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Chapter 42 The Finalization and Late Stage of the Movie

For Yan Jinbao, he could leave after the talk, but Chen Ping, Li Jupeng and Lefeng were still in the private room. Li Jupeng raised his wine glass again and said happily: "Celebrating our successful win of the first cooperative theater!"

"cheers!"

Chen Ping and Le Feng also raised their glasses and touched each other, drank them all, and then Chen Ping picked up the glasses and said to Le Feng: "This time I would like to thank Director Youle for staying here so smoothly. To express my gratitude, I will treat you with a glass on behalf of all the creators of our movies."

Le Feng waved his hand and said, "Chen Ping, you are so kind. You are all Qingyun's friends. Don't call me Director so disgusted. You all call my name Le Feng."

Le Feng said as he drank Chen Pingjing's glass of wine, and then continued: "Actually, I haven't done much effort. The main reason is that you have the means to offer a subsidy of 60% of the attendance rate. You are really brave! But this is the first time, so you shouldn't do this again in the future. I am from the media system, so I have also conducted surveys on theaters. The speed of online piracy is too fast, and it has seized many markets in theaters. Even this New Century Cinema, which occupies Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, in the prime time, if it is not a particularly hot blockbuster, it will only have an attendance rate of about 50% and 60%. If it is other cinemas, it will generally have an attendance rate of about 40%.

Of course, Chen Ping knew what Lefeng meant, so he said: "Thank you, Director Le... Oh no, it was Brother Lefeng's reminder. We will definitely keep our teachings in mind next time."

Regarding Chen Ping's sensibility, Le Feng nodded with satisfaction and said, "That's it. I'll leave first. It's almost July 1st. The Propaganda Department will add a lot of tasks, so in the future, you can deal with it yourself when contacting other small and medium-sized theaters."

"That's of course," said Chen Ping, "I'm very embarrassed to bother Brother Le Feng these two times."

"It doesn't matter, this is all helping Qingyun! I just think it's a free meal anyway."

Le Feng said this, then walked out of the box. After Le Feng left, Li Jupeng curled his lips disdainfully and said, "This guy still treats himself as a character."

"There is no way. He is also a deputy department-level leader. It is not easy to talk to us without using airs. You should know that in the officialdom, let alone such deputy department-level, even those small department-level departments and departments are all people who look at people with their nostrils." Chen Ping sighed and continued, "Okay, let's not talk about him anymore. No matter how he says he is Qingyun's brother. He can do whatever he likes. Anyway, it won't bother us. Ju Peng, you, as soon as you open your mouth, will give you a 40% occupancy rate subsidy, and then you mention 60% without blinking, but you will be regarded as a sucker."

Li Jupeng said: "What's wrong with 60%? After the movie is released, let's see how I earned back the capital and profit!"

Chen Ping laughed and said, "Why do you seem to have more confidence than me?"

"Of course!" Li Jupeng said with a certain expression, "Chen Ping, your boss's idea has always been to grab money, so where can you lose money? So in my opinion, let alone 60% of the time, I think there is no problem with 70% or 80%."

"It's already painful to issue a subsidy of 60% of the attendance rate. You actually thought of 70% or 80% of it. I have to say that you really have the potential to be a sucker," said Chen Ping.

Li Jupeng smiled without being ashamed of this.

After opening the door to the first theater, other small and medium theaters will be easy to deal with. Of course, Li Jupeng and Chen Ping did not insist on screenings in every theater. They just chose cinemas with mostly white-collar workers born in the 1980s and slightly better environment and geographical location for negotiations.

As for the negotiation method, Li Jupeng also used subsidized screenings to make all the screening time of the movie to the prime time of the night. However, due to the geographical location of these small and medium-sized theaters, Li Jupeng is not a real fool, so he could not also give a subsidy of 60% of the attendance rate, but only gives no more than 40% of the subsidy. However, for these small and medium-sized theaters that are struggling on the survival line, it is already a rainfall from the sky. You must know that the usual prime time of these small and medium-sized theaters, without blockbuster movies, is only about 30% of the attendance rate.

Because of this, these small and medium-sized cinemas have agreed quickly. Of course, other conditions are the same as New Century Cinemas. After receiving the movie screening subsidy, the cinemas no longer share the movie box office with a penny.

On this side, Chen Ping and Li Jupeng were using money to open the doors of each theater. On the other side, Le Qingyun was not idle at the filming scene of the movie. Because Chen Ping did not deliberately hide it from her, she knew very well how Chen Ping helped her get the screening rights of the theater. She also knew that the reason why the theaters showed her movies was to get subsidies that were higher than their average attendance rate.

Le Qingyun is also a very strong woman. Since everyone is not optimistic about this movie, Chen Ping has worked hard for this movie and her, so she must work harder.

She was familiar with the script, in order to make the film show the best effect, she even snatched the work of being a producer, director and executive director, and taught the actors to move their faces and stimulate the brewing of emotions on the spot. Every time she finished filming, she would drive the director away and sit in front of the monitor and watch repeatedly. As long as there was something unsatisfactory, she would immediately ask for a reshoot. The entire crew complained about this, but everyone understood that her relationship with the investment boss was not ordinary, so no one dared to contradict her. As for the investors who came to make small reports, no one dared to do so. After all, what small reports could be bigger than the pillow style? If this girl who looked pretty and looks pretty, everyone would be unemployed, and I am afraid that even the director would be fired.

Of course, Chen Ping felt sorry for Le Qingyun. Every time she came to the crew, she would ask her to take care of things less. As long as the script was here and the movie was not filmed too badly, there was no need to worry about the box office. However, Le Qingyun promised well in front of Chen Ping, but when Chen Ping was away, she still did whatever she should do. Chen Ping had no choice.

Fortunately, the filming time of this movie was not long. In just over half a month, all the scenes were shot. After the filming was completed, the rest were the editing, dubbing and making movie music.

Perhaps for ordinary people, filming movies is a lot of time, but in fact, many movies are spent on post-production editing and production, but the real shooting time is not too much. I won’t talk about big-time science fiction movies like Transformers and Avatar. It’s just this movie “The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years” that has no special effects, and its post-production is also very complicated.

Under the supervision of Le Qingyun, this movie was shot for fifteen hours without considering those repeated close-up shots. The post-production of the movie was to screen these fifteen hours of shots one by one, and finally edited into a movie with only one and a half to two hours.

In addition to these editing, there are also narration dubbing and music production of the movie, which are also a long-lasting problem.

Chen Ping's decision for these is very simple, which is to spend money, find the best film and music production company, and find the best recording studio to record. In the international metropolis of Shanghai, as long as you have money, you will lack anything, but Chen Ping is short of everything, but you don't lack money.

Therefore, under Chen Ping's money offensive, when the film editing work was not completed, other supporting work was already in full swing.
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