Chapter 460 If It Doesn't Catch Fire, Is There Any Reason?

On the seventh floor, Minghu Cultural Image Processing Center.

Li Qian had already been there for two full hours in Studio No. 1, which was called the "Video Special Effects Department" within Minghu Culture.

And there was actually only one thing he did, and that was: acceptance!

After returning to China for so many days, although there is He Runqing's concert to participate in, and the final exam of the Film Academy in June, and then I have to talk to Huaxia TV and Suncheon TV over and over again about the variety show, but other things He squeezed out as much time as possible, and devoted himself to the post-editing.

Finally, at the beginning of July, he basically completed all the editing work of this TV series.

Next, after the video special effects have processed his final edited version from beginning to end, then make some fine-tuning on small details according to the specific situation, then add the opening and ending credits and subtitles, and then adjust the audio Once the track is sorted out, it can be completely declared that the production of this TV series is complete.

In fact, the subtitles and so on are relatively simple. In the later stage of the film, special effects are being edited at the same time. Two out of two.

The most important thing is that several major technical difficulties have been overcome, and the next work is actually just adding rendering to the areas that have not yet been rendered, and the difficulty of the work is already very low.

Therefore, if not expected, the final and complete completion of this TV series will probably be at the end of July.

Accompanied by the staff, Li Qian pulled the progress bar by himself, and re-watched the clip just now, especially Fa Hai's cassock spinning in the sky, and pieces of red bricks fell to the ground, automatically forming a brick wall to block it. For the part of the flood, every second or two he played, he pressed pause, then zoomed in on the image, and carefully looked at the junction between the brick wall and the flood.

Then, after this time was over, he finally let out a sigh of relief, nodded with a smile, turned his head to Lu Ming, the director of the image processing center, and said, "Not bad, not bad, it's really delicate to do this."

Lu Ming smiled proudly when he heard the words: "Don't talk about the level of TV broadcasting, even if it is made into the highest standard DVD format, and let the audience buy it back and watch it on the latest plasma TV, our resolution is guaranteed to be without any Grainy!"

After a pause, he continued: "Although it's not as high as "Titanic", we are definitely the best in China!"

Hearing this, Li Qian smiled and nodded, then continued to look back.

Compared with the level of the Titanic where there is no fake at all and everything is as it is in front of the eyes, it should be said that the effects produced by the special effects artists of Minghu Culture must still be slightly inferior, but as Lu As Ming said, in the current domestic market, this is definitely the highest level, and even if it is put in Hollywood, although it is not comparable to the best two special effects companies, it is still qualified to gain a foothold and receive some TV-level effects. , or the less demanding scattered work on the film.

Frankly speaking, this was the best that Li Qian could have imagined before.

You must know that in the current domestic film and television industry, not to mention TV dramas, even the so-called "special effects" made in China for movies that require a higher level of picture quality, in fact, many of them just stay in the later stage to wipe the wire on the screen. or if a certain hero has done his work, add some red light to his body or something—really, this level of special effects, in the eyes of people who have experienced the screen bombing of Hollywood special effects movies for more than ten years, is simply It's LOW burst!

However, the reason why we stop at this step is not that the country really does not have the technical level at all, but because many film companies, directors and producers do not pay much attention to special effects from the bottom of their hearts.

Only a small number of directors of commercial films have already had a clear understanding of special effects, but their power is limited, and it is unlikely that they will influence film and television production companies to spend money to set up special effects companies. The films that come out are often taken to the United States, Japan and other places for post-production special effects, and even some directors who have high requirements for the picture even go abroad to do the printing——Li Qian, Cao Zhan, and Yu Bojun When sitting and chatting with others, I feel that the domestic film market has fallen off a cliff since the beginning of 1998, and it is still shrinking collectively until this year. Compared with these domestic production companies and film and television companies, the hardware-including Story hardware and technical hardware-the lack of attention has a considerable relationship.

To put it simply, the audience is no longer a frog in a well. Everyone has seen foreign films, especially how well-produced Hollywood blockbusters are. Therefore, in the past, it was a good time to make a random martial arts film online and make money. passed.

Because of this, this year's summer season has so far shown a situation that makes domestic filmmakers blush—you said the film market is not good enough, "Titanic" was sold out at the beginning, and it has been almost a month since it was released. In many places, the attendance rate is still as high as 40%, and even 70% to 80% on weekends. However, there are many domestic films that are released at the same time. There are also big directors and "big productions", but they always face extremely low attendance rates. , Coincidentally, I went to see it on a weekday, and I might even meet a situation where one person booked the venue!

For filmmakers who had unanimously bad-mouthed the domestic film market before, this is simply an extremely resounding slap in the face!

Of course, even if "Titanic" with exceptionally outstanding performance is included, the performance of this year's summer vacation is still not good. Compared with the data after last year's tragic decline, this year may not fall sharply this year, but that is just Because it has already reached the bottom of the valley, and there is a big hit "Titanic" to support the market.

Overall, this year's domestic film market is even worse than last year.

Recently, Cao Zhan went to a few small-scale film salons. In fact, it was a group of old friends sitting together drinking wine and chatting about movies. According to the information he gave back, there seemed to be quite a few filmmakers in China. In the face of failure, I finally started to calm down and reflect on some things—for example, the article written by Cao Zhan about the hardware upgrade of domestic movies that Li Qian had just seen when he crossed over, was recently organized by some insiders in the movie circle In small-scale salons, people began to take it out.

And according to Cao Zhan, once, a vice president of a major domestic production company specifically mentioned the issue of special effects.

Feedback from these situations, really, Li Qian was very happy in his heart.

Of course, it is not true that there are no domestic companies that can do special effects. For example, Liu Chengzhang, a famous domestic director, spent a lot of money to open a special effects studio. The studio was opened, and he invested almost all of his net worth at that time, which is said to be more than 13 million. But in the end, he couldn’t make the highest-level ones. Those that needed that level, even his own films, had to go to America to make them, while the low-level ones, he asked for too much money—the pictures of TV dramas. , I don't ask for that fineness, you just help me erase those ropes and it's OK!

Therefore, the result of not achieving high enough but not low enough is that his studio has been facing underemployment since the day it was established. In Li Qian's view, this situation is the most typical case where he only has ambition, but there is not enough market for him to release production capacity.

Underemployment means either layoffs or salary cuts. In short, people can't be kept.

And if you can't keep people, you will be even less able to accept high-level jobs. Moreover, underemployment will also cause your technology to be unable to gradually improve after overcoming difficulties again and again.

And what's more deadly is that the output of his own movies is very limited, so he doesn't even have confidence in his own studio, but after the studio opened, his ambitions are getting bigger and bigger. Two years later, He opened his own film studio again, which eventually led to a falling out with the company, which directly caused his special effects studio to lose a big customer.

Therefore, until now, that studio has been operating in a dismal manner. It is said that only in 1996, when Liu Chengzhang’s films were very popular, he paid a sum of money to update some equipment for the special effects studio. Then, in 1998, his film suffered a tragic defeat in Waterloo, and the studio was even more helpless. Hold on.

There have been many rumors in the industry before that his studio is almost unable to survive.

Of course, now that the movie market is collapsing and domestic filmmakers, power holders, and production companies have begun to reflect on themselves, it is undeniable that, as one of the few special effects studios in China with a certain level of technical strength, his company works Studio, gradually began to be valued by people, it is said that many production companies are very interested in his studio.

Thinking about it, if he wants to take the opportunity to sell, even if he loses a little, he can't lose too much. It should be a good time.

For Li Qian, the failure experience of his studio brought Li Qian a very important vigilance - since it opened, he also clearly understands that special effects are important in the film and TV drama market in the future. How important it is, so at the moment, not only must we continue to do it, but we must strive to do it better and better!

So, the most important thing is to keep the studio busy all the time!

And even if they are not able to take on outside jobs for the time being, then they should have higher requirements for their own jobs, so that they can continuously improve their overall technical level after overcoming difficulties again and again.

In short, the special effects studio must not be allowed to follow the old path of Liu Chengzhang!

Therefore, "Legend of the New White Snake" is just the beginning.

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Li Qian continued to watch the film, and when he came across important special effects, he slowed down and watched carefully bit by bit, and when he encountered ordinary plots, and scenes that he had seen many times before, he was sure that there would never be any For the small special effects of the problem, just watch it normally, or even drag the progress bar directly and skip to watch - by now, he has reviewed the sixteenth episode.

This TV series was originally scheduled to have 32 episodes, but after it was filmed, it was cut and cut again and again. Although the sub-shots had been drawn clearly before, it was really the turn of the knife. The shots that were shot before were many I am not willing to cut them out, and I always have to go through repeated cruelty, reminding myself that the first priority is to ensure the smoothness and precision of the story, and finally cut them out cruelly. And up to now, the final cut version of the finalized version is still as long as 40 episodes, and each episode is 55 minutes long!

With the opening and closing credits, this is a proper one-hour episode!

Editor Da Liu repeatedly suggested that he should cut the episodes in 40 to 45 minutes, but Li Qian thought again and again, thinking that the storytelling rhythm of an hour and an episode is the most attractive. It can not only ensure that the story of this episode has a great progress, but also leave enough suspense and anticipation for the following story. So, in the end he still decided to complete the final cut according to the forty episodes.

After watching this episode, Li Qian nodded in satisfaction and stretched himself.

Lu Ming, the person in charge of the special effects side who accompanied him to watch the movie, snapped his fingers to ask someone to change the movie, and said with a smile, "Are you tired?"

Li Qian smiled and said, "I'm happy no matter how tired I am! Awesome! Well done!"

Facing the special effects studio, he has always been generous with his praise and praise.

What's more, even with such a critical eye, he has to admit that they are indeed really remarkable for being able to achieve the current level - it would be a bit exaggerated to say that they are comparable to the movie-level special effects of later generations Yes, but really, just by looking at and feeling with the naked eye, even if someone like Li Qian is blowing the soil to find a crack, it is basically impossible to see that it is fake.

When Bai Suzhen performed her skills, a little white light would still rise from her fingers, but it was no longer the simple white light like the version in Li Qian's mind, even covering her palms. In fact, to put it bluntly, that It is to greatly lower the frame rate of the film with special effects, sacrificing clarity for the sake of special effects. In short, it looks fake.

But now, after being processed by this group of special effects staff, this kind of picture has become a more delicate and crystal clear light that appeared at her fingertips. In that light, even ordinary black and white TVs with relatively poor broadcasting standards You can clearly see Bai Suzhen's fingers, and you can see that her fingers are glowing!

Based on this alone, needless to say, the special effects of the original version of Spike, even the special effects made by many domestic movies may not be comparable!

As for the special effects of the White Snake's cultivation and transformation into a human form, it's even more—well, all the staff in the studio have been busy for a full month and a half for that special effect alone! If you calculate the money spent, about five million was spent in that period! So, you can imagine how exquisite it is!

At the moment, not to mention domestic ones, some medium-budget commercial films in Hollywood are probably at this level.

In the past two days, after watching more than a dozen episodes in one go, Li Qian became more confident the more he watched.

For the story, plot, and character creation of this TV series, Li Qian is of course full of confidence from the beginning. The music is also arranged by himself, and he is also full of confidence. Only the screen, Jin Han is responsible for completing the first half of the process. , It was completed beautifully, and now, the special effects studio is almost finishing the second half of the process, and it is also beautifully completed.

Therefore, such a TV series comes from the well-known Legend of the White Snake. The story is wonderful, the characters are vivid, the characteristics are distinctive, and the picture is so beautiful, almost reaching the level of a movie. If it is not popular, is there any reason?

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The staff took out the production master of the next episode and brought it to Li Qian to put it on, but before he started watching, Li Qian heard a movement at the door, and then someone knocked on the door, and Lu Ming said "Please come in", the door opened. Open it, and it was Xie Mingyuan who came in.

When he saw Li Qian, he first smiled and said: "You are indeed here. I went to the ninth floor to look for you. I heard that you were not here, so I knew you must have come here." After finishing speaking, he nodded to Lu Ming hint.

Li Qian asked: "Is there something wrong?"

Xie Mingyuan asked in turn: "Are you... very busy?"

Li Qian laughed when he heard the words, and said to Lu Ming: "It seems that there is something wrong!" While talking, he thought for a while, then stood up, stretched again, and said: "Then come here first, just because I'm tired too Yes, I will try to watch two more episodes this afternoon."

Lu Ming nodded happily, "Success!"

Then, Li Qian turned his head to look at Xie Mingyuan, "Then... shall we talk in my office?"

Xie Mingyuan nodded and said, "Okay."

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I just don't know what to say, the monthly pass of the big guy is too powerful!

There must be a second chapter today!

Then... what? Someone actually said that I was helping to promote the game "No. Defeat. Legend. Say"? Do you think people like me who don't play games will help promote the game? Do you think that I will be this kind of person?

Yes.

I am that kind of person.

The key people say that they support genuine reading, and they will give 10 million starting coins to book fans. Although I'm not sure whether I can give Durex, and I think it's basically impossible, but, just sending starting coins is enough, right?

It is said that there will be an internal test on July 22, and there will be a lot of benefits. Everyone should try it and see if they can get some starting coins or something. Anyway, it doesn’t cost much.

Moreover, my wife is indeed playing this game recently, this is not a lie.

Well, the second update, I will try my best to send it before twelve o'clock!