With Philanthropist Lu Ban
"Original footage???"
Several people had question marks appear above their heads.
When Lu Ban mentioned the original film, was he referring to the original film of the new movie?
Has he finished filming?
The movie "The Mouth of the Madman" has just finished its run, and the new film has already solved the most difficult part of the filming?
Is this really a speed that 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 professionals were more shocked.
Many of them originally thought that Lu Ban was just expanding his team, and that by joining Lu Ban, they could learn the most advanced post-production experience, meet some big shots, build connections, and provide assistance for their future work.
When they saw the brand-new office, they could only assume that Lu Ban was expanding his business and opening a new studio there.
But now it seems like I'm really just here to do post-production?
Why did Lu Ban spend so much money and go through that strange interview?
The group followed Lu Ban into the screening room.
Lu Ban didn't explain much, but played the sample footage that he had shown Qin Tiantian last night, and then selected some unprocessed clips to show these people.
"This is the current progress. What you need to do is to process the original footage into a sample like this. I will give you some instructions on the specific details. Of course, I also hope that everyone will have some ideas to share. Everyone here is a leader in the industry, and I believe that you will definitely have unique insights."
Lu Ban turned on the lights in the screening room and explained.
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The people sitting in the screening room looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.
"Is this really the original footage?"
Bai Qiquan muttered something.
Originally, he thought that the original footage Lu Ban was referring to was the kind of footage shot by actors in front of a green screen, or the raw video shot with crude props and sets. Such videos not only need special effects but also post-production work, and the quality of the original footage is extremely rough.
However, the "original footage" that Lu Ban showed them was already finished, except for some filters, post-production color grading, depth of field processing and other minor work.
No, it's not just finished, it's been done perfectly.
The monster's movements, the motion of its fur, the effects of the snow, the particle effects of the bows and arrows and spells, and the handling of large-scale scenes and buildings—it's fair to say that you could watch this original film as if it were the main feature.
Even some experts in this field feel that even if they were given a year or two with unlimited funding to create these images, they might not be able to do any better.
These special effects are precisely the part of the biggest workload during post-production.
Goodness.
At first, they thought Lu Ban had asked them to work on the entire film, but later they found out they were only responsible for post-production. Now, the people sitting in the screening room realized that they had been called in by Lu Ban to be repairmen and complete the final cleanup work.
It's like Lu Ban has only two or three pieces left in a jigsaw puzzle with thousands of pieces, and then he paid several people to finish it. It's also like Lu Ban has already proven Goldbach's Conjecture, but he's too lazy to copy it out himself, so he hired them to help him copy and print it.
My job doesn't actually require much technical skill; I can complete it smoothly as long as I work normally for a few years.
Lu Ban's salaries were mostly more than double what they had before they switched jobs.
Is Lu Ban doing charity work?
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment until Bai Qiquan raised his hand.
"Uh, Director Lu, your original film is already quite complete. Do you think we only need to do the odd jobs in post-production?"
"That's one way to understand it."
Lu Ban agreed without hesitation.
Click—
Several people's worldviews were shattered.
Are rich people just this capricious?
Or is Lu Ban trying to humiliate us with money?
No, no, no, if they give that much money, they'd be happy to humiliate Lu Ban even more.
Wait a minute, thinking about it the other way around, wouldn't it be a waste of Lu Ban that don't require much skill?
So that's how it is. It's because Director Lu Ban had so much inspiration that he wanted to spend more time creating, so he entrusted these simple, repetitive tasks to us.
Some people have already started to imagine it themselves.
Since it was the first day of work, Lu Ban didn't assign any formal tasks. Instead, he let everyone get to know each other and the work environment, and also arranged housing for employees who didn't have a place to live.
After settling things at the company, Lu Ban went to the office building of Jiangcheng Industries.
Here, he met with an AMC Theaters manager, a Chinese American named Thomas Lee.
AMC is one of the world's largest cinema chains. In comparison, Jiangcheng Cinema, owned by Jiangcheng Industries, only has a significant influence 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 Cinema. These are the main forces in the overseas film market. If Lu Ban wants his film to be released simultaneously overseas, he needs to contact these cinema chains and persuade them to provide a release date and screening schedule.
In the domestic market, Lu Ban's box office appeal is already very strong. After all, there are not many directors who can make two movies with box office revenue of more than 2 billion yuan in a row, let alone a niche genre like horror and thriller.
However, Lu Ban's reputation is not as strong in overseas markets.
A domestic box office of 2 billion yuan is only a little over 300 million US dollars overseas. Many films far exceed this number. In the eyes of people who are not familiar with Lu Ban, Lu Ban is just a decent commercial film director.
In addition, due to differences in domestic and international market preferences, many films that are popular domestically are not actually well-received abroad.
Leaving aside neighboring island nations, aside from blockbusters like superhero movies, the most successful films are mostly animated. Many domestically popular crime and comedy films don't perform well at the box office abroad, and military films with a certain national character are virtually nonexistent overseas.
Prior to this, the highest-grossing Chinese-language film overseas was a martial arts movie with a box office of $210 million, followed by a historical war film with a box office of $140 million, and only $80 million.
Foreigners mostly prefer Kung Fu, period martial arts war films, and even movies from island nations where horror films are popular don't receive good reviews in Europe and America, their biggest box office markets. For those straightforward foreigners, traditional horror styles are less appealing than chainsaws and flying blood.
Lu Ban's task is to initially persuade the theaters to acknowledge his film.
In the reception room of Jiangcheng Industries's office building, Lu Ban met Thomas Lee, who had grown up abroad.
"Mr. Li, I brought you some small gifts."
Lu Ban placed the bag on the coffee table and took out its contents.
"These are DVDs of my two previous films. I think that no matter what the outcome of our collaboration today may be, you can watch my films for entertainment."
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