my movie years

Chapter 192 Weightlessness Simulation Training
How to make a good movie is not just talking about it, let's make a good movie!

A good movie needs a solid and credible script, a talented director, and excellent actors.More importantly, there is a group of crew members with strong executive ability and excellent work ability.

It needs photography, lighting, props, scenery, costumes, makeup, drama management, and field management.Action direction, pyrotechnic special effects, dubbing, stand-in, etc. are required according to the type of film.

In the past, the Chinese-language film crew who completed the creation of a film had no more than a few dozen people in the above positions, and only a hundred people who participated in the later stage.

A little more, only two to three hundred people.

But when Zhang Hao directed "Batman: Beginning of War", he joined the post-production team, and more than 2000 people participated in the project behind the scenes.

How to effectively manage these more than 2000 people, ensure quality and quantity, cooperate well without making mistakes, and complete the work will test the scheduling ability of the crew leaders.

In the crew of "Batman: Beginning of War", Charles Rowan, an experienced Hollywood gold medal producer, helped Zhang Hao.

But in "Gravity", which is under preparation, Zhang Hao can't be helped, and he needs to make his own decisions.

Producer Liu Hao, who has worked with Zhang Hao for a long time, looked at the full production schedule, which contained detailed work procedures, and Zhang Hao even gave the procedure for such a trivial matter as eating.

"Good guy, it's a good thing you gave the process plan, otherwise, just the problem of feeding 1000 people would make our production team's brains go up twice." Liu Hao wiped off his sweat and said to Zhang Hao.

"It's all forced out, take your time, everyone will be nervous when making this kind of large-scale science fiction film project for the first time." Zhang Hao said.

"With your reassurance, everyone is very motivated. Under your leadership, we will definitely complete this groundbreaking movie." Liu Hao said.

The outside world has doubts about Zhang Hao's choice, and there are also supporters, all kinds of voices are mixed.But Zhang Hao's core team has an absolute trust in Zhang Hao.

This kind of trust is not without reason, but Zhang Hao's accumulated authority from success to success.

Especially the team members who have been to Hollywood with Zhang Hao, they highly respect Zhang Hao.

No, under the guidance of experts from the space agency, the physical special effects team of Tiangong Yicai Studio entered the crew and worked with the props team to make spacesuits.

As the leader of the physical special effects team, the young Qiao Xin led the entire physical special effects team and props group to manufacture various props.

At this time, she was reviewing the sketches, while bragging to the new technicians who joined the studio: "Let me tell you, our director Zhang, in the director world, is this."

Looking at the thumbs up, the technician objected: "The director is good, very good, but it's not that there are better directors than him, such as Guoshi."

Qiao Xin shook her head and said, "It's fine with the national teacher, if you give him the opportunity to direct a science fiction film, will he dare to take it?"

The technician thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Most likely I dare not take it."

After "Gravity" entered the preparatory stage, there was a saying in the circle.

After Zhang Hao won the copyright of all the adaptations of Da Liu's science fiction films, out of trust in Zhang Hao, China Film Group judged that Zhang Hao would lead a trend of Chinese science fiction films.

So China Film made a decisive move and won the copyrights of several novels by several other well-known science fiction authors.

Among them, Wang Jinkang's "Seven Shells" and Jiang Bo's "Gate of the Machine" were rumored to be adapted into movies, and it was even rumored that China Film had asked Guoshi and Chen Gezi to direct the two movies respectively.

But the two big directors both refused. For the two big directors with outstanding reputations, accepting this kind of subject matter is to smash their own brand.

Zhang Hao has heard about this incident and knows the thoughts of the two directors. Sometimes he can't help thinking that even if he doesn't accept the future, the two directors will continue to smash their own brands.

So it's better to let go of the glory and achievements you have carried in the past and start anew, wouldn't it be better?

Of course, letting go is easier said than done.

After that, China Film found a group of directors, including Zhang Hao's senior brother Ning Hao, and the newly promoted billionaire director Xu Dabald, but no one was willing to take over.

Zhang Hao can do it, not only because he has the ability, but also because he dares to think and do it, he is a movie lunatic.We are normal people, this type of project is not something that Chinese directors can handle, please ask someone else to be smart!
China Film had no choice but to find Zhang Hao, not to let Zhang Hao direct, but to ask him for advice.

Zhang Hao's reply was only one sentence: "When my "Gravity" is successful, there will be more directors who dare to try."

The China Film Group felt the same at first glance. The main reason is that the China Film Group is a public institution, and some political tasks need to be completed by the China Film Group.

After the news of Zhang Hao's preparation for "Gravity" was known to his superiors, he gave China Film Group a task. As a national film company, he must actively participate in the investment and production of science fiction films.

But now no one can take over, so we have to wait for the right time.

Of course, the premise is that after "Gravity", there should not be a film similar to "Fortress Shanghai".After the little broken ball in the previous life, a "Fortress of Shanghai" came and almost welded the door to death.

If it hadn't been for the birth of Little Ball 2, it is estimated that Chinese science fiction movies would be short-lived.

Throughout July and August, "Gravity" was in the early stages of preparation.Da Mi Mi's task is very heavy, she has to accept the training of astronauts, even if the standard is lowered, the daily training is still very hard.

The space agency directly recruited active astronaut Zhai Zhigang and Liu Yang to be consultants and technical directors to train Da Mi Mi, and Hua Tsai also reported in August to train together.

During the training, Da Mimi told Zhang Hao that he could not find the sense of weightlessness. For this reason, Zhang Hao specially applied to the space agency to use their internal training weightlessness simulator.

This kind of weightlessness simulator is set in the water, using the buoyancy of water, wearing special clothing to achieve the effect of simulating weightlessness.

However, this is not enough. In order to find a more weightless feeling, Zhang Hao forced Da Mimi and Hua Tsai into the astronaut training.

This kind of training method is to take a special plane. When the plane flies to the highest point, it will fall freely, and the objects in the cabin will appear in a state of weightlessness, and the objects will float in the air.

When the plane is close to the ground, the plane starts up again, and the object returns to normal gravity. The flight path of the plane is a bit like a roller coaster, with a steep slope.

When Lang Howard filmed "Apollo NO.13", he used this method to shoot.

But for "Gravity", this shooting method is too expensive. The space agency can sponsor actors to join the weightlessness simulation training for free, but it is impossible to allow the crew to use their aircraft equipment to shoot the weightlessness scenes of the film.

For the last training, Da Mimi, who returned from the sky, hugged Zhang Hao's arm and said excitedly: "Weightlessness is fun, just like a roller coaster, so exciting."

Zhang Hao touched Da Mimi's short hair, and said with a smile: "It's just such an experience, and you have to remember this feeling when shooting later, and shoot according to this feeling."

In order to meet the requirements of the role, without Zhang Hao's reminder, Da Mimi himself cut the long hair that has been raised for a long time.

You know, this is her favorite long hair, Zhang Hao also likes her long hair very much.

But now the big power with short hair looks very energetic and heroic.

Da Mi Mi was a little disappointed in an instant: "Can't you shoot on the plane?"

"What do you think, I still want to go to space to shoot, I want to go to a black hole to shoot, but this is impossible. People have given so much help, and we are on our own." Zhang Hao said.

Fun is fun, but Da Mi Mi also knows that it is unrealistic to borrow other people's equipment to shoot, so he can only bid farewell to this pleasant weightlessness simulation training.

Tired is really tired, but happy is also really happy.

As the preparatory work progressed, the space agency's official Weibo also revealed many details, including aerospace expert engineers serving as crew consultants, and active astronauts training actors and so on.

In addition, Tianmi Studio also exposed the construction of some scenes, including the internal structure of the space station and the 1:1 restored model of the satellite.

The exposure of these details made netizens call it a masterpiece of director Zhang Hao.

Then another reporter from a gossip website revealed that he was squatting outside the sound studio converted from Fengtian's hangar, and found a concept draft in the trash.

There is also Zhang Hao's signature on it, which proves that this concept draft was written by Zhang Hao.

The content of the concept draft is that the spacecraft falls into the atmosphere and turns into a meteor, forming a beautiful picture of a meteor shower.

"Fuck, this composition looks so beautiful, are you sure Director Zhang didn't study art?"

"It's a joke. Being a director already has an aesthetic basis, so there's nothing strange about it. Just watch the movie to see if it can reach the level in the concept draft."

"It's hard. If you don't hire a foreign special effects company, you can't make the scene in the concept map well."

"I think it's a very small part, and most of the scenes take place on Earth."

"I think so, to have a seven or eight-minute space scene is already considered a breakthrough."

Most of the netizens who discussed felt that the most interesting space scene would not take up a lot of space in the film.But they don't think that the drama on earth is actually the least.

There are only a few minutes of pictures, and the rest are basically space scenes, which puts high demands on the crew and actors.

However, the most concerned thing for netizens is the issue of casting. So far, everyone only knows that Da Mi Mi is the first actor.

Judging from the photos posted by Da Mimi's Weibo, she should play a female astronaut, and her hair has been cut short and she has a new look.

But none of the other actors made any news, and they did a good job of keeping secrets.

The actors in the circle were also wondering why Director Zhang didn't hold an audition and didn't announce the role.As far as they know, Da Mi Mi has been training for two months.

If the other actors are not selected yet, wouldn't it be too late? Can't there be only Da Mi Mi as an astronaut?
Keeping in touch with Zhang Hao, Deng Chao, who has always had a good relationship, couldn't help being curious, so he called Zhang Hao and asked, "Director Zhang, have you decided on the actors for "Gravity"? Do you think I can do it?"

Zhang Hao explained with a smile: "Oh, I'm sorry, the actor candidates have already been determined, let's work together again next time we have a chance!"

Deng Chao was not reconciled, and continued to ask: "Can you tell me which actor it is?"

"I can only tell you, only Mi Mi." Zhang Hao thought for a while, and did not disclose the news that Hua Tsai participated and Wu Jing cameo.

Deng Chao was dumbfounded: "There is only one actor, Mi Mi?"

"That's right, I only need her as an actor. If you can transform into a woman, it's not that I can't consider you." Zhang Hao joked.

"Uh," Deng Chao shook his head and said, "Forget it."

It turned out that Da Mi Mi was really the only actor, so Deng Chao felt more at ease. He thought that some big guy would just win the role in this project without saying a word.

(End of this chapter)