In the evening, Li Qian rushed back to Donghua City without stopping and convened a meeting with the studio's employees.
In fact, the studio only has three employees, photographer Zhang Zhonghua, stylist Gao Yang, and finance Wang Lu.
Li Qian himself is also responsible for photography, editing, and art. Sometimes he is too busy and outsources the post-production.
Most businesses don't require that many people. When there are really not enough people, just find some temporary workers.
The studio usually only shoots weddings, various events, photo shoots, etc. It's amazing that every two or three months, it receives a shopping advertisement business, which is broadcast on a county-level TV station, otherwise it wouldn't be his turn.
studio.
The studio sells pot, shaping underwear, and height-increasing shoes. The studio has been open for ten months and has taken over two pot sellers and one selling shaping underwear.
Li Qian almost memorized the line from the advertisement, which states that food is the most important thing for people, and the pot is the first food; there is no fumes when cooking, and you will be healthy every day; there is no need to stir-fry when cooking, and tomorrow will be better.
It rhymes quite a bit, but it's not that soft, and sometimes it even overturns during the shooting.
As for those selling various health products and fake medicines, Li Qian did not accept them.
The most popular ones are auctioneer shows for online stores on Taomao. Thanks to Ma Qingyang, more and more people are opening online stores, and the market demand is also growing.
Moreover, many of the clothes on Taomao come from large wholesale markets such as Huacheng Shisanhang, Lin'an Sijiqing, and Beijing Zoo, as well as the county-level city Yiwu under Donghua. There are still many online stores in Donghua, and sometimes the studios are even connected
I took pictures for more than half a month without stopping.
Taking pictures of these useless things every day will sooner or later forget all about professionalism.
From the beginning, Li Qian treats every customer very seriously. His shooting techniques are impeccable, the colors are reproduced without any color cast, and the highlights, shadows, and texture levels are all accurate.
However, it was met with a scolding.
Why don’t I have the white faces of others?
Why won’t the acne on my face go away?
Why can’t I have “beautiful” colors like others?
I wasted a whole day, got scolded, couldn't refute it with my professional knowledge, and had to reshoot.
The customer is God, so I just take photos casually, as long as they are white enough and beautiful enough. I haven’t taken any serious photos for a long time.
Fortunately, these days are finally over, and it’s finally time to make a movie
"Boss."
"Mr. Li."
"How's it going, boss? Is it done?"
Zhang Zhonghua, Gao Yang, and Wang Lu soon sat down at the table twice and asked about what they had learned from their trip.
"We have decided on the male lead for this trip to Magic City. How are your preparations going?"
Li Qian nodded and looked at Zhang Zhonghua, "Old Zhang, what did they say, when will the two Xiaohong Kongs be available?"
When making a movie, even if it's an online movie, the camera is of course the top priority.
At present, most of the online film crews on the market use ordinary broadcast-grade cameras to shoot, and some professional-grade cameras can also shoot.
Regardless of whether the movie is played online, there are requirements for resolution, signal-to-noise ratio, low illumination, bit rate, etc.
Within the scope of conditions, Li Qian still uses better cameras as much as possible.
Xiaohong, also known as red one, has launched a new digital movie camera. Many parameters are based on 35mm film. It has a 35mm photoreceptor. Whether it is the depth of field of 35mm film or close to the indicators of traditional cameras, it is the best choice for shooting online.
Great choice.
Of course, the price is cheap, you can get the whole set for 1800 in one day.
Unfortunately, there are only 60 units in Beijing, so they are quite popular.
"I got a reply at noon. The goods will arrive in a week, and it's still 1,800 a day." Zhang Zhonghua said.
"That's good. If you can't save the camera, it's best if you can use Xiaohong."
"Lulu, where's the cost I asked you to check?" Li Qian looked at Wang Lu again.
"Boss, according to what you said, this is the approximate cost."
Wang Lu handed over a form and introduced, "Two sets of Xiaohong for 12 days total 43,000."
"One executive costs 3,000, one camera operator costs 3,000, two camera assistants cost 2,400, one lighting staff costs 2,000, five field workers cost 4,000, and one makeup artist costs 1,500, a total of 14,400."
"There are 40 extras for two days, a total of 2,400."
"The meal fee is 10 yuan per person per day, two meals a day, plus drinking water, less than 1,500 yuan is enough."
Adding up miscellaneous expenses, other equipment, and actors' salaries, the total is almost 75,000.
It seems very low, but it doesn’t include Li Qian’s director and screenwriter’s salary, as well as the salaries of the three of them.
And the venue also costs money, which is not included in the later stage.
A colorist alone costs 10,000 yuan. Fortunately, "Sniper Phone Booth" is not very demanding and you can handle it yourself.
Li Qian has about 80,000 yuan on hand, which is enough to complete this film if nothing else happens.
"That's it. I'll send out a recruitment message tonight, set up the crew as soon as possible, and start filming on time in ten days. It's already getting late, so everyone should go back and rest."
It was almost six o'clock, and Li Qian announced that he was off work, so there was no rush for this moment.
But before leaving, he called Zhang Zhonghua.
"Lao Zhang, let me hand over the equipment to them. Don't worry about anything else for now. Study the storyboard carefully. Let's talk in detail after I'm done."
"Okay, they are all new machines anyway."
"I just looked at the storyboards. The first shot of the street at the beginning is a typical Hollywood sports storyboard. In addition, the switching between far, medium and close shots, and the subjective panning shots are all very good."
Zhang Zhonghua sighed, "If I hadn't often seen Mr. Li writing storyboards in the studio, I would have doubted whether you had written such mature storyboards."
Li Qian smiled and said, "The storyboards written by others are useless to me, right?"
The script is written by the screenwriter, and the storyboards are usually written by the director. A screenwriter who can write storyboards well indicates that he has the ability to be a director.
For the same script, different directors can write different storyboards. If you don't write it yourself, you may not fully understand the creator's intention, and you may not know what the film will look like.
When filming, you don’t use a script, and you can’t fully understand the storyboards, so the filming is very likely to go wrong.
After all, movies are not TV series, and TV series are much simpler to shoot.
After a brief chat, Li Qian asked Zhang Zhonghua to go back.
The specific script must be prepared before the drama is released. Communication between the director and the cinematographer is still very important.
Zhang Zhonghua was originally a photographer at the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Film Studio. Since the beginning of the century, all domestic studios, large and small, have been struggling. Many of them cannot even afford to pay their salaries. Many filmmakers have also gone abroad to find other careers.
After a year of no filming in the studio and not much salary, and just in time for his son to go to college, he was recruited by Li Qian with a high salary to come to the studio to shoot some messy stuff.
The photographer and actors are all fine. The film "Phone Booth" doesn't have high requirements for art, so there aren't many problems left.
In the following time, Li Qian was busy looking for suitable shooting locations and preparing the crew.
Although most of them are one-man shows for the protagonist, you can't just find someone to handle the other supporting roles. I met with dozens of extras and special guests in one day to determine the actor for the scapegoat who delivers the food.
He graduated from Beijing Film Academy, grade 99, with a very resounding name, Zhou Dehua, a combination of Liu Dehua and Zhou Huajian.
Although he graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, he didn't do well. In his last film, he was the male number N in Zhu Xiaotian's version of "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang". If I had to count, he should be close to the male number 20.
Going back further, there is "Legend of Sword and Fairy" filmed the year before last, and it was also the male lead. Li Qian has watched this drama, and it is very good. I was almost criticized by netizens before because of the appearance and appearance of the male and female protagonists.
There are so many differences in the game.
However, this film has not yet received star status. It was originally said that CCTV was the first to remake it, but it was later censored by Sugar Man. It is unknown whether the lack of star rights has anything to do with this. It is all rumors. Li Qian
I haven’t paid attention to it either, but I think the TV series is pretty good.
Li Qian had almost no impression of Zhou Dehua. After thinking about it for a long time, he remembered that he played a photo studio owner in a TV series "I'm Waiting for You in the Future", and he was also the male number N.
This is normal. There are countless group performers in Hengdian, but there are only a few who can stand out.
There is still time, Li Qian is looking for actors and interviewing the crew at the same time.
Field workers, makeup artists, and lighting are all easy to handle, as long as you have enough basic skills.
The lighting belongs to the photographer anyway. If the photographer has no problem with the lighting, there will be no problem.
With Zhang Zhonghua in charge of the main camera position, the cameraman didn’t have too many requirements.
After working hard for a few days, I am just one step away from execution.
Execution cannot be sloppy, so Li Qian waited for a few days and selected four or five candidates for interviews.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Li Qian was waiting for the first interviewer to arrive in the studio.
Holding his resume in hand.
"Guo Fan, graduated with a bachelor's degree in law, has published comics, worked for Tourism TV, and won the gold medal in the Greenpeace Global Public Service Advertisement Competition"
(Sorry for the late posting, I have revised it again and again. When I read what I wrote today, I will feel that it is not good tomorrow. At first, it seemed like I had obsessive-compulsive disorder. I asked for recommendations and investments. In the new week, I rushed down the contract list in the city category.
There are no recommendations, only the contract list is a channel for exposure.)