Middle Age: A Leisurely Life in the Entertainment Industry

Chapter 93 "Teacher, Hello" (for further reading)
"It's not that I won't give you money. Their production team is currently on a very tight budget. They can barely finish the film and probably don't even have much promotional expenses, so he wants to pay you this money through future box office revenue." Mingmei hurriedly added.

owe first?

"What if he loses at the box office and doesn't make any money? Doesn't that mean I also lose money?" Yu Dongqing said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"Brother-in-law!" Ming Mei said angrily, "I think my senior is very talented, and the movie I made will definitely not be a loss!"

"Really? What movie did you make as a senior?" Yu Dongqing asked casually while driving.

"It's a movie that reflects the campus life in the 80s. The movie has already been finished. I watched some of the plot. It has a sense of age and is very different from the popular youth movies on the market. Even if it doesn't become a big hit, it won't lose money!"

80s campus story?

Yu Dongqing suddenly remembered that they were fishing with Liu Yimin and the others at the Shangzhuang Reservoir on the National Day, and ran into a crew filming a film, which seemed to be a campus story in the 80s.

At that time, Yu Dongqing watched it for a while and felt that the filming was quite good.

Could it be this one?
Yu Dongqing immediately became interested.

"Liangmei, what's the name of the movie? Can you let me watch the movie and I'll decide?"

"The title of the film is "Hello, Teacher". If so, I'll call and ask my senior right away!"

After Mingmei finished speaking, she took out her mobile phone to make a call, and hung up after a while.

"My senior said yes, but when will you be free?"

"I'm free every day." Yu Dongqing smiled and replied, "Tomorrow afternoon."

"You do not have to work?"

"People who are about to leave, what class do they work?"

Seven Trees Creative Park.

Located in Chaoyang QU Dongba, it was originally one of the top ten industrial areas in Yanjing’s industrial period, and the two parks next door, Shouchuang Langyuan, used to be Yanjing Textile Warehouse and Yanjing Native Products Warehouse. The butterflies in the two old reservoir areas changed and counterattacked.

According to incomplete statistics from industry insiders, the post-production output of film and television dramas undertaken by the settled film and television production enterprises accounts for nearly 60% of the country's share, and the scale of industrial agglomeration is far ahead in China.

And the post-production of the "Teacher, Hello" crew is also here.

Of course, they were short of funds, and they couldn't afford to hire a powerful film and television post-production company like Dingsheng Jiahe, so they just signed contracts with small companies.

Director Wang Dongsheng stays here day and night to supervise and guide film editing, including recording, special effects and film dubbing. At the same time, with him is producer Li Wan, around 40 years old, who is mainly responsible for attracting investment.

Both of them were from Chinese opera, and they knew each other at school. Li Wan was three years older than Wang Dongsheng.After graduating and working as a director for several years, he turned into a producer.

In the room of a small hotel just opposite the industrial park, the two were devouring instant noodles.Takeaway is too expensive, but instant noodles are affordable.

"Dongsheng, I'm poor every time I cooperate with you in filming." Li Wan sighed: "Damn it, I eat instant noodles every day."

"You can't blame me, can you? Who told you not to invest?" Wang Dongsheng rolled his eyes at him.

The two have been friends for almost ten years, so they talk more casually.

Li Wan's eyes widened when he heard this:

"Dongsheng, you have no conscience. For your film, I used all kinds of connections. I begged my grandpa to tell my grandma. I managed to get 600 million investment, and I even put 100 million into it!"

"I can't help it. That's how I make movies. Not only do you lose money, but you also have to pay for it." Wang Dongsheng laughed at himself.

"Hey, if you like to make youth films, you can make modern ones, such as love breakups, abortions, fights, whatever you want, and you can make money if you use them all! But you insist on making nostalgic films of the 80s! A child cannot be taught."

Li Wan looked like he hated iron for being weak.

"I can't take pictures." Wang Dongsheng replied lightly.

Wang Dongsheng has been making films for ten years, and he has not made many films. They are all low-cost films and they are all based on nostalgia. Most of them have not made any money, and some have even lost money.

Including this "Teacher, Hello", many investors were not optimistic and were unwilling to pay for it. Wang Dongsheng was forced to find his friend Li Wan in the end.

After reading the script, Li Wan thought it was pretty good, so he decided to help his brother again and became a producer.

"Okay, let's not talk about this." Li Wan changed the subject: "Now we have less than 100 million funds in our account, so we really have to save money, or the later promotional expenses will be gone."

Li Wan sighed after finishing speaking.

Movie promotion is also very important.

As the saying goes, the smell of wine is also afraid of deep alleys, and of course good movies are also afraid of being ignored.

A bad movie with good publicity in the early stage can fool everyone to the cinema in just two or three days, and it can gross over [-] million at the box office. A movie with little publicity is released for half a month and no one cares about it. The box office of the next painting is only a few million, which is the importance of movie promotion.

Hearing Li Wan's words, Wang Dongsheng smiled and comforted him and said, "No, are we saving money? Eating instant noodles, and I asked our school girl Mingmei to help with the theme song."

"I've heard the song "Youth Jinshi". It is very popular and will help increase the popularity of our movie, and the song itself fits the movie we made. I wonder how much Yu Dongqing is asking for?"

"What people write has to be sung by others, and the copyright royalties include the cost of singing, at least 30 yuan?" Wang Dongsheng said after pondering.

"Fuck! I only plan to pay 10 yuan!" Li Wan's eyes widened: "Why don't you find Mingmei?"

You miser!Do you also respect the fruits of other people's labor?

But thinking that Li Wan was actually saving himself, he couldn't say that, he just sighed.

"Forget it, are you willing to accept our terms?" Li Wan wiped his mouth and stood up after drinking the last sip of noodle soup.

"Go, start working!"

The next morning, Yu Dongqing went to the company to fish for a whole morning, edited a piece of BGM for a TV series, drove immediately at noon, first went to the Chinese opera campus, picked up Mingmei, and then went to Qikeshu together.

It was snowing outside and it was cold.

When they arrived at Qikeshu Creative Park, the two found the production company located in the east according to the address given by the other party. In an office on the second floor, they met director Wang Dongsheng and producer Li Wan.

Sure enough, it was the director I met when I was fishing in the reservoir that day.

But Yu Dongqing didn't say that, after a brief introduction and greetings, he proposed to watch the movie.

Wang Dongsheng agreed.

After typing on the computer on the table, Wang Dongsheng stuffed a USB flash drive, and said to Yu Dongqing with a smile: "Mr. Yu, the sound effect has not been processed at all, it can only be regarded as a semi-finished product, don't be surprised."

"It's okay, I'm just looking around."

The movie starts playing soon.

"Hello, teacher"

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