Chapter 36: Make a Movie with Me!
In fact, Li Xia has prepared several "low-cost" high-box office movie scripts, but there seems to be only one that compresses the cost to tens of millions - "33 Days of Broken Love".
This movie mainly tells the story of Huang Xiaoxian, a 25-year-old girl who works in a wedding company in the magic capital, who suffered a double betrayal of love and friendship, and her boyfriend who has been in love for four years and her best friend who have known each other for ten years came together, and Huang Xiaoxian's life once fell to the bottom.
The arrival of a new colleague Wang Xiaobei made Xiaoxian's life even worse, and the two continued to break out conflicts and contradictions in the process of working together, and gradually moved towards mutual understanding and help.
Under each other's strong suppression and even the first drink, Huang Xiaoxian went from falling out of love to emotional healing, and Wang Xiaobei also moved from frustration to confidence rebuilding.
In the process of the two young people completing their inner growth together, the spark of love also began to sprout quietly.
In Li Xia's memory, the production cost of "33 Days of Broken Love" was only 9 million yuan, plus a total of 15 million yuan in publicity and distribution, but in the end, it achieved a box office of 350 million, and the producer's net profit reached 150 million.
Li Xia feels that on this basis, he can save some more parts, the actors only invite the right ones, not expensive ones, what beginnings, endings, and episodes are all done by themselves, and the publicity and marketing in the later stage can also be saved.
After opening his mailbox and sending the script of "Broken Love 33" to Han Lingmeng, he began to think about the issue of preparing for the crew.
Assembling a crew is a complicated process, including director, accountant, actor, prop master, cameraman, makeup artist, scene reporter, lighting engineer, dramatist, editor, screenwriter, music, art, and so on.
The only things that my company can produce now are accounting, screenwriting, and music, so it's really a headache to think about, and I have to find a way to form a professional team as soon as possible.
He took out a cigarette from the drawer, lit one, tapped his fingers lightly on the tabletop, and thought about where to find a mature team, first of all, not too expensive, and secondly, experienced.
Suddenly, he looked at the comic app pattern on the mobile phone screen, and thought of a good idea, isn't there a short drama popularity list on the comic, and he watched a few good short dramas a few days ago.
There should be a professional team filming this kind of short drama, and most of this kind of team are graduates of professional colleges, composed of a group of young people with similar interests and dreams, and you can talk to them yourself.
Thinking of this, Li Xia quickly turned on the comic and rummaged through the hot drama rankings, but soon he found a problem, the top ten have guilds, which is obviously not what he wants.
The team he is looking for must be the kind of team that does not have any guild contracts, can join Xiami Entertainment, and will be used by him for a long time.
I'll have to keep looking.
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A hotel in Yanjing.
A group of young people were eating, but the atmosphere at the table was a little depressing, some were drinking with their heads bored, and some were sobbing quietly.
Videographer Liu Xin drank a whole glass of beer, with a bitter smile on his face: "My parents contacted me for a photography job in my hometown, more than 5,000 a month, which is a high salary in our small county." โ
"That's not bad, much better than me, I'm so special, I can't find a job when I go back to my hometown."
Editor Chen Zhi said helplessly.
Su Rou cried so much that she looked at everyone and whispered, "Do we have to separate?" Can't we persist for the sake of our dreams, maybe it will become popular. โ
Zhou Wenyuan smiled bitterly: "Persistence? What else do we hold onto? Do you still want to ask your family for money? โ
Su Rou was silent.
At the beginning, because of the same interests, they all liked to shoot short dramas, and several college students from different majors formed such a small team, and now everyone has graduated from Yanying for more than a year, and they have also been floating in Yanjing for more than a year.
Although the quality and reputation of the short dramas they made are good, they have not been able to become popular on the Internet, which has nothing to do with talent and hard work, because those popular short drama teams on the Internet have the support of guilds and capital behind them.
And they only have the persistence of their dreams, and there were guilds that once approached them, but because they didn't have much popularity and fame, the conditions offered to them were very harsh, so they refused.
Now everyone is exhausted, everyone has used up their savings, and this meal is still the money that everyone pooled together.
Makeup artist Xiao Xiao looked at Su Rou and asked, "Rourou, didn't a director ask you to audition yesterday, how did you try?" โ
When Su Rou heard this question, her expression became a little angry and she sneered.
"Audition? Audition at the hotel at 9 p.m.? What kind of play are you trying? Bed scenes? โ
Everyone looked at her when they heard this, and finally sighed again and lowered their heads.
Liu Xin took out his mobile phone and said: "Since we are going to go our separate ways, we must also have a beginning and an end, let's start a live broadcast, and say goodbye to those netizens who have followed and supported us." โ
"Good!"
The others said in unison.
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"Hello everyone! My name is Liu Xinlai, and I am the photographer of the Dream Team. โ
"Hello everyone! My name is Chen Zhi and I am the editor of the Dream Chaser team. โ
"Hello everyone, my name is Su Rou and I am the heroine of the short drama of the Dream Chaser team."
"Hello everyone, my name is Xiao Xiao......"
"Hello everyone, my name is Qin Weiyang......
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"Thank you all for your companionship and support all the time, but today I have to say goodbye to you with regret."
"Because of reality, our team had to disband......"
As Su Rou spoke, she hugged Xiao Xiao and cried.
The dream is beautiful, but the reality is cruel, everyone is enthusiastic and desperate at first, but in the end, how many people can succeed?
Zhou Wenyuan raised his head, held a wine glass and said, "Come!" For our youth. Cheers to the dreams we once chased! โ
"Cheers!"
"Cheers!"
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"Come and see, everyone! Li Xiafa floated the screen and talked to us. โ
Liu Xin suddenly shouted with his mobile phone.
Zhou Wenyuan asked puzzledly: "Which Li Xia?" โ
"It's that singer Li Xia, and now it's still on the hot search list."
Liu Xin explained.
"Yikes! Are you sure? He's my idol, did he come to our live broadcast room? What was said? โ
Xiao Xiao asked several questions in a row.
Liu Xin replied: "He floated the screen and said, "What is the future of making a short drama, it is better to come and make a movie with me!" โโ
Su Rou frowned, and asked puzzledly, "What are these words?" โ
Several people were very puzzled by what Li Xia meant, so no one answered her, but Li Xia sent three floating screens again.
[Li Xia: If you have a dream, you must stick to it, don't give up easily, in case it comes true. ใ
[Li Xia: I see that you are surprised, why don't you make a movie with me, I will send you a private message with your contact information, you can contact me directly! ] ใ
[Li Xia: The floating screen is quite expensive, I won't tell you in the live broadcast room, young people must seize the opportunity, I will guide you to your dreams! ใ
Several young people looked at Li Xia's floating screen and were stunned for a long time before they reacted.
Li Xia invited us to make a movie with him?
Isn't that too dreamy?
Su Rou was the first to express the doubts in her heart: "Is this that Li Xia?" It can't be a liar, right? โ
Liu Xin shook his head: "It's true, I've seen it, he has a yellow label certification, and his fans are more than 10 million." โ
Chen Zhi whispered: "In this way, we don't need to disband. โ
Liu Xin nodded again: "No need." โ
"(ฯโงโโฆ) ฯ yes!"
There was an exclamation from the hotel's private room.
Li Xia looked at these young people full of vitality, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly to reveal a charming smile.
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