Disaster Artist

Chapter 5 Beginning
"ah!"

Colin couldn't help shouting and unplugged his data cable.

What the hell, what the hell!

He catapulted out of bed, checked the door, and closed the curtains.Turn all mirrored objects in the house around and turn on all the lights you can.

"I'm wrong, I'm really fucked, I'm really wrong, I'm really fucked"

The city of stars is really in a state of decline, and even if you watch a dream movie after get off work, you will be ambushed by an unscrupulous author.

The things in the dream shadow don't look like intelligent synthesis. The author definitely extracted the material from the dream of some psychopath.

In the last ten long seconds, Colin completely forgot that he was watching Mengying, and his body and mind seemed to be frozen in the picture by that gaze.

He was now very suspicious. He took two steps and turned back, and in the end he could only lean against the wall.

"Gaze", what is he being stared at?

In its eyes, what is oneself?Is it food, an object of judgment, or insignificant dust.

Damn it, why was he trying to figure out what a lunatic dreamed about.

Colin opened the viewing history and clicked on the "Gaze" work interface, preparing to give the author a little shock from the review.Light horror elements, right?

Then he discovered that there was a small green √ behind the words "contains light horror and thriller elements", which meant that it had been verified and certified.This is "lightweight" for platform authentication.

Artificial mental retardation!

Are you really timid?Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Only then did Colin notice that the duration of "Gaze" was only 2 minutes and 35 seconds.This gadget that lasted less than 3 minutes almost gave him post-traumatic stress disorder.

In that case, don't blame him.It is the author who is not a human being first.

"Thank you to the author for making such a novel and unique material into a dream shadow. It is a very shocking experience and absolutely worth the money! Just the right amount of horror elements makes the blend of reality and dream even more impressive. It is difficult to conceal for a relatively cheap production The author uses his works to infect the true feelings of others. Love comes from Nova.”

Like and collect, ten stars.After sending this comment, he vaguely felt that his conscience was missing.

Forget it, just go to the group, you can't buy it for one dollar, you can't buy it if you suffer a loss, you can't be fooled.It's all the author's fault.

When Colin opened the WeChat list, he remembered a colleague who had always wanted to make an independent dream movie.In fact, the two of them couldn't be called friends. He suddenly remembered that it was because——

[Deep Fantasy Bai Zhe] (>7 days since last online)
He sighed and changed the note to "Bai Zhe".Hopefully, it's not permanently offline.

After hesitating for a moment, he conveniently shared "Gaze" with Bai Zhe.

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Um?Are you on fire?
Seeing that the number of views was only 37, Bai Zhe shook his head decisively.

After 14 days, I logged into WeChat. In addition to the large backlog of advertisements, there were only a few messages on the interface.He saw the "Gaze" shared by Colin at a glance, what's going on.

Could it be that Colin saw that he did it? The scenes and materials in "Gaze" are the first time he has used them publicly, so it is unlikely that they will be seen.

In addition, the biggest possibility is privacy leakage.

Bai Zhe released "Gaze" using a brand new account called Boy Meng (Daydream), and it is not associated with any other accounts.But a new account is not a blank slate in the eyes of the platform’s algorithm.

His device IP, geographical location, usage habits and other information can be collected by the platform and inferred many things.For example, he and Colin knew each other.

Thinking of this, Bai Zhe was a little irritated, but he could only restrain himself.This tacit acceptance of the rules was established before he was born, and the discomfort followed him for generations.

The most critical issue at the moment is whether he can complete Kalehin's commission.

Click on the creation assistant, and two progress bars are displayed on the commission interface, namely the degree of spread and the degree of obsession.

The progress bar of the spread is divided into five grids, and now there is only a little progress in the first grid.The fascination level is simply empty.

In the first hour after "Gaze" was released, there were only 4 purchased views, 2 of which were from his own account.

A blank account with an unpopular theme is usually the treatment, which is pretty much what Bai Zhe expected.

After that, he spent 500 credit points to buy a "wishing star" for "Gaze", which is a mini traffic recommendation package.

The effect was immediate, with the number of views increasing from 10 to 4 within 37 minutes, but the commission was still far from being completed.

Fortunately, the growth rate of playback volume is now picking up, and "Gaze" has received its first written praise.

Bai Zhe scanned the comment "There's no crazy CB at work" and nodded silently.This man completely understood his creative intentions.

Yes, a little horror element is just a decoration, a spice that makes the flavor of the main ingredient more prominent.

With a slight sense of fear as a foil, the last scene of the black tide emerging from reality can give viewers a full shock and allow them to fully appreciate the beauty of Kalehin. CB Colin Bullock, is that him?I didn’t expect that his taste was quite good.

However, the ten-star rating is exaggerated.Limited by technology, funds, and time, Bai Zhe had to abandon many ideas. The final version of "Gaze" was just a concept film.

The final effect of "Gaze" is [-]% due to Callehen's passionate performance.

The rest is the result of Bai Zhe being isolated from the world for nearly two weeks and working day and night.

It took him three days just to build the basic scene of the movie memorial.Integrating Callehen's image materials into the scene is another time-consuming and terrifying project.

Fortunately, the quality of the original material was so good that he basically skipped the step of removing the noise in his thoughts. There was not much interference in the material that had been initially processed by the Dream Imager.

Generally speaking, memory materials that have not been edited and debugged contain a lot of "noise" and may cause dizziness, headaches, mental hallucinations or even brain damage, and cannot be used directly for dream shadowing.

According to the storyboard script he input, the pictures intelligently generated by the Dream Weaver APP looked okay at first glance, but there were a lot of flaws in the details. Bai Zhe cut out the pictures frame by frame until his eyes turned black.

As for the water curtain at the end of the corridor, that most critical scene was no different from hell to him. He couldn't even remember how many times he had debugged it.

Without the medium of water curtain, Callehen's appearance would have been quite boring, so he finally had to do it anyway.

The work of dubbing and scoring is relatively simple.He sampled the sound effects of the black tide in the dream and modified it as the background sound.The main difficulty of the soundtrack was the coordination between the soprano voice in the last part and the opening of the eyes in the picture. He spent several hours adjusting it before he got it right.

The first version went through a lot of deletions and revisions, and repeated testing. Kalehin's big eyes were so wide that he almost vomited.He kept revising it until he couldn't stand it anymore, and then reluctantly finalized it.

Bai Zhe, who was on the verge of sudden death, slept for more than 20 hours, showered and changed clothes, shaved and combed his hair, and made himself presentable before publishing "Gaze".

He was not familiar with Red Flash, so he posted it on the Dream Corner, priced at the lowest price of 1 point.

15天的创作时限，最终只空余19小时。传播时间，还剩下6天22小时47分。

Bai Zhe was not sure whether he could meet the vague commission requirements within the time limit.Anyway, what should be done has been done, there is no point in worrying about it anymore.

Even if he couldn't get Kalehin's reward, at least he would have "Gaze" as a souvenir.If this commission fails, will there be a second special commission?Hope so.

He liked the comment "There's no crazy CB at work", closed the Dream Corner, opened WeChat and started replying to messages.

Most messages can be replied to in a unified way:

【not dead.I was knocked unconscious by a beautiful girl from the sky, and I just woke up]

There were two people who came to him for short-term private work. They politely declined and will do so next time.

The only thing that needs to be considered is how to reply to the enthusiastic brother Colin.Bai Zhe felt that this person might really be a simple and good old man, an endangered animal in Star City.

The other party is sharing his own work, which is a bit embarrassing.It's a bit inappropriate to praise, and I can't even curse.

Bai Zhe: [The dream material extracted by this author is too strong.If I can save some money in the future, I must look for this rare material]

Bai Zhe: [It’s just that the picture is quite poor, which is a pity]

On the other side, Colin was stunned after receiving the news.

The missing person suddenly connected to the Internet, as if nothing had happened, as if the two weeks between chat messages did not exist at all.

Are all the workers in Star City mentally healthy?

He read the message, good guy, pretending to be confused because he understands it, right?
Colin firmly believes that any normal person will suffer psychological trauma after experiencing "The Gaze".Bai Zhe was either trying to hold on, or he was talking nonsense without even looking at it.

Colin: [The scene at the end, where the monster stares at you, is shocking and very realistic]

Bai Zhe: [The design of the two worlds reflecting each other across the water curtain is quite unique.But I don’t think it’s appropriate to call the being in the dream a monster.I’m not sure, it looks like a very special advanced life form]

I never noticed before that this guy is so good at pretending.

Colin: [Indeed]

He opened the game group with some displeasure and asked if any of his lucky friends had watched "Gaze".

I am so excited: [Elegance!It’s so elegant!I’m so good at finding things, Yuan Qian Mengying can have such impact]

I’m so fucking sharky: [Ah this light, ah this shadow, ah this noble gaze! 】

I’m so sleepy: [Huh?Are you serious? 】

What the hell, what the hell: [Don’t go crazy here!Ah this light, ah this shadow, ah this noble gaze! 】

Colin:?
What he didn't know was that at this moment, there were three more unlucky guys standing against the wall in Star City.Repost it, repost it hard.

　Don’t go out shopping on Sunday, read the latest books that are always on the market!Don’t dance outside in the middle of the night, come and read the latest books!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)