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Leaving aside the joint filming of "Newsroom" by Kirin Network Entertainment and DreamWorks Television Studio, the preparatory work for Li Wei's "Transformers Movie" has also been completed. The candidate actors are delineated between three to five people, and it is waiting for Li Wei to arrange early auditions to determine the final list.At the same time, the assistant director also signed a studio rental agreement with Kylin Film and Television City, directly renting the largest studio for six months.

Li Wei handed over the script of "Transformers Movie" to the screenwriting department for review, which is also one of the film production processes of Li Wei's studio.Even the script produced by Li Wei has to go through the review of the scriptwriting department of the studio before entering the confirmation process.Different from the script of the "Transformers" cartoon, the script of the cartoon is only after Li Wei submits the world view and character settings, and the rest is the work of the editors of the screenwriting department.

Moreover, unlike the "Transformers Movie" on the earth plane, Li Wei changed both the male and female protagonists of the original film.From Li Wei's point of view, Mike Bay is completely ruining the movie by finding a pair of high school students to play the leading roles.Obviously it can produce a sci-fi epic like a space opera, but Mike Bella turned it into a summer popcorn movie in a low-key manner.Of course, Li Wei can also understand Mike Bay's thoughts. After all, Mike Bay doesn't have much recognition for the nostalgia of this IP, and in order to boost the summer box office, recruiting high school students to act as the grassroots protagonists in the movie is what everyone is doing. things.

But Li Wei's idea is different from Mike Bay's. Li Wei's idea is to make a sci-fi war movie, and Transformers is a new thing in this plane, so Li Wei doesn't have to consider the addition of nostalgia.The origin of Li Wei's version of "Transformers Movie" is similar to that of the earth plane. When Megatron was looking for the source of fire, he crashed at the North Pole of Aquamarine due to the influence of the magnetic field.This gigantic robot was discovered by the new Citigroup government, and became the research object of Citigroup's secret department.Recently, Megatron gradually woke up, coupled with the gradual carelessness of the research institutions, Megatron actually used Citigroup's military network to get in touch with other Decepticons.

However, when Megatron got in touch with the Decepticons, this information was also intercepted by the Autobots.In order to prevent the Decepticons from obtaining the fire source and occupying the water blue star, the Autobots rushed to the water blue star.However, when they rushed to the water blue planet, they had contact with the astronauts of the Huaxia space station.Therefore, the Huaxia military obtained the information from the Autobots that the Decepticons were about to invade the earth, and at the same time learned about the power of the fire source, so Huaxia and Citigroup also launched a snatch about the fire source.Li Wei didn't set up a relationship line, and at the same time didn't add too many unnecessary plots, all of them were filmed according to the momentum of a war movie.

War films must have both large army battles and street fighting plots. Li Wei built many street fighting scenes in the studio, and at the same time there were some machine models that were painted green and painted with white dots on joints and key parts.Naturally, these model robots cannot move, but are positioned for the special effects department.Although the special effects technology of Aqua Blue Star is much higher than that of the Earth plane, the computer used still has not reached the quantum level, so it is considered to be of the same origin as the Earth plane.

Many people think that doing special effects is to create them out of thin air, and then believe that all scenes that cannot be filmed can be completed by special effects.In fact, this idea is not wrong, this is the best ideal state of special effects.But this ideal state only exists in theory, and it is impossible to operate in this way in fact.In Li Wei's view, the so-called "visual effects" are actually a kind of AR (Augmented Reality) technology, which is just a virtualization of existing real scenes.

Therefore, many of the "five-cent special effects" in many people's minds are because the pre-shooting department did not leave a special effects interface for the post-production special effects department, which caused the special effects and real scenes to be completely incompatible.These model robots placed by Li Wei are the special effects interface. These models tell the robot how and where to stand in the special effects, and then the computer can logically deduce the moving direction and dynamics of the robot based on these basic data, and finally The special effects shots are synthesized.Although the final special effects products will be very different due to the experience and technology of the special effects department, at least the shots produced in this way will not float, and there will be no robot running without stepping on the ground at all.

In addition to the special effects department, the biggest department of the crew this time is the pyrotechnics department.After all, if a war movie is to be shot with a sense of passion, Li Wei really has to learn from Mike Bay, that is, to keep "exploding"!Although the explosion scene can be done with special effects, the details of the big scene at that time had to be exploded with real gunpowder.Although the Film Association did not provide guidance on the allocation of pyrotechnicians, according to Li Wei’s experience in referring to Hollywood on the earth plane, the more pyrotechnicians the better, it is a test of concentration for a pyrotechnician to control two to three explosion points. up.

The attention of the pyrotechnician is very important. If the pyrotechnician presses the wrong blast button, the actors and crew members who were filming in the original order will be injured.The burn incident of Ren Jiaxuan and Yu Haoming on the earth plane is simply a problem of unprofessional pyrotechnicians. If this kind of thing happened to a European and American crew, then the crew and the production company behind it would be punished to death.Therefore, the crew of the family tried every means to avoid such a tragedy from happening. They would rather spend more money to hire more, better and more professional pyrotechnicians, and they would never fool the past.Many Chinese movie fans regard the opening and landing scene of "Saving Private Ryan" as a classic, and lament that it cannot be made in China.In fact, it's not that I can't shoot, but I dare not shoot.According to the average level of domestic pyrotechnicians at that time, it would take a lot of talent to shoot this scene.

While Li Wei was busy working on the film crew, he suddenly received a call from the National Film Company.Xu Yili said submissively on the phone: "Mr. Li, we investigated the leak of our contract last time. It was a vice president of our company who did not agree with us. Because of his high position and authority, we It's not easy to move people. We have to tell you, I hope you don't blame us. You also know that our company has complicated forces, and I really feel sorry for you. "

After Li Wei received the call, he felt bewildered at first, then a little angry, and finally calmed down.

"Forget it, Manager Xu, I don't bother to worry about this matter. But I still want to remind you of one thing, the contract between us has been signed, if you want to break the contract because of someone else, I must remind you Two things. The first is that the breach of contract is not cheap, and the second is that our legal department has never been a vegetarian."

Li Wei also gradually discovered that the bureaucratic atmosphere in their company was too strong during the contact with the National Film Company. In the contract, there are very detailed compensation clauses for the other party's slack or breach of contract, and the high level of compensation made the National Film Company stunned for a while.But Li Wei asked coldly, "As long as you do it, you don't have to pay a penny, and you can make a lot of money with me. Why are you afraid of the compensation clause?"

Because of Li Wei's words, National Film Company signed this contract with Li Wei.There is no one in China Film Company who doesn't want to break the contract, but they immediately shut up when they saw the break fee.Indeed, the National Film Corporation takes taxpayers' money and has nothing to do with them.But if the company really paid 10 times the estimated box office compensation, it would really kill him.Li Wei and the National Film Company estimated the box office of the five "Transformers Movies" to be 450 billion yuan. If it were to be counted 10 times, then the National Film Company would not even be able to pay for it.

After putting down the phone call with Xu Yili, Li Wei suddenly laughed out loud.He finally understood why the National Film Company played such a good card. If it wasn't for its uniqueness, this company would have been played to death by other film companies.But now, although he is not dead, he is almost disabled. Originally, Li Wei wanted to fly with the National Film Company. After all, the theaters under the National Film Company are still full of Li Wei's heart.Now Li Wei feels that it’s okay for him to cooperate with Caesars theaters and establish an independent theater chain at the same time. Flying with the brain-dead will make him infected too.

After putting the matter of the phone call to the back of his mind, Li Wei continued to coordinate with his crew. This time "Transformers Movie" is already the largest film Li Wei has shot, so Li Wei's director team has also expanded to dozens of people .In addition to professional directors such as casting directors and visual effects directors, there are nearly 20 other assistant directors and assistant directors, and this still excludes director assistants.Fortunately, there are so many people, otherwise Li Wei would really vomit blood.

When Li Wei was so busy, Liu Han suddenly came back with his new film. "Saw" was originally a low-budget psychological horror film, so it really didn't take too much time to shoot, not to mention that the main body of the script was created by Liu Han himself, so the shooting speed was even faster.In addition to participating in the filming, Liu Han also participated in the editing of the film as the second editor.Because Liu Han was watching the scene all the time, the production speed of the whole movie was also faster.

After the finished film comes out, it is reasonable to conduct an internal preview meeting, and only after the internal preview meeting passes will it be released to the market in the form of the final version.Li Wei has always been the host of the audition, so Li Wei can only temporarily put down the preparation work of his film and return to the company.

Now Li Wei studio already has three officially contracted directors, Li Wei, Liu Han and Bai Yuping, plus the marketing department, public relations department, editorial department, and senior executives. The hall was packed to the brim.I have to say that Liu Han did a great job in details, especially the few psychological hint shots that were particularly brilliant.Although Li Wei had already read the script, his emotions still followed the film involuntarily.Several scary orgasms made Li Wei's scalp tingle, and the few female employees who came in to participate in the test screening didn't even make a sound.

After everyone has watched the movie, the internal staff will ask everyone to fill in an electronic form to understand the first impression after watching the movie.According to everyone's ratings, this movie actually got a high score of 7 points internally.You must know that this is a thriller, thriller, horror, idol, etc., which are not well received in the industry.Generally, the average score of thriller and horror films in the industry is about 5 points, so 7 points can be regarded as a rare high score.

And what makes Li Wei particularly satisfied is that Liu Han has well balanced the commercial and artistic aspects of the film.In fact, "Chain Saw" is not only a commercial genre film like a thriller, but also an art film that explores human nature.Liu Han demonstrated these well in the film, but did not overemphasize the artistry and weaken the watchability of the film.