The filming location is located in the coastal area. Under strict engineering technology and safety measures, the production team built a giant water tank about the size of four football fields.
The tank was built on the seaside, and a 30-foot-deep indoor tank hydraulic platform was built.
This hydraulic platform can change its angle at will, which makes it easier for the production team to pump 4 million gallons of seawater into the tank from a few yards away from the beach.
In addition, the crew also produced sets and various furniture and accessories in Mexico City, New York and Los Angeles. According to the script, they also produced deck chairs, table lamps, porcelain, and suitcases unique to the early 20th century.
Life jackets, marine parts, etc., thousands of items in total.
The whole process was complex and grand, and the final "Titanic" was almost the same size as described in the script.
Some uninformed media people even used headlines such as a mysterious company to build a huge cruise ship to attract readers' attention.
Because there has never been a "Titanic" in the history of the entire world, only the sinking of the "Grosta" giant cruise ship, so when designers restored the internal model of the Titanic, they referred to a large amount of historical information about the "Grosta"
, the final production team completed the first-class restaurant, reception room, first-class smoking room, walking area, afternoon tea room, gym and multiple staterooms after half a year of history.
Of course, due to limited conditions, it is impossible for Max Pictures to invest huge amounts of money to build a real cruise ship.
And even if it is just a model, the cost is a huge amount, so the construction of the cruise ship model only revolves around the script. The scenes that appear in the script must have the necessary props. As for the props that do not appear in the script, naturally
There is no need to build, so the entire interior of the "Titanic" is actually very empty. It can only be launched into the water and float on the sea. After all, when the production team was building it, they only made the props that should appear in the camera.
, rather than actually building a giant ship.
After Li Qing, Emma and others arrived at the filming location, they took a short rest and discussed the script. The next day, early in the morning, Li Qing and others arrived at the filming location and looked around at the entire coast.
There were a lot of people around, with two to three thousand people on the giant ship and walking back and forth on the coastal pier. Everyone was dressed in clothes from the beginning of the last century.
Even Li Qing was shocked by this scene, and Emma and others took a deep breath.
“It’s truly a magnificent masterpiece.”
Fabrizio de Rossi, who plays Li Qing's friend, even exclaimed: "God, this is indeed a movie with an investment of 300 million US dollars. This scene is rarely seen in the entire film history!"
"Actually, according to the number of people described in the script, there should be more than 10,000 people."
At this time, Steven, one of the assistant directors, heard this and said with a smile: "But it is difficult to manage more than 10,000 people, and it is also a waste of money, so with the help of the Film Association, we only hired more than 2,000 people."
The extras will be processed with special effects later to increase the number to 10,000, making the whole scene look more magnificent."
The director of Titanic was Scott, but there were more than a dozen assistant directors. In fact, these so-called assistant directors were basically assistants who sat in front of the monitor and controlled the camera.
It's just Scott.
After briefly greeting the crew and creators, Li Qing and others immediately started putting on makeup and started filming the first scene.
The shooting location was a coaching inn at the pier, where Jack and his friend Fabrizio wanted to win a ticket to board the Titanic.
There were no cumbersome greetings or etiquette. After everything was ready, and with Scott’s order, the scene immediately started filming.
On a smooth wooden table, four young people were competing in card games.
In addition to playing cards on the table, there are dozens of coins and banknotes stacked in the middle, as well as a pocket watch and razor that look quite aged. In addition, there are two "Titanic" third-class
cabin ticket.
The four young men all held a stack of playing cards in their hands, but only Jack and the other man wearing a peaked cap looked calm, while the other two showed nervous and angry expressions on their faces.
The companion of the man in the peaked hat looked at the cards in his hand and then at the gambling money on the gambling table. Finally he couldn't help it and stared at his companion: "You madman!"
"Shut up!" the man in the peaked hat yelled, looking confident.
As soon as they finished speaking, Jack's friend Fabrizio couldn't help complaining: "Jack, you are a madman, you have staked everything we have!"
Jack was holding a cigarette in his mouth and looking at the playing cards in his hand relaxedly. Hearing this, he took the cigarette from his mouth, leaned over and whispered: "When we have nothing, there is nothing to lose."
"You idiot, I can't believe you bet our tickets!"
At this time, the companion of the man in the peaked hat said angrily again.
The man in the peaked cap also seemed to be shaken, and said somewhat unconfidently: "Maybe we can win money?"
Upon hearing this, Jack raised the corner of his mouth, looked at the man in the peaked hat, and motioned for him to start exchanging a playing card: "Sven?"
After Sven exchanged playing cards, a trace of joy flashed in his eyes.
But Jack calmly began to touch the next card. When he saw the numbers on the playing cards, he pressed the cigarette next to his mouth on the table and extinguished it: "Okay, let's show the cards. One of us will win."
Some people’s lives are going to change completely.”
After speaking, Jack looked at his friend, "Fabrizio?"
Fabrizio saw the relaxed expression on Jack's face and couldn't help but smile with joy.
He could see that Jack seemed to be winning, so he threw down the cards in his hand without hesitation and said, "No!"
The British card game is similar to the domestic card game. Whoever has the bigger card wins, it is simple and decisive.
"No."
After Jack glanced at his friend's card, he turned to the other person: "It's your turn."
That person also doesn't have a pair or a card that can hold down the field.
In this competition of card skills, apart from straight flush, full house and other cards, a pair of cards with the same number may be called the best card.
Then, Jack looked at the man in the peaked hat: "Sven?"
Sven knew that this was the final moment of decision. He believed that his hand was enough to overwhelm the other two poker players who did not have a pair, so he showed his hole card without hesitation.
"Oh, two pairs..."
Jack's tone seemed a little calm. He did not show his trump card immediately, but looked at Fabrizio apologetically: "I'm sorry, Fabrizio..."
Fabrizio's expression suddenly changed. He pointed at the gambling money on the table and gradually turned red: "You psycho..."
"I'm sorry." Jack saw this and said quickly: "You may not be able to see your mother for a long time..."
Fabrizio was stunned.
"Because we are going to America!"
Jack suddenly put the trump card in his hand on the table: "The house is full of red!"
The entire inn suddenly heard Jack and Fabrizio laughing hysterically.
…
Just when Li Qing was involved in the filming of "Titanic", the domestic IPO team of Phantom Technology, led by Zhou Shuo, also began to prepare for the listing plan in the United States together with employees from Goldman Sachs Group and UBS from afar.
In the conference room, Lang Runzhu, vice president of the Asia-Pacific region of Goldman Sachs Group, and Cozmo Meredith, an underwriter from a Swiss investment bank, sat on both sides of the conference room and began to listen to Jia Cunrui, general manager of Phantom Technology, introducing Phantom.
All financial results of Technology since its inception.
There is not much difference from what was expected. Since the launch of "Legend of Hot Blood", Phantom Technology has basically been able to achieve revenue of 22 million yuan every month, with an average revenue of 70 million yuan in a single quarter.
Once this financial report is announced, Phantom Technology will definitely be regarded as the first online gaming stock in mainland China.
Because no Internet company on the market can reach this scale.
In addition, Phantom Technology has also researched the first domestic racing online game "Kaka Kart", as well as the casual game "Pao Tang" that is now popular throughout the mainland, and has successfully represented foreign-developed shooting games.
"Counter-Strike" and so on.
These popular games mean that Phantom no longer relies solely on "Legend of Hot Blood" to achieve absolute revenue. Several other types of games can also bring millions of yuan in profits to Phantom Technology every month.
Of course, in addition to developing games, Phantom Technology has also invested a large amount of money, hired well-known domestic computer technicians, and established an anti-cheating team to actively combat game cheating.
This is a large amount of expenditure, and it is also an essential expenditure.
Others, such as security boxes, music networks, network management software platforms, Internet Literature Association forums, and online navigation ha23, have become pioneer products in their respective fields. However, due to national conditions, except for network management software platforms, other products are currently limited to
It seems that basically all have achieved small losses.
However, anyone who is slightly familiar with network products can see that Phantom Technology's layout of the network industry is definitely the development direction of the entire network environment in the future.
Although it is currently losing money, when it accumulates enough users, it is not impossible for Phantom Technology to develop a chat software similar to "QQ".
After looking at the product list and revenue status of Phantom Technology in detail, neither Goldman Sachs nor UBS seems to care much about the products that are losing money. This loss is placed in the online game giant "Legend of Blood".
It's not worth mentioning at all.
The revenue of the game "Legend of Blood", a product of Phantom Technology, in the three fiscal years alone is enough to attract investors to rush to buy its shares.
"Whether it is in China or the United States, applying for IP listing must pass the review of the Securities and Exchange Commission."
Lang Runzhu said with a smile: "I was originally worried that Phantom Technology's products were relatively simple and might not be able to impress investors, but now after reading your materials, my last concern has disappeared. Today I will review these materials."
Sumner, in a week, these materials will appear on the desk of the US Securities Regulatory Commission. If they pass the review and no other feedback is received, then Phantom Technology's road to listing will definitely be smooth sailing. Mr. Jia, Mr. Zhou, congratulations in advance
There are two of you. As veteran executives of Phantom Technology, you two will probably become billionaires overnight!"
When Jia Cunrui heard this, he couldn't help but beam with joy, "Mr. Lang was joking. I don't have many shares. Even if the listing is successful, I won't be able to become a billionaire. But Mr. Zhou has this possibility."
After Phantom Technology Co., Ltd. was changed to a joint-stock company, Li Qing rewarded his merits and gave 0.7% of the shares to Jia Cunrui alone, and another 2% to reward all the technical personnel of Phantom Technology.
In addition, Zhou Shuo, as the executive who initially also served as general manager of Phantom Technology, independently obtained 2.3% of the shares.
If the listing is successful, Jia Cunrui will be worth tens of millions overnight, and all the technicians who have acquired shares in the company will become more or less millionaires.
Zhou Shu, who has acquired the most shares, will be worth hundreds of millions of yuan. Specifically, according to the current valuation of Phantom Technology, Zhou Shuo’s starting net worth is 200 million yuan.
As for the remaining shares, according to the plan, Li Qing will keep about 5% of the shares, and the other 30% of the shares will flow directly into the market for stock trading.
Of course, all of this requires Phantom Technology to be successfully listed on the New York Stock Exchange, otherwise it will all be empty talk.
"If Phantom Technology is successfully listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it will have great prospects. Under normal circumstances, the stocks on the New York Stock Exchange always keep rising." Lang Runzhu said enviously: "The shares held by Mr. Jia will achieve breakthroughs in the future.
Not to mention 100 million, Director Li is really considerate and caring to his subordinates. There are not many bosses like this who are willing to use shares as bonuses these days."
Jia Cunrui smiled broadly: "Yes, when I came back from Silicon Valley, I didn't expect that I would be where I am today. To be honest, the direction of the entire company, creativity, including market research, basically have nothing to do with us.
All of this is under the leadership of the boss, and we are just following the boss’s instructions.”
Lang Runzhu laughed when he heard this, simply thinking that Jia Cunrui could only flatter him. If what Jia Cunrui said was true, wouldn't it mean that anyone could be the general manager?
After sorting out the financial information, Goldman Sachs Group's reporting accountants quickly started the audit business, preparing accountants' reports, and reviewing Phantom Technology's profitability, operating capital forecasts, etc.
The lawyers they brought also began to draft a prospectus and prepare an underwriting agreement on the spot.
Phantom Technology is not idle either. After communicating with the sponsor's lawyer, the company's lawyers also began to discuss with Zhou Shu and others to arrange the company's reorganization and divide the main business and subsidiary business, which will facilitate the listing review.
The next step is to review the relevant legal confirmations and confirm the underwriting agreement.
Throughout the whole day, Zhou Shu and others did not take a break. The entire conference room was crowded with people, and all kinds of materials were presented. The conference door was opened and closed, and the staff of Phantom Technology Company and the two major sponsors were busy.
It was so busy and lively that the employees in the company hall were excited to see it.