Chapter 164: Transformation effects

The carnival is over.
Meng Lang can also rest assured to return to the Western Regions.
Although he wanted to stay in Jiangchuan for a few more days to study the Tornado locomotive that he had just sent, time is waiting for no one!
Seeing that it is the New Year, I have to take advantage of the last few hours of the end of the year to take more shots of material, so that the next year can be more calmly arranged.
"The Legend of Skyfire" is progressing fast!
The original plot is rather procrastinated, and the story that can be told in one episode is stupefied until the second or even the third episode is finished. Therefore, the original Skyfire Legend has 60 episodes.
This episode is a bit long.
For the audience, the best viewing experience must be the golden interval of 30-40 episodes.
Assuming a 30-minute episode, that is a total duration of 900-1200 minutes, which is about 15-20 hours.
Think about it, people's lives are becoming faster now, and the rise of short videos and online videos has already seized a lot of entertainment time belonging to TV.
If the entire 50-sixty episodes or even the 70s-80s episodes are long, the total broadcast time exceeds 20 hours, it will scare away a certain audience.
Of course, the mother-in-law drama is not in this list.
Both mother-in-law dramas and housewife dramas are wonderful works. For all TV dramas filmed for housewives, the length of the episode really doesn't matter. You don't have to worry about ratings anyway.
Skyfire legend cannot be too long.
Meng Lang was ready to shoot 50 episodes of material, and then cut them into 41-45 episodes.
This is much better.
Because he has a lot of experience and the actors are familiar with the filming style of "Meng Zong", the shooting progress is very gratifying.
In two months, nearly 24 episodes were taken!
I'm talking about the material here. There are a lot of materials for 24 episodes. It is more than enough to cut out 20 integrated films.
This is equivalent to half the shot.
It's a pity that this speed can't be maintained. After all, I was shooting the first half of the scene, and the holster did not appear frequently.
Once you start shooting the second half, it's a holster battle. With multiple holsters playing around, the progress is definitely not as fast as before.
After Meng Lang returned to the Western Regions, he mainly filmed the part of holster play.
"Transformation special effects done?"
"it is done!"
Meng Lang blinked and said, "Let me see it!"
The special effects artist opens the notebook he carries, unlocks a project file, and clicks play.
This is a rough video.
As a demonstrator of some special effects brother, he gestured "OK" to the camera, and the video started.
Brother Glasses wears a wristband-style "transformer" in his left hand, and raises the spar in his right hand.
"Here is the first part, that is the sparkling light effect of the spar! According to your instructions from Mr. Meng, we have added flashing color light to the spar..."
Watching the video demonstration, Meng Lang frowned and said, "The brightness is a bit low, so brighter!"
Do you want to make a light bulb?
"If the brightness is increased, the details of the spar will not be clear!" the special effects artist said worriedly.
"What details do you want?"
"Lighting is beauty, flashing is cool!"
"If the light effect still has a flowing effect, then you are too strong!"
The special effects artist silently wrote down this passage, planning to write it down when he went home, and post it on the wall as a creed of adulthood.
After talking about the sparkle part of the spar, the next thing is the highlight, and that is the transformation.
The video continues, the glasses brother slaps the sparkling spar to the left hand transforming device, then reverses and crosses his hands, and then jerks behind him.
"White Tiger, transform!"
There was a tiger roar, and a layer of spatial ripples suddenly appeared around Brother Glasses. A white tiger monster appeared behind him out of thin air. As the word "transformation" fell, the ghost of the monster and the glasses brother overlapped, and the four spirits The soldier appeared!
It is worth noting! At the moment when the phantom overlapped to complete the deformation, there was a lens where the glasses brother's right hand turned into a "paw".
It is more appropriate to say "beastization" rather than transformation. It's just that the final appearance of this beastization is not a real beast, but a humanoid four-spirit warrior.
"I'm not satisfied with the beastization process!"
Meng Lang said: "The process of changing hands to beast claws is too rough. It should be more detailed. And the details are only the hands? What about the head? What about the feet?"
The first of all evil...Meng President!
The special effects teacher scolded his mother and said with a smile: "Alright Meng, is there anything else to change?"
"One more thing……"
Meng Lang touched his chin and stared at the laptop screen and said: "Before the transformation, when the actor is doing the transformation, the light effect is a little bit less, and this part needs to be modified."
"After transforming into a four-spirit warrior, how can there be no dust when you step on the ground?"
"The transformation time is longer! It's best to do it for more than half a minute..."
Is this "a little bit"?
The special effects artist can no longer remember Mr. Meng's request by his brain alone, so he can only pick up the pen and paper while listening and memorizing it. After he has written it down thoroughly, he leaves with a "full page" of revision opinions.
The transformation effects are almost done.
But on the image design of "Chi You", everyone has disagreements and quarrels.
"Chi You is not a demon. History is written by the victor. He is just a defeated tribal leader."
"But in the script, Chi You is the villain. The image of the villain is too magnificent. What do you make the audience think?"
Is it beautifying or ugly?
As the leader of the Jiuli tribe, Chi You is a brave and good warrior. He is also a of war in the myth. It is nothing more than riding the wrong mount before losing the war and being vilified and discredited as an evil god.
To define Chi You as a villain is absolutely "Zhengzi correct" from the perspective of the descendants of Yan and Huang, but doing so is indeed ugly and discredit Chi You.
"Well, let's make two Chiyou images. One is the leader of the Jiuli tribe before the enchantment, and the other is the demon after the enchantment."
Meng Lang knows very well that he is shooting special children's dramas, and the audience is mostly children.
If they characterize Chi You as a "devil", then after watching this play, the children will refer to Chi You in the future, and they will definitely regard him as the evil god.
this is not good.
To make a children's drama, we must convey the correct cognitive orientation to the children, rather than allowing the screenwriter to make it up.
The image of Chi You is made into two.
One is the leader of the ancient Jiuli tribe~EbookFREE.me~. He is brave and awe-inspiring, and he has created the four-spirit spar to protect the tribe.
One is the brutal demon God Chi You after resuscitation. He revived with the help of Dr. Shi's greed. After the growth of the heart demon, he fell into the demon way and tried to conquer the world.
Both Chi You have special origins.
Although Chi You turned into a demon because of the need of the plot, the play also mentioned Chi You's kind and gentle side as the leader of the tribe.
This also made a reasonable explanation for the four sacred beasts betraying Chi You.
The "Great King Chi You" recognized by the Four Holy Beasts was Chi You, the leader of the Jiuli tribe, instead of the now resurrected Demon God Chi You.
Therefore, the four holy beasts will rebel.
"I'm such a good person, the hole dug in the original version was filled in by me..."
Meng Lang admires himself a little bit to do this.