On May 2nd, at a barbecue chicken steak restaurant with all-you-can-eat buffets in Chuncheon, South Korea, everyone from the director and the starring actor to ordinary staff members gathered together for "Exit".
South Korea's film industry is also highly developed. As long as you have money, you can quickly assemble a professional shooting team. This will be the team of the great director Park Chan-wook. The cost is not low, but the rich experience is worthy of the price.
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In terms of clothing, Su Yan paid for SM's agents very early and negotiated clothing sponsorships from several brands. Because it is a modern drama, the cost in this aspect is not much. Even a fashionable girl like Yoona likes to bring clothing.
Wear your own beautiful clothes to join the group.
Similarly, fashion scenes do not have high requirements for makeup artists. It can be done by just hiring a few stylists in SM.
It was Lee Sang-gen who contacted the props department. Since we had to hire extras anyway, it was more convenient for locals to be in charge. Fortunately, this scene didn’t require too many props, most of which were early stage sets.
As for the later stage, Su Yan plans to take it back to Huaxia to do it.
Now that all departments are fully staffed, they are just waiting for Director Su to give the order to announce the start of filming.
"Bang!"
There was a muffled sound, and white champagne foam spurted out. Amid everyone's cheers, Su Yan, Lin Yuner, and Cao Zheng raised the champagne bottles high and laughed heartily with more than 150 members of the crew.
Several stage managers took the initiative to take bottles of champagne and poured the wine into everyone's glasses one by one.
Su Yan stood up and raised his glass.
"Thank you all, especially the senior teachers for your support! I am young and have little experience. I will be filming together in the future. If there is anything I did not do well, please forgive me. The crew's budget is tight now, so today's meal is considered a neglect on my part.
Everyone, when the movie is released in the fall and I make money, I’ll treat everyone to a seafood shark fin dinner!”
After Su Yan finished speaking, assistant director Li Shanggen also stood up and said a few words.
The young people below had already restrained themselves. After hearing that they could eat, they immediately started to eat.
The champagne was chosen with a very low alcohol content. The movie started shooting the day after tomorrow, but everyone was busy these days. The actors were familiar with the venue, and the staff set up machines and adjusted the scenery.
The most important thing is that the filming of "Exit" is very different from other movies. Most of the time is night scenes. In fact, the outline is a story that takes place in one night.
It's already May, and it won't get completely dark until after 6:30. If you want to occasionally shoot night scenes and work overtime, then everyone can insist on it, but you have to stay up until 3-4 in the middle of the night every day, even if everyone wants to
, it is estimated that the efficiency is not very high.
So after discussing with Lee Sang-gen, there was no good way, so Su Yan decided to shoot the beginning and the end, the two daytime scenes first, and let the staff adjust their biological clocks so that they could complete the day's filming before 2 o'clock.
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We are all insiders and have seen various situations, so I believe we can all understand and support them.
At about ten o'clock in the evening, the dinner party ended, and the group of people all walked back to the dormitory.
As a mature film and television base, Chuncheon has relatively comprehensive hardware.
There are special electric vehicles for transportation in the city. As long as you sign an agreement, you can use them for free. The dormitory is only a ten-minute walk away. The crew directly booked a small hotel and provided breakfast.
It's just that although Su Yan and Yoona are husband and wife, they still arranged two rooms. First of all, the crew must have their own rules. Everything should be based on work. As the boss, they must take the lead.
In addition, after the shooting starts, there will definitely be photographers, sound recordists and other various personnel to discuss the shooting matters, so it will not be convenient for Yoona to be around.
But today, it must be special, everyone is a little tipsy, and the director and leading actors' rooms are on the top floor, so no one will disturb us.
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The next afternoon, the opening ceremony and press conference of the "exit" crew were held in a large hotel in Chuncheon City.
Reporters from various Korean media, print media, and websites sat together in a crowd, and many of them even looked familiar to the Chinese station logo.
The producers didn't save any money today. This was a good opportunity for publicity. The pomp and ceremony was huge and even the arches were raised.
There are three areas of concern for reporters.
The male protagonist Cao Zheng has always been a hot star. Cha Tae-hyun joined the cast and actually played a supporting role, which surprised many people.
The heroine Lin Yoona appears in a local film again after many years. How is her performance?
And Su Yan is the target of everyone's pursuit. The variety shows he launched in a few years have become very popular in South Korea. His last movie has achieved a record of more than 4 million viewers. This time he will direct a Korean movie,
Many people are looking forward to it.
Yi Qing first introduced the main members of the crew, then thanked a bunch of people who needed to be thanked, and talked a lot of nonsense about the scene.
Next is the time for reporters to ask questions.
"Excuse me, Director Su, what is the goal of this movie?"
"This reporter may not have watched this year's SBC Entertainment Awards. I'm a face-saving person. I paid tens of millions at the time. If I change it now, it would probably be embarrassing." He made a little joke: "But
I believe it’s not just me. Look at the people on the stage. Teacher Go Douxin, Cha Taehyun, and such heavyweight actors are willing to play supporting roles in the movie. It shows that they also have confidence in the script. With the excellent shooting team, 10 million is
It’s a challenge, but we are confident.”
The reporters in the audience had different expressions, some were dismissive, some were surprised, and some were eager to continue asking questions.
Hype has always been an important part of movies. It also has another name, marketing.
Although many directors claim to be noble and have to speak with their strength, Su Yan is not like that. He has been doing variety shows for so many years and he deeply understands that being low-key is not the best way.
How difficult is it to get 10 million moviegoers?
The total population of South Korea is more than 70 million. Including foreign students and others, it is only over 8,000. This also has to deduct many residents who live on rural islands and are inconvenient to watch movies.
Therefore, those who can break through are all classics, and the net worth of both actors and directors will skyrocket.
Reporters are also used to the crew setting ambitious goals when starting production.
Su Yan's hype methods can only be said to be relatively ordinary. What he admires most is the Huaxia Small Steel Cannon.
This man has a unique way of publicity.
That's swearing.
Defeat your opponents, the audience, the media, the sky, the earth, and the air.
Suddenly, everything seems displeasing to him, he will shoot at everyone he sees, and he will curse everyone he sees.
Looking back,
Yo ho!
It turns out that his movie is about to be released online.
Su Yan will not evaluate methods. There is a saying that goes, a black cat or a white cat is a good cat if it catches mice.
But there is another saying, there are things a gentleman should do and things he should not do.
Since people have done this and do it often, it shows that the effect is there.
Just like some celebrities, as long as they make works, they will inevitably get into scandals, and the same is true.
Everything has two sides. Su Yan called out the target and attracted attention. At the same time, it also left a certificate of being slapped in the face. If the movie is released in a few months, it would be better to have 7 or 8 million, but if it is only half,
Movies that were originally successful may be turned upside down. This is what reporters love to do.
"What if it's not ten million?" Immediately, reporters came to criticize him.
"Actually, I can accept eleven million or two million." Su Yan took a clever trick and did not answer the other party's question directly.
This person wanted to continue to make things difficult, but the host did not give him a chance and asked someone else to ask the question.
"Ms. Yoona, you have had a hiatus in Korea for almost three years. This time you are working with your husband again. Is there anything you want to say?"
The question is very simple, and Yoona has it at your fingertips.
"First of all, Director Su is an excellent director. There is no doubt that his debut film has earned nearly 500 billion won in box office in China and more than 4 million viewers in South Korea. This can fully illustrate the problem.
For this movie, he had meetings with assistant director Lee Sang-geun and others almost every day. He also searched for information online every day and observed on the streets of Seoul, just to understand some of the habits of our country."
She first firmly supported her husband.
"As for myself, I have indeed not been active in China in recent years, so after I got the script and read it, I immediately had the idea of participating in it, and being able to cooperate with so many seniors also gave me a learning progress.
opportunity.”
Girls are more favored, so several questions were directed at Yoona.
"Cao Zheng, I heard that you started preparing for this movie very early?"
"Yes, 99% of the action scenes will be performed by me personally. There is only one, which is not dangerous but too difficult. I think it will take another year of practice to do it. I have asked the director and he can't wait.
So long."
"Is there anything in this script that particularly appeals to you?"
"It should be the transformation of ordinary people. The male protagonist I play has no money and no special abilities. When encountering disasters, he will panic and be afraid. But when the responsibility must be shouldered, he resolutely
stood up."
"Saved the world?"
"No, it's just self-help! Of course, there are many interludes in the middle. You can go to the cinema to watch it."
Cha Tae Hyun is naturally the focus of everyone's attention. He is the only actor among the actors to have a box office of over 10 million.
"Cha Tae Hyun xi, this is your first movie in two years, but you are the second male lead. Are you just doing this to help?"
"Of course not. It would be nice if it was just a cameo and a supporting role, like Jo In-sung."
"Hey? Is there Zhao Yincheng?"
The reporters in the audience immediately made a fuss, while Cha Tae-hyun covered his mouth and looked around in panic.
Of course, he didn't spill the beans, it was just a way of publicity and he deliberately took the opportunity to reveal it.
"That's right! Not only Jo In-sung, but also many of my friends will make guest appearances, but I won't reveal who they are for the time being."
The press conference lasted for two hours and ended successfully.
Soon, relevant reports came out.
"Chinese director Su Yan's new movie aims to be watched by millions of people"
"The latest masterpiece of Korean son-in-law Su Yan, can a husband and wife team have different sparks"
"Cha Tae Hyun turned out to be only the second male lead, and accidentally let it slip that Jo In Sung would make a guest appearance"
"Looking at Bong Joon-ho and Ryu Wan in the second movie, are they capable or are they just bragging?"
"Disaster Comedy, the Birth of a New Film Form"
"Lim Yoona, Cho Jung Goes to Busan International Film Festival"
(Thanks to Mr. Azheng 128 for the 74 consecutive rewards, and thanks to Feiwushou Laotie for the reward)