Chapter 7 Start-up and Free Prostitution
On July 1st, the man with hanging silk started the movie at the Beijing Film Academy playground.
To save money, keep everything simple.
For fruits, snacks, drinks, and pig heads on the table, just use photos to express the meaning.
For the incense burner, use a big bowl and add some rice, and you’re done!
This operation shocked a group of people.
"Mingyang, it's too perfunctory for you to have a good power-on ceremony." Zhang Ruoyun shouted.
"Let's buy some real fruits..."
"Such a solemn power-on ceremony, but you made it a mess."
"No money! Keep everything simple. "After Li Mingyang finished speaking, he took the lead in offering the incense. After everyone had done so, the official shooting began.
Everything is back to when I started my business.
Of course, the conditions at that time were much more difficult than this. The actors used at that time were all in Hengdian for seven or eighty-one days.
The actors used now are big stars in the future.
Zhang Ruoyun, Qiao Shan, Zhang Xiaofei, Tan Songyun.
At that time, there were only three people behind the scenes of the crew. He also served as the director, photographer, lighting engineer, and set designer. He also had to do odd jobs with others, move props, distribute lunch boxes, and organize costumes.
Now the team of more than a dozen people behind the scenes are all elites from other departments of Beijing Film Academy.
If the creative team has any regrets, they definitely do!
Yang Mi, 208, Yuan Shanshan, and Kan Qingzi all stopped filming because the plot was too vulgar and it was a low-budget web drama.
Fortunately, Li Mingyang saved some time. When shooting the sample, he specially asked Yang Mi to shoot three short stories, which were enough.
Around the playground and the tree-shaded path next to it, from day to night, Li Mingyang shot more than twenty short stories throughout the day.
Except for an hour's break for lunch, everyone had no time for leisure.
This operation not only shocked everyone on the crew...
It also shocked Yang Mi who was peeking through the telescope.
Yang Mi doesn’t want to make such vulgar online short dramas, micro-movies are her bottom line.
“You didn’t take it seriously at all. Did anyone really see the photo? Could it be a money scam?”
"Definitely."
......
At the end of the first day of filming, Li Mingyang invited everyone to eat at a food stall.
"My dear Director Li, can't you treat us to a restaurant? Come here to eat food stalls again..." Tan Songyun patted his calf and put his hand in front of him, which was full of blood.
Damn mosquitoes.
"Let's make do today, and eat well tomorrow..." Li Mingyang lit a cigarette and took a sip of wine.
"Can you stop smoking? Look at how many smokers in the class." Tan Songyun said, covering his nose.
“It’s a lot of pressure!”
“Where does the pressure come from? You sleep more than a pig every day, so we often think today is the weekend.” Zhang Ruoyun couldn’t help complaining .
“You are comparing me to me, I am not going to be an actor.”
This sentence silenced Tan Songyun and Zhang Ruoyun.
Both of them were filming Li Mingyang’s scenes for the first time.
After today's intense shooting, they finally discovered that Li Mingyang is like a salted fish every day, he doesn't even read a book, but he understands everything.
Photography, lighting, sound recording, scenery, movement, camera placement...it seems like there is nothing he doesn't understand.
There are students behind the scenes. When the crew is running, there will inevitably be some minor problems. There will be problems with the radio, actors will run out of the screen, and the sky will suddenly change.
Li Mingyang can always solve problems quickly.
Excellent field control ability.
You feel like he was shooting blindly, but when you look at the results, it turns out the shots are quite interesting.
What a salty fish, he is simply a born director!
Halfway through the meal, Li Mingyang suddenly took two bottles of beer and went to find the boss.
Zhang Ruoyun wondered: "What else is he doing?" "What else can he do? He must be using someone else's place for free."
"I'll go! As for that, he didn't do this before. Ah! It’s because Sister Jingtian is used to it.”
Tan Songyun rolled her eyes at Zhang Ruoyun.
"Boss, how long has this food stall been open for?" Li Mingyang handed over a bottle of beer.
"It's been five or six years."
"Your cooking is pretty good. We students from Beijing Film Academy must come here often!"
"Haha, Liu Yifei has eaten here. ” said the landlady.
The proprietress is in her forties, dressed simply and has many wrinkles on her face, but it can be seen that she must have been a beauty when she was young.
Li Mingyang smiled and started chatting with the couple. Under the indiscriminate attack of peach blossom eyes, the proprietress's favorable impression of him grew.
When the time was almost right, Li Mingyang offered to borrow their venue to film and help them promote it.
“We are a small business, we don’t need any publicity.”
“It’s free, no money required.” Li Mingyang said with a smile.
“Your filming is hindering my ability to make money!” the boss said.
"I have good intentions, so don't be so aggressive!" The landlady said with a smile: "Young man, how long do you want to shoot? If you only shoot for one day, it's not impossible."
"Thank you, eldest sister. One day is enough. My eldest brother and eldest sister are so photogenic. I will show my face when the time comes. This drama of mine was filmed by Youku. It might even be on TV."
"That's great! I'm I’ve never been on TV in my life.”
The boss looked at his mother-in-law with helplessness, so easily loaned out his own venue and brought two laborers with him.
But he didn't dare to say anything, he could only greet the young man in his heart who was delaying him from making money.
After settling the venue and extras, Li Mingyang returned to his seat and continued eating.
"Mingyang, what are you doing?" Zhang Ruoyun asked?
“I borrowed the venue. The boss and the landlady are both good people. They agreed to lend me the venue for free for filming.”
“Damn, I’ll lend it to you for free. Don’t talk about their business for a day. Earn a thousand!"
"They also agreed to help with the extras."
"How did you do it?" Tan Songyun's eyes widened, with a look of disbelief on his face.
"I'm sincere!" Li Mingyang said.
Zhang Ruoyun and Tan Songyun were speechless again.
Qiao Shan and Zhong Xiaoyu at the next table looked at the food on the table and suddenly didn’t want to eat it.
"What are you two doing in a daze?" Zhang Xiaofei said.
“I’m afraid there’s something in this food...”
"He waited until the food was all served before he deceived others. Don't be afraid!" Zhang Xiaofei lowered his body and whispered.
When Qiao Shan and Zhong Xiaoyu heard this, they started eating again.
……
The next day, producer Zhang Wei came!
There is nothing wrong with Manager Qiao’s aesthetics. She is indeed a beauty, but she is a bit older. She is thirty-five this year...
Why Li Mingyang knew she was thirty-five was because he was Zhang Wei's immediate boss in his previous life.
Penguin Video established a branch in Dongyang High-speed Railway New City. Originally, financial director and producer Zhang Wei was the first choice for the general manager of the branch.
At this time, Penguin acquired his film and television company, and he directly became the general manager of the Dongyang branch.
Since then, Zhang Wei has hated him and made trouble for him day by day.
When Li Mingyang left Penguin Video, the last thing he did was to drive her away.
It’s not that enemies don’t get together!
(End of this chapter)