Unlike Wang Xiaoyue's manly personality, Wang Xiaoyue's husband, Gao Yang, the boss of Lamb Pictures, is relatively feminine, and has a personality that can be oiled on his hair and cannot have a trace of splitting.

There was a retro round-frame gold-rimmed glasses on his nose, a brown striped suit, a brown satin vest, and a white shirt with clean and white cuffs from the neckline. This showed that Gao Yang was a very smart man.

He has always been an antique appraiser before. Gao Yang's habitual suit has a golden pocket watch chain hanging in his outer pocket. It looks like a character who came out of a movie in the Republic of China, and his temperament is very special.

I had heard Duan Xiaoxuan talk about gossip when he followed Xu Nuo to shoot MV. At this time, he chatted with Gao Yang and his wife for a while, and Du Xinghe knew more about the two.

Wang Xiaoyue's husband doesn't look like a person in the film industry, but in fact he is also a professional student in film studies. He and Wang Xiaoyue are classmates in the 83rd level of the Film Director Department of South China Academy of Arts. They have been together since college.

In 1987, after graduating from university, Wang Xiaoyue stayed in school for two years because she didn't find a good job in the film industry, and Gao Yang went out to work in the crew.

Among their classmates in the director class that year, there were children from film families and had many relationships in the circle. Gao Yang took advantage of these relationships to follow the crew smoothly. However, because he had no experience, he started from the bottom, from the drama, executive producer, and to the deputy director and executive director, and worked for more than three years.

After Wang Xiaoyue graduated from her master's degree, she also relied on some of the relationships she had worked hard in the film industry and embarked on the path of MV director.

Seeing that Wang Xiaoyue had good grades in the MV field and had a steady pace, Gao Yang stepped down and stopped working in the film industry because at that time he felt desperately running to the crew, and he had learned almost everything he should learn. Because no one was there, he could not have the chance to stand out and the opportunity to direct independently.

At that time, Gao Yang also discovered that although he had been studying directors for four years, he really saw those directors being tortured by movies. He suddenly felt that he was not very suitable to be a director. He could be competent as a producer, organize crew, and direct people to work. But if he really wanted to direct the film, he knew very well that he did not have the ability and did not have the spirit to do this.

At that time, he became enlightened and he would definitely not be a director in the future.

In 1990, Gao Yang and Wang Xiaoyue got married.

Wang Xiaoyue studied directorship for six years at the South China Academy of Arts, and her dream of becoming a great director has never changed.

Gao Yang knew that his wife would definitely not change after she knew something, so after getting married, she wanted to help Wang Xiaoyue realize this dream, which was also considered to realize his unfulfilled director ambition when he was young.

Although Gao Yang had some relationships in the circle at that time, he had all relied on his classmates from the film family. He didn't have much relationship with him. Wang Xiaoyue had just entered the director circle and was filming MVs all the time, so there was no relationship.

Gao Yang thought that if they wanted to really make a fortune in the film industry, they would definitely not be able to rely on others, and they could only rely on themselves, so they came up with the idea of ​​setting up a film company to invest in and shoot movies by themselves.

After having this idea, huge capital became the primary problem before them. Although Wang Xiaoyue could make a lot of money by filming MVs, Gao Yang could make a lot of money by playing crews and being deputy directors, but the couple would make a lot of money together, and they would only make about 1 million yuan a year, which is too far from opening a film company.

Later, Gao Yang saw that his uncle had made a lot of money by buying antiques. He would always learn some antique appraisal knowledge with his uncle if he had anything to do. He was half an insider, so he switched to his uncle as an assistant and became an antique appraiser. This industry is much lighter than being with the crew, and it also makes money faster.

After working as an antique appraiser for two years, he worked as a second-hand dealer with his uncle. Lamb has earned more than 5 million yuan in dividends. In addition, Wang Xiaoyue is becoming more and more popular in MV shooting and has saved a lot of money. So in the spring of last year, they set up Lamb Pictures Film and Television Production Company and officially started their own film entrepreneurship career.

While working as an antique appraiser, Gao Yang helped his uncle manage the antique business and started running a company. After they invested in the first movie "River Resentment", Gao Yang put his main energy back into the film industry.

From project planning to set up the crew, selecting actors and directors, Gao Yang completed it alone. When he just graduated from university, he followed the crew for more than three years and was very clear about this and had done almost all work. In addition, with the help of the iron-blooded MV team brought by Wang Xiaoyue, the first film of their company was extremely smooth. From project establishment to filming and then to post-production, it was completed in less than three months. The speed was comparable to Wang Xiaoyue's MV shooting, which was so fast that it was amazing.

Later, relying on the relationship in the circle, the process of their company's "River Resentment" entering theaters was very fast, and it was released in less than three months. Although there were not many film schedules and most of them were nightclubs, they couldn't stand their online time for a long enough time.

They were rushing, and there was no strong horror film for those days. "River Resentment" had been in theaters for three months before it was offline. This is rare in mainstream commercial blockbusters. Generally, if a film lasts for one and a half months, it will not last two months. But for graded horror films, due to the limited number and the competition is not so fierce, it can last in theaters for a longer time.

Their "River Resentment" was very fast from the start of fundraising and the final down-line recovery of box office, and then selling copyrights and DVDs to recover large amounts of royalties. In less than a year, the capital was recovered and money was made, which was extremely smooth.

Of course, their success was achieved after working hard in the circle for many years and accumulating a lot of relationships.

Seeing that the company's first film was so successful, Wang Xiaoyue couldn't stand the loneliness and wanted to direct the big movie immediately.

In fact, at the beginning of the company's establishment, Gao Yang formulated a three-year initial development plan. In the first three years of the company's establishment, Wang Xiaoyue wanted to continue filming MVs, and he continued to work as an antique appraiser. Both of them continued to make money and save capital, and don't bet on this film company.

According to Gao Yang's plan, their company will invite talented new directors to film in the first three years, and all of them will invest in horror films, focusing on horror films to test the waters of the market, and strive to create a horror brand that has not yet reached a fierce competition in the market. When the company gets on the right track and accumulates enough experience in big movies, Wang Xiaoyue will come to direct it again.

Who would have thought that their first film was so smooth? Wang Xiaoyue also participated in many of the filming work, and her hands were really itchy. After graduation, she had been filming MVs for so many years. She was really tired of filming, so she discussed with Gao Yang that she wanted to direct a movie herself.

Gao Yang disagreed at first. Although the man looked greasy and had a bit of feminine appearance, he was very principled in his bones. He was worried that Wang Xiaoyue would disrupt his plans to come and shoot the film. If he didn't make the film well and the film was broken, it would be a huge blow to Wang Xiaoyue's confidence.

Wen Xiaolan, the screenwriter who wrote the script "River Resentment", and Li Yinghao, the director who filmed "River Resentment", are both students who just graduated from South China Academy of Arts last year.

Li Yinghao is a child in the circle. He is the nephew of Li Kun, a famous TV producer in the South China TV production circle. Li Kun is one of Gao Yang's nobles in the film and television industry and helped Gao Yang a lot. It was precisely because of this relationship that Gao Yang tried to let Li Yinghao direct their company's first movie.

When Lee Young-ho took on this film "River Resentment" last year, he had just walked out of campus and was still full of enthusiasm. He did not make money for the sake of his ideals. It was precisely because Gao Yang saw the enthusiasm in Lee Young-ho that he dared to bet on this group of students for the first film of the company.

Of course, as a businessman, Gao Yang dared to let these students play the leading role, but the biggest reason is that he fell in love with the resources behind these children.

The female screenwriters who partnered with Li Yinghao, Wen Xiaolan and Zhang Linfan, all have relationships in the circle, and their families are basically from this circle. They are also very capable of making trouble.

Of the 3 million investments published by "River Resentment", 2 million were obtained by these students through their own relationships. In fact, Lamb Pictures only invested 1 million.

Later, the film was produced and successfully entered the Southeast Alliance theater. Li Yinghao and others also made a lot of efforts, which reduced the investment risks of Lamb Pictures.

In the film industry, the risk of investing in newcomers is usually the greatest. Lamb Pictures is indeed a business that is stable and profitable. Although investing in newcomers teams, Gao Yang's choice is always the first priority, which can be seen from the production of "River Resentment".

At this time, Wang Xiaoyue couldn't help but come to film in person. Gao Yang actually had doubts. If the film directed by Wang Xiaoyue suffered a crushing defeat, it would definitely be gossiped by people from the company. There might even be rumors that Wang Xiaoyue was not as good as a newcomer. This would be a kind of harm to Wang Xiaoyue himself and to Lamb Pictures.

So Gao Yang kept suppressing Wang Xiaoyue's temperament and prevented Wang Xiaoyue from following her temperament, and did not support her to come out and direct independently at this critical moment.

Wang Xiaoyue has a strong personality and will never change what she believes in. She doesn't like to listen to advice. Gao Yang can't persuade her. In the end, there is no way, so she can only compromise with Wang Xiaoyue and let Wang Xiaoyue come out to direct.

However, Gao Yang has a condition, that is, Wang Xiaoyue cannot be in a hurry. Before meeting a real good book, he must not be on the show easily. After Wang Xiaoyue chose the book, he must obtain his consent and he also recognized the story before he can truly arrange the schedule.

Since Wang Xiaoyue has been filming urban-style MVs for many years after graduation and has no mature experience in making horror films, Gao Yang asked Wang Xiaoyue to choose a book and relaxed some of the scope for Wang Xiaoyue. Fresh urban romance comedy or drama can be filmed, without being limited to horror films that Lamb Pictures has to focus on.

Wen Xiaolan and Zhang Linfan, the main screenwriters of "River Resentment", have given Wang Xiaoyue two books, both of which are costume horror films similar to "River Resentment". These younger generations from the screenwriter department prefer horror films when designing sketches and making sketches in school, especially costume horror films, and they have a lot of experience in this type of horror film.

But Wang Xiaoyue didn't want to make a movie similar to "River Resentment" so as not to be said that she was frying Li Yinghao's cold rice, so she didn't want the new book of Wen Xiaolan and Zhang Linfan.

Before, she relied on her own relationship and found a lot of books to screen, including urban and horror films. Although she is better at shooting urban series images, she also knows that Lamb Pictures is now focusing on creating a unique horror film brand, so she prefers to make a wonderful horror film that is not inferior to "River Resentment" to prove herself.

During that period after the Spring Festival, Wang Xiaoyue and Yunshi talked about the packaging of the six MV songs in Xu Nuo's new album "Mad at Love", she was actually distracted. She didn't want to take on this job anymore, and wanted to choose scripts and prepare for big movies.

It was Gao Yang who persuaded her that she would follow this job with a very rich income from Yunshi.

It was also when she was filming this series of mvs for Xu Nuo that the information that Wang Xiaoyue wanted to shoot a big movie was passed to Du Xinghe's ears. She didn't take over the shooting of Xu Nuo's new mvs at the beginning. After Du Xinghe drew "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", she didn't even think about asking Wang Xiaoyue to direct.

This kind of thing is fate. When Wang Xiaoyue got the literary script of "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" adapted by Du Xinghe by Yunshi Editor, she didn't care too much because she already had three finalized books on hand and had to make the final decision.

At that time, she had to read Du Xinghe's script "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" and didn't feel that she was so beautiful. At least compared with the three books she had, it was a bit different. It was not popular enough, so she wanted to give it up.

Wang Xiaoyue has carefully selected three scripts before. One is the modern urban suspense blockbuster "Apartment No. 36", the other is the bloody and exciting graded urban ghost film "Hell Assassin", and the other is the fresh and fresh urban love comedy "Lucky Meet You".

The styles of the three dramas vary greatly. Wang Xiaoyue herself most wanted to choose the very exciting and bloody graded ghost film "Hell Assassin". The story is exciting and exciting. It tells the story of a ghost king who came out of hell and is rampant in the city. She originally decided to shoot this film, but Gao Yang later saw it and rejected it.

When Gao Yang reads the book, he knows that the film is a super bloody film similar to "The Bones of the Bones". The story is very satisfying, but if you want to make a result, you must invest a lot of money in large production. Without a production fee of 10 million, you can't get a good effect.

He and Wang Xiaoyue have saved money for so many years. Although they can spend 10 million to make a movie, it is too unwise to direct Wang Xiaoyue’s first film, and it is too difficult to make such a big investment. So Gao Yang strongly opposed Wang Xiaoyue’s filming of "Hell Assassin".

After Gao Yang read the three books, he suggested that Wang Xiaoyue shoot that fresh romantic comedy. As long as this kind of movie is down-to-earth, it can often achieve good box office results, with the smallest risk and the smallest investment.

Although Wang Xiaoyue also likes the story of "Lucky Meet You", she has seen a large number of graded horror movies and is more fond of horror movies. She wants to make movies that are consistent with the company's style.

Although "Apartment No. 36" is a suspense thriller with a delicate story structure, it cannot be considered a horror movie in the full sense, and Wang Xiaoyue doesn't particularly want to shoot it.

Later, Gao Yang accidentally saw the script of Du Xinghe's "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village". He suddenly felt that this drama is more watchable. This is a very connotational urban ghost film. Wang Xiaoyue should be able to shoot it easily. If you make such a movie, the company will not invest much, because there is no scene that costs money.

More importantly, this drama was written by Mr. Du of Yun World. If you want to invest in the filming, Mr. Du will definitely pay, which will greatly reduce the investment risks of the lamb.

In the early stages of entrepreneurship, risk control was the primary priority for Gao Yang. Since Wang Xiaoyue looked down on the notebooks written by the students, it would be better to film Du Xinghe's drama.

Later, Gao Yang led the way and prepared to talk to Du Xinghe about the cooperation in this drama.

Wang Xiaoyue didn't pay much attention to this script at first. It was not until she saw the extremely exquisite storyboard script sent to them last night that Wang Xiaoyue realized that the drama was full of tension and was extremely watchable! Moreover, this drama was really scary!

When she saw Du Xinghe's paintings, she felt nervous and fearful. It can be imagined that if this film was filmed, it would have scared many people! Wang Xiaoyue became very interested in this drama and called Du Xinghe directly, hoping to cooperate in filming.

After reading Du Xinghe's storyboard script, Gao Yang became more confident in the play. As a person in the circle who graduated from the director department, Gao Yang, like Wang Xiaoyue, was shocked that Du Xinghe could draw a storyboard script of this level. At first, they didn't believe that it was drawn by Du Xinghe, and thought that Du Xinghe had found a professional to draw it.

Until Wang Xiaoyue called Du Xinghe and learned from Du Xinghe that this was Du Xinghe's work, they still couldn't believe it! Because the storyboard script is still a storyboard script, this is completely a reprint of the final shot!

For such a storyboard script shooting, Wang Xiaoyue can save too much work and even a lot of film. If she shoots it completely according to this storyboard script, it is estimated that it will save at least half of the film than shooting ordinary movies, which can save a lot of money! It will also save a lot of time!

Gao Yang and Wang Xiaoyue carefully looked through the storyboard script several times, and no matter how they looked, they felt that they could just follow this shot. The rhythm of the plot and the tension of the drama were all well displayed.

They don’t need to change anything at all. They will be a very mature and perfect movie based on this.

Wang Xiaoyue has filmed hundreds of MVs for stars in the music industry and has heard about the things in the music industry. She knew that Du Xinghe was a peerless music genius for a long time, but after reading the storyboard scripts by Du Xinghe, she found that Du Xinghe is not just a peerless music genius. Du Xinghe has the talent and potential to become a movie master! It is absolutely impossible for ordinary people to adapt a story into so many shots, and to use the camera to smoothly and perfectly tell this story.

Gao Yang conservatively estimates that this storyboard script alone can save at least 1 million in production costs (time, money, labor, etc.), greatly reducing Wang Xiaoyue's workload. From these perspectives, Gao Yang really wants to cooperate with Yunshi to invest in this movie.

Du Xinghe also wanted to reach a cooperation, so for the first negotiation that afternoon, the atmosphere between the two sides was very friendly and a preliminary cooperation intention was quickly reached.

Originally, Gao Yang planned to invest 5 million to the investment in this "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village".

In Gao Yang's opinion, the story of "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" does not require too much money as long as you don't invite big stars to act. In addition, Du Xinghe's storyboard script has made the filming of this drama half the effort, which makes the money they invest more targeted, and 5 million yuan can be included in the production and post-production promotion.

When Lin Jianguo heard that Gao Yang's initial investment amount was only 5 million, he immediately agreed. Like Gao Yang's starting point, he hoped to reduce the investment amount to reduce risks.

Du Xinghe and Wang Xiaoyue have retained their attitude towards such a small investment. Wang Xiaoyue thinks that the investment of 5 million is too small. In any case, this is also a big movie, which requires thousands of shots. Before, she made higher quality MVs, and one or two hundred shots would cost hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars. According to this money-burning ratio, if you want to make "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" with excellent results, 5 million is not enough to burn. This is her first big movie. She hopes to keep improving and does not want to make things that fool things.

Du Xinghe also felt that 5 million was a little less. Although according to Gao Yang, the director and production work was free of charge by Wang Xiaoyue and Gao Yang, and the film music was free of charge by Yunshi, which could save a lot of money, but even so, 5 million was really too cold.

Although he has not personally participated in the operation of the film industry, through some relevant experiences in the previous plane, including this plane, Du Xinghe decided to believe one thing: it is not that it is not that it is a movie or a record. If you want to create greater benefits, you have to be willing to spend money. From cast to post-promotion, you must dare to spend money and be brave enough to spend money. If they make this movie with 5 million, then it is estimated that the movie will definitely not be much higher, and the box office should not be even more thoughtful about explosives. It is probably a voice that guarantees capital, with no risks, and no profit.

Drinking the tea that moistened the throat for a while, Du Xinghe expressed his opinion: "Mr. Gao, I think the investment of 5 million is too low. Can we raise the specifications? Our two companies will spend 5 million and the total investment is 10 million to make this movie. What do you think?"

Gao Yang stroked the gold chain of the pocket watch. Before he could express his opinion, Wang Xiaoyue couldn't hold it in anymore and said, "I think we should also increase investment. Mr. Du wrote this story very well. If we invite first-line actors to act and increase the post-production promotion, the box office will definitely be very impressive!" (To be continued...)
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