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Making movies is not a child's play.

Before making a movie, the most important thing is to understand what you are doing. Do you have money and play around, or do you want to do it as a pure hobby, or do you want to make a movie as a business, as a lifelong career......

Different positioning will directly affect the choice of the next step.

Before shooting, Happy thought carefully about how to recover the cost. It's how much money is used to make a movie, what subject matter, what type of movie is going to be made. If it is something that can be completed in a month or two months because the scene is not big, the actor's fame is not high, then he already has the possibility of making a small-budget independent film.

"Grand Central Station" is his choice.

The content is proven, based on the novel "Broken April" by Albanian writer Ismail Kadell. He bought the copyright in '95. It's a coincidence, under normal circumstances, who would lose their conscience to plan for the distant future, let alone in the vast world of movies. At that time, Xiao Xiaokai was still reading hard, and this novel was only occasionally discovered when he joined a reading club called "Study Club" in college, and he didn't immediately think of this movie from the title at that time, until he saw the middle content and suddenly felt familiar, so he thought of this movie.

Happy has never deliberately gone other people's way so that others have no way out, but now that he has found it, he is like a fish in his throat and does not vomit unpleasantly.

At that time, Yahoo's stock was rising, and he also had some spare money in his hand, so he repeatedly turned to many ways to contact the author. This "Broken April" is not a popular work that sells well all over the world, but the other party actually asked for 100,000 US dollars for the adaptation rights. Maybe he is a literary hero in Albania, but who cares about that big country.

Happy naturally bargained, and finally sold it for a high price of $50,000. With this amount, he may not be willing to give it when the great Brazilian director goes to him in a few years. The author also made a lot of money, his psychological burden was greatly reduced, and it was a win-win situation.

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools.

He's going to make a movie, not a video.

And the shot was in film format, not digital, and every second was calculated in money. Therefore, in terms of videography, it is very important to choose a high-quality and inexpensive camera. A large machine like the F900 is certainly attractive, but the rent of about 3,000 a day is something he can't afford. If it's just one that's okay, since the protagonist is a child, it's really unrealistic for him to perform the same performance repeatedly.

So, shoot footage from at least 2:1 to 6:1 multiple angles.

Low-end and mid-range films are shot with the ARRI series of cameras, especially the ARRI ALEXA, which has been recognized by many filmmakers for its true 2.8K graphics, high latitude, and high quality of the film output. In the end, he decided to use the SONY F-35 to shoot the film, and the format was positioned at 24P. The camera is tentatively Canon, but the small camera may shake due to its lack of weight, so positioning shooting is the absolute mainstream. (Although this device claims to have an anti-shake function, it certainly won't work well this year.) ）

The rent of three machines is about 1000 a day.

The 24p format was chosen because it had the same rate as film and was scanned line by line. The high resolution makes the picture not only clear, but also very film-like.

When I think about the shooting of high-end big-budget movies in the future, especially IMAX movies shot on 65mm film or 70mm film, I have to drool. If he had the budget, he would have liked to hire a Panavision camera for shooting, and the most interesting thing was that since the 65mm and 70mm films were not supported by lenses, these films were usually shot with redesigned Hasselblad lenses.

The famous "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" was shot with 70mm film + Hasselblad lens + Panavision camera......

After thinking too much, saliva flowed out, and the tone of the equipment was set.

"Boss, will it be too expensive to use 24p format film, you have to consider NG lenses and scrap lenses. When the time comes, I'm afraid it will exceed the budget. Zhang Zhengwu also began to be active.

Bai Xiaoya, who was in charge of the property, became more and more presentable, and echoed: "Yes, yes, it's hundreds of yuan a minute, it's too expensive, it's too expensive." Boss, can't you change to a cheap one? ”

Happy rolled his eyes and said, "Xiaobai, how much does a grenade cost, is it expensive?" ”

"Huh?" Bai Xiaoya's eyes widened, did the boss go crazy, what are you buying grenades for.

Zhang Zhengwu hurriedly turned his head, "It's going to explode again." If it weren't for the fact that it was too conspicuous to cover his ears directly, he would have covered his ears.

Sure enough, Happy shouted in a roaring tone into her ear: "Grenades are expensive, if it's six dollars a dollar, I'll throw you a hundred dollars first!" ”

Bai Xiaoya shrank her neck, rubbed the roots of her ears that were blown up, and pouted to express her dissatisfaction, "I'm angry again, it's really no human right to be an employee." ”

Happy Quan didn't hear it, and said calmly: "What's next......

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The specific film type can be regarded as a road movie, so there will be a lot of work to ask for the scene and coordinate the group shooting, which will require several experienced assistants. There are four main scenes, the largest of which is a suitable large station. The heroine's house near the railroad, the road, and the young boy's home.

There are not many main characters, but there should be no less.

As for the director team and the production team, in addition to the fact that there is already an assistant director and a scene reporter, in addition to the cameraman's other messy various positions, Happy plans to take on one person. It's really not good, just go and shout a few times, and a large group of people will agree. Although Zhang Zhengwu is said to be oily and smooth, full of meat jokes, and a smooth hippie smile, his diligent and down-to-earth attitude makes people feel at ease.

In Jingshi, there are countless Jingpiao who want to eat the bowl of rice in the movie, but they only need to sign a short-term contract to work, and the most important thing is these people, and the salary can be saved.

There are too many trivial things, and I can't do them all by myself when I'm happy, and besides, he's not that type.

In the end, Zhang Zhengwu took Du Zekai to contact a group of drama teams, dragon teams, recordings, and lighting. As well as renting cameras, tracks, booms, lighting equipment, electricity, food and so on.

A luxury bus is considered the largest prop, and it can be rented for hundreds of dollars a day.

Bai Xiaoya bargained and broke her mouth, and finally set it at 300 yuan a day, with fuel money at her own expense, and a lot of vehicle damage insurance clauses attached. I was happy to frown when I saw this price, but when I thought about the usefulness of this luxury bus, it was really not small, not to mention the use of film shooting, and it was quite convenient to travel, so I gritted my teeth and signed.

This small preparatory meeting lasted for a week, and I made a lot of phone calls and checked a lot of information, and it was finally not in vain. A detailed report on the table finally made a detailed budget.

Although it is hard, every day is improving, and every word has something to say, which makes this fledgling team very excited. Zhang Zhengwu is also participating in the overall preparation of a film for the first time, and the edges and corners that were originally smoothed out seem to have begun to change again. In addition, I am happy to draw big cakes from time to time, and I have begun to become proactive.

On the contrary, he was happy, unfazed from beginning to end, calm and scary.

This calmness, as well as his professional film knowledge and far-reaching opinions, are the direction and motivation of the entire crew's work.

Double-check and there are no problems after that. With a wave of Happy Meat's arm, the three of them embarked on their own journey.

As an independent film, if you don't want to become an illegal underground film, formalities are a must.

Domestic films have never escaped the review. From the initial project to the release, there are generally 3 levels to go through in the review process, and the first level is the project approval of the film.

At the beginning of the review, it is not necessary to submit a complete script, but only needs to submit no less than 1,000 words of film plot synopsis, title, film genre, film theme and other materials to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television is to initiate a project or submit amendments in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Regulations on the Administration of Films".

Because radio and television are really famous, domestic counterparts respect and hate this department when they mention it. Happy and worried, although he didn't say it, he always put the audit first.

So how long does it take to set up a project for a domestic film, and how much does it cost?