Chapter 10 White Orchid
Jinxi Town, located in Kuncheng, Su City, is not as famous as Wuzhen and Nanxun, but it is also an alternative place for self-driving tours by Shanghai people. "The town is a country with water around all sides", "When you are just a few feet away, you need boats and oars", water alleys, river ports, arch bridges, arcades, Langfang, street markets, and the charm of the water town mobilized by more than 2,000 years of historical and cultural accumulation is like a wonderful and exciting picture.
"Why has Sister Ruoxi changed?" Looking at Qin Ruoxi wearing a leather jacket and a colorful braid, Sisi and Jiajia couldn't help but exclaim.
Qin Ruoxi, who let the makeup artist Evan paint on his face, made a face to the two little girls, scaring them to hide behind Yaran's sister. Qin Ruoxi complained to Qin Mohan: "Sister, do you also need to put on makeup like this as a model?"
"This is the character characteristics you want to show." Qin Mohan said to his sister: "Models are different from actors. Actors can express their character characteristics through body, movements, and language. However, models need to express their colors."
Qin Mohan's words made Chen Man agree with him. She said to Qin Ruoxi: "My sister Qin, just make an expression of dissatisfaction on your face after a while. If you don't want to do anything, I'll take a photo."
Among the youth series that Chen Man filmed for "Jia Ren", is vitality, unrestrainedness, rebelliousness and ignorance. The other groups were filmed, and only the rebellious group was not filmed.
She needs to find a strong sense of contrast, and this feeling can be found in Qin Ruoxi. In terms of appearance, Qin Ruoxi is undoubtedly beautiful. Although she has not grown up and has a little aphrodisiac, she is also among the top ones among the models she comes into contact with. Such beautiful appearance is deliberately blocked by oil paint, and a hip-hop style outfit, which is a sharp contrast with the ancient Chinese town behind her.
Qin Ruoxi, who was already a little impatient, completely expressed his heart, and the rebellious smell of the corners of his eyes was constantly revealed, and Chen Man was extremely excited. This was what he wanted.
It can be regarded as a mistake. Qin Ruoxi's first modeling career ended more than half an hour later. Chen Man was particularly satisfied when watching the untouched original film through a laptop.
He is also a beauty, but in the photo, Qin Ruoxi has an amazing beauty that surpasses her age. The originally faint willow eyebrows are simply decorated by Evan and look unruly. The long eyelashes flash like two small brushes. What makes people shine the most is her eyes, which are extremely lively and vivid.
Chen Man said to Qin Mohan: "My sister Qin is really a model embryo. She perfectly expressed the demands I need. It's so great."
Qin Mohan looked at his sister who was taking off makeup and smiled at Chen Manbao. His father often said that he was a lucky person, probably Erya was the one, but he didn't expect that he could just do it.
"You've been lucky enough to get lucky." Qin Mohan couldn't help but sigh: "Fortunately, Chen Man wants such an effect to make the film smoothly. Otherwise, your future fashion road will be closed, and no one will ask you to take pictures again."
Qin Ruoxi ignored these things, and she had experience: "From the future, I will pose for photos casually, and do whatever I want, and whether I like to take pictures or not. This is my personality."
Chen Fang and Qin Mohan looked at each other and shook their heads. It was probably a manifestation of the post-00s generation showing themselves.
Chen Man, who finished the shooting, declined Chen Fang and Qin Mohan's lunch invitation, and brought her team and Qin Mohan's stylist Evan back to Shanghai. She wanted to handle the later submission to "Jiaren" as soon as possible. She settled the work at hand and officially began to prepare for wedding photography of Chen Fang and Qin Mohan, including location selection, time planning, and wedding dresses that Shen Fang and Qin Mohan had made.
After the breakup, Chen Fang and Qin Mohan took the four girls to play in this not-famous ancient town. First, they ate authentic Jinxi delicacies in a small private restaurant. Then they led a little girl and walked in the streets and alleys of the ancient town, feeling the bricks and tiles of the ancient town. The two slightly larger girls were leading the way in front and suddenly smelled a trace of elegant and fresh fragrance, which quietly spread all over their bodies and lingered at their noses.
"It smells so good, do you know what the fragrance is?" Qin Mohan looked at the two little girls chasing and playing around, and couldn't help asking Chen Fang beside him.
"It should be a white orchid. Many families here like to raise these small flowers, which will bloom in summer."
White orchid is the warmest flower. In summer with it, Jiangnan is fragrant. Just as the two of them were trying to find the source of the fragrance, "White~ Orchid, White~ Orchid..." The sound of Jiangnan accent with Wunong's soft voice floated softly to their ears. An old man with silver hair tied up, squatting at the bridgehead of the small street, carefully fiddling with the basket in front of him.
A half-meter square plaque basket was held up by a wooden stool, and a half-wet printed and dyed blue cloth was placed on it. Rows of white flowers were neatly lying on this blue cloth, pure and white. A few drops of water had just been sprayed on the flowers, and the water vapor slid down the edge of the petals, and these flowers were quietly exuding a faint fragrance there.
"Uncle, it smells so good." Sisi asked, pointing at Xiaobaihua.
"Grandma, how do you sell white orchids?" Chen Fang asked. Today is not a weekend, so there are not many people coming and going in the town, so the grandma's business is not very good.
"Two pieces one."
"Grandma, sell it all to me. I like this fragrance." Qin Mohan said. She wanted to place these flowers at home so that she could smell them all the time.
There were about fifty white orchids. Qin Mohan put them in the bag, asked the grandma for a few thin threads, put a few of them up, and wore one for Sisi and Jiajia.
"Thank you, Sister Mo Han." The two little girls curiously took the little flower hanging on their chests to their noses and smelled it, which made the fragrance scented.
"Hey, Brother Lei, are you looking for me?..." Just after buying white orchids, Chen Fang received a call from Chen Lei, turned to Qin Mohan and said, "Brother Lei has something to come to us. The company is not far from here. Let's go there."
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Jiang Zhiqiang and director Xu Chengyi looked at Chen Lei and Davis Chen sitting opposite each other with a sad face, hoping to hear their opinions.
"I don't recommend using AI face-changing technology." Davis said: "I believe that Mr. Jiang and Director Xu have also learned a little about it these days. "Fast and Furious" is different from us. Paul Walker has completed the pre-shooting, but the special effects shots in the later stage have not been completed. James Win found Paul's brothers as a stand-in. The two of them look very similar, and they can only achieve it with makeup and green screen effects. However, the cost of post-production has exceeded 20 million US dollars. The release time of this summer season was originally planned to be delayed until next year. If all our films are replaced, the first time will be huge. After all, Ke Dong is the male lead and there are too many shots. The second is also expensive, and the expected cost will be several times more than your investment."
Looking at the bitter faces of the two, Davis did not hide it and continued: "Our suggestion is to reshoot all scenes involving the male protagonist, which will be more coordinated than simply using AI to change faces. After all, there will be obvious dissonance in the details of the picture after AI face changes, including color adjustment, character expressions, etc.."
"Mr. Chen, let's discuss it before borrowing one of your conference rooms." Jiang Zhiqiang said to Chen Lei with a wry smile.
"Okay, I'll lend you this conference room." Chen Lei and Davis left the room for them.
"Director Xu, do you think what they are saying is the truth?" Jiang Zhiqiang looked at Xu Chengyi, an expert in animation films.
Xu Chengyi, a native of Xiangjiang, has joined the Dream Factory founded by Spielberg in 1989, and led the animation team to create various commercial films, animation short films and feature films. He is known as the father of "The Monster Shrek", directed "Kung Fu Panda" and was a great success. In 2012, he found Jiang Zhiqiang with his script "Monster Hunt" adapted from the ancient Chinese myth "Shan Hai Jing". The two hit it off. Although the investment budget reached 130 million yuan, Jiang Zhiqiang also raised funds everywhere to meet his needs, but he didn't expect to encounter this cheating Ke Dong.
"Davis and I are also acquaintances. He has worked together several times in Hollywood before when he was working on digital special effects. He just now didn't shake us." Xu Chengyi said: "I haven't been asleep at night these days and have been thinking about how to solve this problem. The only way to save money is to reshoot all the shots involving Ke Dong. It's just a cost..."
"Yes, the cost issue." Jiang Zhiqiang smiled bitterly: "This time it cannot be listed on schedule. Many financing funds are starting to request payment. In addition, the subsequent investment will cost at least one billion yuan."
This is the traditional method of filming films and TV series in Xiangjiang, with financing as the main focus. Jiang Zhiqiang's Ains Films launched the film "Monster Hunt" with an investment of 30 million yuan and the remaining 100 million yuan to raise funds. The general financing cycle is about one year, while the film "Monster Hunt" involves a lot of post-production. Jiang Zhiqiang has increased interest expenses and put the financing period to two years. The interest he spent will reach about 40 million. Now this incident directly makes the prospect of this film unclear, and whether it can be released has become a question mark. If the original Spring Festival period of this film cannot be released, he will also have to spend 50 million yuan in liquidated damages. These two interest plus the principal will be nearly 200 million yuan, completely forcing Jiang Zhi to a dead end.
Xu Chengyi suggested: "Mr. Jiang, are we going to ask Shen Shaochuang, who is a master of the great sage? Their "The Return of the Great Sage" received a box office of 1 billion yuan, making a profit of at least 200 million yuan. Moreover, he also leaned against the Shen family in Shanghai, so it should be fine to borrow some of them."
Jiang Zhiqiang sighed and said, "Now many companies are not optimistic about the prospects of this film, and they don't know what price they have to pay to raise the funds needed."
In the subsequent negotiations, Jiang Zhiqiang raised the demand in this regard, hoping that Guifu Tiangong could provide some financial support, and Chen Lei also showed a embarrassed expression.
Guifu Tiangong has been relying on his personal support in recent years. The initial investment in the special effects industry is too large, and he has invested more than one billion yuan in a row. Although he currently relies on "The Return of the Great Sage", he only earned more than 200 million yuan by replacing the issuance and production costs. After taking out part of the dividends, he still needs to reserve the subsequent production costs. Now he is also in a short position. In particular, Wild Fox Company has proposed a series of science fiction production plans. He also needs to purchase equipment by himself, so how can he support Jiang Zhiqiang?
"Why don't you consider finding Ye Zi to invest?" Kang Qiao woke up a few people from the side. Yes, you can also find this rich man to invest.
Chapter completed!