My Animation Era

On New Year's Eve, the animation "Three Sisters of the Nan Family" premiered on Red Crane Cartoon and did not cause a sensation.

However, on the first day of the new year, Wanbao Video released the live-action "Sailor Moon" extra and the behind-the-scenes filming footage, which attracted the attention and pursuit of thousands of "Sailor Moon" fans.

Liu Zida also watched the extra footage.

As a staunch "American War" fan, he is very satisfied with the live-action adaptation. In particular, the plot arrangement of Mercury turning black and the ending of "Serianidi annihilating the world" made him hooked.

It has to be said that he has not watched an anime adaptation more enjoyable than the live-action version of "Sailor Moon" in many years.

The plot is true and cheats Plus!

In addition to admiration, he also has some doubts about the live-action version of "Sailor Moon".

For example……

Why does the plot of the live-action version change so much compared to the animation and comic versions? The leading actors have acted in some works before, and they all look so beautiful!

After watching the behind-the-scenes footage, all his doubts were answered.

"...In the spring of 2010, I was affected by "Fall of the Stars" and felt very depressed, so I returned to my hometown in Jiangchuan."

"Then I met Mr. Gu..."

Rather than saying this is behind-the-scenes footage, it’s better to say this is a “documentary” about the production of the live-action version of “Sailor Moon.”

At the beginning of the film, there is a monologue by director "Du Hao", mainly telling some things that happened when the live-action version of "Sailor Moon" was first established.

Among them were how Gu Miao found him and what kind of preparations the two of them made around this project.

Many contents are exposed for the first time.

"...At the beginning of production, the team and I have been thinking about a question. That is, who should play the Sailor Senshi in the animation?"

"In order to satisfy everyone as much as possible and to achieve better shooting effects, we did an extremely bold thing, which was to send out audition invitations to 1,150 actresses of appropriate age in the film and television industry..."

Be good!

1150 actresses of working age?

This number, not to mention Liu Zida in front of the screen, even many passersby were shocked.

The workload of auditioning thousands of actresses is simply terrifying! Even if there are hundreds of people auditioning in one day, the audition will take ten full days to end.

The real "one in a thousand"!

Being able to organize such a large-scale audition shows the dedication of the production team. No wonder we can select the actress who is most suitable to play "Sailor Senshi".

"...The actor's problem is solved."

"But new challenges are coming. As a live-action version, should we copy the plots of animation and comics? Or should we take a path that is only a live-action version?"

Innovation!

In the documentary, there was a scene of Gu Miao and the screenwriting team arguing over the "Mercury Darkening" scene.

Seeing this, Liu Zida was actually surprised. He didn't expect that so many things happened behind the real-life version of "American War".

What surprised him even more was...

The relationship between the five Sailor Senshi in the live-action version of "American War" turns out to be better than imagined.

Perhaps because they are similar in age and have similar personalities, these five girls got to know each other through the show and have become very good friends both on and off the show.

Of course, the first "Mars" is not included in this list.

At the end of the behind-the-scenes short film, there is a heartwarming scene where the production team gathers together to sing the Chinese theme song of "Sailor Moon" while eating barbecue.

"This is great too!"

Watching this "documentary" style short film for the first time, Liu Zida admitted that he was captured. He felt like he was re-recognizing the real-life version of "American War".

Awesome!

In comparison, the extra episode about the wedding between Bunny and Mamoru is not worth mentioning.

Full of excitement, Liu Zida clicked the "share" button and shared this short behind-the-scenes video of the live-action version of "Sailor Moon" to his circle of friends.

…

The behind-the-scenes short film is more popular than the extra and has a higher number of views. This is something Gu Miao never expected.

Talk about it.

The "documentary" shooting mode used in this behind-the-scenes short film was actually a surprise he discovered unexpectedly when he inspected the Neon Branch last time.

He went to inspect the Neon branch and found that they had a full-time "documentary director" position, which mainly recorded the crying and laughter of the production team behind the scenes, interviewed the main creators, and then edited it into a film for broadcast.

At that time, he felt that this was a great idea, and the domestic headquarters should also learn from it!

So after he returned to China, he told Du Hao, the director of the live-action version of "Sailor Moon" who was preparing to produce it at the time.

Du Hao found it very interesting.

Then a camera was arranged within the production team to record behind-the-scenes production footage and interview the main creator from time to time.

It was an unintentional move.

I never expected that after it was finally edited into a film and released to the entire audience, it would receive so much praise.

This strengthened Gu Miao's confidence.

He feels that this kind of "behind-the-scenes" documentaries must be produced in the future and can be found in every work. This is a great weapon to increase audience stickiness!

The popularity of behind-the-scenes documentaries has also given the recently completed live-action version of "Sailor Moon" a second round of ratings growth.

Do not misunderstand……

The first round of broadcasts has ended. What we are talking about here is the second round of replays and the VIP on-demand service of Wanbao Video website.

The replay results are very gratifying!

But what is embarrassing is that although the ratings are very good, the reputation of the live-action version of "Sailor Moon" is not as good as expected.

Damn "Holy Light" mosaic!

In order to pass the trial, Gu Miao and Du Hao reluctantly stamped some shots with holy light and mosaic that were suspected of "exposing".

This directly leads to...

What was supposed to be rave reviews ended up being ruined by Holy Light. The audience almost scolded Du Hao for this damn holy light and couldn't hold his head up.

"Then what can I do?"

Faced with the overwhelming accusations, Du Hao said with grievance: "If I don't create a Holy Light Mosaic, I won't be able to pass the trial, and you won't be able to see it."

"I do not care……"

"Anyway, if you apply the Holy Light patch, it's your fault. Just stand at attention and get sprayed and that's it."

This is Wanbao's first feature film with "holy light" or "mosaic" in the content. The audience was unhappy with it and naturally wanted to criticize the director.

But!

Everything has one and two. As long as something like Holy Light appears once, there will be a second, third, or even countless times.

Obviously, Gu Miao also fell into the trap.

The animation "Moonlight Is Beautiful", which has just completed post-production and added soundtrack interludes, also encountered the same problem.

Some shots may... or have a high probability of being added with holy light and mosaics before they can be publicly broadcast through review.

This made Gu Miao anxious.