Chapter 242: It’s Easy to Spend Money, but Difficult to Earn Money
The official shooting time is set for three days.
This time is a bit rushed.
Still the same!
Everyone needs to pack their bags and head to Kyoto Cinema.
For Chen Ming and Su Rou, they have to leave for Kyoto immediately before they can settle down for a few days.
But Su Rou is fine.
After the girl's role is over, she can return to Yuncheng first.
She also needs to take care of the progress of Qing Rou Man's production, so the girl's role is just right for her.
And during these three days,
Chen Ming took the written song to the Xingyu Entertainment branch and sold it to three artists including Tao Yanhong.
All three songs have buyout contracts.
The total cost of selling it was 13 million, which was a little more than Chen Ming expected.
In this way,
The official filming funds for "Old Nine Gates" are completely sufficient.
As for the remaining 5 million promotional funds, Chen Ming can wait.
When the money from the second screening of "The Tuner" and the TV station arrives, we will also have funds for promotion.
Zheng Rong was also very interested in the filming of "Old Nine Gates" and asked Chen Ming many times if he could invest money. He seemed to be very optimistic about the ratings of this TV series after it was released.
Zheng Rong only has one request, which is to write on the co-producer label at the end of each episode: Xingyu Entertainment Co., Ltd.
Chen Ming did not refuse.
to be honest,
This requirement is too simple.
even,
Even Chen Ming felt that Zheng Rong was giving away money for free, probably because of the plagiarism of his previous script, so Zheng Rong always felt guilty towards Chen Ming.
So he wanted to use the money to support Chen Ming's filming.
Three days later.
A group of people headed to Kyoto Cinema in a mighty manner.
at the same time.
Kyoto villa area.
A middle-aged man was watching the TV series "The Ups and Downs of the Sand Sea" frame by second. Even though the TV series was poorly shot, he still watched it very seriously.
suddenly,
The cell phone on the coffee table rang.
The man casually clicked the button and turned on the speaker.
"What's up?"
"Director Wang, Chen Ming went to Kyoto Cinema."
"real?"
"The news from Kyoto Cinema is that Chen Ming, Xu Manke and others have just arrived at the airport and should have just settled in the hotel."
"I see."
After saying that, hang up the phone.
The next second, the man turned off the TV series, stood up, and showed his face: "Chen Ming, let me see what you want to film this time."
Looking carefully, this person is none other than Wang Aiye.
He has been thinking about an interesting suspense movie during this time and plans to try it with Chen Ming's "The Tuner".
and,
The moment he saw "The Ups and Downs of the Sand Sea", he knew that Wan Youcai had plagiarized Chen Ming's script.
Because of this,
He was willing to spend a lot of time studying "The Rise and Fall of the Sand Sea" over and over again.
He didn't want to see the embarrassing acting skills of the actors in it, he wanted to study the plot direction and concept of the entire drama.
It is no exaggeration to say,
His mind was now flooded with ideas.
"Thank you! Chen Ming."
Wang Aiye stretched himself, and then made a casual phone call: "Book me a ticket to Kyoto Cinema, and let the production crew there get ready. I want to film a TV series this time."
This time, he was fully prepared.
Wan Youcai and Liao Pingshui are just scum. Wang Aiye has never taken these two people seriously. Wang Aiye even didn't even attend the film and television celebrations at the end of the year, and has been conceiving new scripts at home!
It’s been a long time!
He himself couldn't remember how long it had been before his fighting spirit was ignited because of a new person.
...........
the other side.
Chen Ming and others arrived at the hotel they were familiar with last time.
Chen Ming and Su Rou lived directly in the same room. Anyway, when they were in Kyoto, they often slept together, and basically there was no taboo.
As long as you endure it, you should be fine.
It was the first time for some students to come to the cinema, so they seemed quite nervous.
After two days of rest,
Shooting officially begins!
This time the funds are relatively abundant, so the rental of some scene props is not as economical as last time.
For better shooting results, it’s worth it!
The shooting was surprisingly smooth.
a week later,
Su Rou's scene was filmed and she returned to Yuncheng ahead of schedule.
Chen Ming's people then filmed in the studio.
What surprised Chen Ming was that during this period, Wang Aiye specially came to visit their crew. His attitude was very kind, and he could not see the indifference and alienation from last time at all.
Xu Manke just dealt with it briefly.
Now that she has turned into a director, she no longer needs to worry about not getting filming resources, so she no longer needs to look at the faces of these directors.
Wang Aiye didn't care at all, and simply said that he was also filming. If you are interested, you can come over and hang out. If you want to play a guest role, that's not impossible.
Xu Manke suddenly felt confused.
But then I thought about it, maybe it was because "The Tuner" was so popular that Wang Aiye's attitude changed.
One month later.
The filming of "Old Nine Gates" has been completed.
Everyone is a little tired. After all, we have been working hard this month to finish filming the entire TV series.
But apart from being tired, I am even more excited.
This is the first TV series they have participated in filming.
A full 48 episodes!
It is longer than the average TV series.
The second screening of "The Tuner" has also ended. Xu Manke has not confirmed the box office results of the second screening with the theater chain, but it should do well.
Chen Ming took the time to take a look while he was filming. Basically, every show was full of people.
Even if there are vacancies, there are no more than ten.
The salary from the TV station has already been paid into Chen Ming's bank account, which is 3.6 million.
This amount of money includes the royalties from "Chasing Dreams" and Chen Ming's salary for participating in the film. To be honest, this amount of money is more than Chen Ming imagined.
It can be seen that the TV station also took extra care of Chen Ming.
And basically all the money in Chen Ming’s card has been spent.
I have to say,
Filming a TV series is really a very expensive thing.
The 30 million filming funds were all spent within a month.
Among them, the cost of venue is the most expensive.
In fact, the wages of these college students, Xu Manke, and Tong Ran have not yet been settled.
Fortunately, the people involved in the filming were all very easy to talk to. They were not anxious about getting paid, but were anxious to see the effect of the TV series after it was released.
This made Chen Ming breathe a sigh of relief.
He really doesn’t have much money in his wallet right now!
If the remuneration is paid in one lump sum, then he really needs to borrow money.
The plane roared into flight and landed smoothly.
Chen Ming returned to Yuncheng again.
Today is February 2nd.
In one month, basically all the Lunar New Year movies and TV series are coming to an end.
"Old Nine Gates" needs to seize the gap period in February and take advantage of the momentum, maybe it can become a hit immediately.
certainly,
Before that, half a month of warm-up publicity is needed.
Another expense!
Chen Ming looked at the blue sky and couldn't help but sigh: It's so hard to make money, but it's so fast to spend money...