When the actors under him were speculating about their director, Levy, as a director, was quite enjoying the hard-won shooting opportunity at this time.

Levy was also a director in his previous life, but as an advertising director in China, he has never experienced such pleasure as now.

Filming TV series has different requirements in different countries. If it is in China, as long as a crew is equipped with a director, a photographer, and an artist, this is the ability to shoot TV dramas - in fact, most TV series are also filmed like this. But in the United States, a TV series must have at least four cameras, and shoot a scene at the same time, and the scene needs to be filmed on location, and the materials need to be produced immediately, and the costumes, props, and sets, everything is very advanced, and these places are jaw-dropping.

Many people don't understand why American TV dramas are of high quality. In fact, this is very understandable, the shooting cost of American TV dramas is higher, and the manpower and material resources invested are incomparable to other countries, which is also one of the reasons why their TV dramas have the highest level.

Some people say that American dramas have one episode a week, and other countries can follow suit, but their actual results cannot be imitated: the investment of financial and material resources determines the speed of the filming of TV dramas. The filming of TV dramas does not require superb acting skills, so the success rate is relatively high, and a few more cameras can greatly improve the shooting speed. Americans can shoot TV dramas once a week, but when China's production conditions were poor, Journey to the West only had one camera, and it took 17 years to shoot the exterior - with this time, I came back after taking a scripture.

In China, it can take months, even a year, or even longer to shoot a TV series. And in the United States, a TV episode can be filmed in a week. Moreover, it was not every day of the week. From Monday to Wednesday, the actors don't use it for filming, they just need to take their scripts, read them at home, memorize their lines, and prepare their part. On Thursday, it's usually a rehearsal, and on Friday, it's a formal shoot. For general TV series, such a rhythm can be kept up.

CSI is the same: there are almost no big scenes in this drama, in this TV series, there are very few opportunities to shoot, the shooting is quite fast, and Levy is familiar with how to work, which can of course speed up.

has a top-level props team, with an investment of 3 million yuan per episode, and four cameras can also be used when filming TV series, such a shooting situation, when Levy was in China in his previous life, even the top crew did not necessarily have such conditions, the investment in this episode is 70 times that of China, with such a large investment, what Levy filmed, naturally made him very satisfied.

“cult！ Okay, this scene can be filmed, too. ”

Sitting in the director's chair, Levy nodded with a satisfied look and motioned to move on to the next scene. He has to admit that the filming of the TV series was easier than he imagined: after spending enough thought, his crew had much less trouble filming the TV series.

The filming of TV series has a long cycle and many characters, and many times the most annoying thing is not the filming process of the TV series, but the problem in the process of personnel preparation. There are no less than ten important actors in a TV series, and it is difficult to ensure that all these people remember their lines, analyze their character performances, and even ensure that they are all okay and can all arrive on time. And once one of these people is delayed, then the entire TV series will be affected.

Levy was also a person in the entertainment industry in his previous life, whether he had been in contact with it or heard of it, he had seen many similar problems. used to film in China, but there were no such conveniences.

China likes to use big names, so it has to succumb to big names. Big-name actors have requirements for lines, camera positions, shooting angles, and half-scene panoramas. The lines are too difficult to remember or not enough to be intoned, no, the poor lighting during the shooting shows the potholes on the faces of the big names, no, the shooting uses a panoramic view to expose the real height of the big actors in front of people, and it doesn't work.

Now, he can have the final say.

Here, I am the producer, the director, the original, the screenwriter, this TV series is made by myself, different production concepts determine that I have enough power to decide how to do things, and I have enough advanced vision, and I also decide that when I shoot the movie, I choose enough good actors, which makes the filming of the TV series can be said to be going on day by day.

In China, because of the vast market, it is rare to lose money in filming TV dramas, so it is often the people who pay the money who have the final say in TV dramas, and under the people who pay the money, it is often who is famous and who has the final say. When a script comes out, the director can change it, the actors can change it, and the producer can change it, but it turns out to be nothing. Similarly, as a director, there are also two mountains pressed on it, and if you count the General Bureau, there are basically three mountains, and it can be said that it is even more difficult to create works.

In the United States, because the market is more competitive and freer, it has led to an increase in investment quotas, and high-investment TV dramas are impossible without considering returns. Since the investment is 70 times that of domestic dramas, the possibility of losing money is greatly enhanced. American television networks are always very practical, and since they need to make money from these TV series, then the only people who can create wealth will be those who can create wealth, not those who contribute money.

The rules of capital operation are different, resulting in a gap. And for Levy, who has no money himself, the current model is obviously better than before. This mode makes it a lot easier for Levy to command, like an arm and a finger.

Of course, the prerequisite for all this is to become a producer and have enough right to speak. If he changes his position and becomes an actor, maybe Levy will like China even more - in China, big-name stars have a lot of say in TV dramas.

Of course, filming TV series in the United States will also encounter some problems. Sometimes, the actor gets drunk and stops filming. The actor was sick and stopped filming. The actor is not in good condition and does not have a good understanding of the lines, so he has to explain and rehearse repeatedly, not to mention that if the actor is dismissed, he has to find a way to let him die in the play, and if the actress is pregnant, she has to find a reason to let her have a reason not to appear for 4-6 weeks. What's more, the actors get along very well in the crew, and they temporarily decide to go to their own car to shoot a quick shot, so maybe the whole crew is ready, waiting for the two of them or more to finish filming quickly......

But fortunately, there is no such thing in Levy's crew now. The actors are good enough to keep the level of filming of Levy's TV series going smoothly all the time.

"We're moving fast." Taking advantage of the time between filming and reading the script for a while, Michael sat in the director's chair next to him and spoke softly, "The filming process is better than we imagined, and the actors' performance is much better than we imagined. I don't even know when you started to have this kind of ability. ”

Such a TV series has as many as a dozen main actors, and it is quite difficult to require each actor to play well during filming. There are a lot of actors in this TV series, and everyone can perform quite well, which is enough to make people feel surprised. And for Michael, the most surprising thing for him was obviously Levy's performance. He has known Levy for a long time, and he knows Levy well, they have filmed movies together, in that movie, even if Levy commands two or three actors, it is difficult to do it like a finger, and in this TV series, the number of actors has increased greatly, plus the props team, the camera crew, and the entire shooting site, there are at least 30 people, and now Levy can command very easily, he keeps giving orders, let everyone be in place, let everyone perform their duties, this kind of command ability, is what surprised Michael.

This guy has progressed too fast as a director.

"Actually, it's a question of whether you're serious or not. Commanding a small crew of two or three people, it is difficult for people to be willing to go all out, so it is naturally nonsense. In this situation, why don't you go all out? Levy is only lightly covering up the past.

Just play and play yourself to suicide? Michael complained, but no matter how he said it, his friend was getting better and better in the director's position, and he was still quite happy. In the past, Levy was really not serious enough to do things, maybe it was really after committing suicide once, he saw through a lot of things and became like to do things seriously? It's a good thing that my friend has become better than before, and I'm happy for him.

Levy himself didn't take his performance too seriously. It looks like he's doing well, but it's just good. In his previous life, he participated in the production of TV dramas, and he knew a lot of things to do, so he could easily get started. But now when filming TV series, the conditions are much better than before, the use of props, the shooting techniques, the performances of the actors, he also has to master these things little by little, but this level of change, there is no fuss.

has money, people, and technology, if he can't make a bad film in such a situation, then he will be too embarrassed.

Michael didn't understand Levy's mood because he hadn't been similarly repressed before. Therefore, he also did not understand why Levy was so highly motivated to work now.

Levy didn't pay attention to his thoughts, he finally had his own work, and he was now working on it with joy, and he wanted to think about everything else.

"The first episode of our TV series has been filmed and sent to ABC, and I hope they will be satisfied. But they should also be satisfied, our actors are of such a high level, what else do they expect? ”

This incident is also one of Michael's happiest things so far: not to mention that the filming of the TV series is quite smooth, and the actors in the crew are also of a very high level.

"Of course our actors are of a high standard...... Clarke's job is very good. ”