Chapter 31 Young movie?

"Yang, I can learn it!" Jessica hurriedly interrupted Wang Yang and prevented him from saying "I need to be able to dance, but you can't dance." She had already made up her mind to participate in Yang's next movie.

Jessica remembered the scene when she moved to Los Angeles when she was a child and begged her father to let her go to an acting school. At that time, her father had just started his business and her family's financial situation was not as good as it is now. But in order to give her and Joshua a place he thought was the best growth environment, they lived in the smallest house in a wealthy community. Her father was so busy that she was busy every day, and her mother had to work several part-time jobs. They were exhausted every day, just to support her and Joshua to attend a private Catholic school with expensive tuition.

But she and Joshua were in the community, and there were no friends in the school. The arrogant rich children looked down on them at all and no one played with them. At that time, she was very lonely and missed her happy days in San Francisco. She thought about her agreement with Yang, but to become an actor, she had to go to the performing arts school. So she ignored her parents' expectations and boldly asked her father to help her transfer. Her father was a stubborn person, calling her "willful" and ignoring her words. Later, she fought for a long time, and cried and made a fuss, which made her soft-hearted and agreed to her transfer.

At that time, she thought that she would be so "willful" when she grew up and wanted to make movies with Yang? She wanted to become an outstanding actor, which was her pursuit; she wanted to star in Yang's movies, which was also her pursuit since childhood.

She watched how Yang made her first movie and watched him succeed step by step. She was even the first person to know "The Legend of Ghosts", but she always seemed like a passerby, watching her, but she didn't participate; but this time, she didn't allow herself to miss it anymore. No matter what, she would participate in Yang's movie! Even if it was a mass character without lines.

These thoughts flashed quickly in his mind, Jessica's face was firm and said seriously: "I can learn any dance I need to learn."

"Jessica, don't worry." Wang Yang comforted her, and could hear that she was nervous, and explained: "It doesn't matter if you can't dance now. We are not going to participate in any international competition. Just let the dance supervisor teach you dance classes during the shooting."

"Oh, God." Jessica suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, then laughed happily, her eyes were full of energy, and she smiled, "It's great to hear you say this!" She was really ready to contact the dance teacher immediately to learn the dance type needed for the campus musical and dance film. But now she still plans to do this, and she will sign up for a dance class later. Yang will shoot musical and dance films, which means he likes dancing. If one day Yang invites her to dance, what should I do then? And dancing is also very interesting! She asked again, "By the way, Yang, why do you suddenly want to shoot a campus musical and dance film?"

Wang Yang came to the kitchen, poured warm water into the water cup, and smiled at his phone: "It's not suddenly. When I was in Chicago, I started thinking about it. I have confirmed my plan in the past two days."

When Jessica heard "Chicago", she suddenly felt an impulse in her heart, and wanted to ask Wang Yang, "Does Rachel know?"

"I just think 'it's time'. Now it's the right time to launch campus musical films. Maybe it can make the musical films fully revived, haha!" Wang Yang laughed a few times, walked back to the computer with a cup of water, and said half-jokingly: "And campus films are also suitable for you to act, right? I'm fed up with those shit producers and directors. Why don't you even give the role of a waiter? Don't have the temperament of a waiter? Oh, please!"

Jessica smiled and felt sweet in her heart. She tied her hair and said with a smile: "Yang, then what role will be suitable for me to play?"

"Well, I don't know yet, but what's certain is that that character will have lines." Wang Yang smiled and said a joke, but he needed to say the next thing seriously, and said seriously: "Jessica, I'll really invite you to audition for the heroine of this movie." Jessica was stunned and said in a daze: "Oh, my god!" Wang Yang smiled and continued: "You are perfect for the heroine in appearance, but I can't make a decision yet. You know, there are many factors to consider a heroine."

"I know, Yang, I know..." Jessica responded repeatedly, her face hot with joy, and she said excitedly: "God, it's so exciting!" She had the opportunity to become the heroine of Yang's movie. What else can make people happier than this? "When I grow up, I will be the director, you will be the heroine, and then..." Is this agreement coming true?

Wang Yang smiled and said, "Jessica, then you have to practice your acting skills well." He thought about the performance that Jessica had tried before casting in "Ghost Records", and said his advice: "Sometimes acting should be natural, sometimes it should deviate from the facts. You are very sad in reality, and you may have expressionless faces, but under the camera, you need to express your sadness so that everyone can see... happiness, angry, sad, express these emotions, and the changes in expressions are very important, and you need to have a sense of layering. It is not just one expression..."

Although "Singing and Dance" does not have high requirements for acting skills, it is now necessary to be directly on the big screen, and there is no tolerance for any mistakes. Moreover, his attitude towards casting has always been absolutely rational. If Jessica cannot meet his requirements, he will not talk about any kindness. As long as he doesn't have it, it's okay. If not, it's not okay. He said seriously: "Jessica, I don't want to hand over the heroine to others, do you know?"

Jessica listened to his words and took a deep breath, nodded and said, "Yang, I will practice my acting skills hard, I will."

The two chatted for a while, and the call ended. Jessica said she was going to practice acting in front of the mirror. Wang Yang sat at the computer desk, looking at the display screen, and typing his hands on the keyboard, and began to write the script of "Singing and Dance Youth".

The story of "Singing and Dance" actually has a very simple content structure. The male protagonist Troy Burton is the captain of the basketball team "Wild Cats" of the Eastern High School. He has been taught by his father since he was a child. His father is the coach of the Wild Cats, and he once won the league championship for the Wild Cats when he was young. The heroine Gabriela Mantis is a science genius, who has won numerous awards in academic competitions, and is a "nerd" type.

At a New Year holiday holiday party, Troy and Gabriela were reluctantly pushed to the small stage. They sang a song and found another side of themselves, loving singing and dancing.

After the party, both of them returned to their own city, but until one day, Gabriela suddenly transferred to Eastern High School, and Troy, who met her again, was naturally very happy. A musical at the school began to select roles, and Troy and Gabriela, who knew they liked singing and dancing, participated in the audition and passed the first round; but the basketball finals and academic competitions were approaching, and Troy and Gabriela's family and friends were preventing them from participating in the musical, trying to get them back to the "normal track."

Under their destruction, Troy and Gabriela had a misunderstanding and both gave up attending the second round of auditions, but they both became very unhappy. So their friends reflected on themselves and knew that they should be encouraged to pursue their dreams, so they confessed to Troy and the others about their destruction.

Troy and Gabriela, who resolved the misunderstanding, became happy and actively prepared for the second round of audition again. But the brother and sister Shape-Evans and Ren-Evans came out to disrupt the situation again. They have always been the protagonists of the Eastern High School musical. Because they were worried that they would be snatched away by Troy and the other two, they instigated the teacher Dabs, who was responsible for the musical selection, to modify the second round of audition time, so that it overlaps with the basketball finals and academic competition time.

However, with the help of friends, there were accidents in basketball and academic competitions. Troy and Gabriela finally participated in the second round of the selection and were selected as the male and female protagonists of the musical. Later, Troy won the finals, and Gabriela also won the championship in the academic competition, with a happy ending. This is the story of "Singing and Dance", which is simple but inspiring.

This script is written for actors, and the singing and dancing parts only need to be pointed out. There is no need to write down how to dance, and it cannot be written. The work is left to the dance director. 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 male and female protagonists' good friends became too abrupt, and he needed to add a short paragraph of content that they discussed and reflected on themselves.

These contents are all materials for the movie. They are taken during shooting, and then they are made to make choices when they are in the post-editing stage of the movie.

It took two days before Wang Yang finalized the first edition. The general framework of the story has not changed much, but how to express the story and what details to tell it, he made some changes in order to make the rhythm of the movie more natural and more suitable for the big screen.

Next, Wang Yang began to write a storyboard script for "Singing and Dance" again, that is, to write clearly how to turn the content of the script into screen scenes, and how to shoot these scenes, etc.

There are many different ways of expressing TV movies and movies, some are limited by costs, and some are different viewing experiences on small screens and big screens. Anyway, Wang Yang has to redesign most of the shots of "Singing and Dance Youth". He does not consider the cost, but only considers the best effect.

For example, at the beginning of "Singing and Dance in Youth", outside the New Year's Holiday resort, Troy and Gabriela watched the brilliant fireworks set off to welcome the New Year. This set of shots is expressed in this way in the original version. The shot is facing the male and female protagonists looking up, and then the picture changes, with only the brilliant fireworks in the sky, and the computer special effects that look fake. After a few seconds, the shot is cut back to face the male and female protagonists, and there are a bunch of people around them.

There is a very obvious sense of setting. When they shot this set of shots, 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 make the post-production special effects exquisite. This is a TV movie.

In Wang Yang's "Singing and Dance" storyboard script, this set of shots is about to be shot like this. From the hero and heroine looking up to see the fireworks, the shot will rise and fall, and then turn to a long-distance upward angle to shoot. Troy, Gabriela, the masses, resorts, the sky, and fireworks are all shot in one picture, showing a romantic sense, this is a big screen movie.

Wang Yang wrote this storyboard script very slowly. He had to consider the consistency of style and to make the camera feel like a youthful campus, and he was almost reorganizing the entire movie. This was a very thoughtful and hard work job. He was not in a hurry, and of course he didn't need to be in a hurry. It would be enough to be well written until the filming officially starts. And to prepare for a film movie, there was still a lot of work to do in the early stage.

"Hi, Hebrew, it's me, Yang." Wang Yang leaned on the rattan sofa in the apartment and called Hebrew Carl with his mobile phone. He was the lawyer of the "integrity" law firm. Many days ago, when he consulted Hebrew Carl for taxes, Wang Yang asked him to be his legal counsel, consulting legal issues for free throughout the year, and being responsible for contract affairs, etc., and there are discounts when there is a lawsuit. The price is that Wang Yang has to pay Hebrew Carl 10,000 US dollars every month.

The fees are already considered cheap, but Hebrew Carl has more than one client. Lawyers are quite well-paid and respected professions in this country.

Hearing the Hebrew greeting, Wang Yang asked directly: "I am going to make a new movie, with an investment of about 5 million yuan. I want to ask if I should register a production company?"

"5 million? Oh, of course, if this movie has multiple investors, you need a company; if you are the only investor in the movie, you still need a company." Hebrew Carl paused and analyzed to Wang Yang: "First of all, you will not be able to make a movie that costs 5 million. If there is no company responsible for the overall work, it will be a mess in finance."

Wang Yang nodded silently. It was because of this that he was prepared to register a company. Making a dv movie and film movies are two different things. "Ghost Record" costs 10,000 yuan, with only two actors, and the entire crew has only three people, so the company doesn't need to play around with it. But if the filming of "Singing and Dance" costs millions, there will be more than a dozen actors signed, and there will be hundreds of people in the crew, photographers, lighting artists, makeup artists, setters, etc.... No company is just a joke.

Unless he finds a production company to work with and throws these jobs to them, why not start a company by himself? He is not from a business school and does not know how to manage the company's daily affairs. He just needs to be a chairman and hire someone like Jon Filtimel to manage the company.

Hebrew continued: "I am not a professional in these financial things, so I can't give you more opinions. But the second point is that our California government still has some discounts for those small film companies. Register in California and shoot in California, and will eventually return some movie taxes to you. In fact, there are similar policies in other places. The tax returns may not be much, but it is better than not."

"Yeah." Wang Yang thought for a while and said, "Hebrew, I understand. Then tell me, the procedures for registering a production company?"

Hebrew laughed and said, "No, Yang, I don't recommend you register your own company. Even if it is established, it is just a shell company. You need to find an office and hire someone again. There are many things to do. Isn't it annoying?" Then, he said his suggestion: "Actually, you can acquire an existing production company. You know, Los Angeles has never lacked film companies that are on the verge of bankruptcy and are waiting for capital injection. There are companies that are established every day and companies that go bankrupt every day. But the reasons for these companies' bankruptcy are mostly just investing in a movie that failed box office, causing serious losses to the company; sometimes they have not even invested, but because there is no capital to maintain it, the internal operation of these companies is not a problem. You find a company without debt and inject funds, which is much more convenient than establishing a new company."

Putting down his cell phone, Wang Yang put his hands on his chest and frowned slightly, thinking about Hebrew Carl's suggestion. Indeed, acquiring an independent production company with financial health is easier than establishing a new company. Moreover, a company with production experience can make up for his unfamiliarity in the production field and be able to start filming "Singing and Dance" as soon as possible.

After thinking for a while, Wang Yang picked up his cell phone again, called Jon-Filtimel, and said, "Hi, Jon."

"Hi, Yang, is there anything?" Jon's voice came over, quite casual, and seemed to be busy. Wang Yang smiled and said, "I want to make a movie." Jon said with a "Oh", as if frowned: "The campus song and dance film you mentioned last time? Yang, sorry, our company has just decided on the plan for "Ghost Records 2". You know, you ate 5 million and we have no free funds to invest..." His current results are enough to compete with the company's CEO, and there is no need to make another investment with an unknown future. Everything will be said when he becomes a CEO.

Wang Yang knew Jon's psychology and never planned to cooperate with these companies. In order to maximize the benefits, he only needed to share with the distribution company. More importantly, when he was still studying at the University of Southern California, he once went to a crew to do part-time jobs in a crew, which was the kind of moving and lifting. As a result, he watched a scene where "the director and producer make a big fuss on the set", and he felt a little creepy when he thought about it.

In fact, when James Cameron was young, he had a very unhappy relationship with the producer when filming his debut work "Pizza 2: Breeding". In the later editing stage of the movie, the producers did not even allow James Cameron to participate. James Cameron was fed up with his anger, and he would be his films, producers and directors from then on.

Wang Yang thought that if any producer pointed at him, he might punch him. He adjusted his sitting position and said to Jon: "I know, I'm not going to invest, I invest in my movies myself." Jon was surprised and said, "Wow! All?" Wang Yang nodded and smiled, "Yes, all, I don't want to fight with any producer. So, I want to own my own production company, and I plan to directly acquire a financially healthy company. Do you have any advice?"

"Oh! Are you kidding?" Jon was very surprised. Although he didn't know the specific investment amount of Wang Yang's campus musical and dance film, Wang Yang had mentioned to him before "maybe millions"! This young man seemed to have been blinded by success? Film movies and DVD movies are not comparable, let alone music and dance films, which are a long time silent type, but this young man spent millions. Is he too blind and confident? Jon frowned and asked, "Yang, are you really going to do this?"

Wang Yang said in a affirmative tone: "Jon, I'm just serious. I need a small production company that is of high quality but is going to sell. You know, there is no debt. It's not that there is something wrong with internal operations, but they really can't hold on anymore. A failed investment made the chairman of the company disheartened. He wanted to sell." He smiled and said: "And I want to buy."

As the distribution manager of Lionsgate, Jon is naturally very familiar with competitors in this industry. It can be said that there are any film companies that have been established and closed down, and which companies have plans to shoot and screen new films. They all know clearly. Naturally, they also know about which film companies have financial problems and which companies are selling. This is not a secret, it is just information in the industry.

"I think about it, oh, I can't say it for a while, my memory has become worse." Jon thought for a while, laughed self-deprecatingly, and said, "Let's do this, Yang, after I get off work, I'll look for you later to go home in the evening, and I'll pass on their information to you tomorrow."

"Okay, then I'll wait for your information." After pressing the end call button, Wang Yang stood up with his hands stretched out and excitedly punched several combinations. He wanted to buy an independent production company? Wow, it's like Armstrong landing on the moon. This is a small step for his personal, but a big step for the film industry... It's great, it's crazy! OK OK, what's the name of this company? "young movie?" Well, why does it sound like the Fuji Hotel, and the Wang restaurant in his house...
Chapter completed!