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The second difference is that the part-time supervision and stunt supervision of this article have become very common.
Let's review the original starting point. Under the general framework, it is divided into this class and special technical class, and each free article supervision and special technical supervision lead, respectively, carry out their own operations, and are responsible for the performance of this video and special technical video. This article of supervision and special effects supervision, respectively, have the right to decide on the staff of this class and the staff of the special technical class, as well as the image of this article and the special technical image. This is called the parallel division system of this class and the special technical class, referred to as the two-class system. There are two main reasons and advantages of doing this, the first is the core reason, the professionalism of special technology. The second is the auxiliary advantage, the special technology is too time-consuming, and the system of two parallel divisions can overcome this weakness to a certain extent, so as not to collapse the schedule schedule, and this business advantage is supported by the producer level.
In this case, the supervision and stunt supervision are concurrently held by the same person, it is not impossible, because it is not rigid. Only in this way, the two parallel work is gone, because one supervisor cannot be separated. Then there may be two situations, either the usual superintendent of this article runs to concurrently serve as a stunt supervisor, or the usual stunt supervisor runs to concurrently serve as the supervisor of this article.
In the former case, this is more difficult because the supervision lacks professionalism in the particular technology. And the sooner, the stronger the professionalism of special technologies. Remember the few examples I gave at the end of the first chapter, a lot of what kind of film and television works seem to be so bad today, and to put it bluntly, it is all special technology.
In the latter case, the difficulty is relatively small, except for the strange cup of the second father. As mentioned earlier, he offered to make a temporary attempt at a performance of this video during the 1960 war blockbuster Hawaii and Midway Sea and Air Battle pacific Storm. As a result, he couldn't bear to look at it directly, and the task was returned to the original supervisor Matsubayashi Muneyoshi, who was gray-headed and dirty-faced, and never washed his hands from then on. Other stunt supervisors, if you want to double-time as the supervision of this article, technically as long as you have the ability, you can do it. Of course, at the same time, the responsibility for ensuring the schedule is also yours. So be self-aware, oh, when the aspects of special technology are not yet exquisite enough to be mastered, why do you easily run to this class to make things happen. Therefore, in summary, the supervision of this article and the supervision of special effects are both such things, and the Showa era has hardly done this.
In the work of Marutani Studios in the era of Daddy, there is one example of unconventional concurrently, that is, a brother. The first brother is usually the identity of the superintendent of this article, and once ran to concurrently serve as a stunt supervisor, but he did not do it blatantly, under the banner of his younger brother Koichi Takano's stunt supervision. It is not necessary to say that people are really geniuses, but because his father is a god-level figure, to a large extent, he himself has been covered up. However, the first brother is not exactly a layman who suddenly ran to make trouble, as early as more than ten years before this incident, before the first brother was put into the TV station by his father Amway, he had trained in the special technical class.
In the first "Godzilla" and "Godzilla's Counterattack", one brother lived in the Round Valley Group, that is, he belonged to the people with internship experience. At the time of "Godjira's Counterattack", Ichigo had already been upgraded from the last leveling staff, because he had a more recent training newcomer behind him, and that was Takano. In other words, even if you only look at the field of special technology, Ichigo is still the predecessor of Takano's supervision. At that time, their immediate boss was the foreman's photographic technician Arikawa Sadamasa, and later the second generation of Honya's stunt supervisor. At that time, Ichigo was not a brother, because the Round Valley Group was under the old father, except for the two who were only a few years younger than the old father but still belonged to the same generation, lighting technician Kishida Tsuyoshiro and Tomi supervised Watanabe Akira, and Yukikawa's status had always been the big brother of the Round Valley group.
In addition to the example of the first brother, it can be seen that in the past, the requirements for the selection of special effects supervisors were very strict, and almost all of them were professional and technical people from the Round Valley Group. Kawakami Keisa, Arikawa Sadama, Takano Koichi, Kazuo Sagawa, which one of the names does not sound like thunder, follow the old father to train less to say a few years and more to say decades, a hundred miles to pick one talent. Even people who have not formally practiced in the Round Valley Group are at least people who specialize in the field of special skills, and they are people who have received direct guidance from Dad before, and such people are hand-picked by Dad, like Bantoshi and Jun Ohki. This is still the TV show side, the movie side that we have said a long time ago, extremely strict, stunt supervision is a rare creature. In the history of this family, until the abolition of stunt supervision, for more than forty years, there were only four people who were qualified to be hung up the title of stunt supervisor. There are not many and many that must be necessary, and it is even more impossible to talk about the casual matter of "concurrently".
By the early 1970s, the first brother himself was no longer on the scene to supervise, and the exception was of course even less. The candidate for stunt supervision, basically, can maintain the previous criteria. By the time of the Yao Dynasty, it would not be maintained, and we had already said it all, and all kinds of shortages of manpower and all kinds of new people were put on the shelves. Even if there are not enough people, you will not have the capital to engage in strict standards, so at this time we began to see sporadic, usually this part of the supervision also concurrently served as a stunt supervision phenomenon. Later, in "Eddie Ultraman", He stood firm from the state of emergency, and his relationship with Toho was also constructed, but he recovered more than in the mid-1970s.
It has been said before that The number of works in the round valley studios other than the Otter series, which has seriously implemented the two-shift system, can be counted with one hand, why is this so. If you divide the fifty-odd years of the round valley studio into three sections and cut one paragraph first, the first paragraph is the era of the father and the era of the first brother. It sounds long, but it's just dense, and it's not even a decade old. The rest can be split in half from the center, and twenty-two years after the first twenty-two years, the first half is exactly the era of the hao. After the Era, the remaining third segment, even the films outside the Otter series itself have not played a few. And the era that occupied a long time, this period is a matter of no conditions. We know that only the Otter series and a Star Wolf can maintain a serious two-shift system, and the others are not to mention the matter of concurrent or non-concurrent, because in essence, there can only be a conditional one-shift system on the spot. Call a special technical professional, responsible for each episode of the few parts that need to use special technology, and at the same time put on the name is called the full set of stunt supervision, oh not to us said that at that time, in fact, the name has been called "special supervision", but in fact, there is no other complete set of their own team to operate. What does this mean, in fact, it is similar to the way to do today's superhero TV shows, the special technology accounts for a small weight, but the whole episode is hung up with a good name called close-up supervision, because the special technology part can be used as a card.
By the time Takano was in charge of the scene, he had restored the two-shift system of supervision and stunt supervision and formal execution, which was more accurately enforced than in the Hoku period. However, we can see that the phenomenon of supervision and special supervision in this article has become a situation, and the situation of concurrently serving and not serving is basically half-divided. Taking the three parts of the Heisei Otter series as an example, in fact, the situation of concurrently serving as a part-timer has already exceeded half. This creates a phenomenon that looks the other way around compared to the Time of The Curse. In the Higashi era, it is often possible to have a person who is different from the supervision of this article, and hang up a person called special surveillance, in fact, the essence of the scene is a class system. At this time, Takano was resolutely implementing the two-shift system, but the supervision of this article and the special effects supervisor were more concurrent, and there was already a feeling of habituation.
Why the phenomenon of concurrent appointment has become so widespread, not to mention that we have mentioned before, in the 1970s, Takano himself commented that he still did not approve of concurrent work. In addition to the lack of personnel as always, there is no dedicated personnel, after more than twenty years there has been a talent gap, so in addition to the reasons mentioned earlier, there is also a major reason is that objective technology allows. To put it simply and crudely, the power of science, what was not easy to do or could not be done before, can now be done.
Special techniques with low difficulty have become popular enough to become commonplace. In other film and television works with various ordinary themes, the photography homework of this class is also commonly used, and there is no high threshold. Although they conform to the definition of special technologies proposed and studied by Eiji Marutani, people no longer regard them as special technologies in their consciousness. The difficult special technology is no longer related, we have new instruments and high technology. After so many years, if there is no progress and no development, the possibility of objectively doing so is also available. So the time problem is also solved, once the supervision is to be concurrent, it means that it can not work in parallel at the same time, and the pressure on the schedule schedule is now reduced several times, and you can enjoy the waves. As I said earlier, it is more difficult for the supervision of this article to concurrently serve as a stunt supervisor, and the stunt supervisor to concurrently supervise this article. The situation is reversed, and the former is easier.
Digital technologies such as computer graphics began to spread in the film and television industry, and we know that they began in the early 1990s and then officially occupied a major position after entering the new century. We have also said, however, that until the mid-nineties it was clear that traditional analog special techniques were more economical. Because digital special technology, which uses electronic computers, is still in the process of popularizing new things, and it is necessary for local tycoons to dare to spend money to play, especially in such a small place as Japan. But even if Marutani Studios did not have the aura of the "god of close-up", lost the world's leading position in film and television technology, and also threw away the exclusive technical talent team and the inheritance system and environment of skills, the concept and self-esteem of good villains are still there, at least it must be the most cutting-edge in Film and Television technology in Japan. In this regard, what kind of philosophy was in the past, and what kind of person Takano was, we have already made it very clear before. So Round Valley Studios must go to be one of the pioneers who actively entered digital technology in the early days, and in the period when it was not popular enough and cheap enough, to spend money as a guinea pig.
First, since the phenomenon of concurrent appointment has been greatly popularized, can it one day become a state of full concurrent work. This means that there is no longer any special supervision, and there is no need to divide the supervision of this article, there is only one supervision, which is directly called call supervision. Second, since the degree of development of science and technology has objectively begun to allow and continues to progress, and when supervision is also generally a part-time situation, can it be that one day, the supervision can ensure that only one crew can ensure the realization of their performance intentions. What this means is that the two-shift system will be abolished, and from then on, the large-scale use of special technology film and television works will also adopt the ordinary one-class system like ordinary films. There are really places that can't be done, and there are computers, and if you can't get it, you can outsource it for the second time. In recent years, so many subcontracted studios have entrusted special visual effects work entrusted by computer image work.
The pros and cons of the two-shift system can be clearly reviewed again, there are two main advantages, the main disadvantages are also two, two advantages at the beginning of this chapter. Two shortcomings, the core drawback is that since there are two crews and two supervisors, the running-in and coordination between the two is very high.
It is not possible for two people to get together casually, and people cannot be exactly the same, so no matter which side supervises the performance intention, it cannot be fully guaranteed to be realized. Therefore, the key to the two-shift system lies in the realization of technicality, and it is especially not suitable for works with strong artistry, and it is not suitable for literary and artistic blockbusters that can make supervision famous in one fell swoop. This is what I pointed out a long time ago, film and television is originally a world of literature and art, but unfortunately Eiji Marutani is a science and engineering giant who has strayed into it. You see Hondo Inoshiro and Matsubayashi Soe, the supervisor of such a personality is willing to be a green leaf, and can be the father's match. Akira Kurosawa and Kengo Furuzawa, kihachiro Okamoto can't play around, Hiroshi Inagaki and Ichikawa Kun are half a pound eighty-two. Presumably, without Hayata's team, the invincible superhero Ultraman wouldn't be able to stand for three minutes on Earth.
Honda supervised that there was no literary blockbuster that made himself famous alone, and there was no newspaper number to listen to this award and that award on various tall ones, was he not able to do it himself, so why did Kurosawa Akira drag him along until he died. In addition to the close-ups, producer Yuyuki Tanaka, who was in charge of a large number of Kurosawa's works, said that if I hadn't tied Hondo's supervision to the pillar of "close-up", he would have been able to become a giant like Yoshio Naruse, and I really feel sorry for Hondo's supervision. Just kidding, Naruse supervisor is what level of master, this is how high the evaluation you know. To tell you a secret that is not a secret, but so far I have not seen anyone in the Chinese circle point out the famous and secret matter: take a closer look at the original "Godzilla" this class lineup, that is, the crew led by Hondo. Photography technician Masao Tamai, lighting technician Ishii Nagashiro, art designer Tomoru Nakafumi, and recording technician Shimo Nagasami are all members of this gang. Now I don't know, and people at that time will definitely come to this conclusion at first glance: then the supervision must be Naruse. However it was Bendo who supervised.
Speaking of secondary shortcomings, the secondary disadvantage is to use two sets of teams, which is always more expensive than just one set of teams. Moreover, we said that the two-shift system is not necessarily true two classes, but may also be three, four, five, six, seven classes. Of course, you have to be clear that the biggest part of the real money burning lies in the use of special technology itself, and the team is only one of the by-products of large-scale use of special technology. The extra money spent just by having an extra team is insignificant compared to the use of special technology itself.
Now, when we look back at the advantages, both have been greatly weakened. So what is the next rational idea, of course, to focus on overcoming shortcomings. The equivalent of a significant reduction in returns, why should I continue to play with the original amount of cost and risk. The way to weaken shortcomings is much easier, and the simplest way is to directly implement a class system and a supervision, so the next step of the policy has been clear at a glance.
Ultraman's Four Kings.
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