A cafe called "Low Sugar" on the Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, where customers are sporadic, drinking coffee, chatting, reading newspapers and reading, enjoying the afternoon leisure time.
Ye Wei sat in a quiet corner. He didn't like to taste the coffee. He was concentrating on the documents of the "Wedding is coming", turned over one page after another, and one letter was not missed.
Many of these documents are not good for laymen, but he can, because of the university experience in the dream.
The development of "Film-Maker" is the core concept of the Film and Television School of the University of Southern California, and his "film production" is its most important and best signboard profession. Related to the film production, you can find it in the initial course.
Students must learn in many aspects. They must also choose courses according to their personal talents and interests. After completing the initial course, they can take advanced courses to determine. Direction of development.
So a very common situation is that many people just shouted "I want to be a director" when I entered school. When I graduated, I became a photographer. When I called "I want to be a producer," I became a Editor.
In the dream, Ye Weizhizhi wants to complete his father's last wish. From entering the school, he went to the school director and finally became a director.
However, he is familiar with the production of films and other matters, and has practiced, more than once in the production of short film as a producer.
Every student is like this. When you are working on the CTPR508 production class, the two people make "our movie" and some friends are needed to help them. If you are a screenwriter and director in the first short film production team, another The ministry has to do photography; the first one has done photography, and perhaps the next one is production, recording, and editing...
In short, the student union has practiced every part of the filmmaking process and knows everything.
Ye Wei also had the experience of making independent film production assistants and field assistants for independent film crews outside the school, so now he can understand these things.
I have to say that Kevin Thomas is still a few old scammers. The productions are very professional, informative and rigorous, and they can live insiders.
He has watched the production schedule for more than half of the time. Although there are a lot of places to spend money and spend more, it could have been more efficient, but these can't make the producers, because they can explain that their production ability is insufficient. It is not intentional to spend more.
On the other hand, on the side of the split script, even some of the inserted lenses and the main shots were not taken, resulting in very few materials available for editing, but it can also be said that the director's ability is insufficient, or simply that this is the director's intention. So these mistakes will not work.
He wants to find a mistake that can be called Kevin Thomas, who can be said to be dead.
But the good news is that he clearly sees that the more the production schedule goes, the lower the warning of Kevin Thomas, the more the mistakes become dense... The
time is gradually passing, the waitress sees it several times, but sees His cup of coffee still didn't drink a bit. Ye Wei was a little embarrassed to see it. He drank the cup of coffee and let her take the refill, and she frowned.
The head was also excited, and he turned over the page of the production expenditure detail table. At this moment, suddenly there was a flash of light.
"Wait..." Ye Wei turned the document back to the previous page, looking at one of the small items: equipment rental fee - Steadicam, $1,500.
This is a production expenditure on April 8, 2003. There is no problem at first glance. However, is it really necessary to use as much as $1,500?
Steadicam is a camera stabilizer that photographers use to maintain a balance of shooting motion, but large Steadicam rentals typically range from $500 to $1,000 per day. Independent filmmakers are struggling to find and even find free willingness to idle. Equipment manufacturers rarely need to spend $ 1,500!
Ye Wei frowned and felt that he was very close, but this was an "extra lease", that is, there was no temporary lease planned beforehand, and it was not rented from the equipment rental agency "SLV", which was mainly cooperated by the crew. Did not write clearly which company was given to the $1,500, and could not immediately prove it.
Does SLV have no Steinicon rental? He is basically certain that this is a false report of a large number.
It's not a well-planned action, but a greedy moment, a few hundred dollars in greed, and Kevin Thomas's mentality is crazy at the time. I'm thinking that even if I made this fake account, there would be no one. Found that it will never be.
is it? Ye Wei chuckled and said to himself: "God wants to perish, he must make it crazy, Kevin, you are caught."
But he needs exact evidence, such as writing $1,000\/day. Lease contract!
Looking at some other information now, he knew that the day of the "Wedding is coming" crew was filming in Orange County, which undoubtedly made the verification more difficult. There are too many movie shooting equipment rental vendors in the Greater Los Angeles area.
"Stupid method is the best way." Ye Wei sipped his mouth and had an idea.
Equipment rental has a principle: rent nearby! This is even more important than cheap, because transportation costs, it is impossible to shoot in Orange County, but to rent equipment in New York. So the most likely manufacturer is the nearest manufacturer to Orange County, and it needs to be rented by Steadicam.
As long as you ask the manufacturers one by one, even if there are a thousand stores, you can get results.
"! Waiter" Ye Wei summoned the waitress, asked: "?? I ask you here have greater Los Angeles area in the Yellow Pages you can also provide Internet access it I want to check something quickly." "Yellow
Pages Yes, but online..." The waitress was a little embarrassed. "You have to ask the boss."
There is no Internet service in the low-sugar cafe. There is only one computer at the counter, but it is not for the customers, but the boss's personal computer. Ye Wei repeatedly asked, the boss is also a Chinese, he agreed to use it for a while.
Through the Internet, Ye Wei inquired about the list of many related vendors and recorded their contact numbers.
When he left the computer, it took him nearly an hour. After he returned to his seat, he checked the yellow pages again and started to call them one by one. "Hello, is it a full-speed photography company? Well, I want to ask." Asked if you rent or rent a stankon, how much does it cost to rent a day?"
"We have a rent, a large 800-day, a small 100-day, if the rental days are more than half a month, the price is negotiable."
Ye Wei said OK, Then ask: "Do you have a 1600-day rental of a large set of Steadicam?"
"No possibility, we will not rent such a expensive, only a fair price."
"This way, our company may have been possible before. Have you ever cooperated with your company to check the specific contract status at the time? This involves some financial problems of our company, so I can help you."
"As long as you give detailed information, including date, company, project and renter we can help you find out. " "
trouble, April 8, 2003, but the duo image, film project "wedding day is approaching," Kevin lease - Thomas, a large Steadicam.
After a small array, but the leaves get a reply: "Sorry, we have no record here." He said to hang up the call, and then continue to call the next vendor, "Yes, thank you, bother." .
In this way, the phone then followed the phone, one after another, Ye Wei asked more than a dozen manufacturers, and it was farther and farther away from Orange County, which made him full of anger, so many manufacturers nearby did not rent, but ran so far To rent, what is the map, is the transportation cost expensive? Is there a small shooting time?
In the cost of 2 million productions, I really don't know how much wasted by Kevin Thomas!
These bit by bit waste costs add up to a big sum of money, is the hard-earned money of Dad, is the money of his own family!
Ye Wei breathed a sigh of relief and temporarily suppressed his anger and continued to trace. If the monk colluded with a certain manufacturer at that time and did not make a record, the fake account would be useless. I hope it will not, and now I can only try my luck.
There are several other manufacturers, coming to the area of Los Angeles County. When he opened a small company called "Aide Photographic Equipment", he asked the same questions and finally got different answers!
"Yes, I found it, there is a record here."
"Really?" Ye Wei suddenly yelled, causing other customers to cast a disappointing look. He was excited and excited, and asked: " How much?"
"Our database record is $600 a day, this is our usual price."
"Are you sure?" Ye Wei asked the question again and again, so that the other side is a little helpless, OK! He punched his fist on the table and slammed, and asked: "If I need it here, can you provide proof of the contract that was valid at the time?"
"Yes, we have a record."
"Thank you, thank you! Contact again." Ye Wei's heartbeat became very fast, he couldn't help but laugh, his eyes flashed with fierce light. With this weapon, Kevin Thomas was dead this time, general!
It is certain that the 1.8 million blood is not returned to the "Wedding is coming", but now, how much can be brought back.
He looked at the time, nearly five in the afternoon, not too early, and had to go home immediately.
At the moment, the account was settled and the tip was given. Ye Wei's wallet barely saw a penny, and he could only take the bus to leave.