"Morning News" - "Now I will give you the latest news. I just received news from the Tianwang Building at the Magic City Film and Television Alliance Base. At 7:10 this morning, nearly 1,000 people gathered below the Tianwang Building.
As you can see from the photos, most of the famous guests are holding interview microphones or cameras, and most of them are reporters from all over the world..."
As the morning news reported, when the red sun just rose, a lot of people came under the Tianwang Building.
The press conference was scheduled to start at 9:00 in the morning. By 8:00, the reporters and guests who had obtained the permission to participate in the conference had already arrived.
Wang Shang looked down from his office and could see people like ants swarming below. The early morning in the magical city in October seemed very refreshing, so the reporters and guests did not feel hot and were orderly.
People lined up to enter the venue.
Because there were too many people, exceeding the expected 7,000 people, the Tianwang Building built a huge roof to block the sun last night in the fitness plaza behind the building, where the press conference will be held.
As for the air-conditioning and refrigeration facilities, they were also installed last night to ensure that the guests would not feel too hot. And 10 huge screens were hung above the ceiling for real-time live broadcast to ensure that the guests behind could
You can see what's going on ahead.
Similarly, there were too many media reporters who came to interview, more than a thousand of them. Therefore, it was impossible for each reporter to ask a question. In the end, Wang Shang directly decided to use computer lottery software to 'draw lots', and the reporter who won the lottery would get
An opportunity to ask questions.
At 8:30, everyone entered the press conference. It was noisy, dark and full of people, and it was a spectacular sight. Fortunately, everyone was a qualified person, so the place was in good order.
Wang Shang, several deputy directors and other creative staff appeared on the press conference stage at 8:40.
Xie Tingfeng followed Wang Shang to the stage and looked at the dark crowd of reporters and guests below. Even after experiencing the Oscar ceremony, he was still very excited. He knew that most of these media reporters were from the world's most mainstream entertainment media.
There are "Los Angeles Times", "Variety", "Hollywood Reporter" and "Los Angeles Times" in North America. There are "Reuters", "Le Monde" and "The Times" in the European Union, as well as "Star" and "Times" in other countries.
United News Agency"...
These media have great influence in their own country and surrounding countries and even the world. Through this opportunity and platform, their reputation will definitely be pushed to another level again. Star level 18? Star level 19? Probably not
There are too many difficulties.
Thinking of this, Xie Tingfeng felt his whole body trembling.
Like Xie Tingfeng, the main creative staff who appeared here are full of excitement. After today, they will be famous all over the world.
The time soon arrived at 9:00, and the press conference officially began.
Wang Shang first stood up to welcome all the guests, and then gave a brief introduction to "Avatar". Then he officially entered the interview session that reporters were most concerned about. The computer program lottery method was not resisted by the majority of reporters, but was very popular.
support.
Soon a foreign reporter was chosen. He went straight to the topic without any preparation: "Hello, Director Wang, I would like to ask about something that many movie fans and filmmakers are very concerned about. As far as we know, the movie "Avatar"
The movie started shooting in August 2011 and was completed in March 2012. It only took about 7 months. I would like to ask Director Wang, how can a movie with an investment of 440 million US dollars be shot so fast? Is there any problem of cutting corners?
?”
As soon as this question came up, many filmmakers present were shocked.
Wang Shang had already prepared his draft and replied calmly: "As for the question of cutting corners, I can definitely answer that you don't. The evidence is in the movie. After you see the movie, you won't think so. And
I won’t joke about my 440 million yuan, right?”
Wang Shang seems very confident in his movie. "As for why it was shot so quickly? Why did it only take about 7 months? The answer I give you is - computer special effects account for 75% of the "Avatar" movie, and the other only 25%. So.
The shooting time is so short.”
As soon as this answer came out, the scene was in uproar.
"Wow! Isn't it?"
"Computer special effects account for 75%, and the other only 25%??!!"
“This is a cartoon??”
But at this time, another reporter was drawn out, and they quickly put aside their surprise and focused on the next question.
“I hope this reporter’s question has a bit of technical content,” they thought.
The reporter was obviously very smart and thought of a key question: "According to what you just said, Director Wang, computer special effects account for 75%, then why did the post-production of "Avatar" only take 7 months? Even from the time it was launched,
We started doing special effects at that time, which was only 14 months. This time is similar to the production time of "Lord of the Rings" and "Transformers". According to this inference, the effect of "Avatar" should not be as extraordinary as we imagined.
Great, it will only be about the same as "Lord of the Rings" and "Transformers" or worse. Is this the case?"
All the guests looked at Wang Shang and wanted to hear Wang Shang's answer. They were also very concerned about this issue.
"Absolutely not!" Wang Shang looked around with a calm expression, "In 2002, I had already had ideas for "Avatar" when I was filming his film and television works, but the special effects at that time simply could not support such
A movie, so this movie plan has been on hold. At the end of 2010, I successively asked the special effects department to complete some Pandora creatures according to my manuscript, but I was not very satisfied. At the beginning of 2011, I
Famous biology, physics, and linguists at home and abroad were invited to design the film. The ecology, biology, technology, and even alien languages in it were all designed by those scientists, not by me..."
Before Wang Shang finished speaking, the reporters and guests below were shocked by Wang Shang's words.
"You started thinking about it in 2002?"
“We also invite biology, physics, and linguists??”
The scene was chaotic...
Some people couldn't help but stood up and asked: "Excuse me, Director Wang, is this movie really inviting..."
Before he finished speaking, other reporters stood up one after another and started asking questions. The order just now was suddenly broken.
"Everyone, be quiet! Be quiet!!" Wang Shangxu pressed his hand, and after ten seconds he finally calmed down their emotions.
"Don't be so anxious, because there is still a lot of time, and the problems will come one by one..." Wang Shang just did it on purpose, just to make the scene chaotic.
After seeing the scene quieten down, Wang Shang continued: "Going back to the question just now, the special effects production of "Avatar" started at the beginning of 2011. When the film was launched in August, the progress of the special effects production was
A quarter of it has been completed. So the real production time of "Avatar" was 22 months, which is longer than the production time of "Lord of the Rings" and "Transformers", so there is no possibility of cutting corners?"
That’s it~~
Now everyone understands!
Greg gets it too!!
He was the assistant director of "Harry Potter" back then. He was also sent here by the company today. When he heard Wang Shang's words, it suddenly occurred to him that when they were filming "Harry Potter", they originally thought that "Transfiguration"
The short production time of "King Kong" cannot pose a threat to "Harry Potter". Only "Lord of the Rings" can threaten "Harry Potter". And the result? When it was released, "Transformers" was actually better than "Harry Potter"
Potter" will be released soon!!!
At that time, Greg and the rest of the cast of "Harry Potter" suddenly became Spartan~~~~
"So that's it! It's too vulgar!!" Greg looked at Wang Shang resentfully.