King of Special Effects

Due to various factors, the filming progress of Titans was pitifully slow, and it took nearly a month to complete the filming of this scene in the Shield Emperor.

With so many people in the crew, every extra day is money.

During this period of time, the restoration work of Shule City in Qi County was basically completed.

This place will be used to shoot the theme scenes of Titans. Two-thirds of the entire movie will be completed here, and many difficult scenes will also be concentrated here.

Looking at the newly restored Shule City, Yi Yang felt a little bit: Although I don't know what the city was like in history, the one we built is actually a bit small.

It took so much money to build these things. If we expand and spend more money, the risk of our film will be greater.

With so much money invested in this movie, we have to wait until after it is released to get back the cost.

Instead of waiting until it is released, it is useless to dream about these things now, the arrow is on the string, no matter how many difficulties there are, the filming of this drama must be completed in its entirety.

Notify the crew to move in, let the props crew come over and set up the scene first.

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In mid-November, it snowed heavily in Qixian County, and the temperature dropped to below zero. It was not ordinary cold at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains. The filming progress of the crew of Titans was once again hindered.

In the hotel where the film crew stayed in the county seat, most of the staff were wrapped in quilts and didn't want to come out.

Compared with the flying snow outside, this bed is more comfortable.

Wrapped in a military overcoat, Yi Yang looked at the Tianshan Mountains in the distance with a telescope through the window, and didn't say anything all morning.

Ling Lan couldn't help being a little worried about him, so she made a cup of tea and came behind him, and said, I've been watching it all morning, what are you thinking about?

The whole film only took two-fifths of it, and it has already cost nearly 20 million yuan. When I came here without shooting a single shot, it snowed so much. Every day is a waste of money. If I had known this, the crew would not I should come here in such a hurry, how good it is to start shooting after a holiday.

It's not impossible to start the holiday now, anyway, the weather can't make a movie.

All the stage has been set up, but I still can't sing a show, helpless!

The two reporters sent by Penguin Video to make documentaries have also been interviewing some staff members in the hotel these days, and they came from room to room with cameras on their shoulders.

The two of them have followed this way since the filming of Titans, and today they are also suffering in this snowy Qi County.

Yi Yang looked at the weather forecast for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Although it said that the snow would not continue to fall, the weather was still not good.

He gathered several leaders of the crew and held a small meeting: The weather conditions will not be very good tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. It is not an option for us to spend every day here. I propose to wait another three days. If the weather is still not good If it gets better, the crew will start to have a holiday.

We went home and started filming after the year.

Amin said helplessly: There are still nearly three months before the Chinese New Year? It's a bit inappropriate to start a holiday now.

Three months is neither long nor short. If the progress is smooth, a movie can be finished in three months.

Yi Yang really didn't want to waste these three months: Wait for another week, we'll see the situation.

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Yi Yang's filming in Qi County was blocked, but Gan Xiaofeng's filming in Hengdian was progressing smoothly.

The only downside was that the weather was a bit cold, and the cast and crew couldn't stand it, so during filming, the crew set up two empty gasoline barrels and lit two fires to keep warm.

Gan Xiaofeng, who was in front of the monitor in the tent, looked at the replays of the shots that had just been shot this morning, and said casually: If there is no accident, we can finish filming this movie a year ago. All the shots will be reviewed, and if there are problems, make up as soon as possible, don't procrastinate when the time comes, it's troublesome.

The post-production of our current movie will take a long time. If we can catch up on the early work tasks, we will inform everyone to shoot a few night scenes tonight, and we will call it a day at around 10:30 in the evening.

Gan Xiaofeng divided the crew of Xian Luo Ji into three groups, and each group started shooting different scenes at different locations at the same time. The shooting speed was several times faster than Yi Yang's Titan.

The news about the filming progress of the scene was not disclosed on the Internet. If Yi Yang knew that his film was stagnant due to the weather, but Gan Xiaofeng's side was progressing so smoothly, he would have to vomit blood.

Xian Luo Ji is an ancient costume fantasy drama adapted from a novel. The investment of about 200 million makes the crew very grand and generous.

Coupled with the existence of Gan Xiaofeng, an old fried dough stick director, it is easy to master such a crew.

Directed by Gan Xiaofeng, coupled with high investment in special effects, this drama is also very interesting to think about.

On a certain website's List of Movies Expected by Audiences, Xian Luo Ji has an expectation value of more than 10 million, ranking first.

The second place is Yi Yang's Titan, the expected value of more than 8 million seems to be far behind.

Although Yi Yang gained a high reputation with Zi Gaodi, from the audience's point of view, Yi Yang is just a new director after all, and Titans such an unpopular theme of ancient warfare is easy to hit the street. And domestic film production has always been shoddy.

Comedy movies that can make people feel relaxed and happy are the top ones, and commercial blockbusters that claim to have invested more than 100 million yuan are all rubbish.

Domestic audiences are extremely disappointed with domestic films, and generally have a pessimistic attitude towards domestic films.

This is not unreasonable. After all, in recent years, Hollywood blockbusters have flooded major domestic movie theaters. The superb production of special effects that can already irritate people is in stark contrast to domestic movies.

I am used to watching Hollywood blockbusters with special effects and then look at domestic nonsense. Many viewers only feel that their IQ is being rubbed on the ground.

But this time Yi Yang felt that when he came across such a subject, filming what he thought was the first aspect. On the other hand, if he wanted to change the status quo of domestic movies full of garbage, he had to start with this relatively unpopular subject.

If you can do a good job with unpopular themes, it's no problem to involve other themes.

Yi Yang has devoted himself wholeheartedly to this movie.

The plot was decided after repeated deliberation and discussions with Jiang Zhi and the others.

Restoring props and scenes, investing millions to restore this Shule City is Yi Yang's best sincerity.

As for the special effects, with the 'Book of Changes' in hand, he wasn't worried at all.

Propaganda, this strength needs to be strengthened, the main thing is that more publicity costs need to be invested.

Yi Yang looked at the Tianshan Mountains in the distance, looked at the snowflakes all over the sky and the deep snow downstairs that was nearly one meter thick, his thoughts were full of thoughts, and his mood was not beautiful at all.

It's snowing like this, when will it be big?

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