Although the ghost record series is a three-part set of shooting, it is also the production cost of 8 million cash in real money, if you count the ghost special effects in the later stage, it deserves 30 million production, according to Boss Chen's blowing mode, the market price can be 800 million.

A big production of 800 million!

Looking for young actors can let them bring money into the group and automatically seek dives, regardless of men and women, they all want what posture to give what posture.

So Ren Zhi, are you embarrassed to ask for 200,000? I won't bring you 100,000!

Yang Enjun's acting skills are very bad, and he can throw a stone in a random crowd like him, so Li Xianyun simply ignored Ren Zhi and directly found a few actors he knew in the original world according to his memory.

The first one to find is called Lin Xiaoyu, who has cooperated in the original world, his acting skills are in the past, his image is good, he is tall and a handsome guy, and his key character is okay, obedient, and hardworking.

Lin Xiaoyu didn't know Li Xianyun before, and he was confused when he received his call, especially after confirming that he was a director and producer: "How did you find me?" ”

Shouldn't you have come to me through an actor agency?

Nonsense, Lao Tzu wants to go through an actor agent, don't you pay back more money? Boss Li just debuted, he started at a low cost, and if he can do it himself, he doesn't need others, and he also has the job of actor and assistant director.

Li Xianyun doesn't talk nonsense to him, I have a big online movie of 20 million to shoot here, big production, big scenes, big special effects, and big investment...... It's a lot bigger, and at the end of the sentence, are you going to do it with a salary of 20,000 yuan?

In the end, it is the new producer, and he doesn't dare to blow too much. But he at least knew that he couldn't say that he would shoot three at a time, but that he would only shoot one — I would shoot one, and cut it into three after filming.

This is also a common operation of film and television companies, otherwise it is not easy to fool - you give 20,000 yuan for the starring roles of three dramas? What's the trouble?

Lin Xiaoyu didn't believe it.

With an investment of 20 million, you give me a salary of 20,000 yuan? You're fooling a fool, aren't you?

Everyone is an insider, and they habitually compress each other's speech. Li Xianyun forced an investment of 20 million, and Lin Xiaoyu directly shrank it to 2 million, which was smaller than the real volume, so he wanted to hang up the phone at that time.

Li Xianyun hurriedly sent a video over: "Special effects of this level. ”

Five minutes later, Lin Xiaoyu replied: "How many days? ”

"Forty-five days."

"Eighty thousand lines? But the level of special effects should be limited. ”

Lin Xiaoyu has made some films before, although he is not well-known, but his acting skills crush Yang Enjun, and the normal quotation is 3,500 days for the starring role.

So his 80,000 yuan in forty-five days is indeed cheap, firstly, he is not an agent, and the agent's commission is removed, and secondly, he is looking at the face of "special effects" - young actors are still very willing to lower their prices for big productions.

Otherwise, why do producers keep saying "our big production" when talking about cooperation? Indeed, this is an important support for price reduction!

Directors like Zhang Feng, Chen Wu, and Xu make films, and they are willing to let newcomers borrow usury to bring money into the group.

Another important support is the follow-up contract, but the follow-up contract without a formal agreement is nonsense and pure foolishness.

The essence of Yisheng Media is to be a late-stage company, or a small company. You want to tell him about the follow-up film contract, and the other party may not be able to guarantee that he is selling himself at a low price, so he doesn't need to mention it.

So Li Xianyun said directly: "Yes, let's audition." ”

said that he was talking about auditions, but in fact, Li Xianyun had already set him.

Next, Li Xianyun used the same way to find a few actors, some of whom starred in these films in the original world, and some of the more powerful actors he found based on his impressions, but he counted on Da Hong to earn a vote.

The prices of these actors are almost between 50,000 and 100,000 yuan, depending on the person and the role. There are also cheap ones, a few thousand yuan can shoot you for forty-five days, and you don't dare to ask for it...... That thing might as well be pulled on the street.

With an investment of eight million, after all, a star is still needed to carry the box office, and this needs to be used by Huayou, and Li Xianyun is also connected with Huayou for this reason.

When Huayou heard this, he took an outdated star out and offered three million, and kept saying that the price was good.

It is indeed the market price - the price to the layman.

In the past two years of film and television winter, the value of actors has shrunk, and the three million put aside the past that was said before, but it will not work now.

Li Xianyun was not verbose, and directly let Zhizhi go.

This bargain is really handed, the price reduction plus the agreed resource discount, just talked about 600,000.

In addition to the three leading actors, the three plays also have eight supporting roles, twelve special performances, and more than ten group performances, of which the special group performances are basically based on the price of the day, and there is no need to follow the crew often.

The crew itself is divided into a production group, a director group, an art group, a photography group, a lighting group, a makeup group, a props group, a post-production group and a recording group, etc., and what scenes to watch, such as martial arts scenes and action groups, explosion scenes and pyrotechnics groups.

Among them, Li Xianyun is the producer and director, Ren Zhi is the producer and outreach, responsible for helping him manage the crew and contact the venue, Jiang Zheng is the production director, responsible for entering and exiting the accounts, and the coordinator is Ren Zhi found from outside, called Zhang Xueluo, who is also an old coordinator, and the person is not bad, he has cooperated with Li Xianyun in the original world, and this world is the first time.

Liu Yijiang was in charge of the on-site production, and Boss Liu sold the company and had nowhere to go, so he was pulled over by Li Xianyun to help again, which meant that his ex-husband was working for his ex-wife.

On the side of the photography group, the photographer is Zhao Yunyang and the photographer of Group A named Bai He when he was filming the ghost war in the closed room, and the other is Rong Dasheng.

Rong Dasheng was very dissatisfied with this, saying that I am a director, it is too embarrassing to be a photographer, Li Xianyun promised him for this, and he will give him the opportunity to direct in the future - besides, you have not been without it before.

Rong Dasheng began to break his fingers, thinking when did Lao Tzu have it before?

Li Xianyun himself is a producer, director and producer.

There are not many standing personnel in the entire crew, only about 50 people in total, because it is an indoor ghost hunting film, so there are not many main venues, most of them are indoor scenes, and a small number of exterior scenes.

There is no big art, big scenery, except for the one from Huayou, there is no big name, the costumes are rented modern clothes, the props are relatively simple, many of the personnel are their own people, not to mention eight million, even eight hundred thousand can be done.

The reason why it costs so much money is, to put it bluntly, quality!

The quality of a movie is made up of many factors.

Big scenes, big special effects, top actors and performances, excellent lens language, cinematography, lighting use, high-quality costumes, sound effects, a lot of excellent details, etc. are the basis of a top film.

If you go down on this basis and look at many movies from that time period by 20 years, you will find that really good movies are not actually these things.

It's the basics!

Getting every scene, every shot, every performance in place requires a lot of energy in itself.

Especially suspense thrillers, pay more attention to the rendering of the atmosphere, a shot, a picture, each has a unique role, the performance of the actors, the scheduling of the camera, the combination of lighting and makeup, in order to properly achieve the kind of artistic sense that the director needs.

The black-and-white films made when China was founded in the country can be said to be nothing, but there are quite a lot of classics, because the basic skills are in place!

If you really want to learn to direct, you have to watch this kind of classic old movie that has nothing to do!

So the same thing, 800,000 can be filmed, 8 million can be filmed, and even 80 million can be filmed.

Take, for example, the famous low-budget film Hard Candy, which took 18 days and cost a million dollars.

The whole film is the story of the male and female protagonists in a room, if it is filmed by Huaguo Net, hehe.

100,000 yuan can be auctioned.

Path of the Dead has more actors and scenes than it does.

So why do hard fruit candies cost so much?

Detail!

The quality of a good movie is polished through countless details.

The script has been repeatedly polished, every line, and every plot have meaning; Actors who have repeatedly NG, hundreds of shots are only for a moment of perfection; The well-intentioned lens language, the ingenious shooting method, and the thorough service to every link.

No matter the performance, the scene, the shot, every detail must be considered in place to form a really good movie.

It's all in the details!

Taking "Titanic" as an example, Cameron found that many tablecloths, cutlery, and even some walls on the ship were not printed with the Titanic logo during the filming.

That alone cost millions.

This is a relatively well-known shooting story.

Let's talk about the unknown one.

is also the Titanic, there is a shot of an elderly heroine appearing in the opening shot, the camera flies, first falls on a bouquet of roses inserted in a bottle, and then falls on the side face of the old lady, who also wears an earring.

The shape of the earrings is the shape of the heart of the ocean, an important prop in the movie, and the bouquet of roses represents the old lady's name - Rose.

That's the details!

So is this detail useful for the overall plot?

There is no use for fart!

Isn't it just a rose on the table? Is there anything that can be said?

The Titanic doesn't have the roses, the diamond earrings, and even the tableware with the logo, which doesn't affect the quality of the movie in the slightest, and even the box office of a dollar.

But on the other hand, the pursuit of details is a habit.

A director can "make do here" today, and "make do there" tomorrow.

In the end, it was countless improvisations to make a bad movie.

Li Xianyun: Of course, he can't be as good as Cameron.

So his detailed request is: as long as this thing doesn't cost or costs less, then get it for me!

As for the temporary change of logo, if it exceeds a thousand yuan, fuck your eggs - this belongs to the producer's thinking, and the cost of the province has to be saved.

What Li Xianyun wants now is to improve his soft power in this area as much as possible.

In addition to that, it is the acting skills of the actors!

The actor's acting skills test the actor, but it also tests the director.

Even the director's on-site work, in addition to scheduling the crew, the first priority is to direct the "acting".

Acting skills are very talented, not that they can't be cultivated, but actors who are all trained by the day after tomorrow, and if they lack talent, eighty points is the limit.

A real top actor must be talented enough.

Li Xianyun can't find a talented actor, but as an online university, he can at least reach the eighty points in his mind through hard work the day after tomorrow.