Chapter 77: Preparing for the Sky Tower
When I came to the big conference room, all the people who should have arrived in it had arrived.
The meeting did not involve executives from the company's administrative department, and most of the attendees were senior members of the crew. The last meeting to prepare for "Five Poison Gates" was a special situation, the company had just been acquired, and Zhou Yi wanted to stabilize the hearts of the people, so he met with all the company's executives, but this time naturally he didn't need to, just preparing for a new film, under normal circumstances, it was simply the participation of the production department and the senior management of the crew.
The work of other administrative departments is generally coordinated at a later stage.
None of their business at the moment.
And many executives are now so busy with the work at hand that they simply don't have time to participate in the preparation of the new film.
Manager Zheng didn't come to participate this time, I heard that he was busy with the theater line. It seems that there are still theaters that want to release "Five Poisons" next weekend, and Manager Zheng has to confirm the number of theaters, and he has to contact Liansheng in time to ship the copy, which is really busy.
Although he is also the head of the artist department, he has no time to attend the new film preparation meeting today.
Anyway, there are only a few artists in the company, three or two big cats and small cats, and the roles are easy to finalize, and there is no need for him to be busy. Zhou Yi was not familiar with the company's signed artists last time, so he needed him to introduce him, but this time he obviously didn't need it.
Even Director Zhao himself can decide, everyone has communicated in advance.
This time, Yan Shuohe, the deputy manager and head of the system, attended the meeting on behalf of the company's management, and with his participation, there would be no problem. The other senior members of the crew attending the meeting were mainly members of the director team, director Zhao Zhichu, assistant director Liao Zhenyu, action director Huang Huacheng and others, as well as Director Rong and Guan Photography. Now we have to add Zhuo Qinglian, who is the producer, Zhou Yi, the boss, and three screenwriters.
Basically, everyone involved was there.
Everyone discussed the preparation of the new film together.
Zhou Yi first informed everyone of the Saturday box office statistics he had just received, and the number was absolutely beautiful.
The single-day box office on Saturday reached 525,000 yuan, and the box office of a single hall exceeded 10,000, which was quite outstanding.
Such a single-day single-hall box office, there is no doubt that it is definitely a number of blockbuster movies.
In this way, the total box office in the first six days of a single week reached 1.68 million yuan, in fact, the total box office in the first five days has exceeded one million, counting last Sunday, the absolute box office of 2 million in a single week can be expected. At present, the box office in the two days of the weekend has accumulated 948,000 Chinese yuan, and the breakthrough of one million is just around the corner. With such a result, it is not completely impossible to reach the bottom of the Chinese weekend box office list, and there is still a certain hope, depending on luck.
Zhou Yi was very happy.
Everyone present was very happy, applauded and celebrated briefly.
Next, we have a formal meeting.
At the meeting, Zhou Yi once again reiterated the tone of the film to all members of the crew, that is, we must make Zhao Jue, the king of Xiangyang, a tragic hero with the demeanor of a king. He must not be an outright traitorous character, and Zhou Yi cannot play such a treacherous villain role for the sake of his own future. Therefore, the overall tone of the film is that regardless of good or evil, only about victory and defeat!
Just like the candlelight axe shadow in the opening clip of the film, the mystery of the ages, the winner is king, and the loser is the villain!
The members of the director team led by Director Zhao agreed with this very much, and they all communicated and discussed it in advance, thinking that this could bring out new ideas, rather than simply repeating the romance of "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", after all, the story of romance is relatively old, and filming it according to cats and tigers may not be very popular. But if you shoot it in a different way, it is likely to have unexpected effects. It's also a surprise win.
The reinterpretation of the romance story is very interesting and yearning.
The work of revising the details of the script must be solved by the three screenwriters.
The three screenwriters readily agreed.
Director Zhao also put forward some good suggestions at the meeting, and communicated with the screenwriters about some details of his recent research on the script. Some details were studied and confirmed by both parties to ensure that no mistakes were made.
Zhou Yi was very satisfied with everyone's preparations.
Next, he specifically mentioned the design and construction of the Chongxiao Tower, which is obviously a key project in the preparation of this film.
Everyone was very happy to learn that Mr. Zhong Suiren, an expert from the military command, would come to personally help design the tower.
Designing a wonderful and ingenious Qimen trap to create a new skyscraper is naturally the top priority of the film, and it is also the biggest selling point of the film in addition to the violent and wonderful scenes. This selling point is more attractive to the audience than the cult plot of "Five Poison Gates".
After all, not all viewers like torture, but the ingenious mechanism design is more acceptable.
The master of the military command will definitely be of great help to the crew.
It's really exciting.
Zhuo Qinglian said that Mr. Zhong Suiren, an expert in military command, will be in place next Monday and will participate in the design and construction of the Chongxiao Tower in the studio.
Director Zhao can negotiate with him if he has any special requirements.
Although this film is still a low-cost system, it will definitely not be stingy in the design and construction of Chongxiao Tower, and it must create the best mechanism effect. After all, most of the highlights of the film are all on the skyscraper.
The overall structure of Chongxiao Tower is related to the success or failure of the film, of course, you must not be careless!
Moreover, Zhao Jue, the king of Xiangyang, tortured and killed Bai Yutang, and Bai Yutang was pierced by random arrows, and a key scene was also in Chongxiao Tower.
The relevant scenes must be well designed, and they must be tragic and shocking.
Zhuo Qinglian said that compared with "Five Poison Gate", the production cost of this time will increase by 5 million yuan, which is mainly used for the construction of Chongxiao Tower and the salary of actors.
In this way, the production cost of this film can reach 10 million Chinese yuan, which is directly doubled compared with "Five Poison Gates".
With such good conditions, Director Zhao is naturally very satisfied and has more confidence in this film. Moreover, this gradual increase in investment is also conducive to Director Zhao's experience in controlling funds and preparing for mid-range films and blockbusters in the future. If he is given more than 100 million yuan at one time, he has no experience, and he doesn't know how to plan to use it, how can the film not collapse?
It's better to move forward steadily like this.
The three major selling points of this film, in addition to the most handsome and strongest Xiangyang King and the coolest and most dangerous skyscraper, in the end, it is naturally the most eye-catching and dazzling and violent Armageddon peak play, which is the whole film**.
In this regard, action director Huang Huacheng led the colleagues of the martial arts group to do their best to carry out action design.
In his free time, Zhou Yi will personally participate in it and help with the design.
Director Zhao is responsible for the overall gatekeeping.
Naturally, everyone agrees on this.
Zhou Yi also focused on several fight scenes, involving the fight scenes of Zhao Jue, the king of Xiangyang, first of all, there must be his practice scenes, Taizu fist and Panlong stick must be there, and the screenwriter must first set it up. It's just a blatant oneself drama, but it's very reasonable. After all, the length of the original film in the previous life was only one and a half hours, and according to the standard of close to two hours in this life, a lot of scenes can be added.
And Zhou Yi himself is a big selling point of the film, of course, there must be this kind of practice performance scene.
For good-looking actors, this kind of scene is very attractive. If you have a low appearance, you can't help it. It's okay for you to let a character like "Ghost Feet Seven" shoot a scene, but let him practice acting, how many fans like to watch it?
An actor's good looks are taking advantage, and that's the reason.
The three screenwriters nodded, and they all wrote down these necessary details, and it was not difficult to arrange such a scene.
Zhou Yi also focused on the design of the dragon stick, which is an important weapon prop in the film, which was not available in the previous life. The art team and the props team have to put more effort into designing the stick shape beautifully and chicly, and it is also atmospheric and practical, which is checked by Rong Lao.
Director Rong naturally said that there was no problem, a trivial matter.
After all, Sun Wukong's Ruyi golden hoop stick now has a variety of shapes, what is the difficulty in designing a dragon stick?
Then Zhou Yi focused on a scene in which Chong Xiaolou tortured and killed Bai Yutang.
In this scene, the "brocade mouse" Bai Yutang is trapped in the copper net array of Chongxiaolou, and both the romance and the original work are pierced by random arrows, but according to Zhou Yi's idea, Zhao Jue, the king of Xiangyang, will personally shoot Bai Yutang with arrows one after another, and he will be very cruel to keep opening holes and bleeding on his body, so that the blood will continue to splash down from the top of the copper net array, staining the ground below.
It's best to have close-ups of the "arrows flying" and "blood spattering" kind of special effects, plus all kinds of slow motions.
This kind of shooting is not only very eye-catching, but also has the cruel artistic conception of "Human Skin Inn".
After all, this is a brutal torture scene, which is very similar to "Human Skin Inn".
It's just that we want to replace the primitive and barbaric vomiting cruelty with the aesthetic torture of madness and cruelty in the luxury and elegance, and to shoot the artistic sense of violence aesthetics and death aesthetics, the display of lens art is particularly important, and the artistic style must be shot.
What's even more different is that there is an unusually brutal fight scene added here.
Zhao Jue, the king of Xiangyang, deliberately did not shoot Bai Yutang's vital point, leaving him alive.
Bai Yutang relied on his super vitality, did not die immediately, but also struggled to the death, and after being deliberately put down by Zhao Jue, the king of Xiangyang, he had to engage in a very cruel battle with Zhao Jue, the king of Xiangyang.
Zhao Jue, the king of Xiangyang, ordered his subordinates, and the two of them worked together to lift out his heavyweight weapon "Panlong Stick", which was a stunning appearance of Panlong Stick. He wanted to hold the dragon stick, invite the dying Bai Yutang, who was wounded by arrows all over his body and stained with blood, and beat his whole body with continuous heavy sticks to break tendons and fractures, and blood splattered into the sky, and finally died tragically on the spot. This is a very cruel drama in the play.
In particular, the design of the blood-stained white clothes can highlight the tragic style of violent aesthetics!
Of course, the "blood-stained white clothes" here must be different from the original work in the previous life, and it must not be dyed in the shape of that kind of spotted plum blossoms. That's not violent enough, it's not refreshing enough, it's not bloody enough. The tragic and tragic artistic effect is all gone, just like a joke, it is too weak. Zhou Yi wanted to make the blood splash effect in the film imitate the effect of the two "Raids" in his previous life, and the blood splash should be more atmospheric.
Don't be reluctant to give up your plasma! It's a joke.
In fact, this fight scene is completely unilateral torture and killing, mainly showing the unknown ruthless side of the brutal and bloodthirsty character of Zhao Jue, the king of Xiangyang.
This plot is not only wonderful and exciting, but it is also very reasonable and logical.
It's not that Zhao Jue, the king of Xiangyang, has the demeanor of a king and a luxurious temperament, and there will be no brutal and bloodthirsty side in his character. You just have to think about it, he has always wanted to avenge his father and ancestors, and he has accumulated a dark side in his heart for a long time, can he not have a brutal and bloodthirsty side?
Without this side, how can he release his dark feelings? Wouldn't that be crazy?
It's just that he usually has the restrictions of the prince's noble status, and he will not show it lightly in front of everyone, and he knows how to control his own feelings. But only in the Sky Tower will he completely tear off the luxurious mask of disguise and reveal his true nature!
Chongxiao Tower is not only an organ building that hides the Lan spectrum of the League, but also represents another side of his humanity.
This is even more of a means for him to subdue his reckless thieves!
Not only must there be the temptation of glory and wealth, but also the deterrence of force!
In this way, he can ensure his status and not be attacked by his subordinates.
Zhou Yi has really thought it through, thinking that such a character design is logical and psychological, and it can make the character image more plump and three-dimensional, flesh and blood, rather than symbolizing and flattening the face of a villain prince.
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