I really can't act

Chapter 277 Base Special Effects Company
At the beginning of June, Fang Yi got the post-production special effects footage of the movie "Love Letter", but the other party did not send it to his mailbox, but sent three people to personally bring the encrypted hard disk storing the video to his studio.

And in front of him, the special effects company had to get a password to open it. After obtaining his consent, these videos were copied for him to edit, and the original hard drive was formatted.

The video is played with a special software.

Special effects company's repeated emphasis. "The film is still in the company, and it is very troublesome to take it out every time. So Director Fang, what you have in your hand is the only video clip of your film in the world."

After playing it again, there was no strange distortion, and they said, "It seems to be no problem."

One of them took out a form for him to sign.

It says the contract is fulfilled.

Fang Yi signed the signature and became interested in this special effects company, "You are the base company, I remember that they render renderings for Hollywood blockbusters. After rendering for so many years, they should have a very good level of strength in China."

The man smiled and said: "Not only in China, but also in Asia, it's just..." He hesitated to speak, and finally said, "Special effects rendering is actually a manual job, and it is the bottom of the industrial chain. We in China It is the labor factory of the world, and the same film is given to us, which is faster and more solid than that of the United States! Indians are cheaper, but their speed is not as good as ours. "

"You say this is low-end, so what is high-end?"

Several people looked at each other and reached a consensus, "The development of rendering engines is high-end, and the use of rendering engines is low-end. After the financial crisis last year, Hollywood's special effects giant Industrial Light and Magic laid off a large number of employees, but the layoffs were mainly low-level rendering personnel. .”

"—the backbone of the development engine, they are not willing to lay off, at least not the first batch."

Fang Yi nodded, "I probably understand a little bit. The workload lost due to layoffs in the past two years has been transferred to you. Can I understand that?"

Maybe it’s because Fang Yi is very young, they felt that there was no sense of distance and they smiled and said, “It’s just outsourcing, Director Fang, you’ve given us face... We’re also trying to develop a rendering engine, but domestic talents in this area have all gone to game companies, Moreover, what do we develop, and the local market does not make big special effects films.”

Speaking of this, not only the three, but even Fang Yi shook his head.

In this small space, the smiles of practitioners turned bitter.

The lack of local special effects blockbusters is a difficult problem for the development of the domestic special effects industry.No matter how hard it is, there must be works for them to earn experience.

However, it is difficult to find a new domestic team to produce a real domestic blockbuster - no one will give them [-] to [-] million for their experience, but would rather find an expensive foreign team, or find a Korean team in the middle.

When Fang Yi was filming "My Group" before, due to an accident with the pyrotechnician of the crew, the producer Huaxia Film and Television hired a Korean on-site special effects team at a high price to save the scene. These Koreans were originally trained for "Taichi Flag Flying" A team from Feng Dapao had already done it in Feng Dapao's film "Assembly".

Later, Huaxia Film and Television wanted the local pyrotechnic masters to steal the teacher in the name of helping and give full play to the copying skills of the Chinese.

However, the Koreans only set up explosion points at night. Not only that, they specifically asked for gunpowder to be prepared in a venue without Chinese people. Once they saw any strangers, they would strike and drive the Chinese out.

Counting from "Assembly", it has been stealing from the teacher for four years. The live special effects of "Tangshan Earthquake" released this month is still the Korean team, and Huaxia Film and Television has stolen a loneliness.

Fang Yi sent away the three people from the base company, locked himself in the room, unplugged the network cable, and began to edit the film.

The material currently shot is as high as seven hours, which is enough to split into two movies with completely different plots. He edited very hard, and there are times when he overthrows and starts over.

For example, Li Xuejian's performance was very good, and those scenes were done with care, which made people want to keep them. But when the relationship between Liu Tianxian and himself came out, part of Li Xuejian's scenes had to be cut.

And at this time, I still think, "Is it worth it?"

In this kind of back and forth, he didn't leave the studio much for three days in a row, and finally came up with two versions with similar plots but different narration methods.

"Love Letter" has two timelines, one is the high school career of Yin Chuan and Zhihua in the 90s, and the other is the reunion of the two people who have become social people before and after the Olympics, that is, ten years later.

It is one version to develop completely according to the normal time, and another version to have proper interludes and flashbacks, and the latter is more difficult to grasp.

There is a very classic and commercial narrative method here, that is, it starts with modern court debates, followed by suspense in the student days, and returns to court debates at the end. The ending is reversed and the idea is sublimated.

Is it easy to play like this? Not necessarily, "Hero" is this kind of narrative method, and the national teacher was sprayed with blood.

But Fang Yi really felt that if he could control the speed, the latter would be more exciting.He selected a few 2-[-]-minute videos, made a short video showing the plot line, and then asked Guo Fan to watch it.

Guo Fan was surprised that Fang Yi gave him a chance, so he hurriedly signed a temporary non-disclosure agreement, and watched two versions in the editing room.

Fang Yi: "How is it?"

"all good."

"Don't talk in stereotypes, you must choose a better one."

The clip was played again.

Guo Fan is a well-versed human being, and his ten-year media career has made him very good at pondering people's ideas. He said bluntly: "Director Fang, I like the latter version, and I have reasons."

He listed, "If I make a blockbuster film, I'll just say it straight, because the special effects and big stars are very attractive, and there is no need to make a fuss—not everyone is Nolan in "Inception", not to mention he can mess up; If I were shooting a normal film, I would leave a little bit of suspense in the editing, because I was afraid that the audience would get bored."

Fang Yi pursed his lips, thinking about Guo Fan's words in his mind.Unexpectedly, Guo Fan's list is not finished yet:
"However, the real reason is yourself. If you come to ask me, it must be because you don't want to do cliché editing."

"I was answering what you thought I would answer, so I had to choose the second one."

Guo Fan said so.

Fang Yi felt that Guo Fan was a wonderful person, and the beauty was that he was not hypocritical. After thanking Guo Fan and seeing off the guests, he went back to the nearby Daping floor and slept for the night.

The next day, Fang Yi and the main creator had a wrap-up banquet. At the banquet, he could almost name everyone. Because the total number of people was small, he also chatted with everyone for a minute or two, and asked them future plans.

"Next? I still have to take on new jobs. Of course, Director Fang, if you open a new film, you need me, and I will come back without hesitation."

Talking is full.

Maybe there is a bit of politeness and seriousness.Fang Yi's crew rarely worked overtime, and so far, there was no discrimination against low-level employees, and there were fewer fights, and the team atmosphere was good.

Regarding the matter of going to Washing Foot City, Fang Yi did not hinder them, but emphasized that it is not allowed to do it on the set.

"Love Letter" was the first time he was named as a director. There should have been some face-slapping plots that readers would like to see, but the third master even sent a supervisor to suppress the situation despite being a producer.

No old fritters dare to do bad things. Everyone still wants to develop sustainably, and they don't want to be cut off.

When they arrived at Liu Tianxian's place, of course Fang Yi didn't need to chat with her anymore, but she grabbed Fang Yi's clothes, smiled and drew a long tone, "Fang~director~act~"

"what happened?"

"I am very happy to work with you. You are a professional director." She turned to make a serious evaluation, as if she will not see each other for several years. "I will cherish the experience you taught me, the plays you told me, and ...Ah! Fang Yi, don't grab my face, I'm going to be angry."

Yang Changyin, "I'm really going to be angry."

"Well, it's up to you, you are the director, you are the biggest, you can bully people."

Watching Fang Yi's hand fall.She said, "Don't, don't, I'm joking."

(End of this chapter)