When a film is completed, it means that the film enters the post-production stage.

The first task in front of the crew was to develop the film, and nothing could be done without the film being developed. Zhang Ran didn't dare to be sloppy about the development of the film, if he wanted to cry, there was no place to cry.

Therefore, when the production team sent the film to the Beiping Printing Factory, Zhang Ran repeatedly told him to find an old printer and an old light distributor, and to be foolproof.

While the film was sent for development, Zhang Ran held a post-production work meeting, bringing together the editors, sound editors, recording crews, sound editors, and special effects teams to arrange the post-production work.

The special effects are the top priority in the later stage, and Zhang Ran plans to keep an eye on it personally. But in this way, he didn't have time to edit, so he had no choice but to invite Zhou Xinxia, the school's editing teacher, to be the editor.

The film of the film was developed, and after confirming that there was no problem, Zhang Ran picked out a few shots that needed to be used for special effects, made a simple edit, and then took the film to Hualong Digital.

Hualong Digital is a subsidiary of China Film Group, a national project, with the most advanced equipment in China. Zhang Ran came to Hualong mainly to convert these lenses that need to be made into digital formats.

Several special effects shots need to be cut out with computer software, and they need to be composited with the 3D model produced, which must not be done on film, and must be converted to digital format so that they can be produced in the computer.

Nowadays, after the completion of Hollywood film shooting, the film film will basically be converted into digital format, and the corresponding processing such as material editing, color adjustment, post-compositing, special effects processing, and subtitle mixing will be carried out in the computer, which is called a digital intermediate.

However, there has been no large-scale application of this technology in China, one is that there are few special effects in domestic films, and there is no need at all, and the other is the problem of money, and the production of standardized digital intermediates requires 50 to 600,000 yuan. This is not a small amount for many domestic films, especially small and medium-sized productions.

Zhang Ran's pitiful money naturally couldn't make the whole movie into a digital intermediate, and all he sent to convert the numbers were a few shots that needed special effects, adding up to less than five minutes.

Before coming to Hualong, Zhang Ran specifically inquired with the people of the movie channel, and knew that he had to find the input and output department to make a digital intermediate, so he went directly to the output and input department.

Zhang Ran walked up to the third floor, looked at the nameplate on the door, and knocked on an office door: "Excuse me, is it here to make a digital intermediate?"

There are three young people sitting in the office, lying in front of their respective computer screens, busy intently, and the sound of "ho ho" coming out of the computer speaker from time to time is the sound of the online game "Legend" cutting monsters. Hearing Zhang Ran's question, someone looked up: "You want to make a digital intermediate?"

Zhang Ran walked into the office, took out the film box, and said, "Yes, do it for five minutes." ”

The young man on the left stood up and was about to pour water for Zhang Ran, and when he heard this, he sat down again. In the middle, a young man with long hair, asked, "You only do it for five minutes?"

Zhang Ran nodded and said: "Yes, the crew's funds are limited, and it is impossible to do them all, so we can only convert the special effects part into numbers to facilitate special effects." ”

"Do special effects, what are you going to do?"

"Green screen compositing and 3D modeling, but you're too expensive for me to afford. Just do glue to magnetism, just adjust the color casually. ”

Hearing this, the other party's tone became cold: "According to the regulations, we only make digital intermediates for complete movies, or we can convert numbers and special effects together, and you can take five minutes of footage to convert numbers and color grading, it costs 200,000!"

A complete movie is only five or six hundred thousand, and now it only takes five minutes to transfer the number to 200,000, which is obviously difficult! Zhang Ran frowned slightly, but said with a smile: "Our movie is a cooperation with a movie channel, we are all a family, help, we can't afford such a high price." ”

"It's the same with movie channels, there is no way, the machine has to be charged, and the cost is very expensive. ”

If it was someone else, they might believe it, but Zhang Ran knew what was going on with the digital intermediate, and frowned: "It's not that exaggerated, I don't need you to do any post-processing, I just need you to use a film scanner to convert the film into a digital format, and then use the da Vinci system to adjust the color!"

The other party was stunned when he heard this, knowing that Zhang Ran was not an ignorant layman, and said coldly: "Since it's so simple, you can just get it yourself, what are you doing here?"

"How can you do such a business?" Zhang Ran was very speechless.

"We're like this, do you like to do it or not. ”

"You, okay! I'll go to your leader!" Zhang Ran was a little angry.

"Go out and go to the right, the third office is our Minister Wang's office!" The other party not only did not take Zhang Ran's threat seriously, but also directly told him where the leader was.

Zhang Ran almost vomited blood, knowing that he would definitely be angry if he continued to say more, so he turned around and walked out of the office. He was about to go to Minister Wang of the Output and Import Department when a conversation came out of the office.

"Xiao Wang, you are really bad enough, directly quote 200,000, that person is so angry with you that person!" someone said.

I listened to the young man: "5 minutes of film to digital, only color grading, no other post-processing, no special effects for us, just 10,000 yuan or 20,000 yuan, who will do it! I don't bother to bother that god!"

"It's just that if you want to use our digital technology and don't let us do special effects, how can there be such a good thing!" someone chimed in.

Zhang Ran was furious when he heard it, he has always wondered that Hualong has China Film Group behind it, with the top software and equipment in Asia, but Hualong has not made satisfactory movie special effects for more than ten years, so that most of the special effects of domestic movies have been covered by Koreans. Now I know the reason, relying on my self-righteousness as a state-owned enterprise, unwilling to do small projects, unable to do large projects, and ghosts if I can make qualified special effects!

Zhang Ran came to the third office on the right and knocked twice on the door of the office according to what the young man in the office said: "Excuse me, is this the office of Minister Wang of the Input and Output Department?"

The door was ajar, and a middle-aged man in his forties, with a fat head and big ears and a red face, was lying on his desk looking at a computer.

The man raised his head when he heard the voice, glanced at the door, saw that it was a young man, moved his gaze back to the computer, and said, "Who are you, what's the matter?"

Zhang Ran knew that this was the young man's Minister Wang, so he walked in, took out a business card and handed it over: "Minister Wang, hello! I am from Qingying Studio, and we co-produced a movie with the movie channel, which involves special effects shots, which need to be made into a digital intermediate." ”

"How did you find me here? Go out and turn right, the third office!" Wang Rumin took the business card and glanced at it, and threw it on the table, Nortel's teacher is really young enough!

"I just went, but they don't do it!"

"Oh, why?" asked Wang Rumin as he straightened up, leaned back in his chair, and asked nonchalantly.

Zhang Ran said helplessly: "The cost of our film is limited, we can only do five minutes of film to convert into digital, and the special effects are also going to be done by ourselves, they think we have too few things to do, and they are unwilling to do it!"

Wang Rumin understood what was going on, and said lightly: "Digital conversion and special effects are matched, how can we convert the numbers for you, and you find someone else to do special effects? ”

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "I understand their difficulties, but we can't help it, the budget is too low, and the special effects team has prepared all the materials, please ask Minister Wang to help!

Wang Rumin picked up the teacup, took a sip, and said slowly: "I'll say hello to them in a while, and that's it!"

Zhang Ran thought to himself who knows when you will say hello, who knows if you will say hello, and continued: "Minister Wang, this movie is in a hurry, the movie channel is a brother unit with you, you can't see you when you look up, please make a phone call and say to the people below, otherwise I will go over, and they will still not answer." ”

Wang Rumin was a little unhappy, what about the Xindao Movie Channel, you are anxious to have a fart relationship with me, and said with a calm face: "I'm very busy at work, I don't have time to call now, you hurry up, don't affect my work!"

Zhang Ran was really angry now, looked at Wang Rumin, and said coldly: "Minister Wang, if you really disturb your work, I apologize to you! But I'm strange, the work of your input and output department is special effects and numbers, I'm here to do digital conversion, why isn't it your job to receive me, is it because it's your job to watch **?"

Wang Rumin's face suddenly turned red, and he pointed at Zhang Ran with one hand, trembling with anger, and he saw that the yellow net was discovered by this kid. He was enraged, and it really didn't make sense! Ran to Lao Tzu's territory and came to accuse me, who do you think you are?

Wang Rumin slapped the table and stood up, pointed to the door with his big hand, and shouted: "Don't think that you are from Nortel, don't think that you can point fingers if you have something to do with the movie channel, the movie channel can't control me! We won't do your digital intermediate! You go out for me!"

Zhang Ran didn't say anything more, turned around and walked out of the office. He's really popular, if you don't do digital intermediates, Shanghai Film Studio can still do it, Shanghai Film Studio doesn't do it, Lao Tzu can go to the United States to do it, I really thought I would beg you!

However, Zhang Ran was angry, and he didn't plan to just forget it, so he immediately dialed Yan Yueming's phone: "Director Yan, I'm Zhang Ran!"

Yan Yueming heard that it was Zhang Ran, and said with a smile: "Zhang Ran, I heard that the movie is finished, how is the situation?"

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