Chapter 686: Succubus Sail
"You can go to the United States without worry and study hard with Director Gilbert Little. You don't have to worry about the company's affairs."
Liu Ji sends Guo Fan off On the way to the airport, I said this to Guo Fan.
"Is there no big problem with Boss Wang?" Guo Fan asked.
Boss Wang is an investor and partner of the two. This company was established together with Boss Wang. Without his financial support, Guo Fan would not have been able to get the opportunity to direct at such a young age.
"It's not a big problem. Boss Wang is very supportive of you going to Hollywood to study. We used the name of Hollywood to fool him at first, but now he is very superstitious."
Liu Ji continued: "You have to learn this time. Come back with some real skills, we brothers can do a great job "
Guo Fan said with a smile: "Okay, let's do something big together."
This is Guo Fan's second time to go to Hollywood, but the difference is that this time. This time he went alone and went directly to Little Gilbert's crew as an assistant director.
After Guo Fan arrived in Los Angeles, a staff member from Xianggua Studio received him.
Guo Fan's English is not bad, at least there is no problem in communication, after all, he has practiced.
He asked this staff member: "Do you know what project we are currently working on?"
""The Dark Knight", a Batman movie, is a large-scale production with an investment of 200 million US dollars. "The staff member replied casually.
“Hiss~” Guo Fan took a breath, a big production worth 200 million US dollars, when would he be able to direct such a big production.
After Guo Fan came to Xigua Studio to report, he was quickly assigned to the crew of "The Dark Knight" and then was assigned to be an assistant director on the directing team.
"A big-budget film is indispensable from pre-preparation to shooting to post-production."
Little Gilbert also taught Guo Fan some knowledge about the industrialization of Hollywood films. He led Guo Fan , actually inspecting the production of props.
“In Hollywood, every director has a different style.” Gilbert Jr. said: “Nowadays, green screen technology is becoming more and more advanced. Many things do not actually need to be done and can be done in the green screen studio. Great effect.
But I tend to make real props, not just to look real, but also to create a real world
Look at the Batmobile and the Batmobile. ”
"Watch it."
"How do you feel?"
"Very cool and handsome, but unfortunately, with the current industrial capabilities of the Chinese film industry, we can't make it." Guo Fan said .
Little Gilbert nodded slightly: "We didn't make these things. We contacted the car manufacturers and asked them to make them for us."
"In short, you still have something to gain. Study! ”
In this way, Guo Fan successfully joined the cast of "The Dark Knight". From the very beginning of preparations, he was systematically exposed to Hollywood's industrialized, assembly-line film production model.
Guo Fan also keeps a note of what he learns every day, and reviews and summarizes it repeatedly to train himself.
He also came into contact with IMAX cameras, which are currently not used in China. He was present when this big guy was experimenting with filming.
“Chinese, this camera is very heavy, and the price is as high as several million dollars per unit. You can’t afford to pay for it if it’s damaged.”
Look at Guo Fan’s curious look around As the IMAX camera rolled around, director of photography John Schwartzman kindly reminded me.
Guo Fan said: "I have never seen this thing. John, can you tell me what are the advantages of this camera?"
"Advantages? Of course there are many." John Schwarzman introduced : “This is a 70mm IMAX camera with a larger frame size and higher brightness, presenting Director Gilbert Jr. decided that all action scenes would be done with IMAX cameras, which placed very high demands on our photography.”
“I. Can you try it?" Guo Fan meant if he could touch the IMAX camera.
However, John Schwartzman misunderstood and thought that Guo Fan was going to use an IMAX camera to test shoot a section.
"Do you want to try it? Do you know how to operate it?"
Guo Fan was stunned for a moment. What else can I do if I just touch it?
But he still nodded: "No, but I can learn."
John Schwarzman complained: "If you don't know, you still nod, come here, I will teach you." First of all, when you see that there is no red button, turn on the phone first..."
So when neither party understood what the other meant, Guo Fan used the IMAX camera to complete the first electric shock. He was confused. He was using an IMAX camera now?
"John, does this violate the regulations? And the filming is not cheap, right?" Guo Fan was a little worried.
John Schwarzman said: "No, test shooting is always a part of the preliminary preparations of the photography team. We must be familiar with the performance of the machine before we can use it normally during the official shooting."
Guo Fan felt relieved upon hearing this, and did several more trial shots under the guidance of John Schwartzman.
To sum up, I was very nervous because the IMAX camera was too expensive and too heavy. Guo Fan is not as strong as John Schwartzman, a fat man, and his arms are very sore after being used a few times.
But this was a foreign country and we couldn’t embarrass the Chinese, so Guo Fan endured it.
"The Dark Knight" has a Chinese who studies hard and runs around wherever he needs help. At the same time, you are not ashamed to ask questions, and you must understand things you don’t understand.
Originally, many people were quite impatient, but Guo Fan's sincere attitude moved them, so many people did not mind giving Guo Fan a few words of advice.
In this way, Guo Fan made rapid progress and his learning achievements increased greatly.
By the time the second batch of young directors who went to Hollywood to study came over in October, Guo Fan had already been studying on the set of "The Dark Knight" for half a month.
A group of more than a dozen people came to the venue where "The Dark Knight" was located. They were completely dumbfounded when they looked at the cool Batmobile, Batmobile, and various exquisite equipment.
This group of people is different from the previous group. This group of people were carefully selected by Big Scissors to study.
After the last incident of pretending to be a student, which almost caused a diplomatic accident, Minister Tian specifically told us to be careful with the list. Even if you fortify people, at least you can't let others see it, right?
Put a few smelly fish and rotten shrimps in there, and when people find out, you will be embarrassed.
After what happened last time, no one dared to do that. Therefore, the study personnel sent this time are considered to be somewhat genuine.
But this time the study time is very short, just one week, not as long as last time.
Many of these students from China came to Los Angeles for the first time and were amazed by the advanced industrialization of Hollywood.
They visited the headquarters of major companies such as Paramount, Universal, and Disney, as well as top special effects studios such as Industrial Light and Magic Digital Field.
I also saw James Cameron’s “Avatar” being produced, as well as the strange equipment and motion capture studio.
Of course, at this time they didn’t know that James Cameron was producing “Avatar”.
In fact, the idea of a motion capture studio is not new. As early as when the "Lord of the Rings" series was being filmed in China, little Gilbert built a motion capture studio.
At that time, the motion capture equipment was left in China as damaged, and for a while it became the only motion capture studio in China and even Asia.
However, the production model of Chinese-language films means that there are not many opportunities for this motion capture studio to be used. In so many years, only two directors, Chen Ge and Tsui Hark, have used it twice, and the rest of the time it has been abandoned. , and was eventually used for scientific research.
But from the perspective of motion capture studios in the digital field, the one in China has long lagged behind Hollywood.
(End of this chapter)