What does the film production cost include?

The film cost includes four main parts: production cost, actor's remuneration, director's remuneration and announcement cost.

A. Production cost: production cost generally refers to equipment cost, personnel cost, transportation cost, art cost and special effects cost in the early and late stages.

B, actor pay: domestic first-line actors, the price tag is more than 2 million, and the highest one is 3 million; The price of domestic first-line actresses ranges from 12 million to 25 million. If the script is good, the director is good, and the actor's fee is low, it may be more than 5 million yuan, because as an actor, if it is a script that can impress him and make him trust, they are very willing to participate, and even they will invest without getting paid.

C, director's pay: domestic first-line directors, the price ranges from 5 million to 1 million, this fluctuation is quite severe, but if it is lower, it will not be less than 5, US dollars, which is a regulation of the Global Directors Association. In addition to the remuneration of actors and directors, all kinds of ideas are also very expensive.

D, publicity costs: publicity includes publicity and distribution, and publicity costs generally include the production of posters and trailers and tidbits, hard advertisements, cinema terminal materials, media promotion, ground activities, premieres, hiring naval forces and buying off film critics. Distribution costs mainly include copy production costs, cinema public relations and negotiation costs. Strictly speaking, the box office share of cinemas is also part of the distribution cost.

the process of film shooting and distribution: it is mainly divided into preparation stage, shooting stage, post-production, review, trailer production, publicity before release, news publicity from major websites, premiere, release and other stages. Post-production is the most expensive

A, preparation stage: signing scripts, looking for investors, looking for directors, screenwriters and other stages to form a crew. (1) adaptation, novels and scripts need to buy copyright, and also need to pay an adaptation fee, which ranges from 3 million to 8 million. Good novels have high copyright and good screenwriters have high remuneration. (2) Originality, this incubation period is relatively long, ranging from one year to five years and eight years. From the beginning of finding a screenwriter or setting up a screenwriter group, remuneration will be paid, and this part of the cost ranges from 2 million to 5 million.

B. Shooting stage

This stage is not particularly expensive, as long as you follow the shooting plan, the risk mainly comes from the director's high filming, and the actor's liquidated damages are not small. All kinds of photographic equipment, lighting equipment, staff expenses, and all kinds of group performances.

C, post-production: this stage is particularly expensive. For example, there is a scene in "Red Cliff" in which soldier A pokes soldier B and soldier B sprays blood to the ground. About a second, about 4 frames, a spear piercing armor, special effects of blood spraying, spent 2 thousand.

D, the stages of review, trailer release, publicity before release, news publicity by major websites, premiere and release will not be explained.

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