China Entertainment started from cutting off the Hu in 1995

Many people in the classroom looked at each other, and a girl with short hair and a smart look said directly:

I don't think it's necessary. Che 44 is so well written. I would definitely not accept it if it hadn't been elected!

With this girl taking the lead, many others responded.

But then a boy raised his hand and said:

I 100% admire the script of Che 44, but Junior Brother Wu has just entered college for a month. Can he be a good director?

Wang Hongwei, aren't you also from the literature department? When it comes to being a director, you are also a newcomer, right?! the short-haired girl retorted.

Wu Yuchen turned his head and looked along the voice. It turned out that the boy speaking was Wang Hongwei!

Wang Hongwei is Lao Jia's favorite actor. The one who plays Xiao Wu even left the country naked in the movie, which can be regarded as a dedication to art.

I don't mean anything else. After all, everyone admires the script, and Junior Brother Wu also has the most say. I just want everyone to think about how to film it well.

Wang Hongwei explained with a silly smile.

If you want to ask Wang Hongwei if he has any selfish motives for saying this, he definitely does!

But his selfishness is not for himself, but for his good friend Jia Zhangke.

As Jia Zhangke's friend and roommate, Wang Hongwei knows his thoughts best. He knew that Jia Zhangke was very eager for this opportunity, so he wanted to help his good friend get it.

Wu Yuchen raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, not panicking at all.

He stood up on his own initiative and clapped his hands, attracting everyone's attention.

“Thank you all for your love for my script.

Compared to choosing a director, I think there is one issue that is more important.

Wu Yuchen simply changed the subject without answering Wang Hongwei's question just now.

The students in the classroom all looked at Wu Yuchen, wondering what the more important question was.

Wu Yuchen thought to himself, what a group of lovely students who only have dreams in their hearts and just do what they say!

Wu Yuchen glanced at everyone:

money!

Have you ever carefully calculated how much money it will cost to make this short film?

Everyone was stunned for a moment when they heard this. They didn't expect Wu Yuchen to talk about such a realistic issue.

The Youth Film Group is a small group formed by a group of young people who gather for their interests, hobbies, and ideals.

Their biggest characteristic is that they are full of passion and do what they say. This has led to the fact that no one has ever considered the topic of how much money to make a movie before.

But now that this issue was raised by Wu Yuchen, everyone had to face it, but for a while they looked at each other and couldn't tell a number.

Wu Yuchen smiled:

“We can do it one by one.

First of all, how long do you think our short film is?

Everyone discussed it all, and they all felt that although it was a short film, it should not be too short, at least 30 minutes.

Wu Yuchen looked at it, this is another shortcoming of inexperienced newcomers, greedy for too much!

Wu Yuchen nodded and did not refute, but continued to ask:

Then do you think, with our experience and ability, how many days can it take to complete the filming?

Wu Yuchen looked at Jia Zhangke.

Jia Zhangke pondered for a moment: We have no experience before. Some directors are fast, and some directors are slow. How about we take an average and calculate it based on 10 days?

Everyone had no objections after hearing this. According to the calculation of one month to shoot a 90-minute feature film, 30 minutes and 10 days is just right.

Wu Yuchen smiled and nodded, and then said:

Then let me do the math for you.

Let’s talk about the cost of film first.

At present, the film ratio required by our domestic mature directors is three to one to four to one.

We have no experience, can I relax it to six to one?

That means that to shoot a 30-minute short film, 180 minutes of film will be used.

Nowadays, 35mm and 16mm films are commonly used when making movies.

A 400-foot reel of 35mm film currently costs 1,500 yuan and can shoot for 4 minutes.

A 1,000-foot reel of 16mm film costs 1,200 yuan and can shoot for 10 minutes.

Shooting on 35mm film was too expensive and we couldn't afford it.

Calculated based on 16mm film, 180 minutes requires 18 reels, each reel costs 1,200, totaling 21,600 yuan.

This is just shooting. If you include the post-production price of editing, developing, mixing and making the master film, it is much more expensive than film!

Including the film money, I calculated the total as 50,000 yuan.

Speaking of this, these students were already shocked, but Wu Yuchen didn't stop before he stretched out another finger:

“Let’s talk about the shooting equipment.

The rental price for a 16mm camera is 1,000 yuan per day.

Nagra's tape recorder costs at least 500 yuan a day.

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There are also the salaries of the participating actors, labor costs of the filming crew, food and drink expenses, prop rental, etc., which are at least 1,000 yuan per day.

This adds up to at least 4,000 yuan every day, and then we have to shoot for 10 days in total, 40,000 yuan.

Finally, Wu Yuchen looked around everyone and concluded:

“According to the requirements just now, if we want to shoot this short film, we need at least 90,000 yuan.

If something unexpected happens, it will start at 100,000 yuan!

A group of people in the classroom were dumbfounded by Wu Yuchen. They were just a group of students. Although many of them worked part-time jobs, how could they afford 100,000 yuan?

It’s only 1995, and most people only earn a few hundred a month!

They usually read countless films together, give advice and write passionately.

We originally wanted to work together to produce a dazzling and shocking work, but we didn’t expect that the first hurdle of this reality would make us despair!

Everyone stared at each other, speechless.

It was like a hot fire was poured with cold water, and the atmosphere in the entire classroom fell silent.

Wu Yuchen used reality to teach these students a lesson.

At the same time, he also lamented that filming movies in the film era was so expensive and the threshold was so high!

These days, domestic directors are not as rich and willful as those in Hollywood, so they save on film. Even Lao Mouzi tries to keep it within 1:5.

Not everyone is like Jiang Wen. In his first work as a transformed director, Sunny Days, he dared to shoot 250,000 feet of film, and the film-to-film ratio reached an astonishing 1:15. One of the scenes was even more so because of a The lens took 1,300 meters of film!

Wu Yuchen calculated that Jiang Wenguang spent 1.01 million on film, which was enough for many directors to make two films.

It's not like in the digital age, Ning Hao bought a 90-minute Incense for 30,000 yuan with a DV.

However, Wu Yuchen looked at some people who looked a little downcast, and knew not to hit these people too hard, otherwise how could they be deceived... Ahem, call on everyone to crowdfund?

Don't worry, everyone, the movie can be made! Wu Yuchen raised his hand and said with a smile.

Seeing Wu Yuchen exuding a calm and confident temperament, many people subconsciously felt happy and wanted to hear what he could do.

Wu Yuchen handed the script in his hand to Jia Zhangke: Everyone can take a look at my script first.

The price is not made up, it comes from Lao Jia's interview about the filming process of Going Home from the Mountain