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Chapter 109: Sword Pointing HD

Of course, the filming phase is over. For a TV series, only half of the work has been completed. As a director, Li Qi still has a lot to do, but the next thing can be done quickly or slowly.

Therefore, apart from resting, whenever he had free time, he would go to Miracle Media Company and do post-production editing with the editor recommended by Ning Hao.

At the same time, Li Qi had dozens of interludes to play. Of course, as the granddaughter of Zuo Hongyuan, a master of Chinese music in China, Zuo Qingcheng was extremely good at sweet singing, so she naturally became the replacement for the singing of White Snake Bai Suzhen in the play.

As for Xu Xian, Li Qi planned to sing it himself, but after a brief trial, he found that his voice was fine for singing, but it was a bit hard for singing the Huangmei tune style in the TV series. And this hardness was not a problem of technique, but a result of the northerners’ vocalization since childhood, involving breathing, pronunciation, etc. Anyway, Li Qi himself didn’t feel very good.

Although I could ask someone to come and train me to fix these problems, I really didn’t have that much time. Then I exchanged my system points for skills and solved them smoothly. I decided to be the one to sing for the”Er Ba San” Xu Xian in the play.

As for the other singing parts, as long as you can handle White Snake and Xu Xian, the others will be much easier.

For example, the ending song of the whole play,”Du Qing”, is the duet between Xiaoqing and the boatman when Bai Suzhen takes Xiaoqing to find out whether Xu Xian is her benefactor in the previous life.

Li Qi asked Zuo Hongyuan to sing the boatman.

After trying it out, he found that his hoarse voice was very suitable for the performance.

Zuo Hongyuan was fully responsible for the other singing parts, such as Xiaoqing.

He knew many people in the music circle and could easily get people to record.

Therefore, the advantage of inviting Mr. Zuo Hongyuan was undoubtedly highlighted at this time. In addition, Li Qi wanted to make friends with him and asked his granddaughter Zuo Qingcheng to sing the theme song of the play”A Thousand Years of Waiting”. So far, all the theme songs, ending songs and interludes of such a large and long TV series that is almost an opera were easily arranged.

November 26

The floor of a building where a special effects production company in Beijing is located

In an office, a staff member was repeatedly playing a nine-second video clip to Li Qi.

Behind Li Qi, there were three or four staff members surrounding him, watching the scene playing on the screen over and over again with him. White Snake Bai Suzhen put her hands together, and suddenly a ball of bright white light condensed above her fingertips. Then, she stretched out her hand and pointed, and a light white beam of light, like a lightsaber, shot out quickly!

On the screen, mountains collapsed and rocks cracked!

Anyone who has watched the TV series knows that this is definitely fake. Even anyone with a little imagination can understand that the scene of the mountain collapsing and the rocks cracking must have been caused by explosives. But it doesn’t matter. Everyone knows that this is acting and telling a story. But the problem is that as the storyteller and the person filming the show, you can’t use this as an excuse to relax your requirements for the scene.

Outside the story, everyone knows that it is fake and was deliberately filmed, but within the story, it is and must be real. In fact, for a film or TV series, the best scene is that the audience knows it is fake, but still feels it is real!

To achieve this, the actors need to immerse themselves in the play and perform well, but the skills beyond performance depend on post-production processing.

The original version of Legend of White Snake in Li Qi’s memory was of course of extremely high standard in terms of the actors’ performances, but due to the background of the times, technological strength, and the amount of investment at the time, the special effects, although they had reached a high standard at the time, had to be said to be still very fake.

The times are developing too fast. When top works like The Legend of White Snake were filmed in the early 1990s, we had to leave a little regret. But in fact, in less than ten years, the foreign Titanic has made the 2D generation of special effects almost perfect!

In this time and space, China’s technological and economic strength far exceeds the level of the same era in other time and space, so Li Qi is confident. He has also prepared enough money and decided to make the special effects of this play as good as possible. He strives not to leave any regrets for himself or this play.

In mid-November, as the TV series Legend of White Snake officially wrapped, Li Qi and I returned to the capital, and the place suddenly became more and more lively. Seven days a week, at least ten hours a day, there were dozens of computers and large professional image processing equipment running here.

But even so, after spending a large sum of money, Li Qi couldn’t help but feel an indescribable sense of accomplishment when he saw the first special effects scene made by this group of staff!

Of course, it’s not perfect yet

Li Qi watched it over and over again for more than a dozen times, then signaled to pause, turned to Wang Ming, the leader of the image processing center, and said,”Pay attention here, cut the first frame for me, yes, stop!

When Bai Suzhen had this ball of light in her hand, you can see that this place, this area, is obviously dropping frames, the colors are not right, and the clarity is completely not up to the normal level!

Maybe it can’t be seen on TV, but what about in the future? Or, in the future, with the advancement of technology, the audience wants to buy a very high-definition version to collect? This place becomes a shortcoming, right?”

The person in charge, Wang Ming, licked his lips and nodded.

He graduated from the Computer Science Department of Beijing University.

After graduation, he went to the United States to study for a master’s and doctoral degree.

He then worked in Hollywood for three or four years.

The year before last, he founded Wang Ming Image Service Company.

According to Li Qi’s investigation, the technology was quite good, but he was an outsider and could not get any work in the film and television industry.

After two years, his initial wit and confidence when he started the business had been almost exhausted.

When Li Qi contacted him, he was already considering selling the company and returning to the United States.

After understanding Li Qi’s new request, his reaction was only to nod and agree.”It’s a bit difficult. The jobs I took on in the past didn’t have such high requirements. But I’ll try. Give me a few days. We can definitely do it!” (To read the exciting novels, go to Faloo Novel Network!)

Li Qi really likes this kind of technical and practical people the most! If he has money, he can buy a special effects company, so just think about it now!

Upon hearing this, he patted Wang Ming on the shoulder and said with a smile:”Thank you for your hard work!” Then he asked:”By the way, how are you thinking about that long transformation? Do you have any ideas?”…

When Wang Ming talked about this, he became very excited. He snapped his fingers and gestured to the technicians in front of the computer. Then the technicians quickly pulled up a video clip.

This is a simulated video

The background of the video is some mountain scenery shot in Zhangjiajie according to Li Qi’s request. After the crew finished filming and returned to Beijing, Li Qi edited this part first.[]

Basically, this is the scene that will appear in the first episode of the whole drama where Bai Suzhen cultivates into a human body!

At the beginning, the scenery was beautiful, but then the scene of lightning and thunder that was finally captured after seven or eight days of waiting in Zhangjiajie for the Olympic bid was cut in. This means that the White Snake has reached a critical point and is about to survive the thunderstorm. She has become Bai Suzhen.

On the screen, there is a very simple line swimming between the peaks. Wang Ming pointed at the line on the screen and said,”Right here, we are going to let her raise her head to the sky, and when dubbing, she should roar. Then, it will swim like this, faster and faster, and then, yes. Pause, she spits out the bead, lets her snake bead be baptized by the thunder, and then swallows it back, that’s it! How about it? Oh, by the way, bring out the white snake we designed”

As they were talking, the technicians pulled out a design draft, which had not yet been painted, but had already begun to take shape.

A huge snake god with dense scales and a bloody mouth

Li Qi looked at it for a long time and said,”Did you design this?”

Wang Ming shrugged and said,”Of course, oh, it was drawn after we discussed it and according to the results of our discussion!”

Li Qi nodded and said,”Basically it’s good, but you should pay attention to removing some of its fierceness and wildness. Now this white snake, yes, and the one you just mentioned that raised its head and roared to the sky, we don’t want that either. The image of the white snake is gentle and kind, we don’t want this kind of animalistic side.”

At this time, before Wang Ming could speak, someone beside Li Qi couldn’t help but say,”But the White Snake is a monster, right? And its cultivation should be to fight against the way of heaven and survive the thunder tribulation. If she was so gentle when she was a snake, isn’t it a bit unreasonable?””

Li Qi turned his head in surprise and looked at the man, then smiled and said,”You are right. She was able to cultivate into a human being in such difficult conditions for thousands of years. Let alone her animal nature, her ferocity is even beyond our imagination. In short, let alone cultivation, just to survive for so many years, she must have adapted to the law of the jungle. But, this is not the story we want! In our story, Bai Suzhen is so kind!”

After a pause, he smiled and said,”The Journey to the West produced by CCTV is so classic. When you look at the stone monkey, how devilish can you see? In fact, it is the demon king! So, if there really is such a fierce White Snake, let others interpret it in the future. For now, we only require one thing, that the sequence is consistent. It cannot be fierce at the beginning and kind and gentle at the end.���, that’s a bit off topic!”

Several staff members looked at each other and nodded. Wang Ming also snapped his fingers and said,”Okay, no problem. You are the director and the boss. We will do what you say!”

Li Qi smiled and patted Wang Ming on the shoulder,”I won’t waste time here, you guys hurry up and get to work!”