Facts have proved that the law of true fragrance is never outdated, and the same applies to Cao Zhiqiang.
Although he had made a lot of preparations before, since the film distribution in this era is unified purchasing and marketing, and everything is bought out at a fixed price, Cao Zhiqiang does not want to continue to deal with it.
When he has the time to write scripts and make movies, he can write more basic books, record more albums, and sell books and songs. Isn’t he great?
However, the morning after he parted with Xu Qingdong, when he saw the system sign-in reward content, he immediately fell into a dilemma.
[If you sign in today, you will be rewarded with ten sets of the company’s 35mm film photography equipment and 30,000 copies of color film.
Ten sets of 65mm film photography equipment and 30,000 copies of color film.
Audio-visual production dream space (can only be used with the host’s system space, please explore for details)]
After seeing these rewards, Cao Zhiqiang immediately stopped thinking.
Because these rewards are obviously different from the previous rewards. They are all equipment.
You know, most of Cao Zhiqiang's previous sign-in rewards were luxury consumer goods or daily necessities, most of which were food.
There is everything you need, such as hump bear paws, red wine and coffee, tea and milk powder, etc.
To be honest, these daily consumer goods are considered luxuries in the world. For example, Geisha coffee is not available in many places in the world.
At the beginning, these gadgets did bring a lot of convenience and fun to Cao Zhiqiang, allowing him to be on par with the top wealthy people in Europe and America in terms of diet even when his life was still relatively difficult on the surface.
It's a pity that most of these gadgets are relatively sensitive gadgets. Many of them have not been officially imported in China at this time, so he can only use them secretly.
Even if he shared it with his two younger sisters, he only dared to share some less sensitive things, such as mangoes and bananas.
In short, due to the sensitivity of these things, Cao Zhiqiang never thought of selling these things for money.
He values safety more than money.
Like those food items and insensitive gadgets, he usually shares them with people around him or gives them as gifts. Only some sensitive items with particularly high value will continue to exist in the system space.
Therefore, his system space is currently mainly used to store gadgets produced by these systems.
In addition to these consumer goods, there is also a powerful reward, which is books and materials such as "300 Selected Modern Martial Arts" and "3,000 Selected Modern Poems".
These books and materials allow Cao Zhiqiang to directly act as a copycat and make money by selling the content.
For example, the popular science articles, short stories, and later poetry collections that Cao Zhiqiang contributed before were all the result of him directly copying the book materials contained therein, and he was just a porter.
Although those books and materials helped Cao Zhiqiang gain wealth, what was even more impressive were the skill rewards.
Although there are also some useless abilities in it, such as top level spoons and so on, most of them are still very useful skills.
For example, top harmonica playing, top guitar playing, top accordion playing, top sketching, etc. are all very powerful.
Proficiency in Japanese, Korean and English is also very useful.
But no matter what, basically there can be different classifications.
For example, skills and talents are obviously non-material rewards.
Books, materials, and various luxury consumer goods are obviously material rewards.
If we follow material rewards and non-material rewards, then today’s reward is a bit interesting.
You know, material rewards have never appeared in the equipment category before. When they appear today, it is very unexpected.
Moreover, these equipments are very rare. If you really want to calculate the value, it is an astronomical figure. I am afraid it is more than all the wealth that Cao Zhiqiang has currently acquired combined.
Because the company is the famous Panavision, which is a photography equipment company in the United States. It specializes in cameras, lenses, and related photography equipment.
ordinary people
You may have never heard of this company's name, but it's impossible for people in the film and television industry not to know this company.
Because the photography equipment of this company is one of the best in photography equipment.
Nearly half of Hollywood's movies are shot with Panavision cameras.
Basically, Panavision's photographic equipment, including cameras, lenses, etc., is only rented and not sold, so there is not much equipment on the market.
Of course, renting but not selling is just a gimmick. If you really pay enough, they will sell it.
Moreover, in 1983, it was Panavision's trough period, and the company was sold again to a short-sighted consortium, causing the company's development to be at a bottleneck.
Anyway, Cao Zhiqiang knew that in the history of the previous life, Panavision had basically no new products in the past seven years, and the policy of only renting but not selling had also changed, and it began to sell equipment to the outside world, almost selling it for money.
Of course, even if they were willing to sell it, most people wouldn’t be able to afford it.
Let’s take one of the 35mm film equipment awarded by the system, a 1972 silent handheld reflective camera.
This is the cheapest handheld camera series. In addition to the camera itself, it also comes with a full range of fixed focus and zoom lenses, various filters, various stabilizers, light stands, reflectors, and reflective umbrellas. , outdoor shooting lights, video lights, quartz lights, lens caps, hoods, tripods, and a series of accessories.
This set of equipment alone could sell for at least one million dollars in Hollywood!
This is still the cheapest one among them. Other more expensive ones, such as the 65mm device, cost tens of millions of dollars for the complete set.
It can be said that Cao Zhiqiang's equipment can only be equipped in the United States and Japan at this time. Other places, even Xiangjiang, known as Oriental Hollywood, cannot assemble these equipment at this time, or even rent them.
At this time, most of the equipment for filming movies in Xiangjiang was Alai from West Germany. There were also equipment from Panavision, but they were not used much because the rent alone was too expensive and ordinary people couldn't even afford it.
It can be said that if these equipments are leaked and willing to be sold, Cao Zhiqiang will become a multi-millionaire in an instant, and it must be in US dollars.
Of course, if you count the luxury consumer goods that Cao Zhiqiang signed for before, they are actually quite expensive, but the same principle applies: things are too sensitive to reveal.
Relatively speaking, although the audio-visual production dream space is more magical, it is less sensitive.
The so-called audio-visual production dream space is said to be a space, but in fact it is more like a skill or a machine. It has no entity itself and must be used in conjunction with Cao Zhiqiang's system portable space. It is more like an operating platform.
To put it simply, it means that when Cao Zhiqiang puts some real-life audio-visual media, such as film master tapes, into the portable system space, he can control these audio-visual media stored in the system space by falling into a dream. , such as film footage for post-production.
During the dreaming process, he would enter a special space by himself, and then do special effects on the film master tapes he had stored in the system space in advance as he pleased.
The process of doing special effects is not complicated. He can turn on the normal movie-watching mode or the immersive mode.
The normal movie viewing mode is to watch a big movie normally, and then he can pause, fast forward or rewind at any time, and he can also zoom in and out of the details at will.
As for the special effects, he can do whatever he wants.
For example, if he says it's windy, it will blow inside, and he can control the level.
For example, if he says it will rain, it will rain inside. The size of the rain can also be controlled.
The immersive mode is different. You can watch movies with an effect similar to watching a 3D movie, and then perform special effects in more subtle ways.
Even AI face-changing is not impossible.
If you don't know much about it, it doesn't matter. In addition to tens of thousands of professional templates, there are also thousands of AI fool-type special effects templates to choose from. If you don't want to bother, you can just apply the template special effects directly, and you can get it all with one click.
Still numb
No worries, there is also an AI assistant function, you can express what you want, and the AI assistant can help you handle all the special effects production.
You don’t need to do anything specific, you just need to make requests as a Party A, and the AI assistant can handle everything for you.
Not only can you do image special effects, but you can also do sound special effects.
You can get whatever sound you want, and there are also thousands of AI fool-proof templates to choose from.
It is equivalent to saying that Cao Zhiqiang only needs to pretend to make a movie outside, and then he does not need to rely on others for post-production. He can do the special effects himself.
There can be wind and rain, there can be high mountains and deep valleys, there can be symphonies, there can be thundering birds.
But one thing is that all the special effects materials must have been seen and heard by Cao Zhiqiang.
Only the memories that have been stored in Cao Zhiqiang's mind will be perfectly presented in it.
For example, if Cao Zhiqiang goes to Jiuzhaigou to see the scenery, he only needs to see the scenery materials he has seen, and the special effects function will automatically change based on these.
Even Cao Zhiqiang can create his own, just like SimCity, using the method of playing games to create special effects.
Any special effects Cao Zhiqiang wants can be produced in the dream space and perfectly engraved on the film in the system space.
Not only film, but any media, including digital media, can also be burned.
It can be said that with this gadget, he makes movies just like playing.
All Hollywood special effects are his younger brothers.
This special effects production machine is powerful and magical, but it is also very sensitive.
For example, if some special effects that are beyond the domestic technical level are actually used and released, how can we explain it?
Of course it's okay to appreciate it yourself, but in this case, it would be a waste of natural resources.
Then Cao Zhiqiang thought about it carefully and realized that his worries were unfounded.
It’s not like the special effects have to be one kind. Couldn’t he just use some special effects that can be seen in this era?
Of course, China is still a bit sensitive in this regard, but in the future, as long as we find an opportunity to go to Xiangjiang, set up a special effects studio there, hire some people, make some models to look like it, and create a sense of mystery, then it will be fine. ?
By then, he will be able to make a lot of money just by selling special effects.
No, no, no, it’s not good to sell special effects, it’s easy to get cheated.
You might as well just make special effects for your own movies from now on, be unique and maintain a sense of mystery.
Moreover, the special effects must keep up with the times and not be too advanced. They should be on the same level as the Hollywood special effects. Occasionally, they should be slightly beyond. Anyway, it should be within the capabilities of the current technological level.
Wait, it doesn’t have to be a movie.
Since this thing is a post-production special effects machine, it is not specifically designed for movies. It can not only produce picture special effects, but also sound special effects.
In other words, if he brings in a blank audio tape or record, he can still record the music he wants here.
By then, there will be no need for a recording studio or recording of records. How much trouble and cost can be saved?
At this time, movie video tapes have to be handed over to China Film Company for domestic distribution, so forget it.
However, the distribution of audio tapes is not controlled and does not have to be a monopoly of one company.
No, forget it.
It doesn't take much effort to record records, and the cost savings are very limited. There is no need to do this, otherwise it will be difficult to explain when people ask.
At most, I can get some vinyl records, CD records, etc., and some collector's editions here.
For ordinary recording, just do it seriously. Recording doesn't take much effort anyway.
Huh?
In this way, even in China, the movie that pays tribute to "The Garden of Words" can still be made.
Even now, the movies produced by the studio must be handed over to China Film Company for distribution.
But Cao Zhiqiang remembers that there was no film copyright in China at this time
One thing is that China Film Corporation only acquires and distributes films, and does not buy out the film copyrights.
Only those who pay attention to copyright, mainly co-productions, will sign a copyright ownership contract. However, in China, this contract is of little use, because no matter who your copyright belongs to, it can only be distributed to China Film Company.
However, things were different after 1993.
Cao Zhiqiang remembers that after the film was remade, those old films that did not clearly state the copyright ownership automatically belonged to the film studio before the fifty-year copyright protection period expired.
For example, the later Shanghai Art Film Factory was once almost out of food, but later it was able to survive just by collecting copyrights.
In the same way, if your movie does well, even if you don't get a big share of it now, you can get the copyright in the future.
As long as it's a classic movie, you don't have to worry about not getting the copyright fees.
With these photography equipment and audio-visual production dream space, the cost of making your own movies can be extremely low, the shooting speed can be extremely fast, and the effect can be extremely high. It is simply a god of cost performance.
You know, almost 60% of the budget for Hollywood blockbusters is special effects.
And Cao Zhiqiang has this audio-visual space, which is equivalent to saving this part of the money, and the effect is even better.
In fact, you can make pure cartoons here just like playing a game, and it will be even less easy for you to reveal your secrets.
However, in this case, it is no longer enough to just do it domestically. We need to diversify our investments and companies.
Only by setting up special effects divisions in multiple places around the world and establishing a confidentiality agreement will the special effects issues be less likely to be revealed.
So in the early stage, you still have to suppress your inner excitement and keep a low profile and then a low profile.
"Forget it." Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly when he thought of this.
"Anyway, I've already invested 100,000 yuan in Beijing Film Studio, so let's just keep making the movie. It's just an experiment."
"But since I'm the one providing the money, the equipment, the people, and the special effects, I'm not polite."
"So I want to write, direct, and act in this tentative drama. I want it all!"
"As for Director Xu, okay, let him be the assistant director and check for omissions for me."
"I guess he is also happy!"
