my movie years

Chapter 194 The Elements of Zhang Hao's Success

As a student of Nortel's directing department, Lu Zihong had heard of the legendary story of Zhang Hao, a senior brother.

In school, there are still many seniors who claim to have had a beautiful love story with brother Zhang Hao, and they are very angry that Da Mi Mi is a third party.

In fact, Zhang Hao had already graduated from school before that senior entered school, and had already filmed his first work.

But this does not affect Lu Zihong's admiration for Zhang Hao. In Lu Zihong's view, a director should be like Zhang Hao, and he should grasp both film art and box office.

In fact, not only Lu Zihong has a feeling of admiration for Zhang Hao, many directing students, not only Nortel, but also the directing students of the Shanghai Academy of Drama, regard Zhang Hao as their role model.

But there are so many students in the directing department, but there is only one Zhang Hao.Ever since Zhang Hao made achievements and gradually became a top director in the film industry, he has never seen any young director graduates who can copy his line.

Many jealous people said that this is because Zhang Hao has a family background to help. His grandfather was the deputy director of Beijing Film Studio before retiring, and their family has a close relationship with the third master of China Film Group.

His mother is a multi-millionaire and can spend a lot of money to support his movie dreams.

So apart from his family background, Zhang Hao is no different from them, suffering just as much, waiting for his own opportunity.

But Lu Zihong didn't see it that way. Of course, the help of his family background made Zhang Hao's career as a director a lot smoother, but that wasn't the main reason.

Family background can help Zhang Hao get the investment for the first film, but it can't help him for the second time.

In other words, if with the help of his family, Zhang Hao's first film is not successful, then there is a high probability that he will do hard work like ordinary directing students like them.

Moreover, Zhang Hao's predicament may be even more difficult, because in the film industry, it is extremely difficult for someone who has failed once to get another chance.

But Zhang Hao did not fail, but seized the opportunity to achieve great success, relying on his own talent and ability.

These things are not things that can be brought by family background. Even if you want to put it on the wall, you must first not be a lump of mud yourself.

Many film and television bloggers have also analyzed the reasons for Zhang Hao's success in detail, and Lu Zihong has also seen it, and what he said is very reasonable.

But Lu Zihong felt that none of the points were mentioned. In order to find out, Lu Zihong wanted to study some important nodes of Zhang Hao's success and the choices he made during the critical period.

Therefore, when the director of the director department announced that he would select ten outstanding students to visit and practice on the crew of "Gravity" directed by Zhang Hao, Lu Zihong signed up.

When he entered the crew of "Gravity" for the first time, Lu Zihong was just like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden. Everything in front of him was amazing.

An assistant director of the crew received them and showed them around the set.

"Brother, what's your surname? Are you also a graduate of Nortel?" Lu Zihong was very familiar with the assistant director.

The assistant director shook his head and replied, "My name is Xin Shuang. I used to work in a band, and I haven't studied directing before."

The people on the side were very curious: "Can anyone in a band be an assistant director?"

Before Xin Shuang could explain, Lu Zihong said instead: "It's nothing strange, director Guo Fan is still a law student, isn't he still a director."

"Yes, our director Zhang has such a personality. Although he is from an academic school, he has no prejudice against us non-academic directors and treats us equally." Xin Shuang said.

Here, Lu Zihong summed up the first characteristic of Zhang Hao's success: talent selection without sticking to one pattern, without discrimination and prejudice, and without overemphasizing qualifications, only ability theory.

In fact, thinking about it, Zhang Hao himself is the type of director who is more prejudiced.

Because of his idol-like appearance, many people say that Zhang Hao is more suitable to be an idol than a director. Even if Zhang Hao has made better results than other directors, this prejudice still does not diminish.

People always subconsciously have a prejudice against young people, thinking that they can't do things well without hair on their lips, and they always say that this generation of young people is a ruined generation.

But in fact, the achievements of young people are not inferior to the so-called veterans in the circle, and even better than them.

After visiting the set, Lu Zihong saw the spaceship model, which was very realistic, and Lu Zihong could even enter the interior to see the details.

He noticed that the instruments on the instrument panel inside the spaceship could all be displayed and activated, and the details were full. If it wasn't for the gravity under his feet, Lu Zihong would even think he was really in a Shenzhou spaceship.

From this, Lu Zihong summed up the second magic weapon of Zhang Hao's success: details.

Movies are a dream-making process. How to make this dream real and believable, so that the audience feels that this is a real story that happened in a certain parallel world, the details are very important.

Xin Shuang also explained: "At the beginning of the production of these prop models, the director emphasized to us that he wanted to create a sense of reality so that the actors could be on the scene and convince the audience.

Therefore, he asked us to do the best in every detail, even the details outside the camera, which he called a sense of faith. "

When Xin Shuang said it, there was a kind of pride on his face.Lu Zihong noticed that the members of Zhang Hao's team had such a confident and proud look on their faces. They were full of drive and motivation, and they did the job very well.

Therefore, Lu Zihong summed up Zhang Hao's third magic weapon for success: a team with strong ability, high tacit understanding, and the ability to implement the director's ideas.

It is said that in order to train the team, Zhang Hao also took them to Hollywood to study, and deeply participated in the production of the movie "Batman: Beginning of War".

Now the second batch of behind-the-scenes learners organized by Big Scissors and China Film Group has rushed to North America, but Lu Zihong doesn't think they can learn more than Zhang Hao's team.

Because they lost a core character, that is Zhang Hao.

Zhang Hao's team is surrounded by Zhang Hao, and it is no exaggeration to say that they are the top talents in the mainland film and television industry.

In fact, after returning from Hollywood, many of Zhang Hao’s team members were poached, but except for a few who couldn’t resist the temptation to quit, everyone else stayed.

Zhang Hao is obviously not a dream director who maintains the team by playing big cakes. He and the team members instill dreams and give the team the top treatment.

The income of his team members belonged to the group with the highest income behind the scenes in the circle, and not many people could afford such a high salary.

The income and treatment are good, and he followed Zhang Hao to make acclaimed and well-received films, and the team members gained both fame and fortune.That's why the ghost wanted to jump ship and make bad movies for other directors.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to make money without violating one's own conscience?

Of course, there is no way to change jobs, and Zhang Hao doesn't set up obstacles.If you want to leave, you can leave, but if you want to come back, it will not be so easy.

There are many other key points of success, which Lu Zihong recorded in his study notes.

In the evening, the directing students from Nortel returned to the dormitory arranged for them by the film crew. The others were discussing what they saw and heard today with great interest, while Lu Zihong wrote his thoughts in his diary.

"The first time I visited Brother Zhang Hao's crew, I only felt the excitement and shock that couldn't be added.

I finally know why there are so many Chinese film directors, why Zhang Hao was named the most special one by the six princesses.

He is ambitious and unabashed; he is passionate and powerful; he dreams and works hard for it.

He has distant goals, but he works hard in a down-to-earth manner, walking step by step, and every step is extremely solid.

He has a pioneering spirit, dares to think and do, and does things that others dare not do.Maybe it's because of his young age that he didn't let the conservatism of the entertainment circle pollute him, so that he can always insist on himself.

Such a director is just a role model for me to learn from, and I will definitely take him as my goal and work hard for my movie dream. "

Maybe many years later, Lu Zihong has changed his appearance, but at least at this moment, Lu Zihong's love for the art of film is extremely hot.

Zhang Hao didn't know that a junior was inspired by him to pursue his movie dream tirelessly, and he was very busy right now.

As a sci-fi movie, there are a lot of space and earth scenes in the movie. It can be said that every frame of the original movie can be used as a wallpaper.

Original director Alfonso Cuarón made heavy use of CG.Although there are only two and a half actors and the plot is simple, the post-production of the extensive CG still slows down the progress.

For this reason, Zhang Hao decided to learn from Christopher Nolan in his previous life when he filmed "Interstellar".

He consulted with the experts of the space agency and the astronauts, and obtained a large number of high-definition photos of the earth and space photos from the inside of the space agency.

Then let the two special effects studios Tiangong Yicai and Yuegong cooperate, and under the guidance of experts, many large screens were produced.

The expansive hangar offers all the possibilities for shooting, and on these large screens, loops of Earth and space are played.So much so that the shooting scene looks no different from space except for the feeling of weightlessness.

If the CG is well done, you don't need to spend all this effort.

However, Zhang Hao, the production department, and the two special effects companies under his umbrella combined, using this method that is also close to the actual shooting will save money compared to simply doing a good job of CG.

The most attractive thing about the movie "Gravity" is the picture effect. If you use inferior CG, then the selling point of the movie will be gone.

Therefore, it can save money and do a good job in picture performance, so why not do it.

It is worth mentioning that the film will be shot with IMAX 70mm film cameras throughout, which is the first time in China.

In fact, in foreign countries, due to the development of digital camera technology, not many directors are willing to use IMAX 70mm film cameras.

With greater width, a wider picture, and more details, this film will definitely bring a strong visual experience when it is released in theaters.

This is also Zhang Hao's purpose, to let the audience feel the vastness of space and the beauty of the earth with strong visual effects.

Even if the plot is relatively simple, the picture is enough to impress the audience.

　There is an inventory at the end of the month, and a shift schedule for the next month. The workload is a bit heavy, so the update will be later.

　　There will be another chapter in a while...

　　
　
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