Feature Shows Extravaganza

The carnival is over.

Meng Lang can now return to the Western Regions with peace of mind.

Although he really wanted to stay in Jiangchuan for a few more days and study the newly delivered Tornado locomotive, time waited for no one!

The New Year is almost here, so I have to take advantage of the last few moments at the end of the year to shoot more material so that I can arrange my schedule more calmly in the coming year.

Skyfire Legend is progressing quickly!

The plot of the original version was rather slow, and the story that could have been told in one episode was delayed until the second or even third episode. Therefore, the original Skyfire Legend has a full 60 episodes.

This episode is a bit long.

For viewers, the best viewing experience must be the golden interval of 30-40 episodes.

Assuming that an episode is 30 minutes, that is a total duration of 900-1200 minutes, which is approximately 15-20 hours.

Think about it, people's life pace is getting faster now, and the rise of short videos and online videos has already taken up a lot of TV's entertainment time.

If the entire series is made up of fifty, sixty or even seventy or eighty episodes, and the total broadcast time exceeds 20 hours, it will scare away a certain audience.

Of course, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dramas are not included in this list.

Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dramas and housewife dramas are both weird. For any TV series made for housewives, the length of the series really doesn't matter. There is no need to worry about the ratings anyway.

Legend of Skyfire cannot be too long.

Meng Lang was ready to shoot 50 episodes of material first, and then cut it into 41-45 episodes.

That's much better.

Because they have a lot of experience and the actors are familiar with Mr. Meng's filming style, the filming progress is very gratifying.

In two months, nearly 24 episodes were filmed!

What I’m talking about here is material. 24 episodes is a lot of material, and it’s more than enough to cut out 20 episodes.

That's half the shot.

It's a pity that this speed cannot be maintained. After all, we are filming the first half of the scene, and the leather sheath does not appear frequently.

Once we start filming the second half, it’s a holster war. Playing around with multiple holsters, the progress is definitely not as fast as before.

After Meng Lang returned to the Western Regions, he mainly filmed the leather bag fighting scenes.

Is the transformation special effect ready?

it is done!

Meng Lang blinked and said, Let me see it!

The special effects artist opened the notebook he carried with him, unlocked a project file, and clicked play.

This is a rough video.

As a demonstration, a certain glasses special effects guy gestured OK to the camera, and then the video started.

The glasses guy wears a wrist-mounted transformer on his left hand and holds up the crystal in his right hand.

Here is the first part, which is the sparkling light effect of the spar! According to your instructions, Mr. Meng, we added flashing colored light to the spar...

Meng Lang looked at the video demonstration, frowned and said, The brightness is a bit low, make it brighter!

Do you want to be a light bulb?

If the brightness is increased, the details of the crystal will not be visible clearly! the special effects artist said with worry.

What details do you want?

Glowing is beautiful, flashing is cool!

If the light effect also has a flowing effect, then you are too powerful!

The special effects artist silently wrote down this passage, planning to write it down silently when he got home and post it on the wall as a life creed.

After talking about the crystal flashing part, the next step is the main event, which is the transformation.

The video continues. The guy with glasses slaps the flashing crystal on his left hand transformer, then crosses his hands over his hands, and then throws them behind him.

White Tiger, transform!

The sound of tiger roar came, and a layer of space ripples suddenly appeared around the guy with glasses. A white tiger beast appeared out of thin air behind him. As the word transformation fell, the shadow of the beast overlapped with the guy with glasses, and the four spirits The warrior appears!

It’s worth noting! At the moment when the virtual shadows overlap and complete the transformation, there is a shot of the guy with glasses turning his right hand into a claw.

Rather than saying it is a transformation, it is more appropriate to say it is animal transformation. It's just that the final appearance of this beast is not a real beast, but a humanoid four-spirit warrior.

I'm not satisfied with the process of animal transformation!

Meng Lang said: The process of turning the hands into animal claws is too rough. It should be refined a little. And the details are only the hands? What about the head? What about the feet?

The evil one...Mr. Meng!

The special effects artist cursed in his heart, smiled and said, Okay, Mr. Meng, is there anything else you want to change?

Another point……

Meng Lang touched his chin and stared at the laptop screen and said, Before the transformation, when the actor is doing the transformation movements, the light effect is a bit lacking. This part needs to be modified.

After transforming into a Four Spirit Warrior, how can there be no dust when the ground is touched?

Lengthen the transformation time! It's best to do it for more than half a minute...

Is this a little?

The special effects artist could no longer remember Mr. Meng's request in his mind alone. He could only pick up a pen and paper and listen and memorize it. After thoroughly memorizing it, he left with a page full of revision suggestions.

The transformation effects are almost ready.

However, there were disagreements and quarrels over the image design of Chi You.

Chi You is not a demon. History is written by the victors. He is just a defeated tribal leader.

But in the script, Chi You is the villain. The villain's image is too majestic and upright. What do you want the audience to think?

Is it beautification or ugliness?

As the leader of the Jiuli tribe, Chi You was a brave man who was good at fighting. He was also the god of war in mythology. It was just because he rode the wrong mount that he lost the war and was vilified and slandered as an evil god.

Defining Chi You as a villain is definitely Sadako is right from the perspective of the descendants of Yan and Huang, but doing so is indeed vilifying and discrediting Chi You.

Let's do this. Let's make two images of Chi You. One is the leader of the Jiuli tribe before he became a demon, and the other is the demon god after he became a demon.

Meng Lang knew very well that he was filming a children's special drama, and the audience was mainly children.

If they characterize Chi You as a demonic god, then after the children watch this drama, if they mention Chi You in the future, they will definitely think of him as an evil god.

this is not good.

When making children's dramas, it is necessary to convey the correct cognitive orientation to children, rather than letting the screenwriter make up random things.

The image of Chi You is made into two.

One is the leader of the ancient Jiuli tribe. He is brave, good at fighting, and upright. He created the Four Spirit Crystals to protect the tribe.

One is the cruel and cruel demon god Chi You who revived. He revived with the help of Dr. Shi's greed. After the inner demons grew, he fell into the devil's way and tried to conquer the world.

Both Chi You have special origins.

Although due to plot requirements, Chi You finally became a demon, the play also mentioned Chi You's kind and gentle side as a tribal leader.

This also provides a reasonable explanation for the Four Sacred Beasts' rebellion against Chi You.

The King Chi You recognized by the Four Sacred Beasts was Chi You, the original leader of the Jiuli tribe, not the now resurrected demon god Chi You.

That's why the four holy beasts rebelled.

I'm such a good person. I filled the hole dug by the original version...

Meng Lang somewhat admired himself for being able to do this well as a copywriter.