The two came from behind!

Compared with Lu Yue, a classmate of Lao Mouzi, the progress is much faster.

Qiu Shuzhen sighed and continued taking shorthand in a hurry.

She joined the Zhao family at the end of January, and it has been half a year now. Of course she knows what it means to have other handheld action photographers and be able to work as a teacher on the set.

That means the boss can relax more and she has more time to help him with Thai massage.

Zhao Donghuai said again, "In the editing department, let Mai Zishan lead the team to edit a three-minute fight scene for me, and edit it according to the split-shot script. If they do a good job, I won't have to follow you all the time."

Mai Zishan has been dedicated from Hurricane Rescue 1 to Lonely Tiger 1.

Now that the shooting of Rapid Chase is over, the action pattern is still the same. Director Zhao can also try to see if he can free himself.

Seeing that Ah Zhen had written it down, he said, "Let's arrange for Ah You's two songs to start charting on the radio."

Sad Pacific and Lonely Warrior.

They are all Mandarin songs, but it doesn’t matter. Once Cheung Suet-you has recorded them, they can release them and give them a try. Cheung Suet-you’s role is in John Wick, the character who specializes in helping the high-table seaside hotel series killer group and leading a team to professionally collect corpses.

Ah You is also a talented player in terms of acting skills.

His shortcoming is that his appearance is far inferior to that of the other Four Heavenly Kings. There are five of the Four Heavenly Kings! Li Ming, Aaron Kwok, and Zheng Yinjian are all still studying in the ATV training class and have just entered the industry.

As for John Wick 1’s schedule? There’s no rush. Fatty King’s hardcover Chasing Girl has just taken over from Mr. Zombie for a few days, and its sales are pretty good, with a box office of 1.7 million on the first day and over 5 million in three days.

Li Guoxing also used 25 million to buy out the distribution of the film in foreign theaters.

After the hardcover version of Girls hits the box office this month, there's no rush for John Wick to be released in early August. It's still a good summer release date.

If you think about it this way, he can have a period of leisure and relax.

After returning to the office, Zhao Donghuai drank a cup of coffee and thought for a while before making the decision. It was time to buy a batch of computers and form a special effects team for Zhao Films.

Special effects have to be developed from scratch.

Currently, the most popular computers in the world are mainly Apple's Paopao series, as well as IBM. For example, the Paopao Lisa computer launched by Apple in 1983 has a retail price of US$9,995. It is already a bulky desktop computer with a standard keyboard and mouse.

, a discount of HKD 78,000 per unit.

The price is insane, ten units cost HK$780,000.

You must know that the IBM5150 launched by IBM is priced at only 1,565 US dollars, which is only 12,000 Hong Kong dollars per unit.

Even Industrial Light and Magic, which later became proud to use supercomputers to do special effects, is currently using IBM or Apple to do it. The Star Wars series, Terminator, Back to the Future, etc. are all done in this way.

Computer rendering with special effects models, etc.

It is rendered on a frame-by-frame basis. One second of footage can contain more than twenty frames, and one frame of computer rendering takes half an hour or more.

Even for Titanic in the 1990s, if Hollywood uses supercomputers to do its work, it will still require a thousand-person special effects team, post-processing, rendering, etc., and it will take almost a year to make it worthy of the big screen.

The finished product of the test.

With Zhao Donghuai's current financial resources, he will buy a batch of computers, recruit a group of graduates from the University of Hong Kong and Qingbei in the Mainland, and start contacting the special effects industry from scratch, slowly gaining experience.

Let’s practice first.

Thinking of this, he picked up the phone and asked the manager of the purchasing department of Zhao's Pictures to buy dozens of computers first. Using IBM, dozens of computers only cost hundreds of thousands.

This is very simple. IBM sent computers to the Hua Xia Bank branch in Hong Kong Island in 1979 and five years ago, and introduced the office system's LAN mode.

You can buy it with money.

The next call was to the mainland, asking Ma Yang to help him recruit graduates in Qingbei. The computer major in Qingbei had also been established a long time ago.

Let's take care of them when they arrive. Start with the initial special effects and practice more as you take care of them.

In addition to computer special effects, Zhao Donghuai also asked the mainland to help him find a group of eighth-level workers who are willing to come to Hong Kong Island to work as film and television models. If the eighth-level workers cannot find the seventh-level workers, it will be fine.

Carpenters, bricklayers, fitters, etc. all need to be recruited.

The development of special effects movies is closely related to various models. Just like when Cameron shot The Terminator, he also made a Terminator model that was as tall as a real person, and also made a small model that was tens of centimeters high.

Most of the Terminator movement shots in the movie were made using small models and were shot in special ways, such as stop-motion animation.

The combination of models and CG technology is also an important means of special effects movies. Just like in the Terminator series, the T-1000 elongates the fingers into metal cones, turning the fingers into military spines...

The actors put on metal spikes of different lengths on their fingers, shoot them in order from short to long, and then use the special effects team to continuously digitally render them on the computer and present them on the big screen. It is a special effects movie!

To create various prop models, including city models, hiring seventh- and eighth-level workers from the mainland is the best choice.

There may not be such big names in Haowan, Hong Kong, but they are few in number and still expensive.

Zhao Donghuai suddenly remembered a person, Zhu Jiaxin. This name was somewhat unknown in later generations. He was not as famous as his younger brother Zhu Jiading. After all, Zhu Jiading married Zhong Yanhong.

A talented man in the advertising industry, the phrase "It doesn't matter if it lasts forever, it only matters what you once had" is the handiwork of Zhu Jiading.

But when it comes to contribution and promotion to the film and television industry, Zhu Jiaxin is amazing. He is the founder of Xantao Digital and is known as the pioneer of computer animation, film digital stunts and post-production in Asia.

In the movie series, the heroes dominate the world, Chinese heroes, Shaolin football, kung fu, etc.

These were all made by Zhu Jiaxin’s Xantao Digital.

The various special effects in Shaolin Football and Kung Fu are actually not bad. There are not many blockbusters in 2021 that can achieve that level of special effects.

He remembered that Zhu Jiaxin was the one who founded Xantao Digital in the mid-to-late 1980s.

Zhao Donghuai made a phone call directly, "Make an appointment for me with Zhu Jiaxin, Zhu Xuhua's son."

The two brothers Zhu Jiaxin and Zhu Jiading will both be famous in the future, and it can be regarded as a family tradition. Their father, Zhu Xuhua, is also a filmmaker and producer like Shao Yifu who lived in Shanghai.

More than an hour later.

Director Zhao met Zhu Jiaxin in the big office. He was in his thirties and in the prime of life.

Wearing a pair of glasses, he looked polite and looked pretty good. "Hello, Mr. Zhao, I wonder why you came to me?"

Zhu Jiaxin has also achieved some success in his career. His original plan was to acquire CANNY TV next year. It is not a TV station, but a Hong Kong-based CANNY TV factory that manufactures color TV sets. He worked in the TV factory for two or three years before getting involved in the field of special effects production.

Zhao Donghuai asked Azhen to make him a cup of coffee and handed him a cigar before he smiled and said, "Zhu Sheng, I want to try to enter the field of film special effects production. I need someone who can carry the banner. I wonder if you have any idea about this.

interest?"

Zhu Jiaxin was surprised for a few seconds and said a little excitedly, "Me??"

He and his younger brother Zhu Jiading have similar resumes. They come from a film family and have a good family environment. After graduating from middle school, they studied in Amei's family. It was just that Zhu Jiading studied architecture in Amei and came back to do advertising. When he was in Amei, his favorite

It's movie special effects.

Especially the Star Wars series or other special effects blockbusters, he was in awe when watching them.

Otherwise, a boss who acquired a TV manufacturing factory suddenly switched to special effects production two or three years later... How did such a huge industry span come about? He could really produce special effects blockbusters such as "The Storm", "Shaolin Football" and "Kung Fu".

In the future, Hong Kong Island was once Asia's leader in film special effects production, just like Hong Kong films in the 1980s and 1990s.

Then it collapsed.

It collapsed because in the market, there weren’t that many bosses spending money on special effects. Almost all the production costs of a movie were spent on the star’s salary.

If there is less money for special effects, each special effects company will not be able to operate. There will be no projects to make money. Not only will they not be able to make money, the property market in Hong Kong will become more and more exaggerated in the future. Companies that start companies cannot afford to rent office space, so they can only

Going bankrupt.

In addition to the glory of Zhu Jiading's Xiantao Digital in the future, films such as Legend of Shushan, Fearless, House of Flying Daggers, and Initial D were also produced by Hong Kong Island special effects companies.

But wait for these to collapse one by one.

The special effects capabilities are easily surpassed by South Korea. Future special effects blockbusters such as Mermaid and Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons are basically created by South Korean special effects companies as the backbone and Hong Kong Island special effects as small assistants.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Pointing to herself excitedly, Zhu Jiaxin smiled and said, "Sheng Zhao, the special effects industry is a very expensive industry..."

Zhao Donghuai waved his hand, "I'm not short of money."

Zhu Jiaxin smiled brightly and came over with her hands extended, "Thank you Mr. Zhao for your appreciation, I am willing to do it!"

Zhao Donghuai shook hands and laughed, "I will give you an annual salary of 500,000 yuan. Your task now is to fly to A-mei's house to see how far the special effects industry there is from ours."

"If you need to buy any advanced equipment, as long as you can buy it, just make a list."

Zhu Jiaxin's smile became even brighter, "Okay, I'll pack up and set off tomorrow."

Director Zhao waved his hand, "There's no need to be in such a hurry. At least you have to let your family know that you suddenly changed jobs and careers. There will be a buffer."

After laughing and chatting for a while, he asked his secretary to prepare the contract, and then he gave Zhu Jiaxin three days of leave to make preparations.

For Zhu Jiaxin, an annual salary of 500,000 yuan is nothing. After all, he is the person who can buy the TV factory next year. The important thing is that if he joins Zhao Sheng's big ship, his life and development in Hong Kong Island are not generally safe.

It’s an era when all kinds of big stars are easily tricked by clubs.

An ordinary small businessman, a small advertising talent?? He doesn't have much status, but after joining Zhao Donghuai's company, he is considered a middle-level leader among the employees of the tycoon.

The safety and stability of life development have suddenly improved by several orders of magnitude.

"I can buy a commercial building now and use it as the base of the special effects department in the future. In twenty or thirty years, I won't have to worry about not being able to pay the rent and causing the special effects department to go bankrupt..."

The six-story Zhao International Trade Building is no longer enough for him to absorb too many new departments. The special effects team is placed here. There are few people, few equipment, and few models in the early stage. It doesn't matter. In the middle and later stages, it will definitely not be able to squeeze in.

After all, Zhao's International Trading, Film Company, Kowloon Daily News major base, and the newly opened publishing house are all here, as well as photo studios, projection halls, record departments, etc., are all here.

The special effects base, from the very beginning, must be designed to catch up with Hollywood.

Of course you need to build a large enough base.
To be continued...