Chapter Eighty-Eight: No Rice to Cook
As expected, there will be all kinds of troubles after putting the beautiful ideas into practice.
And this time, the trouble is precisely in the sudden death ghost itself.
The sudden death ghost changes everything in seconds, but his biggest problem is that he doesn't know how to change it.
It's like Ke Youyou can do all the art in seconds, but she can't design it herself, she has to follow the picture.
Cao Hongyue made the movie sparsely, &nbp;&nbp; all the shots are materials, and in the case of the sudden death ghost, it becomes a huge jigsaw puzzle.
So it made him much less efficient.
Cao Hongyue's film, he fought for three whole days.
Three days is not a long time, but it is a difficult task for the sudden death ghost.
The imps don't get paid, &nbp;&nbp;, but because of this, they have their own temper and demand that the sudden death ghost say that this work is too tiring, and you have to reduce the workload for me.
The key puzzle game is not something that can be completed by a large number of people, so Li Xianyun also began to design.
Two options were finalized.
One is to reduce the need for materials. Some relatively simple shots, &nbp;&nbp;can be shot in real time. For the content that needs to be synthesized, block it as much as possible.
The second is to let Yisheng cooperate in the later stage and label all the materials.
In this way, the sudden death ghost is relaxed.
With this part done, there is only one problem left, which is the synchronization problem.
Especially in some action scenes, there are often synchronization inconsistencies.
In the end, the design was made, and the shooting method was decided to shoot the scene first and then the process.
That is, after all the scenes are filmed first, the scenes are made once, and then the scenes are released in the studio, and then the actors perform, so that the synchronization problem can be solved.
However, in this way, the whole shooting has become more and more streamlined.
Pre-rehearsal, co-ordination, after the crew shoots the venue directly, after filming the venue for post-production, &nbp;&nbp;After filming the actors, &nbp;&nbp;After filming the actors, &nbp;&nbp;If necessary, you can also do another round of shooting to make up for the details...... It's like supplying all suppliers to the final product assembly line.
According to this process, in fact, the time is not much saved, the problem is that the number of people in the group has decreased.
In the traditional mode, a large crew of 300 people shoots for 100 to 300 days.
The existing model is a large crew of 300 people, and shoots for 20 to 40 days.
Improved mode: A large crew of 100 people shoots for a week to 30 days.
The key actors are concentrated, there is no need to transfer, and the number of working days in the improved mode is not much time saved due to the increase in the process, but the actors are all concentrated in the studio shooting, and all of them can be filmed in five days, and there is no need to transfer from then on.
The people who run the venue are photographers, artists and other technicians, and the actors don't have to go.
The cost of filming for the crew is equivalent to another drop of about one and a half times.
For example, in the past, I had to transfer to shoot foreign scenes, originally a large crew of 300 people, and it would take dozens of days to go, but now 20 people used to be responsible for filming scenes, and the actors just pulled a few on the street to make up the number mainly for positioning, and the simple scenes were even exempted from positioning, and the efficiency was high when there were fewer people, and the filming could be completed in two days, &nbp;&nbp;and then come back.
The cost of this saving is wild.
In the past, it was 100 million to make 20 million films, &nbp;&nbp; now 20 million can be completed 2 to 250 million films, &nbp;&nbp; is still not watered.
The reason why it has not been reduced more ruthlessly is because of the consideration of the big name factor, the venue rental factor, etc., because some venues you rent for an hour, people will also give you a day, and the big name is not based on the time to reduce the salary.
In addition, the preliminary preparation will reduce a lot of trouble, and the crew used to have to wait for makeup, but now there is no need to wait.
I'll shoot my scene, and your artists can go directly into the studio later, just like when He Junwei made a film.
No matter how long the makeup time is, at most, the photographer and gaffer wait a minute, and no one else needs to be present, so I'm afraid that you will take a long time?
The makeup artists said they were happy that we could finally ask for quality instead of speed.
And in this way, even ordinary services and ordinary VIP services can improve efficiency - the lighting in the studio is much more convenient than the outside, and sometimes even the cloth is not used.
In other words, the profits of small and medium-sized crews have increased significantly.
So after determining that the problem was not big, Li Xianyun decided to shoot the first and second parts of UFO Ghost Jar like this.
Originally, it was planned to be filmed one by one, but now that it is like this, two more will be launched, otherwise the construction period is too short to operate.
Basically, everyone's shooting plan is now planned according to time, and if the action is too fast, shoot a few more films.
Of course, the lion's share still has to be given to the studio.
The plan of XCOM is 400 million for one and 800 million for two, and now it is done like this, 700 million will go to the studio, and the net profit will be more than 600 million.
The scale of the studio is now tens of thousands, and there are only 100 people in a single film, and the whole project only takes 40 days.
Where to reason?
Fortunately, not all films are like this, otherwise the studio would really have tens of billions of profits a month.
Xuandong said that the market size has seriously dragged us back, and according to the current progress, Yisheng Studios can cover nearly half of the world's production.
The increase in efficiency has brought about a sudden failure to find that Yisheng Studios seems to have no work to do - profits are soaring, but the workload is declining.
As a result, Yisheng Studios had to temporarily stop expanding and fell into an extreme hunger for business.
The business department of Yisheng Media runs business everywhere, and even Li Feng, who has just arrived in the United States, the first thing he does is to talk to Baike about the agency processing services of Yisheng Studios.
The sudden demand made the visitors confused.
AI face swapping is still in full swing, holograms are out, and we plan to participate in some shares, but now you are telling us that you need a lot of film and television production business over there? A big production with an investment of 300 million meters, can you get it done in one to two months? Still quality and quantity?
Is it crazy?
But unlike in the past, Baike now also clearly knows the technology of Yisheng Media.
In particular, this new model itself is an extension of the establishment of AI face swapping technology, so you can't help but believe it.
In the end, the guest agreed to run productions for them in major Hollywood film and television companies.
Of course, you definitely have to get a discount.
300 million meters of production, you give me 200 million to get it!
After several rounds of discussions, the two sides finally reached an agreement.
It is impossible for Hollywood to hand over all the production to Yisheng Media, so the production content is split, priced according to the production content, and finally Yisheng Media is responsible for seamless synthesis, and the pricing is based on demand.
According to this method, only about one-third of a 300 million yuan production may go to Yisheng Media, but it is enough.
As an intermediary, Baike Company will also have a commission, and some of them are from Yisheng Media, or left-handed to right-handed.
After reaching an agreement, the senior management of Baike Company also went out to run the relationship.
With AI face swapping technology, they now have a special status in Hollywood, and the result is really a few big orders for Yisheng Media.
The technical workers of Yisheng Studio, who had no rice to cook, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Yisheng Studios has begun to run out of rice, and the people outside are even more imaginable.
On the one hand, the vigorous development of the film and television industry, on the other hand, there is nothing to do for a large number of related practitioners.
Li Xianyun's purpose in improving the production process is to recruit more people and dominate the global industrial chain, but the first step of planning has brought further difficulties for domestic employees.
Reform is always painful, but before Li Xianyun took care of them, he made them suffer first.
This also made the people's criticism of Yisheng Media increase again.
Many people scolded Li Xianyun for this, and the only thing Li Xianyun could do was to speed up the output of technology and grab money from the outside.
For this reason, overseas branches and Baike companies are also fully expanding, and Baike Global Publicity and Distribution Company is now not running publicity, but first pulling film and television production business, and then running the laying of holographic film and television equipment.
The people of the publicity and distribution company have said what the hell are we doing?
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