From White Box To Supervision

"Then, do you have an idea about the direction of production? What to start with." Xinjincheng neatly arranged the copywriting materials that he had come to into a book.

"Well, just listening to it is not enough. I have to think about the plan carefully. Let's bring the materials and scripts to the room first. There is no way to pile them up here." Zhang Beichuan said familiarly, and by the way, he helped move things. They brought a lot of information and copywriting. It took a lot of effort to move them to a room. There is not much space here, but there are three work desks.

This is a room specially allocated by Musashino for Zhang Beichuan in charge of publicity animation. It is next to the performances of Kinshita Castle and Musashino. Zhang Beichuan can ask for advice at any time. convenient.

Zhang Beichuan first picked up the script and studied it carefully. The script is the key. It is necessary to know all the plots in great detail in order to better know how to make the propaganda direction.

In addition to reading the script, Zhang Beichuan would also ask some questions about Xinjincheng on the side. He answered it very clearly. In one morning, the relationship between the two was not as strange as it was at the beginning.

But Zhang Beichuan was reading the script on the first day, the same on the second day, and the script on the third day.

This made Xinjincheng feel a little uneasy. The time is so tight, can't you know the script? Even if the plot is very important, you don't have to watch it for so long.

On the third day, he finally couldn't help asking: "Bei Chuan-kun, you have been reading the script for the past three days. Can you start the official production? You know, the time is a bit..."

nervous! He didn't say the last two words, but the meaning was clearly expressed.

Zhang Beichuan smiled and responded, "It's coming, it's coming soon."

At noon, Zhang Beichuan bought a bento from the convenience store and gave it to him.

"Xinjin-kun, this is for you. It has already been heated."

"thanks."

Zhang Beichuan bought a fast-food bento, which was rice and stewed meat, and it tasted good.

"Bei Chuan-kun, do you have any ideas about the production?" While eating, Xinjincheng began to urge and ask.

"I have some initial ideas. In the afternoon, I plan to start drawing storyboards, but I have some questions about production that I want to ask." Since this matter is on his own, Zhang Beichuan must do his best, Otherwise, I can't bear the trust of Kinoshita Seiichi.

"Ask." Now that he knew that he would start drawing the storyboard in the afternoon, Xinjincheng breathed a sigh of relief.

"I didn't just read the script a few days ago, but also watched a lot of game promotion videos. In fact, the most critical purpose is to better promote the game. Since the promotion, then we must find the selling point of this game and Playability, and the most exciting part of the game "Rain of Tears" is the plot part. If you put the plot aside, this game is no different from the adventure games on the market.

But Mr. Shidu asked me not to reveal the plot as much as possible, which made me a little embarrassed. Of course, I knew it was impossible, because there was always a need for people to understand what the story was, so I kept reading the script. Thinking about how to make this more interesting in ten minutes. "

Speaking of which, Zhang Beichuan paused for a while: "I think even a promotional video needs to be made more interesting."

"An interesting idea." Xinjincheng agreed.

Zhang Beichuan continued: "So, the story can't be revealed too much, so we might as well consider other methods to start with. There is a fixed template for character design and cannot be changed, so I plan to focus on the style of painting. Make the painting style a little more refined, more delicate, the music... Well, I have heard the background music from you, and it's pretty good. Incorporating this music into the promotional video can also increase the quality, but it's just relying on this Two o'clock still won't work, so I want to ask you what else you can start with."

Hearing this, Xinjincheng fell into contemplation. After a long time, he said: "This is just my idea, you can listen to it as a reference. I was in the background art department in this game before, so most of the background art in this game is from us. There are many beautiful backgrounds produced. Since you just mentioned being more refined, we can modify and use the background art in the game, even if it is unreasonable with reality. Showing it off, I think that should improve the selling point.”

"It's a good way." Zhang Beichuan's eyes lit up, he didn't care about eating, he wrote the three words 'art, painting style, music' on the paper with a pen.

"That's it. Since UU Reading www.uukanshu.com knows the direction of production, I will start drawing storyboards in the afternoon." Zhang Beichuan said happily.

His intention to make it is not a game introduction, but a style similar to a movie trailer.

Just to fill his stomach, Zhang Beichuan took out a brand new storyboard, a pencil and eraser, and started to draw the storyboard.

The first is the distant view, a calm riverside, reflecting in the sunlight, sparkling, here we need to add the rushing sound of the river flowing.

The camera pans, and then the protagonist Hoshino Yusheng faints by the river. The shot here is a panoramic view, and then the close-up view is shifted to close up the protagonist's face. The sound here is the sound of the river flowing, but the hair should be shown as being blown by the breeze.

Here, the protagonist's face is about to wake up.

Then in the close-up, the protagonist wakes up, his face is very confused, and then he monologues in his heart: "I seem to have forgotten something that cannot be forgotten."

The camera is switched, and the prelude to BGM is added.

......

Zhang Beichuan's painting is divided into mirrors, and he pauses for a while. Every time he draws a page, he always thinks about it for a long time.

Sometimes, when I feel dissatisfied, I cross out the page with a pen and revise the painting. This is the difference between my own reference painting and my own original painting.

A storyboard is a shot. You must know the purpose of each shot, and you can’t waste every shot.

The animation pv produced by this game promotion is like a short story, the author can only create within this number of words, so it is impossible to have nonsense in it, that is beyond the limit.

And Zhang Beichuan is creating in ten minutes of shots, and there can't be a useless shot, and every shot can't be wasted.

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