Chapter 220: Happy New Year

Although this Dongying master is very suitable for the design of this film. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

But after all, she is a designer who has been influenced by Western modern ideas and aesthetics.

And Wang Yao hopes that this film will show a complete Chinese core and the magnificence of civilization, preferably, without any modern elements, nor to cater to the aesthetics of Westerners, to restore the magnificence of the Chinese Warring States Period completely, and show the world this shock.

So with Shen Jiasu embroidery, Wang Yao felt that it was better than the Dongying designer.

At the same time, the main reason why Zhang Yiyan and the investor originally decided to be the designer was because the other party had some reputation in the Western film industry and could cater to Western aesthetics, Wang Yao thought, why cater to it?

So Zhou Huai, who he contacted privately, voted for him when he asked the investor to vote, so he finally decided on the Shen family's Su embroidery.

Zhang Yiyan is also very happy, because he pays tribute to director Kurosawa's "Chaos" in terms of the beauty of the movie, and uses the picture sense of color block segmentation to reflect more distinct cores, showing the spring, summer, autumn and winter of Chinese history.

In terms of technique, it pays tribute to director Akira Kurosawa, and if the designer is also used, it may be labeled as a kind of 'reference', which is still quite a headache for a director.

Akira Kurosawa is internationally recognized as a great film master, but Zhang Yiyan also has his own ambitions.

Wang Yao spent a week, while following the investigation and filming, and at the same time read Mr. Shen Congwen's "Research on Ancient Costumes", "Warring States Lacquerware", "Dragon and Phoenix Art" books, as well as some monographs on ancient armor themes.

Wang Yao's attitude of academic elegance moved Zhang Yiyan very much, although they will also be serious when making movies, but there are still some differences with this spirit of study, or the spirit of traditional craftsmen.

After all, filmmaking is based on art, supplemented by academics.

But Wang Yao felt that the two did not conflict, but just put more energy into it.

After designing the costume modeling and armor modeling, Wang Yao also sorted out a new monograph on the use of ancient costume films, focusing on the most prominent and representative costume features and patterns in some dynasties, which can be used in the future costume film costume design.

However, this book doesn't have much time to sort out, because of the costume problem, draw the renderings that Zhang Yiyan wants and then throw it to Shen Huixin for restoration, and the armor problem is more serious.

Because it was a big scene, at least 1,000 sets of armor from the Warring States period were needed.

Over the years, I have made a lot of movies with the Qin Dynasty as the background, such as "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin" directed by Chen Kaige, "Song of Qin" directed by Zhou Xiaowen, etc., all of which are very classic movies, but the scenes in them are not as big as "Hero".

In order to highlight the military strength of the Qin Dynasty, Director Zhang prepared to build a phalanx of at least tens of thousands of horses and horses to shoot on the Gobi Desert.

Just thinking about this scene is thrilling to make all men's blood rush, but another problem comes, that is, money.

10,000 group performances, the cost of at least one million a day, and it may not be possible to shoot in one day, plus the restoration of some costumes and engineering props, this money is still quite large.

Although it is a big production and a big investment, you can't just burn money.

Regarding this issue, the investor raised objections again, thinking that a few thousand people would be enough, and the post-production synthesis of scattered shooting and editing would be enough, but Director Zhang felt that it would not seem real.

Wang Yao made a rough calculation, renting the armor costumes that already exist in China, but he also had to re-fire some new armor that restored history, and at least hundreds of sets were used as close-ups.

Moreover, there should be less than 10,000 sets of armor that meet the shooting conditions in the country, and some of them must be replenished, which is not a small investment.

The investor said that if you can save it, you can save it, and now the starring salary has not been determined, and in terms of costumes and props, 2000W has been budgeted, not counting the rental of group performances and war horses.

With an investment of 200 million, one-tenth of the costumes have gone, more than 100 million of the leading actors' salaries, and the remaining tens of millions are the costs of production and shooting, which is also quite stressful for the director.

And film shooting, every minute is burning money.

Wang Yao listened to Director Zhang's muttering for several years, it was really difficult to be a director, and finally realized that it is indeed a 'redundant' thing for investors to keep improving, they just need to shoot it and sell it for almost money.

And directors like Zhang Yiyan pursue excellence in every frame of their films, but investment is really a big problem, after all, excellence is to burn money.

It's really difficult to be a director, Wang Yao silently thought that fortunately he has a system, as long as he works hard to earn prestige, he can generate animation.

However, the prestige value of animation consumption is also about to drive Wang Yao crazy, almost 50 million, one of the Tang Dynasty pictures of "Zodiac Turn" has not been finished yet, more than ten minutes of material, after editing, there are 3 minutes that can be used Wang Yao Thank God.

This is the same as the ratio that directors shoot more than a dozen or even dozens of hours of film, and can only cut out two hours, this can't be helped, after all, even with the help of the system, Wang Yao can't do one shot to the end, not a single frame is wasted, and he is not a god.... After all, movies are also the art of editing.

However, this feeling of pain and happiness is really interesting, Wang Yao has been following Director Zhang all over the country for more than a month, but he spends more time drawing and writing in the hotel, Director Zhang They have to socialize in addition to the inspection, because the cooperation with the local area can save a little bit.

"Liu Sanjie", which was popular all over the country at the beginning, was able to create 8 million tourism value for the local area every year in the 60s, and if "Hero" was also popular, then it would also have a mutually beneficial relationship with the local area.

Director Zhang went into Wang Yao's room every day when he came back from entertainment, chatted with him and complained, this middle-aged uncle seemed to have countless grievances every day, and after speaking, he lay on Wang Yao's bed and slept with a snoring, so that Wang Yao could only sleep on the floor.

Later, Wang Yao simply opened a suite.

Under the cold winter of various regions of the country, the scene was investigated, and finally two days before the Spring Festival, Director Zhang announced the dissolution of the investigation, so that everyone could spend the New Year without spending it in a foreign land.

"Come back with me?" Zhang Yiyan said to Wang Yao as he stood at Xianyang Airport wrapped in a military coat.

Wang Yao's cloak hung on the furry scarf, shrunk his little face into the furry scarf, and smiled, "I have to go home for the New Year." ”

"The old lady went to the Spring Festival Gala this year, where are you going?" Zhang Yiyan said with a smile.

"I still have a master. Wang Yao chuckled and said, "I have to accompany Master for the New Year." ”

"Where did you stay?" Zhang Yiyan asked.

"In the capital, it's getting late, I'll go first, Director Zhang has a good New Year. Wang Yao smiled and arched his hand, and then ran towards the airport.

Zhang Yiyan smiled and shook his head, he had been with Wang Yao for a long time for more than a month, which made him worry too much, and as soon as Wang Yao left, he was a little inexplicably worried.

After all, there is a child who can run errands and solve all your problems by the way, and he always feels uncomfortable without him, during this time, Wang Yao has done the work of casting, painter, designer, accountant and assistant director, which makes Zhang Yiyan deeply feel what it means to be an all-rounder.

Got on the plane and flew back to the capital to land Wang Yao also caught up with the first goose feather snow back to Beijing, as soon as he got out of the airport, he felt that the whole world was covered in silver, and this steel forest finally had a kind of poetry.

There are a lot of people picking up at the airport, and the Chinese New Year is the day when many families studying abroad return, not to mention that today is the day before the Spring Festival, Wang Yao looked for a while in the noisy crowd and found Zheng Xixi and Mo Ke who came to pick up the airport.

"Here!" exclaimed Mo Ke holding up the sign and shaking it.

Wang Yao walked out with a smile.

"Why didn't you bring anything back?" Mo Ke looked sideways and saw that there was no suitcase behind Wang Yao, only his broken bag.

"Am I not back?" Wang Yao said with a smile and hugged Zheng Xixi, "Happy New Year." ”