my life is running wild

Chapter 167 Junior brother, you are hot again! The "realistic" special effects of "Steel Tiger"!
"What's the matter?"

Liu Chengyin couldn't help asking again.

However, Zhang Meng gave a "tsk" sound: "Isn't it? Junior brother really forgot?
When you asked before, I thought you were just pretending!
No, no
Have you forgotten that yesterday was the release date of "Iron Tiger"?

No, no
Junior brother, do you not care about the movies directed by senior brother at all?
What's more, you also participated in a lot of filming work for this movie!Even contributed his on-screen 'firsts' in this film."

Hearing this, Liu Chengyin's face froze.

Well, he did forget.

no way.

It is different from Liu Chengyin's rhythm, which usually does not exceed two months from the start of filming to the release.

The movie "Steel Tiger" has been filmed since the end of October, and now it is halfway through May. After half a year, the movie finally released yesterday!

However, in fact, this is the normal "post-duration" that a movie should have after it is finished!
And half a year is already fast.

The post-production work of many films even takes a year, or even two or three years!

Why is it taking so long?

One is the post-production of the film itself.

If it’s a feature film, it’s okay, the post-production is more about “finding the feeling”, choosing the right shots from the many materials obtained from the shooting, “stitching” them together, and perhaps simply rendering them with filters according to the atmosphere of the plot.

Then choose the "suitable" soundtrack, and then modify the dubbing provided by the actors.

It usually takes half a month to a month to pick and choose.

If it is a special effects film, it will be the most troublesome.

In addition to costing money, special effects production is also the most time-consuming!
Many special effects blockbusters are filmed for two or three months, and then two or three years later!

Special effects are not constructed directly like painting, he needs a lot of calculations through the computer.

You need to use CG technology to design an object, and he inputs the "attributes" that you need the object to have into the computer.

After that, the computer calculates according to the attributes you set, and calculates what kind of "feedback" these attributes should present in the current environment.

For example, design an apple.

Through "modeling", you use programming language and numerical values ​​to endow the apple with various attributes such as color, luster, fullness, weight, etc.

The computer needs to combine various physics engines to estimate the shadow depth and angle, reflected light direction and brightness of the apple under the lighting environment of the current scene. For higher requirements, temperature, gravity, wind direction, wind speed and humidity should also be taken into consideration.
Under the influence of some kind of wind, combined with gravity, with the weight and shape of the apple, will it be blown, and what will be its reaction after blowing.

Combined with humidity, light intensity, and temperature, after a period of time, the water loss of apples, the change of dryness and luster of the skin
After calculating the results, the program will "render" the picture according to the calculation results to make it more natural, beautiful or in line with the atmosphere of the plot.

For ordinary people, it is not just by feeling and patting their heads that they can know how to draw. Such complex information processing must be done with the help of a computer.

However, if a computer needs to "render" an excellent CG through calculations, it will cause a huge loss to those expensive hardware in the advanced computer!
The reason why special effects are expensive is that apart from paying the salaries of the employees who do CG modeling, a large part of it is the consumption of these graphics cards!

Of course, Liu Chengyin is not an ordinary person, with [Perfect Perception], he doesn't need to use a computer to calculate various data, he can see the final product at a glance, and then...
Activate [Key God], "Describe" and that's it!

by the way.

As I said before, although [Jian Shen] can speed up Liu Chengyin's output efficiency when using the console with his hands, it will not actually improve his "accuracy".

During the activation of [Key God], although it is very fast, Liu Chengyin will also make mistakes.

When Liu Chengyin made CG, it was easy to make mistakes because his hands were not stable enough.

When inputting values ​​for modeling, I accidentally touched the key next to it and entered the wrong value.
It's just that after he makes a mistake, he can instantly find the mistake by relying on [Perfect Look and Feel], and then quickly correct the mistake with the enhanced hand speed.

And since Liu Chengyin acquired the skill [Freedom], the output efficiency of Liu Chengyin's creation has been improved again!
why?

You know, the effect of [Freedom] is to give Liu Chengyin the ability to control his body as he pleases!

That is to say, under the influence of [Freedom], Liu Chengyin's body movements will be consistent with his thinking.

What his brain tells the body to do, the body will complete it 100%, as long as the physical condition allows.

In this case, as long as Liu Chengyin doesn't want to shake his hands, his hands won't shake, and he doesn't want to touch irrelevant keys, so his hands won't touch unnecessary places.

In this way, Liu Chengyin's post-production efficiency has been greatly improved!

In addition to the post-production of the film itself, it is the issue of publicity.

First is "Xuan"!
Because the release time of a movie is usually only one month, the "key extension" treatment is usually only available to movies with good results.

After all, theaters also want to make money, and it is a pure loss of money to show those movies that no one watches to occupy the screening room there.

Only when the publicity is in place and the audience's expectations are high, the theater will give more films, and the film can get a relatively good result in the early stage. The good results in the early stage have attracted more attention and attracted more audiences.

Conversely, many originally good movies had unsatisfactory early results due to inadequate publicity.

When the audience saw the poor performance of this movie, they subconsciously felt that it was a "bad movie".
Therefore, after the shooting of most movies, the movie usually takes half a year to promote its own movie, until the promotion funds are used up, or the promotion reaches the upper limit. People who may be interested in this kind of movie basically already know , For those who have no interest in this type of movie at all, no amount of publicity is useless.

After the post-production and publicity are completed.

At this time, it is convenient for production to consider letting theaters arrange screenings.

When will you be able to release it, it depends on the film schedule on the theater side.

If people are optimistic about you, they will not only let you choose the time, but also provide you with suggestions on choosing the best release time.

If people think your movie is not good, even if you give them money, they will either put your movie in those "garbage time" when no one has time to watch movies, or put your movie on the screen. When those "behemoths" are rampant, let you be cannon fodder!
This time is not up to you to decide. They may let you release it in two days, or arrange it for you in half a year.
This is the normal film production cycle!
Liu Chengyin is not normal at all!
The reason why Yoo Seung-yin's film took such a short time from the end of filming to its release.

One reason is because he relied on opening and hanging, he didn’t need to pick and choose at all, and he didn’t have to wait for the computer calculation to “render” slowly, and the post-production was extremely fast;

Secondly, when Liu Chengyin was making movies, he had always maintained a high popularity, so he didn't need too much publicity at all.

Thirdly, one of Liu Chengyin's collaborators is in the cinema business, and with Liu Chengyin's popularity in movies, he can choose the release time of his movie at will, as long as it is not required to be screened in the evening after being approved during the day, at least Send people a scheduled time or something.
Because the post-production and publicity cycle of "Steel Tiger" is too long.

At the beginning, Liu Chengyin was still very interested, but over time, he lost his "enthusiasm" for this movie.

Looking back, the last time he took the initiative to pay attention to the announcement progress of "Steel Tiger" was more than a month ago
A week ago, Zhang Meng seemed to have talked to him about the release of the movie.

However, during the tour, Liu Chengyin didn't have much planning in terms of work and rest. In addition, he was the boss, so he had no concept of working days, weekends, and commuting time, so the concept of time was very vague.

Let's put it this way, for five days in a week, Liu Chengyin didn't know what day it was and what day it was.
As a result, even if Liu Chengyin remembers the release date of "Steel Tiger", he will have a five out of seven chance of missing this date.
Well, if that day happens to pay attention to the date of the day.
Of course, Liu Chengyin couldn't admit this kind of thing.

Faced with Zhang Meng's questioning of "no way, no way".

Liu Chengyin replied stiffly: "How could it be? Of course I remember! The movie score is so good, congratulations!"

"The box office on the first day was 1.5 million! And the growth rate this morning is not slower than yesterday. I feel that today's results can be even better. In short, "Steel Tiger" is popular!" Zhang Meng shouted happily.

Hearing the excited roar of the other party, Liu Chengyin didn't want to interrupt him, so he could only hold the receiver of the mobile phone away, and said to the microphone: "Congratulations!"

Zhang Meng: "No! It should be the same happiness!"

Liu Chengyin: "Yes, yes, yes, Tongxi, after all, I am also a part of the crew."

Zhang Meng: "No, no, no! It's not that simple!"

Liu Chengyin: "No? Huh? Did you remove me from the crew?"

Zhang Meng: "No! My 'similar joy' means that your 'joy' is almost 'equal' to the 'joy' of the movie "Steel Tiger"!"

Hearing this, Liu Chengyin suddenly felt an "ominous" premonition: "What do you mean?"

Zhang Meng: "Brother! You are also on fire!"

Hearing this, Liu Chengyin blinked and couldn't help but want to confirm something: "The movie you made, why am I so popular?"

Zhang Meng: "Huh? How did you forget? Your 'first time'? 'First time'! You played a guest role in "Steel Tiger", and this is also the first time you have appeared on the screen .

Let's talk about your performance first.

Through this scene, your acting skills have been praised by many film critics.

People say that when you appeared on the stage, you showed the feeling of 'pull' and 'unbeaten' to the fullest.

However, when those actual marksmanship display shots passed, the 'slutty' and 'unbeaten' instantly turned into a 'refined high-spirited temperament'.

At the beginning, many people thought your marksmanship was 'unscientific' and thought it was special effects.

Until some 'professional anti-counterfeiting' analyzed it for a long time and found that there was no trace of special effects at all.

In addition, you just broke the world record in the sport of gun shooting not long ago.
After learning that the marksmanship demonstrations in the movie were real, everyone who watched the movie was as dumbfounded as we were when we watched you practice your guns! "

Hearing this, Liu Chengyin couldn't help but lose face.

It's over, he's on fire again, and his "spiritual retreat" is about to be interrupted again!

Afterwards, with some hope, Liu Chengyin asked again: "Is this matter on the headlines?"

The reason why Liu Chengyin asked this is because not long ago, Liu Chengyin was very unhappy because of the interruption of "Shenyin". In the process of appeasing his unhappy heart, he suddenly wanted to understand one thing.

He suddenly realized that with the heat generated by these things he has done recently, basically no matter what he does, as long as he is known, there will be heat.

Even if it's just going to a restaurant to eat a bowl of noodles, as long as some people know about it, they can make up dozens of short stories through this incident, and then send Liu Chengyin to the hot search.

Anyway, as long as it has the name "Liu Chengyin", it can bring a lot of traffic.

Liu Chengyin knew that these enthusiasms were "inflated".

Not real.

Netizens don't care about these things at all. This is simply the popularity formed by those guys who want to gain popularity and go crazy because of the traffic.

Therefore, Liu Chengyin decided to relax the "lenient" requirements a little.

From now on, as long as it doesn't make headlines, it won't count as interrupting "Shen Yin"!
After Liu Chengyin's inquiry, Zhang Meng quickly replied: "Unfortunately, no! Yesterday's headline was not this."

After hearing Zhang Meng's words, Liu Chengyin was overjoyed.

Happily stamping feet and patting chests.

However this time.
Zhang Meng said again: "Junior brother, do you know who made the headlines that suppressed your acting skills and marksmanship?"

"What is it?" Liu Chengyin was indeed curious.

Although I am very happy that my "shenyin" has not been interrupted, but "someone is on top of him", this also arouses Liu Chengyin's competitive spirit.

He intends to ask clearly and find a way to get back in the future.

Of course, if it's breaking the law, going to jail, getting a divorce, etc. to grab the headlines, that's fine.
Liu Chengyin doesn't like to be miserable, he hopes that "miserable" things will be far away from him as much as possible.

Soon, Zhang Meng said: "Yes
- you! "

"What?"

Before Liu Chengyin had time to be happy for a long time, Zhang Meng poured him some "hot water" soon.

"Junior brother, don't forget, you have a cameo role in the movie.

Also made the special effects of "Iron Tiger"! "

Liu Chengyin panicked: "What happened to my special effects?
The films I made before were not without special effects.

And the special effects of "Iron Tiger" are only 2 minutes in total, and the special effects of my movie are much longer than those in "Iron Tiger"

Zhang Meng interrupted: "It's different! What you did before was 'pure fantasy', but this time it's 'realism'!"

(End of this chapter)