Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 206 Ten Million Budget "Subscription"

  Although Xu Yao didn't think Yang Chen had the intention to joke with him, he still hesitated and asked Yang Chen in a low voice, "Chairman, can I ask a question?"

   "Director Xu, you asked." Seeing Xu Yu doing this, Yang Chen blinked and reached out to signal him to speak.

   "Can I know this drama, what is your expected budget, Chairman?"

  Although Yang Chen had stated at the staff meeting that there would be no upper limit on ATV's TV drama budget, no one took it seriously.

   For things like movies and TV, if you really don’t have a budget, no matter how much money you have, it can be used up.

   Yang Chen's remarks, at best, everyone understands it as, in the future, the TV station will no longer deduct the budget declared by the director for no reason.

  Like Lidy and TVB, the budget of every TV series will eventually be cut in half or a part.

   This made many directors have to save money and try to produce TV series within the budget.

Knowing that Xu Yu had doubts in his heart, Yang Chen was not ambiguous, he directly stretched out a finger and said: "Ten million, excluding the remuneration of the stars participating in the show, I will give you a budget of 10 million Hong Kong dollars, as long as you can put this The TV series is well done, and I can guarantee that within this budget, you will not be under any pressure."

   To be honest, in this era, spending 10 million to shoot a TV series, and it is not even the salary of a star artist, this is definitely a big production.

   Therefore, when he heard the budget that Yang Chen gave him, Xu Yu couldn't help but be shocked.

   swallowed hard, Xu Yan looked at Yang Chen with a bit of fiery and excitement, "Chairman, are you sure you're not joking with me?"

   Yang Chen heard the words, rolled his eyes and said, "Do you think I have time to accompany you to joke around here?"

   "Why, how could it be?" Seeing this, Xu Meng was embarrassed, silly, and smiled, but she was a little happy and couldn't find Bei.

With a budget of   10 million, and not counting the remuneration of the stars who participated in the show, he is probably the only one in the Hong Kong film and television industry.

  Thinking about it, he couldn't help being excited.

   At this time, he had already put aside the matter that Xinyi City sent someone to contact him.

   With such a good thing, he still went to the other party to gather a number of people, can he be so valued in the past?

  Although there is a big gap between TV series and movies, he has always wanted to develop into the film industry, but the competition in the film industry is far greater than the pressure in the TV industry.

   For many film directors, there are not many decent ones who can mix in the end. Even if there are a few famous film directors, once they encounter Waterloo, they are easy to be forgotten.

   On the other hand, TV directors are, to a large extent, less stressed than film directors. After all, for a full-length series, when the director gets the script, he already knows it.

  According to the plot, the TV director can guess the next results.

  The movie is different, the plot is only that long in total, once the judgment is wrong, and the director likes the plot, but the audience does not like the plot, the consequences are absolutely terrible.

   Seeing Xu Yu's complacent look, Yang Chen couldn't help pouring a pot of cold water.

   "Director Xu, don't be in a hurry to be happy. The budget I give you will only be more, not less, but I also have requirements, and I'm not giving you this money to burn for nothing."

   "Chairman, what did you say?" Hearing this, Xu Yao's heart tightened, and she quickly put away her pride.

   "Since the TV station invests so much, it is natural for the audience to be satisfied with what they shoot.

   In addition to the satisfaction of the audience, I also need Director Xu to ensure that this drama will not be outdated even after 20 or 30 years. "

   "Let me tell you this, taking the script of The Legend of Condor Heroes as an example, when Director Xu is shooting, you must pay attention to the details of what people wear.

  What is the point of Jianghu? Is it just pleasure and revenge? I think many people who read Mr. Cha's novels want to bring themselves into the world of martial arts novels.

  Since people have this kind of heart, when we are shooting, we must show the best side of martial arts novels to make people feel immersed.

   As the saying goes, details determine everything. In various fights, we can use special effects to show the martial arts fighting scenes that we can think of in our minds.

   In addition to being real, we have to make them look more beautiful as a whole.

  After all, you can't let a person like a big unkempt high-roller, right? Even if the big high roller has to drive for a few days, it will be very bad in real life, but we can't show his bad side to the audience..."

  In later generations, when people watch those old TV series, they will always give people a feeling of fake fights and bad clothes.

   In the 21st century where aesthetic standards are getting stricter and stricter, the TV dramas in the 1970s and 1980s made people a little unbearable to look directly at them.

   Following Yang Chen's reminder, Xu Yan probably understood some of Yang Chen's thoughts, and it should be said that he is not really willing to listen to other people's opinions.

   Any famous director in later generations has a common problem, that is, they can't listen to other people's opinions.

   To describe it with one word, it is called 'conceited'.

  A person who is conceited and capable will often achieve extremely high achievements, while those who are not capable will fall to the bottom.

  Although Xu Yao is very conceited, he is still at the very beginning of his life, and his achievements are far from reaching the level of later generations.

   So, he can still hear it a little bit.

   What's more, everything Yang Chen said coincides with him.

   He personally likes to embody artistic things in movies, and what Yang Chen wants is to beautify and artisticize the scenes in martial arts novels.

  Which kind of punching and kicking, punching to the flesh, sometimes there is really not so much pretence, even if two people of equal strength, under normal circumstances, can decide the outcome in just a dozen strokes.

   In the current martial arts films, the scene of two people fighting is really like the old grandma's foot-binding cloth, which is smelly and long, making people feel sick when they watch it.

   This is also one of the reasons why Hong Kong Films will develop rapidly during this period.

  Most TV dramas are not popular with audiences, and people will naturally become interested in blockbuster movies.

   Many times, the biggest fear of movie theaters is to encounter hit dramas. Every hit drama will divert most of the movie audience away.

   Unlike TV stations, which can be played repeatedly, movies shown in cinemas have a strict time limit. Once the movie is released, it means the movie is over.

   Therefore, once there is a TV drama that causes crowds like Shanghai Beach, the movie theater can only consider itself unlucky, or adjust the broadcast time to avoid the show time period of the popular drama.

   The exchange between the two people, an afternoon has passed like this, and when he left Yang Chen's office, Xu Yu still had a face full of meaning.

  Because of the image of later generations, Yang Chen's new martial arts set is at his fingertips. No matter whether it is good or bad, he will say it all in one mind. As for the later filming, that is Xu Yu's own business.

  After all, Yang Chen has no experience in filming TV and movies, whether in his past or present life, so he can only empty his cannonballs with his mouth full, talking about soldiers on paper, if he really wants to talk about the actual operation, he will really be blinded.

   Regarding this point, Xu Yu actually heard it too, but who asked Yang Chen to say something, it was indeed very inspiring.

   As a layman, he can think of these things that he, an expert, can't think of. Xu Yu really has nothing to say to the boss Yang Chen, and he feels that he has met a confidant.

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   (end of this chapter)