Interview with Director Wang Junye

(This article is the original debut of "New Drama Observation". If you need to reprint the white list, please leave a message in the background. )

In less than a week, the detective drama "Hot Blood Chang 'an" in costume series gained 450 million broadcasts and became another super online drama after the beginning of the year. When the audience talks about the scenery of the Tang Dynasty in the play, it is difficult to realize that 90% of the scenes are built with special effects. After Longmen Escort, director Wang Junye once again succeeded in shocking the audience's eyes.

Wen | Linyuan

Samodoro, the detective captain from the western regions, the Persian caravan that was killed innocently, the mysterious stupa guarded by the old people in the former dynasty, and the unique charm of the Tang Dynasty, it is difficult for the audience to find that the original "Hot Blood Changan" is a "Tang Dynasty story shot in Beijing", and 90% of the scenery is completed by special effects. It took nearly three years to prepare the script and develop a real-time rendering engine, and the behind-the-scenes creation process of Hot Blood Changan was also very exciting.

On a sunny afternoon, the new drama "The King" approached the director Wang Junye and explored past lives in "Hot Blood Chang 'an".

Giving up IP to be original, dozens of screenwriters worked together for three years to create the script of Hot Blood Changan.

"I sat at home drinking tea, thinking about world peace, and slowly fell into the sage time. At this time, WeChat suddenly rang, throwing thousands of words of script outline, only one word to explain: change! " He Caitou said this in the past by the trough. As the screenwriter coordinator of Hot Blood Chang 'an, he and five others are responsible for controlling the unity of the characters and plot development of the whole story. After all, the total length of 48 episodes, "Hot Blood Changan" has many cases and huge information, which is almost impossible for one or two people to complete.

"We have 25 screenwriters. The original script was based on the workload of 2 to 3 episodes per person, and finally 48 episodes were selected. In order to ensure the unity of characters and the natural development of role relationship, we have six screenwriters who are responsible for the overall review and guidance of the script. From the beginning of shooting, the script creation lasted about 3 years. " Unlike other suspense dramas adapted from popular online novels, director Wang Junye decided to create original scripts from the very beginning.

In the past two years, a number of modern mystery dramas adapted from online novels, such as If Snails Have Love, Beauty for Stuffing, and Remaining Crime, have gained both word-of-mouth and ratings, attracting a large number of capital and talents to enter the subdivision of mystery dramas, and the corresponding IP prices have also risen.

"At present, everyone is competing for IP. We feel that those works are not cost-effective and the price is too high, so we would rather spend more energy to cultivate our original works. The success of Di Renjie's series of detective dramas has given us a lot of inspiration. We should make an original detective drama series, except for China's Sherlock Renjie. De Renjie is a historical figure, and most of the characters in Hot Blood Chang 'an are fictional, so the story will have more space and more possibilities. "

Just no one thought that the epiphany three years ago made the whole team pay a lot of manpower and financial resources. At present, this costume series mystery drama has the largest investment, except the known contemporary Oriental investment of 65.438+0.2 billion. According to Wang Dao, the research and development cost of real-time rendering engine has exceeded 100 million.

Full virtual shooting, all scenes are digital production.

Anyone who has seen Fantasy Forest may know that it has won several visual effects awards, but the children's performances are real and all the animals are made of special effects. The powerful real-time rendering engine can synthesize the virtual background and the real shot foreground picture in real time when shooting in front of the green screen in the virtual studio. The director can see the composite effect of the final picture on the monitor and get real-time feedback. At the same time, due to the on-site synthesis of a large number of shots, the workload of post-production can also be reduced.

However, this system was mostly used in the film field because of its huge cost. Hot-blooded Changan should be the first large-scale domestic TV series with live preview system. When the friends barrage spit out some scenes of "Hot Blood Changan", they didn't realize that what they thought was true was not true. The scenes in Hot-blooded Chang 'an-Buddhist Temple, Dali Temple and Tang Palace are all digital scenes, except for the close-up scenes that a few actors have contacted with them.

"The live preview system we use is similar to the fantasy forest. Almost all scenes, such as Buddhist temples, Dali temples, palaces and so on, are produced under this system. When shooting at the scene, there was big blue cloth all around. We need to let actors, photographers and lighting engineers know where they are and how they interact with the environment. These preview systems on site can be directly seen. "

Because there are few intact Tang Dynasty buildings in China, which can't meet the shooting needs of TV series, Mumbear Office cooperated with Canada to develop live rehearsal technology in the early stage of script creation. Zhang Xuekun, an artist, also started art design with the Hangzhou team.

The real shooting time was only four months, but it took a long time to prepare the script, culture and technology. When we started writing the script, we began to do scene research and development. "In order to make" Hot Blood Changan "land faster and explore more possibilities of film and television shooting, the producers set up three teams, among which Beijing is responsible for script development to final shooting, Hangzhou is responsible for all digital scenes, and Canada is responsible for technology research and development and technical support.

1100,000 funds to develop a real-time rendering engine, and restore the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty as much as possible.

"Nine heavenly doors reveal the imperial palace, and many national coats bow their heads." The Chang 'an in Tang Dou, which we could only imagine in literary works before, is now presented to us with the efforts of the creative team of the passionate Chang 'an. Clogs, tangdao and other props are talked about by netizens.

"In this drama, we take a realistic route, and try our best to restore the weather in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, whether it is the scene or the modeling. At present, there are very few existing Tang Dynasty buildings in China. Fortunately, Liu Jie, the head of our Hangzhou team, graduated from China Academy of Fine Arts and has been engaged in architectural design for many years. Stylist Chen and art designer are both experts in the industry. In order to restore a Datang in our hearts, everyone has made a lot of efforts. "

After the broadcast of Longmen Escort, director Wang Junye devoted himself to the preparation and filming of Hot Blood Changan, which lasted for three years. From script preparation to solving technical problems, the exploration of Hot Blood Changan provides a model for the latecomers.

"At that time, we also watched many foreign blockbusters and wanted to know how they were made. I have done a lot of research and found that foreign systems are very expensive, and domestic movies may not be affordable. Through "Hot Blood Chang 'an", we not only provide a possibility of virtual photography, but also provide an economical virtual film and television shooting system suitable for China. "

It is precisely because of the bottleneck of the domestic film and television industry that the creative team of "Hot Blood Chang 'an" has made up its mind to invest heavily in the research and development of virtual photography system. As for the key real-time rendering engine in the virtual photography system, director Wang Junye said that he would take this opportunity to market it. In addition, the second drama "Hot Blood College" produced by virtual shooting system is basically completed.

When more and more TV dramas are spit out because of the five-hair special effects, and because of the unreasonable bedding, technology has gradually become a hurdle to limit the development of China's film and television dramas. Costume dramas may cost a lot of money to build real scenes for shooting, but what about TV dramas with sci-fi themes and Xian Xia themes?

Hot-blooded Changan answered this question with his own practice. Although the live broadcast preview system developed by Joy Film and Television is still being further improved, it shows us another possibility of TV drama shooting with fake pictures and smooth story rhythm.