Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

The songs were ready-made, so Yang Dongxu didn't have to worry about it. In addition, with the professional knowledge he had specially honed in the past, whether it was music scores or the use of musical instruments, he didn't have to hum the tune himself and let others compose the music, so he could get it done quickly.

The MV would be even simpler. After all, he has been a director before. Shooting a MV with a template already in his mind is simply easier than singing a song.

The songs don't have much depth, mainly because they have some requirements in terms of emotion and pitch, which can be refined slowly. Anyway, other songs in the album also need to be recorded slowly.

So record the MV first, and then just add the recorded songs to it. Then the promotional MV for the album's title song is all done. As for the need to actually sing live when shooting the MV, that doesn't exist at all.

matter.

After all, the filming location is a noisy bar. Not to mention, it would be a headache just to deal with the noise if recorded live, and many of the sound quality cannot be grasped. Therefore, ten out of ten MVs like this are all lip-synced, and the scene is so

How can the vast space and sound quality be compared with the sound recorded in a professional recording studio?

So after filming the MV, Yang Dongxu was basically fine. Song recording was a matter for the record department and it was impossible for him, the boss, to keep an eye on it all the time.

Therefore, he began to focus on selecting movies for the company's film department. This selection does not mean selecting all the movies that can make money by remembering their names.

Instead, you need to choose a big production. Making money is secondary. The main thing is that it must be influential, and it is best to win awards internationally, so that people in the industry can take a good look at what Hainer wants to do. It is still so awesome.

Of course, it would be perfect if the movie can win awards and make money at the same time, and also crush its opponents at the box office. But this is the most ideal scenario. Winning awards for big productions is the prerequisite, and box office is the second. This is what Yang Dongxu is screening.

The purpose of the box office.

It took Yang Dongxu more than an hour to read more than a dozen scripts. If it were someone else's opinion, a script might require a day of study. After all, you need to study the characters and content, and then build a rough model of the movie in your mind, and then

Then use your own experience to deduce whether this movie will be popular after it is produced.

This is a task that many people need to do when screening scripts, but Yang Dongxu obviously does not need to be so complicated. When he reads the script, he first checks whether the name is familiar or not, and if the movie name has no impression. In order to prevent the movie from being released after the filming, the name and the script name are changed.

If a good script is missed, he will look at the content.

But instead of studying the content in depth, we should take a look at the settings of the characters, and then look at the general story content. There is no need to complicatedly construct a movie model of the script and then use rich experience to make judgments, take a look at whether the story itself is

Once you are familiar with the script, the outcome will be whether you keep it or throw it aside.

Therefore, the speed with which he read the script would definitely make his colleagues stunned. In order not to appear too evil, although he read the script in an hour, he stayed in the office for half a day to deal with other things.

Then after I came out, I took out the scripts I selected and said that I had just read a few scripts and thought they were good enough to shoot, and I would think about most of the rest later.

In fact, most of the remaining scripts were thrown aside after being brought home, and then after ten and a half days, the previously selected scripts were taken out, and the rest were directly eliminated. This performance was very simple and unpretentious.

Two scripts were thrown aside. They were for "reading" in this half-day. The other scripts were piled together for later reading. Then he was holding three in his hand, and he was lucky enough to pick the one he was interested in.

The script was written, and then the company general manager Liu Zongsheng sat across from him when it was almost lunch time.

"This drama has been in preparation for a long time. Didn't it say that filming is about to start? Why are you still looking for investors?" Yang Dongxu pushed the script in front of Liu Zongsheng.

Liu Zongsheng picked up the script and took a look at the name. He didn't read the specific content, but his eyes showed a look of understanding. It was obvious that he knew this script very well.

"The situation is like this..."

This script is none other than "Hero", another landmark and famous work of Lao Mouzi. The only reason I am familiar with this script is not because Liu Zongsheng also feels that this movie will be a hit, with box office, word-of-mouth, and awards.

Of course, Liu Zongsheng doesn't know this now, but Yang Dongxu knows this. He is familiar with this script because the investment in this movie is well-known in the industry.

Although the domestic film market is becoming more and more popular at the moment, the mainstream cost of filming a film is still hovering around a few million. Those that cost tens of millions are basically large-scale productions that need to be bragging.

The filming budget for Lao Mouzi's "Hero" reached 26 million yuan, and the word "USD" was added after it. According to the current exchange rate between RMB and US dollar, this investment directly went to 200 million yuan.

And this is just the budget before shooting. According to the information collected so far, there is a high chance that more money will be needed later. Maybe the final shooting cost will exceed 200 million. Such a high-cost investment is definitely a large-scale production, and it is also

Big risk.

After all, although the first person to eat crabs is likely to make a lot of money, he may also lose everything. You will never be able to turn around in your life.

Therefore, when this drama was being prepared, New Picture approached many film companies to jointly produce it, but there was very little response. The reason for this phenomenon of no one supporting it is not only because the investment is too high and the risk is high, but also because it is too big and risky.

The reason is that this script is not an adaptation of a famous novel, but written by Zhang Yimou himself.

Although compared to others, Zhang Yimou, who is a representative of the fifth generation of directors, plays the role of a tall, rich and handsome protagonist at the beginning, just like God's own son.

The first time I worked as a photographer after graduation, I won the China Film Outstanding Cinematographer Award. The first time I filmed the movie "Blind Shaft", I won three Best Actors, and among them was the Best Actor at the Tokyo Film Festival. Not only in China

After gaining achievements, he even went abroad and became famous for a while.

The first movie he made, "Red Sorghum", won the Golden Bear Award at China's first international film festival. After that, Lao Mouzi's award winning route became unstoppable and he became a frequent visitor at international film festivals.

A benchmark figure among domestic directors.

But even though such an awesome old Mouzi is favored by various stars and film companies, as long as various roles in new movies are being competed for, after all, Mou Girl can really gain fame and gain international fame.

But every investment of capital must be carefully considered, because movies that win awards have one thing in common - losing money!

Therefore, Lao Mouzi and Feng Xiaogang can be said to be two extremes among the great directors in China. Lao Mouzi is an art master and has been called a national teacher by the Chinese people since then, while Feng Xiaogang is a great director of commercial films. Don't worry about how many movies he has made.

People scold him, how many people say his logic is messed up, but he is still able to make money.

Therefore, if you plan to make a multi-million-dollar movie, investors may consider it as a sponsorship fee for their star to gain international recognition.

If you allocate more than 100 million in filming capital at once, the cost after the filming is likely to exceed 200 million. This sponsorship fee is a bit too expensive. At the same time, if you adapt a famous book, it will be okay, and you can have some reference for measuring risks.

The filming cost of the script you wrote yourself is nearly 200 million. There are really not many people who dare to play with it. After all, how can you, Lao Mouzi, win awards? What others see is your ability as a director, not your screenwriter.

His ability. Even the screenwriters of the successful movies he shot before have his name on them.

But everyone knows this, just like an old professor would put his name on his student's paper. Maybe you, Lao Mouzi, are different. You really put forward various constructive suggestions for the script before, so you added yourself to the script.

’s name. But that’s just an opinion, not the editor-in-chief.

Therefore, the preparation of this movie was very lively, because during the casting process, countless stars were competing for it. After all, this is a movie produced with hundreds of millions of dollars, and there is still a chance to win international awards. As long as there are some ideal stars who don't want to join in,

of.

Contrary to the superficial casting crowd, it is natural to find investors. Basically no one is willing to pay, and most of them even ask their own actors to reduce their pay, or even show up with zero pay and regard it as sponsorship. Really

Those who received real money were New Picture and a Hong Kong company that led the filming of the film.

But even though he was very supportive of Lao Mouzi's new picture, he couldn't come up with so much money at once, so the film preparations couldn't wait any longer. They could only start preparing for filming and at the same time, they were still looking for investment.

This script was actually sent to Heiner early on. After all, although Heiner seems to be much more low-key in recent years, when it comes to wealth and wealth, even China Film Group has to give it three points, and the newly emerging film companies are simply not enough.

It's just that the investment was too big and Liu Zongsheng had been thinking about it, and he hasn't given a reply until now. This time, his big boss was going to personally screen the scripts, so he put them among other scripts and sent them over.

"How much investment do they still need?" Yang Dongxu asked, rubbing his chin with his fingers.

"It's still less than half, because his protagonist is Jet Li from our company. So I'm going to invest 5 million to have a look." Liu Zongsheng said.

This 5 million is obviously in RMB and not in US dollars, so it is a bit stingy. But in addition, the other party looking for Jet Li is obviously interested in the domestic and international box office appeal of his company's superstars. Jet Li also said that he would reduce his salary, and this is in and out.

The sponsorship is not small either.

"You dare to shoot even if you still have half the money?" Yang Dongxu looked stunned.

"The boss at New Picture seems to be very optimistic about this drama, so if we really can't find a partner, we're going to work hard and pay out all the remaining money." Liu Zongsheng said.

Yang Dongxu nodded. It was obvious that if he could find a partner, he would share the risk with him. If he couldn't find a partner, he would risk everything on his own. So it made sense to start filming before the money was in place.

"Make an appointment with their boss and director for a meal." Yang Dongxu tapped the table with his hand.