This small-budget film, the small cost mentioned is really small, because a lot of expenses are not counted in the project, they are all departments of the company, where does the company need to collect money for filming a drama internally?

Yi Xiaoxing except for finding a few young actors and spending hundreds of thousands of salaries, the rest has nothing to do.

And now "Never Expected", as an exclusive short drama of a flash short video, has been broadcast on the short video platform, how to say the effect, because without the blessing of a flash and a flash of media, there is a bit of a loss.

The main reason is that the finished film looks too low, Zheng Xu is disgusted to death, and even the director Yi Xiaoxing is also disgusted, in the face of this kind of scene, Yi Xiaoxing is not embarrassed to act in the name of the company, and only puts the words produced by director Yi Xiaoxing at the end of each film, and the others are gone!

Anyway, they don't make a profit with this drama, when the short video is played, there are no advertisements, and there is no introduction to the cast list! It's simple and crude!

Yi Xiaoxing is ready to make persistent efforts, and with the help of the lost popularity accumulated by this "Never Expected", he will shoot a second season with a larger cost.

And the rest of the people have to help flash short videos and shoot small videos.

And some of the remaining people have to help other brother companies shoot customized advertisements, and there is no fixed time.

In the current Flashing Media, except for when Zheng Xu wants to make a film every year, the rest of the time has its own arrangements.

After listening to Zheng Xu's explanation, Jia Kezhang was a little disappointed, this time it was really not the right time, I felt that nothing was done, but if it was just that nothing was done, it didn't matter, I should have gotten acquainted with Zheng Xu, but now he was seduced by the crew of Flashing Media, as long as he remembered something, he had a thought, and now he didn't even have a thought!

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"Cards!"

Just talking to Jia Kezhang, Zheng Xu almost forgot to shout to stop.

As soon as he finished shouting the card here, he began to watch the replay.

Jia Kezhang stuck his head out and looked at the monitor as well.

The fields are different, Jia Kezhang has always made movies with realistic themes, that is, modern dramas, and most of the filming locations are small cities or remote places, like Zheng Xu's current "Thunderbolt Ranger", which is a sci-fi drama, and he is also in contact with it for the first time, which is still very fresh.

Today's scene is after the male protagonist was shot in the head and was dying, and was saved by someone sent by the old professor.

used some black technology to replace the face of the male protagonist played by Zheng Xu, so that the appearance of the male protagonist naturally transitioned from Zheng Xu to Lei Mu.

In the original play, this shot was extremely rough, the protagonist didn't even change his clothes, he was half-lying on the hospital bed, the professor walked up to him, someone took off the gauze on the protagonist's face, and it was over, without any scars, so he changed his face very abruptly.

With such a blunt plot, Zheng Xu definitely can't shoot it, and it's too unprofessional.

But from a medical point of view, there is no particularly effective treatment for this kind of head shot, and it is a miracle and a bug to insist on research, but science fiction films, thunderbolts have been made, and Zheng Xu is too lazy to do so many scientific explanations.

Directly let the props team make a closed intelligent medical cabin!

The shape of this medical pod is a bit similar to the space sleeping pod in some sci-fi movies.

The pure black profile is punctuated with red breathing lights, and there is only one large operable screen on the front.

Although Zheng Xu looks a little dirty, in this era, this thing looks significantly sci-fi to others, the black intelligent medical cabin placed obliquely, as Professor Wang enters instructions on the monitor, the black intelligent treatment chamber emits the mechanical sound of card and air leakage.

After the red breathing light that ran through the entire intelligent medical cabin flashed a few times, there was a snap, and the hatch cover revealed a gap, like a coffin with a sliding cover, and the front hatch slowly slid up and opened.

The white smoke filled the air, and Lei Mu was wearing only large white pants, with his hands crossed over his chest, and reclined in the treatment chamber.

"Tsk... You guys have done a great job with this prop, and you can shoot such an effect in real shots. Jia Kezhang was amazed.

This sentence almost broke Zheng Xu's defense, what's all the fuss about?

Isn't it just an ordinary intelligent medical cabin, it's all like goods, for the props team and the group of weirdos in the special effects department, making this kind of model is not easy to catch, simple?

That's it, they still put it away, and if they try their best to fix it in a cool direction, they might be able to fix something.

"What is this, I'll take you to see the thunderbolt we designed in the afternoon, it's much more sci-fi than this thing."

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Today's play is all an indoor play, Professor Wang saved Lei Mu, seeing that he is strong and has a good character, I hope that he will drive the thunderbolt he designed and built to punish evil and promote good, and defend the frontier.

Although the reason is very, there is no way, so I can only play like this.

Zheng Xu didn't want to film about the crime in China, so he could only classify the criminals as employees of an evil American company hiding in Afghanistan who secretly crossed the border.

But in addition to not trusting Professor Wang, Lei Mu felt unreliable just listening to this kind of advice, and he could defend the frontier by driving a car?

What kind of car? Jeep can't be so awesome.

It's not the African kind of pickup truck with a machine gun in the back.

But with the change of venue, Lei Mu accidentally broke into the underground laboratory, and he successfully met the real male number one of "Thunderbolt Ranger", Thunderbolt!

The original drama also gave the Thunderbolt an English name, but Zheng Xu directly omitted this step, and the name of the car was Thunderbolt!

As for the title of the play "Thunderbolt Ranger", Thunderbolt refers to these two cars, and Ranger refers to the male protagonist ---- Thunderwood, who drives!

How simple and rude, it is clear at a glance, Thunderbolt is the name of the car, and the ranger refers to the behavior of the male protagonist, in the country of Yan, every man has more or less had the fantasy of chivalry!

In addition to the setting and title of this drama, it can be said that the plot has nothing to do with the original drama.

As for the self-created plot, this point is up to Zheng Xu to give the general direction, and the special screenwriting team will fill in the content.

This is easier to do, refer to the Hollywood superhero blockbuster, just copy it.

Design a big villain, the nest is set in Afghanistan, this can't kill them for a while, the male protagonist just relies on fighting wits and courage with the American villain who entered the country illegally every time, and then add a little thunderbolt scene in each episode, and all kinds of functions are used in turns, as long as the bad guys are beaten away, it will almost be able to water twenty-one episodes of TV series.

Why does it have to be made into a 21-episode TV series?

In essence, Zheng Xu is in order to facilitate penguin video playback.

The first three episodes of their Penguin Video are free to watch, and the later content is charged to watch, if it is an integer episode, it is not easy to distribute.

But the singular episodes are easy to divide, two episodes are updated every Friday and Saturday, and six episodes are updated a week, and it will be broadcast for just three weeks!

It's called professionalism!

In the past, Zheng Xu didn't like to make sequels, except that the TV series he filmed in the past had little interest in making sequels, mainly because of the scale of advertising.

But this "Thunderbolt Ranger" is different, according to the twenty-one episodes per season, Zheng Xu is ready to shoot it until he is old in his lifetime, as long as the market response is good this time, there will be a start, and the following assistant directors have almost experienced it.

With the finished script and storyboard, they can completely practice filming this TV series!

Even the story is easy to make up, there are so many countries around that do not deal with it, Zheng Xu can pick it up, and he can do it wherever he wants, Yanguo is big, he can pick a place that matches the terrain as a filming location.

Moreover, the most important thing is that every season of Thunderbolt can change sponsors, as long as the car companies can afford the price, when the time comes, the sponsorship fee of the car companies will be hundreds of millions of net income, which is faster than all the commercial TV series played by Zheng Xu before!

Moreover, the theme of "Thunderbolt Ranger" is extremely universal, and the dissemination will be wider.

At this stage, the audience of these Xianxia and zombie-themed TV series that are unique to Yan Country is still small, and the disadvantage is still too great in terms of cultural transmission to the outside world.

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After lunch, it's time to shoot the scene where Thunderbolt meets the male protagonist for the first time in the afternoon.

Zheng Xu took Jia Kezhang to change the scene, this is the advantage of having more people and no shortage of money, and all scenes have been arranged and built in advance.

For this kind of underground laboratory building, you only need to build a peripheral building, no capping, and you can process it through special effects in the later stage.

In the later stage, it will be renovated and changed to an Internet celebrity check-in place, and it can be reused when filming the next season in the future.

"Director Zheng, I see that after you finish filming here, you will send the source of the film back, and you want to do special effects while shooting? Don't you have to cut out the film first? ”

From today's observations, this point is the most puzzling to Jia Kezhang.

Although he has never filmed this kind of scene that requires special effects, he still knows more or less that a film can only be sent for special effects after the film is filmed, edited, and finalized.

It's not so bad to have money!

How much does that have to be burned?

"Huh!"

Zheng Xu smiled, stood on the periphery of the set and watched the staff prepare, and handed Jia Kezhang a cigarette: "We have our own special effects department, not only will we send it back to let them do special effects after filming here, but before we started filming, the special effects department at home has already started to do special effects." ”

"I know what you mean, but the storyboard of our drama is more detailed, there are basically no waste shots, the crew is their own people, everyone has cooperated with each other for many years, and they have a bottom on what to do, and now doing special effects while filming can not only greatly save the overall production time of the TV series."

"And we also have a short video department, if there are some shots that are not used in the later stage, they can be sent out as short videos, so that there will be no spoilers, and even the time for making promotional videos alone can be saved a lot."

Jia Kezhang blinked in confusion, this kind of one-stop all-commercial method, to be honest, he had never been in contact with it before.

But just listening to Zheng Xu, he was a little unconscious, and he felt very high-end.

Like when he made a movie, it was completely a small workshop-style production process, although every step followed the process, but there was no harm if there was no comparison.

Look at people's flashing media, it's only been a few days since it was launched, and even publicity and distribution have been put on the agenda, and they even have their own special effects department, which...

Sure enough, it is a regular army, with arrogant capital, even if the special effects are wasted, the meat is rotten into the pot, and they have their own propaganda channels.

He has heard of a flash short video, and downloaded it in his mobile phone, although this mobile phone application has only been online for a few months, but user growth has been very stable, the most important thing is that this flash short video is international, there are users at home and abroad, although the video content seen by the two sides is not interoperable, but this point has no impact on a flash and a flash media.

They can be divided into developments, and they can't be distributed at home and abroad, just these millions of users, how much money can be saved for the film and television publicity and distribution of Flashing Media!

"Let's go, I'll show you the real protagonist of our play!"

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The filming site was busy, and most of the people were helping to sort out the curtains.

To capture the darkness of the underground laboratory, in addition to capping and turning off the lights, you can also use a huge curtain to surround the entire scene!

Four cranes stand in the four corners of the basement scene, and a large black curtain is hoisted to obscure the entire underground laboratory scene.

"Are you ready?"

"Almost, just check the circuit one last time."

Zheng Xu casually pulled an employee wearing a yellow vest and asked, nodded with satisfaction, and opened the curtain with his hand and walked into the underground laboratory scene.

It doesn't really look like it from the outside, but once you enter, this underground experiment is built a bit like the Colosseum, an ancient European building.

There is no top of the round scene in the open air.

Walking down the outer stairs to the second floor, the camera has been set up, and there are two cranes around it, which will be responsible for filming the protagonist and Professor Wang's assistant for a while.

At a glance, Jia Kezhang saw the black thunderbolt in the center of the pavilion.

"Damn, that's what you're talking about?" He hasn't read the script of "Thunderbolt Ranger", but looking at the shape of this car, combined with the title of the play, the first thing that normal people think of is "Transformers", and it is really the most popular time for the current Autobots.

Next month, "Transformers 4" will be officially released in the United States, after the accumulation of fans of the first three films, as well as the accumulation of cartoons for decades, this movie is the hottest IP in the world, and it is on par with Marvel's superhero series!

Thinking of this, Jia Kezhang looked at Zheng Xu's side face carefully, he had heard many rumors, saying that Zheng Xu liked to go sideways very much, liked to engage in some off-the-field tricks, and all kinds of crooked ways.

Now take a look at this thunderbolt, combined with the filming cycle of Zheng Xu's drama, it can almost catch the popularity of Transformers!

Jia Kezhang suddenly felt a little old, and now he has to be so professional in filming a TV series?

It is not only necessary to design the theme in advance, but also to consider in advance whether it can rub the popularity of big IP, and people have begun to do this for film and television production companies as big as Flashing Media.

In addition, the director of this TV series is Zheng Xu, and the production team is still known for its professionalism, so is there still a way to survive for the small crew of ordinary TV dramas below?