Chapter 241 239. Is this something that people can take?!

One sentence ruined the classics and made Cao Yang feel desperate to die.

What a great Legend of Sword and Fairy. Without Liu Yifei, I feel that I can no longer watch it.

Now Cao Yang is more concerned about the situation here.

Even a classic game like Fairy Sword has been filmed like this.

Our "Night of Glory of Kings" will not be even worse, right?

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Yes.

In fact, that's it.

Even worse.

The shooting time of Honor of Kings was several months earlier than the Sword of Fairy, and all shooting tasks were completed as early as July last year.

From July to February, Ai Xiaomi has been busy doing something very strange -

In order to make the effects in the game appear, she contacted Deng Peiqiang's engine project team to draw several people, separate the original X2 engine, and specially made a picture engine for computer stunts and 3D rendering.

This game engine strips away the parts needed by the game and focuses its power on special effects and picture rendering, which is specially used to make post-production CG for film and television videos.

CG is the abbreviation of Computer Graphics in English, which refers to the use of computer technology for visual design and production. It includes both technology and art, and almost covers all visual art creation activities carried out using computer technology, such as graphic design, web design, three-dimensional animation, film and television special effects, multimedia technology, and computer-aided design architectural design.

This technology originated very early, and around the 1970s, Americans began to use computers to make special effects.

Very famous CG companies include the United States Industrial Light and Magic, and New Zealand Tavi Digital...

In 1982, Industrial Light and Magic made the first computer-synthesised visual effects scene, which was a scene of a planet explosion in "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan";

In 1985, In "Young Holmes", Industrial Light and Magic produced the first CG character - Stained Glass Man...

To this day, Pixar uses computers to create cartoons that do not require live actors or any real scenes or models: "Toy Story"

Last year, Pixar produced "Superman" and it was a big box office success.

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CG production is a time-consuming, labor-intensive and expensive thing.

Most of Ai Xiaomi's money is spent on the later special effects production.

After all, the fighting scenes depicted in the game are breaking through the sky.

Just the First Emperor’s [Treasure House of Kings] is enough for you to burn a lot of money.

30 million is not enough, Ai Xiaomi can only do some streamlining and spend money on the edge.

Fortunately, the actors hired were not very expensive and could barely support them.

Because CG production is done by one's own people, it can be said that it also saves costs to some extent.

If you want to take it out, firstly, except for Bomi, who has conducted in-depth research on engine and computer graphics technology early, there is no such capable team in China. If you want to hire foreign special effects manufacturers, such as Industrial Light and Magic, or Pixar, to help with the later production, it will probably cost at least ten times more than the money.

CG technology is one aspect, and this problem is now fully solved by Bomi’s program team.

The main cost comes from the production process.

A CG animation with several frames may take 2 to 3 days to render. The art team's computer has dozens of machines on it for many years, and they do nothing but rendering every day.

Moreover, once something goes wrong in the middle, it has to be rendered again.

The time cost is high and the electricity cost is high.

These are the main aspects.

In addition, it is the design cost of the art team. If you want to complete a lens, Ai Xiaomi has to completely separate the lens, and accurately reach every frame, and then hand it over to different arts for rendering and splicing...

The whole process is very refined and takes a lot of time.

Final production completed-

A TV series, 12 episodes, one hour per episode, and a total of 12 hours.

Special effects lenses account for very little proportion, and the total amount is estimated to be less than half an hour, but it costs more than 20 million yuan in production.

If it weren't for the lack of money, Ai Xiaomi actually wanted to increase the proportion of CG to more than 40%.

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I have to say that Ai Xiaomi is really a weird director. She doesn't need a famous actor to shoot a TV series. If it weren't for the male lead Chen Kun who was appointed by Boss Cao, she might not even want to invite Chen Kun for the effect of the TV series in the end.

Since the Golden Fen Family, Chen Kun’s pay has soared, and now it has risen to 150,000 yuan per episode.

In other words, for the 12-episode filming, Chen Kun will take away 1.8 million.

Generally, there are two ways to calculate the pay of online actors. One is to calculate the number of episodes. After negotiation between the two parties, based on the number of episodes of the characters played by the actor in the play, each episode will be calculated as one episode at least five more episodes.

How much does it cost per episode, and then give it to the actors according to the number of episodes* the pay per episode.

For those who like Chen Kun, you have to pay 12*15=1.8 million.

In 2004, the pay for this movie was already relatively high. If the Golden Fen Family had not made it popular, Chen Kun's pay for this movie was lower than this one.

Last year, the highest number of actors in the first-line TV series was about 70,000 to 80,000 episodes per episode, and Chen Kun was already considered to have a relatively high price.

In the future, the actors' pay will rise to a very terrible number.

In addition to billing according to the number of episodes, the other way is to discuss the remuneration in a packaged form.

That is, the producer first asks the actor to finish the script and informs the role he plays in the play. Then both parties will complete the filming of the role and how long it takes to ensure that all the role he plays will be completed. All these participation activities will be enough to pay the actors a total of the pay.

Of course, there are many reasons why it is not possible to bill normally, such as interpersonal relationships, political relationships and other factors.

After the filming of the film and television drama is completed, the editor enters the editing stage. The editor performs technical editing based on the story sequence of the original script and the director's requirements. Each minute is a combination of several discontinuous shots, so the length of time each character appears in each episode does not represent the actual labor he has put in.

It is possible that the protagonist has been filming for two days, but the camera can be cut out and filled the entire plot, so he may have spent 2 days to get the money for the entire TV series.

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So Ai Xiaomi is really a weird director. Perhaps because he has made too many games, he always feels that the experience will be worse after more than 10 hours.

The actors who worked with her said that they would not want to film Ai Xiaomi's scenes in the future.

Why?

Because the fewer episodes of TV you end up shooting, the less rewards the actors will receive.

Even Chen Kun's agent said that no one wants to cooperate with Ai Xiaomi in the future. If he had known that he would have signed a buyout system, he would have earned a lot of money.

If it weren't for the high pay for a single episode, people wouldn't be willing to take on such a new director's drama.

Now I regret it to death.

Not only did the actors think Ai Xiaomi is a weirdo, but the TV station also thinks she is a weirdo.

Nowadays, all TV series productions are being made in a long way, ranging from 3, 40 episodes to 50, 60 episodes, and there are even TV series like "The Foreign Wife and Local Son-in-law".

Ai Xiaomi shoots 12 episodes and plays 2 episodes a day. The TV schedule is over and it will only take one week to complete. Your exposure is simply not good.

The exposure is not good, how can I insert advertisements into it?

How does my TV station make money?

So in the end, the TV station that was willing to buy Bomi's "Night of Glory of Kings" was the only one of the Imperial Capital TV stations.

Who made Bomi a star company in Di?

It is used to try it out. There may be a lot of cooperation between TV stations and Bomi in the future, which is considered to be a favor to Boss Cao.

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Imperial Capital TV and CCTV are different. The influence of the two is completely different. If it were CCTV, Boss Cao would wake up in a dream. Even if the movie was not satisfactory, if it could be played on CCTV, at least the exposure would be there. Maybe it would make the game popular.

For Imperial Capital TV, the scope of influence is much smaller.

On February 18, the day after the broadcast of Sword and Fairy Fairy, Ai Xiaomi called Cao Yang, "Boss, at 7:36 tonight, Imperial Capital TV will broadcast our TV series, you must remember to watch it."

"Okay~" Cao Yang hung up the phone with some concern.

In fact, Ai Xiaomi has shown him some edits and some content before, and Cao Yang felt that it was OK after reading it.

At least the appearance of the male and female protagonists is very attractive, and the special effects are simply amazing.

I just don't know how the actual playback effect is.

At 7:35 pm, Cao Yang was transferred to the Imperial Capital TV station on time.

After the news broadcast ended, it was time for the evening theater.

As time comes, "The Night of Glory of Kings" will be played on TV

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One hour later, the first episode ended.

Cao Yang looked confused and then covered his face with his hands.

It's finished...
To be continued...