Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 743

Time quickly came to the end of April.

"Red Building" has been filming for more than a month.

After the filming was completed one day, Zhou Mo asked his employees to pack up and prepare for a break.

Liu Heping walked over unsteadily.

"Director Zhou, I suddenly discovered something."

"what?"

"Can we finish filming "Red Mansion" in 60 episodes?"

Zhou Mo was stunned when he heard this, and after thinking for a long time, he shook his head.

“It probably won’t be finished.”

"How many episodes does Director Zhou think it will take to complete it?" Liu Heping asked again.

Zhou Mo thought for a while again.

After thinking it over for a long time, he said:

"At least seventy episodes."

In terms of time, one and a half months have passed since the filming of "Red Building".

At Zhou Mo's speed, a month and a half is already a very long time, enough for him to finish the filming of most of his works.

But right now, the filming of "Red Tower" has just passed halfway.

There is still no sign of the end of filming.

Zhou Mo thought of this and returned to his seat.

I took out the entire script from my bag and read through it from beginning to end.

Ok.

It's really just halfway through the story.

The emperor finally defeated the retired emperor, completely imprisoned him in the palace, cut off his tentacles, killed Eunuch Xia, and forced the three-dynasty veteran (Ni Dahong), who had been on good terms with the retired emperor, to beg for his bones and return home.

In addition, he also ordered several of his princes and dukes to enter and leave the court.

In theory, the goal is to develop their abilities and allow them to contribute to the country.

In fact, he was taking advantage of the princes' struggle for power and even for the throne to clean up the court and implement new policies.

Under the emperor's command, the country did just as he had planned, gradually eliminating the ills left over from the past and gradually regaining its vitality.

At this moment, the emperor's prestige and power reached its peak.

But as the ancients said, when the moon is full it wanes, and when the water is full it overflows.

When the emperor chose to achieve his goals through competition among the princes, a price was also paid.

The fight for the throne between the princes gradually emerged from underwater, became increasingly fierce, and finally turned into an open fight.

However, it would not be appropriate to attribute all the increasingly fierce struggles among the princes to the emperor.

The struggle for the throne has been like this in every dynasty.

For that position, all the love between father and son, and love between brothers, are stumbling blocks.

Even an emperor as talented and ambitious as Li Shimin suffered from the pain of "struggle for the throne" throughout his life.

He was like this himself. He killed his own brothers with his own hands and imprisoned his own father before he got his position.

His two children, Li Chengqian and Li Tai, also fought fiercely for the throne. It was not until the eldest son, Li Chengqian, rebelled that the crown prince was forced to be deposed.

The battle over the throne is the inevitable result of the existence of imperial power, and the emperor in "Red Tower" merely plays a boosting role.

Back to the present, Liu Heping felt a little distressed after listening to Zhou Mo's estimate.

The two's initial plan was to control the total number of episodes of "Zhu Lou" to around sixty, and no more than sixty-five.

Before filming began, Liu Heping made some cuts and revisions, and indeed kept it within this range.

However, who would have thought that during the filming process, the entire crew was in such a good state, whether it was the actors, the director, or the screenwriter, they were all in a very excited state.

During the filming exchanges, from time to time someone would come up with a better idea and incorporate it into the script.

Zhou Mo and Liu Heping are often happy with such changes.

So, the situation became what it is now.

The plot volume has expanded from just over sixty episodes at the beginning to more than seventy episodes.

"With so many episodes, will it affect the sales of our TV series in the future?"

"Of course it will. After all, it's a paid channel. The more episodes there are, the less the audience will want to buy it later. Besides, there are also plot leaks and so on." Zhou Mo enumerated the troubles of having too many episodes. Paid channels and free TV series are completely two different business models.

Free TV series are charged by episode.

The more episodes there are, the more money the crew makes.

Not so with premium channels.

Too many episodes will actually affect consumers' desire to buy.

"Then what should we do? Compress the subsequent plot?" Liu Heping suggested.

"That's even worse. I'd rather delete some of it in the early stages than not delete it in the later stages." Zhou Mo shook his head repeatedly.

The deletion of later plots made the audience feel even more unacceptable than having more episodes.

The large number of episodes may be due to padding, or it may be due to the rich content.

But if the later plot is cut out, it becomes a complete anticlimactic show.

Too bad reputation.

"I'll try harder to edit the plot to be more appealing. I can't cut it in the later stages, and it's late. When the clues are getting closer, cutting it will affect the viewing experience too much."

Liu Heping nodded, knowing that what Zhou Mo said was true.

"That's all there is to it."

……

after dinner.

Zhou Mo returned to the room alone.

When I opened the door, I found a new figure in the room.

"Tiantian, why are you here?"

"I came to see how you're doing lately and to give you a message." Da Tiantian sat on the sofa, stretching her long white legs.

Zhou Mo said "Oh" and was about to take off his clothes.

"what are you doing?"

"Aren't you going to check on me? I'm asking you to check it out."

Da Tiantian was stunned and said after a few seconds.

"It's not impossible."

Zhou Mo:?
After a thorough examination, Zhou Mo got a glass of water for Da Tiantian.

"Tell me, what news do you want to bring me?"

"Director Chen's movie is about to be released, and I invite you to go and watch it."

"Oh, so that's what it is."

Zhou Mo reacted.

"lie".

This is the name that Brother Kaizi finally decided on for the movie.

This means that the whole movie is full of lies.

Every word said by the person who slanders the protagonist is a lie.

All the information created by the organization behind the slanderers is lies.

Those who go with the flow think that what the victim said is a lie.

The statement “To give you justice, the truth will be revealed sooner or later and justice will be enforced” is an outright lie.

Countless lies make up this hundred-minute movie.

Zhou Mo thought for a moment and said, "Let's go. It's a good opportunity to give the crew a break these two days. We've been filming for over a month, so let's give everyone a break."

"Very good. Also, I heard this afternoon that the filming of "Red House" will take a while?"

"Yes, have you met Teacher Liu Heping?"

"Well, can it be finished in June?" Da Tiantian was a little worried.

In June, she will go for the prize.

Seeing this, Zhou Mo immediately made a promise.

"How can it not end? Don't worry."

(End of this chapter)