In layman's terms, the producer is the person who organizes the work, the worker who brings together the various elements of the film to ensure that the project can be executed.

Zhang Jingsheng told Guan Chen that the producer can be compared to a project manager or the conductor of an orchestra, which requires not only a certain number of contacts, but also a certain level of leadership, otherwise the things that come out will be messy and accidents will occur frequently.

Guan Chen feels that the metaphor of the project manager is still too profound, and uses a more understandable description to analogize, which is like a criminal sharpening his knife and wanting to do a big vote, but one person can't do it, he must organize manpower, recruit talents, and gather a gang, this one is responsible for collecting intelligence, the other is responsible for doing it, and who is responsible for driving and running, with a clear division of labor and each performing its own duties. As the organizer and leader, we must be familiar with the whole plan, stifle all kinds of possibility of being caught, and ensure efficiency in the operation, but also prevent internal strife and rebellion. Afterwards, it is necessary to find a channel to sell the stolen goods and negotiate the price.

Compared with unruly criminals, it is a hundred times easier to find a group of people to make movies.

Guan Chen is good at drawing inferences from others, and soon pulled up a team to shoot short films. Some were recruited from the Wedding Street conscription, and some of the positions that could not be left halfway, such as recording and lighting, had to be found in pamphlets.

This booklet functions similarly to the Pokemon Illustrated Book, which records nearly 100 crew members of various price ranges, and the combat value is equal to the hourly wage.

Guan Chen doesn't know what the situation of the domestic film and television industry was in his previous life, but in this life in China, in terms of the salary standard in the magic capital area, working in the crew is still quite profitable.

Even on the set of a cannon fodder movie like "Black Dragon 2", most of the crew employees have hourly wages ranging from 100 to 400, and the heads of some departments get even more. For example, the normal working hours of a day are 8 hours, and more than 8 hours is overtime, and the hourly wage for overtime has risen to 1.5 times, and the hourly wage for more than 12 hours has doubled. Guan Chen has stayed in the crews of "Police Story" and "Key to Destiny", the crew has a higher hourly salary, working almost 12 hours a day, filming for five days and two days off, and the salary is higher than Guan Chen's.

The customized short film "Mango" is an advertisement and a sample, paid by the studio, five days, and a budget of 20,000 yuan - 20,000 yuan is the number obtained by Qian Liangyi according to the calculator for half a day, which was originally 20,000 and 300, erased the fraction, and made it up to 20,000.

Guan Chen tried to want more, but he thought that 20,000 could shoot something, which was not enough for the crew to eat a few meals.

Of course, the money manager did not let go, and also made a big point: "Don't look at the simplicity of spending money, in fact, it is more difficult to spend money than to make money, because you don't know how much return you can get on the money you spend." He said that before Guan Chen learned to spend money efficiently, 20,000 yuan was the most.

Guan Chen didn't have time to talk to Manager Qian, he planned to approve his plan to increase the budget by himself as a senior executive of the studio.

Manager Qian screamed, put the official seal in his pocket, and then grabbed it tightly, so that Guan Chen could use his own money to invest if he had the ability.

Guan Chen can indeed use his own money to subsidize the budget and increase investment, but he is smart and not to be fooled. If a film costs 180,000 yuan to be filmed, then the new business is over, and the price is not close to the people, and there will be no customers to buy it. So there is no point in investing. Even the price of 20,000 yuan is expensive for customers.

When Guan Chen thought of this, he couldn't help but stop the naked stranding, feeling that something was wrong to blame Manager Qian.

"Okay, 20,000 is 20,000."

Guan Chen wants to try to see if he can shoot anything good with a budget of 20,000 yuan.

The two young directors each held a budget sheet with a sad face, saying that 20,000 yuan for a group assignment was enough, and they had to prepare again.

"Don't prepare." Guan Chen asked them to start filming quickly, "Preparation is never finished, every time you create, you are practicing for a better creation next time." ”

After pouring a mouthful of chicken soup, the young director finally stopped grinding.

Guan Chen picked out a few apprentices from the booklet whose [combat effectiveness (hourly salary)] was around 40 to 50, and he was looking for foreigners or international students, because of the problem of skin color or nationality, the upward space of these people was usually suppressed, and the real combat strength could be about 10 to 20 yuan higher, and it was earned if you arrived.

The crew and a group of people need transportation to travel, renting a bus is too expensive, renting a bicycle is too slow, Guan Chen requisitioned the neighbors' cars, and returned them with a full tank after each use, which was regarded as a payment for the rental fee.

When filming outside needs group performances, Guan Chen will transfer people from the [Xing Yan Performance Class], if it is filming in a university, Guan Chen is very willing to give the drama club and the film research club a chance to exercise.

Guan Chen also bought off several studio guards, once some big crews finished filming and were ready to dismantle the set up the next day, he could sneak over with the crew and rub other people's scenes......

Guan Chen did a lot of things with little money, and was successfully regarded as an excellent producer.

Especially for shooting, he didn't interfere at all.

The two directors are very grateful for this.

It's a pity that the two leading actors are angry, and they are about to torture the director crazy.

The two leading actors are both clients and screenwriters, and originally they just used images to attack each other and tell stories in the script, but no one could convince anyone. Later, it was Guan Chen who woke them up, "You don't have to convince each other, what you really want to convince is the person who watches the short film", the two were enlightened after listening to it, not only began to optimize and refine the script, but even began to hone their acting skills, hoping to arouse the audience's empathy and then canvass for votes.

The two directors wanted to let themselves go and wanted to have some literary fan, but they would be immediately stopped by the male and female leads. No matter how much the director talks about "symbols", "metaphors", "symbols", etc., they just can't convince them, the kite string is dragged in his hand, and it is pulled back as soon as it flies away, and it is pulled back as soon as it flies away.

Guan Chen observed from the sidelines and often felt that he had learned a lot.

"Don't be late for a date." Guan Chen wrote this sentence in the booklet heavily, not hoping that one day, he would end up like the couple in front of him.

Putting away the booklet, Guan Chen looked around, then looked at his watch, grabbed a crew member on the side, and asked, "Little Bear hasn't come yet?" ”

The person who was asked didn't find Xiong Yu, and he also felt strange: "I should have come back a long time ago." ”

Guan Chen nodded, "Wait a little longer." ”

Xiao Xiong is a compound talent hired by Guan Chen. For two or three salaries, you can get comedians who are good at makeup, cooking, carpentering, music, tailoring, dessert making, underwater shooting, very powerful, and can act as a group if necessary.

Xiaoxiong works to experience life, and then integrates life experience into performance, and now there is such an opportunity, not only to get a high salary, but also to get in touch with the set and actual combat performance, Guan Chen naturally has to take care of Xiaoxiong.

Of course, hiring a bear is not a free gift. In the past few years, Xiaoxiong has learned a lot of useful and useless skills, and his learning ability is still very strong.

Even the crew's supper is also in charge of Xiao Xiong, in her words, she can remember everyone's tastes and the amount of food.

Guan Chen waited for a while, and soon found that the little bear in the distance was carrying a bag for supper and slowly walked over.

Every morning when work starts, others yawn and move out of the car, only she pounces out of the car, always full of energy.

However, it was such a little bear, and now he lost his mind.

Everyone didn't notice the bear's face, and happily took the supper from the bear's hand one by one, ready to eat.

"Hey, I bought the wrong one."

"One, two, three, four...... My baked rice cake is missing, you can help me find out if it is installed somewhere else. ”

"I have an extra bunch here, but it's just leeks, hahaha."

Others don't think so, smile and pass. However, Guan Chen knew that remembering the wrong list was a very serious mistake for Xiao Xiong, who was proficient in a la carte service.

"What's the matter with you?" Guan Chen stopped the bear.

"My sister ......," Bear hesitated, not knowing whether to say it or not.

Guan Chen stopped talking from Xiao Xiong, and understood that it was a private matter related to Xiong Yu's sister and Xiong Ruojin. And he, as an outsider, is inconvenient to know.