Chapter 9 Let’s Form Our Own Crew!

After the filming of "17-year-old Bicycle" was completed, Wang Xiaoshuai and the crew's editor were still busy with post-editing.

After all, those who make art films are not the quick-shooter directors of Hong Kong Island. Although they shoot quickly, they usually edit slowly.

Wang Xiaoshuai plans to spend a few months doing post-editing of "17-year-old Bicycle", and also plans to take the cameraman to wander around the alleys of Beijing, shooting some shots without actors to cut into the movie.

Don't ask, it's stream of consciousness, shooting techniques, and meaningful lens language!

Wu Yuan doesn't have to worry about these things. He himself has no lack of experience in editing films, and Wang Xiaoshuai's film concept is not suitable for him, so Wu Yuan didn't join in the fun and returned to his own life.

After shooting for more than ten days, it was the end of June and the beginning of July, and the school was about to close for the holiday.

As we all know, no matter what college it is, the end of the semester is always a critical time, and Wu Yuan can't skip classes and run out to do his own piracy business.

He was honestly doing various final exams and practical courses in school.

However, after experiencing the experience of the "17-year-old Bicycle" crew, Wu Yuan's mind was aroused.

"Hey, Yuan'er, do you have any plans for this summer vacation?" A big hand patted Wu Yuan's shoulder. ơɱ

Wu Yuan's classmate Shang Binghe sat down next to him and said with a chuckle: "There is a crew in Hengdian recruiting summer workers. Go and be their photography assistant. You will be paid 4,000 yuan for two months!"

"Damn, people who make TV series now are really rich. Those actors can get 3,000 to 5,000 yuan for one episode!"

Shang Binghe's face was full of jealousy.

In the eyes of students in the directing department, TV series are just a thing to kill time when bored. The real art is movies!

But now the development of the TV industry is much stronger than the film industry.

In the 1990s, the mainland film and television industry flourished, and Japanese dramas and TVB were introduced. The first batch of TV drama fans have been cultivated, and the mainland TV drama market has also opened up.

Film and television groups in Hong Kong, Taiwan and even Singapore are also eager to take advantage of the mainland, and have come to produce many joint-venture dramas.

For example, the "Journey to the East" produced by two local satellite TV stations and the Singapore Television Group!

Although it is a cooperation between China and Singapore, the male lead is a top star in Taiwan, the roaring emperor Ma Jingtao, and almost all the remaining roles are taken by Singaporean actors, and mainland actors can only play supporting roles.

This behavior of using mainland money to support the production teams in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan is not uncommon these days!

However, the opening of the mainland TV drama industry has indeed brought many benefits.

Not only did it stimulate the mainland TV drama market, but it also learned the TV drama production standards of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore!

Later, Zhouyi Film and Television, which produced excellent TV dramas such as "Wulin Waishi", "Love Across Time and Space", "Xiao Shiyilang" and "Water Moon Cave", grew up with this trend, and even launched a counterattack against Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore!

In the first few years of the 21st century, it was a big blue ocean for the mainland TV drama industry!

In 2000 alone, more than ten TV dramas with a purely mainland cast were approved!

The TV dramas shot in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Beijing have their own casts and are indeed not short of people, but the TV drama crews in the mainland are really short of people!

Look, the top students of the directing department of Beijing Film Academy have all been poached to work as summer interns.

Four thousand yuan for two months, just working as a photography assistant, this salary level is indeed a high salary for a class of students, and the crew is selling the face of the "Beijing Film Academy" brand!

Shang Binghe, who has an artistic dream in his heart, has to bend down for this decent remuneration, and even wants to pull Wu Yuan to earn this extra money together.

"You go by yourself, I may have something else to do in the summer vacation." But Wu Yuan shook his head and rejected Shang Binghe's kindness.

"What?" Shang Binghe raised his eyebrows: "Are you still thinking about your pirated discs?"

"That thing really can't be sold. It's okay if you sell it part-time when you are in school. What can you do this summer that won't make more money than selling pirated discs?"

"You are a student of the directing department of the Film Academy. Which crew wouldn't be eager to get it if I tell them?"

Wu Yuan shook his head again and sighed: "It's not a pirated disc. Let me think about it."

To be honest, after personally experiencing the filming of the crew of "Seventeen-year-old Bicycle", Wu Yuan found that his heart to make movies could not be restrained.

Originally, he planned very well. He would hang around in school for four years in college, and when he was a senior, he would strive to get the top three grades in the class.

The Film Academy has a support for students in the directing department. The top three students in each directing department can get a shooting fund from the Film Academy's own Youth Film Studio.

It's equivalent to angel investment. The school gives a sum of money to let students make a short film of 30 to 50 minutes.

This is for domestic and international film festivals. All major film festivals have awards in the field of short films, which are specifically used to support and promote the reputation of young directors.

If you can get some nominations or awards in various short film festivals, you will have qualifications and your future will be much easier. This is the school's support for outstanding graduates.

Wu Yuan originally had a good idea. When he graduated, he would go to Europe to make a name for himself with short films. Then he would return to China to participate in the 2002 World Cup, earn a few hundred thousand yuan, and then find Beijing Film Studio or China Film Studio to get a few hundred thousand yuan investment. He would then form a crew with an investment of about one million yuan and start his first movie!

2002 was a very special year. In that year, Zhang Yimou's "Hero" opened the era of blockbuster movies in the mainland and stimulated the mainland movie market!

Driven by marketization, both the fifth and sixth generation directors are standing on the same starting line. Except for Feng Xiaogang, everyone has to start from scratch to explore commercial films. There is no first come first served!

Entering the market at this time, riding on the marketization of the mainland film industry, Wu Yuan is confident that he will become one of the few great directors in the mainland in about five years!

All these plans are good, but after Wu Yuan experienced the feeling of "making a movie" in the crew of "Seventeen-year-old Bicycle", he was a day student and couldn't help laughing!

The feeling of making a movie is really wonderful. Wu Yuan, who watched the movie directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, couldn't suppress his "director's desire" in his heart!

Go to other crews to carry cameras for two months, just for that 4,000 yuan?

Damn! Whoever wants to go can go!

I want to make a movie!

But where can I get the money to make a movie? !

The school is impossible to give angel investment to a sophomore or junior student. Students who want to make a movie have to rely on themselves!

Gritting his teeth, Wu Yuan thought of the property certificate placed in the bedside table of his main house!

It's impossible to sell it. It's impossible to sell the house to make a movie in this life.

But you can get a mortgage loan!

Without saying too much, you can always get a loan of one million, right?

The timid will starve to death, and the bold will die of gluttony!

It's just making a movie, just do it!