The Director of Music Department

"Music Department Director ()"

To put it bluntly, "Mad Max: Fury Road" is still quite Hollywood at its core.

Although this movie will be very manic, very violent, violent all the way to the end, all the way to the end.

But in fact, in the final analysis, this is still a commercially cool film!

Like "Mad Max: Fury Road", in fact, it includes the setting of Felosa, the world background, the setting of the environment, etc., as well as the setting of the plot. These settings are also in line with the consistent Hollywood movies road number. In Hollywood movies, the future is either a beautiful mess or a doomsday madness.

Mad Max: Fury Road is clearly the latter.

But the same does not deviate from the core of Hollywood movies, that is the theme of the movie, it is definitely not a cult and dark, but running towards freedom!

Of course, it is impossible to start shooting this movie immediately, and there are still many things that need to be prepared.

The literary drama in this film is almost so small that it can be ignored. All the preliminary work is almost preparing for the action scene.

After obtaining Wang Yifan's approval, various prop cars quickly entered the modification stage, but the huge amount of more than 150 vehicles cannot be completed in a short period of time. For this, Wang Yifan also set aside enough time for the prop team and other departments , Of course he also wants to shoot it as soon as possible, but there are some things that cannot be rushed.

Many sci-fi special effects blockbusters, in fact, most of the time, use CG special effects, and CG special effects often cost more money, but it doesn't mean that the shooting of "Mad Max: Fury Road" was easy.

On the contrary, because many special effects need to be shot on location, such a movie is much more complicated to shoot than those green screen movies.

In fact, to put it bluntly, there are two directions.

For a long time, special effects movies can be divided into two aspects. One aspect is to focus on live-action shooting. Live-action shooting has more complex requirements for the location and shooting, so the shooting time is often longer. But the same, compared with CG In terms of special effects, green screen shooting is much simpler, but CG special effects are expensive and time-consuming.

One is that it takes more time to shoot, and the other is that it takes more time to do special effects. It is difficult for you to tell which is good and which is bad.

For the movie "Mad Max: Fury Road", it is difficult for CG special effects to achieve the effect that Wang Yifan wants, and if CG special effects are really used to make this movie, then the cost of money will definitely be higher. It is an astronomical sum.

Because "Mad Max: Fury Road" can be said to be raging and burning from beginning to end. If all of these were done with CG special effects, Wang Yifan couldn't imagine how much money it would cost.

It is undeniable that the current mainstream special effects are actually CG special effects, but compared to on-site shooting, sufficiently brilliant CG special effects often cost more money.

As we all know, the production of CG special effects for movies is a very expensive thing, but specifically, where is the money spent? How much does a movie cost to make satisfactory special effects?

There are many places to spend money to produce special effects for movies, the largest proportion of which is labor costs. For such a large production, the post-production often requires a team of hundreds of people.

Some people may say, Huaguo's labor cost is lower, why not use Huaguo's special effects company to do it?

Don't Wang Yifan want to? Of course not, in fact, Huaguo's Aurora Special Effects Company participated in this movie itself, but the labor cost here cannot be done by just anyone, because a lot of labor is technical work.

In Huaguo, after all, the development in this area is still relatively backward. What is behind is not only technology, but also talents!

But in Hollywood, ten or even twenty special effects companies and studios are responsible for the special effects of many big-investment movies. Many of them are animators and compositors with many years of work experience, and their wages will definitely not be low.

At the same time, the production cycle of quite a few films can be as long as several years, and the expenses are naturally indispensable.

To put it simply, good special effects are piled up with money.

Not only that, because the special effects are all made by computers, and the configuration of these computers is also professional-grade. Such computers are not low in cost. In addition, the computers for special effects need to be updated at any time.

These alone cost tens of millions of dollars every year.

Because for special effects, it is often not one or two computers, not one or two hundred computers, but thousands of computers.

Even some special effects need to use supercomputers!

Therefore, doing special effects is really a waste of money, not only the cost of labor, but also the cost of machinery and equipment.

This is why special effects companies close down every year, and the winner takes all.

Because the top special effects companies have no shortage of orders, so they can constantly develop new software and stand at the pinnacle of technology.

It is impossible for other special effects companies to develop these software from scratch, because the cost must be higher, so most of the time, they will buy these software.

Such a top-level special effects company can develop new technologies and use old technologies to sell money, but other special effects companies can't do it.

Doing special effects not only costs money for the film, in fact, the operating costs of the special effects company itself are also frighteningly high. If there is no continuous supply of orders, the special effects company can easily go bankrupt!

This is why many special effects companies suddenly collapsed overnight, because some large orders require them to purchase more equipment and recruit more labor, but when the large orders are over, their equipment needs to be updated again. At this time, if there is no new order, then they will definitely not be able to afford the cost.

There is a very interesting thing about the special effects industry. If you want to achieve 80% of the quality in your mind, maybe 20% of the funds and time are enough, but often the last 20% of the quality will cost you hundreds of dollars. 80/10 time and money!

This is why, in many movies, you will find that although the difference does not seem to be too big, the cost is very different.

Because the last 20% effect is the most expensive!

It can be said that filming only occupies a very short time in the film production cycle. Even a person like Wang Yifan who can cheat has to spend several times the time in pre-production and post-production. Sometimes he also wants to know, How did the films of the legendary directors who did not need to participate in the pre-production and only a few weeks of post-production succeed?

In fact, many domestic stars and film companies know about Wang Yifan's new movie.

But this time, Wang Yifan went abroad again.

When I was filming "Midnight Ring" in the island country earlier, it was better. After all, the island country is also an Asian country.

But this time, it was going to Hollywood to make a movie. Most of the team is also from Hollywood, and the characters are also Hollywood stars.