Hollywood Road

Some things, people in the game may not be able to see more clearly than people outside.

When he got home, Murphy carefully considered Carla Firth's words, which was indeed very reasonable. If he bet all his money on the production of a movie, if he failed, he would inevitably face serious consequences. Painful situation.

The hard life after being released from prison has left Murphy with lingering fears. Now that he has just escaped the poverty line, he does not want to go back to that state.

Murphy does have some confidence in himself, but he also knows that there is no possibility of failure.

It is true that he has analyzed a lot of films. He has also been a student at the film school, and he is also serious about self-paying studies. He has just participated in the production of a documentary, so he has some experience, but filming and these are two different things. If you have analyzed a successful movie in the future, you must be able to make this movie successfully?

As long as anyone with a slightly normal mind knows, there is no way to draw an equal sign between the two.

As a rational enough person, Murphy understands that in order to leave a way for himself, the investment must be limited to less than 300,000 US dollars.

No one can guarantee that there will be luck like the Bill Road incident in the future, and the remaining tens of thousands of dollars can give him a chance to turn over after a failure.

From the beginning to the end, Murphy's mind is very clear, his more insight than others is an advantage, but he can not guarantee that he will be successful.

Everyone wants to succeed, especially in a competitive place like Hollywood.

However, there are not too many cases of waterloo in Hollywood due to ambition and vanity. Some companies lose money and go bankrupt; some make directors, producers or big studio CEOs take a back seat or even lose their jobs; some let a generation of superstars go. Going on the air path and going farther and farther...

In the film industry of all countries and regions in the world, the number of hit films far exceeds the number of successful ones. How many of them are the dreams of geniuses? Where did these geniuses go then?

Compared with the almost zero-cost investment in other art forms, the film industry has never shown sympathy for its followers, and the film industry is also recognized as a high-risk industry.

The entire film industry is swayed by some irrational rules. No one can be sure of the secret of making a successful film. Many times, some directors claim to make a blockbuster film, but the result is dismal.

Also, Murphy once saw countless analyses of successful or failed films on the Internet. Many people thought that by summarizing these, they could do better or even avoid failure, but there was a fact that they ignored, these The summaries are typical afterthoughts, and whether they are correct or not can never be verified.

The competition in Hollywood is extremely fierce. In Murphy's current situation, once he plans to hit the streets, the consequences must be quite cruel.

Naturally, no one would want to be thrown into the street, but when it happens, they can only admit it.

Murphy certainly didn't want to be a part of it.

From the day after meeting Carla Firth, he completely gave up his previous job to concentrate on his own film project.

Shooting a movie must be treated as a rigorous project, even if it is a street stall selling things, it will not succeed casually, not to mention the unpredictable industry of movies.

The original studio, after Murphy replaced a desk that was good for typing, has become his project planning office.

When planning a project, the content of the project must be determined.

Coming to this world, Murphy spent a year in prison, and injured a director, so that no one in Hollywood wanted to use him. The previous two months had to be busy for livelihood and start-up funds. It's been more than a year, and now it's August 2000, but he has done nothing but cause a lot of trouble.

I've been through so much,

Encountering so many difficulties, Murphy also knew that the script that had been delivered to Hollywood had a very small chance of being activated, and basically gave up the idea of ​​​​this aspect, and turned all his energy to the new project that was about to be launched.

He only has about $300,000 in investment capital, which limits the scale and content of the film. Films that require frequent scene changes, use a large number of actors, use a lot of equipment, and have cumbersome behind-the-scenes work will not meet the requirements.

Those relatively successful small productions are Murphy's first choice.

In an instant, the names of countless films appeared in Murphy's mind. In the past few years, there was the atypical success of "Blair Witch", and "The Chainsaw" in the future.

Movies like "Blair Witch" are completely out of Murphy's consideration, and it's only a few years since "Blair Witch" was released? Even if such a film is made, he may not be able to sell it. As for another viral marketing, let’s not say whether the experienced audience will buy it. Where does the large investment come from?

Many people always think that "Blair Witch" has easily won hundreds of millions of dollars at the North American box office, but they have never paid attention to it. Its publicity and marketing expenses in North America alone exceed 20 million dollars!

Would Murphy consider a movie like Blair Witch if it had $20 million?

Another way is to hand over the film to a big company for distribution, let the big company pay for distribution and publicity and other expenses in advance, and then participate in the share as a director...

If the executives of Hollywood's major distribution companies were all in kindergarten, it was indeed possible.

One of the prerequisites for a viral marketing plan for "Blair Witch" and several other typical low-budget films to work is that the film's producers sell the rights to the distribution company completely!

Shaking his head, Murphy threw these low-level and boring thoughts out the window and considered "Chainsaw".

This is also a typical example of winning high box office at a small cost. In the future, it will be a classic masterpiece of plasma horror films. Relatively speaking, it does not require many scenes and actors.

But after thinking about it for a few minutes, Murphy gave up on Saw, not overestimating himself, knowing that he didn't have the ability to make such a film with $300,000.

After rejecting many films successively, in the end, Murphy still found that what he had thought before might be the most suitable.

In terms of actors, there are only two main actors. Although the underage female roles are relatively demanding, Murphy has thought of an alternative plan to relax the requirements for acting skills and make a fuss about the appearance of the characters and the bloody scale.

The male actors are better. It should not be difficult to find an adult actor with some acting skills and a cheap price. After all, this is Los Angeles where Hollywood is located.

The scene is better to say, more than 90% of the plot takes place in a house, which can be solved by leasing, and the other few small scenes are all ordinary, and it takes very little time and Funding can be found.

And behind-the-scenes production, which is far more tedious than finding actors and scenes.

This is an ordinary modern drama, can the actors bring their own costumes? If not, you can buy some cheap ones.

The photographer can be part-time by himself, as can the assistant director, art director, and screenwriter, which can save enough salary, but the props, lighting, makeup and other positions are still necessary, and they are lacking. If so, the difficulty of shooting will be greatly increased.

Especially the lighting engineer, which is directly related to the quality of the shot.

Makeup artists and props artists are also very important. The former is responsible for the makeup of the actors. In principle, actors without makeup cannot be photographed on camera. High-resolution photography opportunities can infinitely magnify a trivial defect; the latter also has a lot of work. , In particular, there will be many bloody scenes in the imagination, which require the assistance of props.

Murphy doesn't have the money to retouch with CG.

Thinking of this, Murphy found that the $300,000 that he had previously felt was a bit of a stretch was really tight, and he had to consider saving expenses when he made advance plans.

It is true that there are many professionals in this field in Hollywood, and there must be some unhappy people, but the poor people are also the people who need money the most. If they can't even pay the basic expenses, Murphy doesn't have to expect others to be willing to do it. He works.

This is a very realistic society. For others who have paid for their labor, he, the employer, must be paid a certain amount, rather than illusory ideals and promises.

"Ideal and promise?"

After repeating a sentence in his mouth, Murphy couldn't help but patted his forehead, thinking of where he could hire enough professional and cheap people.

There are many colleges in the Greater Los Angeles area that have majors related to film and television production. After graduation, most of the students start from the most basic jobs, and even many can only be interns in the advertising crew and can enter the film industry. The crew is often the lucky ones.

Pulling out his notebook, Murphy wrote "Interns" on it, which should reduce some behind-the-scenes career expenses.

In addition, he also needs to recruit a person to coordinate the chores of the crew. No matter how small the crew is, there will be a lot of chores and trivial matters, and a special person needs to be responsible.

This position can also find an intern or someone who is not very demanding about the salary.

For a whole day, Murphy was thinking about these. No one dared to guarantee that a film would be successful, but making adequate preparations would undoubtedly reduce the possibility of failure.

Shooting a movie is not something you want to shoot, and you can shoot it right away. Even if you invest in such a small project, you need to do a lot of work.

In the following two days, Murphy not only recorded all the items in his mind, but also wrote a planning book of more than ten pages. Although there are still many places to be revised, there is still time.

After completing all this initially, and making a backup on the computer, Murphy began to prepare the script. Among the many elements of a Hollywood film, the script is relatively unimportant, but it is also the basis for the production of a film.

And with the script, we can better carry out the formulation of the shot and shooting plan.

Murphy first wrote the script outline. All the content of this film can be simply summed up in one sentence - how a precocious little loli can drown out a strange uncle who has a pedophile!

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