Chapter 265: The Tradition of Diligence and Thrift
For filming needs, the crew spent $10,000 to buy a second-hand house. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The living facilities in the car are readily available, but the car is not very good, and it can still be driven, but it can't run far and is easy to stall.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be so cheap, it's just a shooting prop anyway, and I don't expect to actually travel in an RV.
RVs are still relatively new to people in China, and have become an industry in the United States, not that Americans can't afford to buy a house and live in a car, but a mobile lifestyle.
Some motorhomes are quite luxurious, similar to villas.
"If this car dares to enter the Third Ring Road in the capital, it will definitely be detained by the traffic police, and domestic modified cars will not be allowed to go on the road." "I'll stay in it for two days to get used to it." ”
"Forget it, the air conditioner in the car is broken, don't toss on this hot day, and you have to find a way to cool down when you are shooting, otherwise you can only shoot in the morning and evening." Lin Zixuan stopped.
"You guys can make do with it, why don't you add a fan." Xu Fan said helplessly.
"Diligence and thrift are our traditional virtues, and we still have to sell them after filming, I asked the boss, as long as there is not too much damage, he is willing to recycle it at half price." Feng Xiaogang said proudly.
Feng Xiaogang is different from other domestic directors in that he will think about investors.
Other directors always want to shoot the film perfectly, and they always feel that the funds are not enough, and Jiang Wen is a representative of this kind of person.
Feng Xiaogang used limited funds to shoot the desired effect as much as possible, and some people criticized "Party A and Party B" for being too rough and not delicate enough, which involved the cost issue.
If Zhang Yimou is asked to use 2.5 million yuan to make a film, maybe it will not be as good as Feng Xiaogang.
Zhang Yimou can make exquisite literary films, but the cost must be very high, relatively speaking, Feng Xiaogang won a high box office with low-cost movies, and his cost performance is higher.
"See You or Leave" was officially launched, except for the problems in the selection of locations at the beginning, everything else went smoothly.
The plan is to solve the problem quickly.
This is not a long-form TV series, it takes so many scenes, and it only takes 120 minutes to complete the editing of a movie, and there is not much time for real shooting, most of the time is spent on finding a venue and arranging the scene.
Fortunately, this time there was the assistance of the American staff, who were familiar with Los Angeles.
The most here are the major cinemas, which should be called film and television bases in China, and the major Hollywood film companies have their own cinemas, which can not only make their own company's crews film, but also rent them to other crews.
However, the price is certainly not cheap.
For example, in "See You or Leave", when Ge You and Xu Fan met for the first time, Xu Fan had just come to Los Angeles and was helping people look at the house, which should be a mansion in the script.
In Los Angeles there are mansions dedicated to filming, which are real mansions, not ordinary villas.
The rent is $3,000 for one day and $6,000 for two days.
In order to save money, Feng Xiaogang planned to spend one day filming all the scenes in the mansion, he first made a careful plan, and after entering the mansion, everyone was assigned what work they had to do.
A group of people had been preparing for this for several days, and when the day came, everyone stood outside the mansion with all their hands in gear.
As soon as the landlord opened the door, they rushed in and did their own work according to the plan, in an orderly manner.
As soon as the scene was set up here, Ge You and Xu Fan entered the state.
The two are old partners, they are familiar with each other, and they are quite well prepared, after filming this section, the makeup artist stepped forward to touch up the makeup, and the other staff quickly changed the scene and filmed the next scene.
The whole process seems to be hectic, but in fact it is very organized, showing a well-trained military style.
The foreigner who was in charge of opening the door was stunned from the sidelines, he was well-informed in Hollywood, and he had never seen such an efficient crew, it was a race against time.
Feng Xiaogang was born as a soldier and brought the fine style of our army to the United States.
The crew filmed for a day and a night, and when the foreigner came over the next day, not only was the filming finished, but even the room was cleaned.
A domestic crew came to Hollywood to film, which was very unusual for the local Chinese in Los Angeles, and also attracted the attention of local Chinese newspapers and TV stations.
This is good news for Lin Zixuan, he needs to find some Chinese extras.
In "See You or Leave", Ge You and his friends set up a travel company to receive domestic tourists to travel to the United States, and a tour group requires dozens of extras.
It is best to be a domestic international student in Los Angeles who can speak fluent Mandarin or dialect, which is a domestic tour group.
He contacted several international student groups, and everyone was more enthusiastic, and it is not common for domestic crews to come to Hollywood to film, and many of them are studying film and television in China.
Some are even students who graduated from the Beijing Broadcasting Institute and are his alumni.
Three years ago, the broadcast of "Beijing People in New York" showed the real life of Chinese people in the United States, calming down those who blindly followed the trend abroad, but did not weaken the enthusiasm of the domestic people for going abroad.
Living in the U.S. can be tough, but it's also full of opportunities.
The broadcast of TV dramas has made it more purposeful for domestic people to go to the United States, and overseas students and science and technology workers account for the majority.
For these international students who graduated from domestic art academies, Lin Zixuan is very welcome.
Although Feng Xiaogang is coming to the United States for the second time, his English proficiency is limited, and the communication with the American staff is all put together with words.
Ge You and Xu Fan's English is even worse, don't look at Xu Fan's graduation from the Beijing Drama Academy, her spoken English is not good.
This is related to the English education in China, which teaches dumb English, and it is good when doing questions, but it is not good to speak as soon as you speak.
Besides, the translators in the crew are different from ordinary translators, and there are a lot of professional terms in filmmaking, and students who have graduated from art schools understand this, and it is easy for everyone to communicate.
Of course, it would be better if these international students were willing to work as translators in the crew for free.
In order to stimulate the patriotism of these international students, Lin Zixuan invited them to visit the crew's residence, see the hard life of the crew, and let them see how difficult it is to come to Hollywood from China to make movies.
To be honest, it's not hard, and the conditions for filming "Beijingers in New York" are not as difficult as before.
But there are always practical challenges that can give them a taste of what it's like to live in an air-conditioned motorhome on a hot day.
On the appointed day, Lin Zixuan drove to pick up these international students, a total of eleven people, eight men and three women, all of whom were international students in Los Angeles with domestic film and television-related majors.
Among them is a girl named Yu Feihong. (To be continued.) )