Bai Weiren personally ordered to shoot a first-class documentary, which shows that he attaches great importance to it. Zhu Hongyuan immediately nodded and agreed, but he was complaining in his heart. He is a professional and knows that documentaries are a thankless task and need to be shot all over the country. Among them
Not to mention the hard work, the most important thing is funds, equipment, vehicles, logistics, transportation, etc. Which is not money? And we have to shoot three documentaries, my God! This is really killing me.
Liu Lang understood the other party's thoughts and immediately continued.
"Minister Zhu, what Mr. Bai said just now is only half of what he said. It is true that these three documentaries must reach the world-class level, but it is impossible without money. I am going to spend four million US dollars. Well, our Chinese cuisine is extensive and profound, and each
Everywhere has its own characteristics, so it needs to be shot all over the country. This cost is the highest, so it will cost two million. The remaining two documentaries are less difficult to shoot, each with a budget of one million U.S. dollars. Look at this.
Is there enough money?”
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Zhu Hongyuan stayed on the spot.
Four million? It’s still US dollars, which translates into nearly 30 million yuan. What’s the concept? The annual advertising revenue of national television is only 100 million. Good guy, the budget of three documentaries is 30 million. According to the original cost of shooting the documentary
I think this money can buy a hundred pictures.
Zhu Hongyuan really didn't know what to say. Just now he was complaining and worrying about funds. Now a mountain of gold fell from the sky and hit him on the head. As a result, he didn't know how to use it.
"Minister Zhu, this fee is a joint expense between our domestic film crew and the American film crew. The American side will provide the best equipment, and our domestic side will provide materials and direction. Of course, their labor is very expensive, four hundred
After taking away most of the ten thousand U.S. dollars, our domestic film crew may only get more than one million U.S. dollars in the end."
"One million is enough, that's enough, Liu Lang. I'll go back and find people right away. I'll bring in all the best photographers in the country. It's no problem to help the Americans. We'll shoot whenever you want!"
Since the funds were sufficient, Zhu Hongyuan immediately answered three questions in a row. In a word: No problem!
Bai Weiren smiled and shook his head. All departments were short of money. Bai Weiren's orders were of course effective, but it was the people below who suffered. At that time, they could only do their best. As for the effect, then
It’s hard to say, it’s world-class, but you can’t do it without money, people can work hard, but no matter how hard you piece together the equipment, you can’t come up with the equipment.
The reason Liu Lang dares to say this is because he is rich. Being rich means having a thick waist. Don’t you accept it? Your program with a budget of RMB 100,000 cannot be compared to a program with a budget of one million. This is an objective fact. Don’t accept it.
Bai Weiren begged Liu Lang to do this, but in the end Liu Lang paid for it out of his own pocket. Bai Weiren felt a little sorry, but he had no choice. National funds were very tight, and it was impossible to spend so much money to shoot a documentary. Anyway, Liu Lang
If he has money, four million U.S. dollars is really nothing to him. I will find an opportunity to compensate him in the future...
However, it seems that Liu Lang will not ask for help from others in terms of funds. After all, he now owns a bank. It is correct to evaluate him as rich as the country, but Bai Weiren is still pleased with Liu Lang's willingness to contribute to the country.
Not every rich man is as generous as him.
In fact, Liu Lang's shooting of these three documentaries was not just to rectify the country's name. He really wanted to record it all, especially the two documentaries on the Youth Development Foundation and the Three North Shelter Forest. It was also a kind of hard work to record the staff behind them.
Responsibility, when we look at it again ten or twenty years later, it will definitely arouse memories of an era.
In that impoverished era, there were always a group of people with faith working in the harshest environment, day after day, year after year, not for the pursuit of material things, but for their own dreams, and in the process they gained
They have sublimated their realm and also changed the fate of countless people. They are the most unknown people in this era, but they are also the greatest people in this era. Recording this group of talents is what Liu Lang wants to do.
Liu Lang did not waste any time. After attending the unveiling of the "China Town" project, he immediately got on a plane and flew directly to Los Angeles. The two places are thousands of miles apart. For most ordinary people, these thousands of miles are impossible to fly across in a lifetime, but for Liu Lang, it is
A matter of more than twenty hours.
Ye Jinsheng was not in Los Angeles. He was busy with the American tour of the "Male Goddess Group". Lucas was also very busy, preparing for the filming of the fourth part of "Star Wars" every day. Liu Lang did not find them and went directly to Los Angeles.
Fullers, the chairman of Today Times, met with him and talked with him about filming the documentary.
Fullers is the chairman of the board of directors of the Los Angeles Today Times, a company founded by his father forty years ago. It has not been easy to grow from a small newspaper to a large company with a market value of US$700 million, especially in the past five or six years.
With the market value of Shengtang Company quadrupling, the importance of Liu Lang in his eyes is self-evident. Although Americans are concerned about interests, there is no problem if they just shoot three documentaries for Liu Lang, let alone this money.
Liu Lang still pays for the expenses, so he needs strong support.
As for the nine people from the Documentary Channel, they almost fainted when they heard that Liu Lang was going to invest 4 million US dollars to shoot three documentaries. This was simply a life-saving straw!
The producer immediately made three plans overnight and put them in front of Liu Lang the next day. The efficiency was really fast.
Liu Lang took a look and saw that he was a professional and well-organized. Of course, this is an American shooting method. This time the shooting will be in China, and many people have to follow the local customs, but the power of the dollar is strong, and both parties will definitely cooperate well.
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Liu Lang directly paid the other party one million U.S. dollars to buy equipment. After the completion of the project, he would also pay them another 1.5 million U.S. dollars, a total of 2.5 million U.S. dollars. As for the income, Shengtang Company, Los Angeles
Today's Times and the film crew were divided into three companies. In fact, except for Liu Lang, both companies made a net profit. Only Liu Lang suffered a loss. Fortunately, he didn't care about profits. He only wanted one result, which was to shoot with the best quality the most representative of China's tenacious character.
and optimistic documentary, nothing more.
With money, everything became easier. The film crew immediately ordered equipment. Producers Thomson and Liu Lang left the United States for China first. They found Zhu Hongyuan immediately after getting off the plane.
Similarly, Zhu Hongyuan also gained confidence. As the head of the cultural department, it would not be difficult for him to find the best film crew in the country.
"Liu Lang, these are the best cameramen in our country. He, Gu Weichang, have you seen the movie Gaolianghong two years ago? He was the one who took it!"
Zhu Hongyuan pointed at a man in his thirties or seventeen years old and said.
"How old is it? I know!"
Liu Lang nodded. The other person was indeed the best cameraman in the country and had won the Cannes Best Photography Award. The other two were also very famous cameramen in their previous lives. There were six others, all national-level directors.
Having made more than ten documentaries, each of them can take on their own role, but Zhu Hongyuan is their immediate boss, and he immediately takes his place at the first order without any hesitation.