3. Temporary crew

"The six people in our dormitory, except for Liu Zimo's graduation work, have already been done and are waiting to graduate. The graduation projects of the five of us haven't been settled yet, right? Although your graduation project is relatively simple, it will also help you find a job in the future. What do you think? Do you want to work with me on this script? Hearing that everyone was very satisfied with this script, Mo Wen immediately sent an invitation to everyone.

"I said why did you invite us to the restaurant today, it turned out that you pulled us to be coolies." Liu Zimo said with a smile.

"That's right, if you want us to be coolies, then we'll eat you today." Yi Xin also said with a smile.

"It's okay, let go of eating, no matter how poor I am, I can still afford a meal." Mo Wen also laughed.

"We can help for free, but what are you going to do with the rest? After all, according to your script, it still needs to spend a lot of investment. In terms of equipment, we can borrow it from the school, and it also costs a lot of money for costumes, props, and sets. Yi Xin asked Mo Wen.

As brothers who have been together in a dormitory for four years, everyone helps for free, and of course it is no problem to shoot a graduation work for Mo Wen.

"Yes, as you know, the conditions in our homes are very average. It's okay for us to be coolies for free, but we really can't help you with money. Kong Xiulian also said.

"It's okay, I know that everyone's family is not rich, and I don't want you to pay for my graduation project. I asked the boss and Zhang Yu to go to the school to borrow the equipment. For the set, let's find a similar place, and we will work hard for some other details in the later stage, just cut out the picture directly. Such a funny short film is not a movie, and it doesn't need to be too elaborate. Mo Wen heard that everyone was willing to help, and his heart was full of emotion.

"As for costumes and props, I think our school's acting department should have a lot of costumes and props. Wait a minute, you can go and see if you can borrow a few sets of ancient costumes, if it really doesn't work, we will find a professional props company to rent, I have saved thousands of dollars in part-time work in the past few years, which should be enough. Mo Wen said to everyone.

"The only problem now is that we need a makeup artist to do our makeup, and we guys don't know anything about makeup. If you hire a professional makeup artist, the budget may not be enough. Mo Wen told everyone about his plan in one breath.

"I'll figure out how to make a makeup artist, I have a cousin who works as a makeup artist at a wedding photography company in Star City. I can bring her in for help if needed. You don't have to give it in terms of expenses, or when you have more money in the future, it's good to make up for her. Kong Xiulian heard Mo Wen's words and immediately said.

Kong Xiulian didn't say that she would ask her cousin to help for free, after all, she was just a cousin, not her own sister. It's good that others are willing to help, and it's impossible to say that people work for nothing.

He plans to invite his cousin to a meal at that time, and then send a red envelope to his cousin, which will be regarded as his salary. If you really can't do it, you can owe it first, and then give your salary to your cousin when you have money in the future.

Anyway, it's my cousin, so I should still be able to agree to this little thing, it's much cheaper than hiring a professional makeup artist outside, and I don't have to settle my salary right away.

"That's the best, then the makeup artist will trouble you, and the salary can't be less than my cousin's, but it may be in arrears for a while. We're going to split up this afternoon and get the preparations ready, preferably tomorrow. Mo Wen heard Kong Xiulian's words and said excitedly.

"Okay, I'll go to the school with Zhang Yu to borrow equipment, Bai Ke is from the acting department, you have been in contact with the crew before, you should know where to rent costumes and props, wait for Mo Wen You will send a copy of the costumes and props you need to Bai Ke, if you can't borrow them from the school, go outside to rent them." Annette Kong went to contact your cousin and see if he could spare a day or two to help. As for Liu Zimo, you and Mo Wen will go to the scene to see where there is a suitable place for us to shoot near Star City. As the boss of the dormitory, Yi Xin immediately made a decision and began to arrange their respective division of labor.

"Okay, that's it. I'll first replace the wine with tea, and I would like to toast everyone for a drink, and thank you for your help. Mo Wen said gratefully to everyone.

"Everyone is a brother, and if you say this, you will see the outside." Everyone also raised their glasses together and drank tea instead of wine.

At this time, Mo Wen and their orders began to come up one after another. Since there was something to do in the afternoon, I didn't drink, but started to cook in full swing.

Hunan cuisine is characterized by spicy and heavy taste, and everyone is sweating profusely.

After eating, several people began to prepare separately according to the plan customized before.

Liu Zimo and I also took a taxi directly to the suburbs, and the scenes in the first episode were all in the wild, if you are lucky, you can directly find a suitable location for shooting.

If you really can't find it, then you can only work hard in the later stage and use software to cut out the picture. It's just that in this way, the quality of the video will drop quite a bit.

In one afternoon, Mo Wen and Liu Zimo went around a lot of places in the suburbs, and finally let Mo Wen find an abandoned cowshed, which is quite similar to the scene of the original film in Mo Wen's mind.

And Mo Wen also found a small stream nearby, which will also be useful for this scene at that time. As for other scenes, there is really no way out, so I can only cut out the picture directly at that time.

Back in the dormitory, several other people also came back, and brought good news to Mo Wen.

First of all, Kong Xiulian, his cousin has agreed to their request, and she can ask for leave to come to their temporary crew to help with makeup tomorrow and the next two days.

And Bai Ke has a little problem here, there are costumes and props in the acting department of the school, but there is no wig set. But this is not difficult to do, he went to the props company outside and rented a few sets back. As for the costumes and long swords, he borrowed a few sets directly from the school and let Mo Wen choose them.

Yi Xin and Zhang Yu are the easiest, they were originally students of the photography department, and now they easily borrowed a camera from the school for the reason of shooting their graduation work.

As for the rest of the equipment, their rudimentary temporary crew simply doesn't have that many manpower, and they can't use it if they borrow it. I can only give up for the time being, and then rely on the post-stage to deal with the impact of insufficient equipment.

"Very good, Zimo and I have also found a shooting location today, and we can shoot directly tomorrow." Mo Wen said happily to everyone.