"Same bed girl"
"Too scary, I feel that there is someone behind it", "After watching my whole body is not good", on November 18, the first VR thriller "Urban Strange Tale" was launched on iQiyi, 360 °The setting scene, the suspenseful and thrilling plot, makes netizens who are used to seeing all kinds of "big world" can't help but sigh "this thriller value is a little bit too high", "I don't dare to go to the elevator downstairs when I go home. "How did
create such a "deep thriller"? The creator behind the scenes also told the story behind it.
7 months to build the script: behind the horror is human nature
"Urban Strange Tales" tells about the various "thinking and extreme fear" encountered by a group of protagonists in the corner of the city. It consists of "Bed Together", "Classmates", and "Walking Together" Composition, each episode is 10 minutes, a total of 18 episodes, three series with the city as the background, telling the "thriller story" in urban life, different from the previous thriller drama, it weakens the concept of "ghost", but Starting with "weird", from various absurd and horrible stories, various dark sides of human psychology are presented. The ugliness brought about by the dislocation of love, the entanglement of friendship and the entanglement of choices, and the cruelty of human relationships when indifference. The first story on the 8th "Bed Together" tells the story of an urban girl Shanshan being controlled by a "heart demon". The torture of the cruelty of friendship deeply attracted the audience. After the broadcast, it also caused heated discussions. Some audience members said that after watching it, they realized that human nature is more terrifying. "Compared with the so-called ghosts, the evil of human nature is the most terrifying. According to Zhao Linlin, the producer of
, the script for this play was built for 7 months. “We have been working on the script for 10 months at least 7 months. During this process, you see all kinds of When writing a script, it is a test. You have to go to the countryside to do what you like. Everyone has been doing it here." The screenwriter Yang Dan also revealed that he has been doing traditional film and television literature before, and the VR script is the first attempt. . "When I made this script, I was already pregnant. When I provided a script, I realized a very good visual experience, which is an ideal realization of our entire team."
decrypt VR technology: fun and hard work
In addition to the meticulous craftsmanship of the script, the introduction of VR technology is naturally a hot topic in the show, and many viewers said that after watching it, they felt cold behind their backs, "I feel like I have entered that horror scene. It is too graphic." It is reported that there are 37 scenes in this drama, and the indoor and outdoor scenes account for 1/3 of the investment. In order to make the audience more "immersive", each scene has been carefully designed and many encounters "When it takes 3 or 5 hours to render a shot, when our material volume can be more than 30T, you will encounter a lot of problems. Then, our rendering, we start from Shooting, mixed rendering, etc., the entire industry has not yet matured. So, when making such an unprecedented length of VR script, we are also facing a lot of problems, countless pits, waiting for us to jump down, climb out, always That's it." Xiao Fei, the photographer of the show, also revealed that there are many differences between the filming of this show and the traditional filming video. "For example, when you are shooting, you will hide in hiding, and you will not be photographed in very hidden places. The post-production work is very large, that is, every shot you see is a special effect shot, and every shot is very difficult. , Very hard. Therefore, VR is both fun and hard, and there are many challenges."
360° set view
girl in white
