Chapter 183 Twinkle and twinkle Jingjing

When I came out of Mr. Li's company, it was already 6 o'clock in the evening.

I looked at the sky and saw that in the evening in May, only the dusk over the city reminded everyone of the end of the day.

At this time, there was an endless stream of pedestrians coming off work, and the horns of vehicles were also blaring.

Meng Shu picked up the contract in his hand, looked at it, and smiled softly.

This is a temporary employment contract, which is proof that Mr. Li has been invited to the company to be a director.

The official effective date is from four days later until the end of the E3 show.

During these four days, we need to recruit people.

Mr. Li is also in charge of the actors participating in the performance. He said that he would contact his students tonight and ask him to borrow a team of people.

So this is equivalent to solving Meng Shu's follow-up work, which is quite comfortable.

As for Mr. Li himself, Meng Shu did not expect it to be so smooth, and the deal was settled without even wasting any words.

He originally thought that this meeting would mostly be about bargaining.

It turned out that Director Li was just not sure, but he wanted to try a horror-type stage play, so he wanted to meet and discuss it in detail.

This is exactly what Meng Shu wanted.

It doesn't matter if Mr. Li is not familiar with me, he can help me on this point.

After all, the original plan was to find professionals who were capable and would listen to suggestions.

There is no doubt about Director Li's ability. In terms of listening to suggestions, if it were a stage play of other styles, no one might be qualified to give suggestions.

But this was his first time trying the horror genre and he had no experience.

Therefore, Meng Shu's role is reflected. That is to explain to him and avoid detours.

The cooperation between the two of them is like two swords joining forces for this stage play. The effect will definitely not be too bad, and it will definitely be in accordance with his ideas.

In response, Meng Shu nodded with satisfaction.

After putting away the contract, I called an online taxi and rushed to a nice hotel to stay temporarily.

The next day, he hurried back to Shencheng and started the second round of his plan.

In order to build momentum for "Dead Space", Meng Shu thought a lot.

Virtual 3D stage play is just the first step.

This time at the exhibition, he is planning to provide on-site trials, and he has genuine products.

According to the exhibition information previously sent by Director Lian, the organizer of each E3 exhibition will build it into a game park and divide it into multiple areas.

The industry media and players who come to participate in the exhibition basically have nothing to worry about eating, drinking and having fun here.

You can even see many companies setting up cosplays of their own game characters in their own areas to attract exhibitors.

A real gaming version of Disneyland.

Therefore, the spacious geographical advantage allowed the organizers to prepare 10 independent venues that can accommodate thousands of people, specifically used to hold game conferences for some companies.

However, Director Rei made it clear that the usage rate of these 10 venues is only 5 each year.

The reason is that it is too expensive. To hold a press conference, you need to pay the organizer about ten W, and it is also stipulated that the press conference cannot exceed 2 hours.

Therefore, unless they are large companies or world-renowned big IPs, small and medium-sized companies will not rent independent venues to hold press conferences at the E3 exhibition.

At most, it would be OK to rent an area outside in a crowded venue and put a few computers there to debut new games.

Therefore, it is understandable that the organizer does not allow scenery and decoration on the venue stage.

But since these stages cannot be moved, then the large venues outside can always be used, right?

Therefore, Meng Shu's second plan is to build a haunted house in his own exhibition area.

The style was designed to look like the Ishimura passageway in "Dead Space", and then a few staff members were made up to look like necromorphs and wandered inside.

If exhibitors want to experience the demo version of "Dead Space", they must first pass through the "Ishimura Passage" where zombies roam, before reaching the demo area.

This method of bringing the game to reality must be very effective in publicity.

And Meng Shu had this idea a long time ago.

The main inspiration comes from the E3 exhibition of "Resident Evil 2 Remake".

At that time, the game company built a "Police Station Corridor" haunted house at the venue, and then asked the staff to dress up as zombies and wander around inside.

Exhibitors can only come to the trial area after passing this haunted house.

This is a very good idea and example, and Meng Shu will naturally not let it go.

But the problem is, how to find the workers to build this temporary haunted house?

After all, the E3 exhibition is held in America, so you can’t bring domestic workers with you, right?

So the best way is to pay some money and let the organizer implement it. You only need to provide a rough sketch of the scene.

As for the staff who play the necromorphs, they can hire people from the stage crew, which saves them a lot of trouble.

Of course, entrusting the E3 organizer to entrust the matter still requires communication with the supervisor.

I am responsible for the development of the trial version and the guidance of the stage play, so I am simply too busy.

And there is one more important thing, and that is music.

In horror games, the importance of music is self-evident.

The most famous and impressive one is "Twinkle, Twinkle, Twinkle", a classic children's song that has been widely known for more than two centuries.

In the original "Dead Space" trailer, this children's song that almost everyone is familiar with was sung a cappella by an adult female voice from the radio in an ethereal, slow, slightly hoarse voice.

The tune has a unique electronic sound, which also reveals exhaustion, despair, and helplessness. It seems to be sung softly in a way that is physically and mentally exhausted and isolated.

Coupled with the hell-like stumps and severed limbs, mountains of corpses and seas of blood, as well as shocking images such as bloody words on the walls and strange symbols influenced by religion, this originally positive and cheerful children's song suddenly became a...

It’s like a funeral song to appease the dead!

It’s so impressive that it’s hard to forget!

Of course, there is no children's song like "Twinkle, Twinkle, Twinkle" in this world.

If it were restored directly in "Dead Space", without the blessing of the childhood filter, the effect would definitely be greatly reduced.

Use native children’s songs from this world?

It's not impossible, but you can't choose randomly. At least it has to be catchy to everyone, and the theme should be about the stars and the universe.

But Meng Shu has only been in this world for a year, and has long forgotten his childhood memories, which also means that he knows very little about the children's songs here.

You can’t find it from the 300 children’s songs in this world, right?

Therefore, Meng Shu handed over this job to the company's newly opened sound effects department and asked them to find suitable domestic and foreign children's songs.

I hummed a recording of the accompaniment and sent it to them as a reference, asking them to find a similar one as soon as possible.

After all these things were arranged one by one, two days had passed.

Mr. Li also came to Shencheng with his students and stage team as promised.

Not too many, not too little, 20 people in total.

Meng Shu immediately arranged for them to find the best hotel nearby and settled them in. He also treated them to a good meal to refresh themselves.

Mr. Li himself was also very happy. He had an inexplicable sense of excitement about coming out of the mountain again. There was also a sense of expectation that he would be exposed to new things.

This mentality made him ask Meng Shu for the script that night, as if he was going to stay up late to read it.

Although Mr. Li's positive attitude satisfied Meng Shu, he had just arrived in a different place, and given his age, he had to rest first anyway.

So Meng Shu told him that there was no need to race against time, the most important thing was to have a good rest and wait until tomorrow.

Although Mr. Li persisted, he finally gave up under Meng Shu's persuasion.

At 8:30 the next morning, before Meng Shuren arrived at the company, the animator Xu Hong sent a V letter. He said that Mr. Li and others had arrived at the company early and had been arranged to wait in the conference room.

The script was sent to them.

This positive mobilization made Meng Shudu feel ashamed.

At the same time, I also feel a little bit of admiration for Mr. Li’s conscientiousness.

At least he's not as high-minded and self-important as those in silly TV dramas.

Therefore, when Meng Shu entered the company, he saw Mr. Li and the stage team and others gathered around the conference table and began to practice lines and dialogues.

Because motion capture actors and dubbing actors are separate, the only ones who need to practice speaking are those who need dubbing.

The motion capture actors just follow everyone through the script.

But since there are no pictures, Mr. Li worked hard to explain and make points when reviewing the script, whether it was the dialogue part or the narration part.

So much so that even Meng Shu, who was standing outside the glass door of the conference room, didn't notice.

You can see the level of care he put into it.
To be continued...