The project "Know or Not, It Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin" was launched, the crew framework was put together, and preliminary preparations began.

There is a lot of work to be done in the early preparations. It is very tedious to form a crew, finalize investment, contact the Fuhua Road team, and contact actors.

Moreover, every link requires meetings and discussions to find the best solution.

The investment for this drama is handled by Qiao Yinghong and Ark Culture’s film and television investment department, but the specific figures require Fang Xing to give a general direction.

"Boss, how much do you plan to invest in this new drama?" Qiao Yinghong actually has a rough figure in mind, but this time it is not Fang Xing who will take the director himself, but Zhang Yigao and Wang Yutao. Whether the investment needs to be cautious is a question.

Fang Xing thought for a moment and replied: "It is expected to invest 200 million. If the cost cannot be controlled later, we can add an additional 50 million."

When Qiao Yinghong heard this number, even though she was prepared, she still raised her eyebrows.

If this drama really invests 200 million, it will be the TV drama with the second highest investment from Ark Culture.

Ark Culture already has many popular TV dramas. If someone compiles the investment list of Ark Culture's hit dramas, they will find that for so many hit dramas, most of the investments are not high.

The one with the highest investment is "Cyclonus", with an investment of 300 million.

Next up is the new drama "Do you know, it should be green, fat, red and thin". Currently, it is planned to invest 200 million.

One of the reasons why the investment in "Know or Not, It Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin" is so high is that it plans to shoot 73 episodes.

With the same quality and the same shooting method, the more episodes there are, the higher the shooting cost will be.

Without 200 million, it would be really difficult to take pictures.

Qiao Yinghong got the approximate figure and then asked: "In this new drama, are we the main investor? Or is it Dora Film and Television Company's investment?"

A TV series often has many investors.

Even film and television companies that often produce hit dramas will invest as much as possible to spread risks.

At the same time, resources can also be exchanged from investors.

During the filming process, investors can be asked to help contact the actors.

After the TV series is produced, investors will help promote it and help it pass the review process.

Fang Xing thought for a moment and replied: "Guarantee that our investment amount is higher than 60%, and you can decide the rest."

"Okay, I'll ask the film and television investment department to work overtime for a few days to calculate the investment budget." Qiao Yinghong asked for the general direction. The next step is the work of the company's film and television investment department.

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After the investment budget is available, the project can be advanced.

Different budgets require different sizes of crews.

With an investment of 200 million, when calculating the budget, the actors' remuneration is set aside first, then the budget required for the filming of 73 episodes, and then the choice of Fu Huadao and other teams.

For a TV series, there will be a rough figure for how much each link costs and how much it accounts for in the total investment.

Then based on the budget figures, find the best team within the price range.

There is a huge difference between the effect of a service with a budget of 30 million and the effect of a service with a budget of 10 million.

After the budget table was made, Qiao Yinghong saw the numbers in the budget table and contacted the Fuhua Dao team who had worked with "Nirvana in Fire" before.

Wang Yutao will communicate the specific details with the Fu Huadao team.

With the recommendation of preliminary preparation.

Fang Xing gave the complete script to the company's screenwriting team for further polishing. The general direction was not changed, but the details were mainly polished.

Zhang Yigao and Wang Yutao were busy reading the script and then discussing the splitting script.

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The investment from Qiao Yinghong has not yet been negotiated, and the project is about to advance to casting.

The reason for this is mainly because Ark Culture invests in its own dramas and basically takes the majority share.

If no film and television investment company is willing to invest, then there is no problem in being a sole proprietorship of your own company.

As soon as the news about Ark Culture launching a new project spread in the industry, the calls from the film and television investment department never stopped.

Although this time it is not directed by Fang Xing himself but by Zhang Yigao and Wang Yutao, film and television investment companies in the industry are still flocking to it.

In fact.

Now even if Fang Xing doesn't participate, Zhang Yigao's name is enough to attract big investments.

In the film and television industry, Ark Culture’s projects have always been high-quality projects.

Moreover, not everyone can invest in the Ark Culture project.

As soon as the news was released, major TV stations, major video websites, and entertainment giants all wanted to invest.

In the end, after the competition, a large company can get an investment quota of 10 million, which is considered a lot.

While Fang Xing was still typing up the script, he successively received dinner invitations from Wei Shurong, Jiang Minghe, Gong Jianbin, Zhang Changfeng, Li Xueying, Tong Fei, and a large number of film and television industry CEOs and TV station directors.

Some want to invest, some want to recommend actors, and some want to broadcast new dramas exclusively.

The most fierce competition is undoubtedly Gong Jianbin and Li Xueying.

One is the president and chairman of Wandou Video, and the other is the president of Penguin Video.

Since Li Xueying was promoted to the president of Penguin Video, her first strategic direction is to strengthen cooperation with Ark Culture.

Even during the two years when Fang Xing took a break, the cooperation was very close.

Gong Jianbin relied on Fang Xing's advantage as the second largest shareholder of Wandou Video to defeat Penguin Video several times. The competition between the two websites' video platform Yi Ge has become fierce.

Every time Penguin Video spends money to buy popular dramas and wants to stabilize its position as the top brother, Wandou Video can always produce one or two dramas to close the gap.

At the beginning of this year, "Dark Ones 2" once allowed the number of active VIP users of Wandou Video to exceed that of Penguin Video.

Now, Fang Xing is about to star in a new drama, and he is back to produce a TV series after achieving great success on the big screen.

Although this new drama "Know or Not, It Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin" was not directed by Fang Xing himself, but was co-directed by Zhang Yigao and Wang Yutao.

However, in the investment plan, Fang Xing's position in the new drama project is supervisory producer.

If you are a producer, you are basically only responsible for managing money, but a supervisor is different and also plays a role in controlling the content of the series.

On Earth, there are also examples of supervisors controlling the filming of TV series.

For example, in the martial arts dramas shot by Zhang Dabeard, he actually served as the producer and supervisor, and he hired a director to film them. However, he participated in the filming more. When the TV series was filmed, it was basically his work, and he also promoted it.

Bring the crew to promote the show.

If it were the Golden Age of Hong Kong, most TV dramas would be produced by supervisors.

Therefore, although Fang Xing is not the director of "You Know or Not, It Should Be Green, Fat, Red, and Thin", to the film and television investment company, there is not much difference from Fang Xing directing it himself.

This means that Ark Culture does not need to attract investment at all, and the investment will automatically come to your doorstep.

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After the investment was finalized, Ark Culture announced the plan for the new drama "You know, you know, it should be green, fat, red and thin" and publicly released an audition invitation.

All of a sudden, actor resumes from major entertainment companies and agencies came in like snowflakes, filling the production office with a pile of stuff.

Moreover, this time it was not just TV actors and actresses who submitted their resumes, but also many movie actors.

Even though this project is a TV series, this is a good opportunity to get to know Fang Xing.

Now Fang Xing is not just a TV series director, he has successfully conquered the big screen, become a movie director, and won the box office championship this summer.

"Crazy Stone" has an investment of 80 million yuan, an unknown starring role, a box office of 2.4 billion yuan, and a box office/investment ratio of 30 times.

This is a miracle for the film industry.

This kind of dazzling box office performance, even the long-famous director Lee Ke-sin, has to sincerely admire it.

Now, preparations for Fang Xing's new drama have begun.

For movie actors, if they can rely on this drama to get to know Fang Xing and gain Fang Xing's approval, they might have the opportunity to star in one of Fang Xing's movies.

This kind of opportunity may be something you will never get in your lifetime.

Therefore, Fang Xing obviously did not direct this time, but there were more actors who wanted to star in this drama.

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Since there are so many resumes for actors, the director team of the production has to screen them first before passing them to Fang Xing.

Casting has officially begun. Qiao Yinghong is an agent, so she takes great care of her artists.

Every time there is a casting for a new drama, Qiao Yinghong gives priority to showing the resumes of her own artists to Fang Xing first.

"Boss, if you look at the artists in our group, which one is suitable? I'll ask the management team to free up the schedule first."

Fang Xing gave up on managing the company's artists very early on.

During the previous two years of rest, the company also signed some actors one after another.

Therefore, except for the well-known ones, Fang Xing didn't know which actors were in the company.

However, what Qiao Yinghong showed to Fang Xing were basically the better actors in the company.

If you are a newcomer and plan to play a small role in a drama, you don't need to tell Fang Xing, just give it to the casting director for an audition.
To be continued...