After the concert in Guangzhou, Cao Wu and the others went back to the magic capital directly.

In the Xinghai Cultural Conference room, the doors and windows are locked, and the curtains are closed.

Cao Wu and Zhang Lei sat in the conference room together and watched the film.

On the projector, "The Boy Playing the Guitar" was playing, which was the edited version preliminarily set by Zhang Lei.

hasn't made a soundtrack yet, the film is all natural sound, but because of the natural sound, after watching the whole film, there is a real and suppressed huge force piling up.

At the end of the film, there was silence in the conference room, and after a long time, Batu breathed a long sigh of relief and muttered: "This is completely different from when I was filming!"

Screenplay and film are two completely different concepts, and the feeling of filming is often very different from the final film.

When the film was fully edited, presented to them with surging emotions, they really felt the strength of the story.

Lele was still immersed in the film, her eyes were a little red, and she even forgot that the bass player in the film was herself, but she was just regretting the protagonist's humble choice to pass by love, and regretting that he didn't dare to fight for it.

Zhang Lei retained the endings of two versions, one is his original version and the other is the version suggested by Cao Wu.

Apparently he was also struggling with which version to choose.

Choose either of the two endings, and the colors will be very different throughout the film.

One is cold and cruel, the other is confused but hopeful.

Cao Wumo rubbed his chin, he was thinking more about how to do the soundtrack work of this film.

"Brother Lei, which one do you think you want to choose?" he asked.

Zhang Lei was thinner than the last time they saw him, he stretched, groaned and sighed, and said, "Alas!

If he likes it, of course he likes the version at the beginning, the death of the protagonist is the sublimation of the whole story, and it hurts enough to move people's hearts.

However, making a movie is not as simple as telling a story you love.

There is only one way for literary films to recover their costs, and that is to send them to film festivals to participate in exhibitions, if they can win awards, of course, it is the best, even if the theater does not schedule films, it is enough to make money by selling overseas copyrights and DVDs.

However, Zhang Lei knows in his own heart, although he likes this story very much, he may not be able to win awards at the five major film festivals.

Therefore, there is only one way left for him, and that is the cinema line.

Since you want to go to theaters, you can't rely on your own temperament, and the audience for literary films is small. If you rely solely on the audience of literary films, you will definitely not be able to recover the cost.

The theater chain is very realistic, if it can't be sold for money, it will definitely reduce the emission reduction films, and the more the film is reduced, the more it will not be able to sell for money, and it will fall into a dead loop......

If this film is invested by himself independently, it is better to say that if he loses, he will lose it.

But this drama still has the investment of his old friend He Dan, and he can't use other people's money to play in the water.

Therefore, he must be rational and not emotional.

Literary films will screen out a large number of audiences, and if the protagonist dies again, another batch will be lost.

As a director and producer, he has to do everything he can to make the film visible to more people, which is a helpless but unavoidable thing.

"You've got to set the tone! Cao Wu smiled.

Zhang Lei was quite helpless, and after being entangled for a long time, he still sighed and said, "Use the second version!"

Nodding, Cao Wu said, "Okay, I know." ”

Zhang Lei asked again: "How long will it take?"

"A month at most!" Cao Wu thought for a while: "Next Monday, when our last concert is over, the time will be freed up, and when the time comes, hurry up and help you get it, maybe it won't take a month." ”

"Okay, thank you so much. Zhang Lei thanked him, hesitated, and asked, "Can you make a soundtrack for a promotional video first?" ”

"Have you cut it yet?"

"It's cut, and it's on the hard drive. Zhang Lei clicked on the first cut of the trailer and played it again.

After calculating the time, Cao Wu said: "Yes, this week will be given to you." ”

"Thank you so much. Zhang Lei thanked him again.

"It's okay, what's polite to yourself?" Cao Wu smiled and asked, "By the way, I heard that you are preparing to go on "Traveling with a Baby"?"

"Yes, isn't this for movie promotion?" Zhang Lei smiled: "I was recommended by Lao He, and it helped me a lot." ”

"Take your second child there?" Cao Wu asked, "Your second child will be four years old next month, right?"

"It's a good memory, the fifteenth of next month. ”

"I heard that everyone is lining up to grab this show now, and as long as they can be on it, they will be half popular. ”

"It doesn't matter if it's popular or not, I'm satisfied if I can attract some audiences to the cinema to watch the film. Zhang Lei sighed: "I have to join the group at the end of this month, so everything has to be arranged in advance." ”

Cao Wu understood what he meant, nodded and promised: "Don't worry about the soundtrack, we have us!"

Lele also nodded and said, "Brother Lei, don't worry!"

"Okay, then I'll go first, and I'll have to go to the studio. Zhang Lei took his leave.

Cao Wu sent him off and returned to the rehearsal room.

After sitting together and discussing, everyone talked about their thoughts after watching the film and their thoughts on the soundtrack arrangement.

Everyone's opinions are still in the same direction, for example, except for emotional turning points, most of the time it is mainly the original sound.

It's just that there is a little disagreement on the soundtrack style.

Lu Qingsong believes that the soundtrack should be based on traditional folk music. Because the story is meant to highlight the gap between the rich and the poor and the separation between rural and urban culture, the use of traditional folk instruments in the opera mode will highlight this sense of contrast and conflict.

Cao Wu believes that except for the first ten minutes of the film, most of the plot takes place in the city and on the way to the city. If folk music is used throughout, the sense of dramatic conflict will be stronger, but it will also make it more difficult to accept.

He prefers to use a gentle symphony and a natural soundtrack to set the stage off.

However, what Qing Song said also made sense, brainstorming, and after half an hour, everyone already had specific ideas.

With ideas, the work can be carried out, but before that, you have to make the soundtrack of the promotional film that promised Zhang Lei.

In the promotional video, everyone still chose to write a corresponding theme song according to Cao Wu's ideas.

"If you want to die, you must die in your hands" has strong limitations, and at the point where the protagonist's emotional turn is placed, it will be very infectious, but if it is used as the theme song of the whole film, it is still a little less interesting.

It took Cao Wu an hour to rewrite a song, the name of which is the same as the title of the movie, "The Boy with the Guitar".