The purpose of an impressive special effects movie is to give the audience an excellent audio-visual feast.
Therefore, outstanding special effects pictures require equally outstanding sound effects to match.
At the beginning, Nanaya's focus was on the movie images, and the sound effects were not a high priority.
But as the film began to move towards completion, work on film sound effects was also put on the agenda.
Just like the picture, in addition to the regular two-channel sound effects, Nanaya also needs to make a special 12.0-channel version to match IMAX.
In the current film market environment, the IMAX versions of most films will advertise themselves as using 12.0 channels.
After all, their movies no longer have the IMAX full-frame advantage, and sound effects are the only thing they can show off.
But in reality, there are not many movies that can fully utilize IMAX 12.0 channels, and even fewer that can fully utilize the performance of 12.0 channels.
Weta Workshop has a complete 12.0-channel setup.
That's good, but the problem is there's only one set.
And now Weta Workshop has two films to deal with…
So, for the first time, Nanaya and Cameron, two close friends regardless of age difference, had a conflict.
Both parties hope to use this equipment in their films so that production can be completed as quickly as possible.
In response, Weta Workshop said that there is only one set of equipment, so you two bosses can coordinate it yourselves.
But obviously, both Nanaya and Cameron are stubborn people.
It is possible to give in under normal circumstances, but forget about it when it comes to your own movie.
Nanaya felt a little regretful. He shouldn't have focused all his energy on modifying the pictures and ignored the sound track.
In fact, it is not impossible to make a normal version of the sound effects first and then change it to the 12.0 channel version, but this is likely to cause errors in the 12.0 channel version of the sound effects.
If there are mistakes in the sound track and you have to go back and modify it, it will undoubtedly increase the workload a lot.
In the end, Nanaya and Cameron discussed for a long time and finally came up with a compromise.
The crews of both sides first extracted and separated the sound files of the normal audio tracks.
Make these sound effects into left channel, right channel, and surround mix files separately, and then store these sound files together with their corresponding pictures.
In this way, when you use a 12.0-channel system device, you only need to find the picture and the related sound effect files separately.
Then we go into post-production and combine the sound and the picture.
This method has many advantages. Although it will increase a lot of preliminary preparation work, the time of using 12.0 devices is greatly shortened.
As long as the usage time is properly allocated, there won't be a fight between the two crews in the equipment room.
At the same time, doing so can also allow the film images and sound effects to be produced simultaneously, and if problems are found during the process, individual shots can be modified.
It can be said to be a perfect plan, and both Nanaya and Cameron were very satisfied.
It's just that Fox's representatives are even more dissatisfied with Cameron.
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As time goes by, the Oscars ceremony is getting closer.
Near the end of January, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the sponsor of the North American Academy Awards, held a nominees luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel.
Of course, this luncheon was not just a gathering of old men to have a meal together. Its real purpose was to announce the list of nominees for the 81st Academy Awards.
Because he had to work in New Zealand, Nanaya did not attend the Oscar nominees luncheon.
It was just a nomination, no need for him to fly to Los Angeles.
This awards season, Washimine Entertainment has a total of two films nominated for Oscars, namely "Inferno" from Erque Studio and Marvel's "Captain America".
However, Marvel itself is aware that the possibility of "Captain America" winning the award is zero.
So apart from applying for the Best Visual Effects Award, we didn't even apply for any other awards.
The focus of Washimine Entertainment's publicity and public relations is naturally Nanaya's "Purgatory Flame".
I definitely don't want to win acting awards, but with the huge box office and popularity, it should be possible to win a two technical awards.
You have to know that Washimine has been in Hollywood for so long, but he hasn't even won an Oscar trophy.
No matter how little you care about the number of awards you win, it's too embarrassing to always get no awards.
Moreover, the dark theme of "Purgatory" can more or less appeal to the old academicians.
At least compared to Nanaya's previous films, the possibility of winning an award is naturally much greater.
Although there is the Pacific Ocean between the United States and New Zealand, modern network communications are so advanced that it is not difficult to transmit messages.
Before dinner time, Nanaya received a message from the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel.
The nomination list for the 81st Academy Awards has been announced, but the upset that everyone expected did not appear.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", a movie that imitates the narrative structure of "Forrest Gump", and "Slumdog Millionaire", a movie from the UK adapted from an Indian novel, have become the darlings of this year's Oscars.
As for "Purgatory" directed by Nanaya, the nomination results are also quite good.
It received eight nominations including Best Makeup, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Effects, Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing and Best Original Screenplay.
There seem to be a lot of nominations, but most of them are minor awards, and the most valuable nomination is only for Best Original Screenplay.
However, when Nanaya received the nomination list, his first reaction was that the old guys at the Oscars were going to cause trouble.
Because if someone compares the entire list, they will find that most of the nominated awards for the two films "Inferno" and "The Dark Knight" overlap.
The only difference is that "The Dark Knight" was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, while "Inferno" was nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
It was such a coincidence, Nanaya simply didn't believe that those old guys didn't do it on purpose!
Nanaya could even guess what those old men were thinking.
After all, even the Oscars need popularity and topics.
The topic of "Inferno" and "The Dark Knight" began with last year's box office battle.
Fans of both sides have engaged in several wars of words on the Internet and in the media.
There is no reason for the Oscar old guys not to take advantage of such a popularity that they can openly take advantage of.
Anyway, it's just a few small awards, which won't affect the legitimacy of the Oscars at all.
It is foreseeable that for some time to come, the award dispute between "Inferno" and "The Dark Knight" will be the focus of Oscar publicity.
The only thing Nanaya was unsure about was the extra nomination for the Original Screenplay Award for "Purgatory's Flames".
This award was given by the Academy to achieve balance, and they didn't want to give the award to Inferno.
Or maybe the Academy felt that "Inferno" met the award standards, so they gave it a nomination.
Although I don't know what the Academy really thinks, now that the film has been nominated, public relations must be done.
In fact, the Oscars are no longer awarded to just any good movie.
In addition to the film itself having to appeal to the judges, award public relations is also very important.
Whether it is nomination or winning, the entire Oscar is directly related to money.
This has gone beyond the award itself and has become a complete business.
You know, the old guys in the academic school only have this one chance every year to make their presence felt.
This requires a lot of effort to get it, right?
Otherwise, what will we eat for the rest of the year?
According to past practice, the public relations costs for a small Oscar award have reached hundreds of thousands of dollars.
As for major awards such as Best Picture and Best Director, it is not impossible to give out millions of dollars at a time.
If it is an acting award such as Best Actor or Best Actress, it is not impossible that some perverted judges would want to make the candidates pay a price.
However, this kind of thing depends on the situation.
If the other party's backer is a company like the Big Six, those old guys will be much more restrained.
The more troublesome ones are the actors from small film companies who have no background but want to become famous quickly.
Then these actors can only sacrifice their bodies.
Hollywood has never been a romantic place. As the world's top entertainment industry, there will only be more and more bad things happening here.
In order to get as many nominations as possible for "Purgatory", Washimine Entertainment has spent more than one million US dollars.
And if you want to win an award, you will have to continue to increase your public relations costs.
This situation made Nanaya miss the Japanese Oscars a little bit.
After all, it's your own award, so you can take as many as you want. Just tell the judges directly.
Even the public relations costs are not much.
Judging from the current award nominations, the least suspenseful one should be the Best Supporting Actor.
Unless the other nominees are willing to sacrifice their lives, this award can only belong to Heath Ledger.
Although the smell of money is getting stronger every year, Oscar still has some humanity.
However, Nanaya was not interested in this award, and had no intention of interfering.
Heath Ledger deserves this award.
Nanaya is more concerned about her Best Original Screenplay Award - even though the nominee is Urobuchi, after all, this is probably the only major award that she could win in the first four Fate trilogies.
The biggest rival of "Inferno" is the biographical film "Milk", for which Nanaya won the Best Original Screenplay award in his previous life.
There's nothing special about this movie itself, and even in the United States not many people have heard of it.
But the protagonist of the film, Milk, the subject of the film's biography, is a bit troublesome.
The other party is a very famous gay politician.