"The Legend of the White Snake" is called a big production because the total investment is as high as 15 million yuan.

Although the TV series market is booming at the moment, there are not many episodes with investments of more than 10 million, basically about five million, and the length of thirty episodes.

This involves the issue of ROI.

A five-million investment can bring one or two first-tier celebrities to join. As long as the story is passable, you can make a profit without meticulous crafting and quickly recover the cost.

This is the norm in the TV series market, and it is important to make hot money by short, flat and fast.

The investment scale is large and the shooting cycle is long, and the chance of risk is high. It is okay if you make money, but once you lose money, small film and television companies may go bankrupt.

This kind of large-scale drama is generally filmed by TV stations.

Now Good Dream Company and Beijing Television Art Center each have 7.5 million yuan to jointly remake "The Legend of the White Snake" to create a major drama of the year.

Li Hong is about to retire, and she always has to leave something for the last two years.

This is human nature. Even if you retire, you must be glorious and bring a perfect end to your career.

Lin Zixuan has no choice but to consider other TV series.

For example, military themes, sitcoms and historical themes, it seems that the story of "The Legend of the White Snake" is meaningful because the drama has nostalgia factor.

In the 1991, Li Hong and a group of people left China Television Station and established the Beijing Television Art Center.

In nearly ten years, the Art Center has produced hundreds of TV series, including many classic works, and is at the forefront of the domestic TV series industry.

"The Legend of the White Snake" is nostalgia and innovation.

It is a mythological drama and is rare in China. The post-production of such TV series requires special effects and increases production costs, so no one is willing to invest in the film.

Even Good Dream Company and the Art Center have different opinions.

In addition to the large investment and high risks, "The Legend of the White Snake" is too deeply rooted in people's hearts, and the remake will inevitably be compared. The audience has preconceived ideas and the remake is thankless.

Although the sequel to "Desire" has won more than 80 million box office, its reputation is average.

This shows that it is difficult to get a good reputation by remake or sequel. The more classic the original work, the harder it is to be accepted by people.

Lin Zixuan doesn't think so.

There are many reasons why he filmed "The Legend of the White Snake", and Li Hong Fengguang's retirement was just one of them.

He wanted to motivate TV series of this kind. With the experience of producing "The Legend of the White Snake", he could produce other mythological dramas and fairy tales.

This set off a craze for mythical fairy dramas.

The reason why the show begins with "The Legend of the White Snake" is because the audience is familiar with it and it is easy to cause heated discussion. Even if the audience is not satisfied, they will complain while watching it.

In order to complain, the audience will insist on watching the TV series, and the ratings will be guaranteed.

Besides, if you shoot an unknown mythological drama, the TV station will not buy the broadcasting rights at a high price.

Remake of "The Legend of the White Snake" can ensure that you can recover your investment and not be thrown into your own hands.

Different heights of the stations will have different perspectives on the problem.

Lin Zixuan considers the problem from the perspective of the entire industry. People in the company consider more about the reputation of TV series and the difficulty of producing TV series.

Good Dream Company and the Art Center have a professional production team, so there is no problem with filming, mainly post-production.

Especially the special effects.

The domestic special effects technology is not yet mature, and the special effects of domestic movies have to go abroad. If you want to save money, go to Xiangjiang and go to the United States with sufficient funds.

In fact, there are special effects companies in China, such as the digital computer company under the Shanghai Film Studio.

The company has more than 80 technicians, but the situation is not good.

In addition to occasionally making one or two special effects shots for domestic films, they became a processing factory for American TV animation.

The company regularly takes outsourcing work from American animation companies online. They can complete an American full three-dimensional computer animation cartoon in ten days and rely on this to survive.

They don’t need to design animation images or conceive plots, just draw according to the requirements of American companies.

It's equivalent to working as a coolie, and their rewards are less than one-tenth of American staff.

American animation companies will outsource work without technical content to technicians in Asian countries such as China and India, thereby saving a lot of labor costs.

Some people may say why domestic movies do not look for domestic special effects companies, but instead go abroad to make money by allowing foreigners. Isn’t this advocating foreign countries and fawning on foreign countries?

This is because domestic special effects are just starting out and what is made cannot meet the requirements.

Lin Zixuan knows that in the future, there are more and more places where special effects are needed for movies. High-end special effects technology is basically monopolized by Hollywood, and special effects will restrict the development of domestic films.

He decided to take advantage of the opportunity of filming "The Legend of White Snake" to form the special effects department of Haomeng Company.

The special effects of TV series require simple things. Start with simple things, develop step by step, and take more than ten years or even longer to catch up with Hollywood.

Good Dream Company cannot just think about becoming the boss among domestic private film and television companies, but also have longer-term plans.

Huang Bo returned to the company and met his agent, a girl in her early twenties.

She can only be regarded as an assistant agent, responsible for arranging the daily work of an unknown actor like Huang Bo.

After two or three years of training, she will become a real agent and be responsible for the acting activities of second- and third-tier actors. Only after five years will she have the opportunity to contact front-tier actors.

If the actors she holds become famous, her status will also be improved.

In other words, her income and status are closely related to the actors, so that she can truly consider the actors.

"What's wrong, Xiao Ye, are they going to let me play Xu Xian or Bai Suzhen?" Huang Bo joked.

"Dream, go and you." Xiao Ye handed Huang Bo a piece of paper and said speechlessly, "Let's not think about the leading actors. This is the list of roles. I have focused on a few. If you consider it, I will try my best to help you. I heard that the above attach great importance to this drama and may be broadcast on Chinese TV."

Xiaoye is still young, likes gossip and asks about things.

This shows that she is suitable for this industry, and her agent must be well-informed and good at seizing opportunities.

Since it is an annual drama created for Li Hong's retirement, we must strive to broadcast it on the prime time of the Chinese TV station to cause a sensational effect.

Huang Bo looked at the character list, which had key notes on it, and they were all main supporting roles, including Xu Xian's brother-in-law, housekeeper, and a villain monster.

"Just this monster." Huang Bo made a quick decision.

"That's a villain. I think we should fight for the role of Li Gongfu. Although our personality is not very good, we are all positive characters no matter what," Xiao Ye analyzed.

Huang Bo understood that Xiaoye was thinking about him.

If he hadn't made a movie about being fooled, he might have chosen a positive role. Who would have wanted to play a villain? But now he thinks it's good to play a villain.

He wants to try various types of characters, the more challenging he has, the better.
Chapter completed!