When I came out of Mr. Li's company, it was already 6 o'clock in the evening.

Looking at the sky, in the evening of May, only the dusk over the city was a reminder of the end of the day.

At this time, there is an endless stream of pedestrians who get off work, and the horns of vehicles also sound.

Meng Shu picked up the contract in his hand and looked at it, and smiled lightly.

This is a temporary employment contract, which is proof that Mr. Li has been invited to the company as a director.

The official effective date is counted from four days later until the end of E3.

In these four days, it is necessary to pull people's hands.

The actors who participated in the performance were also in charge of Mr. Li, saying that he would contact his students tonight and borrow a team of people from him.

So this is equivalent to solving Meng Shu's follow-up work, which is quite comfortable.

As for Mr. Li himself, Meng Shu didn't expect it to be so smooth, and he didn't even waste any words to negotiate.

He thought that this meeting was mostly about bargaining.

The result is just that Director Li himself is not sure, but he wants to try horror type stage plays, so he wants to meet and talk in detail.

This is exactly what Meng Shu wanted.

It doesn't matter if Mr. Li is not familiar with him, he can help in this.

After all, the initial plan was to find this kind of professional who is full of ability and can listen to advice.

Director Li's ability is doubtful, in terms of listening to suggestions, if it is a stage play of other styles, no one may be qualified to make suggestions.

But the horror genre he tried for the first time and had no experience.

Therefore, the role of Meng Shu is reflected. That is to explain to him and avoid detours.

The cooperation between the two is equivalent to a combination of two swords for this stage play, and the effect will definitely not be too bad, and it must follow his ideas.

In this regard, Meng Shu nodded with satisfaction.

After putting away the contract, I called an online car-hailing and rushed to a nice hotel for a temporary stay.

The next day, he hurried back to Shencheng and started his second round of plans.

In order to build momentum for "Dead Space", Meng Shu thought a lot.

Virtual 3D stage play is just the first step.

This time to participate in the exhibition, he is ready to provide a live trial, and he has the real thing.

According to the exhibition information sent by Director Lian before, the organizers will turn each E3 exhibition into a game park and divide it into multiple areas.

The industry media and players who came to the exhibition basically had no worries about eating, drinking, and having fun here.

You can even see that many companies have set up their own game character cos in their own areas to attract exhibitors.

Live out the game version of Disneyland.

Therefore, the spacious geographical advantage has allowed the organizers to prepare 10 independent venues that can accommodate thousands of people, which are specially used for some companies to hold game launches.

However, Director Lian made it clear that the occupancy rate of these 10 venues is only 5 per year.

The reason is that it is too expensive, and it is necessary to pay the organizer more than ten W to hold a press conference, and it is also stipulated that the press conference cannot exceed 2 hours.

Therefore, unless it is a large company, or a big IP that is well-known in the world. Small and medium-sized companies will not rent a separate venue at E3 for their development conferences.

At most, rent an area to put a few computers in a crowded venue outside, and it's OK to debut the new game.

Therefore, it is understandable that the organizers did not allow the set and decoration on the stage of the venue.

But... Since these stages can't be moved, then the big venues outside can always be, right?

Therefore, Meng Shu's second plan is to build a haunted house in his own display area.

The style is designed to be the Ishimura passage in "Dead Space", and then find a few staff members to make up as corpse variants and wander inside.

If exhibitors want to experience the demo version of Dead Space, they will have to go through this 'Ishimura Passage' where corpse variants wander before they can enter the demo area.

This approach to bringing the game to life must have had a lot of publicity effect.

And Meng Shu had this idea a long time ago.

The main inspiration came from the E3 exhibition of Resident Evil 2 Remake.

At that time, the game company built a haunted house in the 'police station corridor' on the venue, and then had the staff wander around it dressed as zombies.

Exhibitors will only be able to enter the demo area after passing through this haunted house.

This is a very good idea and example, and Meng Shu will naturally not let it go.

But the question is, how to find the workers who built this makeshift haunted house?

After all, the location of the E3 exhibition is in Amerika, so you can't bring domestic workers with you, right?

So the best way is to pay some money for the organizer to implement, and just provide a rough sketch of the scene.

And the staff who play the corpse variant can ask the stage crew to save a lot of trouble.

Of course, when entrusting the E3 organizers, you still have to trouble the supervisor to communicate.

On my side, I am responsible for the development of the demo version and the direction of the stage play, so I can't be busy at all.

And one more important thing is music.

In horror games, the importance of music cannot be overstated.

And the most famous, and the most impressive, is "Twinkle, Twinkle, Twinkle", a classic children's song that has been a household name for more than two centuries.

In the original trailer for "Dead Space", this children's rhyme, which is familiar to almost everyone, was sung over the radio by an adult female voice in an ethereal, slow, slightly hoarse voice.

The melody has a characteristic electronic sound, which also reveals exhaustion, despair, and helplessness. It seems to be singing softly in a physically and mentally exhausted and isolated way.

It is accompanied by a hellish stump and severed arm, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, as well as bloody characters on the wall under the influence of religion, strange symbols and other impactful pictures. Let this originally positive and cheerful children's song suddenly turn into a mourning song for the souls of the dead as if to appease the dead!

It's unforgettable!

Of course, there is no children's song "Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle" in this world.

If it is restored directly in "Dead Space", it will lack the blessing of the childhood filter, and the effect will definitely be greatly reduced.

With the native children's rhymes of this world?

It's not impossible, but you can't choose randomly, at least a song that everyone is catchy and the theme is the star universe.

But Meng Shu has only been in this world for a year, and his childhood memories of the original body have long been forgotten, which also means that he knows very little about the nursery rhymes here.

You can't find it from the 300 children's songs in this world, right?

Therefore, Meng Shu handed over the job to the company's newly opened sound department, and asked them to find suitable children's songs at home and abroad.

and hummed a recording of the accompaniment and sent it to them as a reference, asking to find a similar one as soon as possible.

By the time these things were arranged, two days had passed.

Mr. Li also brought his students and stage team to Shencheng as promised.

The number of people is no more, no less, a total of 20 people.

Meng Shu immediately arranged the best hotel nearby for them and settled them down. And invited them to have a good meal, which can be regarded as catching the wind and washing the dust.

Mr. Li himself was very happy, and he inexplicably had a sense of excitement to come out of the mountain again. There is also a sense of anticipation that you are about to be exposed to something new.

This mentality made him ask Meng Shu for the script that night, looking like he was going to read it at night.

Although Mr. Li's positive attitude made Meng Shu satisfied, he had just arrived in a different place, and his age was here, so he had to rest first anyway.

So Meng Shu told him that he didn't have to race against time, that it was important to have a good rest, and that everything would wait until tomorrow.

Although Mr. Li insisted, he finally gave up under the persuasion of Meng Shu.

At half past eight the next morning, before Meng Shuren arrived at the company, animator Xu Hong sent a V letter. said that Mr. Li and others arrived at the company early, and now they have arranged to wait in the conference room and sent them the script.

This positive mobilization made Meng Shu feel a little embarrassed.

At the same time, I also feel a trace of admiration for Mr. Li's conscientiousness.

At least there is no such thing as the high and low self-esteem of the dog blood TV series.

Therefore, when Meng Shu entered the company, he saw Mr. Li and the stage team in a circle in front of the conference table, and began to practice lines and dialogues.

Because motion capture actors and voice actors are separated, the only ones who need to speak and practice are those who need dubbing.

And the motion capture actor just followed everyone through the script.

However, because there is no picture, when going through the script, whether it is the line part or the narration plot part, Mr. Li is trying to explain and mention the points.

So much so that even Meng Shu, who was standing outside the glass door of the conference room, didn't notice it.

It can be seen that the degree of his intentions.

Meng Shu listened for a while, knocked on the door, walked in, and said hello to everyone.

Then he sat in the corner and watched the first day's work with great interest.

His eyes also looked at Mr. Li frequently, only to see what he was recording in his notebook from time to time while listening to the lines and practicing.

looked very reliable, which really satisfied Meng Shu.

And he also interrupted the practice from time to time, reminding him what tone this line should use and what kind of tone he should use for that line.

As an experienced stage director, even if he has never directed a horror genre, he can see his ability to contextualize his lines.

And the actors did not show any irritability and impatience, but kept changing with Mr. Li's reminder in order to achieve the best effect.

Soon, after a morning of simple practice, everyone's lines were almost familiar.

In the afternoon, Meng Shu took them into the motion capture room.

But as the real rehearsals progressed, the problems began to arise.

One of them is that the actors play monsters for the first time.

Inexperienced people have no idea how monsters attack and how they move.

So Meng Shu spent a lot of time on action guidance.

Then, there is the fact that the actors don't know how to express the weird and twisted sense of horror through their body movements.

For this point, Meng Shu personally demonstrated.

In the original world, there was a relatively widespread movement of getting up in the dance circle, called 'zombie getting up'.

The main simulation is the zombie with twisted limbs and strange movements in the movie "Train to Busan".

This set of movements refers to a person lying on the ground, without relying on his hands and feet, through the force of the waist and the twisting of the body to achieve a perfect rise.

In the eyes of others, this action of getting up is like a corpse suddenly being pulled up by a mysterious force, so breathtaking.

On the zombies, a sense of horror and crisis instantly came to you.

And the stiff joints that move after getting up can also reflect the sense of déjà vu that this is definitely not human.

Therefore, if this set of actions is used on the corpse variant, and then it is paired with the already terrifying shape, the effect will definitely be outstanding.

So Meng Shu showed 'zombies getting up' and 'stiff moving' on the spot to tell the motion capture actors that this is the basic movement of monsters.

Because this way of getting up was unheard of, everyone at the scene was stunned, as if they had opened the door to a new world, and they were stunned.

Some people even exclaimed on the spot: Can you still get up like this!?

Even Mr. Li couldn't help but sigh that this set of ideas of getting up and moving stiffly was too interesting, claiming that it was not a monster, even if it was done by a human, the sense of horror would not be reduced.

After that, it's a lot of practice. After Meng Shu demonstrated it in person, the mocap actors began to learn.

And he didn't sit idle after a while, and went back to his office to focus on developing a demo version of Dead Space.

As the days passed, the busy Meng Shu basically ran back and forth between the motion capture room, the office and the home, day and night.

There were even a few times when I slept in the office until dawn.

Fortunately, the efforts were not in vain, and after two weeks of rehearsals, the actors were already very familiar with the content of the stage play.

The sound effects department also found a well-known children's song with an accompaniment tune very similar to "Twinkle, Twinkle, Twinkle", "The Stars Shine"!

This is a children's song from Russia, which has been translated into primary school music textbooks in China, and it is also a song that must be learned in music class.

So this song is also very popular and very well-known.

After Meng Shu listened to it himself, he couldn't help but sigh that the two songs were sixty percent similar.

Although the lyrics and some of the accompaniments are different, the difference is obvious.

But the childhood filter and popularity that this song should have can perfectly replace "Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle".

So Meng Shu did not hesitate to ask the person in charge of the sound effect part to contact the copyright owner of the song and buy the right to use it.

In addition, Meng Shu's 30-minute demo version was also improvised.

Now, it's June 9th.

It's also time to head out for Amerika.

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