Lin Zixuan agrees that military-themed TV dramas should not be overly entertaining, and he also doesn't want to see the emergence of various war dramas, but the appropriate addition of life-like elements will help gain the audience's sense of identity.

In fact, "The Story of the Cooking Class" also belongs to the main theme, and the theme is still to promote positive energy, but with more comedy elements.

"A TV series is facing the audience, and in the end it is up to the audience to judge, let's invite the soldiers and ordinary viewers in the army to watch it first after we shoot it, if they feel that it damages the image of the soldiers, then it will not be broadcast, as for the losses caused, we will both account for half. Lin Zixuan said.

He said this in order to convince the leadership of the Air Affairs Center to set the investment.

In the production plan he submitted, "The Story of the Cooking Class" invested 1.2 million yuan to shoot 30 episodes, a total of 40,000 episodes.

With the current market situation, this is a conscience price, in 91, an episode of a sitcom was up to 20,000 yuan, isn't this the market liberalized, the entry of private capital has increased the overall production cost of TV dramas.

The salaries of actors and behind-the-scenes personnel are rising the fastest, and prices in the capital are also rising, and it is estimated that the cost of the system will double in two years.

If you want to make a good TV series, you can only do it at this price.

In other words, if this drama can't be filmed and broadcast, Lin Zixuan needs to compensate the Air Administration Center 600,000 yuan.

This is to give the Air Politics Center confidence, and he feels that the show can be successful.

The audience is tired of the same war scenes, the characters are face-painted, and they will be interested when they suddenly see this kind of life-like drama.

Of course, if it really can't be broadcast for various reasons, he will admit it, and it's a big deal to shoot other TV series to pay off his debts.

Lin Zixuan showed sincerity, reduced the risk of the air administration center, and made this matter turn around.

After deliberation, the leadership of the Air Administration Center decided to test the waters, try to transform, and invest in this new type of military-themed TV series, but they had several requirements.

One is to reduce the cost to less than 1 million and use the Air Affairs Center's own actors and behind-the-scenes personnel.

The Air Administration Center itself has a production team of TV dramas, but they have never filmed sitcoms and are inexperienced, and with the addition of Lin Zixuan and Feng Xiaogang, they can accumulate ≌dǐng≌diǎn≌小≌ said,.. ◆os_(); The experience of filming a sitcom.

They have their own little abacus.

Once this drama is recognized by the audience and the social response is good, the Air Administration Center will be able to do it on its own, they will not always rely on Lin Zixuan, they must be self-reliant, which is a fine tradition in the army.

Lin Zixuan is not worried about this, he only makes sitcoms to earn the first pot of gold, and he will not always shoot this genre.

Besides, the Air Administration Center's willingness to provide actors and behind-the-scenes personnel can save a lot of money, and their salaries are settled internally by the army, which has nothing to do with this TV series.

After negotiating the initial intention, Lin Zixuan wanted to provide the complete script of 30 episodes.

The Air Administration Center should conduct a review, and there should be no plot that deliberately scandalizes the image of military personnel, and it must ensure that the drama series is positive, has educational significance, and promotes the new trend of the military.

For this reason, Lin Zixuan had to spend time visiting the grassroots cooking class of the Air Force and going deep into life.

Art comes from life, it can't be done behind closed doors, it can't be copied and rigid, many jokes are of the times, and only the stories of this era can really resonate.

Of course, this kind of work is not done by him alone, there are quite a few screenwriters in the Air Administration Center, who know more about the daily life of the army than him.

As at the Beijing Television Art Center, Lin Zixuan provides an outline, what kind of story each episode will tell, and the writers will fill in the content, and he will make the final revisions and reviews.

The officers of the Air Administration Center wanted to learn how to create sitcoms, and they were very cooperative with his arrangement.

Although there is still a lot of work to be done, even if this first project is negotiated, it will always take a diǎn risk to gain something, and it will also make them more serious about filming this TV series.

"If it sells well, we can make at least 500,000 yuan from this play. Feng Xiaogang estimated.

According to the negotiated agreement, they account for 20% of the net profit in "The Story of the Cooking Class", for example, if the play sells 3 million, remove the investment of 1 million, and the remaining 2 million is the net profit, they can take 400,000.

As long as this drama is as popular as "Addictive", it will definitely be sold at this price.

Of course, this is a rough calculation, the company still has to pay taxes, and it also has to pay salaries to employees, and there are not so many that you can get your hands on it.

The market for Chinese TV dramas has gradually prospered, there are many opportunities to make money, and there are many people who lose money, if they can't be broadcast, they will be burdened with a debt of 500,000.

"Brother Feng, you work hard, shoot two more dramas a year, we are millionaires. Lin Zixuan said with a smile.

"If you really become a millionaire, then let's invest ourselves and make the films we want to make. Feng Xiaogang thought about it.

"Don't, people abroad don't want to make directors invest in their own movies from time to time, they are all pulling investment everywhere, and it's not their own if they lose money, so they don't feel distressed. Lin Zixuan teased, "Look at Brother Jiang, people are not in a hurry, and they are stable, just because the money is not his." ”

"Just do it, it's okay if his piece is successful, if it loses, no one will invest in it in the future. Feng Xiaogang commented, "I was always preparing for a role, and I thought about addicting to movies, but more than half a year has passed, and I haven't made a movie, and I'm almost forgetting what I'm going to play." ”

Entering August, the crew of "Sunny Day" still has no signs of starting up.

Recording engineer Gu Changning just finished filming another play, came to the crew, and saw that Jiang Wen was still worried about the heroine, so he recommended someone, and he told Jiang Wen that it was good to have a newcomer named Ning Jing in the film just finished filming.

Ning Jing is an actor in the Shanghai Film Studio and does not belong to the Beijing entertainment industry.

How to say it, every circle is more or less xenophobic, otherwise it can't be called a circle.

The filming in the Beijing entertainment industry is basically looking for actors in their own circles, they are familiar with each other, they are at ease to use, and they don't have to worry about accidents halfway, unless they have to look outside.

Ning Jing herself is not in this circle, and she is not very famous.

Since Gu Changning mentioned such a person, Jiang Wen asked Ning Jing to come over for an audition.

He called the other two alternative girls over, and he knew that it wouldn't work if he didn't turn it on, and the heroine had to be sure as much as possible.

At noon that day, Lin Zixuan came to the Shancheng Hotel.

This hotel is in Chaoyang District, opened in 91, the decoration is not bad, the crew interviews, meetings, are all in this place.

When he walked into the hotel, he saw a girl sitting on the sofa in the lobby of the hotel with baby fat on her face, this girl was not fair-skinned, she was the skin color of wheat, there was diǎn black, and she looked very healthy.

However, from the way she looked and the way she sat down, she was very nervous, giving her the feeling that she wanted to run away at any moment. (To be continued.) )