Chinese entertainment for engineering students

"Stop pulling the film, let me explain it frame by frame." Wang Xu knew the interest of professionals in this kind of thing, so naturally he would not refuse.

These two later spent a long time exploring special effects. It would be a good thing for others and themselves to explain it a little by themselves.

This may lead to future cooperation. Now special effects studios can start taking jobs. There is no more convenient way than working directly with the director.

After saying this, Wang Xu came to the side of the projector and started to explain while operating it.

This is the so-called pull-up, slowly showing it shot by shot. This is the introduction to film learning. Whether you want to be a director, a photographer, or even a critic, you need to start here.

Re-splice the edited parts, and sometimes even use a computer to demonstrate to everyone what the original pornographic film looks like.

Where is the green screen, what does the original animation look like, what does it look like unrendered, what is rendered, where is traditional special effects used, and where is pure computer animation.

Wang Xu explained in great detail. This was also the original intention of his technology diffusion, to let the director know what the current special effects technology can do, how to do it when filming, what to pay attention to, and how to make it easy to fool.

This is really treating them as outsiders. Just for the dissemination of this knowledge, the two great directors, um, no, and Jiang Wen, I should say three great directors, all have to thank Wang Xu.

Not to mention mainland directors, even directors from Hong Kong, no one has experience in green screen shooting.

Even in Chou Country, green screen shooting is only a topic being studied by a few big directors. How could it be possible for someone like Wang Xu to start a class and explain it directly.

Wang Xu's class was very long. In addition to the short section of the sample film that had been shot, Wang Xu also talked about a lot of parts that were being produced or would be produced in the future.

You can even directly open the 3D software and demonstrate on-site how to build a model, how to use the existing model to arrange the camera, how to move, and how to pull the lens.

How to adjust the hue, angle, aperture, etc. in animation, and how to make it consistent with the outside world.

These are very practical techniques, details that are not explained in ordinary courses. Only those who have actually made movies know the important key points.

Wang Xu's attitude of teaching everything without any reservations benefited several professionals. Even Jiang Wu was fascinated by it. After all, an actor who doesn't want to be a director is not a good producer. .

But such a professional course makes other people confused.

Wang Fei simply got a Walkman and went to listen to music. Liu Xiaoqing didn't come today, and she didn't even have anyone to talk to.

Except for a few directors, most of the others were people in charge of business and management. It was normal that they didn't like to hear this, so Wang Xu asked them to leave first and do whatever they wanted.

After we finish talking here, we will reconvene to discuss establishing the crew.

Computer special effects plus physical special effects is a very grand subject. How could Wang Xu finish it in a short time? He could only briefly introduce the commonly used ones.

But this is enough. You are already tempted without even looking at Xu Ke, wondering if you can improve the green snake that has not yet been completed in the later stage.

Xu Ke suggested it, but Wang Xu refused. There was already a special effects team there, and they were all in post-production, and it would be too troublesome to make changes.

Even if the employer is willing to invest, it is already too late and can only wait until next time.

Of course Xu Ke just mentioned that although his ideas were wild and unconstrained, he was not that unreliable.

Although Zhang Yimou is also tempted, the films he is currently shooting are realistic themes and the budget is not high, so he does not need such advanced special effects.

However, he has also filmed action movies such as "Codename Jaguar", so he is naturally very yearning for such special effects technology, and the seeds of cooperation have long been planted in his heart.

Zhang Yimou even proposed that when the crew is officially established, he hopes to go to the crew to observe and learn what the performance under the green screen is like.

Although Han Sanjue is now a leader, he also started out as a director, and later directed some works, so he is considered an industry insider.

He is now a producer and the director of Imperial Film Studio, so he began to wonder if he could send his own directors over to learn.

He is still studying gilding at the film school. They should also send students and teachers to take a look. Such an opportunity is too rare in China.

If you don't make good use of such a terrace near the water, you would be really sorry for yourself.

Wang Xu doesn't know Han Sanjue's plan yet. Even if he knows, he will only be happy to see the results. If more people learn and observe, it won't cause much trouble to him. There may even be more people to help him, and those who don't pay will Seed, why not do it.

Although Wang Xu is rich, he still understands the principle of spending money in the province while riding a bicycle and going to bars.

The explanation continued until the evening, until Wang Xu's mouth was dry and Wang Fei had slept on the sofa next to him for two nights before it ended reluctantly at Wang Xu's insistence.

Several directors really have too many problems, not only focusing on what they can do now, but also extending to what they can do in the future.

Wang Xu was really tired. That's what artists are like. Sometimes he was as deep as a philosopher, and sometimes he was as innocent as a child, with no vision at all.

In the evening, we ate at a newly opened restaurant across the street. It was a Sichuan and Hunan restaurant. It was well decorated and had private rooms. It was considered the most upscale restaurant in the area.

The boss is from Yizhou. After returning from the army, he inherited his father's skills and opened up a new battlefield in the northern city of God.

By the way, there are too many retired people around here. No wonder my house always has a sign saying "support the soldiers and belong to the army", and even the business across the street is almost contracted by retired people.

Wang Xu even doubted that if a war broke out now, a reserve company would be able to be mobilized from this street right away, with officers, soldiers and political workers working together. Equipped with weapons, everything could be liberated in minutes.

Not to mention anything else, the number of veterans received by my own studio is almost three digits.

Otherwise, the sign of supporting the military and giving priority to family members would not be taken off forever, and there would not even be a need to communicate with the street office. The veterans accepted here are no longer limited to imperial household registration.

Directly connected with the Imperial City's Human and Armed Forces Department, they actually have some imperial capital household registration indicators every year, specifically for some senior professional sergeants.

Like the special effects studios run by Wang Xu and others, this is where the people who play with explosives and guns come from.

In this era, the Bayi Factory has a professional pyrotechnics team. When filming the three major battles of the final battle, the various explosions were very real and natural.

But their team is not completely professional. There are only two or three people who actually do pyrotechnics special effects, and the rest are from the army.

So their real expertise is in blasting, not special effects, which is similar to Wang Xu's initial configuration.

Wang Xu is also starting to see if he can find a master to lead the team, but this is a bit difficult. Director Jiang has stepped in to help communicate. There are really few people in the system who are willing to leave easily.

Even Wang Xu can't force others to do anything.

It's not just the Bayi Film Studio. In fact, all the major film studios have some wealth. For example, the sound effects master at the Imperial City Film Studio made Wang Xu salivate.

The biggest difference between Wang Xu and Wang Xu is that he systematically integrates various special effects and becomes a specialized independent studio that can fully undertake all aspects of special effects for a movie.

This kind of team configuration will look particularly professional, because they have already done a good job with each other in normal times, and other movies can be started directly.

Of course, the running-in process relies on Wang Xu's own movies, and Wang Xu plans to use one or two movies he has invested in to pull this team together.

Why did Wang Xu find so many retired veterans? They were just backup professional extras. They usually did their own logistics, security and other tasks.

Once the movie needs it, they can play soldiers, people, or workers. To put it bluntly, they can play themselves.

When these people join the company, they will have two contracts, one is a standard employment contract and the other is an acting contract. They have also received a small amount of performance training.

This kind of job is actually a welfare. After all, the logistics and other tasks themselves are not that busy. Why not do it by playing a supporting role to increase the income of both parties.

Wang Jinghua has trained some professional acting agents who specialize in running film crews to find extra money for these people.

Those agents will also sign some other types of actors they like on the set. This team has been expanding, and there are four famous leaders from the east and the second. There are really no ordinary group leaders who dare to compete with them for territory.

However, the market for group performers in the Imperial Capital is already very small, and the cost of living is too high, making it unsuitable for the development of this ecosystem. Wang Xu's place here is just a stop-gap measure.

Today's lunch is the meeting for the formal establishment of the project. It is just like a general meeting. It is the small meetings that decide big things. In China's business community, more business cooperation is decided at the dinner table than at the negotiation table.

There were ten people in total for today’s lunch, and Jiahe was cooperated by Xu Ke Studio, which is affiliated with Jiahe. Therefore, in addition to Xu Ke, Shi Nansheng will naturally be present.

Xu Ke was attracted purely for the large investment of 15 million US dollars and the gimmick of a science fiction film. After the explanation just now, he was very sure that the young man in front of him was capable of making such a groundbreaking film.

Therefore, he naturally no longer had any worries about cooperation, but became a little eager.

The Imperial Film Studio is led by Han Sanjue, while Wang Xu is led by Wang Jinghua, Xu Ke serves as the producer, and Han Sanjue and Wang Jinghua are also named producers.

Three producers for one movie, well, with such a large investment, it’s okay, not too much.

A meal is not long, but it is enough to discuss many things. This is the national condition of China, and perhaps the national condition of the world. Wang Xu does not know much about other countries, but at least the same is true for Chou Country.

Really big things are mostly decided in the casual conversations of a few people.

To put it simply, the filming team will be formally formed immediately and filming will begin in the spring of next year.

Xiangjiang is responsible for half of the actors, including Wang Fei and Zhang Guorong, while Mainland China is responsible for the other half, including Wang Xu and Jiang Wen.

Moreover, Xiangjiang is responsible for getting a few foreign faces. The big villain needs a Hollywood star, at least a second-tier star. Well, this is Jiahe's request, and he is even willing to pay some extra money for this.

In fact, Wang Xu recommended Hugo Weaving, the actor who played this role in history, but he is still in Kangaroo Country, and Hollywood was not ranked, so he was rejected by Golden Harvest.

They fell in love with Jean-Claude Van Damme in last year's hit movie "The Last Man", but now he has a movie with a box office of over 100 million, although the movie's reviews are average and his acting is just that. But it can’t stand up to the high box office.

The main reason why Jiahe fell in love with him was very simple. He was very good at fighting and could be regarded as an action star. However, Wang Xu always felt that his image was not ruthless enough and too muscular. He might not be as good as Hugo as Smith. So, It's so sinister and ruthless.

Although in the background of Wang Xu's script, this villain is just a betrayer who doesn't want his lover to disappear. He has some sympathetic past and is also a standard person.

It's not like the artificial intelligence in the original version that was purely for the purpose of becoming the controller of the Matrix, but in the movie, especially in the first episode, there is not much emphasis on his past. Unless the audience is very careful, it will be very confusing. It's hard to see the reason for his betrayal of humanity.

Let Jiahe choose this matter because they like famous stars and trust Hollywood more. This is the habit of the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry.

What's more, Wang Xu has already decided on too many main roles, so he can't let Jiahe take over at all.

So in the end, he just let them go, but he still recommended Hugo again and asked them to watch this kid's show, which was considered a backup option.

In fact, if you choose Hugo, this role will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars at most, but if you choose Jean-Claude Van Damme, it will cost millions anyway. Under simple arithmetic, Wang Xu would of course prefer Hugo.

I just don’t know what kind of sincerity Jiahe can show to impress him, who has just become famous, to play a big villain. Moreover, the initial budget for this role was only a few hundred thousand dollars, not more than one million.

Since Jiahe wanted to choose someone more famous, they naturally considered entering Hollywood. Naturally, Wang Xu would not pay for this part of the benefits, so the extra part would naturally be deducted from some of Jiahe's share.

Wang Xu doesn't care so much about being generous to others.

The release of Chou Country is left to Jiahe. Jiahe has always had its own layout in Chou Country. His Chou Country branch has been open for many years. This is the vanguard of Golden Harvest's strategy in Hollywood. Although it doesn't have any masterpieces yet, it is also inconspicuous in the ugly country.

However, Golden Harvest has always had a very good relationship with New Line Cinema of Chou Country, and is considered a partner. Golden Harvest plans to distribute it together with New Line Cinema, and they are very interested in this project.

But Jiahe has always doubted Wang Xu's ability. The key is that Jiahe himself didn't count, so this time the new line did not come together to investigate.

However, judging from Xu Ke's current feedback, it is estimated that he will confidently inform New Line soon and ask them to send people to the imperial capital as soon as possible to inspect.

Wang Xu has no objection. This is what it should be. Even if it is just based on the current level of this film, although it still cannot satisfy Wang Xu, it has surpassed most Hollywood movies, okay?

Wang Xu believes that this clip is enough to impress Hollywood producers. Now that the world is dominated by dinosaurs, all film companies are waking up from a dream and looking for companies that can produce computer-generated special effects films.

Wang Xu can be regarded as a good person who gives pillows when he feels sleepy.

In fact, the 1990s was also the starting point when Hollywood really began to use computer special effects on a large scale. "Jurassic Park", which was released a few months ago, showed the special effects capabilities of computers to the world for the first time. It can be said that it had a devastating impact. film market around the world.

Europe and Xiaoli, which have always had serious resistance to Hollywood, have fallen. The same is true for Hong Kong, which is known as the forbidden area of ​​​​Hollywood. The box office of more than 60 million has trampled all Hong Kong movie box office records under its feet, and has entered a period of decline from its peak.

In just over a month, "Jurassic Park" has grossed more than $400 million at the box office from China alone.

It grossed more than 1.1 billion U.S. dollars at the global box office. It was the first movie to exceed 1 billion U.S. dollars in box office. It shocked the world for a while and made dinosaurs a nightmare for countless filmmakers around the world.

This is a purely industrial power that brings a magical prehistoric world to the audience in such a naked way. The impact is simply unprecedented.

Xu Ke said that he flew back to Hong Kong to watch the film while he was still filming. He was so shocked that he was speechless. This is also an important reason why he admires Wang Xu's special effects so much.

He had no idea that in a mainland that was full of backwardness and dilapidation, there would be such a magical special effects company that could produce special effects movies that were not inferior to those of Hollywood.

The movie "Jurassic Park" is actually not entirely made with computer special effects. It uses a large number of physical special effects. This is also a method widely used in movies of this era, including Hollywood.

Wang Xu actually followed a similar path. Current computer hardware cannot handle a large number of rendering operations, even with a large number of co-processors like Wang Xu.

This is a limitation of the hardware, so the 3D animations in this period are mainly cartoon-like and rounded, just like Toy Story, which is mainly made of plastic materials and simple shapes, without the various hairs and complexities later. Potholes and other things to avoid burning the computer.

In Wang Xu's films, the main function of computer special effects is to glue together the difficult-to-handle future world and to deal with various flaws caused by different physical materials.

Even if it was just this, it still took Wang Xu's team of 100 people several days to actually render this short clip of just over a minute.

Of course, this is also due to the lack of proficiency of the entire team, but in the end it comes down to software and hardware, especially if the hardware level is not good enough. There is no other way but to wait for the emergence of new equipment and new technologies.

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