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Li Qian is indeed under a lot of pressure.

3D movies will definitely become the future development direction of the global movie market, there is no doubt about this - computers are getting more and more advanced, technology is getting more and more developed, and the network is getting faster and faster. In addition, that time and space is much more powerful, but it is still difficult to completely eliminate the piracy of music records and movies. It has become a big cancer that affects the development of music, film and other literary and artistic creation industries.

For example, the recent "Crazy Stone" took over 420 million at the box office within ten days of its release, but in the next 40 to 50 days, it only took less than 300 million. Why?

Piracy is rampant!

In fact, ten days after the film was released, various high-definition film sources began to appear on the Internet. Minghu Culture cooperated with the National Copyright Administration and the Film Bureau to identify several pirated sites, but it was still useless. You can enjoy the film without spending money. This kind of thing, as long as people still have greed, as long as the social harmony has not really been realized, and everyone is extremely rich, it is impossible to completely ban it. You hit this one, and there are thousands of others.

Therefore, the album is not easy to sell, because it is too easy to pirate it, much easier than the movie. It doesn't even need pirates to convert pirated records, make pirated tapes, etc. Ordinary "music lovers" can transcribe directly with equipment that does not need to be too advanced, and it is still lossless. The biography immediately spread to 10,000 copies, 100,000 copies...

Singers can barely make money from concerts and attending some commercial performances, but they are no longer the same as the boom in the past few years. If they continue to develop, the music market is about to die. At that time, whether it is the requirements of the times or the self-struggle of musicians to survive, it is required that the music market must open up new ways in time, so that singers and musicians can earn money to eat.

By that time, in fact, it will be the era when all kinds of music and TV programs will become popular.

To put it bluntly, people cannot live without music.

But in fact, even if there is a music program on TV, the money is only made by famous singers, talent talent singers, and some musicians and arrangers. Original music still loses money and is still a backwater.

And what about movies?

In the time and space that Li Qian once experienced, after the great success of "Avatar" and the successful promotion of the concept of 3D movies to the world, James Cameron said: "There are too many ways of entertainment in modern society, our movies People have to figure out a way to re-engage audiences into the cinema. That requires us to come up with something new so that they can get a visually integrated experience in the cinema that they simply can't get when they watch DVDs at home."

Times have changed, time and space have changed, but the truth remains the same.

3D movies will definitely be popular.

But it's not necessarily your own version of "Avatar"!

Li Qian used several years of high investment to obtain the world's top 3D technology and motion capture technology for himself before the world. He used a "Matrix" to pave the way for future global release. , and also aroused the anticipation of fans around the world for their next sci-fi blockbuster.

And there is another point that cannot be ignored, that is, "Avatar" has been successful!

But still the same sentence, knowing the development trend of things does not mean that you can become a trendsetter standing at the forefront of the times. Knowing that a movie has been sold well, without professional level, it is difficult for you to copy it, copy it, It may not necessarily be successful.

Whether it was filming "My Sassy Girl" or later "Red Sorghum" and "Once Upon a Time", in fact, Li Qian also walked carefully step by step. Now, if he continues to follow the old way of 2D, he will It can already be done with ease.

But he was not reconciled.

He wants to use 3D, the future development trend, to bring Minghu culture, or even grander, to bring Chinese movies, at least in terms of film technology, to the top platform in the world.

So, like a rookie director, he has to return to the cautious state he was a few years ago.

And this time, it is an investment of up to 500 million Chinese yuan, that is, 250 million US dollars!

Looking at the world in this era, even if it is in Hollywood, the investment of more than 100 million US dollars is still a standard big production. The investment of 250 million US dollars is only one or two a year.

And "Avatar" in the 250 million US dollars, does not include 3D technology and motion capture technology in the early stage of massive capital investment.

Only when "Avatar" succeeds can we talk about the problem of selling technology in the future. If it fails, it will be difficult to sell this technology, then not only "Avatar" will lose money, but also all the previous ones. technology investment.

Of course, money is still a trivial matter, and Li Qian is not short of money now.

But the problem is that if he wants to forcefully pull domestic films into the trend of the times, the development of 3D technology is the last proven opportunity until he travels through this time and space.

Once missed, even he will not be able to determine what is the next definite opportunity in the development trend of the world!

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As the assistant director of the film and the most important film assistant around Li Qian at present, Sun Yuting has already been deeply involved in "The Matrix", and even more so than in this "Avatar".

Although Li Qian has never played 3D before, he has watched countless 3D movies, and he knows the advantages and disadvantages of the development of 3D movies in later generations. Moreover, he has also watched "Avatar" - genuine, IMAX, and later MKV, No less than ten brushes before and after. Therefore, although he was very unfamiliar at the beginning, he could quickly become familiar with it at a speed faster than everyone else.

In the eyes of others, this is of course a manifestation of talent and talent.

During this process, Sun Yuting followed him almost all the time, taking care of all the trivial matters of the crew for him, while observing and learning how to use this new film shooting technology.

When the time entered April, the filming of the "Avatar" crew began to gradually enter the "on track".

Note that this track is double-quoted.

For a normal film crew, the shooting cycle is generally between two months and four months, with three months being the most common, while a normal 100-minute commercial film requires about 1,200 to 2,000 shots. It depends on the subject matter, editing and shooting methods. For normal commercial films of this type, the director will generally prepare several times more material for the final editing, that is, the approximate shooting period of 100 days, to Shoot about 10,000 shots of various types.

A normal working commercial film crew usually shoots between 80 and 120 shots per day. If it runs smoothly, you can shoot up to 150 shots. If it doesn't run smoothly, or there are various problems, for example, at the beginning of shooting, 50 shots are completely acceptable.

Of course, this data is based on a premise, that is - normal commercial movies.

Therefore, the shooting progress of some literary and artistic films and directors of literary and artistic films is completely different from this. People are willing to burn money, so they go back and forth over and over again, and it is common to shoot three shots a day.

However, if commercial film shooting is maintained at a speed of only ten or eight shots per day for a long time, there is almost no doubt that it will definitely exceed the production time and the production budget.

Even if it is maintained below fifty shots per day for a long time, investors and powerful producers will already be in a hurry-every day that is delayed is a lot of money.

When the time entered April, the filming of "Avatar" began to gradually find a foothold and entered the right track. The average number of shots taken every day by the crew began to increase to about 20.

That's why Li Qian set up a ten-month shooting cycle for this film from the very beginning!

It is expected that when the shooting enters the third month, as the entire crew becomes more and more familiar with this shooting method, the crew will be able to increase the shooting progress to about 40 to 50 shots per day.

And when the time enters June and July, the entire shooting is expected to be completely on the so-called "on track" in the conventional sense - about 80 to 100 shots are shot every day.

Of course, from the beginning of April, Li Qian also began to "decentralize" gradually, and began to try to hand over some less important scenes to Sun Yuting to lead the team to try to shoot.

In the future, if you want to pull up the shooting progress of the entire crew~www.wuxiaspot.com~ shooting in different venues, it is almost inevitable. At that time, Sun Yuting will definitely be in charge of the shooting of some scenes independently, of course, let her practice in advance. Practice and become as familiar as possible in advance.

And just when Sun Yuting started to get this kind of "internship period" of one or two days a week, Li Qian would completely throw away his hands and return to the city of Shuntian Prefecture to occasionally deal with some accumulated documents that needed his signature. But more often, it is to go to Minghu Animation to assist Cao Zhan to check the "Kung Fu Panda" that has already started synchronously - this animated film will start the production of 3D animation at the same time.

Of course, there are many other things that Li Qian must be concerned about.

For example, one day in late April, after Li Qian temporarily handed over the guide tube to Sun Yuting, he rushed to Huairou Film and Television City in the north of Shuntianfu City to visit the "The Return of the Condor Heroes" currently being filmed.

Directed by Han Shunzhang and Huang Wenjuan as one of the producers, this film has been filmed for more than a month. As the original author, screenwriter and big boss, Li Qian certainly wants to watch it.