After driving for half an hour, the car drove into the Century Shadow City and stopped in the parking lot. Getting out of the car, Wu Ershan took Chen Daomin to the No. 3 studio where "No Way Back" was located.

Chen Daomin received a call from Zhang Ran three days ago, and Zhang Ran told him that he wanted him to play an important role. Chen Daomin and Zhang Ran have worked together twice, the TV series "Before Dawn" and the movie "Three Fools", and the cooperation is quite pleasant. Hearing that Zhang Ran was looking for himself to play an important role, he didn't hesitate at all, and agreed directly, without even asking what to play.

Walking in the Century Film Capital factory area, there are magnificent studios all around. Movie posters hung outside every studio, both Chinese and Hollywood. Outside Studio 3 is a large poster of "The Scorching Sun". The posters indicate that the films were made in the studio.

Chen Daomin has never visited Hollywood, but the huge studios in front of him still make him believe that today's century film and television can be completely comparable to Hollywood.

As soon as they walked into Studio 3, Wu Ershan and Chen Daomin were stopped by the field staff, saying that they were filming and couldn't go over. Wu Ershan told Chen Daomin that this movie is a VR movie, which is a 360-degree shooting, and the staff is not walking around casually like an ordinary movie, so they can only wait for the filming to finish before going over.

After waiting for about three minutes, the field manager told Wu Ershan and Chen Daomin that they could pass. Wu Ershan took Chen Daomin to the command center, and the staff along the way saw them and greeted them very warmly, and the two smiled and nodded in response.

When he arrived at the command center, Chen Daomin was shocked by the situation at the scene, which was full of monitors and various equipment, and there were dozens of staff members.

Zhang Ran was sitting behind a row of monitors, pointing to the largest monitor and saying something to the staff, he saw Wu Ershan leading Chen Daomin over, so he said: "Didn't you let Lao Dao lead the hotel and let him have a good rest, why did you bring people to the set?"

Chen Daomin hurriedly said: "I asked Wu Ershan to bring me over, this movie is a VR movie, I haven't seen what a VR movie is like, so I came over to see the strangeness." Why, I'm not welcome?"

Zhang Ran smiled: "Why don't you welcome it, I hope you have a good rest today, and let's start filming directly tomorrow." After Chen Daomin came over, he asked the staff to bring a chair, beckoned Chen Daomin to sit down, and briefly introduced the situation of the movie. He knew that Chen Daomin had never been exposed to VR, and felt that Chen Daomin should be given a general understanding of VR first, so that Chen Daomin would have more confidence when he filmed later, so he said to Wu Ershan: "Take Mr. Chen Daomin to the VR group and see the sample films we have taken in the past two days." After speaking, he ignored Chen Daomin, came to the filming site, and pointed out the problems in Jing Tian's performance just now.

When Zhang Ran returned to the command center after telling Jing Tian, Wu Ershan and Chen Daomin had already watched the VR clip and sat behind the director team's monitor. Zhang Ran asked, "Old Dao, how do you feel?"

Chen Daomin was shocked by VR, and the sense of presence brought by the 360-degree full-frame made him feel as if he had entered another world, and said sincerely: "It's so shocking, I don't know how to describe it." No wonder you spend so much money on VR movies, this thing is definitely an epoch-making product!" Speaking of this, he couldn't help but ask: "VR movies have so many cameras shooting at the same time, and the picture is 360 degrees, the cost must be very high, right?"

Zhang Ran nodded and said: "The cost of VR movies is indeed very high, and the cost of a VR movie is two to three times that of ordinary movies. We made this movie into VR, and the cost was about $500 million. ”

Chen Daomin was shocked when he heard that the cost was 500 million US dollars: "The cost of 500 million US dollars, plus the publicity expenses, will not be 780 million US dollars." Can you pay back with so much money?"

Zhang Ran nodded with a smile: "Not only is the cost high, but VR movies are a new thing, and without a special VR movie theater, it is impossible to release them on a large scale around the world like ordinary movies." Just shooting the VR version must be a huge loss. Therefore, while filming the VR version, we will shoot the normal version and earn money back through the ordinary version. ”

Chen Daomin couldn't help but say: "The VR version plus the ordinary version will cost $1 billion, can it return to its original cost?"

Zhang Ran said with a relaxed face: "In fact, making movies is very low-end and makes money at the box office, and it doesn't make much money, what really makes money is the industrial chain." For us, a movie is a big commercial that lets hundreds of millions of viewers around the world know about our products and then makes money by selling them. It is not expensive to spend 1 billion on advertising, and large companies like Samsung spend tens of billions of dollars on advertising every year. ”

Speaking of this, he paused and said: "Yesterday, Mr. Zheng Dongtian came to visit the class, he said that he chatted with the sales director of Disney a few days ago, and when he talked about the film and television industry chain, the director said that they had a movie "Tomorrowland" this year that lost more than 100 million US dollars, but through the theme park and Disney's industrial chain, they can make money back in two years. I told Mr. Zheng Dongtian that Disney's industrial chain is nothing, and if "Tomorrowland" is handed over to us to do it, the income will be higher than Disney's. ”

Wu Ershan nodded lightly, "Full Band Blocking Interference" is about to start, the cost of this movie is very high, close to 250 million US dollars, and it is a pure Chinese film, the risk is undoubtedly very large, but Zhang Ran has always told him that he doesn't have to worry about the box office, as long as the movie is made well. As long as the quality of the movie is good, even if you lose money, you can easily earn money back through the industrial chain.

Wu Ershan understands that it is precisely because of the strong industrial chain as a guarantee that the peak of the century dares to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to let him and young directors like Yang Qing make top blockbusters.

When Chen Daomin heard that Disney had lost more than $100 million, but was able to easily earn the money back through other means, he couldn't help but say: "Today, I finally know what a big capitalist is!"

Zhang Ran laughed: "There's no way, there's no treachery, no business!"

Chen Daomin said: "VR is a new technology, and the gap between us and Hollywood should not be big!"

Zhang Ran nodded and said, "The gap is not very big, and it will only look like a year or two." ”

Chen Daomin remembered that when he first filmed "Three Fools", Zhang Ran talked about the film industry. At that time, Chen Daomin didn't particularly understand, in his eyes, industry is an assembly line product, and film is a work of art, and the two do not match. However, in recent years, with the release of films such as "Apocalypse of the Future" and "Scorching Sun", Chen Daomin has realized that the films produced by the film industry are not necessarily artistic, and without the support of a strong industry, films like "Scorching Sun" would not have been possible.

Looking at all this in front of him and thinking about the strong shock of the VR generation, Chen Daomin thought to himself, Chinese film technology is really about to catch up with Hollywood, how many generations of Chinese filmmakers have dreamed! He sighed with emotion: "There is only a gap of one or two years with Hollywood, and if it had been put ten years ago, it would have been unimaginable!"

Zhang Ran immediately laughed when he heard Chen Daomin say this, and the staff present also laughed.

Wu Ershan told Chen Daomin with a smile: "Teacher Chen, Mr. Zhang is not saying that we have a gap of one or two years with Hollywood, but that Hollywood has a gap of one or two years with us. In VR film and television, we are the strongest in the world!"

Chen Daomin was completely stunned when he heard this, his mouth opened, he wanted to say something, but he didn't say a word, a passionate emotion rolled in his heart, I don't know why, he suddenly wanted to cry!

At this moment, the assistant director came over and told Zhang Ran that the preparations were all ready and it was time to reshoot.

Zhang Ran picked up the walkie-talkie, stared at the monitor and shouted the password: "Turn on!"

Chen Daomin, who was sitting next to Zhang Ran, found that at the moment when Zhang Ran shouted this "start", Jing Tian's whole temperament suddenly changed, and there was a faint loneliness and sadness all over his body, which reminded him of Tony Leung in "Infernal Affairs". He has acted in "Infernal Affairs 3" and worked with Tony Leung, and on the set of "Infernal Affairs 3", Chaowei gave him this feeling.

It's just that Tony Leung is one of the best actors in the Chinese film industry, and Jing Tian is just a little girl in her twenties, she can actually play Tony Leung's feeling in "Infernal Affairs", and she can do a zero-degree performance, it's incredible!

Chen Daomin turned his head and glanced at Zhang Ran, thinking that this was really a monster apprentice taught by the monster master!

Jing Tian's hand waved lightly in the air, as if he was operating the holographic keyboard: "You see, these traces were left by the government's sneakers entering and exiting my database after we left, but you found that no, these traces seem to be left by novices, which seem very clumsy, in fact, they are deliberately left, they want to mislead us, thinking to the government and sneakers, if so, then the people who left these traces are probably ......"

Beside Jing Tian, the actor who wore a tight green coat and took the place of the black cat Aksha frowned and said, "Yuanyin, do you mean that Yuanyin has an eye on us? Why did they do this? We have nothing to do with them." ”

"You'll have to take the business to find out. Jing Tian's hand pressed twice in the air, as if calling up data through a holographic network, "13330573885, Cheng Liang." Let's talk to this university professor tomorrow. After speaking, Jing Tian reached out and pressed her right hand heavily in the air, which meant that she had withdrawn from the network.

Zhang Ran immediately stood up and shouted loudly: "Stop! Jing Tian, this time the performance is good! You take a break, let's see the effect!"

Zhang Ran called up the picture taken by the lens in front of Jingtian and looked at it, and after making sure that there was no problem, he went to the VR team to see the effect of the synthesis. The synthesis effect is also very good. Zhang Ran was very satisfied, and let Wu Ershan and Chen Daomin look at it, and then asked Chen Daomin: "How is it, Jingtian's performance is okay, right?"

Chen Daomin shook his head with a smile and said, "You are showing off nakedly, just to let me praise you, the master, for teaching the apprentice well." But seriously, your apprentice acted really well, that lonely state was not acted, but from the bones, and the whole performance was very captivating. ”

Zhang Ran laughed, under his own teaching, the famous queen of bad movies in the previous life, Jing Tian, even applauded Chen Daomin, he felt a little proud in his heart, and shouted vigorously: "This shot has passed!" He gave Jing Tian a thumbs up and praised: "Apprentice, this shot is great! Teacher Chen Daomin praises you! You take the VR camera, rest for a while, let's shoot the normal version!"

The staff surrounded and helped Jingtian take the VR camera off his head.

The VR camera weighs more than ten pounds, and it is hot and tired all the time on my head. Jing Tian didn't care about the image of a lady, sat on the ground with his buttocks, wiped the sweat on his head, and fanned the air with his hands and said, "I'm tired, I'm tired!"

At the same time, two robotic arms hung from the top of the studio, and the crew trotted over with the two cameras, mounted the cameras on the robotic arms, and began to adjust. The gaffers began to re-illuminate, and the lighting requirements for regular movies and VR movies were different. Although the content of the shot is exactly the same, the light must be completely redistributed. Recording, makeup, and the rest of the group were moving, and the scene was busy.