When Yu Dong and Cheng Yanqiu arrived at the conference hall, there were less than ten minutes left before the opening ceremony. Zhang Yimou was leading the actors backstage to make final preparations.
The two of them entered through the side door, and were seen by some spectators as soon as they entered.
When these spectators saw the two of them, they were about to scream, but they saw Yu Dong pressing his hands towards them, signaling them to be silent.
Many people quickly covered their mouths to prevent themselves from making any sound.
Seeing how cooperative the audience was, Yu Dong smiled and nodded, then led Cheng Yanqiu to find their place in the front row and sit down.
"YU, you are really here."
As soon as Yu Dong sat down, Michael Mohan sitting next to him said in surprise.
"I had something to do just now, so I came a little late." Yu Dong smiled and asked, "Mr. Mohan, how have you been in Jinling these days? Are you still used to it?"
"Very good. I have been staying in the Deep Space Park during this time. I have experienced a lot of fun here. I dare say that there is no better place in the world than the Deep Space Park. This is the place for people like me.
Paradise." Michael Mohan said with a smile.
Yu Dong curled his lips, "There are many places worth seeing in Jinling. It would be a pity not to go."
"It doesn't matter. I think I will definitely come to Jinling often in the future, and there will be many opportunities to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Jinling. But the deep space park in front of me makes me impatient."
Yu Dong nodded, then turned to look at the stage.
At this time, there was only a red curtain hanging down on the stage, and the back could not be seen. Because their seats were close together, some indistinct whispers could be heard from behind the curtain. It should be that the staff were nervously talking behind the curtain.
Be busy.
Although LCD screen technology has developed very well in the past two years, it is still a bit uninteresting in the use stage.
If you want to achieve the effect Zhang Yimou wants, ordinary finished products simply cannot achieve it.
In order to cooperate with Zhang Yimou, Samsung sent a technical team over this time to temporarily modify their screens to minimize the joints of the combined screen.
Moreover, their existing technology cannot perfectly control dozens of 30-inch screens at the same time, so in order to make the video look smoother, they actually use editing and setting in advance, using different controllers
Control different screens and play the cut-out images on each screen separately.
In other words, the video they played at the opening ceremony is actually specific. If it is temporarily replaced with other videos, the effect will not be achieved. It needs to be edited in advance and the playback time set. Moreover, the video used to play the video
This set of screens is also very bulky and difficult to disassemble.
This design is equivalent to using the LCD board as an LED module for splicing. This may work wonders, but it will also sacrifice a lot of things, which is very costly and very wasteful.
Samsung had already paid an extra million US dollars for the opening ceremony. Later, in order to make the screen effect meet Zhang Yimou's requirements, they spent more than 200,000 US dollars on people and materials.
"I'm looking forward to the opening ceremony. I heard that this opening ceremony was arranged by a very powerful director in China." Michael Mohan said.
"Well, that's right, you'll be able to see his movie soon."
"Is it?"
"I have a novel called "Golden Dreamland", this one..."
Before Dong could finish speaking, Michael Mohan said with a surprised look on his face: "You mean 'Golden Dreams' is going to be made into a movie?"
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Do you know this book?"
"Of course," exclaimed Michael Maughan, "don't I look like a man who can read?"
"Haha, that's not true."
"Actually, I don't read many books, but "Golden Dreams" is so popular. Every time I go to a bookstore, I can see it on the front shelf... For a while, I can hear people discussing it every day. I just confirmed that we
The company can find ten copies... no, at least twenty copies of "Golden Dreamland". Of course, there must be more "Old Books", at least thirty copies."
Yu Dong didn't quite believe what Michael Mohan said, because Blizzard currently only has more than a hundred employees, and it would be too scary to find more than thirty "old books".
However, the sales of "Golden Dreamland" and "Old Book" are indeed very high. The combined global sales of these two novels exceed 100 million copies.
"Then I must go to Blizzard when I have time."
"My pleasure."
The two briefly chatted for a few more words. Suddenly, the lights in the entire conference hall went out, and the entire conference hall fell into darkness. Yu Dong even heard the exclamations of some female audience members.
After a brief period of chaos, the conference hall became very quiet, and the frightened audience had already realized that this was a sign that the opening ceremony was about to begin.
About twenty seconds later, there was a glimmer of light in the conference hall, and this glimmer of light came from behind the red curtain.
It’s unclear what this bright light originally looked like. Anyway, it turned into a faint red light after passing through the curtain. One thing is certain, that is, the light source is very large. You can see that the light source is very large on this side of the curtain.
"Boom!"
A loud drum beat sounded, and then a crack appeared in the middle of the curtain, and colorful light came out from the crack.
As if being flickered by light, the curtain slowly opened to both sides, and the light source behind gradually appeared in the audience's sight.
A very big eye appeared on the stage in front of the audience. The audience sitting in the front row felt it most directly. A female audience member was so scared that she covered her eyes.
Michael Mohan looked at the huge eye that appeared between the two curtains, his eyes full of curiosity. He couldn't figure out how such a big eye could suddenly appear, and such a strong light source didn't look like a projection screen.
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As the curtain is pulled to both sides, the scene behind the curtain is also revealed in front of the audience.
It turns out that behind the curtain, there is a huge screen...
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A super strong man with a fierce face, a cigar in his mouth and a Gatling in his hand, was shooting around.
The muzzle of the Gatling gun turned, flames spurted out, and fierce gunfire echoed throughout the conference hall.
It's Thor's hammer!
Audiences who are familiar with this game have already recognized it, and it is a promotional video for "Quake 3 Arena".
After experiencing the initial surprise, everyone began to calm down, because this in itself was not something worthy of surprise.
In their opinion, it is no different from watching a movie in a cinema, and the screen on the stage is not as big as the curtain of an ordinary large cinema.
But after a while, the audience discovered something different. As the curtains in the conference hall were opened and the lights were turned on, the screen on the stage still looked very clear. This was something that the projection screen in the cinema could not do.
Arrived.
Some attentive viewers have noticed that what is on the stage is not one screen, but many screens combined together. There are some patchwork in the middle that are not clearly visible, but you can still see it if you look carefully.
Seeing this, Michael Mohan couldn't help but shout: "Is the development of LED technology advancing by leaps and bounds?"
Yu Dong, who was sitting next to him, heard Michael Mohan's low voice, and he couldn't help laughing. It's no wonder that Mohan thought it was an LED, because most people's first reaction when seeing such a large screen is LED.
Compared with LCD screens, people nowadays have more opportunities to see LED screens. With the development of LED technology, in recent years, many big cities have become fashionable to install oversized LED screens on the exterior walls of buildings, specifically to display some
advertise.
This type of screen has a huge area and is very bright. It can be seen from a long distance and is very eye-catching.
But today's LED technology is not good enough, and the distance between lamp beads cannot be too small, so it can basically only be used outdoors. Those LED screens installed on the exterior walls of buildings cannot see the picture clearly if they are a little closer.
Lamp beads one by one.
This time, the opening ceremony created by Zhang Yimou used LCD to simulate the effect of LED, and it can be viewed at close range.
At this time, the first video has ended, and the screen suddenly went black, and then a starry sky representing Deep Space Company appeared on the screen. After Deep Space's animation technology, Samsung's letter logo appeared and stopped for three seconds on the screen.
seconds.
Yu Dong looked at the Samsung logo on the screen and couldn't help but sigh. For these three seconds of appearance, Samsung spent more than 1.2 million US dollars. Calculated, it cost more than 400,000 US dollars per second. This is all money.
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After the Samsung logo disappeared, there was an interview video. This interview video was not long, only more than a minute. It was shot temporarily by Zhang Yimou and others a few days ago.
Each team was filmed, but each team appeared at a different time. In addition to interviews, the director team also recorded some footage of ordinary players playing games or passers-by watching experts playing games.
Although the short film only lasts for more than a minute, it is quite fast-paced and exciting.
After the short video ends, there is a video spliced ​​together with game scenes from several games.
The first is a scene from FIFA. On the green field, Zidane's iconic Marseille spin passed the ball, and then he dribbled the ball into the penalty area, shot angrily, and the ball flew into the net.
The ball kept spinning in the net, suddenly changed its shape, and finally turned into a cannonball and flew directly towards a small building, smashing a big hole in the small building. Behind the hole, a woman holding a musket
Moving around among the ruins, every bullet can destroy an enemy.
When the woman broke out of the siege and escaped, on the opposite side of the broken wall, rows of spaceships were flying towards this side, blazing with flames.
A fully-equipped fleet covered the ground with condescending firepower, blasting the original ruins into ruins. At this moment, a red figure jumped out from the ruins and fled forward at high speed.
"Little boy!"
Someone in the audience exclaimed.
That's right, the last game that appeared was "Escape", and the woman in red is the representative character in the game, Xiaowanzi.
This is not a synthesized CG video, but the staff spent many days and nights playing it in the game.
The staff kept playing games, trying to simulate the picture that Zhang Yimou wanted. After the picture came out, Zhang Yimou edited the pictures together to make the pictures of the four games look like they were originally together.
It was also the first time for Yu Dong to see this video. I have to say that the idea is quite good, and it can be said to be very remarkable that such tricks can be played in such a short time.
Zhang Yimou's previous plan only stated that he would put together a video. At that time, Yu Dong did not expect that the effect would be so good, especially the last paragraph, when the kid jumped out of the ruins, it made people feel like "Quake 3"
, "StarCraft" and "Escape" seem to come from the same game.
The clip at the beginning where the football turns into a cannonball is actually quite interesting, at least it makes the connection between FIFA and "Quake" not so abrupt.
The video continues.
The little kid was still running forward at full speed. At first, she had her back to the audience, and then the camera slowly turned around, and she turned to face the audience, as if she was running from the screen——
Just when the audience felt that the little toy was about to run out of the screen, the screen seemed to be torn open by two big hands. Suddenly, a woman wearing red clothes and a mask jumped out of the screen.
Seeing live people jumping out of the screen, the audience let out bursts of exclamations.
In fact, this is not a magical thing, it is just a very simple deception. There is actually a second-level stage at the bottom of the screen. Although it is not big, it is still no problem to hide a few people in it.
Just when the audience was focusing on the little toy, the actor in the box popped up directly in line with the picture on the screen, which gave people the illusion that this person jumped out of the screen.
Next, someone pushed the screen set on the stage away along with the second stage, leaving the big stage for the actors cosplaying the characters.
The rest of the performance was nothing special, the actors went down after finishing their performance.
When the opening ceremony was over, Michael Mohan couldn't help but applaud, "He is indeed a great director and he did not disappoint me. However, wasn't the screen just now an LED screen?"
"Of course not, those are LCD screens... they just have some special processing. Although they show better results, they are not sustainable. If you want to buy a few and use them back, you don't have to."
"It's a pity. I thought screen technology had made a qualitative leap... Of course, this advertisement has achieved its purpose. People will think that Samsung's LCDs are just that good."
Yu Dong shrugged, this is the meaning of Samsung paying more than 1.2 million US dollars.
Chapter completed!