When he arrived in Gongxian at four o'clock in the morning, the sky was already bright, and Zheng Xu needed to take advantage of the fog on the mountain in the morning when the fog had not yet dispersed, and seize the time to take some shots of the landscape scenery.

Since the photographer of Yishanyi Media is also playing aerial photography for the first time, Zheng Xu came over to check and give a direction, and in the next few days, they need to go to other places to shoot two or three places, and he can let it go.

The territory of Zhongzhou City is a plain, and there are no particularly steep mountains in the province.

In terms of exterior scenes, in addition to the territory of Gongxian County, there is also Laojun Mountain in Luo City, plus several scenic spots in the Yellow River Beach.

Now this August and September day is the hottest time in the region.

Although there is no Zhongzhou City in the traditional sense of the furnace city, but it is really felt, it is not too much, you can only take advantage of the morning before the fog dissipates before the shooting, and then through the post-color grading to achieve the effect, the picture shot at noon and night, when the temperature rises, the grass and trees wilt, the effect of the shot is not good.

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I was busy until more than five o'clock in the afternoon before returning to the company and calling Lao Qin and Finance.

Inside Zheng Xu's office.

"Mr. Zheng, the hotel is all set, we have a total of three floors, the private room is absolutely enough, the district and the city have reported, and the dining car and bus are ready."

Zheng Xu looked at the report, the arrangement is OK, although the Songshan Hotel is only a three-star hotel, it is a foreign-related hotel directly under the municipal government, and the specifications are higher than the average three-star hotel.

"Finance alone to make a reception expenditure of 300,000 yuan, Xiao Kai, you go on a trip tomorrow, go to the location to say hello, and when the time comes, let's clean up."

Li Kai, who was sitting on the sofa playing with his mobile phone, raised his head after listening: "Fifth brother... Is 300,000 too much? ”

"It's been more than two months, what is more, breaking the wealth and avoiding disasters. Atmospheric point, don't feed them all at once, and it will be more troublesome when something happens. ”

The current public security is already very good, but this time the shooting, the exterior scene is in the county-level city next to it, and the big crew is better, but Zheng Xu, a small crew, is really hard to say.

I haven't been exposed to it before, but I've heard of some things.

can't wait for things to come out and then think of a way, Zheng Xu's character likes to be steady, and everything goes according to plan.

He is not an iron-headed baby, and some money cannot be saved.

"By the way, you go and take out the script in the trunk and give it to Lao Qin, and then in addition to the actors, the front-line employees will also have to send it. Okay, that's all for today, the actors have been in place one after another in the past few days, and the reception work must be done well. ”

Waiting for Lao Qin and Li Kai to leave the office, Zheng Xu looked at the financial Xiao Zhang who was sitting on the sofa and didn't leave: "What's the matter?" ”

Xiao Zhang's expression was a little tangled, and he handed Zheng Xu a report: "Fifth brother, the budget has come out, let's come up with an extra amount of money, there is no way to arrange it." ”

"Huh...? Let me see. "Looking at the budgets on the report, all the expenses were counted, and in the end, there were more than two million more.

Zheng Xu, who encountered this for the first time, was also a little blind.

The project budget is budgeted according to the normal market price, but when the project is prepared, there are some things, the city has given a lot of care, because Flashing Media is a private company, and the employees are very careful, which saves a lot of money.

Due to the particularity of the funding unit, this money cannot be kept, and it is not legal. But if it's left like that, it's hard to say.

This is not a project done by their own company, it is a joint venture project with a TV station, and a large amount of funds are left after the project is completed, which does not mean that they have the ability, which will make the leaders think that their overall planning ability is not good, and if there is cooperation in the future, it will be difficult to ask for money again.

Theoretically speaking, these money are production costs, and he can digest them reasonably with some means, and no one can find faults, but he has to have a bottom line to be a man, and he is in business, so it doesn't matter if Zheng Xu cooperates with other companies.

The main thing is that this is not an old unit, he doesn't want to look too ugly.

I can't say much about these things, I can only spend money on surprises.

"In this way, Xiao Zhang, leave one million reserve funds, and the rest, according to the standard of 10,000, order a batch of specialties from our side, try to pick the expensive ones, and give each actor a benefit when it is finished, in addition, the food standard must also be mentioned, and you will summarize it for me after you finish it."

"Okay, fifth brother, then I'll go first."

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The office was quiet again, and Zheng Xu lit a cigarette and thought slowly.

It's a nice feeling to work with a big unit.

There are no big projects in Taili this year, in terms of film and television, in addition to his own "Tomb Road", the other is "The Legend of Shaolin Temple", saying that there is competition, it is to put gold on the face.

The crew of "The Legend of Shaolin Temple" has more abundant funds, and now there is no competition in Taili for these two projects.

For Elephant Satellite TV, although it is at the level of second-tier satellite TV, this does not mean that it is short of money, in most cases, it is at the point where it has money and does not know how to spend it.

Yes, it's not an exaggeration, it's just that you don't know how to spend it if you have money, and the station has a fixed amount of money every year to buy films and dramas.

But in terms of film and television dramas, the chances are very large, for example, some TV stations spend tens of millions of dollars to buy dramas, and after they are broadcast, the ratings are very popular, and the advertising fees are soft, but some TV stations spend a lot of money on buying dramas, but after the series is broadcast, it is tepid, and it is not enough to lose money, but it does not make any money.

And Nanhe TV is the latter, often always buy some dramas that are not cheap, and the effect is like that after the broadcast.

So over time, Elephant TV has slowly become Buddhist.

In fact, there were still a few TV stations in Nanhe Province that had a lot of ideas.

For example, Los Angeles TV, in the seventies and eighties, the TV station's self-made drama "Generation Tianjiao", the finished film is still very interesting, the shooting of aircraft air combat is very thoughtful, it looks like there is a feeling of Ultraman filming drama, have you ever seen a pilot with labor protection gloves driving F4 against F4?

The F4 here refers to the American F4 Phantom fighter.

Compared with many special effects films many years later, the shooting is much more awesome.

And Zheng Xu's "Tomb Road", the goal set this time, the ratings of breaking 1% is a victory.

Elephant Satellite TV is not a blind investment, the station has estimated internally, combined with the existing script and actor configuration, it is conservatively estimated that the ratings of this drama will start at 0.5%.

The upper limit is hard to say, but the lower limit is guaranteed, and the ratings can be expected to break 1%!

In this comparison, investing millions is much cheaper than buying a drama by yourself, and the risk is low, and the director is still his own person who knows the roots, this is a sure profit!

It was in such an external environment that Zheng Xu was able to arrange the filming process step by step and steadily.

In the next few days, Teacher Zhang Jiayi arrived first, and several main supporting characters also arrived one after another, Duan Yihong was the tightest schedule, and he arrived last.

Zheng Xu led all the employees of the company, together with some staff seconded from Elephant Satellite TV to the crew, and received all the actors.

Three days after the dinner, in the hotel conference room, Zheng Xu presided over the three-day script reading meeting of the crew of "Tomb Road".

This step is a very old-fashioned way, but although the method is old, it works, most of the actors have not worked together before, and through the reading meeting, they can get familiar with each other, so that they can work better after the start of work.