Questions about the cost and limitations of filming American dramas

I personally understand that because it can be used as a promotional film for NCIS (of course, it is an exaggeration and artistic sublimation), so it is easier to get support from the navy, and it is easy to shoot or something.

The first few episodes of this series should be invested for 1-20 million US dollars, and other dramas are still more economical, such as Lost, about 350 per episode, and some indoor dramas are only more than 100.

It is said that the United States controls three-quarters of the world's television programs, and many countries directly use American programs to convert them into their own television stations. Therefore, for the producers, they have to continue to increase investment to ensure the quality of the series, in the case of Friends, the salary of a single episode alone in the later stage will reach six or seven million, but compared to the huge TV consumer group accumulated in its long-term ** process, these salaries are still worth investing.

Let's put it this way, we invest in TV dramas to recover costs as quickly as possible and make money, while the American concept is to try to enhance the brand value of TV dramas, extend the broadcast life, and make the most money from each drama.

The film and television industry is developed, and it is normal to make millions of dollars in a certain episode.

The cost of an episode is around $1 million. Including the actor's salary, the screenwriter's salary (is a team, not a person), lighting, modeling, makeup, special effects and other links.

Not at the moment, it is estimated that there is no hope for this year, it seems that it will be 2012! It is expected that if the sales of P3 and XB360 are good, PC is indispensable, after all, the old card is now developing on multiple platforms!

The money is from the film company, and generally blockbusters will have a budget, and the cost must be limited, and if you don't get it right, you will lose it, just like "Wu Ji", it is estimated that the pants will not be raised. But there are also so many directors in the world, and film companies do not limit costs, like James Cameron and Christopher Nolan. Cameron had a budget of $100 million when he filmed "Titanic", but after spending 100 million, the movie was only half filmed, and in the end Fox was afraid of following in the footsteps of "Cleopatra", (Cleopatra lost money, and Fox almost collapsed), the company forced Cameron to reduce his budget, and as a last resort, Cameron's own 8 million director fee was not needed, and the house was mortgaged.

In the end, Paramount was pulled up again, and another 100 million was invested before the filming was completed. The result was a huge success, grossing $1.8 billion worldwide. The company sent Cameron a red envelope with $100 million.

Since then, Cameron has no budget for filming "Avatar", and he can spend as much as he wants, and the final cost is as high as 500 million US dollars. But the box office was impressive, $2.7 billion. The company gave Cameron $100 million in compensation.

For other small directors, the company believes that it must limit the cost.

First of all, the money is not from the director, but from the sponsor. The sponsors of the assembly number value the actors and directors, the actors and directors are all big names, that is, they will make a lot of money if they shoot casually, and there is also a reason that the directors and actors are looking for more sponsors, this 50 million, that 100 million, there is a lot of money, and you can shoot how you want.

The money is from the sponsor, and the restriction is because the cost is too high, and the ratings are not necessarily high (self-inference).

Here's the question about taxes! Costs and taxes are reciprocal.

In terms of comedy, Friends, in the end, there are one million episodes for each starring person.

China is about 200,000-500,000 an episode, the United States is about 2 million, the shooting time is about 2 million, according to the number of episodes of the TV series, generally 3-4 days for an episode, if fast, there are 2 days to shoot an episode of American dramas, are filmed a few episodes, put a few episodes, generally 2-3 episodes a week, so that if you count it, you will play it while filming, and if the ratings are good, it will be up to several years.

Foreign countries will set aside a lot of money to do special effects, and China spends money on inviting celebrities, in fact, many celebrities have bad acting skills, especially idol drama stars.

Hello, the underworld, the war theme **, is not suitable for China's national conditions, so it should be deleted or modified, and become a patriotic, positive and positive energy work, if "Notes on Tomb Robbery" and "Xie Wendong".

Because of the high cost of filming, the actor's starring fee is very high, plus the special effects, the special effects are very expensive, and our country has no mature special effects, so we can only rely on foreign countries, and the cost is naturally a lot higher.

Personally, I feel that the scenes in ** can't be filmed.

I'm the choreographer, so I'm going to give you a list of them all.

**After all, there is a gap with the TV series.

First of all, let's make it clear that the high cost of American dramas is relative.

You can see the people in the movie going to Egypt, drag racing, and there are also American dramas, but the difference is that most of the movies are live-action shooting, but most of the American dramas are computer synthesis in the later stage, and generally American dramas are completed in major recording studios.

Secondly, American dramas have relatively stable screenwriters and production groups, these groups belong to major TV stations, and TV stations have stable investment sponsors, and the cost of hiring personnel is low, and it is not so troublesome.

American dramas have insertive advertisements, and you can hear popular singles in Europe and the United States in American dramas, these are all incomes.

And American dramas are standard fast food culture, where you play while filming, and then watch the ratings. It's not that all American dramas are high-income, this is a circular problem, good American dramas, high ratings, more money, just continue to shoot, shoot better, spread more widely, and most Chinese people will appreciate it, on the contrary, like some American dramas, as early as when we didn't see it, because of the low ratings of two episodes, it stopped filming.

Ads make up the lion's share because each episode is replayed at a different time slot. Other revenues include product placement and overseas royalties.

It's mainly advertising, and the others are out of *** or peripheral and the like.

Mainly advertising, others are out of *** or peripheral related products.