The half-month shooting cycle is the result of research by Zhang Jin, Du Qifeng and others, of course, this refers to the time from start-up to completion.

Before the boot, Zhang Jin and the other three cores were busy every day.

First of all, it is necessary to find a suitable filming location, the original version of "Raid" is a 30-story old building, Zhang Jin originally wanted to shoot in the Kowloon Walled City, but it is now being demolished, and he can't get an application, so he can only choose another filming location.

Fortunately, affected by last year's stock market crash, this year's real estate has been sluggish, and soon contacted an unfinished building, saying that it was an unfinished building, in fact, the exterior decoration has been almost completed, but unfortunately the developer has no money to run away.

After the four of them looked at it layer by layer, they all said that they could meet the filming conditions, so after paying 30,000 yuan to the security guard, the crew had the right to use it for at least one month, as long as they didn't blow up the building, the crew tossed it casually.

Then Zhang Jin and Du Qifeng went to the police station non-stop for the record, since a few years ago, a mad director named McDonald Bear made a few fuss, the police station required that whenever there is a location shooting, whether it is a movie or a TV series, it must be filed with the police station.

At this time, the power of Du Qifeng's great director was fully exerted, if Zhang Jin went through the formalities by himself, he didn't want to get the record in a week, and Du Qifeng only took two days to get it out of the horse.

At the same time, the eldest brother also exerted his network energy, found a group of people with a martial arts foundation, and fell, jumped, flew, and pretended to be dead every day under the guidance of Dong Wei.

Compared with Zhang Jin, Du Qifeng, and Dong Wei, the busiest person is Wei Jiahui, he is also a screenwriter-turned-producer, since he became a producer, he has worked so hard, today to buy props, guns, weapons, tomorrow to buy Flying Tigers police uniforms, the day after tomorrow to toss all kinds of things, in the end I was really busy, I simply found a few PAs from the TV station to help, this is the right time to smoke a cigarette and drink saliva.

In short, everyone was busy taking off, and after four days of tossing, new problems, and the most serious problems, appeared.

Not enough money!

Zhang Jin finally realized the feeling of burning money for making movies, renting equipment, buying films, inviting crew, inviting extras, various props, costumes, buying insurance, eating, and burning it down, but it didn't officially start, 1.8 million is left with 300,000, and this is not counting Du Qifeng and Liu Jialing's salaries.

The egg hurts!

Zhang Jin's eyebrows twisted into Sichuan characters and asked, "Brother Feng, how much more do you need?" ”

Du Qifeng thought for a long time, and crackled with the calculator, "If you want to finish filming, it will cost at least one million, and if you want to be more refined, at least one and a half million, this is counting the cost of post-production, and all kinds of unexpected risks have been calculated." ”

The eldest brother said, "I'll go back to Taiwan and think about getting some money." ”

Zhang Jin groaned: "Don't go empty-handed, take a piece of flowers, since you are thinking about attracting investment, you will want to get more." ”

Du Qifeng snorted, this is currently the safest and most common method, even if people such as Xu Ke, Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long and others also use filming Huala investment.

Of course, there are many doorways here, and not all the investment is used for filming, for example, if you get 10 million from several film companies, the actual shooting may only be 5 million, and the extra 5 million can be divided through accounts, or it can be set aside for the start-up capital of the next film.

Anyway, this is already an unwritten rule in the circle, as long as the box office results are popular, the filmmakers can recover their costs and make profits, and most of them turn a blind eye.

Filming is a science, similar to shooting a trailer, you need to let the filmmakers see the commercial value of the film in a relatively short period of time, if you can't even fool the filmmakers, how can you guarantee the box office of the film.

Du Qifeng was good at this, and after discussing with Zhang Jin for a long time, he determined the content of the film.

"A total of ten minutes of footage, including three action scenes." Zhang Jin took a spare script and action storyboard and said: "The first and most critical one is the shootout scene, which should highlight our completely different style from other gunfight films, and the bullets pierce the concrete walls, the pillars and walls are full of holes, grenade explosions, etc. ”

"In the second scene, weapons, short knives, batons, machetes, etc., should be displayed, and a set of action scenes of no less than five minutes should be filmed."

"The last group is the fist and kick, which is a familiar field, what we have to do is to make the fist to the flesh more real and bloody."

"Our purpose is very simple, that is, through the progressive visual impact of gunfights, ice blades, and hand-to-hand combat, so that filmmakers have a feeling of 'I don't want to shoot after a long time'."

"In ten minutes, we have to make them dizzy, from one impact to another, and in the gradual progression, the blood all over the body is boiling, from head to toe, to the point of blood and blood, even after reaching the peak, the curtain falls, it is still unfinished, and the aftertaste lingers."

After Zhang Jin finished speaking, he found that everyone was looking at him stupidly, and he was embarrassed.

"What are you looking at me like that?"

Du Qifeng coughed twice and said: "Ah Jin, I found out, your eloquence is not ordinarily good, you can fight with the church's magic stick, being fooled by you for a while, I have a feeling of brainwashing." ”

Wei Jiahui also nodded again and again, "Just listening to you, I feel very excited, I want to watch the film now." ”

The eldest brother smiled, bared his teeth and said, "If I had known that you were so powerful, my film should have been handed over to you to supervise." ”

Zhang Jin rubbed his nose embarrassedly and said: "Okay, I've finished what I should say, whether we can invest in the pit and how much it depends on everyone's performance!" ”

"I'll arrange it right away!" Dong Wei is the first flasher, who let him be responsible for the three action scenes, Yali Mountain is very woody.

"I'm going to call the crew to prepare." Du Qifeng held a cigarette in his mouth and called the crew one by one.

Wei Jiahui said bitterly: "Jinzai, Ah Jun, come with me to put on makeup." ”

In the blink of an eye, everyone went their separate ways.

Half an hour later, the first trailer, the shootout scene, was ready.

"Walls, cement pillars, railings, and wooden doors have been inspected."

"The prop gun effect is complete."

"Costume burst point plasma ready."

"The lights are in place."

"The camera is in place."

"Actor OK!"

Du Qifeng stood behind the monitor, and from time to time there was the sound of various departments preparing to take place.

"Countdown begins, 3, 2, 1, action!"