Chapter 377 The Water in the TV Series Is Very Deep

A day ago, Huaxia TV Station, TV drama production center.

Li Qian went downstairs and parked the car, called director Feng Yumin, and then went to the security check at the door. He got a call from Feng Yumin in advance, of course he went in easily, and waited for the elevator to arrive at the TV drama production On the floor where the center is located, Feng Yumin's secretary is already waiting at the exit of the elevator.

When it was Li Qian who asked, the secretary politely took Li Qian straight to Feng Yumin's office.

For China TV, Liao Liao has been here many times, but they always go to Studio No. 1, while Qi Jie is more familiar with this place. She has been here no less than ten times to the TV drama production center alone, but Li Qian But it is the first time.

To some extent, this is also the first time he has come to the relevant "yamen".

Feng Yumin, as the helm of the TV drama production center of Huaxia TV Station, can imagine that he is very busy. Except for the occasional big dramas in his hands as the producer or director, there are at least several dramas that start shooting at the same time all the year round. He is the producer, producer, etc., and apart from that, even though he is only the leader of the other dramas in the TV drama production center, he must nod in the final film to be officially qualified. Understand.

The secretary knocked on the door, and after getting permission, he opened the door and went in. Feng Yumin was on the phone. When he looked up and saw Li Qian behind the secretary, he waved his hand directly, motioned Li Qian to sit down, and after talking to the phone, he deliberately Covering the microphone, pointing to the bookshelf in the office, he said to the secretary: "Xiao He, go and take out my can of Biluochun and pour some tea."

The secretary, Xiao He, was taken aback when he heard the words, and quickly agreed, took the tea, and when he looked at Li Qian again, his smile became more sincere——Feng Yumin loves tea, especially Biluochun, even in the office, he would not like it. It's just enough, but he usually treats guests. He has tea specially approved by the TV station, like Biluochun, which he keeps in his own collection. It's not something that just any guest can drink.

Two minutes later, after the phone call, when Feng Yumin hung up the phone, the secretary Xiao He had just poured tea, Feng Yumin got up and walked over, sat down on the sofa in the reception area, and said to him: "I Come on, if someone is looking for me outside, you can help me get out of the way! If it's not an important call, don't answer it yet, just say I'm going to review the film."

Secretary Xiao He agreed, straightened up, and nodded to Li Qian with a smile before leaving.

When he left, Feng Yumin didn't speak, just continued to make tea, and when the tea was ready, he shared a cup. Seeing that Li Qian was looking around, he got up and opened the drawer to take out the script, and said with a smile: "I This office was the standard many years ago, and it was considered elegant at that time, but now...it's not comparable to your office, it's shabby!"

Li Qian smiled, and said after a while: "It's such a shabby office, I don't know how many people want to come in and sit for a while, but they can't get in! Teacher Feng, I really want to make a difference with you!"

Feng Yumin laughed loudly, and said as he sat down, "I never expected that you can also flatter me!"

Li Qian smiled, picked up the teacup and sniffed it lightly, then took a sip, put down the teacup, and said: "Speaking of which, you still live carefully. My dad likes to drink tea, and I follow him to learn from him. I also like drinking tea." Tea, but I just can't drink your kung fu."

Feng Yumin smiled again, and was not in a hurry to drink tea, but took the book in his hand, patted it, and said seriously: "I have read it, read it three times...good book!" After a pause, he put down the script , picked up the teacup and took a sip, then said: "The actor is right, the director is right, this film can't be wrong!"

Hearing this, Li Qian smiled without saying a word.

When he sent someone to deliver the script, he explained on the phone that he wanted to make a film, which meant very clearly: he wanted to produce and direct by himself.

Therefore, Feng Yumin obviously meant something.

Seeing that Li Qian didn't answer, Feng Yumin sighed, raised his hand and stroked the top of his head, and said, "Qian'er, I know you studied photography. I've seen the kung fu of an actor, but this movie Do you know how much investment it takes to photograph it?"

Li Qian replied: "I haven't found anyone to make a serious estimate. I did it myself and saved some money. It's in the early 20 million, maybe 30 million. I can definitely win it."

Feng Yumin looked up at Li Qian in surprise, thought for a while, and said, "Let me tell you this! I have been doing this all year round, and I should have a more say in domestic TV dramas. Do you know how many TV dramas are put into production in China every year? More than 18,000 episodes! This is last year’s data! Then, what is the average investment? On average, each episode is about a little over 230,000."

After a pause, he said: "Of course, among the more than 18,000 episodes of TV dramas, there must be a limited number of TV dramas that can finally be broadcast on TV stations above the provincial level. The average is low, but even if you can get the provincial level or above, including the movies broadcast by our Huaxia TV, the average data, the cost of one episode is less than 400,000 yuan, and the script of your drama is 32 episodes , In other words, its cost must be controlled between 12 million and 15 million, which is more reasonable. If you are stingy and shoot, it can be won within about 10 million."

"But..." After a pause, he said, "Don't talk about 15 million, and don't talk about your 30 million, I don't know how you plan to shoot, why there is such a high budget, let's Say 10 million... Qianer, that's 10 million! It's not like you are making an album, you can write lyrics and music, and you can arrange music yourself, even if you rent a recording studio and record it for a month, To make an album, that is a limited amount of money, not counting the cost of lyrics and music, a record of hundreds of thousands is enough, even if it is lost, it is not worth anything, but this, it is 10 million!"

"I know you are not short of money, Liao Liao, He Runqing, and your four beauties band, they are all big sellers, you also write lyrics for others, sell songs, and you also receive film and television soundtracks, of course, don't say Ten million, maybe you can afford thirty to fifty million now, but if you spend this money, do you really think you can get back the money?"

After a pause, he refilled tea for Li Qian and himself, took a sip, and then said: "I know, you learned this, love this, and want to make films independently. This feeling is understandable, and this dream is also worthy of support." , However, the investment in this film is too high. Costumes already cost money, and you have a lot of martial arts special effects scenes, which cost even more! Besides, the key is that you have no previous experience! Suddenly Playing so big..."

After thinking for a while, he said: "Let's put it this way, if you suddenly tell me that you are going to spend 10 million yuan to make an album, then I will tell you, not only me, everyone who knows you will know a little Don't worry, although the cost of your album is ten times or even twenty times more expensive than other people's albums, as long as you do it, everyone will believe that you must have your reasons, it must be that you can Spend the 10 million well, and then earn more money! But you said you want to make TV series and movies, let me tell you, don’t say 10 million, 30 million, even 5 million, I will I'm worried that you will lose everything!"

From the very beginning, Li Qian just listened carefully while drinking tea, without interrupting a word. Hearing this, he couldn't help smiling, looked up at Feng Yumin, and said with a smile: "Then what do you mean? ?”

Feng Yumin looked at him seriously when he heard the words, and said sincerely: "What I want to say is actually just one sentence: the pool of TV dramas is very deep!"

Li Qian smiled and nodded slowly.

In fact, Feng Yumin could guess the general meaning of what Feng Yumin said.

To invest such a large sum of money to make this film, of course Li Qian had done his homework beforehand. He had already read the relevant information about the data Feng Yumin mentioned beforehand. Even because he went to see and understand it on purpose, so when it comes to data, he remembers it more solidly than Feng Yumin.

In 1997, a total of 18,583 episodes of TV series were produced in China, with a total investment of more than 4.3 billion. Of course, this data does not include "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is calculated in the data of 1996, and the data of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is included, and the average single episode data of 1996 is directly taken into account. It's a lot taller.

Of course, as Feng Yumin said, with such a large annual output, about one-third of it cannot be sold even if it is auctioned. If it is better, it can recover a little bit of cost by issuing VCDs and video tapes. Yes, I didn't even have a chance to produce a VCD, and I was locked in the warehouse directly after the filming.

Although these dramas are not all low-cost investments, and some of them invested millions and ended up losing their money, most of them are shoddy productions that cost around 100,000 yuan, or even 580,000 episodes.

But even if this part of the drama is excluded, and only the TV series that are qualified to be broadcast on major provincial satellite TVs and even on China TV, their production cost is probably only between 250,000 and 400,000 per episode. If the cost exceeds 500,000 yuan, it is a huge investment-domestic TV dramas generally have between 20 and 40 episodes, and a single episode exceeds 500,000 yuan, which means that the cost of this drama has reached at least eight figures!

Now that the media is developed, even the production of TV dramas often starts to promote after the project is approved. Therefore, many false propagandas soon began to flood, and many crews claimed to invest 15 million, 20 million, or even 30 million yuan. Never mind, the slogan of "big production" is not to spend money like desperately, as if if the money invested is not enough, the show will definitely not be good... But in fact, their real production cost is often significantly lower than this figure.

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