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February 25th, sunny.

In the past few days, part of the crew of "Rise of the Apes" has been helping the special effects team in the digital field to construct the necessary green screen, motion capture equipment, and slide rails required by the camera crew in a very spacious room.

Of course, the most complicated thing is the mature and mature 3D virtual photography system during the "Avatar" period.

For this reason, before the film was shot, the crew paid Weta Digital a technical service fee of more than 300,000 US dollars, and in the later stage, they had to pay more than 2 million later engineering consulting fees.

This money cannot be saved.

Although the motion capture technology in the digital field is not bad, if this system is loaded, only two Sony HDCF950HD cameras can simulate human eyes to create a three-dimensional realistic environment background, which greatly improves the viewing quality.

The indoor studio is set up, and the originally empty place is gradually filled with many equipment. After experimenting with the effects of several lens processing, the next work will be the modeling of the action performance by Serkins’ team to enrich the facial details .

At this time, a group of actors were notified to join the group, and the film was officially launched.

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Judging from the distribution of the entire script, the cause of the contradiction is that genetic scientist Will Rodman has developed a new drug to treat human neuroatrophy. As a result, in the clinical trial of the orangutan, a mother orangutan who gave birth to protect The child suddenly went mad and attacked the nurses, and was shut down by the superiors. However, for the father of Alzheimer's disease and some compassion, Will also adopted the clinical trial after he hid the surplus medicine that was not approved for production. The product of Caesar, and then Caesar gradually exposed his amazing learning ability in the process of growing up...

If you follow the sequence of the script, the first scene is definitely introducing new drugs, but Dao Zha prefers a gradual shooting state, so the first scene arranged after the boot is a scene where Caesar gradually showed extraordinary intelligence——

James McEvoy put on a simple knitted sweater, his hair was messy, his face was only covered with white concealer, he had already learned his lines, facing two fixed camera positions, standing alone in the bedroom of the room. Watching Caesar playing with a simple intelligence test toy with interest, and gradually increasing the difficulty, staring at Caesar's reaction.

To be honest, this kind of one-man drama of one person is quite silly when filming, but he has to make an interesting look, and the eye scene cannot fall.

No way, all the scenes about Caesar have to be filmed three times. The first time he is acting alone in front of the air, pretending to be an orangutan next to him; the second time is Andy Serkin wearing a motion capture helmet For the third time, Andy Serkins performed it alone in front of a green screen studio equipped with a 3D virtual system.

Only in this way, the shot material is enough for later use. If it is often NG, the workload will increase exponentially.

Of course, the crew is not stupid. Under the leadership of the director, everyone has separated three filming groups to shoot together. One group is responsible for the follow-up filming of the material. It is not that the actors are finished, just wait. The motion capture team can directly transition to the next shot.

Therefore, when Lehman came to the set, what he saw was such an organized work.

Everyone performs their duties and summarizes the results of the shooting every one or two days.

Among them, the 12-man motion capture substitute team brought by Andy Serkins contracted all the capture work of the Orangutan Army.

"After the shooting, pay the remaining 4 million."

With this expectation, the studio received the first big order shortly after the expansion, with a total of 8 million performance rewards, which made Andy's team members motivated.

According to the feelings of some of them, this is their first category A masterpiece after they turned from the front stage to behind the scenes. It is of great significance.

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Blue Butterfly Pictures.

Liam walked over with joy, "Boss, the publicity effect is pretty good. Our people have been guiding public opinion, and the offline hard posters are in place."

"Where is the theater?" After exploring the class, Lehmann turned and came to the publishing department.

"The North American Cinemas League guarantees to provide us with 3,400 open cinemas. Regardless of the results, the 80% share in the first three weeks will remain unchanged. If the results are outstanding, they will definitely be added appropriately. Overseas, the CIS, Mexico, 53 regions including Saudi Arabia, Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, etc. have confirmed simultaneous release, while 10 regions including Slovakia, Qatar, Finland, China, Japan and South Korea will be delayed by one week for copying, screen or introduction, subtitles and other procedures. Will be shown."

"This is the first time that we independently planned the global release of a medium-invested, low-intensity work. Is there any problem?" Lehman asked.

"Currently, I have not encountered any difficulties. Our projects produced by Firefly have always been well received in the screening industry. This time it is science fiction and action-based. The themes are already popular and there is almost no cultural barrier. Therefore, distributors from all over the world are better talking, unless they are screened. If the results are not good, otherwise the channel market will not soon propose a reduction of screenings."

For this matter, various sites have been busy for a long time in advance. Judging from the information sent back by distributors from various places, Liam himself is still optimistic about the screening of "Super Body".

Apart from other things, at least the film markets in various places have vacated some shares to accept. The only thing left is to face the audience directly.

"That's good, but still remember to always guide the positive image of the film and expand the public opinion index."

"In the focus of our promotion, fans from all over the world responded enthusiastically to Johnson Scarlett's new film. After all, the popularity of "Reunion" is still there." Liam laughed: "It can only be said that the time and place are all right. In the March schedule list, there is no particular type of competition that overlaps in the market."

"It will be released in one week. Come on." Lehman clapped his shoulders and encouraged. "By the way, isn't the team building on the "American Team"? You can film other people first, let Scarlett cooperate with the road show first. Propaganda."

"I know, I have communicated."

After talking about this, Lehman turned around casually, looked at the promotion results of the network promotion department, and finally returned to the company.

"Boss, Oscar in two days, the academy members want you to award the best director." Metz ran to report.

"Help me refuse, I will participate, but let's go on stage." Lehman shook his head.

"Ok."

Outside, the Oscar turmoil is expanding. The annual controversy is always on time at the end of February. However, Lehmann, who has been paying attention to various work, is only tired. Even if many of their labels are selected, he still Not too caring...