Over there, the hero and heroine are still reading numbers, emotional, and pompous.

"Very good, very OK!" After a long time, the director shouted to stop and gave a thumbs up. Then he smiled: "Okay, this paragraph is over." Move on to the next link, the basketball game. All units paid attention, and the group performance came on. ”

Liu Zhang was dumbfounded, as if he understood something.

If you didn't guess wrong, the performance of the hero and heroine just now had no lines, everyone said whatever they wanted, and then the dubbing was it. These two are also lazy and read the numbers directly.

"This, this, this...... This is too unusual, isn't it a basic skill of an actor?" Liu Zhang couldn't help but shake his head.

"What's this, Mr. Liu, this is already a common practice in the industry. A staff member said with a smile: "Our crew also invited a big name to make a cameo appearance in a scene." There is no way, the audience and the TV station will recognize the star. However, we don't have much money to invite a big coffee, so we can only let him hang up his name and show a small face in the play. However, people have big wrists, and they say that there is no time to come here. There was no way, the crew came to the door in person, laid down a green screen, and took a few facial expressions casually, and then used the computer to do it in the later stage. ”

Liu Zhang: "It's okay like this, what kind of expression?"

The staff member immediately made a variety of expressions of joy, anger and sorrow, and finally said: "Now that the computer is powerful, let alone the background, even if it is a thousand troops, it can be done." ”

"You're such a dramatist. ”

Teacher Liu praised it. ”

Liu Zhang touched his forehead and found that it was already a little hot.

After the group said that they scored on the field, more than a dozen men chased a skin bag for half a day, even if the shooting was over. Then, one person received a box lunch, two hundred yuan, and each took the subway to catch another scene.

Director Gu smiled and applauded: "Everything went smoothly today, everyone's performance is very good, actor-level acting skills." It seems that there should be no problem with filming an episode in four days, and everyone brings up their spirits. In the next scene, the workshop, the male protagonist took a group of buddies to the workshop to block the female protagonist. Take a 10-minute break and change the scene. ”

Actor-level acting skills, am I blind? Liu Zhang couldn't help laughing loudly, I have never seen such a brazen person in the world, what kind of crew is this, it is purely a grass stage team!

Liu Zhang was not interested in watching the scene in the workshop, he was afraid that he couldn't help laughing and affected the work of the director team. Anyway, he is a codeman, and people "loosen the soil, water it, and read one, two, three, four, five" to get paid, and if they want to get the manuscript fee, they have to type it out on the keyboard word by word.

The crew has limited funds, and they bring a lot of equipment, which is also troublesome to transport back and forth every day, and the actors have to rest. So, I rented six or seven houses as studios. Liu Zhang said to Director Gu and went back to the room.

This is a set of state-owned enterprises in the eighties of the last century, the big red brick wall has been weathered after decades of ups and downs, with a pinch, rustling down. It is also overgrown with ferns. The corridor is narrow and dark, and there are many debris piled up.

The house also does not have a separate toilet, and each floor shares an old-fashioned toilet. When Gong threw the bomb, there was a "bang" sound from below for a long time, which was extremely sensitive.

Most of the residents of the building have moved out, leaving only three or five old men and old ladies behind, which looks extremely dilapidated. Because of this, the rent is also not expensive. Six or seven houses, less than 10,000 per month.

Opening the dilapidated wooden door that had fallen off its skin, and turning on the dim incandescent lamp, Liu Zhang put the laptop on the desk and made himself another cup of tea. looked at the cobwebs above his head, and began to shake his head again: What a grass stage team! Other playwrights were taken away by the crew, lived in a five-star hotel, and the beautiful assistant complimented them. Look at me again, it's heaven and earth.

Before coming to the crew, Liu Zhang originally thought that Yan Chengqi invested 10 million to make this TV series, and the funds were already very abundant. I chatted with the drama staff for a long time just now, and I was stunned to know that this was just a fool.

As far as the current market is concerned, the cost of an average TV series is about 300,000 to 500,000 for an episode. Take the middle number of 400,000, and it will cost about 12 million in 30 episodes, and 10 million is not enough at all.

There is also a premise for this, the actors of the whole play are newcomers. And the TV series is all newcomers, and it is estimated that no one will buy it. If you want to enter the market smoothly and get profits, you have to have a few stars, which is another big expense. If you invite domestic first-line stars to act, the price of each episode is about five to one hundred thousand, and the two heroines will have to pay four or five million yuan alone. If investors want to gamble and do a big deal, please be popular little fresh meat, a drama down, a tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

Now that the real economy is sluggish, a large amount of capital has flowed into the film and television industry, and actors' salaries have risen sharply. It is common for a drama to throw more than 100 million yuan, and the investment of 10 million yuan is a drizzle in the industry, and it can't be smaller.

Suddenly, Liu Zhang was a little worried about Yan Chengqi. I'm afraid I'm going to lose this investment, her money is my money, can I not feel distressed?

Sitting on a chair and smoking a cigarette, Liu Zhang flipped through the book of this play. The script "Our Eighties" is very thick, about sixty or seventy pages, with a total of 300,000 words. In addition,The book also comes with an outline of about 3,000 words.。

Judging from the outline, the main story is that in the 80s of the last century, a young woman from a big city came to the machine factory to work as a worker in a machine factory with a retired father's class, and drove a machine tool.

This is a third-tier enterprise, located in a remote ravine, the workers have stayed in the enterprise all their lives, born in Si, grew up in Si, and are used to seeing female men who do not like red clothes and love arms, suddenly came to such a big city full of foreign women, immediately sensational. Countless unmarried young men are fascinated by it, waiting for it, wanting to win the hearts of beauties.

So, the male protagonist defeated all his opponents and used coercion to cook the raw rice into cooked rice. It's a pity that in the end, the female protagonist was transferred back to the big city, while the male protagonist faced the storm of the iron fist of the law.

At the same time, the film also describes the joys and sorrows of several families and several pairs of young men and women in that era.

Liu Zhang, who is accustomed to reading fast-paced online novels, has no interest in this kind of drama, but in order to get into the work state as soon as possible, he can only force himself to be patient and taste word by word. In the meantime, he also went to the cafeteria for lunch. In order to facilitate the food and drink of the leading actors and distribute boxed lunches to the group actors, the playwright set up a partner with an aborigine.

By the time the 300,000 words were finished, it was already completely dark.

Rubbing his dry eyes, he felt that this play was really boring, boring and shameless, and the playwright had problems with his entire three views.

As far as the actor is concerned, he is a gangster who is not a serious business, fights with people all day long, picks up girls and sisters, and mixes up for a day. fell in love with the heroine, so he entangled himself regardless of his face. Actually, there's nothing wrong with you liking a girl. The point is, if you want people to fall in love with you, you have to show some sincerity, and you have to let people see that your motivation can promise her future. Sorry, I can't see it in the script at all.

In the original author's pen, the protagonist feels that the whole world owes him anyway, and it is someone else's fault anyway.

And the heroine is also a second force, when the male protagonist used coercive means against her, and when he saw that he was about to be severely punished by the law, he came to the door crying bitterly and begging for forgiveness. It turned out that the Virgin had a heart attack.,Forgive the male protagonist and associate with him.。

These three views are really breathtaking!

It's just written in the screenwriter's pen that he is literary and artistic, what lost youth, what swayes the enthusiasm of youth.

Moreover, the whole story is not vicarious, but a collection of trivial stories. Who fought with whom, who played basketball with whom, who secretly climbed out of the factory wall to steal the chickens of the villagers.

This is also called a story, and people will watch this drama when it is filmed?

has been influenced by online literature for ten years, and he chases American dramas and Japanese dramas on the Internet on weekdays, Liu Zhang's taste is naturally very high. After reading the script of this day, it only feels like chewing a piece of gum that has been bitten by others.

If you make such a thing that is not called a thing for 10 million, it is strange that this money is not wasted. Let's not talk about blockbusters, you can shoot a family ethics drama that cries from beginning to end, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are together, and you don't know that there is no audience, right? In fact, this kind of family ethics drama is quite widely received, and the cost is not low, if you really want to shoot it, you can't get 10 million at all.

This is really a loser, no, it is my Liu Zhang's money that is defeated, and this thing must not be allowed to happen.

The script for the first ten episodes has been written, and that's it, if I overhaul it, the movement is too big, but I'm afraid that the film and television company won't agree. Besides, no one gave me the manuscript fee for these ten episodes, but I can't do anything about working for people without paying for it. Fortunately, the main content of these ten episodes is to explain the background of the times and the characters who appeared, which are basically foreshadowing content, and it is okay not to repair it without much repair. has to detonate the contradiction in the next ten episodes, and then solve the contradiction in the last ten episodes, Liu Zhang thinks so, and he also has this confidence.

As a former writer, he has read tens of millions of words of novels over the years, and he thinks it's not a big deal.

However, it's too late for today, if you want to write, you have to wait until tomorrow, Yan Chengqi is still waiting for him in the hospital!

So, Liu Zhang had dinner in the crew, and asked the cooking aunt to pick out light meals and put them in the insulated lunch box that had been prepared a long time ago, and was ready to drive back to the city.

"Teacher Liu, wait, let's take a ride, where do you go, see if it's on the way." A man and three women came over giggling, and they were the actors of the crew.

Liu Zhang replied: "I went to the Second People's Hospital of the city, which is the one on Hejian Road. There's a sick person at home who needs to be taken care of, are you going?"

"Go, go, why don't you go, thank you, Mr. Liu. ”

"Teacher Liu, you are so good. ”

Chirping and chattering, the actor was okay, and the other three actresses were all wearing thick costumes, thick flat eyebrows, false eyelashes, and awl faces, which dazzled Liu Zhang, and he couldn't tell who was who.