Chapter 52： Show yourself (1/2)
How important is editing for movies? Before there was no editing, ”the movie is a kind of life clip,” The Factory Gate ”filmed the scene of the factory employees entering the gate, and” Train Arrives ”filmed a train entering the station. There are fixed shots from beginning to end. What story. (After reading the novel) After the initial curiosity, this ”trick” was rated as dull and boring. Who would see how the gardener played the water pipe in ”Watering the Gardener”? It is better to go directly Watering your own garden.
Then, ”The Train Robbery” appeared, the first real movie, it totally
Composed of 14 different shots, the collision between the shots and the shots builds a complete movie content. People don't need any language to understand. This is the story of a group of robbers who robbed a train and were finally shot and shot by police.
There are stories and plots before the audience becomes interested, and Jing Jingqing is willing to pay for the movie. With the rapid development of movies, there are more and more ways of shooting lenses, and more and more montages. In the final analysis, the recommendation is so important, it makes the movie take off and makes the movie alive.
A Hollywood blockbuster film almost costs more than 200 hours of film, and ”High School Musical” costs nearly 20 hours of film. Although it is the same story, it can be edited into two completely different versions. If the 20-hour film is replaced with frames, the film will be 24 frames per second, then the basic unit will be ”million”, which is the more than one million small, grid sorting, collision, combination, constitute The whole movie.
And one more grid, or one less grid, is a world apart. With those few frames and a few seconds, the movie will likely appear to be awkwardly dragged; without those few frames, the movie will become disorganized, and the characters in the picture will even appear to ”float”. What editors need to do is to arrange these small grids, no more or less, not only to be seamlessly edited, but also to meet the rhythm of the film, and express the story and emotion of the movie in the best way.
At the filming stage, the director and the photographer are husband and wife: When they come to the editing stage, the director and the editor are husband and wife. Whether their ”marriage” is happy directly determines whether the movie is a good movie or a bad movie. All aspects of aesthetics, etc. must be ”called” or it is likely to end in divorce, the cause of divorce is domestic violence.
Quentin Tarantino, director of Pulp Fiction, said: ”I'm shooting my first film
When I was in the movie, I only knew one thing, that is, I needed a female editor. The female editor knows how to take better care of the film and take care of me. Their vigor is not so strong, they will not try their best to defeat me, they will give me care and help me complete the movie. ”The teacher who teaches Wang Yang ’s editing class takes it for granted. Under the same vein, Wang Yang also feels very reasonable. Female editors should be more patient, and for ”High School Musical”, women's grasp of youth sunshine should be better than thick-line men.
After a week of non-stop interviews, Wang Yang finally found a suitable candidate, Margaret Goodspeed, a middle-aged white woman in her forties, wearing a black frame glasses, she had The editing experience of many movies, including ”Four Rooms”, has a good temper. During the interview, she is also very clear about what is needed for ”High School Musical”, brisk, youthful, and sunny, and actively pursues what she wants to do. thing.
In the editing room at this time, Margaret looked at the screen of the special computer for editing. A psychological shot of Troy-Burton was playing on the screen. She controlled the mouse in her hand, and she wanted to take a few of the shots Get rid of it. The next Wang Yang hurriedly shouted: ”,, Margaret, these pictures can not be cut, I need them!” ”You need everything.” Margaret smiled slightly and looked at Wang Yangdao : ”Our first cut version has 200 minutes, and what we have to do now is to cut it to less than 100 minutes.” She explained unequivocally: ”Bo, I know your mood, the director is always greedy, if If they can, they do n’t want to delete a grid. But why do directors need editors?
Because some of the shots need to be deleted, but the director ca n’t stop, then let ’s “let ’s go”, she went to the editing software a little and removed those few pictures.
Wang Yang sighed helplessly, grabbed his hair, and said softly: ”Okay” but soon, he screamed again, ”No, no, this set of shots must not be deleted!”
If you cut it like this, nothing will happen. ”Seeing Margaret insisting on cutting alone, he said sadly:” You can't do this ... please, oh my **** ... it's done! ”After being silent for a while, he suddenly said again:” Margaret, go back to the previous paragraph, I thought about it, I can't cut it like that. ”Editing is such a process. The director and the editor kept” bargaining ”, trying various combinations of lenses, arranging the frames one by one, deleting them before putting them back, and then deleting them again. Therefore, editing is much more cumbersome and uninteresting than shooting. Especially for directors, they are often tortured by spirits. When they look at the satisfactory material that was taken on the set, they are cut like garbage. Naturally uncomfortable.
On the set, the director is the biggest; but in the editing room, the editor holds the main voice.
Even major directors like James Spielberg will not engage in dictatorship in the editing room. As Margaret said, the director needs help from others in terms of lens selection.
At the same time, the film's publicity work is also under way. The first two days, the ”High School Musical” official website released the release date and plan, and the first week of the screening of the list of 500 schools was also announced. The school movie attendance rate of these schools Very high, which is very beneficial to the box office. However, some of the students who are not in this school are quite angry, and they have protested on the official website, even saying that ”High School Musical” is discriminating.