Chapter 223: The Movie Begins
The crew of "My Father" has a very strong team in filming and production, but the cost of the crew is not high, and the budget investment of the whole movie is only about 3 billion won.
It is said that this investment was made by a production company that has a good relationship with Kim Ji-hun, and it also includes Kim Yong-chol's salary of 150 million won.
3 billion won, among Korean movies, compared to blockbusters with a budget of tens of billions of won, the shock can only be regarded as a small cost, you must know that this 3 billion still includes publicity expenses!
As for Lin Youjun's salary, on the contrary, the composition is more complicated, because of Kim Zhixian, and in order to help the crew save expenses, Lin Youyang did not choose to take the salary directly, but under the advice of Kim Zhixian and Kwon Euncan, the salary was first included in the investment.
You must know that this method is not safe, and it can even be said to be very risky, which is equivalent to completely tying your own interests to this movie.
In this period when bad movies are rampant, the market is sluggish, and the audience's tastes are becoming more and more picky, no one dares to say that their movies will definitely be profitable at the box office, let alone niche movies like "My Father", which 99% will not have a good box office.
On the other hand, Lin Youming, who has made great achievements in the field of TV dramas and has only begun to set foot in the film industry, generally takes the highest price among new film actors, that is, about 80 million to 100 million won, and Lin Youyang is currently about this price.
In this way, Lin Youmeng can get about 3% of the production profit with the salary as an investment, but the production company is generous and signs a contract with a 4% dividend.
Don't look at this ratio seems to be good, but in fact, in the eyes of everyone, Lin Youming is almost equivalent to acting for nothing, and it is already a blessing to get tens of millions of won!
Even Kwon Eun-chan just took this as a face to sell to Kim Ji-hun! It didn't take it as an end in itself.
Why is that? The reason is simple.
Take the movie "My Father" as an example, with an investment of 3 billion won, the number of moviegoers counted by South Korea's movie ticket prices and calculation methods, and then the proportion of theaters is removed, at least 600,000 moviegoers are needed to recover the cost and start making a profit!
According to this algorithm, according to the results calculated by Lim You-myung's studio team, only when the number of viewers of "My Father" reaches 1.2 million, Lim You-myung can get the number of 100 million won.
Compared with directly taking a salary of 100 million won, this kind of remuneration investment model, which is better and which is inferior, is clear at a glance!
Can the theme of "My Father" have such a number of viewers? It's possible, but it's hard!
Although realistic adaptations such as "Marathon" have achieved excellent box office results, "My Father" is very different from it in terms of style and subject matter!
The entire crew, up and down, to the production company, almost just takes capital preservation as the goal, maybe you can make a small profit, and then win a few more awards in the major award ceremonies, and then generate a lot of income through DVD sales after the movie is drawn! This is also the reason why the production company will happily give Lin Youmian an an extra 1% dividend.
The artistic surname, the emotional surname is more than enough, the commercial surname and the story surname are insufficient, and the advantages and disadvantages of the movie "My Father" are so obvious.
But neither Hwang Dong-hyuk nor Kim Ji-hun looked at the box office of this movie, such a movie is an excellent opportunity to hone Lin Youjun's acting skills, and the box office or anything is not important.
Hwang Dong-hyuk also sees this film as a pathfinder for himself to accumulate experience and test the waters of the film industry.
Lin Youmin himself doesn't care very much about these salaries, although 100 million won is not a small amount for him at present, and there is also a promise to Park Hyo-min, which also requires a lot of money, but who makes him have high commercial value!
For him now, making money is much easier than acting!
What's more, if there is no Kim Ji-heon, with a small investment of 3 billion won, can people such as cinematographer Choi Hyun-ki, art director Cho Geun-hyun and others be invited to gather together in one crew? It's a joke!
Therefore, it is still worth taking out some money in exchange for saving money on movie expenses!
…… The first time to make a movie is still very new for Lin Youmeng, after all, it is different from filming a TV series. If you want to talk about the biggest difference, maybe it is that the director's requirements for actors' micro-expressions and micro-movements are very different, when filming TV series, because of the length of shooting, the general TV series director will not be particularly demanding to the extreme performance, but the movie is different! Pay special attention to every move, even if there is a flaw in the performance, all the scenes have to be reversed, slow work and meticulous work, and the filming of the movie is far from being comparable to a TV series. Another interesting part is that the film crew cherishes the film used for filming! Although digital camera technology has been greatly improved, and even some professional equipment has a clarity and color comparable to that of film films, the kind of equipment that burns money is not something that everyone can afford. In today's film industry, especially when shooting films without too many special effects, most people still use film! After all, the quality of the picture shot by ordinary digital cameras is really not flattering! Although digital shooting is the trend of the times, and the frequency of application is getting higher and higher, and the post-production computer will be much simpler, and it can also reduce the cost to a certain extent, but in the eyes of many professional filmmakers, only film films can make real movies, and only have that taste! In their opinion, what is shot digitally, at best, is a video, and cannot be considered a movie at all! Because of this, before each start-up, there will be several auditions, until the director thinks that the actor's condition has reached a good level, and the real shooting will take place, and the price of film is not cheap! Not to mention their small cost, even those big productions can't afford to start shooting anytime and anywhere, that's not making movies, they're burning money! Lin Youming's adaptability is still very strong, although the mood is not too good, but after the first few days of adjustment and running-in, with the support and help of an old actor like Jin Yongzhe, he soon had a good performance. There is no heroine, emotional drama, Lin Youyang is more handy to shoot, and the picture shot gives people a feeling of flowing water and heartiness!