On July 18, Li Qian had been in the capital for five days.

The office address of the studio was also chosen, and I didn't rent an office building, but rented a two-story small building in the East Third Ring Road.

The area is not large, basically there is a small screening hall in the studio, a computer room for post-production, and two more warehouses are left, and there is not much demand.

The industrial and commercial license has been handled, and the relevant licenses of the film studio are also being processed.

Most of the equipment is purchased through Guangxian and is still on the way.

The main thing is to buy it first, and as for the screening hall, I will talk about it when the box office of "Jaws" is divided.

After a few days of busy work, Li Qian called everyone to a meeting and said with a serious face.

"From now on, our studio's first theatrical film will officially begin preparations. ”

"Moreover, this time we are going to use a film machine, which is not as difficult as a big online movie, so we must be fully prepared. ”

"With a film machine?"

Zhang Zhonghua couldn't help but speak.

Qi Yukun and Guo Fan also had surprised expressions, although they are not directors professionally, but they also know that using film cameras and digital movies are completely different concepts.

To put it mildly, the difficulty of shooting digital film and film film can be said to be very different.

What's more, Li Qian said before that the cost this time is about six or seven million, and it is a small-budget movie, and movies of this specification are basically rarely shot on film.

Li Qian was not surprised by their doubts, which was also normal.

"In terms of cost, there is basically no problem, seven million is the production cost, plus the publicity and distribution are also tens of millions, and I have also calculated an account a little. ”

"This film is about 90 minutes, 400 feet of 35mm film can be shot for three minutes a reel, according to the 1:8 film ratio, at least 240 reels of film are needed. ”

"The price of a disc of film is about 1,500, 240 reels is 360,000, the processing cost is 3 pieces per foot, 240 reels of film are a total of 96,000 feet, that is, 280,000, and the cost of film is about 640,000. ”

"A set of film cameras plus lenses, a complete set of lights, track systems, and shock absorption systems, the whole set is 123 days for ordinary points, and if everything goes well, it will be shot in about 40 days, which is 500,000. ”

The cost of cameras and film is 1.14 million, which is the biggest reason why low-budget films choose digital cameras.

It's too expensive, and it's difficult.

However, big productions can ignore this problem, and in terms of the production cost of seven or eight hundred billion yuan, these millions are not a matter at all.

In domestic film films, the matching ratio is between 1:8-1:15, and it is not easy to achieve 1:8.

Even in Hollywood's film industry system, the normal film matching ratio is as high as 1:20.

That is, for a 90-minute film, 1,800 minutes of film should be prepared.

Qi Yukun and Guo Fan were at most half a bucket of water, silently calculating these numbers in their hearts, and looked at Li Qian with some confusion.

Only Zhang Zhonghua was present when he was in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Film Studios before, and he made a few film films, and he probably summed it up in his heart, and it was almost this number.

However, he also said, "But what about the crew, the crew that was put together temporarily, I'm afraid that the matching ratio of 15 will not be able to reach it at that time, let alone the filming in forty days, and the cost will be doubled." ”

"It's up to you, Lao Zhang. ”

Li Qian smiled, "Dozens of film studios in China, large and small, are basically not much different from going out of business now, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang are similar, Lao Zhang, see if you can find your old colleagues." ”

"At least give me a camera master, two focus masters, and two lighting masters. ”

I didn't expect it to fall on me, Zhang Zhonghua smiled bitterly and shook his head.

However, the studio can't open a few times a year, and those people basically go out to pick up work, and it's not difficult to find two people to come over, so I agreed.

"Then I'll try. ”

"It's troublesome. ”

Film films, the requirements for photographers and lighting masters are too great, and even the technical level of the focus followers is not enough, which will add huge difficulties to the crew.

Unlike a digital camera, the on-set director can see the result through a monitor.

The film machine, on the other hand, has to be sent for processing after filming on the same day, and when it is taken back after processing, the director knows what the effect is.

Lenses, lighting, and other issues, it depends on the craftsmanship of the two masters.

And the quality of the lens, what the lighting is, only the photographer can see through the viewfinder.

Of course, this is not to say that film films do not have monitors, the monitor screen of the film camera comes from the small 2-inch monitor that comes with the camera used by the focus operator to check the picture, and then connects to the large 17-inch monitor.

But the picture on this monitor is particularly blurry, after all, the two-inch screen is enlarged to the 17-inch large monitor, and you can only judge the opening angle and watch the actor's approximate performance.

In the final imaging, you can only see the finished film that has been printed, and it will be washed on the same day, and if there is a problem, it will be retaken.

Therefore, often at the shooting site, the director has to ask the photographer after shooting, and the photographer says OK.

Otherwise, it would be easier for an excellent photographer to become a director than any position.

Zhang Yimou is far away, and Gu Changwei is near, from a first-class photographer to a first-class director, he can achieve seamless transformation.

Photographers and lighting masters who are not skilled enough can even drag the two-month shooting cycle to three months, and the ratio of 1:8 to 1:15 can be made.

These two positions are no problem, basically the crew is much easier.

Of course, film films and digital films have different requirements for actors.

However, actors are easy to do, and mainland actors, especially first- and second-tier actors, are very cheap.

This is all determined by supply and demand, there are too many actors, and there are too few commercial movies, even if it is a first-line actor, it is difficult to receive a commercial movie with a cost of 10 million male number one all year round.

There are a lot of TV series, low-cost literary films, and pseudo-literary films, and there are as many male numbers as you want.

Therefore, Li Qian's production cost plus the publicity and distribution cost paid by Guangxian in advance cost a total of about 10 million commercial films.

Coupled with the announcement of Guangxian, Li Qian himself has also proved his ability through two classic Internet universities, and he can basically choose any actor at will.

will not be like Li Guangjie, it depends on whether the other party is willing or not.

Now that he is famous, has a large publicity and distribution company, and tens of millions of commercial films, first-line actors have to take the initiative to come to the door.

After all, now let alone hundreds of millions of big productions, medium-sized films are basically covered by the actors of Xiangjiang.

Look at last year, "Golden Armor", "Night Banquet", "Baby Plan", "Wounded City", "Huo Yuanjia", "Dragon and Tiger Gate", "Ink Attack", these domestic movies with a box office of more than 20 million, except for Uncle Ge and Li Lianjie, none of the male protagonists are mainland actors.

By the way, there are also "Crazy Stone" and "The Ballad of Yunshui" are exceptions, the latter starring Chen Kun, and the box office of 30 million in exchange for 35 million box office.

Last year it was even worse, there was not a single one.

The Mesozoic actors in the mainland have not many opportunities on the big screen at all.

The crew has no problem, the production cost of 7 million will be enough.

There is no problem with actors, there are more people for Li Qian to choose.

There is no problem with the promotion and distribution.

After eliminating all kinds of difficulties, Li Qian can then retreat and write the script with peace of mind.

Other problems were slowly discovered and solved during shooting.

Even, Li Qian has heard that there are some particularly strict crews in Hollywood, and before going to a location, they must know the weather conditions at this time of the year in advance, and the lighting conditions of each time in different weather are recorded.

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