Bai Baoting took a car to the film crew of his Shengshi Pictures to see the filming progress of the movie "The Swordsman" he invested in.
The movie "The Swordsman" is a theme and script that Bai Baoting personally finalized. The content of the story is very simple. It tells the story of a group of bandits who do all kinds of evil and are entrenched in the mountains of a certain area.
These bandits killed, burned, looted, oppressed good people, and committed all kinds of evil. The local people have always been angry and dare not speak out, so they can only swallow their anger.
Until the arrival of a swordsman with superb martial arts skills. This knight with an extremely sense of justice, with the three-foot green-edged sword in his hand, single-handedly picked off the entire bandit house, punished evil and promoted good, punished rape and eliminated evil.
story.
Of course, in this process, there are naturally some personal relationships between children and the like, which makes the story very full and round. Love is the most desirable thing since ancient times.
The stories and scripts of this kind of old plot are already obsolete in later generations. At some point, a casual writer can write a lot of them.
But for this period, such a story is still very fresh, especially when presented in the form of a movie, it is bound to become a hit.
Bai Baoting firmly believes in this. Of course, the reason why he made a movie like "The Swordsman" is because his funds are really limited and there is no way to compare with Daming Pictures, so he does not dare to shoot large-scale historical movies.
theme movie.
That kind of investment is really too big.
Not to mention anything else, the number of actors required is very large. A scene that often involves tens of thousands of people would not be able to support a scene without a few thousand people. After all, we are still in an era without special effects in movies.
Recruiting several thousand actors, even temporary actors, would cost at least several thousand taels of silver based on Ming's current salary level, and if the filming takes a long time, this number will skyrocket.
It can be completed in a few days, and a few thousand taels is almost enough, but this is simply impossible. A movie can take several months to shoot, so tens of thousands of taels of silver have been poured into it all at once.
In addition, there are costumes, props, scenes, etc., all of which require money.
Bai Baoting simply can't afford it.
But shooting martial arts movies is different. Find a copycat and hire one or two hundred people to shoot a movie. The investment is small, and the content of the shooting is not complicated. There is no need to be elaborate and it can be completed easily.
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What he wants now is speed, striving for an early release, striving to have the film released in Beijing and Tianjin by the end of this year, so as to earn back the money invested.
On the filming scene of "The Swordsman", a handsome knight wearing white clothes and holding a long sword, his movements are handsome and unrestrained, the sword in his hand is very sharp, and he quickly kills the gangsters in the Evil Tiger Village. You can tell at a glance that this actor should
They are selected from professional martial arts experts and have extremely good martial arts skills.
At the same time, these people who played the role of bandits seemed to have martial arts skills. They were all disciples invited by the crew from a martial arts master. Even their master was providing martial arts guidance.
What kind of actions are in line with actual combat, and at the same time can present exciting aspects from a movie perspective, so that it can be more attractive to consumers and make people enjoy watching it.
The battle continued and was intense. In the end, the bandits from the Evil Tiger Village pulled the knight's beloved woman out as a hostage and asked the knight to surrender. However, the knight's beloved woman decisively chose to hit the knife point in order not to drag down her beloved.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, the knight relied on a set of handsome Qinggong skills to not only successfully save his beloved woman, but also to deal with the last few big bandits, ushering in the finale in the most perfect way.
"good!"
"Perfect!"
With the director's shout of approval, the filming of the film was completed, even though it was unfamiliar, stumbling, and starting over again from the beginning.
But in the end, the filming of the film was completed, fulfilling the great trust of the owner Bai Baoting.
"Very good!"
When Bai Baoting came to the scene and saw that the filming of the movie was completed, he shouted with joy. Immediately, his employees also saluted Bai Baoting one after another.
"I'm still worried about whether you can finish filming on time."
"Now that the filming is finished, I feel relieved."
"We will record more of the movie as soon as possible. We will release it during the New Year holiday. It will definitely become a hit!"
Bai Baoting also quickly gave instructions to the employees of his firm.
During the Chinese New Year, almost all people in Ming Dynasty have a long holiday of half a month. After working hard for a year, the spending power of people in Ming Dynasty during the Chinese New Year is very scary.
If you have time and money, the movies released during the Chinese New Year are definitely more profitable than the movies released on ordinary days. You must know that the stadiums, theaters, racetracks, casinos, etc. in the Beijing-Tianjin area are extremely popular during the Chinese New Year.
Business is extremely prosperous and lively, and it is the most profitable time of the year.
Bai Baoting hurriedly returned to the capital with the completed filming of "The Swordsman", and then began to contact major stadiums, hoping to show his movie in the stadiums.
However, there is no way for the stadium to agree to cooperate with Bai Baoting, because Daming Pictures already has three movies released during the Chinese New Year.
With the popularity and sales of the first movie, these stadiums quickly signed a cooperation with Daming Pictures. At the same time, during the Chinese New Year, the football matches in the stadium were also very frequent and intensive. There was no way to cooperate with Bai Baoting.
Cooperate here.
This made Bai Baoting very anxious. If it couldn't be shown in a large stadium, it would be difficult to find some places to show the movie.
This made Bai Baoting anxious. In the end, he had no choice but to cooperate with some schools. During the Chinese New Year, the schools were already on holiday.
In general, there are many classrooms in schools, as well as large playgrounds. The classrooms can be used to show movies during the day as well as at night as long as the windows are covered.
And because it's inside a classroom, it's warmer and more comfortable than in an open area, so you won't be half cold to death just watching a movie.
After signing 50-50 ticket agreements with some schools, Bai Baoting also successfully obtained the right to use some schools in the Beijing-Tianjin area during the Chinese New Year.
"Listen to me."
"Each group will go to the streets and alleys of Beijing to carry this sign and promote advertisements. They must try to let as many people know about our movie "The Swordsman" and let everyone know that even during the day
You can also go to the movies.”
In terms of promoting the movie, Bai Baoting naturally did not have the money to place advertisements in newspapers, so he could only ask his clerks and employees to divide into groups of three or five to carry advertisements and banners made of cloth in the Beijing-Tianjin area.
We constantly go to the streets and alleys to promote it.
"Good news, good news!"
"The new movie "The Swordsman" will be released soon, the new movie will be released soon."
"You don't need to watch movies in the cold wind, and you don't need to watch movies at night. You can also watch movies during the day, and you can also watch movies in the classroom."
"Attention, attention, new movies are coming out, new movies are coming out!"
In the streets and alleys of the Beijing-Tianjin area, people employed by Shengshi Pictures kept shouting in the streets and alleys because they wore uniform vests, carried propaganda flags, and kept shouting with big tin speakers along the way.
Yelling, it attracted a lot of people's attention in a short time.
"Is there a new movie coming out?"
"The Swordsman? What kind of movie is this?"
"I don't know, and it says you can also watch this movie during the day. Is that true?"
"We can just go and watch it later. I've watched Huo Qubing defeat the Huns several times and I'm tired of it. Finally, a new movie has been released."
"Isn't that right? It's said that there are new movies being released here at the stadium, and there are three movies at once. I heard that all the tickets have been sold out."
"Let's go see this swordsman first. The name is quite refreshing, and you can go see it during the day."
"Yes, yes, let's go and see together later. Let's go and see together."
The publicity effect is obviously very good.
Especially for young and old men in Beijing, in the past few months, everyone has been deeply attracted by novel things like movies.
But there is only one movie playing over and over again. Many people have watched it several times and have long wanted to watch a new movie.
Now I heard that a new movie has finally been released. Whether it is the three movies from Daming Pictures or this new movie from Baibaoting Shengshi Pictures, it can instantly satisfy the needs of young and old men in the Beijing and Tianjin areas for new movies.
Therefore, these movies have attracted everyone's attention since they first started to be promoted, and everyone is looking forward to the release of these movies.
