Fortunately, "The Condor Heroes" is an old drama that has been remade five or six times, and all the actors can save at least a month of familiarization with the plot and preparation time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

If you change to a newly created script, a high-performance martial arts drama with the same length of 40 episodes, if you want to be so elaborate, you can't get it without 3 months of preparation before the start.

Now Gu Cheng got the adaptation right in mid-August, the role has been selected in early September, and it will be launched in October.

Fly at the same speed.

After selecting the role, Gu Cheng invited all the actors to a big meal that day, clinked glasses with them one by one, and first had a red envelope to ask for a lottery when he entered the group.

As for the spare tires who came to participate but were unsuccessful, according to the rules of the industry, at most a little bit of car and horse fare, even if it is very merciful. Eighty percent of the crew won't even pay this amount of travel and horse expenses - after all, they will go to other people's companies for interviews with applicants, and they won't give subsidies after brushing them down.

Gu Cheng's style is more decent than any of his peers.

Anyone who comes, at least the travel expenses are fully reported, please eat a good meal, and there is a red envelope. If it is inconvenient to go back on the same day, I will also solve the hotel accommodation in Qiantang, and if I want to relax, I can still play for a few days, and the accommodation fee will continue to be on the official account of Legendary Pictures.

Every spare tire felt respected by Legendary Pictures, and they all paid tribute to Liu Hui and Lin Zhiling, who handled these affairs.

Everyone sees what Gu Cheng has done, he is so lenient to the spare tire, and several young actors who have brushed it down want to sign under a brokerage company like Legendary Pictures or Eslite Audio, and directly sign a long-term contract.

Gu Cheng handed over this matter to Lin Zhiling, and asked her to sign a few if she looked reliable. Anyway, this kind of little person's appointment doesn't cost much, and the cost of raising people is similar to the full attendance award of a certain Chinese network, and even social security does not have to be paid.

In addition to the spare tires, several actors who have only made a film or are pure newcomers have also tried to sell themselves to Gu Cheng at a low price.

For example, Yang Mi and Sun Li, the two girls, only signed the lowest-level talent scouting contract with the original headhunter, and the brokerage company does not guarantee any resources and does not give a fixed salary. Only when you find a job, the salary is 46%, and the economic company takes 40% as the introduction fee.

In a professional university such as Huaju or Jingying, there are several brokerage companies opened by the teachers of the colleges, and they harvest the talent scouts of the students of the school without a book like leeks. The reason why Liu Hui was able to find them before making this film was to ask a long-term cooperative company of Beijing Film.

Such artists are the common existence at the bottom of society. Many beautiful or handsome people sign a business card when they meet a scout on the road, and most of them are like this.

When an actor with such a loose contractual relationship wants to leave, as long as he does not delay the work he has already received, he can leave at any time.

So, before the drama was filmed, Yang Mi and Sun Li signed the long-term deed of sale.

The signing of these two people has also touched several other actors who are slightly better famous.

For example, Jiang Xin and Yang Rui can only be regarded as slightly better than Yang Mi. They have all filmed a CCTV drama, and their brokerage contracts have all been changed once, although it is not a bundled long-term contract that restricts job hopping, and there is no basic salary, but the current company promises them more than one drama every two years to guarantee the appearance rate resources.

If Gu Cheng didn't have any promised resources here, Jiang Xin and Yang Rui would naturally not change jobs casually.

As for Liu Feifei, who has someone above and a solid background, let alone job hopping.

The showbiz is a place where big fish eat small fish, and it is inherently such an ecology, so there is nothing strange about it.

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Throughout September, the actors went home to read the script and figure out the role. Everyone has to wait for the storyboard assistant director Fox to make the storyboard script, and he is the busiest this month.

Gu Cheng will also spare two or three hours every day to learn what Guan Hu made, and compare it with the original text script, so as to roughly understand what the creative process of the storyboard script is. will not be laughed at in the future: I have made a drama in the name of the chief director, and I don't even know how to do it!

Liu Hui, who is in charge of casting and drama affairs, is not idle - don't look at the role has been selected, the business that needs her to contact is just the beginning.

Because it is a martial arts drama, the requirements for props and stunts are relatively high. The role of casting assistant director, which is essentially equivalent to the "purchasing manager", has much more things to do than ordinary urban romance dramas.

Lighting and photography are easy to handle, and they can be knocked down in one day.

The props and stunts were really tossed to death, and almost tossed Liu Hui into the rest of September.

Liu Hui went from an internship in the directing department in college, helping the seniors who had already made a name for themselves to do scene notes and drama affairs, and to a casting career of more than three years after graduation, adding up to five or six years of assistant director and assistant director qualifications. In terms of choosing props and special effects suppliers, it is said that he is quite experienced.

But the loss is due to this "experience", so that she can go directly into the pit.

In the current technical environment of 02 years, if you want to shoot martial arts dramas with good special effects in China, you basically benchmark the just-released "Storm and Clouds Dominate the World".

Although Gu Cheng said that he couldn't look down on the effect of "Fengyun", Liu Hui didn't understand the gap behind the word "can't look down", and then fell into the pit.

After all, people communicate with people and understand language to different degrees. is like the paragraph often quoted by the press in the United States:

When the editor-in-chief of Norton News told reporters, "We are local tabloids, we need to do our own thing, not like the New York Times and portals, but focus more on local news," and the reporters may only be "more skewed towards local news than important."

It wasn't until the editor-in-chief and reporters re-emphasized, "If there isn't enough local news to post, I'd rather post the phone books of the county dignitaries." That would make the newspaper sell more than the big news out of town, because every resident of the county would buy the newspaper and look carefully to see if his name was eligible to be published in the newspaper."

At this point, the reporters completely surrendered, knowing that the editor-in-chief was so fond of local news that they would rather be on the phone book than foreign news.

The plan that Liu Hui showed Gu Cheng at the beginning was made by the company that did the stunts for "Fengyun", but it was upgraded with some small changes compared to "Fengyun". Whether it's the modeling of the video or the synthesizer used in the audio, it's better.

was criticized by Gu Cheng for being bloody.

"I don't recognize your technical solution! How can you directly use computer special effects to make the material texture after the final modeling? 3D animation technology and motion capture are just for us to process the action of the model. However, the surface material of the model cannot be directly synthesized by the computer! We must pursue the most realistic! You filmed Yang Guo's 'Eagle Brother' like a fire unicorn in "Fengyun", and the light and shadow effects are so empty, I don't accept it. ”

Liu Hui was angry for a while, and felt that Gu Cheng was too difficult to serve: "Then let you be the same as Li Ruotong's version, using wool props to dress the eagle and a real stuntman to drill in, and you said that the action is not like the eagle but like a person." ”

"Yes, so, I want the movements of the real eagle eagle and the material of the prop eagle. By the way, there is also Yang Guo's Xuantie heavy sword -- you just take such a thin iron hollow toy to make up the numbers? How can this kind of prop supplier pass the test, Yang Guo's arrogance and domineering are all tossed by you! I want a real tungsten-iridium alloy, dark and dull color 'Xuantie' heavy sword as a texture material! When actually shooting, you can use a light sword, but the sound effect and the material attached to it must be a real heavy sword. ”

Liu Hui was about to cry at Gu Cheng's trickery: "This ...... It can't be done. Mr. Gu, don't be so imaginative, to understand the market?"

Gu Cheng felt the need to brainwash his subordinates: "Sister Liu, I think you should learn about cutting-edge technology - this technology has already been used in "The Lord of the Rings", which was released at the end of last year and filmed by New Zealand director Peter Jackson. Then scan the surface texture and gloss into the computer's material library, and after motion capture modeling, paste the swept texture back to the surface of the model. I heard that "The Lord of the Rings 2: Two Towers" will be released in December, and the material effect in this regard is definitely better than the first generation!"

When Liu Hui heard this, she was dizzy: "You created so many heavy weapons and props that the actors couldn't wield at all during filming, just to scan the surface material? Mr. Gu, we are just filming a TV series, how can you use "The Lord of the Rings" to meet the stunt requirements? People spent 300 million US dollars to shoot and won 11 Oscars!"

"Peter Jackson created 40,000 fantasy weapons and silicone dummy props just to 'contribute surface materials'. I didn't ask for so much, we were just filming martial arts dramas, Yang Guo's Xuantie heavy sword, Xiaolongnu's silver rope golden bell, and Golden Wheel Dharma King's five-wheel weapon, you have to deal with it according to the standards of "The Lord of the Rings", right?

I don't have high requirements, people make 40,000 props with such precision, I only need 40 pieces, plus some silicone dummies - anyway, the domestic review of gore is relatively high, and too many silicone dummies that can soar blood plasma can't be used. Peter Jackson spent $300 million on the film, and I only gave you an additional 3 million yuan to create a batch of real weapons and props, which can always be done, right? ”

When "Meteor Garden" was first filmed, all the costs added up to only 200,000 yuan per episode.

Now that nearly two years have passed, prices have risen, the late-stage technology of computer synthesis has begun to become popular, and "Condor" is a martial arts drama, Liu Hui's budget at the beginning was 500,000 episodes - after all, the popularity and salary of the actors of the Condor are also higher than the original pure "Meteor" and "Gold Powder". According to the salary of well-known actors at that time, the salary of Zhao Wei and Lin Xinru in "Love and Rain" last year was close to 100,000, and in this year's "Fengyun", He Yandong's step to the clouds will also be 60,000 episodes.

Now it seems that Mr. Gu's expenditure on special effects and props far exceeds the proportion of traditional domestic martial arts dramas. I'm afraid that a 50% overrun in the total budget is not enough.