Chapter 10: Happy Ghost
Seeing Meng Chao's attitude so insistent, Huang Baiming was also excited by him, after all, his dream is to make movies, not just to be a screenwriter of TV series in the film and television city like now.
So if there is a chance, Huang Baiming naturally hopes to fight!
Although Meng Chao now only adds up to more than 500,000 yuan, according to Meng Chao, he has accumulated more than 30,000 fans for online live broadcasts, and in addition to the salary of 1.5 million yuan a year in the newly signed contract, he can also get no less than 10,000 yuan a day.
And if it is a small-budget comedy, then at the price of 1985, more than one million can already be filmed.
So Huang Baiming asked: "If you are really sure of investing, I would like to join, but I would better make a small-budget comedy, which is relatively less risky, and it is best to be able to understand it up to the age of eighty and down to the age of three, so that the audience base who are willing to buy tickets to enter is at least larger." ”
Meng Chao knew that what Huang Baiming said was very reasonable, and he had already made sufficient preparations, so he said unhurriedly: "Then I have a story on hand, you can see if you can make a script and shoot it." ”
"Tell me about it, let's take a closer look."
So Meng Chao began to tell the story, the protagonist of the story is a frustrated Xiucai in the Xianfeng period, because of eighteen times off the list and hanged himself, and as a result, he became a lonely ghost in the ancient temple, and after the background came to the modern era, several fresh candidates inadvertently came to the ancient temple, and one of the girls even took away the hanging rope that Xiucai hanged, and since then this happy ghost has been brought to the urban area, so that there are a lot of hilarious stories with several girls......
After Meng Chao finished speaking, Huang Baiming clapped his hands and shouted: "Meng Chao, I didn't expect you to not only act well, but also have the ability to write a screenplay, enough to steal my job, your story is a good comedy with a little polishing, and the story is set on campus, the three heroines can choose young and lovely newcomers, the shooting cost is definitely not high, maybe it may really create a miracle if you shoot it......"
After Meng Chao heard Huang Baiming's accurate comments, he couldn't help but nodded, this person does have super business cells, no wonder his achievements in the parallel world are so high, and finally he even founded an oriental film company by himself.
In fact, the story of this movie comes from a middle school drama in a school in Xiangjiang, and it is Huang Baiming's work in the parallel world!
Huang Baiming was already well-known in two years and became one of the shareholders of Xinyicheng, so he was invited to participate in the school's activities and saw the drama called "Zhu Xiucai", and immediately bought the rights to start making a movie, which was a great success, and made several sequels in a row, which is one of his two most profitable film series.
Another series is naturally the "Happy Family" series, but the success of the other series is mainly due to two people, one is the director Gao Zhisen, who is still playing soy sauce in the film and television city, and the other is Zhou Xingchi's classmate, but now Xingzai is still playing tricks on Xiangjiang TVB TV, and Meng Chao can only start filming "Happy Ghost" first.
Of course, in fact, the story of Meng Chao's "Happy Ghost" has been firmly engraved in his devouring memory, even if there is no Huang Baiming, he can shoot it, but Meng Chao still took the initiative to find him.
There are two reasons, one is that after all, Huang Baiming is his best friend, and this movie was originally going to find Huang Baiming as the leading actor, and it is also his proud work in the parallel world, so Meng Chao found him, and the second reason is that Huang Baiming is a rare film talent, and the advantages of including him in his own camp definitely outweigh the disadvantages, and he can help himself make a lot of money in the future.
And the most important thing is that the story of "Happy Ghost" was conceived by Meng Chao himself, and it will also be filmed by the film company registered and founded by Meng Chao, and even all the funds are invested by Meng Chao alone, so the copyright owner is only Meng Chao, and he is the biggest beneficiary!
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After discussion, the two decided to start filming "Happy Ghost" after preparing for each other's things in a week, and the campus scenes and ancient temple beach scenes needed in the movie can be found directly in Huaxia Film and Television City, so it is very convenient to shoot, which is also a benefit brought by the development of the TV drama industry.
And Meng Chao's filming of "Whampoa" has only a few days left, and while filming and doing live webcasts, Meng Chao is actively looking for a suitable film team.
Two days later, he found Gao Zhisen, the original director of "Happy Ghost", who worked as a screenwriter on Xiangjiangli's TV in the late 70s.
But after Li's TV changed owners, Gao Zhisen felt that the development of Xiangjiang's entertainment industry was too small, so he followed a senior in Xiangjiang to the north and went to Huaxia Film and Television City to serve as an assistant director of the TV series, and has been looking for opportunities to get ahead.
In this era, there are too many examples of Hong Kong people like Gao Zhisen going north, because the mainland has a population base of more than one billion, and there are only a few million on the Xiangjiang side, so how to choose is very clear, and naturally Huaxia Film and Television City, which is filmed to supply the national audience, is the film and television holy land in their minds!
Originally, in the parallel world, Gao Zhisen's mentor was Huang Baiming, and it was Huang Baiming's appreciation that made him the director of "Happy Ghost", and in this world, his benefactor became Meng Chao, because Meng Chao made him the director of "Happy Ghost", and Huang Baiming became one of the screenwriters and coordinators, and Meng Chao became the investor and producer of the film.
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With a director, screenwriter, producer and funding, the soul of a film is complete, and of course the remaining technical personnel are also very important, including editing, photography, lighting, art, costumes......
However, such technicians are easy to find, and the reason is very simple.
There will be a phenomenon in any big city, that is, the phenomenon of grouping, and the groups that generally appear will form a group in a language form, for example, in Yanjing's film and television city, there are small groups in the three northeastern provinces, small groups in the Sichuan-Shu region, and small groups from the Cantonese-speaking region of Xiangjiang and Nanyue.
In particular, the Xiangjiang film and television people who have more contact with the West have already formed their own film and television associations as early as when they went north, and the main members are people from the two regions of Nanyue and Xiangjiang, and both regions themselves use Cantonese as the main language, so they are a group with the same voice!
Of course, the emergence of this situation is only to avoid being bullied by outsiders, you can find an organization for help, which is the characteristic of every Chinese, and because of the film and television association in the Cantonese-speaking region, it is extremely easy to find staff.