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Chapter 823 The 2014 Summer Vacation Starts the War

For "Zhu Xian", a costumed fairy tale movie, the picture and special effects are extremely important.

Lao Mouzi's attitude of striving for perfection and making the picture to the extreme is partly due to the pressure of "Sword".

Zhou Xia's fairy sword, which took two years to make, has already been completed. Before shooting, Zhou Xia invited him and photographer Zhao Xiaoding to watch it together.

As for the script of "Zhu Xian", this time it was Zhou Xia and Xia Hua who wrote it, so Lao Mouzi was not worried.

The only thing he has to do well is to achieve the ultimate in other aspects and surpass "Sword of Heaven".

For example, the performance of actors, the color and composition of the screen, character modeling, soundtrack, fairy style, etc.

In these places where Zhou Xia has an advantage over Zhou Xia because of his age and experience, he must surpass "Sword of Immortal Sword" by more than a little.

Therefore, after watching "Immortal Sword" and seeing the grand fairy world filmed by Zhou Xia, he was deeply shocked. He also learned some experience and decided to invest more energy in the film.

Lao Mouzi still has high confidence in his ability in picture, color, shape and other aspects.

At least in this respect, looking at the world, there are not many people who can compare with him.

Now that the filming starts, he strives for perfection and wants to maximize his advantages.

As for other aspects, I believe Zhou Xia will make up for it and help him do it well.

After the completion of the film, the effect of this movie can achieve Zhou Xia and his goal, surpassing the upcoming "Sword of Heaven".

Let the world see the shocking beauty displayed in a larger space with the unique oriental imagination and aesthetics of this new genre of oriental fairy tale movie!

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"Director, the filming went so smoothly. The scene with Xiaohu and me here, including some green screen scenes, will be finished in another month, right?"

After work was over, everyone started to leave. Zhou Xia and Lao Mouzi walked at the back, talking in low voices.

"Yes, at the film and television base, your scenes can be filmed in a month at most. The follow-up studio scenes, after this end, we will shoot again." Lao Mouzi nodded and replied.

Relatively speaking, the first part involves relatively few sects and scenes, mainly Qingyunmen, and there are several scenes such as Wanbat Ancient Cave and Necromancer Abyss.

Schools such as Ghost King Sect, Fenxiang Valley, and Leiyin Temple did not appear, so there was no need to shoot.

The main buildings of these scenes are also under construction, and they will definitely be completed when the next few films start shooting.

In addition to the main buildings of these sects, we will try our best to choose the most suitable real scenes in China and around the world for the overall exterior scenes of these sects.

Rather than all produced through post-production special effects.

For example, the current full location of Qingyun Gate, Tongtian Peak, Longshou Peak, Big Bamboo Peak, Small Bamboo Peak and other peaks, all choose domestic Taishan, Huashan, Hengshan, Huangshan, etc. as the location.

The special effects in the later stage are to synthesize these outdoor scenes into the whole big Qingyun Qimai mountain peak.

Therefore, for scenes such as Fenxiang Valley, Leiyin Temple, and Ghost King Zong, we will also find suitable locations to shoot.

Wasn't part of the exterior scenes of 'Avatars' flying on flying mounts in Avatar filmed in Jiuzhaigou?
The special effects scenes processed and synthesized on the basis of real scenes will give the audience a sense of substitution, intimacy and greater shock.

Seeing these scenes that seem to have been similar, but more shocking than the real Mount Tai, Huashan and other scenes, the beautiful scenic spots appear in the movie. In this way, the audience will be more impressed, and after watching the movie, Add more discussion topics.

Of course, these locations are mainly where the location director uses various means, even aerial photography, to select useful images and synthesize them into the movie later. The actors and crew do not actually need to go to the real location to shoot, just use the green screen of the studio.

Otherwise, it would take too much energy.

Just like when Zhou Xia filmed "Sword of Immortal Sword", they went to Huangshan, Huashan and other places to shoot live scenes. They didn't shoot many scenes, and various procedures and safety measures delayed them a lot of time.

Zhou Xia and Lao Mouzi talked as they walked, and finally arrived at the hotel where Lao Mouzi stayed next to the crew.

This is in the film and television city, and most of the entire crew also stayed in this hotel.

The two came to the editor's editing room next to Lao Mouzi's room. Zhou Xia did not hold on to the editing rights.

Since Lao Mouzi was invited, this respect still needs to be given, but he also participated in the editing and made some comments on the sidelines.

Subsequent editing will also be involved in order to avoid any mistakes.

Moreover, there are also security guards specially guarding the data disk, and the backups taken every day will be sent back to the company.

Zhou Xia went back to rest after cutting the filming scene with Lao Mouzi that day.

After that, the filming went on in an orderly manner every day, and Lao Mouzi continued to strive for perfection, and he was not affected by Zhou Xia, the lead actor, who was busy with other things from time to time.

A week after Zhou Xia returned to China, on June 6, the first trailer of "Sword of Heaven" was launched.

In the 45-second trailer, there are no living creatures such as characters and monsters, only different scenes such as Kunlun, Qionghua faction, demon world, and ghost world appear.

But even so, just seeing those grand and realistic scenes that fit the setting has attracted movie fans who have been waiting for two years to cheer and urge the movie to be released sooner.

The popularity of "Legend of Sword" has soared in a straight line, surpassing "Return", "X-Men 2", "Eavesdropping 3", and "Edge of Tomorrow" which are currently showing in the summer.

At the same time, "The New Detective" was released in North America for two weeks. After winning $0.72 million in the first three days, it became the weekly box office champion and shocked Hollywood. The Fault in Our Stars, these two well-received genre films were released, and the box office of "New Detective" fell, only earning 2 million box office.

The weekly box office champion was also won by "Dragon Tiger Boys 2" with a box office of 0.6 million.

Even so, within 10 days of its release, "Rookie Detective" earned a record of 1.26 million US dollars in North America, and it still aroused more heated discussions in China and North America.

Zhou Xia just released the trailer of "Sword", so the popularity has increased a lot.

Seeing the success of "New Detective", Xia Hua North America even suggested that "Sword of Heaven" be released simultaneously in North America, Europe and other places in one month.

But Zhou Xia rejected the proposal.

Simultaneous global release is too risky, and the response in several markets is not good, and it will even affect the box office in the mainland.

And the mainland is his foundation, the basic guarantee for movie box office!

Some people in China are ignorant, or there are some plots that worship foreign countries and fawn on foreign countries. When a movie is released abroad, some bad reviews will be magnified by those who are interested.

Of course, this situation is changing as the country grows stronger and the national self-confidence increases, but this requires a process. Zhou Xia doesn't want to be complacent and blindly pursue the false name of simultaneous global release.

After the trailer of "Sword of Heaven" was launched, Xiahua Film and Television's "Little Times 18" held its premiere ceremony on the 2th and was officially released on the 20th.

And before that, on the previous Friday, June 6th, the new "Godzilla" jointly produced by Legend and Warner finally officially landed in mainland China one month after its release in North America.

After 3 days of release, "Godzilla" broke the box office record of this year's imported films with 428 million yuan in the midnight show and 7000 million yuan in the first day. The domestic box office revenue of 2.23 million yuan in the first weekend easily broke Warner The 3-day opening of the company's film in the mainland is a record.

In addition, "Little Times 2" was released on the second day, and "Maleficent" was officially released on the next day, that is, on the 21st.

This situation of two Hollywood blockbusters attacking "Tiny Times 2" before and after is fatal to Xia Hua's film schedule, and further diversion and impact on the box office!
In the summer of 2014, after Xiahua Film and Television's "Return" and Bernard's "Eavesdropping 3", and China Film's imported film "Edge of Tomorrow", with the controversial series "Little Times 2" The movie, released together with two imported blockbusters, has finally reached a fever pitch.

But everyone understands.

Next, several blockbuster films such as "Sword", "Transformers 4" and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2" will be released, and that will be the real battle of this summer!
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