Next, for nearly half a night, Su Chen and Huang Bo were both determining the personnel of the crew.

According to their current budget, the crew of 15 million must be about 150 people.

Moreover, according to the current script, they still have to find a sparsely populated island with a beautiful environment to shoot, but filming in this kind of place for a month or even a month and a half means that a lot of costs will be added to eating, drinking, living and traveling every day.

In this convenience, Su Chen probably has a little experience because of a play with Jiang Wen.

In the second half of the night, Su Chen put down the pen in his hand and pulled it on the paper.

"Almost, about this number."

"Save money and spend it, 12 million."

"The actor's salary can actually be pressed." Huang Bo pondered for a moment: "Wait, let's do this, can we still make some money."

Su Chen smiled: "Wang Baoqiang's side, how much salary are you going to give him." ”

Huang Bo shook his head: "I don't know, look at how much he wants from me." ”

In fact, Huang Bo and Wang Baoqiang are not familiar with each other now, they are similar to Sun Honglei, and they can be polite when they meet, but if you want to talk about friendship, there are really not many.

"Then you estimate, how much money will he ask you for a play?"

"Anyway, I need two million."

Su Chen pondered for a while, Wang Baoqiang in 09 was filming "When People Are Embarrassed", the salary was only one million.

Now he shouldn't be so expensive, and although Wang Baoqiang is currently popular, he has almost stereotyped the image of a soldier assault in the hearts of fans.

He also wanted to transform completely.

Wang Baoqiang looks stupid, and he has a clear plan for his future.

If someone really thinks that Wang Baoqiang, who was born in the countryside and has seen all the philistines and cold-eyed people, is easy to fool, then it is wrong.

The poorer the person, the more shrewd he is.

"It's too late now, wake up tomorrow, Brother Bo, you call and ask, Wang Baoqiang's salary, my consideration here is within one million, I showed him the script, he should want to act."

Huang Bo: "Chenzi, so ruthless, kill half of the bargain?" ”

"Brother Bo, don't be soft-hearted, when you were bargained by others over the years, others didn't show mercy."

Huang Bosi couldn't help but show ruthlessness when he saw this.

He raised his hand and made a gesture of pulling down, cleanly.

"Kill!"

……

Kill and you're done.

At this moment, the sky has begun to turn blue slightly.

Su Chen and Huang Bo once again pushed down the entire budget by a large margin.

It is estimated that about 10 million or so, you can take down the movie, but there is another problem.

In the whole movie, except for Sun Honglei and Wang Baoqiang, there is no traffic.

To be precise, Sun Honglei does have box office appeal, but Wang Baoqiang's current box office appeal remains to be investigated.

"Looks like it's you."

Huang Bo set his eyes on Su Chen: "I hope you can make a big fire when "The Siege of October" is released, otherwise our film will be dangerous." ”

"The box office appeal is too poor."

He still didn't give up.

"Otherwise, let's consider Shu Qi?"

In fact, Su Chen was also very hesitant.

"A Good Show" has a decent rating on Douban, but it would be too much to say that it is a bad movie.

But if you want to talk about how good this movie is, it doesn't get any better.

can only be said to be a work of sincerity, Huang Bo's ability as a director and director has so many skills, and he has taken them all out.

There is nothing to scold from film critics.

After watching it, the key viewers did not feel that they were deceived, which was not easy.

At that time, after the extreme challenge, Huang Bo relied on his influence and appeal to publicize on a large scale, not only the water army, but also the program.

Therefore, after the movie is released, it will achieve a box office result of about 1.3 billion.

But now there are advantages and disadvantages to making this movie.

The disadvantage is that the box office appeal is not strong compared with other movies of the same period, and there is still a gap between the actors' coffee positions and those stars in Xiangjiang at this time, in addition, the director is also a newcomer.

Of course, the advantages are also obvious.

From Su Chen's point of view, first, the cost of making a movie now is not at the same level as the cost of making a movie nine years later, and secondly, the current audience is not so picky.

"A good drama can only be regarded as a sincere work after nine years.

However, in 09, it would be difficult to say.

After all, this is the theme of survival on a desert island, if the comedy elements are increased more, and the part of Huang Bo's feelings in the movie is slightly weakened, it will be popular.

"In addition, we have to be affiliated with a film and television company."

Huang Bo suddenly remembered a question: "Where are you going to lean, if you don't rely on it, you won't be able to get the shooting qualification." ”

"Rely on your sister?"

Su Chen thought for a moment: "Why don't you Brother Bo, you can set up your own studio." ”

"Me?"

"Yes."

Su Chen knew that Huang Bo would be in the next two months, when his fame would skyrocket.

Because, two months later, "Bullfighting Goes to the Theater", this is not the point, the point is that three months later, the film was sent to Wanwan by Guan Hu to participate in the Golden Horse Awards, and directly received six nominations.

And Huang Bo directly won the title of the first Golden Horse Award actor in his life, and Zhang Jiahui's "Witness" was a double hit.

Huang Bo also directly secured the position of a first-line star, although there was still a gap between him and Sun Honglei at that time, but there is no doubt that he can be called a half-step first-line actor.

Therefore, there is no problem for him to set up Huang Bo Studio a year ahead of schedule.

"It's not impossible."

Huang Bo breathed a long sigh of relief, in the middle of the night, the two of them were set actors, and they were seeking development, and now they were going to set up their own studios.

There is also a sense of enthusiasm for starting a business.

"Then it's decided."

Huang Bo said: "I'll be busy with these trivial things first, and there is still half a month, you go to the premiere of "October Siege", let's see the effect, if you become popular, then our drama may be more secure." ”

"Okay!"

Su Chen closed the notebook: "Sleep!" ”

"Wait......"

Su Chen said sleep, but Huang Bo remembered one more thing.

"Then our money can't be invested."

Su Chen smiled: "Brother Bo, you are also an old fritter, why are you still embarrassed about this matter?" We've already voted! ”

"Huh? Did you vote? ”

"Yes, we voted, you voted for 1 million, I voted for 1 million, and Brother Chao invested 15 million."

"Now that the movie hasn't been made yet, you and my money will be returned in full, Brother Chao's money, let's use it to make a movie, and we can just divide it after earning it."

Of course, Huang Bo didn't know the twists and turns of making movies, but he felt a little bad.

"Don't, Brother Chao looks at us."

"We get paid, it's actually good, do we still have to play routines."

In fact, it was not only Huang Bo who thought so, but Su Chen also thought so before.

But a movie is a movie, and that's how it works.

At most, if you make money, you will give Brother Chao a big red envelope when the time comes, but you still have to play like this, besides, the current funding arrangement is only tentative.

What if the money is not enough in the middle of the shoot, don't you have to advance money into it yourself?

If the investor is someone else, then none of the tricks that should be played should be missing, after all, who can't get along with money.

But the investor is Li Rongchao.

The tricks are still played, but it's good to make it clear to Li Rongchao.

Huang Bo is still thinking about the issue of making fake accounts: "But in this case, we have to flatten the accounts, for example, if we spend one million, we have to ask Wang Baoqiang to issue an invoice of 1.5 million......"

"Brother Bo, Brother Bo, that's not what I meant."

Su Chen pondered: "In this way, Brother Chao is reliable, we can't be unparticular, we have to play, but we have to play with Brother Chao, the account is still a real account, and not a penny is fake." ”

"However, we will do all the money we have saved."

"Every penny is spent."

Speaking of which, Su Chen asked Huang Bo a question.

"Brother, do you have confidence in making money from our play?"

Huang Bo shook his head slowly: "To be honest, I really don't have much confidence in this play, listen to what you mean, the director is still a newcomer." ”

"I don't have more confidence."

Su Chen: "That's right if you don't have confidence, let's call the wilted people to do big things now, maintain this trembling mentality, this drama is stable." ”

Huang Bo grabbed Su Chen again.

"I still don't feel confident."

"Or, if Shu Qi doesn't look for it, what about another person?"

"What's wrong with Yang Mi, playing movies now, in addition to paying attention to capital, you also have to pay attention to popularity, even if you come to play a supporting role?"

He licked his lips, ready to see if he could convince Su Chen again.

"She's been on fire recently, so I'm looking for her to come to the crew to play for two or three days, and I'll be able to eat and drink and send her away after filming."

"Filming, spend some money, it won't cost a few dollars."

Su Chen was said by Huang Bo, but he felt that there was something in this idea, but this also had to be contacted.

In case Yang Mi is willing.

But what if her agency isn't happy?

What is my current identity and rank in Yang Mi, to play a supporting role in your play?

The key is that the heroine of this drama is still the sister of a little-known coal boss.

Let Yang Mi play the female supporting role and praise the newcomer, what a face this must be.

Many times, considering this, it is unlikely that Yang Mi will agree to this invitation.

But it's okay, what Huang Bo said makes sense, it's always okay to try.

……

Two days later, Sun Honglei sent a message back to Su Chen, his schedule was very busy, and Su Chen said that he was in a hurry, if filming started in a month, he could spare about ten days at most.

Moreover, in ten days, the salary is 1.2 million.

Su Chen didn't think about it, and immediately agreed, and the price was not too high.

Last year's lurking, Sun Honglei's price for one episode alone was 100,000, and it was the money after the salary was reduced.

Latent this year is on fire, and he should have raised the price.

And the salary of movies and TV series are two different things, and the movie is slightly higher.

Huang Bo's salary was set at 800,000.

After all, it is his own play, and the price taken by Su Chen himself is a little lower than Huang Bo, a total of 500,000.

Of course, if this movie is good at the box office after its release, then Su Chen and Huang Bo can still share some money, and Sun Honglei will not have this follow-up income.

And Huang Bo also came back with the news.

Wang Baoqiang is also a matter of time constraints, he can have seven or eight days, and he may leave for two or three days in the middle to participate in an event.

"How much did Wang Baoqiang's salary talk about."

Huang Bo hehe, he smiled: "Do you know what Wang Baoqiang said when I told him? ”

Su Chen was curious: "What do you say?" ”

"He said that he had seen your movie, and it just so happened that he wanted to try it too, so the salary is fine, let us watch it."

"How much did you give?"

Huang Bo stretched out five fingers.

"Five hundred thousand."

"Huh?"

"They didn't agree."

Su Chen blinked: "Didn't he say, look at it." ”

"Yes, I just watched the giving, and he ended up stumbling."

"And the last?"

"Finally talked about ninety."

Su Chen pondered for a while, but he could accept it, Wang Baoqiang's ten days in the current time period, 90,000 yuan a day, it is reasonable.

During this time he inquired.

Many out-of-fashion actors in Xiangjiang, such as Wu Ma, are the old drama bones of Yan Chixia in "A Chinese Ghost Story", although they have been out of breath for a long time, but the price is about 20,000 yuan a day.

90,000 yuan is completely acceptable to be strong for a day with Wang Bao.

Su Chen has been busy these days.

The last time I shared my experience after graduation with the younger students at the film academy, at that time, it was also the time when he and Yang Mi intersected.

Yang Mi's personal phone has also been in Su Chen's mobile phone at that time.

However, after the fight, the other party did not connect.

Su Chen didn't continue to try,

Yang Mi is his younger sister, yes, but she is now one of the four little flowers in the mainland, and she may not really be willing to come to act in their movie with an investment of more than 10 million, which is normal.

As a result, in the evening, Yang Mi called back.

The two of them exchanged pleasantries.

Then Su Chen explained the purpose of his call, Yang Mi was very interested, she didn't say anything because there were too many scenes or fewer plays.

Instead, I felt that I could film on a small island with beautiful scenery, which was just enough to relax.

Girls love beautiful scenery and love to travel.

"But what about your economic company?"

"I still have to make sure, in fact, a lot of things on my side are quite stiff."

Yang Mi's tone was not very good, Su Chen calculated the time, and knew that she should be a little worried about the contradictions between the brokerage company and Tang Film and Television now.

"Okay, that's the way it is anyway, you see the situation."

"If you can be sure, you can call me back within a week."

"Good! Senior brother! I heard that your new film is about to be released, congratulations! ”

Yang Mi's tone became lively.

"Those are all old films made last year."

Su Chen laughed.

……

After hanging up the phone, Su Chen went out, took a subway, and went straight to Tongzhou.

He was wearing a t-shirt, a pair of shorts, and a hat today.

Although Su Chen doesn't have any audience awareness yet.

But the whole subway was crowded, and some people would still recognize him.

It would be slightly better to bring a hat.

After almost an hour and a half of subway.

Su Chen stopped in front of a residential building next to Zhongchuan.

That's what he must do today.

Two days ago, Su Chen asked a classmate from the Film Academy for the phone number of a senior sister from the art department, and then found Xiao Yang's contact information in the student group!

After learning that Xiao Yang graduated, he moved directly from the North Third Ring Road to the side of China Transmission University.

I rented a small place over there and opened an advertising company, specializing in shooting promotional videos for people, and some wedding follow-up and other work.

contacted Xiao Yang on QQ.

Su Chen didn't say it explicitly, but just said that the alumni wanted to make a film with him and asked him how much he offered.

Xiao Yang's QQ name is "An Ugly Duckling", and his personality signature reads: No one asks, no one ignores, no one cares.

Is this a cure for depression?

When Su Chen saw this at the time, he immediately felt that it was no wonder that Xiao Yang would follow the path of a comedian in the future.

If it weren't for the bitterness of the world.

It's really rare to want to make the audience laugh.

For example, Deng Chao, who is relatively smooth, has a good appearance in other plays, but when he plays a comedy, he is easy to pull his hips.

Because the attribute of the sadness of the little people is the real essence of comedians.

……

There is no elevator in this residential building.

Su Chen climbed to the seventh floor step by step, and he hadn't even reached the door yet.

The iron door to the outside of a room on the seventh floor opened.

Out of it came a man in slippers, shorts, and fresh from washing his hair.

He looked thirty-four or five years old, and his hair was wet on his scalp.

But Su Chen knew that he was only twenty-nine this year.

"Young, junior brother, come, come on."

Xiao Yang leaned out half of his body from the iron door and beckoned back at Su Chen's palm.

Single eyelids, lying silkworm eyes, when greeting with a smile, there are still a little dimples, the face is a little round, and a kind of hooked and lost small eyes hooked up with the panting Su Chen.

"What's the job, come, say inside."

He gave way to Su Chen: "I'm thinking, it's all the same school, let's not see each other." ”

"The house is not tidyed, it may be a bit messy."

Xiao Yang rubbed his hands and closed the iron door, the room was not big, and there was a line of calligraphy on the sofa in the living room, on which were written in block letters - Brother Kuaizi.

"Oh, my father wrote me the brush words, sent them, if you have to ask me to watch it, I'll say it's a shame."

Xiao Yang sideways blocked the clump of toilet paper next to the sofa, and took Su Chen inside, where there was a computer, two monitors, and a standard editing double screen.

Cigarette ash was scattered all over the table, and Coke bottles were placed next to the computer, and several bottles were placed, but they were not finished, and they stopped drinking only a little base.

"What."

Xiao Yang sat in the boss's chair in the back room and crossed Erlang's legs.

"You took off your hat, you know that you are the chief of the acting department, okay, feel free."

He smiled and asked, "What's the job?" ”

Su Chen took off his hat and sat on a small single sofa inside, he smiled and said, "Make a film, how do you quote this." ”

"If it's a promotional video, it's a thousand a minute, and more than ten minutes, and you'll get a 20% discount, and if it's a follow-up shot, one camera is 800, and two cameras are 1,004, with a cameraman."

Xiao Yang swayed his wet hair: "Of course, it also depends on the quality, if you want to say that it is a high-quality promotional video of a large enterprise, we have not filmed it." ”

"When the time comes, give you the whole crew, the seventeen or eighteen people will be in a hurry, the rocker arm will give you one, the rabbit cage will be fixed on the camera, and the Steadicam stabilizer will be carried on the body, and it will look professional and have momentum."

"If it's like this, it's expensive, and it may cost about 70,000 or 80,000 yuan to shoot it."

He finally shook his hair clearly, turned his head and stared at Su Chen: "What, you should report a budget first, how much are you going to spend on this film?" ”

Video advertising companies are like this in these years, making hard-earned money.

The total price of a promotional film is 70,000 or 80,000 yuan, minus the cost, and it is estimated that it will fall into Xiao Yang's hands, which is more than 10,000 yuan, and it is pre-preparation, on-site shooting, and post-editing.

After the editing was finished, Party A was not satisfied and had to go back and redo it.

Su Chen saw that the video output on Xiao Yang's computer desktop screen alone was about seven or eight repetitions.

Each video is followed by a note.

Little Sheep Tongzhou store promotional video into a film. Little Sheep Tongzhou Store into a modified version. Little Sheep into a piece of modified version twice.

Little Sheep into a piece of modified version of the second fine cut......

Always, seven or eight into a video.

It can be seen that it is the same promotional video, but the name is different.

According to such a workload, it is basically difficult to get a promotional video in a month.

Shooting this thing, regardless of whether it is a movie or just a promotional film, in fact, the process is indispensable, the complexity is similar, but the scale is different.

"Hey, what about you, junior, what is your budget?"

Su Chen thought for a while: "My budget is about one thousand and fifteen. ”

Xiao Yang shook his hand directly: "Cut...... You are one thousand five, you cut ...... What are you? ”

"Wedding follow-up?"

Su Chen couldn't help but smile and shook his head: "No, what I want is a refined film." ”

When Xiao Yang heard this, he almost jumped up from his chair.

"Heh, you're funny."

"I graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Film Academy, and I will make a film for you for 15,000, what do you want."

"It's impossible to take one thousand and five, the light cameraman has to take five hundred and one days, you are like this."

"Three thousand."

Xiao Yang stretched out three fingers and looked at Su Chen sincerely: "Junior brother, the alumni friendship is priced, you don't do anything less, three thousand won't work, you can't find someone else." ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Yang suddenly frowned.

"Alas, wait."

"Junior brother, why do I look at you a little familiar? Have we met somewhere before? ”

Su Chen raised his face and generously let Xiao Yang see it clearly.

"I guess I've seen it, think about it."

Xiao Yang squinted his eyes and opened his mouth: "You have acted in "Crazy Racing, right?" ”

"Hey, young!"

He slapped his face and said with a smile: "What are you doing, you said earlier, that's it, two thousand yuan, brother, I'll wrap it up for you, what do you want to shoot." ”

The next moment, he seemed to have understood something, revealing an expression of "men understand men".

"Is it a marriage proposal record?"

"Two thousand, I'll get it for you! There's nothing wrong with that, I'll tell you. ”

Su Chen shook his head, and he took out a stack of documents from his backpack.

This is the crew agreement.

Huang Bo asked Ning Hao for the template two days ago.

"Senior brother, I'm looking for you to make a movie."

"With a budget of 15 million, your director's fee is about 500,000 yuan, from before filming to the end of editing, about three months, 500,000."

Su Chen helped Xiao Yang take the Coke bottle on the table away, and gently placed the crew agreement in front of Xiao Yang.

"But if you talk about it, if you want to take a marriage proposal and a shooting record, then I'll only give you two thousand."

After finishing speaking, Su Chen returned to the sofa, and the smile he had held back before was finally unable to hold back.

“……”

Xiao Yang looked at Su Chen in a daze.

There was no surprise, no unexpected reaction, he was afraid that he was now reflecting in his mind why he had led the fool into the door.

"Not ......"

He reached out and flipped through the crew agreement in front of him.

"It's still neat."

"What day is it? April Fool's Day? ”

"Wait a minute, you wait for me to make a call, you're here to trick me."

Saying that, Xiao Yang stood up, the chairs under his buttocks fell over, he stood up and walked around Su Chen, didn't find the camera, and then went to the bedroom to take a look.

"Wang Taili, you come out for me! You play me now! ”

"Damn, how much money our company makes, don't you force it? How much does it cost to spend money to hire such a professional actor? ”

There was a slamming of the door.

"Wang Taili? Okay, I've learned how to command remotely, right? ”

Xiao Yang searched around outside but didn't find Wang Taili.

No one answered the phone.

Two minutes later.

When he returned, his pace slowed down and his thoughts cleared.

It seems that Su Chen is not joking.

Standing at the door, he was half exposed, pinching the corners of his clothes in his hands, and he looked sideways at Su Chen: "Are you really looking for me to be a director?" ”

When he said this, Xiao Yang's eyes were red.

"No, why do you like me?"

"There are so many people in the school's directing department, why did you find me."

In the last half of the sentence, Xiao Yang choked up a little.

Su Chen also looked a little uncomfortable, he is also a person in the film industry, and he knows what life is like at the bottom.

So after he came back from rebirth, he desperately went online.

When there is no filming, I try to save up for filming by myself.

"After watching the film, I think you are talented."

Su Chen said.

He can't say that you've seen all of your future "Old Boys", "Manslaughter", and "Chinatown Detectives."

So I have to say this in general terms.

Xiao Yang's eyes were still red, and he asked.

"You've seen my films."

Su Chen: "......"

He thought for a moment, pointed to the computer screen and said, "I've seen it...... You ...... Little Sheep Tongzhou Store promotional video into a second condensed version. ”

"I saw it once when I was eating lamb in the store."

Xiao Yang: "You say that, do you believe it yourself?" ”