I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1055: Recessive control

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On a Land Rover SUV in the team, Jodie · Foster sat next to Eric, with a thick stack of "Gravity" split-lens drawings on his knees. shoots is coming to an end, and she finally got her wish to hand over all the set of paintings hand-painted by Eric, intending to be her own collection.

Looking back from the two helicopters in the air outside the car window, Jodie glanced at the Eric wearing headphones and watching a video on the laptop, saying: "Eric, you are not afraid that we will be killed tomorrow Onlookers? "

Eric pressed the pause button and took off the headset, wondering: "What?"

Jodie rolled his eyes lightly and repeated what he had just said, "In the last location scene of shoots" Macro Contact "in New Mexico, in order to prevent the reporter from sneaking into the set photo, Robert is simply It ’s a terrible deal. Now North America reporters will definitely be more hungry for the news of "Gravity", right? "

Since the establishment of "Gravity", except for a small amount of official news released by Firefly Group, the media has hardly received any other information related to the film. Whether it is Eric's super rich status at this time or his new work after two consecutive global 1 billion-level films, it is enough for the North America large and small media to eagerly dig more news related to "Gravity", but unfortunately, most of the film The lenses are all in a well-secured studio shoots, paparazzi reporters have no way to start even if they want to dig out the news.

At this time, the crew of "Gravity" was all dispatched. It is conceivable that a large group of journalists will surely come in the next.

Actually, at this time, the team has already had a lot of media vehicles with them before and after.

Although it is about to be killed, there is still more than a year before the film is released. In order to maintain the freshness, it is not suitable to release too much news related to the film at this time. Jodie has been in the circle for so long, naturally understand this reason, so There will be the worries just now.

Eric smiled easily, and said: "Relax, they can't take anything."

Jodie's eyes flickered, remembering the destination of the team at this time, and the only words that Eric revealed some time ago, suddenly said: "You mean, we are not going to the real shoots site now?"

"Neither is it," Eric explained with a smile: "The overhead shot of the return capsule falling from space. I hope to be able to use the picture of Lake Pleasant in the north of Phoenix, but the final part of the scene, We are in the northern Colorado River Basin shoots. "

Eric said, and blinked at Jodie: "Remember to keep it secret, not many people know this news now."

“I ’m Heroine, but I ’m telling me now,” Jodie glanced at Eric and stopped the topic. He glanced at the laptop screen on the knee of Eric and curiously said, “What are you looking at, um, Is this Michael · Eisner? "

Eric unplug the headphones and restart the video playback, the sound of Michael · Eisner came from the laptop.

“…… While devoting ourselves to the research and development of CG special effects software and technology, the era of light and shadow will also invest in the development of a new 3D movie projection technology. 3D movies have been around for nearly a hundred years. Although the development of related technologies has been very slow, but With the advent of the era of movie special effects, we have reason to believe that 3D movies are likely to become a new film industry development trend after both sound movies and color movies. Whether it is Universal, Warner or Paramount, we are very optimistic about the future of 3D movies ... … "

After watching the second half of the video together with Eric, Jodie said: "This is, a press conference?"

Eric nodded and said: "A press conference of a movie special effects company jointly established by Universal, Warner and Paramount. In the age of light and shadow, you just heard."

"Oh, now, there can be opponents in the digital field, and 3D movies, Universal they also have to follow up."

Eric said with a smile: "Perhaps, but only if there is competition to make progress, I always think that no matter whether it is a person or an enterprise, there can be no opponents."

Despite this, the so-called "era of light and shadow" established by the three companies did not actually make Eric feel much threatened. He knew that this was just the reaction of the other three to the Firefly system to annex Columbia Film Studio again.

This is not because of arrogance, because special effects companies want to develop, they need special effects movie projects. Eric can say very confidently that the film projects of the other three companies absolutely cannot support their ambition to compete with the digital field in the era of light and shadow.

Also, under normal circumstances, a movie needs to put forward various special effects requirements before the special effects company can conduct targeted technology research and development. However, Eric has been urging the digital field to reuse the various special effect technology establishment files for many years, and it has also achieved very good results.

For common CG special effects, such as storms, explosions, motion capture, large-scale war scenes and other technologies, the digital field already has very mature technical solutions, although the digital field has rarely undertaken other companies outside the Firefly system in recent years Film project, however, the digital domain is very open to these general technical solutions.

Under the influence of this special business strategy in the digital field, in recent years, Hollywood has sprung up like a lot of small special effects studios. These small special effects studios or special effects companies do not have too independent technology research and development departments. Instead, purchase finished special effect software and related technical solutions from the digital field.

Compared to setting up a team to spend a few months to write a storm special effects code, only tens of thousands of USD can buy a fully mature special effects program from the digital field, whether it is cost, time or special effects, To far exceed independent research and development. No matter who it is, they know what choices to make.

On the other hand, the projects obtained by these special effects studios are basically the seven outsourced lenses of Hollywood, and most of them are also the Firefly system itself.

By controlling the direction of project outsourcing, the Firefly system can also indirectly affect and even control the development of these small special effects studios, making it a vassal of the digital field in disguise. Although these small special effects studios are sufficient to survive relatively moisturizing, they can never pose any threat to the digital realm.

Even if the special effects industry becomes sluggish in the future, as long as the special effects outsourcing strategy is tightened, these vassal small studios can be easily sacrificed to help the digital field resist risks in disguise.

As for the other three newly established eras of light and shadow, perhaps they will invest a certain amount of money in technology research and development in the early stage. But when the three found that for most special effects lenses, the cost of independent research and development will not only be much higher than those of small special effects studios, but the human resource cost of subsequent specific CG screen production is also much higher than that of the same industry. It is difficult to obtain additional revenue by selling software and technical solutions like the digital field.

So, after a few years of support, the senior executives of the three companies will gradually give up their full support for the era of light and shadow, and continue to be controlled implicitly in the digital field in disguise. The age of light and shadow will gradually become a chicken-ribbed existence. After all, even the basic special effect technology cannot be perfected, and the development in the field of more in-depth special effect technology is impossible to talk about.

In the past history, the most cutting-edge special effects technology has always been in the hands of a few companies such as Industrial Light & Magic, and the best batch of Hollywood special effects videos have always been from these companies.

It's just that several special effects giants did not adopt the business strategy in the digital field at this time. Regardless of the size of the emerging special effects company, on the basis of some basic industry special effects software, in the face of the differentiated needs of customers, basically all need to be Develop new technical solutions on your own, and these technologies are likely to have been developed and used many times by other special effects companies.

Repetitive depletion of resources in all aspects not only greatly increased the operating costs of the entire industry, but also made those small special effects companies and digital giants without any dependency. When the winter of the special effects industry comes, all special effects companies are getting more and more difficult. They can only reduce costs by constantly relocating to tax refund areas, and at the same time viciously compete in prices, which undoubtedly caused greater damage to the entire industry. Vicious circle.

As for the development of 3D movie technology mentioned in the video by Michael · Eisner at the same time, Eric has generated some vigilance. If there are two completely different 3D playback standards in the entire industry in the future, it will be a bit bad.

However, none of these things can be accomplished overnight, and Eric can only temporarily observe its changes.

The things that Jodie can think of are naturally considered by the experienced "Gravity" production team.

Thus, although the team rushed all the way to Phoenix, Arizona, after entering the city, the crew quickly drove directly to a closed private resort in the north of the city. A large number of reporters who were stopped outside the resort watched the team disappear, and could only jump on their feet and disappointed with a few unimportant photos of the team's back shoots. As for the core characters of the long-awaited crew, I can't even see the shadow.

From the Los Angeles to Phoenix, six or seven hours drive, everyone is very tired, and naturally there is no work today.

After setting up the crowd, Eric returned to his residence and came out of the bathroom after bathing. It was already five o'clock in the afternoon.

The door was knocked, and Eric walked over and opened the door.

Carolyn saw the appearance of Eric in a bathrobe, his face red slightly, and said: "Eric, Mr. Stewart came back from Lake Will."

Bao Will Lake is the shoots site of several post-landing scenes planned by Eric. This lake is on the northern Colorado River, about two hundred kilometers from Phoenix.

As for Lake Pleasant, more than ten kilometers north of Phoenix, this is actually a drinking water reservoir in Phoenix. Eric did not choose to play after shoots landing on this lake. It is also because of the environmental protection considerations that Phoenix did not approve the shoots request of the "Gravity" crew.

As the producer of "Gravity", William · Stewart had taken several assistants to the Lake Will lake to explore the shoots site again three days ago to ensure the smooth progress of shoots in the next few days.

"It's almost dinner time, let William go to the restaurant, I will wait in the past," Eric nodded, looking at Carolyn's shy little face, and smiled: "You also come together."

"Well, then I will inform Mr. Stewart," Carolyn responded, and hurried away with his head down.

The entry of the crew of "Gravity" not only attracted media reporters from all over North America, but even many local TV Stations in Arizona specifically reported on this matter.

So, with the attention of countless eyes, the movement of the entire crew could not be hidden at all. However, the crew of "Gravity" also did not seem to hide the meaning of this matter. After one night of trimming, the next day, a team of crew left the resort with great fanfare and rushed to the shore of Lake Pleasant.

Although they were stopped outside the crew ’s field, the reporters finally captured the original figures such as Eric and Jodie in the open field.

It ’s just that when most of the time passed, many people found that they did n’t get much except for the prominent VH-60 helicopter on the ground, and sometimes even flying to a height of more than 1,000 kilometers. Information related to movie content.

Of course, it is not without gains. At least, Eric Williams and crew photographer Nickel · Frank boarded the helicopter, it seems that they are passing through the camera shoots high-altitude camera shots, but these simple aerial scenes simply let There is no way for people to make practical associations with the content of the film.

Fortunately, the reporters are not impatient. Since the whole crew of "Gravity" has been rushed over, then these people are absolutely impossible to be just a few aerial shots of shoots, otherwise, Eric Williams does not need to appear at all. it's here. Obviously, in the next few days, there will definitely be specific content shoots.

In the expectation of everyone, early in the morning the next day, the sky just lighted up, and the news came from the employees inside the resort that the reporters bought through, so they cheered up.

It's just that when they saw two helicopters take off from the resort and passed over Lake Pleasant, they didn't mean to land at all. They still flew to the northern mountains at a speed of more than 200 kilometers, everyone shocked.

Although some reporters were unwilling to get in the car and wanted to catch up, everyone made it clear how the car wheels could catch up to the helicopter, not to mention in the mountains. Helicopters can fly straight and the car needs to cross the road.

Fortunately, a tent-sized thing hanging under one of the helicopters finally gave these people some comfort. Well-informed reporters quickly found out after the shoots photo that it should be an aerospace Return to the cabin.