At the same time as the audition, the shooting team and the director team seized the time to make the storyboard and design the shooting plan.

Since "The Wandering Earth" is a science fiction film, there are many shots that require post-production special effects to see clearly what is being filmed.

Like space shots, actors can't really go to space to shoot, so they can only shoot in the studio.

In the movie, the character plays in space, but in fact, during the filming, the actor may be lying on the ground to perform.

After filming, plus post-production, you can see what you are doing.

Therefore, when the special effects studio was filming, the machine slammed an actor lying on the ground, and the walls and ground were green.

The actors are moving strangely on the ground, and if you haven't read the script, you don't know what you're doing.

Therefore, when shooting, it is necessary to have strong logical skills to connect these shots together to form a complete story.

In order to save time in shooting, the more detailed the storyboard, the better.

The shooting plan should also be designed in advance, where the machine shoots from, how to arrange the propulsion angle, and if these plans are carried out after the start-up, there will be a lot of trouble.

Once an impromptu plan doesn't work, the time wasted to change the plan will eventually lead to increased shooting costs.

After the crew started, they burned money every day, and delaying the filming progress because of the design of the shooting plan will only increase the cost.

……

Outside of the audition.

The crew also has to talk about the service team.

Since I had never made a sci-fi film before, I needed to look for a team with experience in sci-fi film shooting.

And domestic science fiction movies have always been tepid.

Occasionally, one or two high-grossing sci-fi films are released, strictly speaking, they are all comedies in the background of sci-fi.

Therefore, there are not many domestic teams with experience in science fiction film shooting.

Fang Xing personally met with He Youliang, who has the most experience in making science fiction movie props in China, and relied on the Golden Bottle Award actor to brush his face, won He Youliang's service team, and signed two contracts at a time.

One is from "The Wandering Earth" and the other is from "The Three-Body Problem".

"Three-Body Problem" is a TV series, and preparations for the project have begun.

Both works are science fiction themes, so they talked about it together.

As for the question of whether Fuhuadao, who is in charge of two dramas at a time, will not be able to take care of it, Fang Xing is not worried.

Because the two dramas are not started together.

Moreover, the team does not need everyone to stay in the crew, and only some people need to be left in the crew to communicate and modify the props after the props are completed.

Moreover, most of the plots of "The Three-Body Problem" are mainly literary dramas, and it is not difficult to serve the Tao.

Fang Xing also talked to He Youliang and made sure that he could take care of it, and then it was finally finalized.

In addition to the service team, there is also astronomy knowledge, Fang Xing specially invited a professor of astronomy as a consultant to try to ensure that the plot of the movie has a scientific basis.

Of course, science fiction movies are not scientific papers, and it can only be said that they are as scientific as possible, not 100% scientific.

……

After starting to prepare for "The Wandering Earth", Fang Xing was very busy.

There's so much work to be involved in, auditioning actors, storyboard production, shooting plan development, and script revisions and adjustments.

Sometimes I have to work overtime until eight or nine o'clock in the evening before I can go home.

There is less time to spend with her daughter, which leads to the fact that on the weekend, you can't see your father lose his temper.

When Fang woke up and came back at night, it took a long time to coax it.

……

After the Fuhuadao team was finalized, He Youliang's Fuhuadao team began to design props and sets according to Fang Xing's requirements.

These props, sets, including delivery vehicles, dungeons, space stations, dormant pods, and more.

In order to strive for truth, those who can use real scenes use real scenes.

Of course, these sets were all set up in the studio, and the props were real, but the background of the studio was still a green screen.

In the end of the shot, you still have to use special effects and add backgrounds.

Of course, the props of the real scene will have a stronger sense of realism when filmed.

Moreover, there are many items that need to be made for the same prop.

For example, in the trailer in the movie, the shots outside the car and the shots inside the car use different props and sets.

The dungeon set is also a big project, and the dungeon set captured in the storyboard has to be built.

Of all the props and sets, the hardest one is the space station.

In one of the scenes, "Liu Peiqiang" and his Russian colleague "Makarov" had to go to the general control room from outside the space station, and the process was very thrilling.

This scene in space is very difficult to film.

Fang Xing, the shooting team, and He Youliang's service team discussed a variety of plans, and finally chose a plan with a better presentation effect.

After the shooting plan was decided, Ho Youliang's team began to design the space station, all to cooperate with the shooting.

The preparation process for the film is tedious.

Ark Culture directly built twelve studios in the East China Sea Film and Television Base, and set the scenes in the studios.

Some studios are mainly used to shoot carrier vehicles, some studios shoot dungeons, and some studios shoot space stations.

In short, each studio will arrange an independent set, and the set like the dungeon and space station, after it is finished, it cannot be moved, so it will always occupy the studio.

If it is an ordinary film and television company, if you want to work on such a big project, it may take a year in the preparation stage.

However, Ark Culture is already a giant company in the film and television industry.

Moreover, in terms of film investment, he is willing to spend money.

In fact, any industry is inseparable from interests.

Capable shooting team and service team, these are all expensive to invite, the more excellent the team, the higher the cost.

Of course, you get what you pay for.

If you have enough money, you can naturally achieve the best results.

"The Wandering Earth" planned to invest 500 million yuan at the beginning, so the budget is relatively sufficient.

Moreover, Fang Xing does not rule out the possibility of additional investment in the later stage, so when the production team approves the budget, it will also be more lenient and try to get the best.

In the preparation stage alone, there are more than 1,000 employees on the set of the "The Wandering Earth" crew.

Most of it is making props, costumes, and sets.

After two months of preparation, the sets of three recording studios have already been completed.

And the casting of the film is done.

In fact.

The casting of "The Wandering Earth" is not difficult, after all, it is a science fiction film, and the focus of the movie is not on the actors' acting skills.

Of course, it's not that acting skills are not important, but compared with dramas like "Infernal Affairs", the squeezing of acting skills is not so exaggerated.

The wonderful thing about "Infernal Affairs" is that the rivalry between the actors has to make the audience's adrenaline soar.

Most of the adrenaline-pumping shots of "The Wandering Earth" are not on the actors, but on the planetary engines, on the space station, on the Earth and Jupiter.

When the little wrecking ball with 10,000 blue planet engine flames appeared, that was the time when it burned the most.

Wait until the fourth studio is also built.

The crew discussed and determined the start-up time.

After turning on the camera, Fang Xing began to work busily shooting.

"The Wandering Earth" was launched with an investment of 500 million.

On this entertainment topic, most people's focus is on the investment of 500 million.

Because in the impression of most movie audiences, there are no science fiction movies in China that can be handled, and there are even fewer hard science fiction.

This also leads to the fact that the audience has no confidence in domestic science fiction movies.

Science fiction movies are launched, and it is naturally difficult to become a hot topic.

However, the launch of "The Wandering Earth" is still on the hot search.

can be on the hot search for two reasons, one is "500 million investment", and the other is Fang Xing's name.

Who is Fang Xing?

The box office champion director of the year, the new actor of the Golden Bottle Award.

If you add "Nezha's Demon Boy Descends to the World", the box office of the three movies will exceed 10 billion yuan.

Moreover, this is not the same as those two top twin stars in the film industry.

Jia Haochen has been marketing the character of "the youngest Mr. 10 billion".

How scary it is to say it, a movie actor with a box office of 10 billion.

However, if you analyze it carefully, you will find that among Jia Haochen's tens of billions of box office, only one "Frozen Warrior" is one, and it has hit the street.

The rest of the movies are three-way plug-ins.

It's not that the roles outside the three times are not achievements, but they can't prove their ability to carry the box office.

The ability to carry the box office is a very special topic in the film industry.

It's a bit similar to the ability to carry dramas in TV dramas.

However, carrying the drama and carrying the box office are actually not at the same level.

Relatively speaking, the difficulty of carrying the drama is much less.

There is often a sweet pet web drama that becomes popular, and then the leading actor follows the fire and becomes a new traffic fresh meat.

Even a drama can be popular with three or four actors, all of which can become traffic, and the fans are very crazy, dominating hot searches every day.

However, when these traffic stars go to make movies, nine out of ten will make no splash.

The reason is that the drama only needs to be popular and have fans, and fans don't need to spend too much money, at most open one member.

However, the movie is different, the audience has to buy tickets to watch it with real money.

If the movie is too bad, what is consumed is the personal box office appeal of the director and actors.

The TV series is different, it's not good, so let's watch it again, anyway, the members who open it won't be wasted, so there won't be anything to watch on the whole site.

Therefore, it is much more difficult to carry the box office, and it is impossible to carry a few crazy fans.

The film industry has also seen clearly, relying on fans alone, the box office of 500 million is basically capped.

If you want a higher box office, you have to fight hard power and box office appeal.

What is box office appeal?

Fang Xing made two movies "Crazy Stone" and "Infernal Affairs", among which he also won the Golden Bottle Award for Best Actor with "Infernal Affairs".

Not only that, but there was also an animated movie "Nezha" with a box office of 4.5 billion during the Spring Festival.

Now, Fang Xing is going to make a third movie.

When the audience saw Fang Xing's name, they thought back to "Crazy Stone" and "Infernal Affairs", as well as the face of the Golden Bottle Award actor, why do they have to try it, right?

Even if the new movie is a science fiction film and is not favored by the industry, I want to take a look, even if it doesn't work, I admit it.

That's box office appeal.

The box office appeal is a comprehensive embodiment of the reputation of past works.

It's not just movies.

Fang Xing also has more than a dozen TV series such as "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night", "Mountains and Seas", "Langya Bang", etc., and many of the viewers of these TV series are potential movie audiences.

In addition to the general audience, there is another audience group that is the most difficult to handle, and that is science fiction fans.

Compared with ordinary audiences, this group of science fiction fans has a more complete scientific worldview and stronger logical thinking ability, and they will frown when they see a plot that does not conform to science.

This audience group is the most difficult group for science fiction movies.

And a large part of the audience of science fiction movies is this group.

……

After the official announcement of "The Wandering Earth", there is a lot of relevant information on the Internet.

Regarding the movie setting and plot synopsis of "The Wandering Earth", you can find it on the Internet.

Therefore, as long as netizens are willing to check, they can find out what kind of story "The Wandering Earth" is.

The most critical part of this is to use 10,000 planetary engines to propel the earth out of the solar system.

Regarding this topic, after the hot search on the topic of "The Wandering Earth", the debate was very intense.

[Propelling the Earth with an engine and flying out of the solar system? That's a good idea. I wanted to see it right away. 】

[As a science fiction fan, I finally saw a great idea, that is, there is a question, human beings really have the ability to push the earth out of the solar system? 】

[I don't know if the crew has calculated, can the earth fly out of the solar system? ] 】

[Personally, I think it doesn't matter if you can do it, science fiction wants this kind of science fiction thinking. 】

[Although it is Fang Xing's new movie, I liked the previous two very much, but I still don't like domestic sci-fi films, and I have been deceived too many times. 】

[Indeed, what were the previous science fiction films? ] It's either a comedy in the skin of science fiction, a superhero movie in the skin of science fiction, or a big bad movie. I've been tricked into going to the cinema a few times before, so I think it's better to forget it. Chinese people can't make science fiction films. 】

[I don't understand, why doesn't Fang Xing continue to make comedies or suspense films, I think he has a hand in filming these two themes. Whether it's "Crazy Stone" or "Infernal Affairs" directly out of the sequel, even if it's not as good as the previous work, I will pay for it. 】

[Is it possible that it's actually a sci-fi comedy?] If you look at "Crazy Stone" and make it into "Crazy Alien", maybe it will look good. 】

[Can you not be so pessimistic? What if one wakes up and can do miracles? Anyway, so far, his movies and TV series have not pounced, and if he can really make a good sci-fi film, it can be regarded as a milestone in the history of Chinese films. 】

[The upstairs is too optimistic, or you give a chestnut, which domestic sci-fi film can become a classic? ] 】

When netizens and viewers were discussing "The Wandering Earth".

Ark Culture has officially announced another project, the TV series "Three-Body Problem".

It's also a science fiction theme.

If science fiction movies are already an unpopular theme in China, then science fiction TV series are simply ...... There is no such theme.

Excluding the TV series that are not very sci-fi such as falling in love through time and space, and suspense dramas staggered through time and space, it is true that the theme of sci-fi TV series is basically not named.

Therefore, when Ark Culture officially announced the sci-fi TV series "Three-Body Problem", netizens were even more confused.

[Fang Xing, is this a brain watt? ] How did you get on the bar with sci-fi? Even if you make a science fiction movie, at least there is a little possibility of a miracle. Science fiction TV series, is there such a theme in China? 】

[It's really strange, is there a science fiction TV series with good ratings in China? ] 】

["Finding You Through Time and Space", as well as "You from the Sun", a sci-fi TV series. 】

[Upstairs, are you sure these two are not idol romance dramas? ] 】

[After taking a look at the synopsis of "The Three-Body Problem", there is one thing to say, at least the synopsis is science fiction. The word "three-body problem" is just a three-star system, and according to current scientific research, the three-body problem is unsolvable, and the three-star operation has no law. If you only talk about this knowledge point, it is indeed science fiction. 】

[Starting two projects at the same time, both are science fiction themes, there should be something, right? ] 】

[To reveal an inside message, our professor of astronomy at Eastern University of Science and Technology has already gone to Fang Xing as a consultant, so it shouldn't be too pitiful.] 】

[Really? Looking for a professor of astronomy as a consultant, is it true that Fang woke up? 】