"Original film???"

Question marks popped up over several people's heads.

The original film that Lu Ban mentioned, is he referring to the original film of the new movie?

Has he finished filming?

"In the Mouth of a Madman" has just been released, and the new movie has already solved the most difficult part of filming?

Is this really a speed humans can achieve?

Compared to their previous doubts about their work and their anticipation of seeing clips from Lu Ban's new movie, this group of film and television practitioners were more shocked.

Many of them originally thought that Lu Ban was just recruiting some more people to his team. By joining Lu Ban, they could learn the most advanced post-production experience, get to know some big guys, build connections, and provide support for their future work.

When they saw the brand new office, they thought at most that Lu Ban might be expanding his business and opening a new studio here.

But now it seems like I'm really just here to do the post-production?

Why did Lu Ban spend so much money and conduct such a weird interview?

Several people followed Lu Ban into the screening room.

Lu Ban didn't explain too much. He just played the sample film that he showed Qin Tiantian last night, and selected some unprocessed clips for these people to watch.

"…This is the current progress. All you have to do is to process the original film into a sample film. I will give you some instructions on the specific details. Of course, I also hope that you will put forward your ideas. Everyone here is a leader in the industry, and I believe you will definitely have unique insights."

Lu Ban turned on the lights in the screening room and explained.

“…”

Everyone sitting in the screening room looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.

“Is this really the original film?”

Bai Qiquan muttered.

Originally, he thought that the original film Lu Ban was talking about was the kind shot by actors in front of a green screen, or the original video shot with rough props and scenery. This kind of video not only requires special effects, but also post-production, and the quality of the original film is extremely rough.

However, the "original film" that Lu Ban played for them had already been completed except for some filters, post-production color grading, depth of field processing and other minor work.

No, not only was it done, it was done perfectly.

The movements of the monsters, the movement of their hair, the effects of the snow, the particle performance of bows and spells, as well as the handling of large scenes and buildings, it can be said that there is absolutely no problem in watching this original film directly as a feature film.

Even some people who specialize in this field feel that even if they are given one or two years and unlimited funding to create these images, they may not be able to do better.

These special effects are the biggest workload in post-production.

Good job.

At first, they thought Lu Ban asked them to do the entire film, but later they found out that they were only responsible for post-production. Now, everyone sitting in the screening room realized that they were asked by Lu Ban to be repairmen and complete the final cleanup work.

It's like a puzzle of thousands of pieces, and Lu Ban has only two or three pieces left, and then he paid several people to complete the puzzle. It's also like Lu Ban has already proved the Goldbach conjecture, but was too lazy to copy it, so he asked them to help copy and print it.

My job actually does not require too much technical content. As long as I work normally for a few years, I can complete it successfully.

The salary offered by Lu Ban was mostly more than twice what they were earning before they changed jobs.

Is this Lu Ban doing charity?

Everyone looked at each other until Bai Qiquan raised his hand.

"Uh, Director Lu, your original film is already well done. Is it enough for us to just do those miscellaneous tasks in post-production?"

“That’s understandable.”

Lu Ban agreed without hesitation.

Snap——

The worldviews of several people were shattered.

Are rich people so willful?

Or is Lu Ban using money to humiliate us?

No, no, no, if I were to pay so much money, I would expect Lu Ban to humiliate me even more severely.

Wait, think about it the other way around. If Lu Ban were to do these chores that don’t require much technical skills himself, wouldn’t that be a waste of his precious creative time?

I see. That’s because Director Lu Ban had too many inspirations and wanted to spend more time on creation, so he entrusted these simple repetitive tasks to us.

Some people have already started to imagine it themselves.

Since it was the first day at work, Lu Ban did not arrange any formal work for everyone. He just let everyone get to know each other and the work environment, and also arranged housing for employees who had no place to live.

After settling the company's affairs, Lu Ban came to the office building of Jiangcheng Industrial.

Here, he met with the AMC theater manager, a Chinese named Thomas Lee.

AMC is one of the largest cinema chains in the world. In contrast, Jiangcheng Cinema of Jiangcheng Industrial has a greater influence only in the southeast region, while AMC firmly occupies the European and American markets. In addition, there are smaller cinema chains such as Empire Entertainment Group and Kemanlai Cinemas. These are the main forces in the overseas film market. If Lu Ban wants his movies to be released simultaneously overseas, he needs to contact these cinema chains and convince them to give schedules and film arrangements.

In the domestic market, Lu Ban's box office appeal is already very strong. After all, there are not many directors who can shoot two consecutive movies with a box office of more than 2 billion yuan, let alone niche themes such as horror and thrillers.

But in the overseas market, Lu Ban is not so famous.

The domestic box office of 2 billion yuan is only more than 300 million US dollars overseas. Many movies far exceed this number. In the eyes of people who are not familiar with Lu Ban, Lu Ban is just a pretty good commercial film director.

In addition, due to domestic and foreign market preferences, many domestic blockbuster movies are actually not popular abroad.

Not to mention the island country next door, apart from blockbusters like superhero movies, the rest of the best-selling movies are cartoons. Many popular crime films and comedies in China do not have ideal box office returns abroad, and military films with a certain national flavor have no voice abroad.

Before this, the highest-grossing Chinese-language film abroad was a martial arts film, which grossed US$210 million. The second highest-grossing film was a historical war film, which grossed US$140 million. The third highest-grossing film only grossed US$80 million.

Most people abroad like kung fu movies, ancient martial arts and war movies. Even movies from island countries where horror movies are popular are difficult to get good reviews in Europe and the United States, the largest box office countries. For those honest foreigners, traditional horror styles are not as good as chainsaws and blood flying.

As for Lu Ban, he has to initially convince the theater chains to accept his movie.

In the reception room of Jiangcheng Industrial Office Building, Lu Ban met Thomas Lee, who grew up abroad.

"Mr. Li, I brought you some small gifts."

Lu Ban put the bag in his hand on the coffee table and took out the contents.

"Here are the discs of my two previous films. I thought that no matter what conclusion our collaboration will reach today, you can watch my films for entertainment."