Chapter 390 The Late Witch
"No, is it that bad?"
"It's okay to let him be an assistant director. He is a good communicator and can chat with anyone. But as a director, he can't control people. Everyone laughs with him."
"Haha, it's the opposite of you!"
"So I worked well with him, but it's okay, I looked for a new one."
"That extra?"
"Gao Dajun."
"What to do now?"
"Head of the pack."
Li Mingyang took a sip of beer and frowned: "Did he choose all the extras in the Witch?"
"Yes, I think it's okay for him to pick people."
"Not only is he good, he is very talented. Let him be the casting director in the future."
After One Punch Man became a big success, other companies were poaching people, even Bernard. Li Mingyang didn't care on the surface, but how could he not actually care.
So he and Lao Wu made a plan to keep the most needed storyboard artists, the most core screenwriters, and the most important director team, and keep the rest if they could.
When a movie starts shooting, with the director team as the core, people will be recruited from various studios in the company, or people will be found from outside.
Both Li Mingyang and Wu Zhikui have the ability to control the overall situation. A crew does not need too many voices, just two is enough.
Everyone else is a tool person.
If it works, use it, if not, replace it.
A truly great director only needs to take care of the core team. There are too many substitutes for every detail.
"I will go to Dali tomorrow night. The post-editing and soundtrack will be handed over to Guo Fan, and you will be responsible for the special effects."
"I do special effects? Is it the other way around? I'm good at editing and scoring, and he's good at special effects."
"He likes to ponder when doing special effects. He doesn't have enough time. I don't need such detailed special effects. The Witch can be rougher and wilder. Multi-company collaboration like One Punch Man will be the mainstream of the special effects industry in the future."
Old Wu originally wanted to take a rest, but now it was over and there was no rest.
……
In less than a month, The Witch was completed, but post-production was a big project.
"Uh? I'm editing and scoring. Did Director Li make a mistake? I can't do it!" Guo Fan said in surprise.
"I don't know how to study, and I don't want to do special effects yet."
Guo Fan said sternly: "Then let's switch. I'll help you with the special effects, and you'll help me with the editing and soundtrack."
"It must be reasonable for Director Li to do that... hurry up and do it quickly. You can learn from it if you don't know it. They all know how to do it."
Lao Wu turned on his computer and started contacting the outsourcing company.
Mingyang Entertainment is one of the few domestic entertainment film and television companies that pays the final payment. Almost all famous domestic special effects suppliers are willing to cooperate with Mingyang Entertainment for a long time.
Lao Wu had previously created a group to include these high-quality suppliers and assigned them serial numbers.
After Guo Fan took over, he optimized these suppliers, such as what a certain supplier is good at, what is the base price, whether the customer service attitude is good, whether it is good at cheating, etc...
[Witch special effects 30 million, intentional speed contact. 】
After Lao Wu finished sending the message, even though it was after four o'clock in the morning, the group immediately exploded.
Lao Wu didn't like nonsense and asked them to send people to bid tomorrow. The bidding date is seven o'clock tomorrow evening.
After the news was sent out, Lao Wu went to pour a cup of black coffee and called the eight team leaders of the special effects department over for a meeting.
Everyone compared the storyboards and analyzed the special effects requirements.
Special effects production can be said to be the most complex part in terms of communication costs in the film and television industry.
Lao Wu was busy with special effects needs.
On the other side, Guo Fan took the storyboard and script and was editing.
Li Mingyang’s film has the final editing rights in his own hands.
However, before finalizing the cut, others produced a rough cut based on the storyboard.
You can't delete it randomly, you have to follow the storyboard.
It sounds simple, but in fact it is very troublesome.
It is necessary to find out the flaws in the shot, the sound and picture synchronization, sort out the entire shooting material according to the storyboard, etc...
All in all, it's a meticulous job.
Plus it also involves the soundtrack.
Movies are a combination of visual and sound effects.
The importance of soundtrack is self-evident.
It carries the most dreamy and irrational part of the movie, affecting every viewer subconsciously.
It can adjust the rhythm of the movie through changes in the speed and intensity of the music, making the movie's narrative smoother and more layered.
Compared with visual effects, it is easy to get started with soundtrack, but it is extremely difficult to make a good soundtrack.
Usually by copying... Copyright is not expensive. They all have extremely rich soundtrack libraries, so rich that Guo Fan, who is good at special effects, has eyesores.
The most important thing about the soundtrack is that it conforms to the tone of the movie. Guo Fan has never participated in the filming, so he can only analyze and organize the script, storyboards, and shooting materials... back and forth.
Twelve noon.
Li Mingyang was woken up by the alarm clock with Zhang Wei. The first thing he did when he woke up was to ask Zhang Wei to call Wu Zhikui and Guo Fan over.
Then drink and wait for someone.
By the time the two men arrived, Li Mingyang had finished drinking two bottles of beer and was completely awake.
"Sister Zhang, close the door."
Zhang Wei closed the door but did not leave.
"Sister Zhang, have you finished the plan for your big data center?" Li Mingyang asked with a smile.
Zhang Wei nodded, silently opened the door, and left the room.
Li Mingyang picked up the pen and paper on the table, listened to the two people's work reports, wrote the witch plan, and occasionally asked a few questions.
More than an hour later.
Li Mingyang handed the plan to Lao Wu, "The total budget for The Witch is 50 million, and the film salary is about 12 million. After deducting the behind-the-scenes salary, food, clothing, housing and transportation, there is still about 35 million."
"You have about a month to spend the money. It's worth it. It's not enough time. I hope that when I come back, you will have done almost everything."
"Do you want to do accounts?" Wu Zhikui asked.
"No need."
"If you don't do it high, you can understand it, but if you don't do it low?" Guo Fan scratched his head.
Recently, it is more popular in domestic movies to use small things to make big things happen.
"China Film invested five million. We don't have a backstage, and this year the company has to announce the profit of the film. We can no longer hide it, so we can just follow the normal process." After Li Mingyang finished speaking, he glanced at Guo Fan and said, "Old Guo, the company There are two movie projects, you pick one to be responsible for.”
Guo Fan was speechless. He liked movies and being a director.
But Li Mingyang gave him a lot of opportunities!
He is so tired...
"Okay." Guo Fan straightened his back and said loudly.
"Old Wu, find someone to take over the other project as soon as possible. If no one takes over, then cancel it."
"Remuneration has skyrocketed this year, and I can't even find a decent star for a movie with three million yuan..." Lao Wu said.
"I just want everyone to feel the difficulty of attracting investment. Of course, if someone can stand out, that would be good."
The conversation was almost over, and Li Mingyang was about to leave.
Guo Fan hesitated for a moment, then stood up and asked Li Xianji if he had passed the review.
"It should be no problem to pass the review. When are you going to set a schedule?"
"What do you think of summer vacation?"
"Are you going to fight Transformer 3?"
I'm not crazy.
Hollywood+ ticket reimbursement is simply a natural disaster!
"Transformers seems to be released in mid-July, I want it to be released on July 1st."
"Want to bet for a week?"
"Yeah."
"I'll ask you later."
There are only a few good domestic schedules.
Compared with previous years, this year's summer season is not very busy, because it is scheduled to be released in mid-July... Hollywood movies are avoiding it...
Popular schedules are indeed a good opportunity to hit the box office.
Li Xianji is a movie for young people, which is very suitable for summer movies.
If it gets a good reputation, it could really hit the box office.
In her previous life, Damimi's bad movie "Far Cry" was released in early July this year and grossed nearly 90 million at the box office.
Guo Fan used the resources of Mingyang Entertainment to create Li Xianji.
Li Mingyang has watched it and found it to be better than the original film. The most important thing is that the animation is not perfunctory and there are many exciting and cool animation shots.
But the male and female protagonists changed from Fang Zuming and Wang Ziwen to Zhang Yunlong and Yuan Shanshan.
There is no Jackie Chan from Hong Kong or Wang Shuo from Beijing to help.
Li Mingyang felt that Li Xianji was suspicious.
But... no matter how bad the box office is, it won't be worse than The Adventures of Li Xianji in the previous life!
The total box office of The Adventures of Li Xianji was only over 8 million...
(End of chapter)