When I came out of Mr. Li's company, it was already 6 o'clock in the evening.
Looking at the sky, in the evening in May, only the dusk over the city reminded everyone of the end of the day.
At this time, there was an endless stream of pedestrians coming off work, and the horns of vehicles also sounded.
Meng Shu picked up the contract in his hand, looked at it, and smiled softly.
This is a temporary employment contract, which is proof that Mr. Li has been invited to the company to be a director.
The official effective date will be calculated from four days later until the end of the e3 exhibition.
During these four days, we need to recruit people.
Mr. Li is also in charge of the actors participating in the performance. He said that he would contact his students tonight and ask him to borrow a team of people.
So this is equivalent to solving Meng Shu's follow-up work, which is quite comfortable.
As for Mr. Li himself, Meng Shu did not expect that it would go so smoothly, and the deal was settled without even wasting any words.
He originally thought that this meeting would mostly be about bargaining.
It turned out that Director Li was not sure, but he wanted to try a horror-type stage play, so he wanted to meet and discuss it in detail.
This is exactly what Meng Shu wanted.
It doesn’t matter if Mr. Li is not familiar with him, he can help on this point.
After all, the original plan was to find professionals who were capable and would listen to suggestions.
Director Li's ability is beyond doubt. In terms of listening to suggestions, if it were a stage play of other styles, no one might be qualified to give suggestions.
But it was his first time trying the horror genre and he had no experience.
Therefore, Meng Shu’s role is reflected. That is to explain it to him and avoid taking detours.
The cooperation between the two of them is like two swords joining forces for this stage play. The effect will definitely not be too bad, and it will definitely be in accordance with his ideas.
In this regard, Meng Shu nodded with satisfaction.
After putting away the contract, I called an online taxi and rushed to a nice hotel to stay temporarily.
The next day, he hurried back to Shencheng and started the second round of his plan.
In order to build momentum for "Dead Space", Meng Shu thought a lot.
Virtual 3D stage play is just the first step.
This time at the exhibition, he is planning to provide on-site trials, and he has genuine products.
According to the exhibition information previously sent by Director Lian, the organizers of each e3 exhibition will build it into a game park and divide it into multiple areas.
The industry media and players who come to participate in the exhibition basically have nothing to worry about eating, drinking and having fun here.
You can even see many companies setting up cosplays of their own game characters in their own areas to attract exhibitors.
It's like a game version of Disneyland.
Therefore, the spacious geographical advantage allowed the organizers to prepare 10 independent venues that can accommodate thousands of people, specially used for holding game conferences for some companies.
However, Director Rei made it clear that only 5 of these 10 venues are used each year.
The reason is that it is too expensive. To hold a press conference, you need to pay the organizer more than ten w, and it is also stipulated that the press conference cannot exceed 2 hours.
Therefore, unless it is a large company or a globally renowned IP. Small and medium-sized companies will not rent independent venues to hold press conferences at the e3 exhibition.
At most, it would be ok to rent an area outside in a crowded venue and put a few computers there to debut the new game.
Therefore, it is understandable that the organizers do not allow scenery and decoration on the venue stage.
But...since these stages cannot be moved, then the big venues outside can always be used, right?
Therefore, Meng Shu's second plan is to build a haunted house in his own exhibition area.
The style was designed to look like the Ishimura passageway in "Dead Space", and then a few staff members were made up to look like necromorphs and wandered inside.
If the exhibitors want to experience the demo version of "Dead Space", they must first pass through the "Ishimura Passage" where the zombies roam before they can reach the demo area.
This method of bringing the game to reality must be very effective in publicity.
And Meng Shu had this idea a long time ago.
The main inspiration comes from the E3 exhibition of "Resident Evil 2 Remake".
At that time, the game company built a "Police Station Corridor" haunted house at the venue, and then asked the staff to dress up as zombies and wander around inside.
Exhibitors can only come to the trial area after passing this haunted house.
This is a very good idea and example, and Meng Shu will naturally not let it go.
But the problem is, how to find the workers to build this temporary haunted house?
After all, the e3 exhibition is held in America, so we can’t bring domestic workers with us, right?
So the best way is to pay some money and let the organizer implement it. You only need to provide a rough sketch of the scene.
The staff who play the necromorphs can hire people from the stage crew to save a lot of trouble.
Of course, entrusting the e3 organizer to entrust the matter still has to be communicated with the supervisor.
I am responsible for the development of the trial version and the guidance of the stage play, so I am simply too busy.
And there is one more important thing, and that is music.
In horror games, the importance of music is self-evident.
The most famous and impressive one is "Twinkle, Twinkle, Twinkle", a classic children's song that has been widely known for more than two centuries.
In the original "Dead Space" trailer, this children's song that almost everyone is familiar with was sung a cappella by an adult female voice from the radio in an ethereal, slow, slightly hoarse voice.
The tune has a unique electronic sound, which also reveals exhaustion, despair, and helplessness. Singing softly, as if in a physically and mentally exhausted and isolated way.
Coupled with the hell-like broken limbs, mountains of corpses and seas of blood, as well as shocking images such as bloody words on the walls and strange symbols influenced by religion. This originally positive and cheerful children's song suddenly turned into a funeral song that seemed to appease the dead!
It’s so impressive that it’s hard to forget!
Of course, there is no children's song like "Twinkle, Twinkle, Twinkle" in this world.
If it were restored directly in "Dead Space", without the blessing of the childhood filter, the effect would definitely be greatly reduced.
Use the native children's songs of this world?
It's not impossible, but you can't choose randomly. At least it has to be catchy to everyone, and the theme should be about the stars and the universe.
But Meng Shu has only been in this world for a year, and has long forgotten his childhood memories. This also means that he knows very little about the children's songs here.
You can't find it from the 300 children's songs in this world, right?
Therefore, Meng Shu handed over this job to the company's newly opened sound effects department and asked them to find suitable domestic and foreign children's songs.
He hummed a recording of the accompaniment and sent it to them as a reference, asking to find a similar one as soon as possible.
When these things were arranged one by one, two days had passed.
Mr. Li also brought his students and stage team to Shenzhen as promised.
Not too many, not too little, 20 people in total.
Meng Shu immediately arranged for them to settle in the best hotel nearby. He also treated them to a good meal, which was regarded as a welcome relief.
Mr. Li himself was also very happy, feeling inexplicably excited about making a comeback. There is also a sense of anticipation about being exposed to something new.
This mentality made him ask Meng Shu for the script that night, as if he was going to stay up late to read it.
Although Mr. Li's positive attitude satisfied Meng Shu, he had just arrived in a different place, and given his age, he had to rest first anyway.
So Meng Shu told him that there was no need to race against time, the most important thing was to have a good rest and wait until tomorrow.
Although Mr. Li persisted, he finally gave up under Meng Shu's persuasion.
At 8:30 the next morning, before Meng Shuren arrived at the company, animator Xu Hong sent a letter. It was said that Mr. Li and others had arrived at the company early and were now waiting in the conference room, and had sent the script to them.
This positive mobilization made Meng Shudu feel ashamed.
At the same time, I also feel a little admiration for Mr. Li’s conscientiousness.
At least he's not as high-minded and self-important as those in shitty TV dramas.
Therefore, when Meng Shu entered the company, he saw Mr. Li and the stage team and others gathered around the conference table and began to practice lines and dialogues.
Because motion capture actors and dubbing actors are separate, the only ones who need to practice speaking are those who need dubbing.
The motion capture actors just followed everyone through the script.
But since there are no pictures, Mr. Li worked hard to explain and make points when reviewing the script, whether it was the lines or the narration.
So much so that even Meng Shu, who was standing outside the glass door of the conference room, didn't notice.
You can see the level of care he takes.
Meng Shu listened for a while, knocked on the door, walked in, and said hello to everyone.
Then he sat in the corner and watched everyone's first day of work with interest.
She kept looking at Mr. Li, watching him practice his lines while recording something in his notebook from time to time.
He looked very reliable, which really satisfied Meng Shu.
He also interrupts the practice from time to time to remind him what tone should be used for this line and what tone should be used for that line.
As an experienced stage director, even if he has never directed in the horror genre, his ability in the context of lines can be seen.
The actors did not show any irritability or impatience, but kept changing according to Mr. Li's reminder in order to achieve the best effect.
Soon, after a morning of simple practice, everyone was almost familiar with the lines.
In the afternoon, Meng Shu took them into the motion capture room.
But as the actual rehearsals progressed, problems began to arise.
One of them is that the actors play monsters for the first time.
Without experience, they have no idea how the monster attacks and moves.
So Meng Shu spent a lot of time on action guidance.
Then there's the fact that the actors don't know how to express the weird and twisted horror through body movements.
Meng Shu demonstrated this in person.
In the original world, there was a popular get-up movement in the dance circle called 'zombie get-up'.
The main imitation is the zombies with twisted limbs and weird movements in the movie "Train to Busan".
This set of movements means that a person lying on the ground can achieve a perfect stand by exerting force on the waist and twisting the body without relying on his hands and feet.
In the eyes of others, this rising action is like a corpse suddenly being pulled upright by a mysterious force, which is so breathtaking.
When you put it on a zombie, a sense of terror and crisis will come to you instantly.
The stiff joint movement after standing up can also reflect the sense of "this is definitely not a human being".
Therefore, if this set of actions is used on the corpse, and paired with an already scary look, the effect will definitely be outstanding.
So Meng Shu demonstrated 'zombie getting up' and 'stiff movement' on the spot to tell the motion capture actors that these were the monster's basic movements.
Because this way of getting up was unheard of, everyone at the scene was stunned. It seemed to them that a new world had opened. They were stunned.
Some people even exclaimed on the spot: "You can still get up like this!" ?
Even Mr. Li couldn't help but sigh that the idea of getting up and moving stiffly was so interesting. He claimed that, let alone a monster, even if it were done by a human being, the horror would still not diminish.
After that, it’s a lot of practice. After Meng Shu demonstrated it in person, the motion capture actors began to learn.
And he was not idle after guiding for a while. He returned to his office and began to focus on developing the trial version of "Dead Space".
As the days passed, the busy Meng Shu basically rushed back and forth between the motion capture room, the office and home, day and night.
I even slept in the office until dawn a few times.
Fortunately, the efforts were not in vain. After two weeks and long rehearsals, the actors were already very familiar with the content of the stage play.
The sound effects department also found a well-known children's song with a melody very similar to "Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle", "Star Shine"!
This is a children's song from Russia. It was translated in China and included in primary school music textbooks. It is also a must-learn song in music classes.
Therefore, this song is very popular and well-known.
After listening to it himself, Meng Shu couldn't help but sigh that the two songs were 60% similar.
Although the lyrics and some of the accompaniment are different, the difference is obvious.
But the childhood filter and popularity that this song should have can perfectly replace "Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle".
So Meng Shu did not hesitate to ask the person in charge of the sound effects department to contact the copyright owner of the song and buy the right to use it.
In addition, Meng Shu’s 30-minute trial version was also temporarily produced.
Now, it is already June 9th.
It’s time to leave for America.
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