The New Year is coming very quickly, the movie starts on January 20th, and New Year’s Eve is February 2nd.
The crew of "Dead Man's Last Wish" only took a break on New Year's Eve and continued filming as usual on other days.
At this time, the advantage of the leading actors not being well-known became apparent - because the leading actors were not well-known, the crew asked to film as usual during the New Year, and the leading actors did not object.
No one on the crew firmly opposed it.
Because Sun Quan personally sent a big red envelope to everyone, including the leading actors.
Not only that, on New Year's Eve, Sun Quan also arranged a New Year's Eve dinner in a five-star hotel for everyone on the crew. That night, he also took the time to toast everyone with two glasses of wine before leaving.
, go back to spend time with your wife and children.
Then, the crew operated as usual the next day and continued filming. Director Sun Quan was no exception and came to the crew to film as usual.
Not to mention, there are also benefits to filming during the New Year period.
For example: make the love between the hero and heroine more of a romantic plot.
The details are as follows: Taking advantage of the festive atmosphere during the New Year, Sun Quan temporarily proposed to arrange a New Year's Eve plot for the male and female protagonists.
This kind of plot does not exist in the original work of "The Last Wish of the Dead".
It's not in the script either.
Sun Quan had never thought of filming such a scene before. After all, it was a bit too extravagant to create a New Year's Eve atmosphere just for a little romantic love scene.
If you want to create a strong New Year's atmosphere with thousands of lights, it will cost money.
But now it’s just in time for the New Year, it’s easy to add a New Year’s Eve atmosphere between the male and female protagonists. The Demon City during the New Year period is very beautiful. Just shoot a few beautiful night scenes to add luster to this drama.
Add color.
After all, "The Last Wish of the Dead" was written by Sun Quan himself, so he added a small plot at will, which is completely convenient, will not appear abrupt, and can be well integrated with the previous and subsequent plots.
This is probably one of the benefits of the original author being the chief director?
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His place was still operating normally during the Chinese New Year. During the Chinese New Year this year, it was naturally impossible to arrange some trips to visit relatives and friends.
It happened that his daughter-in-law Yuan Shuiqing had a big belly now, so Sun Quan discussed it with Yuan Shuiqing, and each wished their relatives and friends a happy new year on the phone. The reason was all ready-made, that is, she had a big belly now and had difficulty moving. Please everyone.
Forgive them for not being able to visit us in person this year to say New Year greetings.
Yuan Shuiqing has no objection.
Relatives and friends also expressed their understanding on the phone, and told Sun Quan to take good care of his wife, and also asked him to help express New Year greetings to his parents.
Maybe a few of them were dissatisfied with this behind the scenes, but at least when talking to Sun Quan on the phone, everyone seemed very reasonable.
Sun Quan didn't think too much.
He has been really busy recently. He has to stay on the set all day during the day, and sometimes he has to work overtime at night to shoot some night scenes.
When I get home in the evening, I have to sit in the study for a few hours and type out as many chapters as possible.
Sometimes he was in good condition and could code three or four chapters; sometimes he was in poor condition and could only code one or two chapters. So, inevitably, the number of manuscripts in his hands became less and less.
But fortunately, I can hold on for the time being.
He also took care of the scarf every day, and put a few stills from that day on the scarf every day. He did this work himself for a few days, and then handed it over to his assistant Yu Xinxin.
Let her take more stills every day when she is on the set.
Then find time to send it to his scarf and several of his book fan groups.
He himself concentrates on the crew and coding at night.
In a blink of an eye, the time comes to March.
The entire first month has passed.
The web drama "Dead Man's Last Wish" has been filming for a month and a half, and naturally a lot of scenes have been shot. During this period, Sun Quan has gained a lot.
For example, I didn’t understand the operation of the crew, such as performances, lighting, makeup, etc. at the beginning, but now I have a little understanding.
In fact, he was not the only one who grew up during this period of time?
Cheng Hao, Wang Xiaoxiao and others who took on the role of male and female protagonists for the first time also made great progress.
Compared with when they first started filming, they had to fuck several times, or even more than a dozen times, for each scene. Recently, Sun Quan obviously felt that the number of times they fucked was much less.
As for the difficulty?
There have indeed been a lot of situations, big and small, that have occurred since the filming of this drama.
For example, Cheng Hao was injured several times while filming action scenes.
There is no way, he is not a professional action actor, not to mention, even if a professional action actor is filming action scenes, injuries are common.
Almost every time he shoots an action scene, Cheng Hao is more or less involved.
Not only did he fail, but the ghost actor who acted opposite him also suffered a lot of injuries, even more than Cheng Hao.
What makes Sun Quan gratified is that neither Cheng Hao nor the ghost actor lost his temper every time he was injured. He dealt with the wound when it was time to deal with it, and continued acting when it was time to do so.
In fact, it stands to reason that the action scenes of a web drama should not be too realistic. After all, the investment is limited, and the core selling point of the entire drama is not the action scenes.
This drama has a supernatural theme, not an action movie.
But under Sun Quan's high requirements, the action scenes of this drama were shot very seriously.
To this end, the crew specially hired a famous action director.
The person was invited by Wang Zheng's envoy.
Sun Quan had never heard of that person's name, but Wang Zheng said that the other person was very famous in the industry and was one of Donnie Yen's disciples.
How can a web drama capture the audience?
In this regard, Sun Quan’s opinion is: keep improving.
We strive for excellence in every detail, and when it is finally broadcast, there are one or two details that can impress the audience. When he first watched "Chen Ergou", he was amazed by the action scenes in the play.
Before he decided to watch that drama, he really didn't expect that the action scenes in an online drama could be so exciting, even more exciting than most serious TV dramas.
What impressed him most was the fight scene when Chen Ergou's eldest brother appeared.
The eldest brother came to the city to look for Chen Ergou, but he happened to see his younger brother Chen Ergou being beaten and vomiting blood, so the tall and powerful eldest brother took action. The villain who was invincible when he beat Chen Ergou and others was killed by Chen Ergou.
After the big dog took action, he was knocked down as soon as he came face to face with him and couldn't get up.
The fierce fight between lightning and stone had shocked Sun Quan at first.
Therefore, when he decided to film "The Last Wish of the Dead", Sun Quan had already thought about it. The fight scenes in this drama would not be confusing.
The price for not fooling around was that Cheng Hao and the actors who played the ghosts were injured every time they filmed action scenes... and the filming schedule was greatly slowed down, and various expenses were greatly increased.
In this regard, Sun Quan still did not change his decision.
He went to express condolences to the injured actor every time. Every time Xue Zihan mentioned to him that the expenses were high, he just said he understood.
Once again, when Xue Zihan told him that the filming expenses had been greatly overrun recently, Sun Quan was silent and said to her: "It's okay. If the money is not enough, I will invest more when the time comes."
Sometimes, he seems very stingy.
For example, Xue Zihan and others wanted to make the power-on ceremony more beautiful and invited more media reporters to help promote and hype it up.
At that time, he was firmly opposed and was unwilling to spend money in that way.
But during the filming process, he had no idea of saving on all expenses.
This seems to be a contradiction in his character.
In reality this is not the case.
He has his own principles when it comes to spending money.
We should save money wherever we can, and we should never save money on places that should not be saved.
He knows that there are many ways to make money in the film and television industry. Before his rebirth, he had seen too many bad movies that had poor reputation but grossed hundreds of millions of dollars.
TV series... He has also watched a lot of TV dramas that are bloody, but have high ratings and popularity.
Before his rebirth, the most popular way to make money in the film and television industry was probably the combination of IP traffic and small amounts of fresh meat.
Buy an adaptation of a well-known IP, hire a few popular celebrities, and then film it casually, and fans will pay for it.
Sun Quan has seen this method of collecting money too many times.
The operation method is not difficult to learn. If he wants to learn it, I believe he can learn it well.
But deep down he doesn't want to make that kind of bad money.
After all, he is not a pure businessman and does not focus on money.
Now that he has decided to get involved in the film and television industry, he hopes that the works produced by his company will be of good quality. Moreover, "The Last Wish of the Dead" is adapted from his own work. Is he willing to waste his hard work?
For him, there are many ways to make money, and he is not short of money now, so this drama... although it is only a web drama, he hopes that it will be well received by everyone after it is broadcast.
For this reason, he has been mentally prepared for the show to lose money.
At least he was mentally prepared to lose money in this first season.
As a web writer, he still firmly believes that content comes first in the entertainment industry.
A film and television company that is just trying to make money by being clever... He has never seen any company that can be prosperous for a long time.
Fans will suffer losses once and twice, but no matter how stupid a fan is, they will learn a lesson after suffering losses too many times.
March 7, evening.
Sun Quan finished coding tonight's three chapters of the manuscript and was still sitting in front of the computer. His coding task for tonight was completed, but he suddenly wanted to take some time to check out the activities in the bib and book fan groups.
I would like to know how many people are still paying attention to his online drama recently.
The first thing he put on was the scarf.
On the scarf, under his account, there are more than a thousand comments under the few stills Yu Xinxin posted today.
Compared with the number of comments he received when he posted the stills for the first time, there is a big difference.
He remembers the first few photos he personally posted, and there were more than 7,000 comments below.
The current situation is obvious, most people have not been paying attention to the stills of his drama.
Sun Quan was not disappointed with this.
He knows this is normal.
How can so many people pay attention to the latest stills of an online drama every day?
Today's stills still have more than a thousand comments, and he thinks it's pretty good.
"Cheng Hao was injured again? This poor kid, does anyone know how many times this is the time he has been injured?"
"No! But it's definitely not the first time, it should be the twentieth time, right?"
"It turns out that it's so hard to be an actor, but to be the leading actor is so miserable, I sympathize!"
"Is this drama still being filmed in Shanghai? Is it too expensive for a web drama to be filmed in Shanghai? Is the budget of 30 million really enough?"
"Cheng Hao is injured for the 27th time!"
"I really didn't expect that Xianyu, my old grandson, who writes novels, would actually film a TV series so seriously. I'm really surprised. I'm really looking forward to this TV series now..."
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Sun Quan silently read the messages in the comment area for a while, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth unconsciously.
He didn't know how many of the more than a thousand people were fans of his books, but he was very happy to see such messages.
I feel that my decision to publicize the day's stills every day was the right one.
At least, there should be a group of netizens here who will become the first viewers of this drama.
He didn't reply to anyone here.
Exit the scarf.
He logged into QQ, opened the group list, and looked at several book fan groups under his name. Hundreds of new messages were displayed after each group.
This shows that although he has not appeared in the group in person recently, the popularity of these book fan groups is still there and has not become a dead group.
He casually ordered a group of salted fish.
I casually scrolled through the chat history and saw some chat content like this.
Ichiba Daozun: "How long will it take for this drama to be aired online? I've waited so long that the flowers have withered!"
Qingfeng is not inferior: "I didn't expect that the boss would become a director. This book can be updated with three chapters every day. It's really not easy! I thought before that the boss would become a director, so this book will probably stop updating!"
"
Senior animal breeder: "I remember that some books were published in traditional Chinese in the past, and the serialization speed on the Internet would be slowed down. It is said that this is to keep the plot progress of the traditional Chinese publisher one step ahead and promote traditional Chinese sales. Lao Sun did not want to maintain suspense.
, it’s really rare to deliberately slow down the update speed of this book!”
Wei OK: "If you say that, it's true! If this book stops updating from now on, I estimate that when this drama is aired, it may attract more people to watch it. But Lao Sun didn't do that. Really
You are very moral!"
Falling Depravity: "Above! Can you please stop talking about this topic? If Lao Sun sees it, he didn't think of this. When he sees you saying this, if he really stops updating, we won't have to watch it.
Got it!"
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"Pfft"
Seeing this, Sun Quan couldn't help laughing.
There are quite a few smart people in the group!
But did he really not think of this before?
The answer is of course no.
Every book he has written since his rebirth has been published in traditional Chinese, and the current book "The Last Wish of the Dead" is still published in Taiwan and Wan.
The publishing house often suggested to him that he should slow down the updates on the website. Doesn’t he know that too fast updates on the website would have an impact on the popularity of the show after it is broadcast?
He knew it very well.
It's just that he doesn't want to do that.
Because he believes that as long as the quality of this drama is online, people who want to watch it will naturally watch it after it is broadcast, and its popularity will naturally not decrease.
On the contrary, even if he has a lot of tricks, what's the use? If the quality of the series is not good, more book fans will watch it, but it will only increase the number of people who criticize him.