Wang Kuo and the others didn't know what they were going to do until they got on the plane.
I heard that the film crew who wanted to enter Hollywood would provide some help to the prop team, and several students were a little unsure.
"Teacher Yu, we don't know much about props either," Li Huixiang said anxiously.
Several other students also looked at Yu Dong, because Li Huixiang asked what they wanted to ask.
Before Yu Dong could answer, Liu Changmin spoke first: "You can learn if you don't understand, but you must have confidence before doing anything. Since the school has chosen you, it must have our reasons. You must first believe in yourself, and in addition, you must
believe us."
"Teacher Liu, we are mainly afraid of holding you back," Wang Jin said.
Yu Dong said with a smile, "It's okay. This time, the main thing is to study. In addition, the work is not difficult. You can draw whatever I say. I believe you still have these basic skills."
After hearing what Yu Dong said, they felt a little relieved.
"By the way, Teacher Yu, do you think there will be many readers coming to pick you up when you arrive this time? I heard that big foreign stars are picked up wherever they go."
The only girl on this trip, Lin Ke, who majored in fine arts, asked curiously. She had followed some foreign news and knew that movie fans from abroad were picking up the plane.
"There were people who picked up, but they were all Universal Pictures staff," Yu Dong said.
Hearing Yu Dong's words, the students were slightly disappointed. They had not seen the airport pick-up scene yet.
In fact, Jimmy and Yu Dong discussed the airport pick-up matter.
Yu Dong and Jimmy have very different ideas on this matter. Jimmy's idea is to maintain a sense of mystery while ensuring exposure.
Mystery and exposure may sound contradictory, but Jimmy believes that these can be achieved at the same time. To ensure exposure, as long as there is regular news about Yu Dong, so that the public can often see him, hear about him, and never forget him.
He is everywhere in life. To maintain a sense of mystery, Yu Dong should accept as few interviews as possible, talk as little as possible, and maintain a cold attitude as a writer.
It's just that Yu Dong feels that no matter what Jimmy does with the promotion of his work, the promotion of his personal life should be minimized. After all, he is still a writer, not a film and television star, and he does not want to sacrifice his privacy.
Therefore, Jimmy did not arrange for book fans to come over for this airport pick-up.
Jimmy was originally planning to mobilize the members of the book club to pick him up at the airport to make the noise bigger and create more hype.
This was easy to do, and the members of the book club were eager to pick her up at the airport. No one had ever seen what YU looked like.
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When the group arrived in California, the sun had just set.
Jimmy came with the Universal staff. Although he hired a translator, this was the first time they met, and Jimmy still acted as the translator.
And when it comes to Chinese-American bilingualism, there are few in the entire United States who can match Jimmy. With him around, translation will naturally have to take a back seat.
"Everyone is tired from the journey. Come with me to the hotel first. Drinks are ready for you. My name is Jimmy, and my Chinese name is also Jimmy. You can call me Jimmy or Mr. Ji."
Jimmy gave himself a Chinese name, surname Ji and first name Mi.
He is very satisfied with his Chinese name, which bodes well.
In fact, he also gave himself another Chinese name, Yu Dadong, with a big character in the middle of Yu Dong's name. He was very obsessed with bigness.
However, the name Yu Dadong was strongly opposed by Yu Dong.
Of course, Yu Dong also gave Jimmy a Chinese name, Jixiang, which would have a better omen, but the name Jixiang was strongly opposed by Jimmy himself.
After Jimmy expressed his objection, Yu Dong sighed: What a good name.
If I had met Jimmy earlier and given him this offer when he first arrived in China, I am afraid he would have accepted it.
Liu Changmin had known Jimmy for a long time and was not surprised at all by his authentic Chinese. On the contrary, several students felt as if they had seen a ghost when they heard Jimmy speak Chinese.
In fact, Wang Jin and the others have also met Jimmy. After all, Jimmy often hangs around Jinyi, but they have never spoken to him.
"Mr. Ji, hello, hello."
Several students worked hard to make their Mandarin standard and did not want to embarrass themselves in front of Jimmy, a foreigner.
Liu Changmin laughed and said: "He often travels to Jinling now, and his accent has changed a lot. Before, he was an authentic Beijing movie actor."
…
Jimmy took Yu Dong and others to have dinner first, and then let them go to the room to sleep.
"I know some of you must have already slept on the plane, but you must sleep now and try to reverse the jet lag. We will go directly to Universal City tomorrow."
Universal Pictures' production is in California, while distribution and administration are in New York. Yu Dong's main work is still carried out at the studio. After the props work is completed, they will go to New York to carry out promotional activities.
After Liu Changmin took the students to bed, Jimmy went to Yu Dong's room.
They definitely still have a lot of time to connect before work can begin.
"How does it feel to be in the United States for the first time?"
Yu Dong smiled and said, "It will take a few days for you to answer this question."
Jimmy was already used to Dong's calmness. He didn't know why. Yu Dong had never been abroad, but after arriving in Los Angeles, there was no surprise on his face at all.
China is still in the initial stage of development and is very backward everywhere. Even cities like Shanghai and Jinling are completely incomparable to the scene in Los Angeles. Sometimes it feels like two different worlds.
Although Liu Changmin and the others tried their best to maintain it, surprise and envy could still be seen on their faces.
Maybe Yu Dong was born with a big heart.
"Spielberg asked me to apologize to you. He was supposed to come to see you tonight, but he couldn't come because he had a lot of work to do. In fact, the workload is still very heavy when you come here this time, Spielberg.
Berg's team tried to design some props, but he was not satisfied with most of them. So the props that have been made may be overturned and redone."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "It doesn't matter, we are here to solve the problem."
"Well, I believe you, but you still have to be mentally prepared. Spielberg is usually easy to talk to, but he has very high demands on his work. Moreover, it seems that it is not easy for us to use their artists now.
, so the students you brought this time can’t just watch from the sidelines.”
Yu Dong nodded, indicating that he understood. Jimmy later had a detailed discussion with Universal Pictures about the patent for the appearance of the props. In addition to Universal Pictures' own film and television peripherals, an additional appearance patent contract was attached.
The content of the contract shows that once the props designed by Yu Dong and his team apply for a design patent, the patent rights will be enjoyed by Deep Space Company. In addition to the peripherals later sold by Universal Pictures, other individuals or units want to use this design patent.
A Deep Space Corporation licensing fee needs to be paid.
In other words, the appearance patent of the prop belongs to Deep Space Company, but it has been authorized to Universal Pictures in advance. They can use it, but they cannot sell the patent authorization.
In fact, this essentially doesn't have much impact on Universal Pictures. The commercial value of props to them is mainly peripheral products. Now that they have the authorization for peripheral products, they naturally don't care about other things.
Not all props can apply for appearance patents, and the possibility of other units using the patent is probably not high.
However, the appearance patent belongs to Deep Space Company, and Universal will probably not be too active.
Yu Dong didn't care. As for designing props, Liu Changmin and a few students would be enough.
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Early the next morning, Jimmy took Yu Dong and the others to Universal City.
They met Spielberg in the props studio.
Without Jimmy's introduction, Yu Dong recognized Spielberg at a glance, and similarly, Spielberg recognized Yu Dong at a glance.
"YU, welcome to your arrival."
Just as Yu Dong was about to reach out, Spielberg hugged him enthusiastically.
Spielberg was not very tall, so he had to use his feet to hold Dong's shoulders with one hand. He probably felt that this position was awkward, so he hugged him for a while and then let go.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time." Spielberg smiled.
Although Yu Dong could hear Spielberg's words, Jimmy still ran over to translate for them.
No matter how down-to-earth the conversation is, once a translator intervenes, it will immediately become formal. Perhaps because of this, Spielberg didn't want to waste time and immediately got down to business and asked Yu Dong if he could get into work immediately.
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"There is no problem at all on our side." Yu Dong smiled.
After listening to Jimmy's translation, Spielberg smiled and said: "Then let's get started."
Spielberg was not sloppy at all in doing things, and he was already moving forward as he spoke.
Everyone came to a long table. There were many manuscripts on the table, some neatly folded and placed aside, while others were scattered randomly on the table.
Spielberg picked up three pictures and handed them to Yu Dong, "We tried to design mobile phones. This one is the most mature, but I still feel that something is missing."
Yu Dong took the manuscript and read it. The three pieces of paper drew the front, back, and sides of the mobile phone respectively, and also marked the dimensions.
Speaking of which, this phone has a very high-tech feel, with a full screen, no borders, a length of 27.6 cm, a width of 9.56 cm, and a thickness of only 3 mm.
This size is not like a mobile phone, but more like a tablet.
"This is just a simplified diagram. We imagine that special metal materials will be used on the back to facilitate heat dissipation."
Yu Dong smiled and nodded, "It's pretty good."
Jimmy translated Yu Dong's words to Spielberg, who was a little disappointed. What he wanted to hear more was "this is not good" and "there is a better plan".
However, Jimmy didn't react at all. He understood Yu Dong. Yu Dong said this, which means that the thing designed by Spielberg and others is simply not working.
Sure enough, Yu Dong continued, "Director Spielberg, I think your ideas may be somewhat solidified. Although I did not describe the appearance of the mobile phone in detail in the novel, it can be seen from some details that not everyone uses it.
All mobile phones are the same. So if we want to create a decent near-future world, we must first work on the types of mobile phones.”
"Moreover, as an electronic product, mobile phones will definitely undergo iterative updates. In fact, the game world designed in the novel has not been developed for many years. According to our current prediction, it will be about thirty years later. Let us first assume that,
Our world will develop into the game world described in the novel in thirty years, so what will happen in these thirty years?"
"Thirty years? I thought it might take longer, forty, fifty, or even longer," Spielberg said.
Spielberg’s words are interesting. He said that he thought such a world would take place in the 1940s and 1950s or even longer, which means that he actually believed that the game world in the novel was what the future would look like.
Yu Dong did not refute his statement, but still smiled and said, "Okay, even if it takes fifty years, what will happen in these fifty years?"
Yu Dong's question aroused the thinking of everyone present. Everyone was wondering what would happen in the next fifty years.
"Now our mobile phones have just come out and are still very bulky. We need to solve the problem of size first."
The speaker was a brown-haired woman standing over Spielberg.
"She's our producer, Katherine," Spielberg introduced.
Only then did Spielberg remember that he had not introduced their staff to Yu Dong, and was busy introducing everyone from the producer to the prop master to Yu Dong.
After the introduction, Spielberg continued what Catherine had just said: "Katherine is right, we must first solve the weight problem. After solving the weight problem, we must also solve the screen size problem, and the buttons need to be eliminated. I think this
I'm afraid it will take a long time to make a single step of change. No, it may not take too long, because some problems can be solved quickly, such as the size problem. As far as I know, there are already lighter mobile phones."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "That's right." Yu Dong took over, "But the weight of the mobile phone will not drop in a straight line, and may become heavier."
"Why is that?" Catherine asked.
"This involves the issue of demand. If there are no major breakthroughs in mobile phone technologies for a certain period of time, but people's requirements for mobile phones have become higher and they hope to do more things with mobile phones, then mobile phones will definitely become larger.
"Of course, the situation I mentioned is based on the premise that mobile phones have become smaller."
"I understand, and maybe some people like bigger phones because the screen is bigger, like a TV," Catherine said.
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Ms. Kennedy, you are very smart."
Spielberg also laughed, "That's true. I remember in the novel, people can take out their mobile phones to play intense battle games at any time. So this kind of game will definitely not appear suddenly. Maybe there will be mobile phones that can support such games first."
, then this type of games developed rapidly, and in order to cater to the development of games, mobile phones had to make some changes, such as making the screen larger."
Yu Dong clapped his hands, "When I say this, I not only want to explain that mobile phones will be iterated in a short period of time, but also want to tell you that there are various types of mobile phones, depending on the needs of users. Some people like to use mobile phones to play games.
For games, some people want to use their mobile phones to take pictures, while others simply need communication functions, so their requirements for mobile phones are different.”
"YU, it seems that our workload has increased." Spielberg patted his forehead, "But I believe that with you, our work efficiency will be greatly improved. Okay, let's get started. First put the phone on
Solve this problem and then solve other problems step by step."
Yu Dong waved his hand and said, "No, we can do all the work together."
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The reason why Yu Dong proposed to do all the work together is because it takes time to draw, but he can describe it very quickly, so many things can be done together. He only needs to be around everyone to give opinions.
The work started quickly. Yu Dong divided Liu Changmin and the six of them into three groups, with two people in each group. The first group was responsible for mobile phones, the second group was responsible for other electronic products, and the third group was on call at any time to do anything.
"The first mobile phone was about fifteen or six centimeters long and seven or eight centimeters wide..."
Yu Dong quickly got into work mode and began teaching the first group to design the first mobile phone.
Midway through, Catherine and Spielberg pulled Dong aside, and Jimmy followed.
Chapter completed!