Chapter 1035 Chapter 110: On Track
In the last chapter, I made another basic mistake, and accidentally wrote the name Tom as a surname. Now "Alan Tom" is officially corrected as "Tom Allen", and the previous article has been corrected.
Thank you book friend "Son of Uninhabited Island" for catching bugs.
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Li Qian was indeed under a lot of pressure.
3D movies will definitely become the development direction of the global movie market in the future. There is no doubt about this - computers are getting more and more advanced, technology is getting more and more developed, and the Internet is getting faster and faster. In addition, that time and space is much more powerful, but it is still difficult to completely eliminate the piracy of music records and movies. It has become a big cancer that affects the development of literary and artistic creation industries such as music and movies.
For example, the recent "Crazy Stone" won a box office of more than 420 million in ten days of release, but in the next forty or fifty days, it only took less than 300 million. Why?
Piracy is rampant!
In fact, ten days after the film was released, various high-definition film sources began to appear on the Internet. Minghu Culture cooperated with the National Copyright Administration and the Film Bureau to uncover several pirate sites, but it was still useless. You can enjoy movies without spending money. This kind of thing, as long as people are still greedy, as long as the social harmony has not been realized, and everyone is extremely rich, it is impossible to completely ban it. You hit this one, and there are tens of millions of others.
Therefore, records are not easy to sell, because it is too easy to pirate them, much easier than movies. It doesn't even need pirates to convert pirated records, make pirated tapes, etc. Ordinary "music lovers" can directly transcribe with not too advanced equipment, and it is lossless. Biography, immediately spread to ten thousand, one hundred thousand...
Singers can still barely make money from concerts and attending some commercial performances, but it is no longer the same as the boom in the past few years. If it continues to develop, the music market will soon die. At that time, whether it is the requirements of the times or the self-struggle of musicians to survive, it is required that the music market must open up new ways in time so that singers and musicians can earn money to eat.
By that time, it will actually be the time when various music TV programs will become popular.
To put it bluntly, people cannot live without music.
But in fact, even with music programs on TV, only famous singers, draft singers, and some musicians and arrangers make money. Original music still loses money, and it is still a stagnant pool.
And what about movies?
In the time and space that Li Qian once experienced, after the success of "Avatar" and the successful promotion of the concept of 3D movies to the world, James Cameron said: "There are too many entertainment methods in modern society. One must find a way to attract the audience back to the movie theater. That requires us to come up with some new things so that they can get a comprehensive visual experience in the movie theater that they can't achieve when they watch DVDs at home."
Times have changed, time and space have changed, but the truth remains the same.
3D movies are bound to be popular.
But it doesn't necessarily mean that his own version of "Avatar" is popular!
With several years of high investment, Li Qian obtained the world's top 3D technology and motion capture technology for himself before the world. He used "The Matrix" to pave the way for his future global release , It also aroused the expectations of fans around the world for their next sci-fi blockbuster.
And there is another point that cannot be ignored, that is, "Avatar" has been successful before!
But still the same sentence, knowing the development trend of things does not mean that you can become a trendsetter at the forefront of the times. Knowing that a movie has sold well and has no professional level, it is difficult for you to copy it, copy it, It may not necessarily be successful.
Whether it was "My Sassy Girl" before, or later "Red Sorghum" and "Once Upon a Time", in fact, Li Qian also walked carefully step by step. Now, if he continues to follow the old path of 2D, he will Already able to do it with ease.
But he is not reconciled.
He wants to use 3D, the future development trend, to bring Minghu culture, or even grander, to bring Chinese films, at least in terms of film technology, to the world's top platform.
So, like a rookie director, he wants to return to the cautious state a few years ago.
And this time, it was an investment of up to 500 million Huayuan, or 250 million U.S. dollars!
Looking at the world in this era, even in Hollywood, if the investment exceeds 100 million U.S. dollars, it is still a standard big production. If the investment reaches the level of 250 million U.S. dollars, only one or two movies a year will top the sky.
Moreover, the 250 million U.S. dollars for "Avatar" does not include the massive initial capital investment in 3D technology and motion capture technology.
Only when "Avatar" succeeds can we talk about the issue of selling technology in the future. If it fails, it will be difficult to sell this technology, and then it will not only be "Avatar" that will lose money, but also all the previous projects. money invested in technology.
Of course, money is still a trivial matter, Li Qian is not short of money now.
But the problem is, if he wants to drag domestic movies to the forefront of the times, the development of 3D technology is the last proven opportunity before he travels to this time and space.
Once he misses it, even he will not be able to determine what the next sure opportunity in the world's development trend will be!
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As the assistant director of the film and the most important film assistant beside Li Qian, Sun Yuting has already been deeply involved in "The Matrix", and even more so in this "Avatar".
Although Li Qian has never played 3D before, he has seen countless 3D movies anyway, and he knows the advantages and disadvantages of the development of 3D movies in later generations, and he has also watched "Avatar" - the original version, IMAX, and later MKV, There are no less than ten brushes before and after. Therefore, even though it is very unfamiliar at the beginning, he can quickly get familiar with it at a faster speed than everyone else.
In the eyes of others, this is of course another manifestation of talent and talent.
During this process, Sun Yuting was by his side almost all the time, while handling various trivial matters of the crew for him, while observing and learning how to use this new film shooting technology.
When the time entered April, the filming of the "Avatar" crew began to gradually enter the "right track".
Note that this track is enclosed in double quotes.
For a normal film crew to shoot a movie, the shooting period is generally between two months and four months, with about three months being the most common. A normal 100-minute commercial film requires about 1200 to 2000 shots. It depends on the subject matter, editing and shooting methods. For this type of normal commercial film, the director usually prepares several times more material for the final editing. That is, the approximate shooting cycle of 100 days requires Shoot about 10,000 shots of various kinds.
For a commercial film crew working under normal circumstances, the number of shots per day is generally between 80 and 120. If it runs smoothly, you can take up to 150 shots. If it doesn’t run smoothly, or there are various problems, such as the initial stage of shooting, 50 shots are completely acceptable.
Of course, this data is based on a premise, that is-normal commercial movies.
Therefore, the shooting progress of some literary films and directors of literary films is completely different from this. People are willing to burn money, so they go back and forth over and over again. It is not uncommon to shoot three shots a day.
However, if commercial film shooting is maintained at a rate of only ten or eight shots per day for a long time, there is almost no doubt that it will definitely exceed the production time and budget.
Even if the number of shots per day is kept below 50 for a long time, investors and powerful producers are already in a hurry-every day of delay is a huge amount of money.
And when the time entered April, and the filming of "Avatar" gradually found its pace and got on track, the average number of shots shot by the crew per day began to increase to about twenty.
That's why Li Qian planned a ten-month shooting cycle for this film from the very beginning!
It is expected that when the shooting enters the third month, as the entire crew becomes more and more familiar with this shooting method, the crew will be able to increase the shooting progress to about 40 to 50 shots per day.
And when the time enters June and July, the entire shooting is expected to be fully on the so-called "right track" in the conventional sense-shooting about 80 to 100 shots per day.
Of course, starting from April, Li Qian also began to gradually "decentralize", and began to try to hand over some less important shots to Sun Yuting to lead the team and try to shoot.
In the future, it is almost inevitable to speed up the shooting progress of the entire crew and shoot in different locations. By that time, Sun Yuting will definitely be responsible for shooting some shots independently. Of course, let her practice in advance, as early as possible. get acquainted.
And just when Sun Yuting started to get this kind of "internship period" of one or two days a week, Li Qian would completely throw away his hands and return to the city of Shuntian Prefecture, occasionally processing some accumulated documents that needed his signature, But most of the time, they go to Minghu Animation to assist Cao Zhan to check the "Kung Fu Panda", which has already started simultaneously. This animation film will start the production of 3D animation at the same time.
Of course, besides this, there are many other things that Li Qian must care about.
For example, one day in late April, after Li Qian temporarily handed over the guide tube to Sun Yuting, he rushed to Huairou Film and Television City in the north of Shuntianfu City to visit the filming of "The Legend of Condor Heroes" that is currently being filmed.
Directed by Han Shunzhang and Huang Wenjuan as one of the producers, this TV series has been filmed for more than a month. As the author, screenwriter and big boss of the original work, of course Li Qian wants to watch it.