Entertaining Children

When Xiao Yao had an accident at New York Fashion Week at the end of the previous year, both Zhao Rui and Zhou Zhihao accompanied Xiao Yao’s parents to New York. Zhou Jingyi also went to New York after hearing the news, and met Zhao Rui and Zhou Zhihao. , is also known. Because Muying was on the set at the time, and Xiao Yao called him to report his safety as soon as he got out of trouble, so he didn't go to New York at that time. However, because of the preparation of the parkour movie, Mu Ying and Zhao Rui have also contacted many times through online video, and the two are quite familiar with each other.

In the past two days, the members of the "immorta1s" band have become acquainted with the people from Huaxia. In this group of people, most of them are relatively unfamiliar with Mu Ying, and Zhou Jingyi and Lin Qisan have not met each other yet. Xiao Yao first introduced Muying to everyone, and then introduced Zhou Jingyi and Lin Qisan to each other.

Xiao Yao's team won, and he himself won the mvp of the game. According to Dean and others, they wanted to find a place to celebrate. But tonight is a special day, and Zhu Zitong and Nina Aiyiguli didn’t come to the game and were still waiting for their boyfriends at the hotel, so Xiao Yao rejected Dean’s proposal and changed the date of the party to the next day.

As a landowner, the task of preparing the party was naturally given to Dean. Although several members of the "immorta1s" band are still in college, they are already stars after all. They have already purchased real estate in Los Angeles, and the venue for the party was finally set at Dean's residence.

Since they were all young people, Xiao Yao and Dean did not invite Keith Craig's family. In addition, Xiao Yao and his party consisted of seven Chinese people, four members of the band, and Mu Ying and Zhou Jingyi, the number already numbered more than a dozen, and of course no outsiders were called.

At the party that started in the afternoon of the next day, a group of young people first celebrated to their heart's content.

"For our movie project, I have already asked someone to do a cost estimate, can we start the next step?" After a while, Mu Ying pulled Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui to talk about the parkour movie.

"What? A movie project? Are you going to invest in making a movie?" Dean, who was passing by, couldn't help shouting in surprise when he heard it.

When Xiao Yao told Zhao Rui and Xu Fei that they were going to prepare a parkour movie, Zhu Zitong was there. Knowing about this, Sun Tingting also heard about it from Xiao Yao. In addition, when Zhou Jingyi was studying acting with Muying, she saw Muying writing a script and asked curiously. Muying didn't hide it from her, so Zhou Jingyi also knew about it. Except for the three of them, no one else knew about it. At this time, when Dean called for a movie project, everyone surrounded him curiously.

"You want to invest in making movies?" Lin Qisan asked.

"Well, we're preparing a movie, and we just finished the script recently!" Xiao Yao saw that everyone was curious, so he simply told everyone about the preparation of the movie.

"Yang, you don't play music anymore, you want to change your career to become an actor and director?" Dean said first.

"I didn't change my career. I was an actor. Before I came to the United States as an exchange student, I had already acted in a TV series in China. I remember I told you." Xiao Yao smiled and said to Dean, "In terms of music, I I will not give up and will continue.”

"Oh! Awesome!" Dean breathed a sigh of relief, and gave Xiao Yao a thumbs up.

The four members of the "immorta1s" band were fine after hearing it, only expressing some surprise. After all, they play music, and have not yet set foot in film and television performances. Zhou Zhihao, a boxer, performed well, but Lin Qisan felt a little uncomfortable after hearing this.

"Why didn't you tell me about the movie you and Shitou were preparing?" Lin Qisan asked directly, "Also, Duo'er and Zitong seem to know about it, but Nina and I don't know about it?"

"I don't know either!" Zhou Zhihao interrupted with a smile.

"Go, you're not an actor!" Lin Qisan said angrily.

"Currently the protagonists are me, Shitou and Xu Fei, the director is Mu Ying and I, Chen Xiaoting is one of the producers, and the script is written by the five of us.

The main producers are also the five of us. "Xiao Yao said to Lin Qisan, "This is a movie about parkour. The main creative team is our yrf parkour team and Mu Ying, the director. Neither Zitong nor Duo'er are members of the main creative team. Preparations for the film. "

"This is an action movie. The protagonist must be a real-life parkour master. We don't have the protagonist role for you, so we didn't tell you." Zhao Rui continued, "Zitong and Duo'er just know, we There are no roles assigned to them yet.”

"When I knew about it, I also said that I wanted to participate in this movie, but they didn't let me be the main creator!" Zhu Zitong also spoke to appease Lin Qisan, "I said that I can pay for money and work, but they said that I can't be a producer even if I pay for it." , I can only give the money to Shi Shi, and count it in Shi Shi’s name. If you are acting, I must not be in the protagonist, and the supporting role will have to wait until the script is finished to see if there is any suitable for me.”

"Me too!" Sun Tingting also said, "If I want to pay, it can only be counted in Bayi's name."

"Besides, we just finished the script and made a preliminary budget, and we haven't even started to set up the crew. Isn't it the same to tell you now?" Xiao Yao finally smiled, "If you want to pay, we won't refuse Accept. As for the role, other than the lead role, nothing has been decided. If you don’t mind me and Shitou playing the lead role, you can only play a supporting role, and we don’t refuse, but you have to participate in the audition like everyone else.”

"You guys..." Lin Qisan lost his temper after being told by these people in turn, he could only lower his head and say, "What is the production budget of the film, and how far are you short? When will the filming start? When will the role audition start? I Can I read the script now?"

"I don't know how to act, but I have some savings." Samien asked suddenly, "Can I invest money?"

"So do we!" Dean and others also said.

"Xiao Yao," Muying said to Xiao Yao, "I asked someone to make a preliminary budget. The production cost of our film is estimated to be around eight million dollars. Now all thirteen of us here are willing to contribute. Including Chen Xiaoting and Xu Fei, there are already fifteen investors. Do I think we don’t need crowdfunding anymore?”

When Mu Ying thought about it, crowdfunding and filming always felt a bit awkward. He knew the people around Xiao Yao well. The thirteen people present, together with Huaxia's Xu Fei and Chen Xiaoting, are not ordinary amateurs. They are either celebrities or the second generation of stars. Either they have money in their own hands, or they have money in their families. Fifteen people pooled together eight million Dollars are not difficult at all. Even if Xiao Yao wants to make an independent film and doesn't want to be swayed by others, he can still use the method of soliciting commercial sponsorship according to the content of the script.

"Crowdfunding? You still want crowdfunding?" Lin Qisan and the others who didn't know about the film's preparations were surprised again, and turned to look at Xiao Yao.

"Why? Haven't you heard of crowdfunding to make a movie?" Xiao Yao laughed.

After thinking about it for a while, Xiao Yao still shook his head at Mu Ying: "Crowdfunding is still necessary! Among other things, at least crowdfunding itself is a promotion for the movie. Of course, publicity is not the most important purpose. The main reason is that if I can make money after the movie is released, I still have a plan. Part of the production fee of this movie must come from crowdfunding, which is very important for my later plan. Therefore, we can reduce the cost of crowdfunding. Proportion, but it has to be there."

"That's still according to the original agreement, five people are the main producers, and the crowdfunding list is at the end?" Mu Ying asked.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded.

"There is another question," Zhao Rui pointed to the group of people surrounding him and said, "According to what you said before, the investment from our relatives and friends should either be credited to the five of us, or put in the crowdfunding thank you list at the end of the film." Zitong’s for me, Duo’er’s for you, it’s okay. If Dean and the others don’t want to participate in the crowdfunding, they must be counted in your name. How about San’er and Nina’s share? Yours or mine?"

"I didn't think carefully about this." Xiao Yao said, "It's definitely okay to give Zitong's to you and Duo'er's to me, but it's inappropriate for Dean and the others to pay without a name. Crowdfunding is aimed at ordinary people, and it is not suitable for them to raise capital through crowdfunding, and I don’t want the gap between ordinary fans and parkour enthusiasts to contribute too much, and I plan to set a capital contribution limit for a single crowdfunder. This limit It's also not suitable for them."

"Then what should we do?" Zhao Rui and Mu Ying asked together.

"How about this," Xiao Yao thought for a while, then raised his head and said, "There can only be one more co-producer besides the main producer. All the friends who invest will be placed in the co-producer. If the production budget is 8 million, The five of us account for 4 million shares, the other co-producers are 2 million, and the crowdfunding is 2 million. We basically invest according to this ratio, and the crowdfunding of 2 million is fixed. Make some adjustments."

"You just said that there is an upper limit for crowdfunding, what is the upper limit?" Mu Ying asked again.

"The maximum amount of crowdfunding is 10,000 US dollars, and the minimum is 100 US dollars. If it reaches 10,000 US dollars, we will put his name at the end of the movie. Of course, the premise is that he is willing to let his name appear on the subtitles at the end of the movie." Xiao Yao road.

"That's probably two hundred names." Mu Ying laughed, "This may make the end credits of our movie very long."

"It doesn't matter, let's make it longer." Xiao Yao said.

"This also means that those with less than 10,000 US dollars have no chance to appear on the end credits." Zhao Rui considered another issue and asked, "Is this unfair to those who did not contribute 10,000 US dollars during the crowdfunding?" ? Everyone pays to support us in making movies. Those who make more movies have names, and those who make fewer movies don’t have names. Isn’t that appropriate?”

"I can't help it," Xiao Yao said, "Crowdfunding is two million yuan, at least one hundred in a single transaction, and there may be thousands or even tens of thousands of names. The subtitles at the end of the movie really can't fit! After our crowdfunding starts, do An official website of a movie. As long as those who participate in crowdfunding, no matter how much they contribute, they will put their names on the relevant pages of the official website of the movie. You must know that many crowdfunding projects will not publish the name of the crowdfunder at all. We Let’s use this method to make up for it.”

"Okay!" Mu Ying nodded, "How about the specific operation?"

"Since the unit is in US dollars, it must be done on a crowdfunding website in the United States." Xiao Yao said, "The crowdfunding website has a review system for crowdfunding projects, and I will trouble you to be responsible for this. Let's do this The crowdfunding of the parkour movie depends on the reputation of the parkour team yrf. After the crowdfunding website is approved, we will cooperate with the yrf channel of pv to make some explanations and publicity."

"Two months should be enough for crowdfunding, and I think it is possible to reach the crowdfunding goal ahead of schedule." Xiao Yao added, "Once the crowdfunding money arrives in the account, we will start preparing for the crew immediately. During this period of time, you can start looking for some crew candidates and scene selection. In terms of casting and audition, if you think it’s okay, you can also conduct some preliminary selections and prepare some alternatives, and we will decide on the situation A time to check and make a decision."

"Did you ask me to also be the casting director?" Muying laughed.

"You are one of the directors, there is nothing wrong with being a casting director." Xiao Yao said, "If you feel that you are too busy, you can also hire a casting director to help you. Our filming location is in the United States. Most of the crew and actors must be found in the United States. You are more familiar with the United States than me, right? If you don’t leave it to you, do you want me to stay in the United States to do these things?”

"Wait, this movie was shot in America?" Lin Qisan cut off Xiao Yao's words.

"Of course," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "Parkour is a worldwide sport. This movie is planned to be released globally, so it would be more appropriate to shoot it in Europe and the United States. We have Muying, a top student from Southern California, in the United States of course. It’s more convenient to shoot than in Europe.”

"Your first feature film as a director is planned to be released worldwide?" Lin Qisan smiled, "Your ambition is really not small!"

"If you want to play, of course you need a big one." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "My ambition is not small, but this movie is only in the preparatory stage now, and the funds have not yet been in place, and there are still many years before the filming and release. It’s been a long time. It’s not the first feature film I’ve directed, and it probably won’t be the first feature film I’ve directed worldwide.”

"What do you mean? You have also directed another feature film, and you plan to release it globally?" Not only Lin Qisan this time, but even Zhao Rui said in surprise, "Not to mention that we have never heard of you as a director and film feature film. News about the movie! Judging from your itinerary for the past two years, it is impossible to have the time to finish filming a feature film!"

"Don't look at me, I don't know." Sun Tingting saw Lin Qisan looking at her, smiled and shook her head.

"This, you will know when you return to China!" Xiao Yao smiled and blinked.

"I'll go! How many secrets do you have, monster?" Lin Qisan shouted.

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