Chapter 56 Promotional video produced by Xu Da
Chapter 56 Promotional video produced by Xu Da
"Of course not." Xu Yichi thought without hesitation and glanced back at An Qing with a little disdain. "This is oe. The spirit didn't win, but the mountain master didn't lose either."
“With these types of endings, we can leave players with an open suspense at the end, allowing them to guess what will happen next, or use it as an anchor point so that we can continue this point and create a sequel or sequel to the game when we have new inspiration and ideas in the future.”
"——Wouldn't it be much easier to make this thing than to dig a new hole or build a new world structure?"
Xu Da producer was very confident and righteous. An Qing was speechless and could only raise his hand and wave in self-deprecation: "Okay, okay, you are right, please continue - you haven't even told me how you are going to shoot the promotional video!"
——When she was typing, she pricked up her ears and listened for a long time.
But even though she eavesdropped for a long time, she still couldn't understand how this bastard was going to shoot her promotional video that mixed the two puppet shows!
——She just heard her yelling that she wanted to add settings!
"Hey, Qingqing, don't be impatient!" Xu Yichi waved his hand, deliberately threw an ugly wink at An Qing, and raised his little finger slowly, "Let me tell you slowly."
"With the setting of 'mountain master', this promotional video is easy to shoot." Xu Da producer said seriously, "We can use a 70 cm large puppet to make a sufficiently delicate and realistic character modeling."
"The characters here refer to the key characters involved in the official chapters of the game, such as Mu Guiying, the protagonist of the first chapter - the main controller is not included for the time being."
"And those foot-tall puppets can be made into the appearances that the characters in the game will show after the main controller selects and opens different branch lines."
Xu Yichi continued to demonstrate with his fingers as he spoke: "I'll use Mu Guiying as an example here - the Mu Guiying made with the big puppet is and only is the way she looked when she first appeared in the game; while the Mu Guiying made with the small glove hand puppet can have several completely different looks."
"——She can be Mu Guiying, the young lady in Mu Ke Village, or the heroine who broke through the Tianmen Formation... In short, the image of the puppet represents the different 'sides' of the character presented by the players under different choices. At this time, the setting of two different sizes of puppets, big puppets and small puppets, becomes interesting."
"——The different choices made by the players when facing the big puppet will cause the big puppet to transform into different small puppets." The little girl said with a grin, "And all the small puppets put together... will eventually turn back into the big puppet."
"Hiss - different faces change depending on the choices, but when put together, they will return to the true appearance of this character." An Qing grinned and gasped, "Don't say that, Xiaoyi, if I shoot this promotional video according to your idea... it actually has a philosophical flavor."
"Hehe... Of course I am. Who made me so handsome?" Xu Yichi responded, raising his chin narcissistically. "But don't be impatient, Qingqing. I haven't finished what I want to say yet."
"Okay, then go on." An Qing nodded happily, put down the keyboard in his hand, and leaned back in his chair as if he was listening attentively.
Seeing this, Xu Yichi clenched his fist and pretended to clear his throat, then turned the topic back to the promotional video for the second time: "By now, you may have noticed, Qingqing."
"That is, and so far, there has been no trace of 'Mountain Master' and 'Han Brocade Spirit' in the trailer." "However, this is unreasonable. After all, the story of our entire game is based on the bet made by these two. Therefore, according to the promotional practices of serious games, we must also give key shots of these two in the trailer - at least show their backs or silhouettes."
"Yes, that's right. This kind of behind-the-scenes character like the 'big boss' must have a place in the promotional video and poster," Bai Miaomiao, who is in charge of the art design, nodded in agreement. "At the very least, he should be a big black background board, so that everyone stands under his shadow - there are many examples like this."
"Yes, that's right." Xu Yichi was calm and composed, "Shots like this are definitely necessary."
"So - I plan to hire two puppeteers of a relatively suitable age and appearance to cosplay as the 'Mountain Master' and 'Han Brocade Spirit' in the game."
"Of course, if we really can't find a puppeteer with the right appearance, we can try to find two cosplayers who know a little bit about this stuff and make do with it - but it's best for the puppeteers to do it themselves, so that the promotional video will definitely be the best."
“The shots can be roughly arranged like this: we start from the normal shooting direction of a marionette show, and the marionettes come on stage with lines and poems as the camera moves forward. After performing a few cool scenes with special effects, we suddenly turn around and switch to the little puppets, showing different branch lines that change according to the players’ choices.”
“In this way, after the small puppet has finished showing the representative scenes in several branches, the camera can follow the perspective of the small puppet, stretching backward and upward and shifting back to the big puppet - this completes the metaphor of 'the same character formed by different aspects'.”
"Next, when the 'story' is complete, the puppeteers can loosen their grip on the strings and make the puppet stand upright in the scene, then suddenly collapse and fall to the ground, revealing the strings hanging from the joints of its limbs and torso."
"——With the silk threads, the camera can move upwards along these hanging threads and finally freeze on the puppeteers who are cosplaying as the 'mountain master' and the Han brocade spirit." Producer Xu, who spoke a long paragraph in one breath, raised the corners of his lips with a smile, "Next, I need two puppeteers to tear the screen together——"
“They can do it by waving their sleeves after dropping the check card (the handle for manipulating the puppet), or they can directly do the action of tearing the screen with their hands. In short, I need them to manually break the existing scene about the puppet show and the puppeteer, and connect it to the built-in plot of our game, show the serious game style, and introduce the gameplay.”
"Oh~ This sounds a bit cool!" An Qing rubbed her hands. As she listened to Xu Yichi's description, she felt that her addiction to Pinocchio had become even worse.
Unexpectedly, the latter just raised his arm and shook his paw calmly: "Don't worry, my dear, there's something even cooler to come."
"——Don't forget that the puppets in a glove puppet show are directly controlled by the five fingers of a person's hand."
“So, I plan to pull the camera back to Pinocchio after the gameplay introduction, revealing the puppeteers of different genders and ages dressed as the main controllers behind the puppet.”
Xiao Xu, you are a genius!
(End of this chapter)