Huayu started as a substitute director

Chapter 246 Don’t Look at Which Artist

In a conference room in the Film and Television Department on the 17th floor, there is a long conference table.

People came in one after another, some sat on both sides of the conference table, and some sat against the wall.

There were too many people and there was no room on both sides of the table, so they had to arrange a row of seats against the wall at the back.

This is a big movie. In addition to some common jobs such as art, special effects, lighting, sound effects, photography, etc., there are also new jobs such as on-site color grading, modelers, physical simulation, virtual shooting, etc.

Virtual shooting is real-time tracking, real-time keying, real-time rendering, etc. It is a very complicated thing to synthesize camera shooting and CG elements in real time.

This is also the reason why the behind-the-scenes production funds account for more than 90%. The actors' salaries must be compressed infinitely to ensure the behind-the-scenes production budget.

It is impossible for Fang Hong to be paid tens of millions for a star. What the hell is he thinking? He can act if he wants or not. If he doesn’t want to act, get out!

He has the right to say this now because his movies have all failed, which has proved his value as a director.

Anyway, most of the funds should be used to promote the film industry. Big movies can really drive a lot of technological advances!
After a while, the conference room was full of people, dozens of them.

In addition to the main actors Duan Yihong, Zhang Songwen, Zhu Yilong and Xie Miao, the people who can sit here are the elites behind the scenes who filmed the direct troops, such as Li Anran and Liu Yin, who have not changed.

There are also two assistant directors: Chen Sicheng and Lu Yang!
Zhang Zhijian didn't come because he is too old. He can just join the group directly when the time comes.

Other people who do miscellaneous work or serve as assistants don’t need to come; they can just go down and hold the department meeting.

Just when everyone was present, Fang Hong and Liu Tianxian walked into the meeting room one after the other.

The two of them looked normal, without the flushed or ambiguous look on their faces from before, and everything seemed normal.

Liu Tianxian sat back in her seat, the first one on the left.

Everyone turned their eyes to them. Some of them were seeing the principal for the first time and were curious, especially Duan Yihong.

Just because he is Huayi's artist, the principal should not ask him to act, but he did!
This is very strange?
Jiang Shuying was also among them, looking at the faces of Liu Tianxian and Fang Hong, trying to see something.

In fact, she had heard some rumors, and it was no secret that they were in love, but now she was just a little Karami and couldn't fit into the circle, so no one would specifically tell her about it.

Of course Liu Tianxian also saw her and recognized her as the person who had talked face to face with Fang Hong in the morning, but she did not show it.

Then she looked at Duan Yihong sitting opposite her. She heard that this guy was going to act with her, so she went out of her way to watch a movie he had starred in.

The pressure is quite high, as he has good acting skills.

Duan Yihong noticed the gaze and nodded with a smile; Liu Tianxian also responded politely.

"This drama is Yutu's first blockbuster, so there will be some difficulties in filming. No matter what, I hope everyone will work together to complete this work. If there are technical difficulties, we will break through the technology, and if there are filming difficulties, we will break through the filming."

Fang Hong stood at the top and opened the meeting.

Then the producer Han Jianu talked about some shooting requirements and precautions, as well as the fulfillment of the contract and the shooting location.

There is no right to delay the construction period, take leave, or overlap filming, and the main actors and core team members must follow the crew throughout the entire process.

If it is not the main thing, there are not so many requirements.

The pay is low, but they also have to eat, so no one cares about extras and special actors, they just need to finish filming and leave.

The filming locations were set in Macau, Shanghai, and China Film Digital Film and Television Base. Macau only rented a local casino venue.

Shanghai filmed the city scenes; China Film Studio filmed the special effects scenes.

The start time is set for August 8th!
The filming was completed around October, which means the shooting lasted about two months!

This period of time is when the weather is the best. After that it will be winter and it will be difficult to take pictures.

Fang Hongcai was too lazy to endure the pain of filming in winter.

Except for the first year, he did not film in winter for the next two years.

Just talk about these things at the meet-and-greet, and that’s basically it. You can communicate the details with the assistant director or producer privately.

As for Fang Hong, he is just a decoration, there to keep the place under control!

No one in Yutu Company has the right to shoot a movie project worth hundreds of millions of dollars, not even Chen Zhixi. Only he has it, because he is the only one who dares to take the gamble, no one else does.

If this fails, it won't just be a matter of losing a few bucks, but it will be a blow to the entire team and the market's confidence in making blockbuster films.

Just like Feng Kuazi, after the failure of "1942", he never made such a big production again, and the expected value decreased.

There is nothing else to say. Capital has its own calculations in mind. They know very well whether you can make a blockbuster and whether there will be any profit from making a blockbuster.

Just like after Zhang Yimou finished filming "The Great Wall", he only made feature films afterwards and never touched this genre again.

There are only two directors I can meet later, one is Guo Fan and the other is Wuershan.

Even these two people experienced several funding interruptions when filming "Fengshen" and "The Wandering Earth", that is, the investors withdrew their investment.

To put it bluntly, the capital has no confidence, so filming is difficult.

If Fang Hong hadn't insisted, Yutu would never have taken on any big-budget projects, because the company started out with a small budget and it would have been good enough to make a medium-sized film.

That is, it’s in the range of 3000 million to 8000 million, don’t even think about hundreds of millions!

The meeting was over and everyone started to file out of the conference room to prepare for the next matters. There was not much time left for them.

Everything needed for the shoot had to be arranged at this last minute.

"Principal, I'm leaving now."

Jiang Shuying raised her hand to greet him, and then gave a kind smile to Liu Tianxian who was next to Fang Hong.

Fang Hong just nodded faintly in response.

Liu Tianxian smiled in response. She didn't want to assume anything malicious about others, and besides, they didn't do anything.

"headmaster!"

Just as the two of them were walking out of the meeting room with the crowd, they heard someone shouting from behind.

When I turned around, I saw Duan Yihong taking two quick steps to catch up.

"What's wrong?" Fang Hong looked at the man.

He was dressed simply and looked somewhat rough, but if you looked closely, you would find he was a very delicate man.

This is a kind of contradictory aesthetic, just like a sword that becomes sharper through sharpening.

"I'm just curious, why did you ask me to act?" Duan Yihong asked.

"Is there any problem?" Fang Hong asked back

"I am an artist of Huayi. You and Huayi should not get along. Suddenly you asked me to film a movie. I always feel uneasy." Duan Yihong said straight.

It was indeed Yutu who quietly approached him to film, and he always felt like there was a conspiracy.

But he was unwilling to participate in the competition between the two companies, nor did he want to be a pawn. He just wanted to make a good movie.

Liu Tianxian also looked at him curiously. She couldn't understand why Fang Hong was like this. Logically speaking, the relationship between Fang Hong and Hua Yi had already reached a fever pitch.

It's the kind of state of fighting to the death. "When Yutu looks for someone to act, it never looks at which artist he is from, but only looks at whether he is suitable." Fang Hong said normally.

This made Duan Yihong feel a little ashamed. He had been making malicious assumptions about others. Even his agent said that Yutu must have had bad intentions in asking him to act in a movie.

But the script was good and the film had a high investment budget. This kind of opportunity doesn't come along all the time.

Moreover, he is acting with well-known actors like Liu Tianxian and Zhang Songwen, so they don't seem to have any bad intentions.

So I came here with a try attitude!

"Focus on filming and don't think too much. The grudge between Huayi and me has nothing to do with you." Fang Hong said again.

Liu Tianxian's eyes were clear and bright. She noticed that the man's vision had suddenly become broader. She felt relieved, as it proved that the man had indeed changed.

In the past, they either poached other people’s artists or broke up with them, such as Zhao Xiaodao and Li Xian.

Deng Chao and Wang Baoqiang have also decided to break up and leave Huayi.

"I understand. Thank you, Principal." Duan Yihong nodded, which dispelled his concerns.

The two brothers of Huayi are not as capable as others!
Duan Yihong left, the fan meeting was over, and we just waited for the filming to start.

During the lunch break, Fang Hong and Liu Tianxian ordered four dishes and a soup in that "open" office.

This was what Liu Tianxian ordered and had it taken up. Fang Hong was too lazy to go downstairs.

"Come and eat quickly. You're so lazy that you don't even want to go downstairs and take two steps." Liu Tianxian complained.

She carried the bag to the sofa area and placed the food on the coffee table before opening and arranging it.

"I'm very busy. I make tens of millions a minute." Fang Hong boasted and walked over.

"Isn't it a few hundred million?" Liu Tianxian teased.

The last time Fang Hong visited the set of "The Four", he boasted that they could make hundreds of millions of dollars in minutes.

She has a good memory.

"Really? Let me take another look at the financial statements to see if I missed a zero." Fang Hong was about to walk back jokingly.

"Come here." Liu Tianxian rolled his eyes at him and boasted without thinking.

Fang Hong laughed and smacked her face: "Oh, Xiao Feifei smells so good!"

That sly look is so naughty.

Liu Tianxian held the chopsticks in her hand and stared at him with a reproachful look.

This made Fang Hong a little scared. He took the chopsticks from her hand carefully and then let out a scream of "Ah Ah".

Liu Tianxian hit his arm twice with chopsticks, then handed him the chopsticks: "Here."

Looks very fierce and aggressive.

Fang Hong was wearing a short-sleeved shirt with his arms exposed. He couldn't help rubbing his hit arm, which was a bit painful.

But he didn't say anything and took the chopsticks silently.

The two were just joking, Fang Hong was a bit mean and Liu Tianxian was suppressing him.

They sat side by side on the sofa. Liu Tianxian held rice in her hand and picked up vegetables with chopsticks, chatting: "After seeing so many actors in this play, I feel a lot of pressure."

In the past, she performed solo, with no comparison or hurt. Now, she acts with people like Duan Yihong and Zhang Songwen.

If you are outdone, you will inevitably be criticized!
"You can't always perform alone, you have to learn to act with those actors with good acting skills and see how they perform. There is a saying in acting: be led by your opponent!" Fang Hong was holding the meal.

Liu Tianxian has been filming youth films and female-lead movies for three years. Most of them are films with very prominent characters and lack much depth.

You also need to slowly transition and act with some masters, and of course don't touch roles with depth for the time being.

The heroine of "Now You See Me" also has no depth!
Fang Hong continued while eating, "And you have to move up, whether it's the production level or the investment budget, you have to move up. Don't take low-level plays if you can avoid it, unless it's an art film. Don't repeat yourself, and don't lower your level."

This was the advice Fang Hong gave her. It’s not that low-budget plays are bad, but they will lower the level of the actors.

Why do they like to work with big names and directors, even if they are bad movies, they are still flocking to them, because they have their own class, that's the reason.

Moreover, Fang Hong now has his own halo. Every movie he makes is a big hit, but he just hasn't won any awards. However, this does not affect his status at all. The box office is the most prominent result.

Some media reported that he is a leading figure of the new generation of films.

Of course this is just bragging, and the academic community does not agree with it, because the movies he made have no substance and are just for fun!

Liu Tianxian thought for a while while biting the chopsticks in her mouth, and she knew that he was giving her sincere advice, otherwise she wouldn't have said those words.

This man is not one to give advice on other people's lives.

No, not one!

Even though Fang Hong is in a high position now, even though he is a prophet, he never gives advice to anyone on life.

I never like to be a teacher!
All the big guys have the problem of being a know-it-all, for example: Jack Ma!

Fang Hong saw her chewing slowly and put a piece of braised pork in her bowl: "Why do you always eat vegetables? You eat too little."

"I can't eat meat." Liu Tianxian threw the piece of meat into his bowl.

"You're still ordering if you don't want to eat it." Fang Hong said.

"I'm ordering food for you. I can only eat rice and vegetables now. I can't eat too much." Liu Tianxian said.

"You were eating happily before." Fang Hong said.

"You're going to act. You don't know that you'll look ten pounds fatter on camera. It's a good thing you're a director." Liu Tianxian said to him.

Fang Hong didn't care and continued to ask: "How do you female celebrities gain weight or lose weight as you like?"

"Diet and exercise, what else can I do?"

"Don't you need to take medicine or get injections? I heard there is also liposuction, is that right?" Fang Hong had a lot of questions.

"Yes, but there should be sequelae. I haven't learned about it and I don't know."

Liu Tianxian put down the rice bowl, took a new bowl, filled it with soup and took a sip: "This soup is good, you try it."

After that, she fed the bowl to Fang Hong's mouth, and Fang Hong opened his mouth and tasted it.

"How was it?" she asked.

"It's OK, but it lacks the taste of 'love'. I think it will taste better if you feed it with your mouth."

"Why don't you go away!"

Liu Tianxian rolled her eyes at him and said "love" to him. What a nonsense.

(End of this chapter)