Chapter 184 Untitled
Chapter 184 Untitled
For a large-scale film and television production and investment company like Shanghai Film Group, every year they receive film and television production project plans from all over the country.
However, it is extremely difficult to find suitable targets among these massive projects, large or small.
After all, it is difficult to tell whether a project has potential from the text of a script.
Therefore, large production companies like Shanghai Film Group are often superstitious about so-called big directors or big stars.
At least that way there's some protection.
The emergence of 3D storyboards such as PreViz seems to have solved the problem of the script being unclear and not intuitive enough.
With this, even inexperienced investors can easily understand the context and style of the entire movie.
"The use of PreViz not only saves time and cost in filming and production, but is also of great help in the production of film special effects."
Zhang Yang looked at the representatives of Shanghai Film Group who were discussing in front of the screen and started to introduce:
“Many blockbusters, especially science fiction ones, have a lot of special effects, and it is possible that they cannot be completed by a single special effects company.
At this time, it is often necessary to outsource the special effects work, but this will cause trouble in the communication of the special effects.
With PreViz, visual effects producers can use the prepared 3D storyboard to accurately tell the visual effects outsourcing company what kind of special effects they need.
This way, the special effects production for the entire movie will be faster and the effects will be more unified.”
The people in the Magic City Film Group were somewhat hesitant about the advantage Zhang Yang mentioned.
After all, in today's China, let alone science fiction films, there are only a few special effects blockbusters every year. Ordinary movies do not use special effects technology at all, so this advantage is not that prominent.
But even without considering the special effects, PreViz's performance still surprised them all.
After all, as a group company, Magic Shadow cooperates with many directors every year, but now in China only big directors like Zhang Guoshi and Feng Dapao can draw storyboards, but those are all 2D versions. The "3D storyboard" that Galaxy Interactive Entertainment is now developing is really in line with international standards!
As several people were discussing quietly, one of the representatives couldn't help but ask, "Isn't this PV going to cost a lot of money?"
Wang Hao smiled and said, "The whole set of software is only about 100 million."
"That's okay."
The person who asked the question muttered something under his breath, and several other representatives also began to wonder whether they could learn from Galaxy Interactive Entertainment and introduce several sets of such software and technology to the company.
However, the next second, they gave up the idea because Wang Hao added calmly: "It's US dollars!"
100 million US dollars is 800 million RMB!
Xu Peng, who had some ideas in his mind, could only shake his head helplessly after hearing this. No wonder there are not many directors in China using this new technology.
But Wang Hao added: "Of course, that's the price of purchasing software technology. If it is outsourced to us, Galaxy Interactive Entertainment, the price quoted for a feature film is generally around 100 million RMB!"
"That's still too expensive!" Xu Peng continued to shake his head. "Besides, good technology needs a good director. I'm afraid you're the only director in China who can properly use this new technology."
Wang Hao smiled when he heard this, "That's not the case. This thing is actually quite simple to use."
Xu Peng did not continue the topic and asked his colleagues to continue their visit. He asked Wang Hao curiously, "You are using this kind of technology. Director Wang, what is the budget for your new movie?"
Wang Hao replied: "The specific budget will have to wait until the actors are selected, but it is estimated to be between 4000 million and 5000 million."
"Dollar?" Xu Peng asked tentatively.
Wang Hao shook his head, "This time it's RMB."
"So low?!" Xu Peng widened his eyes.
Yes, in his opinion, the budget of Wang Hao’s new movie is only 4000 million RMB, which is already very low.
The reason for saying this is not because the Shanghai Film Group is wealthy and has money to spend, nor is it that Xu Peng wants to flatter Wang Hao, but given Wang Hao's current status as a director and his worth, his films are indeed worthy of higher investments.
After all, not to mention the distant past, Feng Dapao, who is more recent, has just launched a new movie project, a war film, with a production cost of 8000 million, almost twice that of Wang Hao's new movie.
Maybe war films with big scenes would cost more money, but this is a science fiction film by Wang Hao. The demonstration animation I just watched also had a big scene of a train exploding, and there were so many special effects. The production cost was only more than 40 million yuan, which is RMB. It's too conscience.
Besides, the investment amount of Wang Hao’s previous movie "Wushuang" is said to be 80 million. The investment amount of other people’s movies is getting bigger and bigger, but his is getting smaller and smaller.
Xu Peng looked at Wang Hao as if he were an alien. He really couldn't understand how he could make a science fiction blockbuster with such a small amount of money. Even if it was Master Zhang and others who came, they would probably be powerless.
And this... is indeed still a young man...
Looking at Mr. Xu's surprised face, Wang Hao roughly guessed what he was thinking, so he explained with a smile:
"My new film is different from the previous one. I don't plan to use well-known actors like Aaron Kwok and Liam Neeson, so I can save a lot on the cost of the film salaries."
"No famous actors? Director Wang, are you planning to use newcomers in this play?" Xu Peng asked with some surprise.
Wang Hao shook his head. "That's not the case. I just plan to use some more affordable actors."
The so-called "affordable" refers to actors who have some acting skills but are not very famous.
Mr. Xu understood this and couldn't help but ask about his concerns.
"The lead actor isn't famous, so I'm afraid it won't be easy to sell overseas."
Wang Hao did not answer this question, but asked:
"Mr. Xu, you just watched that clip, what do you think? Are you willing to buy a ticket?"
Xu Peng naturally nodded. Although the demonstration clip just now was relatively simple, the visual impact was still very strong just from the composition and a few plots.
"Very good. After watching that animation, if I were a viewer, I would definitely buy a ticket!"
Hearing Xu Peng say this, Wang Hao smiled:
"Since the animation itself is attractive enough, what does it matter whether the actors are famous or not?
Just the words ‘Produced by Wang Hao’ are enough.”
Although these words were spoken lightly, there was a sense of dominance in the tone.
(End of this chapter)