In the previous chapter, I made another basic mistake, and I actually made a fool to write the name Tom as a surname, and now "Alan Tom" is officially corrected to "Tom Allen", which has been corrected above.

Thank you to the book friend "The Son of Heaven on the Uninhabited Island" for catching insects.

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Li Qian is indeed under a lot of pressure.

3D movies will definitely become the development direction of the global film market in the future, there is no doubt about this - computers are becoming more and more advanced, technology is becoming more and more developed, and the network is getting faster and faster. It has become a major cancer affecting the development of music, film and other literary and artistic creation industries.

For example, the recent "Crazy Stone" won more than 420 million at the box office within ten days of release, but in the next forty or fifty days, it only won less than 300 million, why?

Piracy is rampant!

In fact, ten days after the movie was released, various high-definition film sources had begun to appear on the Internet, Minghu Culture, together with the National Copyright Administration and the Film Bureau, found out several pirate stations, but it was still useless, you can enjoy the movie without spending money, as long as people are still greedy, as long as social harmony has not really been realized, everyone is very rich, it is impossible to completely ban it. You hit this one, and there are tens of millions more.

So, the record didn't sell well, because it was so easy to pirate it, much easier than the movie. It no longer even needs pirates to convert pirated records and make pirated tapes and the like, ordinary "music lovers" can directly transcribe them with equipment that does not require too advanced equipment, and it is also lossless, and as soon as it is transmitted to the Internet, it will immediately spread to 10,000 or 100,000 copies......

Singers can barely make money by attending concerts and attending some commercial performances, but it is no longer the same as the boom in previous years, and if it continues to develop, the music market will be dying. At that time, whether it is the requirements of the times or the self-struggle of musicians, the music market must open up new ways in a timely manner, so that singers and musicians can earn money to eat.

At that time, in fact, it will be the era when various music TV shows will become popular.

To put it bluntly, people can't live without music.

But in fact, even if there are music programs on TV, only famous singers, talent show singers, and some musicians and arrangers make money.

And what about movies?

In that time and space that Li Qian experienced, after the success of "Avatar" and the successful promotion of the concept of 3D movies to the world, James Cameron said: "There are so many ways to entertain in modern society, and we filmmakers have to find a way to attract audiences back to the cinema." Then we had to come up with something new so that they could have a visual integration experience in the cinema that they couldn't achieve when watching DVDs at home. ”

Times have changed, time and space have changed, but the truth remains the same.

3D movies are sure to be a hit.

But the fire is not necessarily your own version of "Avatar"!

Li Qian used a high investment that lasted for several years to get the world's top 3D technology and motion capture technology for himself before the world, and he used a "Matrix" to pave the way for his future global release, and also aroused the sense of anticipation 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!

But again, 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 been a big hit, without a professional-level level, it is difficult for you to copy it, and if you copy it, it may not necessarily be successful.

Whether it was filming "My Sassy Girlfriend" before, or later "Red Sorghum" and "Huang Feihong", in fact, Li Qian also came cautiously step by step, and now, if he continues to follow the old path of 2D, he can already master it with ease.

But he was not reconciled.

He wants to bring Minghu culture, or even grandiose, to the world's top platform through the future development trend of 3D, and even bring Chinese films, at least in film technology.

So, like a rookie director, he wants to return to the cautious state of a few years ago.

And this time, it's an investment of up to 500 million Chinese dollars, or 250 million US dollars!

Looking at the world in this era, even in Hollywood, with an investment of more than 100 million US dollars, it is still a standard big production, reaching an investment of 250 million US dollars, and only one or two films a year will reach the sky.

And the $250 million for "Avatar" does not include the massive investment in 3D technology and motion capture technology in the early stage.

Only if "Avatar" succeeds, can we talk about the problem of selling technology in the future, if it fails, it will be difficult to sell this technology, then it will not only be a "Avatar" that will lose money, but also all the money invested in technology in the early stage.

Of course, money is still a trivial matter, and Li Qian is not short of money now.

But the problem is that if you want 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.

If he misses it, even he will not be sure what the next definite opportunity will be in the world's development trend!

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As the assistant director of the film and the most important film assistant by Li Qian's side, Sun Yuting has a deep involvement in "The Matrix", and even more so in this "Avatar".

Although Li Qian has never played 3D before, he has watched countless 3D movies, and knows the advantages and disadvantages of the development of 3D movies in later generations, and he has also watched "Avatar" - genuine, IMAX, and later MKV, no less than ten brushes before and after. Therefore, although he is very unfamiliar with it when he first gets started, he can quickly become familiar with it at a faster speed than everyone else.

In the eyes of others, this is, of course, a manifestation of talent and talent.

In this process, Sun Yuting followed him almost all the time, while taking care of all the trivial affairs of the crew for him, while observing and learning the use of this new film shooting technique.

When the time entered April, the filming of the "Avatar" crew began to gradually get "on track".

Note that this is in double quotation marks.

The shooting cycle of a normal film crew is generally between two months and four months, with about three months being the most common, and a normal 100-minute commercial film requires about 1200 to 2000 shots, depending on the difference in subject matter, editing and shooting methods, and this kind of normal commercial film, the director will generally prepare more than several times the material for the final editing, that is, the approximate shooting cycle of 100 days will shoot about 10,000 shots of various shots.

For a commercial film crew under normal work, the daily shooting volume is generally between 80 and 120. If it runs smoothly, you can shoot up to 150 pieces, and if it doesn't run smoothly, or if there are various problems, such as at the beginning of shooting, 50 is completely acceptable.

Of course, this data is based on a premise, that is, normal commercial films.

Therefore, the filming progress of some literary films and directors of literary films is not the same thing as this, people are willing to burn money, so they grind back and forth over and over again, and it is common to shoot three shots a day.

But if commercial film shooting is maintained at a rate of only ten or eight shots a day for a long time, there is little doubt that it will definitely exceed the production time and the production budget.

Even if it is maintained below 50 shots a day for a long time, investors and powerful producers are already in a hurry - every day of delay is a lot of money.

And when the time entered April, the filming of "Avatar" began to gradually find a foothold and get on the right track, and the average number of shots shot by the crew per day began to increase to about 20.

That's why Li Qian set up a ten-month shooting cycle for this film from the very beginning!

It is expected that when the filming enters the third month, as the whole crew becomes more and more familiar with this method of shooting, the crew will be able to increase the shooting schedule to about 40 to 50 shots per day.

By the time the time the time the time comes to June and July, the whole shooting is expected to be completely on track in the conventional sense - shooting about 80 to 100 shots a day.

Of course, since April, Li Qian has also begun to gradually "delegate power" and began to try to hand over some less important shots to Sun Yuting to lead the team to try to shoot.

In the future, it is almost inevitable that the filming progress of the entire crew will be pulled up and filmed in different venues, and at that time, Sun Yuting will definitely be responsible for the shooting of some shots independently, of course, let her practice in advance and become familiar with it as much as possible.

And just when Sun Yuting began to get this kind of "internship period" one or two days a week, Li Qian would completely throw away his hands and return to the city of Shuntianfu, occasionally dealing with some accumulated documents that needed his signature, but more often, he went to Minghu Animation to assist Cao Zhan and check for "Kung Fu Panda", which has begun to start simultaneously - this animated film will start the production of 3D animation at the same time.

Of course, in addition to this, there are many 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 "Condor Heroes" currently being filmed.

Directed by Han Shunzhang and with Huang Wenjuan as one of the producers, this movie has been filmed for more than a month, and as the original author, screenwriter and big boss, Li Qian certainly wants to take a look.