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"It's so slow..."

Eva stood behind the crew as a supervisor, but for a few days, several actors were just trying out the scenes and running in the performances in the set, and the slow progress made her feel uncomfortable.

"I don't know if I can finish the first scene this week." Eva put her hands on her hips and looked at the slower people who were still sorting out the scenes. "Aren't you in a hurry?"

"urgent?"

Lyman sat in the folding chair, refining his thoughts and eating bread.

"Yeah, it doesn't feel like it's been delayed so much, the scenery is good, the costumes and props are in place, the actors are in the group...Aren't you in a hurry to start the machine?"

Lehman ate his last bite of breakfast and said with a smile, "It's useless to be in a hurry. Filming doesn't have to be a quick start when you're ready."

"Do you think I don't understand at all?"

Eva, who was impatient with this perfunctory tone, rushed up to press Lehman's shoulders, aggressively.

"So many people are watching, pay attention, if you want to fight us back." Lyman winked and said close to her ear.

"Hmph, so you don't tell the reason, it's silly to stand like this."

Seeing her pulling out a folding chair and sitting beside him, Lyman put down his pen in a funny way, "Enthusiasm is not a good thing, as you can see, Marion and others are too eager, they can perform in this state I want. their role? Maybe their professional ability is enough, but it’s better to calm down.”

"Besides, this is not useless, and being more familiar with the process will not be a bad thing."

Eva blinked her confused little eyes: "Are they like that?"

"Isn't it obvious? Oh, they will chat with you when they are free. Maybe you didn't pay attention."

"..."

Alas, the little idiot is completely addicted to the sugar coating of these people, but it is understandable that the rich and noble are not returning home like brocade clothing at night. As the focus of her career has gradually been put on the production work, she is probably the most detached status in the French entertainment industry. That batch, anyway, can bring opportunities to others.

From another point of view, she enjoys showing her face in front of "fathers and folks"...

"By the way, what about your play, how is the situation?"

Come, come, transfer Dafa.

"I talked to the Duffy brothers, and there are two roles that have been arranged. The decent protagonist invited Josh Brolin (the hunter of No Country for Old Men) to play, and Heath Ledger also agreed to the role of the villain drug lord. The rest of the characters are still hesitating after the release date." Eva gave a general report on the preparations for "Legend of the Gangster".

Among them, the Duffy brothers are the directors responsible for the killing scenes of "Game of Thrones". They have already experienced a lot of qualifications in the field of TV dramas. Like many TV drama directors, they began to look for opportunities to enter the film industry, and Josh and Heath also knew each other. Yes, in terms of configuration, the entire crew is a direct descendant who has been dealing with Fireflies all year round.

As for "Legend of Gangsters", a medium-invested police and bandit movie, it is similar to "Big Shot". The main roles are concentrated on the police and villains, with no more than 6 scenes.

In this current trend, police and gangster films are still very popular. After the release of "Big Shot", I don't know how many studios want to follow the trend to make a fortune, but unexpectedly, it is their own family who follow the trend and prepare the fastest.

"For the heroine's play, you can ask Marion's schedule. I asked her the other day. She doesn't have any plans for this year. Maybe she will be happy."

"Would you be happy?"

"You tell her the cast that you have promised to appear in. She is very likely to nod her head. She likes it with so many powerful party scenes."

Eva pondered for a while, and it seemed that it was really like what Lyman said.

Marion is very picky about the crew, but when he encounters a good crew, he won't bother with some trivial matters.

"You have to pay more attention to things over there. You have to do some things yourself and discuss with others more."

"knowledge."

...

Two days later, "Nightcrawler" officially started.

in the studio.

The main light position, the auxiliary light position, the lighting group is in place first, the camera is attached to the corner of the wall, and the center of the field of vision is placed on the single room and computer table built out. It is the absolute center of the composition.

The recording crew held up the microphone, and the performer beside him held the reflector and tilted the light source above his head at a 45° angle.

A few meters away, the camera crew was holding a storyboard in their hands, pondering the position of the secondary camera.

"Nightcrawler" is destined to be a play that emphasizes the scheduling of shots. It is not only about using shots to create the character's mood, but more about having a satirical perspective on the self-media in the play, and sometimes showing a voyeuristic sense of sight.

After all, its idea itself is based on the extension of the lens.

How to reasonably change the perspective may be the point that the photography team needs to straighten out the most.

Or to put it another way.

This play has almost no long shots and no wide-angle, mostly medium and short scenes and close-ups of characters. How can you play something in such a relatively narrow frame, and shoot the absurdity of hiding behind the camera and eating human blood and steamed buns. gloomy.

In general, the main tone of this play is black and critical.

now.

All the staff were in place, and the dim light from the computer hit Dujardin's face. Under the low light source, there was an inexplicable cult effect.

The camera follows up, revealing an article.

"26-year-old actor died at home late at night, allegedly caused by SM..."

The difference between "Nightcrawler", which was changed into a unit drama, and the original film is that the rhythm is much faster, the entry point is faster, and it does not need to spend too much space to slowly transition to the change of the protagonist's outlook on life.

The opening structure adopted by Lehman is somewhat like the beginning of "Iron Man", using news reports and switching the camera to allow the audience to quickly enter the background of the story, and initially understand that the protagonist is a "homeless" who lives in In the humble basement, the most valuable thing is a smart phone and a laptop, all thinking about making quick money.

So today's filming is actually the second scene, that is, the male protagonist has no idea the "arrangement" of online news and the process of becoming a self-media.

"The second act of "Nightcrawler," the first scene..."

I saw Dujardin sitting in front of the computer with a small expression that was just about to move.

As his expression showed on the monitor, Lyman was somewhat dissatisfied.

The look you want to create is in the right direction, but the eyes are wrong.

"cut."

"Thomas, try to clip the camera diagonally above his face, let's do it all over again, keep the same state, but lower your shoulders and feel more pressure." - Brain fills the original film poster, that kind of taste to the look of blood.

"well."

"Come again."

"Stop, zoom in closer."

"Stop, start over."

After trying many times, I finally got close to the lens effect that Lehmann wanted to show.

"pass."

After saying this, the surrounding filming crew let out a long sigh of relief, and then the whole studio relaxed.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, but the next two shots are quickly resolved.

As evening approached, Laiman looked at his watch, stood up first and said, "Take a rest, I'll shoot tomorrow."

...

Most of the filming time was actually wasted in the process of "waiting".

The actors and other directors' orders; the director and other behind-the-scenes executions are arranged in place; the behind-the-scenes executions also have to wait for the props and sets to return.

In the whole day, only three scenes were shot, but the scene of "Nightcrawler" required a lot of shots from various perspectives. Even if it was a repeated scene, it had to be shot in several directions.

In other words, the amount of editing of "Nightcrawler" is not small, and if you want to play the quick transition of the shots, this kind of work must be invested.

If I have to say it, the style of the shots of "Nightcrawler" is a bit like "Bourne Bourne". Other people's fighting scenes, such as a 3-4 minute fight, are supported by more than 100 shots, constantly changing perspectives.

The sharpness that the audience talked about the most in that series, apart from the breathing image shaking given by the hand-held motion camera, is that there are enough scene transitions.

This is a delicate work, the picture is not fast, just take it slowly.

...

In late March, the temperature gradually rose, but some people were more concerned about the atmosphere of streaming than the atmosphere of summer began to approach.

Comcast has deepened its contacts with the top five APPs in the market, and investment banks with related businesses such as Xinren Renren and Morgan are also intensively disseminating various news.

Of course, for these people, they are just habitually raising the market value. Without this benefit, they still talk about streaming media.

Not to mention the strong ability to cultivate capital such as red shirts. With their influence, Amber appears more and more frequently in all kinds of finance and analysts. If it continues like this, it will be worthless if it is worthless, and it will attract investors every day. It's hard to be "low-key" in sight.

On the hype, they are the experts, one set after another.

But under these concerns, the specific negotiations were not smooth.

Even if the Internet side thinks that small screens will replace big screens, and mobile terminals will replace TV terminals, the choice of audiences is the general trend, but after all, Comcast has equipment services throughout the United States and most of Europe that are not optional. radiating port.

There are also far more middle-aged and elderly people who are accustomed to TV than young people who switch to video sites.

Therefore, when Lehman was busy filming, a 5-member delegation from Comcast held a formal meeting with Amber executives. At the same time, they also sent people to contact Hulu, Netflix, etc.

Before the negotiation started, although the other party also held an attitude of cooperation and reciprocity, and opened the port, they also stated in advance: they would only provide convenience for entry, and the cost of the cost and equipment access should be borne by Amber.

For this, people, including Ron, understand that HBO has to pay a fixed monthly service fee to operate a cable channel, and they can't avoid it.

But after the formal negotiations, Amber realized that Comcast wanted much more than that.

They make three points:

1. The technical support of the access port is provided by Comcast and is responsible for the follow-up operation and maintenance;

Second, Amber needs to stop any antagonistic publicity activities, and users can freely choose the viewing method, and the exclusive content should be properly released to the TV network platform;

Three, pricing. The cost of streaming media services is too low, and the pricing cannot support the input cost of cable operations at all. It needs to be consistent with other ports, or join existing packages to set aside the same profit return.

For one thing, Comcast is pragmatic, and it has really thought about adopting and promoting its streaming video service through set-top boxes.

But the problem is that the people at Comcast are all from a perspective that is beneficial to themselves, completely ignoring the state of the times when streaming media is developing against the TV network, and user growth is always accelerating.

Even if the face was torn before, the streaming media was not affected, this fact seems to be selectively forgotten by Comcast.

And these three conditions, even the most fair third point, Ron and others have opinions.

It's not that they don't cooperate with the price increase. HBO charges more than 20 US dollars per month, which is to calculate the cost and profit margin. I feel that this range is relatively stable for them.

People service business opportunities also need to make money. The equipment maintenance and installation personnel who have raised tens of thousands of people do not receive wages or are they not paid, but the problem is that the price is too high to remove a major advantage of streaming media. Ron and others were hesitant. Such a change will not be bad for the user.

As for Articles 1 and 2, yes, the power of life and death rests in the hands of the service provider, and Ron and the others are resolutely unwilling.

What is technical support, operation and maintenance?

Ron scoffed at this, simply trying to take the initiative and increase their stance on receiving payments.

After refuting the terms of the Comcast negotiating team, negotiating prices and profit sharing were put aside in advance. Ron seized the technical operation and strongly demanded that Amber be responsible for them. In addition, Amber's exclusive content was appropriate. Supply, is that the paper restraining order from the TV network should also be lifted.

Content barriers should always be removed amicably by both parties.

A Comcast negotiator, Baba, said: You don't understand cable TV services, but Ron said: "Can't explore a technology that can use streaming video quality? You open the port, and we can guarantee the transfer ourselves. ."

The remaining negotiators saw what the technical director of Amber had said, and after looking at each other, they shook their heads - before they came, the above was dead, at most, the operating costs can be adjusted appropriately, and other aspects must not be Anyone who gives in, if they agree to let Amber take control of the overall situation, they don't need to work hard.

The first negotiation broke up like this.

The 5 delegates looked sullen and prepared to return.

Just when they left, the deputy technical director led people to launch a batch of more than 7,000 film and television, animation animation, variety shows and other film and television resources purchased for 800 million yuan from Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Japan~www.wuxiaspot .com~ Of these 7,000 titles, 10% are bought out of copyright, 30% are long-term licenses based on 10 or 20 years, another 55% are short-term contracts of 4 years, and the remaining less than half are calculated as on-demand pay-for-share. .

The film library, which has been greatly supplemented, jumped to over 18,000 in total.

The cheers, laughter, and the high-spirited team left a deep impression on the Comcast delegation, especially a deputy manager said happily after a "rash" report: "According to this situation, in the second quarter, we will of paying users is conservatively estimated to reach 9 million.”

This kind of words about the increase of users fell into the ears of the negotiating team, but it made their faces so gloomy as if dripping water.

The emergence of one Netflix will make the TV network extremely uncomfortable. If the second "Netflix" rises at a high speed, it can be imagined that the TV group that has gradually lost its activity will be crowded out.

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