my movie years

Chapter 406 Future Plans
After talking about Guo Fan's war film project, Zhang Hao and Guo Fan talked about "The Wandering Earth 2".

"Currently, I have asked Gong Geer and Teacher Wang Hongwei to work on the preliminary script design. I plan to go back and give Liu Peiqiang a complete life." Guo Fan introduced the general situation.

"Brother Jing will be happy after hearing this. Why don't you drag Brother Hua over?"

When Guo Fan heard this, he thought it was okay: "That's good. Brother Hua can participate, which I really hope for. But we have to wait. I'll finish the project at hand first."

"Okay, it's up to you." Zhang Hao has always rarely interfered with the creations of his directors, and at most he only made some suggestions.

But Zhang Hao also thought of something else: "I think, since it is based on the original story and the world view you wrote, we can make an expansion."

"How to expand?" Guo Fan asked.

"Marvel's spin-off dramas have been in full swing in recent years. We can also follow suit and use spin-off dramas to complete the world view." Zhang Hao touched his chin and pondered:
"For example, the discovery of the solar helium flash crisis, or how ordinary people live during a catastrophe, etc. These are all blanks, and the audience may be very interested."

When Guo Fan heard this, he also thought it made sense: "I will do a complete worldview design later and write a set of chronicles at the same time."

"I communicate with other partners and we work together to promote this project." Zhang Hao said.

Recently, Penguin Video has been thinking about opening a science fiction theater, just like the Mist Theater next door, but there are not many good Chinese science fiction movies, let alone domestic science fiction TV series.

So Zhang Hao is sure that Penguin will be interested in Zhang Hao's plan.

But before launching the plan, Zhang Hao first chatted with Teacher Da Liu.Liu specially flew to Qingdao to visit the class and read the script of "Interstellar".

"With your imagination, it would be a pity not to become a science fiction novelist." Liu said.

"Compared with words, I prefer to use images to express a science fiction story." Zhang Hao also said.

"Let's not talk about this anymore," Da Liu waved his hand and said, "When will you put my work on the big screen?"

"What? Isn't watching "The Wandering Earth" enough?"

"I want to see what you took more." Da Liu said.

"Don't worry, I'll show you the studio first." With that said, Zhang Hao took Da Liu to visit the studio, and by the way, he introduced to Da Liu the production of the scenes and how the filming was carried out.

"Look at this, this is a five-dimensional space-time hypercube in my design." Zhang Hao introduced the specific presentation of the hypercube to Liu.

Although most of the hypercube in the film was presented with CG, Zhang Hao still asked the special effects team and the model team to build part of the hypercube.

The so-called five-dimensional space-time is very difficult to present this concept on the big screen.

It is generally believed that the world we live in is a four-dimensional space-time, that is, three spatial dimensions plus one time dimension, while a five-dimensional space-time has four spatial dimensions.

A cube with four spatial dimensions is called a hypercube, and the task of the special effects team is to visually present this hypercube.

From an artistic point of view, they could have represented this space very abstractly, but from a realistic point of view, Zhang Hao required the special effects engineers to make it according to the exact appearance of the hypercube.

Since humans are currently unable to understand the four spatial dimensions, Zhang Hao designed Chen Fei to fall into one of the faces of the hypercube.

We know that the faces of a cube are two-dimensional, so the faces of a hypercube are three-dimensional.

Zhang Hao made Chen Fei fall into the three-dimensional surface of the hypercube, which prevented Chen Fei from being wiped out in ashes.

At the same time, Chen Fei's bedroom is located on another three-dimensional surface of the hypercube. They are so close in the five-dimensional space and time. This is why Chen Fei saw Chen Fei's bedroom in the hypercube.According to Einstein's theory of relativity, it is impossible to go back to the past, even into high-dimensional space-time.But the design in the film allows gravitational waves to travel through time and affect the past.

For Chen Fei, he needs to see all time, from the past to the future.

As the robot Wangcai (another robot named Laifu) said, time is an entity in five-dimensional space and time, just like a line. You can see every moment on the line from beginning to end, but to change what happened in the past moment The only way to do this is with the help of gravitational waves.

So, Kip Thorne and the special effects team began to think about what the inside of the hypercube should look like, especially how to show that time is an entity and how to show every moment of all objects on the entire timeline.

With the help of Kip Thorne, the special effects engineers were able to find a balance point that did not make the scene look too cluttered, but also observed what happened in Chen Murphy's bedroom at different moments on the timeline from Chen Fei's perspective.

The special effects team's method was to shrink the six images of Chen Murphy's bedroom and make each image emit two vertical lines. These two lines are the timeline.

Whenever the timelines intersect, an image of a bedroom will be generated, so there can be countless images of bedrooms in the entire five-dimensional space.

These images are located at different locations on the timeline, so each image represents a different time. As long as Chen Fei floats along the timeline, he can see the past or future of Chen Murphy's bedroom.

Zhang Hao always hopes to give the actors something to refer to and interact with on the set. He does not want the actors to complete their performances entirely by imagination in front of an empty green screen.

Even for such an abstract hypercube, he asked the special effects team to build something on the set.

In the end, they built part of the hypercube, surrounded by four rooms, which will be expanded to an infinite number at a later stage.

Projectors were also used in the actual shooting of the hypercube. The special effects team projected images generated by time changes onto the four walls of the built room, which allowed the entire shooting team to have an intuitive understanding of the time axis inside the hypercube.

Of course, digital effects were added to every frame of this entire scene.

Chen Fei walked through the hypercube's time tunnel and browsed all the moments on the timeline. The background of this tunnel was undoubtedly made with CG.

However, Zhang Hao still refused to use a green screen. Instead, he hung Andy in front of the curtain wall on the set. What was projected on the curtain wall was a rough version of the time tunnel scene made in advance.

At a later stage, this rough version of the background was replaced with a more detailed CG image, which naturally required a lot of keying and wire erasing.

When Chen Fei successfully passed the information to Chen Murphy, the five-dimensional space began to collapse. When making this special effect, each shrinking surface in the picture shrank according to the rotation law of the hypercube.

Liu not only saw the production method of the hypercube, but also saw how the crew used such effects to shoot. The results were beyond shocking.

Three days after visiting the crew, Liu said to Zhang Hao: "I always thought that "The Three-Body Problem" would be impossible to put on the big screen.

But after watching your work on "Interstellar," I began to believe that you began to make the impossible possible. "

Zhang Hao could only respond with a wry smile. Whether it was "Interstellar" or "The Martian", there were references.

But "The Three-Body Problem" had no reference. Even with so many big projects, Zhang Hao still had no confidence that he could make this movie successfully.

He still needs to make preparations, maybe he needs help from the aliens who let him travel through time...

After "Interstellar" ends, Zhang Hao will start his first movie that truly does not draw on his previous life and is controlled by himself.

"The Three-Body Problem" is too difficult, so Zhang Hao plans to start with "The Village Teacher".

(End of this chapter)