Chapter 14: A Respectable Picker
At noon the next day, Li was woken up by a phone call. The call was made by Gu Yu, and the good news he brought instantly diluted Li Cai's sense of Peng Sheng's return.
Director Jing Yuanliang is reliable in the end, Gu Yu called to inform Li Cai that he had an extra 80,000 yuan in his bank card this morning, and then received a text message that the advance salary of the movie had been called.
Suddenly received a notice from Gu Yu that the money was going to be divided, and Li Cai was of course very happy.
After hanging up the phone, he hurried downstairs to the copy office and printed out the copy of the contract in duplicate.
The text of the broker's contract is easy to find, and there are many on the Internet, as long as you change the place where the amount is shared, and change it to something that he and Gu Yu have discussed.
After the contract was finalized, Li Cai trotted to the door of Communication University. The house he rented was in the area of the university town, which was still very close, less than a 10-minute walk away.
Before arriving, he called Gu Yu first. Gu Yu was also quite quick, and when Li Cai arrived at the door, he had already come out to wait.
The two of them did not enter the school again, but directly found a home nearby to touch the cold, and then signed the contract while eating cold drinks.
If this is the kind of epic novel, the text should be brought behind - the great agent Wang Li Cai, for the first time, formed a permanent bond with his heroic wandering poet Gu Yu, and the sword and poetry will draw a perfect end to the long-term bloody storm on this continent.
It's a pity that this is not an epic novel, and Li Cai and Gu Yu are not holding swords and poems in their hands.
Li Cai was holding a red bean and coconut milk smoothie, while Gu Yu was holding a chocolate ice star, a different name for the same Starbucks cocoa shards Frappuccino.
It's not easy to mix things up these days, and there are peers plagiarizing a drink......
The contract was signed, 40 percent of the 80,000 yuan, and 32,000 yuan of the agent's remuneration, and Li Cai naturally got it.
For the next two days, Gu was depressed in the dormitory, studying the script and speculating about the characters. Li Cai, on the other hand, recharged himself at home and read a lot of books related to his agent.
After all, it was several years ago that he took the broker certificate. In the past few years, he has never touched anything related to it, and he has long forgotten what he has learned, so it is still very necessary to briefly review it.
And on the third day, the two got together again, because the role played by Gu Yu was the last brick that the entire crew lacked. Now that he has been found, after two days of preparation, the crew is finally about to start filming.
The crew started filming, and Gu Yu, the actor, naturally had to be in place.
It stands to reason that Li Cai, the agent, does not need to be accompanied, and the agent is not an assistant, but is mainly responsible for contacting various commercial activities and performances, advertisements, etc., without having to accompany the artist every day.
The problem is that there is such an artist as Gu Yu under Li Cai's hands now, and Gu Yu is not famous at all, and there are no activities to find him at all. So in other words, Li Cai has nothing to do now, at least nothing serious.
He also seriously considered whether he should continue to develop the market, relying on the advantages of the system, to find some other talented actors who have not yet become famous.
But if you think about it carefully, such actors are easy to find, there are many art schools in China, and there are not many fish that have slipped through the net.
However, although there are fish, Li Cai does not have a net suitable for fishing. The resources in his hands are too few, almost none, even if he really signs a genius, he does not have the right opportunity to give them, and in the end he can only harm others.
Thinking about it like this, Li Cai also broke off this thought, and his connections and resources were accumulated little by little. Niu Zheng is his best positive teaching material, I don't want to be too far away, and the most important thing is to manage the things in front of me first.
There is no doubt that the most important thing in front of him is Gu Yu, so after the crew started filming, Li Cai did not hesitate to follow.
He definitely can't help much in performance, but it's also a good thing to be able to supervise Gu Yu and learn something from the crew by the way.
Besides, if he says that he wants to accumulate contacts, the connections will not fall from the sky, and if he doesn't enter the crew to contact people, where will the pulse come from.
To sum up, Li Cai decided to follow the group.
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The filming location is not far away, in fact, it is in Sijiu City, which is a film and television base newly built in western Beijing in the past two years. From Communication University to the filming location, it takes about 40 minutes by car.
This film and television base is not big, and it is definitely not as big as Hengdian. But the advantage is that it is close to Sijiu City, and most of the staff, including the actors, do not need to arrange a hotel, just reimburse the fare for taking the subway to and from the city.
In short, it's two words – cheap!
As an independent filmmaker, the word cheap has almost run through Jing Yuanliang's entire film career, at least so far.
But don't underestimate him because of the slamming of the door, he is so penniless, mortgaged the house left by the family and filmed his first movie.
The film also earned him the first award of his career, Best Film at the Tokyo Film Festival.
In the first movie, he made the house he mortgaged back and earned it back, and the remaining money was enough to expand the living area several times.
What's even more awesome is that he is not a professional director, he specializes in film and television editing, and he has cut TV series for 20 years before, which is unknown.
He also suddenly had a hot head and decided to sell his house to make a movie, and all the people around him dissuaded him at that time, but he insisted on going his own way, and only his wife supported him.
Who would have thought that in the end, he would actually do it.
What's even more rare is that after becoming famous, he still didn't forget his original intention, and unlike many independent directors, after the first film had some small achievements, the second film immediately resolutely threw himself into the arms of the film company.
Jing Yuanliang didn't, because he knew very well that as long as he cooperated with a film company, he would not be like the founder of a movie, but more like a person hired by them to make a movie.
It's not about the identity that matters, it's the content behind the identity that matters. As an independent film director, you can do whatever you want in your own small world, as long as you don't exceed your budget, you can shoot whatever you want.
But commercial films are not good, there are many things to weigh, there are many transactions behind it, and there are too many things that a small director can control.
Therefore, although the commercial film environment is better and you can earn more, you don't have to save money so hard. But Jing Yuanliang still did not compromise on money, and insisted on shooting works with his own brand.
This is an extremely picky person, but the picky child is respectful......