"Da Fei, have you found the venue or something?"

"I haven't done anything else, but the venue is connected, Dongpu Computer Higher School, my buddy's sister goes to school there, the desks and benches inside, as well as the overall style of the classroom, which meet your requirements very well. Check it out today? ”

"Okay, let's go check it out first."

At that moment, Bai Yuhan and Zhao Dafei went to Dongpu Computer Higher Vocational School, and met the sister of Zhao Dafei's buddy, a nineteen-year-old girl named Li Juan, who looked average, but her makeup was very thick.

"Brother Da Fei, this is the director you made that little 2b film, he looks very handsome." Li Juan is a familiar person, and she is not stage frightened at all.

Zhao Dafei laughed: "Bai Yuhan, my buddy, you should know that you have watched Xiao 2b, the white swordsman is played by him, and he is talented." But when it comes to looks, there is still a certain gap compared to me. ”

Bai Yuhan rolled his eyes and glanced at Zhao Dafei, he was speechless about his narcissism, he was disfigured, and he was much more handsome than him.

"Hello Li Juan, thank you for helping to contact the venue."

Li Juan grinned and said, "It's polite, isn't it just a classroom, you don't have a problem if you just shoot our dormitory." ”

"I'm curious about the girls' dormitories, but I'll forget about it." Bai Yuhan shook his head.

"Haha, do I call you Director Bai or Brother Bai?"

"He is nicknamed the swordsman, and you *a* book * read *little* and say that ybdu can be understood as a sword with a sword, and it can also be understood as a slut." Zhao Dafei hugged Bai Yuhan and unceremoniously lost it.

"Then I'll call you Brother Swordsman, I heard my brother say, you are going to shoot a commercial for Qixi now, right? Brother Swordsman, what do you think of me, don't show up on the above advertisement, you don't need money. ”

Bai Yuhan wanted to say that actors are not needed for this advertisement, but after thinking about it, actors don't want it, people still need it: "You stretch out your hand and I'll take a look." ”

"What are you doing with your hand?" Li Juan was puzzled, but she still stretched out her hand obediently.

Bai Yuhan took a closer look, Li Juan looked sloppy, her hands were quite fair and delicate, her fingernails were also quite long, and her wrists and arms were also white and shiny. Overall, regardless of looks, these hands are definitely beautiful hands.

Seeing Bai Yuhan looking at the woman's hand so seriously, Zhao Dafei couldn't help but say: "Swordsman, your taste is a little unique, everyone else is a foot fetish, do you have a hand fetish?" ”

"Fuck off, why am I looking at my hands, don't you know." Bai Yuhan said angrily.

Li Juan was confused: "Brother Swordsman, Brother Da Fei, what's going on?" ”

"There are no actors in our advertising drama, or rather, only a few hands appear on the camera, so there is no chance to show your face, but you can have the opportunity to show your hand, if you don't want money, come and shoot." Bai Yuhan explained.

Originally, he didn't plan to spend money on actors.

"It's just a show of your hand, it's too boring, but I still have to act, Brother Swordsman, it's okay."

"Okay, leave the contact information to Da Fei, and call you when the shooting starts."

"Do you want to get a script first and rehearse and rehearse?"

"No, when you come, you'll know what to do."

After flickering Li Juan, she looked at the desks, chairs and benches in the classroom, Bai Yuhan was not picky about the venue. Then he immediately contacted a photographic equipment rental company, and because of the investment of PepsiCo, Bai Yuhan unceremoniously leased a set of luxury equipment.

Reflectors, magnesium lights, tripods, and more, all choose the best.

As for the camera, it rents a Sony HVR-Z1C HDV, D sensor with 1.12 million pixels, 12x optical zoom, with Carl Zeiss VARIO-Sonnar-T lens, and a 3.5-inch LCD color LCD screen. Support night shot, remote shot, anti-shake, stereo recording and other functions.

"Mr. Chen, please send it over in person, I'm sorry, come, smoke a cigarette." Bai Yuhan handed the Chinese cigarette he bought to Manager Chen of the leasing company.

Manager Chen is in his forties, wearing glasses, with a mustache, and looks a bit literary and artistic: "Director Bai is polite, you are experts in film and television, we can only do rough work." ”

"Mr. Chen, this is the outside, there is a specialization in the art industry, but the industry is different. In the future, if we gain a foothold in the Demon Capital, we will inevitably trouble you. ”

"A phone call thing." Manager Chen smiled boldly.

Bai Yuhan also laughed, if the studio really wants to be based in the magic capital, it will definitely need a long-term partner. After all, White Swordsman Studio is a small film and television studio, only responsible for planning and production, equipment and personnel, etc., all need to cooperate with other companies.

With some simple equipment and some basic staff, he will still take the photo studio as the team. As for the professional part, it all depends on foreign cooperation, after all, a set of professional-grade photography equipment, pre-shooting and post-production, add up to at least millions, and you have to spend a lot of money on maintenance every year, maybe it will be eliminated in a few years, and it is too cost-effective to buy it yourself.

For example, professional digital cinema cameras, such as ARRI's models, have to change the cooling system every three months, and a small studio can't handle it. Filming is not every day, hungry and full, there is no way to provide for a long time.

The film and television industry has become more and more refined, project planning, production preparation, artist management, cinema distribution, media promotion, intermediary approval, etc., all of which can be set up separately companies or studios. Bai Yuhan's positioning of his studio is very clear, in the early stage, it is mainly production, and in the later stage, it slowly expands to the field of project planning and media promotion.

In a few years, when the studio grows, it will launch a film and television company, expand its business scope, and finally conquer big movie projects.

With the arrival of this batch of equipment, there is also a lighting engineer and two prop masters, at this time Manager Chen introduced him, he is the head snake here, to help contact one or two behind-the-scenes staff, a word of things.

In the afternoon, Zhao Dafei continued to go out and contacted the post-production company, and Bai Yuhan took the lighting engineer and prop master and began to toss in the classroom.

……

"Raise the stand a little higher, yes, hold it, just set it up at this height."

In the classroom, Bai Yuhan stood on the desk with his feet in one hand, holding the Sony HVR-Z1C in one hand, and the camera was aimed vertically at the desk, looking at the images in the display screen, and correcting it from time to time.

At the same time, he also directs the gaffer to continuously pull the camera tripod up to maintain the same level with the camera.

"Highly sure, right?" The gaffer asked, his name is Ma Tang, he works in a small film and television company, and when the company is not working, he comes out to make some extra money.

"That's it." Bai Yuhan put down the camera, "Let's fix the second bracket, I'll see if the effect is to adjust it." ”

Because a tripod is not enough to shoot vertical shots, you have to fix a tripod at a 90-degree angle so that you can adjust the camera to shoot from above.

After more than ten minutes of busyness, I finally fixed the two tripods with the camera and accurately aimed at most of the desks.

After fixing, Bai Yuhan also deliberately took a pen to draw circles under the three legs of the tripod to prevent accidentally moving the camera and causing the lens to shift.

After doing this, the prop master was still making props outside, and Bai Yuhan chatted with Ma Tang.

"Smoke a cigarette."

"Yo, China, it's a good smoke."

"Business smoke, you know. How many years have you been a gaffer? ”

"I've been doing it since I graduated from school, about four or five years."

"Have you been with those big crews?" Bai Yuhan asked with interest.

Ma Tang smiled embarrassedly: "Basically, they are all commercials and MVs, and I have also run some wedding companies, if you want to talk about TV series, I have run a few programs produced by Dragon TV, and the real big crews go very little, because they all have special lighting engineers." Think about it, the most famous one I ran was "Ambition" in 02, which was filmed by the great Hong Kong director Tang Jili, because there were not enough people, so I mixed in, but I was a lighting assistant at that time. ”

"How is it filmed in a TV series, is it complicated?"

"Generally speaking, it can only be said that it is slightly more complicated than shooting commercials, because the filming time of TV dramas is long, and it has to be arranged very early, and a certain amount of work has to be completed every day, which is relatively long-term. We all finished filming commercials in two or three days, one director and one plan, and it was over with a joke. The TV drama crew is different, there are a lot of people who are in charge of you over there, directors, assistant directors, producers, production directors, and assistant directors, etc., can manage you. ”

"So filming a TV series is a lot of people and a big stall, right?"

"Not necessarily, I can't say it, aren't you shooting commercials, you're still a director, don't you understand?"

"I've been in the industry for too short, I've just entered this industry, and a lot of things are being explored."

"Actually, if you want me to say, you might as well go with the group for a while, and you can learn a lot. You are like some of our classmates, who studied film and television, and when you first came out, you all went to follow the group, school and books, which is different from reality. When I do things outside, I think it's more important to have relationships. ”

"It's not easy to follow the group, right?"

"Actually, it's easy, as long as you can endure hardships and don't take a lot of money, you are willing to rush to ask for it, and the crew is very picky. You are like me now, I have been in the industry for four or five years, and it is very simple for me to join the crew. ”

"Then why don't you come in?"

"It's not much fun to go in, and I don't make much money than I make now, and I get up early and get up late, and I'm tired. If you can make sycophants, it will definitely be beneficial to follow the group, one of my classmates, just because he can pat sycophants, is now working in the studio of Huayi Brothers Feng Xiaogang, and he is very beautiful when he makes movies. I can't do it, I don't know how to make sycophants, I can't get used to seeing those assistant directors show off their might, no one is promoted, and it's not interesting to go to the crew. ”

"It's also said that running around outside will at least be free."

"I thought so too." Ma Tang smiled casually, but he couldn't hide the indignation in his tone.

Smoking, clichés, and an afternoon of mixing it up.

In the evening, the prop master drove over with a bunch of props. After checking the props one by one, the prop master took out a slip and handed it to Bai Yuhan.

"The cost of the road, it cost a total of three thousand seven, this is a list, take a look, no problem, you can sign."

"No problem." Bai Yuhan signed happily, then took out three thousand seven hundred yuan from his bag, and drew another hundred alone, "Three thousand seven, you count, it's delaying your time, this hundred, please have a drink." ”

"Haha, thank you Director Bai, I will contact you again if you have business." The prop master took the money and said happily.

"Definitely, definitely."