There was only an artistic wall lamp in the room that lit up and down, and Gu Cheng and his cousin were back to back, looking at the starry sky outside the window, and talking about his thoughts. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This time, Pan Jieying really didn't guess accurately.

After Gu Cheng finished talking about the ins and outs, he sighed and concluded: "That's the way it is, do you think...... If I go to make TV, will someone maliciously pick it up when I have money in the future?"

Pan Jieying leaned back relaxedly and rested her head on her younger brother's shoulder. She could feel her brother's heartbeat coming from her back, which made her feel very relieved and relaxed, and her long hair swept over her shoulders and spread on Gu Cheng's chest.

"How do you have such an idea? Didn't you say that you want to be the savior of the content industry, what's wrong with experiencing life? As for cheesiness, what's more vulgar in the world than making money?"

"yes, I just don't know much about the values of this era. Gu Cheng was slightly distracted and said confusedly.

Pan Jieying's heart moved, she got up and walked around to her younger brother, stared at him suspiciously, and stretched out her palm to test the temperature on his forehead to confirm that the other party did not have a fever: "What do you mean by 'the values of this era'? ”

"Well, I mean, I haven't seen enough after all to mean anything else. Gu Cheng was seen as weak-hearted, and said in his heart that he had really relaxed his guard too much just now, and he almost leaked his mouth.

"Whatever you want to do, just do it with peace of mind, my sister will support you. You're only 17 years old, so what's there you can't try when you're young? ”

Gu Cheng hesitated and said, "The company's affairs ......"

Pan Jieying smiled strongly: "What are you afraid of, haven't you planned all the major events of the company steadily, and there are people doing specific work, and I am a 'supervisor'." A small company with less than 30 people can manage it. ”

Gu Cheng said guiltily: "I don't want venture capital to target us before the company makes a big profit." When the official profit stabilizes the market, the company's valuation is also high, so let's pay more attention to reliable people to help manage it. ”

At this point, the knot in my heart is untied.

For the next week, Gu Cheng obediently stayed in Qiantang, dealing with the company's affairs during the day every day, interviewing people from various departments of R&D and marketing, understanding the situation solidly, and trying to help his cousin dig out some hidden dangers.

At night, he would figure out the script every day and understand the characters. FORTUNATELY, THE ACTING SKILLS REQUIRED BY IDOL DRAMAS ARE NOT HIGH, YAN CHENGXU'S AMATEUR GUYS ARE ALL HOLDING, AND HE, WHO HAS ATTENDED ACTING CLASSES AND NIGHT CLASSES FOR HALF A YEAR WHEN HE WAS A TRAINEE IN S-M, NATURALLY ALSO HOLDS IT.

What's more, he still has the residual inertia of the "assisted learning biological CPU" in his brain, and he can master any skill much faster than normal people, and he can also change his brain in time to distract himself from many things.

Thinking about it this way, he is even less worried about the company's operation during filming. It's a big deal to talk to my cousin on the phone every day and take the helm.

Who let the old driver drive steadily?

……

After a week in China, when it was almost the day of start-up, Gu Cheng flew to Wanwan again.

Since agreeing to filming, he has also communicated with Chai Zhiping on the phone a lot in the past week, and has made some adjustments to the show.

After all, Chai Zhiping was originally under the idea of "if it becomes popular, you have to get an F4 concept circle to make money". But people like Gu Cheng absolutely disdain to enter the singer group, so the concept of F4 must be diluted, and many lines in the script must be fine-tuned.

In terms of script, Gu Cheng made it clear that he was reluctant to make a sequel, because he thought that once the idol drama was filmed in the second season, it would be too commercial. And the sequel to "Meteor Garden" is definitely not as popular as the first season, it is completely a dog's tail continuation mink circle money, and he doesn't want to ruin his reputation.

Chai Zhiping said that as long as Gu Cheng is willing to make additional investment, it is completely possible to intersperse five episodes of the second season into the first season to make the whole more compact, and Gu Cheng agreed after thinking about it.

In fact, those episodes were supposed to appear in the first season, but many commercial films deliberately cut the plot in order to avoid risks because they didn't know the market prospects, on the one hand, to leave an introduction for the sequel, and on the other hand, to save the investment in the first season, and to lose less in case it was not popular.

This kind of business routine consideration is completely not allowed in Gu Cheng's eyes. All he wants is to make things as good as possible.

At the same time, Gu Cheng's entry into the group also brought a series of actor adjustments, Zhou Yumin's level and appearance are still very good in the original F4, so it is naturally impossible to squeeze it out, but to rehearse the male third in the back. And Zhu Xiaotian, the ugliest in F4, was unfortunately squeezed out and played the childhood sweetheart of the heroine Shancai's "Kong Bala".

(Note: "Kongbala" is a proper noun used by Wanwan people to refer to the demolition households in urban villages.) ）

Almost all the actors in the play are newcomers, only Xu Xiyuan, the actor of the heroine Shancai, is an artist in the circle - at least he has released records and sung songs for three or four years as a singer, but he has not entered the film and television industry before.

The second female Fujido Jing has not finalized the candidate, Chai Zhiping only asked everyone to recommend the "intellectual senior sister" type actor whose appearance and aura are noble and cold enough, but the salary of famous actors in the film and television industry whose image and temperament meet the requirements is too high, and the crew can't afford it.

At the last moment, Chai Zhiping lowered his requirements: to select people from the "idea" anchor circle and model circle.

After hearing about this request, Gu Cheng moved the idea of "bringing capital into the group", and then called Lin Zhiling.

"Sister Zhiling, are you interested in the role of Fuji Tang Jing? However, the investment in the film is not large, and everyone adds up to only forty or fifty thousand episodes, and this role may not be worth much. ”

Lin Zhiling: "I don't know if Sister Chai looks down on me, let's not talk about Qian Cheng." The salary you gave me as an agent, I don't think I've been able to do it lately, and I haven't worked. ”

got Lin Zhiling's reply that he didn't care about money, Gu Cheng had no worries and replied directly to Chai Zhiping. Chai Zhiping had met Lin Zhiling and knew Lin Zhiling's appearance and temperament, so he hit it off.

……

Soon it was the official start-up day, all the personnel gathered, the set was ready, and the start-up ceremony was held.

Wanwan people are not exempt from vulgarity, and they should burn incense like Gangcan before starting, but they don't necessarily use pig's heads as offerings.

Gu Cheng, as a person in the future, does not believe in these. But bye-bye will not be less meat, he doesn't want to be sideways, so he will follow the customs.

In the entertainment industry in the 2040s, no matter what you shoot, no one burns incense for a long time. Because the reason why people in the entertainment industry want to burn incense is often out of fear of the unknown - early filming, like venture capital, lost money and made money, many times it was luck, and there was no reason to talk about it.

The mentality of a famous director who has been promoted and made a fortune is actually similar to that of an official who has been promoted and made a fortune: Is he more educated than others, or is he working harder than others? Why is he promoted and others are not promoted?

The promotion standard is not as good as the objective examination, and the more the standard is not explained, the more the beneficiary is psychologically uneasy, so the more he becomes an official, the more incense is burned.

And big data is a thing that destroys gods and Buddhas, squeezes out the moisture of luck as much as possible, and explains the reasons for success or failure. My life is up to me, and there are naturally fewer people burning incense.

The first group of plays after burning incense was on the way to school outside the "Yingde College".

It was a set of long shots from far to near, Xu Xiyuan, who played Shancai, pushed a broken battery car and tinkered with it to repair it. In the distance, several luxury cars came in a row, and in each car sat Daoming Temple played by Yan Chengxu, Hua Ze played by Gu Cheng, and some female supporting characters.

All the shots on the way to and from school in the episode must be filmed today.

Because it is not easy for the crew to apply for road closure, and in order to shoot these scenes, the crew specially spent money to rent a Rolls-Royce and a Maybach, and the rent of each car for one day is equivalent to the salary of the male number one Yan Chengxu.

The production cost of TV dramas in 2000 was still relatively high, mainly because film was still used in that era, and although digital camera technology had appeared, it was not popular, and the shooting effect was not as good as that of film cameras.

It wasn't until after the Internet winter, around 2004, that digital photography technology was fully rolled out in the film and television industry, and at that time, the cost of small-scale TV dramas began to plunge violently.

Chai Zhiping's budget is 200,000 episodes. The male actors of F4 share a salary of 20,000 yuan per episode, and Xu Xiyuan, Lin Zhiling and other supporting actresses add up to 20,000 yuan. Counting the various small supporting and group performances, the salary expenditure for each episode is controlled at 50,000 yuan, accounting for 25% of the overall expenditure.

If there was no capital injection from Gu Cheng, Chai Zhiping would have planned to rent a Toyota, and then stick a plastic Rolls-Royce logo on the front of the car to support the scene.

When Gu Cheng saw the commentary on the drama at that time, he almost didn't squirt out, and then hurriedly ordered Chai Zhiping: Lao Tzu will increase the budget, don't give Lao Tzu this kind of dog-beeping stove set-Ma Yuer rents a real Rolls-Royce!

If Gu Cheng becomes a world-class giant in the future, he will not be poked in the back in order to save thousands of dollars and drive a Toyota disguised as a Rolls-Royce in his early years.

"Chasing the budget...... It's okay, isn't it just chasing the budget? As soon as the legend officially charges, my brother will be rich. Gu Cheng drove a Rolls-Royce, and while silently reciting to himself, he slowly caught up with Shancai, who broke down and stopped on the side of the road, and greeted him coldly. (Still a minor driving without a license)

Although there were still distracting thoughts in his heart five seconds ago, the moment he said hello, Gu Cheng's expression was perfectly controlled.

He practiced in front of the mirror for a long time a few days in advance. When practicing, take out the photos of the expressions of the senior acting masters when they show the cold and deep meaning of the first encounter between men and women, and look in the mirror by yourself, mobilizing the residual inertia of the "auxiliary learning CPU", and looking for gaps over and over again.

He didn't go to night school in vain for most of the year at S-M, and he accumulated a lot of advantages for this body.

The most important thing is that he is cold by nature.

Maybe Hua Ze's character is just autistic, and he is eager to have a heart-to-heart, he shouldn't be cold.

But as an idol drama, what does it matter? no one knows what Hua Ze should look like, and no one cares that no one is benchmarking.

Gu Cheng plays him as what he is, he is what he is. As long as it's cold and cool enough, it's enough to make the little fans scream.

Chai Zhiping and Director Cai looked at the monitor and felt that although it was not the flower in their minds, it was very eye-catching.

After filming, Gu Cheng also walked over with Yan Chengxu to watch the synchronized digital playback.

In 2000, there was digital camera equipment, but there was still a gap between the sharpness and pixel depth compared to film photography. Moreover, the storage medium is also one-time indelible (engraved disk), and if you take a full picture, you have to change the disk.

However, because the film camera cannot be played back immediately after shooting, it needs to be washed out before it can be seen. Therefore, many crews will also put a digital video camera next to them to shoot together for simple confirmation of the effect.

Gu Cheng watched the rough replay of the digital version and immediately frowned.

"You don't have to carry a camera book for the cameraman when you shoot a TV series?"