The filming of "Autumn Fairy Tale" in the United States was smooth, but it was not until the filming of the movie in the United States was completed that Lu Lingxi finally dared to breathe a sigh of relief.

Not for anything else, the main thing is that Li Qian really didn't interfere with the filming of the crew!

Others don't know, she herself knows, not to mention a person who is used to being a director, even if it's just an actor with ideas, but as long as he is stronger, it is easy to discuss with the director about his understanding of the role and the plot, and if it is serious, it will even interfere with the shooting.

In this regard, Lu Lingxi has always been particularly weak-hearted.

The script is his, the first producer is him, the boss is him, the starring actor is him, and even the entire team is his, and his past achievements, experience, ability, talent and status in directing and producing movies are all absolutely crushing to himself, and the entire shooting team, from the behind-the-scenes staff to the actors in front of the stage, are all obedient to him, and there will never be the slightest disagreement with him.

It can be said that as long as he wants to interfere and say whatever suggestions and opinions he wants, he is completely powerless to resist.

But Li Qian didn't.

Although Lu Lingxi also felt that it was very likely that he was distracted and had too many things at hand, so he really couldn't take care of his own shooting, but he was still grateful in his heart.

After all, if Li Qian wants to interfere, it really doesn't take much effort, on the other hand, if he says a word, it will be light, but he may let himself fall into endless distress. And he himself, in fact, can be busy with whatever he should do, and it doesn't affect it at all.

So he thinks that busyness is probably only one of the minor factors!

The main reason is that Li Qian wants to achieve himself thoroughly.

Therefore, when he gave the script, he poked at his weakness all of a sudden, and later asked someone to give it to people, ask for money, and asked him to play the leading role, he agreed, and he behaved very low-key in the crew from beginning to end, and never refuted his own shooting requirements - in terms of his status, ability and talent, if this is not a deliberate achievement for himself, what else can it be?

Of course, maybe it has something to do with the fact that he pulled the other two big beauties so hard to accompany his uncle to play so many cards?

Whatever, he's back victorious anyway!

As soon as Li Qian came back, he went back to the company to be busy, it is said that the company is choosing a director, and he is very busy, but at this time, Han Shunzhang, who is the best at busy with these things, is busy preparing his new play "The Condor Heroes", these things, relying on a Jin Han alone, are naturally very difficult, since Li Qian is back, presumably no matter from which point of view, he will definitely get involved.

In addition to this, there is the casting of Avatar.

The final step of the makeup audition will finally decide on the candidates for several key roles, which is obviously even more careless - it is said that even if you don't count the technical investment in the early stage, just the single investment in the movie "Avatar" will be as high as 500 million Chinese yuan!

If this investment amount is true, then it will not only be Li Qian's personal film history, Minghu cultural film investment history, but even the largest investment in the history of Chinese film so far!

Even Li Qian did not dare to ignore it.

But Lu Lingxi doesn't care about that, although "Avatar" has a huge investment, but it is Li Qian's work, to this day, Lu Lingxi has absolute confidence in himself, the original student, even if the investment is very large, even if he wants to play with any new technology, it is said that the risk is very high, but she believes that since Li Qian dares to do that, it must show that he has a bottom in his heart - besides, even if it fails, today's Minghu culture can afford it!

Lu Lingxi is just very excited that his first movie is about to be completely completed.

After returning to China, considering that the crew has been running around a lot recently, they are indeed very tired, she generously gave the entire crew three days off, so that everyone can adjust the time difference and take a break.

Three days later, when the crew regrouped, it only took a day and a half to shoot, and the domestic scenes of "Autumn Fairy Tale" were completely filmed - Lu Lingxi excitedly announced that the movie was finished!

Lu Lingxi let out a sigh of relief.

But she didn't want to be idle, just took a day of rest at home, and couldn't help but run back to the company, and then almost lived in the editing room, and started the extremely exciting and painful first cut!

Movies are not the same as TV series.

TV series is storytelling, even if it is a matter of shooting and production, in the final analysis, it is still storytelling, and its story, many times, relies on the dialogue of the characters and the transformation of the scene to move forward, so it is relatively simple, when shooting, it itself requires simplicity, and it does not even give the director too many requirements for material shooting, of course, post-editing is relatively easy.

But the movie is different, a 100-minute movie, in the filming stage, because of the director's ideas and requirements, is likely to shoot up to several thousand minutes of material - Minghu Culture has been paying special attention to the commercial thinking in director training over the years, "Autumn Fairy Tale" It is also a relatively simple movie with a plot that is not too complicated, and there are few relatively simple movies such as metaphors, and because Li Qian himself is the screenwriter and the actor, Lu Lingxi was afraid that he would be dissatisfied and would speak to seize his rights, so he filmed more carefully, and basically did not play too much outside the script.

In this way, the material accumulated during the filming period of the whole film is not too much--after returning to take stock of the front and back, removing the shots and films that are clearly obsolete, in fact, the whole film can be edited and selected from the material, adding up to only more than 700 minutes.

This is a medium to small amount of material in the film circle of any country.

In Minghu Culture, this is a normal data - the only exception is probably Jin Han, during the filming of "Dragon Gate Inn", this guy overspent nearly 10 million more than the original plan, and most of the money was spent on film. So in the end, it was completed, and he accumulated more than 2,100 minutes of material in his hands for a 100-minute movie.

Theoretically, the more things to choose from, the easier it is for the director to edit out a version that is more in line with his own ideas when doing post-editing.

But the reverse is true, there are too many materials to choose from, but not every director can easily control them, and easily select the shots that best suit their hearts.

And with less material, it is more labor-saving to edit - the goal is accurate!

In this way, Lu Lingxi plunged into the editing room.

In fact, "Autumn Fairy Tale" is still early before it is released, and Lu Lingxi can do this work slowly, but in the heart of a person who has just directed his first film work, the feeling of eagerly wanting to see his work fully formed is incomprehensible to outsiders- Maybe for several editors in the company, such as Daqing Liu Qing, they are stuck in the editing room every day, to assist the director in processing one film after another, after a long time, it will be quite boring and boring, but for Lu Lingxi, even if he just looks at his pile of more than 800 minutes of material, he feels that his heart is bubbling.

This kind of work, no matter how hard and tiring it is, will feel very cool and fulfilling.

It's just that when the editing really starts, when the more than 800 minutes of material is easily cut to less than 250 minutes in more than ten days, and the whole story has been preliminarily composed, the most painful stage of the director begins to come - every subsequent deletion of the scene is a painful and tangled process for the director.

The pain of this process can even drive countless ambitious and confident directors crazy - in comparison, the editing and post-processing of TV series that Lu Lingxi has experienced before is simply pediatric. It is not at all qualified to be compared to this painful process.

And in this process, Lu Lingxi's mind is full of his own film and his own story, and everything that happens around him has entered a trance state - it is said that many directors will enter this state of wonder when doing post-editing.

When a person is in this state, his food, clothing, housing, transportation, eating, drinking, and Lazar are not taken to heart at all, and even who he just met and what he said, he will turn his face and forget.

And during this period, in fact, a lot of important things happened in Minghu Culture, and many important occasions, and now Lu Lingxi, who is an important member of the Minghu Culture director group and the next key promotion object, has participated. But in retrospect, she was almost unimpressed.

At the beginning of January 2005, "Autumn Fairy Tale" was completed and began to enter post-production.

Three days later, for the remaining 26 directors who have passed the first two rounds of investigation and interviews, Minghu Culture personally presided over the interview by Li Qian for three consecutive days, and after rounds of conversations and exchanges, finally, Minghu Culture selected seven people from the 26 cutting-edge directors who were interested in joining the company, and agreed to sign a formal three-year work contract with them. Not a director's contract, of course.

After they join Minghu Culture, they will start from positions such as assistant directors, and after further investigation, if they find that their ability is sufficient, they will be given the right to serve as the director of the TV series. As for the film director, of course, it will be even later, and in three or five years, I don't want to think about it.

For the remaining nineteen people, Minghu Culture also provided a work contract with a relatively low salary, treatment and starting point, to stay for two pence.

In the end, seventeen of these nineteen people chose to join Minghu Culture, temporarily joining the behind-the-scenes staff of Minghu Culture, waiting for their own opportunity.

And this signing ceremony, Li Qian seems to attach great importance to it, and deliberately summoned a wave of directors who are currently more successful in the company, and of course Lu Lingxi also went.

On January 14th, the final makeup audition for "Avatar" began, and this Lu Lingxi did not participate, but when Sun Yuting came to the editing room that day, she mentioned a few sentences to Lu Lingxi.

But she turned her face and forgot.

On January 19, the annual meeting of Minghu Culture was held.

This deer spirit rhino is gone.

But when she got there, she began to binge-eat, and many people came to say hello, and she responded stupidly, but she didn't really know what she was talking to people at the time. After eating, she said hello to Han Shunzhang and withdrew, and then she didn't know what happened at all.

As for the subsequent, the crew of "The Condor Heroes" announced in a high-profile manner that it was officially established, and it was confirmed that filming would start in March, press conference, Fu Hongxue would star in the huge shock brought by Li Mochou to the Chinese entertainment industry, etc., etc., these things, Lu Lingxi directly turned a deaf ear.

Even when Jin Han's new movie "A Chinese Ghost Story" officially began to enter the preparatory stage, and publicly announced that the news of selecting actors nationwide exploded a wave of sinkholes in the Chinese entertainment industry, she was still busy in the editing room in a daze, with all kinds of noises, all kinds of anxiety, and all kinds of trouble sleeping.

The length of the film has been compressed to 163 minutes.

Lu Lingxi feels that he has squeezed out all the water in this movie, and now the remaining pictures, every second of the shot, are full of dry goods!

But this is obviously impossible!

A little love movie with little love, you let the audience sit in the movie theater for 160 minutes?

Are you kidding me!

For this kind of love movie, 100 minutes is already the limit!

Of course, Lu Lingxi understands this in his heart.

Even a lot of suggestions given by Liu Qing, thinking about it in hindsight, she also felt that it was still very pertinent, after all, Daqing began to work with Li Qian when he cut "The Legend of the New White Lady", and everyone has been cooperating for many years, even in terms of experience alone, Daqing's skills are absolutely not to be underestimated.

What's more, from Li Qian to Jin Han, to Zhao He and Feng Bicheng, they are all full of praise for Daqing's editing ability, then you can imagine that his level, his understanding of editing and rhythm, is definitely not comparable to a rookie director who has just directed his first movie!

Even others don't say it, Lu Lingxi herself has heard a lot of advice from Daqing when she was cutting the previous two TV series, and she herself knows this guy's ability very well!

But no, Lu Lingxi seems to have entered another strange state - who said that she wanted to cut out a certain shot, her first reaction was "No! absolutely not!"

She knew she couldn't go on like this, but she felt powerless to get rid of it!

This continued until one day in early February.

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My aunt died suddenly due to illness and was recently in mourning. On the 27th day of the lunar month, that is, the funeral on February 12 of the Western calendar, whether it can be written on that day, I am not sure now, I know you in advance, if there is no update on that day, I hope to beg forgiveness.