“Crack!”
With the sound of "click", the actors present were filled with emotion.
"Thank you all for your hard work during this period. Now I officially announce that our movie has officially wrapped!"
On January 16, all the filming of Wei Lan's first movie in this world was completed and officially entered the post-production stage.
The rest is Wei Lan's own and coordinated work, including editing and music composition.
Although due to the limitations of the director's machine, before exporting a complete holographic film or television work, other people's brain wave consciousness will no longer have the authority to control the holographic world, so this part of the work needs to be done by the director himself, but this does not mean that other staff are not needed.
For example, work such as composing music, which requires professional skills, will not be completed by the director alone.
The soundtrack can be generated by the director's consciousness in the director's machine, as long as it is remembered outside. Wei Lan has ideas and can create them consciously, but because she is not a music major, the soundtrack she generates herself cannot fully satisfy her aesthetic taste.
Wei Lan was known as an all-round genius in his previous life, but he was not a one-man show that could handle all the work.
She is a natural director and the guide of the crew's creativity. She has seen too many scenes in her dreams since she was a child. Her aesthetic level is extremely high. During the entire filming process, she clearly knows what beautiful things are and can communicate with professionals to create them.
To date, this film has been completed. Apart from the necessary data flow expenses, no personal connections or expenses exceeding the budget have been used. The total investment is 8 million yuan, and there is still more than 1 million yuan left.
This is the case when Wei Lan was lucky and the actors' salaries and external production costs were basically only the real "cost price".
Originally, the one million yuan was a stretch for publicity expenses, but Wei Lan still needed to get a good enough soundtrack.
During this period, Wei Lan began to look for film composers. In this regard, with the support of Wei's company, he had a huge advantage. Apart from other things, his network of contacts was unmatched by other small companies. Wei's public relations department had the contact information of almost all the well-known professional composers in the circle, or could get the contact information.
Wei Lan has listened to a lot of demos of musicians that Wei has kept recently, and she was sad to find that the composers she thought were of a level that could match her film's composers were all industry giants, and their prices were at least over a million.
It is impossible to lower the standards, never in this lifetime.
While editing the film, Wei Lan also browsed various original music websites, hoping to find a musician with the right style and get lucky.
Unfortunately, a week has passed and I still have no clue...
Just when Wei Lan was hesitating whether to ask Wei Mingjie for additional investment, the goddess of luck once again descended upon her in an unexpected way.
Speaking of the origin of all this, we have to thank Zhou Wei and director Peng Haobo who snatched the filming rights for the sequel to "Swordsman".
The model of film and television reviews has been progressing with the times. From the initial mouthpiece being completely controlled by major traditional media, to the current Internet era, various film review websites, forums and other online text media, with the rise of video websites, new media videos have also become a new model for film review output.
'Cang Hai Xiao' is a self-media blogger who specializes in professional film reviews.
After all three episodes of "Sword V" were released, a video he made ranked first in the film and television section of D station, and it was also forwarded more than 100,000 times on Weibo.
Video title: 'Why did the reputation of "Sword V" plummet? Compared with "Sword IV", what is the difference?'
After Canghaixiao roughly explained the plots of the two works, he began a comparative analysis.
"Obviously compared to Sword and Fairy IV, Sword and Fairy V has added quite a lot of suspense elements... I checked the director of the sequel, Peng Haobo, and his previous successful works have been suspense-oriented. This director may want to shoot in his own style, so he added these elements. There are two reasons why it failed."
"One is that these suspense elements are not prominent. As a sequel, Sword Five wants to continue the reverse comedy style of the previous one. Too many elements are combined together, resulting in unclear priorities, and the integration is not done well."
"The second reason is that the story-driven core is different... The reason why people feel that the characters in Sword 5 seem to be 'stupid' is because in order to create a suspenseful effect, the suspense set by the director can only be expressed through the characters, showing a scene where everyone is running around because of a mystery."
"In contrast, the actions of the characters in Sword and Fairy 4 all have their own behavioral logic, and all the conflicts and funny elements are caused by coincidences. This kind of coincidence is very bad in a suspense and mystery film, but Sword and Fairy 4 is a comedy. This kind of coincidence brings a sense of absurdity to the drama, which deepens the comedy effect of the series."
"…One is that the theme and the expression method are contradictory, and the other is that they complement each other. It goes without saying which one can bring better film and television effects."
After analyzing the differences in the core of the stories, Canghai Xiao focused his analysis on Sword and Fairy IV.
"The director and screenwriter played a crucial role in this. I specifically looked up the director and screenwriter of this TV series and found that they were the same person. Moreover, this director, Wei Lan, seemed to be a newcomer and had no previous film or television works. This surprised me because from my perspective as a half-film critic, this director and screenwriter has a very strong grasp of TV series, whether it is the plot structure mentioned earlier, the beautiful camera language, or the ubiquitous showmanship in the series."
At this point, Canghai smiled with appreciation and praise in his tone: "Yes, I feel that the director is showing off his skills. The most obvious one is the finale of the third episode. The long shot at the beginning, through the movement of the perspective, highlights the actions of the three forces respectively. There is also the first-person perspective that everyone still remembers in the Clay Man. At the end, the thrilling cliff battle between Guojianglong and An Shiyi, the director's perspective is very powerful and novel, far and near, fast and slow, perfectly combined together."
"In addition, let me talk about another issue that everyone may be more concerned about, which is the mystery of the life and death of Guo Jianglong and An Shiyi."
In this segment, Canghaixiao played the video version of the original film, showing the perspective of two people swooping down from the cliff, and then the picture paused at the bottom of the cliff.
Canghai laughed and circled the human skeletons at the bottom of the cliff in the picture with a red frame: "Everyone, look here, two human skeletons, and weapons such as knives and swords next to them, which means that the identities of the corpses are also people from the underworld, and there are two of them."
"The director would not set up useless props and scenes for no reason. Such obvious prophecy hints have fully expressed the final fate of Guo Jianglong and An Shiyi, so..." At this point, Cang Haixiao chuckled: "Seeing this, we can actually see that after the change of director, the legacy plot of the fourth part was not really followed."
"Through some plot hints at the end of the fourth film, we can actually know that the 'interface' left by Director Wei Lan for the sequel is not in the original three protagonists, but in the true owner of the Destiny Secret Art, Lu Anning's son. Perhaps, if the same director were to shoot this sequel, Sword and Fairy V might be a different story..."
At the end of the video, Canghaixiao specifically cue Wei Lan, obviously showing his great admiration and curiosity for her.
"The director and screenwriter of "Sword IV" is this person--" Wei Lan's Weibo homepage appeared in the video, but apart from the yellow V representing his identity, there was only one message automatically released by the system when the Weibo account was opened.
"It's a pity that this director Wei Lan is very mysterious. I personally look forward to her next work."
Because this video was also posted on Weibo, Wei Lan's attention suddenly surged, and he received feedback from the secretary of Wei's public relations department.
"Director Wei, your Weibo suddenly gained a lot of followers. I saw that a big blogger recommended you."
As the promotion period approached, Wei Lan had more contact with the public relations department. The secretary saw the news when she was summarizing the data every day and told Wei Lan.
After Wei Lan learned about it, she watched the video and suddenly got an idea. She directly forwarded the video and created a new movie option under her personal works on Weibo. She chose the movie name "Not yet released" and the one-sentence introduction was "Different science fiction."
'A new movie is being filmed and produced, please invest in it~[kneeling down]', followed by a work page.
Wei Lan certainly didn't need any additional investment. This move was essentially to promote the movie. Of course, if there really was a rich and stupid boss who was willing to invest after reading this synopsis that was equivalent to no synopsis at all, she wouldn't refuse...
Sure enough, after Wei Lan forwarded his reply, Canghai Xiao received it and quickly forwarded it with a reply saying "Looking forward to your work".
The effect of this interaction was very good. Because of the original popularity of Sword and Fairy IV among the audience, and the dramatic contrast with Sword and Fairy V, there were soon thousands of "looking forward to the release" votes under the work page of Wei Lan, whose film title had not even been announced.
Canghaixiao's unexpected move gave Wei Lan a new idea to save the country in a roundabout way. She decided to take part in the incident and do publicity.
If we save on publicity, won’t we have more money to hire expensive composers? — Wei Lan, a financial advisor, said.
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