The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

In the cast of "Fantasy Three Kingdoms", apart from Tong Liya, there is only one Jiang Jingfu who can barely do it.

But their competitor, "The Jade History of the Qing Palace" is much stronger in this respect.

There are four or five actors who are about the same popularity as Tong Liya, and there are also people with higher status than her; there are also many second- and third-tier actors.

The cast does not necessarily determine the quality of the film, but who will let the audience eat it?

TV stations, video sites, and buying movies are not for art, but for ratings and broadcast volume.

Moreover, there is another point that must not be overlooked, which lies in the two companies 'Datang' and 'Dimension' themselves.

'Datang Entertainment' is an old film and television drama production company. They have been in this industry for more than ten or twenty years. Although they are not the top film and television enterprises in China, they have achieved certain results in such a long time , Their connections and relationships in the circle, and even the background of the entire company are incomparable to Dimension Entertainment, a company that has just entered the film and television industry.

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At least, judging from the current situation, they would rather spend more money to buy the film "Jade History of the Qing Palace" than pay a large price for "Fantasy Three Kingdoms".

This is the status quo, and Fan Zhe and Ye Jiayi also feel very helpless.

In fact, if the first broadcast can be sold for a price of 100 million, it would not be too uncomfortable, but this is seriously inconsistent with the original goal of Dimension Entertainment.

The premiere is a large part of the revenue, but not all of a TV series. Subsequent rounds of broadcasts and even overseas copyrights will currently constitute other sources of income for a drama, and the proportion will not be particularly low.

If the first broadcast sells 100 million, it is not too unreasonable. As long as the performance of the broadcast is hot, through the follow-up operation, the final total revenue will reach 200 million, 300 million, or even higher. It is not impossible.

What's more, the investment in "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" is said to be "200 million", but most of it is spent on visual effects. The work in this area is still done by Dimension Entertainment itself, and the cost is simply not that high.

If it is sold for 100 million yuan, Dimension Entertainment will also make a profit.

But the problem is that the account cannot be calculated in this way, and it is impossible for Fan Zhe himself to accept this price.

"There is no need to negotiate this price. Stop all contact in this regard."

"Yeah." Ye Jiayi actually had the same plan, but she still asked a little more: "What do you plan to do after that?"

"Let's make the work first." Fan Zhe said, "With the work, we can talk about commercial matters, and we will get twice the result with half the effort. At the same time, I also believe that the quality of our work will definitely impress many people."

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Returning his attention to the work, Fan Zhe ran to the editing room more frequently.

However, in this regard, he is still very self-aware. I am a layman in making film and television dramas, so it is okay to give suggestions, but relying on the status of investors and bosses, it would be too annoying to go up and point fingers.

It's fine to be hated by others, the key is that if you don't do it well, your work will be ruined.

However, despite this, he couldn't help but run to the editing room. He paid close attention to how well the entire edit worked.

The workflow of the special effects produced through the "dimension" system is a bit different from that of general film and television special effects.

Like "Fantasy Three Kingdoms", when Dimension Entertainment imported a large number of character designs and scene design drawings into the "Dimension" system at the beginning of production, "Dimension" has already begun to evolve in this area up.

But for the final composition, there must be a shooting lens.

At present, the more common method is to cut out a set of rough cuts after the shooting is completed, which will contain a large number of green screen scenes, and the flying wires have not been edited.

With this rough cut, I then sent it to a special effects company for special effects.

The key to doing this is saving money. How expensive are special effects? If the unedited footage is used for special effects, it will be cut out after it is finished, which will waste too much money.

But here in Dimension Entertainment, it's not a big problem.

Anyway, it’s the amount of calculations, just electricity bills.

The most important thing is that this will further compress the production time, no need to wait for the entire shooting to be completed, no need to wait for the editing. Moreover, the completed special effects shots are directly provided, and the effects can be seen intuitively when editing, and the final film will have even better effects.

So, at that time, Fan Zhe asked Du Zhengde himself to pick out some shots that needed special effects first, and then 'Dimension Entertainment' did it first.

The results are also quite good. On the one hand, the production of the special effects was completed ahead of schedule. On the other hand, when Du Zhengde and his editing team were editing the film, since all the special effects were already available and could be seen intuitively, it would become even more difficult. Handy.

What's more, the waste of special effects is also very low, which is completely within the acceptable range. After all, under the management of "Dimension", the production of special effects is very precise. With the cooperation of text descriptions and a large number of illustrations, each shot is perfectly matched, and there is almost no waste.

Under Fan Zhe's attention, at the end of June and the beginning of July, all the post-production of the TV series "Fantasy Three Kingdoms 2" had been completed.

There are forty-six episodes in the film, almost ten more episodes than originally planned.

The reason for this is because the story of the whole film, according to the original work, not many parts have been deleted. The length of the whole story is relatively long, if there is no deliberate compression and deletion, forty-six episodes are almost enough.

In fact, many of the TV dramas currently on the market will learn more from Japan and South Korea.

Especially Korean dramas.

This also makes a large number of domestic commercial dramas often have seventy or eighty episodes.

The benefits are also obvious. More episodes, more playing time, and when the results are guaranteed, the benefits will obviously be more.

This situation can naturally be established in "Fantasy Three Kingdoms".

During editing, Du Zhengde even mentioned it to Fan Zhe once.

"Mr. Fan, if necessary, I can cut the film to 60 to 70 episodes. It won't have any great impact on the quality, but the rhythm will be a bit slow..."

"It's not necessary." Fan Zhe thought for a while, and gave his own answer, "It's fine as it is now, keep a faster pace, and the episodes will be more attractive."

"That's fine."