"Brother Hong, I'm so sorry..."

Two months have passed.

The filming progress of the twenty-five episodes of TV series is almost over.

Now it is the stage where all the literary dramas are filmed and some shots of driving mechas are added.

At this point, many of Wang Chen's shortcomings were reflected.

The role he is going to play is a middle school second-year-old who usually has no expression on his face. He usually looks like a rebellious young man with a frown and pretends to be deep.

But the plot is almost at the end, and he must perform the slightly hysterical side of the protagonist.

Just like the usual plot, Luo Yun, the masked man played by Luo Yun, is a normal villain boss who has lofty ideals, down-to-earth efforts to strive, and has like-minded followers. He is moving towards his dreams.

Then, for granted, on the eve of the dream coming true, he was jumped out and disrupted by the protagonist.

And the protagonist often yells.

The scene I'm shooting now is the cockpit in the pure green screen studio.

Because in the plot, Wang Chen and Luo Yun were interacting wildly while the driver's mobile suit shot and slashed.

But Wang Chen always couldn't act this part well.

Zhang Hong handed him a bottle of water and said in confusion: "What is the specific reason? Do you have any idea?"

Wang Chen took the aquarius and thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's because I don't have much experience. This is a pure green screen studio, and there are all cameras with 360 degrees without dead corners. Some of them are almost on my face, so I'm a little nervous, probably..."

After Brother Hong’s “encouragement”, at least Wang Chen is now full of confidence in his acting skills.

Zhang Hong looked back at Li Shanqi and gave him a look that could only be understood but not expressed.

[Is it because I used to make small movies back? How can I shoot the camera on someone's face? It seems that your psychological shadow has really come out....]

Li Shanqi also returned a helpless look.

[He is too fucking, can he blame me? Of course, the movie quality should be more textured. And in this way, you can save more money on special effects in the later stage.]

Zhang Hong raised his eyebrows and ordered, "Everyone will take a ten-minute break before taking pictures."

He clapped his hands to let everyone rest, and Zhang Hong quietly hid in the corner.

Then he called Lin Muqing.

"What's wrong."

There was Lin Muqing's faint voice over there.

Zhang Hong asked directly: "That's right, I just want to ask how much budget we have."

"Three Sixty-eight and Three Two Five-Five-Sixty-one." Hei Changzhi reported the accurate number without hesitation.

So many more?

Zhang Hong asked again: "How much did we spend on the post-production cost of "Yun Luo Hong Dust" in total?"

Miss Lin pondered for a moment and replied: "Ten episodes, the cost of a single episode is over 1.2 million. If you talk about the post-production and special effects alone, each episode should not exceed 90, which means a total of about 9 million."

"Ok, thank you."

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Hong began to analyze.

"The Clouds Fall in the World" doesn't spend much money on the actors, almost equals nothing.

The crew was lent to him by Director Sun Zheng, and the salary and so on were paid by Director Sun.

The same applies to the equipment.

The cost of extras and eating and sleeping is equal to the cost of each episode.

Renting a venue is the money spent by Lin Chuan.

In other words, a total investment of 13 million yuan was spent on the later stage and special effects.

"Cloud Falls in the World" is indeed a mythical drama that requires a lot of special effects.

But there are also many literary dramas in it, and the real need for special effects is less than half of the current "Mobile Suit".

That's very simple.

The cost of the special effects of the single episode "Cloud Falling in the World" is 900,000.

If you double it, you can even add a little more to two million.

Just count the cost of special effects in the later episode of one episode by 2 million, but for twenty-five episodes, it will be 50 million!

50 million special effects?

hey-hey.

This money is terrible!

Compared with those ordinary TV series, of course, it is outrageous, because at least half of their TV series will be in the pockets of the actors or the company behind the actors.

The remaining money is the production fund.

Zhang Hong had read the news in his previous life. A TV series that claimed to have invested over 100 million yuan, took away 70 to 80% of the money in total, and the rest was the production cost. In the end, the producer only approved 500,000 yuan in special effects.

Then it's a joke!

However, as a keyboard warrior in his previous life, Zhang Hong also checked information. The total investment of "The Wandering Earth" is between 3600 million and 400 million, but it definitely hasn't reached 400 million anyway.

And this is included in the total cost of publicity and distribution.

Now I spend 50 million on the special effects in the late stage, and the special effects level in China in this world is not bad.

Those TV series and movies with poor special effects are reluctant to pay for them.

You get what you pay for. If you give less, you will naturally not let the top team do it for you.

To put it even more unpleasantly, whether the special effects are good depends on the technology.

Most domestic films are decided by the director and the art director.

They think that good-looking special effects are good special effects.

Really professional special effects need to be scientifically designed according to color matching, audio-visual language, etc.

Including color adjustment, it is actually a science. This professional colorist needs to be adjusted according to the director's setting of the plot, rather than the editor doing it by hand.

Now that I, Zhang Hong, filmed a TV series, I spent 50 million to post-production and special effects. What's the problem?

He even felt that it was less!

There are nearly 370 million left!

What's the point of spending 300 million to make special effects?

So Zhang Hong, who came back from the rest, waved his hand and made a decision: "Try to take a panoramic view of the picture! Even if you are in the cockpit, you must take a picture of the upper body! You must take a picture of me in the cockpit behind the character! The same is true, including the ‘cosmic’ outside the cockpit!

Also, please contact the engineers to bring all the "unicorns", "big green peppers", "zagu", and "Jin" in Shed No. 1!"

Wang Ye, who was promoted to the deputy director, hesitated: "But Brother Hong, isn't the cost?"

"Don't consider the cost! The crew has enough money! I don't know how to spend it if it's too much!" Zhang Hong waved his hand, "Go and move! Then shoot as I said!"

joke!

This film doesn't really cost much for resale! What you want is the visual effect!

And it cost 500 million to build scenes alone! You can't waste it, right?

And there are more than 360 million! Can you spend me or what?

You should know that the more than 360 million yuan is put into Zhang Hong’s previous life, which is the entire cost of “The Wandering Earth”!

Also include promotion and promotion!

After giving the order, Zhang Hong patted Wang Chen on the shoulder and said, "I can't find the feeling, right? It's okay, I'll put the 'Hong You San' opposite you in a while, and then look at it, you will definitely be able to take a picture."

Then he clapped his hands and ordered: "Who! Put the 'unicorn' behind Wang Chen's cockpit later! Put the 'Hong You San' behind Luo Yun!"

Wang Ye nodded and was about to take action.

Zhang Hong called him again: "There is another thing. Remember, no matter who they both filmed, they would let each other sit in the cockpit opposite each other in costumes, and don't let him take off Luo Yun's mask."

Wang Ye continued to nod.

"There's another thing." Zhang Hong called him again, "When you remember to film the plot of the opponent, let them sit face to face in the cockpit and talk about the lines. Don't just shoot one person alone, you can shoot with one group on both sides."

"Okay Brother Hong."

"There is another thing. Remember to turn on both the 'unicorn' and 'Hongyou San's', so the atmosphere must be in place!"

"Uh... I understand Brother Hong."

"There is one more thing. Remember to lift the cockpits of two people to the chest of the body, and then work hard for everyone to sit on the ladder to take pictures."

"Ah? Okay..." Wang Ye wrote it all in his notebook and asked, "Brother Hong, what else is gone?"

"There's another thing." Zhang Hong's expression was serious, "Make me a cup of tea and bring me the military coat by the way. Who's the air conditioner? I'm frozen to death!"

Wang Ye: "..."
To be continued...