Why is Shao Yingying so confident in his 'eternal topic of sex and violence'? Because he has a very interesting number jù in his hand, this number jù can fully prove this, and the leader of this number jù is called "True Love Like Blood".

The first number is that "True Love Like Blood", which aired at 9 o'clock on Sunday, leads the ratings rankings, with a total viewership of 4.29 million, and the viewer rating between 18 and 49 years old is 2.7, what is this ratio?

It's better to use the TV series that aired at 9 o'clock on Sunday, TNT TV's "Urban Rogue Player" has a total viewership of 3.11 million, and the audience rating between 18-49 years old is 1; SHOWTIME'S TUDOR HAS A TOTAL VIEWERSHIP OF 680,000, WITH 0.3 FOR 18-49.

If Shao Yingying needs to question this number jù in the computer, he can also find another number jù in the computer, in this number jù, "True Love Like Blood" also ranks first, and the only difference between the number jù and the previous number jù is that the total number of viewers is 4.49 million; However, under "True Blood", which aired on Sunday at 10 o'clock, "Breaking Bad" 18-49 had a rating of 1.2, with a total viewership of 2.28 million.

Shao Yingying absolutely believes that "Breaking Bad" is more than 10,000 times better than "True Love Like Blood", in his eyes, "Breaking Bad" is a TV series that interprets all the psychological activities of a man with cancer, he can make you feel that no matter what the actor does, it makes sense, even if the pig's feet make countless bills and do not enjoy it. But what about "True Blood"? Shao Yingying only watched a few episodes, and the plot of the first few episodes was very scattered. Shao Yingying didn't wait to see the charm and started to fast forward, he didn't want to watch the plot, he just wanted to watch the vampire. That lightning dash......

That's the difference!

Because the TV can't fast forward!

Want to see Hey Xiu afraid of missing out? Well, you just lock this channel, and it doesn't matter what you do during this period, even if you hear the murmur that permeates the spring and come back, the ratings have been recorded.

That's his faith.

I'm afraid this is also the main reason why "True Blood" is able to beat "Breaking Bad".

Even if Shao Yingying came to the United States to shoot a TV series, even if he didn't break any records and became the king of ratings, who doesn't expect his results to be good?

More critically. Shao Yingying's filming of "The Walking Dead" except for spending a sum of money to buy the adaptation rights, in other aspects, except for the later stage, he is a big head, and there is very little place to spend money. Andrew Lincoln, who plays Rick, has only one Monte Carlo Television Film Festival Outstanding Actor Award, but this award is not recognized in Hollywood, Andrew Lincoln's price is only $30,000 per episode, and Lincoln's price in history is only $40,000. The fifth season was only $90,000; Norman Reedus has a slightly higher price in history for starring in "The Executioner". That's always holding the price of $80,000 an episode, and that's it, and the price hasn't been raised!

This is the price at which The Walking Dead became the ratings champion!!

Compared with "The Big Bang Theory", the salary level of the actors of "The Walking Dead" is simply uncounted in Hollywood, and the actors of "The Big Bang Theory" collectively quarreled with CBS after the end of the first season, and they were so mixed with a large salary increase, but what about "The Walking Dead"? The trouble didn't come out of nowhere. "The Big Bang Theory" delayed filming after the end of the first season due to salary increases, and the salaries of the three leading actors rose to $1 million per episode. Even surpassed Ashton Kutcher in "Two and a Half Men".

This is fate, and people are helpless. This is also the reason why Shao Yingying dared to shoot "The Walking Dead" and only got a budget of 10 million. Because he knows that this TV series is too cheap.

Another reason is that Shao Yingying has to learn how to use green sets for filming, which is very important to him.

Remember the scene in "The Walking Dead" where Rick walks on the highway on a white horse in a police uniform? In that shot, there are abandoned cars parked on both sides of the highway, and the whole world seems to be deserted, but in fact, there are no other highways on either side of the highway, and those abandoned cars and streets are all covered by green scenery during filming, and after the shooting, they are made with post-production special effects.

Not only that, but after having a good post-production company, "The Walking Dead" shot with real scenes and special effects does not need special effects makeup at all.

Shao Yingying came to this, and what he needed was to learn how to cooperate with the later stage.

When, when, when.

There was a knock on Shao Yingying's office door, which was already a day and a night after he came to Hollywood, and he slept for a whole day and a night before he recovered.

Click.

Chirping......

The moment the door opened, the translator led two sloppy men to stand at the door: "Boss Shao, these two said that they are the special effects company that MGM is looking for, and they want to talk to you about the special effects in the script." ”

Shao Yingying stepped out of the way from the door and said, "Come in." Sit down first, and I'll wash your face. ”

Shao Yingying let people into the house, and only after making himself neat and tidy up did he enter the working state.

First of all, the director has to find out every part of the storyboard that needs to be modified by post-production special effects and hand it over to post-production, and after the drawings come out, the director must participate in the modification, and wait for all the qiē locks before entering the production of the script; Secondly, post-production special effects can be reused in TV series like "The Walking Dead", such as specifying how many zombie templates, and when the actual shooting is based on the number of zombies, the zombies that do not show their faces much or have not shown their faces in other shots can be reused in the first row for reuse, which can save a lot of costs; Finally, the most critical step is that the special effects personnel must participate in the shooting according to the drawings that have been made, and the green set is not placed randomly, and the placement will affect the special effects effect, unless the actors are completely sealed by the green set to shoot the film.

There's so much to think about and put effort into. Shao Yingying has been in this circle for so many years, as if he has returned to the era when he didn't know anything, and he has to knock down everything he has learned and start all over again.

Tired.

Shao Yingying later simply moved to this special effects company called 'Teres'. Because they had to work overnight to get everything ready before the summer came, only six of them were completely in a state of madness, and the six of them were just as devastated as Shao Yingying in the process of drawing, revising, continuing to draw, and continue to revise.

In the end, they all became the wolf bèi of the protagonist in "The Walking Dead", with unshaven beards, dirty hair, and even the clothes on their bodies smelled.

It must be said that these guys are really very capable. About five of the six people were drawing non-stop in a week, and the other was working on the 'zombie template', a week later. There are already as many as 100 'zombie templates', which are completely enough for the first season, and when they are filmed, just let the actors wear the zombie template faces made with motion caps. The other five saved a small number of special effects drawings into the computer for filing. If it goes on at the current pace. In about a month, they will be able to start working. Belch. This is what Shao Yingying thinks of himself, in fact......

Shao Yingying kept an eye on it, and asked the translator to help him ask after work: "Are you a special effects production company owned by a big company like MGM or Columbia?" ”

Hank responded, "No, how can that big company look up to us?" There are countless small studio-style companies like ours in Hollywood, but there are not many of them that are really famous, and we belong to the ones who have the technology but are very poor, because the big producers will not cooperate with us, and we are afraid that it will not be safe. The small system will look for cheaper companies, which has put us in a very awkward position. MGM came to us when it came. We were all going crazy with joy, but as soon as we heard that it was not a movie but a TV series that we were going to make zuò, then we understood why such a big company would find us. ”

Hank isn't his name, it's a nickname, because he's the fastest tech guy in a small company.

Shao Yingying went directly to the topic after chatting about this topic and asked: "I'm sorry, I haven't had much contact with special effects technology, I see that your company just has a few computer equipment, and we haven't used these equipment in our work these days, but why is the cost of post-production so expensive?" What's so expensive? ”

Hank laughed, not mockingly, but rarely with good intentions: "You say them? Hank pointed to the computer behind him and said, "You expect them to do post?" God......"

There was a burst of laughter in the whole studio: "We are just helping you with the preliminary preparations required for the production of special effects in this TV series, and the real post-production zuò still has to be handed over, otherwise when do you think the six of us will be able to complete all the work in the 'mapping record'?" ”

Hank looked at the ignorant Shao Yingying and said: "Let me tell you this, now the mainstream configuration of computers gives you twenty, and also allocates you to the top talents in the industry, do you know how much work these twenty computers can complete every day?" If it's a large-scale movie that requires a lot of special effects in the post-production, you can use these twenty talents to complete a frame of rendering, and you are a genius! Why are we the way we are today? Isn't it because you can't afford to buy equipment? If we had the equipment, we could quickly make a name for ourselves in Hollywood with our technology! Hank was confident.

Shao Yingying remembered a legend, that is, the post-production of "Avatar" is said to be the result of the efforts of countless people, first the special effects artist drew the drawings little by little, and then used a large number of top-level server-level supercomputers to render, that's it, the rendering work after completing the preliminary work can only be done to complete the movie for about three minutes a day, which is still the cooperation of a large number of Hollywood geniuses.

Before, Shao Yingying thought it was just a legend, but now he suddenly understood why it took four years to complete "Havoc in Heaven" after using so many technical talents from special effects companies!

Damn, this has to be rendered frame by frame...... Who has that patience? (To be continued......)