[This week’s Otto series of general notes, the first generation of Altman articles].
The ninth back from “Bamla” to “Redman” to “Ottoman”.
In the Round Valley Stunt Studio, the various scriptwriters performed the production and the like, and the British and the old masters confirmed the completed project “Science Special Search Team Bermuda”. Jincheng Tezhe, the head of the planning department, stood next to the old man and explained it synchronously. When the design of the main character monster Bermuda was made, the old man said something, this time it is colored. Xiaojin didn’t react at first. He established this planning premise a few months ago. It is also the first in the history of the Japanese TV industry. The old man now points out what it means to confirm. .
I saw that the old man had entered a state of contemplation, and his mouth was stunned and ruthless. At the same time, he took the design of the Bermuda, and he was close to the point for a while, so he looked at it repeatedly. Xiaojin asked what happened, and the old man said, I am thinking about color film and television… The image on the film used for color can not seem to have the cool and cool feeling of the protagonist, which is the key to this victory. As a cutting-edge technician, this is the thinking circuit that he is different from the pure planner. What happens in color? Of course, the old man has always had no objection to Xiao Jin’s imagination. He said that he should continue to follow this momentum and have time. .
Superheroes in color film and television, Xiaojin understands the main points. If you don’t carefully sculpt and repeat the tempering on this point, it will not reflect the biggest difference with “Aote Q”, but only increase the size of the monster. He went to discuss with Mr. Ichikawa, the general manager of the city, and designed Watanabe to design a stranger, such as Gojila, to design Bermuda. To be honest, only the old man found him according to the habits of many years, and Ichikawa and Xiaojin actually The pressure is a bit big. The reason is very simple. Watanabe is a huge gas field too strong. .
Xiaojin, a young man who was less than half the age of Watanabe, couldn’t help but feel a sense of not being able to talk to him, let alone suggesting that the design was revised. Although this is probably just the so-called giant gas field produced by the celebrity effect of Watanabe, it makes people feel that this person is not good at speaking. Later history proved to us that Narita’s qi field was stronger than Watanabe after becoming a giant. However, this is the so-called social and workplace atmosphere. I told the story a long time ago, and the old man is also so arrogant that he can’t speak loudly, and good children don’t want to learn. .
So I went to Narita Heng to design Bermuda, the art supervision of the special technical class (special photo class) in the second half of “Otto Q”, that is, special art supervision (special supervision). Narita, who is designed by Narita, looks like a half-beast god in mythology, with a horn on his head. The left side of the picture below is the first draft of Narita designed by Narita, and the second draft on the right. .
The first draft has three main points. The first is the overall image of the body, between the armor and the cosmic clothing. The definition is 啥, it is the second point, it is the skin of Bermuda. White, but specifically noted the visual sense of armor. The third is the head, especially the face, and even the eyes are no exception. The image is a diamond. Therefore, there must be a variety of edges and corners, but also a sense of sparkling and reflective. .
However, the request for Xiaojin’s entrustment is that the color image shows a superhero with a cool and cool feeling. Therefore, the body part of the manuscript is revised, and the texture is more likely to appear. The head is basically unchanged, and the body part of the visual armor feels to the shoulders of the later Otto Savin. .
The production bureau of Tokyo Broadcasting TV (TBS), after studying the planning book, also called the Round Valley Stunt Studio to open a meeting. The person who directly negotiated the plan at the Round Valley Stunt Studio is still the general manager of Ichikawa and Xiaojin. TBS Film and Television Department attended 3 people, one of which was of course the producer of Sakai Aoi since the “Otto Q”, and the other was the performance of the TBS outside the post, representing the performance of the TBS expatriate staff. .
At this time, the third person was added, which was only in the promotion meeting during the “Otto Q”. The help of Yoko Nobuyuki was born, but he was able to do both on the performance side and in the business side. At this time, his identity was promoted to the producer and he was given a deputy to Sakai.
I used to say that the predecessor of “Otto Q” was “unbalanced”. At that time, TBS was a mess inside. There are all kinds of brains that are said to have any proposals. It’s a shame to make a small sum of money to organize their ideas and form a plan. Now the new work “Science Special Search Team Bermuda” has become such a situation. It is true that the continuation of the monster route, the main character monster to fight monsters, a special organization, etc., are all scattered requirements of the TBS. But the actual situation is like this, and of course there are still many opinions inside. .
The first said that the monster is the protagonist, is it really a sense of violation is still too heavy. At that time, although the Gogura film had already had a plot of conflicts between monsters, it was fixed that the heroic hero, Gogilla, played against each enemy monster every time, or later it was influenced by the superhero fire. The second is to refer to the feeling of “Frankenstein on the Ground Monster”. This refers to the Japanese-US cooperative science fiction film that Dongbao has just released in summer of 1965. The supervision and stunt supervision of this article are of course still two of the two pigs, Shizuo Shiro and Yoshitani, and there are two giants erects and four feet. The scene of the crawling monsters fighting. The third said that now it seems that Bermuda is dominated by folk customs, and can you feel more about science fiction. .
Now people know that Altman is a colorful giant from the universe, a superhero that can fight against all kinds of monsters or cosmos and even huge machines, as if it exists. However, in this way, there was no image in history. At that time, even if there was no one in the party, there was a clear image in the mind, and the expressions were vaguely expressed. What is the meaning of the multi-point sci-fi wind? What do you mean by Xiao Jin? For example, do you want to be a cosmic person? Sakai answered, I didn’t say that it was a cosmic person, and I don’t know what to say. .
Just such a chaotic end of the meeting came back, and in this case, the final British second old man made a decision. Then let a superhero like Supaman of the country go out, Japan’s own superman. The basic direction of this protagonist has gone from the monster to the weird giant, and then it has finally become a huge cosmic person. So the new plan decided to change its name to “Science Special Search Team Redman”, Reid is the guiding meaning, Redman is the leader. There is a futuristic sci-fi sensation, a mysterious giant from the unknown civilization of the universe, guiding the human civilization of the earth. .
The right side of the above picture is the Redman design of Narita. The head has changed and the body lines have not changed compared to the left side. However, the body is specified in blue and silver, because blue is more cosmic, and silver is the feeling of a space rocket. However, on-site operation, blue is not the most preferred color because a lot of blue-screen synthesis operations were used at the time. So swollen, do it, and finally change to red, the red texture is the feeling of blood. Therefore, red is only the result, it is red. So I think Redman means that it is not red. It is not uncommon for future generations to reverse this misunderstanding. .
“Science Special Search Team Bermuda” progress is relatively slow, there is a feeling of rugged moves on the small road. When it comes to “Science Special Search Team Redman”, the whole pace is different. Besides the content itself has the feeling of finding the road, there is another important reason is the time. Have you found that the changes in the front line of the planning so far have been so far, from the summer of 1965 to the fall to the end of the year, what this means, “Aote Q” has not yet officially released. .
Today’s people know the general context of the later history, but people at that time don’t know right, look at history from a historical perspective. “Aote Q” has not officially started to broadcast, which means that the most crucial thing has never been finalized, that is, what happens to the popular response. This point cannot be completely determined. Where is the enthusiasm? The cost of the amount is indeed too high. Therefore, although it is indeed discussed, after the “Aote Q” to the Round Valley stunt studio to come back to what film, but the entire project progress TBS is half-shelved, was pushed by the general manager of the city of Amway a feeling of. .
At the end of the year, with the completion of the basic production of “Otto Q”, and the number of screenings will increase, the publicity and the pre-reaction received will also increase. Things are getting more and more eye-catching, and the whole atmosphere is different. At 7 o’clock on the evening of January 2, 1966, when “Otto Q” officially began to be released, the situation became out of control, and all families with TV sets in Japan were detonated.
At this time, it is still the period of the Chinese New Year holiday, so it is the period when the average family is still traveling outside. Therefore, there is still a comment inside the TBS that it is better to postpone the release of the week. I didn’t expect the first words to be broadcast during the first month of the holiday, and the ratings were so high. After a week when the effect of the first month has disappeared, of course, the second-party ratings are even higher, and continue to stabilize at more than 30%. When the former group reached the end, the audience rating was 15%, and the “Otto Q” doubled directly. .
As early as the autumn of 1965, at the dinner hosted by TBS, the English-speaking old man had been with the supervisor of Dongbao Benduo Shiro, who was the supervisor of the class, and the class of “Otto Q” was supervised by Sumida. In the conversation, I expected to see how much the audience rating can be after the broadcast. Putian Supervisor said that I am a person in the film industry anyway. I don’t understand the ratings of the TV side. It is estimated to be the standard of “Little Ghost Taro”. .
Two Fujiko’s super popular comics “Little Ghost Taro”, at the end of August 1965, TBS just started to release an animated version. The initial ratings are stable at more than 20%, and the delivery time is at 7:30 pm every Sunday. That is to say, once the “Aote Q” is launched, if the audience does not change the channel every week, then the “Ghost Q Taro” will be seen next to the group, which belongs to the same period. Daddy is still less confident than Putian, saying that it is not too good, I think it is not bad to reach 15%. . The
TBS aspect is also the reference for the final level of the previous group, and 15% is equivalent to the psychological expectation baseline. The result far exceeded everyone’s psychological expectations, and after entering 1966, “Little Ghost Q Taro” has been stable for more than 30% every week. In the era when the Japanese still don’t understand what is called aging, the two children’s films that TBS sent in succession between 7 and 8 pm every Sunday, the high ratings caused other TV stations to be in such prime time. There is no way to go, so this period is called “horror QQ time.” .
The “Amazing Trio” event of Tezuka Osamu’s original work, which is known to the world of comics, is a very famous thing. Since the original TV serial animation “Astro Boy”, the hand-picked insect studio and Fuji TV have maintained a good relationship. The animated version of “Amazing Trio” began to be broadcast on Fuji TV in June 1965, at 7 o’clock every Sunday at night, with a high audience rating of over 20%. However, in January 1966, TBS began to deliver “Otto Q” during this time period. On January 2nd, the ratings of “Amazing Trio” crashed directly into a single digit. .
Fuji TV was shocked and only took a month to take countermeasures. In the first week of February, the “Surprise Trio” was moved to another time to be released. It’s a shame that the producer of Fuji TV in Surprise Trio is still a fan. A few years ago, relatives and friends of the Valley wanted to enter the television industry from the film industry. This is mainly because of him. As a result, the plan of “WoO” with Fuji TV was yellow, and the old man could only rely on his big brother Yuanguyi in TBS. Up to now, the “Aote Q”, which was supervised by relatives and supervised by the relatives, has become the direct opponent of the animation group that he is responsible for, and Yuan Guzhen defeated in front of his father and brother. .
The eldest son of the handcuffs was really four and a half years old. Later, he grew up and was a celebrity, recalling the events at the time. The family sat at the dinner table and had dinner. At the same time, they drove the TV. The handcuffs were really hooked up by the new program group “Otto Q”. The mother is also the handcuffs Mrs. Yuezi, who ordered that the film of your father should be seen, but the child is not willing to swollen. The handcuffs are not in a good mood. I know that this is my own loss, but he can’t help but reasoning. As a result, the emotions suddenly angered to the wife, he screamed, and the child wanted to see what you let him see! Frightened and really dissatisfied with the 2-year-old sister’s hand, Yumei, the atmosphere on the spot did not dare to form a child’s psychological shadow, Mrs. Yuezi also grievances secretly tears, the whole family fell into a disaster-like atmosphere. .
At that time, there were still two companies in Japan that were responsible for measuring the ratings. The details of Anitama are another series of topics, “The Basics of Commercial Operation in Japanese Animation Industry”. 第二十三回 has a detailed explanation. In short, the results of the fast food have been reported here. According to the results of the video survey (VR), in addition to the discriminated Tokyo Channel 12 (today’s TV TOKYO), at 7:00 pm on January 2, 1966, the 5th in Beijing The Kanto wide-area circle of the core bureau has the following ratings.
TBS’s “Otto Q” is 26.5%, Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) is broadcasting 14.1%, Japan Education TV (today’s Asahi TV) is broadcasting 12.1% of game competitions, and Japanese TV station (NTV) is broadcasting programs. 11.7%, Fuji TV’s “Amazing Trio” 9.3%. Afterwards, whether it was the image survey or the results of Nielsen’s test, the rating of “Aote Q” was stable at more than 30%, and even after 3 months, it was stable at more than 35%. .
This event became a famous Taiwanese shame in the history of Fuji TV. It was a foreshadowing of a series of acts of shame against TBS after Fuji TV. Now I will only talk about the first move. I haven’t made a comeback in two months. From the second week of April, Fuji TV has started to release Batman from the American father. Familiar with the know-how of the superheroes, “Batman” made a TV series in 1966. Fuji TV was responding very quickly, and this imported translation was translated into Japanese dubbing, and the translation titled “Monster Bird Batman”. .
This war did have an impact on “Otto Q”. In the second week of April, “Otto Q” did not have a long-lost rating of 30%. However, it was still floating at 30% before and after, until the final playback time was again 35%. During the six months of the release of “Aote Q”, the ratings in the second quarter were obviously not as good as those in the first quarter. The reason behind this is that Fuji TV has adopted the “Monster Bird Batman” confrontation. As a result, the rating of “Monster Bird Batman” was 16.8%. Of course, it was far from the goal of Fuji TV to defeat TBS. Fuji TV station has to wait for five and a half years to achieve its goal during this period. .
Therefore, after the start of the “Aote Q”, TBS and Takeda Pharmaceuticals immediately smashed the chicken blood. This time it was their turn to be fully proactive, and they should immediately proceed to the next progress. After the start of the delivery, it was less than a month. On January 27, 1966, the news of the Houfan Group was published in the newspaper. Tokyo’s local evening newspaper, Inside and Outside Times, published a report titled “The First Domestic Color, Substitute “Otto Q”, “Dragon Valley Stunt Studio Works, TBS TV”. This news is the first time in history. The relevant information of Altman appeared in front of the world, and it revealed seven key messages directly to the audience. .
First, after “Aote Q” is called “Bamla”, of course, the producer is unchanged. Second, this is the color TV drama in the early days of Japanese history. Third, it is scheduled to start up in early March. Fourth, revealed that the content has a scientific special search team, revealed that the headquarters is in Paris, and even the cosmos in the team members are directly exposed. Fifth, like “Otto Q”, it is Jincheng Tetsuo and Yamada Masahiro. Sixth, 26 books are scheduled for the second quarter. Seventh, “Aote Q” just completed all the post-production work on January 25, and all 28 books are scheduled to be released on July 10. .
Now, from the perspective of Zhuge Liang, the accuracy of this news report is quite high. Things like “Bermula” 26 and “Otto Q” ended on July 10th, although later did not conform to historical facts, but it was indeed scheduled. Then look back at the schedule, “Aote Q” made the final recording of the 28th recording, the date is also on January 24, and later the new work officially started on March 16. By the way, after the launch of “Aote Q” in January 1966, it seems that it became a general month, and the light-related personnel suddenly got married. On January 16th, the wedding was supervised by Manada, and on January 26th, the wedding of “Otto Q” and “Ottoman” composer Miyauchi Koro. .
The front line of the new work is also frequently held. On Friday, January 28, the name of the work at the meeting is also called “Bamla.” The next time is Tuesday, February 1st, when the name of Redman officially appeared for the first time. Of course, it was quickly changed to “Ottoman”, because since the protagonist has changed from a monster to a cosmic person, it is better to think of Redman as a business level, and continue “Otto Q” directly called “Oh Terman. .
After the change, Redman spent more than a month in the contemporary. Because the real official name should be made into absolute secrets, otherwise it will be a small matter if the microblogging marketing number is leaked out in advance, and the squatting of the trademark is a big deal. So even if it is officially booted on March 16, the title of the code on the script is still called Redman. On March 24th after the trademark was confirmed, this was the first time that “Ottoman” appeared, and then it was published to the media on April 1.
Therefore, the “Redman” plan can be regarded as the “Ottoman” plan, and there are as many as 15 scripts in the name of Redman. Next time we say the content of the “Redman” project, the following picture is the first draft and the second draft of Narita’s design after the name changed to “Ottoman”. .
[This week’s special photo shoot].
Special Soul ~ Special technique for preaching (26): The most expensive part of the real shot.
Let’s talk directly about the answer. The most expensive part of the real shot is in the film. To be precise, it is the field of special photography, rather than talking about the word “special photo” in the normal audience. It is easy to think of it first, the miniature model of the building or the costume of the genre, which belongs to the field of special art. . Although these are more expensive than ordinary films that are not special, they do cost a lot of money, but they are not the most. .
The absolute key point in concept, let’s repeat it again: the official name of the so-called special photo is “special film technology”, referred to as special technology or special effects. The most rough and large blocks also have 3 fields, special photography (special photography), special art (special beauty), and synthesis. .
These 3 pieces can describe their respective characteristics. Special photography is called the highest in composition, synthesis is called the highest in composition, and special art is called the highest attention of the audience. There is a form of burning money in the literal sense, now cost, such as spending time, such as very cumbersome and irritating, and the attention of the audience is understandable. .
The special technology in the most burning money lies in the film, the cause of this state can be divided into two aspects. The first is the film material used, and the second is the way the film is used. This time, let’s talk briefly about the materials used. Last time I said the film era of the last century, some of the most basic concepts about film, now mainly look at film of 16 mm and 35 mm. . The
Definition has already been explained, what is the difference between the use, simply said that at the time these two are the film for TV dramas and movies. That is to say, for example, the British two old scorpions themselves, such as the first period of the Otto series, the wild long 濑 Samadhi supervision, Dongbao was born to give Akira Kurosawa and Bento pig Shiro as a supervised, usually used 35 mm specifications film. On the other hand, such as Yuan Guyi and Iijima Minhong, TBS was born in a film and television drama with the characters who played with the film. Usually, the 16 mm film is used. . The
35mm size film has a larger first body than the 16mm size film, the second requires a larger photographic device, the third editing device is larger, and the fourth projection device is larger. To what extent, the last time I said that amateurs in the film era want to shoot private films, usually playing with a low-thickness 8 mm film. There is a very important reason for this. The 8 mm film means that a series of equipments that are involved are basically carried around without problems. The 35mm gauge film for the movie is swollen, and the projection equipment is enough for you to pull a car and drag it away. .
The film is too expensive before, and the 35mm film is more expensive. Now it is really like cheap to the price of cabbage, buy a 35mm film for shooting photos, which is commonly known as the 135 film in the photo industry, and the cost of flushing with a roll can also be controlled at 50 yuan. Inside. Of course, even if you go to the people who understand photography, people will now tell you to play film photography to burn money. I came to describe it like this. About 30 years ago, I also bought a roll of 135 films, which can roughly cost the average salary of undergraduate students for one month. .
30 years ago, undergraduate college students are still very valuable. I told you, also pay attention to this is the film used for photos, of course, cheaper than film and television. Ok, I bought a roll of this film, how many copies can I take, usually 36 photos. That is to say, on this long piece of film, it is finally enough to image 36 grids and 36 frames. If it is a 35mm film for film and television, we know that the normal rate of the show is 24 frames per second, so 36 frames is 1.5 seconds. What does this mean in the film era, if you want to take a film of 35mm size film yourself, take a 1.5 second image and your salary this month will be light.
From another point of view, from the industrial point of view, familiar with the system and history of the Japanese film industry can also know the following. It is now that two or three hundred cinemas in the country have released a movie, which can reach the simultaneous release of Japan, even four or five hundred screens. If it is a subtitled version and a dubbed version of the imported film, the screen will be several hundred and nine hundred thousand. The Showa era did not have such a good thing, and the number of cinemas released at the same time reached three digits, that is, more than one hundred museums have been very large. .
Because there is no national simultaneous release, it is necessary to divide the first-line cinema, second-line cinema, and third-line cinema, and then go to the most prosperous period to more than 20 lines of cinema. The first-line cinema is in the most economically developed big city. It is first released and then the second-line cinema. The screening period will be good for a week. Going back to the third-tier cities of second-tier cities, and gradually to various rural villages. If it is a movie with a bad passenger flow, it may stop a few lines, and there is no chance for people who have a small place to see it. .
After all, this is why, because the film is expensive! Each theater or each screen is released, which means that it has to have one. The film is released with a copy of the film. Every copy is a real money, so the real national release at the same time means that you have to copy at least 300 copies. This money can’t afford it, so it’s still used in various theaters. The total number of copies reaches three digits, which is already a big cost. In the traditional film industry, in the case of allocating box office revenue and calculating costs, there is an item specifically for copying the copy of the film used for the release, which is not a small amount compared with the production fee. The explanations of these commercial affairs have all been scheduled to be serialized in another topic of Anitama. I will not continue to explain too much here. .
Say something like nonsense, go back to the specific environment, take the “Aote Q” to “Ottoman” already mentioned in the serial, which belongs to the film on TV. The show is not right. So of course it is wrong to use a 16mm film, but not. “Aote Q” uses 35mm film throughout the process, which is mentioned in the previous serial, and the film used by “Aote Q” is unusual. .
So, among the TBS, even a performer who used a film of 16 mm size like a brother and a rice island was consciously cautious at the shooting scene. Of course, the performers who will play with the film in this way are already very technically at the forefront of TBS, and there are still films that are not used to film. The supervision of Nakagawa Haruki of “Otto Q” has been said to be because the film consumption is too large to form a serious problem, so it was transferred away from the scene, which is also a reflection of the film gold. .
So why is a TV series in the “Aote Q” area, I want to give him a film that sounds high on the specification. All the causes and consequences are connected, and this involves another artifact of burning money that has been countless times. At that time, the second-generation optical synthesizer made by Oaks Berry, regardless of the consequences, almost completely could not afford the money to directly bankrupt the Round Valley stunt studio. Such an expensive machine, you think it is based on the premise of the use of film, 35 mm specifications. .
Therefore, the synthetic technology stage should use the optical synthesizer “Otto Q”, and the filming stage will directly use the film of 35 mm size. When all the work is completed, in order to adapt to the picture specifications on the TV, when the film is processed for photographic processing, it is reduced to 16 mm. The entire rotten chicken with a knife and anti-aircraft guns to fight mosquitoes, the old man is such a person. In Dongbao, this kind of thing was done, and a black and white film was specially photographed with color film first, because the quality of the image would be much higher. Finally completed, and in order to adapt to the release requirements, restored to black and white film, made a copy of the film used in cinemas across the country. .
You think of the traditional old saying that sounds politically correct, so that the tyrant can not die in the country. Such a person to create a company, this company is still not dead, it is simply not natural. Yes, so I called him himself early in the morning. When he was in office, he made a toss like Di Xin and Yu Shizu. The people under the rule could not eat enough, and no one would stop him. Therefore, “Aote Q” to “Altman”, indeed can not hold it, compromise.
In addition, “Ottoman” has changed from black and white to color in the “Otto Q”, and the budget production fee set by TBS is the same amount. This is painful, the substantial deduction, the price of color film can be roughly 180% of black and white film, it would not be strange if you see doubled. Therefore, it is really impossible to use the 35mm specification film all the time, only the scenes that need optical synthesis, and the other parts use the ordinary 16mm size film. .
This change from “Ottoman”, Japan’s special academics (if there is such academia) often has a conclusion that this class uses 16mm specifications, special technical classes (special Photo shift) with 35mm size. However, this is a typical unclear nature of the rumored rumor, because the stunt class is not every lens is a synthesis, the same class also needs to photographic synthetic material, such as the team of science special search team with the gun to emit electric light Similar effect. .
However, in the country, I have never discussed such topics as film and synthesis, so I am free from the spread of this misinformation. Now I can explain it here. Later, the spoiler was advanced in advance, and the old man went to heaven. In the 1970s, he rationally reduced the optical synthesis itself, so that almost 16 mm of film was actually used in the whole film. Today, I only talked about the use of film materials. In the next section, I will talk about the use of film in the special photo, and the more serious consequences that can be formed.