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Chapter 119 Special Effects Company
All the shots needed for the movie have been shot, and there is one more important thing to do, which is the special effects compositing.

Zhai Yu went to find a distribution company for the release of the movie.Lin Xiaofan is looking for a company that produces special effects.

There are many companies in China that can produce special effects, but most of them can only produce "five-cent special effects", and there are not many companies that can really produce high-quality special effects.

And Hollywood, in terms of special effects production, is much ahead of China.This is one of the reasons why Hollywood blockbusters always sell well at the box office.

Lin Xiaofan found a company called Tiangong Digital Special Effects Design Company.The headquarters of this company is in Jinjiang City.

The company's special effects technology is at the top level in China.

Lin Xiaofan selected the most satisfactory shots from the large amount of video materials shot by Libier, and then brought these videos to Tiangong Company.

"Hi sir, what business do you want to handle?"

Lin Xiaofan: "I want to ask about the special effects business of movies."

The beauty who received Lin Xiaofan at the front desk was pleasantly surprised when she heard the "movie special effects", and hurriedly notified a manager to come over.

Although they are a special effects company, they usually receive the most small business such as game advertisements and promotional videos.Movie special effects, this is the most expensive thing, and it is also the business they are most willing to receive.

"Hello, I am the account manager of Tiangong Company, and my surname is Zhou."

Manager Zhou rushed over when he heard that there was a client who was doing special effects for movies.

Lin Xiaofan: "Hi, Manager Zhou, I have a movie and I want to make some special effects."

Manager Zhou invited Lin Xiaofan into the office: "Sir, can you tell me more about the situation?"

"My requirements are very special, and the requirements for special effects are relatively high. This movie is a magical movie, and the whole movie needs special effects. The shot I shot has two parts, and the shots of the two parts need to be combined. Where the shots are connected, some special effects shots are also needed for connection.”

Hearing Lin Xiaofan's words, Manager Zhou was even more excited.He was not afraid of Lin Xiaofan's high demands, because the high demands proved that the cost of this business would be high.

Nowadays, the special effects of movies are all produced by computers. Technology is not an obstacle. The difficulty is that a large number of professionals need to spend time to produce them.These consume a lot of manpower, material resources and time, indicating that a lot of money is needed.

The production of movie special effects is calculated in seconds.One-second special effects cost 10,000+ or ​​even hundreds of thousands.For a movie supported by special effects, its investment is calculated in billions.This shows how expensive the special effects are.

Manager Zhou: "Sir, don't worry, our company's special effects technology is absolutely top-notch in China. No matter what kind of requirements you have, our company will try our best to meet them."

Lin Xiaofan: "Then, how is the fee calculated?"

Manager Zhou: "The cost calculation is more complicated. According to the difficulty of production, the cost varies widely, ranging from tens of thousands per second to hundreds of thousands per second. You need to provide your original film first, then explain your requirements, and After communicating with our technical staff, we will discuss the cost."

"But don't worry, we will definitely give you a discount for a big customer like you. The price is guaranteed to be the lowest in the country, do you think?"

Lin Xiaofan nodded: "Then take me to your technician now."

Manager Zhou took Lin Xiaofan to the special effects production office of their company. The huge office was full of computers.The technicians are all staring at the computer and doing busy work.

In this industry, special effects producers work very hard.

Lin Xiaofan took a glance and found that these computers were full of graphs and models that he could not understand.

"Old Chen, this is our client who is going to do special effects for movies. You can talk to him and make a cost estimate."

Lao Chen is the person in charge of the technical department, and he often does this kind of work.He skillfully asked Lin Xiaofan for a USB flash drive, and then connected it to the computer.

While clicking on the video, he asked Lin Xiaofan: "Please describe in detail what kind of special effects you want to do, and specific requirements."

Lin Xiaofan: "This is a magical movie. There are magical scenes, as well as orcs, monsters, etc. It's about a beautiful woman who accidentally enters the forest, and a series of things happen..."

Listening to Lin Xiaofan's words, Lao Chen clicked on Wang Guli's camera.The shots taken by this simple photography base made him frown.According to Lin Xiaofan's words, the production of this special effect will cost astronomical figures.

This is to create a world out of thin air in the screen!

Lin Xiaofan continued: "In fact, you don't need to do much work, because most of the shots are already available, and your main work is compositing. You can watch this video."

Lao Chen clicked on the video that Lin Xiaofan mentioned, and after three seconds, he froze.In the picture are blue sky, dense woods, purple trees, all kinds of strange plants and flowers.

This is like another world.A hairy humanoid creature that appeared next shocked Old Chen even more.Manager Zhou on the side was also stunned.

After reacting, Old Chen said, "Young man, you are here to make trouble."

Lin Xiaofan didn't react for a while.

Old Chen: "The effect of your special effects is already against the sky, and you still need to come to our company to do special effects? Looking at this picture, it is too realistic. I am afraid that no company in China can achieve this effect."

"Ahem," Lin Xiaofan began to make up nonsense, "The original special effects were made by a foreign company. Due to some special reasons, they were not finished and the cooperation was terminated. So I came to you."

Lin Xiaofan can only make it up, he can't say that this is a real shot, and I'm afraid no one will believe it even if he says it.

Lao Chen nodded, he had no doubts: "If that's the case, the difficulty for us to process special effects is very low, we only need screen synthesis and some connection and detail processing."

After some detailed discussions, Lin Xiaofan and Manager Zhou finally negotiated the business at a price of 1000 million. 1000 million is an extremely low price for a special effects movie.

Lin Xiaofan's previous filming only cost 1000 million without any celebrity.In other words, Lin Xiaofan's total investment in this movie is 2000 million.

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When Lin Xiaofan cooperated with Tiangong Company, Fengfan Motor Company, Feng Qingyun was very worried.

After more than two months of design and debugging, the first sample car has been produced.After testing, the performance of this sample car is very good, especially in terms of power, far exceeding other cars at the same price.

But Feng Qingyun found that he had overlooked a problem, that is, the production of this car required a lot of capital investment.And he had already spent all his money before and owed a lot of foreign debts.

Even for the large set of equipment purchased in installments at Huasheng Machinery Company, the monthly payment has become a big problem.

Not only that, what made Feng Qingyun unhappy was that his former friends stopped contacting him and even avoided him on purpose.Feng Qingyun heard that news of his bankruptcy was circulating in his circle of friends, and his father Feng Yi ignored him.

Feng Qingyun didn't know how the news got out, but his current situation made many people believe it was true.He owed a lot of foreign debts, and he didn't even have the money to go out and relax.

He hasn't gone out for leisure and entertainment for a long time.

(End of this chapter)