Chapter 31: Young movie?

"Yang, I can learn!" Jessica hurriedly interrupted Wang Yang and prevented him from saying "I need to be able to dance, but you can't dance". She has already made up her mind and must participate in Yang The next movie.
Jessica remembered moving to Los Angeles when she was a child, and she begged her father to let her go to acting school. At that time, Dad ’s business had just started, and his family ’s economic situation was not as good as it is now, but in order to give her and Joshua a growth environment he thought was the best, they lived in the smallest house in a rich community. Dad Too busy to see people, and my mother is going to play several part-time jobs. They are exhausted from work every day just for her and Joshua to study in a private expensive Catholic school.
But she and Joshua had no friends in the community or school. The proud and wealthy children simply looked down on them and no one played with them. At that time she was lonely and missed her happy life in San Francisco. She was thinking about He Yang's agreement, but to become an actor, she had to go to acting school. So she ignored her parents' expectations and boldly asked her father to help her transfer. Dad was a stubborn person, scolding her for "willfulness" and ignored her words; later she fought for a long time, crying and making noises before she calmed down and agreed to her transfer.
Wasn't she thinking that she would make a movie with Yang when she grew up? She wants to be an excellent actor, which is her pursuit; she wants to star in Yang movies, which is also her pursuit since childhood.
She watched how Yang made the first movie and watched him succeed step by step. She was even the first person to know "The Ghost Record", but she always seemed to be a passer-by, watching all the time, but did not participate in it; but this time, she was not allowed to let herself be missed anymore, anyway, she You must participate in Yang's movie! Even if it is a mass role without lines.
These thoughts flashed quickly in his heart, and Jessica said with a firm face, seriously: "I need to learn any dance, I can learn it."
"Jessica, don't worry." Wang Yang comforted her, and when she heard that she was nervous, she explained: "It doesn't matter if you can't dance now, we are not going to participate in any international competitions. Just when shooting, Just let the dance director give you dance lessons. "
"Oh, God." Jessica suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled happily, her eyes full of excitement, smiled: "It's good to hear you say this!" She was really ready to go immediately Contact a dance teacher to learn the types of dance required for that campus song and dance film. But now she still intends to do this, and later she will go to the dance class and raise the song and dance film, which shows that he likes to dance. If Yang invites her to dance one day, what will happen? And dancing is fun! She asked again: "Oh, Yang, why do you suddenly want to make campus songs and dances?"
Wang Yang came to the kitchen, poured warm water into a drinking glass, and smiled at the mobile phone: "It's not sudden, when I was in Chicago, I started thinking. I decided the plan in these two days."
Hearing "Chicago", Jessica suddenly had an impulse in her heart and wanted to ask Wang Yang a sentence "Does Rachel know?"
"I just think 'it's time'. Now it's the right time to launch the school song and dance movie, maybe it can also make the song and dance movie fully revive, ha ha!" Wang Yang laughed a few times and walked back to the computer with a glass of water. I said half-jokingly: "And the campus film is also suitable for you to act, isn't it? I'm fed up with those producers and directors, why wouldn't even a waiter role give you? No service angry quality? Oh, Please! "
Jessica Zhanyan smiled, and she was sweet in her heart. She pulled her hair and smiled and said, "Yang, so what role might there be for me to play?"
"Well, I don't know yet, but what is certain is that the character must have a line." Wang Yang laughed and said a joke, but the next words he needed to say seriously, the tone was serious: "Jessica, I really mean, I will invite you to participate in the audition for the heroine of this movie. "Jessica suddenly startled and lost her voice:" Oh, my God! "Wang Yang smiled and continued:" You In terms of appearance, it can be a heroine, but I ca n’t make a decision yet. You know, there are many factors to consider a heroine. "
"I know, Jan, I know ..." Jessica responded, she was so happy and hot, she said excitedly: "God, so exciting!" She has the opportunity to become the heroine of Jan's movie. Compared with this, what can make people happier? "When I grow up, I will be a director, you will be a heroine, and then ..." Is this agreement to be fulfilled?
Wang Yang smiled and said, "Jessica, then you have to practice your acting skills." He thought about the performance that Jessica had tried before casting a role in "The Ghost Record" before, and said himself 'S suggestion: "Sometimes acting must be natural, sometimes it needs to deviate from the facts. You are very sad in reality, you may be expressionless, but under the camera, you need to express your sadness and let everyone see ... … Happy, angry, sad, express these emotions, the change of attitude is very important, need to have a sense of hierarchy, not just one expression ...
Although the performance of "High School Musical" does not seem to be high, but now it is necessary to move directly to the big screen, and there is no room for mistakes, and his attitude towards casting is always absolutely rational. If Jessica ca n’t reach him He does n’t want to talk about emotions, he can do it, he ca n’t. He said seriously: "Jessica, I don't want to give the heroine to others, you know?"
Jessica listened to his words, took a deep breath, and nodded: "Yang, I will practice hard, I will."
They chatted for a while, and the conversation ended, and Jessica said she was going to practice acting in the mirror. Wang Yang sat at the computer desk, looked at the display screen, his hands struck on the keyboard, and began to write the script of "High School Musical".
The story of "High School Musical", in fact, the content structure is very simple. The actor Troy Burton is the captain of the Eastern High School basketball team "Wild Cats". He has been taught by his father since his childhood. His father is the coach of the Wild Cats, and In the past, when he was young, he won the league championship for the Wildcats; and the heroine Gabriella Mantis is a science genius. He has won numerous awards in academic competitions and is a "nerd" type.
At a holiday party on a New Year's holiday, Troy and Gabriella were reluctantly pushed onto the small stage. They sang a song together, and found out that they were on the other side and loved singing and dancing.
After the party, the two returned to their cities, but until one day, Gabriella suddenly transferred to Eastern High School, and Troy, who met her naturally, was very happy. A musical at the school began to select characters, knowing that they like singing and dancing, Troy and Gabriella participated in the audition and passed the first round; but the basketball finals and academic games are near, Troy and Gabriella's family Friends are preventing them from participating in the musical, trying to get them back to "normal track".
Under their destruction, Troy and Gabriella had a misunderstanding and both gave up on the second round of auditions, but they both became very unhappy, so their friends reflected and knew that they should be encouraged to pursue their dreams, so they asked Troy The two confessed their previous destruction.
Resolved the misunderstanding of Troy and Gabriella, became happy, and again actively prepared for the second round of auditions. However, the brothers and sisters of Chapel-Evans and Rennes-Evans broke up again. They have always been the protagonists of the Eastern High School musicals. They feared that they would be snatched by Troy. Teacher Si modified the time of the second round audition so that it overlapped with the time of the basketball finals and academic games.
But with the help of friends, accidents happened in both basketball and academic games. Troy and Gabriella finally participated in the second round of selection and were selected as the leading roles in the musical. Afterwards, Troy won the finals, and Gabriella also won the academic competition, a happy ending. This is the story of "High School Musical", simple but inspirational.
This script is written for the actors, and the singing and dancing part only needs to be clarified. There is no need to write specific how to dance, nor can it be written. The work is still left to the dance instructor. However, when writing this script, Wang Yang added some content compared to the original version. For example, he felt that in the later part of the movie, the attitude of the good friends of the male and female protagonists became too abrupt, and they need to add a small paragraph to discuss with themselves. Reflective content.
These contents are all the material of the movie. They were all taken during the shooting, and then reached the later editing stage of the movie, and then the choice was made.
It took two days for the script to be written, and Wang Yang finalized the first edition. The general framework of the story has not changed, but how to express the story and what details to tell, he made some changes in order to make the rhythm of the film more natural. It is also more suitable for the big screen.
Next, Wang Yang began to write the sub-screen script of "High School Musical", that is, to write clearly how to turn the content of the script into a screen picture, and how to shoot these pictures and so on.
There are many different ways of expressing TV movies and movies, there are reasons for cost constraints, and there are also different reasons for watching movies on small screens and big screens. Anyway, most of the shots of "High School Musical", Wang Yang will have to redesign, he does not consider the cost, only consider the best effect.
For example, at the beginning of "High School Musical", outside the holiday shop of the New Year holiday, Troy and Gabriela watched the splendid fireworks set to greet the New Year. This group of lenses is expressed in the original version. The lens is directed towards the protagonist and the protagonist looks up, and then the picture changes, only the brilliant fireworks in the sky, the computer effects that look very fake, after a few seconds, then Cut the lens back to face the male and female protagonists, and there are a lot of people behind them.
A very obvious sense of setting. When they shoot this set of lenses, they must be indoors. Even if they are outdoors, there will be no fireworks in the sky, and they are unwilling to spend money to refine the post-production special effects. This is a TV movie.
On Wang Yang's "High School Musical" sub-screen script, this group of shots is prepared to shoot like this. When the head of the male and female protagonist looks at the fireworks, the lens is raised upward and shot down, and then turned to a long-distance upward angle shot. Ella, the masses and resort shops, the sky, and fireworks are all shot in one frame, showing a romantic sense. This is the big screen movie.
Wang Yang wrote this sub-lens script very slowly. He has to consider the consistency of style, and to make the lens have a youthful campus atmosphere, almost reorganizing the entire movie. This is a very painstaking and painstaking work, he is not in a hurry, of course, he does not need to hurry, until the film officially starts shooting, can write it; and to prepare a film film, there is still a lot of work to be done in the early stage ,a lot of.
"Hey, Hebrew, it's me, Yang." Wang Yang leaned on the rattan sofa in the apartment and took a mobile phone to call Hebrew-Karr, the lawyer of the "integrity" law firm. As early as many days ago, when he consulted Hebrew-Karl for taxes and fees, Wang Yang asked him to be his own legal advisor, free to consult legal issues throughout the year, as well as responsible for contract matters, etc., need to fight There are also discounts in lawsuits. The price is that Wang Yang has to pay Hebrew-Karl ten thousand dollars every month.
Is already cheap, but Hebrew-Karl has more than one client. Lawyers in this country are highly paid and respected professions.
Hearing the Hebrew hello, Wang Yang asked directly: "I am going to make a new movie with an investment of about 5 million. I want to ask if I should register a production company?"
"5 million? Oh, of course, if there are multiple investors in this movie, you need a company; if you are the only investor in the movie, you still need a company." Hebrew-Carlton paused and gave Wang Yang Analysis: "First of all, making a 5 million movie, you can't do it alone, if there is no company responsible for the overall work, the financial mess will be messed up."
Wang Yang nodded silently. He just took this into consideration, and he was ready to register a company. The production of DV movies and film movies are two different things. The cost of Ghost Records is 10,000. There are only two actors. The whole crew has only three people, so there is no need for the company to play. But if you shoot "High School Musical", the cost is One million, there will be more than a dozen signed actors, and there will be hundreds of people to set up the crew, photographers, lighting technicians, makeup artists, set designers, etc ... Without a company, it is a joke.
Unless he finds a production company to cooperate and throws these jobs to them, but why not directly start a company by himself? He is not from a business school, he does not understand and does not need to manage the daily affairs of the company, he just needs to be a chairman, and then hire someone like Jon Filtim to take care of the company.
Hebrew continued: "I am not a professional in these financial matters, so I can't give you more advice. But the second point, our California government still has some discounts for those small film companies. Register in California, Filming in California will eventually return you some movie tax. In fact, other places have similar policies. The tax returned may not be much, but it is better than nothing. "
"Well." Wang Yang thought for a while, then said: "Hebrew, I know. Then you tell me, how to register a production company?"
Hebrew laughed and said, "No, Yang, I don't recommend you to register your own company. Even if you set up, it's just a shell company. You need to find an office, you need to re-appoint people, there are many things to do, very annoying Isn't it? "Then, he said his own suggestion:" Actually you can buy an existing production company. You know, Los Angeles has never lacked those film companies that are on the verge of bankruptcy and waiting for capital injection. There are companies every day. Founded, there are companies that go bankrupt every day. But most of these companies go bankrupt because they only invested in a movie that failed at the box office, leading to serious losses for the company; sometimes they have n’t even invested, just because they have no funds to maintain. These There is no problem with the internal operation of the company. You can find a company with no debt and inject funds, which is much more convenient than setting up a new company. "
Putting down his mobile phone, Wang Yang embraced his chest with both hands, frowning slightly and thinking about Hebrew-Carl's proposal. Indeed, acquiring a financially healthy independent production company was easier than setting up a new company. The company with film experience can also make up for his strangeness in the production field, and can start shooting "High School Musical" as soon as possible.
After thinking for a while, Wang Yang picked up his cell phone again and called Jon-Fiertimel. He said, "Hi Jon."
"Hi, Yang, what's the matter?" Jon's voice passed, quite casually, and didn't seem to be busy. Wang Yang laughed: "I want to make a movie." Jon's "Oh" sounded as if frowning: "The campus song and dance film you mentioned last time? Yang, sorry, our company just decided Under the plan of "Ghost Record 2", you know that you have eaten 5 million, we no longer have free funds to invest again ... "His current results are enough to compete for the company's CEO, there is no need to do it again An investment with an unknown future. Let's wait until he becomes CEO.
Wang Yang knew Jon ’s psychology, and never planned to cooperate with these companies. Once he maximized the benefits, he only had to share with the issuing company; more importantly, when he was still studying at NUS Having been to a crew for a part-time job, which is the kind of moving up and down, he saw a scene of "director and producer making a big show", and he was a bit creepy when he thought about it.
In fact, when James Cameron was young, he was very unhappy with the producer when he filmed his debut film "Piranha 2: Breeding". In the editing stage of the late film, the producer did not even let James -Cameron participated. James Cameron, who was upset, would be his film, producer and director thereafter.
Wang Yang thought that if any producer pointed at him, he might hit him with a punch. He adjusted his sitting posture and said to Jon: "I know, I'm not going to invest, I invested in my movie." Jon suddenly said with surprise: "Wow! All?" Wang Yang nodded and smiled: "Yes , All, I do n’t want to talk to any producer. So, I want to own my own production company. I plan to buy a financially healthy company directly. Do you have any introductions? "
"Oh! Are you kidding me?" Jon was stunned. Although he didn't know the specific investment amount of Wang Yang's campus song and dance film, Wang Yang had mentioned "maybe millions" before him! This young man seems to be blinded by success? Film movies and DV movies are not comparable, let alone the silent type of song and dance, but this young man is millions when he smashes it. Is he too blind and confident! ? Jon frowned and asked, "Yan, are you serious? Are you really going to do this?"
Wang Yang said positively: "Jon, I am serious about UU reading www.uukanshu.com. I need a high-quality but small production company to sell. You know, there is no debt, it is not a problem with internal operations. It ’s just that they could n’t afford it anymore. A failed investment disheartened the company ’s chairman and he wanted to sell it.
He smiled and said,
And I want to buy it.

As the distribution manager of Liongate, Jon is naturally familiar with competitors in this industry. It can be said that any film company was established and closed, and which company has plans to shoot new films and screen new films. They are all clear. . Naturally, I probably know which film companies have financial problems, and which companies are selling. This is not a secret, but a message in the industry.
"I think about it, oh, I couldn't speak for a while, and my memory has deteriorated." Jon thought for a while, and laughed with self-deprecation. Find it for you, and pass it on to you tomorrow. "
"OK, then I'm waiting for your information." After pressing the end call button, Wang Yang stretched his hands and stood up, quite excitedly hitting several combo punches. Will he buy an independent production company? Wow, like Armstrong landing on the moon, this is a personal step, but it is a big step in the movie industry ... great, crazy! Okay, what's the name of this company? "Young movie?" Well, how does it sound like Fu Kee Restaurant, and his Wang's restaurant ...
Wang Yang went to the computer delusionally and continued to write the unfinished "High School Musical" sub-scene script.
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