my movie years

Chapter 333 Science Fiction Culture Festival

Speaking of now, it is necessary to talk about the production cost of "The Dark Knight Rises".While the director and lead actors' salaries have risen, the total production cost is only $1.9 million.

It still seems like a lot, but remember that the production cost of "Avengers 3" has exceeded 3 million US dollars.

The production cost of "The Dark Knight Rises" in the previous life was 2.3 million U.S. dollars, but now it is a full 4000 million U.S. dollars less.

4000 million US dollars is enough for Warner Pictures to make a small and medium-sized production, at least the production funds of the clown have been saved.

The main reason for such a difference is the change of the special effects studio.

In the previous work "The Dark Knight", the crew still cooperated with the digital field.As a world-class special effects company, the price is also world-class.

At that time, the two special effects studios under Zhang Hao, Tiangong Yicai and Yuegong, belonged to soy sauce.

But it's different now. After the full training of "The Martian" and "Inception", the level of Zhang Hao's two special effects studios is close to the digital field.

So relying on nepotism, Tiangong Yicai and Yuegong Studio became the studios responsible for the digital and physical special effects of "The Dark Knight Rises".

In addition, the filming location of "The Dark Knight Rises" has also been changed.

The previous work was filmed at Fox Studios, a place in California where labor costs and venue costs are quite high, almost outrageous.

After doing some calculations, Zhang Hao and the production team found that it seemed that going to the studio in Qingdao would save a lot of money.

And there is no need to consider the round-trip ticket money, because Zhang Hao's domestic team basically didn't come here except for the main core members.

There are no more than 100 staff members in Hollywood. Compared with the venue fee, the round-trip cost is much cheaper.

It is also very convenient to set up a scene in the Qingdao studio, and the materials are also very cheap.

Moreover, this studio was originally one of the three large-scale film and television bases built by Zhang Hao United Capital, so it would be very comfortable to use its own place.

As a result, after undertaking The Martian, The Wandering Earth, and Inception, Qingdao Studio attracted a large international crew for The Dark Knight Rises.

Netizens nicknamed Qingdao Photography Base the Land of Enlightenment of Chinese Science Fiction Films, and it has since become a holy place for Chinese science fiction fans.

The local Cultural Bureau attaches great importance to it, and together with Qingdao Film and Television City, plans to hold a science fiction cultural festival starting next year. Zhang Hao has also agreed to attend the first science fiction cultural festival.

And such a good resource, of course, the film and television city will not let it go.

In fact, the second phase of the project has already started construction, and the first phase is mainly for shooting, lacking some playable items.

The second phase will move closer to Hengdian and build a film and television base that integrates shooting and playing.

Of course, it’s not about building ancient cities. There are already too many ancient cities, so we don’t need them anymore.

According to the initial plan, there are scenic spots such as space capsules, space stations, space cities, and even alien cities.

The film and television city also opened its official website, facing talented netizens from all over the network, and calling on them to participate in it.

It can be the shape design, or the background setting of the story. As long as it is adopted, there is a chance to get rewards.

Netizens participated very actively, and many good ideas and designs emerged for a while.

This atmosphere is due to Zhang Hao, who has driven the development of science fiction in the hearts of young movie fans, making the concept of Chinese science fiction no longer a mere theory.

Of course, more importantly, in the past few years, everyone has felt more and more that their comprehensive abilities have steadily increased, and they have reached the point of being second-guessing.

What's amazing is that Mu Yanggou and the public intellectuals are rarely quiet, and they don't come out to bad-mouth and clamor.

This is also very understandable, after all, the person on the other side of the Pacific thinks these are useless, and the dog food is no longer distributed.Without dog food, these people couldn't bark anymore.

Don't think that movies are unimportant. You must know that the opposite side uses movies as a weapon. The output over the years has cultivated many loyal dogs.

Far away, in short, China now has the soil of science fiction, showing a thriving attitude.

Not only in movies, but also in anime, novels, and TV dramas.The science fiction channels on Qidian became popular, and many excellent works were born.

In early September, "The Dark Knight Rises" officially announced that the last actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt will join and will play a police officer.

After that, Zhang Hao officially rushed to Chicago with the Hollywood team to shoot all the exterior scenes.

The domestic backbone team does not need to rush over, just wait in the country, and the crew will recruit other Hollywood staff to enrich the crew.

When we go to Qingdao, we only need to take the core Hollywood team with us, and the rest will disband on the spot.

Things seemed complicated, but they weren't, and saved a lot of production money.

Charles Rowan still had the heart to object, but he couldn't say anything after looking at the statement that was 4000 million US dollars less than the scheduled production cost.

For this film, Zhang Hao will use a large number of IMAX cameras to shoot, which has almost become a routine for him.

Regarding the use of IMAX cameras, Zhang Hao is definitely the most experienced director in the world.

And this "The Dark Knight Rises" will be the movie that uses the most IMAX shots in film history, and it is expected to reach 50.00% of the film shots[-].

To this end, IMAX sent engineers to communicate fully with Zhang Hao, and then manufactured four brand new IMAX cameras.

These heavy cameras are built by hand, each with different capabilities, but with common parts.

每台imax摄影机都配有自有的定焦镜头，分为40mm、50mm、80mm、110mm、150mm和250mm几种。

Many of these lenses are also installed with a 65mm adapter ring with a t2.8 aperture and a medium-format Hasselblad camera lens, so the focus of the camera lens will not be affected easily.

The focusing of IMAX cameras is quite troublesome. In the past, when shooting some shots, the photographer could not focus manually, and had to use a remote focuser equipped with a torque motor to operate the whole process.

After full communication, Zhang Hao and the engineers of IMAX Company designed and improved some lenses together and created a new viewfinder.

The engineers of the IMAX company proposed several plans, and they tried to shoot a few shots together with the camera crew, and the effect was very good.

Movie shooting pictures are the most important thing. If the picture performance is not good, no matter how good the director and screenwriter are, they can only stay in the script and mind.

Zhang Hao is very satisfied with the work of IMAX.

In fact, engineers from the camera company under China Film Group participated in the entire transformation process.Through Zhang Hao's back door, he stole a lot of skills.

Back home, the engineers of China Film applied what they had learned to the next generation of cameras.

If successful, brand-new domestic cameras will be provided to all Chinese-language film and TV drama crews.

Although Zhang Hao has used IMAX cameras for so many years, he also hopes to use domestic ones one day.

Most importantly, apart from Zhang Hao, other Chinese film directors have very little experience with IMAX cameras.

The reason is simple, too expensive to use.

Most of the so-called IMAX films are shot with ordinary cameras and then converted in post-production.

So when you watch some domestic IMAX movies in a movie theater, you will find that the texture is not very good, or even very bad.

Only a director with deep pockets like Zhang Hao can afford to use it, and he has accumulated rich experience in using it, and he can propose a transformation plan.

Even the IMAX company wanted to hire Zhang Hao as a consultant to provide various opinions on their cameras.

(End of this chapter)