The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 432 DreamWorks' Innovation in Movies

"870 million? Is it high or low?"

"It's very high. I checked that the online movie with the highest box office share is only 4000 million. Most online movies are successful if the box office breaks through 870 million. [-] million overnight, it must be considered a success, and the production cost is still low. ...cough cough."

"What are you coughing, the production cost is indeed low, and the profit has already been doubled." Chen Jingxing said indifferently.

The second day after the premiere of the first episode of "Black Mirror II", although it is a Saturday, there is no such thing as a weekend when filming domestic crews, and this kind of thing has to be done step by step. The shooting time will not exceed nine hours, which is already a much more comfortable working environment than other film and television companies and other crews.

Actors and stars get high salaries, there is nothing to complain about, but the salary ratio of other crew members and stars is not an order of magnitude, they can be regarded as wage earners, and being able to control their working hours every day is actually quite a big deal for ordinary wage earners in the film and television media industry Welfare.

Since today is studio shooting, the entire crew of "Inception" is quite relaxed from top to bottom, and the mood is also very positive.

It is indeed more difficult to go out on location. Actors and stars have nanny cars, and ordinary staff members are relatively more difficult. Both actors and staff like to shoot in the studio.

In Chen Jingxing's movies, the actors always come earlier, it's human instinct to watch people order dishes.

Because today is mainly a rehearsal, not a formal shooting, so the actors did not put on makeup, did not change their costumes, and chatted together before the props were ready.

Hearing Chen Jingxing's words, Zhang Ruoyun smiled and complimented: "Doesn't this just mean that the director is awesome."

"Then you have to congratulate Director Ji." Chen Jingxing brought the flames of war to director assistant Ji Xuan who was looking at a stack of documents in his hand.

Luo Chen said: "We congratulated Director Ji when we first arrived, and I was thinking of inviting Director Ji to dinner."

Ji Xuan is the director of the first episode of "Black Mirror II". He is one of the five directors selected by Chen Jingxing in the first season of "The Birth of a Director" last year. He was an advertising director. He is only 29 years old this year. Very young.

Although Luo Chen is a stable first-line male star in China and is well-known internationally, but at his level, he knows the importance of directors even more.

Although Ji Xuan is only an assistant director now, he is obviously the seed of the future being cultivated by DreamWorks, and the first episode of "Black Mirror II" premiered yesterday by his director is definitely a blockbuster work, backed by DreamWorks, the future is uncertain As for the second Tian Xinye, the relationship must be maintained.

Ji Xuan hurriedly said modestly: "No, "Search" is mainly the script written by director Chen and the screenwriting team, and I don't really have much credit for it."

"Search" is the project name of the first episode of "Black Mirror II", which is "Searching" in English. "Black Mirror II" has a total of five stories, and each story has a theme.

What Ji Xuan said is indeed the truth. The story of "Search" has no camera language, and there are not many actors. It is a logical and logical reasoning film. The script is the most important, and the director actually has little room for development.

He was assigned to shoot this story at the beginning, but he was actually a little bit dissatisfied in his heart. After all, the budget was the lowest, only 160 million.

The actors are either students selected from the acting academy, or unknown drama actors, and the film is a computer desktop from beginning to end. The protagonists are the mouse and keyboard, and two computers can produce almost all the materials.

To put it more bluntly, this is a movie made from computer desktop screen recordings and screen captures.

You don't know where to spend your money on a movie like this.

The stories in charge of the other four directors are all real video works, and the production cost is in the tens of millions.

I really can't do it myself, it looks like a ticket.

However, when Ji Xuan really participated in the production of the project, he gradually changed his views, especially when he really started to edit the computer desktop screen recording materials of pressing the mouse and typing on the keyboard, the difficulty was really beyond his imagination.

How to combine the computer-operated desktop screen recording materials that normal people seem to find extremely boring and doze off step by step, into a fast-paced, suspenseful, and even horror-based reasoning movie.

This process is similar to magic. Basically, he is pondering over the script and learning continuously, and at the same time he becomes an editor and cooperates with another editor at DreamWorks to piece together the film.

Moreover, I have learned to describe the inner activities of characters from the direction and speed of mouse movement, the hesitation of dragging and clicking, and after text input, modify, delete, send or not send.

Make the mouse and keyboard "anthropomorphic".

And when he finally cut the film, he finally realized that he was almost participating in some kind of avant-garde film experiment.

To say that it is a revolution in the form of film, of course, cannot reach this level. Generally speaking, the film revolution is from black and white to color, from silent film to sound, but it is still appropriate to say that it is a rare innovation and experiment.

Even the more popular pseudo-documentary shooting techniques in the past few years have not abandoned the camera and image composition.

And "Search" can be said to be an unprecedented expression method. When the project was established, Chen Jingxing said that it was a "desktop movie", but he didn't have much experience with it at that time.

And when I really participated in the production, I really realized what a "desktop movie" is. It can be regarded as a kind of broadening of the boundaries of film expression and technology, and it is a magical film experiment.

Ji Xuan himself was the first director to eat crabs, but he only realized it slowly during the creative process.

Naturally, he has no complaints about this. Being able to personally participate in such a film innovation is definitely a valuable experience and wealth.

Regardless of whether the so-called "desktop film" can be carried forward in the future, whether there is anyone following this path, and whether it can become a niche form of film expression like pseudo-documentary.

But as the director of the first "desktop movie", his name will definitely be mentioned in the history of film, perhaps after DreamWorks and Chen Jingxing, but whenever someone mentions "desktop movie", "Search" must be mentioned. It is an unavoidable work.

The other four directors of "Black Mirror II" might even envy them with such qualifications.

Early the next morning, the actors of "Inception" were discussing the amazing appearance of "Black Mirror II", and on the Internet, after a night of preparation, the feedback on the first episode of "Black Mirror II" also triggered intensive discussion.

""Black Mirror II" is back, and the first episode will revolutionize the form of filmmaking!"

"The first episode of "Black Mirror II" "Search" set a box office record with 190 million effective views!"

""Black Mirror II" starts broadcasting, a suspenseful case that happened on the computer screen!"

"A textbook-like work of basic reasoning, amazing!"

"With a creative shooting technique that has never been seen before, "Black Mirror II" has lived up to the fans' expectations!"

""Black Mirror II" started broadcasting, changed from a mini-series to a 90-minute online movie series, and became the number one broadcast overnight. There are still four episodes left. The editor can't wait..."

"DreamWorks is the first to dabble in the Internet circuit, and won the first battle!"

""Black Mirror II": The biggest truth in this world is that we are fake enough!"

"DreamWorks continues to maintain a high standard, and the best suspense film of the year is released!"

"It was revealed that the production cost of the first episode of "Black Mirror II" was only one million, but the plot reversal was suffocating."

It's basically a one-of-a-kind praise. If you just look at the headlines of the media reports, the appearance of "Black Mirror II" yesterday can be regarded as zero negative reviews.

Of course, Fantasy World.com and DreamWorks have invested a lot of marketing efforts, especially Fantasy World.com is still broadcasting the second season of the variety show "The Birth of the Director" at the same time. The director of "Black Mirror II" was born, so the two have a strong linkage.

"Black Mirror Ⅱ" and "Director Ⅱ" are Huanshi.com's blockbuster programs in the spring, and they spent a lot of effort on marketing.

In addition, the first episode of "Black Mirror II" does not pull the hips, so it is natural for the media to push the boat along and start blowing it up.

But even if the media is ignored, ordinary movie fans and audiences are more favorable than negative to "Black Mirror" after two years.

It's not that no one expressed disappointment, especially some fans of "Black Mirror" were disappointed with the first story of "Black Mirror II".

The main focus is that it is not dark enough, it is not as sharp and cold as the first season of "Black Mirror".

The same disappearance case, the first episode of "Black Mirror I" is so cruel and suffocating.

The veil of tenderness is completely torn off. Although the discussion is about technology, the mockery of human society and human nature itself is quite intense and profound, even to the point of horror.

Although the story of "Black Mirror II" titled "Search" also has irony and a satirical display of human society based on the Internet age, it is a story of happy reunion after all.

Although there are more in-depth discussions on the parent-child relationship and the role of the Internet in the relationship between people, there is no doubt that these things are not sharp enough, cruel enough, or dark enough.

But those who really care about the "black, deep and disabled" style are actually still a minority.

The vast majority of audiences and movie fans do not have such obsessions, and many people even think that this kind of happy ending makes them more like it, easier to accept, and more comfortable to watch movies.

And most importantly, even the most seasoned fandom has no time to discuss whether "Black Mirror II" has become more superficial.

The "desktop movie" format brought about by "Black Mirror II" has sparked more discussions, and even obscured the story of the work itself to a certain extent.

To be honest, the case of the first episode "Search" is actually not very amazing, it is excellent but not so good as a masterpiece, but when this good reasoning and suspenseful story is combined with the form of "desktop movie", it is enough to make people feel shocked.

(End of this chapter)