Back to the Republic of China as a director

In the past, the most popular film in the West could be screened in Shanghai within seven to ten days at the earliest after being screened overseas.

With Ji Shuangyu's current popularity, it is natural for everyone to ask for a simultaneous screening.Even if Bai Liyan didn't speak up, Ji Shuangyu would discuss it with him.

In fact, Ji Shuangyu also attaches great importance to the box office of each region, it is all money... Ahem, and it is a very happy thing that the stories she shoots are liked.

Ji Shuangyu looked down on Bai Liyan's misery as if he had been abused too much!Same as Xu Xinyue!

Bai Liyan stayed in the capital for two more days, and he and Xu Xinyue really seemed to hate each other.

Before leaving, Ji Shuangyu gave him the finished poster to take back. The base map was made a long time ago, the title of the film has been set as "Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water", and the text is added.

Ji Shuangyu also told him that the easter eggs made this time also took into account that they will be played in multiple regions, and made several versions.

Bai Liyan was about to cry, making money with Ji Shuangyu is simply too happy, too many tricks...

"Really? Really? Really? Can I take a look first?"

Ji Shuangyu's easter eggs are very popular with overseas audiences, and the "Ancient Capital" easter eggs spread the name of the ace pigeon in the book all over Europe and America. "Ask the Blue Sky" itself did not shoot Easter eggs, but when it was screened, a tidbit of all the members gathering was added, which was also very popular.

It seems that the fragments of the rest of the story can cause such a big response, and it seems that it is not simply because of watching an extra episode for free.It also made other filmmakers a little unexpected, so they did a lot of research.

Now, Ji Shuangyu also said that he had made several versions, and Bai Liyan was keenly aware that the audience must be more convinced.

"You'll see it after shooting, and it's still on the editing stage." Ji Shuangyu said.

"Okay, okay, then we will not disclose whether there are Easter eggs in the early stage, and only guide the audience to guess whether "Flowers in the Mirror and Water Moon" will continue the model of "Ancient Capital". In this way, they will be happier when they see it, and then promote each National Easter eggs are different. If you want to see Easter eggs from other countries, you need to wait until later to re-screen, let’s make a remake..."

Bai Liyan murmured that he had already made a plan. When he was not beaten by Ji Shuangyu, his IQ was still normal, and he had already begun to look forward to the lively scene after the publicity.

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"Flowers in the Mirror and Water in the Water" is scheduled to be released on May [-]th, and the promotional period has begun.

Long before their official promotion, there were already countless voices, such as sound films, color films, sci-fi films... These are all brand new to Chinese films.

Especially for science fiction, the early themes were basically fantasies about space travel, superpowers, aliens, etc.

What will Ji Shuangyu shoot, what will his science fiction be like, will there be high-rise buildings like New York in the story?In the cold gray future city, there are many more factories in China, and even the technology to fly into outer space?

Also, what kind of shooting technique did he use, will it look crude and ridiculous because it is not as good as Western technology?

In the Huaxia newspapers and periodicals, compared with the general public, the critics have a little bit of worry in anticipation, and their mood is quite complicated.

However, when the poster of "Flowers in the Mirror and Moon in the Water" was posted, most of their doubts were instantly resolved.

The main body of this poster seems to be a real scene shot, which is a place familiar to Chinese people, the center of belief in the capital area, and the famous Jinding Miaogan Mountain.

Among the green hills are scattered temples and shrines. Under the presentation of color film, the reality is even more restored, with red walls and green tiles, green hills and clouds, and the composition of the picture is extremely beautiful.

But it is very different from reality.

The temple has been transformed into an apron, and there are several futuristic spaceships parked, glowing with metallic light, and the fuselage is also spray-painted with lotus flowers, which is a bit more mysterious. A huge translucent Buddha statue hangs in the air, and in the distance is The dense planting towers towering into the sky and the buildings hidden in the turquoise form a vast background, almost covering the temples.

The picture combines ancient and technology, reality and illusion, which makes people feel incredible.

All people in the capital can be sure that there is no helipad on the Golden Summit!There are no magical buildings around!

"This... how did you make it? You can't really build so many scenes, can you?"

"Will this scene also appear in the film?"

"So why is the Buddha statue so big?"

Knowing the director like Xu Xinyue, when the poster was going to be put up in the theater, he also asked with a dazed face: "What kind of science and technology is this?"

"Oh... There are models and drawings. Just pay attention to the proportion of the model. If it is too small, you can use a lens to assist in shooting. There is also a good scene drawn on the glass plate. When shooting, the real scene and the painted scene are shot together. Come down. As long as the actors pay attention to the relationship between distance and perspective, they will look real." Ji Shuangyu explained a few words to Xu Xinyue, and said that Xu Xinyue didn't understand more, and let him know that the spaceship was not built in Miaogan Mountain That's it.

With the realistic portrait skills of the prop group, it is really integrated and extremely real in the film and poster.This scene did not appear for a particularly long time, but it took them a long time to experiment and produce, striving to do the best with crude technology.

In modern times, rendering on a computer is enough. Now, it really wastes a lot of energy. People in the future will understand these physical special effects techniques. Ultraman also has similar techniques for fighting monsters.

"It's a spectacle!" Xu Xinyue murmured, "Does the story happen here?"

"No." Ji Shuangyu said lightly, "Because this shot costs the most money, it's used as a poster." It's not impossible to have all the scenes like this, but this movie may take three years to make...

Xu Xinyue: "..."

It's just a poster, and the audience is already blown up. The Huaxia audience can't wait to use a magnifying glass to look at each building and discuss the details. They are especially concerned about the planting tower. After all, there are thousands of years of farming civilization.

But in any case, after seeing the poster, compatriots no longer need to worry that the special effects of "Flowers in the Mirror and Water in the Water" are not strong enough.

As for foreign audiences, they also read the original scenery of Mount Miaogan published in the newspaper, and besides discussing the message revealed by the poster itself, they also discussed the title of the film.

Flowers in the mirror, water moon, and Chinese idioms, the translation will inevitably lose some of the original flavor, and the versions vary from country to country, because Ji Shuangyu often uses Chinese-style metaphors, which has also led many loyal movie fans to start learning Chinese culture and language.This time even the title of the film is a Chinese idiom, so they naturally have something to discuss.

Such a lively scene is indeed a scene of people's anticipation that has never been seen before in a movie, and even the poster can be studied.You know, this is still an era that doesn't pay much attention to posters, so that people can't even see the original pictures in the future, and can only imagine.

On the night before the ticketing, some even brought their bedding to sleep outside the box office and lined up.

No matter what era it is in, the fans are so enthusiastic!At this time, famous actors are acting, even if it is raining or snowing, there are people who insist on queuing up to buy tickets.In order to be the first to see "Flowers in the Mirror and Moon in the Water", they are willing to sleep on the street.

Because Kunlun Bookstore also held an activity to buy books and buy movie tickets, not only movie theaters but also bookstores were queuing up... Tickets could not be bought through normal channels, so everyone wanted to try their luck.

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On May [-], China time, due to different time zones, everyone's viewing time cannot be exactly the same, but fortunately, communication is not as developed as later generations, so there is no need to worry about being spoiled in advance.

Beijing, Paris, New York, Berlin...

Countless fans flocked to theaters in various cities.

Director Anatole lives in his hometown in the country when he is not working on filming, and he also plans to go to the city to watch movies.

He has three tickets here, which were given by the film company he signed with. Anatole, an older unmarried bachelor, decided to take his father and mother to watch the latest work of his good teacher and helpful friend whom he has never met.

"I'm going to my neighbor's house to show off. They said they couldn't get tickets for the premiere. I like Huaxia movies very much, although I seem to have only watched two... Look, this is the Huaxia painting I bought. It's in the market. I bought it, they said they just got off the boat." Anatole's father held a rare movie ticket and talked on the phone long-windedly.

Anatole has no idea, his mind is full of movies, because these days he is thinking about the color narrative that Ji Shuangyu said.

"What are you thinking about?" Mother pushed Anatole, "Still wondering what color is better for you, black and white, sound or silent?"

Even she has heard a little about the quarrel in the film industry.

Anatole didn't know how to explain it. The sound film had already declared victory... Black and white and color were fighting, but... well, he nodded indiscriminately.

Mother: "You people are really complicated. You can make whatever you want. Ji Shuangyu makes color movies, you make black and white movies, Ji Shuangyu makes sound movies, and you make silent movies... You all have a bright future!"

Anatole: "..."

Anatole: "...I don't want to make silent films!!"

Feeling suffocated for a while, Anatole always felt that his mother's words were very ominous.

The movie was about to start, Anatole walked into the theater with his mother on his arm, sat down, and heard the expectant discussions from other audience members.

After the theater lights dimmed, all these sounds disappeared, and everyone waited for the screening with bated breath.

The screen lit up, and the impressive Kunlun Mountain icon flashed.

In the first picture, the green hills are emerald, and the birds are flying around the forest.

The camera passed the flowers and animals in the beautiful mountains and forests. Everything is so quiet and simple, which is a reasonable beauty—Ji Shuangyu, Ji Shuangyu, you are really the ambassador of China's tourism promotion.

Overseas audiences watched and thought so.

Moreover, because it is a color film this time, it is more sensory stimulating in terms of color. The misty green hills, blue clouds and green waters are clearly layered, and the deep purple bouquets are stained with dew. China in the painting.

Some keen viewers have noticed that the colors of this film seem... not so bright?

Since the advent of color movies, filmmakers have mostly made it a little more colorful to make the audience scream, rather than thinking about restoration or harmony.

But now, audiences only feel that the color of the film makes people feel extremely comfortable, high-end, romantic, without any discordant or dazzling places, but they are still impressive.Only by comparing, will you find out how superficial it was to cheer for bright colors in the past.

The surrounding audience can't wait to plunge into this real and dreamy world, which is enough to prove that this film complies with the law of color everywhere.Anatole thought.

He is also studying color recently. He sees more than ordinary audiences and thinks from different angles.

Compared with the previous color films, these colors are not only different in matching, but also give people a...very Chinese feeling.Could it be that because he knew that this was taken by Ji Shuangyu, he had preconceived it too much?

——Actually, Anatole didn't think too much about it, it was Ji Shuangyu's deliberate design!

Different colors bring different emotions to people. For example, red makes people excited, orange yellow is like sunshine and warm, orange red is like flame...

Colors also represent different cultures. China is still green, and green is the first of the five colors. Five colors match five elements, and blue also belongs to the east. In "Mirror Flowers, Water Moon", many green tones are used.

Furthermore, the human eye can see millions of colors, even the same color, due to the purity, brightness, and even the light of the viewing time, there will be differences.

When it is included in a movie, it will also be affected by the light source, environment, lens, negative, developing and other steps during shooting. It is almost, maybe not the case.

Ji Shuangyu made so many preparations during the shooting, and led the students to conduct countless experiments, referring to ancient cultural relics and paintings for color selection, to complete the current color score.

So, the colors they see are red, purple, yellow...

To be more precise, it is concubine color, lilac, and light yellow.

In one tone, there are night rains that dye the sky water "green", grass colors that enter the curtain "green", and others that blow all over the south bank of the river "green"!

This is why, when Anatol and many viewers saw it, they would subconsciously associate it with Huaxia.

In Ji Shuangyu's era, some directors imitated the color tone of classical oil paintings, but he wanted to use the ancient colors of China's millennium to reflect the beautiful future world in his imagination.

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Soon, the camera was raised, and the ancient gate of the temple appeared in everyone's eyes. If they didn't know clearly that this was a science fiction film, the audience would have thought it was another Chinese martial arts film.

In fact, there are indeed people who can't bear their temper and haven't read the posters, muttering in a low voice: "Why does it look like ancient times..."

——The China fever during this period has led to anyone who doesn't know anything about China, and the dynasties can be roughly divided.

Before the voice finished speaking, the whole temple complex could be seen from the camera. Together with the futuristic building complex high into the clouds at the back, the sun was shining, and the spaceship reflected light.

The bell in the temple rang six times, and the holographic projection device above the front ping flashed once. Accompanied by the buzzing religious praise, a huge translucent light blue Buddha statue appeared above the temple, as if overlooking the entire mountain.Such a setting reminds the audience of the title "Flowers in the Mirror and Moon in the Water".

In the next second, a huge mechanical whale swam out of the clouds and mist.Its body was as big as a temple, like a fabled kun, with lightning flashes between its fins, and it dived uncontrollably to the ground——

It was such a grand and exciting picture that the audience's heartbeat accelerated involuntarily, and their eyes greedily captured every picture.This future world is so magical, not only the colors are taken from ancient times, but what can human beings do, like the immortals in ancient legends?

The camera cuts through the eyes of the whale, showing that the steel giant is controlled by humans.

The Huaxia boy sitting among them had a pale face, and the clothes on his body were simple cut and easy to move around, which was quite different from the present.The neckline, embroidery and other details all retain the Chinese style, which is also unique in beauty. The identity card reminds him of his name: Xiaoshen.

He thumped the control panel and anxiously tried to save it. On the screen, the sound waveform flickered, and the artificial intelligence assistant read out his own calculations, proving that the impact was irreversible. "...It is recommended to take emergency precautions, Master."

The voice was clear and indifferent, with a slight electric current.The audience can also imagine that although it is different from the robots in the current sci-fi films, this one is probably not human.

"What danger to avoid, the escape pod is gone!" The boy watched the mechanical fog whale pass through the translucent Buddha statue and inevitably crashed into the temple, so he could only close his eyes and scream, "Shang Jiyu, Hurry up, hug me, hug me!!”

The scene cuts quickly, the music adds to the atmosphere, the situation is so urgent that the audience can't help worrying, won't they get hurt?

The mechanical fog whale also trampled on half of the temple, making a loud bang, and a close-up shot of bricks and stones splashed, which seemed to hit the hearts of the audience.

At the same time, the AI ​​system named Shang Jiyu controls the deformation of the mechanical seat, and the second before Xiaoshen falls to the ground, it wraps around the owner like an armor.Under the impact, there was no injury at all.

"I got you."

Anatol was able to analyze that this part should have been shot through editing and special effects. It looks like a real temple has been smashed, but it is basically a model with realistic proportions and textures.

But it doesn't matter!

Like all the audience, he was very excited to watch.

Editing, dubbing, models, sound effects and other work are meticulous, and the picture may not be as real as it is, but it is already extremely impactful.

People's vision is deliberately guided to focus on the key points they want them to see. At this moment, no one will think, this is a model, how did it come out?

All they know is, fish, big fish...

The author has something to say:

Mom: Ji Shuangyu makes color movies, you make black and white movies, Ji Shuangyu makes sound movies, you make silent movies, you all have a bright future!

Anatole: ? ? ?Only he is bright!