The day after the awards ceremony was a feast of media coverage, with many outlets slamming the academy on the grounds that Martin? Scorsese did deserve a statuette, but not by "The Departed," and a considerable part of the media criticized the academy for balancing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

These media completely forgot that before the awards ceremony, they also said that if Martin? If Scorsese doesn't win Best Director, the Oscar will lose its most basic fairness......

It can only be said that they are worthy of the media, no matter what they say, they always have enough reasons and always stand in a righteous and awe-inspiring position.

Duke didn't pay attention to the Oscar tragedy of "The Dark Knight" at all, this is the most normal treatment of superhero movies at the Oscars, the post-production of "Transformers" has not yet been completed, and he has neither the time nor the energy to sigh about the Oscars.

Back at the Transformers studio, overseeing editing and special effects production is still Duke's main job, and the film's soundtrack and theme song have completed their first version, which is being sent in for his review.

The soundtrack is still Hans? Zimmer's handwriting, the famous master of commercial scoring, like John? Williams to George? Lucas and Steven? Spielberg, like him, has a tendency to become Duke's dedicated soundtrack.

The film's soundtrack is dominated by rock and electronica. Zimmer's initial submission did not satisfy Duke completely, and a large number of revisions were needed.

In addition, there is the theme song, the style of the ending theme song is the opposite of the soundtrack, but continues the scene of Sam and Michaela making out at sunset at the end of the film, which is a pop song of the country genre based on love.

Frankly speaking, Duke doesn't know much about pop music, and since "The Last Farewell" in "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King", he has not used the theme song sung by the singer in the film. Josephson.

For his films, one more song and one less song simply doesn't matter.

But letting a singer join the crew can open up her market popularity.

In the studio's recording studio. Duke put down his headset, looked at the others, and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Anna? Prinz straightened his long hair, messed up by the headset. "I think it's good, Swift's singing voice is very distinctive. ”

"I think it's pretty good." Tina? The Philippines agreed.

Inside the studio, Taylor? Swift had taken off his headset and his eyes were full of anticipation. Constantly shifting back and forth between Duke and several others.

"Just use it." Duke nodded.

Taylor? Swift exhaled softly, and secretly let out a cry of excitement in her heart, she had a rare self-control ability for girls of this age, and she came to everyone with a calm and excited expression.

"Thank you, thank you......"

She with Tina one by one? Fey, Anna? Prinz and Duke thanked each other and stood back to Nancy? Josephson's side.

Duke looked at his watch, "Let's get here first, Anna, let's go back to the editing room." ”

Seeing Duke leaving. Taylor over there? Swift quickly said, "Can I take a tour of the studio?" ”

"Yes." Duke motioned to Nancy? Josephson, "You show her around." ”

After all, he and Anna? Prinz left the studio and returned to the editing room.

Post-production is never an easy job, and 99 percent of movies are more time-consuming or energy-consuming than shooting, and after nearly three hours of work, Duke walked to the studio's spacious lounge and sat across from a row of Transformers models. Crisp footsteps sounded behind him.

"Can I sit here?"

Hearing this, Duke turned his head slightly, only to see a pair of legs of amazing length, wearing jeans and a long-sleeved T-shirt Taylor? Swift stood at the rest table. "I just went to the VFX studio with Nancy, and as a fan of Transformers since I was a kid, I thought the special effects in the movie were unimaginably cool. ”

What would a girl love Transformers?

Duke shook his head secretly and gestured to the seat opposite with his eyes, "Sit casually." ”

"Thank you." Taylor? Swift sat across from him. Curious, he asked, "The robots in the movie look incredibly complex, why did you choose this way to express it instead of being more ......?"

She scratched her face, unable to seem to find the right words.

"Simpler? Looks like an animated character? ”

See Taylor? Swift nodded, and Duke couldn't help but laugh, "In that case, it's basically equivalent to making a film, well......"

He thought for a moment and said, "It's equivalent to filming a "Ghostbusters", and Transformers are mushroom people with a makeover, which is not good." ”

Taylor? Swift was clever enough to find common ground easily, and she blinked her big royal blue eyes, revealing a look of intellectual curiosity, and asked, "Why?" ”

"On a 40-foot screen, you have to show the audience as much detail as possible, and all sorts of things fly around and capture the audience's eyes; The mechanical parts are intricate and dazzle the audience. ”

The girl's fresh dress and the innocence that is revealed from time to time make it easy to give people a good impression, at least on the surface, and Duke also rarely said a few words, "In the beginning, the film production was not very smooth, and the first robots were simply disgusting. And then I was so busy making the whole visuals look real little by little. ”

"I see," Taylor? Swift's mind was very active, and he took Duke's words and said, "My heart is the hardest to deceive, and I see imperfect things......"

She deliberately made a disdainful expression, "Immediately a voice in my head said, 'Huh, cartoon!'" Inferior cartoons! ’”

Seeing her funny expression, Duke couldn't help but think of Scarlett at the same age? Johnson, the nervous tension brought about by his busyness, gradually eased.

He shrugged his shoulders and said, "You have some truth in what you say, during the preparation period, I watched the 1986 Transformers animated movie again, but I couldn't find the feeling I used to have, I only watched the first five minutes, and then I wanted to shoot myself." ”

Duke laughed, "I can't stand this kind of thing, I'm going to have to figure out what the movie I'm going to do is look like." ”

Taylor? Swift laughed as well, "So you're the target of those die-hard fans?" ”

Duke nodded slightly, and the tall blonde girl said angrily, "Who of those critics of you has seen with their own eyes what robots in the 3D world are like?" ”

"It's time for me to go to work." Duke stood up, "You can go ahead and visit." ”

The film's post-production progressed, and by April, it was nearing the end of the film, and Duke cut out the first official trailer and handed it to Warner Bros. for promotion.

"More than twenty years ago, a group of living robots came to our earth from Cybertron and started an extremely fierce war, and more than twenty years later, they are back to start a new desperate fight, and the catastrophe is coming, which side are you on, are you on the Autobots or the Decepticons?"

As Optimus Prime strikes a fierce fighting stance, the first trailer freezes on the big screen in New York's Times Square, followed by a huge line of subtitles.

"Their war, our world!"

This is the promotional slogan for Transformers.

A large number of pedestrians who stopped to watch looked away from the big screen and continued to walk, and before they had gone far, they saw a huge movie poster on the billboard.

This is the latest poster, consisting of four conjoined sheets.

One is Optimus Prime vs Megatron, Megatron seems to be a black demon king descending from the sky and enveloping the world; On one side, Optimus Prime was a huge head glaring at him, completely plunged into darkness.

The other three character posters, namely Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Bumblebee, are the three protagonists, and these Transformers posters are full of three-dimensional and metallic sense, which is extremely eye-catching.

"The bumblebee's body is covered in mud and scars." Some people who follow the film murmured in front of the poster, "I don't know what kind of road this kindest car man has traveled." ”

"Let's take a look at it online." His companion reminded, "While the movie hasn't been released yet, it's time to supplement your knowledge of Transformers." ”

As this person said, since April, the promotion of "Transformers" has entered the final stage, in addition to the usual publicity methods, in order to help audiences who are not fans of animation to better watch the film at that time, "Transformers" studio has also launched a number of special columns and viral videos on the official website and a number of partner websites, such as "Transformers Lifeform - "Transformers" series of chronicles", "What you must know to watch "Transformers".

Many sponsors have also launched a series of promotional activities.

For example, as the number of exposures of the Bumblebee increased, the sales of the Chevrolet Camaro sports car soared, and General Motors launched a special campaign of 'transforming the future with Chevrolet'.

There is also Hasbro, as the original toy manufacturer, they have launched several toys based on this film, these toys use the latest "auto-deformation technology", when one part is "deformed", the other related parts will automatically "deform".

In the past, Hasbro rarely developed toys based on the setting of film and television works, and generally developed toys first, and then made film and television images created around these toys, but this is a commercial production directed by Duke, and they naturally know what kind of pull effect it will bring to toys.

North America is just one of the many regions where "Transformers" will be released simultaneously around the world, and in the world premiere of the film, due to the investment of China Film Group, the promotion of this film is on a scale that has never been seen in imported films. (To be continued.) )