Chapter 1081 The little actor’s test scores are more important than you think!
Under the "friendly", "cordial" and "equal" "negotiation" between Lin Fan and Liang Wen, Liang Wen reluctantly signed a series of treaties.
Including but not limited to completing the filming of a movie and a TV series every year, supervising the production progress of animated films, and assisting Lin Fan in completing corresponding work, etc.
How should I put it? These terms seem to be Liang Wen’s daily work, but once they are put on paper, Liang Wen always feels that something is a little bit wrong.
But Liang Wen couldn't tell what was wrong.
They originally wanted to tear up these contracts by taking advantage of their seniority, but they were interrupted by the Actors Guild and the staff of the Child Protection Association who came to inspect.
Yes, when filming abroad, people from the Actors Union will come from time to time to check on the filming crew to see if they have violated any relevant regulations.
And because the movie that Lin Fan and his team are currently shooting requires a large number of child actors, it has also received special attention from the Child Protection Association.
The staff of the Child Protection Association not only pays attention to the working status of these young actors, but also pays attention to their daily life and learning situation.
When using child actors to shoot film and television dramas, their studies must not be delayed. This is written into the child protection regulations.
If these regulations are violated, the Child Protection Association has the power to directly stop the entire filming. After being stopped for rectification, it is hard to say when the filming can be restarted.
Anyway, it is extremely troublesome and trivial. Even the locals cannot fully understand many regulations, let alone the crew from China like Lin Fan.
However, there are people who specialize in this industry and help the crew circumvent various rules and regulations. They can be hired as long as you pay.
Not only can they help the crew avoid various illegal activities, but they can also help the crew negotiate with local departments on various venues, special lenses, and other content required for filming.
For example, if you want to shoot near a famous metropolitan landmark on the blue planet, you need to negotiate with the relevant departments on the shooting time, lens range, whether people need to be included in the shot, etc.
The relevant departments will set up roadblocks at the location in advance to block the crowd and allow you to take pictures.
Otherwise, do you think you can just run up to someone else's landmark and start shooting with a camera?
All in all, it's almost like spending money to avoid disaster. It's better than being fined by a certain department in three to five days, ordered to suspend rectification, and delay the shooting progress.
After dealing with the staff from various trade unions and associations who came to inspect, Lin Fan had already entered a new round of filming. Liang Wen had to put his own affairs aside for the time being and get down to business.
I was so busy that I forgot about this matter.
Two months later, Lin Fan personally sent Liang Wen on a flight back home, and earnestly told him, "Director Liang, the domestic film depends entirely on you! I'm still a little short of progress here, I will finish the remaining shots as soon as possible, and then go back to support your work.
Alas, I thought that according to the previous progress, the film could be finished ahead of schedule. Who would have thought that the child actor did not do well in the exam, and the Child Protection Association thought that our filming tasks were too heavy, and insisted that we reduce the filming time by another half an hour? "
Speaking of this, Liang Wen was speechless: "How can we be blamed for this? We have been shooting very strictly according to the stipulated time, and even took the initiative to reduce the shooting time by half an hour every day so that the young actors can do their homework well!"
Lin Fan agreed deeply: "Who said it wasn't! I'm not saying that it's okay for the younger ones, but those few are fourteen or fifteen years old, and they can't even memorize the multiplication table. Isn't it their own fault that they have poor test scores?"
But what can we do?
The Child Protection Association determined that it was the crew's responsibility. Lin Fan and his team had no way to refute it, so they could only accept their fate and reduce the shooting time by another half an hour.
As a result, the shooting progress naturally slowed down.
Lin Fan looked at Liang Wen, Liang Wen looked at Lin Fan, and they sighed together: I never thought that one day, the reason for delaying the filming progress was that the young actor in the crew failed the exam! If this were told to others, it would be a joke.
But this joke came true, which is tragic.
Liang Wen forced himself to be brave: "Director Lin, you don't have to worry too much. I'm here to support you in China, so nothing will go wrong for a while. But here, we really can't have any more problems!"
If something happens again and they are ordered to reduce the shooting time, then this movie will really not be completed!
Every day of work costs a lot of money! Liang Wen has already foreseen that he will have to face an extremely anxious Yang Hongxia after returning to China, because this is the first movie in Lin Fan's history that has exceeded the budget.
It is conceivable how Yang Hongxia's mood fluctuated when she learned the news.
Lin Fan warned, "Director Liang, you have to help me explain to Sister Xia in person. I really didn't mean it. I didn't expect this to happen!"
Although Lin Fan enjoyed this "relaxed" shooting schedule at the beginning, when the shooting time was reduced by one hour every day and the budget was overspent, Lin Fan really lost his composure.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Even though Lin Fan didn't care much about the funding issue, he knew what overspending meant to a crew.
Even Yang Hongxia almost flew over overnight to check the accounts, but fortunately she was stopped by Lin Fan and Liang Wen.
Although Yang Hongxia didn't come in person, she called him every day without fail, and Lin Fan was so scared of answering the phone.
Liang Wen actually didn't want to go back and face Yang Hongxia alone, but there was no other way, as there was a movie waiting for him in China.
If you don't go back, every day wasted is money.
So Liang Wen could only bite the bullet and agree: "Director Lin, don't worry, I will explain it to Mr. Yang. But you have to pay more attention to your side."
Lin Fan nodded solemnly, and the two said goodbye to each other. Then, one of them boarded the flight back home with a heavy heart, while the other took heavy steps back to the crew.
It is an overspending, but we can’t not finish the film just because of the overspending, right?
The movie cannot be completed and cannot be released. This is not just a problem of overspending, but all the early investment has been wasted.
There is only one thing Lin Fan can do now, which is to advance the filming process as much as possible, finish the film, and then release it.
As long as the movie box office reaches expectations, the current overspending problem will no longer be a problem! By then, it should be able to offset Sister Xia's anger... right?
(End of this chapter)