Chapter 242: It's easy to spend money, but it's hard to make money
The official shooting was scheduled for three days later.
This time is a bit rushed.
It's still the same!
A group of people need to pack their bags and head to Kyoto Studios.
For Chen Ming and Su Rou, they haven't come back for a few days, and they have to leave for Kyoto immediately.
But Su Rou is fine.
After the girl's scene is over, she can return to Cloud City first.
She also needs to take care of the progress of gentle and diffuse labor, so the girl's role is just right for her.
And these three days,
Chen Ming took the written song to the Xingyu Entertainment branch and sold it to Tao Yanhong and three other artists.
All three songs are buyout contracts.
A total of 13 million was sold, a little more than Chen Ming expected.
So
The official filming funds of "Old Nine Gates" are completely sufficient.
As for the remaining five million publicity funds, Chen Ming can wait a little longer.
Wait for the second screening of "The Tuner" and the money from the TV station to arrive, so that even the publicity funds will be available.
Zheng Rong is also very interested in the filming of "Old Nine Gates", and has asked Chen Ming many times if he can invest money, and seems to be very optimistic about the ratings of this TV series after its release.
Zheng Rong has only one request, that is, at the end of each episode, write on the co-producer: Xingyu Entertainment Co., Ltd.
In this regard, Chen Ming did not refuse.
Truth be told,
This requirement is too simple.
even
Chen Ming felt that Zheng Rong felt a little like giving money for nothing, probably because the previous script was plagiarized, so Zheng Rong always felt guilty about Chen Ming.
So he wanted to use the money to support Chen Ming's shooting.
Three days later.
A group of people went to Kyoto Studios.
Meanwhile.
Kyoto villa area.
A middle-aged man is watching the episode of "The Ups and Downs of the Sand Sea" frame by frame, even though this TV series is sparsely filmed, he still watches it very seriously.
Suddenly,
The phone on the coffee table rings.
The man clicked on the plug and turned on the speaker.
"What's the matter?"
"Director Wang, Chen Ming went to Kyoto Studios."
"Really?"
"The news from Kyoto Cinema that Chen Ming, Xu Manke and others have just arrived at the cinema airport, and they should have just settled down in the hotel now."
"I see."
With that, the phone hung up.
The next second, the man turned off the TV
drama, stood up and showed his face: "Chen Ming, let me see what you want to shoot this time." ”
Looking carefully, this person is Wang Aiye.
He has been thinking about an interesting suspense movie all this time, and plans to touch Chen Ming's "Tuner".
Let's get off the book
And
The moment he saw "The Ups and Downs of the Sand Sea", he knew that Wan Youcai had plagiarized Chen Ming's script.
Because of this,
He is willing to spend a lot of time studying "The Ups and Downs of the Sand Sea" repeatedly.
He didn't want to see the embarrassing acting skills of the actors in it, he wanted to study the plot direction and concept of the whole play.
It is no exaggeration to say that
Inspiration was surging in his head right now.
"Thanks to you! Chen. ”
Wang Aiye stretched his waist, and then made a phone call casually: "Help me book a ticket to Kyoto Studios, and by the way, let the field crew over there get ready, this time I want to shoot a TV series." ”
This time, he was fully prepared.
Wan Youcai and Liao Pingshui are just scum, Wang Aiye has never taken these two people to heart, and even Wang Aiye did not even participate in the film and television celebration at the end of the year, and has been conceiving a new script at home!
It's been a long time!
He himself can't remember how long it has been, but he will be ignited because of a newcomer.
..........
The other side.
Chen Ming and the others came to the hotel they were familiar with last time.
And Chen Ming and Su Rou live directly in the same room, anyway, when they are in Kyoto, the two often sleep together, and basically there is not much to avoid.
As long as you hold back, you should be fine.
Some of the students were coming to the studio for the first time, so they were nervous.
After two days of rest,
Filming has officially begun!
This time the funds are more abundant, so the rental of some scene props is not as economical as last time.
For better shooting results, it's worth it!
The shooting was surprisingly smooth.
A week later,
Su Rou's scene was filmed and returned to Cloud City ahead of schedule.
Chen Ming's man then filmed in the studio.
To Chen Ming's surprise, during this period, Wang Aiye specially came to visit their crew, and his attitude was very kind, and he couldn't see the indifference and alienation last time.
Xu Manke just dealt with it simply.
Now that she has changed to a director, she no longer needs to worry about not being able to get filming resources, so she doesn't need to look at the faces of these directors anymore.
Wang Aiye didn't care at all, it was just simple
said that he is also filming, if you are interested, you can come over to string, if you want to make a cameo role, it is not impossible.
Xu Manke was puzzled in his heart.
But after thinking about it, it should be that "Tuner" is too popular, which has changed Wang Aiye's attitude.
A month later.
The filming of "Old Nine Gates" is over.
Everyone is a little tired, after all, this month has been in a hurry to finally finish filming the entire TV series.
But in addition to exhaustion, there is more excitement.
This is the first TV series they participated in filming.
48 episodes!
Longer than the average number of TV episodes.
And the second screening of "The Tuner" has also ended, and Xu Manke has not yet confirmed the box office situation of the second screening with the theater chain, but it should have a good result.
Chen Ming took the time to take a look at it when he was filming, and basically the number of people in every scene was very full.
Even if there are vacancies, there are no more than ten.
The TV station's salary has also hit Chen Ming's card, 3.6 million.
This money includes the usage fee of "Dream Chasing" and Chen Ming's remuneration for participating in the act, to be honest, this money is more than Chen Ming imagined.
It can be seen that the TV station also took extra care of Chen Ming.
And the money in Chen Ming's card is basically spent.
I have to say,
Filming a TV series is really a very expensive thing.
The 30 million shooting funds were all spent within a month.
Among them, the cost of the venue is the most expensive.
Even, the salaries of this group of college students, Xu Manke and Tong Ran have not yet been settled.
Fortunately, the group of people involved in the filming are very talkative, they are not in a hurry to get paid, and they all want to be in a hurry to see the effect of the TV series after it is released.
This made Chen Ming breathe a sigh of relief.
He doesn't really have much money in Kari now!
If the salary is paid at once, then he really needs to borrow money.
The plane roared up and landed smoothly.
Chen Ming returned to Cloud City.
Today is February 2nd.
In a month's time, basically all Chinese New Year movies and Chinese New Year TV series are nearing the end.
"Old Nine Gates" needs to seize the gap period in February and take advantage of the momentum, maybe it can directly become popular.
Of course
Before that, it will take half a month of warm-up publicity.
Another expense!
Chen Ming looked at the blue sky and couldn't help sighing: It's really hard to make money, and it's so fast to spend money.......