Chapter 504

They found a cafe, muying ordered two cups of coffee, and could not wait to ask Xiao Yao: "what kind of long films? What type? Who is the investor? What's the budget? What about the cast? Do you think we should make our own scripts, based on novels or original scripts? "

"Don't be so excited." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "I don't have any formed projects on hand. I just have the idea of making a long film. It's far from perfect."

"Ah? Just an idea? " After listening to Xiao Yao's words, muying calmed down a lot, but she was still very interested and asked, "what do you think, please tell me in detail."

"Well, in short, I want to make long films. I don't think I can handle it alone, so I want to join you. I've decided on the type of movie. I'll make action movies that you're good at. " Xiao Yaodao.

"Action movies? Costume kung fu movie? Or modern police and bandit films? " Asked Mu Ying.

"When it comes to Chinese action movies, people think of kung fu movies, which are boring." Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "I want to make an action movie related to a new sport." Xiao Yaodao.

"The emerging movement?" Mu Ying said curiously, "what is it?"

"Parkour, have you ever heard of it?" Xiao Yao said directly.

"I've heard of it," Mu Ying nodded. "It's really a new sport. It's only in recent years that it's becoming popular. I've seen people play it in Los Angeles."

"Well, we'll take this one," Xiao Yao said. "It's a street and community sport. There's no formal competition yet. We don't take the competition either. We just take the story of the street and the story of the people who play Parkour."

Since bringing Parkour to the world, Xiao Yao has been thinking about making a movie related to Parkour one day. As Parkour has become more and more popular in recent years, Xiao Yao's desire has become stronger and stronger.

Xiao Yao wants to make Parkour movies, but he not only wants to be his own director, but also wants to be his own star. Through the experience of that short film, Xiao Yao found that it was quite difficult to direct and play a film by himself. He can't give his grandfather Xiao chengrula a guest role as an executive director, and he can't simply give the power to the photographer. He needs a really competent executive director. If there is no suitable executive director, it is acceptable for him to step back and co direct with others.

This time I met Mu Ying in the film festival, which is the most suitable person in Xiao Yao's mind. First of all, he is professional enough. He graduated from the Directing Department of Yandian university with a bachelor's degree and is studying for a master's degree in the Directing Department of Nanjing University.

Secondly, he is young. Although he is nearly ten years older than himself, he is basically a fledgling boy among directors. Young means that he has a high degree of acceptance of this new thing. Although Mu Ying has only experience in advertising and short films, she has no experience as a film director. His relatively shallow qualifications also enable him to have a better attitude to cooperate with his 20-year-old rookie. The kind of successful film director, who is willing to let himself lead the shooting of a film, to give his real hairy boy a hand?

Finally, he himself has some ideas about action movies. What he is good at is this type. His study experience in Los Angeles also makes him familiar with Hollywood commercial movies. Xiao Yao doesn't want to make a literary and artistic movie. What he wants to do is action movies. He has the pursuit of commercial interests.

"That sounds good," said muying. "But what about the money? This kind of movement is still relatively new. It's hard to say how many audiences it can have and what the market prospect is. So this theme is very risky. I'm afraid it's hard to find people who are willing to invest in it? Are you going to let your studio invest in your film on its own? "

"And the actors," muying continued, "although you are famous, your reputation is in music. I know many singers in China want to sing the songs you write. But in the film industry, you are still a pure rookie, will anyone dare to take risks in your film? Even if you find a group of relatives and friends like this short film, how many people can do Parkour? Your mother, your grandfather and teacher Lin Shaohua will not talk about it. They are definitely not suitable for leading roles. How long will Huang Shi and Su Chengying have to practice to make those moves? I think Cheng Xi, who was born as a dancer, might have relied on some music. "

"No, neither of the two points you said is in my mind." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "in terms of actors, I plan to let the most senior Parkour personages play the leading role, and the supporting roles should also be the people who play well in parkour. In this aspect, we have to ensure that we are professional, so that we can have enough space to play in the action design."

"The most senior Parkour person?" Muying said, "are you looking for people who specialize in parkour? Let's not say whether people are willing to come, but is there any guarantee for such a person's acting skills? A movie can't be all action drama, isn't it? "

"Of course, there is a guarantee," Xiao Yao said. "I dare not say that at least three leading roles will be professional actors."

"Professional actor, or senior Parkour player, who?" Muying said, "is there such a person?"

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, pointed to his nose and said, "I!"

"You?" Mu Ying surprised way, "you can also run cool?""Not just will, not just me." Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone and opened the yrf Parkour video on the PV. He asked Mu Ying, "do you know yrf?"

"Yes," Mu Ying nodded, "I've heard people who play Parkour say that it's the first group in the world to play Parkour. They invented Parkour."

"Yes," Xiao Yao said, handing the phone to Mu Ying. "This is the Parkour video of yrf. Yrf refers to me, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei. This group was created when we filmed "Ling Yunzhi" together. Zhao Rui and Xu Fei, you should know that although they are young, they are also professional actors with rich acting experience. Do you think it would be a problem for me to invite Zhao Rui and Xu Fei to play in a movie with me? "

"This... This is really you guys!" Muying took the phone and looked at it. Although none of the people in the video have ever faced the camera head-on, they can't see their faces, but when they go to see them with purpose at Xiao Yao's tips, we can still find that the shape and figure of these people are very similar to those of Xiao Yao and the three of them.

"In fact, I have met other Parkour players," Xiao Yao said. "From the contact with them, I found that we three still have a certain position in the hearts of Parkour fans. If we send a notice about making Parkour movies directly through the account of yrf team on this PV, we will invite Parkour fans who have acting experience or want to participate in the movie shooting to audition for other main characters in the movie. Do you think anyone will respond? Chinese people are the leading role, and European and American people are the supporting roles. It's very interesting to match the actors. "

"Also," Xiao Yao continued, "as for capital, I don't plan to find film companies or enterprises as investors to avoid restrictions. We make independent movies and play by ourselves. In addition to the two of us, I plan to let Zhao Rui and Xu Fei participate in the film investment in their own name. "

"According to you, there should be no problem with the actors. But in terms of funds, although I don't know how much money you three young stars have now, I doubt whether it is enough to rely on the four of us? " Mu Ying handed the mobile phone back to Xiao Yao, frowning and saying, "I'm a poor student. It costs a lot to make this short film. I don't have much savings."

"It may not be enough." Xiao Yao nodded and frowned.

Xiao Yao is not very clear about Zhao Rui and Xu Fei's property status, but it is estimated that they can not afford to invest in a film. Although he has several sources of income, the ongoing animated film also needs his continuous investment. It seems that he doesn't have much spare money to start another film project.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao slapped and said, "we can also play crowdfunding!"

Both in the past and in the world, crowdfunding has been used to raise funds for projects. When Xiao Yao didn't plan to use his parents' Studio's money and he didn't have enough money, he thought of this relatively open method of raising funds.

"Crowdfunding?" Mu Ying is puzzled, "with whom to raise money?"

"We still use the yrf channel of PV to launch crowdfunding in the name of yrf to all Parkour fans all over the world." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "as a Parkour fan, I participated in the world's first Parkour related movie. When the movie is released, I can point to the screen with my friends and relatives and say," I also have an investment in this movie. What's that feeling? "

"Although I'm not a Parkour fan, I can imagine that feeling will be cool!" Mu Ying nodded with a smile. Compared with the general crowd funding projects, this project has a natural advantage.

"You're not a Parkour fan? That's not going to work Xiao Yao shook his head with a smile and said, "I still need you to finish the script of this movie with me. Although crowdfunding to Parkour fans seems easier, we also have to make our project ideas to the extent that they can be displayed according to the rules. We can't just let Parkour fans pay with the name of yrf. We have to get some dry goods

Xiao Yao's most impressive movies about Parkour in his previous life are "enterprise warrior" and "District 13 of violence".

Xiao Yao thinks it's a little early to play "violence 13" at his age, and "violence 13" has Parkour action style. In essence, it's a police and bandit action movie, which is not suitable for the first movie to promote Parkour. Moreover, there are only two main characters in this movie, and Xiao Yao doesn't want to put Zhao Ruihe in the world's first Parkour movie Xu Fei, the two little friends of yrf, fell down.

Relatively speaking, parkour team as the protagonist of "enterprise warrior" is more appropriate, but Xiao Yao did not intend to copy the previous life of "enterprise warrior". Maybe it's some kind of emotion. First of all, Xiao Yao is not happy with the Japanese name. What's more important is that the plot of the film is weak, including stealing in order to save lives, and the police threatening doctors with guns in order to save lives. In China, the plot can not be tried. He doesn't want this movie to be unable to be shown in China or cut by radio and television.

Therefore, Xiao Yao only plans to learn from the setting that the protagonist of the film is a team, and the specific plot should be redesigned. Xiao Yao doesn't want to spend his mind alone in the creation of this original script, so he naturally wants to join Mu Ying. After returning home to inform Zhao Rui and Xu Fei of the project, Xiao Yao also plans to let them join in the writing of the script and work together."It's OK to write scripts together, but I listen to you. Do you want me to learn Parkour?" Mu Ying said with a smile, "I'm not you. Can you learn from me? Besides, I can't learn just by watching videos. I'm going back to the United States after the film festival. Can you teach me in the United States? "

"Bah, you are less than thirty. How dare you say you are old in arms and legs?" Xiao Yao rolled his eyes and said, "in fact, I originally wanted you to know more about it, but I don't have to learn to play. But since you say that, I really want you to experience it. Aren't you in Los Angeles? I happen to know someone from a Parkour team in Los Angeles. Their leader is Nathan Donal. This is his phone number. When you go back to Los Angeles and contact him, when they have Parkour activities, you can feel them together. I'll say hello to him and let them teach you well. " With that, Xiao Yao sent the contact information of Nathan Donal on her mobile phone to muying's mobile phone.

"You know the Parkour team in Los Angeles?" Mu Ying stares.

"Of course," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "I said that the name yrf has a certain weight among Parkour fans. They also named me "Yuan Lao Yang". I asked them to teach you how to play parkour, and they won't refuse. "

"Er... Well, I'll try my best to learn that." Muying wry smile, changed the topic and said, "let's discuss the script first. After all, only when the script is finished can we make the budget for the production cost of the film, start crowdfunding, and set up the project. Do you have any preliminary framework? "

"My initial idea now is that the protagonist should be a team, not only me and Zhao Rui and Xu Fei, but also five to seven people with their own unique personalities and different family backgrounds." Xiao Yao began to describe his idea and said, "there should be at least one girl in the team, which can tell everyone that girls can also play Parkour. As for the plot, I haven't worked out the details yet. I think it should be a process from showing off Parkour to helping others with Parkour....