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Chapter 347 "Network Mystery" joins the "Black Mirror" series

"This story is indeed a model of natural reasoning, but it feels... not enough to be a black mirror."

"I think it's very dark in terms of the idea, and it's displayed on the desktop throughout the process. This form is cool and avant-garde. There must be no precedent in China, and there should be no similar film and television dramas abroad, right?"

"I think this idea is a good seedling of the movie script. Is it a waste to put it in "Black Mirror"?"

"Not necessarily, I think it's a bit like "Comet". The story is indeed a good story, but it may not be outstanding in theaters. The highlight of this creativity is actually the use of desktop lenses. It is a new form of pseudo-documentary.

You can’t have both fish and bear’s paws. If you use this form to shoot, in fact, this cannot be considered a shooting. There is no lens language at all, and there is no change in light and shadow. Even if you shoot it, it is not a theater movie."

"If the story is good, it will have a box office. There are also fake documentary movies abroad that have big box office sales."

"You can't say that. Good story is not necessarily proportional to box office. Why do audiences spend dozens of dollars to watch a video for dozens of minutes in the cinema? Can't you watch it on a TV and computer?

If it is a movie edited by desktop lenses, it is actually not as good as TV. Even if it has a box office, with our company's current status and brand image, it is better to shoot a TV movie and earn tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars.

shoot."

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Chen Jingxing leaned on the back of the chair, looked at the screenwriters sitting around the table and expressed his opinion when the topic was a bit off: "Movies are not the only form of cinema movies,"

And who said "Black Mirror" can't be a movie?

But Chen Jingxing believed that online movies had great potential. At least he heard that some online movies made considerable profits in the plane before traveling through time, and could be said to make a fortune in silence.

In terms of idea, this movie is very "Black Mirror". In form, it uses computer lenses and desktop images to form the entire movie. There is no camera, no light and shadow, and no lens language. The whole story can happen in a small

On the computer screen, there is an alternative pseudo-documentary style.

In this way, the cinema market will be greatly reduced and compressed, and the cinema industry may not be able to eliminate it, but it will definitely eliminate many individuals.

Netflix filming and TV series shooting is no different from Hollywood manufacturers, because the production team may be a group of people, one screenwriter, one director, and the same special effects studio.

As long as it is on the same industrial assembly line, Netflix can naturally produce goods above the level.

The upper limit of theaters is high, and the average return may not be comparable to online movies.

Of course this process may be long.

Chen Jingxing’s positioning of “Black Mirror” is a streaming film, which is the so-called non-theater movie. The environment in China is Internet University.

Regardless of the setting of the story, the arrangement of suspense, and the continuation of reversals, "Network Mystery" is a textbook-style suspense film.

Like the script reading, DreamWorks has another rule that script creativity seminar is to convene a screenwriter to discuss whether it is feasible and practical. Of course, most of the time it is the creativity proposed by Chen Jingxing. After all, creativity

It is very different from creativity that can be put into practice.

In Chen Jingxing's previous life, it was also because of the arrival of a huge black swan event that a real theater movie was suddenly sold to streaming media and premiered on the Internet, which aroused the dispute over theater streaming media in China.

But no matter how high or low China or the United States, the trend of streaming movies is irresistible, and even full of vitality.

But this requires that the production of the second season of "Black Mirror" must be further improved. The first season of "Black Mirror" is known as a "magical drama", but that is based on the standards of TV series.

Positioning it as an online movie, Chen Jingxing naturally believes that the level is not very good.

North American theaters obviously know this, so they reacted fiercely, and even used moral kidnapping or selling misery to prevent outstanding Hollywood filmmakers from playing for Netflix.

The dispute between streaming media and theaters is a dispute of interests. Domestic theaters may theoretically recognize the threat of online movies to them, but the reality of domestic Internet is here, which makes people really unable to feel threatened.

Even if these online movies want to be released in theaters, theaters don’t want to accept them.

However, Chen Jingxing's "Golden Finger" has overcome all the feasible creativity that has been difficult, which is directly the true scriptures of Lingshan. It is not only creative, but also a story structure that can express creativity, and it is also integrated into it.

Story structure with fully commercialized elements.

There is a distance between an interesting creative idea from a formed script and a film and television work.

This has made the creative seminar with democratic discussion more and more become Chen Jingxing's personal show. The screenwriters of DreamWorks are also increasingly admiring Chen Jingxing's talent. As long as Chen Jingxing expresses his opinion, everyone will be

If you are convinced, even if you are temporarily dissatisfied, the facts will always prove that Chen Jingxing is correct.

Otherwise, the philosophical proposition of "brain in the tank" had existed decades ago, and the intellectual machinery crisis had existed long ago, but it would be even more difficult to turn it into a high-perfect film and television work with market potential.

Netflix is ​​not short of money. The production team he can invite is the production team of Hollywood Industry, and even the filmmaker who has won the Oscars.

Foreign countries, to be precise, streaming media giants like Netflix are different. They rely on the mature film industry, and they are of different talents from the Chinese film and television industry, which are not as good as the numbers, and are not as good as the workshop-style operation. The Hollywood film industry has cultivated

Mature talents are overflowing, overflowing - thanks to Hollywood's oligarchy.

"The Mystery of the Internet" tells the story of a high school girl who suddenly lost contact with her single father. The father couldn't find it. She began to log in to all her daughter's social media accounts and tried to dig out clues by herself, and finally rescued her life-threatening daughter.

It is natural to release the second season, and the second season is still preliminarily set to be five episodes. Chen Jingxing’s idea is to rather be insignificant than to be indiscriminate, because his expectations for "Black Mirror" are not just ordinary TV series.

Regardless of whether the audience is a platform member or not, each episode of the second season of "Black Mirror" is a separate online movie and has to be broadcast on demand.

But one day, there will be only movies left in the cinema that can bring "audio-visual wonders" to the audience. Those movies that do not focus on audio-visual experiences without special effects, no difference between watching in the cinema or on the computer, will disappear from the cinema.

, go online to stream media directly.

This seminar discusses the script of "Black Mirror" season 2. The first season has achieved unprecedented success, both at home and abroad, and even because it is not a theater movie, it also uses Netflix's platform to go abroad.

The response is still quite large.

On the contrary, there are very few such arguments in China. Even if executives of some Internet companies make a fuss, the reactions of theaters and filmmakers are very dull.

As the host of this script creative discussion, Chen Jingxing naturally has the power to make a final decision.

This involves scripting, imagery, pass review, and executable market evaluation. There is no shortage of imaginative people, but they can turn a creativity into a complete structure and shootable script, and can also

A film and television work with high completion and market potential is produced, with a large funnel and a large filter in the middle.

A large online box office - many paid on-demand accounts with more than 10 million, and the top ones can even exceed 50 million. If other benefits are added, they will earn more than most so-called theater movies.

However, Chen Jingxing did not want to end the dispute with the conviction of the crowd. After all, he still wanted the screenwriters to fill in and implement the story, and it must be explained clearly.

Reliable creativity is not just a simple idea. It must be a complete set of story structure or story logic. Incorporating the idea into a story, and a logically reasonable story with commercial value is the most difficult thing.

Not only is it not enough time, a movie, even an online movie, must be at least 90 minutes, but the story must be more complicated and the funds must appear more explosive.

Since it’s no different to watch it in a cinema and at home, why do you have to spend dozens of dollars to go to the cinema? You are not "Avatar", and you are not "Gravity".

This seminar was discussing the first creativity provided by Chen Jingxing - "Network Mystery".

This is not due to the authority of Chairman Chen Jingxing, and even if there is, it is not the main reason.

How could Chen Jingxing not be jealous and prepare for the future?

Movies with investments of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars will naturally not go this way, but DreamWorks happens to have one project that is very suitable, that is "Black Mirror".

The debate over theaters and streaming media abroad, especially in Hollywood, has become increasingly fierce in recent years. Everyone has seen that there is no such exploration in China, but isn’t our DreamWorks doing just a way to open up the road? There is no need to fall into it.

A rude.”

The tug-of-war between streaming media and theaters abroad began a few years ago, and it became increasingly fierce, and even developed to the position of each taking sides. I wonder how many filmmakers have publicly expressed their resistance to streaming movies.

The fear of streaming media in theaters is not that streaming media will destroy cinemas, but cinemas cannot be eliminated. Audio-visual experience or audio-visual wonders cannot be given by the current small screen.

Although it is a TV series, each episode is independent, and it is full of imagination and well-made. Isn’t this the basis of ready-made online movies?

In fact, Chen Jingxing has contacted major online platforms. Although streaming media still have doubts about this, Chen Jingxing's position is firm, that is, the second season of "Black Mirror" must adopt the online movie model of on-demand account sharing.

Nothing else, domestic online movies are really not up to the table, and the style of online dramas has gradually improved. Nowadays, online movies are still synonymous with shoddy and vulgarity. Chen Jingxing's "Comet" has become the peak of domestic Internet majors.

It also shows the alienation of all interpersonal relationships, emotional patterns and various possibilities reflected by social networks in the Internet era, and even the black satire of the Internet, the satire of the Internet deconstruction and even the real life, from a certain

In a sense, it is similar to the "Fuck Pig" in the first episode of the first season of "Black Mirror".

But from the ending, it really doesn't feel that "Black Mirror" is the perfect ending of happyending, which is not "Black Mirror", and there are indeed some black and cruel things missing.

However, these can be changed. Chen Jingxing also asked the screenwriters to come up with ideas on how to make this story more "Black Mirror".

Just as Chen Jingxing and the screenwriters discussed the story creativity of "Internet Mystery" with one word, the secretary knocked on the door and looked at Chen Jingxing and said, "Dr. Chen Sicheng is here, and he is waiting in the reception room.

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(End of this chapter)