After the warm birthday celebration on the first day of filming, the atmosphere between the actors of the crew became a lot more harmonious.

The filming of "The Night the Comet Comed" was also on the fast track.

Although there are a lot of contradictions and time and space intertwined in this book, in the case of a smooth shot, it's actually not difficult to shoot.

In the original work, a rookie director plus three crew members, plus eight almost unknown young actors, were able to shoot the film in five nights.

The high-profile version of Wu Yuan has no reason why he can't finish filming this movie in seven days.

In fact, the shooting cycle he set is still too loose.

Except for a slight stumble in the first two days of shooting, the shooting in the next few nights went beyond imagination.

Wu Yuan repeats every day to start shooting, NG, talk about drama, shoot again, send film, and watch films......

It only took 6 days and 30 jobs for Wu Yuan to complete all the filming of the film.

Han Sanye's judgment was wrong, and Wu Yuan really used nearly 300,000 to finish filming this movie.

The salaries of the actors and crew didn't cost much, and it didn't cost much to rent a small western-style building for a week, adding up to more than 60,000 yuan.

The bulk of the money spent was spent on buying film.

Although the feature film of "The Night the Comet Comed" is expected to be only 80-90 minutes, Wu Yuan used 200 boxes of film when filming!

Although Wu Yuan did not waste film like a pure rookie director.

However, because of the multi-time and space-time repetition of the plot of "The Night the Comet Comed" itself, a large number of repetitive shooting materials are required, so that the supporting ratio of this movie is still about 1:9.

By the way, the Hollywood film matching ratio, which is relatively mature in the film and television industry system, can reach about 1:20, so you can imagine how much film you need to buy.

And there is even worse news, just such a small half a year's work, because of the policy of blowing the film market, the film market has also risen.

Now a box of 400-foot film costs more than 800 to buy, which is still the internal price of the film factory!

Just 200 boxes of film cost 180,000 yuan, plus the processing fee, a total of 200,000 yuan less on film.

Coupled with the rental of shooting equipment, the purchase of some small props, and the setting, the whole movie cost a little more than 280,000 yuan to shoot!

Fortunately, this budget is still within Wu Yuan's psychological expectations.

He didn't deliberately waste money just because Han Sanye approved a budget of 500,000 yuan, let alone fill his pockets and make a straw hat of 8,000 yuan a piece.

Chen Yuan, the producer who followed the group throughout the whole process, after seeing Wu Yuan's sophisticated shooting techniques and frugal spending, had a finale banquet with everyone with satisfaction, and returned to Zhongying to return to Han Dong.

Of course, because Wu Yuan carried out the money-saving behavior to the end, he didn't plan to hire an editor to do the editing, but planned to go back to school and use the school's editing room to cut the film by himself, and Chen Yuan didn't need to continue to stare at Wu Yuan.

After having a casual meal with the actors and sending a few red envelopes, Wu Yuan also took several boxes of finished materials and went back to school and went into the editing room.

Although the school's editing equipment models are relatively old, this is not a special effects blockbuster, as long as the equipment is enough.

The most important thing is that these devices are free!

Seeing that half of the leading actors in "The Night the Comet Comed" are Beijing Film students, and the director is even more of a student in school, Director Xie did his best to give Wu Yuan the green light, and even found a junior student from the school's photography department to be Wu Yuan's deputy, which is called social practice!

In this way, except for the time when they eat and sleep, the two spend all the time in the editing room to cut films.

Fortunately, it's summer vacation, so there's a lot of time.

It took more than half a month of hard work, and with the full efforts of the two, Wu Yuan finally cut out the film.

The whole film is 92 minutes, which is three minutes longer than the original, but it reduces about fifteen minutes of rambling and small talk, and adds nearly 20 minutes of dramatic conflicts and contradictions!

Compared with the original version, Wu Yuan's edited version of "The Night the Comet Comed" has greatly improved its commerciality.

I don't dare to say that there is no urine point in the whole process, but the suspense and tense atmosphere run through almost the whole film, and Zhang Chidu grasps it very well, which can be regarded as a qualified commercial suspense movie!

Holding this copy plate that had just been cut out, Wu Yuan couldn't wait to find Han Sanye and asked him to watch the final film.

In a screening room in the China Film Building, Han Sanye and Chen Yuan accompanied Wu Yuan to watch the finished film together.

In the 92-minute movie, Han Sanye didn't say a word from beginning to end, and it wasn't until the end of the whole film that he breathed a sigh of relief: "Good shooting!" ”

"This will be a film that will bring a new experience to domestic audiences!"

"There has never been a film with this theme in Chinese cinema before, this is an epoch-making work!"

Does "The Night the Comet Comed" really deserve this accolade?

To be honest, even if Wu Yuan has made an adaptation, the experimental nature of the original film has been reduced, and the commercial nature has been strengthened.

But this movie is really not much of a novelty.

Hollywood has been playing with the theme of parallel time and space and parallel world since the eighties and nineties, and has also made many excellent time and space suspense blockbusters.

It's not a very new subject.

This movie is excellent in terms of setting and plot, using as little space as possible, and playing the theme of science fiction blockbusters.

But this is viewed from the perspective of the world film industry.

If the scope is narrowed down to the mainland film industry.

What are the themes of mainland movies being filmed now?

It is a local film like "My Father and Mother", a romantic comedy like "See You or Leave", a martial arts film like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and a satirical film like "The Devil is Coming".

or realistic movies such as "Platform", "Let's Get on the Car and Go", and "Silent River".

Science fiction? Suspense? Parallel time and space?

There are no directors who have ever made a film of this genre at all.

And it is precisely in Hollywood that movies with this theme are part of the mainstream blockbuster of commercial films!

As the main helmsman who promotes the development of the mainland film market, what he hopes to see most is that mainland films can bloom like Hollywood, with various themes, blockbusters and small films competing for beauty!

After the formation of China Film, the first thing he did was to promote director Zhang Yimou to make a real mainland blockbuster, a film that caught up with the level of international blockbusters!

Now the project has an eyebrow and is in the preliminary preparation stage.

At this time, Wu Yuan's "The Night the Comet Comed" appeared.

Although this movie is not a blockbuster, it is definitely a movie that is more in line with the "commercial" positioning than other mainland films at the moment!

Although the film costs only 300,000, it has a classic commercial film three-act structure.

From the opening to the foreshadowing of the characters to the crossing of the comet to establish the theme, important transformation events occur, dramatic scenes appear, confrontations and quarrels occur one after another, and finally the heroine falls into a soul choice, the climax of the story is generated, the theme is sublimated, and a thought-provoking ending is left.

It's easy to say, but it's true that no one in the mainland has made such a commercial movie before Wu Yuan.

For the sixth and fifth generation directors, such a film is too "simple" and has no artistic value at all, and cannot be called a good movie.

But the Chinese film industry needs such movies to enrich the spiritual life of the public!

The art of Yangchun Baixue is too lofty, and the realistic theme is too heavy, and ordinary people who have just escaped poverty really can't appreciate it.

After watching "The Night the Comet Comed", Han Sanye slapped his thigh excitedly, thinking in his heart that he could use this movie to test the water for the Chinese commercial film market!

Although he wants to make a commercial blockbuster with an investment of hundreds of millions, he has no bottom in his heart, afraid that the market will not accept this kind of commercial movie!

Now that there is "The Night the Comet Comed", let's test the water first, see the market reaction, see the public's acceptance and box office reaction to this kind of commercial film, and it is also very helpful for Han Sanye's blockbuster plan!

"Obuchi-san, I saw that this movie has been made very well, when do you plan to release it?" Han Sanye couldn't wait to ask.

There is no schedule for the release of the movie this year, and the only one that can be called a popular schedule is the New Year file that was just opened up two years ago.

Even if it's a Chinese New Year file, it's usually only two or three movies, and the market is pitiful.

Wu Yuan naturally didn't plan to go to the Lunar New Year.

This year's Lunar New Year files include "Happy Times" directed by Zhang Yimou, "Defensive Counterattack" starring Zeng Nephew, "Exam Family" starring Song Dandan, "Fuss" starring Yuan Li, and a cannon fodder movie "Beautiful Home".

In my memory, the box office of this year's Chinese New Year market is very bleak, and the box office of Zhang Yimou's "Happy Times" is only 5.5 million, and he was scolded for Jiang Lang.

During the Chinese New Year, the highest-grossing movie was 5.5 million, which shows the bleakness of the film market this year.

September is not suitable, there is a movie to be released in September this year, Feng Xiaogang's "A Sigh"!

This is a great director who has opened up the Chinese New Year file in the mainland, and his movie has a very high mass base, if Wu Yuan chooses to release it in September, it really won't attract the audience.

The current audience is not so luxurious that they can watch two movies in a month in a row, between Feng Xiaogang and the unknown Wu Yuan, the audience will only choose Feng Xiaogang!

"It's going to be released in October, and there's a National Day holiday anyway." Wu Yuan said with a smile.

"October?" Han Sanye frowned.

Now there is no such thing as a National Day file, during the National Day holiday, most people choose to travel when they have money in their pockets, rather than going to the cinema to watch movies.

"Let's choose October, it will be released on October 1st." Wu Yuan shrugged his shoulders and said: "Since you want to cultivate the habit of the audience going to the cinema to watch movies, it must be a holiday, at least there are seven days of holiday on National Day, and everyone can't play outside for seven days, right?" ”

"If we can take a day out to go to the cinema and watch a movie, that's our victory."

"It is impossible for mainland movies to always point to a Chinese New Year file, so there are still five major schedules in Hollywood!"

"That's right, Han Dong." Wu Yuan thought for a while and said, "I want to take this film to the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival at the end of September." ”

"I think this movie still has a market abroad and can be sold!"