After everyone listened carefully to Li Qian's idea, Qi Yukun suddenly said, "So, the essence of this movie is to create an atmosphere and mobilize emotions. Through the illusion of sharks appearing again and again, the audience will always be on tenterhooks. When the sharks actually appear, they will
It will catch the audience off guard and release the fear accumulated in previous times at once, which is more effective than any bloody and terrifying scene."
Guo Fan touched his chin and said, "In other words, what scares the audience is not the shark, but the danger that is about to appear. When the atmosphere is set, whether it is a shark, a tiger, a lion, a monster, a dinosaur, etc.,
Essentially it’s all the same.”
Zhang Zhonghua said, "It's a bit like "Jurassic Park". There are almost no horror scenes in this film, and you can't even see blood, let alone rough bites or bloody flesh. But it successfully relied on the plot to foreshadow the atmosphere.
The mobilization and character development make the audience scream, which is more exciting, tense and terrifying than the low-level visual fear alone.”
Li Qian nodded, "It basically means the same thing, but there is still a big difference between sharks and dinosaurs. Creatures like dinosaurs can scare the audience as long as they appear, even if the characters in the movie and the dinosaurs are electrified across the room.
iron fence."
"But sharks are different. There are sharks in many aquariums. They are separated by a layer of glass. We are not afraid at all. But if you go to the beach to swim and I tell you that there are sharks in the sea, even if you know that I am scaring you, in your heart
It will be a bit scary. If you are a timid person, the slightest disturbance can scare you enough to make you roll and crawl to the shore."
"The shark that exists but does not appear is the biggest fear. This is the most important point of my "Jaws"."
Li Qian finally sets a tone in the movie.
Everyone roughly understood what Li Qian was thinking, and they no longer had any doubts.
Although the script and storyboards have not been released yet, the script and storyboards of "Sniper Phone Booth" are enough to prove Li Qian's ability.
At the same time, I am also very much looking forward to the release of the "Jaws" script and storyboards.
Now that the story is OK, let’s start discussing the preliminary preparations.
"Lao Zhang, you should contact us for the photography equipment and underwater equipment."
Zhang Zhonghua nodded and asked again, "Two machines this time? I guess it's not enough."
Li Qian thought for a while and said, "Two machines are definitely not enough. Now that we have sufficient funds, let's rent four units."
"Then Lao Qi, Lao Guo, you go and recruit people. As for the staffing, we need three photographers, a makeup artist who will lead his own team, and the props team must have experience in bloody horror films. These are the three main departments."
Although the shark only appears for a few minutes, it bites a lot of people, and there must be some bloody scenes. It is convenient for the makeup artist to have his own team, and the prop team also needs to do some amputations and so on.
"Gao Yang, you go find the location and the underwater studio. I'll go to the scene in two days to have a look."
That's all the preliminary preparations, the specific things still have to wait for the script and storyboards to be released.
"Director Li, should we use prop models or CG special effects for the shark?" Guo Fan asked.
"I don't think we have enough time to model the props. I'll contact you and have a look before making a final decision."
The model of a shark is relatively simple. A marine expert in England spent 110,000 pounds to build a bionic robot shark, which can accommodate people and equipment. It can be used to observe sharks at close range, and the sharks even regard it as the same kind.
It can move freely and its mouth can bite. Judging from the news pictures, its appearance is basically the same as that of a shark.
But it is definitely time-consuming, and no props company in China has done it yet.
As for special effects, you can start preparing in the early stages, and the total should be about three minutes of special effects shots.
The fact that a shark actually shows his face for three minutes is a great challenge for a director to support a movie.
Let everything be arranged and everyone prepares their own things
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After coming out of the studio, Li Qian first went to Hengdian, to a well-known prop company on Dazhi Street, and met the "prop king" of Hengdian.
However, as Hengdian's "Props King", the other company's company could make a mechanical shark, but it took too long. If I have this time, I can make one or two more "Sniper Phone Booth" movies.
There was no prop production company in Hengdian that could meet Li Qian's needs, so he didn't have to go elsewhere and had to choose CG special effects.
Li Qian successively visited three special effects companies, REVFX, Viewpoint Pictures, and BaSe FX, and finally decided on BaSe FX, which was founded by a Hollywood team to be responsible for the CG special effects of "Jaws."
It's not that Li Qian doesn't trust domestic special effects companies, it's actually that special effects is a technical job, and the domestic special effects industry has just started, and it's very different from Hollywood.
Ba Color FX was founded by a Hollywood team. It has the largest special effects team in the country and also cooperates with Industrial Light and Magic.
It is definitely no problem to make a big-scale special effects film, and the time can meet Li Qian's requirements. It just requires a little more money. After all, the labor force in the country is still enough, and the business of these special effects companies is not very busy.
In the end, the total shot was less than three minutes, and the special effects cost was 1.1 million, which is almost 6,000 per second. The bulk of it was the rendering cost, which was too expensive.
It’s not too expensive, and it’s within Li Qian’s acceptable range. It also includes a special effects team headed by a special effects director who will join the team to assist in the shooting.
Of course, this 1.1 million is not to be paid in one lump sum, but to be paid in installments. Just pay the lump sum first within three days.
Special effects companies are still at a disadvantage compared to film and television companies, and sometimes they often fail to get the full balance.
After the preliminary work was completed, Li Qian made an advance payment to Galaxy Video, and the other party readily agreed, and the payment was made within 24 hours.
Next, Li Qian began to stay at home and write scripts.
While Li Qian was busy working on his new film, several large and medium-sized domestic film and television companies finally began to take action.
Nowadays, there are only one director who can sell at the box office in China. Even from Huayang Media, the largest film and television production company in the country, there is only one Ma Xiaogang who can sell at the box office.
Whether it is Berner Pictures, the country's largest private film distribution company, Enlight Media, which entered the film industry last year, or Huayang Media, which already has Ma Xiaogang, these three companies are all in urgent need of directors who can sell movies.
Last year, Ning Hao's "Crazy Stone" sold 30 million in box office and immediately became a favorite in the entire film industry.
Li Qian Although this is just an online movie, as professionals, major film companies are well aware of the high quality of "Sniper Phone Booth", which cannot be compared to the previous "Taoist Master" which sold 8 million box office.
If the quality of the movie is good, even if it only sells well on video websites, it cannot stop the pursuit of these big companies.
They really have no directors anymore. Although the directors from Xiangjiang began to move north, they all started their own companies. They had to cooperate equally with several major companies, rather than joining any one company.
Moreover, Li Qian makes suspense films, and the cost is low, so even if he loses money, he won't lose much.