Chapter 668: Tokyo International Film Festival

That's right, He Xin is planning to do the business of domestic filmmakers.

What Hollywood team's offer of $5,000 for an hour of aerial photography is clearly relying on its own advanced technology and slaughtering fat sheep everywhere.

Just as they sell arms, Britain and Israel have their own people, f35 80 million, Franco-German allies, 100 million, South Korea, Xiaori...... A good Japanese friend, well, an ally and a fat sheep, 150 million......;

At the same time, he also wants to disgust the Hollywood team of what kind of aerial photography, otherwise the money will make them too easy to earn. In the original time and space of "The Wind", Huayi Brothers had a lot of money, and several aerial shots cost millions.

There is nothing mysterious about some things at all, just like when he first entered the industry, Steadicam had just been introduced to China, and it is said that there are less than ten photographers in China who can master Steadicam in China.

In fact, the so-called Steadicam does not have many flower heads, it is just a camera stabilizer. Three magic weapons, load-bearing vest + shock-absorbing arm + balance bar, the function is to shoot sports shots, the picture is always stable and not shaky. For example, Hong Kong photographer Wong Yuet-tai is called "Iron Hand" because when he holds the camera to shoot action shots, his hands are quite stable and the picture does not shake. This was a basic skill for many photographers back then, and it can be said that every excellent photographer has a pair of unicorn arms.

The advent of Steadicam has lowered the threshold for photographers in this regard. This so-called Steadicam was also invented by the Americans, and it was used in the 70s, but it took 20 years to introduce it to China.

Without him, it's just like today's so-called aerial photography, which is too expensive.

But after the introduction of China, it has become popular in just a few years, and now let alone making movies, it is even making TV series, and every crew has to come to a set of Steadicam.

Aerial photography is also a reason, originally shooting the kind of bird's-eye view of the big scene. When He Xin was filming "Love Has an Afterlife", Sister Yu liked to use the big swingarm to shoot the panorama from top to bottom, and all kinds of horizontal or up and down shots.

If the scene is larger, use the kind of crane whose boom can stretch out dozens of meters high, and if it is more complicated, use two cranes? Intermediate connection wire rope? Racking the camera to a wire rope? The lens is controlled by the twitching of the rope, and the effect of aerial photography has been achieved. This is not only time-consuming, labor-intensive, but also difficult.

Otherwise, it is the use of airplanes to achieve real aerial photography. Just like when Wu Yusen was filming "Red Cliff", it is said that there is a special helicopter on standby at the scene, so that aerial photography can be carried out anytime and anywhere.

But this is only possible if you have deep pockets. When Feng Xiaogang was filming "No Thieves in the World", in order to shoot the footage of Andy Lau and Milk Tea driving a BMW car from the sheep on the grassland, he also spent 260,000 yuan to buy a glider from Australia with the scientific name "Volley Crocodile", invited the coach of the local aviation sports school to be the pilot, and then Uncle Li held the machine and filmed on it.

Is this much more cost-effective than renting a helicopter for aerial photography? However, the disadvantage is that it does not have the stability of a helicopter, which is very demanding for the photographer, and it also requires a pair of iron hands to stabilize the machine so that the picture will not shake. It is said that in order to shoot these aerial shots at that time? Uncle Li almost didn't freeze to death.

And you can't hover yet? I can only shoot all the way through this.

But what if you come across a city full of high-rise buildings, or some complex geographical conditions are not suitable for helicopter shooting? Then you can only catch the blind, or spend a lot of money to hire the so-called Hollywood stunt aerial photography team.

To be honest, although He Xin has not seen the equipment of the Hollywood stunt aerial photography team, he estimates that the two drones that Wang Taotao brought today that can carry cameras, hover, and can take aerial photography from any angle, up and down, left and right, must be surpassed.

In fact, this kind of drone really costs two million units, which is still cost-effective for film companies, and it is better to ask the Hollywood team for several million, it is better to make a one-time investment and use it in the future.

But in this way, the degree of popularity is poor. After all, this drone is not like the Steadicam back then. As the brain that can control the drone, the flight control system, that is Wang Tao's unique skill, and it cannot be copied without source code.

200,000 is undoubtedly a big toy for those photographers who are a little more famous. No, except that Ning Hao couldn't wait to have two immediately, Du Jie also wanted to buy one to play with.

After Xu Laowei was stunned and saw it, he had to order five units in one go. At the beginning of the year, "Women Are Not Bad", plus "The Wind", which is about to start, the director's salary of the two dramas can make him earn 10 million, and he is very rich!

After the news spread, Gu Changwei, Uncle Li, Lu Yue, Hou Yong and other big names in the domestic photography industry came to the door one after another, and even some photography enthusiasts who asked friends everywhere to inquire.

The more the quantity, the lower the cost, the key value is the flight control system of Dajiang Innovation, unconsciously, the name of Dajiang Innovation has been launched in the photography circle, and at the same time cultivated a large number of potential customers.

It only takes a month to easily earn 40 million, and Wang Taotao is stupid. He had been burning money before, and he was trying to find a way to monetize as soon as possible in the process of development, so that his research could continue, but the company was about to close down, and he couldn't find a suitable way.

Now after He Xin's order, a golden avenue appeared in front of him, which made him overjoyed, and hurriedly found the employees in the company who usually had nothing to do.

200,000 drones with free training services.

"Taotao, these are just immediate benefits, you must not relax in the next step of your research. Remember what you told me about your ideals, well, it's still the same sentence: don't forget your original intention!"

He Xin's words suddenly made Wang Tao awe-inspired. He was originally a strong-willed person, but he was afraid of poverty, and he was a little lost when he saw the interests in front of him. Now his mind immediately sobered up, and he nodded solemnly to He Xin and said, "Teacher He, thank you for reminding you and don't forget your original intention!"

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On October 17, the box office of "Racing", which was released for 18 days, accumulated more than 120 million, and on the same day, "Painted Skin", which had been hovering in front of the threshold of 200 million for a long time, finally broke through the 200 million mark.

"Ten Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart", as a work shortlisted for the main competition unit, arrived in Tokyo together with the Chinese film delegation led by the General Administration and led by the deputy director.

This time, the Chinese delegation will not only attend the opening ceremony, but also hold a five-day "Tokyo-China Film Week" on the second day after the opening of the Tokyo International Film Festival.

This year's Film Week, the second after last year, is co-sponsored by the Japan-China Friendship Film Festival Executive Committee and the General Administration. During the film week, in addition to the shortlisted "Ten Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart" and "Super Typhoon" directed by Feng Xiaoning, eight films will be screened, including "Yugong Moves Mountains" directed by Huo Jianqi, one of the judges of this year's film festival.

Nominally, "Ten Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart" is a member of the delegation, but the posture of Xinhao Media this time is too big, the company's CEO Xiao Douding personally led the team, acting as a team leader and translator, and then director Wang Xiaoshuai, actors He Xin, Cheng Hao, and a total of more than a dozen agents, assistants, stylists, photographers, etc.

So it's basically a matter of taking care of each other.

The theme of this year's Tokyo Film Festival is "The Earth Makes Life, Life Creates Cinema – Creating Films for the Earth", and the usual red carpet has been replaced by a "green carpet" made from recycled plastic bottles.

After learning that the day of the opening ceremony was not a red carpet but a green carpet, Cheng Hao, who borrowed Eliesaab's dress early and was ready to walk beautifully on the red carpet, was particularly congested. And the rose-red dress she borrowed from last year didn't match the green one.