10 Chapter 10 Dilapidated Warehouse (seeking support for collection) (1/2)

A black Ford mini truck headed west, passing through the pleasant castle of Eve, and gradually approached the largest sea port in France-Marseille.

Although it has only just entered two thousand years, the very prosperous market of Marseille can already be seen.

The city is surrounded by limestone hills on three sides. It borders the Mediterranean Sea in the southeast. It has deep water and wide harbors, allowing 10,000-ton freighters to flow unimpeded. The west is connected to Northern Europe.

This unique geographical location also makes Marseille the largest gateway for French foreign trade.

When the car entered the city, Thomas slowed down a bit and turned left and right to a neighborhood.

”That's it, let's go down.” Thomas said as he opened the door while sitting in the driving seat.

”Wow, it's finally here.” Ryan said and opened the door on the right.

Lehman got out of the car and saw the shop on the street with many photographic equipment.

The three of them walked forward, and when they approached the neighborhood, a middle-aged man heard the sound and walked out, ”Uncle Angus, it's been a long time.” Thomas took a tight step and hugged the middle-aged man in front of him.

”Haha, Thomas, why did your kid come to me in time, where is your father?” The middle-aged man looked a little happy when he saw Thomas.

”He is still in Paris and didn't come. This time I brought a friend to rent some photographic equipment.” Thomas replied.

”Oh, that's the case, then you come in quickly.” As he said, Angus greeted Lehman and others in, and brought out three cups of coffee.

”Come on, try it. These are our own coffee beans.”

”Thank you Uncle.” Lehman took the coffee and thanked him politely.

”You can try to choose, rest assured, since you are Thomas' friends, I will definitely give the best price.”

With the guarantee of this sentence, Lehman's heart was also a little relaxed.

He took out a list from him, which recorded the photographic equipment and film share they used to shoot the movie.

In addition to three 35MM special quality cameras, there are color films produced by Kodak that need to be purchased.

This kind of 35MM color film matched with the camera has a length of 122 meters per disc. According to the current film shooting and projection specifications, under normal circumstances, it takes about 27 meters of negative to shoot a one-minute lens, and one film is also You can shoot for about 4.5 minutes.

Calculating this way, it seems reasonable to buy about 20 Kodak color film is enough, after all, according to Lehman's scheduled filming situation, there will only be about 90 minutes of footage.

But in the end Lehman bought 300 discs, and this is still a conservative number. If the film is not enough, he will still pre-order at any time.

To make a movie, almost all the director’s material will be ten times or even dozens of times the length of the film. For a famous extravagant monster like James Cameron, the material images are even hundreds of times.

A crew, just the money spent on film, is often a very expensive expense. This is why Lyman knew that Thomas had an acquaintance with photographic equipment, so he hurried from Cannes to Marseille.

Save a little per plate, and 300 plates can save a lot.

Fortunately, Thomas’ face was good enough. When Lehmann stated that he wanted 300 Kodak 35MM film color films in advance, Angus only charged 80 Euros per disk.

The market generally sells for 140 euros per plate. Even if the order is large, a discount will never be 80 euros close to the cost price.

”The total is 24,000 euros.” Lehmann silently remembered the price in his heart.

His purchasing journey has not been completed yet.

When the camera is selected, the lens that matches it must also be selected.

Wide-angle lens, telephoto lens, soft light photography lens...

”Buried alive” is mainly used for shooting close-up and mid-range photography, so I selected the lenses that need to be used in these two parts, plus the three 35MM cameras. The cost is 8,000 euros and the lease is 2 Months, out of trust in Thomas, Angus did not even allow Lehman to advance the breach of contract or compensation.

It can be regarded as a significant savings.

The rental cost of the shooting equipment spent today is 32,000 euros. Up to now, the film preparation, staff salary, production of props, purchase of cosmetics and cheap special plasma and many other items that need to be prepared, together have thrown out more than 50,000 Shooting funding in Euros.This was achieved by the special throttling skills of two interns who provided crew costumes and recruited two interns.

Lehmann doubted whether his 450,000 euros would last until the end of the film production.

The preparatory work is too expensive. Although the expenditure for the subsequent shooting seems to be a little less, the rental of the venue and the recruitment of actors have not been carried out. This will also cost a lot of money, and the post-production of the film. Lehman also plans Hiring a professional and experienced editor, the license fee for the soundtrack, and the post-production room also rent a...