After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 389 Witch Late Stage
"No way, is it that bad?"

"It's OK to have him as an assistant director, he's very good at communicating and can get along with anyone, but when he's a director he can't control people, everyone just laughs with him."

"Haha, that's the opposite of you!"

"So I worked well with him, but it's okay, I'll find a new one."

"The extras?"

"Gao Dajun."

"What to do now?"

"Head of the group."

Li Mingyang took a sip of beer and frowned, "Did he select all the extras in the witch show?"

"Yes, I think he's pretty good at picking people."

"He's more than capable, he's very talented. Let him be the casting director in the future."

After One Punch Man became a huge success, other companies were trying to poach people, even Bernardo took action. Li Mingyang pretended not to care, but how could he not care?

So he and Lao Wu discussed it and decided to keep the most needed storyboard artists, the most core screenwriters, and the most important director team, and keep the rest if possible.

When a movie starts shooting, the director team will be the core, and people will be drawn from various studios of the company, or recruited from outside.

Li Mingyang and Wu Zhikui both have the ability to control the overall situation. A crew does not need too many voices, two are enough.

Everyone else is just a tool.

If it works, use it; if it doesn’t, change it.

A truly great director only needs to take care of the core team. There are too many details that can be replaced.

"I'll go to Dali tomorrow night. I'll leave the post-production editing and music to Guo Fan, and you'll be in charge of the special effects."

"I'm good at special effects? Isn't that the other way around? I'm good at editing and composing music, and he's good at special effects."

"He likes to think about special effects, but there is not enough time. I don't need such detailed special effects. It's okay for the witch to be a little rough and wild. The joint efforts of multiple companies 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’s all over and he can’t rest anymore.

……

In less than a month, the filming of The Witch was completed, but post-production was a huge project.

"Huh? I'm in charge of editing and composing the music. Did Director Li make a mistake? I can't do it!" Guo Fan said in surprise.

"If you don't know how, just learn. I don't want to do special effects yet."

Guo Fan said cunningly: "Then let's switch. I'll help you with the special effects, and you can help me with the editing and music."

"Director Li must have a reason for doing that... Hurry up and do it. If you don't know how to do it, you can learn. They all know how to do it."

Old Wu turned on his computer and started contacting the outsourcing company.

Mingyang Entertainment is one of the few domestic film and television companies that pays the final payment. Almost all well-known special effects suppliers in the country are willing to cooperate with Mingyang Entertainment for a long time.

Old Wu had specially set up a group, added all these high-quality suppliers to the group, and assigned them 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 they are easy to fool, etc.

[Witch special effects 3000 million, please contact us if you are interested. ]

After Old Wu sent the message, even though it was past four in the morning, the group exploded instantly.

Old Wu doesn't like nonsense and asks them to send someone to bid tomorrow. The bidding date is seven o'clock tomorrow night.

After the message was sent, Lao Wu went to pour a cup of black coffee and called the eight team leaders of the special effects department to a meeting.

Everyone was comparing storyboards and analyzing special effects requirements.

Special effects production can be said to be the link in the film and television industry with the most complex communication costs.

Old Wu is busy with special effects requirements.

On the other side, Guo Fan was editing the storyboards and scripts.

For Li Mingyang's films, the final editing rights are in his own hands.

However, before the final cut was made, others worked on a rough cut based on the storyboard.

You can't delete randomly, you have to follow the storyboard.

It sounds simple, but it is actually very troublesome.

We need to find out the goof shots, the flaws in the synchronization of sound and picture, organize the entire shooting material according to the storyboard, etc...

Overall, it's a meticulous job.

Plus, there’s also the soundtrack involved.

Movies are a combination of visuals and sounds.

The importance of music cannot be overstated.

It carries the most dreamy and irrational part of the movie, affecting every audience subconsciously.

It can adjust the rhythm of the film by changing the speed and strength of the music, making the film's narrative more smooth and layered.

Compared to visual effects, it is easy to get started with soundtracks, but it is extremely difficult to make good soundtracks.

Generally, they rely on copying... the copyright is not expensive. They all have extremely rich soundtrack libraries, so rich that Guo Fan, who is good at special effects, has eyes that hurt.

The most important thing about the soundtrack is that it fits the tone of the movie. Guo Fan had never participated in any filming, so he could only analyze and organize the script, storyboards, and shooting materials back and forth.

at noon.

Li Mingyang was awakened by the alarm clock and Zhang Wei at the same time. The first thing he did when he woke up was to ask Zhang Wei to call Wu Zhikui and Guo Fan over.

Then I drank and waited for someone.

By the time the two men arrived, Li Mingyang had already finished two bottles of beer and was completely sober.

"Sister Zhang, close the door."

Zhang Wei closed the door but did not leave.

"Sister Zhang, have you finished the plan for the 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 paper and pen on the table, listened to the two people's work reports while writing the witch plan and occasionally asked a few questions.

More than an hour later.

Li Mingyang handed the plan to Old Wu. "The total budget for Witch is 50 million. The filming cost about 12 million. After deducting the wages behind the scenes, food, clothing, housing and transportation, there is still about 35 million left."

"You have about a month to spend this money. It's worth it. Time is running out. I hope you'll have done almost everything by the time I come back."

"Do you want to do the accounting?" Wu Zhikui asked.

"Need not."

"Not aiming high, I understand, but not aiming low?" Guo Fan scratched his head.

It has become popular in domestic films recently to make a small profit with a big investment.

"China Film Group invested only 5 million. We don't have any backers, and Guangguang will announce the profitability of the film this year. We can't hide it anymore, so we just need to follow the normal process." Li Mingyang said, and glanced at Guo Fan. "Old Guo, the company has two film projects. You pick one to be responsible for."

Guo Fan was speechless. He loved movies and liked being a director.

But Li Mingyang gave me too many opportunities!

he is so tired...

"Okay." Guo Fan straightened his back and said in a loud voice.

"Old Wu, find someone to take over the other project as soon as possible. If there is really no one to take over, then withdraw."

"The pay for movies has skyrocketed this year. Three million yuan to make a movie is not enough to hire a decent star..." said Old Wu.

"It's just to let everyone feel how hard it is to attract investment. Of course, if someone can stand out, that would be great too."

After chatting for a while, Li Mingyang was about to leave.

Guo Fan hesitated for a moment, then stood up and asked Li Xianji whether his application had passed the review.

"It should be no problem to pass the review. When are you going to schedule it?"

"How do you like your summer vacation?"

"You want to fight against Transformer 3?"

I'm not crazy.

Hollywood + ticket subsidies are simply a disaster!
"It looks like Transformers will be released in mid-July. I think it will be released on July 7st."

"Bet for a week?"

"Ah."

"I'll ask for you later."

There are only a few good schedules in China.

Compared to previous years, this year's summer season is not very lively, because Transformers 3 is scheduled to be released in mid-July... Hollywood movies are avoiding it...

The popular schedule is indeed a good opportunity to boost the box office.

Li Xianji is a movie for young people, very suitable for the summer season.

If the reputation is good, it can really be a box office hit.

The previous big bad movie "Far Cry" was released in early July this year and earned nearly 9000 million at the box office.

Guo Fan used the resources of Mingyang Entertainment to operate Li Xianji.

Li Mingyang has seen it and found it better than the original film. Most importantly, the animation is not perfunctory and there are many exciting and cool animation shots.

But the male and female protagonists changed from Jaycee Chan and Wang Ziwen to Zhang Yunlong and Yuan Shanshan.

There is no Jackie Chan from the Hong Kong circle and Wang Shuo from the Beijing circle to help.

Li Mingyang felt that Li Xianji's plan was in jeopardy.

However... 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 this chapter)