In the end, what was supposed to be a New Year's trip for Nanaya and Sakura ended up with the entire [Trier] having fun.
Fortunately, what Nanaya was most worried about, being made into a human, did not happen.
Perhaps Shion also knew that she couldn't overexploit Nanaya's potential, so she didn't go too far.
During the hot spring vacation, although Nanaya had some intimate moments with the women, the number of times was not very often.
The entire [Trier] team really came here for vacation.
We ate, drank and took a hot spring bath together.
During this period, some reporters did come to visit, but they didn't gain anything.
After all, the entire hotel was booked by Shion, and outsiders were not allowed to enter the hot spring hotel to take a look.
Although the paparazzi instinctively felt that Washimine Shion's claim that Trier members were traveling together during the New Year was questionable, they had no way of getting any concrete information.
As for climbing over the wall of a hot spring hotel to peek, forget it. The hot spring hotel has very complete measures to prevent outsiders from snooping, and the paparazzi cannot obtain any evidence from the outside.
But it's normal when you think about it, after all, this is a high-end hotel in a tourist destination.
If there really were a scandal of an outsider peeping and filming videos, how would the hotel continue to operate?
The [Trier] members were having a great time inside the hotel, but the paparazzi outside were having a hard time.
It's not a good idea to come to a remote place like Gunma Prefecture after all the effort, but to return empty-handed, right?
But not being able to get news materials makes people a little crazy.
But you can't spread rumors that the Trier team is holding a beep! meeting in the hotel, right?
Rumors are not made up and gossip is not nonsense.
Not only will no one believe this kind of news, but the credibility of the magazine itself will also be reduced.
During the New Year, it is very common for companies to go traveling together.
If staying in a hotel is considered a "beep!", then will all company tours in the future be considered a "beep!"?
No one would believe this kind of gossip that has no basis.
So after the holiday, everyone from [Trier] left Gunma Prefecture with great satisfaction.
The paparazzi left Gunma Prefecture in despair.
For Sakura, she only had spend with Nanaya for one day.
But with the ring that Nanaya specially gave her, she was also very satisfied.
Although the ring itself is not worth much money, the meaning it represents is extraordinary.
Although Lily, Rin and other girls were extremely envious and jealous about this, there was nothing they could do.
Whether it is asking Nanaya to buy himself the same ring or a more precious ring.
Without the days that Sakura had spent with Nanaya, the ring that Nanaya gave her would just be a ring.
Rather, it could be said that by asking Nanaya for the ring, I had already lost to Sakura.
After the New Year holiday, everyone in Trier returned to their work.
Nanaya also brought Astolfo back to New Zealand and continued the post-production work of "Madoka Magica".
The production cycle of a feature film is never an easy task.
Especially for those commercial blockbusters, it is normal for post-production to take more time than shooting.
Especially after the special effects produced by Weta Studio were initially completed, the post-production of "Madoka Magica" has entered the next stage.
In post-production, dialogue, background music and various sound effects need to be inserted into the shot sequence little by little.
At this point, the film will gradually get rid of its rough appearance and begin to move closer to a finished film.
But at the same time, new problems will arise.
For example, the footage shot on site may not be exactly the same as what Nanaya imagines in his mind.
A 30-second shot may become a two-minute scene after adding special effects.
This situation is particularly common in magical girls' battle scenes.
In Nanaya's opinion, the difficulty of this stage of work lies in how to carefully select the shots for real-life shooting while making the magical girls show their power in front of the camera on the pictures generated by special effects.
More importantly, after adding special effects CG, how to make the actors and CG effects look coordinated and natural.
In the post-production room of "Madoka Magica", each day's production results will be inspected and accepted by the relevant person in charge the next morning.
These staff members will select satisfactory results and pass them on to Nanaya.
Once Nanaya approves it, these silent shots will be sent to the audio-visual technical department to add sound effects, and finally form real movie clips.
On the contrary, if Nanaya fails to pass, it will have to be sent back for further revisions.
It would be fine if it's just one or two days, but if most people face such work for several months in a row, they will definitely feel bored after a few days and even give up.
Checking the lens is a very tedious and requires very careful work.
A visual glitch in a shot or an error in adding a sound effect will cause the entire shot to be flawed.
If this defect is not discovered immediately, then when you want to modify it later, the time and money spent will increase exponentially.
Of course, it is also possible that it will never be discovered until the movie is released, and then it will become the black history of the entire movie.
It would be fine if a movie only has one or two bloopers, but if there are too many, the entire movie will be full of loopholes and the audience will be very distracted when watching it.
It can be said that filmmaking is not something that ordinary people can do casually.
But Nanaya is definitely not an ordinary person, not because he is a time traveler, but because he has great passion for his movies.
During post-production, Nanaya made sure he could devote himself fully to film production every day.
Every weekday morning, he would gather together the heads of various departments.
In the shortest time and most concise way, arrange the tasks that need to be completed today and discuss the post-production details of several scenes.
There is one thing that Nanaya emphasizes almost every few days.
That is, he asked to control the situation as much as possible to give the magical girls more time to fight.
Nanaya has already spent $200 million to make the movie, so he certainly won't try to save money like he did when Magica Quartet made the TV version in his previous life.
As long as the money is helpful to the film production, Nanaya will spend it without hesitation, whether it is $100,000 or $1 million.
The purpose is to make the movie achieve the best effect.
Nanaya has not forgotten that the rival of "Madoka Magica" is the epoch-making movie "Avatar".
As a director, James Cameron is a typical perfectionist and a patient with advanced obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Facing such an opponent, Nanaya knew that he couldn't have any luck.
Only by going all out can you have a chance of winning.
As the special effects production continued to be completed, Nanaya's work became busier and busier.
So naturally, Nanaya once again missed this year's Oscars public relations.
The relevant tasks can only be handed over to the award public relations personnel of Washimine Entertainment.
Because he now needs to communicate against the clock with the heads of various departments in the post-production of the film.
Of course, this part of the content has also become the best promotional part for the movie "Madoka Magica".
"Nanaya hopes to see us complete the work with our own ideas, rather than being mere, mechanical executors."
When interviewed by reporters, Shonan Rantaro said: "He would sit in front of the system and string together the selected footage in order."
"In this way, those originally scattered parts have a spirit. When shooting, we often can't understand why he shot it that way. But when all these shots are put together in post-production, we immediately understand."
"Nanayo Kiryu is a very talented director. When working with him, we must try our best to keep up with his pace. Otherwise, we will be left behind by his high-speed car."
Of course, the above interview that appeared in the magazine was post-processed.
Putting aside whether Shonan can speak such elegant words, the series of "~?" in his vocabulary alone would probably scare away countless readers.
To be honest, Nanaya was really curious about how this guy could get married.
Could it be that his wife likes the other person's cowboy accent?
Although there will definitely be some exaggeration when promoting a movie.
But there is no doubt that the finished film of "Madoka Magica" will definitely win the title of the film that uses the most special effects shots in the current era.
This is not nonsense. After all, even in daily clips, QB processed with special effects needs to be included in the picture.
In the movie "Madoka Magica", there are only a few shots that do not include any CG effects.
According to preliminary estimates, the "Madoka Magica" movie will use more than 2,500 special effects shots.
These shots will be completed by Weta Workshop and Washimine's special effects department.
Among them, Weta Studio's technical advantages lie in character motion capture, character modeling, and the synthesis of CG characters and real environment images.
Washimine's special effects department is more adept at creating atmosphere, adjusting picture light and simulating physical special effects.
Nanaya originally thought that the most difficult special effects shot in the movie would be the battle scene between the magical girls.
But in the end, I found that the most difficult part of all the special effects shots was the scene where the magical girls transformed.
The production of shots that show the gradual changes in a girl's body requires great precision and complexity.
Of course, if you want to simplify, this part of the shot can also be made very simple.
As long as a white light flashes on the character's body, the transformation is complete.
But this is obviously not the visual effect that Nanaya wants.
If she doesn't even have a gorgeous transformation, can she still be called a magical girl?
For this purpose, Nanaya found five female protagonists to carry out separate reshoots, so that all the girls' body movements could be recorded.
Nanaya used 7 cameras to shoot the girls' bodies from different directions and angles.
It is then synthesized by Weta Studio through CGI images, and finally presented through a surround perspective stitched together by lenses.
Seriously, the girls' bodies are photographed in such detail.
Those who know understand that this is for post-production; but those who don't would probably think that Nanaya is being a hooligan.