The film industry is not just an industry where filming is done, and the shots shot on the set can only be counted as materials and raw materials for post-production.

Post-production is the real processing process of raw materials, editing and splicing perfect clips from uncarved shots, which is a great test of the comprehensive ability of the post-production team.

At present, in Hong Kong, the companies with post-production experience are mainly Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers. Other small companies, even if they are the opponents of Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers, can only take the wool piece and beg Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest to do the later stage.

If you take women's makeup as an analogy, the post-production process is to turn a woman with "no makeup" into a beautiful beauty through "makeup"!

If the material produced by the movie is very beautiful and of high quality. Then after the editing and processing are completed, the quality will be on a higher level. If the unedited film itself is of poor quality, post-production is powerless.

The leaders of Tsui Hark, Cheng Xiaodong, and Yuan Heping, Zhang Shaojie, Gu Long, and some actors in the crew came to the screening room of Jiahe Company.

On the silver screen, some of the footage taken in the past few days is screened.

Originally, the most opening scene in the script of the "Tang Dynasty" should be Yu Wenhua, leading several big ships along the canal to Yangzhou. However, for this kind of big scene, you need to find a suitable wooden boat as a prop to shoot it well.

At present, in order to purchase the wooden boat needed for props, it has spent 1 million Hong Kong dollars to buy an old sailing ship with a displacement of 500 tons from China, tow it back to the shipyard in Hong Kong, and then refurbish it for several months before it can be used.

On the silver screen in the screening room.

One by one, the shots have not been edited or synthesized in post-production, and they appear fragmented.

However, a strong new martial arts movie style came to his face, which made Zhang Shaojie feel excited, which was exactly the effect he wanted to see!

"Yes, that's right!"

in the movie screen. Fu Junzhuo is dressed in white, with a hat and a sword behind him. The rest of the good players who followed her looked murderous.

In the shot, Fu Junzhuo flew into the hillside, the white clothes disappeared in a flash, she was masked, only showing her beautiful chin, she looked back and smiled, and the white clothes flew away

It's completely different from the chase scene of traditional martial arts films!

In traditional martial arts films, only when encountering high obstacles do the characters rise from the ground and leap scenes. But when chasing, in traditional martial arts films, most of the chase scenes are almost mainly running, even if light work is used in the chase, it is a somersault to turn over, and there is no sense of elegance and calmness at all.

The picture in the Mao film of "Tang Dynasty" shows the elegant and chic side of martial arts movies. Lin Qingxia is dressed in white, and she jumps like a fairy, which fully embodies the close-up of light skills in the era of new martial arts movies.

"Good! Who designed this light work? Zhang Shaojie asked.

Tsui Hark smiled: "It's Cheng Xiaodong!" ”

Zhang Shaojie said with satisfaction: "It looks very good, as elegant as a crane spreading its wings, completely subverting the interpretation of light mechanics in previous martial arts movies!" ”

Another set of shots.

Outside the mountain temple.

In the picture, in order to reflect the special abilities of the good players.

A person squatted on the ground to smell the smell and told Jiao Xie: "The idea is in the temple, and it hasn't come out for a day, it seems to be waiting for someone!" ”

In the picture, there are broken windows in the broken temple, and everyone sees the back of the woman in white through the broken window

Jiao Xie waved his hand and didn't say a word, but everyone was clear and surrounded the broken temple.

"The life-killing knife under the banner of the King of Heaven is scorched, and on the order of the King of Heaven, I want to ask the girl about something." In the movie, the man who played the scorched evil showed good light skills and flew to the door of the broken temple!

At this time, the impact visual image appeared - a loud bang!

In the movie, the door of the broken temple began to shatter into countless pieces.

The shards shot like knives

Lin Qingxia's Fu Junwu shows her figure!

Zhang Shaojie praised: "Good! This close-up is simply amazing! If the whole movie can always have such an effect, I think after the movie is released, everyone here will be famous all over the world! ”

Tsui Hark smiled: "If we can be popular, I'm afraid you will be even more popular, right?" "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is your original work! ”

Zhang Shaojie was stunned, but smiled.

The film industry and the fiction industry are mutually reinforcing, and this is not new.

In fact, Shakespeare's novels, the four great classics of Chinese classics, have basically been adapted hundreds of times for film and television.

Hong Kong's martial arts movies, Gulong dramas, Jin Yong dramas, and hundreds of film and television dramas over the years.

However, the adaptation of novels into film and television has really been valued by global film and television giants until the "Harry Potter" and "Lord of the Rings" movies become popular, as well as the American superhero comic book adaptations. At that time, Hollywood's film giants paid unprecedented attention to the film and television adaptation of famous novels and comic book copyrights.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the entire culture and entertainment industry was truly regarded as a whole.

The copyright of the novel "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" in Zhang Shaojie's hand, from the perspective of the entire cultural and entertainment industry chain, is in the upstream industry. Movies, TV series, games, manga, anime are all spin-offs of the brand of novels!

Zhang Shaojie is ready to market "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" using the commercial methods of the later "Harry Potter" brand! Ahead of the success of Harry Potter, win the reputation of the father of full rights marketing!

The success of "Harry Potter" - more than ninety percent of the credit is due to commercial operations, and when the brand matures, it will be like a snowball, able to continue self-hematopoiesis, focusing on more popularity and attention!

The reason why "Harry Potter" can be more successful than the cultural products that later adopted similar marketing methods is also because "Harry Potter" is the first cultural brand to taste the sweetness and maximize the benefits!

"Harry Potter" in the 90s, before it was adapted into a movie, although it became popular in the UK, it was not so popular that it was against the sky, and the sales of each copy were only more than one million. And after the first part of "Harry Potter" was released, which was adapted by Hollywood, the novel version of "Harry Potter" was quickly translated into more than 70 countries and languages, sold in more than 200 countries and regions, and 7 copies of "Harry Potter" sold a total of 350 million copies!

And the best-selling of the novel also made the later movie versions of "Harry Potter" more popular than one!

This kind of cultural industry - novels, movies, comics, games, peripheral products, using the same brand, promoting each other, enhancing each other's influence, and achieving a win-win situation in multiple fields of the entire industry chain is the way to maximize the benefits of cultural and entertainment products.

Zhang Shaojie touched his chin and said with a smile: "Tsui Hark, Cheng Xiaodong, Yuan Heping, and everyone in the crew." I suddenly thought that the budget of 20 million might be too stingy! If you want to finish it, you will play big, and now I have 14 million available cash on my bank account, and there is also the follow-up dividend of "Modern Bodyguard", and the monthly remuneration of "The Legend of Double Dragons of Datang"! Together, I estimate that these revenues will exceed 30 million within this year. I decided, I will support as much as I can make! Do you have the confidence to make a blockbuster movie that can be as sensational as "Star Wars"?! ”

"What!?" Tsui Hark, Yuan Heping, and Cheng Xiaodong were all shocked!

What is the concept of a budget of 30 million? At present, Golden Harvest Company, the leader of the Hong Kong film industry, makes 30 films a year, and the annual investment in the film is 50 million Hong Kong dollars!

Hong Kong's TVB TV station and Li's TV station generally only have a budget of 40 or 50 million yuan a year!

Zhang Shaojie's movie is worth TVB TV, and the total investment in TV dramas is more than half a year's budget.

This kind of investment that does not treat money as money at all makes everyone feel that he is simply a madman!

The film industry has never been like this, not considering the income, only considering the reputation of the movie, as well as the reputation!

Seeing that everyone was shocked, Zhang Shaojie still felt that it was not enjoyable, and said with a smile: "Next, I decided that on the basis of a fixed salary, Tsui Hark, Cheng Xiaodong, Yuan Heping, each of you will have a 2% box office dividend." Lin Qingxia, Wu Dairong, Wan Ziliang, 1% box office dividend per year. Finally, 5% of the box office dividends will be divided equally among the rest of the crew! No matter whether the movie is profitable or losing, as long as it is made well, I will say it! ”

This is generally a bold promise of benefits.

This is not only Xu Hark, Cheng Xiaodong, Yuan Heping and others feel extremely grateful. And Lin Qingxia, Wan Ziliang, and Wu Dairong feel that it is really a right choice to shoot "Datang"!

Zhang Shaojie continues to make additional investments, with a total cost of 30 million Hong Kong dollars, even if it is conservatively estimated that the global box office is only 40 or 50 million Hong Kong dollars, each person's dividends will be more than 780,000 or 300,000 yuan, and as little as 300,000 or 400,000 yuan. Even if it is a general chores of the crew, there will be tens of thousands of dividends at that time, who doesn't like such a generous, bold and generous boss?

After trying to see the footage that has just been shot in the past few days, Zhang Shaojie is extremely satisfied, and he is also full of confidence in the strength of the crew!

The time was already 11 o'clock, Zhang Shaojie and the crew had dinner directly on the set, and there was no difference between each person and a box of lunches.

Of course, the lunch box of the "Tang Dynasty" crew is ordered from a nearby hotel, and the cost of each box reaches 30 Hong Kong dollars, which seems to be poorly packaged, but in fact, the taste is not inferior to the delicacies of the banquet.

The per capita income of film workers in this year is much lower than that of ordinary industry workers! Employees in many ordinary industries in Hong Kong have been able to earn an annual salary of more than HK$10,000 a year, and their jobs are relatively stable.

And Golden Harvest's stars may be able to earn an annual salary of more than 100,000 yuan.

Ordinary actors, or crew chores, can only earn three or four thousand a year.

Of course, during filming, the crew provides free meals. Filmmakers who are unambitious on the set, when filming, the crew provides free meals, and then uses the meager salary to support their families.

There are ten low-level filmmakers in this era, and they are relatively shabby. It is precisely because of the general economic poverty and unstable income that Hong Kong's slightly more legitimate occupations discriminate against practitioners in the film and television industry.

For the members of the crew of "Datang", the boss of Baolong Company and the investor of the film, Zhang Shaojie, are simply unprecedented good people!

Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "This little favor makes these crew members moved like this?" The cost of buying people's hearts is too cheap! ”

In fact, if you want to look at the film industry in the 90s, the era of blockbusters with millions of costs, this investment is nothing at all. It's just because, at this time, filmmakers have been making small-scale movies with a cost of hundreds of thousands or millions for a long time, and they are used to it, and if they find a slightly more generous boss, they feel grateful to meet a philanthropist!

(To be continued)