Chapter 25: Film Editing, Three Degrees of Creation
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After the film was finished, Wu Xiaozu had no time to think about the trivial matters of men and women. The most important thing before him was undoubtedly the development, copying and post-production of the film.
The filming stage of the film is only the preliminary completion of film creation.
In the later stage, you still need to edit, dub, edit, and color frame by frame, and then slowly take shape.
For a mature film, shooting is only the first half of the entire film process. It is just a link in the industrial process.
The editing work is to reorder and select the footage shot by the director, and to refine and sublimate the creation. Therefore, the editing work is a very important link in the entire film creation. It is not an exaggeration to call it the third creation of the film. It is the same as
The script and filming are on the same level.
A mediocre movie, when edited by a skilled editor, may become ups and downs and fascinating. On the contrary, an excellent movie may also be ruined by a bad editor.
The Golden Bear Award-winning film "Fireworks in the Day". Diao Yinan's visual aesthetic style is bluish and cold, slow and dull. But the audience did not buy it.
Gold medal editor Yang Hongyu has very good control over the rhythm according to the suspenseful and tense storyline, making this literary and dull film highly recognized by the market and the employer.
Dylan, the famous Hollywood editor, said that the editor is the pacemaker of the movie, and editing determines how the movie will make the audience feel.
Of course, it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. It is impossible to sublimate "I Know Women's Hearts" into "Knowing Women by Smell of Smell".
There were many outstanding editors in Xiangjiang, and the Four Famous Editors in Xiangjiang, who were later to be known, began to emerge at this time.
The Mak's editing team led by Mai Zishan, gold medal editor Zhang Yaozhong, as well as Jiang Quande, Zhou Guozhong, Chen Xunqi and others were all well-known editors in Hong Kong Island at this time.
In particular, Cheung Yiu-chung and Mai Zishan should be regarded as the most familiar strangers to Hong Kong movie audiences. Many classic movies were produced by these two.
Of course, the one who is in the spotlight is Mr. Xu’s best friend in life, the versatile Hu Dawei.
"A Better Tomorrow", which just set a box office record in Hong Kong Island, was produced under his scissors. It can be said that the success of "A Better Tomorrow" is inseparable from David Hu's contribution.
Wu Yusen is good at using slow motion to exaggerate his violent aesthetics in straight-line flat narratives. The plot of Xiao Ma Ge [Doudou Novel www.thedu.cc] went to Maple Grove Restaurant to take revenge, and the sound of "Don't Lose Ambition" was ringing in my ears.
》A Hokkien song, a lot of slow motion is used in the picture to interpret the tone of the film.
When the audience watches this section, they will feel an epic sense of ritual. It is majestic and exaggerates the characters and their emotions to the extreme, which immediately resonates with the audience.
In terms of editing, the editor needs to carefully adjust each shot. Hu Dawei edited this section for the first cut, then re-edited it for more than a dozen versions, and finally presented this classic shot language.
Unfortunately, Wu Xiaozu couldn't afford these gold medals. He could only drag Qiu Litao and Liu Weifu to do the post-production work.
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In the editing studio, there was chaos, and the three grown men were working together, colluding with each other.
"This should be cut!" Qiu Litao held the scissors very simply.
"Choose! It was very laborious to shoot this long shot. Are you telling me to cut it now?"
Liu Weiqiang puffed out his signature cheeks and said, "Do you know what a long shot is? This shot is full of feeling and can well foreshadow the psychological activities of the hero. Of course it cannot be edited!"
"Pushing, putting such a long shot here is simply too long and will bring trouble to the film festival. Do you really think you are filming "Apocalypse Now"? Brother, we are filming a thriller. Naturally, we have to take into account the rhythm and atmosphere of the film!"
It must be cut——”
Qiu Litao was annoyed to death by Liu Weiqiang's big cheek, "Jijiwawai, not a man at all."
"Changmao Qiu, eat shit!" Liu Weiqiang took off his glasses and rushed towards Qiu Litao, who had his back turned to him, baring his teeth and claws, "I will definitely make you shit and pee today!"
Ping ping pong pong.
Wu Xiaozu was wearing a headset and sitting in front of the editing table, adjusting the soundtrack. Behind him, a man with a big cheek and a long-haired man with a bruised nose and face were fighting each other.
Wu Xiaozu didn't understand the arrangement and soundtrack. However, Qiu Litao did. Looking at his long hair, you can tell that he was born in a band.
Although I don't understand, Wu Xiaozu can write...ahem, copy songs.
The two songs "Advanced Animals" and "Garbage Dump" were played through perfectly.
"Advanced Animals" is okay. The whole song is extremely calm, cutting open human internal organs and showing everyone that it is cold and cruel.
"Garbage Dump" is a piece of outrageous ridicule. The line "Everything you eat is your conscience, what you poop is all your ideals" is full of hoarse anger and condemnation.
Back then, when he first listened to these two songs, Wu Xiaozu felt like he was listening to shit. When he got older, when he listened to it again, he felt like he was alive like shit.
This kind of slightly experimental song is very suitable for Qiu Litao's appetite. It directly ignited Qiu Litao's rock and roll youth's heart.
He took over the drumming, strumming and other soundtrack work of the song, and specially asked his friends who used to play in the band to help with the production. During this period, Wu Xiaozu asked Qiu Litao how much it cost, and was despised by the long hair. Then,
not worried.
In a previous life, the Three Great Rocks held a concert in Hung Hom, Hong Kong Island, and Qiu Litao was the director. Together they created the greatest rock music ceremony in the history of the Chinese music scene. The mainland's rock music also shocked Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Unlike Wu Xiaozu, a pseudo-rock youth, he is indeed a real rock youth!
When recording the song, Qiu Litao and Wu Xiaozu sang happily, but it was very painful to listen to the song, especially the recording engineer in the recording studio, who stared at the two people with a constipated look on his face and regarded them as lunatics. "Advanced Animals" also
Well, I can only say that it is cold and weird, but "Garbage Dump" is not acceptable to everyone.
But no matter what, the soundtrack for "The Butcher on a Rainy Night" was successfully completed with the help of Qiu Litao and his friends. Wu Xiaozu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
In Hong Kong Island, there are very few professional soundtrack directors, and the soundtracks of many major Hong Kong film productions are left to RB people. In today's Hong Kong Island, there are only a handful of truly professional and top-notch film soundtrack masters.
Film all-rounder, Chen Xunqi, the boss of Yongjia Film Company, music masters Huang Zhan and Gu Jiahui, two brilliant saints, folk music soundtrack master Hu Weili, Lu Guanting, who is both good at lyrics and music, Tang Shuchen and his wife, music geek Teddy Luo Bin, plus
A few people from the Hong Kong music scene.
Comparing the prices of the above scores and arrangements, Wu Xiaozu still thinks that Qiu Litao and his friends are better. They are simply better than Huang Zhan.
As the editing got over the boring early stage, Wu Xiaozu also adapted to this rhythm. The cooperation between the three gradually became better.
After the film has gone through preliminary editing, re-editing, and fine editing, it has basically taken shape. It just needs the final round of comprehensive editing before the film can be officially completed.
"Brother Zu, isn't the transition here a bit abrupt?" Qiu Litao frowned suspiciously.
"Would it be better to add a close-up shot of the Bible?" Wu Xiaozu pondered.
"Let's go to 3 seconds." Liu Weihao pushed the seat and slid it aside, "I'll go find a lens to make up for it."
During the editing process, Qiu Litao and Liu Weirong often had disputes.
Qiu Litao pays more attention to the overall atmosphere of the movie, while Liu Weirong puts more emphasis on the sense of the movie lens. This also shows the differences between the two people in the image style.
After three or four days of intense work, the finished product was completed. This speed is staggering.
When Wu Xiaozu, Qiu Litao, and Liu Weiwei walked out of the editing room, their faces were greasy, their bodies were exhausted, and they smelled of sweat. But their hearts were very excited. They called Liang Gaohui, and everyone gathered together to sit in the simple viewing room next to the editing studio. Watching "The Butcher on a Rainy Night". Seeing everyone screaming in surprise, Wu Xiaozu smiled slightly and felt a strange sense of accomplishment.
Everyone was very excited after watching the movie. The movie was beyond their expectation!
There was the excitement of a movie that set records and was a hit at the box office. Then there was the excitement of punching Wu Yusen, kicking Hong Jinbao, knocking down all the ones with big noses, and killing the ones with toothpicks in their mouths.
Chapter completed!