my time as a director

Li Qian flew to Jade Bird City with Guo Fan, and came to see the Wandering Earth studio in Oriental Movie Metropolis.

As a modern industrial movie, the shots of The Wandering Earth 99 were all shot in the studio of the Oriental Movie Metropolis, which is also the only studio in the country that can support movies like The Wandering Earth.

As for the Hengdian film and television base, it basically doesn't have the ability to shoot blockbuster movies now. Compared with the film and television base, it is more like a tourist place and is the first choice for TV drama crews.

For big productions, even if they choose Huairou film and television base, they will not go to Hengdian. Ghost Chuideng was filmed in Huairou, and the studio there is second only to Oriental Movie Metropolis in China.

However, Hengdian is also spending huge sums of money to build its own world-class studio.

Moreover, the filming scene of The Wandering Earth is completely different from all domestic movies.

After all, it is the only movie in China that is produced according to the industrialization of Hollywood movies.

Even as far as the scene is concerned, the Hollywood blockbusters such as Bad Pacific and King Kong Skull Island that were filmed in the Oriental Movie Metropolis before, if viewed by laymen, are not as professional as Wandering Earth.

Li Qian was watching from the side. Different from ordinary shooting, when shooting on Wandering Earth, not only in one studio, but often in several studios at the same time.

For a normal movie, there are five or six monitors, which is already a large crew. The Wandering Earth has a total of 24 monitors, large and small, and the monitor tents are crowded to the brim.

The main creator in front of the monitor is not just the director Guo Fan, more than 60 main creators are watching these 24 monitors in the tent.

This is just the scene, different types of staff are doing their work in various places, some are in the studio, some are in the office, some are in the hotel...

A large display screen in the tent is divided into several screens, and everyone is holding a tablet to communicate with the creators in the tent in real time.

The technicians of the IT department of the Oriental Movie Metropolis and the foreign R&D personnel of the video solutions serving Hollywood and the global film industry continue to communicate and try, and through the most complete hardware industrial system of the Oriental Movie Metropolis, the 170-hectare project in the entire Oriental Movie Metropolis has been realized. WIFI signal full coverage.

Whether in a hotel or in the office, the main creative team can see real-time shooting images through the tablet, which is the first time in the history of domestic movies.

Not only them, but also actors in different studios.

What is being filmed now is a scene in which an accident occurred in the space station, Liu Peiqiang and other astronauts were affected, and they were tumbling in space.

In front of the blue screen, Wu Jing was wearing a bulky spacesuit, holding the camera with both hands and shaking it from side to side, his eyes widened, as if he was about to eat the camera, his eyes were full of drama, as if some serious accident had really happened .

This scene will be very shocking when presented on the big screen in the future, but the scenes shot on the spot will only make people want to laugh.

However, everyone is a professional, and they generally don't laugh unless they really can't help it.

"Okay, click!" Guo Fan shouted to stop.

In the shooting, which was more than 200 meters away, Wu Jing also landed safely with the help of the field staff.

This is a scene of weightlessness, and Wu Jing’s spacesuit is genuine and very heavy. During filming, the wires and wheels are used to achieve the feeling of weightlessness.

Taking off the helmet, Wu Jing panted heavily, asked the field manager to wipe off his sweat, and took another sip of water before taking the tablet and the walkie-talkie from others.

The studio and the monitor tent were separated by more than 100 meters, and Wu Jing was wearing a bulky spacesuit. Walking more than 200 meters was tiring and exhausting.

If you take it off, it will be troublesome, and you will have to get on the boat again later.

The WIFI of the Oriental Movie Metropolis covers 170 hectares, and the network structure is so special that even the hotels and offices outside the base can receive the signal. Instead of going to the monitor tent to watch the pictures, the actors in the studio can directly watch the performance on the spot. .

Wu Jing is in the studio, you use a tablet to watch the shooting screen, communicate with Guo Fan in the monitor tent more than 100 meters away, and explain the problem through the walkie-talkie.

Not only Wu Jing, but also the executive director and photographers who were in charge of scheduling on the scene also communicated with other main creators in the tent through tablets and walkie-talkies.

A spacewalking scene is not just a matter of rolling up and down, left and right, and shaking twice.

It is a completely modern industrialized shooting process, with a creative team of hundreds of people and a production crew of nearly 2000 people. In many cases, five or six studios shoot at the same time.

At the same time, there are more than 3000 special effects personnel from the outside world to jointly complete such a Wandering Earth.

It took a whole morning to film this spacewalk scene.

Let's have dinner first, then shoot in the afternoon.

"Old Guo, according to this progress, how long will it take to finish?"

Li Qian asked about the progress. Many years have passed since the preparations for The Wandering Earth. Even without the two years Guo Fan spent in Hollywood, it is still long enough for a major production.

After the filming, both he and Wu Jing still had responsibility for the gift film, and they had a heavy burden on them.

"If there are no accidents, the filming will be finished by the end of November at the latest. About one and a half years will be enough for the post-production, and the digital field will be considered smooth."

Guo Fan quickly took two mouthfuls of rice and another mouthful of hot soup, and gave him a time without thinking too much.

Guo Fan's previous plan was to study in Hollywood for two years, prepare for two years, shoot for one year, and post-production for two years. After the actual operation, it went smoothly.

It doesn't take a year to shoot, from the scorching heat to the severe winter, six months is actually enough, but this is because of the perfect preparation.

In post-production, including special effects, in fact, from the moment the preparations start and the concept map is released, the special effects have already been done, instead of doing it after shooting, or you have to wait until the year of the monkey.

"In this case, we can almost catch up with the summer vacation in 19. The National Day festival has arranged for me and my motherland. If the summer vacation fails, I can only go to celebrate the New Year." Li Qian said.

"It shouldn't be a problem. The preparations in the early stage are perfect enough, and summer vacation is also a good time."

Guo Fan nodded, thought for a while, and then asked about the situation of another sci-fi blockbuster, the Fortress of the Demon City.

"Boss, Teng Huatao's side should be finished."

Li Qian shook his head, "The Fortress of the Devil's City, it's still early, Teng Huatao is in a mess now, it would be great if we don't delay the filming until next year."

"So slow?" Guo Fan was a little surprised, but at the same time his expression became serious.

Originally, I went to Hollywood to study for more than two years, and I did the preliminary preparations for more than two years, so I was fully prepared.

But at the Fortress of Magic City, Teng Huatao had never been exposed to sci-fi movies, so he turned on the machine at the same time as him.

Coupled with the choice of such a young actor, Guo Fan thought that there was a high probability that this would be a casual movie.

However, the two sci-fi films were started at the same time, and I was serious about shooting them, and the filming could be finished in half a year, but the other party was actually slower than me.

You know, the background of the fortress of the magic city is the magic city, so there is no need to build a whole new world.

Could it be that it wasn't a random bad movie?

Generally speaking, slow work produces meticulous work, and the progress of bean curd dregs projects is relatively fast, no matter what industry it is.

"Too specific, I don't know, but it's probably because the preparations for the fortress of the Magic City were not perfect, and the actors were not qualified enough, which delayed a lot of progress. When I was in the fortress, I was still filming another TV series." Li Qian roughly talked about the other party's situation.

"That's it." Guo Fan smiled, he thought how finely the fortress of the city was shot.

It's not that Guo Fan doesn't expect the other party to be good, it's just that he doesn't believe that it can be made well. From the beginning to the end, the Fortress of Magic City does not meet the relevant conditions for a good movie in his opinion.

To make a romance into a sci-fi movie, the director has never touched sci-fi movies, and the leading actor is outrageously chosen.

"That's good too. The Fortress of Magic City should be released after us. Don't let them be released first. It will hit the market and the audience." Guo Fan said.