This director needs to apologize

Chapter 314: Well-intentioned reminders and malicious insinuations

Although he already had some feelings for Pan Yueming in his heart, Chen Yiming was not prepared to do anything about it.

If even the third-party casting director and producer Xiaomei fail to pass the preliminary two rounds, it is enough to prove that there are obvious and insurmountable flaws in the other party.

The schedule of "The Thirteenth Floor" is very tight, and there is not much room for the actors to adapt and adjust.

For Chen Yiming, the most important thing right now is to arrange the special effects shots of the movie in advance. After all, it is a science fiction film, and several "impressive" future scenes must be arranged.

Although Boulder Workshop is Platinum Jue's designated supplier and has great privileges to jump in and queue up, it also needs to leave some room for scheduling for the other party.

Moreover, the special effects are created frame by frame with man-hours, and there is a minimum limit for further compression.

Chen Yiming himself estimates that if a specific plan is worked out before the end of the month, it will probably take until the end of October to have a rough look. Coupled with the necessary rework and modifications, the construction schedule will be very tight to catch up with the later fine cutting.

Of course, Chen Yiming's projects are still in the usual hard and simple style. Although "The Thirteenth Floor" is a science fiction theme, it does not have many special effects shots.

The consciousness space where the main line of the story is located is set in a city in China in 2015. Most of the shots are shot in real scenes.

The above has been decided, but for the 30% that has not yet been decided, a bunch of companies are fighting for it.

This part will not be produced with pure CG, but with a semi-real scene and semi-special effects method to highlight the distinct look and feel.

In addition, there are a few scenes of female scientists going out, which actually have little to do with the main story. However, in order to enhance the overall sense of science fiction and the audience's sense of involvement, Chen Yiming felt that it should not be omitted.

The main thing that requires the Megalithic Workshop to start construction in advance is this part.

As soon as the news of "The Thirteenth Floor" came out, Niu Ben came over after smelling the smell. Hearing Da Zhuang say that the other party pestered him a lot, Ye Ye Shengge couldn't bear it.

Naturally, this means that there is no way to produce it in advance. The special effects team can only start to collect the exterior shots before starting the shooting.

A year or two ahead of time, it is convenient to get some specious "spoilers" in, which can satisfy Chen Yiming's inner evil taste.

The two talkers are still at odds with each other, and there is still work to be done.

In terms of investment, Platinum as the main controller of the project accounts for 40%, Demonic Investment Department accounts for 20%, and Warner China accounts for 10% (priority rights for remakes and overseas distribution rights are booked as compensation).

Speaking of which, this company has some connections with Chen Yiming. Niu Ben, the second eldest son of his family, met Chen Yiming once in Cannes.

The three-year listing plan was announced last year with great enthusiasm. Several big projects were looming with the names of many well-known directors from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places. They looked like they were not short of money. If there was a high-quality project on the market, his family would like to get involved.

The future time and space where the female scientist is located is mainly an interior scene. Just go to the Phantom Factory to find a studio to build a real scene.

Although Chen Yiming has always hoped to form an established work process in Bojue, after the implementation of the system, his own "The Thirteenth Floor" failed to strictly abide by the rules.

They also "tempt" Chen Yiming with an investment of 1 million for one movie a year.

Boss Yang from Hong Kong City is also interested in following the investment. Unfortunately, good things don't happen often for "Mulan". He has to face several competitors this time, such as the Bullish Pictures, which has been gaining momentum in the imperial capital recently.

The special effects shots only involve a few "crossing" scenes in the conscious space, which is the so-called "back side of the world", where the male protagonist will touch the truth of the conscious space.

The next Friday, Xiaomei rushed back from Tailan to participate in the second round of auditions for the actors in "The Thirteenth Floor". Over the weekend, the final shortlist for Chen Yiming was shortlisted at the speed of light.

At that time, Chen Yiming was just an immature shooting star in Niu Ben's eyes. The latter was talking about Chen Huaikai, Jiang Huiwen and other successful first-line directors.

Both Chen Yiming and Da Zhuang understood that the reason why Mr. Ma came forward and bound Diying's investment within the Moying quota was to prevent Bo Jue from making things difficult.

At this time, the actors have reached the final selection stage, and the project has not yet been officially built.

Han Sanye's Emperor Ying somehow got through Jindun's relationship and got the right to substitute capital. Lion Da opened his mouth and asked for 30%, opening his mouth wider than Ma Erye. The latter decisively went back after hearing about it. I am willing to give up half of the Moying quota.

In addition, the group companies behind several major theater chains also sent special personnel to harass Da Zhuang day and night, saying that this time Yiming directed the project and would take everyone to drink soup no matter what.

The expansion of theater chains into the upstream has been an industry trend in the past two years. The results of this exploration include profits and losses, and the majority of them are losses.

The more this is the case, the more the investment department within the group must intensify its efforts to save itself, otherwise wouldn't it be close to splitting the burden and returning home?

Whether the goods sell well or not, the seller knows best. Chen Yiming, who has won the box office championship twice, is obviously the best investment target in the eyes of theaters.

With so many people taking action, the wrangling became protracted, resulting in the investment plate for "The Thirteenth Floor" not being finalized for half a month. It is difficult for the capital to give birth, and it is naturally difficult to start the subsequent establishment, because according to the regulations of Platinum Jue, the prerequisite for the green light in the first instance is that the investment amount is mostly determined.

So this weird thing happened now. The management, production, and behind-the-scenes have not yet shown up, but the actors have already been selected.

In fact, actors are not the most important thing at the moment. As a movie in which most scenes are shot in real life, Chen Yiming has not yet made a final decision on which "City in China" to choose in the movie.

Considering the relatively tight production time, it is obviously the most reasonable to choose the nearby magic city.

Unfortunately, in Chen Yiming's mind, Magic City was the first to be passed.

He mentally imagined several key plots in the script and which iconic scenes he could choose to present in the magical city.

But after simulating it again and again, it feels like it’s missing a bit of flavor.

To put it bluntly, the city of Magic City is too modern, the cityscape and streets are too new and too clean, and the buildings are too neat and regular. It is difficult to create the kind of unscrupulous atmosphere in the conscious space that Chen Yiming needs.

The dilemma for Chen Yiming is that China has developed too fast in recent years, and large-scale demolition and construction are taking place all over the country. The problem of the Magic City also exists in other big cities in China.

He is also unwilling to be like many Chinese directors who specifically choose small 2015th-tier cities where "time has stood still" to shoot scenes. "The Thirteenth Floor" presents an imaginary 1985, not .

How to choose? Is it possible that a film with a Chinese background has to be shot abroad? That's ridiculous.

If the background of the story cannot be determined, it will be difficult to proceed with the filming and filming. It is also impossible to start with the special effects. This means that all the parts that must be started in advance are stuck and unable to move.

The three trainee production assistants Xiaomei assigned to him before leaving were assigned the task of "catching fish according to orders" by Chen Yiming the first thing they did when they took up the job.

After entering the office every day, I do nothing else. I check the videos uploaded by netizens on the Internet, pick out interesting street scenes, sort them by city, and send them to Chen Yiming every night.

Of course Chen Yiming couldn't see it himself, so the three assistants needed to pick a round by themselves first, and then the three of them picked a round together before sending it to Chen Yiming.

Today is not the era of using mobile phones to shoot movies in 10 years. There are not many videos online that meet the requirements. You may feel dizzy after watching it for a long time, and the selected materials are not enough to cover both hands.

So "handing in homework" to Chen Yiming before get off work every day became a severe test for the assistants.

Chen Yiming was also anxious, but he knew he couldn't rush. Once a city was selected, it meant that a series of follow-up tasks would be rolled out quickly, so he must not change his mind easily.

Therefore, within the time limit, he would rather see and compare more than make a hasty decision.

He even prepared for the worst. If the location could not be selected by the time limit, he would postpone the release to the year after next. Anyway, he didn't have a "betting agreement" on him.

At this moment, he was checking the audition shortlist sent to him by the beauty. Each shortlisted actor was accompanied by a detailed resume, representative work clips, and videos of the two rounds of auditions.

There are three groups of characters in "The Thirteenth Floor". Each group of people has multiple identities in the future time, space and consciousness space. The number of actors involved will naturally increase.

The male protagonist is the protagonist and the role that Pan Yueming auditioned for. The setting is a programmed AI in the consciousness space. In layman's terms, he is an NPC.

At the same time, he is also the heroine, the first-generation consciousness of the female scientist husband, so this character has a small scene where one person plays two roles.

The identity of the male protagonist does not stop there. During the short period of obtaining "administrator" rights, he also descended on several other NPCs.

Chen Yiming here draws on the setting of "Agent Smith" in the previous life "The Matrix". The administrator can descend into the bodies of other people in the consciousness space at will, and has higher priority than the original consciousness in the body.

There are three character lines surrounding the male protagonist. The first is his friend and colleague A who suddenly disappeared, and is also the starting point of the entire story.

The second article is about colleague A's daughter who suddenly appeared. An old friend had just disappeared, and the daughter of an old friend whom he had never heard of came to visit. This was also the initial reason for the male protagonist's suspicion.

The third item is ordinary colleague B, maybe a person from the future who lives like an NPC, maybe an NPC who has awakened but pretends not to. He provides the male protagonist with a necessary helping hand at a critical moment.

In fact, after Chen Yiming met Pan Yueming by chance, he secretly wanted to change the script and change the colleague's daughter in the second line to the hero's wife.

However, after thinking about it, he still gave up. It would be okay if Lao Pan was not selected, but if he was selected, it would be too unkind to make people "relive yesterday" for his comeback film.

This is different from Director Chen using movie plots to trick the baby. It was a kind reminder, but it was a malicious insinuation.

(End of this chapter)