Chapter 287 Special Effects Studio
It is already December, and it rained again last night. Even in the south, the weather is still very cold.
Yang Ye and Chen Yulian stood in the cold wind waiting for the ferry.
He was wearing a coat from Chen Yulian’s brother, a woolen hat, and a pair of sunglasses, but no one recognized him.
Chen Yulian pursed her lips and looked at the gray sea, silent.
"Have you decided?" Yang Ye asked.
"Yes!" Chen Yulian nodded heavily and stopped talking.
Yang Ye stretched out a hand and put her little hand into her pocket to warm it.
As more and more people took the morning ferry, Yang Ye let go of Chen Yulian's hand.
Chen Yulian is now a celebrity. Many neighbors know her and nod to her in good faith, but they do not disturb her too much.
Not long after, Li Saifeng walked over with two dark circles under her eyes. After seeing Chen Yulian, he waved to her from a distance.
"Sister Alian, didn't you go to my place to sleep last night?"
Chen Yulian said: "I played cards with my sister and the others until very late, so I didn't bother you. , squeezed with my sister.”
“Actually, I didn’t sleep at all last night!”
“Why didn’t you sleep?”
"I'm so excited that I can't sleep. I didn't expect that I would become Master's apprentice!"
"You are very spiritual. If you study Kung Fu hard with Master Qi, you might become even more famous than Ah Hong in the future!"
"Haha!" Li Saifeng looked longingly and suddenly patted his head: "Oh, where is the master?"
Yang Ye pulled down his sunglasses and said with a smile: "Isn't the master here? Here it is!”
Li Saifeng said in surprise: “Master, I thought you were gone!”
"My car broke down. Where can I go? I can only take the ferry with you."
"What about your car?"
"Leave it at A-Lian's house. I'll pick it up later." Just ask someone to get it!"
"Oh!"
"Woo..." The whistle blew, the ferry slowly came over, and people got on board.
Yang Ye was too lazy to squeeze. After everyone had gone up, he Shi Shiran walked up.
At this moment, I saw a beautiful figure running over quickly in the distance.
She boarded the ferry in a hurry, holding her knees with her hands and panting. It was the Ayu who talked to Chen Yulian when Yang Ye sent Chen Yulian home for the first time.
“Fortunately, I caught up!”
After panting for a while, Ayu straightened up and said in surprise: “Sister Alian, Aman, you are here too!”
Chen Yulian smiled and said: "What a coincidence, Ayu, what are you doing so early?"
Li Saifeng rushed to say: "Ayu is filming with Producer Mai now."
Chen Yulian said in surprise: "Then we The three of us are now a company?”
Ayu smiled and said, “Yes, I also looked for you, but your crew was out on location and couldn’t find you. By the way, I changed my stage name now. "My name is Wen Bixia. You can just call me Axia from now on."
Chen Yulian said with a smile: "Wen Bixia, you can come to me if you have any difficulties in the company."
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Wen Bixia giggled and said: "Sister Alian, this is what I've been waiting for! That Producer Mike is so cruel. Can you tell him to stop scolding me?"
< br>Chen Yulian laughed dumbly: "I can't do this, Producer Mak scolded me too."
Li Saifeng helped: "Yes, I was scolded by Producer Mak too!"
Wen Bixia said with a sad face: "Oh, I get scolded every day when I start work, and I almost go crazy. Why is that Mike Producer so perverted!"
Chen Yulian thought of Yang Ye standing next to her, Wen Bi Xia spoke ill of Mai Dangxiong behind his back, which would be troublesome if it caused Yang Ye's displeasure. He quickly changed the topic and said, "I heard that Producer Mai went to make a movie recently. Are you following him to make a movie?"< br>
Wen Bixia said: "Yes, I was walking on the street, and a man named Li Dawei stopped me and said he was a director. He asked me if I wanted to film, so I did."
Li Saifeng on the side She joked: "Axia, you must be so beautiful that you surprised Director Li."
Wen Bixia touched her white face and said, "You are so beautiful!"
< br>Chen Yulian said: "It's good to sell the film produced by the producer. If you perform well, you might become famous when the movie is released."
Wen Bixia sighed and said: "I I don’t know what I’m shooting every day!”
Li Saifeng asked: "Aren't you the heroine?"
Wen Bixia said: "Producer Mai said that among the four girls, whoever performs well will be the heroine."
Li Saifeng said in surprise: "Can it still be like this?"
Chen Yulian said: "Maybe Producer Mak wants to inspire your competitive spirit, so you have to perform well!"
Wen Bixia He sighed and said, "But I don't think I have much chance. That Lin Biqi is good at acting. And she is from Kowloon Walled City, and she and Mr. Yang are neighbors. I heard that in our company, people from the Walled City are superior to others. Producer Mai You must pay more attention to her.”
Chen Yulian said quickly, "Don't listen to those people's gossip. There is no such thing. Mr. Yang is very fair!"
Li Saifeng also supported: "Yes, the master is so kind!"
"Master?"
Chen Yulian explained with a smile. Only then did Wen Bixia find out that Li Saifeng actually worshiped Yang Ye as his master, and she was immediately envious.
While talking, the boat arrived at Shau Kei Wan, and the passengers filed off the boat. Yang Ye quietly said to Chen Yulian: "Alian, I'm leaving first!"
Chen Yulian said: "Don't take Axia's words to heart."
Chen Yulian just wanted to tell Wen Bixia that Yang Ye was on the ship, but it would be even more troublesome once the passengers on the ship recognized Yang Ye thing.
Yang Ye smiled and said: "How could I care about a little girl? I'm just afraid of scaring her, so I won't go with you."
Chen Yulian thought the same, Wen Bi Xia said so excitedly, if she knew that Yang Ye was beside her, she might be so scared.
“Thank you on behalf of Axia!”
Yang Ye smiled: "Don't take it to heart!"
After saying that, he quickly got off the boat and disappeared into the crowd.
......
Li Saifeng came to Yang Ye's office and sweetly shouted: "Master!"
"Aman, you didn't tell that Axia, I was on the boat, right?”
"No!"
"Well, don't tell her about this."
Yang Ye took out a script and said: "Take this script back and study it carefully. Recently. The company plans to co-produce a big drama with Japan's Kadokawa Pictures, and you will play the heroine."
"Huh?" Li Saifeng was shocked!
“Ah, what, behave well, this is an international cooperation, don’t screw up and embarrass me.”
"Yes, Master!" "You tell Director Xu Xiaoming and let him finish filming your scene within three days. Then you go to the Yang Family Martial Arts Hall and practice with me!"
"Yes!"
"Well, let's go!"
Yang Ye waved his hand, and Li Saifeng took two steps. When he opened the door, he suddenly turned back and said: "Master, you treat me really well." OK! ”
Yang Ye smiled: "I am your master. If I don't treat you well, who should I treat well?"
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Not long after Li Saifeng left, Lan Nai came.
In the movie "Maurion", there is a scene where a messenger from hell takes off his human skin and turns into a monster. It is so strong that it makes people say "wtf".
However, in Yang Ye's opinion, the effect of that scene was still a bit rough.
That's how Hong Kong movies are, you can fool them if you can, but they won't last long.
In the current world film industry, Hollywood ranks first in the world and Hong Kong ranks second in the world.
But Hollywood has always been striving for excellence, spending a lot of money and developing new technologies, while Hong Kong films can fool them whenever they can.
Finally, in the 1990s, Hollywood was completely formed, and Hong Kong films also exploded in an instant.
Yang Ye wanted to prepare for a rainy day, so he opened a "Zi Qi Dong Lai Special Effects Company" early, and also poached many talents everywhere and asked them to engage in research and development every day.
This company has been losing money, and Yang Ye doesn't care about losing money, he can afford it.
But the key is... I can't get a job.
Today's Hong Kong film companies don't pay much attention to special effects production. Even if Yang Ye's "Terminator" performs well in the global market, everyone's first thought is to follow the trend and make a few bad movies to fool around. , take the opportunity to make some money.
In this case, Yang Ye can only do it by himself. Nowadays, the ancient costume martial arts dramas produced by ATV have to add special effects. Nothing else, just to practice for the special effects company.
In addition, of course, I invest in making special effects movies myself.
"The Terminator" was a science fiction blockbuster, and now this "Peacock King" is a fantasy blockbuster.
Yang Ye took Lan Naicai to the Ziqi Company and saw a handsome, gentle-looking middle-aged man babbling away and learning opera from the radio.
This man's name is Yang Mingxin, Xia Meng's younger brother, a second-generation rich man. Because he has no worries about food and clothing, he has nothing to do all day long.
He usually likes to tinker with weird stuff, so Yang Ye asked him to manage the special effects company.
In fact, he didn't care much, because the special effects company had little business, and the special effects artists took the tasks assigned by Yang Ye and usually were busy with their own affairs, and Yang Mingxin couldn't control them.
However, the company must have a talker. I don’t feel at ease if I leave it to someone else, and there’s nothing better than leaving it to a wealthy and idle man like Yang Mingxin.
Yang Ye shouted: "Third brother!"
"Dr. Yang, why are you here today?"
"This is director Lan Naicai, bring him here. Look at the props, how is your human skin doing?"
Yang Mingxin and Lan Naicai shook hands and said, "Let's go and take a look!"
Yang Ye said: "Let's take Director Lan to the showroom to see our works first."
"Okay!"
Yang Mingxin led the way and said as he walked: "We seem to have a business ."
Yang Ye asked with interest: "Who is it?"
"There is a director named Xu Ke who has visited us several times. He wants to film Return of the Pearl. The original poster brought a lot of sketches for "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman" and asked us if we could achieve the special effects he wanted."
Yang Ye smiled and said: "It's not easy. The company has been running for several years, and it is finally going to open in a serious way."
Yang Mingxin said: "That's not necessarily true. Although he has been here several times, but I can see that he hasn't found investment yet."
"His last drama "The Stars" sold very well, and he won the Best Director at the Golden Horse Awards, and he became famous instantly. It shouldn't be difficult to find investment.
But this guy is very ambitious. Maybe he will find a Hollywood special effects team. Think of a way to win this business. It doesn't matter whether you make money or not. We can’t be idle!”
“Okay, leave this to me!”
Yang Mingxin agreed wholeheartedly. While talking, the three of them walked into a showroom. Yang Ye asked Lan Naicai to take a look around.
"Oh my God, this is the Terminator!"
Lan Naicai was immediately stunned by the various types of robots displayed inside.
“Can I touch it?”
“Yes!”
Lan Naicai studied it for a long time before reluctantly leaving to visit other works.
These things are various, including the dummies made during the filming of "Sediq Bale", fake heads, and fake hands, all of which are very realistic.
There is even a fake wild boar, the one that Mona was carrying and running at the beginning of the movie.
Lan Nai didn’t understand why he wanted to make a fake wild boar. How much does it cost to get a real one?
Yang Ye explained: “It’s impossible for a real wild boar to cooperate with the shooting, so we made a fake one. The hair on its body is made of real hair that has been made into a specimen, so it looks very special. Realistic. This wild boar has a secret. Its mouth can be opened and closed, and there is a machine underneath to control it. ”
Yang Ye demonstrated it again, and it turned out that the wild boar was equipped with a mechanism.
"In this case, we can shoot whatever we want. But this is actually an experiment, and our purpose is to accumulate experience. In the future, we will shoot other movies, such as tigers and wolves chasing people. When the time comes, it will come in handy.”
Lan Naicai was so impressed that Yang Ye thought so far!
The further you go, the more surprised you become.
The things in the front were normal, including robots, dummies, and simulated animals. But in the back, a zombie actually appeared.
The zombie was placed at the corner, wearing the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty, with a talisman on its face, its face was pale green, its flesh and blood were blurred, and it was very scary.
It suddenly appeared in front of Lan Naicai, who was so frightened that Lan Naicai's hair stood up and he took several steps back before he recovered.
After watching all the way, Lan Naicai said: "When I watched "Wushe Uprising", I was always curious. You can play from fifteen to fifty without any sense of violation. What is it? How to do it. Now I understand, it turns out that it relies on special effects makeup."
Yang Ye nodded and said with a smile: "Special effects makeup is of great benefit to actors in shaping their characters. It can change the actor's path. Kuan, in terms of age alone, one person can play from a teenager to a hundred years old."
Lan Naicai was impressed and said: "I was exposed to special effects in Japan and later at Shaw Brothers. Photography, but compared to the ones you have here, their models are too crude to be worth mentioning.”
After visiting the showroom, Yang Mingxin took the two of them to a studio, where several staff members were busy.
Yang Ye smiled and waved, indicating that they were busy with their own business.
Then Yang Mingxin led the two of them to a table, pointed at a pile of human skins, and introduced: "These are skin bags we made from foamed latex. They are divided into three types, namely The face skin, the skin of the entire head and the skin from head to toe; the design of the entire skin is made according to the precise body size, curvature and other parameters of the character, which is very realistic
We also make it according to different soft and hard. The skins are made into seven or eight different sizes and textures in terms of thickness, color, and location. If you want to shoot the scene of shedding, you only need to use this very thin skin, divide it into many pieces, and stick them on the neck. Just... various parts of the face, and then shoot them to crack. We have tried it, and the effect is very good!"
Lan Naicai looked at those skin bags again and again, and couldn't help but be amazed.
When he met Yang Mingxin before, he found this guy sitting outside, listening to the radio leisurely, and felt that he was not doing his job properly.
Now it seems that this person is very skilled in his business and is not a gangster.
As for why he didn’t stay inside... Nonsense, it was full of scary props. Except for the serious staff who made the props, no one else could stay there!
Lan Naicai said with admiration: "Young Master Yang, I was still worried about how to film this molting scene before. Now I know that you have been prepared for it. With these props, I will definitely be able to film this scene. The film is done!”
(End of this chapter)