Big Manga - Chapter 888
Chapter 886 : Beyond
After Alice came back to talk to Meng Huo about the specific situation, Meng Huo was completely relieved, and then came to Yenching.
Approaching June, the production of “The Magician at the Beginning of the Century” has entered the final stage, and it will be completed within half a month. At this moment, Meng Huo went to Yenching to check the situation of the movie. Handle the plan of film promotion and release.
On the afternoon of the first day, Meng Huo watched the uncut version of “The Magician of the Early Century” in a preview at DreamWorks. The main body of the movie has actually been completed, but no cut editing and editing have been carried out. Part of the post-processing.
The three directors, without exception, accompany Meng Huo to watch the trial screening together.
Tomato and He are also present. In addition to them, the core employees of DreamWorks are also present, including those responsible for cutting and editing. This is the most important inspection by Meng Huo before the film is completed. He will decide the “Early Century” The final structure of “Magic|Excellent|Excellent|Small|Speaking|New|New|Fast|Fast|..|Shi”.
The screening time was two hours full, and no one spoke during the whole process, and Meng Huo took a notebook while reading and writing. Every time he wrote, everyone around him was nervous. After the trial screening was over, the lights in the screening hall were turned on, and many people squinted their eyes with the stimulating lights, but they didn’t care about it, and all the eyes turned to Meng Huo.
“What a shame, teacher, shouldn’t make changes in general?” Tomato asked a little nervously. Although Meng Huo came to give advice on the following process this time, he had to worry about whether there was any problem with the movie itself. If something went wrong, That may well be overturned.
“Before I came, weren’t you very confident?” Meng Huo asked with a smile.
Tomato’s face is reddish. He is indeed very confident. The entire DreamWorks is satisfied with the finished film. But they are self-confident, and now that Meng Huo sits down among them, they will naturally worry about making mistakes.
“Don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just in case…” Tomato said: “If teacher, you want to overthrow and start over, don’t we have nothing to do?”
Meng Huo shook his head. He looked at the three directors: “Do you think there will be an accident?”
“Probably not.” The directors shook their heads and replied one after another: “This result is already very good.”, “I don’t think there is a need for re-production.”, “Its visual sense has exceeded my initial expectations. .”
Compared with Tomato, who is responsible for supervising the quality of the picture, the directors are more confident-this may be the fascination of the authorities. Because Pomodoro was responsible for the picture guidance and review of “The Magician of the Early Century”, he was even less confident.
Meng Huo looked at Tomato amusedly: “Have you heard… they all said so, isn’t the answer obvious?” Tomato’s eyes suddenly brightened: “The teacher meant that this movie doesn’t need to be overturned and restarted?”
“Of course.” Meng Huo nodded, “Your work with Wenlin is over.”
He turned his gaze to Xi Wenlin. Xi Wenlin was delighted when he heard these words. The preview of “The Magician of the Early Century” was recognized, which means that the work of him and Pomodoro is complete, and the rest is the director. And other technical staff’s modifications have been made.
“Great!” Tomato made a celebratory gesture, and then clapped his hands with Xi Wenlin: “Wenlin, the two of us can go home and rest! Teacher Heshi. This time our reward is indispensable, right?”
Meng Huo nodded, and these two assistants contributed to the punctual completion of “The Magician of the Early Century”. Of course he will not treat them badly.
“After the movie is released, the payment will be paid to your account.” He stood up with his notes and said to the people around him: “Now we have a meeting in another office to discuss the future work.”
The staff of the trial theater immediately followed and stood up. They had already prepared a conference room and just moved it directly.
“Teacher Tomato…” On the way, a director said to Tomato and Xi Wenlin: “You don’t have to leave in a hurry. The movie will be released in one month. We hope you can continue to help during this period.”
“This…” Tomato and Xi Wenlin glanced at each other. In fact, they liked the job very much, but they stayed in Yanjing for several months and often worked overtime even during holidays. As a result, both of them seldom go home. Want to go home to reunite.
“I think this is a good idea.” Meng Huo heard their conversation and interjected: “Your work is over, but there may be places where you are needed later-it doesn’t matter if you are homesick, it doesn’t cost much for the subsequent work. Time, you two can come here occasionally.”
His words convinced Tomato and Xi Wenlin, and the two assistants nodded immediately.
“But how did the teacher know that we were homesick…” The two cartoonists were a little red, and wondered how Meng Huo knew their thoughts-but they were so obvious who didn’t know how much they were. Meng Huo, who had a good relationship in the first year, is known to all the employees of DreamWorks.
Bai Yan also jokes with Meng Huo a few days ago that the two men are not masculine-“The two women in Tokyo are more ambitious than the two of them.”
Meng Huo believes that the two female assistants that Tokyo helped with the animation of “Dragon and Tiger” are undoubtedly Bai Yan’s very competent helpers. They have inherited the usual style of working as Meng Huo’s comic assistants. They work hard and earnestly. Will be distracted by private life.
In fact, the assistants who have the least contact with Meng Huo are these two assistants, and their relationship with him is also the strangest among all the assistants. However, after several years of observation, Meng Huo’s most assured assistants are precisely them.
An obvious feature is that Meng Huo can rest assured that the work of these two assistants does not interfere at all. They work independently for a long time without any slackness-and this is precisely the lack of others. s things.
Several assistants in Jiayuan Community still work at Meng Huo’s house from time to time. This is to facilitate Meng Huo’s inspection work. It is not that he does not give them the opportunity to choose freely, but he knows that if he let go, at most six months, the quality of the comics will be low. Will start to decline.
The life of these assistants is so easy, they even lost a lot of motivation.
“Teacher Hua Meng is okay…” Meng Huo thought in his heart. Among those comic assistants in Jiayuan Community, Hua Meng was the most self-controlling. Wang Yanmeng was too young and was in bad shape from time to time.
He is very strange. It seems that among the cartoonists, it seems that the self-made people are all girls. There is also another person: Qin Ya-Qin Ya seems to be very uncontrollable on the surface. She has a lot of thoughts and loves to eat and play. She will Instead, try to finish work quickly and allow yourself more rest time.
But even so, her willfulness is based on ensuring the quality and completion of the comics, so she should actually be the most self-controlling person.
There are too many powerful female cartoonists. In comparison, there seems to be no male cartoonists-but Meng Huo changed his mind. There are actually only a few male cartoonists he is familiar with, and he cannot simply draw conclusions. .
And at least these male cartoonists, although they can’t let them be free, but under timely supervision, their work is also quite good.
“I have a chance to find a few more male assistants in the future…” Meng Huo thought this way, and his side was a little overwhelming. If he could find a more powerful and more self-control male cartoonist, he might be able to arouse Tomato. Their competitiveness.
But of course, compared to this matter, the “Magician of the Early Century” meeting is now more important.
The meeting lasted from 4pm to 10pm, and the dinner was only half an hour off, and all the rest of the time was used for group discussions-Meng Huo did not put his own demands on others. In the above, he put forward the standard, but more time is to discuss with everyone how to carry out post-production is better.
The results of the meeting were also very rich. Before the end, Meng Huo was almost certain that he did not need to check the film again before the completion of “The Magician of the Early Century”. As long as it is produced in accordance with the details established by them, “The Magician at the Beginning of the Century” can become a very outstanding work . After the meeting ended and the employees left one after another, Meng Huo went on with several directors. After a small-scale discussion, the release time and publicity of “The Magician of the Early Century” were finally determined.
The publicity of the film will be handed over to Alice-her campaign for “Lelouch the Rebellious” has been unanimously recognized by the directors, and I believe she can do a good job in the promotion of “The Magician of the Early Century”.
However, in terms of the release details of “The Magician of the Early Century”, the directors did not adopt the Phoenix company’s past methods. They are all established and well-known directors. They have their own ideas on the selection of theaters and the schedule of the show, and their contacts are also very good. Deep, and Meng Huo respected their opinions in the end.
This is not a bad thing. On the contrary, DreamWorks’ ability to act independently as much as possible is conducive to future business segmentation, and the directors also need this event to prove their reusable status in Phoenix—at least not a Only responsible for making the puppets for the movie.
Meng Huo also told them that after “The Magician of the Early Century” was released, one director would be responsible for the lower part of the film, and the other two directors would join different animation departments like Bai Yan and start experimenting with animation production.
“I look forward to your successful transformation before next year…”
Meng Huo has deep expectations for several directors. If these directors finally prove their abilities, next year he will be able to let go of the action mode that has been constrained by ‘animation production’ for a long time, and become a cartoonist again.
He does not believe that the animations he produced are the best. In fact, he does not believe that the animations of the previous life are perfect. If the same animation is directed by a more powerful director, the quality of the animation can naturally surpass the original. (To be continued…) R1292