reborn in america

In October, apart from "War of the Witches" continuing to dominate the book market, on another front, the Eden team led by Carroll officially released the Eden 2.0 version to the market at a low price of $39.9 and officially entered the software market. .

This 2.0 version not only inherits the original advantages, but also supports continuous file streaming, users can continue to operate files when downloading, can access multiple networks at the same time, allow multiple files or photos to be downloaded at the same time, support JPEG image format, etc. and other functions.

The most important thing is that Eden 2.0 version adds a main page on the homepage, which adds a lot of commonly used 3W websites, and also leaves space for users to add frequently visited websites by themselves, which greatly reduces the user’s The process of memorizing the URLs of various websites.

After all, the website address is not the name of the website, and there was no search engine at that time. As long as you remember a wrong digit, you will not be able to find the specific website address. This is a very troublesome thing for most people.

But Eden directly helped them solve this problem, which greatly increased the stickiness of users and their favorability for Eden. In addition, because the management of Gopher was in a daze, they actually made a decision to pay for Gopher, which led to a large number of Internet users. It flowed to the World Wide Web, and by the time the Eden 2.0 version was released, the World Wide Web had quickly surpassed Gopher and became the information search system used by the most Internet users.

And Eden took this as an opportunity to quickly become one of the best-selling software in the software sales market. It has to be said that, in addition to the promotion of the World Wide Web by the first edition of Eden, Adam made the "California Times" frequently increase relevant reports to subtly influence readers. concept is also very important.

However, despite this, there are not too many Internet users in the entire United States at present, which greatly restricts the development of Eden, but Adam, Carol and others believe that with the development of time, Eden will become more and more popular. Speed ​​up.

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Compared with success in career and love, Adam undoubtedly falls behind in his studies. Although it doesn't matter much to him whether he gets a degree certificate or not, this major is what he thinks about. So there is no reason to give up.

And Adam, who is in the second year of his studies, can't just listen, he has to move and learn from practice how a film is produced and shot.

Since this is Adam's debut and debut work, it can only be a low-budget movie in terms of scale. Low-budget movies, two kinds of themes are best for newcomers, one is a romance movie and the other is a horror movie.

Romance movies mainly rely on the script and actors. A good script and a few good actors have a great relationship with the finished product of the movie. Adam thinks that he is still lacking in love, so he thought about it for a long time and had to give up.

In addition to love, the remaining choice is naturally horror movies. In fact, apart from well-known scripts, atmosphere (mainly manifested in editing, music and rhythm) is the most important thing in horror movies. A good horror movie, even if The plot is mediocre, but the atmosphere is created well, so it is absolutely impossible to lose money.

To be honest, horror movies are the most promising type of movie in the market, unlike many movies with big investment, famous actors and directors performing their best, plus special effects and publicity, and finally get a good result.

Horror movies are often played on a small scale. After being recognized by the audience, they spread slowly through word of mouth, and finally broadcast on a large scale. They won the top few box office charts and made a lot of money. The reason why I love to make horror and thriller movies is because as long as one hits, it will really make money. Even if it does not gain market recognition, after a small-scale broadcast, it will be enough to recover the copyright through film sales, rental, and selling to TV stations. The cost, after all, is hundreds of thousands, at most a few million, and it is relatively easy to pay back.

However, if Adam wants to make a horror movie, then naturally it is not to make a garbage movie that fools the audience. It cannot be said that it must be a classic, but at least it must be above the standard to meet his requirements for himself.

That being the case, Adam can only think about how to make a horror movie above the standard in many aspects.

However, although horror movies are the favorite subjects of small-budget film companies, they are not just filmed casually. More than [-]% of the horror movies shot in Hollywood every year cannot be shown in cinemas, but directly enter the DVD market. It is a healthy development, unlike the rampant piracy in China, many film companies can earn enough money to cover their costs by selling DVDs and leasing them.

Just like the most famous copycat company, as soon as the shooting plan of a popular Hollywood movie is announced, he will use the shortest time to structure the elements of the blockbuster, and then make a small-cost, low-quality copycat blockbuster, although it cannot enter the cinema, But by confusing the perception of some audiences, he sold a large number of DVDs and made a lot of money.

Excluding those garbage movies that can’t even be shown in the cinema, there are mainly two factions in Western horror movies. One is to follow the line of Hitchcock’s master of suspense and horror, relying on creating an atmosphere and manipulating the emotions of the viewers to achieve horror. Purpose, but in the 21s, this genre was already rare in the market. It was not until the [-]st century, with the strong rise of Chinese director Wen Ziren, that this kind of suspenseful and horror horror movies emerged.

The other is the so-called plasma film. Compared with suspense horror movies, this kind of movie is better to shoot, and it is also the most popular horror movie genre in Western horror movies. The most famous ones are "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Death Comes", "Scream", etc., classic series.

In fact, although plasma films were popular in the world from the 90s to the beginning of the 21st century, and many classic horror series movies appeared, but because of this, the market was flooded with a large number of similar movies, which led to audiences getting tired of such movies and triggered The heyday of the suspenseful horror movie, which showed no signs of abating until Adam came into the world.

Although Adam has a good understanding of this aspect, it is still difficult to decide the direction of shooting for a while.Of course, it is also possible to directly copy the classic series in memory, and this is not difficult for Adam.

However, this is the first film Adam is planning to shoot, and he mainly wants to experience the shooting process. If he plagiarizes, he will not be able to achieve the results he wants, which is not worth the candle.

Since we are not going to plagiarize, then Adam has to work hard to create the script. To create a horror movie script, you must first know some key points of the horror movie. If you write a successful horror movie script, it is the most important thing before shooting. It's too heavy.

Adam admitted that it was difficult for him to come up with some shocking ideas for a while, relying on ideas to eat the market, just like the Reaper series and the Jigsaw series. In this case, he can only find solutions from other places.

As I said before, the most important thing in horror films is the creation of atmosphere. Why is atmosphere creation so important?Because it is necessary to bring the audience into the movie and be able to empathize with them, so that the audience feels that they have become characters in the movie, being hunted down and frightened, and the terrifying result can naturally be achieved.

And what kind of horror film can make the audience feel the most empathetic, that is documentary, or a new type of horror film born around the 21st century-pseudo-documentary horror film. The leader of this type of film is the legendary "Blair Witch". " and "Ghost Story".

You must know that it is only the autumn of 1993, and the film theory of this category has not even come out. It will be initiated by Danish directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Christine Levine, etc. in 1995. The film movement known as the Dogma 95 community slowly affected the film industry, and then produced this category.

However, it does not matter whether there is a theory, just like Charlie Chaplin, the originator of comedy movies, because there are a large number of classic comedies shot by master Chaplin, this has attracted the attention of the theoretical circles, and finally formed a category .

Adam didn't think too much about it, but he found that shooting such a pseudo-documentary is definitely the most suitable for his current level. After all, pseudo-documentaries have always been known for their roughness, shaking and poor editing, and they are called the most unartistic. The category of value, but such a film often makes people believe in its authenticity, and then be affected by it.

After deciding on the film category, Adam began to write the film script. The horror film script of the pseudo-documentary type does not require Adam to work too hard. It only took a few days to complete the rough draft. Officially begin.

First of all, he used his personal connections to find relevant professionals, such as photographers, lighting and makeup artists, etc., and then actors.

In fact, the description of movies in many novels is not accurate. For example, a low-budget movie does not need to go through the actors' union. The director or producer has great power, so you can imagine what results it can cause.

This is why some people would advise those who have just entered Hollywood that they would rather make tertiary-level films of big companies than try some low-cost 'art films', especially those who sacrifice for art in the name of truth. Daqi, a literary film that requires some effort, the corruption in it is simply unsightly.

However, Adam didn't have any ideas, and he didn't need them. Only some snakes would use these to lure and lure those men and women who were unwilling to try their luck, or ignorant, to satisfy their selfish desires.

What Adam values ​​more is of course acting skills. Although low-cost movies are destined to be difficult to attract actors with high acting skills, those awkward performers can still be ruled out. In addition, with his reputation, some young people with good acting skills want to touch Fortunately, there is even no shortage of people who want to use it for personal purposes.

It's just that Adam doesn't have the heart to care about so much, as long as his acting skills pass the test.In order for this movie to be successful, Adam has a lot of things to arrange, such as meeting Carol and asking him to help bury an important pawn.

The author has something to say: Huh, finally accomplished the task of daily update in April.

The update will start every other day tomorrow, let me take a breath and deal with the real things before I talk about it.