On August 7, the crew and actors of "Avatar" were all gathered. According to Wang Shang's idea, the deputy director team recruited a total of 3 deputy directors, two foreign and one domestic, each with a preference. The crew staff
There are also many recruits. Although many staff members have withdrawn from the crew because of poaching in the past two months, they are still recruiting people in the end.
In the morning, the main members of the crew and about fifteen main actors were gathered on the floor where the special effects department of Tianwang Film and Television Group is located.
Wang Shang walked ahead and led the way and said to everyone: "Everyone should have watched the script. The place where this movie will take place will no longer be Earth, but a virtual planet countless light years away - Pandora.
Many unknown creatures. These creatures are very different from the earth, so most of them are synthesized by computers."
"Today, I'll take you here to witness the new generation of CG technology developed by our Tianwang Film and Television Company three months ago." Through glass corridors, Wang Shang took them to the deepest part of the special effects department, supercomputer,
output room.
There are five 61-inch large screen monitors here, and there are three employees in it who are responsible for managing the supercomputer.
"Change information No. 3." Wang Shang ordered one of the staff.
Under the operation of the staff, one of the large monitors quickly lit up and then a video was displayed.
A forest is dark and quiet, but it is not common flowers, plants, shrubs and trees, but a very unique plant. There are peacock tail leaves, elephant ear leaves, coral tentacle leaves... There are all kinds of strange-shaped leaves and plants,
And they all emit charming and colorful lights in the dark night, green, blue, purple, orange, and cyan, interlaced together, gorgeous and not dazzling.
Fluorescent flying insects flew around in the jungle, with a rhythm.
The sound of flowing water, the sound of insects, and some night owls chirping, making the whole jungle full of strange beauty.
And at this moment, a six-legged monster with long tentacles near the ear appeared, with dark skin, green eyes, a large mouth with cold and giant teeth, a thin body, a paddle-like tail, and a primate soles.
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It quietly crossed the jungle, silently like a ghost assassin looking for the hunting target.
In the following minutes, they saw the hammerhead thunder beast, the heavy armored horse, the death beast, and the mother sacred tree...
The film was edited for 10 minutes. After watching it, everyone was shocked by the gorgeousness of these video clips while seeing the alien creatures described in the script.
What they didn't know was that the resolution of these pictures made by computers was the highest among all movies, and they were still extremely clear even if they magnified ten times.
"I'll explain to you here that the 4 billion yuan spent is really used in shooting, and the funds for filming are not more than 800 million yuan, while most of the other funds will be invested in special effects and post-production."
In the next three days, these 15 people stayed in the special effects studio. Some became students of special effects teachers, followed the special effects teachers to learn humbly, while others looked at the special effects with interest.
The master skillfully built up the creatures in "Avatar" one by one. Some people are also very interested in the new generation of "expression capture technology" in the special effects department.
At noon the day before the start of the computer on August 10, they finally left the special effects department reluctantly.
This time, they knew the filming of "Avatar" and were also full of confidence in "Avatar". This was exactly the purpose of Wang Shang bringing them here.
On August 10, the crew of Tianwang Film and Television secretly arrived at Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in southern Hunan Province. Dozens of buses lined up from the road to enter the interior of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park and walked into the deep paradise.
The starting location of "Avatar" did not tell anyone, nor did it invite any media. Wang Shang just wanted to keep a low profile.
The reason why the boot location is placed in Zhangjiajie is that on the one hand, most of the scenery in "Avatar" will come from this mysterious and beautiful scenic spot, and on the other hand, the lucky boot location set by the "Feng Shui Master" is here.
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The person in charge of the scenic spot was waiting happily at the scheduled parking spot early. This time, "Avatar" was able to set a large-scale scene in Zhangjiajie, which made him very happy. Regardless of whether "Avatar" was successful or not, as long as the movie was
The beautiful scenery in it spreads all over the world, and Zhangjiajie will make a profit.
Therefore, for the arrival of "Avatar", the scenic spot manager and the entire leadership team all raised their feet 100 favors!
Seeing Wang Shang get out of the car, he quickly met him, smiling like a chrysanthemum, asking for more chrysanthemums: "Warm welcome to the King of Heaven Film and Television to guide the work... Oh no, it's a visit guide..."
It took nearly three hours before the bus drove down from the scenic spot driver to Echo Valley, where the car was turned on.
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Although the crew wanted to keep it as secret as possible, they were still followed by reporters with keen sense of smell to Xiangnan and Zhangjiajie. However, when they found the boot location, Wang Shang and the others had already dragged their tired bodies away from Huiyin Valley with their tired bodies.
, They lost everything.
After the news came out, with the name of 4 billion yuan of investment, it attracted a lot of tourists to Zhangjiajie.
In the following days, although tourists did not see the so-called crew or international superstars, they saw the helicopter that had been flying in the sky for several days.
Soon a professional filmmaker gave an analysis: "This is the crew of "Avatar" crawling the attractions, just like the battlefield magic capital in "Transformers", using computer technology to achieve seamless attractions on computers.
Connect. Looking at its aerial photography for several days, it should be to place the home court of "Avatar" in Zhangjiajie."
It then sparked various discussions, such as what does ‘Avatar’ mean, and whether this movie means fighting an alien…
What about Wang Shang? He was on the helicopter at this time and discussed with several deputy directors to select the corresponding shooting attractions in the script.
As for the rest of the crew, they are building a large studio with two football fields near the exit near the city of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. The international superstars are not idle and are working hard to discuss with others.
script.
Everything is in full swing.
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Li Dongsheng is a cinematographer at Hanhai Film. In July, he shot a movie and finished filming, so he took advantage of this time to travel with his family. Yesterday, his family was still traveling in Yuanjiajie.
At that time, I heard that the crew of "Avatar" was not far from Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, and was in a mentality of seeing each other, so Li Dongsheng took his family to adjust his goals and headed straight to Zhangjiajie Forest Park.
Sure enough, shortly after he got on the Hundred Dragons Ladder, he heard the huge roar of the helicopter from afar. On the upper right, he set up his professional camera to aim at the helicopter, and took a photo. The camera's
The professional focus function allows him to clearly see the helicopter in the distance.
He saw Wang Shang and also saw two other foreign directors who were a little kind.
But something different soon caught his attention.
"Hey, this camera..." The professional sensitivity made him discover that the camera fixed to the side of the helicopter was a bit strange.
The camera is too big, three times larger than the professional cameras that Li Dongsheng made movies, and it is also a dual-lens lens.
"It's 3D, but why is it so big?" Li Dongsheng is a camera enthusiast. He believes that he is familiar with various professional cameras at home and abroad. He can tell any camera as he knows.
But Li Dongsheng has never seen this camera before!
"Is it a new camera newly developed by Tianwang Film and Television?" Li Dongsheng was excited when he thought of this!! He quickly focused the camera on the huge and weird camera, adjust the Jiaokakakakaka and shoot quickly.