On December 25, the ghost-recording record was officially launched.

Although it was a three-piece set, compared to the past, this time was Li Xianyun's most thoughtful creation.

Li Xianyun's requirements are also particularly high.

From the beginning of setting up the scenery, Li Xianyun has been deeply involved in every link.

Whether it is the scene layout, artists, or actors' movement arrangement, Li Xianyun is in charge of the whole way, watching and polishing repeatedly.

For him, the record of ghost recognition is the most important growth work for him to improve his directorial level.

"Click!"

On today's set, Li Xianyun shouted.

Several actors stopped and watched Li Xianyun together.

Li Xianyun touched his chin and said, "The camera feels not right. Dasheng, please help me see if there is any problem."

Rong Dasheng came over and took a look and said, "There is a problem with the lens design."

“How to solve it?”

Rong Dasheng smiled: "You let me be the director, I will do it."

"Damn!" Li Xianyun gave him a middle finger.

People are selfish. They were originally friends, so it would be fine to give some advice, but now you are the director and I am the photographer. Why should I teach you?

Of course, you can pay, that is, a single item is charged.

Li Xianyun could understand that he would not be very resentful because of this, but the problem always needs to be solved.

At this moment, I felt a headache when I looked at the camera.

This shot captures the heroine's fear when she first encountered a supernatural phenomenon, but she always feels that the effect is not very good.

Zhao Yunyang came over to look at it and said, "It might be better if this lens is zoomed with Hitchcock."

Hitchcock zoom is a sliding zoom method invented by the horror film master Hitchcock. By changing the focal length, it is most suitable for shaping a horror atmosphere and is also a common method used in horror films.

Li Xianyun sighed: "I know Hitchcock zoom, but isn't the Alai mini quality insufficient, so the effect is not good?"

"Who told you that Alai's shooting is not effective?" Zhao Yunyang was surprised: "Alai is absolutely fine, he can shoot even with his mobile phone with sufficient technology."

"What did you say?" Li Xianyun was stunned and looked at Baihe not far away.

Baihe lowered his head and said nothing.

Rong Dasheng was also a little strange: "What's the situation?"

Li Xianyun's face became slightly cold: "When shooting the ghost battle in the secret room, I once wanted to use Hitchcock zoom, but they said that the photos of Alai were not effective."

Zhao Yunyang and Rong Dasheng understood and looked at Bai He together.

The photographers at that time were fired from Group B photographers, and the other was Bai He.

Rong Dasheng understood a little, and smiled and said, "Sliding zoom has certain technical requirements, small movies have low income, so people generally don't want to be so troublesome."

Li Xianyun snorted: "I think I may not feel that there will be a chance to cooperate in the future. But I understand. As a director, you must not only understand the language of the camera, but also have to know more about technology. Otherwise, the people below will fool you casually, and you won't know."

As he said that, Li Xianyun said, "Hitchcock zoom, just click this."

He didn't care about Bai He. Everyone was not familiar with each other at the beginning, so it was normal to be scheming with each other. If he didn't continue like this in the future, it would be useful, but if there was another time, Li Xianyun would let him go as far as he could.

The affairs of Bai He and the others made Li Xianyun further realize that to become an excellent director, what is required is not only the basic skills of the director, but also the professional level in many other aspects.

Originally, Li Xianyun was in the same room as Jiang Zheng, but in order to improve his photography knowledge, he adjusted Zhao Yunyang and Jiang Zheng.

Every night, Li Xianyun would discuss and learn photography knowledge with Zhao Yunyang, understand his shortcomings during the day, prepare for tomorrow's plans, and correct the following work content.

However, soon, a new situation emerged.

After filming today, Li Xianyun returned to the room and looked at the crew's report.

In addition to being a director or producer, he is also responsible for the operation of the crew, including various financial expenses.

Just as I was watching, my face suddenly became gloomy.

Li Xianyun frowned and said, "What's going on with the artist? Why does the garden behind the villa cost so much 50,000 yuan?"

"Let me take a look." Zhao Yunyang, who had gone to bed without even taking a shower, came over in shorts and looked at it, and smiled and said, "Well, it's a bit hydrated. I guess it's enough for 40,000 yuan."

"No, it's 30,000." Li Xianyun answered with certainty.

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Speaking of which, the crew is not a producer’s business, but there is nothing that doesn’t cheat money from top to bottom.

Producers want to lose money by investing, and the people below also have their own tricks.

The deputy director of the actor contacts the actor. An actor costs 30,000 yuan, and the actor may be 18,000 yuan. The group leader can make money from the extras, and a single actor may give 70,000 yuan, but he can ask you for 20,000 yuan. But these are not cheating money, but industry rules - after all, they are just eating this bowl of rice.

But some are pitfalls.

For example, if an external producer contacts the venue, if a venue has a rent of 3,000 yuan, he can ask you for 5,000 yuan. According to the industry rules, you can't go over to find others, otherwise it will be a waste of people's jobs. Therefore, industry rules are sometimes used to protect the evildoers.

In addition, the clothing and cosmetics team has to rent clothing, so they also have to make money on clothing fees and cosmetics; the props team has to make props, and there are also ways to make money; the scenery artist is a lot of ways to make money. Moreover, the methods are hidden, and even the people in Hollywood cannot solve them - their only solution is to maintain high salaries and maintain good health.

Even the actors were cheating. This time, Shen Rong came here and asked for leave temporarily. In fact, she was going to go to commercial performances, which was also a disguised way to cheat money, and this was already the least cheating type.

It can be said that there is room for money everywhere in the crew, and it is difficult to verify.

Because many crew workers are self-employed, and they don’t have a company, they can’t issue receipts for you - you can’t speak to the group speakers. Today, you can’t issue tickets for me, right?

Then the extras went to find the group leader: You took half of it, let’s buy invoices, and each issued a hundred?

Isn't this nonsense?

The group leader still has to jump to the producer: Who asked you to tell the cast that you gave 200 yuan? You don’t abide by the rules. I told him that the total is only 15 yuan! I want to tell everyone that I won’t cooperate with you in the future.

Then your reputation in this industry becomes bad. All kinds of brokers really don’t care about such people unless you offer a tenfold price.

The same is true for buying materials. Isn’t it just a receipt? It’s very difficult to open a high point? If you only give him a little more profit of ten yuan, he dares to make a note of one hundred yuan for you.

In the original world, Li Xianyun met a boss by chance.

The boss happened to invest one million to be a big internet giant. He was very confident at the time. Maybe he felt something was wrong later, so he asked Li Xianyun to help check the accounts.

To check the accounts, you have to look at the crew and the finished film.

The films are on the spot DIT, and where the scene DIT lives, only the producer and the on-site producer who is responsible for delivering the film know that the producer is cunning and does not allow others to contact.

So Li Xianyun first found the filmmaker as an investor, gave some benefits, and then found the hotel where DIT checked in. He went over and bluffed: "I am an investor, you don't have to be nervous. I know you are only responsible to the producer, but I'm not here to check the accounts, I just want to see how good the director is. I had a good director, but because the director had something to do temporarily, I was not at ease with the current director's level, so I came to see his level. But you also know that if this matter is spread and let the producer and director know, you must be in a bad mood, and then the subsequent work will not be done... But if you don't let me watch it, the subsequent money will not be settled..."

With just a series of bluffs and threats, Li Xianyun successfully saw the film and even touched the motherboard clearly where the motherboard was - taking away the motherboard if necessary is also a means.

After watching the finished film, and then exploring the crew's team and progress, Li Xianyun went to tell the investors that the crew lost at least 700,000 yuan.

Investors were confused at that time - they thought there were black spots, but they didn't expect it to be so big!

Then Li Xianyun checked further and found out that there was an intermediary here - the meaning of the intermediary was to isolate the connection between investors and the crew, otherwise Li Xianyun would not have to check the accounts in this way.

There is no doubt that some of the money lost was benefited by the middlemen, and some of the producers and other crew members were involved in the process.

At that time, Li Xianyun told investors that the middleman is not a fund and there are not such strict means. He can help get it back, but it is difficult to get it back after the money from the crew.

Because the crew has started, some of the money is really paid.

If false and real efforts are mixed together, it will be difficult to deal with.

There is another reason, that is, this part of the crew is not taken by the producer, and it is likely that there will be directors and bosses of each group. The people led by bosses of each group will only listen to the bosses. If you ask for the money, it is equivalent to going to oppose the entire crew and no one will cooperate with you.

Finally, the crew has started filming. Once such a thing happens, the crew will definitely be paralyzed, but the money may not be possible. The crew members, no matter whether you are filming or what you are doing, staying here for a day is a day of money. You can do nothing, but you can't give it money.

In the end, Li Xianyun discussed and decided to ask Li Xianyun to get the money from the middleman. Li Xianyun took 20% of the money he asked for.

The money you can give up on the crew can be appropriately given up and just make a movie as a high price, at least not having nothing.

So Li Xianyun ran over to find the middleman and asked for the account to check the account. The middleman was not as professional as Li Xianyun, how could he withstand the investigation? He disagreed and called the police directly. The middleman did not participate in the production, and the account was not so meticulous. The key was that the investor would come over to check the account. He had to spit out money and eliminate the disaster after Li Xianyun promised not to cause trouble for him.

The Cao Te Mei has a total of 500,000 yuan, which means that the producer should still have a problem of about 200,000 yuan.

After the money was back, Li Xianyun thought of another trick and went to talk to the producer.

He told the producer: I know there is something wrong with this crew, and the actual cost of the film will not exceed 300,000 yuan. If you give me a bribe of 50,000 yuan, I will let you go, otherwise you will be stopped by the crew's comprehensive inspection. It is not impossible to find out. No one will be good at that time, and you may have to sue.

Spit money and bribery are two different concepts.

Spitting money is a confession, and it is all vomiting, and there is no possibility of leaving any of it. Of course, everyone will not admit it if they don’t admit it. They can do it for money. Bribery is called cost, which means they are your own people and do not need to be paid in full, and the key is also safe.

So the producer, director and several bosses finally discussed it and gave Li Xianyun 50,000 yuan.

But these guys are not easy to meet.

Especially the producers communicated with the middleman and knew that Li Xianyun had gotten back 500,000, and investors had long distrustled them, and they would still keep an eye on the accounts that followed. The original plan was to make this movie less than 300,000, but now it may cost 400,000.

In other words, if everyone is busy until the end of the day, in addition to the extra benefits of wages, there may be 50,000 yuan. How many people can they get to their own hands?

I was so annoyed.

So the crew called the investor as soon as the filming was completed and said that Li Xianyun had taken us 50,000 yuan - you are so fucked that he still has the face to make such a call.

Unexpectedly, the investor directly cursed them and told them to take the film back, and you don’t have to worry about anything after the promotion and distribution.
To be continued...