Growing up as a male god: After listening to the advice, I became a top-notch guy

The Vitality 28 Factory is just one side.

"Cast Away" is now so popular that in just five days since its release, the total number of views on the Douishou platform has exceeded 50 million.

With the emergence of editing and secondary creation in the film and television areas of major platforms, the film has become quite popular.

Under this huge heat, Tongfeng's soft planting effect is outstanding, and the stock price has risen continuously. It can be said that it is a gem.

After seeing Li Youzhi's "Investment Announcement" on Weibo, many domestic product manufacturers urgently started implant design.

In the next few days, Li Youzhi and a group of villains began preparations for the film.

According to the script of "Bring Her Eyes", the story is divided into three acts. It involves scenes that require important scenery, mainly the "protagonist's home", "equipment research center", "future hotel" and "future aircraft interior".

In three days, the project team rented a digital studio in Rongdian Film and Television City, and collected more than 700 set props from the Prop City and Prop Street in Rongdian.

A quarter of the original budget of 20 million was immediately wiped out - but this is just the beginning...

Large-scale decoration is not allowed in the digital studio of the film and television city. Close-up scenes such as the "Equipment Research Center", "Protagonist's Home" and "Future Hotel" cannot be rendered entirely with green screens, so physical decoration is required.

Agricultural University has a department of civil engineering, so there is no shortage of connections in this area.

However, even with the favor of the school, the prices given by several alumni who opened a decoration company after seeing the crew's decoration renderings and the construction period required by Li Youzhi still shocked the group of rebellious people at Heguang Culture;

The decoration cost for these three main scenes alone is more than one million!

In this regard, it must be said that several senior brothers took care of it, and there was no additional charge for the dismantling part after the filming.

More than seven million yuan has been spent, and the crew has not even seen a sweet and sour one!

Most of the props I bought were of poor quality. For example, the aviation suit props sold in Rongdian were all printed with the NASA logo and the Stars and Stripes. Many details need to be transformed according to the plot, which is an expense.

In fact, this is also a pain point for domestic science fiction-themed movies;

Science fiction movies place too much emphasis on worldview expression, so the versatility of props and scenery is very low, and they cannot form a large-scale film and television industry.

Almost everything needs to be made by the crew themselves.

In this regard, science fiction themes are completely incomparable with costume dramas and modern dramas.

For example, the Daming Palace scenic spot in Rongdian can be used to shoot both dynasty dramas and fantasy fairy tales. It only needs slight changes in the internal and external scenery to make it applicable. There is a rooster bowl in Stephen Chow's movie, and after filming "The Trial of Death" and "The Gambler"... it would not work in science fiction.

But the props and scenery are still very expensive. The real money burner is the special effects!

The special effects part of "Bring Her Eyes" can be done by Wako Digital Studio, but the construction period is expected to be delayed to more than six months.

According to Li Youzhi's idea, he would cooperate with several large digital studios in Rongdian, divide the special effects part into several segments and outsource them, and then Heguang Digital would be responsible for one part and the overall editing.

The level of special effects studios in Rongdian is particularly divided between two levels. Most of the crews use small studios, that is, special effects professionals with 50 cents. Special effects studios like this, with better quality, basically cost 30,000 to 50,000 yuan per minute.

But some jobs are better, and studios that specialize in outsourcing foreign film and television crews are not priced at this price.

Studios like this basically charge by the frame. Depending on the rendering volume and construction period requirements, one frame basically costs 800 to 1,500.

How long is one frame?

One-twelfth of a second!

According to the script of "Bring Her Eyes", this short and medium-sized film, which is expected to be thirty minutes long, requires a full sixteen minutes of rendering... Even if the reserved materials for editing are not taken into account, there is no material waste in all rendered scenes. On average, Based on the unit price of one thousand yuan per frame, the special effects part requires nearly 12 million yuan!

The crew hasn't even started shooting yet, and the budget is basically guaranteed to be exceeded.

After a week, Liu Meng, Zhou Yuan and Wang Hui, who were in charge of the preparations, were exhausted just spending money.

The financial situation of the entire crew is also like that of a young senior catheter-before getting married and doing business, both sides of the family are already severely overdrawn.

Tongchen Society, Yifu Activity Room.

"Holy shit! Brother Zhi, we have already set a budget of 20 million yuan. Just now, Sister Yu said that the existing money in the account cannot be touched anymore. If we touch it again, we will have no money to pay for the special effects!"

"My mouth is numb... This science fiction is so expensive that I can burn paper for my grandpa during the Qingming Festival! It's a huge sum of 20 million, I'm going to waste it! "

"Spending money is a trivial matter, but no matter how much money I spend, I still feel like it's not enough. What the hell is this! Brother Zhi, the feeling I've had over the past two days is like I've turned into a three-year-old boy. The adults are fascinated... This money spent feels like a toothpick stirring a big vat. No matter how hard you try, you can't get it to the end! How about you tell Party A's father and let them invest some money? Otherwise, if we want to finish filming this scene, I will have no choice but to dress up as women and fly across the country!"

Squatting in the digital studio of Rongdian Film and Television City, looking at the small mountains of soft props sent by various brands in the past two days, and hearing the bitter words from Liu Meng and Zhou Yuan behind him, Li Youzhi frowned. pick.

Why,

Young people are impetuous and do not look at problems from a developmental perspective.

When is it not enough to make money?

When it comes to movies, sometimes it's like a scumbag trying to catch a girl. A bottle of ace of spades will cause thunder and lightning.

But sometimes, you can also talk about love. Cultivate the relationship first, and then wait until the relationship is established... and then stab the knife to see the red!

With this in mind, Li Youzhi placed the bag of dirty laundry detergent in his hand back on the floor and patted the non-existent dust on his hands.

He has already divided all the more than 100 soft planting props he has received from brands into different categories.

Generally speaking, these soft planting props are divided into three major categories;

1. Poor and scumbag domestic brands that are about to go bankrupt, such as Vitality 20 and Bee Flower.

2. Foreign brands that are so rich that they pretend to be domestic products and promote soft products, such as Zhonghua and Dabao.

3. You are extremely rich, but you are reluctant to spend money on promotion, and come to use your own soft-planted real domestic brands...such as the shameless China Post!

"How is the construction of the three scenes of the protagonist's home, equipment research and development center, and future hotel required for the first act?"

After brushing aside the three piles of soft plant props, Li Youzhi asked lightly.

"The decoration is almost complete. Although the details have not been finished yet, and there may be a bit of formaldehyde smell... but it is no problem for shooting."

After hearing Wang Hui's report, Li Youzhi nodded and pointed at the three piles of props on the ground.

"Put away these props and use them to make the scenery later. We will start shooting the first scene in the afternoon."

Wang Hui blinked when he saw Li Youzhi pointing at the props that didn't look very careless and showed a sense of poverty.

"Okay, I'll take the brothers from the prop team to do it soon. But Brother Zhi... what about these two piles? How to deal with them?"

"Throw this pile away, or give it to the brothers for their own use. As for this pile... wait until they unlock the paid mode."

Pointing to the pile of fake domestic products, Li Youzhi locked his eyes on the pile of props from China Post and narrowed his eyes.

Brother Zhi can accept free prostitution, but he cannot accept free prostitution from those who have the ability to pay!

wrong,

This cannot be called free prostitution.

You can obviously afford the cost of soft implants, but you still come here to enjoy Brother Zhi's films. This is completely a hooliganism!

With a sneer, Li Youzhi took out his mobile phone and turned on his shaking hands.

A full week has passed since the announcement of preparations for a new film.

Under the strong influence of "Cast Away", although I haven't made any news this week, my popularity in the comment area is still at an active and high level.

However, the discussion about "Cast Away" in the comment area of ​​Shakeshou at this time is obviously less than the two days when the movie was first released.

More and more Leziren netizens are discussing Li Youzhi’s new film, which has just prepared for its first screening!

"It's the seventh day since my little brother disappeared. I miss him."

"Hahaha, I haven't shown my face this week. I guess the new movie is already being shot, right?"

"Hahaha, did you meet my brother on the first day? If the filming of the movie had started, he would have been hooked by now! There is no movement yet. I seriously suspect that he felt that the budget of 20 million was not enough, so he took the money and ran away. Got it!"

"Haha, I think so too! When I saw a guy talking about making a commercial for rice, and the theme was science fiction, I felt that this time it was 80% unreliable. The reason why "Cast Away" became a success is because of the guy with the desert island theme. There's life, and movies don't cost much to make.

Shunfeng's investment of 15 million is considered a large-scale production for this kind of subject. But 20 million is a small cost for science fiction. It would be better if I could find other soft implants, but this guy just made an announcement saying that soft implants are free, hahaha... I bet two Pack of spicy strips, this guy's intestines must be full of regret now! "

hiss,

Li Youzhi wrinkled his nose as he saw a group of fun-loving people in the comment area making up their own negative rumors again.

Damn it, is Brother Zhi this level in your eyes?

With this in mind, he turned on his camera, took a photo of the interior of the studio that was being renovated, and the soft props that were going to be shipped out soon, and sent them directly to Shakeshou!

[My new sci-fi themed film "Bring Her Eyes" is officially launched today. The film will adopt everyone's previous suggestions and be released for free in sequential shooting segments. Please stay tuned! 】

After posting the post to prove that he didn't run away, Li Youzhi didn't bother to read the comments that immediately boiled over under the post. He casually put his cell phone in his pocket and walked to the set. Together with Wang Hui, Zhou Yu and others, he arranged the interior of the first scene and created his own science fiction world.

…

Ten days later.

Beijing, in front of the gate of the State Film Administration.

"This time the list of "Cast Away" Busan Film Festival exhibitors is really troublesome to Wang Ju. If you have time to go to Shanghai, be sure to let me know and give me a chance to thank Wang Ju!"

“Mr. Xu’s words are serious. In the past two years, online short video platforms like you have become more and more influential, with an increasing number of users. They have become an online distribution channel that cannot be underestimated. For the Douishou platform Our film bureau must support the cultural distribution strategy. On a larger scale, this is also opening up a new development path for our domestic films!

Besides, I really wasn't of much help this time. Li Youzhi, a young man who has been very active in the film and television industry in the past two years, has long been on the radar of our bureau. Several of the main theme works this young man has shot before have aroused good responses on the Internet. For young filmmakers like this, even if you, Mr. Xu, don't say hello to us and want to enter international film festivals, we still have to take care of them. "

Standing opposite Wang Xintian, Xu Haonian, who is now the general manager of the Distribution Department of Doushou Culture, laughed as he listened to the smiling politeness of the deputy director of the State Administration of Film.

"Indeed, we had the same idea when this young man published his works on our platform. Among the content creators on Douishou, this young man is the most outstanding one who can both generate traffic and maintain a positive image. Our platform We also have ideas here to cooperate more with him in content creation and provide traffic support and creative support."

Hearing what Xu Haonian said, Wang Xintian smiled and nodded.

"If the management is as aware as your platform, then our work, especially the review work, will be easier. After the film "Cast Away", this Li Youzhi will have to fight with Dou A collaborative project?"

"Not yet. The release period of "Cast Away" on our platform is two months. The popularity of this project is okay for the time being. We have no plans for the next step. However, he is currently working on a science fiction project. I read that it is Filming is in progress and it will probably be released soon.”

"Well?"

Hearing that Li Youzhi started science fiction, Wang Xintian had a strange smile on his face.

"Hey, what's wrong with this kid? The realistic themes and main themes are so good, why do you still jump into this fire pit? We just made statistics on movie types last month, and in the past six months, 540 movies were submitted for review in China and won the Dragon Award. Among the movies, there are only three science fiction movies.

These are all small productions with less than 5 million yuan. Nowadays, whenever domestic science fiction is released, the audience likes to compare it with foreign science fiction masterpieces... There is a market for this subject in China, but it is not easy to do. "

"Hi,"

Faced with Wang Xintian's concerns, Xu Haonian smiled and shook his head.

"As a young man, he has many ideas and his thoughts are jumping. I have contacted him before and asked him to continue to promote and distribute this science fiction work online and share on-demand services. But this guy insisted on distributing it for free in installments. I heard that the production costs are quite tight... I don’t know what he thinks.”

Bang!

Just as Xu Haonian was speaking, the cell phone in his hand suddenly rang.

Glancing at the phone screen, Xu Haonian grinned when he saw the update prompt from Li Youzhi shaking his hands.

"Look, it's also said that Cao Cao Cao Cao has arrived. I just mentioned this guy's work, and now it's released!"

With that said, Xu Haonian turned on his phone and clicked on the video that Li Youzhi had just uploaded.

As the title of "Bring Her Eyes" flashed, a near-future science fiction-style room appeared in front of Wang Xintian and Xu Haonian.

"Today's news is broadcast below; my country's Sixth Five-Year Plan for Low Earth Orbit has achieved outstanding results, and the current [Xinghai] low Earth orbit infrastructure project has come to a perfect conclusion..."

"Yo!"

Stretching his neck, Wang Xintian blinked as he looked at the messy but sci-fi-style room in the picture and the future news broadcast with voiceover.

The texture and futuristic creation of this opening scene... are a bit down to earth!