Exploring the Entertainment Circle [Ancient and Modern]

The office conference room on this floor passes through the work area.Tao Qingfeng, who had already removed his sunglasses and hat disguise, walked past the rows of IT technicians with their own personal characteristics with great interest.Many of them were still fighting against the computer, and some of them noticed Tao Qingfeng, and made no secret of their surprise and curiosity.The technical team leader said with a little embarrassment: "Generally, this place is not open to the public..."

Tao Qingfeng apologized for the interruption, and the technical team leader quickly came back and said: Tao Qingfeng is sorry to let Tao Qingfeng see such a chaotic scene.This is the first time Tao Qingfeng has seen the office scene of a modern urban office building: all kinds of figures (although Tao Qingfeng doesn’t understand what those little dolls are, but they look expensive at first glance), posters, green radishes, U pillows, strange Plastic white puppets, messy digital products that can hit at least ten in the past when throwing a ball, folding beds next to the workstations, instant coffee, tea cans and energy bars like hills in the turntable area.Tao Qingfeng thought: Every industry is not easy.

Tao Qingfeng mainly wanted to check with the technicians in the conference room, which parts of the design list could not be realized.This is a martial arts drama, and it doesn't need as many special effects beams as fantasy.They also completed many martial arts moves by themselves.The first thing to do in the later stage is to erase the wire of the wire, which does not need to be discussed.The second is to put together the interaction between Tao Qingfeng's two roles and erase the little green man. This does not need to be discussed.What needs to be discussed is that we couldn't get the scene in Hengma Film and Television City, so we had to shoot in the green screen, waiting for the many antique backgrounds added in the later stage.For example, there are scenes such as Liuyun Mountain with high wind and wind, the banks of the Yangtze River with beacon fires, Xingchuan Plain, and Guazhou Ferry.

In total, there are more than 100 scenery to be added with special effects.The technicians take turns looking at the list and go through it in no time.At first glance, those descriptions are very clear and straightforward, and there is no obstacle in the "input" module.

All that's left is the "output" module.

"It will take about five months." The technical team leader thought about it and said to Tao Qingfeng.Generally speaking, the post-production time is three months to half a year.In addition to the soundtrack, dubbing, review and other links, if the speed is fast, all the processing can be completed in one year.

Tao Qingfeng discussed: "Can it be four months? Leave one month to adjust?"

The technical team leader smiled wryly and said: "If the special effects production is reworked, it would be a sunk cost before. And we have other orders." The implication is that the price is a one-shot deal. If Party A wants to continue to modify, it needs to add money. .This is different from graphic design that can be modified back and forth (although graphic practitioners also want to hit people very much when encountering such customers).The cost of modeling many special effects scenes is high, and it cannot be changed at the customer's discretion, and there is no one-click generation method.So the early communication description is very important.This is also an unwritten rule in the industry. Even the game company that made the eye-catching CG cannot ask for rework.Because there is no time left.

Tao Qingfeng said: "I heard from colleagues in the editing team that before these scenes are actually produced, there will be... concepts?"

The concept map is generally the rough effect map drawn by the artist before the actual modeling, which is a reference for modeling ideas.But because the actual modeling is still very different from the original painting, the team generally does not release the original artist's concept drawing to the client, for fear that the other party will insist on fully realizing it, which will cause a lot of trouble.

The technical team leader said euphemistically: "Our concept map...is for internal communication only."

Tao Qingfeng pondered: "Is there anything we can do here to help you speed up your modeling?"

From Tao Qingfeng's sincere eyes, the technical team leader saw an emotion that he hadn't seen for a long time. It was not to force them to shorten the cycle, nor was it to force them to rework.It was just an emotion that was purely about getting things done.

Technicians are actually the easiest to be moved by such emotions.Because in essence, they are the same kind of people.No matter how much you earn or how little you earn, the purest aesthetic pursuit of this job is just the visual effect brought by the reality of the model.

The technical team leader was moved and said: "Then tell us about the content of the TV series, let us understand more."

Tao Qingfeng then narrated the story he acted in, which felt like he had already lived in his blood.It is about a river separating the southern and northern kingdoms, a period of national feud and a blood debt, and two innocent babies who are separated by a natural moat and connected by blood.It tells about the deep and violent emotional turmoil of young knights, caught in the vortex of love and hatred.It talks about martial arts' strange conspiracies, people's hearts are sinister, and there is finally a ray of human struggle in the darkness.

Tao Qingfeng already knew all the ups and downs of this drama, and he also polished up all the scene descriptions that required special effects, so when describing those scenes, he used more graphic expressions.Although it took less than half an hour to speak, the faces of the technicians were already shining with infection, and they could make up the expressions of the picture.After Tao Qingfeng finished speaking, he asked some more details.

Although Tao Qingfeng did not understand technically, he actually conveyed the perceptual knowledge to these team members very well.Although perceptual knowledge cannot play a decisive role, it has an important impact on the attitude, mood and understanding of these technicians.

This led to the special effects team not only completing the original five-month workload in four months, but even performing supernormally. Some rookies who were relatively raw before actually surpassed the average level, creating a very beautiful scenery for this show. .They just muddled through other orders before, and they had to be led by others, lacking motivation.But after listening to Tao Qingfeng's explanation, it is equivalent to getting very good first-hand information. They glow with unimaginable enthusiasm and have a very clear demand orientation, which has indeed greatly promoted their work.

After the final evaluation, the final effect produced by this intermediate-level technical team has reached the average level of the high-end team of Impression of Impressions.The technical team leader gets a promotion and the members get a raise.

And the level of special effects of "The Witch" is naturally higher than expected.

The second thing Tao Qingfeng went to discuss about the later stage was music.

The soundtracks of some TV dramas are purchased from commercial music libraries, but most TV dramas choose to make their own soundtracks to avoid colliding with BGM of other dramas.

The biggest effect of the soundtrack on the film is to set off the atmosphere and exaggerate the emotions.It is best to achieve the effect of sound and picture fusion and complement each other.The Blueberry producer hired a team called "Sizhu Music Xiaozhu" to create the soundtrack for the play.This music team has been responsible for many soundtrack projects such as film and television, games, etc., which is characterized by national style and national instrumental music.

When Tao Qingfeng went to meet with the head of the music team of "Sizhu Xiaozhu", he unexpectedly found that the other party already had a lot of ideas, based on their general understanding of the story.

The person in charge of the music team also looked unexpectedly young, under 30 years old, he said to Tao Qingfeng: "Thanks to your long Weibo, we were immediately inspired by four recurring themes after reading it, which are pure, bright , Killing and Dreaming, a total of about [-] pieces of music are expected to be created. Mainly use folk instruments such as clarinet, guzheng, qin, Xiao, suona, pipa, etc.”

Tao Qingfeng was amazed that he could come up with such a rich music in such a short period of time, and couldn't help saying: "It's hard to imagine that you are involved in music production at the last stage, as if you only have ideas after watching the material at any time .”

The person in charge of the music team said: "Generally speaking, the idea is not so clear. Your few articles combing the original works and outlining the characters' Weibo have helped us a lot. After all, for many TV dramas, music is just Simply play different melodies in different parts. But a truly excellent plot soundtrack must undertake the characterization of the characters in the narrative, the rendering of the atmosphere, and the transition in the plot. In terms of creation, there must be no slack in the slightest of."

Tao Qingfeng agreed: "No wonder your music team has produced so many things at such a young age. I heard that you have already made two demo songs. I came today just to listen to them."

It has only been three years since Sizhu Music Xiaozhu officially entered the film and television industry, but it has already made soundtracks for seven or eight dramas, and the quality has not been diluted and perfunctory.The person in charge said: "Actually, for us, every piece of music is a very real and long process...the sample song is this one. To be honest, apart from the producer who talked about cooperation at the beginning, all subsequent communications were actually I finished it with you. You are young, so you can take the lead. Director Tao."

Tao Qingfeng shook his head and said, "I can't afford to be a director, it's everyone's credit." Tao Qingfeng took the earphones and listened.

This piece of music is called "Liuyun Mountain". It is the scene music that Yu Shanhai played in his youth. He grew up in Liuyun Mountain. This is the place where his uncle led the Wulin League. It has a beautiful natural environment and represents the brilliance of the southern martial arts. weather scene.At the beginning of the music, there are birdsong and water sounds, and there are only a few strings, but these few items fully reveal the tone of the music.The middle part turns ethereal and bright, which can play a very good role in narrative connection.

Tao Qingfeng took off the earphones and commented: "It fits very well. You can tell which scene the music should go with as soon as you listen to it." In the theme of "Falling" cycle, this song has a key change, it is called "Liuyun Mountain·Blood". You should also listen to it."

Tao Qingfeng took the earphones again and listened to him play another sample song on the phone.The opening is a majestic and tragic symphony, and the sound of arrows and dysprosiums blazed across the air from time to time. If the melody just now feels light and elegant and full of imagination, then this group of shifts gives people a feeling of anxiety and tension.From the solemn and heavy melody at the beginning to the lamentation and vicissitudes later, the melody can completely fit the scenes of the upheaval and confrontation in Liuyun Mountain.

Tao Qingfeng took off the earphones, nodded and said, "With the quality of these two songs as a guarantee, I can rest assured."

The person in charge of the music team said: "It is also difficult for us to see such a complete work as a rough cut sample. Its story and emotion are clearly and accurately conveyed, unlike many semi-finished works that only vaguely point to the concept. Those works It depends on the post-production dubbing, soundtrack and special effects to complete the effect they can’t do but want to achieve. But they forget that the post-production is just icing on the cake, not a timely help.”

Tao Qingfeng was deeply inspired, and with this kind of mood, he started to dub himself in the later stage.

The show did not do live radio.Because the site environment is too noisy, and there is interference from the sound of the blower.It was originally planned to be handed over to the dubbing team later.But Tao Qingfeng decided to do the dubbing himself after analyzing the pros and cons of actors speaking their own lines and voice actors speaking for them.

Line skills should be a basic skill for an actor, but the contrast between the "exquisite performance" of the dubbing teachers in the entertainment industry and the "embarrassing excellent reading" of the actors has formed a very exaggerated contrast, creating an absurd phenomenon: some very The popular actor's line skills are not even up to the entry level.

Tao Qingfeng's line skills naturally needed practice.He read his lines on the set, in fact, mainly to match the emotions and movements during the acting, and also to make the mouth shape match.But if you really want to dub it yourself, you need to read it sentence by sentence.Tao Qingfeng's deep understanding allows him to basically grasp emotions, but how to convert this "understanding" into a proper form of pronunciation, how to control the tone and airflow, these all require professional study before reaching a relatively high level.

Fortunately, I matched my role with clear emotions, so that although he still needs to sharpen his professional skills, he matched it very naturally.

Not everyone in the crew can dub themselves (Tao Qingfeng has persuaded Du Yue and Bai Yiyi to do so), but other supporting roles and group performances require the participation of the dubbing team.So the blueberry producer arranged a cooperation with a dubbing studio.

The person in charge of this dubbing studio called "Miaoyin Shengfang Factory" is also a very capable dubbing actor, who usually only plays the leading role. The protagonists of "The Witch" are all dubbed by the actors themselves. The person in charge did not participate, but only assigned other supporting roles to colleagues in the studio.

Tao Qingfeng wanted to ask him for professional dubbing knowledge, which cannot be learned in a day or two.However, Tao Qingfeng can also increase the skill of chatting more than nothing by taking advantage of the work handover.

The person in charge of the dubbing team expressed surprise when he saw the script lines of the supporting role sent by Tao Qingfeng.

"The handover of dubbing work is usually done by the director. It's really rare for someone like you to be both a director and an actor at such a young age. However, I think this should be the norm." Responsible for the dubbing team People are thoughtful.

Tao Qingfeng followed what he said, and said, "I don't know if my understanding is correct: you are a very capable dubbing actor, so you have also become a dubbing director for many TV dramas."

The person in charge of the dubbing team said: "The dubbing studios in the industry, whether they are their own bosses or hired as managers, basically come from this profession. Dubbing is a highly professional profession. A profession is very professional. Strong, you can't let laymen direct experts. You actors should be like this. In fact, many of you actors have retired and come back to become directors. It is a kind of guidance from experts to experts." The person in charge of the dubbing team said: "If you I want to go this way in the future, and now I have started to lay the foundation very early."

Tao Qingfeng smiled wryly and said, "I feel like I was driven out of the market, but it's unbelievable that I made it in the end. I actually want to ask you about a problem that bothers me the most when I'm dubbing myself. I play I have two characters, their voices are different. I set up two completely different voice lines for them. But many times when talking, one voice cannot be maintained, and the tone of the other person will be strung together. How can I solve this problem?"