Unboxing, Director!

Chapter 33 New Features

After a few seconds of waiting, you will enter the next stage with the golden finger.

New rule prompts pop up one after another:

[Congratulations on your upgrade, and welcome to the host to embark on a new stage of your directorial journey]

[The treasure chest and works open limited-time tasks, please use them as soon as possible]

【Unlock treasure chest and work synthesis function, click to view】

[Simulation set function is turned on]

【.】

After a burst of information initiation.

Lu Jiang quickly understood the upgrade details of the golden finger.

First up is the 'mock set'.

This is easy to understand.

I'm going to be filming TV series and movies next, so I need a place to practice.

Next is the treasure chest reward.

The works produced by the treasure chest in the new stage will have new forms, no longer just short films and MVs.

But the treasure chests and golden treasure chests that have appeared before are not included.

The third is time limit. No matter what level of work, the work must be completed within one year after it is opened, otherwise it will disappear.

This rule is actually not a big problem for MVs.

So far, the MV that took the longest time for Lu Jiang to produce is "It's a pity there is no if".

The shoot took a week, and post-production took three weeks, which adds up to only one month.

In a year, we can create more than ten or twenty works like this.

But it's a bit tight for a TV series.

According to the current production rhythm in the industry.

A TV series of thirty or forty episodes would take about a year from preparation to shooting to post-production if everything went well.

Lu Jiang has the help of a golden finger, so his speed will be much faster, but he can only produce two or three dramas at most in a year.

Therefore, if the production frequency of treasure chests in the future is the same as before, it will inevitably lead to huge waste.

Fortunately, the cheat code now unlocks the "synthesis" function.

Two whites make a green, two greens make a blue, and so on, all the way to gold.

With this new rule, Lu Jiang’s biggest problem was completely solved.

This is the big problem of how to obtain the golden treasure chest.

From the time he traveled through time until now, Lu Jiang has only seen two golden treasure chests.

One is Lao Lu’s golden treasure chest that reads “Worthy of Our Ancestors.”

The other one is Xu Zhen’s golden treasure chest.

The production conditions of both treasure chests are relatively rare.

The former is about regrets in life and a great obsession, while the latter is about a turning point in life and is extremely urgent.

In fact, these critical moments concerning major life events actually happen several times in everyone's life.

But the problem is that as an outsider, Lu Jiang can't meet her every time.

Even if you encounter one, whether a treasure chest will appear above someone's head is a completely uncontrollable random event and depends on luck.

With good luck, just like Xu Zhen, he became connected with him by chance, and the golden treasure chest appeared suddenly. Because of the misunderstanding, it was extremely easy to obtain the treasure chest.

The next one is Lu Jianguo. He has the treasure chest, but if he wants to get it, he has to pay at least tens of millions.

But if these two people don't show the treasure chest, then even if you help them to the end and send them off to the west, it will be a waste of effort.

Therefore, it is extremely difficult to obtain the golden treasure chest.

Fortunately, now we have the treasure chest synthesis path, everything is easy.

Next, just collect the treasure chests and synthesize them all the way to the golden one.

After all, making TV series and movies is different from releasing albums.

An album requires many pieces of work.

But for TV series and movies, just one at a time is enough!

Since you can only make one at a time, why not film the best one?

So in the future, Lu Jiangruo will start his career as a TV series and movie director.

That is definitely a “gold medal director”!
Finally, there are the special rules for the Golden Treasure Chest:

[Golden treasure chest comes with special effect: Battle record inheritance]

【Golden Treasure Box Work Replacement Function】

The first is the special effect of the golden treasure chest: the battle record inheritance function.

As long as the degree of restoration or localization of the golden work in the box reaches 90%, the achievement of the original work can be inherited in proportion.

It looks very powerful, but it is actually difficult to achieve.

For example, now, Lu Jiang moved his mind and called out Xu Zhen’s golden treasure chest.

[It is detected that the host has less than 100 million in cash. The work type is limited to short films, music videos, TV series and other film and television dramas]

【Random lottery starts.】

【Lottery completed】

[Congratulations to the host for winning the gold quality TV series: "Game of Thrones Season 1"]

The unboxing prompt has changed a bit this time, from "Assets less than 10 million" to "Cash less than 100 million."

In other words, the next upgrade will require 100 million in cash, not total assets.

In addition, the locked-in work types no longer have the prefix "low-cost".

In other words, the works that appear this time may require huge costs.

Sure enough, Goldfinger opened the book "Game of Thrones Season 1".

He looked at the golden box.

This time, after the golden treasure chest was opened, it did not disappear directly like other boxes. Instead, the lid was opened, and a square totem with gold edges floated inside. The countdown did not change and continued to tick.

Lu Jiang thought about it and soon knew it.

This work, like the previous MV, comes with a series of production matters including shooting, special effects production techniques, original soundtrack, etc.

So if Lu Jiang wants to shoot, as long as he has enough time and money, he can do the post-production by himself.

At the same time, a new record entry is also attached to the back of "Game of Thrones Season 1":
Game of Thrones Season 1's achievements: awards (click to view), profitability (click to view), and ratings (click to view)

Now, as long as Lu Jiang can achieve a restoration or localization level of more than 90% for "Game of Thrones Season ", he can choose any one of the achievements to inherit.

If 90% is achieved, the minimum inheritance is 90%.

If 120% is achieved, the minimum inheritance is 120%.

For example, awards. No matter what level of award you won in the original time and space, you can now win the same level of award, ensuring the honor and value of the award.

Another example is the rate of return. If you earned several times in the original time and space, you can earn several times as much as you can now. Of course, the cost record restoration and calculation based on the exchange rate are very complicated, but it also eliminates the possibility of bugs.

In general, the record inheritance function of the golden box is equivalent to providing a layer of bottom-line insurance for the work.

With this layer of insurance, Lu Jiang only needs to complete the production on time and not worry about the rest. He can just wait for success.

But here's the thing.

This is Game of Thrones!
Let’s not talk about whether it is suitable for filming.

For example, if we were to shoot it now, the workload and funds involved would be enormous.

For Lu Jiang now, let alone completing the production within a year, he might not be able to do it even if he were given ten years.

Since it can't be filmed, there's no need to talk about inheriting the achievements.

The same is true in reverse. If it can be filmed within a few years, there is no need to inherit the record. The record achieved by then will definitely not be worse than that of the original time and space!
So gold quality works are useless?
Do not!
Goldfinger provides a replacement function.

The box is permanent, but the works are constantly changing.

If "Game of Thrones" cannot be filmed, then just replace it with a golden work that can be filmed, and then you can still inherit the achievements of the original work.

How do golden works come about? Of course, they are synthesized from low-level works.

Gold Finger thoughtfully provided new rules.

When synthesizing works, you can keep one of them.

In other words, in the future, there will be a green work that has a very high ratings, but the overall quality of the work is not very good and the reputation is average.

Then you can use this green work to synthesize with other green works. After synthesis, the work will be retained, but the quality will become blue, but the content will not change. Then continue to synthesize all the way to the gold one.

Finally, put it into the golden treasure chest to get a special effect bonus, and the countdown will be refreshed at that time.

Production will then begin.

Adapt and optimize, test it on a simulated set, and when the minimum requirements for restoration or localization are met, select "ratings ranking" to inherit.

When it is broadcast, the ratings ranking will be guaranteed, so why worry about the rest of the reputation, profit margin, etc.?
Of course, this is just a trick.

What is really beneficial is actually producing works that are defined as high-level in the first place.

This time, Gold Finger also has a clear explanation of how it distinguishes the quality of works.

It is a comprehensive consideration from four dimensions: script, social impact and cultural value, technology, and performance.

The higher the quality of the work, the higher its four indicators.

For Lu Jiang, the most valuable aspect is technology.

For example, Game of Thrones.

The technology required to produce "Game of Thrones" and ordinary TV series is naturally very different.

Technology often involves deeper things behind the scenes.

When filming "Game of Thrones", Goldfinger cannot directly provide you with special effects software, production lines or talents.

However, as a top European and American film and television drama, "Game of Thrones" has a set of industrial guiding concepts and detailed rules for the production of its accompanying real scenes, computer special effects, costumes, props and other related objects. The amount of information it contains is huge and very valuable.

But in a broader sense, it can let you know how the European and American film and television industry will operate in the future, how to operate it, and how to coordinate it so that it can be truly fed back into the work and produce top-notch works worthy of the audience.

To put it simply, it can also let you know what software and hardware should be used for a certain special effects shot, and what methods and techniques should be used to produce it and do it well.

With such knowledge, Lu Jiang himself is a talent in the film and television industry with the most advanced experience.

As long as he is willing to spend money and time, he can then coordinate and build the system slowly on his own.

Don’t underestimate this kind of knowledge and experience. How many years did Chinese filmmakers spend, how many detours did they take, and how much money did they waste to learn it?
Moreover, learning it is one thing, but being able to use it is another.

More than 20 years later, how many teams in China are truly using it properly, or are willing to use it properly?

They all talk big and brag without paying taxes, but the resulting works (namely "Investiture of the Gods 2"! Fuck!!)

So in general.

Now the gold finger has been upgraded.

If I officially enter the film and television industry in the future.

What Lu Jiang needs to do is to collect more treasure chests, and then find suitable works to synthesize gold.

Get some insurance first to earn some money and experience.

Strive to take over top international works as soon as possible and become a true international gold medal director!

As for now, of course, I have to thoroughly understand the path of being a singer first.
　Let me curse "Fengshen 2" again, wow, so disappointing!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)