Chapter 2055 Happy National Day!

(Undoubtedly, I was stuck on the expressway, and the expressway turned into a parking lot in seconds. I don’t expect dinner. Let’s wait for tomorrow’s lunch. I wish everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival. o(╥﹏╥)o)

Now people usually watch movies with 24-frame shooting and projection technology, that is, 24 frames per second to shoot and play, and 120 frames means that there will be 120 frames in one second, "Billy Lynn's Halftime Battle" directly increases the frames per second in the original film shooting by 5 times, and you can see more details than 24-frame films.

At high speeds, ghosting will disappear, which is equivalent to the clarity of 4K still images for every second of the picture recognized by the human eye, eliminating the blurred picture caused by the smear phenomenon, which is equivalent to indirectly improving the picture quality. The clarity of the image is similar to directly improving the resolution of the image quality.

To be honest, if it is only 120 frame technology, it is not very difficult to realize it. After all, there are successful precedents. The real difficulty of "Avatar 2" lies in the "naked-eye 3D" and "full image " combination.

In the cognition of ordinary people, glasses-free 3D and holographic images are two conflicting concepts. Most of the former serve the plane and use parallax illusion to realize the "evolution" of 2D images into 3D images without the help of glasses. That's why it's called the naked eye.

The latter is usually called "holographic projection". Its true completeness is to realize "floating" display without any solid medium, and at this stage it can only be realized through the refraction of the screen and light, so the two The combination of contradictory things is really unimaginable.

Can you imagine the taste of beef paste and blueberry sauce mixed together to eat bibimbap?

Of course, it is not impossible in theory, but it depends on the level of the chef, and in the movie, it depends on Cameron's skill.

If "Avatar 2" can really achieve the effect Cameron said, it will undoubtedly be a staged leap for film technology, and this kind of leap requires the accumulation of layers of costs.

For example, starting from the image collection to upgrade the photographic equipment, "Billy Lynn's Midfield War", 4k, 3D, 120 frames, the combination of several words is indeed a bit scary.

4K has been popularized for a long time, and now even kidney machines can shoot 4K video, not to mention 3D. Since the release of "Avatar" in 2009, 3D seems to have become the standard configuration of almost all commercial blockbusters.

What about looking at 120 frames in turn? High frame rate makes 3D motion images look clearer, and now that 4K is coming, there is more reason for high frame rate, because if motion is blurred, no amount of K will help, so 4K and high frame rate will develop together.

Now the highest frame rate standard of 4K/UHD in the latest standard is set at 120/s,

The two complement each other, and the advantages needless to say.

And James Cameron began to preach the benefits of high frame rates as early as 2008. After 75 years of 2D film production technology, people have become accustomed to 24 frames to bring strobe effects.

The same thing, in 3D, the flickering effect is more pronounced, not because it's inherently worse, but because everything else is better.

The picture suddenly looks so real, as if the audience is standing in the same room as the character, but when the camera is panned, there will be a strange ghost.

Maybe you have never noticed it before, in fact it has been hidden in the most conspicuous position, some people call it jitter, others call it strobe.

Cameron calls it "an annoyance," and it's easy to fix, because digital cinema allows for stereoscopic reproduction, and it also provides a solution to the flickering problem.

But no matter how simple it is, it means a major upgrade of the image acquisition equipment. For example, during the filming of "Billy Lynn's Halftime Walk", director Li An set up multiple equipment to shoot the same shot, using overlapping Technology to further improve the stability of the frame rate.

In the same way, the glasses-free 3D technology that "Avatar 2" will use will definitely be updated and upgraded. By then, it will not only change a movie, but the entire industry.

From this point of view, it is indeed necessary to plan in advance. After all, Yang Cheng is still a little nervous after losing the advantage of the prophet.

However, Yang Cheng is pessimistic about cooperating with Cameron. Although he and Fox are in love with each other, the cooperation between the two parties is still stable, and it is difficult for Yang Cheng to get involved.

Besides, Cameron himself is not short of money, and it is useless to spend money.

From any point of view, "Avatar" is a great work, with grand scenes, James Cameron's feelings of "sharpening a sword in ten years", the transformation of the film industry, and the promotion of cinema equipment updates. At the same time, Cameron, who is a major shareholder of a photographic equipment manufacturer, has made a lot of money.

So directing is just his side job, and being a successful businessman is his main job. Of course, he definitely won't admit that.

Donna also knows this, "Boss, in terms of technology, it is actually possible to cooperate with Cameron. Our use of his technology is also a kind of promotion. I don't think he will refuse. The rest is the matter of the movie itself. Find a Good book, find a reliable director, and then bet on whether God will favor us."

Yang Cheng nodded slightly, he was already tempted, "Then find a chance to chat with him?"

Donna immediately said, "He recently participated in an environmental protection conference in New York, I'll go ask him out~"

Whether she is the CEO of Universal or the CEO of New Era Pictures, Donna's status is no lower than that of Cameron. If she invites her personally, the other party should not refuse.

"Okay, let's try~"

Donna acted very quickly and finalized the dinner with Cameron that night.

Yang Cheng was still a little excited, like a little fan who wanted to meet his idol.

Although they have met on many occasions before, they have not had an in-depth dialogue. Today is an opportunity.

About Cameron's starting history, people who like him should know it well.

Who would have thought he started out as a truck driver?

Back then, 22-year-old truck driver James Cameron and a friend went to see "Star Wars".

He dropped out of college and spent his days driving school meals in Orange County, Southern California, but in his spare time he drew miniatures and wrote science fiction.

But now, Cameron faces a frustrating reality: his fantasy world has been brought to life by Lucas' Star Wars...

So, he bought some cheap photographic equipment, trying to restore Lucas's shooting process.

He practiced photography by firing a blindingly bright light in his living room and rolling the camera along a track, all to the rage of his wife.

He used to hang around the USC library all day, reading all the books related to special effects, and he became, in his own words, "completely obsessed."

Next, he persuaded a group of local dentists to invest $20,000 in making Cameron's version of Star Wars.

With a friend, he wrote a script called "Alternation of Generations" and spent all his money on a 12-minute episode: a fight scene between alien robots and a woman who manipulates a lot of skeletons. Cameron carefully assembled the model himself!

He had planned to use the clip to win studios and make a full-length film.

However, after months of touting in Hollywood, he came away empty-handed.

In desperation, Cameron had no choice but to work hard to do something worthwhile: working under Roger Corman, the king of B-movies, and hired to build a miniature spaceship for the movie "Contest of the Century".

He rose to the top in his own way and later became one of Komen's virtual visual effects experts.

Until 1981, he boarded the director's throne and produced the horror film "Piranha II: Breeding".

One night, after the editorial meeting of "Piranha", Cameron fell asleep with a high fever. He dreamed that he saw a robot walking towards a frightened woman with its teeth and claws. The dream was frozen here. In the following year, Cameron completed a script based on this dream scene.

Anyway, the story is quite convincing, a small film financing company was completely fooled, and let it direct the film.

Three years later, this film was released, which established the star status of the leading actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in one fell swoop. This is "Terminator", and it is also the beginning of Cameron becoming a top director.

But who would have thought that he subverted people's imagination with a big ship? His road to great director is full of miracles.

When filming "Titanic", Cameron was always estimating how much he might lose, but when looking back at its fantastic box office results now, it is easy to forget that this film was once predicted to be a box office poison.

The budget is only 100 million US dollars, but the actual shooting investment has doubled, known as the most expensive film ever.

Fox asked Cameron to reduce costs many times, but he did not hesitate to promise to give up all director fees and profit sharing, so as to complete all his imagination of the film.

He also kept a razor blade on the editing table with a note on it: Use only if the film is successful.

"All I know is that I made a $200 million romantic movie and almost everyone died. What the hell am I doing?"

This is the answer Yang Cheng heard when he asked him what he thought about shooting the big boat.

At that time, the Hollywood industry was "the biggest gamble in film history" and questioned whether Fox could recover the cost.

However, "Titanic" miraculously dodged the iceberg and became the highest-grossing film in the world with $1.8 billion in worldwide box office receipts.

And Fox was not stingy, and really withheld his director's fee and profit sharing, and wrote him a check for 75 million US dollars. With this money, he would not even have to work for the rest of his life, enough to spend.

"With this money, I can play as I like." Cameron said proudly to Yang Cheng.

"Then what about "Avatar"? How did you start?" Yang Cheng was full of interest, like a complete little fanboy, who had no intention of eating at all, and his mind was full of questions.

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