"Claire, what would make you feel more terrifying?" asked Leila as she ate dinner.

After all, she is an oriental soul in the skin of a Westerner, and cultural differences will make her a little different from real Westerners. So she wanted to hear what real Westerners thought about to set the tone for her first film.

Claire thought for a moment: "Probably a spider, and if you are alone in the elevator, you will feel a little scary." And ghosts, witches, and stuff. ”

"Spider ......" It's normal for women to be afraid of these things, and several similar movies immediately flashed through Lyra's mind, such as the Outer Spider in Italy in 2001, the Eight-legged Monster in the United States in 2002, the Frozen Spider in 2007, and so on. Not only that, such as the Python Plague, the prehistoric giant crocodile, and even the great white shark, Jurassic Park was thought about by her.

But soon, all of this was denied by her. The main reason is that these movies require a lot of money to be filmed, and if the props and special effects can't keep up, it is very likely to be made garbage, but if you invest a lot of money, it is difficult to say whether you can shoot the effect, and it may involve the family.

Maybe she will make those special effects films when she has the funds and experience in the future, but now is definitely not the right time. What she needs is the kind of movie that has a small investment and a lot of returns!

As for Claire's statement that she feels scared when she is alone in an elevator, in her opinion, it is a psychological state called claustrophobia, an anxiety about enclosed spaces.

This reminds her of a 05 British movie called "Invasion of Darkness", which tells the horror story of several women who go to a cave to explore, only to be trapped in an accident, lose contact with the outside world, and encounter monsters eating people inside.

The film excavates the dark film of human nature very thoroughly, tearing away the superficial kindness in the predicament and death, exposing all kinds of selfishness, cruelty, and violence. By showing all this, let the horror atmosphere of the film be created.

It's quite a wonderful movie, and people with claustrophobia will appreciate the horror in it even more. And the film did receive received received received accolades, earning good box office in several countries.

But at the thought of the £3.5 million investment, Leila smiled bitterly and suppressed her impulsive heart. She did have a lot of pocket money, but she couldn't come up with that much, at least not yet.

"What else?goblin?witch?Claire, give me some more ......" Leila was about to ask her to give her some more inspiration, when suddenly her eyes widened as if she had been electrocuted.

"What's wrong? Is there anything uncomfortable?" Claire was frightened by her and hurriedly ran to her, for fear that she had relapsed from her old illness.

Leila grabbed her hand excitedly, "Yes, witch! witch, Claire!"

"Huh?" Claire was confused.

Leila didn't tell her in detail, didn't eat anymore, and ran directly to the study upstairs: "Claire, I'm inspired, don't bother me if it's okay." ”

How did she forget that movie!

"Blair the Witch"!

In 1999, it earned $35,000 at the global box office, making it the independent film with the highest return on investment. This record was not replaced by another film until 2009, which shows how influential it was.

It's not just the low investment and high return that make Laila happy, but also the trend it has caused in other aspects. For example, it is the first film to create a precedent with a pseudo-documentary, for example, it is a story told in the first person, and for example, it is the first film to use the Internet for viral marketing to create success!

What is viral marketing? It is to spread the word of mouth through a valuable product or service, and let others promote it for you, which is also known as word of mouth.

When the director of the witch Blair finally sold the film, it was only eligible for 27 theaters in the first week of screening. As a result, people who watched the movie recommended it to others, which detonated the movie-watching frenzy, so that the number of theaters directly expanded from 31 in the second week to 1,100, and even to 2,143 in the fourth week!

The movie has been the runner-up at the North American box office for two consecutive weeks, which is a real miracle in film history!

exchanged $35,000 for a global box office of 300 million, got so many firsts, and rushed into the film history record as an absolute dark horse, isn't it the result she wants most?

And the film itself was shot by a student director, and there are many places that have been criticized by later generations in many places, knowing those shortcomings, she can completely avoid the past and show it with a better attitude.

As an ambitious director who fights for her ideals, Leila has carefully dissected all the movies that have left a strong mark on the history of cinema, and the witch is no exception, and she believes that she can create it, and it will be an upgraded finished product!

Deciding on the witch Blair as her first work, Leila immediately began to write the script. Fortunately, it's 1996, and the operating system of win95 in 95 has been put on sale, so she doesn't need to hold a pen to climb the lattice word by word.

The witch's script wasn't difficult, but it took her two weeks to create the script that had been revised over and over again.

Now that the script is here, the next step is to draw the storyboard script.

Storyboard scripts are important to a film, allowing the words in the script to be transformed into three-dimensional audio-visual images. On it, the director can add his own ideas, such as what shots should be used in this scene, what music should be played, and what actors should say what words.

To put it simply, it is the director's construction blueprint, so that the rest of the crew can understand his specific requirements. In addition, it is necessary to plan the photography schedule and post-production, and even the cost of measurement is inseparable from it.

For an entire month, Leila was in the room completing her tasks. She knows very well that she must not fail this time, and now she has all kinds of conditions for success, so there is no reason to fail. If she really wants to be able to shoot a successful movie in the future, she will cut off the hand she wants to reach out to the director and his party without saying anything from others.

"It's finally done!" Leila walked out of the room with the printed script and storyboard. She hadn't stepped out of the room for so long, and even the food was brought in by Claire for her.

Sometimes she would fall asleep on the table with her tiredness, only to wake up in bed the next day. I want to know that it was Claire's meticulous care that prevented her from starving to death on the workbench.

"Claire, I'm finally done!" she ran down and gave Claire a big hug as she was chopping broccoli.

Sensing her joy, Claire also became happy: "That's great, let me see, okay?"

"Of course!" Naturally, Lyra wouldn't mind her being the first person.

Claire wiped her hands clean and carefully took the script. But when she saw the name, her face turned strange.

"Blair the Witch?" she called Claire, this little guy couldn't have taken her for a witch who controlled her and wrote all sorts of plots to defeat her, right?