I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1018: Build momentum
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On Monday, July 13, shoots of "Gravity" was officially launched in Firefly Studios.
Following the two global Box Office 1 billion USD super blockbusters of "Jurassic Park" and "Casino Royale", another new work directed by Eric is naturally attracting much attention.
Although Eric did not personally participate in the relevant warm-up publicity work, Firefly Group's media public relations department has done everything in an orderly manner.
Before the film started, ABCTV Station had made a special interview with the two protagonists Jodie · Foster and George · Clooney. News related to "Gravity" also spread across the media channels inside and outside Firefly Group.
Of course, as usual, these messages released in advance do not have any substantive information related to the content of the film. The public can only know that Eric Williams started shoots with a new movie, a new movie related to space.
In addition, although many people already know the title of the new film Eric, in fact, all the relevant titles appearing in the media are "Eric Williams Untitled New Film".
Stay as mysterious as possible, and always hold the public ’s appetite, which is a habitual method often used in the opening of all blockbusters.
Eric started shoots "Gravity" at the same time as Los Angeles, New York, although the detailed cooperation plan between the two parties is still under discussion, Morgan Stanley has already begun to build momentum for the Nasdaq index.
The first article thrown by Morgan Stanley is an analysis report on the false recovery of the Russia economy.
This report published in the "Wall Street Daily" pointed out that in the two months of May and June this year, the scale of capital withdrawn from Russia reached 13billion USD, which exceeded the total introduction of Russia from 1991 to 1997. More than half of the scale of foreign investment in more than 20 billion USD. At the same time, with the continuous reduction of international oil prices in recent years, the Russia economy based on energy exports will once again enter the cold winter, and the ratio of Russia's external debt scale to foreign exchange reserves has reached extremely dangerous figures.
After the outbreak of the Southeast Asia economic crisis, a large amount of international hot money obtained from the foreign exchange, stocks, bonds and other markets of Southeast Asia countries have flowed into Russia, a new economy that seems to be recovering. Among them, the Ross quantum fund is the most typical. On behalf of, Quantum Fund invested half of the proceeds from the Southeast Asia economic crisis into the Russia stock and bond market.
In fact, among the more than 20 billion USD foreign capital introduced by Russia from 1991 to 1997, nearly 10billion USD was completed last year.
Only after entering Russia, the capitals of all parties quickly saw the essence of Russia's economic strength and strength, so there was a large-scale panic flight of capital in May and June.
This analysis report of Morgan Stanley is equivalent to putting the status of the Russia economy on the verge of another collapse directly on the table. For a time, the public was in an uproar, and the media and the public who did not know the deep purpose of this article of Morgan Stanley just watched the excitement. The capitals of all parties who are always concerned about the world economic situation have also made some deviations in the understanding of the purpose of this article published by Morgan Stanley. They think that this article is actually a "signal" that Morgan Stanley is suggesting that international hot money can launch an attack on the ruble.
In fact, this article is just a pavement for Morgan Stanley to further the prosperity of the Nasdaq market.
The economic situation of Russia is completely uncovered. Even if there are some capitals that still have expectations for the Russia economy, they will certainly not rush into Russia at this time. Then, in the next step, Morgan Stanley will naturally guide them to return to North America and enter the NASDAQ market.
On the day the analysis report was released, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia quickly accused Morgan Stanley of such ‘extremely irresponsible’ false statements. The Minister of Economic Affairs of Russia held a press conference and refuted Morgan Stanley ’s views fiercely.
The strong influence of international investment banks such as Morgan Stanley on the economies of countries around the world also quickly showed.
On the second day of this report, Russia rubles showed clear signs of appreciation.
Under normal circumstances, currency appreciation is the performance of a country ’s economic strength, but at this time, everyone knows that the appreciation of the ruble is definitely not the reason, but a very dangerous signal.
Many people have not forgotten that before the Southeast Asia economic crisis broke out, the Thai currency, the baht, experienced a substantial increase in value in a short period of time.
The appreciation of the ruble is clearly a manifestation of the international currency speculators ’attempt to short the ruble by absorbing it on a large scale.
After the Southeast Asia countries suffered economic devastation, Russia will inevitably encounter this disaster.
Under the lobbying of Chris and John · Mark, AOL shareholders have agreed to buy 10% of AOL shares in Firefly investment at the price of 4billion USD. The negotiations between the two parties on the underwriting agreement are also nearing completion, and Morgan Stanley is also systematically laying out plans to build momentum for the Nasdaq market.
Los Angeles, unconsciously, is already the fifth day of "Gravity" filming.
In these days, except for a phone call with Chris every morning to understand the progress of New York, Eric basically let go of all other things and put most of the energy into shoots of "Gravity".
At this time, it was already Friday afternoon, shoots was suspended in the studio of Firefly Studios.
Eric sits in front of the computer in the studio and repeatedly plays the space walk lens of George · Clooney around the Hubble telescope, Nickel · Frank, Jodie · Foster, George · Clooney, and the director of visual effects Robert · Bai Lun stood or sat around the Eric and watched the lens in the computer together.
Right now, Eric encountered the first important problem that was not anticipated in advance after the shooting started, the reflection of the Actor space suit glass helmet.
In theory, due to the vacuum environment without any diffuse reflection, the reflective scene of the Actor space suit glass helmet should be very fine and direct, without any astigmatism problems. Eric has already considered the reflection content of the pupil in the Actor close-up lens in advance, and has specially designed a solution for this.
A few days ago, in order to blend the crew with Actor, Eric chose some shoots perspectives from easy to difficult, but today, some close-up close-up shots of Actor were involved, and Eric discovered that even with the real-time environment simulation of the light box, but because The air particles in shoots inevitably cause diffuse reflection, and the reflections on the Actor space suit glass helmet cannot reach the level of detail in real space scenes.
After a while, Nickel first said: "Eric, maybe we can remove the glass cover, all of this part is made with post-CG."
Eric nodded, in fact, unless he gave up the attitude of excellence, otherwise, removing the glass cover and using CG is almost inevitable.
More than 99% of the shots of "Gravity" will be in this studio shoots, so there is no large crew. The long-term crew members are two Actors, Jodie · Foster and George · Clooney. More than twenty people.
However, on the other hand, "Gravity" has a 100-person special effects team in the digital field always serving this film.
See Eric nodding, Robert · Byron from the digital field also said: "Eric, it is not difficult to remove the glass cover and make it with CG. We only need to install a sensor around the helmet to accurately place the glass cover The CG model is installed, but this part of the work will be very cumbersome. "
Eric thought about it for a moment and said to Robert · Byron: "Bob, let ’s work two more days on weekends. Let ’s refit the prop helmet first. As for the CG production in this area, it will be put in the late stage of special effects production, etc. After the scene is completed, it will be referenced and then restarted, which will be much easier. "
It is necessary to consider the CG of the glass cover reflecting the content. If it is completed together with other CG scenes in the lens, it is naturally very cumbersome, but in the later period, the scenes around Actor have been determined, and it is simple to make related CG modules. And much faster.
Everyone discussed their own details in detail. Although there is still some time, today shoots is impossible to continue. Eric announced early work. Tomorrow is the weekend. Most of the crew still have to rest as usual.
Most of the staff in the studio simply cleaned up and left.
Eric and Robert · Byron agreed to meet tomorrow morning to study the renovation of the helmet, and bid farewell to each other. He still sat at the workbench, opened his laptop, and quietly pounded today's work log.
Although we have made preparations for up to one year in advance, in the actual shoots process, we often encounter various problems. At this point, Eric has met for a long time. The former "Gravity" can be said to be another peak in film technology after "Avatar".
Even though his memory made Eric take a lot of detours, he never thought he would complete this epoch-making work smoothly.
He is concentrating on his work sensation today, and there are soft high-heeled footsteps coming from his ear.
Eric looked up and saw that Jodie · Foster came over from the dressing room to herself, and women always had trouble removing makeup.
Except for the two makeup artists who left quietly and their assistant, Jodie · Foster found that there was only one Eric in the studio enough to fit a large Boeing airliner, so he came naturally to say hello : "Hey, Eric, don't you plan to get off work?"
Eric tapped a word briskly, then looked at Jodie · Foster and smiled: "I am waiting for you."
"Oh, you guys, are starting to be serious again," Jodie · Foster smiled, but simply pulled a chair, sat down next to Eric, and looked at his laptop curiously: " Can I watch it? "
"Of course," Eric nodded and turned the laptop screen slightly towards her, saying, "How about you, how are you feeling these days?"
Jodie · Foster kept dragging down the document, reading the work log of Eric with relish, and at the same time said: "Fortunately, I followed your suggestion and did a few months of exercise, otherwise it is really a bit unsustainable Come down. "
In the summer, it is impossible to install air-conditioning facilities in the largest studio of Firefly Studios. In addition, a circle of LED screens emit heat at all times, and the temperature in the background light box exceeds 30 degrees most of the time. .
Although this film Actor does not need to make any difficult movements, but wearing a thick spacesuit in a very narrow high-temperature light box in the event space is just three or four hours. When it comes out often, the whole person is basically All collapsed.
However, since the first week of shooting, Eric has never heard any complaints from Jodie · Foster. Each time, he performed the performance meticulously in accordance with his requirements, which made Eric admire her dedication.
Actually, Jodie · Foster feels the same about Eric.
This young man who already has huge wealth that is difficult for everyone to reach, is the earliest person who comes to this studio almost every day, and is basically the one who left last.
Sometimes, Jodie · Foster ca n’t help but think, if you have so much money, why do you have to work hard to do this, a little slack, lazy, temper a little bit worse, this is normal what.
After a while, Jodie · Foster pointed to a passage in the Eric work log and asked: "Eric, why do you think the relative speed of four meters per second can bring the best weightlessness effect?"
"This is the result of Nickel and me after many preliminary tests," Eric replied: "Moreover, it is not that four meters per second can bring the best weightlessness effect, but the normal state of the lens. The movement speed is limited to the standard four meters per second, so as to give the audience a unified visual experience. In fact, in other collisions, flight and other scenes, the relative speed of you and the lens changes from moment to moment, we only let your various The trajectory of motion conforms to the laws of physical motion in space, so that the most perfect visual effect of weightlessness is truly achieved. "
Jodie Foster listened carefully and said jokingly at the end: "If it wasn't what I saw with my own eyes, it's hard for me to think that you are only graduating from high school."
Eric admires the beautiful blue eyes of Jodie Foster and smiles: "You are a prejudice Oh."
Jodie Foster also smiled: "If you mind, I apologize."
"Nà, I forgive you," Eric is very refreshing, and continued: "Speaking of that, we made the bet on Oscar, do you think about it?"
"No," Jodie Foster almost forgot about the last time she and Eric bet on the best Heroine on Oscar. She is a very smart woman, and naturally will not take Eric's promises that she can make any demands too seriously. At this time, listening to Eric's initiative, she couldn't help but say: "However, I suddenly felt like I was owing you a promise."