Superstars start from the Academy of Film and Television

Chapter 481 Exterior.

It was already after the Lantern Festival that Han Fei returned to the company to go back to work. After the old man left, he would definitely not be able to let grandma live alone.

Han Xiao took grandma home, and the room that originally belonged to Han Fei was vacated for grandma.

The move and the fact that Grandpa still has some funeral affairs to deal with, so it took some time. Fortunately, "Flying Bird Film and Television" is operated independently by each department, and he doesn't need to keep an eye on it all the time.

Facing Jiang Qinghou's and their concerned eyes, Han Fei just shook his head, expressing that he was fine.

"Okay, don't worry about mother-in-law and mother-in-law. Grandpa passed away in his 80s. It's a happy funeral. It's just that there are a lot of things at home recently. It's almost done now. I'll be back soon. Don't worry."

Hearing what Han Fei said, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although Jiang Qinghou is the director of the crew, his prestige is not bad, but in everyone's mind, Han Fei is always the soul, and he doesn't even need to intervene in the specific affairs of the crew , as long as he is there for people to see, it will make people feel at ease inexplicably.

What's more, the investment in "Avatar" is so large, and with the name of the first domestic production cost, everyone is actually not sure. These days, it is obvious that everyone is out of shape, and Jiang Qinghou has nothing to do with it. Method.

Fortunately, Han Fei finally came back, and judging by his appearance, he was in good condition.

After half a year of preparation, the preliminary work of "Avatar" is basically completed, and it can enter the formal shooting stage. Of course, before that, the actors must be selected first.

In order to further reduce the production cost, as for the actors, Han Fei did not choose famous stars, but chose a few tall young actors in Zhou Jian's company.

Why choose tall and tall?The Na'vi people on Pandora are far taller than normal humans. If the actor's height is too short, it will look very uncoordinated. At least the legs should be long, right?

After the news was announced, the media was a little confused. These young actors really didn't know each other at all, and they should be purely new actors.

But how did they receive Han Fei's play?After checking the brokerage company behind them, the truth became clear in an instant. It has been widely rumored in the circle that the big boss behind Zhou Jian's brokerage company is Han Fei, and it seems reasonable to use his own people?

Of course, at this time, it is unavoidable that some peers will gossip, and many unknown actors on the Internet began to "tell" the "insider" of their passing by "Avatar"

After the actors are selected, there is another difficult task, which is language. In fact, the Na’vi language used by the Na’vi people in the original version is a language that absorbs the language features of Indians, Africa, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. Moreover, it is a completely original language.

In fact, in the early stage of production, Cameron had considered Matt Damon and Jake Gyllenhaal as candidates for the role of Jack Sally, but because they didn't feel right when they talked about the "Na'vi language", so Cameron Mellon eventually chose Sam Worthington, who was still a rookie at the time.

Regarding the "Na'vi language", Han Fei also invited some language experts to design a set of languages, but in the end he chose a new combination of some rare Xibe, Uzbek and Daur languages ​​in the Altaic language family. language.

However, a total of only a few hundred words in the lines have been developed, and there is still a long way to go before it can be truly perfected into a language as systematic as World of Warcraft.

That's right, Han Fei's goal is to turn "Avatar" into China's World of Warcraft. It is not difficult to develop a game with the technical reserves of "Tiangong".

For the huge profits of the game industry, Han Fei has naturally been jealous for a long time, but the ecological chain of "Flying Bird Film and Television" was not complete before, and he needed to spend a lot of energy to build it, and he has never had the opportunity to do game projects.

And "Avatar" is definitely a good opportunity, and even Han Fei can create a 3Dvr game, leading players into a brand new world with movie-level graphics and plots.

In fact, "Tiangong" has formed a game team under Han Fei's instruction and started the development of a new generation of game engines.

During the filming of "Avatar", "Tiangong" will also send a technical team to assist in technical guidance throughout the process.

The time quietly came to April, "Avatar" held the opening ceremony in a low-key manner, and even did not invite the media to be present, but the media reporters who heard the news had already squatted outside the crew.

Every car that enters the crew will be surrounded by media reporters. The scene was once like the plot in a zombie movie. These reporters are not afraid at all. If the driver is a novice,
"Han Fei, may I ask, how long is your expected production cycle for this film? Will it be released by the end of the year?"

"Excuse me, with such a large investment, the actors are all newcomers. Are you really relieved?"

Han Fei saw that he couldn't get in without answering a few questions, so he had no choice but to get out of the car: "The production cycle of a movie is not as long as I can say, the key depends on the progress of the shooting, so I have no way to tell you now. Answer."

In fact, after the preparation of the crew, Han Fei found out that his estimated release around Christmas was too optimistic. It is not unreasonable that the original "Avatar" took two and a half years to film, and it cannot be cut down just because the Huaxia crew worked harder. Too much shooting time. According to current estimates, the shooting cycle will take at least one and a half years, and this is still in the case of rushing to work day and night.

"As for the use of newcomers, of course it is also due to the consideration of the investment budget. Our crew prefers to spend the investment on filming, rather than sky-high actors' remuneration."

Of course, the reporters were not satisfied with these two questions: "Astronomical actors' salaries, Han Fei, do you think the current domestic actors' salaries are too high?"

"Not only domestic ones, but foreign ones are also high." Naturally, Han Fei would not be easily fooled by them. It was clear that they were just digging a hole for him to jump.

The security guards of the film crew finally squeezed a way out from the crowd of reporters, and took Han Fei into the film crew. After the gate was closed, there were still reporters squatting on the spot unwilling to give up.

After Han Fei entered the crew, he simply held a power-on worship ceremony, and the staff on the other side had already set up the set.

Unlike "The Wandering Earth", "Avatar" doesn't have many places to build real scenes. Most of them use CG animation technology, and the actors' performances are basically carried out in a green screen studio.

The only place that needs a real scene is actually in the spaceship, and the spaceship is rebuilt from the space station in "The Wandering Earth".

In the shot shot at the start, the protagonist pushes a wheelchair to open the door, and after hearing that the other party is a mining company, he turns around and ignores it until the other party tells the news of his brother's death.

This is a set of long shots, but the shooting difficulty is actually not that great, but, just for the first shot, Jiang Qinghou yelled: Ka.

"You have to know that you are a disabled person with paralyzed legs. The muscles of your legs have been completely atrophied, and you can't support your lower limbs at all. But look, how do you do it in the camera? Pushing the wheelchair Sometimes your arms will always support subconsciously, which is not in line with the norm."

The young actor was a little confused by Jiang Qinghou's words, so he could only nod his head, wondering if he really listened.

Afterwards, this group of long shots alone took a whole morning, which also made Jiang Qinghou's temper gradually irritable. Han Fei saw it, and quickly said to Jiang Qinghou secretly: "Let's serve the meal first, I'll go talk to him .”

Jiang Yuan watched the staff disperse blankly, and a box of lunch was suddenly handed in front of him. Jiang Yuan looked up, but found that it was Han Fei, and was startled.

"Old, boss." Jiang Yuan was a little at a loss.

Han Fei patted him on the shoulder lightly, and smiled inwardly. This little rookie, in fact, it’s no wonder he was nervous. As a fledgling newcomer, he received the movie "Avatar", which is also a big production. Apart from luck, more There is still pressure, because everyone will observe with a microscope, and if there is even a little bit of failure in the performance, it will be considered a failure in the film by fans.

But any actor with a bit of self-respect will think of Alexander. Of course, some artists who are only responsible for cutting pictures and getting money, and who are already dead pigs and are not afraid of boiling water, are not among them.

"Eat first, the sky is big and the earth is big, and eating is the biggest." Han Fei said, and he had already opened the lunch box and started eating.

Only then did Jiang Yuan feel that his stomach had begun to protest. While eating, he looked at Han Fei curiously. Although he had heard about him countless times before, it was the first time he saw a real person, and it was really different from what he imagined.

"Do you think that I am different from what the outside world said?" Han Fei laughed.

Jiang Yuan's eyes widened, with an expression of: Do you know how to read minds?
Han Fei shook his head: "This is the most basic skill of an actor: observation, the observation I mean does not refer to what actions he does, but to simulate the character's psychology, his values, and his life through his actions Habits, his character, everything, is obtained by observation."

Jiang Yuan nodded, and hurriedly said: "This academy has taught before."

"From now on, forget about the methods taught by the academy. What you need is to open your heart and bring yourself into the role of Li Cha. First of all, you are a disabled person, a disabled person with muscular atrophy in the lower limbs, what would you be like? state?" After finishing speaking, Han Fei packed up the almost eaten box lunch and left.

There is no need for a heavy hammer to play the drum, and all Han Fei can do is to give some instructions. If he is really incompetent, he has to change people, and the crew can't afford to delay.

Jiang Yuan took several deep breaths, and started to pick up the rice crazily, because he saw that many staff members had finished eating and were looking in his direction.

"Ka, this one is over." Jiang Qinghou's face eased a lot, and Jiang Yuan NG several times, but fortunately, he made progress every time.

Especially the last time, when he turned his back to the door and heard the news of his brother's death, his face was stiff at that moment, generally speaking, it was considered qualified.

Jiang Yuan almost cried when he heard the "click", Han Fei gave him a thumbs up, this little rookie was shaking with excitement, hey, he is still young.

But after the first set of long shots was shot, Jiang Yuan was quite enlightened, and the shooting of the next few shots went relatively smoothly.

Generally speaking, "Avatar" uses relatively few locations for real-time shooting, and most of them rely on post-production CG animation to create that kind of real fantasy picture.

Therefore, most of the subsequent shootings were carried out under the green screen of the studio. To be honest, this kind of performance without physical objects actually tested the degree of liberation of the actors' nature.

In fact, not all veteran actors can adapt to this way of performing in green screens. After all, there are not many domestic film and television dramas that actually use green screens.

Most of the film and television dramas are still mostly filmed in the Hengdian Film and Television City.

However, internationally, this kind of green screen movie has become a trend. Some movies even have no location at all. less cost.

Of course, the premise is that your special effects skills must pass the test, otherwise the film made with special effects will be embarrassing.

During the green screen shooting of "Avatar", Han Fei took a filming crew and started rushing to the location for shooting.

Huangshan is a national-level 5A-level scenic spot, so there is no need to say much about the scenery. Every year, many film crews come to shoot scenes, and the management office of the scenic spot has long been familiar with it.

But like Han Fei and the others, it's really rare that a film crew came here. Those who didn't know thought they were just here to take wedding photos.

"When will your crew come? How long will it take to shoot? But the realization agrees that all your rubbish must be cleaned up, otherwise you will be fined, and you are not allowed to destroy any scenery or landscape. You will be jailed for this."

Everyone was happy when they heard it: "It's just us, we don't need the crew."

"Huh? What are you filming if the crew doesn't come?" The people in the management office were confused.

Han Fei said with a smile: "We are here to take the scene, and we will take it back after shooting, and we will put the actor P on it during post-production."

This is already the most popular explanation Han Fei can think of.

As a result, the people in the management office looked at them wrongly: "Hey, it turns out that a group of young people are unreliable, can such a movie still be watched?"

Everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard the words. It's actually normal. No matter how popular your movie is, it's impossible for everyone to know that in real life, no one is the protagonist. Don't take yourself too seriously.

In the end, the management office went through the filming procedures for them. Of course, some people were also sent to follow them, and he supervised the whole process of every filming.

What's more interesting is that director Cameron announced that Huangshan was the filming location, but in fact, many scenes in the film are quite similar to Zhangjiajie, so that after the "Avatar" hit the box office, the two scenic spots began to argue for a long time. There was a lot of trouble.

This time, Han Fei plans to include scenic spots such as Huangshan, Zhangjiajie, Emeishan, Sanqingshan, and Tianzhushan into the filming locations. In the end, it depends on how the post-production team chooses.

(End of this chapter)