Entertainment: Is this how you play music?!

Chapter 164 What MV has a budget of seven million?
"Hey, we have to go out and play together, that way it will be fun."

Chen Gang laughed.

Looking at the fans online who are making a fuss about my band, I was filled with emotion.

In addition to being the legendary band's keyboardist.

Chen Gang is also a college student who likes to hang out in the second dimension.

Before becoming famous.

There are also many works that I like.

In the past, I always looked at interactions from the perspective of a fan, but now that I have changed my position, I naturally want to satisfy these audiences and satisfy my “former self.”

"It's fine for the official to give me the whole job, but as Brother Chan said, it can't just be a job, we are a band."

Lin Feng immediately nodded and agreed with Li Can's statement.

It’s no problem to play with netizens.

But you have to know that you are a musician.

If we don't make music and keep focusing on abstract things, it will be a devastating blow to the band's reputation.

"In the form of a band performance? In that case, when linking up with games and giving feedback to fans, we need to express it visually."

Winnie nodded thoughtfully.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he looked at everyone.

"In that case, why don't we take this opportunity to shoot the music video for the song 'Bury The Light'?"

"If the fans of the game find out that the mod image they created for our band was actually designed into the official music video of Devil Power, they will definitely be very happy."

Winnie's proposal immediately made everyone's eyes light up.

I couldn't help but applaud.

“That’s totally fine!”

"It's quite interesting and fun."

"I think it's good too."

"What did Chan say?"

Everyone looked at Li Can.

"no problem!"

Li Can nodded decisively and finalized the matter.

Immediately, he spoke.

“First, we need a project plan and then form a project team.”

Since you have decided to do it.

The group of people just did it.

Li Can then went to find Wang Yongchang.

"Old Wang, please help me!"

After knocking on the door, Li Can walked into Wang Yongchang's office and spoke bluntly.

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I heard that I need help.

Wang Yongchang's face turned pale for no apparent reason and his heart skipped a beat.

His lips seemed to be trembling a little.

The first reaction in my mind is.
[Oh no, what is this little ancestor doing again? ! ]

Some time ago, Li Can criticized the behavior of a number of artists in the circle in an interview, which was really heartbreaking.

After coming back, he seemed unsatisfied.

Do you still want to find a variety show with more explosive flavor to continue stirring up trouble?
Wang Yongchang was really worried.

He was afraid that Li Can would use three consecutive sword attacks on him.

But fortunately.

Before Lao Wang could finish scaring himself, Li Can spoke first.

"We plan to make an MV to give back to our fans, link up with the game, and organize an MV shooting team."

Hear this.

Wang Yongchang smiled almost instantly.

The face changes very quickly.

God bless.

It’s great that we’re finally not causing any trouble this time!
"Shoot! It's just an MV, Chan, you can shoot it however you want, horizontally or vertically!"

Wang Yongchang laughed heartily.

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Seeing that Wang Yongchang seemed a little overly happy, Li Can restrained his smile suspiciously.

Lao Wang is like this.

There is a kind of joy after surviving the ups and downs.

He immediately looked at Wang Yongchang with suspicion.

"Why do I feel like you're thinking of something very rude?"

"No, no, there is no such thing!"

Wang Yongchang's smile became even brighter.

He stood up and searched for documents on the bookcase on the other side.

He immediately spoke.

"A-chan, just go ahead and shoot. If you have any ideas, you can record them first. If you don't have any ideas, then wait for the director to arrive and discuss them. Leave everything else to the company. Trust the company."

"You don't have to pay for it yourself, the company will take care of it. Let me see the budget, three million. No, no, no, this time the budget for the MV shooting is five million!!"

Looking at Wang Yongchang's expression, does he seem to be troubled at all?
Open your big mouth and wave your big hand.

A direct allocation of a budget of five million.

He was so heroic that he didn't even feel any pain.

It is conceivable what extent Wang Yongchang's PTSD has reached.

Isn't it just for fun?!

Take five million and have fun!
As long as the little ancestor stops doing evil, what’s five million?
That's bullshit!
".So generous?"

The suspicion on Li Can's face became even more serious.

I always feel that Wang Yongchang is thinking something very rude.

"Of course, it's Devil Power's first music video, so I have to take it seriously!"

Wang Yongchang really remained calm.

The whole person looked righteous and stern.

“MVs are extremely important in promoting bands and their works! A great band must have a great MV!”

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Nothing seems wrong.

Li Can nodded and did not doubt him.

"These are the MV directors of our company. They all have their own teams and their styles and expertise are quite different."

Wang Yongchang opened the file information in the computer and called Li Can to come over to select.

"If you don't like these MV directors, then tell me your requirements and I'll find a top team for you."

"No, I have my own ideas for this MV. You can just pick one that has a solid foundation and does the best in visual expression."

Li Can shook his head.

Each MV director has his or her own focus.

In the MV shooting industry, MV directors usually encounter mentally retarded Party A singers.

Not to mention a few weird ones.

But most singers will directly give the MV director someone else’s MV and tell the director “I want this feeling”.

It's very uncomfortable.

Therefore, MV directors need to have a strong imagination and experience in "visualizing" music.

For the entire MV shooting, the most important thing is often not the ability, but the inspiration to understand and meet the abstract requirements of the shark-arm singer.

only.

Li Can's MV has some interactive elements and is shot around a gaming work.

Therefore, the basic content has been finalized.

The director doesn't need any extra inspiration.

All that needs to be done is to materialize these inspirations into the expressive details of the MV.

Compared to the director's imagination.

Instead, a solid foundation is needed.

Wang Yongchang nodded and recommended the director to Li Can.

"I recommend you to look for Tong Ke. He has a very strong ability to understand the form and details of the MV and his basic camera skills are excellent."

"Then it's him."

Li Can agreed decisively.

Seeing that Li Can agreed, Wang Yongchang started looking through the company's address book. "I'll make a call and ask Tong Ke and the others to report to you. You can think about the specific structure first, or what you want to express, etc."

I saw that Wang Yongchang got it done quite quickly.

Li Can returned to the studio and began to wait.

Soon, Wang Yongchang transferred director Tong Ke from Star Entertainment and the professional MV shooting team he had brought up.

The shooting of a song MV requires a lot of people.

Editing, directing, stage control, costumes, makeup, etc.
Although small, it has all the necessary functions and can almost be regarded as a miniature film crew.

Even if it was just a whim.

It can even be said that Devil Power simply wanted to interact with fans and give an official Easter egg.

But Xingmei still attaches great importance to this.

Li Can didn't even need to say anything.

We took the initiative to contact Lei Ting, a top domestic special effects rendering company.

Make an appointment in advance for the production period of MV post-production special effects.

Several core members of Thunder Company all worked at Lighthouse Special Effects Company in the early years and are very familiar with special effects.

After returning to China, it naturally launched a dimensionality reduction attack on the newly started special effects industry in China, forcing the entire industry to quickly open up.

It can almost be considered the "Devil Power" of special effects.

Many of the special effects orders that Thunder Company receives are for big-budget movies and TV series.

For an "interactive" MV.

It's totally a big production.

The investment cost of a large-scale MV like this is even enough to make a low-cost movie or short drama.

Li Can estimated the investment for the song MV shooting to be around three million.

This money will mainly be spent on equipment, editing, special effects, etc.

Although it is estimated that it will not reach the 5 million mentioned by Wang Yongchang for the time being, the special effects may exceed the cost if we are not careful.

It really is like a joke.

"How much does it cost to do my special effects?"

"one million."

"so cheap?"

".Two million, three million, four million, five million."

To truly achieve standard-level commercial special effects, frame-by-frame rendering is required.

According to the most common 24 frames in movies, 24 refined special effects pictures are taken per second and need to be rendered by a computer.

Often, a picture of three to five seconds is likely to reach GB level. If it is a little more, it may exceed TB level. It may be possible to use PB level high-speed hardware array.

Moreover, computers started out with calculations using numbers in the thousands.

A full-on special effects movie would be outrageous, and it would be normal for twenty or thirty thousand computers to run at full capacity.

The special effects involved in the MV that Li Can needs are not very difficult, but they still require at least four or five thousand computers to render.

The number of computers can be reduced, but obviously the work cycle will also be doubled. For top special effects teams, labor costs are sometimes much more expensive than those computers.

soon.

All contact is in place.

Tong Ke first came to Li Can's studio to get in touch with related business.

Therefore, Li Can brought the Devil Power team and held a small meeting with Tong Ke to discuss the content of the MV.

"The main purpose of our MV must be to have fun with the fans, so the theme is - the six members of our band traveled to the world of Devil May Cry to fight."

"But the MV must be based on the music work, and it must not be the other way around. So, in terms of the plot, it is best not to be too detailed, just give a specific image, and everything should revolve around the music."

Hearing what Li Can said.

Tong Ke nodded repeatedly.

He showed an expression of great joy and comfort.

As the director of a song MV, Tong Ke hasn't seen a collaborator who understands his work so well for a long time.

Many mentally retarded singers who are not very good at singing insist on emphasizing the so-called storytelling and artistry in their MVs.

Every time I meet this kind of person.

Tong Ke couldn't help but say, "Why don't you make a movie if you are so awesome?"
Putting the cart before the horse in pursuit of fancy things is the stupidest thing to do in MV shooting.

Li Can's seemingly "perfunctory" decision actually points directly to the essence of the MV.

The pictures are used to express the musical works.

All subjects speak through music.

As for the specific story and plot, as Li Can said, it is enough to give a relatively general image so that the audience can roughly know what happened.

"The styling of the MV is completely based on the spoofs of our Devil Power characters by game players."

Li Can chuckled.

"I am the drumstick assassin, Winnie's high heels kick, Feng's sound waves impact, and Jiayin's guitar flies into the sky."

"Zezi's bass whirlwind can cause stiffness, so Gangzi just picks up the keyboard and chops at it."

"Ahahahaha! This is fun!"

"It's so funny, the bass is stiff."

“It’s hard to imagine how the fans will feel after the MV is filmed.”

Everyone was talking to each other and laughing.

The more I think about it, the more interesting it becomes.

Among all the people present, only Tong Ke felt that this matter was a bit too abstract.

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But it just raises a question mark.

So I accepted this setting.

after all.

It is not surprising for those artists to come up with something abstract.

"So, we need perfect costumes and makeup, as well as most of the green screen?"

Tong Ke frowned and began to record information according to Li Can's ideas.

“We also need to connect with the original game CG, and we need artists to design the in-game images for the characters. My suggestion is to find the original artist of the TT game to design it. In this way, the painting style will be quite unified, and the texture of the MV will be very good. It would be better to add some additional animation segments, which will be more interesting.”

Hearing what Tong Ke said.

Li Can nodded repeatedly.

He also has to be a professional director who can take into account the harmony of the overall texture at the first moment when reality and game CG are extended and intertwined.

"That makes sense. I didn't think it through. I'll call TT Games and ask about this."

So, in front of everyone.

Li Can called and sought help from TT Games.

Si Yongjian answered the call almost immediately.

After hearing Li Can's idea, he agreed to Li Can's request without hesitation.

Not only did he not hesitate.

Even a temporary increase was made.

He took out two million on the spot to sponsor the song's MV, and said that if the money was not used for production, it would be used for publicity and promotion.

After hanging up the phone.

Li Can's expression is quite interesting.

He glanced at his brothers and spoke softly.

".Ah, brothers, it's almost time for dinner again."

"Hahahaha!"

The guys in the conference room were laughing so hard that they were bent over, and they didn't seem surprised by this.

Only Tong Ke widened his eyes.

This, this, this. Is it done now?
Even direct additional investment?

What kind of face is this?
"Director Tong, we now have 7 million in funding."

Li Can scratched his head embarrassedly and spoke.

“Then the special effects and design can be bolder. I feel that this MV will definitely not be able to spend all this money.”

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This is fucking bullshit.

Tong Ke couldn't hold it anymore.

Who is it?
When I came, I was told the budget was three million, with a cap of five million.

Now there are two million more.

How can a music video have a budget of seven million?!
".Brother Chan, how about you make a few more calls?"

Zhao Ze pushed his glasses and spoke.

"It feels like if you make a few more calls, this MV will turn into a whole season of game animation?"

(End of this chapter)