Ye Wei's words made a cheer sound in Reynolds Hall again, which attracted other students to look curiously, and saw those people shouting: "They were wrong!", "Absolute!"

The questioner Lily smiled and kept herself from becoming excited. Wei was undoubtedly very capable of speaking, but the difficulties she faced now cannot be solved by speaking alone. There must be more real materials!

After everyone calmed down, Ye Wei continued, "First of all, I want to tell you a common sense of film production financing: the best money is other people's money."

He smiled, "I have emptied your pockets, and so are our own, so our hands must reach into the other pockets."

"What do you mean, or crowdfunding?" Lily couldn't help but murmur, feeling a little disappointed. Is that just that?

Everyone also frowned, and the evil laughter of John Williams and others was still in their ears, "That fool must still want to crowdfund, this is a Ponzi scheme!" I really don't want to be slandered by those evil people. Crowdfunding is actually not bad, but everyone really has no money, who should I raise money? Why do I have to raise millions for filming movies? It's so difficult!

"I didn't say that, it's not crowdfunding."

Ye Wei shrugged, and while everyone was relieved, he was full of doubts and expectations. He heard him ask: "One question, who is the richest person in the world?"

Everyone suddenly thought of it, and Chen Nuo's answer was very low: "Bill Gates?" Bab had different opinions: "I think it's Freemasonry, they control the whole world." His words caused Lev and others to be unfairly haha: "Batman, right?", "It's obviously Tony Stark!", "It's Uncle McDonald's!"...

"Brothers, I'm serious!" Babu said anxiously.

"I'm serious, it's Forrest Gump, haha!" Lev felt complacent.

"Stop making trouble, no one has any other answers?" Ye Wei looked around the silent people, "Lily?" Lily shook her head and didn't guess, and he revealed the answer: "Bank!"

"Oh!" An atmosphere of sudden enlightenment spread, and everyone understood it, just borrowing money from the bank!

New questions follow, why should the bank lend you it? What should it be used as collateral? It can’t be a school, right? Their doubts have increased instead of reducing.

"Will the risk be too great if you borrow money from the bank?" Lily held her eyebrows upright. Even if she really borrowed it, what would she use to pay off her debts if the film lost money?

Ye Wei smiled, but was very confident and said: "The risk of mortgage loans is of course high, but not mortgage loans? It is just a completion performance insurance provided by an insurance company to ensure that the movie is completed in accordance with all the provisions of the contract, otherwise the insurance company will compensate the bank for the losses, so that the bank will only bear a small part of the risk."

What...what? Everyone felt even more confused. Why did insurance companies have to pay such insurance?

Most of them cannot be called "ordinary children". Some parents are high-end professionals, some businessmen, and some celebrities, so they are quite understandable. I asked some 7-9 students from public schools to try it. I guarantee that they would not understand anything except saying it cool.

But even Lily has been exposed to film and television entertainment since she was a child, has been on TV, and has attended Oscars since she was a child, but she still can't tell the truth.

So there was silence, no one spoke much, and they were waiting for VIY to resolve their doubts.

Ye Wei took a few steps in a brewing way, thinking about what he learned and planned in his dream, and slowly started from the beginning: "There are mainly several ways of financing independent films: similar to the financing of large producers, film funds, co-production, maximizing the use of tax preferential policies in various places, advertising implantation, post-payment, crowdfunding, investment by myself, and what I plan to do... overseas copyright pre-sale."

Everyone's eyes are gradually brightening, are there any pre-sale of copyrights overseas?

"In the 1970s, an Italian theater manager... Well, by the way, Dinod Laurentis used this financing method for the first time, using promissory notes paid by foreign publishers as collateral to borrow enough production funds.

Like what we have to do, first of all, we will take "The Little Sunshine Beauty" which is just a script and production plan and go to negotiate with foreign buyers to sell the film's right to release the film, DVD and TV in the region to each other. Maybe it's just a copyright, maybe it's all.

By pre-sale of these overseas distribution rights, we get production funds, a small part of the advance payment, and the remaining payment is the number on the contract, and the film is posted after delivery. It is like selling the British theater screening rights to a British publisher, 500,000, of which 100,000 are pre-paid, as well as France, Germany, Italy... the whole world."

Ye Wei swept the faces of everyone who seemed to understand them again, and finally set his eyes on Lily, and said, "When we use this method and get enough budget on paper, we will go to the completed performance insurance company to take insurance. After getting the insurance, we will bring all the contracts to the bank to borrow money, and then...

Do you think the bank will lend it to us? Yes, the bank will. In the past thirty years, independent filmmakers have borrowed money like this. This is the pillar of independent filming!

Because as long as the video is delivered as scheduled, the paper money will become real money, and we can pay off the debt, and the bank earns interest and service fees; what if the video is unfortunately not completed? The insurance company will take over the project and handle the bank at the same time, and we will go bankrupt at most and will not go to jail, but we won’t, we will complete the video!

Moreover, we must comprehensively use all suitable financing methods, such as tax incentives, advertising implants... In the end, we will find that the money in our pockets is not spent at all."

After saying that, Ye Weicai smiled again, confident, brilliant and ambitious.

Everyone was still quiet and was a little stunned. Who said VIY was unaware and talented? Who was it? What a joke? Can a ignorant person say this? Advanced, professional, and super cool words!

Overseas copyright pre-sale, I only realized that this is the case today!

Some people understand, while others still don’t understand, but they feel...workable!

"Oh grandpa, there is a genius here! Brother Wei, you are a damn genius!" Lev's excited scream broke the silence. His face was flushed with excitement, just like Tom Hanks in "The Rest of the Desert Island" saw the ship passing by and shouted: "Great, how much money can we get in this way? 3 million? 6 million!?"

"Okay!!" Bud also burst into ecstasy, "When that day comes, we will have a good meal to celebrate!"

The students were laughing, as if they had already seen the stinky faces of John Williams and others. How about it! Baby, this is not crowdfunding!

Wow, Lily couldn't help but admire, the feeling of surging feelings appeared again, this bastard really had a detailed plan, not just talking about it, not playing games...

"What's wrong?" Looking at everyone's reaction, Ye Wei smiled, "This is making you crazy? I'm really worried that you can bear it next!"

At this time, Colwin, who had been filming the DV video in silence and calmly, spoke out like a ghost: "But why do those overseas distributors buy the copyright of "The Little Sunshine Beauty"?"

Uh! The atmosphere suddenly stagnated, and everyone's frenzy calmed down. Yes, it can be said that this is the first and most critical step, and they have to convince the publishers to pay.

Think about it, no one knows the quality of "The Little Beauty of Sunshine" and their age and identity seem to not give any confidence from outsiders. This is too difficult.

"For God's sake, Korwin..." Lev gritted his teeth in dissatisfaction. Can't it be so happy for a while? If you don't speak, no one will think you don't exist!

"Yes, it's not easy to convince those publishers. The key is that we have to give a production plan that will impress them."

Ye Wei had already had this consideration, and he was the person here who knew best how difficult this matter was.

Yes, pre-sale copyright is the financing pillar of the independent production industry, but this process is actually complex and long. It is already fast to get money from the bank after a project lasts one or two years. Sometimes it even takes several years. The difficulty and time-consuming are definitely no less than the crowdfunding model of "Blood Maze".

Not to mention that this is a project abandoned by the focus company. The future online lineup list will read "Producer Ye Wei, Director Ye Wei". Think about what expressions are on the faces of those overseas publisher managers when they see it? No one is a fool, they are all profiteers, and they will not buy it. Even if his preparations are made so well and his blueprint is so moving, just like this, no publisher will buy it.

unless……

"In the production plan, there is a big figure joining the video contract! At that time, it will not be that we ask the publishers to buy it, but that the publishers ask us to sell it!"

Ye Wei's words were as heavy as a bell, which made everyone feel energetic. The fog in front of him was pushed away again, and they saw the light!

"Like a big director, or a big star?" Lily asked.

"That's right!" Ye Wei nodded with a smile, "It's right, because of two reasons. First, the director will be me; second, overseas audiences generally do not buy the accounts of big directors. They only know big stars, preferably comedy or action stars, which is the favorite of overseas publishers."

What!? Everyone was really shocked again now. The heart couldn't stand it. This was the first time they heard VIY say he wanted to be the director of the film!

Even if they are not familiar with film production, they all know the difference between producers and directors. There are many kinds of producers, one that only pays money, and the other that does production affairs; and there is only one type of director, the director is the director, the storyteller, the God of the set, and the soul of the movie...

Except for a few people like Lev, everyone always thought that VIY would only be the company boss, and that he would only be the supervisor of the production. He would hire professional producers and professional directors to do it. He never thought that he would do it himself... wouldn't he ask them to act?

Lily also stared at her eyes, in surprise: "You... director?"

"Yes! Otherwise, what do you think I mean by making a movie?" Ye Wei smiled confidently, "I can't wait to direct this story."

Lev raised his thumbs up. He was the first person to know Wei Ge's decision. He was proud of it: "Only feature films can show Wei Ge's talent." Bard nodded repeatedly: "Yes."

"But..." Lily really doesn't want to disappoint her, but this is not a house-playing house, and it's not just that she can really be a house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house-playing house

Film director? Isn’t he still a long way to go before this profession? She didn’t like to see his exaggerated side and said with a frown: “However, I think the director candidate can be considered again, and you don’t have to decide so quickly. After all… that’s the director.”

Although they trust VIY very much, many people have to agree with what Lily said. They don’t even understand what professional film directors have to do. They can’t just shoot short films for middle school students, right? But they are amazing, but they don’t necessarily understand much...

"OK, let's talk about this." Ye Wei nodded, and understood their doubts very well. It would be strange if they had no doubts, but only he knew that he could do it.

If you talk nonsense, if you want to convince others, you must show your talents in a real way, but it is obviously not now.

Of course, as the only general partner of the company, he has supreme production rights, and even if everyone opposes, he can still implement his own ideas.

Seeing that Wei seemed to give up, Lev and his friends were anxious. They just kept saying nothing because they got his wink, "Don't argue for the time being."

The others didn't hold on, because there was a second amazing thing, which was what they were more interested in, and invited a big star to join!

Speaking of this, Lev shouted excitedly again: "Brother Wei, who are you going to invite? Are Meryl Streep? She acted so well in "Sophie's Choice"..."

"Can we invite Jack Black? I like him!" Bud also hurriedly said the candidate in his mind. Chen Nuo from the other side also said: "I like Malone Brando." Colwin also participated: "Dustin Hoffman."

Someone said one after another: "Linsey Lohan! Lindsey Lohan!", "No, no, I prefer Jennifer Aniston, okay?"...

Seeing that they were in high spirits and out of control, talking about their idols and the names of various celebrity superstars, Ye Wei was a little helpless. No one here is Yuri, right? How can those big stars rush to pounce on them? The fact is: With the current situation, don’t tell me, it’s difficult to invite ordinary well-known actors.

Lily shook her head and smiled. She was the person who was the most familiar with the big names on the screen here and could not make a fuss as optimistic as everyone else. "Why don't we think about famous actors first?"

"No, you can only be a big star, the more famous the better."

Ye Wei said undeniably that it was not because of arrogance, but because it was necessary: ​​"We need a big shot who can support fast and high-priced overseas pre-sales. The influence of well-known actors is too small and cannot be done. Only superstars can do it, such as members of the 20 million-dollar club..."

"HOW? This is impossible..." Lily was a little unhappy. The more he spoke, the more exaggerated he became. He was the director first, and then invited a superstar with 20 million yuan in pay. Can he be more at ease?

Trister, Connie and other girls all had weird eyes and sounded cool, but in fact they were daydreaming.

Everyone looked at each other. Should they be excited or rational...

"A friend told me, 'Even if no one is optimistic about you, you must stick to your own ideas and keep going.' I will give you this sentence to everyone now. This is our purpose, nothing is impossible!"

Ye Wei raised his eyebrows and looked around everyone, whispering: "Just a few days ago, someone said how could we raise 500,000 yuan, how could we buy the script, how could we really have a production plan, how could we invite celebrities, how could we shoot well, how could we release...

Guys, these ‘how could’ be followed by us for a long time, until we succeed, we ask others and our own reason! But there are many things that reason cannot be done, but persistence can be done! Remember that every step we take now, no matter success or failure, is creating a new film history, so please don’t tell me anything that is impossible!

Just like don't tell the Wright brothers 'humans can't fly', guys, those who said it ended up being shocked! Never give up the opportunity to create miracles just because others can't do it, never!"

Everyone was excited again when they heard it, "It's right!", "Yes, that's what it should be!", "Brother Wei, let go, we support you!"

Lily's face turned red, she felt annoyed, moved, depressed, and excited... This guy was so hateful, she seemed to say that she didn't support her, she just didn't want to be blind... with a very contradictory mind, he always made her unable to be her usual self...

But after hearing what he said, she didn't want to be a mediocre person who dared not dream, so she said in a stiff voice: "Your friend said it well, give it a try."

"Well." Ye Wei nodded, still looking serious: "That friend said 'Brother Wei, you are really handsome, like a prince'" Lily immediately gave him a coquettish look. If it weren't for so many people around, she would have gone up to pinch him and pinched that cheeky face!

"If it works, then we will pay 20 million yuan?" At this time, Babu's soft words started to sound.

"No, zero pay, total income dividends, this is the convention and the only feasible way to pay for inviting superstars to join independent movies." Ye Wei replied.

"Brother Wei, are you going to invite whom?" Lev asked excitedly, which was also the question that everyone was most looking forward to.

"I haven't set my goal yet, but this is my production plan. Next, I will work hard to achieve it!"
Chapter completed!