Chapter 194 Saying farewell to the old and welcoming the new
Chapter 194 Saying farewell to the old and welcoming the new
2006 has passed and Wang Hao misses it very much.
In this year, he filmed and produced the movie "Wushuang". The release of the two movies also achieved great success, and he entered the ranks of billion-dollar box office directors.
During this year, his science fiction movie universe plan has been expanding steadily and powerfully, and the grand world has begun to take shape.
During this year, his company expanded rapidly, with more than a hundred employees and a mature team, and the company became famous in the industry.
During this year, he successfully passed the entrance examination for Tian Zhuang's graduate program and became a well-established academic director.
During this year, he bought his own luxurious villa in Beijing, a luxury car, and found love.
During this year...
Wang Hao is very satisfied with his 2006.
However, successful people never dwell on past glory; that is what old men do.
What Wang Hao needs to do is look to the future.
At least in 2007, there are still more plans for him to implement.
Filmed Source Code, invested in the production of Descendants of the Dragon and Taken, enriched and improved the sci-fi movie universe, continued to develop and improve the company's special effects technology, acquired copyrights, bought houses...
In short, Wang Hao has many plans, but the most important thing at the moment is to have a good new year.
So after the year-end summary meeting, Wang Hao, as the boss, gave his employees a year-end bonus that was enough to make them proud of their peers, so that these brothers who followed him could go home happily and spend a happy and fulfilling Spring Festival.
As for himself, he also brought his grandparents and great-grandparents to his newly bought villa, and watched the Spring Festival Gala and made dumplings with the elderly.
The first day of the Lunar New Year naturally started with the benefit-based visit to relatives. In addition to visiting relatives to wish them a happy new year, Wang Hao also had to bring gifts and visit his uncle, Mr. Tian, and other familiar elders one by one.
Chinese people are all about courtesy and reciprocity, so naturally, you need to move around to keep things peaceful. If you don't pay attention to it at ordinary times, then it won't be a good idea to try to be a good person when the time comes.
By the time all this was done, New Year's Eve was over.
On the first day of work in the new year, Wang Hao arrived at the company early and stood at the door to hand out red envelopes to each employee.
“Happy New Year, Boss!”
"Happy New Year!"
"Happy New Year!"
The employees who received the red envelopes were all smiling and wishing Wang Hao a happy new year. Wang Hao naturally also spoke to them with a smile on his face.
After everyone arrived, Wang Hao called together the leaders of various departments and held a brief kick-off meeting in the conference room.
The content of the meeting was also very simple. It was nothing more than summarizing the past year and then making a general arrangement for the company's development and work this year.
The focus is on the filming of the movie "Source Code" and the production of "Descendants of the Dragon" and "Taken".
The people present were not surprised by this. After all, Wang Hao had already explained many of these tasks to them at the end of last year.
So after Wang Hao finished speaking, the heads of each department also elaborated on their department's work plans for this year.
Among them, Wang Hao focused his attention on the special effects department that Zhang Yang was in charge of.
Wang Hao had already arranged the special effects work for the movie "Source Code" as early as October last year, and the special effects department has been working overtime on this matter.
The high-speed rail model is the most important one. With the help of technicians from CSR Sifang, the special effects department successfully completed a 1:1 replica of the high-speed rail carriage in a large studio in Beijing.
Wang Hao went to see those Gothic models at the end of the year. They were designed and made completely according to the appearance in his manuscripts. Except that they could not be driven, they could be said to be no different from the real cars.
In addition to models, the production of "Source Code" still requires a large number of special effects shots. For example, the scenery outside the high-speed rail car, of course, cannot be real shots, which requires a lot of green screen shooting, and there will be no shortage of special effects shots.
In addition, there is another freeze-frame shot of a train exploding and derailing, and the hero and heroine kissing during the explosion. This is also impossible to accomplish through real-life shooting and can only rely on special effects technology.
Therefore, Wang Hao had already made sufficient mental preparations for the fact that "Source Code" would require a longer production cycle.
This matter cannot be rushed, slow work produces fine results.
What Wang Hao can do is to fully communicate with the special effects team and participate deeply in them, so as to prevent them from taking detours and wasting time in the special effects production due to insufficient understanding.
Don't underestimate this point. Chinese films are still very lacking in experience in special effects production.
Many directors don’t understand post-production, and post-production doesn’t understand movies. There is also a lack of effective communication between them, which often leads to the post-production team not knowing what the director wants, and the director is unable to express his true thoughts to the post-production team.
Over time, post-production has become a trash can in the director's mind, and special effects have become a cover for various problems during filming.
Did something go wrong on set? Let’s fix it in post-production!
The actors’ performance is not good enough? Let the post-production team fix it!
Got a lighting problem? Let post-production fix it!
Everything depends on post-production, and there is not enough money allocated for special effects, so the texture effect presented in the movie is naturally only the much-criticized 50-cent special effects.
Of course, Wang Hao would not make such a mistake. He attached great importance to the special effects production of "Source Code".
In his opinion, this movie should actually be regarded as his first real hardcore science fiction film.
Although "Source Code" also makes extensive use of soft science fiction concepts such as dream space, the number of special effects in the entire film has exceeded the total of his previous films.
If this movie is made, it will definitely leave a mark in the history of Chinese science fiction movies.
Being able to complete this film means that their team has the strength to launch a charge into hard science fiction films.
After determining this year’s work priorities at the meeting, the Galaxy Interactive Entertainment team began to act quickly.
As a company whose purpose is to develop the film industrialization, they quickly demonstrated the results of this year's training.
It took only four or five days for the film crew of "Source Code" to be successfully assembled.
Behind-the-scenes personnel from all aspects were quickly in place, and the early stage team of hundreds of people were divided into different departments according to the tasks, and began to run-in and familiarize themselves with each other at an extremely fast speed.
Relying on the most advanced production management software, Wang Hao's orders were successfully conveyed to all aspects.
Then the crew was divided into two parts, and most of the behind-the-scenes staff needed to prepare for the subsequent shooting in the studio in Beijing.
As for director Wang Hao, he will go to Shanghai with another part of the crew and actors.
There, the crew of "Source Code" needed to hold a launch conference and also shoot the most important long shot at the beginning of the movie.
(End of this chapter)