my crew is not human

Chapter 223 Limit Testing

Mirror Realm is still in preparation, and the multi-threaded operation can't be tested for the time being. Cao Hongyue has already reached a conclusion.

He was given a bunch of questions just for the preparation.

The reason is simple: this kind of filming requires too much preparatory work!

This includes a series of issues such as pricing, storyboarding, and performance.

To put it bluntly, the pricing problem is that there are too many uncertain factors in the shooting process, and the standards are also different.

It is also a square scene, you can use ordinary squares or Tiananmen Square to shoot.

Since I leave everything to you, I want the best, and I want Tiananmen Square.Anyway, if you can't do it, it's your business, you have to do it after I give you the money.

There are many unreasonable parties. As long as there are loopholes in your contract, it is not impossible for him to ask you to shoot on the moon.

When the producer made his own budget, it was 5000 million, and when it was handed over to others, he dared to ask you for [-] million.

There is no way to solve the problem. One is to be careful during the negotiation process, but this means that even the content of the contract may have to include script content and storyboards. This is a bit nonsense, and there is no contract like this.One is to do your own work first, and there is no such problem with home-made shooting.

As for the director's drawing of the storyboards, it is all a rough idea, and it is impossible to draw every shot.

Usually it is to draw a scene, and then in this scene, how the actors move, how the camera positions are placed, how the lighting is roughly set, and how the art set is done.

Basically, it reflects a "probably meaning in place".

The real specific work still needs to be implemented in the shooting process.

This is the same as when a writer writes an outline before writing a novel. The outline is to make a general framework, and it is impossible to make all the content in advance.

But the situation is different now.

The content of the ghost town needs to shoot [-] scenes a day, which basically means that two scenes need to be shot in an hour.

And a scene may use several sets of shots. It is normal to shoot a set of shots for a good movie in a day, and here is a 10-minute set.

The director shouted to start here, and the actors on the other side were about to start acting.Even if the acting skills are in place, other issues such as light and shadow, positioning, etc. must also be considered.These problems have to be solved within 10 minutes. The actors have just finished this part, and then the next set of shots.

I don't even have the time to re-read the script, so I have to go straight into the state.

Another group after 10 minutes, another group after another 10 minutes...

After finally finishing this scene, I entered the next scene in an instant.

That's right, the technicians have done it, but the director and actors are confused.

The director needs to grasp all the shots of the next scene in an instant, and it is definitely too late to think about how to arrange the shots temporarily, so it is necessary to know the distribution of all the shots before the opening.

Actors must also fully memorize the script in a real sense, because there is no time for you to review the story slowly on the set-garbage movies have no such concerns, the requirements are low, and good movies have high requirements. It is simply embarrassing to do so.

It's like you say to someone: Give me a picture of the Mona Lisa, give you three hours, and every detail must be the same.

Are you fucking dead?

Even the technicians are not so easy, they have to constantly change the camera position, arrange the lighting, and set the scene. It is absolutely impossible for the director to make temporary adjustments one by one. He picked up the camera and rushed to the next seat... Let alone thinking, he didn't even have a chance to take a breath.

Accident?

not allowed!

Any surprise is a huge impact on the progress.

Then there's makeup and costumes.

What do you do when it's time for makeup?It can take an hour or even three or four hours to paint a painting.

In the past, makeup was done in time, because there was so much work to do on set, but now it’s better, the original one-hour set, but now it’s done in 10 minutes, and then everyone waits for the makeup artist together?

Ke Yaoyao can solve it, but she can't do it either.

You can't let the technicians spray the face with a spray gun, right?

Besides, Ke Yaoyao is coloring, and she is not wearing makeup... does makeup include styling?
And what about clothing?
Clothes are not enough to be put on, many costumes are also very troublesome, especially some special costumes, it is normal to put them on for half an hour or even a few hours - the battle suits in superheroes are worn every time a lot of things.

There is often such a thing in the crew-an actor's shoes are dirty, so he asks his assistant to polish his shoes.

People outside couldn't understand it, and they all said that the celebrity was playing big names.

But I don't know how troublesome the modeling of star actors is.

It took hours to fix it for you, just for those few minutes of pure beauty, but you bent over to polish your shoes, your hair was messed up, and your clothes were wrinkled. What should I do?
Might as well let an assistant do it.

So it depends on the situation when actors play big names, some are really playing big names, and some are not.

In the same situation, there are similar hand substitutes.

Actors want to play monsters and change their hands, but it takes several hours for a special effect makeup, so what should I do?
I had to replace it by hand.

Laymen don't understand, and seeing something that doesn't conform to the practices of the bottom-level public is a round of "playing big names" evaluations to greet them, so celebrities are sometimes really wronged.

And if one link cannot keep up, the other links will be useless no matter how fast they are.

As a result, directors, actors, makeup, etc. have become dragging behind, and other technical personnel also have higher requirements for the crew's understanding of the shooting plan.

Before the work started, Cao Hongyue first pointed out a series of problems in Li Xianyun's plan.

But this is inevitable.

Any new business model is bound to be accompanied by countless problems - the disadvantage of the little ghost as a lever to leverage the overall interests is: people have to keep up with the ghost's footsteps!

After reading the problem report given by Cao Hongyue, Li Xianyun thought for a while, and said: "As for the budget issue, the core is to grasp the key points. Since it is a work with labor and materials, the venue and service will be included. As for Temporary requests can be accepted for small problems, but not for those with high costs, and the main body will still follow the plan. We can set a broad space, such as a broad quota of 100 million, and let them handle it independently."

Cao Hongyue shook her head and said, "That further increases the need for preparations. Originally, the director may only need to do [-] storyboards for a film, but this is equivalent to [-], and all the technicians have to start looking at the storyboards." , makeup can’t keep up, there’s no fault tolerance.”

"So can I understand that, in fact, we transferred all the time and energy saved in shooting to the early stage?"

"Yes." Cao Hongyue replied with certainty.

"That's right!" Li Xianyun patted the desk and said, "That just shows that it is feasible."

"Ah? Why?" Cao Hongyue was puzzled.

Li Xianyun spread his hands: "The initial cost is low."

Yes, with low upfront costs.

After all, the pre-production is nothing more than the producer arranging project approval, finding a screenwriter, finding a director, and then scouting the scene, doing storyboards, making a big plan, and finally building a team.

During this period, the team was the last part to be completed. Previously, the producers, directors, screenwriters, and art directors were working, and this part was the cheapest.

Although the price of the core crew members is high, they may only get 90.00% of the agreed remuneration for three months of preparation in the early stage, and only after two or three months of filming can they get the [-]%.

So sometimes things like this will happen to the crew: the director is scouting the scene, and a phone call comes, sorry, we plan to change the director for this play.

As a result, all your previous hard work was in vain.

Li Xianyun has experienced this before, yes, it was Rong Dasheng again.

It was the gold watch script.

Although the script was bad, Rong Dasheng worked hard to plan the script, set up the project and storyboard the scenes... Participate in the whole process, but the pre-production was completed and the start-up started, and the investor wanted to change the director - the reason was that Rong Dasheng thought the investment was too little The films produced were not good, and I always wanted to force the investors to increase the budget, which pissed off the investors.

As soon as this incident happened, it ended in two parts. Rong Dasheng and the investors were all pissed off. Only Li Xianyun said that I was relieved.

Li Xianyun also experienced a similar thing when he was a screenwriter in a large company. He agreed on a script fee of 50 yuan, 90.00% of the outline part and [-]% of the content part.As a result, it took a year for the outline alone, and the cumulative meeting time was more than two months.

Later, the project failed, and it took Li Xianyun a year to get 5 yuan.

But it's really not that the company hacked you, it's just such an agreement, the company paid for nothing if the project didn't work out.

So for Li Xianyun, it is not a problem at all to put the time saved during the shooting period into the early stage, and the cost increase is limited.

Cao Hongyue shook her head: "But what about the makeup and technicians? Originally they didn't need to be familiar with the content, but now they also need to master the storyboard."

"I will find a way to make up. The actors don't appear in every scene. If necessary, they will stagger the scenes. As for the technical staff, we use two teams. The team in the ghost town is our core team. We can arrange it. The team can find outsiders, and they can shoot according to the standard process."

"Then the preparation time will be even longer!" Cao Hongyue said.

The pre-production time has always been very long.

For a high-quality production, the script alone may take a year and a half. It is not surprising that some take a few years. For example, the preparation of [-] scripts in the Super British series is a year and a half. This is still efficient and normal. It takes three to five years to prepare for the situation.

Forming a team is also a big problem, because most of the crew members are recruited temporarily, which leads to the often consideration of schedule when accepting jobs.

Everyone has a schedule, even if it is difficult for a photographer to find a job, as long as he is still in this industry to eat, there will always be work to do.

A call came: what?Entering the group next month?I couldn't get in, I agreed to another group, and the contract was signed.

As long as there are more than a hundred people in a crew, there will be countless phone calls.

Some people can only change people if they don’t have an appointment, and some may change their minds when they get an appointment. When I asked why, my grandma passed away. I secretly inquired, oh, the price offered by other crews is higher, no wonder your grandma died eight times this year. Woolen cloth.

Do not care.

Technicians are all like this, let alone big names—people don't need dead relatives, just one sentence: no time.

Therefore, it takes years to make a script, and it takes years to organize the team. After the filming is completed, the post-production needs to be scheduled, which also consumes years. When everything is ready to go online, it takes time to schedule. There are still a few more years, and some movies can make you wait for three or four years just to go online.

Don't look at Li Xianyun scolding Huayou to the point of flying, in fact, their speed is really not slow.

Li Xianyun used to work in Internet universities, and the actors in the post-production were all his own. The technicians he found were all low-level, and there were basically no scheduling problems, so the efficiency was very high. From the start of filming to the launch, it took half a year.

But for a real theater chain, if you talk about quality, it is normal for it to take three to five years from preparation to launch-slow work and careful work are the essence of this business!

Cao Hongyue knew that it was impossible for Li Xianyun to accept such a long period of time - he didn't rely on investors for food, but invested by himself. If his own investment period was so long, Yisheng Media could close down directly.

For Li Xianyun, apart from waiting for the time to go online, he would not be willing to wait for other times.

He can't wait to film movies every month. What he wants is fast work and meticulous work, and he has to be a 21-worker with a fast knife.

Clicking the cloak, eighteen movies are coded.

(End of this chapter)