"Of course it's true." Xia Tian nodded with a smile, "To be honest, you two, I feel that special effects photography will be the mainstream of future movies. Think about it, with the help of special effects, people can create more exciting pictures and more gorgeous visual effects.

Even bringing the stage out of the earth, transcending reality, shooting the world of fairy tale, magical world, hell, and heaven, so that the audience can enjoy a higher visual enjoyment. Therefore, it has great prospects for development!”

In my previous life, when Hong Kong filmmakers were still obsessed with punching and kicking, Hollywood filmmakers had already begun to think about fighting dinosaurs.

As soon as "Jurassic Park" was released, the gorgeous visual effects made filmmakers and audiences all over the world kneel.

The traditional markets of Taiwan, Nanyang, South Korea and Hong Kong films were swept away by this blockbuster, and even Hong Kong was not defended. The throne of the annual box office champion was the first time that people were given up. This also indicates the overall decline of Hong Kong films and the overall victory of Hollywood blockbusters.

In order for this tragedy to happen again, Xia Tian could only try his best to break the situation. Now he has thought of three solutions.

One of the ways is to strengthen investment in Hong Kong's special effects movies so that Hong Kong can also produce special effects movies comparable to American blockbusters. In this way, Hong Kong movies have the possibility of being longer and shorter than American blockbusters. Even if you lose at that time, you won't lose too badly, at least you still have the strength to resist, and you won't lose like you did in your previous life.

Method 2: Consolidate and expand the Hong Kong film market and enhance the market's defense capabilities.

The Hong Kong film market in the previous life mainly relies on Taiwan. Because of Taiwan's limited foreign language film policy, only eight copies are allowed to be introduced for each film, which means it can only be released in eight theaters. With such strict quantity restrictions, no matter how good or popular Hollywood blockbusters are, it is difficult to achieve good results in Taiwan.

However, Taiwan has no restrictions on Hong Kong films, and Taiwan films are dead and have no resistance, so Hong Kong films are popular in Taiwan and can easily achieve extremely high box office results.

However, Hong Kong filmmakers do not cherish this. In the early 1990s, a large number of Hong Kong filmmakers used the funds of Taiwanese filmmakers to make movies, but they only wanted to make quick money, so there were few excellent works and many bad movies, which made Taiwanese people full of appetite and the box office plummet.

Taiwanese filmmakers were very dissatisfied with this and united in negotiations with Hong Kong filmmakers to discuss curbing the cost of Hong Kong film production and reducing Hong Kong star film pay.

But Hong Kong filmmakers, who had long been used to being big, did not retreat, which resulted in the breakdown of negotiations. So Taiwanese filmmakers turned to the authorities to relax restrictions on Western films.

As a result, Taiwan no longer restricts the copy of foreign language films, which has caused Hollywood blockbusters to sweep Taiwan. Hong Kong films have also lost their most important box office space and have since declined from prosperity.

Therefore, to maintain the prosperity of Hong Kong films, we must strengthen the protection of the market. We must achieve equal benefits and achieve a win-win effect. We cannot extinguish the waters and make the other party feel that they have suffered a loss. In that case, no cooperation will last forever.

The third method is to fundamentally solve the problem of filmmakers’ pay. From the previous example, it can be seen that the decline of Hong Kong films is actually related to the greed of Hong Kong filmmakers. It is precisely because of the desire to make quick money that no one catches the quality of the film, but only watches the number of films.

A star spans seven or eight crews at the same time, and a director shoots five or six movies a year. He is edited without a script and uses "Flying Paper Boy" to convey... How can he make a movie that satisfies the audience with such a hurry to make quick success?

But greed is the original sin, greed is human nature. The so-called country is easy to change, but nature is difficult to change. If people are not greedy and are like saints, it is absolutely impossible to do so. Therefore, they can only try to satisfy everyone's greed and make everyone feel that their efforts are worth the money.

So Xia Tian is now implementing a strategy of pay plus dividends within Tianxia Film. The pay of filmmakers is part of it. After the film is released, if the box office is good, you will get a certain dividend.

Such a reward strategy can satisfy these filmmakers, and also make many Hong Kong filmmakers proud to join Tianxia Pictures.

However, in Xiatian's opinion, this kind of reward method is not the best. The fairest reward method should be a game between the producer and the filmmaker, compromise with each other, and achieve the best dividend ratio, which is the most convincing way of distributing interests.

Just like Hollywood, the pay of celebrities is fought for by brokers from producers. The brokerage company represents the interests of celebrities and can maximize the highest treatment for celebrities.

However, the profit distribution method envisioned by Xia Tian cannot be achieved. The reason is that Tianxia Pictures is a producer and an agency, so it cannot compete with itself at all.

Furthermore, Hong Kong does not have the perfect trade union organizations like Hollywood to provide guarantees for filmmakers. Therefore, the distribution of right to speak is unfair, and whoever has the greatest influence will have the right to speak.

Large film companies such as Tianxia Pictures naturally have the right to bargain when facing celebrities. The amount of pay is basically the amount of pay. If you don’t agree, you will change the second person. Anyway, there will never be a shortage of stars.

Big-name stars such as Lin Qingxia also have the power to bargain when facing a small film company. If you ask me to film, you must pay for this movie. If you don’t agree, go find a second person to see who has such a high box office appeal.

It is difficult to cure this point, and Hong Kong filmmakers must work together. Therefore, it was proposed to establish the Hong Kong Film Association last year. But at present, the association has not played a big role.

...

After listening to Xia Tian's words, Lan Zicai and Wang Jing also felt that there was some truth.

People's taste for movies is getting higher and higher, and especially the requirements for pictures are keeping pace with each other.

The story of old movies decades ago may not be bad, but because the picture effect is not good, it is difficult to satisfy the audience.

The movie special effects can enhance the picture effect and produce pictures that surprise everyone.

For example, in last year's "People's Peacock", the huge and unparalleled Hell King made the audience feel great pressure, making them both terrifying and shocking, and extremely exciting. If it weren't for special effects shooting, this effect would definitely not be achieved.

"Mr. Xia, you said it very well. I also think that special effects movies are the mainstream of future development. It's a pity that there are so many filmmakers in Hong Kong, and only you agree with my point of view." Lan Feng said angrily.

He has been to many companies. Whenever he proposes to shoot special effects films, those film companies disagree. They also say that this type of film has no future and makes his hero useless. It is really gratifying that Xia Tian will support him.

"They may not be unable to see this, they are just reluctant to invest." Xia Tian said with a smile.

Investing in the production of special effects is a time-consuming and labor-intensive thing. Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic Special Effects Company is the best technology company in the industry. It has participated in the production of special effects for countless movies, and it has earned a lot of money. But if Lucas had not supported the profits of "Star Wars", the company would have gone bankrupt long ago.

In the past life, countless Hollywood special effects companies went bankrupt. The famous Digital Kingdom Company, as the second-ranked special effects company in Hollywood, has produced special effects for "Titanic", "X-Men", "Transformers", "Pirates of the Caribbean", etc., but it is difficult to escape the fate of selling.

The rhythm special effects studio, which has provided special effects production services for "Pi's Fantasy Drifting", "Harry Potter", "Lord of the Rings", "The Hunger Games", has won numerous Oscar Special Effects Awards, but it was eventually declared bankrupt and could not even pay the severance payments of employees.

Xia Tian also knows that special effects are a money-burning business, but is it okay if you don’t do it? If you don’t do it, then when others use special effects blockbusters to seize the market, you will only be watching it stupidly.

In order to compete with Hollywood blockbusters in the future, even if it costs a little money, Xia Tian decided to do this. Besides, if you don’t study the special effects now, even if the special effects technology is mature in the future, you will not know how to use it.

In his previous life, after James Cameron's "Avatar" was released, the hot box office greatly stimulated the 3D film market and made countless film manufacturers follow suit and filmed 3D films. Even third-level films use 3D as a gimmick.

However, except for Hollywood's still amazing, other domestic films are full of criticisms, all of which are called pseudo-3D works, which makes the audience lose confidence in domestic blockbusters again.

It’s really not that domestic films are invested heavily, the production is rough, and the shooting is not thoughtful, and it’s not entirely true. It’s more about domestic film directors and photographers are not familiar with the shooting of 3D films at all. Therefore, the 3D technology used when shooting, but the pictures taken are not 3D.

It was not until the release of Xu Laoqian's "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" that mainland audiences first realized what a real domestic 3D movie is. Why is Xu Laoqian so awesome? The reason is that this old guy has always been a technical controller, and he has been spending money to invest in new visual effects studios, closely following mainstream special effects in Europe and the United States.

Although it still cannot achieve the special effects produced by European and American studios, its grasp of technology is much better than that of mainland filmmakers. Therefore, people know how to make 3D movies. This is the advantage of experience.

Xia Tian knows that if you do necessary research on the special effects now, then all the special effects in Europe and the United States will be produced, and you will still be confused and don’t know how they can take pictures.

So the current situation is that if you study, you may not be able to catch up with others, but you will not be too far away. If you don’t study, then others will fall further and further away, and in the end you won’t even see your back.

"Director Blue, after you joined my Tianxia Pictures, I immediately became the Special Effects Department of Tianxia Pictures, which is specifically responsible for the research and development of movie special effects. I think in addition to model special effects, I can also study computer special effects. If there is no one, please hire someone, from Japan and the United States, and the treatment is good." Xia Tian smiled.
Chapter completed!