple, and then add some meat-selling plots and vulgar and funny clips, which can be a big sale.

There is a kind of movie with what kind of audience, and an old-generation director said that the garbage of Chinese movies is because of the garbage of the audience.

His words offended many people and aroused the indignation of the people. People ridiculed in turn, because your directors are all garbage films, and we don't have a choice.

It is not clear which is right and which is wrong.

After thinking for a long time, Liu Pian asked Zhou Mulan, "Mulan, have you ever thought about making any type of movie?"

"I thought about making comedies, but it's too difficult to get rankings for comedies. Action movies don't work, it's too hard, we invest too little. Later, I thought about making feature films or suspense and horror films, which are easier to win awards. Zhou Mulan said.

"It's really hard to win awards for comedy. Liu Pian nodded in agreement, "So according to your meaning, you want to make a feature film? Didn't I say, this is more difficult than an action movie, it tests a director's skills too much, do you think you can do it?"

If you want a good reputation, it is indeed easier to make a feature film, and many movies with a good reputation are feature films.

Zhou Mulan's little face collapsed suddenly, "I also know that it is difficult to make a feature film, so do you have any other ideas?"

"How about thrillers?" Liu Pian looked ill-willed, in his opinion, girls should hate thriller horror movies.

Unexpectedly....

"Okay!" Zhou Mulan smiled and nodded, "I've long wanted to make a thriller." ”

"Uh...."

Is it so heavy?

However, Liu Pian still expressed doubts about Zhou Mulan's directing skills, thinking that if he really wanted to shoot, he couldn't make a script that was too difficult, and it would be better to make it simpler.

"You tell me to think about it, give me some time, and I'll go back and check the information. ”

"Okay, but you have to hurry up, the festival will be after Christmas, and we have less than half a year to go. ”

"Understood. ”

......

On the way back to school, Liu Pian was still thinking about what movie to make.

What happened at this meeting was completely an accident, Liu Pian didn't expect Zhou Mulan to bring such news. However, Liu Pian also felt a little lucky, glad that he had learned earlier.

The campus film festival is a good platform, which is quite suitable for newcomers like Liu Pian who have just started.

"Do you really want to cooperate with Mu Lan?" Xiao Min asked.

"Why not? It's a great opportunity, even if she doesn't tell me in advance, the academy will announce it, and I'll still sign up when the time comes. ”

Xiao Min rolled his eyes, "I really can't help you." ”

"You're going to support me, right?" Liu Pian hugged her gently.

"You're going to eat me. ”

"Hey, hey. ”

Xiao Min sighed in his heart, it seems that the good holiday is gone again.

......

At night.

In the apartment, Liu Pian sat in front of the computer to check some information.

He'd come up with a few good ideas out of the system, and now he wanted to see if they had been used in advance in the world. If it has been used, the freshness will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.

It wasn't until eleven o'clock that Liu Pian finally breathed a sigh of relief and smiled with satisfaction.

Well, none of these ideas have been used yet!

Turning off the computer, Liu Pian got into the quilt, hugged Xiao Min, and said excitedly: "I have an idea." ”

"What?"

"I wanted to make a thriller horror film, the kind with ghosts. ”

"What are you crazy about? Xiao Min patted Liu Pian's hand angrily, "I'm most afraid of ghosts, and those bloody things, I'm scared to death, you still deliberately shoot these things, deliberately disgusting me." ”

"No, no, no, there are no bloody scenes, and even ghosts don't show up in person. ”

"Then what kind of ghost movie is this?" Xiao Min wondered, "Domestic horror movie?"

This complaint left Liu Pian speechless.

"In fact, in recent years, radio and television have still opened up the blockade of horror films, and ghost horror films can also be released in China. Liu Pian smiled dryly, "The horror film I want to make is different from all the horror movies now!

"Huh?" Xiao Min wondered, "What kind of horror movie is it, it's so powerful?"

"Ever heard of witches?" Liu Pian said.

"I've heard of it. Xiao Min nodded, "So, you're going to make a movie about witches?"

"That's right!"

"Oh, witches don't sound as scary as those ghosts. ”

"That's what you think, witches are actually terrifying. Liu Pian pretended to tremble.

He took out his mobile phone and flipped through the information he had consulted, "More than two hundred years ago, there was a small town in Maryland called Bouzville, and in the town, there was a woman named Ellie Kaiward.

Legend has it that many parents at that time accused her of luring their children to her home to suck the blood of their little ones.

Later, the court convicted Ellie Kaiward of witchcraft and then banished her to the Baiki Valley one cold winter.

People thought she was dead.

But one day, the parents and children who had accused him all disappeared in the early morning. It was believed to be Ellie Kaiward's curse, and everyone was scared.

Twenty years later, someone wrote a book detailing the town and Ellie Kayward's life called The Blair Witch Ceremony.

Later, the Baige Valley was believed to be a haunt of the Blair witches.

Over the next two hundred years, many unthinkable things happened here. A pale woman was seen pushing a little girl into a rushing stream, and when the girl's body could not be found, many wooden shelves of unknown meaning were found in the stream, and a man who regularly drank the stream died...."

Liu Pian slowly told the story of the witch, these stories were all found on the Internet, and the town is not a virtual place, it is a real place, and those legends are also passed down by the local population.

Xiao Min was dumbfounded when he heard this, his delicate body trembled slightly, and he drilled into Liu Pian's arms.

Compared with horror movies, she is more afraid of these folk rumors, which are both true and false.

"Liu Pian, this is a story made up by someone else, right? It's fake, right?"

"I don't know. Liu Pian shrugged, "It may be a folk rumor, or it may be true." ”

"Don't scare me. Xiao Min stared at Liu Pian resentfully.

"I don't scare you, a few decades ago, there were rumors that a little girl in the local area saw an old woman flying in the Baiji Valley. ”

Xiao Min: "....."

"And what about later?" she asked.

"Later, three film school students went to the town to interview local residents about the legend of witches as their final assignment, but they disappeared later, and the police dispatched thousands of people and searched for half a year, but no one was found, and the three of them seemed to have evaporated from the world. The search operation also failed.

A year later, a group of anthropology students at the University of Maryland found a large travel bag in a broken log cabin that contained audio tapes, video tapes and other filming equipment. People found something horrible in the tape, but the police thought it was a fake tape from the students.

Later, one of the students' parents took the tape and found a film and television company to check the authenticity and edit it into a sequential documentary. ”

Liu Pian grinned, "This is the script of our new movie, this is a real documentary, remember, it's all true! That film school is the USC Film School, those three students are us, all of them are real, there are you, there is me, and Mu Lan, what do you think?"

Xiao Min: "....."

This advice is simply terrible!

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