new kung fu king

Chapter 523 Forming a Huge Screening Team
"Unlock me, the most mysterious waiting, the stars are falling and the wind is blowing, and I finally hold you in my arms again, my two hearts are trembling."

"Tightly bond with me for a long time, this pair of fingers clasped, wait for the next life to rub shoulders and look back, and stay together again"

In the recording room on the third floor of Xiehe, Wang Xiaohu and Zhao Yazhi each wore large headsets, looked at the lyrics in front of them intently, and sang the theme song "Beautiful Mythology" of "Mythology" affectionately along with the music.

Xia Houmo stood in the director's room nervously watching everything on the scene, and at the same time directed the staff to adjust the recording equipment at any time, "Okay, that's it, slow down the accompaniment of the piano part. Very good, increase the mix, and make it higher. right"

Don't look at Xia Houmo's usual aunt-in-law in Xiehe Company. When she is fully devoted to her work, she is like a different person. Her innate intuition for music has made her grow into the head of the Xiehe sound department at a young age. The person in charge, and the subordinates trained by her are also extremely powerful.

After Wang Xiaohu sang the lyrics "Love is the only unchanging beauty in my heart. Myth", Xia Houmo snapped his fingers and said, "OK! The effect is good." Then he opened the glass door and walked into the recording room with a smile, saying: " Brother Hu, this song is so romantic!"

"Hehe, what was the effect of the recording just now?" Wang Xiaohu asked after taking a sip of water.

Xia Houmo frowned, folded his hands on his chest and said, "It's okay, that's it"

"What is it?" Zhao Yazhi asked hurriedly. You must know that her lyrics are the most difficult to master. Today, she has re-recorded no less than 5 times. Recording is as boring as filming. She would rather shoot ten days on the set , and don’t want to spend a day in the recording studio.

"Ahem." Xia Houmo coughed lightly twice and said, "It would be better if the two of you looked at each other and showed that feeling when you were singing in chorus!"

"Damn girl, you're still tricking me when you're getting married!" Zhao Yazhi picked up the musical notation and threw it at Xia Houmo, and said dissatisfiedly: "This is not shooting a MV, what do you want to do with facial expressions, really, Ahu, I It's decided, when Xiaomo gets married, the red envelope will be less."

"Oh, boss, don't want it!" Xia Houmo hurried over and shook Zhao Yazhi's arm, begging bitterly: "Boss, it's okay if I'm wrong, please don't be so stingy."

Zhao Yazhi raised her head and smiled, humming, "Let's see if you dare to scare me in the future."

"Don't dare, absolutely not!" Xia Houmo raised his hands and promised.

Seeing this, Wang Xiaohu sighed, took the lyrics to the director's room, and asked the sound engineer to develop the song he had just recorded for himself to listen to.

In the original "Mythology", it may be due to the consideration of Kim Hee-sun's box office appeal in South Korea, so the female voice in this "Beautiful Mythology" (also called "Endless Love"?) is sung in Korean, although Wang Xiaohu I feel like the Korean part sounds good, but he can't get the Korean part to appear in the song.

He also considered using the lyrics of Sun Nan and Han Hong's version, but neither he nor Zhao Yazhi is the kind of high-pitched singer whose vital capacity scares people to death, so he finally adopted the lyrics of the TV series "Myth". The lyrics are much simpler and smoother than the Korean version.

"Azhi, talk to Xiaomo for a while, I'll go and see Lucas's post-production situation." Wang Xiaohu said to the two who were still bargaining, pushed open the door of the recording studio and walked to the fifth floor .

The office building of Xiehe Company has only six floors, the reception and publicity department on the first floor, the screenwriting department and props department on the second floor, the entire third floor is the recording studio and sound effect production department, the fourth floor is the staff canteen, and the fifth floor is the editing room and special effects The production department, Wang Xiaohu and his five major satellite companies' permanent offices and meeting rooms are arranged on the sixth floor.

Among them, the second, third, and fifth floors have strict anti-theft measures. The warehouse is located next to the main building of Xiehe and is connected to the main building. It used to be the old office building of Xiehe Company, but now it has been converted into a warehouse, storing many expensive photographic equipment of Xiehe. , Clothing props and so on, there are also strict anti-theft measures, as well as careful security measures, all of which are arranged to prevent theft.

At first, Wang Xiaohu did not intend to use computer special effects to process these war scenes, but after Lucas showed him only ten seconds of synthetic images, Wang Xiaohu decided to use computer processing, even though the current computer special effects are not very good. Mature, but the processed picture is still much better than the original visual effect.

Wang Xiaohu walked into the special effects room and saw Lucas and Grant busy, leaning on the backs of their chairs and asked, "George, how is the current progress?"

Lucas shrugged and said: "Boss, this is a very huge project for us. I just communicated with Grant. When processing some pictures, our computer is obviously not enough. It is very difficult to process. slow."

Wang Xiaohu nodded, then said with a smile, "Let me see what makes movie magicians worry."

Grant sighed three times in a row, pointed to the antique monitor and said, "See, it's right here. This progress bar has been stuck for an hour."

"Uh, what does it represent?" Wang Xiaohu asked.

"It's the big scenes you shot, God, the countless arrows flying in the sky, and the endless soldiers, they are like ants densely occupying too much film." Lucas said while scratching his head : "Our computer calculations are slow."

"That is to say, the hardware can't reach it?" Wang Xiaohu concluded: "If the computer hardware is improved, will the processing be smoother?"

"That's right." Grant nodded affirmatively and said, "Our computers are considered the most advanced equipment in the United States, and they still have this maddening processing speed. Boss, they are already working hard."

"I know, I know." Wang Xiaohu patted himself on the forehead. It was really maddening to encounter such a thing. To put it simply, it was like running a certain 386D game on a 3 machine. The hardware part of the equipment can only be carried out at a slow speed, which is a very terrible thing, and Wang Xiaohu has nothing to do about it.

"It seems that it is very necessary to invest in a computer hardware company." Wang Xiaohu thought so, then he patted Lucas and Grant on the shoulders and said: "Guys, thank you for your hard work, take your time, our time is still It's plenty."

After returning to his office, Wang Xiaohu thought for a while, and then called Winterdur: "Hi, old Wen, I'm sorry to disturb your sweet dreams so late, oh no, it's not about publicity, the truth is We encountered a little trouble online and had to postpone the North American publicity plan. The thing is like this, after dawn I need your help to sort out the materials of the most developed computer hardware manufacturers in the United States and send them to us in the fastest way In my hands, yes, it is best to write down the contact information of the main person in charge of each company, so that it will be easier for me to contact them. Thank you, good night."

When he returned to the fifth floor again, Lucas complained to Wang Xiaohu: "Boss, why don't you reduce the extras as appropriate for this kind of war scene? I think, I think we can use computer special effects to deal with it."

Wang Xiaohu smiled wryly, and said, "Do you have any good solutions?"

"Yes, when I was dealing with these special effects, I seriously considered whether it is possible to let a small number of actors appear in the shooting, and then supplement it with computer special effects, or copy the pictures of several of them." Lucas frowned , obviously his idea is not very mature yet.

Wang Xiaohu said: "It seems that the problem is not the picture, but the source data, cloning technology?"

"Yes, clone, it's too straightforward to use this word, it's clone." Lucas's eyes lit up, and he said, "Boss, how did you think of it?"

"Actually, I also thought about it before shooting, but I am not an expert in this field, and it is even more impossible to use dummies and props to shoot. Sometimes live performances are much more realistic and beautiful than computer special effects, especially this kind of war scene. "Wang Xiaohu took a deep breath and said, not concealing his pride in using military filming in his tone.

"George, after the work here is completed, you can organize the geniuses of Industrial Light and Magic to study this cloning technology. Of course, I will find a way to solve the computer hardware problem." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.

While Lucas and others were desperately working on the special effects of "Mythology", Wang Xiaohu was busy arranging another big plan, which was mainly aimed at the mainland.

Since the movie was co-produced by Hong Kong and the mainland, it is bound to be released in theaters in the mainland. However, just like the computer special effects hardware that troubled Wang Xiaohu, the number of theaters and hardware in the mainland is also very backward, which means that the visual feast he carefully crafted It may be affected by the lagging mainland film industry.

This is something that Wang Xiaohu resolutely does not allow to happen. For this reason, on the one hand, he asked the editing department to make a set of corresponding copies based on the current projection equipment in the mainland. There are three main points.

[-]. Hong Kong Xiehe Company applied to set up movie theaters in relatively developed cities in the mainland. Of course, it is a joint venture with the mainland state-owned company. Xiehe Company will provide the purchase of movie equipment, and both parties will bear the price. Xiehe must bear a large part.

[-]. Wang Xiaohu will go to the mainland again after the Spring Festival to discuss with the Ministry of Culture about the box office share. After all, it is related to the issue of money. This matter has dragged on for three full years. If it is not resolved, it may become a heartache for Wang Xiaohu.

[-]. With the investment from Xiehe Company and concrete implementation in mainland China, a large number of mobile projection teams will be established.

(End of this chapter)