This is undoubtedly a bold innovation.

You know, even in this era, shooting on location is quite expensive.

Just eating, drinking and eating for a group of actors is a big expense every day.

Moreover, most of the landscapes in various places during this period required payment. Even if you were a film crew, you still had to pay.

This is another expense.

Not to mention accommodation and travel expenses.

Since each episode involves many scenic spots, and these scenic spots are often located in the north and south of the motherland, filming is very difficult, takes a long time, and naturally costs a lot.

Moreover, "Journey to the West" directed by Yang Jie was not filmed according to the original order of the TV series, but according to the difficulty level.

For example, the first episode they filmed, "The Kingdom of Black Chicken", was relatively simple and was shot the earliest.

The second episode they filmed, "Eating Ginseng Fruit", was mainly filmed in Sichuan.

As for the third episode they filmed, "The Misfortune Avalokitesvara", the filming locations involved Fujian, Hainan Island, Hangzhou Lingyin Temple and other places, and they had to stay in each place for a long time and shoot for a long time.

It can be seen from these three episodes that the difficulty of filming Journey to the West is gradually increasing.

Director Yang Jie also continued to work with the film crew members during this process to accumulate relevant experience.

After filming these three episodes separately, Director Yang Jie accumulated relevant experience and then began to conquer the most difficult part, which is the real first episode of Journey to the West - "The First Coming of the Monkey King".

This episode, because it involves a lot of special effects, requires a lot of live shooting and special effects production.

In China during this period, the level of special effects production was very low, so the way they thought of it was to use real scenes on the stage to produce it.

In order to save money, they also filmed "Three Strikes of Bone Demons" together during the live shooting, in order to maximize the use of local landscape resources.

For example, the interior of Shuilian Cave is based on the Bo Yue Cave in Lengshui River.

Also in "The Monkey King", the scene where the Monkey King crosses the ocean and passes through the streets was filmed in Quanzhou Old Street.

In addition, they also visited Zhangjiajie and other places, overcoming various difficulties and filming step by step.

However, that’s how it is with real-life shooting, and money is wasted.

Therefore, the funds Yang Jie wants are about to run out.

But less than one-third of the plot of "The Monkey King" was filmed, and even a quarter of the plot of "Three Strikes of Bone Demons" that was filmed as a supplement was filmed.

As for the two episodes "Guan Feng Bi Ma Wen" and "The Great Sage Havoc in Heaven", one-third of them were filmed respectively.

The biggest problem here is the need for excellence directed by Director Yang Jie.

Take Huaguo Mountain for example. According to Director Yang Jie’s understanding, it must be a beautiful place.

So she combined the beautiful scenery from various places and then took mixed photos.

To this end, she has been taking photos since the beginning of 1983, visiting Huangguoshu Waterfall in Guizhou, Lengshui River in Hunan, Zhangjiajie, Dongshan Island in Fujian, Wenchang in Hainan, the Botanical Garden in Lushan, Jiangxi, Wulongtan, Wulaofeng,

Hanpokou, Beidaihe in Hebei, Tomb of the Seven Kings in BJ, Jietai Temple, etc.

She photographed the beautiful scenery of these places one by one, and then edited them into one place, which is the Huaguo Mountain in her mind.

In addition, in order to film the horse herding scene in Tianhe, she also took people to the Xilinhot Prairie in Inner Mongolia to specially shoot the scene of thousands of horses galloping.

Not only that, they also had to overcome the difficulty of horses being easily frightened, allowing a large number of horses to run in the smoke created by dry ice.

In other words, the scenes of horse herding in Tianhe are all real!

Including the smoke!

For this reason, she has spent basically all her time and energy on this throughout the year.

It is conceivable that no amount of money would be enough for her tormenting method.

So, before the Chinese New Year, she had already spent all the funds given by CCTV and came to CCTV again to ask for money.

However, CCTV said there was no money and asked her to wait.

But she can afford to wait, but her group of people can't afford to wait.

After all, the people under her are still waiting for her to be paid.

And she is very clear about the process in Taiwan. Once she really waits patiently, she doesn't know how long it will take to give her money again.

But if the team has no money, it will definitely break up.

Once the team breaks up, it's difficult to come back again.

As a result, all the previous hard work was almost in vain.

Just when Yang Jie was frowning and asking for money from the leaders in the station.

Someone suddenly gave her an idea, saying that she could ask for money from the famous Hongguang Film Studio.

Hongguang Film Factory is a new film studio. The first movie it produced was a great success in Japan, where it achieved the number one box office result. It is said that the box office exceeded 100 million. And Hongguang Film Factory,

He also made a lot of money because of this.

As soon as Yang Jie heard this, she decisively asked someone to inquire and went directly to Hongguang Film Factory.

As a result, after I went there, I discovered that Hongguang Film Factory was actually cooperating with a publishing house, and there were only a few real staff members.

On the contrary, I know the deputy director of Hongguang Film Studio. He is a junior from before, named Xu Qingdong.

When Yang Jie went to Nortel to give lectures, she had several contacts with him.

So the two started chatting.

Yang Jie is a straight talker. She directly talked about the filming process of "Journey to the West" and all the difficulties she encountered.

To put it bluntly, it boils down to just two words - money!

Regarding this, Xu Qingdong was not ambiguous and made an appointment with her directly to meet the real owner, Cao Zhiqiang, the next day.
Chapter completed!