Huayu started as a substitute director

Chapter 25 Explanation to Radio and Television
Yu first took the paper, looked at the title "Waiting" on it, and then read the plot.

This is an award-winning British short film, only about 4 minutes long. The scene is very simple, just one scene, and the actors are also very simple, just two actors having a conversation.

The plot can be summed up in one sentence: a story about a father with Alzheimer's disease and his pregnant daughter at a bus stop.

The ending is unexpectedly tear-jerking!

(Interested readers can go and see for themselves.)
After Yu Xian finished reading the book, he was a little surprised, "Wow, your story twist is amazing!"

"You don't have to be too shocked. I'm very low-key." Fang Hong said.

The Versailles words made the editor next to him unable to bear it and curled his lips!
Yu Xian also couldn't stand his smug look, but they were both familiar with each other and knew he was just joking.

He asked, "You won't help?"

"Brother, it's such a simple thing, you should take the lead!" Fang Hong said.

Yu Xian was silent. He had never directed a play by himself, not even a short play. He felt uneasy without Fang Hong.

"You just need to tell the story clearly. No one will care how the film is shot. After all, you are a student. The teacher will not ask the same of you as the big directors."

Fang Hong just wants to pass and graduate successfully!

As for how the short film turns out, he doesn't care. It doesn't make any money, so why bother?

If it is two years later, we can still make some money from traffic and advertising placement. Now, if we want to make money from this kind of short film, we have to sell it to scenes such as airplanes, elevators, and outdoors, which are scenes that kill fragmented time.

But it has to be a big hit for people to buy it. If it’s not a big hit, no one will even look at it.

Even if the copyright is sold when it becomes popular, the copyright fee will not be too high.

Given the current copyright protection situation in the country, if you want to receive copyright fees, don’t think too much about it.

There is now rampant piracy on domestic Internet video platforms!

Unless you sell it to foreigners!
Of course, no matter how small a fly is, it is still meat, so after this short film is shot, the copyright will still belong to Yutu.

"Old Yu, my graduation depends entirely on you. You can't make me repeat my studies!" Fang Hong added to his burden.

"Okay, I'll try my best!" Yu Xian said.

"It's not about trying your best, it's about making sure you take good pictures!" Fang Hong said.

Seeing that Fang Hong insisted that he should take the lead role, Yu Xian had no choice but to find two veteran actors and a scene to start filming.

In fact, it doesn’t matter where this scene is, it can be in a park or on the roadside, as long as you find a reason to lead to the reversal, so it doesn’t cost any money.

The shooting equipment can be DV, he can use his own shooting equipment. Students in the photography department all have their own cameras.

It’s just that their cameras are not suitable for filming movies and the pictures they produce are too rough, but that doesn’t matter.

It depends on whether it costs money to find actors. There are a lot of old actors who have no movies to shoot, so you can just find two of them.

Fang Hong didn't worry about this matter. He just registered his name and prepared to graduate smoothly. He was very confident in this story. Not to mention winning any awards, as long as he was better than most students, he would pass.

The reason why he insisted that Yu Xian do it himself was that in the near future, he would send Yu Xian to the United States.

That is his strongest support!
A month passed quickly and the rough cut of the film was completed!
At this stage, you can already clearly see the film's story framework and story line, which means you can know what the film is about.

Simple color adjustment and music arrangement were also performed. For example, the song "Those Years" was composed by Dong Dongdong.

Fang Hong didn’t know that it was different from the original version. He was not proficient in music, but as long as it sounded good and he sang it with emotion, that was enough.

That's right, Fang Hong wants to sing it himself, and hiring a singer will cost money. It's better for him to sing it himself and let Dong Dongdong fix the sound for him.

As long as he doesn't sing live on stage, no one will know his true level.

Dong Dongdong felt that the workload of working with this junior fellow was very heavy. It wasn’t that the workload of composing and arranging music was heavy, but the workload of sound editing was very heavy.

Others practiced it section by section, but he practiced it word by word.

This level is not even as good as Liu Tianxian!
The theme song continued to be refined, and the film entered the streamlining process. Fang Hong and Chen Zhixi came to China Film with a work that was already worth watching.

As long as China Film agrees to distribute it, then everything will be settled!
In fact, in this era, the situation is very open. You don't have to find China Film to distribute your films. If you have the ability, connections and means, you can also distribute your films yourself.

Many top films such as Huayi, Bernardo, and Guangxian were produced independently without the permission of China Film.

Some other film and television companies also engage in such behavior.

There are even some who eat alone, the most typical one is the guy named Zhang something who works with Zhang Yimou.

The crazy ones wanted to bypass the distribution and directly negotiate ticket prices and revenue sharing with the theaters. When the negotiations failed, the Film Bureau stepped in to mediate.

Two years later, due to the peak of the comprehensive digital reform, theaters jointly boycotted the five major distribution companies' increase in box office revenue.

That is to say, if the distribution company insists on raising the share of the profits, the theater chain will refuse to show the film. These five major distribution companies include China Film.

So don’t think that China Film Group is that awesome!
It’s just that China Film has resources that other peers definitely don’t have, so everyone is looking for China Film to cooperate with.

For example, the digital projection system was completed by China Film Corporation, and 70% of cinemas across the country are using China Film Corporation's digital projectors.

In other words, no matter who distributes the film, the film must be made into a master tape, and then the secret key must be produced by China Film Corporation, and then distributed to major cinema chains and theaters across the country. The download key can only be unlocked when the movie is released.

This is the strength and resource advantage of China Film, and it can also charge an additional agency fee to digital cinemas across the country.

The digital projection reform started as early as the 90s, but the infrastructure was not perfect and the progress was slow.

This is a state-owned enterprise, with abundant resources and heavy responsibilities, and it is to promote the development of the industry!
Mastering digital projection does not mean that China Film can have a monopoly. The country banned monopoly as early as 03.

Therefore, this era is not like the later capital infiltration, which requires finding a bunch of partners and dozens of capitals to share the meat and drink the soup.

Right now the entire film market is only worth 100 billion, divided among a few hundred films. Capital is not interested in it at all!

It takes a year to make a movie, and at most you can make tens of millions, but you might even lose money. It takes a long time, has a high risk, and there are a lot of pirated copies. Who would want to do this?
If Fang Hong had no capital and no strength, and was only very familiar with this industry, he would not play it and would do something else.

At the China Film Complex, Fang Hong and Chen Zhixi came to the front desk and asked, "Excuse me, is Manager Lei here? Just say that someone named Chen Zhixi is looking for him and has made an appointment."

Manager Lei is from the distribution department!
"Hold on!"

The girl at the front desk said something, then picked up the landline and called. Not long after, she put down the phone and said, "Manager Lei is talking about something, wait a moment!"

There is no other choice but to wait!
However, just like last time, after waiting for a long time, Chen Zhixi went to ask but there was no sign of them, as if he had forgotten about them.

"What should I do?" Chen Zhixi was helpless.

Fang Hong thought for a moment and said, "Don't call. Just send a text message and tell them that the noodles are gone and the radio and television leader wants you to explain."

Chen Zhixi was a little confused: "What does it mean?"

"Don't worry about what it means. Just do as I say. Our movie has been invested by funds guided by those above. Isn't it normal to explain the release situation?" Fang Hong said.

(End of this chapter)