Chapter 183 Learn from the barbarians and learn skills

Chapter 183 Learn from the barbarians and learn skills

Chapter 183 Learn from the barbarians and learn skills
"Oh, Mr. Xu, you've got me in a corner right away. I have no choice but to agree!"

In the spacious conference room, Wang Hao seemed a little overwhelmed by the hats that Xu Peng, the vice president of the Magic City Film Group, put on him one after another.

"Director Wang, this is not a compliment." Xu Peng smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Our company is also very enthusiastic about cooperating with you, Director Wang."

"Before coming here, our chairman also called Mr. Han from Huaying and asked him about you. Mr. Han also praised you highly on the phone."

"That's all Uncle Han's compliment." Wang Hao smiled and said, "I am also very interested in cooperating with the Magic City Film Group."

What Wang Hao said was not really a lie.

The Shanghai Film Group Corporation is a large-scale film enterprise formed by the merger of several nationally renowned units including the Shanghai Film Studio, the Shanghai Art Film Studio, the Shanghai Film Dubbing Studio, the Shanghai Science and Education Film Studio, and the Shanghai Film Technology Factory. It is also one of the largest and most powerful film groups in China.

The group company not only owns 5 large-scale production enterprises and 14 film and television production companies, but also owns a large-scale shooting base and China's first cinema chain - Modou Lianhe Cinema Chain.

The most crucial thing is that the group has a dominant position in Shanghai, just like Huaying in Beijing.

Many scenes of Wang Hao's new movie "Source Code" need to be shot in Shanghai. Incorporating it into the new project will definitely bring a lot of convenience.

What's more, Shanghai is one of the most economically prosperous cities in China and an international metropolis. If the "Three-Body" series and the future "The Wandering Earth" series want to target global audiences, using Shanghai as a modern business card for China in the film industry is also an excellent choice.

The man is in love with the woman, and the woman is interested in the man, so communication between them is naturally very smooth.

Especially when Galaxy Interactive Entertainment took out the new project information and plan that had been prepared long ago, the representatives of Shanghai Film Group made a direct decision and confirmed their investment intention on the spot.

After signing the investment intention contract, the representatives of Shanghai Film Group felt relieved. The people on Galaxy Interactive Entertainment's side, especially the financial director Ma Ke, were even more satisfied.

After the two sides exchanged greetings for a while, Wang Ha took the initiative to extend an invitation and took the representatives of the Magic City Film Group to visit his company.

The first department they visited was the Screenwriting Department, one of the two core departments of Galaxy Interactive Entertainment.

Just as Wang Hao and others were amazed when they visited Columbia Pictures, the representatives of Shanghai Film Group were also amazed when they watched the screenwriters of Galaxy Interactive Entertainment use the screenwriting software purchased from Hollywood to cooperate with each other to perfect a script at an extremely fast speed.

"This thing is great, Director Wang!"

Xu Peng looked at Wen Pengcheng and others operating the software skillfully, and couldn't help but express the same emotion as Wang Hao and others did at the beginning.

"Before, everyone was talking about how great your company was, Director Wang, but I didn't have a specific impression. Now it seems that your company is about to catch up with international standards in terms of film production!"

“No, no,” Wang Hao smiled and waved his hand, “We are just slowly exploring, we have just started, it’s nothing.”

After visiting the screenwriting department, they went to the special effects production department.

After greeting the employees in the department, Wang Hao saw the contents on several employees' computer monitors, so he asked Zhang Yang, the head of the special effects department:
"How much of PreViz is completed?"

"About three minutes." Zhang Yang has been busy with this matter recently. When he heard Wang Hao's question, he blurted out:
"After all, it's new software, and we're still learning and trying it out. In addition, it's still a little inconvenient for the software company to communicate with us, so I plan to recruit two more technical talents with good English."

"You should talk to the human resources department about this. There is nothing else in Beijing except a lot of talented people." Wang Hao nodded and agreed to Zhang Yang's request to recruit new people.

Xu Peng, who was standing next to him, heard of PreViz for the first time and couldn't help asking curiously, "Director Wang, what is this Western thing called PreViz?"

Wang Hao pointed at Zhang Yang and said, "Let our special effects director explain this to you."

Zhang Yang didn’t know what PreViz was before. He only came into contact with this thing when he followed Wang Hao to Hollywood for exchange and study.

After that, Wang Hao spent a lot of money to introduce new technology from Hollywood. During this period, he also studied day and night with several subordinates in the special effects department, and only then did he have a certain understanding of it.

Of course, based on this knowledge alone, Zhang Yang can be considered a technical expert in this field in China today.

"Mr. Wang, Mr. Xu, we just happen to have some pre-made PreViz clips here, why don't we watch them and talk about it at the same time."

Zhang Yang led Wang Hao and the people from Shanghai Film Group to a computer monitor, and while showing them the finished PreViz clips, he explained what PreViz was.

The so-called PreViz is the abbreviation of Pre-visualization, and is also translated as "visual preview", "preview", or "dynamic storyboard", "3D storyboard".

Simply put, before the movie is officially shot, 3D animation is used to demonstrate three-dimensional spatial relationships, action design, camera movement, picture composition, special effects, shot timing and connection information.

This technology has existed in the industrial film process for a long time, and Hollywood has now applied it very maturely. With the help of PreViz, a lot of production time has been saved and a lot of production costs have been reduced.

In China, this is still a new thing. Now, perhaps only Wang Hao’s new movie "Source Code" has just applied this technology.

However, new things also have their advantages. At least when Zhang Yang opened the player, Wang Hao, Xu Peng and others saw a panoramic view of an animated train exploding on the monitor.

Although the animation content is still a bit rough, various parameters related to the picture have been clearly marked on the side of the picture.

Anyone who works in the relevant field will immediately know how to produce and shoot this scene when they see this.

After that, Zhang Yang showed them a famous scene from Source Code, which was a freeze-frame of the hero and heroine hugging and kissing each other during the explosion.

Looking at the images on the monitor, Xu Peng and everyone from the Magic City Film Group couldn't help but nod their heads repeatedly.

As a practitioner who has been in the film and television industry for many years, although Xu Peng did not know much about PreViz, he immediately discovered its benefits just by watching Zhang Yang's demonstration.

At least for film and television investment and production companies, with this, they can roughly know the effect of the film in the early stage of filming.

This will help these large companies avoid many risks of investment errors.

(End of this chapter)