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As soon as you hear this voice, you can tell that the boss and the others are playing a game again recently. This is a popular tower pushing game.
Xie Yu also played twice, and was very good at it. After being taught a lesson for two games, he found it boring and stopped playing.
Seeing Xie Yu coming back, Li Dong raised his eyes and said, "Fourth, you're back!"
"Hey, I brought something back. Is it delicious?"
Xie Yu smiled and said: "It is indeed delicious!"
After saying this, Lao Dadao said: "Lao San, let's go black after class. It seems we haven't had dinner yet!"
Xie Yu said in shock: "I'm going to ask you three if you want to be so desperate. If you tell me in advance, I will bring you food."
Li Dong said: "Fourth, didn't you bring food?"
Xie Yu: "Haha, it counts as food, spiritual food!"
"By the way, Boss and Lao San, did your girlfriend tell you about writing a script about a scumbag?"
The third child raised his eyebrows and said: "Fourth child, I'll leave it to you. We don't have that American time, we're too busy!"
"By the way, let's get us three buckets of instant noodle mats first. I'll choose the braised beef."
"Trouble with the ribs."
"Laotan pickled cabbage!"
"Get out!", "Get out"
“Lao Tan’s pickled cabbage tastes too strong.”
"Okay, I want braised beef too."
Xie Yu, you have to serve these uncles again.
…
One month later.
Chu Lin called.
"Fourth, how is the script going?"
Xie Yu: "It's Chinese New Year. I haven't been home for a long time. Could you please give me some peace?"
"OK"
two months later
Chu Lin: "No. 4, I have a cousin who is a child actor. He needs to be included in the script."
"Okay, but you can also write about your family..."
"Go away, don't write or not."
"All right!"
Xie Yu crossed out the three-act, half-complete script written by the model in his hand.
four months later
Lin Mengxi: "Fourth brother, I have a relative who graduated from the acting department and is a professional actor. This person is a scumbag, and he has a scumbag temperament..."
Xie Yu: "Okay, okay, your family..."
Lin Mengxi: "It's better to raise him than a dog."
Xie Yu: "Okay, I'll send you the photos and resume, the same as cousin Chu Lin."
Lin Mengxi: "Okay, I've already sent it to your email. You may have forgotten to read it."
Xie Yu: "..."
I can only hang up the half-formed script in my hand.
"Urgent..." in May
"Urgent..." in June
The market has been good this year. It first declined and then rose. There are indeed signs of a bull market. The market has reached nearly 3,000 points. Xie Yu can increase his principal in the stock market to 20 million.
After cutting off the Yingkou Port stock, another profit of 20 million was made.
However, Xie Yu changed her previous way of buying a house and chose to buy a shop in full.
After signing the newly purchased store to an agency, Xie Yu sent a group message in a group labeled "Scumbag Men".
"Let's read the script around!"
Soon, there was a message reply:
"Fourth, I knew you could do it."
"That's right, Fourth Brother, you let me down."
"The sword is so thirsty!"
"Brothers, let's go!"
"I know an empty classroom, the location..."
When Xie Yu walked to the classroom with two big paper bags: "The three bosses each brought their girlfriends, and they are all waiting for Xie Yu."
Xie Yu was surprised at first and said, "Hey, why are everyone so active today?"
The third child said: "Isn't this a movie? Everyone is very motivated."
Xie Yu smiled and said: "You are so motivated, why don't you write a script!"
Boss: "It's not busy, and we know that whatever you write, Fourth, is better than mine."
Xie Yu poured out the thick script from the paper bag and said, "Because of time issues, I only typed four copies of this script."
"You two should watch one together as a couple, it's not too much!"
"Not too much..."
"Not too much..."
Some people also whispered, why is it so thick?
But when I opened it, everyone's voices immediately became fragmented.
"Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf!"
"It's actually a storyboard script!"
"This is a good comic technique. I didn't expect the fourth child to have such skills."
Hearing this, Xie Yu became more and more satisfied. After the script was written, Xie Yu tried to make a split-shot script.
The so-called split-shot script is a script that divides the literary content of the film into a series of shots that can be filmed for on-site shooting.
Generally, there are columns such as shot number, scene type, shooting skills, duration, screen content, sound, etc.
After the overall conception, the screen image that combines sound and picture to be created in the future film will be reflected through split shots.
To put it simply, the director sees a script, uses his imagination to audio-visualize the text content in the script, constructs it into a picture in his mind, and then shoots the picture in his mind through a camera.
As for how to shoot, it is actually the process of dividing shots.
However, Xie Yu is just a beginner, using the stick figure technique, which can only be regarded as a split shot sketch.
Because it was too ugly, he tried to find some painting books to practice. Unexpectedly, Xie Yu discovered that he was also quite talented in painting.
Of course, because time is short, I can only learn some comic techniques first.
Maybe in his previous life, Xie Yu was a born playwright.
About an hour later, the boss Wei Xu spoke first.
"Fourth, you can do it. Your creation of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. The man in the front kills the woman, and the woman in the back kills the man. Isn't it too simple? It's just that the scene is a little bloody and terrifying."
Xie Yu smiled and said: "Boss, with a budget of only one million, I still don't want the salary, but only the dividends after the film is released later."
"I studied the script for half a year, plus the information collected on the Internet. There are ways to make a low-budget film."
"That is to have as few scenes as possible, focus on a few main scenes, and shoot as many scenes as possible in each scene. This saves money and time."
"Based on my experience in shooting a cabin in the woods, if the scene can use natural light or there is free light, write more scenes. This can save the cost and time of lighting arrangement."
"Also, considering that the two people who recommended Chu Lin and Lin Mengxi are professional actors, I also tried to find a way to set it up as a rivalry between the two, so the plot can't be simpler. I have to save money!"
Li Dong: "We're short of money. It's okay for everyone to chip in. Why is the fourth child so embarrassed?"
Xie Yu: "I know, but since we have agreed to one million, we must follow the one million plan."
"To be honest, I also checked online and found that the 80/20 rule applies when making movies. More than 80% of movies will have difficulty recovering their costs."
"Especially for million-level experimental films, they are basically nothing but a splash of water."
Zheng Jiaming: "Fourth Brother, didn't I help him sell Lin Fei's movie? Didn't he make money?"
Xie Yu: "Firstly, Lin Fei writes the script very well, and secondly, he is also a professional director. I wrote this script myself, mainly from my own imagination. I imagine a lot, so I don't have much confidence."
Chu Lin: "Fourth, although I like the scene where the man kills the woman at the beginning, I am still satisfied with the script."
"Besides, my Zheng Jiaming is the director, so when it comes to selling movies, don't worry!"
Zheng Jiaming said: "Fourth brother, this script is really good. I will ask my uncle to arrange some more experienced lighting, scenery, makeup, props, on-site editing people, and I will borrow some A 35mm professional digital movie camera was used for filming.”
Xie Yu: "Lao San, your idea is very good, but the cost will go up immediately. Just what you said, even one million won't be able to withstand it!"
Zheng Jiaming: "It's okay. These are considered my shares. I'm more optimistic about your script."
Li Dong: “Although I don’t quite understand it, it’s still my share.”
On the contrary, the boss Wei Xu said: "According to your opinion, it is better to make a real theater movie, the kind with a dragon logo."
Xie Yu: "Boss, you are just joking. Longbiao Movies are official theater movies, and the cost will be high."
"As far as I know, the current way of dividing the accounts of domestic theater chains for movies is firstly a 3.3% tax, followed by a 5% film development fund. After deducting these, the remaining 47% belongs to the theaters, and about 5% belongs to the theater chains."
"By the way, there is still about 10% that belongs to the distributor and is left to us. The final box office share we can get is probably the entire allocable box office, that is, the total box office minus taxes and ticketing fees, which is at most one-third. About one.”
"It's a good thing to be ambitious, but I don't want a three-day tour in theaters. By the way, this doesn't count the money spent on publicity."
"Moreover, Longbiao movies cannot be relied on. They need real film and television companies to invest, tax and copyright, etc. It's very troublesome."
Zheng Jiaming smiled and said: "What's the matter? Fourth, film and television companies, can't we just acquire one or register one?"
Wei Xu: "I agree to register a film and television company. Let's call it 402 Dormitory Film and Television Co., Ltd. How about it!"
Others immediately matched up.
"It's good, no problem or anything!"
In the end, everyone stopped discussing the script and started discussing the registration of a film and television company. Especially Wei Xu, who patted his chest and said that we should leave it to him.
Li Dong said that his family's real estate business has opened in Yangcheng and can provide office space.
Zheng Jiaming said he could lift equipment. Wow, a company was built amidst all the chatter?
Sure enough, everyone is very active in anything that interests them.
Xie Yu's script began to be officially registered on the national platform.
Within three days, Wei Xu spent 300,000 to completely acquire a small empty film and television company.
After the film and television company changed its name to 402 Dormitory Film and Television Co., Ltd., it was noted in the school that it would be able to enjoy the entrepreneurial policy for college students.
Then the equity was distributed, and each of the four people received 25%. Although Xie Yu only raised 100,000 yuan, as the script provider, the others did not say anything.
In less than a month, Xie Yu could actually sit in the office and let the intern pour him coffee. The unexpected thing happened so quickly!
Caught people off guard!
In fact, these people were basically arranged by Zheng Jiaming, and he really got a lot of support from his uncle.
Many of the shooting equipment in the company's newly established film and television department are "obsolete products" from his uncle's theater chain.
Xie Yu didn't understand why these 80% new equipment was bought for less than tens of thousands of yuan.
However, after Zheng Jiaming bought Xie Yu a set of SLR cameras with various lenses for a price of two thousand, Xie Yu immediately shut up.
Soon, summer vacation is coming.
In a newly rented villa, under the command of executive director Lao Ou arranged by Uncle Zheng Jiaming.
The filming of "Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf", which has a total actual investment of 4 million and an external investment of 8 million (including shooting equipment), has finally started.
The plot is very simple.
A romantic doctor (Xie Ruofei, a relative of Lin Mengxi, with a salary of 300,000 yuan), has a perverted personality and likes to seduce women, play with them, and then kill them.
The people killed include Yang Jihong, Lin Mengxi, Chu Lin, Zhou Ziqi, and finally junior high school student Jiang Yuxuan (Chu Lin's cousin, paid 200,000 yuan), secretly found out that her cousin's disappearance was related to this doctor.
Jiang Yuxuan kept investigating secretly, and finally pretended to be a little white rabbit and was seduced by the big bad wolf Xie Ruofei.
In fact, in Jiang Yuxuan's eyes, Xie Ruofei was the little white rabbit. In the end, Xie Ruofei was castrated and hanged by Jiang Yuxuan.
It can be said to be a typical low-budget horror film with a somewhat reversal of plot.
However, since it is going to be a theatrical movie, too much violence and blood should be reduced, and more light and lenses should be used to adjust the atmosphere.
Xie Yuzhen learned a lot of photography techniques from an old photographer.
Because the crew were all veterans and the plot was simple, the film was shot in only twenty days.
Then, in a more professional editing room, in the hands of a professional editor, a standard 90-minute movie was cut. In fact, the plot was a bit too thin, and there was also an 80-minute online movie version.
Then, it would be no problem to apply for the Long Label and screen in theaters, at least in Uncle Zheng Jiaming's theater chain consisting of 743 theaters.
If you want to show it nationwide, you need to promote and negotiate step by step.
Fortunately, when the ten-month mark came down, several cinema lines had already been negotiated, covering basically the largest cities in the country.
Of course, as a newcomer making a new film, he will definitely get the lowest tier, and if the screening does not reach a certain scale, the film will be released on the 3rd, 7th, 14th, and 21st.
As for a one-month release, that is for blockbusters.
In November, everyone told their relatives Amway, Xie Yu and their parents and elder sisters about mobilizing friends.
His parents began to get annoyed with Xie Yu for not doing his job properly and making movies, so they criticized and educated him.
But now that the filming was done, I finally reluctantly agreed to help Xie Yu.
In addition, after spending hundreds of thousands to hire some online anchors to promote the movie, the movie was released, just in time for Halloween in the West, and there was no three-day trip.
The plot of a weak woman turning against a strong man is a bit unexpected, but other theaters only held out until the 14th.
Uncle Zheng Jiaming's theater chain insists on releasing the film on the 21st.
At the end of the day, the movie had a box office of 35 million.
Unintentionally, I made a lot of money. After deducting the share and taxes to the theaters, I can get about 30% of the box office profit.
That's 10 million. The total cost is only 4 million, so the profit is 6 million.
Because it has been proven in theaters, it was sold to the movie channel for one million, the online copyright for 1.5 million, and the others for more than one million.
Calculated in this way, apart from deducting Chu Lin's investment expenses, the actor's red envelopes, etc., it is no problem for each person to share Jiang's million. You must know that this is still formal income that has been reported on taxes.
Of course, this is far inferior to Xie Yu's annual 100 million demon stock catching activity, but the sense of participation and accomplishment is particularly good.
After New Year's Day, everyone started to part with money, and everyone was very happy.
This can be earned through hard work, hard work, and making movies, which is completely different from the feeling of making money in the virtual world of the stock market.
Yang Jihong, who is already the company's treasurer, presided over this meat-sharing event.
After dividing the expected two million, Zheng Jiaming looked at the excited crowd and said, "I have decided that I will become a director in the future. After the New Year, I want to transfer to the directing class of the art department. What about you!"
Xie Yu thought for a while and realized that with his level of stock trading, he could only be a general analyst.
And due to limitations of intuition, Xie Yu can only tell others that a stock will fall, but cannot tell which stock will rise.
or!
Xie Yu: "Third brother, I wonder if I can transfer to the screenwriting class of the art department."
The third child, Zheng Jiaming, smiled and said: "The fourth child, you are also a screenwriter with a box office of 35 million, so there is no problem in switching to another department. In fact, they are eager to do so!"
