Chapter 138: Improvisation
When Jester met Hu Weili again, the composer who was over forty years old was completely different from when he saw him in the mainland, although he was still a little restrained, but this was a kind of natural restraint after his subordinates saw their bosses, not like the inferiority complex revealed from the bones when they saw themselves in the mainland.
"Are you used to living in the United States?" Jester did not ask about work as soon as they met, but enthusiastically cared about the physical condition of Hu Weili, who was over 40 years old.
Hu Weili heard that his boss cared about him so much, and he nodded a little gratefully and said, very used to it.
The two exchanged a few more polite words before Jester put the topic on track.
He took out a large stack of blank manuscript paper from his desk and handed it to Hu Weili, who showed a puzzled look when he saw Hu Weili holding the manuscript paper he handed over.
Then Jester smiled and said, "I want you to improvise a few soundtracks, and these pieces of music need to be matched with the following characteristics, the first music is set against the backdrop of a tense battle, the second is a silent but boundless wilderness, and the third is the celebration of the coronation of the throne." ”
Hearing Jester's explanation, Hu Weili nodded with some sudden realization.
"You only need to write a brief score, and after we finish writing, we will immediately go to the soundtrack room that has just been built to make your tune and listen to it, by the way, the style is a little bit of Western fantasy, similar to the style of Western fantasy literature, it is better to be a little more light and romantic."
Jester simply finished speaking, and made a gesture to signal that Hu Weili could improvise.
This creative method was actually improvised by a story that Jester heard later, and after completing the filming of "Interstellar" in Nolan, he approached Hans. At the end of the season, when the super-notch soundtrack master came to complete the post-production score, Nolan didn't even give Hans the script at first. I watched it at the end of the season, but I just said what style of music he needed, and what kind of film it was, and then I gave it to Hans. A blank sheet of paper at the end of the season, and no musical instruments are used, but only by the first sense.
Then, Hans. At the end of the season, after a little thought, the great god burst out of inspiration and improvised a soundtrack, and after the production was released, Nolan was overjoyed when he heard it, because it was this style of music that he wanted.
After that, Hans. At the end of the season, after reading the script and rough cut master, I had a deeper understanding of the film, and this was the only time to complete a soundtrack that was enough to go down in history.
As for Hans. At the end of the season, this god needs no introduction, although he is mainly engaged in the work of film scores, a generation of film score masters, but he has completed several game soundtracks, which are also respected by many players.
One of the most famous is the Oscar-level soundtrack of Call of Duty 6, the height that this game's soundtrack can reach, in Jester's mind, is difficult to achieve by any other game.
Therefore, Jester wanted to use this method to test whether Hu Weili could control a fantasy soundtrack with a strong Western fantasy style just by virtue of his first impression, after all, Hu Weili had never received the slightest influence in this regard, and Jester couldn't decide whether he could do it or not.
If his soundtrack can satisfy him, then he can let him be the main creator of the soundtrack of "Fire Emblem" this time, and if he can't do it, then he can only be a deputy.
While Hu Weili was frowning and concentrating on improvisation, Jester was not idle, he was finishing the script of "Fire Empals".
An RPG game with huge content has a very large text capacity, and an epic RPG, its plot, will definitely not be inferior to an excellent novel, because the plot is the core of the RPG.
However, Jester is obviously not a great playwright, he has not shown this talent in either the previous life or this life, so he wrote several beginnings in a row, and he was not very satisfied, although he played "Fire Emblem", but after all, it was too old, and the plot in an RPG game is complex and long, and there are many branches, so many years have passed, even if Jester's memory is good, it is impossible to remember all the details.
Moreover, even if he could remember, he didn't have the ability to complete the creation of RPG plot scripts.
After more than two hours passed quickly, Hu Weili exhaled, put the pen down, and signaled that his three pieces of music were almost finished, and he only needed to go to the soundtrack room to make a slight revision.
Jester had no choice but to sigh, although he really wanted to do it himself, but he wouldn't force it when he couldn't do it, after all, there was a specialization in the art industry, and making games was not a one-person thing.
Brought Hu Weili to the soundtrack room, Jester waited quietly outside the soundproof glass of the soundproof room, through the thick soundproof glass, Jester could see Hu Weili constantly auditioning, and then constantly revising the written score, this soundtrack room has just been built not long ago, although the equipment is not the world's top, can not be compared with those film soundtrack studios, but the soundtrack recording equipment of over one million, at least in the American game industry, there is still no one to compare.
While waiting for the final production of Hu Weili's improvisation, Jester was still thinking about the play "Fire Emblem", although he had already called Guò to ask Tamahide Yoshiro of the Japanese branch to start recruiting at the same time, but a good playwright is very rare, and it is not possible to recruit if you want to.
But it's useless to think about it now, Jester also decided to deal with the things in his hand as much as possible in the past few days, and then fly to Japan himself to see if he can find those famous playwrights he knows about.
At least I can have a preliminary contact with Enix, see if I can win them out of Nintendo's camp, as long as Enix can join him, then I don't need to worry about DQ in the future to FF such a headache, and after this, another legendary Japanese RPG with Hironobu Sakaguchi will also enter his camp.
But immediately Jester shook his head, a wry smile appeared on his face, he knew that this was very unrealistic, with the relationship between Nintendo and Enix, it was impossible for them to provoke betrayal.
Thinking that Yuji Tsui was such a good maker that he couldn't be in his way, Jester felt very, very sorry.
Just as he was thinking about this, Hu Weili finally completed the overall production of these three soundtracks.
Then, Hu Weili, who had completed the recording of these three soundtracks, knocked on the window in the recording room, because the soundproofing material of this recording studio was very powerful, Jester did not hear the slightest sound of the window ringing outside, but he saw Hu Weili's movements, so Jester also instantly understood what he meant.
Jester walked briskly over to the soundproof glass and picked up a headset and put it on his head.
Then he made an OK gesture to Hu Weili in the recording studio, and Hu Weili nodded inside and pressed the play button.
To be honest, Jester is still very much looking forward to Hu Weili's improvisation, because Hu Weili's reputation is too famous in the history he knows, this is a real master, and he is good at creating almost all styles of soundtracks.
But as soon as the music was remembered, after only a few seconds of listening, Jester's eyebrows suddenly wrinkled.
It's not that Hu Weili's soundtrack is bad, even a person like Jester who doesn't know much about music theory can feel that the quality of this soundtrack is very high from this short piece of improvised short music, but Jester's biggest concern before still happened - the stylistic mismatch.
If such a soundtrack is used in a movie or TV series similar shots, maybe it's okay, but when it is used in the game he wants to make zuò, Jester closed his eyes and carefully experienced it, and finally shook his head, at least this improvisation, Jester felt that Hu Weili was not suitable to be the main creator of the soundtrack of "Fire Emblem".
It's not because of the level, it's more because of the difference in style.
After a little consideration, Jester didn't want to disappoint the other party too much, after all, this was the first time that the other party had worked for the company he really belonged to since he was brought to the United States, and then Jester said: "Mr. Hu, if you just talk about the quality of these three soundtracks, they are not bad, but it seems that your music style is still a little too continental, and it is a little subtle in expression, which is not very suitable for the main style of the game I am going to prepare Zuò." ”
Hearing Jester just finish saying this, Hu Weili's pupils, which were still full of expectation, immediately showed a disappointed look.
Seeing this look in Hu Weili's pupils, Jester's tone also changed suddenly.
"However, Mr. Hu, it's not your level, it's because you don't know the style and type of the game I'm going to make." Jester simply said what he had considered before, "But it's not your fault, after all, you grew up in the mainland since you were a child, and it's normal for you to have insufficient control over the Western fantasy style." ”
Despite hearing Jester say this, Hu Weili was still a little frustrated. R1152