Vol 2 Chapter 344: Video tape market

Pushing open the bathroom door, water drops on the hair kept dripping, took out a cotton half sleeve from the suitcase and rubbed his head vigorously. The reason for not using towels is that the towels in Mickey’s house are too great. Dirty, you can smell the rotten smell and alcohol smell from the towel from Erlidi, and the color... is also quite bright.
Seeing Mickey who was still asleep on the bed, Lu Ze glanced at the time. At 8 o'clock in the morning, he was not in a hurry to get him up. After all, the two went home last night and studied the script until the middle of the night.
After coming out of the Lion Heart Bar last night, the two walked three kilometers back to the apartment that Mickey's father left for Mickey's temporary stay. The key point was to borrow the word.
The father is not dead yet. It’s not time to divide the inheritance, and the family relationship between European and American countries is very different from China. After Mickey’s bankruptcy, as a father, he only gave Mickey a place to stay. Mickey didn't want to go to sleep on the street, he didn't care about everything else, and he didn't know whether his father would be to death when he saw his house made by Mickey.
Put on clean clothes, wash the bowls first in the kitchen, and glanced at the refrigerator. There are all kinds of drinks in the refrigerator. Lu Ze only found the bread that was squeezed out of shape in the innermost part. He opened the bag and looked at it. He glanced at it and threw it into the trash can. The green hair on the bread was almost as tall as the spring onions, and it was easy to die after eating it.
Fortunately, I found a few steaks on the lower level of the refrigerator. After thawing, cut them into large pieces, put them in the oil and fry them slowly, and found a few sprouted potatoes. Cut everything, and the inside is still edible. Cut into pieces and throw them into the pot. Salt, powder and pepper, and finally add some starch, and wait until it is slightly viscous before serving.
To be honest, the taste is not good, and he does not know how to cook western food. Chinese food is a good level of home cooking. In addition, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. The staple food is replaced by potatoes. If you let the chef do it, you can't do much. Something delicious.
That is to say, the potatoes are cut into very few pieces, and the steak is very thick, which is barely full. After eating the last spoonful of soup, when he picked up the plate and wanted to return to the kitchen, Mickey squinted his eyes and reached into the white vest. Keep scratching his chest.
"Morning, what did you do? It smells good, is there any more? My hungry stomach hurts a bit."
"In the pot, but I suggest you take a shower first, you are so stinky, I can smell it so far from you, I'm going to throw up."
Hearing what Lu Ze said, he pulled the vest up and smelled it. It didn't seem to feel any smell, but seeing Lu Ze's disgusting eyes, he waved his hand helplessly and patted his thigh.
"Okay... but to be honest, at this point, you are no different from a woman, Mickey~ You are really stinky, like a middle-aged woman with a cleanliness... Don't smash my TV! I apologize!"
He was caught by Lu Ze and could only rush into the bathroom. Five minutes later, he came out of the bathroom wet and filled with a bowl of beef stewed potatoes. He sat on the sofa in the living room and ate, while Lu Ze was sitting next to him, serious Flipping through the script.
"Boom boom boom..."
"Who?"
"I, Jelena."
The bar owner’s daughter came directly to the door without making a phone call. Lu Ze looked at Mickey suspiciously. He really suspected that Mickey had brought Elena back to the house, but when Mickey had eaten a piece of beef, his expression squinted with happiness. After seeing her, she could only get up and open the door, saying good morning to the girl who was completely different from her father.
"I brought you breakfast, sandwiches, hot dogs, bread, bacon, and coffee. Have you had breakfast?"
The bodies of the two of them stiffened fiercely, and then Lu Ze watched Mickey dump the beef he had worked so hard in the morning into the trash can, and shook his head with a bright smile on Elena.
...
Compared to the tasteless beef stew with potatoes, Lu Ze suddenly felt that the English breakfast was actually quite delicious. Even after having breakfast, he still put the food brought by Irina into his mouth and asked Mickey.
"What do we need to do today?"
"Oh, first of all, let's sign a contract for a remuneration, and then go to Chrysler to rent movie props and shooting equipment. By the way, Irina, I have to ask you to get Depp's pickup out. I believe Depp shouldn't mind. In the end, I'm going to borrow a few inexperienced actors and discuss some business."
"What about the shooting location?"
"Il Krubo (fiction), in a village near Liverpool. It takes three hours to drive. I have eaten. There are a lot of things today. We have to act quickly. Irina, you go to Drew Drove over, I changed my clothes and assembled downstairs in ten minutes."
Without hesitation, Elena got up and went out quickly. It seems that working in a bar has cultivated her executive ability well. Mickey leaned by the window and waited until Elena came downstairs and appeared on the street before snapping her fingers and turning back. After leaving his room, Lu Ze stuffed the script into a kraft paper bag, pulled the sofa away, and placed it in the old-fashioned safe after the paint had fallen off the wall of the sofa.
Soon, Mickey came out of the room with his beard trimmed clean and his long hair draped behind his head, but the blue suit he was wearing was unusually clean and tidy. He pointed to the back of the sofa and picked Lu Ze. brow.
"I'm just such a decent set of clothes, and I feel a little reluctant to wear it. What kind of life do I have? By the way, do you think my shirt is a little tight? I feel a little fat... Don't waste time, Jelena is downstairs, let's go."
The two went downstairs and a blue F150 stopped at the door. Mickey pointed to the back seat of Elena, and when she sat in the back seat, she sat in the driver's seat and headed towards the suburbs of Liverpool.
Chinese movie props are usually set up by small bosses to set up props rental and trading companies, and then rent them out to earn some rent. Small objects are produced by the props department of the crew. Major film companies will not set up props factories to provide them to their subordinates. The crew basically depends on money to solve what props are needed.
However, in European and American countries, due to the more complete system of the film and television industry, most film companies will set up their own prop factories. Various props and equipment that may be used in the film will be stored in this warehouse for the next time they are used. Production, and even some famous props, will be rented by crews from other companies.
This has also led to the fact that many props of various film companies have a long history. Props of ten or twenty years can be seen everywhere, and even if you find a musket, it may have been used in western films in the 1950s and 1960s. But you don’t have to worry about the quality. Everyone has dedicated maintenance personnel for regular maintenance. If nothing else, environmental protection is still OK.
As a veteran film company in Liverpool, Chrysler Films has nothing to say but it barely depends on the low-cost film and video tape market to make ends meet.
In recent years, the financial burden of the company has been worsened by the economic downturn in the UK, but after all, the company has been established for more than sixty years, and the collection of props is still remarkable, at least for small-cost movies like "Effect" I can handle it.
About an hour and a half later, the three people arrived at the entrance of the Kleefler Film Company, which was actually a large courtyard. The company's periphery was very simple, with only two-way entry and exit railings, similar to the red and white ones in the underground parking lot.
The greening of the yard is well done. Two big trees each grow on the wall in the north-south direction. Although the lawn and garden are not large, the vegetation is very lush. From time to time, bees fall on the flowers and are caught by this blue bird of prey. Scared to leave.
There are only three buildings in the entire yard, and the three three-story buildings are arranged in a pattern. However, the yard occupies a large area and the lighting effect should be good.
"I've been... I haven't been here in six or seven years. I didn't expect to feel nostalgic standing here. After graduating from the film school, my first job was to be an advertising director in Cliveler, shooting that kind of Advertisement for third-rate products. After two years of working, I quit and left. I thought I wouldn’t miss it... I didn’t expect to turn around and I came back."
Mickey took a mouthful of smoke, and smoke slowly spit out from his nostrils, as if he was talking to two people, and as if he was reminiscing about the past. Lu Ze lifted his pants when he got out of the car, and followed Mickey into the front building.
"Who are you looking for?"
"Who are you? Where is old Max?"
"It's been three years since the heart disease died. What are you doing here?"
"I want to... rent some props, and talk to Mr. Sol by the way. Please tell Sol, say Mickey Taylor came to him to talk about something."
The black boy wearing a white security uniform came out of the mail room and talked with Mickey for a while. He looked at the three people up and down for a while before staying for a while. He returned to the mail room and made an internal call. For him, this combination of one yellow, one white, and one string is really strange.
It was not until after the phone call that he spoke to the three through the glass in the mail room: "You can go up."
"Okay, thank you... Old Max is a good man, I mean it."
"I haven't seen him either, but... I feel so too."
The little black brother raised his eyebrows slightly, finally showing a slight smile on his original serious face, nodded to the three of them, and then played with the phone again.
"OK, let's split up. I'll go upstairs and talk to Sol. You two go out and turn right. Go to the house on the right behind to pick up props. Remember to pick a new one. If there is a guard, you tell him. It’s from the crew of Mickey. This is the list. Just follow the picture above."
A piece of white paper folded twice in half was handed over. Lu Ze opened it and glanced at it, expressing his understanding, beckoning to Elena, and taking her away.
Sure enough, when entering the back house, an old man with a white beard stopped the two of them. After Lu Ze notified him, he didn't stop him, but just sold a sticky note to Lu Ze.
"Fifty pence, do you need it?"
"No sir, I already have it."
He took out a stack of sticky notes from his pocket and shook the old man. This made the old man a little frustrated. He slowly returned to his resting room. Lu Ze opened the door when he saw the old man return to the room. In an instant, a dazzling array of movie props It is more like an old-fashioned antique shop than a movie prop.
Needless to say, all kinds of clothing, old-fashioned film projectors, which are particularly easy to catch fire, and medieval European armors, ranging from old-fashioned cars to small bottles and cans. If you want, you can always find get.
First, start searching according to the big items on the list, walk to an old Ford car from the 00s, pick up a post-it note, write the address and date on it, tear it off and stick it on the car, and look for the next item.
Although the things here are old, they are all usable, just like the car just now, you can drive away with gas, and the date on the sticky note is the time needed by the crew, and the address is where the crew was filmed, like this For large items that you can't take with you, just stick a post-it note, and the film company will send it to your door, and then pay the rent. Of course, it must be a short distance. It is better to rent a long distance to a company elsewhere.
If two crews want to use a prop at the same time, then you have to look at first come first, don’t worry about your post-it notes that other crews will tear off and replace them with theirs. Once discovered by the film company, the props will not be rented to each other. It is equivalent to losing the qualification to rent, this is the general rule of all prop factories.
Later, after renting a series of old-fashioned beds, furniture, etc., Lu Ze took Elena to the third floor to rent some shooting equipment, just to see the price... Lu Ze was a little bit silly.
Unlike the props, the shooting equipment is clearly priced. There are various models before 2020. You can even find the oldest camera to shoot black and white silent films. However, this kind of camera that requires film requires you to buy the film separately.
Lu Ze and Mickey tentatively need three cameras, using ordinary cameras and a few filters, but the rent and deposit for these things are really outrageous. The monthly rent for a camera is 500 pounds, and the deposit is It’s three thousand pounds. The crew’s budget is limited, so renting two sets is still a bit of a burden, and three sets...I really can’t afford it.
Lu Ze shuttled back and forth between various models of cameras, trying to find some cheap and easy-to-use cameras according to his budget, but the final price was much higher than the budget.
In the end, Lu Ze shifted his sight to the small grid in the penultimate row and took out a Sony family handheld video camera made in 2017. After installing the battery under the camera, there was still half a grid. Turn on the switch and aim at Jelena.
"Hey, look at me, OK, that's it, let's go, the last few things."
After choosing two four-and-a-half-meter-long tracks, plus a radio tube and lighting, all the props on the list have been selected.
After checking out the items that need to be taken away from the old man, as well as the one-time sale commodities such as blood plasma, after paying more than 500 pounds of rent and deposit, Lu Ze took Elena and put these things in. In the car, this is why the Raptor came today.
After everything was ready, Mickey hadn't come down yet, and the two of them went to the mail room and started the boring family mode with the black brother just now.
Lu Ze did not ask him why he chose to work as a mailroom guard at such a young age. This would be unpleasant after all. However, Lu Ze also learned that his family has five siblings and two children from aunt’s family. His father went to prison, and his mother remarried and sent to his home to raise.
Seven children... Except for those countries where there are a lot of children to subsidize thieves, who can not be poor? As the eldest son of the black brother, it is understandable to do this job to fill the family. After all, not every black brother can become the male protagonist of "Unreachable".
The three had a good chat in the mailroom, until Mickey and another man came downstairs, and the little brother instantly held his face and pretended to be a serious job. Lu Ze and Elena were really not bothered, either. Get out of the mail room.
"Lu Ze, let me introduce you to Christian Sol, the owner of the Kleefler Company, Sol, this is Lu Ze, you should know it?"
"Of course I can watch "Alive" many times. I'm glad to meet you, Mr. Lu."
Lu Ze shook hands with this man who appeared to be about fifty years old, and talked a few words before disappearing the topic. Although Saul looked very enthusiastic, he seemed to disagree with Lu Ze in his bones.
Mickey should have felt Sol’s attitude too, and didn’t want to say more, so he pulled Luze and the two to leave, but just reminded Sol before leaving~EbookFREE.me~ The person I want, Ilkreu on Saturday See you at Fort, the most important thing is that little princess, I must see her! "
"Don't worry, I will arrange for them to pass."
After the three returned to the car, Mickey opened the kraft paper bag, took out two contracts from it and handed it to Lu Ze and Elena. It appeared that Mickey was still rubbing his printer in Sol's office.
Lu Ze looked down one by one. It was no different from the common contract. English is not too difficult for Lu Ze. There are no circles. On the contrary, the restrictions on Lu Ze are looser than ordinary contract contracts. Many. After reading all the clauses, Lu Ze approved the contract. He picked up the pen and just wanted to sign, but was suddenly stopped by Mickey.
He drove the car without squinting, but couldn't help sighing.
"Honestly, I have to tell you about the results of the talks with Sol, lest you think that I was playing tricks on you after signing this contract. I just talked to Sol. This movie...may not be released. ."
Lu Ze’s hand about to sign stopped for an instant. If the film could not be released, he would not have the need to film it. He came to the UK purely to justify himself. What is a film that is not shown? Play house?
"So what are you going to do? It can't be released. What's the point of giving us the contract?"
"Of course there is."
Mickey looked very anxious too. He lit a cigarette and took a sip, but only took a sip before throwing the cigarette out the window.
"This is not China, because it can't be released doesn't mean it can't make money, it's just that it's harder to go the other way."
"any solution?"
"The video tape market... this movie may have to be distributed on video tapes in the form of discs."
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