Lu Yang originally planned to go to Shanghai on the morning of January 2nd, but after careful consideration, he still left on the afternoon of the 1st, staying in Shanghai for one night in advance, and on the day of the signing on the 2nd, his mental state could be better, not to mention, Wang Lin's phone call made him want to go over in advance, and by the way, take a look at the post-production of "The Gate of Rebirth".

If you don't take a look at the investment of two or three million, you can't rest assured.

Before leaving, Lu Yangtong asked about the specific arrangements of the Children's Literature and Art Publishing House in Province E by phone, and then announced the time and place of the signing in the single chapter of the work and the 7 book fan groups.

When the book lovers learned that the first stop of the book signing was Shanghai, the book lovers in Shanghai or near Shanghai cheered, and the other book lovers sighed.

Book lovers in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Chengdu saw that the other three signing locations were these three places, and naturally there was a cheer.

Lu Yang could only appease, saying that he would have the opportunity to go to other cities in the future, and this time the time was very tight.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the plane landed at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, Wang Lin came to pick up the plane, Lu Yang has not notified the publishing house for the time being, and plans to go to see the editing situation in the later stage of "The Gate of Rebirth" first, and also have dinner with Wang Lin, Dai Qingwa and others in the evening, and cannot take into account the personnel of the publishing house for the time being.

At Lu Yang's request, Wang Lin drove Lu Yang directly to the studio where he edited "The Gate of Rebirth", when Lu Yang arrived. Dai Qingwa and a bearded editor are discussing editing.

On the way here, Wang Lin had already told Lu Yang about the progress of the post-production zuò, and "The Gate of Rebirth" had already undergone the first cut. The first cut version is 240 minutes long, and the subsequent work is to continue to compress these 240 minutes, and the final film is set to be 90 to 120 minutes.

After some greetings, Wang Lin, Dai Qingwa and the bearded editor began to accompany Lu Yang to watch the first cut version of "The Gate of Rebirth". From the beginning of watching the movie, Lu Yang didn't say a word, and his eyes were always on the movie screen.

If it is said. When the movie was filming, Lu Yang couldn't get involved at all, but now that the movie is editing, Lu Yang can say some opinions. After all, he wrote the script. The specific direction of the plot is in his heart.

There are many plots in the first cut version of "The Gate of Rebirth", which were added by Dai Qingwa himself during filming, Lu Yang can understand that the script is the first step of creation, and the director's shooting is the second creation on the basis of the script. It's normal for the director to add some of his own ideas into it.

Two hundred and forty minutes. It's four hours, and by the time I finish the entire first cut, it's already dark outside.

After the movie ended, the lights in the editing room turned on, and several people looked at Lu Yang.

Dai Qingwa pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and asked, "Mr. Lu, what do you think?

The bearded man and Wang Lin are waiting for Lu Yang to express his opinion, after all, Lu Yang is the screenwriter and the main investor of the film.

Lu Yang frowned, rubbing the stubble on his chin with his right hand, recalling the movie he had just watched in his mind, and then compared it with the rebirth online article, and after a while, he spoke: "The plot time before rebirth is compressed by two-thirds!" When I watched it just now, I paid attention to the time of the plot before and after rebirth, two hundred and forty minutes of the movie, at least eighty or ninety minutes of the rebirth were played before the rebirth, and the plot before the rebirth was the plot of the protagonist's deflated and unlucky, the time is too long, I estimate that many viewers will lose interest in this movie if they can't finish watching this paragraph!"

The trailer that Lu Yang watched last night, because the total length was only a few dozen seconds, he couldn't see the drag on the plot of the whole movie at all, but after watching the movie just now, I found that Dai Qingwa almost shot this movie in a one-to-one and contrasting way, and the plot before and after the rebirth presented in the first cut version was almost the same length.

This seemed incredible to Lu Yang.

In the online literature world, which novel is written half of the time before the protagonist is reborn?

Many novels, the beginning is directly the plot after rebirth, a little thing before rebirth, is in the process of writing, occasionally mention a few strokes, although the form of movies and online novels is different, but, Lu Yang believes that the core of the two is similar! Both are entertainment works, and they are all to make readers and audiences happy.

Especially in this commercial movie "The Gate of Rebirth", which is rushing to the box office, the plot of the abuse of the master must not be so long! The plot of the abuse of the master for eight or ninety minutes, which audience can feel cool?

After Lu Yang's opinion came out, Dai Qingwa and Wang Lin looked at each other, and the bearded man also frowned.

Dai Qingwa: "Two-thirds reduction?

The three of them looked at each other just now, and when they thought about Lu Yang's opinion just now, Lu Yang's thoughts became clearer, and when he heard this, he shook his head and said: "At least two-thirds of the reduction! If I were to edit it, I might reduce it by four-fifths, or even more! The cool point of "The Gate of Rebirth" is not the plot before rebirth! In the script, I wrote down the plot before rebirth in detail, just to form a contrast with the plot after rebirth! It is not the point! Its function is only to contrast the refreshment after rebirth! That's all! My opinion is that the plot before the rebirth is not reduced, the screen of each plot is reduced, and the playback speed of the picture is accelerated! The plot before the rebirth must be explained within five to ten minutes! The current version is definitely not good!"

Dai Qingwa was a little reluctant and still hesitating, but the bearded man nodded slightly, which may be Dai Qingwa's weakness! Before filming this movie, he had always been an assistant director, and he already had the ability to shoot pictures according to the script, but his overall grasp of a story was not as good as that of a professional editor like the bearded man.

In terms of grasping the cool point of a story, it is not as good as Lu Yang, a person who was born in writing online articles.

Maybe many people who write online articles have a glance with Lu Yang, and when watching domestic commercial films, they always feel that they are far worse than Hollywood commercial blockbusters.

Maybe according to Dai Qingwa's idea, the final film may be more in-depth and artistic, but this is not the purpose of Lu Yang's investment in this film.

In Lu Yang's view, since it is a commercial film, the plot of Qiē only serves one goal - that is cool!

It's not cool, are you embarrassed to call it a commercial film?

Wang Lin thought about it for a while, and then hesitated and said, "Wenda......! Why don't we wait until the frogs are all edited, and then we can see it? After all, the frogs are the director!"

Seeing that Wang Lin was helping him, Dai Qingwa looked at Lu Yang expectantly, although he is the director, Lu Yang is the screenwriter and main investor, if Lu Yang insists on his opinion in the end, he can only comply, otherwise after this movie, it will be difficult for Lu Yang to invest.

Lu Yang closed his eyes, Wang Lin and Dai Qingwa thought that Lu Yang was thinking about Wang Lin's suggestion, but in fact it was not, what Lu Yang was thinking about at this time was still the beginning of this movie, even if it was reduced by two-thirds, and the plot before rebirth was rapidly advanced by montage, he still felt that it was slow.

It may be that there are too many online novels, and the cruelty of the beginning of the online novel makes Lu Yang very dissatisfied with the beginning of the first cut version of this movie.

Everyone says that the threshold for online novels to enter is low, so low that as long as you can write Chinese characters, you can write online articles, but the online articles that can really become popular are one in a hundred.

A large number of new works are directly defeated by the title, the introduction, the cover, and the first chapter of the opening chapter.

There is a saying in the online literature circle, which is very popular!

The first 3,000 words determine the fate of a book!

Three thousand words!

In a web article that is often millions or even millions of lengths, it accounts for a very small proportion, but it is the first 3,000 words that determine whether more than 95% of readers will read your second chapter.

is because he knows the heavy influence of the beginning of a work on a story, so Lu Yang can't accept that the beginning of "The Gate of Rebirth" is so procrastinated!

"The Gate of Rebirth" doesn't have many attractive gimmicks! The director, whose name is unknown, the screenwriter, who is from the Internet writing background, who knows which green onion he is outside the Internet literature circle? The starring role, a proper brand new person! Investment ...... Together with the publicity fee, it is only six million, which is absolutely and absolutely a small cost!

In such a movie, if the beginning can't give people a bright feeling, and the story is told slowly, how many viewers can seriously see the end?

"Wenda!"

Seeing that Lu Yang's eyes had been closed for a long time and he hadn't opened them again, Wang Lin couldn't help but shout carefully.

Lu Yang opened his eyes, looked at Wang Lin, and said, "I insist on my opinion! If you don't dare to take this risk! I can pay you all the money you invested, and this movie is considered my sole proprietorship!"

As soon as Lu Yang said this, the entire editing room was completely quiet, and Dai Qingwa on the side opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

The bearded man blinked, picked up the thermos cup, and began to drink tea in silence, Wang Lin frowned and looked at Lu Yang's eyes, and after a while, he smiled bitterly, nodded, and said, "Okay! Since Wenda is so insistent! Then follow your opinion! However, I won't add one million in the later stage!"

Lu Yang nodded and said, "Yes, how much is the lack of publicity money, you tell me! When the movie is released, we will divide the account according to the investment!"

Wang Lin didn't dare to fully believe Lu Yang, after all, in his eyes, Dai Qingwa was a professional in movies.

Wang Lin's statement said that he would not follow the one million additional in the later stage, and Dai Qingwa could not insist on his opinion, because from the time Wang Lin announced this decision, Lu Yang was already the largest investor in this movie.

Dai Qingwa no longer insisted, and Lu Yang threw out all his thoughts about editing...... (To be continued......)