There are many channels for film broadcasting, in addition to traditional cinema screenings, there are also video tape rental and sales, TV station network sales, video website sales and sharing, and so on.

The usual practice is to release the disc first and release it when it is close to the next picture, and finally package and sell the broadcast rights to TV stations or video websites, which can not only maximize the value of the film through multiple rounds of playback, but also reduce the impact of piracy on the theater box office and disc rental and sales. If the distributor is not confident in the quality and money of the film, it will sometimes skip the release step and go directly to the disc.

With the importance that bees attach to "The Wandering Earth", directly glowing the disc is tantamount to giving up the treatment and eating jujube pills. Hearing that Atletico Madrid broke the news that it was going to be "Blu-ray first, and then released", everyone present was in an uproar, and hurriedly confirmed whether they had heard it wrong, and asked for specific details.

However, Atletico was reluctant to cooperate, and after saying that, he motioned for the bodyguards to open the way, squeezed through the crowd and walked outside, returning a large number of new questions to the questioner. Of course he knows the answer, he just doesn't want to say it now.

Bee Shadow does have a plan for Blu-ray first, but the disc is only equipped with a trailer for the VR version of the movie, and there will be no complete content. This is only to use the concept of "VR movies" to build momentum for the film, and there is no intention to subvert convention, after all, convention is right most of the time.

When the news spreads and there are many discussions, Atletico Madrid and Bee Shadow will stand up to refute the rumors and confide in more details, saying that you have misunderstood before. Before that, he needs to be silent for a while, so that the media can better use their expertise to speculate.

Seeing that Atletico Madrid was about to run, the onlookers were naturally reluctant to chase after them, but their running speed and physical strength were too scummy, and they were easily thrown away by Atletico and his bodyguards. Even if someone acted in advance and stayed at the door of the special effects on the opposite side early, they still couldn't block people.

In order to better serve the crew, Yikuai Company moved to Hengdian very early and bought land opposite the bee props to build a new headquarters. Moving to chase customers is certainly a wise and necessary decision, as evidenced by the company's rapid growth in the next few years. The only bad thing is that Atletico Madrid wants to check and guide the work is not as convenient and easy as before, and many things cannot be transmitted through the network perfectly, so he came over.

Walking into this inconspicuous five-story building, there are already a bunch of people standing in the foyer to greet them, starting with Cheng Bin, CEO of Yikuai Special Effects, and beside him is director Wang Luobin and a group of management and special effects artists.

It's a good thing he didn't do it, otherwise he would have been reprimanded by the big boss.

After greeting everyone, Atletico smiled and said, "I'm here to watch the movie." I don't have time now, I'll talk to you more when I'm done. ”

Cheng Bin hurriedly motioned for everyone to go back and get busy, and he accompanied Atletico and Wang Luobin into the well-secured "wandering studio".

The latter is a special studio set up by Wang Luobin for the filming of "The Wandering Earth", and he is the chief director of this film. In order to facilitate the coordination and coordination of special effects production, Lao Wang specially asked for a piece of land on Yikuai's side for on-site office.

Hanging the temporary pass just issued by Director Wang around his neck, Cheng Bin whispered: "Since Lao Wang and they arrived here, this piece has become an outsider in the company, and every time our people come over, they have to hang up the temporary pass, and it is not good to be born!"

Yi Kuai is the main contractor of the special effects business of the film, but he is not a member of the production team, and there is still a bit of a clear distinction between them.

"I'm not the same, I'm going to hang this too," Atletico said, he shook the tag on his chest, which was also a temporary pass. Atletico actually has a position in the crew, but his office address is not here, and additional permission is also required to enter it.

Wang Luobin looked at Cheng Bin, "Mr. Cheng, you can come to the studio, and you won't need a temporary pass in the future!"

"Forget it, if I come here, I have to brush the temporary pass when I go back to the company, don't be too panicked," Cheng Bin added for fear of Atletico Madrid's misunderstanding: "I'm just talking casually, we usually pay attention to the confidentiality system." ”

Atletico nodded to indicate that he knew, and when he walked into the small screening room first, he rubbed his hands and said: "Originally, I watched the low-profile Previz, and this time I was finally able to see the near-finished version, and I was a little excited." ”

Cheng Bin echoed: "Haha, the ugly daughter-in-law is about to see her in-laws, and our parents must also take care of the staff, so as not to go out and be embarrassed when the time comes." ”

Atletico nodded in affirmation, "Yes, you have to take care of it." ”

Wang Luobin's face was full of question marks, he understood every word that these two people said, but the meaning was a little unclear.

Although Lao Wang has a name full of poet temperament and is familiar with 300 Tang and Song poems, he is an ABC (American-born Chinese) after all, and his living environment is very different from that of here, and he is indeed lacking in understanding colloquialisms.

This man used to be an experienced PrevizArtist, but in the past few years, the economy has been sluggish, major companies have cut back on spending to save cash, his production company has been affected by the bankruptcy and closure, and he was temporarily unemployed and recruited by Bee Games to come to this side of the Pacific, which is six years. In a few years, foreign friend Luo Bing Wang has become the production director Wang Luobin, who has produced a lot of game CG and long and short films, and his latest job is the chief director of "The Wandering Earth".

Previz stands for Pre-visualization, which means "visual preview" in Chinese, and usually refers to the preview version of the movie made with 3D animation software, so it is also called "dynamic storyboard" and "3D story version". It can be a few key shots, or it can be made into a complete "low-profile" movie, everything depends on whether it is needed or not, and Previz also has different names at different stages, such as "concept preview" for investors, "process preview" for the preparation team, "live preview" for the shooting team, and "post-preview" for special effects companies.

The rent of high-end cameras, professional lifts, and Steadicam stabilizers is not cheap.

When the shooting is complete and the special effects are made, the special effects company needs to work according to Postviz. Postviz is a post-production-only recuted preview video that contains all the technical information about the film, and by gradually replacing and upgrading the "low-spec content" on the screen, the film will gradually become what the director wants.

In short, the use of visual previews throughout the production of the film, and digital special effects films are completely inseparable from it. As for ordinary films, at the moment when film cameras are eliminated in a large area, it is also necessary to use it to help check the shooting effect, but the degree of use is not as high as the former.

Of course, it's okay not to use it, at least most Chinese-language films don't use it. Although this is only a "low-profile" movie, the lens design, lighting arrangement, and actor positioning are all professional, and they are as labor-intensive and time-consuming as real-life filming.

So, while PrevizArtist is translated as a high-level "digital director", these people are not treated well by the film industry, and most of them are in the field of video advertising and gaming. However, Wang Luobin was lucky, starting from a CG director, and became a real film director step by step, and now he has the opportunity to direct "The Wandering Earth".

Atletico Madrid also considered other well-known directors at the beginning, but they did not get satisfactory results after contacting a few: foreign directors hope that bees will pay for it and not interfere, and domestic directors have no experience in directing sci-fi blockbusters, and they are not very accustomed to using relevant tools.

He had no choice, so he had to hand over the task to Wang Luobin, as his own person cultivated by bees, Lao Wang is very familiar with various original tools of bees, and he is no stranger to foreign tools and production processes, so he is the best candidate for coordination and command. Although it took a little more time in the preparation phase, it was able to get the whole project up and running.

Noticing the confusion on Lao Wang's face, Atletico said with a smile: "Don't pay attention to these, Director Wang, you should hurry up and show us the film!"

"Which one to put on?" Wang Luobin asked, "Is it the current Postviz, or is it a VR short film?"

"Let's look at Postviz first," Atletico said.

Although the film is not yet finalized, Postviz, which has added a lot of special effects shots, is very close to the finished film, but it lacks part of the soundtrack and the "Great Wall Dragon Mark".

When adapting a movie, you have to undergo surgery, change the long story to the short one, the short story to the long one, and even the ending to change some details. The original book of "The Wandering Earth" is only a short story of more than 20,000 words, but the movie is at least 90 minutes long, and the screenwriter needs to add new content to flesh out the plot.

The movie begins with the New Solar Age more than 2,000 years later, in an eggshell-shaped building, the protagonist's 100th grandson takes his grandson to the top of the building by elevator. Two new earthlings with obviously mixed-race characteristics admired the bright moon and ate moon cakes through a transparent protective shield to commemorate the Mid-Autumn Festival on the calendar.

The Centaur α is a three-body galaxy with stars A and B forming binary stars, which then attract smaller stars C (Proxima Centauri) to form a three-star system, which is now humanity's new sun. The distance between the stars makes the new solar age not as beautiful as imagined, but human beings have no choice but to find a way to adapt.

Stronger ocean tides have all but wiped out ports and coastal cities, and rapidly changing temperatures have forced humans to wrap them in protective shields.

Fortunately, after the cataclysm, there are few people on the earth, and the limited number of cities is enough to meet the needs, so that the world outside the protective shield can fully recuperate.

Without the endless demands of human beings, the air visibility outside the hood is comparable to that of the 17th century before the Industrial Revolution, and standing on the rooftop near the transparent dome, you can see the brightly lit shell city under your feet, and you can also see the bright eggshells scattered outside, like shining gems set in the earth.

After eating the exquisite new era mooncakes, the grandfather took his grandson downstairs, but when he left, he sighed at the bright and full moon in the sky.

The grandson asked curiously, but the old man just shirked it, and finally revealed a secret.

It turns out that this round of the moon is actually a solar array hanging in high orbit, and power generation is its main function, acting as a moon is just incidental, and those moon sea shadows are the result of adjusting the angle of some of the panels. As early as 2,000 years ago, the real moon was driven out of the Earth-Moon system by turning into an artificial comet because it was too heavy to take away, and was finally swallowed by the violently expanding Sun after the helium flash.

As the old man's memories are narrated, the timeline is pulled to the end of the escape era 2,000 years ago, and the plot of the movie is officially launched.

Earth has just reached escape velocity with the help of Jupiter's big brother, and is heading towards the empty starry sky outside the solar system, propelled by inertial and full-power Earth engines. Even if the sun explodes immediately, the Earth, which is already at the edge of the solar system, will be unscathed. Humans who felt safe were relieved, and then the long-suppressed doubts resurfaced, which soon developed into the conspiracy theory that "the sun is fine, someone is doing something", and then led to a wave of rebellion that swept the world.

As a small person in the big era, the protagonist and his wife have since parted ways, the heroine took up arms to join the rebels, and finally fell on the battlefield for her obsession, and the male protagonist chose a coalition government because of the inertia of the military family, and also resisted until the last moment, but rebelled under the leadership of a general.

In the end, the protagonist witnesses the surrender and death of his former comrades as a victor, and then stands on the ground with everyone else and sings "My Sun", and 150,000 people sing the song in various languages, which sounds very strange but inexplicably full of grandeur and epicness.

It's just that then, the suddenly swollen and exploding sun slapped everyone in the face, bringing about the final reversal.

Then the movie came to an end in the stunned scene of 150,000 people, only the commentary of "grandpa" sounded in the ears slowly, and the faint "Song of the Wandering Earth" could be vaguely heard, and then the whole film ended abruptly.

Obviously, this film does not continue the routine of the ordinary protagonist of Hollywood disaster movies to save the world, but retains the original plot as much as possible, allowing the male protagonist to continue to act as his witness, letting the real hero die before victory, and letting ordinary people swallow the fruits of victory with bitterness.

Although I have already learned about the plot through Previz, the version that is close to completion in front of me still gives Atletico a new feeling. While applauding and exclaiming: "The last two songs are outstanding, and the copyright issue has been resolved?"

(End of chapter)