What was Zheng Xu's original intention to invest in filming?

Make money, make money, or make money!

As for how to make money, just talk about the time of filming.

One is to throttle, and the other is open source.

How to throttle? How much money can be saved by shooting less material and short shooting cycles?

As for any other artistic pursuits, awards, none of these matters to him at the moment!

Yes, of course better, but no, it's normal.

As much ability as possible, do as much as you can.

How many directors are cold after adding private goods in the play because they can't figure out their identities?

Filming a drama is originally good, but you have to add some private goods or various ideas to the play, which will eventually cause the audience to be disgusted.

As a very simple example, is there less and less comedy now?

Many comedies are okay at the beginning, but the more they are performed, the more disgusting they become, and even more often end in tragedy, and the drama party will also say that the core of comedy is tragedy? !

Isn't that?

Is it so difficult for the audience to want to watch a complete and happy comedy?

It has to be interspersed with love, family affection, redemption and the like, so why are you tired?

When he was an audience in the past, Zheng Xu hated this kind of film the most.

Now that I'm shooting myself, of course I won't do this kind of thing.

"It seems that the selection of actors will be more detailed in the future." Zheng Xu thought while recording in his notebook.

Every actor will have their own thoughts, which is very normal. But to play the role according to the director's requirements, this is also a kind of professional ethics, and you can't completely follow your own ideas just because you are famous.

Isn't it a waste of money to adjust the shooting one by one?

Isn't this money just earned if it is not wasted?

Ideas can be had, but it all depends on the director and plot of the play, and it can't be performed blindly.

Want to express yourself? It's okay, invest it yourself, don't use my money to experiment.

Like Zhang Jia, a teacher, in this shooting, the two got along very happily, after all, they have debuted for many years, and they are popular late, it is not an exaggeration to say that the old oil, the purpose of filming is very simple, that is, simply to make money!

Do whatever the director tells you to do, do the work! Take the money!

Zheng Xu likes such actors very much.

And most famous actors, now that they are famous, they often have some other pursuits, first of all, awards! If there is an award to pursue, there will be some problems, not to mention that it can make the film better, what if according to his ideas, the film is not as good as the original in the end?

In the final analysis, it is still whose money is spent, who worries, not their own money, and they are not distressed.

As one of the investors, Zheng Xu will definitely not make such a joke with funds.

But in the film and television industry, there are too few well-known actors like Zhang Jiayi who advance and retreat to a certain degree and work hard, to be honest!

This is a serious problem for Zheng Xu now.

A drama, if there are no well-known actors to participate, first of all, the popularity will not go up, and there will be few people who pay attention, plus he is a rookie director, and he has no attention himself, add up two by two, hey...

Now let's see the reaction after the broadcast of the drama "Tomb Road", the result is good, and it will become famous, then the next drama will be easy to say, if it rolls over?

It's not enough to roll over, the upper limit of his drama may be unknown, but the lower limit is not low, at most it is not a loss, and the next drama will start from scratch!

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After thinking about the filming of the last drama, Zheng Xu took out his notebook and wrote the outline of the script about "A Bite of Nanhe".

The inspiration for this documentary is still the documentary "A Bite of China" in his previous life!

This documentary has been filmed for several seasons in later generations, and the results of each season are good, what is the key point of popularity?

After repeated watching and learning in the past few days, Zheng Xu summed up several key points.

First of all, the subject matter, the people take food as the sky, this is only from the audience, it is more suitable for the public, anyone can watch it, and most of the audience is also interested in watching it!

This is important.

Secondly, the scenery in the film is very beautiful, the overall lens is beautiful and atmospheric, and after more than a year of shooting in the first season, the film includes the great rivers and mountains and beautiful scenery from all over the Yan country.

Finally, there is the food, and it is not just about food, but through the food, it introduces the local folk customs and local history and culture.

The explanation is easy to understand and has a certain depth, so the finished film is very outstanding!

Although Zheng Xu is now qualified to reproduce a "Bite of China", after careful consideration, he gave up.

First of all, in terms of revenue, "Tip of the Tongue" is not a documentary, but its cost is not cheap, and the original filming cycle is too long, how much time is more than a year enough for him to do?

For him now, taking more than a year to shoot "A Bite of China" is too low.

If a "Tomb Road" is operated properly, it is conservatively estimated that he can earn back more than ten times the income! You can earn as little as five or six times.

And what about "A Bite of China"?

It's hard to say, you can't still sell the film to the TV station, right? A documentary with just six or seven episodes, no matter how well he shoots, can people give hundreds of thousands of episodes?

For all these reasons, Zheng Xu decided to focus on the creativity of "A Bite of China", borrow the creative core of "A Bite of the Tongue", and make a "Nanhe on the Tip of the Tongue" to promote the food in the province.

Shooting in the province, first of all, you don't have to run all over the country, and secondly, it is also convenient to find information, and you may be able to get local support during the shooting.

The most important thing is that Zheng Xu, as a person who has been in the system for several years, at least his personal contacts must be maintained.

When filming the last drama "Tomb Road", the city and the tourism bureau gave him a lot of help and care.

I am a director in my own business, and it won't take too long to shoot a documentary on food in the province, and I will be able to do a small project to exercise the team, and the next time I have a local shooting, I can mix better!

In the whole of Nam Ha province, there may be debate about which cuisine is the most delicious, but at the moment which cuisine is the most well-known, there is no debate about this.

It must be braised noodles and spicy soup, the two delicacies that the public has the most contact with in their daily lives.

The first episode talks about braised noodles, the legend and allusion about the origin of braised noodles, there are many kinds of theories according to different genres, some originated in the Tang Dynasty Li Shimin, this Zheng Xu does not want to use, borrowing the propaganda method of the name of the ancient emperor, now it is a bit rotten on the street, whether it is true or not, first of all, it loses its novelty.

There is also a local saying that because of the geographical location of Zhongzhou City, during the Anti-Japanese War, Japanese planes often attacked Zhongzhou. There was a celebrity chef who was particularly fond of pasta.

When the plane came, the celebrity chef went out to hide from the plane. When he returned, he stewed the remaining noodles with some mutton. At this time, he found that the re-stewed noodles were also delicious. So, he devoted himself to research, put some salt and alkali in the noodles, so that the noodles were more gluten and had a unique flavor, and later the noodles became a popular flavor delicacy.

As the provincial capital of Zhongzhou City, it's not too much to borrow braised noodles to draw out some humanistic allusions, right?

Use braised noodles as the first episode of the opening, introduce the city's humanities by the way, and then stuff some private goods such as scenery to promote the local area, and finally end the sixth episode with Hu spicy soup Hu spicy soup.