Chapter 929： a bit of a bad taste

After several remote video conferences, the Firefly Group began to systematically implement Eric's ‘RealD’ and ‘4200’ plans.

The core of RealD's plan is to develop RealD projection system for 3D movies and DMR technology for ordinary movie conversion IMAX. Therefore, it is not too difficult to achieve. After all, whether it is 3D movies or IMAX technology, it has developed dozens of times. In the year, what the fireflies need to do is to combine many existing technologies and carry out further research and development to meet the needs of Eric.

However, the '4200' plan is not so easy to implement. Eric wants to achieve the simultaneous completion of 4,000 3D cinema renovations and 200 IMAX theaters worldwide, while the fireflies can supply 3D and IMAX sources. Construction work. After all, whether it is the construction of the corresponding theater, but the film source, or the completion of the film production, but can not find the theater, will be a very embarrassing situation.

In order to achieve this kind of time synchronization, the planners need to have very strong coordination capabilities. Of course, as the world's largest media group, the most indispensable part of Firefly is the executives with strong execution. In the end, Kasenberg decided to take the lead and be responsible for the ‘4200’ process.

The Firefly Group has more than 120,000 employees worldwide. As a boss, it has made a big decision. Eric will not need to participate too much in these specific things. What he needs to wait for is the final result. If the entire group of thousands of management and more than 100,000 employees can not bring him what he wants, then there must be a big problem within the company. Of course, the reality is that the Firefly Group is doing better than any Hollywood media group.

After deploying these two plans, Eric also turned his attention to the creation of the Spice Girl combination, and at the same time began to write the script of Gravity. Since it was more than ten years ahead, the original script must not be used.

Under the supervision of Simon Fuller, the five members of the Spice Girls Group have all been confirmed.

The original babes combination was only less than two years old, and it was gradually disintegrated because of various internal contradictions. Eric did not know what entanglements there were, but he would not use the original candidates. At the same time, Simon Fuller has signed a more stringent five-year contract with the new five-member team, so that at least five years, the new babes will not split.

Eric deliberately took the time to build a hot girl combination, mainly to prepare for the next year's Fireflyer player landing in North America.

Firefly Electronics has signed an intent contract with the members of the Spice Girls in advance. As long as the Spice Girls Group rises and the Fireflyer player is launched in Europe next year, the Spice Girls Group will become the brand's spokesperson in Europe. At the same time, the Spice Girls group can also provide a batch of the most popular digital music copyright for the promotion of Fireflyer in Europe.

Although Firefly Electronics expanded the monthly capacity of the Fireflyer player to 450,000 units in July, Fireflyer has become more popular in North America with the promotion of the entire Firefly system. The monthly output of 450,000 units is still unable to meet the North American market. Demand. In addition to Amazon's insistence on the sale price of 299 US dollars, the sales prices of major physical retailers remain above 300 US dollars.

From the official release in April to the present, in less than half a year, the sales of Fireflyer players have reached nearly 1.5 million units. Firefly Electronics Management expects that the Fireflyer player will easily reach more than 3 million units in North America in 1997 after the Malaysian assembly plant is officially put into operation.

Even with the original price of $299, the annual sales of 3 million units will make Firefly Electronics' annual sales after the release of the first product exceed $900 million.

The entry threshold for Forbes' Top 500 US companies is only about $2 billion. If you like, Firefly Electronics can easily enter the list next year, achieving the goals that countless companies can't match from creation to extinction. But to achieve this goal, for Firefly Electronics, it is only a starting point.

After living in a villa in Kensington Gardens Street in London for a few days, and agreeing on two plans in detail with Los Angeles, Eric moved to the pine forest town next to the pine forest studio in the western suburbs of London, by the pine forest. The studio rented a studio to rehearse the MV shooting of Wannabe. On the other hand, it began to ponder the shooting of Gravity.

In fact, these two things are strictly calculated, or one thing, Eric originally made up his mind to shoot the "Wannabe" MV, which is entirely out of interest. Later, because of the busy work schedule, Eric once planned Give up on this idea and give the Wannabe MV to others.

However, after the idea of ​​making "gravity", Eric decided to pick up the camera and shoot the long-lens MV of the mirror in person. This way, you can carefully consider the long-range lens, composition rules, etc. Technical details to make it easier to shoot Gravity.

Eric naturally thought about the original Emmanuel Lubezki, but after finding some of the other films, Eric dispelled the idea.

Emmanuel Lubezki is still just an ordinary photographer who hasn't been in Hollywood for a long time. The filming levels of several films he participated in are all quite satisfactory, and they have not reached the master level of ten or twenty years later. Looking for him now, not even as Eric himself.

Eric also really planned to come by himself. This is a little bit of a bad taste in his heart.

Through the original "Small Island" and last year's "My Heart is Eternal", Eric has won the Oscar for best original script and the best original songs of two small gold people, and successfully got the 'Best Screenwriter of the Director' and 'The best songwriter of the director's two titles. In this case, it is not bad to continue to get a title of 'the best photographer of the director'.

Eric is not keen on Oscar, but it is still very interesting to play such a ‘game’.

Apart from the best actress and best supporting actress, there is basically no hope. For most of the other awards, Eric feels that he can try it. He is only 27 years old this year, and he does not intend to completely put down the guide in the future.

Set up such a goal full of bad taste, and in the future, how much can give yourself some motivation to move forward.

Before Eric came to Europe, he handed the "Wannabe" to Simon Fuller, and the babes' combination has already trained this song very skillfully. Eric has also selected a club in London for the MV of this song. However, the early rehearsal can only be carried out in the studio, otherwise it will definitely be surrounded by people.

At the same time, after visiting the car assembly shop in Birmingham, a British industrial town, Eric took a fancy to a high-precision assembly robot from KUKA Robotics.

Knowing that Eric Williams is going to use his own robot to shoot his next movie, KUKA is very eager to express that he is willing to provide Eric with two robots he needs, and is responsible for Ereli. The required modification work. The condition is that Eric's lower film must mention the name of KUKA during the promotion process.

The Erik's fancy robots cost $1 million each. This kind of precision instrument is too cumbersome to modify if it is not familiar with the structure. Since KUKA is willing to provide it for free and to provide adequate support for equipment modification, Eric will naturally not refuse. Moreover, in the process of film promotion in the future, the filming method of "gravity" is definitely a topic that cannot be avoided. At that time, it is not a big deal to just mention the name of KUKA company.

KUKA Roboter of Germany sent two high-precision robots to the pine forest studio. After being installed in the studio of Eric Leasing, Eric spent most of his time in the studio, while Wannabe's MV filming was set on the scene, and together with the engineers specially sent by KUKA Robotics, they studied the modification work of the robot and learned the operation method.

Back in London, especially after Eric moved from the city to the pine forest studio, Caroline’s mood has been very good in recent days, because she can not only go home every night, but, um, though She will never mention it to anyone, but Eric, who is in work, is no longer running around without a shadow. She can see him on time every day.

Near noon, Caroline and Melanie left their office in the pine forest studio and went to a studio in the northwest corner of the studio. They planned to have lunch with Eric, and talked about some work. thing.

This is a large studio with a length of 60 meters and a width of 50 meters. The interior area is close to 3,000 square meters. The ceiling is also higher than other studios and it is very spacious.

In the studio, some staff members are making a set according to the club style that Eric chose. Caroline looked around and realized that these scenes are about to be completed. Eric mentioned that he plans to rehearse in a week, then rush to London to shoot, even if the shooting in the city is not smooth, the whole process will not exceed two weeks.

For two weeks, I don’t know how long Eric will stay in the UK after two weeks. Carolyn is very hopeful that the date will be as long as possible.

Bypassing the outside scenery and going on, I quickly came to another area that was separated by about three or four hundred square meters.

There are two very striking orange-red robots on the ground. The solid base is placed on a railcar, the top of the robot is more than three meters long, one is equipped with a small DV camera, and the other is planned. It is to carry the actors to perform, but has not had time to modify, a dummy model is fixed on the top.

The engineer named Brian Clayston, who was sent by Eric and KUKA, was standing outside, holding a remote PDA in his hand and manipulating the two robots by hand.

Caroline and Melanie quietly stood next to several staff members outside, no interruption, waiting for Eric and Brian Clayston to stop operating, they just stepped forward and stood behind Eric, together Watch the video just taken by the DV camera through the computer screen.

If you ignore the robotic arm in the picture, the trajectory of the dummy model appears to be free to do whatever you want. There is no such thing as a floating space. There is only a little bit of space floating, but it is only a little bit. This may be due to the rigidity of the dummy. Or the operation of Eric is not very familiar.

"If you can change to a real person wearing a spacesuit, the dummy looks too stiff." Eric carefully played back several times and muttered to himself.

Brian Clayston also enjoyed the picture on the computer screen with great interest and heard: "Eric, if you need it, I can start the modification immediately, it only takes two days."

Eric smiled and shook his head and said, "Thank you, Brian, but I have to think about how to modify it."

"Of course, Eric, this is not anxious," Brian Cleston smiled and nodded.

Eric turned the picture back to the side and turned to look at Melanie and Caroline. He just noticed that the two girls had come over.

"You will find a set of spacesuits in the afternoon. You don't need to be true. You can put a model on the dummy."

"Okay," Melanie nodded and knocked on the wrist watch. "And, Eric, it's already lunch time."

"Well, let's go eat," Eric said, looking at Caroline's hand holding a small box and smiling: "You won't have prepared lunch for me yet?" ”

"No," Caroline shook her head and showed the box in her arms to Eric. She said, "This is a prototype of a music phone sent by Nokia in the morning."

Eric saw the Nokia logo on the box and nodded. "Let's go to the restaurant, take a look."

After Eric finished speaking, he greeted several other staff members around, and everyone left to have lunch. Brian Clayston did not have them with Eric, but just said hello. The other staff left together.

Eric took Caroline and Melanie to a restaurant inside the studio and ordered lunch before disassembling the box brought by Caroline.

"I have read the information in advance," Carolyn watched Eric open the box and took out the prototype to play, and took the initiative to give Eric aside: "The two prototypes, one uses flash storage media, However, the capacity is only 64M, which can store 10 songs, which is the common capacity of flash memory chips. The other one uses a mini hard drive, Seagate's latest product, the capacity reaches 2G. Nokia said the information, they temporarily Music phones that don't mass produce flash storage media are just a technology accumulation. Music phones that use micro-drives will be market-oriented models. They will be officially released in January next year, and the second-generation Fireflyer player. The plan is similar, divided into 1G capacity and 2G capacity, and the price is about 600 US dollars and 700 US dollars."