Hollywood film production is like an assembly line, rigorous and lacks artistic atmosphere.

Every film with a high investment is a difficult task and requires multiple reviews and no mistake can be tolerated.

As for the artistic atmosphere, what is that?

Most Hollywood film companies and distribution companies do not know what the artistic atmosphere is.

This is true for Ryan, and so is Helen.

Generally speaking, there are two main positions when filming Hollywood movies: producer and director.

"The Witch Blair" has a pitiful investment, so there will naturally be no major producers, directors, and deputy directors, so Ryan personally takes charge of the producers and directors. By the way, there will be a screenwriter position.

Helen acted as casting director and venue, while Heidi acted as her assistant, and worked part-time as a choreographer to be responsible for logistics.

It can be said that except for some necessary positions, the entire crew is almost always staffed by employees of Starry Sky Brokerage Company.

This is also impossible. First, it can be kept confidential, and second, the entire crew only has a budget of 40,000 US dollars, and it must save expenses.

In addition to daily expenses, the combined pay of the three protagonists is less than 3,000 US dollars. The most expensive one in the crew is a senior makeup artist with a weekly salary of 400 US dollars, and it is for Helen's sake.

By the way, this makeup artist is also the only official employee on the crew.

There are no remaining photographers, lighting workers, venue workers, props, etc.

Ryan had already calculated that the venue and props could let Helen and Heidi serve as both the photographer and the lighting engineer. He would do whatever he could save money anyway.

This is how "Blair the Witch" was filmed in his previous life.

At the same time, Helen contacted a small equipment rental company, and at a low price, rented audio tapes, Hi-8 cameras, 16mm cameras, etc., and several simple shooting equipment.

In just a few days, the crew was prepared and the filming of "Blair the Witch" was launched.

On March 1, 1994, Ryan came to the United States to start filming his first film in his life.

If you follow the customs of some Hong Kong city directors in your previous life, the first thing you do when you start a video is to start a movie and worship God.

Fortunately, there was no opening ceremony in Hollywood. There were less than ten members of the crew. They quietly started shooting in a small town around New York.

There were no press conferences, no onlookers, no cheers, everything seemed very quiet.

To be honest, such a crew is much simpler than some independent movies and looks ridiculous.

"Well, I admit it's worse than I thought."

"Wrong, it should be said that it's terrible. I've never seen such a terrible crew."

“It’s even worse than the script.”

"Okay, you two are quieter, no matter what, they will be the starring actors."

"Damn the star, I even suspect that the film doesn't even have a chance to preview."

"It's good to be able to release videotapes. I will definitely buy a few boxes to give to people."

The three leading actors in the film were talking in a low voice.

The slight investment, the simple crew, the novice director, and three young actors with no acting skills all look like a garbage film about to be born.

Jessica Chastain was a little disappointed in the scene in front of him. It was more of a farce than a crew.

But none of the three of them are actors from the eight books of the scriptures, or they are not even young actors. They usually act as background cloths and dead bodies, and there is also the agent Helen, so no one dares to say anything.

Otherwise, Ryan will substitute immediately.

However, less than a minute after the camera was turned on, Ryan encountered some minor trouble. He directly put down the camera in his hand and walked to the three leading actors.

"I'll say it again, you are now students in the university's film department, not actors, and not filming."

"Don't fiddle with your poor acting skills in front of me. Remember that what I want is nature, a university film student who plays the role of the true nature."

The three leading actors immediately looked at each other, no need for acting skills?

Hell, the videos shot like this are sure to be watched!

The most difficult and easiest thing about "Blair the Witch" is that the three starring actors in the film do not need even a little acting skills, only in this way can they appear more realistic.

Let the media and movie fans think that this is a real event, not a filmed film.

So Ryan didn't need them to show off their pitiful acting skills in front of the camera.

In addition to viral publicity, the success of "Blair the Witch" in the previous life also includes the true roles of the three starring actors in the film.

Ahem, or there is no acting skills at all.

The shooting started again, which was barely much better than before, but Ryan stopped again.

"Helen, the props I need must be real and not false at all. If you are not prepared, you can ask Heidi to buy them immediately."

“It all has to appear natural.”

Ryan glanced at the props prepared by the crew and frowned slightly.

Since I want the media and movie fans to believe that this is a real event.

Then there is no falsehood on the props, and don’t underestimate the observation of the media and movie fans.

"It was my fault."

Helen was slightly stunned, then took the initiative to admit her mistake and said, "I'll let Heidi prepare the props again."

Helen had spoken, and Heidi could only prepare props again with a reluctant look.

The following filming went smoothly, with all three leading actors entering the role, or in other words, performing without any acting skills.

Anyway, Ryan doesn't need them to act well, as long as his expression naturally has no logical flaws, so the shooting goes on very quickly.

The entire crew's shooting budget is only 40,000 US dollars. Excluding daily expenses, rental equipment, props, actor pay, etc., there is almost nothing left, and there is no enough funds to repeatedly polish each shot.

What's more, the camera in his hand is simply hard to describe. The effect of the videos shot with a portable camera can be imagined.

During the transition, Helen took a bottle of drink and walked over and handed it to Ryan, "You can take a proper rest. If the budget is not enough, I can lend you some, or use it as an investment."

Ryan's shooting plan was full of arrangements, and there was almost no rest time.

Perhaps the crew members would not complain too much, but Helen could not sit idly by.

"I just hope to get through the schedule and strive to release the film before May."

Ryan was quite distracted. When he was shooting in his previous life, he often kept shooting for 24 hours. Similar to the previous shooting, it was already very easy.

"As the summer season comes in April, let alone how much resources the distribution company will give this video, it is not a good choice to compete with those big productions at the same time."

"Instead, March and April are the off-season for the entire North American film market, and few large-scale productions are released, which is very beneficial for the release of the film."

He saw this very clearly. Instead of competing with a large number of productions in May, it is better to dominate March and April.

Helen nodded and agreed with his point of view, "Okay, I will communicate with other people, but you should also relax properly."

Ryan nodded and agreed.

In fact, this is also a mistake made by his previous filming experience. The Hollywood crew is not the online film crew of his previous life. There is a clear difference between the two. The pace is faster and there is nothing to do, but it requires enough rest time.

In other words, the crew is too small to be smaller. He is also a producer and part-time director, screenwriter, and investor. The only agent of the crew is Helen. Otherwise, he would have to cause some trouble.

Later, Ryan changed some shooting plans and tried to be as easy as possible.

At the end of the day, the crew's shooting plan was less than one-third of the original ones, which made Ryan somewhat helpless.

After calculation, it will take about a week to finish the filming of the entire film.

It was more than half slower than his original plan three days.
Chapter completed!