Chapter 618 begins production

For this Kung Fu Panda production team, Zhou Shaoming estimated that more than 200 people participated, although it is not as high as the actor's salary, but the salary of so many people adds up, and the investment is not bad compared to any Hollywood blockbuster!

The production team began to take shape, and members of the animation production team who came to Los Angeles from all over the world came to report to the company! And Benjamin quickly contacted ten oil painting masters, and they also began to rush to Los Angeles one after another!

Art director, martial arts instructor, these important personnel, Zhou Shaoming has also selected people one after another! Next up is the production of this cartoon!

Three days later, Aziwa and Harry successfully handed over the script to Zhou Shaoming! In the face of this huge cartoon production, Zhou Shaoming did not dare to have some carelessness in his heart, excellence is Zhou Shaoming's requirement, in order to ensure the quality of the cartoon, Zhou Shaoming must strive for the processing of every detail of the picture!

When Zhou Shaoming took the script with a knife again, this time Aziva revised the script very well, and after facing the supplementary story! Zhou Shaoming saw wonderful and delicate scenes!

Now the question is how to make these scenes, which part of the scenes are made by computer! What about those scenes that were filmed in real action?

Zhou Shaoming, who was looking at the script, kept banging on the table, fantasizing about the scene shown by the camera! "Aziwa and Harry, in this way, you can also participate in the production in the future, after all, you are screenwriters, if you have your own ideas, you can also provide me with valuable advice,"

Harry's eyes lit up, and he said with some excitement: "Okay, Zhou." "It was a great experience for Harry, and it was so exciting to get to experience first-hand what it was like to make the film!

Zhou Shaoming hesitated and asked the two: "Here we are the characters who make the cartoon." Let's start here, this story has eight characters to appear in front of the audience often! Pandas, brown bears, turtles, praying mantises, tigers, leopards, snakes, monkeys. We had to make their looks first! What do you guys think? ”

Indeed, in the introduction of the characters in the script. Aziva and Harry have both written in detail, but for the portrayal of the characters in the film, Zhou Shaoming still wants to hear the opinions of the two!

Harry expressed his opinion on the spot: "The protagonist Panda is a kind of guy who makes people see a very clumsy guy, the kind that is lazy and lazy, so that the audience has an illusion after seeing it, that is, such a character cannot become a hero in the story at all, which paves the way for the future." ”

Zhou Shaoming nodded, and clearly wrote down Harry's words in his notebook. "Panda's clumsiness."

Harry was a little stunned, he didn't expect Zhou Shaoming to be so serious, as a big director, he was very serious and sat in front of him to take notes. Some of them made Harry a little uncomfortable!

"Go on." Zhou Shaoming saw Harry pause!

Aziva frowned, "The character of the praying mantis should be small, but it should be made with a lean, small but powerful feeling!" ”

"Monkeys are very active. Born to look spiritual. The crane looks gentle and has a hermit feel! Harry added: "Snakes? Previously we felt like we were replacing it with a very cold-blooded one, but in the hero. If you don't have enthusiasm, how can you become a hero, so we plan to use women to embody the snake shape of the story, so that people can see the characteristics of snakes with ease. "The monkey has spirituality, the praying mantis is small but powerful, the crane has the feeling of a hermit, and the snake is a woman and has the characteristics of being able to play with ease! Zhou Shaoming wrote down everything Harry and Aziwa said one by one!

Zhou Shaoming exclaimed: "Very good, but the characteristics you talked about are generally written very clearly in the script, and these generals all know, can you say a little bit, how should these characters be portrayed on the screen in your imagination!" For example, in order to show the panda's delicious and lazy appearance, what are the characteristics of the body, and how should the producer complete it? ”

Harry was stunned, it turned out that Zhou Shaoming didn't want to praise himself and Boss Aziva, he just wanted us to provide him with some advice! It's hard to live Harry now.

Harry asked, a little puzzled, "I guess I'll leave these things to the production staff." ”

Zhou Shaoming shook his head and said: "Leave it to them, I don't have any cooperation with them, I don't want to spend a long time running-in, if possible, I hope you can give some advice, I will start to tell them to completely follow my intentions, and first complete the production of all the characters in the story!" Later modifications and so on, when our run-in period is over, we can communicate well, I think the back will be very smooth. ”

Aziwa listened to Zhou Shaoming's meaning and said: "I think if you portray a lazy panda, fat is his biggest appearance feature, round face, big belly, swaying when he walks, similar to this appearance, such a shape, in addition to meeting your requirements, most people will feel very cute when they see such animals, and they have a kind of love from the heart." ”

Zhou Shaoming said repeatedly: "Cute, you have an idea." Of course, the color of the panda is black and white, how to match the color on the body, the one that is white and the one that is black, how to match it will look good. ”

Aziva shook his head and said, "This question should have been told to you by the production staff. There's nothing we can do. ”

Zhou Shaoming couldn't help laughing and said, "It seems that I'm too involved, you go on." ”

Aziva continued: "The crane can wear a hat, and most of the ancient Chinese hermits had a habit of wearing a hat, which will also make this character appear to be very low-key and have connotation!" ”

Zhou Shaoming hesitated, this time Zhou Shaoming didn't say his question, because he knew that Aziwa and the others also told him the answer he wanted to know!

Aziva then replied: "The following is the monkey and the tiger, in fact, these two animals do not have too much moldability, as long as they can reflect their characteristics, the domineering of the tiger, the spirituality of the monkey!" The shape of this snake, Harry and I also joked, is it possible to put a small flower on the snake's head or something like that, which can reflect the portrayal of women and flexibility at once, and may need professional computer graphics! ”

"The praying mantis is one of our biggest headaches, and in this cartoon, Harry and I thought to ourselves that if we made the praying mantis the size of the tigers, it would seem unreal. But if the praying mantis is too small, then, for a cartoon, will it have a sense of adding to the snake, after all, such an animal, it is difficult to have any action on the screen! There is no cute side to praying mantis, some are only domineering, like you said what Chinese mantis boxing, and fat mantis, Harry and I have considered it. If the praying mantis is too fat, isn't it a little unacceptable? ”

Aziva's question made Zhou Shaoming fall into deep thought, this is a problem, I think I found a way, what else is the problem?

Harry asked with some curiosity: "Zhou, I don't understand a little, why did you ask Aziwa and Aziwa to replenish the villagers of the Peace Valley these days?" I think the main thing in the cartoon is the portrayal of these eight characters. The rest, as if there are only a few footage. ”

Zhou Shaoming replied solemnly: "I don't know now, but the only thing I can tell you is." When you and Aziwa write out the characteristics and images of these villagers, then we can show them on the screen one by one! If we hadn't done this in the early stage, how could we have made the images of tens of thousands of villagers in Heping Valley at once. Just seeing such a number scares the producers. ”

Aziva frowned and said, "You mean to say. Create every character of the villagers of Peace Valley! ”

Zhou Shaoming said with a wry smile: "If you don't make it, what will the audience watch!" "However, although there are many problems, Zhou Shaoming has prepared early, otherwise, he would not have invited Raymond as a designer!

The problem of these jobs Zhou Shaoming thought to himself, Raymond should be able to complete it!

Harry was surprised, and Aziva was a little distracted! Aziva responded: "It looks like this cartoon is going to give you a lot of headaches, if you need any help, just ask me and Harry." ”

Zhou Shaoming clapped his hands and said, "I'm much more relieved to have you say this, in this way, you can rest for a few days first, you have worked hard." ”

After Harry and Aziwa left, Zhou Shaoming immediately came to the film and television base, where more than a dozen animation producers from other places have gathered!

The reason why Zhou Shaoming posted "Hero Post" around the world is also for the progress of this cartoon, Zhou Shaoming doesn't want to spend a year or two on making a high-tech cartoon, if it goes well, Zhou Shaoming wants to launch the movie Kung Fu Panda at the end of the year!

After Zhou Shaoming came, he immediately found Raymond, and when he came to Raymond, Zhou Shaoming handed over the information in his hand to Raymond, "This is the final script of Kung Fu Panda, which writes out each character in great detail, and now the problem is how to vividly show it on the screen!" ”

After hearing Zhou Shaoming's words, Raymond took a closer look at the portrayal of the characters, "The description is very detailed, I think these editors you invited must have a deep understanding of Chinese culture, or they wouldn't have portrayed such a vivid belief!" No problem, with this information, I think I can design these on-screen characters so that the production crew can make them exactly what you want! ”

"Good." Zhou Shaoming said with some doubts on the spot: "Raymond, have you taken into account how to distribute the color of the panda to make it more cute, and the mantis is so small, how can the audience like him, you must know that in Chinese martial arts, mantis boxing is a well-known name, but it seems to be a little difficult to express it with animals." ”

Raymond nodded and said: "Indeed, no one would have thought of using a cartoon to embody Chinese culture, especially the world of martial arts, such a concept, when I heard it, I already felt very attractive!" I didn't expect you to really appear in the story of the role of the praying mantis. ”

Raymond said with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Fortunately, I am also prepared, it seems that Panda Kung Fu still respects the laws of nature, and the praying mantis in the story is still very small, but we can imagine that a small and strong praying mantis can exist in this story in a humorous way!" His strength does not depend on his appearance, but on his small size, standing on the shoulders of all high schools! You know, this kind of treatment, if the praying mantis itself does not have such a height, it is impossible for others to make him so presumptuous! Like things gather, we can use this concept to reflect the strength of the praying mantis in this story, without distortion, and still make him a small but powerful existence. ”

Zhou Shaoming looked at Raymond, who had been prepared, and couldn't help but praise with admiration: "GODD." Looks like I didn't invite the wrong person. Then I'll leave it to you. But there's one more thing you need to do. ”

Raymond was stunned, he didn't expect the work to be so fast, so he came to the film and television base and visited the magnificent buildings here. There are daunting tasks in a row so quickly!

"What task?" Raymond asked

Zhou Shaoming said to Raymond: "At the beginning of the film, I planned to shoot in real scenes, I was thinking, how to make the real world reflect this story, and finally let me come up with a way, that is, to invite many oil painting masters to create pictures for this movie, and then shoot these pictures realistically and put them at the beginning of the film!" ”

Raymond was a little surprised, "Great idea! Raymond looked at Zhou Shaoming in front of him with a surprised look. Zhou Shaoming has been very surprised by Raymond since he proposed this Kung Fu Panda!

It is difficult for people to imagine a martial arts cartoon, Zhou Shaoming dared to do it so bravely, Raymond admired it very much, but the addition of real-life shooting is undoubtedly not an increase in the difficulty of film production! It seems that Zhou Shaoming is very attentive to this movie this time!

Maybe Raymond has too little contact with Zhou Shaoming, and the reason why Zhou Shaoming can achieve higher results at the box office than all movies in the same period after each movie is released, is the meticulous spirit!

Zhou Shaoming continued: "So I quickly invited more than a dozen oil painting masters. It will take more than three months to start designing and creating the opening picture of the film, according to them, so I want to start from now on. In addition to the work at hand, you have to do your duty and supervise their work! You're the art director. ”

After hearing Zhou Shaoming's words, Raymond promised: "Don't worry." I'll get it done. ”

Zhou Shaoming was about to stand up after hearing this, and said: "Before this movie began to be prepared for production, I kept circling in my heart. When many characters are portrayed in the form of animation, how to distinguish between them and not! For example, in the story, in the Valley of Peace, there are pigs, ostriches and other same villagers, but, just like people, even if two people look alike, they both have places that are not used, such as fingerprints and personalities, then I will do it again, how can such animals of the same shape do it, just from the appearance of the difference between them, after all, these people are only extras in the movie! It's impossible to give them too many shots and let the viewer take their time to compare the differences that exist between them! ”

Raymond frowned, it seems that Zhou Shaoming's request is still very detailed, which is enough confidence to deal with Raymond who understands China Wenhua, so he asked: "Then how many extras are there in the movie?" ”

Zhou Shaoming said with a smile on his face: "There are more than 10,000 villagers in Heping Valley, I remember that even if there are two scenes of people gathering together in this story, one is the martial arts competition, there should be more than 400 extras, and the other is the scene where the leopard attacked and the villagers withdrew, that is the scene of thousands of villagers." ”

Raymond took a deep breath and frowned!

Zhou Shaoming continued: "However, you don't have to worry, although there are so many extras in the movie that need to be produced, but I have enough manpower for you, and the members of the production of Kung Fu Panda will be as high as more than 200 people one after another, not counting the actors and stars who dubbed in the later stage." Staff, money, these are not a problem, as long as you can do a good job of making what I need, that's fine. ”

When Raymond heard Zhou Shaoming's words, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Then I can rest assured, I want to have such a large team to produce, there is no problem to worry about, and the rest is just a matter of time." ”

After hearing Raymond's words, Zhou Shaoming could finally leave with peace of mind!

After leaving the film and television base, Zhou Shaoming, who had been busy for a few days, was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, from the release of the script to the start of the production of the film!

Finally, there is a beginning, Kung Fu Panda has begun to be made, and this huge project has finally begun! This made Zhou Shaoming feel a lot more at ease!

In the early stage of filming, Zhou Shaoming was afraid that he would encounter a lot of difficulties in the early stage, which made the filming time of this movie postponed again and again! Now it seems, better than expected!

With the advent of April, Kung Fu Panda began to enter the production process, and Zhou Shaoming still needs to spend a little more time on the filming work! The construction of the scene began to worry about the production, so Zhou Shaoming had to see the production team slowly take shape before he dared to shoot the live scene with confidence!

After a month of preparation, the production team has not yet taken shape, but the current scale can barely start the pre-production of the film!

"Zhou, it looks like it's going well." Benjamin was a little happy!

Zhou Shaoming nodded and said, "Yes, it's finally time to start making!" It's just that I'm a little worried that they still don't meet our requirements in the production process, so we will increase publicity efforts in the past few days and contact us as soon as possible with the remaining personnel we need! ”

Zhou Shaoming doesn't want to slow down the production progress of the film in the pre-production because of the shortage of manpower! Wouldn't it be a joke if a movie with such a huge investment gets out because of the scarcity of manpower! (To be continued......)