Chapter 1358 1460. Achieving cooperation

Chapter 1358 1460. Achieving cooperation

Adapting real events requires the consent of the person involved. The most famous one is "Saving Mr. Me". The person involved couldn't help but agree, and the crew even roped in the person involved to make the movie.

Nie Wei is not looking for Captain Liu to star in a movie, but whether the other party agrees or not is the key to adapting this incident into a movie.

Captain Liu agreed without thinking for long.

However, he also made a request, that is, not to exaggerate his image too much. In Captain Liu's view, the smooth landing of the plane was not due to him alone, but to the entire crew.

"Don't worry about this, and I'm about to tell you something. Aren't you and your crew colleagues just taking a break recently? We want to hire you as the consultant team for this movie, from the script to the scene. When shooting, I hope to restore the accident itself as much as possible without exaggerating or derogating anyone.”

Captain Liu was a little surprised by Nie Wei's invitation, and he hurriedly refused: "I don't know the script, and I don't know how to make a movie. There is no need for consultants. If you don't know anything, call me and ask me. Just fine.”

But Nie Wei insisted on asking Captain Liu to serve as an advisor along with him, and gave his own reasons.

"In fact, we don't understand many things. We may spend money to build an identical aircraft model and create an identical cockpit, but we cannot restore the operations you performed at that time with our imagination, because this is What we don’t understand.”

"As a consultant, you actually only need to guide us on what happened at that time and what you did. It is what you have personally experienced, but you need something more detailed and detailed."

"As for the specific remuneration of consultants, we will settle the settlement based on twice your salary standard. How much time will be delayed for you, we will pay you according to this standard. As for the possibility of a business trip, the travel, food and accommodation expenses should naturally be borne by our company. to bear"

"The money is no longer needed..."

"Why do you think so, Captain Liu, this is the fruit of your labor, just like an airline hires you to fly a plane and always pays you wages. We are temporarily hiring you to work for us. We are already The remuneration should be paid to you, and if you don’t take it, do the other colleagues on the crew also have to take it?”

"Captain Liu, I think you need to change your concept. This is a business cooperation, and we shouldn't involve too many personal feelings. We should really learn from foreigners in this regard. Friendship is friendship, and transactions are transactions. So you must get this salary," Nie Wei advised.

Captain Liu opened his mouth, but in the end he still couldn't say any more words to refuse.

It is true that he does not need this money, but he must consider his colleagues. If he takes the lead and refuses to take the money, his colleagues will be embarrassed to take the money, which will not be good.

Seeing that Captain Liu agreed, Nie Wei smiled and said: "Captain Liu, I want you to contact your colleagues on the crew. What I mentioned just now is only a temporary remuneration. If you have any objections, you can raise it again. We continue to negotiate.”

"Okay then, leave it to me, my colleague." Captain Liu agreed.

After Nie Wei hung up the phone with Captain Liu, she immediately called the company and asked them to send someone to contact Sichuan-Shu Airlines, Sichuan-Chongqing Airlines and Nikko Airlines.

These three companies are the three major airports involved in this incident. Nie Wei needs to obtain the consent of each other to strive for on-site filming.

After receiving the news, the executives of the three major airports immediately formed a team and rushed to the mountain city. For them, this is definitely good news. For many Chinese movie fans, Nie Wei's movie is almost a myth. Just like the original JAY, every new album will have countless fans wanting to buy it even if they haven't tried it.

The same is true for Nie Wei's movie. As long as the news is released, it will definitely become the most anticipated movie by the audience. As long as the movie is popular, it will also be equivalent to free advertising for the three major airports.

This is better than the hundreds of millions of dollars invested in advertising every year, so no one is willing to be absent and hopes to promote this matter.

There are two main points that need to be discussed specifically.

One is to open the airports. Nie Wei hopes that several airports can cooperate with the filming of the film as much as possible. If possible, the filming will be done in the places where the filming can be done on-site.

Another point is to open up the aircraft involved so that the prop team can completely restore the aircraft, as well as the layout of the tower, etc., as much as possible.

Several airlines agreed to the two conditions after a short discussion.

After all, everyone is a civil aviation company, so there is nothing to keep secret. The aircraft is not an important secret like the J20, it is just a common Airbus aircraft. Even if the airline does not cooperate, if you want to come to Fanxing, you can find a company that is willing to provide aircraft prototypes.

As for the tower, it is indeed mysterious to ordinary people.

But in fact, many TV stations and media have visited this place. After this incident, a reporter from China Television came to interview. So as long as there are staff accompanying the person and the person involved does not touch the machine randomly, there is no harm in visiting. of.

Several airlines even discussed it and actively proposed the idea of ​​letting company employees cooperate with the crew in filming.

"This is really great. To be honest, I still have a headache about where to find so many professionals, such as ground staff and paramedics. If there are professionals to cooperate, I believe that the final presentation of this movie will definitely be more perfect." Nie Wei naturally accepted this idea.

The problem of group performances has always been a difficult problem for the crew. I don't know how many shocking shots in TV series and movies are caused by group performances. These guys often have problems because of their large number of people and the director's own carelessness.

For example, in a costume drama, the guards standing guard in armor actually wear electronic watches and black sneakers. The director didn't notice it, but the sharp-eyed netizens did. They all laughed at the TV series and said that the real protagonist of the TV series was actually this guard because he was a time traveler.

There are many similar examples, just because the quality of group performances is uneven.

If the airline can provide professionals to cooperate, then at least in this regard, it has added points to the movie that Nie Wei wants to shoot.

The airline's willingness to cooperate in this way is naturally conditional, and the most important of them is naturally their logo, which is the so-called advertising.

"You can advertise, but we have to make it natural. We will use aerial photography to shoot at three airports. The uniforms worn by the actors will also be made based on your company's uniforms. In addition, we will not deliberately erase the logos that should exist in the aircraft."

"That's enough, thank you director." Hearing Nie Wei's promise, the executives of the airline were very happy.

They also knew that other people's movies could not be used as their own company's advertising films, but being able to have certain shots, as well as content such as uniforms, slogans, and videos that can promote the company, is already a very good condition for them.

You should know that in "Transformers 4", a dairy company spent tens of millions for a shot of less than three seconds.

Nie Wei's movies are more popular in China than Hollywood blockbusters. Appearing in such a movie with the name of the actual company is definitely a great promotion for the airline, which is also one of the main reasons why they are willing to fully cooperate with Nie Wei's filming.

And after getting the news, the higher-ups actually support this movie very much.

After all, this is a very positive propaganda. This society needs these positive heroes as role models. This can be seen from the box office and ratings of mainstream movies and TV series in recent years.

The cooperation negotiations went smoothly. In less than three days, all the conditions were finalized.

As for hiring Captain Liu and all the crew members as the crew advisory group this time, Sichuan Airlines immediately agreed.

When all the cooperation conditions were negotiated, the project was just started.

The Fanxing Film Department was very excited, because this was the first time that Nie Wei made a movie as a Fanxing director. The staff of the department were like a fire burning in their hearts, and they were using 120% enthusiasm no matter what they did.

After all, this was the first time that Nie Wei shot a movie as a Fanxing director, and they were also competing with Huayi.

Before this, all of Nie Wei's movies were shot at Huayi. Many people in the industry said that Nie Wei's film team at Huayi was the best and cooperated best with Nie Wei.

But the people of Fanxing were not convinced.

They felt that they would definitely not do worse than that group of people, but they just had no chance to work with Nie Wei. For this reason, the staff of the Fanxing Film Department could not help complaining every time when Nie Wei's new movie started shooting, complaining why Nie Wei chose Huayi again.

They wanted to prove themselves in their hearts, to prove that they could also make world-class movies with Nie Wei.

Now that the opportunity has finally come, everyone is so excited that their enthusiasm for work is naturally very high, especially those young people who have just joined the company. They are so excited that they are almost insomniac. After all, this is a collaboration with the world's top directors, and it will definitely become a glorious part of their work resume in the future.

After Nie Wei returned to Fanxing Company, he immediately put forward two requirements.

The first point is to have a one-to-one scale aircraft, and this prop must be able to swing left and right, bump, etc., and the cockpit must also be restored one-to-one.

"I remember that airlines use the technology of simulating cockpits to train pilots, and they use mobile brackets to simulate various situations encountered by aircraft. We can try to customize one, but the cost will be very expensive." Someone suggested.

"You go and negotiate the price, my requirement is to strive for the word 'real'." Nie Wei made the decision.

The next day, Nie Wei wanted to build a tower studio. Of course, this does not need to be restored one-to-one, but only the layout of the tower inside. After all, the tower of Sichuan Airport is 90 meters high. If it is restored one-to-one, the cost will be too high.

The crew only needs to restore the interior decoration and equipment.

At that time, it only needs to take a few shots outside and in the air of the tower of Sichuan Airlines, and then the camera will directly cut to the internal scene arranged by the crew. The audience will subconsciously think that this is in the real tower.

Then use this kind of external real framing, and then switch to the tower set by the crew, over and over again. This is a very famous editing technique in the movie, called montage.

To put it bluntly, it is to make the audience preconceived and create an illusion. In fact, the shooting location and the previous shooting location are not the same scene, but two completely different places.

Nie Wei proposed these two points, which are the biggest budget for this shooting. The rest are the actors' salaries, costumes and some minor props, and then the travel expenses, meals, insurance fees, etc. of the entire crew, which is very cumbersome.

The director does not care about these things, and all of them are the responsibility of the producer.

Shu Chang went to film, so it was naturally impossible for her to be a producer for Nie Wei, so this position was finally taken by Wei Qiong, who was the producer who worked with Nie Wei in "Fantastic Beasts 2".

Wei Qiong was in charge of the crew preparation, but Nie Wei was also busy, and he had to personally handle the script this time.

During this period, Captain Liu and his colleagues will also assist Nie Wei as a consultant group, providing necessary data to help restore the scene.

For this job, the captain and the flight attendants like it very much.

Not only is it relaxing, but they can also get double the salary and travel to Kyoto. In the past few days, except for the half-day meeting on the first day, Nie Wei and everyone had no work for the rest of the time. Fanxing Group also specially arranged a tour guide and a minibus to take them to various major attractions in Kyoto and eat all kinds of special foods.

Nie Wei was busy writing the script, and Fanxing was also fully preparing the crew. With such a big move, even if Fanxing did not actively promote it, some people still found out about Nie Wei's next plan.

Many actors in the circle were immediately tempted.

You must know that in order to gain a foothold in Hollywood, Nie Wei's movies mostly catered to North American audiences, even if a lot of Chinese elements were secretly inserted, but there were not many opportunities for Chinese actors.

And every time Nie Wei would specify the main role, he would appoint actors, and there were only a few, either Zhang Ziyi or Li Binbin, and everyone had no chance to compete.

But this time it was different. Nie Wei was going to shoot a Chinese-themed movie, and the actors used in it were naturally all Chinese. So many roles, for the actors, this was obviously telling them that the opportunity had come!

While many actors in the circle were trying to find out about Nie Wei's new movie, Wang Zhonglei was in a bad mood, because this year Nie Wei had three new TV series and a movie, but they were all handed over to Fanxing Company for production, and Huayi didn't even get a single work.