In the next few days, Ryuichi Hanai did not leave the set, but instead stayed there permanently.
In the old man's own words, he was supervising the filming of Seven Nights and giving himself some pointers.
But Nanaya himself felt a little awkward about the old man's visit.
If he wasn't working on a movie, Nanaya would have welcomed his teacher to visit him.
But now...
I think everyone understands the feeling of Parents' Open Day.
Although I am not naughty in my daily life, I always feel a little guilty and embarrassed when I see their parents coming to visit me.
Nanaya feels this way now.
Even if he told himself that the old man was just watching and wouldn't get in the way.
But Nanaya still felt an inexplicable sense of guilt in his heart.
If Nanaya hadn't confirmed it with her teacher's wife, the teacher wouldn't have quarreled with her at all.
Nanaya would think that the old couple had a quarrel and the old man came to his place to seek refuge out of spite.
But no matter what, he is still my teacher.
All Nanaya could do was to provide him with good food and drinks so that the old man would not be unhappy on the crew.
For this purpose, Nanaya also asked his newly appointed studio assistant Miss Ryan to take care of him specifically.
Although Nanaya did not have the idea of "Ryan does it when there is work, and Ryan does it when there is nothing to do".
Thinking that he had not enjoyed this busty beauty assistant for a few days, he let her leave him.
Nanaya still felt quite lost.
However, Ryan didn't care too much about this matter. She could learn more about movie making by following the old man.
This is a very rare learning opportunity for her.
But whether the old man is there or not, the filming of the movie must continue.
With the old man's help in directing the daily plot shooting, Nanaya freed his assistant director Taika Waititi from the set and started to do some simple post-production work.
The thing that Taika Waititi needs to work on right now is the sound effects of the movie.
This is completely different from Hans Zimmer being responsible for the music.
In the past, Nanaya didn't care much about sound effects, except for live sound recording.
There are mostly two types of sound effects he uses: one is the firing sound of modern firearms; the other is the collision sound of cold weapons.
But this time, "Madoka Magica" is a bit of an exception.
In order to bring out the unique characteristics of each witch's barrier, Nanaya needs a lot of sound effects that are unique to each witch.
For example, the sound effects in Rose Witch are specific to plant and garden shearing;
For example, the sound effects of various candies and snacks in Snack Witch;
Another example is the sound of a TV searching channels in the Witch's Boundary.
etc.
These witches not only need their own visual art design, but music design is also part of the characteristics of these witches.
So Taika Waititi needed to work with the sound effects staff to record a variety of sounds to meet the needs of the crew.
After experiencing the two physically and mentally exhausting tortures of FSN and FZ, Nanaya's workaholic side has been restrained.
On the one hand, the pressure on this movie to succeed or fail is not as great as that of the Fate series.
On the other hand, the film production cycle is also very rich.
Therefore, after the crew's initial running-in, Nanaya specially gave the "Madoka Magica" crew a four-and-a-half-day long vacation, including the weekend.
It is a reward for everyone's hard work over the past month.
However, Nanaya only rested for half a day before he took the initiative to end his vacation.
The next day, Nanaya borrowed Washimine Company's own plane and flew to North America with Bali and Luvia.
Bali accompanied Nanaya as his work assistant.
Luvia took the flight because she had some trivial matters to deal with on the set of "Iron Man 2".
Nanaya's target this time is New York, and he specially made an appointment with the senior executives of Victoria's Secret lingerie company.
Nanaya's purpose is very simple, she hopes to promote "Madoka Magica" through the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
After all, the originality disadvantages of the "Madoka Magica" movie are well known.
Nanaya wants to minimize this disadvantage, so he has to resort to some unconventional tactics.
Since the 1990s, the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show has been an annual grand event in the Western fashion industry.
Although after 2010, the ratings of the Victoria's Secret Show continued to decline year by year due to the lack of novelty.
It was finally discontinued in 2019.
However, during the period from 2007 to 2008, the Victoria's Secret Show still had considerable influence.
According to Nanaya's idea, he hopes to have a special unit with "Madoka Magica" as the theme of the show in the 2008 or 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
If done properly, this would undoubtedly be a massive publicity spree that would greatly increase the film's popularity.
But this matter was not easy, and Nanaya discussed it with the senior management of Victoria's Secret for a long time.
Although the two sides reached an agreement on the intention of cooperation, there are still significant differences on some details.
For example, Nanaya hopes that the actors from the quintet will also be able to enter the catwalk segment.
After all, in terms of appearance, Nanaya's five-man team are all top-notch.
Even though it was Yui Aragaki, this was the first time that Nanaya collaborated with her, this girl was a model, so walking on the catwalk was no problem for her.
Although in terms of figure, the five young ladies have their own strengths and weaknesses.
But each of them has their own characteristics.
For example, Rin, who was described by Sakura as a "steel plate", although she has small breasts, her legs are definitely world-class.
If it was just the five-member group that showed up, Victoria's Secret wouldn't mind too much.
After all, Nanaya is the financial sponsor of Party A, so it wouldn't be a problem if they really wanted to send two people.
But Nanaya's idea is to have the five-member group appear in magical girl costumes.
This was a little unacceptable to the top management of Victoria's Secret.
But Nanaya also has enough reasons.
After all, he organized this event to promote "Madoka Magica", and it would be meaningless if the protagonist did not appear in a magical girl costume.
But it is a bit hard for Victoria's Secret to accept.
What they are holding is an underwear show. If you go on stage without wearing underwear, what's the difference between that and selling dog meat under the guise of selling mutton?
Although Victoria's Secret executives said they could design magical girl-style underwear specifically for the five-member group, Nanaye still refused.
Of course, Nanaya also has his own little selfish desires.
After all, his woman, Rin, is in the five-member group, and he doesn't have the habit of showing his woman's underwear to other men.
If Victoria's Secret gave it to her individually after it was made, Nanaya wouldn't mind letting Rin try it on when they were alone.
Of course, Victoria's Secret also has its own concerns. After all, the IP of "Madoka Magica" is an original IP, and no one knows whether it will be popular or not.
If it was a catwalk by the actors of Fate, Victoria's Secret would definitely agree to it.
It's not just a matter of the movie's protagonist walking the runway.
There is also the "Madoka Magica" segment scheduled during the normal Victoria's Secret Fashion Show time;
List of Victoria's Secret Angels participating in the "Puella Magi" show, etc.
These are the points of disagreement that both sides need to discuss.
Nanaya spent two days at Victoria's Secret, but still hadn't finalized the results.
The only thing that was agreed upon was that only the five-member group could appear on stage wearing magical girl costumes.
However, Nanaya also paid a price for this condition.
The first was to get Lily to join the 2009 Victoria's Secret show - in an Artoria dress, of course, rather than the lingerie version.
At the same time, Washimine needs to authorize the character images of Fate and "Madoka Magica" to Victoria's Secret, allowing Victoria's Secret to produce corresponding styles of underwear and clothing.
In fact, the latter one is a win-win situation for Washimine and Victoria's Secret.
Fate has once again successfully authorized the project on Washimine's side, and will be able to collect another payment later.
Victoria's Secret can explore the clothing market other than underwear.
With the foundation of well-known movie roles, it would be easier to expand the market.
Although there are still many differences between the two parties, Nanaya and Victoria's Secret signed a letter of intent for cooperation.
This sets the general tone for the cooperation between the two parties.
"I believe this cooperation will be a beneficial opportunity for both of us."
After signing his name on the contract, Nanaya took the initiative to extend his hand to the Victoria's Secret executive sitting opposite him.
"I hope so."
The Victoria's Secret executive put on a formal smile and shook hands with Nanaya.
After signing the letter of intent for cooperation, Nanaya left Bali at Victoria's Secret as his representative.
Nanaya asked his assistant to continue discussing with Victoria's Secret about the appearance of "Madoka Magica" in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
Nanaya himself took advantage of the last half day in New York to visit Marvel headquarters.
Marvel has now officially started filming "Iron Man 2" and "Captain America".
Except for the actress who played Pepper, who was replaced by Luvia due to Nanaya's intervention, the other actors and crew members of the two crews were not replaced.
It's just that Black Widow has already had a stunning appearance in "The Incredible Hulk".
So in "Iron Man 2", her role will be compressed.
Basically in this movie, Black Widow will only exist as a thug for S.H.I.E.L.D.
After all, no audience would be interested in watching the same content twice.
In this way, in order to fill the extra gap left by Black Widow in "Iron Man 2", Luvia's role was greatly strengthened.
Perhaps they saw a market for roles like independent women of the new era.
Or maybe Nanaya used Artoria to prove the role that women can play in commercial films.
In Nanaya's current life, Marvel put much more effort into shaping Pepper Potts than in his previous life.
You have to know that in the early days of Marvel's MCU in the previous life, Pepper Potts was used directly as a vase tool.
In terms of role status, there is no essential difference between Pepper Potts and MJ in the Spider-Man series and Lois in the Superman series.
The shift in the positioning of Pepper Potts occurred during the filming of Iron Man 3.
After all, Gwyneth Paltrow's appearance had deteriorated drastically at that time, but because of the sentimental effect of fans, Marvel was unwilling to replace the character.
So they could only dig as deeply as possible into this character and find ways to tap into her commercial value.
In this life, because of Nanaya, Marvel has changed its approach to film production.
As for female characters, they no longer view them from the perspective of traditional superhero movie heroines.
Therefore, the in-depth exploration of the character of Little Pepper started much earlier than in Nanaya's previous life.
Regarding this, Nanaya was happy with it.