is different from Wang Xiaoyue's grandfather's personality, Wang Xiaoyue's husband, Gao Yang, the boss of Lamb Pictures, is relatively feminine, and belongs to the kind of personality that can be smeared with oil and combed without a trace of split ends.

A retro round-framed gold-rimmed glasses on his nose, a brown striped suit on his body, a brown satin vest, and a white shirt that is clean and white from the neckline and cuffs, all show that Gao Yang is a very shrewd man.

I have always been an antique appraiser before, and Gao Yang's habitual suit has a golden pocket watch chain hanging in his outer pocket, which looks like a character who came out of a Republic of China movie, and his temperament is very special.

I had heard Duan Xiaoxuan talk about the gossip when she followed Xu Nuo to shoot the MV, and then chatted with Gao Yang and her family for a while, and Du Xinghe knew more about the two.

Wang Xiaoyue's husband doesn't look like a person in the film industry, but in fact, he is also from a film major, he and Wang Xiaoyue are classmates of the 83rd grade of the Film Directing Department of South China University of the Arts, and the two have been together since college.

In 1987, after graduating from university, Wang Xiaoyue stayed in school for another two years as a master's student because she didn't find a good job in the film industry, while Gao Yang came out to run the crew.

Among the classmates in their directing class back then, there were children from film families, and there were many relationships in the circle, and Gao Yang took advantage of these relationships to follow the crew very smoothly. However, because he has no experience, he started from the bottom, from drama management, executive producer, to assistant director, executive director, and has been working for more than three years.

After graduating with a master's degree, Wang Xiaoyue also relied on some relationships that Gao Yang had worked hard in the film industry. Embarked on the road of MV director.

Seeing that Wang Xiaoyue's achievements in the MV field were good, and his footsteps were firm, Gao Yang withdrew and stopped working in the film industry, because at that time he felt that he was desperate to run the crew, and he had learned almost everything he should learn, because no one was covered, he could not have a chance to get ahead, and it was impossible to have the opportunity to direct independently.

At that time, Gao Yang also found that although he had studied directing for four years, he really saw the pain of those directors being tortured by movies. He suddenly felt that he was not very suitable to be a director. Being a producer, organizing the crew, and directing people to do the work, he can do all of this. But if you really let him direct the film. He was very self-aware that he didn't have that ability. I don't have the spirit to do this.

At that time, he realized that he would definitely not be a director in the future.

In 1990, Gao Yang and Wang Xiaoyue got married.

Wang Xiaoyue studied directing at the South China Academy of Arts for six years, and her dream of becoming a great director has never changed.

Gao Yang knew that his wife recognized something. will definitely not change, so after getting married, he wanted to help Wang Xiaoyue realize this dream, which can be regarded as realizing his unpaid directorial ambition when he was young.

At that time, although Gao Yang had some relationships in the circle, he relied on those classmates from film families, and he didn't have many relationships of his own, Wang Xiaoyue had just entered the director's circle and had been filming MVs, let alone anything to do with it.

Gao Yang felt that if they wanted to really get out in the film industry, they would definitely not be able to rely on others, they could only rely on themselves, so they had the idea of setting up a film company to make their own films.

After having this idea, the huge capital has become the primary problem in front of them, although Wang Xiaoyue can make a lot of money by shooting MVs, Gao Yang can also make a lot of money by mixing in the film industry, stringing crews, and being an assistant director, but the two of them work together, which is more than 1 million a year, which is too far from opening a film company.

Later, Gao Yang saw that his uncle made a lot of money by pouring antiques, and he usually went to learn some antique appraisal knowledge with his uncle when he had nothing to do, and he was half an insider, so he changed careers to become an assistant to his uncle and became an antique appraiser, which is much lighter than with the crew, and the money comes quickly.

After working as an antique appraiser for two years, he even took him and his uncle to be a second-tier dealer, and the lamb earned more than 5 million dividends, plus Wang Xiaoyue's MV shooting became more and more popular, and he also saved a lot of money, so in the spring of last year, they established the film and television production company of Lamb Pictures and officially started their film entrepreneurship career.

Gao Yang started running a company while working part-time as an antique appraiser, helping his uncle with the antiques business, and after they made their first film, "River Resentment" last year, Gao Yang put his main energy back into the film industry.

When he just graduated from college, he followed the crew for more than three years, and he was very clear about this matter, and he did almost any job, plus the help of the iron-blooded MV team brought out by Wang Xiaoyue, which made their company's first film shoot extremely smooth. From project initiation to preparation to post-production, it was completed in less than three months, and the speed is comparable to Wang Xiaoyue's MV, which is so fast that it is amazing.

Later, relying on the relationship in the circle, the process of their company's "River Resentment" entering the theater went quickly, and it came out in less than three months.

They were in a hurry, there were no too strong horror films to grab the scene during that time, "River Resentment" has been in theaters for three months before going offline, which is rare in mainstream commercial blockbusters, and generally the film lasts for a month and a half, even if it is long, it will not take more than two months. But for graded horror films, due to the limited number, the competition is not so fierce, so it can stay in theaters for a longer time.

Their "River Resentment" went from raising funds to start filming to finally going offline to recovering the box office, and then to selling copyrights and discs to recover a large amount of royalties, all very quickly, and in less than a year, the capital was returned and made money, which can be described as extremely smooth.

Of course, they also relied on crawling in the circle for many years and accumulating a lot of relationships before they got it back.

Seeing that the company's first film was so smooth, Wang Xiaoyue couldn't bear the loneliness, and she was going to direct a big movie immediately.

In fact, at the beginning of the establishment of the company, Gao Yang drew up a three-year initial development plan. In the first three years of the company's establishment, Wang Xiaoyue wanted to continue to shoot MVs, and he continued to work as an antique appraiser. Both of them continue to make money and save capital, don't bet their treasures on this film company.

According to Gao Yang's plan, in the first three years, their company will invite talented new directors to make films, and all of them will shoot horror films, focusing on horror films to test the market, and strive to create a horror brand that has not yet reached the white-hot competition in the market. When the company is on the right track and has accumulated enough experience in big movies, Wang Xiaoyue will come over to direct again.

Who would have thought that their first film would be so smooth, and Wang Xiaoyue also participated in a lot of filming work, and her hands were really itchy. After graduating, I have been filming MVs for so many years. She was really tired of filming, so she discussed with Gao Yang that she wanted to direct a movie herself.

Gao Yang disagreed at first, don't look at this man's appearance of oily hair, powder, thin skin and tender meat, with a little girly, but he is very principled in his bones. He was worried that Wang Xiaoyue would disrupt his plan and come over to make a film. In case it didn't shoot well. If it is smashed, it will be a huge blow to Wang Xiaoyue's confidence.

Wen Xiaolan, the screenwriter who wrote the script of "River Resentment" before, and Li Yinghao, the director who filmed "River Resentment", are both students who just graduated from South China University of the Arts last year.

Lee Young-ho is a kid in the circle. He is the nephew of Li Kun, a well-known TV producer in the South China TV industry. Li Kun is one of Gao Yang's nobles in the film and television industry, and he helped Gao Yang a lot. It was because of this relationship that Gao Yang tried to let Lee Young-ho direct their company's first film.

When Li Yinghao took over the filming of "River Resentment" last year, he had just walked out of the campus, and he was still in the kind of stage where he was full of enthusiasm and made movies not to make money purely for the sake of ideals, Gao Yang saw this enthusiasm in Li Yinghao, so he dared to bet the company's first film on this group of students.

Of course, as a businessman, Gao Yang dared to let this group of students sing the leading role, and the biggest reason was that he took a fancy to the resources behind these children.

The female screenwriters who partnered with Li Yinghao, Wen Xiaolan and Zhang Linfan, all have relationships in the circle, and their families are basically in this circle. They are also very capable of tossing in themselves.

Of the 3 million investments made public by "River Resentment", 2 million were brought in by these students through their own connections. Lamb Pictures actually only invested 1 million.

Later, the film was produced and entered the Southeast Alliance Cinemas, and Li Yinghao and others also made a lot of efforts, which reduced the investment risk of Lamb Pictures.

In the film industry, the risk of investing in newcomers is usually the greatest, and Lamb Pictures is indeed a sure-fire business, although it invests in the newcomer team, Gao Yang's choice has always been to take the lead, which can be seen from the production of "River Resentment".

Wang Xiaoyue couldn't bear to come to shoot in person at this time, but Gao Yang actually had doubts. In case the film directed by Wang Xiaoyue suffers a fiasco, it will definitely be gossiped about by the company, and there may even be rumors that Wang Xiaoyue is not as good as a newcomer, which will be a harm to both Wang Xiaoyue herself and Lamb Pictures.

So Gao Yang has been suppressing Wang Xiaoyue's temperament, not letting Wang Xiaoyue come by her temperament, and not supporting her to come out and direct independently at this juncture.

Wang Xiaoyue has a strong personality, and he will not change what he recognizes, and he doesn't like to listen to persuasion, Gao Yang can't persuade him, so in the end, he has no choice but to compromise with Wang Xiaoyue and let Wang Xiaoyue come out to direct.

But Gao Yang has a condition, that is, Wang Xiaoyue can't be in a hurry, before encountering a really good book, he must not go to the play lightly, after Wang Xiaoyue chooses the book, he must get his consent, and he also recognizes the story, so that he can really arrange the schedule.

Because Wang Xiaoyue has been shooting urban-style MVs for many years after graduation, and has no mature experience in making horror films, when Gao Yang asked Wang Xiaoyue to choose a book, he opened up some scope for Wang Xiaoyue, and fresh urban romantic comedies or dramas can be filmed, without being limited to the horror films that Lamb Pictures wants to focus on.

Wen Xiaolan and Zhang Linfan, the main screenwriters of "River Resentment", have given Wang Xiaoyue two books before, both of which are costume horror films similar to "River Resentment".

Wang Xiaoyue didn't want to make a movie similar to "River Resentment", so as not to be said that she fried Li Yinghao's cold rice, so she didn't ask Wen Xiaolan and Zhang Linfan's new book.

Before, she relied on her own relationship, and she has been screening a lot of books, some are urban, and some are horror films, although she herself is better at shooting urban series of images, but she also knows that Lamb Pictures is now focusing on creating a unique horror film brand, so she is more inclined to make a wonderful horror film that is not inferior to "River Resentment" to prove herself.

The period after the Chinese New Year. When Wang Xiaoyue and Yun World talked about the packaging and shooting of the 6 MVs in Xu Nuo's new album "Crazy for Love", she was actually already very happy, she didn't want to take this job anymore, and wanted to choose the script and prepare for the big movie.

It was Gao Yang's good words that made her next lucrative job from the cloud world.

It was also when Xu Nuo was filming this series of MVs that the message that Wang Xiaoyue wanted to make a big movie was transmitted to Du Xinghe's ears. She didn't take over the filming of Xu Nuo's new MV, and after Du Xinghe painted "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village", she didn't think that she would find Wang Xiaoyue to direct.

It's all fate to tell this kind of thing, when Wang Xiaoyue got the literary script of "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" adapted by the editors of Cloud World for Du Xinghe. Didn't pay much attention to it. Because she already has three finalized books in hand, she has to make a final decision.

At that time, she hastily flipped through Du Xinghe's script of "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village", and she didn't think it was beautiful, at least compared with the three books she had on hand, there was a bit of a gap. Not hot enough. So I want to give it away.

Wang Xiaoyue carefully selected three scripts before. One is the modern urban suspense blockbuster "Apartment 36", the other is a very bloody and exciting graded urban ghost film "Hell Assassin", and the other is the urban romantic comedy "Lucky to Meet You" in a small and fresh style.

The styles of the three plays are very different. Wang Xiaoyue herself wants to choose the very exciting and bloody graded ghost film "Hell Assassin", the story is enjoyable to watch, it tells the story of a ghost king who came out of hell and ran rampant in the city. Originally, she decided to shoot this film, but Gao Yang later saw it and directly rejected it.

If you look at the book Gao Yang, you know that it is a super bloody film similar to "No Bones", the story is very enjoyable, but if you want to shoot the effect, you must invest a lot in the production of the product, and without the production fee of 10 million, you can't shoot too good results at all.

He and Wang Xiaoyue have saved money for so many years, although they can take out 10 million to make a movie, but it is too unwise for Wang Xiaoyue to take such a big risk and make such a big investment in his first film. Therefore, Gao Yang strongly opposed Wang Xiaoyue's filming of "Hell Assassin".

After Gao Yang read those three books, he asked Wang Xiaoyue to shoot that little and fresh romantic comedy, as long as this kind of movie is down-to-earth, it can often achieve good box office results, the risk is minimal, and the investment is also minimal.

Although Wang Xiaoyue also likes the story of "Fortunately I Met You", after watching a large number of graded horror films, she prefers horror films, and she wants to make movies that are consistent with the company's style.

Although "Apartment No. 36" is a suspense thriller with a very exquisite story structure, it cannot be regarded as a horror film in the full sense, and Wang Xiaoyue does not particularly want to shoot it.

Later, Gao Yang happened to see the script of Du Xinghe's "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village", and he suddenly felt that this drama was more watchable, this is an urban ghost film with a lot of connotation, Wang Xiaoyue should be handy to shoot, and the company's investment in making such a movie will not be large, because there are no special scenes that cost money.

What's more, this drama was written by Mr. Xiao Du in the cloud world, and if he wanted to shoot, Mr. Xiao Du would definitely pay for it, which would greatly reduce the investment risk of the lamb.

In the early days of entrepreneurship, risk control was the most important thing for Gao Yang, since Wang Xiaoyue couldn't look down on the books written by those students, it was better to shoot Du Xinghe's play.

Later, it was led by Gao Yang, who was ready to talk to Du Xinghe about the cooperation of this play.

Wang Xiaoyue didn't attach much importance to this script at first, but it wasn't until she saw the extremely detailed storyboard script sent to them by Du Xinghe last night that Wang Xiaoyue suddenly realized that this drama is full of tension! It's very viewable! And this show is really scary!

When she looked at Du Xinghe's paintings, she already had a nervous sense of fear, and it was conceivable that if this film was to be filmed, it would scare many people! Wang Xiaoyue became very interested in this drama at this time, and called Du Xinghe directly, hoping to cooperate in filming.

Gao Yang was more confident in this drama after reading Du Xinghe's storyboard script, as an insider who graduated from the directing department, Gao Yang, like Wang Xiaoyue, was shocked that Du Xinghe could draw this level of storyboard script, at first they didn't believe that it was drawn by Du Xinghe, thinking that Du Xinghe asked a professional to draw it.

Until Wang Xiaoyue called Du Xinghe and learned from Du Xinghe's mouth that this was Du Xinghe's handwriting, they still couldn't believe it! Because this storyboard script is still a storyboard script, this is completely a reprint of the final shot!

Shooting in such a storyboard script, Wang Xiaoyue can save too much work, and even save a lot of film, if you shoot completely according to this storyboard script, it is estimated that it will save at least half of the film than shooting an ordinary movie, and you can save a lot of money! It also saves a lot of time!

Gao Yang and Wang Xiaoyue carefully read this storyboard script several times, how to look at it and how do they think they can shoot exactly according to this, the rhythm of the plot and the tension of the drama are all well displayed.

They don't need to change anything at all, and it's a fairly mature and perfect movie made according to this.

Wang Xiaoyue has shot hundreds of MVs for stars in the music industry, and she has heard about things in the music industry, she has known that Du Xinghe is a peerless music genius for a long time, but after reading the storyboard script drawn by Du Xinghe, she found that Du Xinghe is not only a peerless music genius, Du Xinghe has the talent and potential to become a movie giant! Being able to adapt a story into so many shots, and then tell the story smoothly and perfectly with the camera, this is by no means something that ordinary people can do.

Just this storyboard script, Gao Yang conservatively estimates that it can save at least 1 million production costs (time, money, labor, etc.), which greatly reduces Wang Xiaoyue's workload.

Du Xinghe also wanted to reach a cooperation, so the atmosphere between the two sides was very friendly for the first time this afternoon, and a preliminary cooperation intention was quickly reached.

Originally, for the investment in this "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village", Gao Yang planned that both parties would invest 5 million together.

In Gao Yang's view, the story of "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village", as long as you don't invite big stars to act, you really don't need to spend too much money, and Du Xinghe's sub-shot script has made the filming of this drama half the effort, which makes the money they invested more targeted, and the 5 million continuous production zuò with post-publicity can be all-inclusive.

Lin Jianguo heard that Gao Yang's initial investment amount was only 5 million, and immediately raised his hands and feet in favor, and he and Gao Yang's starting point was the same, hoping to reduce the investment amount to reduce the risk.

Du Xinghe and Wang Xiaoyue reserved their attitude towards such a small investment. Wang Xiaoyue feels that the investment of 5 million is too little, no matter what, this is also a big movie, it takes thousands of shots, before she shot a higher quality MV, one or two hundred shots will cost hundreds of thousands of expensive millions, according to this proportion of burning money, if you want to shoot "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" with excellent results, 5 million is not enough to burn. This is her first big movie, and she wants to be better and doesn't want to mess with that kind of foolish stuff.

Du Xinghe also felt that 5 million was a bit less, although according to Gao Yang, the work of directing and producing was done by Wang Xiaoyue and Gao Yang for free, and the film music was taken by Cloud World for free, which could save a lot of money, but even so, 5 million was really too cold.

Although he has not personally participated in the operation of the film industry, Tong Guò has some relevant experience in this plane, and Du Xinghe decided to believe one thing: what does not cost money is not. Whether it is a movie or a record, if you want to create greater benefits, you have to be willing to spend money, from the cast to the post-publicity, you must dare to spend money, dare to spend money. If according to what Gao Yang said, they will make this movie for 5 million, then it is estimated that the grade of this movie will definitely not be high, let alone think about explosions and the like, it is estimated that it is a voice of capital protection, no risk, and no kind of income.

After drinking tea that moistened his throat and thinking about it, Du Xinghe expressed his opinion and said: "Mr. Gao, I think the investment of 5 million is too low, can we raise the specifications, let's pay 5 million for each family, with a total investment of 10 million to make this movie, what do you think?" ”

Gao Yang brushed the gold chain of the pocket watch, and before he could express his opinion, Wang Xiaoyue couldn't hold back first, and said: "I think we should also increase investment, this story is very well written by Mr. Xiao Du, if you invite first-line actors to act, and then increase the later publicity, the box office will definitely be considerable!" (To be continued......)