In the deputy general manager's office, Mr. Wang had been staring at the computer screen for almost an hour, and finally became a little impatient.
Although Ningbo is not far from Hengdian, and there is also a Xiangshan Film and Television Base in Ningbo City, he has never been very interested in the film and television industry, and has never been to the two nearby film and television cities.
I thought filming would be something interesting, but in the past nearly an hour, just watching the actors repeat a scene five times, it was nothing but boring.
"Haha, Mr. Wang, filming is such a boring thing."
There was another person in the office, and it turned out to be Xu Tao, the president of the Internet Movie Association. He also watched the entire filming process.
Although the picture was not particularly clear, he roughly knew what scene he was filming.
Xu Tao smiled slightly disdainfully, "I thought he had some good ideas, but it turns out it's just an ordinary horror movie."
"President Xu, do you understand now?" Mr. Wang said in surprise.
"Mr. Wang, please believe in my professional abilities!"
Xu Tao felt a little unhappy when a layman questioned his professional abilities, but he still patiently explained.
"Two scenes have been filmed so far. In the first scene, human body parts were found on the beach. It was obviously the body parts of a shark victim who had encountered a shark in the sea before and was washed ashore by the sea water."
"At the beginning of the second scene, a large group of extras came. We should shoot the scene where the shark attacks humans again, causing panic."
Mr. Wang thought it made sense, but then asked, "I seem to have heard that the movie is not shot in order. Will the second scene be the first time a shark attacks a human? The human body in the first scene is the second one."
From the victim in the scene?”
idiot!
Xu Tao cursed in his mind, but still smiled on his face, "Although the actor's expression cannot be seen clearly, from that scene, it can still be seen that this is the first time the characters in the movie saw a shark hurt someone.
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Although as a major Internet director, Xu Tao's ability is just that, but his level of appreciation is not low at all.
Whether you can do it well and whether you can watch it are two different things.
There are many directors who have first-rate aesthetics and appreciation, but yet produce a mess of photos.
Mr. Wang thought about it and said with a smile, "Since President Xu can understand it, it will be much easier to handle."
He didn't care about the film industry before, even though he was surrounded by the largest film and television shooting base in the country.
Don't look at those movies that easily earn tens of millions at the box office. There is more than one movie that earns hundreds of millions a year.
But as a businessman, he naturally knows that high income comes with high risks, so he did not blindly participate in the film industry.
What's more, those movies with tens of millions or hundreds of millions in box office have high costs, and the return rate is not as attractive as the box office looks.
But now, an Internet company with a cost of more than 100,000 can actually sell several million at the box office, and even the box office record has reached 15 million!
With a return rate of more than 500%, low cost, and the key is that the cycle is only one month, anyone will be tempted.
The cost of more than 100,000 yuan can't be compensated much. This small amount of money is nothing to Mr. Wang.
The huge profits drove him to want to try the Internet industry, but the box office of most Internet majors was only a few hundred thousand, or even lower, which obviously could not satisfy Mr. Wang's appetite.
That's how the current scene came about. They invited Li Qian's crew to film on their beach and monitored the entire filming process. Then he set up another crew and copied it. Even if it didn't work, he could follow suit.
Then he found Xu Tao, who had been humiliated by Li Qian in public, and the two hit it off, one providing money and the other providing strength.
Another crew filming a shark-themed horror film has completed preparations and will rush to a beach in Hujian Province next door tomorrow.
This was prepared a week ago. At that time, Mr. Wang learned that Li Qian's crew was looking for a beach location, and was advised by Li Qian that it was a horror film about sharks, which might affect tourists.
However, their crew has only been preparing for the filming for a week, while Li Qian's crew has been on location for a week just since the last time.
Mr. Wang expressed his worries, "President Xu, we prepared the crew in just one week, is that okay?"
Xu Tao waved his hand and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Mr. Wang, I still have some connections in Donghua. You don't have to worry about the professionalism of the crew. Moreover, shark-themed horror movies are not difficult. They just keep attacking humans and there are no tricks."
It takes a week to prepare the crew, which is a fantasy for the film and television industry, but in the Internet industry, it is normal.
Many websites in Dalian did not have any serious scripts. For the sake of quality, Xu Tao specially asked the company's screenwriters to learn from some foreign shark-themed horror films and incorporate a new script.
The so-called fusion of a script means borrowing a little bit here and a little bit there to form a new script.
It is somewhere between plagiarism and borrowing. Although it is shameful, it can guarantee a certain quality.
"At that time, we will be filming with the new script. Mr. Wang will sort out the surveillance videos and send them to me every day. I will take a look at what Li Qian shot and see if there are any good ideas and ideas. Then I will communicate with the crew over there and add them in.
, anyway, horror movies don’t have much requirements on the plot, it just needs to be scary enough.”
Xu Tao continued, "Don't worry, Mr. Wang, I have a new film to shoot, and I won't waste my energy doing this. I also want to make money."
"When it is released at the same time as Li Qian's film, it will also be a shark-themed horror film, and it will definitely attract some viewers."
Xu Tao is not worried at all about whether the movie will make money. After the first "Taoist Master" was a hit, countless garbage zombie movies followed.
After Li Qian's "Phone Booth" became a hit, many studios were also rushing to produce suspense films with similar themes, with titles like "Sniper XXX" and "Phone Booth."
The fastest-acting ones have been online for three or four days, and the ones with the best data have made back their money at the box office on the first day.
If Li Qian's shark-themed horror film sells more than 10 million yuan this time, their film, which is the fastest to follow the trend, might make a lot of money.
It would be great if he failed. Xu Tao would rather follow the trend than lose money.
As long as Li Qian's new movie hits the streets, it doesn't matter even if he loses a little money, then he is still the unequivocal leader in the Internet industry!
In fact, if he didn't have enough time and the cost was too high, he would have made ten or eight shark-themed horror movies at the same time to disgust Li Qian.
Mr. Wang is different from Xu Tao, and I don’t know what he is thinking. He just wants to make money. It’s not like he hasn’t thought about investing in a large Internet company before. But let alone an Internet company with a box office of nearly 10 million, even an Internet company with a box office of 2 to 3 million.
Most of them are pitiful.
These already successful studios are not short of investment at all, but if they invest in other online majors, they will not learn from others and make more money by following the trend.
How could Mahuagan achieve its current success without learning from it?