Hollywood Secret Garden

Chapter 184 Game Film Club

I didn't expect Pixar to have a games department!Angela suppressed her excitement.The corners of the mouth curled up unconsciously.Although Steve and Ed told her that there were not many people in the game department, but from the fact that they made some games for EA in the early 90s, you can know that you have picked up a treasure!

"Relax! Angela, relax." The girl with her feet resting on the table muttered to herself. She lay her head on her head and looked at the ceiling. After thinking for a few seconds, she suddenly sat up.

"I think I should persuade Steve to make the game department fully operational as soon as possible, and then produce some games that can sell well!" Angela said to herself, she is now one of Pixar's shareholders, and there is no reason to push the money-making thing out Besides, she has decided to have a good talk with her father after "Toy Story" is released, the better Pixar's performance, the more confident she will be!

So is it Resident Evil, or Tomb Raider?Angela wrote down the names of a few games on paper, then tapped the pen on the table, and wrote another name—or was it "Warcraft"?

The girl thought for a while, stood up, took a few steps to the bedside, picked up the phone, and dialed a number: "Hey, Jack, it's me. I want the Blizzard company you're looking for this afternoon. Is there anything wrong?"

"You have so many things to do, Angie, well, here is a part, do you want me to send it to you now?" Sparrow's voice was a little helpless.

"Stop joking, Jack, what time is it now, let's talk about it first." Angela rolled her eyes and said.

"Well, this is a newly established company. It used to be Chaos Studios. It was acquired at the beginning of the year and just changed its name to Blizzard. It released a game not long ago. The exact sales volume is not clear. But according to the analysis of the data I investigated, it is no less than 50 Ten thousand copies."

"What's the name of the game?" Angela frowned.

""Chaos World" is a real-time strategy game. The two sides are humans and monsters. It is somewhat similar to the background of your novel."

Chaos world?The corner of the girl's mouth twitched, and she used her knees to figure out what it was. Although she registered for Warcraft and World of Warcraft first, it seemed that she only asked the other party to change her name.

"Hey. Are you listening?"

"Oh, yes." Angela came back to her senses, and just wanted to say nothing, but in the end it became: "By the way, speaking of novels, you know "Ten Stories of Azeroth" What are the sales volume?"

"Of course, it was released in mid-September, and it has been three weeks now, with a sales volume of about 9 copies. Mr. Vincent predicts that at least 35 million copies will be sold in two months. In the "New York Times" best-selling novel ranking Ranked 150th in the list. This result is already very good in the fantasy novels."

"Sounds really good. But I want to say—I mean. If..." Angela rubbed her nose, considering her words.

"what if?"

"If my novel is used as the background of the game, and then the game sells well, how much will it increase?"

"There is no precedent for this, so it's hard to say. But I can calculate how many copies of your game there are based on the proportion of Hollywood products."

"Here, let's say 3000 million copies."

"3000 million? It seems unlikely, right? Well, let's not talk about that. If you use the data you provided, it is conservatively estimated that this book can sell another 500 million copies."

"...Okay, I see, I'm fine. Thank you." Angela hung up the phone with some regret, then covered her forehead, and sighed softly: "Sure enough!"

From the girl's point of view, this novel adapted from the classic Warcraft mission in the previous life, even if it can't be as sensational as "Harry Potter", at least it should give people an amazing feeling, but now it seems that unless it is named Published under her name, otherwise it would be like this.

"I made a big mistake!" Angela tapped the phrase "Warcraft" with the cap of her pen.For a while, she sighed a little, she had overlooked a problem before, the success of the Warcraft novel is based on the popularity of "World of Warcraft" and the huge fan group cultivated in "Warcraft", if there is no such game, then the novel will only be It can be regarded as a good fantasy novel, after all, both "Lord of the Rings" and "Dragonlance" are more classic than it.

It's impossible to beg Blizzard eagerly to unify novels and games, right?The girl bit her pen and thought.If it was a few days ago, there would have been such a possibility, but now that I have fully realized it, and I have a ready-made studio in my hand.And with the industry's top 3D technology, plus her own creativity—because of "World of Warcraft", she has a good understanding of "Warcraft 2" and "Warcraft 3"—why can't Blizzard tell his classics? Bye-Bye?

"Okay, let me see the pros and cons of both sides." Angela said, and began to write down what she was thinking on the paper.

Both "Resident Evil" and "Tomb Raider" were released in 96, and it is completely time for production now, and Pixar has the best 3D engine and 3D artists, and the effect will definitely not be worse than the original.

But the problem is that Pixar is still in the nightmare of losing money for ten years. Before it turns losses into profits, even if it has its own capital injection, I am afraid that it can only choose one game for production. It's only been half a year since it started, so it's hard to say whether it will conflict with the original game, but this time "Toy Story" has firmly given her a wake-up call.

Although "Warcraft" is also facing this situation-"Warcraft 2" was originally released in 95-but there is a difference, at least before the first expansion of "Warcraft 2", Blizzard did not make relevant background design. It was decided, and "Ten Stories of Azeroth" was on the bestseller list, so it was impossible for them to use this setting again.

So if you really choose "Warcraft", combine it with the novel while promoting it, and have your own supervision during production, so you don't have to worry about not being able to compete with Blizzard.

"Blizzard doesn't rely on "Warcraft" for a living. "Darkness" and "Interstellar" are also their signatures. Think about it. In the previous life, there were N people who scolded Blizzard because of "Starcraft 2"'s continuous skipping tickets, so I I think it’s actually a good thing to take away “Warcraft”!” Angela said to herself, or she could simply come up with the ideas of the three games and hand them over to CEO Ed, who would combine technology, manpower, The financial resources are comprehensively judged.

Putting this question aside for the time being, the girl continued to film MTV in the next few days. After "When the Wind Blows", the last one of the trilogy: "I'm Here" followed closely. It was directed by Chris.

A total of 8 or 9 days were filmed, but Angela was actually on the scene for less than 5 days. She was originally a supporting role, and she didn't have many scenes. Except for the location with Liv and the others, the rest were concentrated in the studio alone She was filmed in the film and then synthesized in the later stage, so her study did not delay much, but the affairs of the club still bothered her. Laura failed to coerce, and began to lure her again, such as the position of the student union.

But for Angela, who had already made up her mind to ignore the student union, it was completely useless.Anyway, Laura just wants to borrow her popularity, and she already has a club goal in her heart!

This is not a spacious room. There are three cabinets standing side by side at the corner of the wall. One is filled with video tapes, the other is filled with various books and materials, and the other is filled with various shooting equipment. In particular, an old model video camera with film is the most eye-catching.Several tables were put together, and the ground was full of waste paper, which looked messy. Through the window, the lawn of the school could be seen.

There are 4 boys in the room. The one in the corner is a fat white young man with a chubby body and looks quite simple and honest. He is looking at the books in his hand while eating snacks; there is another black boy with a bald head , wearing a plaid shirt, walking around the room against the camera, shooting casually.And two people were sitting on either side of the long table next to the wall, sorting out the materials.One is a caucasian guy with brown curly hair, he looks very strong, and the one helping him opposite him is a well-mannered Asian young man with black hair and glasses.

"Felix, where is my video tape? Damn it, don't lose it, it took me several weeks to edit it!" At this time, another white youth broke in, He went straight to the fat man and asked.

"Come on, Jim! I swear I haven't touched your video tape, maybe you forgot it somewhere?" The fat Felix said nonchalantly without looking up.

"Where did you forget it? Do you think I might have forgotten it somewhere?!" Jim waved his hand around, looking annoyed, "I never put it outside of my backpack if it wasn't in it , then there is only one possibility! Someone took it!"

The two people who sorted out the materials raised their heads at the same time, shook their heads in a tacit understanding, and then continued to sort out, while the black young man who was shooting directly pointed the camera at Jim with a smile. "I don't care who you are, as long as you let me know that you took my video tape, I will make you pay the price!"

Then he extended it from this, and talked incessantly, until the young white man who was sorting out the materials looked up helplessly: "Okay, Jim, except for your backpack, the video tape will stay in one place. "

The other party immediately turned his head: "Where?!"

"Camera!"

Jim was stunned for a while, then suddenly turned to look at the black young man in front of him, and the black young man also realized something at this moment, and immediately put away his smile, and before Jim could make a move, he rushed over and snatched the camera, and then After some inspection, he wailed, then turned his head and stared fiercely at the other party and roared, "Morris!"

"Wait, man, it's none of my business!" cried Morris, running to the door, and was about to grab the handle when there was a knock.He couldn't help being stunned, and then he was strangled by Jim from behind: "I want you to pay the price! Morris!"

"Come on, Jim, there's a knock at the door!" cried Morris, grabbing his hand.

"I don't care! I only want you to pay the price!" Jim roared nervously, strangling him to a corner.

The two who sorted out the materials coincidentally shook their heads together again, and then the Asian youth stood up, went to the door and opened the door: "Hello, this is the film club, who can I find?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was stunned. In front of him was a girl, about 5 feet tall, with long golden curly hair hanging lazily on his shoulders, emerald green eyes seemed to be shining at any time, and his facial features were both Caucasian. The beauty of the sculpture also contains the beauty of the ceramics of the yellow race. The lines are clear but not obtrusive, and there is a feeling of jade carving.One of her lips is the most attractive part of her - there is a slight rounded arc on the left and right corners of her upper lip, which makes her look like she is always smiling mischievously.

The young man obviously felt that he swallowed his saliva, and then asked hesitantly, "Miss Angela?"

Perhaps because of his Asian face, the girl was slightly taken aback, but then smiled and said: "Yes, I am, you should have said that this is a film club, right?"

The other party was stunned again, then quickly nodded and said: "Yes, this is indeed a movie club, um, please come in."

Wait until the girl enters the house.All the boys stopped their own business and looked at her with a little surprise. The young white man who was sorting out the information was the first to react, got up and walked to Angela, and stretched out his hand: "Hello, Miss Angela, I am Louis Heller, the chairman of the film club, may I ask you to be..."

"You know why I'm here, right, Mr. Chairman?" Angela smiled and shook hands with him.

Jim, who was still on the leash of Morris, suddenly let out a strange cry, came to Angela, grabbed the girl's hand and shouted: "Are you going to the film club? Miss Angela! Oh, my God, I'm so happy It's gone." The girl was startled.

Louis quickly pulled him away: "I'm sorry, Miss Angela, he is actually...a very individual person."

"I can tell." The girl forced a smile, "Well, just call me Angela."

"Okay, let's find a place to sit down first." Louis smiled, welcomed the girl in, and then signaled the others to clean up the room quickly, moved a few chairs, and sat down together.

Then, Louis began to introduce in turn: "This is Felix Doug, responsible for a series of work such as scene recorder, lighting engineer, photography, etc."

"Hi, Angela, nice to meet you." The chubby Felix wiped his hands vigorously on his body.Then he reached out and shook hands with her, smiling all over his face.

"This is Rex Young. Art direction."

"Hello, Angela." The Asian young man said briefly, smiling and shaking hands with her.

"This is Maurice Virgil, our cinematographer, very skilled."

"I am very glad that you are here, and we look forward to working hard with you." The black boy is very good at talking.

"As for this one, you just met, Jim Ford, the editor, pretty good."

"I'm so excited, Angela, you're so beautiful, I love your music to death, you know, last time we participated in the competition, I edited it while listening to "God Is a Girl", which gave me a lot of inspiration, Maybe you can sing or something while we're working, let's make better things!" Jim was chattering and unscrupulous, and everyone couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Okay, Jim, you'll talk about it later, let's go aside now." Louis pulled him away again, then faced Angela and continued: "I have introduced myself just now, so I won't repeat it now. I was in charge of the directing work, and our instructor was Mr. Calvin Conrad, who came every day, but he was just away for a while.

We come here every day for discussion and production. Every week, every member of the club has to produce a short film independently shot, at least 1 minute. Generally, the whole club can produce 2 to 3 works a year, most of which are documentaries. 9 In 30, our documentary "Halloween's Campus" won the Silver Award of the California United Photography Association, and last year's [-]-minute documentary "Museum of Paleontology" was nominated for Best Documentary at the High School Film Festival held in Tennessee, and is currently in production A documentary about school cheerleaders, I plan to participate in this year's International Amateur Film Documentary Short Film Exhibition in California, well, documentaries are what we are best at! "

After a pause, he asked in a somewhat uncertain tone: "So, is there any question? Angela? Would you like to come to the film club?"

"I think I can decide." Angela said with a smile, but then she frowned slightly: "However, it seems that I should be the only female member of the film club?"

"What does it matter! We welcome you to come, so that you don't have to go to the members of the acting club when you are shooting certain films!" Jim still wanted to say something, which made everyone a little embarrassed.

"I'm sorry, I don't think he meant it that way," Louis said with a wry smile, making a gesture that seemed to strengthen his persuasion.

"It's okay, I understand." The girl smiled knowingly.

"By the way, Angela, can you help me with something?" Louis said suddenly, with eagerness in his tone.

"please say."

"We all know that you were filming MTV outside recently, I thought, can we go and see it on set!"

The girl was a little surprised, she blinked her eyes: "Are you all interested in going?"

"Yes! Of course!" Several people immediately shouted.

"Actually, next week I'm going to Disney to direct an MTV, my own MTV of "That's It"." Angela said with a smile, "So, the opportunity is here, how can you impress me? "