From traffic to movie star

Chapter 368 Gap in the film industry
The most obvious gap between Huaxia and Hollywood lies in the special effects.

To change to a more professional adjective, it is called film industry technology.

This time, the Film Bureau asked Wei Xun to lead the team and organize the learning activities for young directors. In fact, the essence is to encourage young directors to use more special effects in the film industry.

Among the five young directors, apart from literary film director Lin Fan, the other four, including Wei Xun, Bao Qiang, Kang Cheng, and Xiao Xiaoyang, are all directors of blockbuster films, which speaks for itself.

Especially Xiao Xiaoyang, almost all animation industry films rely on special effects to support them.

Hollywood can conquer the world, essentially relying on the technology of the film industry to crush output.

If Huaxia Film wants to go abroad, it must first be equipped with technology.

Wei Xun and others stayed in a hotel in Hollywood for a night of rest. On the second day, the five of them came to the storm special effects with the work cards issued by the government.

"Never thought that one day I would be here."

Xiao Xiaoyang stood at the entrance of this company, looked up at the logo above, and said with a complicated expression: "The most powerful special effects company in the world, the leading leader in film industry technology, and half of the top special effects blockbusters in Hollywood are produced here. "

It can be said that this 'special effects factory' is equivalent to a dense epitome of Hollywood industrial technology.

Wei Xun said with a smile: "I came here for a visit today, maybe in the future, Director Xiao will come here as a partner."

Xiao Xiaoyang sighed when he heard the words, obviously not confident: "I hope."

Top special effects movies, in fact, to put it another way, are science fiction movies.

At present, in Chinese movies, the ones that make money are always comedies, action movies, romance movies, etc., but there are never science fiction movies.

Because the investment is too high, the special effects are like burning money. Asking Storm to make a movie can easily start at [-] million or [-] million yuan. Which investor dares to spend money on Xiao Xiaoyang to make such a film?
And as we all know, the Chinese market can't afford sci-fi movies.

Not only can't afford it...and no director can make it, sci-fi movies can be said to be a pain point in the hearts of Chinese movie fans in recent years.

"Hello, Director Wei, I'm Zhang Xu, an employee of the storm special effects technical team."

As soon as he walked into the special effect of the storm, a young boy wearing glasses greeted him and said with a smile: "I will take everyone in for a visit later. Of course, my authority is limited to visit the technical department."

This boy named Zhang Xu speaks Chinese.

Bao Qiang said in surprise, "Are you from Huaxia?"

"It used to be, but now I have settled here, because it will be more beneficial to my promotion in Storm."

Zhang Xu didn't shy away from this question, and said with a smile: "Everyone please go inside, remember to hang up the work card, and don't take pictures, otherwise you may be invited out by the security later, and you will be sued if it is serious." .”

Wei Xun shook his head secretly beside him.

China's film technology itself is backward, and the most cutting-edge talents cultivated are lost, how can it be developed.

But these are personal choices, and Wei Xun is not qualified to judge.

Following Zhang Xu, the five of Wei Xun walked into the Storm Headquarters building, and then took the elevator to the 27th floor.

"Hey, idiot, that plane exploded with the wrong flare parameters."

"I wish I could see the wind blowing his fur when this damned lion jumped up."

"Run the explosion again, guys, get on it, that tough old Smith-Meyer guy, he's not going to pay us the balance if he doesn't like it at all!"

The entire 27th floor is a spacious and large office area, where dozens of special effects technicians are busy in front of their computers.

The outside of the office area is a very typical American-style glass curtain, and the light in the large office area is very sufficient.

And on the solid wall at the innermost side of the office area, there is a huge high-definition screen.

A white executive stood in front of the screen, probably noticed Wei Xun and his party, he smiled and joked with the technicians in the office area: "Look, look, guys, there are guests here, it seems that they are Gentlemen from the East. Whether the face of the storm can be preserved depends on my next click, if it fails again, you will all have to eat the saliva of that old Smith-Meyer later."

There was a burst of laughter in the large office area.

Some people turned around curiously to look at Wei Xun and the others.

Zhang Xu, who was standing next to Wei Xun, explained: "This is the special effect for Golden Lion's new movie "Escape from the Earth". We have been busy for three months and adjusted the parameters countless times for this special effect of the earth explosion. Now It is the final finishing stage, and Smith Meyer will personally come to check and accept it in the afternoon.”

Wei Xun nodded, indicating that he understood.

In the distance, a white man standing in front of the screen subjectively presses the control button in his hand.

Everyone in the office looked up at the big screen, including Wei Xun and others, they also subconsciously held their breath and watched together.

I saw the originally dark screen light up.

In the vast universe, a small fireball streaked across the space, and then, the picture opened.

Among the twinkling stars in the sky, thousands of fireballs are running crazily in the universe. The veins of those fireballs, the fire light emitted, and the distortion caused by the high surface temperature can be observed in high-definition images Get, truly amazing.

At the forefront of the field of vision is a water-blue planet.

Human beings are unaware of the changes in outer space, but keen animals have already discovered the abnormality first.

A lion jumped up from the grassland in shock and ran wildly, and looked up at the sky.

Then, countless huge fireballs passed through the atmosphere and fell from the sky, and the whole earth was suddenly plunged into disaster.

The planes flying in the sky were affected and exploded directly.

Countless skyscrapers collapsed, mountains, forests and grasslands were destroyed, and all the mountains, rivers, plants and trees were destroyed as far as the eyes could see.

This kind of indifference and realism of natural disasters makes people feel extremely shocked.

Even Wei Xun narrowed his eyes.

Bao Qiang, Xiao Xiaoyang and others beside him were silent.

After participating in this learning activity, Kang Cheng, who was a bit silent, turned to look at Zhang Xu, and asked in a difficult voice: "That lion just now..."

"Yes, it's also made of special effects."

Zhang Xu said with a proud expression: "That is my work. When it jumps up, even the hair blown by the wind is carefully designed, which can be compared to a real lion."

Kang Cheng was obviously shocked.

He opened his mouth and wanted to say something more, but he couldn't say a word.

This is the gap in the film industry, so big that it made several outstanding young directors present feel desperate.

　Happy Christmas Eve, you guys.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)