When the three members of the Ye family drove home, it was already noon, and their Black Friday flash sale activities were over, and half of the goals on the final list were achieved, which was also a lot of gains. But the price paid was that Gu Qiao was trampled on and injured his hand, but fortunately, it was a hard injury that was not strict, and he should be fine when he went home and applied some bruises.

Although Ye Haogen and Ye Wei were very sad, Gu Qiao said that it was worth it, and it was worth grabbing it like this, but it saved more than 2,000 yuan.

More than 2,000 yuan? Ye Wei thought that maybe a long, long time later, when he became famous, he would be very emotional when he thought of it, but now, he did not enjoy it at all.

After going home, after sleeping for two hours, Ye Wei couldn't sleep anymore, so he got up and continued to work on the short film.

Seeing that the time was right, he first replied to Lily's text message and then called Anna's agent. Anna has already served Ms. June on her side, and she really has no objections, and there is generally no gain or loss in starring in middle school student works.

In fact, there's a saying in show business that goes like this: "An agent is your partner, not your mom." ”

The manager may be a mother, the agent is not, the extras have an agent (a special temporary performance agency), how many actors are under an agent, maybe even he can't count himself, usually the two sides don't see each other twice a year, or even several years, the last time they met was when they signed a contract, usually by phone, email, etc.

Most of the time, ordinary actors do not rely on agents to find jobs, but rely on their own resumes, contacts, interviews, etc. to get jobs, counting on the good news of agents?

And only paid performances, agents have money, this kind of student short film that is not paid by a beautiful fairy, ask for opinions? Most agents replied directly: "You can act if you like it, don't you know I'm busy? Don't bother me." ”

But Ms. Juan is an ambitious agent, and Anna is a potential ace in her hands, so she has to be cautious and serious in everything, she has to read the script of the short film, and if Anna really wants to star, she has to sign a contract to protect her rights and interests.

This is a normal process, Ye Wei has no opinion, so he agreed to a meeting.

Ms. June, as an agent, works all year round, and there is no holiday to never do anything, so tonight, I have dinner with Anna's family to discuss this matter.

......

At night, Beverly Hills, Spag's Restaurant.

It's also a celebrity favorite two-Michelin-starred high-end restaurant, owned by the famous chef Wolfgang Parker, with exquisite décor, delicious food and very expensive prices. Ye Weiyan invited them to eat here, without it, sincerity, "I have money, not a bad person", but if he didn't put down four hundred dollars tonight, he couldn't leave the door of the restaurant.

As he expected, Ms. Juan had a good impression of him: "the little boss of the image", not a liar.

Anna's family also didn't know the Ye family's economic situation, they ate happily, if they knew that the Ye family was still participating in the shopping mall in the morning, they really didn't know what to say.

There was a table by the window in the hall of the restaurant, and at this time, the pre-dinner bread was served, and several people were tasting it, and they were each looking at a script, and Ye Wei looked at them with a smile.

The script of "Dance of Angels" printed from standard script format paper is only ten pages, and it doesn't take ten minutes, and the four of them will read it in 6 volumes, with different expressions and surprises!

"Wow, this is a professional script, right?" David Rob didn't understand movies, and he thought it was the kind of "script" that tells a few stories and then shoots them in large sections.

Janet was also surprised by this, it seems that Ye Wei said that she learned film since she was a child is not a lie, she is really a motivated young man! She praised: "I think the script is well written, Anna plays this story, no problem." ”

"Mom, you're right. After reading the script, when Anna looked at Ye Wei again, there was a little more reverence in her eyes, "I really want to play Anna now." ”

Now in the script, Anne is called Anna, and Toto is called Bella.

"You will. Ye Wei was pleased with their reaction and looked at the agent on the right, "Ms. Zhuen, right?"

Ms. Juen is a white professional woman in her thirties, dressed in a black women's suit, smart and short, with a shrewd look in her eyes. She seems to have a good feeling about the script, and Anna's whole family agrees, and she can't change anything if she opposes it, so she nodded and said, "This script is okay, it will be very pleasing when it is filmed." ”

"Thank you, thank you!" Ye Wei's excited voice couldn't help but be a little loud, the heroine has it, it's too smooth, it's so happy!

"Awesome!!It's exciting!" Anna also snorted happily, her eyes wide open, and she smiled brightly: "My first performance in front of the camera!

"Excuse me......" At this time, a waiter came over and politely asked them to pay attention to the volume.

After the waiter left, Anna stuck out her tongue, Ye Wei also made a grimace, and both of them held back laughter......

Next, the two sides agreed on mutually satisfactory working hours, December 12th, 13th, and 14th for three consecutive days, Friday and weekend, when Anna had just turned 1o years old.

Of course, at her age, she is a child actor, and having a child actor in a film production is equivalent to being in trouble.

In order for minors to participate in a production, they are legally required to obtain a "special work permit", which varies from state to state, and generally requires three documents: a work contract signed by the employer, a certificate signed by the school with a grade point average of C or higher, and a medical certificate signed by a doctor.

When it comes to the filming stage on the set, at most, the producer needs to arrange three types of personnel on the set: child welfare workers to ensure that the producer complies with the child labor law, nurses and baby actors are not required for 1o years old, and teachers with teaching qualifications need to be educated on the set for young actors who shoot for more than 3 days.

These are all supervised, and if you don't want to be sued by child welfare workers and parents of young actors, and then pay a large amount of money, it is better to comply.

In addition, each state and country has different requirements for the working hours of child actors, the common ones are 6-9 years old up to 8 hours a day, 9-16 years old up to 9 hours a day, and 3 hours of them are spent on studying and 1 hour for playing, so the time to actually stand in front of the camera and perform can only be 4-5 hours a day.

In some places, the rules are even more stringent, with a 12-hour interval between a child leaving the set and returning to the set the next day, and the time it takes to drive from one set to another is counted as working time......

If "Little Sunshine Beauty" can really be filmed in the future, no matter who produces it, it will have to do it for "Oliver".

And although "Dance of Angels" is a student short film, the contract has to be signed as such, and the child labor law is valid for it.

However, Ye Wei made it clear in private that he would not do this at that time, there were no child welfare workers, no teachers, only Anna's mother, and he worked 1o hours a day, all of which were real shooting, without a minute of game time.

It's abuse, it's slavery, and if he dares to do that while making an independent film, he can die at all.

But the student short film, how can it be so harsh, Anna's parents understand, just three days, with her mother to follow.

The most important reason is that Anna is willing, she can't wait to shoot 12 hours a day!

The working hours were determined, and the two sides talked about some commercial aspects, zero pay, the crew provided food, when changing filming venues, the actors drove themselves, and during the shooting, the actors brought their own clothes, but there would be makeup and costume artists to guide the styling.

The short film shall not be used for any commercial purpose, it shall not be put on the Internet without authorization, which requires the consent of Anna Fang; including all original video materials, shall not be leaked without authorization; Ye Wei can take the short film to participate in various film festivals, and it can also be used as a resume material to "show himself".

On the other hand, Anna suddenly did not want to shoot, fell ill, created conflicts, and other reasons for the failure to complete the film, and did not need to make any compensation; Anna did not have any obligation to participate in the post-production and promotion of the short film, and if Ye Wei violated the treaty, Anna had the right to sue him......

These will be written into the contract, which is almost a sample contract, so a qiēshun lì.

In addition, the two sides decided on the format of the film: high-definition digital.

Although shooting with 35mm film can show more, Ye Wei also has other considerations, saving cost and time, and the most important thing is that it is not necessary.

Because I want to be a producer and director, shoot high-definition digital, shooting film is not a problem, the technical matter has a camera crew, due to the production of some trivial steps such as development, watching hair-film, etc., the formulation of the director's schedule is different, it is easy to do; and "Little Sunshine Beauty" can be filmed in high-definition digital format, this story does not have such high requirements for color, graininess and other photography.

Incidentally, the Coen brothers didn't even touch a lot of professional camera equipment before filming "Blood Labyrinth" began.

"How are you going to shoot those shots after 'Anna' lost her right foot?" At this time, Ms. Zhu En flipped through the script again and asked Ye Wei a doubt.

"Special effects. Ye Wei looked at a few people and said in detail: "I will try to complete some shots with misalignment, makeup, etc., but there will still be some shots that need to be shot frontally, so we need special effects." ”

This is a big difficulty in this short film, the special effects of the short film for middle school students?

The principle will be this, shoot twice, the first time you shoot how you want to shoot, but make a blue-green mark on Anna's right foot so that the special effects artist can erase the image in post, and the second time you shoot the exact same composition, except that Anna's right foot is removed, and the back scene that should be vacated is recaptured, and then cut out in the later stage, the two are combined, and then processed, and it is the finished product.

It's not possible to do this technology on a regular computer at home, but USC has it.

He didn't tell them his real plans for the post-production, but just smiled: "I'll find a professional special effects company to complete it." ”

The Annas nodded, and Ms. Junen asked, "What about the music?" There are a few places in the script where music is needed.

"I don't know yet, but Britney's song is definitely not going to be on the scene. Ye Wei shrugged his shoulders and took a bite of his share of fried eggs, he couldn't afford to pay the copyright fee, even if it was a student short film, with a well-known song soundtrack, it would be too little to pay tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

"Probably Beethoven and Mozart classical music, the dead don't take money. ”

But even so, he can't just use the version played by others, it is also copyrighted, and he can only use it to record it with his own performance.

For short films, the use of music is very important, just a little time, sometimes sensational or not, it all depends on music! Good music can make clichéd stories and mediocre shots magical, and bad music can turn touching stories and magical shots into decay.

In sound images, shadow and sound complement each other, like a pair of chopsticks, and one chopstick cannot hold anything.

During the conversation, Ye Wei spoke very professionally, and even Anna's family couldn't understand many terms, and their expressions of approval were even heavier.

"But do you know a lot, did you learn it yourself?" Anna had more reverence in her eyes.

"Yes, so to speak. Otherwise, what else can you say, Ye Wei moved out and said Willis's rhetoric again.

It was a great dinner, and by the time I walked out of the restaurant, the cooperation between the two sides was already settled, and the $461 was well spent.

The two leading actors have one, and there is still a dog missing.

There are only 13 days left before the start of filming, less than half a month, during which Ye Wei has to make preliminary preparations, production, director, just looking for a venue, and forming a crew...... It's definitely not an easy job.

On Saturday morning the next day, Anna's family came to Ye's house in Brentwood as scheduled, and Bella also came, and Ye Wei immediately started the audition!

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