Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 732 Live Broadcast of the Film Crew (24)

The Wandering Earth...

Compared to "The Martian", this is an upgrade!
The sequel expands the set area by 10 square meters, with more than 10 main scenes, and the costumes, sets, and props have all doubled!

They also used an Arri 65 for filming. This camera can only be rented from Arri along with technical services. Not only do they have to cover the engineer's transportation and accommodation, but the rental fee for one camera is ten thousand US dollars per day!
In addition, the virtual filming used in previous films such as Ex Machina and Moon was rented by the Wandering Earth crew for six months!
Including the Qtake group…

Qtake can now not only shoot and edit simultaneously, but also store offline, including color and lighting consistency. Qtake receives the camera's SDI feed, and the color-adjusted SDI signal is output to Qtake, then to all on-set monitors and the director's and other department's monitors, ensuring that lighting, set design, costumes, props, and other departments maintain consistent visuals.

This thing requires a whole team of schedulers…

One good thing is that the costumes, props, and even a bunch of cars are basically based on real-life models—Guo Fan brought in XCMG, Aosha Intelligent…

In addition, there are China Mobile and Edifier headphones...

They were all sponsored for free!
China Mobile also provided a sponsorship fee of 1000 million yuan…

A drop in the ocean...

A few measly coins, consider it a donation to cover food expenses!
However, after China Mobile set the precedent, nine other brands, including Mengniu's Telunsu and JD.com's home appliances, also wanted to sponsor the event…

Shen Yan refused...

After all, these brands need front-facing product placement...

That definitely won't work. "The Wandering Earth" is a fairly orthodox hard science fiction film. If we give the brand a direct shot, it will distract the audience!
……

The script for the first part of "The Wandering Earth" was very clichéd...

The main storyline is actually about family!

A rebellious teenager and a father who doesn't understand him.

As the engineering vehicle drove out of the cramped underground city, the grand Wandering Earth project gradually came into view.

The main storyline revolves around the requisition of engineering vehicles to rescue the underground city of Hangzhou. The character portrayals are also limited to a fixed group of people. The main storyline on the ground and the hidden storyline in the sky are connected by the emotional drama between the father and son. It is a classic Hollywood story with a small climax at the end and a big climax at the end.

Although it's a cliché, it works well. The story is well-organized, the setting is simple and the characters are easy to portray, and the main and subplots are clearly distinguished. There are no major flaws.

In addition, the setting where half the people would die in the life-or-death lottery was removed...

This design is so stupid!
In Warhammer, they only dare to do 10 draws and 1 kill, but you think the common people are lambs to the slaughter with your 2 draws and 1 kill?
If a plan is formulated at the cost of sacrificing half of the world's population, it is the greatest cruelty to both those who are saved and those who are not!

If they can build such a massive accelerator, then this small project in the underground city, with everyone living in a 100-meter-long suite, is considered shoddy workmanship!

Of course, we know that Liu Cixin wrote "The Wandering Earth" against the backdrop of a state-owned enterprise suffering losses, and his department needed to lay off half of its staff...

Therefore, "The Wandering Earth" has this kind of setting...

Since we're making a movie now, let's just cancel that part!
As for the rebels…

It's easy to understand—people who oppose the 'Wandering Earth' plan, people who don't want to live in underground cities, and people who don't believe the sun will have a helium flash!

The basic plot remains unchanged...

Shen Yan plays Liu Qi, and the production team was given a three-month schedule, with filming starting in late March and ending in July!

"This is our film studio!" Shen Yan opened his phone and livestreamed the filming location of "The Wandering Earth".

"Xiangshan Film and Television Base helped us build two more sound stages, one being the world's largest sound stage at 10,000 square meters, and the other an underwater temperature-controlled sound stage... We have an underwater scene to film in 'The Wandering Earth'..."

"We've already started the 'A Writer's Odyssey' project, which also involves a lot of underwater filming..."

"Inside... it's still under construction for now. Let me show you the dungeon that's already set up!"

After greeting the passing staff, Shen Yan walked into Studio 1 while holding his phone...

At this point, Studio One had already recreated the appearance of the underground city…

"Actually, the 'Love in the Land' project could have been made entirely with CG, but we wanted a documentary effect, not the kind of obviously fake CG... So, we built most of the props ourselves..."

"See this banner? It says 'Celebrating the Spring Festival'... Because our film is scheduled for release during next year's Spring Festival, we definitely need to create this kind of atmosphere..."

"Our crew usually has about 700 people on set, and if you include the guys working on props and set design, it's about 2000 people!"

"If you include the special effects staff on set, that's a whopping 2500 people!"

"It's definitely a super big production crew!"

"One good thing is... we won't need many extras for our first film, as the scenes involving extras will mainly be filmed in the final stages..."

"In addition, Guo Fan also borrowed a team from the Film Academy to specifically record the problems we encountered during filming and the solutions... It can be considered as cultivating new talents for Chinese science fiction!"

"Guo Fan... studied for a Master's degree in Management at the Film Academy... I asked him why he didn't apply to the Directing Department, and he said he did, but wasn't accepted... He's still considered a top student at the Film Academy, so he wanted to give back to his alma mater... I have no objection to that!"

"Oh right, let me show you the mining truck I'm going to drive! It's a bit far... I'll just ride a hoverboard instead!"

Shen Yan rode his balance bike to the adjacent film studio, where he saw several large vehicles customized by the film crew!

It's really huge, about five meters high, 4.5 meters wide, and ten meters long—it's a behemoth!
And it's tracked...

The moment the car was seen, the live stream chat exploded with excitement—it was breathtaking!

Then a group of people asked him, 'Can this car be driven?'

Shen Yan replied, "This car... can be driven. I tried it before... but it's not very easy to drive because it's too big!"

"These vehicles, including the excavators that followed, were all provided free of charge by XCMG, who also helped with modifications... But I have to complain a bit. The quality of the vehicles made by XCMG is too good. We requested that the glass on the vehicles be fragile. We tested it that day, and after smashing it for a while, it didn't break. In the end, we had to use a forklift to break it!"

"The female lead in this movie... the female lead is my younger sister, ten years younger than me... I cast Zhao Jinmai from 'Sheep Without a Shepherd 2'!"

"She's in the second year of junior high this year... If she has any questions, I can tutor her... If I don't know the answer, I can ask Guo Fan. Guo Fan has a master's degree after all... If all else fails, there are all the top students in the crew. Most of them who do special effects and post-production are master's degree holders. It's very easy for so many people to handle a little girl's homework!"

Afterwards, Shen Yan tried on the clothes—it took her a full half hour to put them on…

"This is already very good. Previous spacesuits required at least [a certain number of steps] to put on and take off."

"It's almost 12 o'clock. Let me show you the food the crew is eating!"

"Our meals are very plentiful!"

(End of this chapter)