my crew is not human

Chapter 224 Limit Testing

Cao Hongyue hopes to take this as a breakthrough to dispel Li Xianyun's idea, but Li Xianyun has already entered the chairman mode and started dreaming of painting a big cake. Once the big cake is painted, he will never give up.

Li Xianyun said directly: "It doesn't take that long. People in my company don't need to think about the schedule, and the venue is the same. It will be arranged for you internally. The external standard process doesn't take so much time to prepare. The only thing you need to consider The most important thing is to do a good job in the early storyboard as much as possible.”

Cao Hongyue is angry, this is exactly what gives me a headache!
Co-authoring the final pressure is all on my head?

She said directly: "This is no longer a storyboard, the dynamic storyboard is not so detailed, this is a preview!"

rehearsal?

Li Xianyun was taken aback.

That's right!

Damn, how did I forget this! ?

Speaking of storyboarding, there are many standards.

The most low-level storyboard is that there is no storyboard.

Director Sunglasses Wang didn't even have a script, let alone a storyboard.Every time I shoot a film, I want to draw on the spot. If I can’t figure it out, the crew will have a three-day holiday. After three days, I will shoot for one day.

It is not necessary for the crew to be comfortable.

On the basis of no storyboard, it is a stickman storyboard.

It is said that Director Jiang's storyboard is a stick figure.

The quality of the storyboards further up is relatively high, and it is basically a storyboard with a shape.

Based on this, it is a comic-level storyboard——Boss Zhou who worked as a Chinese ghost story in the original world, and the tree demon grandmother fell in love with Yan Chixia, invited a cartoonist from Hong Kong Island to do the comic storyboard.

Further up is the dynamic split mirror.

To put it bluntly, it is a simple sketch cartoon.

But the most high-end is the animation storyboard, which can also be called a preview-that is, to do the film first with the simplest animation method.

Animation storyboards are often used in big Hollywood productions.

The biggest advantage of this method is: you know in advance what you are shooting, and all the shots are in it.

The crew doesn’t need to look at the storyboards one by one, they can directly open the video with a notebook, drag to the corresponding screen, and know the general scene how to do it and how to position the camera after looking at the content.

The director only needs to do the details and make requests.

Whether it's an actor or something else, it's all clear at a glance.

It's just that the cost of this method is a bit high, even if it is a shoddy animation, it still costs a lot of money, so there are relatively few people doing this in China.

Anyway, Li Xianyun has never heard of anyone doing this, and even the production crew of Killing God has invested more than [-] million yuan, and they have never seen it done.

A storyboard is an outline, but when the outline reaches the level of an animation storyboard, it is no longer an outline, but a draft—there are so many great writers in the online novel world every year, and there are some who write outlines. After finishing a draft, they revise it from scratch I really haven't seen it!

Most writers don't even make outlines.

So some directors don't even do storyboards, and it doesn't affect their becoming a great director.

But others don't do it, Li Xianyun can do it!
What he wants is to create a new shooting mode in the Huaguo film and television industry, using the little ghosts as leverage to leverage the new production process of the entire Huaguo film and television industry, so this step is very meaningful!
And his request to Cao Hongyue was indeed not an outline, it was just a draft.

Thinking of this, Li Xianyun nodded: "Then do an animation preview."

"What did you say?" Cao Hongyue was stunned.

Li Xianyun said: "Yisheng Media already has enough special effects personnel. But many of our special effects are real shots, and they just do some leftover work. Now they have a chance to show themselves! Let them make preview templates! You to direct. And the advantage of doing this is that you don’t have to worry about pricing.”

Didn't you have a headache about pricing before?
Don't worry if you have a preview.

All the content is determined in advance, Party A cannot make demands at will, and the technical department can also make budgets and quotations based on the content of the rehearsal.

Cao Hongyue stared at him: "How can it be so simple, the rehearsal is also very troublesome..."

Although the rehearsal is shoddy, there are actually various requirements.

The simplest thing: you can make cartoons into stick figures, how about costumes, props and make-up?You can’t just embody the language of one lens, can you?The awesome director said that the pure lens language does not need rehearsal at all, just think about it in your mind!
It's like no writer will say that I finish the draft and rewrite it to make the article "smooth".

That's a basic skill!
In addition to seeing the effect of the film and having a more intuitive feeling in the preview, it is very important to perfect the details, and the technical team will know what to do at a glance, so in addition to the storyboard, we must also consider the location of the camera and the lighting arrangement. Wait for a series of requirements.

As for Li Xianyun's request?

Te Niang's is higher than Hollywood.

He has to take all the setting art props into consideration—because according to his requirements, once the crew starts the production, they must ensure quality and quantity, as well as high-quality and high-efficiency. If it is completed, it is absolutely not allowed to do it on the spot.

If you want to lose one screw, then the whole crew will really be waiting for that screw.

That's right, Chili is very fast in making things, but his speed is still in the early stage, and live production is difficult-I can't give you a live fusion, right?Should I go out and take a walk?Can't come back too soon, in the wilderness, people will wonder that the old man pissed out the screw?
In this case, a contradiction arises: what you did was crude, and it failed to reflect the meaning of the rehearsal, but what you did was careful...why do you go to such lengths?Just make a cartoon.

Hearing what Cao Hongyue said, Li Xianyun rubbed his chin and began to think.

He knows that things are difficult. After all, this is an epoch-making change, and he will definitely face many problems, but it is precisely because of this that he must persist!

If successful, Yisheng Media will make a qualitative leap!

He murmured: "Difficulties always exist, but there are always ways to solve them."

Cao Hongyue curled her lips: "Don't be bureaucratic, let's be practical."

Director Cao is angry, even if you are the boss, you still throw face.

Li Xianyun nodded: "How about this, try acting with a real person."

The so-called live-action rehearsal is to find actors with a mobile phone and perform it first. This kind of rehearsal can be said to be the simplest and most convenient.

In reality, some people also do this, such as making demos.

However, there is a difference between live-action previews and demos.

The live-action preview saves the work of storyboarding, and does not ask for acting skills, and everything can be in place at one time. On the contrary, the demo is very beautiful-because it is for investors to see!
The demo fools the investors, and the trailer fools the public.

It's that simple.

Cao Hongyue quickly said: "Live-action rehearsals are fine, makeup can be done on the spot, costumes and props can be solved through picture design and existing props, but what about the venue, scenery, and art? This can't be performed on the spot, right? Then add lighting Fireworks and recording you can go straight to filming. What the fuck?"

Director Cao's face-shaking level sublimated, and he even swears at the boss.

Li Xianyun doesn't care about entering the generous mode: "This part can be made with pictures, and if it doesn't work, you can use other people's shots."

I have a go, your thinking is really open!
Real people, animations, pictures, and clips from other people's home...

May I?
of course can.

Anyway, it is used to make drafts, no matter how low it is, it doesn’t matter, as long as you can understand it—whose drafts are not a bunch of graffiti?
Even this animation preview is done by no one, anyway, Hollywood has never done this.

Boss Li is pushing himself to the extreme. He has to save money on everything. If the cost of rehearsal is too high, he will never do it. If the speed is too slow, he will never do it. If he does not do well, his subordinates are incompetent. up.

Li Xianyun said again: "Of course this is just a matter of now. What we want is to find out the problem and solve it. This method is not suitable for the overall operation, and there must be a solution. I think you can also do a preview of the future production method Test to see how we can meet our needs in a short period of time and at low cost."

Cao Hongyue was stunned: Did I find myself another job?

Now it’s time to think about staging workflow solutions too!
Boss, you don't bring such a thing. In order to solve one problem, you create a bunch of problems.

But now that Li Xianyun has switched to the CEO mode, he is about to shoot the table—I don't care, anyway, you have to do the work for me.

"What about the venue?" Cao Hongyue's heart of resistance was not dead, and she stubbornly resisted: "What if I made a courtyard in the preview, but I didn't rent a courtyard, so I can only change the villa, and all the scenery is in vain. Don't tell me to change it. Oh, the script, I won’t make it with such a change.”

Once the filming starts, there is no guarantee that there will be various accidents, and Li Xianyun's request is also tantamount to preventing accidents.

Insufficient preparation, the crew ran aground.

Unexpectedly, the crew ran aground.

For a crew that finished filming a film in [-] days, lack of preparation and accidents were not a problem, and it would only take ten days and a half months more if it was flat, and the extra third of the budget was due to the director's incompetence.

But the ten-day delay is equivalent to a movie produced under the new mode: three times over budget! ! !
The director is not incompetent anymore, he is useless to the extreme.

The director said: The draft girl is incompetent, according to Li Xianyun's standard, anyone who can't fly is not human!
Li Xianyun was also happy: "That's why we have to limit the technical department to the ghost town. We can set the scene of the ghost town, and the outside is another calculation."

Cao Hongyue was taken aback for a moment, yes.

The venue of the ghost town is up to you!

The outside ones...the two crews and two modes, the outside ones don't have to be so difficult to deal with.

Thinking about it this way, it seems that it is really possible to execute it, so he asked Li Xianyun: "The ghost town part must be finished in three days? Do you want to guarantee a big sale for A?"

"It's for you to do tests and find problems, not to order you to die." Li Xianyun breathed a sigh of relief.

That means it’s not your fault if you really can’t do it.

"It will take a lot of work. I estimate that a good rehearsal will take two months at the earliest."

"That's two months, you are in charge."

"Add money!"

"15."

"20, I can cancel the account split. I have been working on this film for half a year. Not only do I have to make the film well, but I also have to test various processes for you, find people, and give you a solution. The pre-show cost cannot be less than 30, and my director's fee and pre-show cost cannot be included in the budget."

After saying this, I immediately regretted it. In the current situation, the bigger the budget, the more things I have to do——Aren't I going to continue to cause trouble for myself?

Cao Hongyue was in despair.

She felt that she couldn't negotiate, and if she talked again, she would have to torture herself to death.

Li Xianyun smiled.

Cao Hongyue's director's fee, plus the pre-show fee, resulted in a lot of saved costs, but looking for problems, some money has to be spent.

This time he was generous again.

Li Xianyun nodded: "Succeed! Give me a good job in this matter. Whether Yisheng Media can build a future film and television empire in the future depends on you."

Cao Hongyue raised her head: "Then will you give me company shares?"

"You haven't officially joined the company yet, and you need to add more money. If you can make it cheaper..."

"Forget it. I can't see such a long-term view, it's better to take cash." Cao Hongyue left with a smile.

Li Xianyun didn't mind either.

Indeed, there are still many problems with my own model, and it is normal not to be favored.It's just a pity, Director Cao missed an opportunity to make a fortune after all.

"So, choice is sometimes more important than ability." Li Xianyun muttered to himself.

(End of this chapter)