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Chapter 108 Stealing Lao Guo's Industrialization Process (Subscribe)

"Director Zhang Hao's new project "Fatal Magic" has been approved, and two stars, Huang Xiaoming and Deng Chao, are eager to join."

"Xu Qing said frankly that this is the second time she has cooperated with director Zhang Hao, and she was completely moved by the script."

"Teacher Li Xuejian said that he acted in Zhang Hao's movie mainly because he wanted to see what this young man can do."

After the "Fatal Magic" project launch conference, the media gave enough space and made a lot of reports.

Haotian Studio is not idle here, and released a concept poster designed by Zhang Hao on the official Weibo to attract the attention of movie fans.

This time the attention of "Fatal Magic" project was the most powerful since Zhang Hao started filming.It also proves from the side how much attention his film projects are getting now.

After the project approval conference, the leading actors also ushered in the first script reading.

After signing the actor's contract, the leading actors each received a full version of the script.

Deng Chao was very happy to finally see the legendary highly confidential script. As a result, he opened the script and read only two pages, and his brain cells began to burn.

At the script reading meeting, Deng Chao had the most questions, asking Zhang Hao repeatedly for things he didn't understand.Relatively speaking, Huang Xiaoming was ashamed to ask Zhang Hao, and he studied it silently by himself.

"Director Zhang, Amo and I, are we clones or replicas?" Seeing the scene between Ajie and his prop master Amo in the script, Deng Chao asked Zhang Hao again.

Zhang Hao had just finished reviewing the preparations for the props and costumes, and all the work logs were gathered to him, requiring her to sign.

Hearing Deng Chao's question, he replied: "The replica is still a clone or something. The body and the body are a memory, a thought, and an emotion, and Amo and Ajie have obviously different preferences. How can they be said to be one?"

"Oh? So there are two people, so I'm playing two roles." Deng Chao understood a little bit.

When he didn't get the script at the beginning, he thought he was playing a role, which was the magician Ajie.But after receiving the script, I was dumbfounded when I saw him playing two roles.

Looking at some basic settings of "Fatal Magic", Deng Chao thought that these two people were the same person.

In fact, the script has already told everyone through Lao Bai's mouth that Ajie and Amo are two people.Amo is Ajie's stand-in, or the two are stand-ins for each other.

When following the plot to uncover the mystery layer by layer, reading the script has the thrill of successfully solving the puzzle.

This is exactly what makes Deng Chao very excited. He is obsessed with the wonderful story told in the script, and marvels at Zhang Hao's ingenious plot design.

In contrast, although Huang Xiaoming worked hard, he was obviously not as obsessed as Deng Chao.

This is not to say that Huang Xiaoming is not professional, on the contrary, he has done a very good job in character understanding and shaping, and even wrote a short biography for the character of the magician Ahao developed by himself.

Teacher Li Xuejian is also very hardworking. In order to meet the status of a magic prop master, he specially asked his old friend to find someone to study for a while.

They are all magicians, how can they not learn two-handed magic?

So Zhang Hao invited two well-known magicians to give magic lessons to the main creators of the crew.Now even Li Xiaoran, who has the dumbest hands, has learned the simple spring rope magic trick, and even showed off his skills in front of Zhang Hao.

The behind-the-scenes team of "Fatal Magic" is also quite strong. In addition to Zhang Hao's own team, there are costume design director Xi Zhongwen and art design director Yi Zhenzhou.

Both of these two have won Golden Horse Awards and related awards, and they have also participated in the behind-the-scenes work of "Heroes" and "Golden Armor in the City".

Hearing that Zhang Hao was looking for suitable people to assist Su Tong in completing the art design work, the National Teacher recommended these two to Zhang Hao.

Looking at it this way, the normal national teacher is quite cute and takes good care of the younger generation.

Art director Su Tong returned to the capital after the scene survey was completed, and communicated with Zhang Hao.In several of the scenes, the crew had to make appropriate modifications to conform to the settings in the script.

After the project approval conference, the preparatory work suddenly accelerated.

Tiangong Yicai Studio and Korean special effects company started the early special effects design and production of props.

The magic props used in many films, such as water tanks and birdcages, need to be designed and produced by Tiangong Yicai in conjunction with a Korean special effects company.

In order to meet Zhang Hao's requirement of being able to perform real magic, he did not hesitate to invite many famous magic prop masters to join the crew to complete the production of props together.

The production of props is handed over to the special effects studio to complete, forming a standardized process, which is still the first in China.

According to the general cognition in the Chinese film industry, special effects production is equivalent to computer special effects, especially after the release of "Avatar".

But in fact it is not. In addition to computer special effects, there are also the production of physical props, model props, and sound special effects design, all of which belong to the work of special effects production.

In the past, in the mainland crews, most of these tasks were scattered and handed over to people in different positions.

Computer special effects are handed over to overseas special effects companies, props are produced by prop designers, and then customized by factories. The same is true for clothing.

Everyone gathered together because of a drama, and dispersed after the drama ended, never forming a real production pipeline.

To a large extent, this is a matter of process.

Now, Zhang Hao is just to demonstrate to the industry how to form a standardized process for the production of special effects props.

Speaking of which, I would like to thank Guo Fan for inspiring Zhang Hao.

Guo Fan said in his previous life that what Chinese films lack is not technology and talents, but the process of how to effectively integrate these technologies and talents.

This process is the foundation of film industrialization.

Thanks to Guo Fan's path that he found out for Zhang Hao in his previous life, Zhang Hao went a lot smoother in promoting the film production process of "The Prestige".

And the current Guo Fan, studying with his own little notes, admired Zhang Hao at the same time: "Director, you are so amazing, you can think of forming such a process."

Zhang Hao blushed when he heard this. To be precise, he was stealing the teacher, and what he was stealing was the experience summed up by the person in front of him.

Although it is said that in his previous life, Guo Fan himself recorded this set of procedures for the major domestic film and television companies and crews to learn from.

But Zhang Hao is still a little embarrassed to take this credit for himself.

So Zhang Hao quickly said with a sloppy eye: "You sum up this set of procedures, or we should write down the problems we encountered during the filming process and record them, and use them as experience in the future for other film companies and crews to learn from."

Guo Fan respected Zhang Hao and gave Zhang Hao a thumbs up: "Director, you are really amazing. You didn't try to hide your clumsiness, but shared it with everyone without hesitation. Your realm is high!"

If there is a picture to express this scene, it should be like this:
Sure enough, he is indeed the man that Guo Fan likes, and his ideological awareness is high...

Zhang Hao stopped talking, forget it, he was tired, and he loved it.

Although the preparations for the film are going well, according to the progress, it is estimated that the first shot will not start until the end of September.

During this period, "Di Renjie: Tongtian Empire" was about to be released.

This film is directed by Mr. Xu, starring Liu Tianwang, Li Binbing, Deng Chao, Liu Jialing and others.Most importantly, the film is produced and distributed by Huayi.

Because Huayi invested in "Prestige and Prestige", Zhang Hao was logically invited to participate in the premiere, giving the film a strong momentum.

(End of this chapter)