Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Facts have proved that the law of true fragrance is never outdated at any time, and it is the same when it falls on Cao Zhiqiang.

Although a lot of preparations have been made before, since the distribution of movies in this era is unified purchase and sales, all of which are bought out at a fixed price, Cao Zhiqiang doesn't want to continue to toss about.

He has the kung fu of writing scripts and making movies, writing more basic books, recording more albums, selling books and songs, isn't he popular?

However, on the morning of the second day after parting with Xu Qingdong, when he saw the reward content for system sign-in, he immediately fell into a tangle.

[Sign in today and reward Panavision with ten sets of 35mm film photographic equipment and [-] copies of color film.

65 sets of [-]mm film photographic equipment and [-] copies of color film.

Audio-visual production type dream space (can only be used in conjunction with the host's system space, please explore for details)]

After seeing these rewards, Cao Zhiqiang couldn't help it.

Because these rewards are obviously different from the previous rewards, they are all equipment.

You know, most of the rewards Cao Zhiqiang received for signing in before were some luxury consumer goods or daily necessities, most of which were food.

There are everything like hump bear's paw, red wine coffee, tea milk powder and so on.

To be honest, these daily consumer goods are luxury goods in the world, such as Geisha coffee, which is really not much available in this world.

In the beginning, these gadgets did bring Cao Zhiqiang a lot of convenience and fun, allowing him to live on the surface when life was still relatively difficult, but his diet was comparable to that of the top rich men in Europe and America.

It's a pity that most of these things are relatively sensitive things, and there are many things that have never been officially imported in China at this time, so he can only use them secretly.

Even to share with his two younger sisters, he only dared to share some less sensitive things, such as mango and banana.

In short, due to the sensitivity of these things, Cao Zhiqiang never thought of selling these things for money.

He values ​​safety more than money.

Like those foods and insensitive things, he usually shares them with people around him or gives them gifts. Only some sensitive and particularly high-value items will continue to exist in the system space.

So his system space is basically storing the stuff produced by these systems at present.

In addition to these consumer goods, there is also a powerful reward, which is books such as "Three Hundred Selected Modern Martial Arts Novels" and "Three Thousand Selected Modern Poems".

These books and materials allow Cao Zhiqiang to directly act as a copywriter and make money by selling content.

The popular science articles, short stories, and later poetry collections that Cao Zhiqiang contributed before are all the results of directly copying the books and materials in them, and the whole is just a porter.

Although those books and materials made Cao Zhiqiang rich, but those skill rewards are even more impressive.

Although there are some tasteless abilities in it, such as top-level spooning, but more are still very useful skills.

Such as top harmonica performance, top guitar performance, top accordion performance, top sketch, etc., are very powerful.

Proficiency in Japanese, Korean and English is also very useful. …

But in any case, basically there can be different classifications.

For example, skills and talents, which are obviously non-material rewards.

Books and materials, as well as various luxury consumer goods, are obviously material rewards.

If it is based on material rewards and non-material rewards, then today's rewards are a bit interesting.

You know, material rewards have never appeared in the equipment category before, but today they appear, which is very abrupt.

Moreover, these equipments are very rare. If you really want to calculate the value, it is really an astronomical figure, which is probably more than all the wealth that Cao Zhiqiang has obtained so far combined.

Because Panavision, the famous Panavision, is a photography equipment company in the United States, mainly engaged in cameras and lenses, and related photography equipment.

Ordinary people may not have heard the name of this company, but it is impossible for people in the film and television industry not to know this company.

Because the photographic equipment of this company is the best in photographic equipment, none of them.

Almost half of Hollywood movies are shot with Panavision cameras.

Basically, Panavision's photographic equipment, including cameras and lenses, etc., are only rented and not sold, so there are not many equipment sold on the market.

Of course, only renting and not selling is just a gimmick. If you really give enough money, they will sell it.

And in 1983, when Panavision was at its lowest point, the company was once again sold to a short-sighted consortium, resulting in a bottleneck in the company's development.

Anyway, Cao Zhiqiang knew that in the history of his previous life, Panavision basically had no new products between 1982 and 1987, and the policy of only renting and not selling has also changed. Sell.

Of course, even if they are willing to sell it, most people can't afford it.

Take one of the 35mm film equipment rewarded by the system, the 1972 mirrorless silent handheld camera Panaflex.

This is the cheapest handheld camera series. In addition to the camera itself, it also comes with a full range of fixed-focus and zoom lenses, various filters, various stabilizers, and light stands, reflectors, and umbrellas. , Outdoor shooting lights, video lights, quartz lights, lens caps, hoods, tripods, etc., etc. a series of accessory equipment.

This set of equipment alone can sell for at least 100 million US dollars in Hollywood!

This is still the cheapest one here, and other more expensive ones, such as the 65mm equipment, cost tens of millions of dollars for a complete set.

It can be said that Cao Zhiqiang's equipment can only be equipped in the United States and Japan at this time. Other places, even Xiangjiang, which is known as the Hollywood of the East, can't assemble these things at this time, and they can't even rent them.

At this time, most of Xiangjiang's movie-making equipment is Alai from West Germany, and Panavision's equipment is also used, but they are not used much, because the rent is too expensive, and most people can't even use it.

It can be said that Cao Zhiqiang can become a multi-millionaire in an instant if these devices are sold out and are willing to sell, and it has to be in US dollars.

Of course, if you count the luxury consumer goods that Cao Zhiqiang signed before, they are actually quite expensive, but it's still the same reason, things are too sensitive to reveal. …

Relatively speaking, although the dream space of audio-visual production type is more magical, it is not so sensitive.

The so-called audio-visual production-type dream space is a space, but it is actually more like a skill or a machine. It has no entity itself and must be used in conjunction with Cao Zhiqiang's system portable space, which is more like an operating platform.

To put it simply, it means that when Cao Zhiqiang puts some real audio-visual media, such as the master tape of a filmed film, into the portable system space, he can control the audio-visual media stored in the system space by dreaming. , such as film stock for post-production.

During the dreaming process, he will enter a special space by himself, and then do special effects on the film master tape he saved in the system space in advance as he likes.

The process of making special effects is not complicated. He can turn on the normal viewing mode or the immersive mode.

The normal viewing mode is to watch a large movie, and then he can pause, fast forward or rewind at any time, and can zoom in and out of the details at will.

As for special effects, he can do whatever he wants.

For example, he said that if there is a wind, it will blow inside, and he can control the level.

For example, he said that if there is rain, it will rain inside, and the amount of rain can also be controlled.

The immersive mode is different. You can watch movies with an effect similar to watching 3D movies, and then make more subtle special effects.

Even AI face changing is not impossible.

If you don’t know much about it yourself, it doesn’t matter. In addition to tens of thousands of professional templates, there are also thousands of AI fool-style special effect templates to choose from.

If it is too troublesome, there is also an AI assistant function, you can say what you want, and the AI ​​​​assistant can help you handle all the special effects.

You don't need to do anything specifically, you just need to be a party A to make a request, and the AI ​​​​assistant can handle everything for you.

Not only image special effects can be done, but sound special effects can also be done.

There is any sound you want, and there are also thousands of AI fool-style templates to choose from.

That is to say, Cao Zhiqiang only needs to pretend to make a movie outside, and then he doesn't need to give others the post-production, he can do the special effects himself.

There can be wind and rain, there can be high mountains, there can be deep valleys, there can be symphony, there can be thunder and birdsong.

But there is one thing, all special effects materials must have been seen and heard by Cao Zhiqiang.

Only the memories stored in Cao Zhiqiang's mind will be perfectly presented inside.

For example, when Cao Zhiqiang went to Jiuzhaigou to see the scenery, he only needed to look at it, and the scenery material he had seen would appear in it, and the special effect function would automatically change according to these.

What's more, Cao Zhiqiang can also create his own creation, just like sim city, using the way of playing games to make special effects.

As long as Cao Zhiqiang wants special effects, they can be produced in the dream space and perfectly engraved on the film film in the system space.

Not only film, but also any media, including digital media, can also be engraved.

It can be said that with this gadget, he makes movies just like playing games.

All Hollywood special effects are his younger brothers. …

To say that this special effects generator is powerful and magical enough, but it is also very sensitive.

For example, if some special effects beyond the domestic technical level are really used and released, how to explain it?

Of course it's okay to appreciate it by yourself, but in this way, it would be a bit reckless.

Then Cao Zhiqiang thought about it carefully, and realized that his worries were unfounded.

He didn't say that there must be one kind of special effects, so he just made some special effects that can appear in this era?
Of course, this aspect is still a bit sensitive in China, but in the future, as long as you find an opportunity to go to Xiangjiang, set up a special effects studio in Xiangjiang, recruit some people, make some models for appearance, and create a sense of mystery, then it will be fine. ?

At that time, he will be able to earn a lot of money just by selling special effects.

No, no, no, it’s not good to sell special effects, it’s easy to cheat.

In the future, I will only make special effects for the movies I make, so I will be unique and keep my sense of mystery.

Moreover, the special effects should keep up with the times, not too advanced, just be at the same level as Hollywood special effects, and occasionally exceed it a little, anyway, as long as the current technological level can do it.

Wait, it doesn't have to be a movie.

Since this thing is a post-production special effects machine, it is not specifically for movies. It can not only produce screen special effects, but also sound special effects.

In other words, if he brings in blank tapes or records, he can also record the music he wants here.

At that time, there will be no need for a recording studio, and no need to make records. How much trouble and cost can be saved?
Movie videotapes have to be handed over to China Film Corporation for domestic distribution at this time, so forget it.

The distribution of recordable tapes is not controlled, and does not have to be monopolized by a certain company.

No, forget it.

It doesn't take much effort to make records, and the cost savings are very limited. There is no need to do it this way, or it will be difficult to explain when people ask.

At most, I can get some vinyl records, CD records or something here, just get some collector's editions.

For ordinary recordings, it's better to do it seriously, anyway, it doesn't take much effort to record a record.

Huh?
In this way, even in China, the movie that pays tribute to "The Garden of Words" can still be made.

Even if the films produced by the studios now must be handed over to China Film Corporation for distribution.

But Cao Zhiqiang remembered that there was no such thing as film copyright in China at this time, and China Film Corporation was only buying film distribution, not buying out film copyright.

Only those who pay attention to copyright, mainly some co-productions, will sign a copyright ownership contract, but in China, this contract is useless, because no matter who your copyright belongs to, you can only distribute it to China Film Corporation.

However, it was different after [-].

Cao Zhiqiang remembers that after the film reformation, those old films that did not clearly state the ownership of the copyright were automatically owned by the film studio before the 50-year copyright protection period expired.

For example, the later Shanghai Fine Arts Film Factory was almost out of food for a while, and later it was able to survive only on copyright.

In the same way, if one's own movie is done well, even if he can't get a lot of money now, he can get copyright in the future.

As long as it is a classic movie, there is no need to worry about not getting copyright fees.

With these photographic equipment and the dream space for audio-visual production, the cost of making movies by yourself can be extremely low, the shooting speed can be extremely fast, and the effect can be extremely high, which can be called the god of cost performance.

You know, almost [-]% of the budget for Hollywood blockbusters is special effects.

And Cao Zhiqiang has this audio-visual space, which is equivalent to saving this part of the money, and the effect is even better.

What's more, I can make pure cartoons here like playing a game, so it's not easy to reveal my secrets.

But in this case, it is not enough to only do it in the country. It is necessary to disperse investment and disperse the company.

Only by setting up special effects divisions in multiple places around the world, and then setting up a non-disclosure agreement, in this way, the problem of special effects will not be easy to get through.

So in the early stage, you still have to suppress the little excitement in your heart, keep a low profile and keep a low profile.

"Forget it." Thinking of this, Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly.

"Anyway, I have already invested 10 yuan in Beijing Film, so let's continue shooting the film, and treat it as an experiment."

"But since I pay for the money, I pay for the equipment, I pay for the people, and I pay for the special effects, then I'm not welcome."

"So this water-testing drama, I want to write, direct, and act in it all myself!"

"As for Director Xu, um, let him be the assistant director and check for my omissions."

"Presumably he is also happy!"