Volume 1 Chapter 391 Special Effects
When Zhang Yi conspired to call Chairman Xia and Chairman Xie before, Lin Xiaozhi was still not sure who these two people were. However, as soon as he heard the names of Xia Yan and Xie Tieli, he knew who the two of them were.
The former Xia Yan Lin Xiaozhi has only heard of his name, Zhilu Dao Xia Yan is one of the oldest filmmakers in the Republic, and he is also one of the initiators of the Hundred Flowers Award. And the latter Xie Tieli is also amazing, when Lin Xiaozhi joined the film industry, he was the chairman of the Film Association. In the early years, movies have always been regarded as a political propaganda tool by the mainland government, and the spring breeze still can't blow to the film after ten years of reform, but in the 80s, it was Xie Tieli who led Beijing Film Studio to take the lead in filming Lou Meng, "Liao Zhai" and many other films to explore the road of mainland film commercialization reform, and it was unexpected for him to get the support of this reformer in the mainland film circle.
In an instant, Lin Xiaozhi had the idea of chatting with these people the next time he went north.
The time for small talk is always short, after arriving late and chatting with everyone, Lin Xiaozhi glanced at the time and saw that it was not early, so he clapped his palms and focused the attention of the big guy on himself, and said: "Okay everyone, everyone get ready, the makeup that should be put on makeup, the props and photography, and the lighting are debugged, and we should almost start ......"
"Good ......"
It has been nearly a month since the filming of "Resident Evil" began, and the plot shooting has also entered a critical period. In the past month, Lin Xiaozhi and others have completed the filming of the first five scenes and officially entered the seventh act.
The reason why there is such a fast shooting speed is actually because many shots in "Resident Evil" have to use special effects, and the first few scenes include the intelligent computer 'Flame Queen, killing, scouting mercenary squads infiltrating, killing people through laser channels, etc., all of which require a large number of computer special effects processing, so in addition to Lin Xiaozhi, in addition to shooting, the original people of the new visual studio also began to get busy, using the developed software - "Movie Special Effects Magician" to process special effects.
The two classes worked together, but it saved a lot of time for Lin Xiaozhi's crew, often they sent the rough copies directly to SPSI, Wu Zhi Liu Jiahui and a few people who were good at editing also stayed there to be responsible for guidance, and Lin Xiaozhi went back and forth between the two places from time to time, and the shooting speed went up
“…… The Electronic Pulse Circuit Breaker can crash an ordinary large server for at least ten minutes, but for the 'Flame Queen, a highly intelligent computer, it is the limit of thirty seconds of hibernation, beyond which the motherboard is not immediately removed, and the Flame Empress will reboot ......
In Lin Xiaozhi's version of "Resident Evil", the role of "Kaplan", the computer expert of the mercenary team, is not someone else, it is Qian Jiale. Qian Jiale's acting skills were not very good, perhaps because he played too many witty comedy star roles, he was particularly good at this kind of role, but he was not able to take on heavy responsibilities for serious scenes.
Originally, Lin Xiaozhi also considered giving this role to Liu Qingyun or Wu Zhenyu, who had been acting for several years, especially the former Liu Qingyun. Although the Prince of Dark Horse is unknown in the film industry at this time, his acting skills are very good in filming for many years, in Lin Xiaozhi's opinion, he is not much worse than Liang Jiahui, looking at the entire "Resident Evil" crew, he is definitely one of the best people, the reason why he failed to become popular is somewhat related to the fact that H high-level management, especially Fang Yihua, prefers powder-headed white flour cream Xiaosheng.
After considering it, in the end, Lin Xiaozhi still gave this role to Qian Jiale. In terms of acting skills, Qian Jiale is indeed inferior to Liu Qingyun, but Liu Qingyun also has a hard flaw, that is, when his image did not match the ancient costumes at H, he took over most of the modern dramas, and rarely accepted professional action guidance, and he was more than one step behind Qian Jiale. The role of Kaplan, although he is a computer expert, is also a mercenary, and his requirements for skills are not low, and Qian Jiale, who was born as a dragon and tiger martial artist, is undoubtedly more competent for this.
As for the acting skills, with Lin Xiaozhi on the side, NG repeated the shooting several times, although some film was wasted, but it was really good for Qian Jiale's acting skills to improve, in this scene Lin Xiaozhi seems to have acted like a person.
"Cu shot well, this scene is over, let's rest for a while"
Stepping onto the fourteenth floor of the Bank of Kowloon Building, Lin Xiaozhi rubbed his legs and stood at the entrance of the stairs panting. Two days ago, an elevator in the building broke down, and an employee was trapped in it for nearly 40 minutes, thanks to the fact that it was during working hours, there was no major problem, but Rao was so still startled him, and today he asked someone to come to overhaul all the elevators in the entire building.
During the overhaul, the elevator naturally could not be used, and the road from the first floor to the fourteenth floor was not short.
“……”
A secretary approached with a stack of papers, and when he saw him, he took the initiative to say hello.
"Hello, Martha......"
This secretary is an Australian girl, the aesthetic views of foreigners are much different from Hong Kong people, some time ago Harvey mentioned that there were not enough people to ask for another group of technical personnel, he readily agreed to let him act cheaply, as a result, in addition to recruiting more than a dozen technical personnel, but also recruited four young foreign girls with convex and backward curvature, and Martha, who is twenty-seven years old this year, is one of them.
"Is Harvey here, I got a call saying that the special effects of the previous set of shots were completed, so come and see ......" Lin Xiaozhi has been tutoring English since RR, and now there is no problem with reading and writing.
"He should be on the side of the technical team, if there is nothing to do, I'll take these documents downstairs and photocopy them first......"
"Go get busy......"
The entire fourteenth floor of the Bank of Kowloon Building has been assigned to the special effects side, and Lin Xiaozhi has been running diligently during this time, so he naturally knows where the Dao Technique Technique Room is, and after separating from Martha, he walked briskly for a while and arrived soon. As soon as he pushed the door in, Lin Xiaozhi heard the sound of conversation.
“…… I should be satisfied with the results, but the cost is not a little more, the new movie has only been shot about a third of the time, and we have already used up almost half of the budget......"
"Huang, you're thinking too much. Didn't you say it before, don't be afraid to spend money......"
"What's not afraid to spend money,...... As soon as he entered the door, he saw Harvey and Huang Li talking, Lin Xiaozhi walked over quickly and asked with a smile.
Huang Li, the technical director of the original new visual effects studio, is a tall and thin man in his thirties, a little taller than Lin Xiaozhi, but like many technical personnel, he has a pair of perennial bloodshot eyes and dark circles, of course, this may also be related to their recent overtime work, since Lin Xiaozhi's new movie "Resident Evil" started, they are not much easier than the crew of the crew.
"Are you here......" Huang Li heard the sound and saw him walk in, said hello to him, and then frowned and said: "You came just in time, we just got the special effects processing of the laser channel, are you still satisfied with it?" ”
"I'm here for it, Harvey just called me and said it's ready, I'll take a look ......"
Seeing that Huang Li avoided mentioning the topic just now, he turned his head to look at Harvey. This foreigner didn't have as many scruples as Huang Li, brushed the messy hair on his head, shrugged his shoulders and said: "I guess you will be satisfied with the effect, but this set of shots is more difficult, we worked overtime for more than a week to get it done, and so far, almost half of the budget has been used......"
Before his words fell, Lin Xiaozhi was taken aback, "Half of it has already been used up?" ”