Director: The special effects are too expensive, so I had to make real shots

Chapter 81 You have so many kiss scenes with the same material, how should I cut it? (Add more subscriptions)

"It's too fast. After Guan Ju uses a large supercomputer, it's too fast."

Looking at the speed with which Guan Ju produced the post-production special effects of "Transformers", Xu Nuo was simply dumbfounded.

It is the same as when Tu Hengyu saw the 550C quantum computer for the first time at the moon base in "The Wandering Earth".

However, the current large-scale supercomputers of mankind, even the fastest E-class supercomputers, are nothing compared to quantum computers.

wrong.

To say that the little witch sees the big witch is just exaggerating. It is more like the difference between the Sahara Desert and a grain of sand or a drop in the ocean. The two are not of the same order of magnitude at all.

"I really look forward to the day when I have a quantum computer."

Xu Nuo and Guan Ju are working together on the special effects and post-editing of "Transformers", while looking forward to a bright future.

perhaps.

When Xu Nuo filmed "The Wandering Earth 2" as the first "Wandering Earth", he could get the technical reward of the 550 series quantum computer in the movie.

But for Xu Nuo, the difficulty of filming "The Wandering Earth" is not so high.

It depends on how the system judges a real theme of the movie "The Wandering Earth" that it has mastered, artificial intelligence?

Obviously not.

Because Xu Nuo now has the artificial intelligence Guan Ju, but the system did not trigger Xu Nuo to actually shoot "The Wandering Earth".

"Then the biggest possibility is the planetary engine."

Xu Nuo couldn't help thinking this way.

After all, the wandering earth, without a planetary engine, how can it wander the earth?

This is a bit embarrassing for Xu Nuo, the planetary engine is not something that Xu Nuo can make if he wants to.

But Xu Nuo is not pessimistic either.

I believe that as I continue to shoot one movie after another and advance technology all the way, it is not impossible to realize the planetary engine.

For example, the small reactor exchanged for the filming of "Iron Man", at that time, we can try to reverse the large-scale refusion reaction technology based on the small reactor.

Maybe it will be done?

"Sir, the transformation effect of the stun in the base has been completed, are you satisfied with it?"

At this time, Guanju's Yujie's voice sounded, waking Xu Nuo out of his fantasy about the future.

At the same time, on the display screen, a Z-8L heavy-duty transport helicopter transformed into a Decepticon step by step amidst the sound of mechanical metal.

It, is vertigo!

Through this ultra-clear ultra-high-resolution large display screen, Xu Nuo can see almost every detail of the mechanical structure during vertigo deformation. When Guan Ju rendered the transformation special effects of Transformers in the movie, he referred to Xu Nuo's previous Obtained [Transformed Car Design and Manufacturing Blueprint].

The most important thing is that Xu Nuo deliberately asked Guan Ju to extend the transformation time of all Transformers by two or three seconds compared with Mike Bay's version, so that the whole transformation process looks naturally more detailed.

In terms of perception, it can also give people a stronger shocking impact.

"cool!"

After Xu Nuo watched the dizzy transformation process, he couldn't help giving a one-word evaluation.

"Synthesize the footage of Xiong Li and his task force at the base firing and attacking the stunners, and then edit it out for me to see."

Xu Nuo gave orders to Guan Ju.

The first transformation of Dizzy is after it landed at the base. It came to the base this time to obtain data about the source of fire from the base’s security server. Humans didn’t know it was an alien thing at the beginning, because After all, its shape is its own heavy transport helicopter.

When the dizziness landed on the ground and began to deform, the commander of the base immediately ordered to open fire.

Surrounding Dizzy, a group of soldiers immediately opened fire on Dizzy, wanting to smash it into a sieve, but this kind of attack is nothing short of scratching Dizzy.

In the firepower setting in the movie, there are not many human military weapons that can cause important damage to Transformers.

Just like the scorpice, the air force has conducted round after round of air-to-ground all-round fire strikes on it, only to wound it and escape.

None of this killed it!

So most of the Decepticons in the Transformers movies mainly depend on the Autobots to kill them.

However, the enhanced fire support on the human side is still effective. For example, fighter jet missile attacks can cause a certain amount of damage and delay the actions of the Decepticons.

Among them, Veyron Fighter and Starscream, Xu Nuo also set up two special confrontations.

One is over a certain sea area, this is Xu Nuo's original plot.

The main story is that the Veyron fighter jet found an approaching F-[-] Raptor fighter jet, and when the multi-band communication failed, they had to start fighting.

The reason why there was no response after many times of communication was because this Raptor fighter was actually the incarnation of Starscream. At the beginning, Starscream was in the United States, so the incarnation was a Raptor fighter.

Later, I learned that my eldest brother was on Huaguo's side.

So Starscream traveled thousands of miles across the ocean to China to find his big brother Megatron.

As a result, you group of Veyron fighters are so disrespectful, you even attacked Starscream just because of me!
In this way, a wonderful air battle between the Starscream and the Veyron fighter broke out. In fact, this scene was very easy to shoot, because it only needs to shoot some real shots of the Veyron fighter doing combat maneuvers, and the rest is the post-production Clips and special effects for Starscream too.

This is why Xu Nuo created such a paragraph. It will not affect the overall "Transformers" storyline, but it will have a bonus effect because of the wonderful air battle between the Dragon fighter and the Raptor fighter.

Starscream was probably careless during this fight with the Veyron fighter, he was beaten to the ground by the Veyron fighter, and a concentrated missile hit him, making the shit out of him.

In the end, Starscream had nothing to do, okay, you bully me more and less, a Decepticon without a big brother, I stopped playing with you, and quickly scanned a Veyron fighter, taking advantage of the Veyron fighter group for a while When they couldn't tell which one was the enemy, they pulled away and ran away.

Then Starscream has always maintained the incarnation of the Dragon fighter.

And finally, in the air battle over Yuzhou City, he used the method of blending in and then making a surprise attack. He killed several Veyron fighters. This was the indissoluble bond between Starscream and Veyron fighters. The second confrontation.

It can be regarded as letting his old silver coin take revenge for a missile.

Doesn't this perfectly connect the two wonderful scenes of air combat?

This section can be regarded as Xu Nuo's stroke of genius in slightly adapting "Transformers", which increases the excitement of the air battle between the most advanced fighters in the movie "Transformers".

"Sir, the base attack stun sequence has been produced and edited."

At the same time as Guan Ju's voice sounded, the screen cut out by Guan Ju began to play the scene of Xiong Li and others attacking dizziness and transforming from dizziness at the same time.

"That's right, Guan Ju, you understand me more and more now."

Xu Nuo was quite satisfied.

Basically, no more than three times at most, Guan Ju can create the picture he wants based on the combination of the real vegetarian dishes and special effects.

I have to say that for such a long time, my "tune-up" to Guan Ju's AI has reached a point of perfection.

Guan Ju: "Thank you sir for your compliment."

"Let's continue to work. The next step is the part of Vertigo War Base. These basically belong to the first part of the plot of "Transformers". Let's call up all the real shots of the base battle in the material library."

Xu Nuo sat on the chair and only needed to use his brain and mouth to direct.

As for video editing, special effects production, screen synthesis and other tasks, Xu Nuo didn't need to do it at all, and there was no need to hire a special effects artist to do it. One pass is enough.

In the future, Guan Ju's production of special effects will enable Xu Nuo's real special effects studio to have strong competitiveness in the film and television industry at home and abroad. No matter how powerful your Hollywood special effects factory is, what can you compare with Guan Ju's production efficiency of special effects? ?

In the future, the global film and television special effects market will be dominated by Xu Nuo's real special effects studio.

After Xu Nuo released the first official trailer of "Transformers" these days, he and Guan Ju started the post-production of "Transformers".

At Guan Ju's speed, as long as Xu Nuo can keep up with energy, if he is faster, he can even produce the complete film of "Transformers" in a week.

Of course, Xu Nuo is not like Guan Ju who can work 24 hours a day without eating or drinking.

Xu Nuo is a human being, so he has to eat, drink, and sleep, so Xu Nuo reckoned that he and Guan Ju would complete the post-production of "Transformers" in about ten days and a half months.

In this way, Xu Nuo can send the film to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television for review as soon as possible, and then take the dragon label and set the release date.

With Xu Nuo's current influence and the popularity of "Transformers", and when Xu Nuo filmed this "Transformers", he had the full support of Colonel Luo Wei, his army, and the city government building in Yuzhou. Say hello, then I believe that the SARFT will definitely review and issue the Dragon Label quickly.

In this way, there is an opportunity to choose the approaching Spring Festival file for screening.

If it can be done, the speed and efficiency of "Transformers" from project approval to post-production to final release will be unprecedented in commercial films.

Just like when Xu Nuo saw Guan Ju's super-computing speed just now, it's fast, it's too fast!
Because according to the normal cycle of a movie from shooting to post-production to final release, one year is considered very fast.

Generally, it is highly efficient for a team to produce a commercial film in two to three years with sufficient funds. The shooting may be completed by everyone in a few months, but post-production is a rather time-consuming, labor-intensive and money-consuming task.

However, Xu Nuo used his own resources to complete the shooting and post-production. If it is released during the Spring Festival, then "Transformers" will be almost half a year.

This can't kill those directors in China?

But Xu Nuo thought about it carefully, and if you are dragged to death, if you are crushed to death, the domestic film and television environment may become even better!

Of course, all of the above are based on Xu Nuo’s belief that everything is going smoothly and quickly. After all, it’s already January, and the Spring Festival holiday is only a little over a month away.

Xu Nuo has to complete a series of matters such as post-production, film submission review, obtaining the dragon label, and overseas agency release in more than a month.

Really busy.

Unknowingly, another two or three hours passed, and Xu Nuo and Guan Ju cut the part of the Vertigo War Base together.

The fusion of special effects and real shots is quite good. Xu Nuo is not picky about Guan Ju's technique.

The main thing is the arrangement of the battle scenes, which scene is in front and which scene is in the back, where to switch this shot, how to use that shot, etc. Xu Nuo needs to check these, and then Guan Ju follows Xu Nuo's order to edit.

Otherwise, relying solely on Guan Ju, it would be difficult to cut a part of "Transformers" that Xu Nuo wanted.

This is why Xu Nuo wants to "work" with Guan Ju.

It took about 10 minutes to cut out dozens of hours of materials for the vertigo battle base. Xu Nuo was watching and selecting the materials for the shots, and his eyes were blurred.

The key is the real footage of these base battles. It’s all booming, booming, and it’s quite cool to watch the 10-minute edited film.

But if you want to watch so many material shots, and extract the essence from them for editing, then you will suffer an old crime.

"Phew~, I finally got the part of the stunned base battle. It's full of explosions and battles. It really dazzles me."

Xu Nuo finally breathed a sigh of relief after watching the completed film of the Vertigo Base War that he directed Guan Ju to edit.

But today it's only less than five o'clock, and it's still early. In order to hurry up and make "Transformers" be released in time for the Spring Festival, Xu Nuo has to continue working.

However, Xu Nuo does not intend to produce clips about battles.

"Guan Ju, let's have some more relaxing footage, for example. Well, yes, it's the material for the ending plot of Optimus Prime's speech on Nanshan, where Zhou Youqing and I play the hero and heroine."

Xu Nuo decided to relax a bit.

Only by being relaxed can we work better.

"Sir, are you talking about the footage shot next to the smart villa in Nanshan?"

Guan Ju asked.

"That's right, there's the kissing scene." When Xu Nuo mentioned the kissing scene, he couldn't help but recall the day when he was filming with Zhou Youqing.

To be honest, the kiss scene is really not easy to shoot.

If the kiss is not good, or if it is ng during the kiss, then you have to do it all over again, which is really a headache.

"Sir, can you take a look at these lens materials?"

Guan Ju pulled out all the materials about the ending plot from the material library, and showed them to Xu Nuo one by one.

"Yes, that's it. You can divide the relevant materials into separate file groups and put them together. The title of the file will be [Optimus Prime Speech]."

"Ok sir."

"Come on, Guan Ju, let's make the ending part together, and play some exciting music by the way."

In the next second, Guan Ju played a very brisk music.

"This music doesn't work either. Instead, I want to listen to "Itch."

After Xu Nuo listened for a few seconds, he felt that the effect was not what he wanted.

So I asked Guan Ju to play the song "Itch" that I asked Guan Ju to make a few days ago.

Xu Nuo actually wanted Guan Ju to compose this song a long time ago.

It's just that he has been busy filming "Transformers" before, and Guan Ju has never changed to a large-scale supercomputer. Now that he has changed to a large-scale supercomputer, it is quite easy for Guan Ju to make this song.

After Xu Nuo just tuned the lyrics and part of the melody to Guan Ju, Guan Ju used her powerful computing power to produce it so quickly.

Sometimes a version of "Itch" can be made in less than a minute, and then let Xu Nuo listen to whether it is the feeling he wants.

After going back and forth dozens of times, Guan Ju finally created a version of "Itch" that fits perfectly with Huang Ling's original melody arrangement.

In the end, Xu Nuo asked Guan Ju to sing the song with a more captivating voice.

Mom.

When Xu Nuo listened to it for the first time, that familiar but more intense feeling suddenly hit him violently, making Xu Nuo's scalp numb and goose bumps all over his body.

Too much energy!
As Guan Ju played the song "Itch", Xu Nuo began editing and production of the scene where the hero and heroine kiss on the hood of the Bumblebee at the end of "Transformers".

This paragraph is a picture that matches the voice of Brother Shang Zhuzi's speech, the camera zooms out a little farther and moves slowly from right to left.

Among them, the kiss scene of the hero and heroine is carried out in the process of moving the picture. At the same time, of course, some close-up scenes are not considered close-ups. It can only be said that the picture is pulled to the appropriate position, showing the hero and heroine. A kiss scene that becomes a couple after a thrill ride.

To cut this section, apart from the special effects shots of Optimus Prime’s Autobot state produced by Guan Ju, the other characters Bumblebee, Ironhide and the ambulance are all in real car form.

Naturally, the cars used are the cars sponsored by the advertisements of major car companies.

The only pity is that Jazz didn't appear in the ending shot.

Because Xu Nuo didn't change Jazz's fate, he was torn apart by Megatron in the end. Poor Sir, I hope you don't face Megatron in your next life, let Brother Zhu do it.

"Come on, Guan Ju, play to your heart's content, and try to cut a kiss scene that can best show that the hero and heroine have gone through a wonderful adventure and battle and become a real couple releasing hormones together."

"But sir."

"what happened?"

"The more than 20 kiss scenes between you and the heroine are almost all the same, there is no difference, how do you want me to cut?"

Guan Ju really couldn't understand.

Why did Xu Nuo shoot so many pieces of almost the same material in the same shot when he was shooting a movie?

"Ahem, is it the same? Not the same."

Xu Nuo immediately rolled his eyes, and quibbled: "Guan Ju, what do you know, as a top director, it is natural to strive for excellence in the control of every shot."

Guan Ju: "So that's how it is."

After a while, Guan Ju suddenly asked again: "But sir, why is it that the most complicated of all your other camera materials is only fifteen, and most of them are five or six, and even a lot of camera materials can be shot in three or four?" gone?"

Xu Nuo: .
Xu Nuo held back for a long time, he didn't know how to respond to Guan Ju: "Just wait, I'll just donate you to the construction site to raise an argument later."

Guan Ju:.
"Sir, I have selected a few pieces of material that are most suitable for human couples kissing. You can see if it is suitable or not."

Still under Xu Nuo's instruction, Guan Ju selected a few pieces of material.

"I think it's okay, this one is very suitable, but the sunlight of the setting sun is a bit lacking in taste, Guan Ju, can you make the sunlight of the setting sun in the picture a little deeper?"

Xu Nuo asked.

It was indeed when the sunset was setting during the filming that day, but that sunset was not what Xu Nuo wanted.

In the original film, the deeper light of the setting sun, combined with the painted body of Bumblebee's car, and the male and female protagonists kissing together, almost compose a wonderful picture.

"can."

Guan Ju replied.

"That way, let the light of the setting sun be a little darker, and form a seamless feeling with the painted body of the bumblebee, and the scenes of the male and female protagonists hugging and kissing each other."

As Xu Nuo sent out mission instructions one after another, Guan Ju began to make them.

Soon, on the screen, what Guan Ju was producing was Xu Nuo and the male and female protagonists played by Zhou Youqing kissing.

"Boss, I'm back from get off work. There is a new update on the relationship between Huashi Media and the three major theater chains in North America."

Wen Ruohan returned to the villa after get off work, opened the glass door and walked in.

However, what came into view directly in front of him was the boss sitting in front of such a large display screen, and the image on the screen was Zhou Youqing pressing on Xu Nuo's body and the two were kissing lingeringly.

Ah this
PS: It's the weekend and I don't have to go to work tomorrow, so I will add a new chapter for everyone!
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