After Yang Ming and Wu Yuanzhi returned to Oriental DreamWorks, he called his old friend Kong Changwei over.

"This time we are going to make a documentary about food, and the time is very tight." Yang Ming announced immediately after Kong Changwei came over. At this time, Mo Xiaohua and Lao Chai were also there, and they were also called over by Yang Ming.

, and Bian Mingcheng were waiting in the conference room for Yang Ming to assign tasks.

Except for Wang Qidong and Zheng Wen, who is practicing in seclusion, all the contracted directors of Oriental DreamWorks are here.

As for Zhao Laoyan, Yang Ming didn't regard him as a director at all. He estimated that this guy could only make films in which he acted. With his skills, he would definitely not be able to make documentaries.

"What kind of documentary is worthy of making you mobilize so much?" Kong Changwei asked curiously when he saw Yang Ming's situation. He turned to look at the people around him and asked: "Hey, why am I the only photographer?

Where are the others?"

"The documentary we are going to shoot this time is a promotional video for the country. The other photographers in our company are still a little behind." Yang Ming said.

At present, in addition to Kong Changwei, the ace photographer, Oriental DreamWorks has also hired several photographers from other film and television companies, but their skills are only average. They can cope with ordinary TV series without problems, but if they want to shoot a film with strict lens requirements

, is no longer competent.

The food documentary "A Bite of China" obviously has very high requirements for the camera.

Kong Changwei was shocked by Yang Ming's words, and so were the others. He suddenly stuttered and said: "National... national propaganda... film?"

"Well, a national propaganda film!" Yang Ming nodded and confirmed.

"Are you so big this time?" Kong Changwei looked at Yang Ming in disbelief and said.

Yang Ming shrugged and said helplessly: "I have no choice. This is a task assigned to Phoenix TV Station from above."

After he finished speaking, he also ordered Wu Yuanzhi.

"Okay, I won't say any more. I'm going to spend 30 million yuan on the documentary we're going to shoot this time!" Yang Ming said with his mouth wide open.

When they heard the figure of 30 million, not to mention Kong Changwei and Wu Yuanzhi, Lao Chai and the others were also shocked.

"30 million documentary? It's going to set a record!" Mo Xiaohua looked at Yang Ming in shock and murmured.

Everyone here knows the status of documentaries in the entertainment industry. They are highly praised, but basically no one cares about them. They win big awards, but the profits are very small.

Because of this, few companies are willing to spend money on documentaries, and even if they spend money, they won’t be able to spend so much money at once!

30 million! You can make a good commercial blockbuster.

Yang Ming saw everyone's shocked expressions and a look of satisfaction on his face. He couldn't help but think of the difficult process of filming this documentary in his previous life.

In a previous life, when the national channel wanted to shoot this documentary, the budget was only 4.5 million, and it was still in 2011. However, in the 450th year of 2011, it produced "A Bite of China", which brought both fame and fortune.

Later, when the documentary became popular and became famous, in an interview with reporters, the director revealed the extremely poignant filming process.

During the filming, some scenes required aerial photography, but it cost 600,000 a day to refuel a helicopter, and the total budget was only 4.5 million. How many aerial shots could be taken? In order to achieve the effect of aerial photography, the crew tried every means,

leave no stone unturned

However, even private remote-controlled aerial photography costs tens of thousands at a time. Of course, I also thought about going to Hong Kong to buy a remote-controlled aircraft, but I was quickly rejected: remote-controlled aircraft are not expensive, but they need to carry a camera.

If it fails, it will still be a big loss...

Finally, in order to shoot an aerial shot, the crew couldn't find a group of children from the university who were doing experiments on airplane models. These children came with models padded with foam plastic and with cameras tied with toothpicks and bottle caps. In the end, it failed.

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Although this documentary achieved extremely dazzling results in its previous life, due to budget constraints, many shots and images were not perfect.

In this life, Yang Ming wants to make up for this regret while maintaining the biggest feature that makes this documentary successful.

The success of this food documentary does not rely on the majestic footage, but its narrative language, its lens rhythm, and its way of telling stories. These are all obviously a refresh and innovation of past Chinese documentaries.

subversion.

In the previous life, even though there were no aerial shots or big scenes, this documentary still became a documentary of international standards and could go global.

Now Yang Ming has invested a huge amount of 30 million yuan, and on the basis of maintaining the success of the previous classic, he will perfect and make up for the flaws of this classic documentary in the previous life, and produce the world's "A Bite of China", which will definitely shock the world.

He is very confident that this new "A Bite of China" will have absolutely no problems in being used as a national propaganda film.

When he thought of this, Yang Ming became a little excited, and then began to arrange the tasks and said: "I plan to shoot this documentary into 7 episodes. You follow me to shoot the first episode first, and then we will divide the remaining six episodes into six crews at the same time.

Shoot!”

The time given by Director Guo just now is very tight, and the sample film will be seen within a month. The documentary in the previous life took 13 months to shoot, but because Yang Ming has the complete picture and plot in his mind, it naturally can't be spent.

Such a long time.

First, let everyone follow him to shoot an episode to understand his requirements for the documentary, and then shoot at the same time, so the speed will be faster.

Mo Xiaohua, Lao Chai, Bian Mingcheng, Zheng Wen, Wang Qidong, plus Yang Ming himself, there are exactly six directors. This is all the current directors of Oriental DreamWorks.

"Then we don't have enough photographers!" Kong Changwei said with a frown.

"Yes!" Yang Ming nodded, thought for a moment and said, "I will solve this problem. I will go back to the college to ask the old dean for help later!"

Kong Changwei was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed. There were not many others in Yanjing Film Academy, but there were a lot of high-level photography teachers. If Yang Ming could really get the support of the academy, the photographer would have absolutely no problem.

In fact, during the meeting at the National Royal Garden, Yang Ming had already thought about going back to the academy to ask for help.

The most important thing about this documentary is the footage. It must capture the unique food culture of China. Without a photographer of a certain level, it is absolutely impossible to capture the footage that Yang Ming wants.

"Let's start preparations first. I have to go back to the academy later." Yang Ming immediately started arranging work.

After Yang Ming asked everyone to prepare for the crew, Wu Yuanzhi said: "Yang Ming, I will go back to Guangdong first. Anyway, I can't help here much."

Yang Ming thought about it, and Guangdong couldn't do without Wu Yuanzhi, so he said: "Sister Wu, then I won't send you off. Time is running out."

"There is no need to be so polite between us." Wu Yuanzhi said magnanimously.

After finishing speaking, she suddenly turned to Lao Chai and asked: "Lao Chai, the post-production of the sequel to "Fearless Heroes" that you filmed, "Fist of Fury", has already been completed, right?"

"Yeah!" Lao Chai nodded.

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