As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 345: Real idol? The entertainment industry's nuclear button!
China's film and television industry has been developing rapidly in recent years.

Except for a few years in between due to some reasons, the national total box office has been on an increasing trend at other times.

This benefited from the improvement of urbanization and overall consumption levels, as well as the progress of China's film industry.

From another perspective, China's film industry's ability to export has been weakening.

This does not mean that Chinese films have won few awards at major international film festivals in recent years. Such awards are only a very one-sided part of China's export capabilities.

But compared with Korean films, China's film industry has not made any splash on the global scale.

Chinese TV dramas can also radiate to ASEAN countries, and the radiation here is a long-term and stable output capability.

Chinese films cannot even radiate their own traditional cultural sphere of influence.

China will agree to a real idol, and they want to use this as a test.

Starting from the film and television industry, the subsequent impact of virtual reality will involve all aspects of society, while real idols can only control a few limited aspects.

China has always hoped that its culture could go global and has made many attempts at the official level.

Among the three countries in East Asia, it cannot compare with Goryeo and Neon.

The main reason is that China’s control over the cultural industry does not have a clear boundary.

Moreover, the gradually tightening standards are not just a problem faced by China. Other countries are also facing similar problems, but in different forms.

For example, Korea has gradually tightened its control over speech since 08. According to a report by a non-profit organization in Washington called Freedom House:
Korea's press control has declined from free to partially free.

Later, after Moon Jae-in came to power, he further strengthened media censorship by snooping on server traffic.

China hopes that technological advances will bring about changes in the entire industry.

In the past, investing in a film or TV production required tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars, but because there was no clear scope for control, the risk was extremely high.

Now that we have real idols, it costs less than one million to produce a film or TV show, which is a huge benefit to the film and television industry.

It's impossible that you invested in ten works and all of them were banned, right?
Plus, the uncontrollable nature of the actors has also been completely curbed, so I don’t need real people to star in the movie.

Just let virtual people play all the roles. Virtual people can't go to prostitutes, gamble, etc. If the virtual images want to act in the movies, they can do so.

With the emergence of real idols, the industry will enter an era of complete competition among products.

The living space for young and handsome guys will be greatly compressed.

"If you ask me, this is the first time in all these years that our company has come up with a new technology in the software aspect."

“It’s always been at the hardware level.”

“Who said that? The underlying logic of brain-computer connection technology has been widely known. In fact, brain-computer connection technology was originally an algorithm application at the software level.”

"That's true, but this time the real idol doesn't look like our company's style. Which R&D team did you guys secretly come up with?"

"The Future Research Institute? Since its establishment, the Future Research Institute has recruited so many PhDs and even professors every year. It should have achieved some results."

"possible."

Domestic Internet giants all have their own high-end research institutions that specialize in cutting-edge scientific research.

Some of the more famous ones include Ali's Dharma Academy and Huawei's 2012 Laboratory.

The main reason is that the name is well chosen, which makes people feel different as soon as they hear it.

For example, the research institute of Tencent is simply called Tencent Research Institute. In fact, it was established much earlier than the Damo Academy and the 2012 Laboratory.

The main reason is that the name is not well chosen and the outside world has little knowledge of it.

Ke Chuang Biotechnology naturally also has its own research institute, called the Future Research Institute.

The Future Institute is well-known internally for its treatment.

“It’s possible that the industrial artificial intelligence we are working on with Hua Wei is led by the Future Research Institute.

I guess the real idol this time was also developed by the Future Research Institute."

"They secretly launched another satellite, and no one heard anything about it."

"I just tried it out and it's amazing how you can create a 3D character in VR and then have that avatar replace the rest of the original character."

“Import the original video?”

"Yes, import the original video and then designate the role replacement."

"Then, can't all the movies and TV shows that were previously removed from the shelves due to actor issues be put back on the shelves by replacing actors?"

"In theory, it is completely possible."

"Outdated movies and TV shows are rejuvenated after being refurbished. To me, it sounds like the same routine as refurbishing old games."

"This is a business opportunity. I want to do this."

China had game companies that discovered the business opportunity a long time ago and specialized in reviving some old online games on new servers.

They will make some targeted modifications to old online games, such as adding functions, solving compatibility issues, optimizing graphics, etc.

Even so, the cost of optimizing an old online game is far lower than the cost of reopening a new game.

In fact, this gameplay can be traced back to Legend, and the game Legend continues to appear in game advertisements every day until today.

Various out-of-date artists endorsed it.

As people working in the Internet industry, we quickly realized that this was an opportunity. Renovating film and television works and renovating online games are the same gameplay, and film and television works can even make more money.

"Since this is an opportunity, we have to open up the situation."

"It's not just about remaking the films and TV series that have been taken off the shelves. For films and TV series that are showing normally and have good scripts, you can also replace the actors you don't like with virtual images."

"For example, Director Guo's Tiny Times, wouldn't it look much worse if these actors were replaced with virtual characters?"

"No, you're wrong. Director Guo's Tiny Times is about bad acting. Who would watch it if the acting was good?"

"But this is indeed the way it is. Jin Yong's martial arts novels have been remade over and over again, and there are still TV stations that will buy them."

"The Real Idol app can also optimize the video image, right? If you change the face and optimize the image effect, who can still tell that it is the original film and television work?"

"Fuck, this shouldn't be called a real idol, it should be called the entertainment industry's nuclear button!"

“It’s just a little expensive, with a monthly fee of 10,000 yuan.

If you want to export the edited video, it will cost one hundred yuan per minute.

That is, you can edit the video and watch it yourself, but if you want to export it and put it on a video website, you have to pay extra.”

"That means individual users basically can't use it. Only commercial organizations can afford it."

“Not necessarily. Some rich people can afford it, or some big UP hosts can definitely afford it.

This price is not expensive to be honest.”

“Twenty years ago, the cost of producing a TV series was at least one hundred yuan per second.”

A half-hour TV series costs 18 yuan, which is already a bargain. "I think the most important thing is that for those novel authors, they can directly upload the text and automatically generate the TV series for them.

Aren’t these Chendong potatoes taking off on the spot?

Originally, the most difficult thing to do was the special effects, but now Ke Chuang Bio can directly help you make all the special effects.

At the bargain price of one hundred per minute, you can create the Holy Ruins and the Covering Heaven."

"And the Three Body. Finally, we don't have to see those handsome boys and those expressionless monsters causing trouble for the Three Body!"

Lao Ma was different from the young people in the group. The more he watched, the more frightened he became. This thing could cut off the livelihood of all the actors.

Not only young and handsome men, there will be no need for actors in the future.

I just don’t know what the upper limit of real idols is.

But for commercial films, acting skills are not required.

After a morning of fermentation, some actors gradually realized this.

Because their agency has already started signing supplementary agreements with them regarding virtual images.

The agency's sense of smell is much more sensitive than that of these artists.

However, in the agreements of most artists, their virtual images have already been authorized to their management companies.

In recent years, NFT products based on celebrity images or the roles they have played have been released from time to time, and some NFT products have even sold considerable sales.

Management companies have long realized that the virtual images of their artists are equally valuable.

What was signed this time was just a supplementary agreement, which further expanded the definition and authorization scope of virtual images.

The entire film and television industry, from upstream distribution companies to downstream brokerage companies, has all been hit by a major earthquake.

"Oh my god! After the real idol came out, all of us stopped taking vacations and reported to work immediately."

A blogger who works in a film company posted that she often shares her work and life on Weibo.

In addition, the nature of her job allows her to often come into contact with celebrities, as well as some gossip that ordinary people cannot know.

Therefore, she has a lot of active fans, almost 20,000.

Every time I post on Weibo, there are dozens of comments below.

Active fans and those fans who are obviously faked are completely different concepts.

After she posted on Weibo, a fan quickly commented below:

"Hahaha, we are in the same boat. Our company is the same. Let everyone return to work." This was the comment left by her colleagues under this Weibo post.

“Is the impact so great?”

"All my friends who work in the entertainment industry have gone back to work overtime."

“The bloggers I follow are all discussing the impact of this incident.”

"In the end, it wasn't the new fresh meat that killed the fresh meat, but the virtual images that crossed over."

"Science Biotech is too ruthless. If they don't attack, it's fine. But if they do, it's a fatal attack."

The blogger posted another long Weibo post in the evening:

“I’m so sorry to all my fans, I’ve been in a meeting writing a report all morning.

Our company first held a group meeting to let everyone talk about their views on real idols, and then everyone wrote a report, which was summarized and submitted by the department heads.

It is said that we need to pool our wisdom.

Anyway, this is the first time I have seen this kind of situation since I came to this company. Because we have a parent company behind us, no matter how big the storm in the entertainment industry is, it will not affect us.

This time is unprecedented.

Let’s first draw a conclusion. This real idol application developed by Ke Chuang Biotechnology will subvert the entire film and television industry, and even the entertainment industry.

The actors don't need to appear on stage, they just need to show their faces.

At the same time, the film and television companies will become a completely red ocean market, just like online literature, anyone can do it, this is the red ocean market.

I bought a membership of Real Idol myself, and then bought the copyright of an online article that I admired. Then, based on the online article, I changed the story to make it more in line with the rhythm of film and television works.

Then just input the script and wait for the film or TV work to be output.

You can first release three episodes, which is a 90-minute drama, to test the waters. If the effect is good, you can continue to release it.

In other words, you only need 19,000 yuan in production costs, and at the same time go to Jinjiang to buy a general online literature copyright for tens of thousands of yuan.

You can test the waters by spending less than 100,000 yuan.

In the past, online articles focused on the golden three chapters, but now TV dramas focus on the golden three episodes.

If you can't attract audiences in the first three episodes, there's no need to continue filming.

As for the original practitioners in the film and television industry, everyone can go back to where they came from.

This is true for TV series and movies as well.

The future will be an era where cinemas are king, but of course, the good days of cinemas are numbered.

After Ke Chuang Bio's virtual reality equipment comes out at the end of this year, I guess the good days of theaters will be over.

I have also discussed this with my friends in the film and television industry, and we all have the same feeling, which is that winter is coming.

As for the actors, they just need to show their faces, or even just look at their faces.

In the future, virtual idols will replace real idols.

However, reality shows, variety shows, talk shows and other types of programs and artists will not be affected that much.

In the past, they were at the bottom of the circle’s contempt chain, and now they may be the only ones who can survive.

The premise is that the idols are real science and technology creatures and cannot produce variety shows.

Short videos will not be affected in the short term.

This is good news for friends who like TV shopping. In the future, everyone will be able to see celebrities of all sizes shooting short videos and live streaming to sell goods.

No matter you are a movie star, TV star, or a young and handsome guy, come and do live streaming to sell goods.

This is a huge boon for platforms like iQiyi, which has been on the verge of death in recent years due to insufficient investment from Baidu and lack of money to give it.

Youku is already on its last legs.

Now that the production cost has dropped to tens of thousands of yuan, they can shoot three episodes of a TV series to test the waters, which is a huge benefit for them.

Film and television platform works are the source of fresh water, and now they have a constant supply of works."

(End of this chapter)