Chapter Eighty-Six: October

The young lady only had a few days of rest, and she put down all entertainment and work, and came to accompany Xiaobai.

She's done the best she can!

However, for Xiaobai, his girlfriend should still be by his side more, the two are so far apart, even if they love each other, it is difficult to really go on...

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"Riding the Wind and Waves" started filming almost in August, and it will be completed in October, and it will be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year, with 5 months in between!

is different from Han Shao in the original time and space, people are really awesome, it will be completed in 44 days after start-up, and it will be released in a month after doing the post-production, and the quality of the key film is not bad!

Generally speaking, the post-production time is at least two to three months, which is the most normal process in the film industry.

In fact, in the heyday of Hong Kong manufacturing, there were also many rough works that were rushed to work.

It's not uncommon for a movie to go from boot to release in three months.

In 1992, 7 movies starring Xing Ye were released, which meant that he had to finish a movie in less than two months.

In 1993, Liu Zhenwei finished filming "East Becomes West" in only 27 days.

This does not prevent these movies from becoming Chinese New Year classics that are revisited every year.

Xiaobai reserved a month of late time, in fact, it didn't take that much at all, the day after the announcement of the completion of the whole group, the edited version has already come out, 116 minutes, of course, there is still a little gap compared with the final film, but it is very close!

What movie doesn't have a live edit?

In the usual sense, on-site editing will use the monitor signal recorded by the video deck as the material to cut, and there are two unavoidable tasks in this process, one is the work of copying the video material from the deck to the editing system, and the other is the work of combining the video material of the deck with the real camera footage.

Xiaobai directly uses a powerful and high-energy system called QTAKE, and there is a team dedicated to operating it, it does not record the monitor signal, but the signal directly from the camera, and it can not only read the file name of the camera for the material, but also automatically synchronize the camera's on/off signal and timecode to record, which means that the group editing can automatically set the bottom of the material through the editing software, saving the time and workload of the bottom.

There are also many editors who edit at night, and since Xiaobai can afford to rent QTAKE, he naturally doesn't mind spending more money to rent two editing teams!

The on-site editing of "Riding the Wind and Waves" uses a gigabit network cable to directly access QTAKE's hard drive, and cut it on someone's hard drive, saving even a small amount of time for copying materials.

Therefore, the on-site editing of other movies is cut on the spot during the day, and goes back to the hotel at night to set the bottom, the editor of "Riding the Wind and Waves" discusses the cutting with the director on the scene during the day, and is stared at by several assistant directors when he goes back to the hotel at night... So basically, after filming a scene, a scene is roughly cut.

QTAKE, Digital Image Processing in Place, Made In USA!

INSTANT RECORDING AND PLAYBACK, POWERFUL CLIP DATABASE, REAL-TIME IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPOSITING, INTUITIVE EDITING, MULTI-CAMERA SUPPORT, STEREO VISION, CAMERA METADATA, AND EVEN THE ABILITY TO IMPORT 3D SCENES, QTAKE RENDERS THEM IN REAL-TIME!

Paralyzed, Xiaobai was almost stunned when he saw this thing for the first time, to be honest, the development of science and technology does make people a little stunned...

Well, just a little, the rent is as high as 50,000 a day!

The rent alone cost close to three million...

Buy one?

Don't be funny, $8 million, no discounts!

Can you afford it?

No way, if you want to save man-hours, you can only spend more money on equipment!

Therefore, in addition to the actor's salary of nearly 20 million, the rest of the money is really smashed on the movie!

As for the special effects, they have long been pre-empted.

When it comes to special effects, in fact, Chinese films are in an awkward stage of growth, which has not only lost the texture of handicraft, but has not yet established a benchmark style for industrial products.

Yes, we have the money, and as long as we have the budget, it's not difficult to find special effects companies like Pixomondo, Industrial Light & Magic, and Weta to collaborate globally.

But the question is, since the technology of the industry is obviously improving, why do we still think that movies as a whole are not as good as before?

The reason is simple: in the past, when people didn't have many convenient means, everyone had their own ways to present the desired effect.

Now that various methods are becoming more and more convenient, everyone can use these methods at the same time, which will cause a very popular style or some special effects design style, and the movie will become a little similar.

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Approaching October, the National Day file is about to open.

The three films "Operation Mekong", "Passing by Your World", and "Ace Amuses Ace" set sail strongly!

Various media have predicted that "Passing by Your World" and "Ace Teasing Ace" are the most promising to come out on top.

A bunch of experts said: ""Passing by Your World" and the comedy "Ace Tease Ace" are more suitable for the viewing atmosphere of "Eleven" in terms of genre, "Operation Mekong" belongs to the genre of gunfight police and gangster films, Lin Chaoxian's film is of good quality, but the subject matter is more serious, and it is difficult to make a difference at the box office. ”

""Passing by Your World" is generally more entertaining, has a certain number of original fans, and has a high degree of docking with young audiences, and the audience conversion rate of Internet audiences is relatively high, so it will be more labor-saving to publicize and distribute. "Ace Teases Ace", Wang Jing is best at entertainment films, 800 million should not be a problem! The theme of "Operation Mekong" is relatively limited in this schedule, and no matter how well it sells, it is also the volume of "Cold War 2" and "Apostle Walker". ”

Zhang Jiajia still has a lot of fans, and "Passing by Your World" sold 2 million copies in 6 months on the shelves, breaking the sales record of the book industry in the past 10 years!

In addition, although director Zhang Yibai's reputation has not been good in recent years, all the films he has made have sold well, and with the blessing of Deng Chao, it is not surprising that he is optimistic about it!

Therefore, on the first day of release, the number of films scheduled in theaters reached 43%!

How to say it, "Passing by Your World" is definitely not a good movie, but it can't be considered too bad, anyway, if a movie is fast-forwarded and watched for a long time, you find that you can't understand it, if you don't fast-forward to watch it, it's a little bit incomprehensible, it must be that the script is not well written!

The original book itself is a variety of chicken soup, so there is nothing wrong with shooting it like this.

"Passing by Your World" can barely score 6 points, the elements of a commercial entertainment film are basically there, and the circle of money is also in line with the Basic Law, of course, there is nothing particularly outstanding at all...

The box office on the premiere day was 72.44 million, and the word-of-mouth was relatively stable after the release, the Douban score has always remained at 5.6 points, and the change curve of the box office is also very stable, slowly decreasing, and it has dropped to 40.6454 million on October 7th...

"Ace Teases Ace", in fact, since the "Macau Vice" series, the works directed by Wang Jing have been labeled as bad movies, but our director Wang still goes his own way, in his words: I'm not afraid of bad reviews, I'm afraid of no comments.

Commercial elements include dazzling big-name stars, hot beauties, gimmicks of modern technology, exotic locations, and the combination of funny elements. Bringing these all together in one furnace, combining them with a plausible story, controlling the rhythm of the plot, and ensuring the climactic passages and emotional direction, basically a commercial blockbuster is qualified to be concocted.

This kind of movie has always been Wang Jing's best!

I don't know if the "Macau Vice" series gave him confidence, and he felt that just casually the whole story and fooled around!

The plot of the whole "Ace Teases Ace" is from beginning to end, this is a joke.

And it's an embarrassing joke!

As for inviting Liu Tianwang, it is estimated that last year's "Hong Kong Embarrassment" gave him hope.

Last year's well-made and word-of-mouth "Rescue Mr. Wu" performed less than expected at the box office on the National Day, while the comedy "Hong Kong" in the same period was a crazy hit. This greatly stimulated Lau, and with the box office success of the Macau series, he may feel the need to gamble on a comedy that he is not very good at.

It's a pity that he chose the wrong one...

What made Wang Jing even more unexpected was that few people discussed "Ace Amuses Ace" at all, and directly ignored this movie...

used to make bad movies, and a bunch of people scolded him, but now he doesn't even bother to scold...