Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

Chapter 257 Filming of Journey to the West

If you don't occupy the high ground of public opinion, others will. The platform for public opinion dissemination overlaps with entertainment. If Julong Culture wants to play a role in public opinion during special periods, it must do a good job in entertainment at normal times.

Currently, the two best-developed projects under Julong Culture are Julong Daily and Julong Broadcasting. Needless to say, Julong Daily, relying on the Songhu Battle to get first-hand information from the front line, has surpassed its competitors and become one of the largest newspapers in Shanghai.

Dragon Broadcasting was an entertainment channel built by using a bird-servant instrument removed from a Leman Russ tank to build a signal station.

巨龙播音早上8:00~9:00播放晨间新闻,11:00~12:00播放军国大事,4:00~5:00介绍菜谱和外国趣事,以上几个都是常规项目,接下来的是重量级的,晚6点到8点播放有声书,

The first audio book broadcast by Julong Broadcasting is "Journey to the West"!

The original version of Journey to the West has only 70 words and 100 chapters. This amount of text was finished in just a few weeks. After discussing with several anchor clones, Li Xin decided to expand Journey to the West.

Of course, they didn't expand the storyline by changing it. They just added descriptions of the environment, special effects of the fight between Monkey King and the demons, and the changes in the mentality of the four masters and apprentices when they encountered events. These are commonly known as "water words."

This move greatly expanded the content that can be discussed, and each session can last two hours until the end of the channel.

The audiobook of "Journey to the West" has been on the air for about a month and has been broadcast about 30 times. Now is not the information age, and we don't know whether the channel has any listeners.

Li Xin thought of a solution. A few days ago, he asked his broadcasting clone not to stop after reading the book, but to chat with the listeners and ask them if they had any suggestions for Julong Broadcasting and what other books they would like to listen to in the future. They could write to him to make suggestions and Julong Broadcasting would make improvements as appropriate.

This was a huge incident. The Julong Broadcasting Office was flooded with letters from all over the country. There were thousands of letters, which really scared Li Xin. At that time, few families could afford to listen to the radio, and even fewer people who had radios were willing to write letters. Behind these thousands of letters, there might be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of listeners!

Li Xin verified the influence of Julong Broadcasting and the traffic brought by "Journey to the West". Then he came up with a bold idea: he wanted to shoot "Journey to the West"!

Newspapers and audiobooks are widely circulated, but the shock they bring is never as great as that of movies. Moreover, in the field of entertainment, text and audiobooks are small-scale things. Travelers through the heavens and worlds can start with these small-scale things, but in the end they will all take the path of movies. This is because movies carry huge amounts of information, and the intuitive shock that movies bring to people is incomparable to text and sound.

Li Xin did what he thought of. He bought several film studios, acquired filming equipment, bought a prop factory, and sent people to learn makeup.

He was full of confidence and ready to do something big, such as "I'm Engaged in Entertainment in the Republic of China", but then he was slapped in the face by reality.

"Main body, do you see anything?"

Li Xin asked Li Qinwu who was sitting next to him. They were sitting in a dark movie theater, and they were the only two in a theater that could seat more than 300 people at a time.

Li Qinwu looked at the screen. On the black and white screen, Li Xin was sitting on a chair and singing to the camera.

"You carry the load, and I lead the horse~"

Li Qinwu felt it for a while and said, "The noise is too loud."

This was his intuitive feeling. When the movie was playing, in addition to Li Xin's singing voice, the speakers in the theater also made an unusual clattering sound, like the sound of some machine running, which was recorded into the film by the microphone.

Li Xin explained: "The noise is the sound of the movie camera working. Movie cameras of this era are all mechanical structures. When working, the gears inside will pull the film quickly, making a very loud noise. The noise will be recorded on the soundprint of the film during the filming process."

Now that sound movies are popular in the world, movie cameras can record sound onto film during the shooting process.

During playback, the light bulb in the projector projects the image onto the screen and also illuminates the sound wave bands on the film. After a series of complex processing, you can see a scene with synchronized sound and picture in the cinema.

However, the technical limitations are there. One is that the recording quality is poor, and the other is that it is easy to record noise. More importantly, the microphone used for recording is large and difficult to hide. If you encounter an open shooting environment, the microphone will inevitably appear in the picture.

In the film studio acquired by Li Xin, the smallest microphone was as big as a palm and was connected to a wire as thick as a little finger. The actors had to hide this thing in their chests and cover the wire with clothes when performing. You can imagine how troublesome it was.

Li Qinwu asked: "Does that mean we can't shoot anymore?"

Li Xin sighed.

“It’s not that we can’t shoot it. Foreigners’ films have serious bloopers, with movie cameras and microphones often appearing in the screen, but the audience still enjoys watching them.

Mainly because I think that if you want to make a movie, you have to make it well and leave a classic. You have to reach the level of "Journey to the West 86". But after learning about the level of current movie cameras, I realized that "Journey to the West 86" is beyond reach. Alas."

As he spoke, the screening in the cinema ended and the lights were turned back on.

Li Xin gave Li Qinwu a cigarette, and they both lit it. Li Qinwu thought about a solution. For others, the hardware problem would require technological advancement to solve, but it seemed that he could cheat here, but he had no idea how to do it.

As he was thinking, Li Xin continued, "At first, I wanted to make movies just for fun, to learn from other time travelers and do entertainment, to become a movie master, and to make awesome movies to shock the locals.

However, due to hardware problems, the filming had to be stopped. I have been thinking about a lot of things these days. I feel that filming "Journey to the West" is not only for entertainment, but also to increase the cultural cohesion of this generation.

Think about the previous life, we all watched Sun Wukong grow up, watched him use the Ruyi Jingu Bang to sweep away evil spirits and monsters, and save his fellow disciples like a savior.

The Monkey King is brave and fearless, lively and unrestrained, smart and resourceful, and can solve all problems. He is not afraid of power and dares to resist. Everyone respects the Monkey King and everyone aspires to become the Monkey King. The Monkey King is like a cultural symbol written in the DNA of the Chinese people!

I think that now the Republic of China is facing internal and external troubles, the people are living under the danger of national destruction, national self-confidence is facing great challenges, and self-cultural denial is prevalent. At this time, if we can bring Sun Wukong to the screen, it will greatly enhance cultural confidence and national cohesion! "

Li Qinwu agreed with this statement. In later generations, TV stations would broadcast Journey to the West every winter and summer vacation. Sun Dasheng had become a cultural symbol of the Chinese people. He smiled and said, "Today we shout Sun Dasheng because the evil fog has come again.

Aren’t the Japanese devils just demons and monsters? If that’s the case, let’s make a movie about Journey to the West, and let everyone see the elegance of the Monkey King. If everyone admires Sun Dasheng, they will try to become Sun Dasheng, and eventually surpass him! "

He stood up, opened the portal and walked into the island space. He had already thought of how to solve the hardware problem of shooting the movie. He remembered that there were several cameras on the Leman Russ tank.

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