broke off the cooperation with Hollywood, then ...... The global publicity of Tuanhuo culture will be broken, and whoever wants to do global publicity and distribution of the film will have to do it himself.

In view of the importance of this matter, He Fang summoned Zhang Qian, Wang Tiejun and several other core figures to his home for dinner and discussion on the second day after receiving Kevin's call, that is, on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

When He Fang told everyone what Kevin said, everyone couldn't help but take a breath......

"Our business has had to suffer a serious setback this year." Zhang Qian said with a frown.

"A year?" He Fang snorted coldly.

Zhang Qian and Wang Tiejun looked at each other puzzled.

"There will be no collaboration, at least not for the next decade or more, and we will be in competition with Hollywood, not a partnership." He Fang said and took a puff on his cigarette.

"Huh? So serious? Zhang Qian exclaimed.

"It is possible that it will be more serious than this, of course, it may not necessarily affect our film industry, but it will have an impact. In the future, we will become the role of the former Soviet Union in the eyes of Westerners. If you think about it, what would happen to you, anything could happen except for a real thing. ”

He Fang's words made everyone stunned, a little difficult to accept, isn't this good, how can it ......

"Why, isn't your prediction a bit alarmist?" He Ben asked a bad question for everyone.

"Dad, is it alarmist or not, time will tell, when the next commander-in-chief of the United States comes to power, all the rules of the game will change."

"On what basis is this? Why? Because the new ruler is going to do this? He Ben was puzzled.

"It's very simple, over the years, we have quietly achieved the world's second GDP in GDP, achieved the high-end impact of manufacturing, and achieved the second in the world in military science and technology.

Therefore, now they are competing with us alone, and economically they can no longer compete with us after the financialization of the manufacturing industry, and the international relations are ......."

After an analysis of where he went, everyone understood that it was not who came up to influence, but all the circumstances forced everyone to do such a thing.

Of course, he can also ask everyone to go to the route of global independent distribution without analyzing with you, but if you don't convince everyone, you can't achieve unity ideologically, and if you don't unify ideologically, you can do things with half the effort, or even half the work will not be half.

Therefore, unity of thought is always the most important thing for a team. Everyone talks about teamwork, what is team? The team is to unify ideas, establish goals, and divide labor and cooperation.

It took him nearly an hour and a half to explain to you why the rules of the game will be subversively changed, and the international trust system will become precarious.

Of course, these circumstances will still make Zhang Qian and Wang Tiejun suspicious, after all, who dares to believe that the world hegemon will act regardless of credibility?

But they accepted Ho's prediction that the rules of the game could change dramatically, and that the good work with Hollywood is now likely to be a thing of the past.

"So what do we do next?" Zhang Qian asked.

"First of all, we need to be prepared for the shock of losing international markets. The annual income of the film is ready to shrink by more than half, and the Lake Film and Television City will also be affected by the shrinking film income, and the number and size of the crew may have a certain impact.

Secondly, we must do a good job of making every effort to open up the international market. Of course, the international market is not just opened up, and we must be prepared to face difficulties.

The most important thing is that we are prepared for a long battle. You must know that any storm has a stage, the first is just a small wind and small waves, and then the real wind and waves, and it is possible that in the next three to five years, or even five to ten years, the difficulties will be heavier. ”

As He Fang's remarks settled, everyone's mood was very heavy.

"Is the winter of China's film and television industry coming?" Zhang Qian let out a long sigh.

"Winter? When you feel like this is the worst of times, there will be even worse times ahead. He Fang sneered.

"Huh? Why? ”

"Why didn't I say that? When the first power begins to break the rules of the market, it is not us who is hurt, but the whole world. This is a matter that affects the whole body, and the world's first and second largest economies have friction, and other markets will not be better, and there will be a chain reaction.

Therefore, it is very likely that there will be no new growth in the entire global market in the future, and it would be good to maintain the current results. After He Fang finished speaking, he took a puff of cigarette, and then took a sip of tea from his teacup.

"What about the specific strategy? Do you have? Wang Tiejun asked.

"A specific strategy? I haven't had time to think about it yet, so let's take a preliminary plan when I go to work on the seventh day of junior high school, and everyone will discuss it together when the time comes......"

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Often there is an omen before the storm comes, and most ordinary merchants and ordinary people do not feel this omen, they will only wait for the storm to arrive before they find out about the storm. Just like the stock market, why is it always the bookmaker who makes money and the retail investor is cut? That is, when the market changes, ordinary people don't know at all, and when everyone else is done, the storm comes, and retail investors will panic.

After the New Year, Tuanhuo Culture recruited international publicity personnel and actively explored the international market, everyone was still aware of it and did not understand what Tuanhuo Culture was doing.

Of course, there is also the same Lake Film Group, which has also issued a new international cinema development and merger plan.

A set of operations is simply dazzling, and several film companies have come to inquire about the situation.

He Fang has already explained that he will not say the later predictions, but only that the cooperation with Hollywood may be hindered this year, so the international market needs to be developed by itself.

There are some things that can't be over-publicized, and if you publicize them, won't that make your opponent directly understand your methods? And some things can be a bit alarmist.

It doesn't matter where the Spring Festival stalls are, and it doesn't matter where the Oscars are. But He Fang is not idle, in addition to the company's affairs, the filming of "Operation Red Sea" is about to start.

The original plan was to start filming in early March, but of course, there was a bit of Hollywood cooperation in between, and it took some time in the company to discuss countermeasures with everyone for a long time.

So now to see if we can start filming in March, He Fang flew directly to Morocco with a team.

Why Morocco?

Quite simply, this place can instantly conjure up different scenes in different time and space, making the viewer think they are in another corner of the world. The rich landscape, the mature film industry and the open and inclusive policy were the key factors in choosing locations in Morocco.

The most important thing is that it is also a popular overseas filming location for European and American films, and many famous film and television projects are selected here.

For example, "Game of Thrones", "Cleopatra", "Lawrence of Arabia", "The Mummy", "Gladiator", "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", "007: Spectre", "Spy 3", "Inception", ...... Too many blockbusters and excellent film and television dramas have been selected here.

Due to the fact that there are many blockbusters coming here to choose the location, this has also created a mature equipment rental company, ground company, and extras in Morocco...... The most important thing is that the crew will not have other troubles when they come here to film, just one word 'professional'.

90% of the scenes in "Operation Red Sea" were done here, so the crew would stay here for three months.

On the third day of their arrival, photographer Du Jie was very excited, in his words, the scenery here is so beautiful, the most important thing is that the structure is good, the light is good, the color is good, and the picture is good-looking.

What are the three elements of photography? structure, light, color.

Many people don't understand what structure is in photography, and some people understand it as composition, but it's not. Composition often refers to the process of artificial construction, while photography is not only the act of constructing composition, but also the process of selecting good structures.

To put it simply, the composition is artificial, and the photography is filtered out to produce something that fits the subject matter and produces beauty. The structure generally refers to fixed elements such as buildings, natural landscapes, utensils, etc.

Of course, there is another way of understanding it. For example, a person standing in a large market with all kinds of utensils, walls, light and shadow, colors, and people in it, in photography, this is called too much structure and too messy.

The structural chaos here refers to the fact that the utensils, lines, light and shadow, and the direction of the flow of people in the picture do not have a harmonious sense of beauty, giving people the feeling that everything in the picture is grabbing people's attention, and the audience cannot find the theme in the first place, resulting in pleasure, etc.

Therefore, sometimes the structure in photography also means that there are too many elements to highlight the subject.

And Du Jie lamented that this place in Morocco is well structured, that is, basically your lens is casually swinged, there are good compositional elements for you to choose from, and you can make a composition that fits the prominent theme.

And to say that the light here is good means that the Moroccan sky at this time is very transparent and the light is very pure. Generally, contemporary film and television will dim and color the picture material in the later stage to achieve a clean, translucent, layered and beautiful light and shadow, while the Moroccan sun does not need to modify it in the picture, the light here is very transparent and pure, and there is a sense of hierarchy.

Good color means that the colors here are very uniform, and basically you don't need too much arrangement to highlight the theme. It means that in addition to the blue of the sky, it is a golden yellow, which is a natural drawing board, where is the best place for art students to paint? That's on a solid piece of paper.

For example, on a piece of white paper, if you draw a few black strokes, it is a strong contrast, and the theme is very prominent. If you want to draw on a piece of paper covered in red, blue, and yellow, you'll have to think about how your colors can overpower the other colors.

And the best picture is best not more than three colors, such a painting, to have a background, to have a theme, to have a mood.

In the context of a large area of desert gold like Morocco, it's very simple to highlight the theme, for example, if you ask the actor to wear a red dress and stand in the desert, this is already beautiful, and you don't need to add too many colors.

In photography or fine arts, what kind of images do people have a sense of? First, the structure is clear and the theme is prominent, the second is that the light is very transparent and beautiful, and there are layers, and the third is that the color is simple, direct and clear.

A large part of film art is the art of the picture, so how to make the picture beautiful and shocking is what every film director pursues. In order to achieve the beautiful picture in their minds, they often look for the most suitable scene through the theme.

For example, the theme of "Operation Red Sea" is African evacuation, so the background Africa is the theme, and the action evacuation is the theme. So in order to fit these two themes, the first thing is to choose the most beautiful African background, which is why the film director looks for scenes in order to pursue a prominent theme.

Strictly speaking, setting up a scene in a greenhouse, or borrowing a scene from a desert or a place similar to an African building can complete the filming, but that kind of scene is not beautiful enough, nor real, nor shocking.

Of course, with the improvement of virtual production technology in the future, some scenes can indeed be simulated in the studio, but after all, it is still far from the real scene.

The group was busy in Morocco for nearly half a month, and only then did they finalize some of the shooting scenes, and the rest was for the photography, outreach, art, and production departments to implement it.

After getting all this, He ordered the actors to join the group, read the script and conduct a preliminary run-in.

The actors of "Operation Red Sea" joined the group on March 12, and the actors this time are a little different from another time and space.

In fact, in He Fang's opinion, there are relatively big failures in "Operation Red Sea" in another time and space that are due to the actors, such as the reporter played by Haiqing, who is a little dry and too loose. Of course, this may have nothing to do with the actors, but with the director's requirements.

After all, Lin Chaoxian is only good at actions and scenes, not in training actors, and the performances of actors in his movies are not good.

And Lin Chaoxian's movie casting is not wonderful, it can only be said that it is average, and I feel that he chooses actors so casually.

Therefore, the casting of "Operation Red Sea" this time is different.

For example, in the choice of the actor, at that time, he was choosing between Zhang Yi, Wu Jing, Deng Chao, Duan Yihong, Zhang Hanyu and several others, and Wu Jing was the first to go out.

"Wolf Warrior 2" is an evacuation of overseas Chinese, is it possible for him to play a "Red Sea Operation" for the evacuation of overseas Chinese? Wouldn't he have become a professional evacuee?

Zhang Yi, Deng Chao, Duan Yihong, and Zhang Hanyu all have similar acting skills, and they are all acting schools. The key is to see who best matches the image and temperament of the team leader? At that time, it was also compared......

(End of chapter)