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Chapter 76 76. Want to make Lost on Journey a good opportunity

This superstar Baoqiang drank such a big bucket of milk in one breath, Wei Wu was really worried that he would get something bad.

Fortunately, the young man had been practicing martial arts since he was young, so he was in good health. He just felt a little uncomfortable at the time, but he was fine after resting for an hour or so.

After Liu Tianxian and Yang Mi left, without the emotional ties, Wei Wu was able to devote more energy to work, and the filming progress was very fast.

However, just when the filming was halfway through, Wei Wu suddenly received a call from his cheap master Tian Zhuangzhuang.

"Hello, teacher, the review results are out, right? Oh, good, good, I remember what you said!"

It turned out that Tian Zhuangzhuang told Wei Wu that the result of "Those Years" he submitted for review was out, and it would pass the first review with just a few changes.

Wei Wu wrote them down one by one. There are three main places to be changed:

The first is that Ke Jingteng and Xu Boxun masturbate in a high school classroom; the second is that Ke Jingteng and his college roommate watch an adult film in the dormitory; the third is Ke Jingteng's homosexual plot in college.

In fact, Wei Wu knew these clips a long time ago and there is a high probability that he will be asked to modify them, but he still deliberately kept them carelessly.

After all, it is his first movie as a newcomer. The radio and television department will definitely give him some suggestions and ask you to modify it. After all, if you don't toss and turn to you at the beginning to give you a little power, it will become more and more difficult to manage in the future.

If Wei Wu doesn't take the initiative to leave some things for others to find faults, then once others exercise their subjective initiative, the things they find will only make you more uncomfortable to modify.

This is equivalent to writing a speech for a leader, you always have to leave one or two typos for the leader to pick out for you.

Otherwise, if you write perfectly without any flaws, and the leader can't find anything to criticize, how can it show that your level is higher than his? Do you think he will be happy?

Just these few clips should be cut and diluted as much as possible. In general, it is not a big problem and is relatively easy to change.

For a 110-minute movie, only a few small parts were changed, which is already quite considerate of him.

Of course, the guidance and modification opinions were so clear, and they also pointed out the specific changes you need to make. This is completely due to the help of Tian Zhuangzhuang's connections.

Otherwise, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television would have directly sent it back, and would only give a general modification opinion and let you make the changes yourself. Who would be so kind to tell you one by one which specific clips to change?

So Wei Wu simply deleted the plot of Ke Jingteng masturbating in class and college homosexuality. As for the part about watching porn in the dormitory, it was weakened and deleted.

No more specific scene clips, just combine the upper and lower clips to let the audience know that it happened.

Masturbation was changed to reading extracurricular books. Wei Wu was particularly careful when shooting, and shot two different clips for the same scene, knowing that this part would definitely be required to be deleted.

After submitting it for review again, he was notified a few days later that it had passed. Those Years officially received the Dragon Mark.

But this is not the end, because there is another final review.

The second round of review, also known as the technical review, is conducted after the final version of the film is completed.

The first round mainly checks the content, and the second round involves multiple aspects of the film, such as editing, sound effects, and special effects.

When submitting it for review in the first round, even a rough version is fine, even if the wires of the wires are not removed, or there is no special effect and it is all green screen.

But when submitting it for review in the second round, the Dragon Mark at the beginning of the film, including the cutscenes of the producer at the beginning of the feature film, must be put on, including the final credits and the end credits, etc., nothing can be missing.

In short, when you submit the film for review in the second round of final review, the film you submit must be exactly the same as the version you released from beginning to end. Of course, after this round of review, no changes can be made.

But generally, it is rejected in the first round of review. In the second round, as long as you don’t mess around, it is rare to be rejected and asked to make changes.

Wei Wu certainly wouldn't mess around. In fact, the film he sent to the first review was basically very close to the final version. The second review basically sent the revised version according to the first review's guidance.

Then, two days before the filming of "Lost on Journey" was about to be completed, "Those Years" finally passed the second review and obtained the screening license, which means that the film can be officially released at any time.

Just as "Those Years" passed the second review, "Lost on Journey" ushered in the last shot before the filming was completed:

Li Chenggong, played by Xu Zheng, and his wife, played by Sun Li, sat in front of the bed and hugged each other. Xu Zheng hugged Sun Li and said emotionally:

"I have a lot to say to you..."

And this time, Sun Li's tender eyes seemed to see through everything. He slightly raised his head to look at the ceiling, then closed his eyes and gently patted Xu Zheng's back. After a moment of silence, he said lightly:

"Just go home."

Wei Wu smiled and announced loudly: "Cut, passed, congratulations on your completion."

"Yeah~", everyone cheered in unison, cheering loudly for the official completion of the film.

Wei Wu also said loudly with a red face: "The old rules, there will be a wrap-up party at 8 o'clock at the Changqing Restaurant next door, everyone who wants to go can go!"

Everyone cheered again: "Everyone go, no one is allowed to run away!"

Wei Wu expected that "Lost on Journey" would be completed within a month. In the end, just as he expected, the filming went quite smoothly. It took only 27 days to complete the whole thing, and it was officially wrapped up at 7 pm on November 10.

Wei Wu did a simple calculation and found that the filming cost about 5.5 million yuan, and there was still more than 400,000 yuan left of the original 6 million yuan.

In general, the fixed expenses that cost more money, in addition to Xu Zheng's wig, were for the green train carriage.

Wei Wu originally planned to rent one, but because he had no reliable connections with the Wuhan Railway Bureau, he didn't get it done.

So Wei Wu could only rent an abandoned train carriage, and then repainted and decorated it, and refurbished it to look like a normal carriage to make do with it.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the wrap-up banquet of "Lost on Journey" was officially held at the Changqing Restaurant on the Yangtze River. The hall of the restaurant was full of toasts and it was very lively.

Everyone came up to toast Wei Wu one by one. Although Wei Wu only tasted a little, he accepted everyone who came.

After three rounds of drinks, the others left one after another, leaving only Wang Baoqiang, Xu Zheng and Huang Bo at the main table. The four of them moved to the small box next door to drink tea and chat.

Xu Zheng asked a question that concerned him:

"Director, when is our movie going to be released?"

Wei Wu thought for a while and said, "To be honest, I'm not sure yet. It depends on when the screening license for this movie comes down."

"Our movie is about the Spring Festival travel rush, and the most suitable time is undoubtedly the Lunar New Year holiday. But we don't have much time left until this year's Lunar New Year holiday.

"If we wait for the next Lunar New Year holiday, we have to wait another year, and I don't want to wait that long."

Xu Zheng didn't quite understand: "No, director, doesn't the Lunar New Year holiday usually last until early March of next year? It's only early November now, and there are still four months left. It should be in time!"

Wei Wu could only smile, because he didn't know how to explain this to them for a while.

The Lunar New Year schedule is not a fixed period of time. Generally speaking, it starts around November 20 and lasts until early March of the following year.

The reason why this schedule is so arrogant and known as the first schedule for mainland movies is because it spans multiple holidays, including Christmas, New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and Valentine's Day.

Logically speaking, there are still 4 months left, which is more than enough for "Lost on Journey" to complete post-production.

After all, this movie is the same as "Those Years", and there are no special effects. It was only shot in 27 days. With Wei Wu's current directing skills, plus the original film as a reference, post-production can be completed in at most one month.

Normally, it can be released as early as December 10, of course, it has to consider the review. If the initial review takes seven days to make a rough cut, it should be submitted early to get the review opinion as soon as possible.

Then submit the second review immediately after completing the post-production. It is expected that the result will be available in about half a month at the earliest, which is about December 25, which is completely in time!

Even if the review is not smooth, it will still be in time if it takes one or two more months to revise it twice!

But what Wei Wu is considering is not whether it can be released during the Lunar New Year period, but whether it can be released accurately after a certain movie!

Because it has been analyzed before, there are too many jackals and tigers in this Lunar New Year period. If Wei Wu does not grasp the opportunity to enter the market, it will basically die.

I believe that everyone has guessed this movie, which is naturally "The Promise".

Only by following "The Promise" can it be possible to steal a chicken. While "A Blood Case of a Bun" is popular all over the Internet, that is, when "The Promise"'s reputation collapses and the box office declines, "Lost on Journey" can pick up the leak and make some money, otherwise it really can't be done.

"The Promise" is released on December 15, so the most ideal schedule for "Lost on Journey" is to be released two weeks after it is released, that is, December 29.

If it is released one week after "The Promise", that is, December 22, will it work?

In fact, it is not very good.

Because it takes a certain amount of time for word of mouth to ferment and spread, in the first week after the release, generally speaking, the publicity and promotion will continue to spend money to protect the market, so that the word of mouth will not collapse too quickly.

If it is too close, the word of mouth of "The Promise" has not completely collapsed, and the screening rate and single-day box office are still strong. It is easy to get tail gas if you enter the market too early.

In fact, the box office of "The Promise" in the first four days of the weekend was 74.52 million, the box office exceeded 100 million on the 8th day, and the total box office exceeded 150 million on the 14th day, which means that the box office in the second week was also 50 or 60 million.

But two weeks later, by the end of the film, the box office had only increased by 25 million, which can be said to be nothing to worry about.

Normally, the first week box office of a movie multiplied by three is about the final box office of the movie.

If we calculate it according to the first week box office of "The Promise" multiplied by three, its final box office should normally be around 223.5 million.

But its actual box office was only 175 million, a difference of 50 million inside and outside, which shows that it was still dragged down by word of mouth.