Chapter 524

What can you do for an animated film in half a month?

Few, but also many!

Many prerequisites are that capital, manpower and resources are all in place, and a good helmsman holds the direction.

There is no shortage of funds for Xizi film industry, not to mention how much money Penguin animation network, 8 stations and Shanhai animation studio can use. Just knowing that Xizi film industry is going to start making animation films, investors from all walks of life will come in an endless stream. In this half month, if you are willing to eat all these investments, it will be more than the total funds of the cooperation projects reached by all parties of the whole Shanhai Animation Festival, which can exceed 300million conservatively!

What is the concept of 300million production cost?

In recent years, there are few animation films with high box office and good reputation in China, even if the publicity fee is included, there are not many more than 100 million.

The production cost of domestic large-scale animated films is basically maintained between 20million and 50million, and more than 30million accounts for a small proportion.

Push forward a few years, even less!

The animation film crew is so poor that all practitioners are used to it.

Take big fish for example. The reason why it took 12 years for a pigeon to really get on the big screen is not that the production cycle takes so long, but that most of the time is spent on all kinds of running around looking for investment.

The most interesting and ironic thing is that it took 12 years to produce big fish with 30million yuan, and then it was invested. The money spent on film publicity and distribution is far more than the production fee.

What does this mean?

It's not that Chinese filmmakers or investors have no vision, but that they are too special and poisonous. They don't scatter Eagles until the last step!

Why did you go?

People don't need to spend money to buy risks and bet on whether you can make money. After all, there are many types of Chinese films making money at present. I'm not an animation enthusiast. I won't fight with your dream at all.

Even animated films invest in projects like bears and sheep that are sure to make money.

Comparatively speaking, the reason why foreign animated films, especially Hollywood animated films, do well is that they dare to spend hundreds of millions of dollars or even hundreds of millions of dollars in production costs. It's true that they have a more mature film industry and technology, but they didn't have the courage to spend money at the beginning, and the film industry and technology will not be so good.

Of course, there are many reasons for the quality of the film.

However, if you have money, you can really solve many things, especially for Chinese animation films, money has solved many things.

For investors in the industry, Xizi film is one of the largest rabbits in the Chinese film market at present. Everyone wants to spread some eagles, even if they collect some hair. For money, making less money is also making money. The key is that there is a second time when there is a first time, and it is impossible to say that the second time is more.

For investors, the most important thing is the box office.

Where did the box office come from?

One is brought by people with box office appeal, and the other is brought by word of mouth.

Word of mouth is uncertain, but the box office appeal is accurate, otherwise there will be no such quality garbage, but find some actors or traffic with box office appeal to make a wave of money and leave. Don't think it's a small wave. It's quite high relative to the production cost.

There are too many components of box office appeal, such as traffic stars, feelings, filmmakers who have had good word-of-mouth movies, and so on.

Well, after some painful and embarrassing experience, the traffic star has gradually failed to deceive people. The number of people who pay IQ tax in movies is decreasing year by year.

However, the latter two are still very popular. Feelings have always been a big contributor to IQ tax, and good word-of-mouth filmmakers are a bit of a lottery. You really don't know whether the quality is good or bad if you don't go to the cinema, or you don't believe that the film rating must be seen before it is determined.

Xizi film, or Meng fan, is a combination of traffic and good reputation. When traffic reaches traffic, idols stand aside, and they have indeed produced good works - although they are not films, they can't stand the good reputation of previous works.

Not to mention anything else, after Xizi film's film was released, the enterprise announced that "we all owe iron God a movie ticket" can attract countless audiences.

What, Meng fan hasn't made a movie before?

Isn't his game better than the movie?

There is nothing wrong with this slogan!

Do you want all these self delivered investments in the end?

Of course not, but it's not good to have none.

First, the depth of this industry, even if the three joint and some issuing bosses have taken shares, they still can't shut out all investments; Second, Meng fan's original intention of establishing a film company is not all to make money. He is willing to share part of the profits to make the animation films produced by his company more smoothly in the production, distribution, release and expansion of influence.

At last, it absorbed almost 100 million investment and injected into the production costs of three animated films respectively.

Of course, in addition to the investors' own resources and platforms, the most important requirement of absorbing investment is that you are only responsible for investing money and can't intervene in other things. If you can't do this, no matter how much investment or how awesome the boss will refuse.

However, even so, the progress is still very slow, mainly because it is too difficult to build a team, or it is too difficult to build a team that matches such investment, let alone three.

After the establishment of Xizi film, both subordinate studios and brother strategic partner Shanhai studio have carried out a lot of recruitment. Now the subordinate studio, that is, Xizi animation studio, has more than 200 members, including 150 technical members, and the staff of Shanhai studio has also expanded to nearly 500, including other cooperative Studios and outsourcing studios, There are more than 1000 practitioners serving Xizi film industry.

In fact, most of the time in the past half month has been spent on team building. It can even be said that the main energy in the next few months will still be on this.

"No hurry!"

Meng fan also knew the difficulties, and said at the meeting with the person in charge, "although you can do things at your own pace, you can even slow down the pace appropriately. You don't have to worry about other things, but there will be administrative personnel to coordinate. The three animation works are important, but in my opinion, the more important thing is to polish a qualified team through these three animations“

"In addition, there is one more thing I have to say. One thing I decided on a long time ago. My" strange man of mountains and seas " Animation has been approved by neon. According to the contract, I can deploy a team to neon to participate in the production. The first phase will last about one to two months. Originally, this team was also determined to be drawn from Shanhai animation studio. Now it can give part of the quota to Xizi animation. It is an opportunity to work with the top animation production team of neon, and now the task of film production is relatively heavy. How to coordinate you to decide, and then give me the list. The cooperation with Pixar in two months is similar to this model. “

”In a word, team building is the top priority, and we must grasp it well. “