Chapter 305 The second problem of Chinese films
Peng Yichen's words were like a thunderbolt from the sky, hitting the hearts of everyone present.
Everyone can't help but think of the Hollywood blockbusters that have been rampaging in the Chinese film market in recent years, as well as the Bollywood movies and Bangziguo movies that can occasionally collect box office.
Chinese domestic films have been beaten by others even on their own territory, and they still think about 'fighting in the nest' all day long, and what kind of dispute between art films and commercial films is really unknown.
And those teachers who used to support art films with great fanfare in the academy all became extremely embarrassed when they heard this.
Because of Peng Yichen's words, they couldn't refute it at all.
Huaxia has joined the WTO, and the entry threshold for imported films will only get lower and lower, which is something that filmmakers simply cannot stop.
In the context of this big era, holding the illusion of resisting imported films entering the Chinese market, and forever making those so-called art films to cheat money, it is just self-deception.
Peng Yichen is now nakedly revealing all of this, so that all Chinese filmmakers are alert.
The Internet era and the wave of globalization are the general trend of today's times.
If you can't make a good movie, make the audience want to buy your movie ticket. Then naturally there are countless imported movies that will snatch the audience away, and you can only wait to starve to death.
This is the reality, the bloody reality!!
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Seeing everyone's expressions, Peng Yichen knew that today's class, he did not talk in vain.
Turning around, he wrote a sentence on the blackboard behind him:
Art is the ability to sell one's work.
Then, he turned around and began the next stage of the lecture.
"Just now, I asked the first question I want to tell you today. This brings me to the second question I want to tell you today.
Why is there such a big gap between the special effects production and visual effects of Chinese movies and Hollywood movies?
Although a teacher at the Huaxia Drama Academy ignorantly said that the special effects technology of the film has tarnished the purity of the movie, people with a little brain know it.
From the day it appeared, cinema has been an industry that has relied heavily on technological developments and advances in filming technology.
From black and white silent films to black and white sound films, and from black and white sound films to color sound films.
The entire history of film is a history of the development of film shooting technology.
Therefore, any filmmaker who resists the progress of filmmaking technology and stubbornly sticks to the old will inevitably be eliminated in the end. ”
When Peng Yichen said this, he slowed down, took a sip of water, and then continued.
"In recent years, the global rise of film and television special effects technology mainly refers to computer CG special effects in addition to traditional makeup, stage, props, and photography techniques.
So what is CG special effects technology?
To put it simply, CG special effects refer to the use of computer graphics technology to create image effects in the movie screen that cannot be achieved or difficult to achieve in reality.
For example, the scenes of fairy and demon fighting in "Journey to the West", and almost all the scenes of Autobots' transformation in "Transformers" must rely on CG special effects to complete.
It is no exaggeration to say that without CG special effects, Hollywood would not have the position it has in the global film market.
Hollywood movies don't rely on the so-called connotation to conquer fans all over the world, they rely on the greatest visual shock.
Of course, I don't think that visual effects are omnipotent, and the plot and performance are also irreplaceable, but visual effects are already the entry threshold for today's film market.
Without good visual effects, it is an indisputable fact that movies can only go around in the market of their own country forever.
With the help of CG technology, the artists presented the beautiful images in their hearts that could not be achieved by traditional photography in front of the audience again and again, attracting a large number of audiences to return to the theater.
It can be said that without the emergence of CG special effects technology, there would be no hot and prosperous scene in the global film market.
After listening to the above paragraph, do you think that CG technology is very important, and the development of the film industry is fundamentally inseparable from it.
But such an important thing has repeatedly become an object of neglect in Chinese movies.
Even sometimes, the special effects of many movies are ridiculed by the audience as 'five-cent special effects', but those directors and producers still enjoy it, as if they don't know the importance of special effects technology to movies.
What I want to tell you is that it's not that directors don't want to make elaborate special effects shots, it's that they simply don't have the ability to make special effects shots. ”
As soon as Peng Yichen's words fell, there was an uproar below.
The blow of his words was so great that everyone pricked up their ears to hear why he dared to say that Huaxia directors were not capable of making exquisite film special effects shots.
"I dare say this for a reason.
First of all, whether in China or Hollywood, in fact, CG is an emerging technology, and it has only been developed for ten years.
Many people mistakenly think that CG computer special effects can be made as long as they spend money.
In fact, it would be a big mistake to think this way.
Film CG special effects production is definitely not a purely technical job, let alone something that can be made just by throwing money at it.
Cinema is a vehicle of human emotion and aesthetics.
If you want to make a good CG special effects shot, you must have a lot of professional film planning and art to make your picture look good. The director and producer should control the whole process and make it conform to the atmosphere and rhythm of the whole movie.
But this is not a purely artistic aesthetic work. Because there is no technology, no matter how good the director's creativity is, it will not be able to realize it.
Therefore, it is a work with a high degree of integration of art and technology.
Practitioners not only need to have good artistic accomplishment to control the picture, but also need to have a certain technical reserve to operate professional software and equipment, which can be said to have very high requirements for practitioners.
Nowadays, many fans in Huaxia are accusing Huaxia's special effects technology of rubbish, and they can't see how fake the special effects of Huaxia movies are.
And today I'm going to sing a counter-tune here, I would say, the opposite of what you think.
Huaxia's special effects technology is not weak at all! It can even be said that it is better than many foreign companies.
If you pay a little attention to the movie when you watch it, you will find it in the ending credits of a Hollywood movie. There are often several special effects production companies such as base, pixomondo, and China Vision.
I want to tell you that these Hollywood special effects production companies are awesome, and 80 of the special effects shots completed are all completed by Chinese people in China. What I know includes: "Transformers", "Spider-Man", "Iron Man", "Harry Potter" and other Hollywood visual blockbusters, all of which have Huaxia special effects companies involved in the production of special effects. ”
Some of the college teachers on the scene knew about these things, but many more students didn't know at all. It wasn't until Peng Yichen said it today, and they didn't know that the special effects technology of Huaxia movies was so powerful, and it turned out that the special effects of Huaxia movies had nothing to do with technology.
Is it really because Huaxia's directing ability is lower than that of Hollywood directors?"
Seeing all the students in the lobby looking at him with questions on their faces, Peng Yichen slowly said his answer to this question.
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