roccoschili Chapter 480: Ascending Value
Chapter 480: Ascending Value
Seeing Yan Min's attitude, Chen Jinnian knew that it was useless to delay, so he simply coordinated a day to finish filming the short film on the day when Teacher Zeng Xiaomin was out performing.
At the same time, he took advantage of the opportunity to shoot a short film to bring Wang Yidi into the industry.
"In fact, making movies is easy. If you can make commercials, you can make movies. In other words, movies are nothing more than 120 minutes of commercials. There is no essential difference."
"Why don't the directors in the company go and make movies?" Wang Yidi looked at me as if to say, "Don't lie to me."
"Because movie tickets are sold, there's no guarantee, and the pressure is too great. In fact, the normal path should be to start as an advertising director, switch to a slightly larger film and television project to hone your skills, and then look for opportunities to take on TV drama projects that you can direct independently, like Zhou Jiahang."
Chen Jinnian glanced at the busy scene.
As we all know, megacities are all cities with extremely large traffic jams, such as Guangzhou and Shenzhen. It is impossible to lend the running subways and trams to the crew for filming.
However, there were some sets built by a Hong Kong company in the studio, which were just right for rent.
The effect is still far from Chen Jinnian's expectations, but Yan Min is pressing for it to be broadcast together with Go Fighting when it resumes, which can only mean lowering the production standards.
Wang Yidi followed the line of sight and knew that Zhou Jiahang was leaving. "Brother Zhou will start his own directing career from now on."
"Maybe." Chen Jinnian remained noncommittal. Normally, it should be, but considering the project the other party had taken on, it became confusing again.
"There's actually another path, which is to switch careers and become a producer. However, the industry isn't as tolerant of producers as it is of directors. A director can still be called a young director when he's 35, but if a producer doesn't have any projects to show for themselves by the age of 35, their career is basically over."
Chen Jinnian shrugged. In fact, there are not many directors who choose to be producers or supervisors. Most of them are successful people like Ning Hao who like to do this kind of work.
You have connections, resources, and experience, and you don't have to invest a lot of energy like a director.
"Come on, let's go over and see how the rehearsal goes."
This was also the first time for Chen Jinnian to shoot a long shot, so rehearsal was essential. Even most of the time today was spent on determining the camera movement speed and the coordination between the actors.
The actual time spent on shooting is the last ten minutes or so.
After watching the rehearsal from the side, Yan Min already understood Chen Jinnian's filming ideas. If he were to take over, he would probably be able to shoot a similar film.
But the money had already been paid to Chen Jinnian, so he could only wait for completion.
"Do you still need us to help you in post-production?" Chen Jinnian came over and asked. There is still a difference between shooting in the studio and shooting on location, especially the space outside the car, which requires special effects.
"No, your fees are too high. The station can't afford it."
"You get what you pay for. Compared to the quality, my charges are not high."
In fact, Chen Jinnian does not lack the business of Oriental Satellite TV.
The special effects company is working hard on The Wandering Earth, and Guo Meng hopes it will be released during the 19 Spring Festival. With only 15 months left, the production cycle is very tight.
In addition, Chen Jinnian’s special effects company is also producing "White Snake", which is also a visual effects blockbuster. Although it does not require the sophisticated special effects of "The Wandering Earth", it is independently produced by his company and the production cycle is also not short.
"Forget it, let's just do it ourselves."
Yan Min still shook his head. Only Chen Jinnian could invest a huge amount of money in a non-profit short film regardless of the cost.
Chen Jinnian didn't say anything more, but took Wang Yidi to introduce the crew's configuration.
In the past, Wang Yidi was only responsible for performing in front of the camera. Now that he wants to develop into a director, he must understand the skeletal system and movement system of the crew.
The shooting of the short film went smoothly. After repeated rehearsals, the first official shooting in the afternoon was completed. Afterwards, Chen Jinnian did not listen to Yan Min's advice to keep another shot, but directly announced the end of the film.
An actor's energy and performance state are an undulating curve, not a static straight line. After the peak, it will go downhill no matter how you shoot.
Instead of wasting time torturing each other, it is better to quit while you are ahead.
After Yan Min got what he wanted, he flew back that night. He still had to worry about resuming the broadcast. After more than a month of suspension, many questioning voices had been heard from the outside world.
In order to increase ratings and broadcast volume, Yan Min must resume the program as soon as possible and finish broadcasting the remaining episodes.
While Chen Jinnian was filming, the extension key for "Ballet Revenge" was applied for, and it will continue to be shown in theaters for one month, aiming to reach a box office of 500 million.
There are very few action movies showing in theaters, so "Ballet's Revenge", a thrilling crime action film, still has a continuous audience.
But regardless of whether the box office can break 500 million in the end, this film is the second-ranked female-led movie this year, second only to "Resident Evil" and surpassing "Wonder Woman".
"Wonder Woman" failed to reach the box office forecast of 8 million yuan because its screening share was squeezed out by Chen Jinnian's "Bad Genius". It was directly cut in half and only earned million yuan at the box office. It is the second most wronged movie among Hollywood blockbusters this year.
The biggest loser ranked first was "The Mummy", which was released at the same time as "Bad Genius". The quality was not very good to begin with, and it relied entirely on the mainland market to recover, but it ended up hitting a wall.
The production and promotion cost of "The Mummy" was 3.45 million US dollars, and the global box office was 1.5 million US dollars, resulting in a loss of 3 million US dollars, which is almost 20 billion yuan wasted.
This wave of magical operations of "The Mummy" not only severely damaged Universal's vitality and urgently shut down the subsequent derivative series of films, but also made Perfect World, which invested 500 million US dollars, a big-spending investor.
Perfect was completely ruined. The overseas expansion plan launched in 2016 was officially declared bankrupt by 2017. After burning through all the working capital within a year, it had no choice but to turn around and continue making games.
The reset process of Zhu Xian World and Fantasy Zhu Xian has been fully arranged. All the money lost from investment must be earned back from the game. Foreigners' money is not as easy to earn as the money of krypton guys.
However, after this series of chain reactions, an extremely outrageous result was produced, that is, Wang Yidi's value skyrocketed.
From a third-tier actor to a super first-tier actor, currently in the market, no one has an appearance fee more expensive than Wang Yidi.
To be precise, there was one last week, but after the official classification of "Eight Billion Sister" this week, there is no actress more expensive than Wang Yidi.
Not to mention what other actresses think, even Chen Jinnian doesn't understand why her popularity has increased so quickly. Now, when inviting Wang Yidi to commercial performances, they have started to adopt an invite-one-get-one-free model.
Chen Jinnian was the one who gave it.
"No, Yidi, why is your appearance fee twice as high as mine?"