"The Beginning" is in full swing shooting.

Because Fang Xing and Lu Xianger still need to participate in the rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, they have to take a day or two off every week and leave the crew to participate in rehearsals.

Before Fang Xing left the crew, he would discuss the later shooting plan with Zhang Yigao, and refine the arrangement of each sub-shot.

Then let Zhang Yigao be in charge of shooting, and when he woke up, he looked at the material again to ensure that there was no problem with the shot.

Zhang Yigao has no problem professionally.

Even if the occasional shots are a little different from what Fang Xing originally wanted, the quality is not bad.

This small problem can be fixed in post-production.

After the start of "The Beginning", information about this drama was naturally leaked.

The general content of the script is also difficult to keep secret.

Therefore, companies in the film and television industry basically know what type of new drama Ark Culture is this time.

Sci-fi, suspense, time loop.

This concept of film and television dramas is actually not the first creation of "The Beginning", there have been many film and television dramas at home and abroad, and similar plots have been filmed.

……

The new drama prepared by Pengcheng Capital, with a total investment of 70 million, signed Lin Yingxue, wanting to suppress "The Beginning" and make "The Beginning" fall into a situation where there is no heroine available.

Fang Xing turned his head and directly asked Lu Xianger to play the heroine, and when the news spread, many people in the circle were not optimistic.

Many insiders are suspecting that Fang Xing is throwing money to support his girlfriend.

This situation is very common in the entertainment industry.

In fact, many actresses who have just stepped into the entertainment industry and have continuous resources have financial support on their backs.

As for the relationship between the two, it is difficult to say.

The money owner spends money to support people, and people in the circle have long been surprised.

However, a project like this that spends money and praises people has a very high probability of being made into a bad movie.

Therefore, after the launch of "The Beginning", many critics in the film and television industry felt that Fang Xing was smashing the good reputation created by "Wulin Gaiden".

In the entertainment industry, many people are paying attention to the filming progress of "The Beginning".

The Chen family, in particular, paid close attention to every move of the crew of "The Beginning".

Because of this drama, it will affect the fat meat they eat to their mouths.

Dachuan Audio is still struggling, and the mortgaged real estate must also insist on operating the company, and does not agree to bankruptcy liquidation.

This eucalyptus of bankruptcy liquidation has been dragging on for three months.

The Lu family now wants to turn over after waiting for "The Beginning" to make money.

The Chen family naturally will not give the Lu family a chance to turn over, so when Ruide Film and Television was preparing for a new drama, Chen Lipeng made additional investment and asked Ruide Film and Television to also make a suspense drama to suppress "The Beginning" in an all-round way.

With the news coming out of "The Beginning" now, it looks like a bad movie no matter how you look at it.

With a small investment of 30 million, Fang Xing directed and acted by himself, and also hired an eighteenth-tier director who has been in the director industry for more than ten years and has not been able to get a single work.

In addition, in order to praise his girlfriend, Fang Xing asked a violinist who had never acted to play the heroine.

Taken together, this information basically labeled this show as a "bad movie".

However, Chen Lipeng was still not at ease, so he asked Rhett Film and Television to also make a suspense drama, which was broadcast at the same time, and "The Beginning" was crushed.

Two dramas of the same type and schedule, the one that was compared, the result was a rotten one.

TV series are like this, if there is no better choice in the same period, there will be a shortage of audience dramas, and slightly worse dramas can be watched.

However, once a good drama is broadcast in the same period, in comparison, bad movies are even more unwatchable.

When Rhett Film and Television was preparing to shoot a new drama, the script and director had not yet been decided.

Now, the management requires new dramas to shoot suspense, as long as there is a suitable script, it is not a big problem.

Moreover, Pengcheng Capital has invested an additional 10 million yuan for this purpose.

This money is enough to hire a second-tier suspense film director.

Because Pengcheng Capital is willing to spend money, the project is advancing quickly.

Rhett Film and Television soon talked about a second-tier director who became famous by suspense and exploration dramas, and won a suspenseful crime script from the screenwriting team that often cooperates.

After the actors were finalized, filming started quickly.

……

From the very beginning, Fang Xing decided to prepare for the filming of "The Beginning" in order to solve the dilemma of the Lu family, so the filming progress was very fast.

Even before the shoot was fully completed, post-production had already begun.

Moreover, in the preparation stage, it has been negotiated with Penguin Video, and the exclusive broadcast rights have been sold.

Just wait for the finished film to come out, and after Penguin Video reviews the film, it can be scheduled for broadcast immediately.

After two months of filming, "The Beginning" was announced to be completed.

Post-production is also in full swing.

After these news spread, there were more and more rumors that "The Beginning" was a bad movie.

Because insiders feel that "The Beginning" is too fast from preparation to completion.

In two months, it was announced that it would be completed.

If it weren't for the fact that the investment in this area was not high, everyone in the circle would suspect that Fang Xing was laundering money.

The only thing that can give critics a little bit of confidence is that the actors in the supporting roles are all acting schools.

For ordinary audiences, they don't care too much about the identities of the old actors and supporting roles in the play.

Especially in dramas dominated by female audiences, the audience pays attention to whether the male lead actor is handsome or not, and will not pay attention to whether the old actors in the play are from the National Theater or Hengdian group performances.

Professional drama critics pay more attention to the content and recognize the names of some old drama bones.

Therefore, in the eyes of some professional drama critics, the only eye-catching point of "The Beginning" is the actors from the National Theater.

It's just that the more this is the case, the more angry the critics become, thinking that Fang Xing is ruining the old artist of the National Theater.

Some drama critics even said that if the old actors of the National Theater are not guaranteed in the evening, they will wake up and have to bear the blame.

After the announcement of the completion of "The Beginning", there are more and more discussions about this drama.

A lot of gossip during filming broke out one after another, and it was also on several hot searches.

The fans of "Wulin Gaiden" have a very fierce argument with the critics.

[It's over, it's over, no matter how you watch "The Beginning", it feels like it's going to be bad. Don't spoil the good image of "Wulin Gaiden" in my mind, okay? 】

[Although I also admit that the violinist is very beautiful, it is difficult not to rot in such a way. 】

[I also heard a major news: during the filming of "The Beginning", Fang Xing and Lu Xianger also needed to take two days off every week to participate in the rehearsal of the opening ceremony. 】

[It's over, it's over, then this drama is basically rotten to the root.] 】

[It will be completed in two months, and I will take leave during the period, anyway, I don't dare to watch this drama. When the drama comes out, the bean sprouts score will exceed six points and knock me again. 】

[It's also six points, and it's a miracle to be able to exceed 3 points.] 】

……

Meanwhile.

The suspense drama "Crime by the Pillow" prepared by Rhett Film and Television is also speeding up.

This time, the actors invited by Rhett Film and Television are all young actors, and their acting is okay.

The Chen family did not arrange Chen Wenhan into the play again.

Chen Wenhan also doesn't look down on this A-level investment with an investment of 70 million, and in his capacity, non-S-level big investments are not interested.

Therefore, the double male protagonist lineup of "Crime on the Pillow" invites new second-tier actors, and they are very popular.

These two male leading actors alone have eaten up 30 million in salary, and one of them is still Rhett Film and Television's own people, which can raise this lineup.

In this way, Lin Yingxue of 18 million is added.

The salary spent on several leading actors in the whole drama has been nearly 50 million.

The amount of investment is very tight.

However, the preparation for the filming of this drama is completely in accordance with the requirements of Pengcheng Capital, so Ruide Film and Television can continue to ask Pengcheng Capital to make additional investment.

Since the request has been made, and the cast is indeed very good, Pengcheng Capital is also happy when it invests more.

made this A-level investment "Crime by the Pillow", and the investment gradually reached 80 million.

This is already a big investment in A-level production.

……

Because "The Beginning" was completed too quickly.

The Chen family's original idea was to use "Crime by the Pillow" to snipe "The Beginning" and completely destroy "The Beginning".

The progress of "The Beginning" is too fast, so Pengcheng Capital has to urge "Crime by the Pillow" to speed up.

Even the post-production of "Crime by the Pillow" is to increase money and cut the queue and proceed at the fastest speed.

In the film and television industry, it is really easy to do things with money.

As long as you are sure to give money, you can always make the owner satisfied.

A month after the completion of "The Beginning", "Crime by the Pillow" was also announced to be completed and entered post-production.

It's late May.

The post-production of "The Beginning" is basically over, and under the supervision of Fang Xing, the first version of the film has been edited.

Moreover, the completion of the first version is very high, and there are few places that need to be modified.

What needs to be discussed is the balance between suspense and clues.

One of the major characteristics of suspense films is to guide the audience to think and guide the audience to find clues, but not to let the audience see through the results too early.

Therefore, there is a need to find a balance between giving clues and leaving suspense.

If there are too many clues, the audience may guess the result and then lose confidence in the show.

There are fewer clues, and the audience will feel that this drama is "what is it doing"?

In the drama "The Beginning", there are a lot of clues, but most of them are clues used to mislead the audience.

When these clues were filmed, Fang Xing's requirement was to shoot according to the real clues, and the audience must be convinced that these clues are true, this is the truth.

But as the plot continues to develop, the plot keeps reversing, and then it turns out that these clues are all fake.

Fang Xing and Zhang Yigao quarreled the most fiercely at this balance point.

"Director Fang, I think there is too much suspense, which will make many viewers unable to understand. The main audience of the TV drama market is mainly female, and we have to make it easy for most female viewers to understand the plot. ”

Zhang Yigao's attitude of obeying the market now is a bit overkill.

Ten years ago, when he was a director, he didn't pay attention to the audience at all when he filmed, so he didn't get a chance to hold a guide tube for more than ten years.

Now, "The Beginning" is his chance to turn over.

However, now the evaluation of "The Beginning" on the Internet is not very good, and they all think that "The Beginning" is a bad movie.

Zhang Yigao hopes to please the mainstream audience.

Fang Xing's thoughts are different: "A suspense film should have enough suspense, and the plot of this film is not complicated, and it is not difficult to understand."

What's more, audiences who like to watch suspense movies and audiences who like to watch idol dramas don't overlap much.

"Since we are shooting a suspense film, we should use the standards of suspense films to cut, the clues that should be hidden should be hidden, and the suspense should be left where there is suspense.

"Moreover, when talking to the actors, I have deliberately given the audience clues in their eyes, micro-expressions, and some of the actors' movements.

"I've given enough clues."

Zhang Yigao hurriedly shook his head: "It is impossible for the audience to guess the relationship between the characters by one look, and there is no way for the audience to notice this kind of clue." ”

The two had a heated argument while editing.

However, when Zhang Yigao was invited to join the team at the beginning, Fang Xing took a preventive shot in advance and divided the big and small kings.

Therefore, as long as there is no dispute, in the end, Fang Xing's idea shall prevail.

Even if Zhang Yigao was a little dissatisfied in his heart, he couldn't help it.

Fortunately, he is the director of this drama, and after filming the whole process, he knows very well that this drama is not as bad as the outside world says.

One of the reasons why it was completed so quickly is that the show was originally only going to shoot 15 episodes.

The 15-episode drama is filmed by two directors, and most of the actors are old actors, and few can NG.

A scene is shot repeatedly, many times, just to find the possibility of another performance, in order to provide more material for post-editing.

Therefore, Zhang Yigao still has confidence in this drama.

The difference is just how hot it can be.

……

Late May.

Penguin Video organized a viewing party to review "The Beginning".

After reviewing the film, at the request of Fang Xing, Li Xueying, vice president of Penguin Video, signed an exclusive broadcast agreement, and set it to be broadcast in July.

And an advance payment totaling 30 million was made.

Usually, the broadcast platform does not pay an advance payment to the producer.

Because after the episode is broadcast, no one can guarantee what the results are.

According to the normal payment collection process, after the broadcast of "The Beginning", it will take at least three months to collect the payment.

But the situation of the Lu family, the longer it drags on, the worse the situation becomes.

Therefore, Fang Xing's request for advance payment was so that Lu Xianger could get a return on investment in advance.

Of course, it is also clearly written in the agreement that if the broadcast income of "The Beginning" does not reach 30 million, then Ark Culture will return the advance payment.

In short, Li Xueying made a decision to pay the advance payment, which will not have any loss for Penguin Video, but it will make Fang Xing owe a favor.

Li Xueying, the vice president, rose all the way up from the film selection department, so she has a unique vision for film selection.

She dared to sign an advance payment of 30 million because she was optimistic about this drama.

Besides, with "Wulin Gaiden", the drama king who has dominated the comedy classification list for a whole year, Fang Xing owes a favor, and this deal is sure to make a profit.

After Lu Xianger got the advance payment of 30 million, the situation of the family was eased a lot.

However, she is also a little worried: "What if "The Beginning" doesn't make 30 million? Moreover, even if I can earn 30 million, I can't take so much. ”

Fang Xing looked at her moved eyes with tears, and said with a smile: "If you can't earn 30 million, you have to return the advance payment." ”

"Huh? Then the money can't be used. Lu Xiang'er frowned.

"Don't worry. Take it to the emergency first, maybe your father's company will be able to pay back the money. Fang Xing smiled and comforted her.

said so, but Fang Xing was very confident in "The Beginning", and it was just a small idea that this drama earned 30 million.