Gu Biao still underestimated the tediousness of film and television shooting.

It took him five or six days to complete the final cut of a commercial that was only a little more than 40 seconds old before it was completely completed - the shooting and the rush added up to only two days. But the key is to do BGM in the later stage, which really took a lot of effort.

Regarding BGM, Gu Biao already had an idea in his heart, and directly used 83 to shoot the music of the condor. However, when he started, he found out that Zhang Yimou and Gu Changwei didn't know how to "listen to the music recording", and Gu Biao himself didn't have such a sensitive ear, so he could only think of another way.

In layman's terms, he can hum this tune, but he doesn't know how to write the corresponding score. In fact, most people who are not talented enough to music, and God does not appreciate food, have this problem.

Zhang Yimou originally suggested going back to Beiying to find a classmate majoring in sound effects to help, but Gu Biao refused because he couldn't explain the source of the song - he could hum but didn't know the score, which was easy to be suspected of "plagiarizing a repertoire that has not yet been officially released by a famous artist".

In the end, Gu Biao still went to the doctor with the virus, and after returning to Beijing, he went to Beijing Normal University, found his little literary fan Ren Yuqin, and tried to ask her to help listen to the song recording.

Since the beginning of last semester, when Xu Mengrou Ren Yuqin was invited to eat caviar, she played music with the other party, and Gu Biao found that this Gusu soft girl seemed to be quite talented, but because she was poor and had no chance to touch the instrument since she was a child, she did not develop this skill.

When they met again, Ren Yuqin was so excited that she didn't want to, and when she heard that she had the value of being used by Gu Biao, she hurriedly agreed.

And she really lived up to expectations, her hearing talent was bursting, Gu Biao hummed the 1-minute climax of "Iron Blood Pill Heart" two or three times, she wrote down the score, and played it herself to test it, which was very accurate.

even gave Gu Biao some simple arrangement suggestions by the way - mainly for "what instrument is most appropriate to use to express this piece".

This opinion is very useful, because Gu Wei, a utilitarian musician, really didn't think about the question of "what instrument was used to play the theme song of 83 Condor Shooting" in his previous life.

"It's amazing, you asked me to teach you tuning half a year ago, and now you're playing so slippery. It's a pity that you read literature. After getting the score and arrangement suggestions, Gu Biao happily rewarded him.

"The senior helped me tune the piano, and I practiced it every day. Ren Yuqin politely showed her goodwill, and said with a shy smile, "It's good to study literature, and then learn some music by yourself, and it won't be nice to write lyrics for others in the future, and you don't have to go back to middle school to teach." ”

Gu Biao's heart moved, and Wen Yan said: "You have helped me a lot this time, and I will give you some good things when I go back." ”

Ren Yuqin hurriedly refused: "No, you also helped me, and let me see so many things." I should help you, how can I collect things. ”

She wished she could leave a favor with Senior Gu.

Gu Biao smiled warmly: "Don't think too much, it won't be valuables - I'll send you a few musical instruments back." If you practice well, you will be able to do more things with me in the future. ”

Ren Yuqin felt a shock in her heart, as if she was about to be melted by Gu Ao's kind expression.

"Then ...... Thank you, I'll study hard. If you can find me in the future, you must come back to me. ”

"That's necessary, I'm not a charity. Gu Biao said very naturally, "Then I'll go first, I still have something to do." ”

"Walk slowly. Ren Yuqin watched Gu Biao return to the car, and when Gu Biao was about to roll up the window, she mustered up the courage to pull on the window and asked softly, "Senior Gu, can we still come to your school's Christmas Ball on Christmas Eve this year?"

Gu Biao: "Of course you can come if you want to, this is a routine activity of the school, and it happens every year." ”

Ren Yuqin stomped her foot lightly: "I mean, can you still ask you to dance with me this year?"

Gu Biao sat up straight, secretly paid attention to the other party's expression, and said cautiously: "We are already friends, aren't we." If you want to, I'm always welcome. But you should know that I dance with a lot of girls, and it's just dancing. ”

Of course Ren Yuqin knows what it means, everyone is a smart person, so there is no need to be too direct.

She has always put herself in the humble position of "fan", knowing that she is not the same as Gu Wei's other female close friends.

But it's nice to be friends all the time.

When she was young and hot-blooded, she didn't want to think too long-term.

……

After getting the BGM, it took half a day to sing and record with the schoolgirl, and match it with the edited commercial, and everything was done.

On the day of the event, it happened that Zhang Yimou had a junior senior, and he was going to Hujiang Studio for an internship and observation in the new school year.

Gu Biao handed over the sample to him to take to Hujiang, and gave him a 10 yuan subsidy for travel expenses, so that he could connect with Ma Feng and send it to Director Xu for final cutting when he got there.

After all this, Gu Biao privately sealed a red envelope of 200 yuan to Zhang Yimou and Gu Changwei, thanking them for their voluntary help in the past week.

But both of them were very resolute in refusing to accept it.

"Brother Gu, this is scolding us, you give face, saying that we are obliged to help. In fact, we know that we have at least 200 feet of film, and it is enough for you not to dislike us for being wasteful. This money must not be collected!"

"We've been studying for two years, and we've not been able to touch more than these two days of film, so you're giving us a chance to practice our craft!"

In the end, Gu Biao finished shooting the 10-minute film, and only cut the finished film for more than 40 seconds, and the editing ratio was already 12 times. In Zhang Yimou's opinion, it is simply extravagant.

Nowadays, it is relatively difficult to make formal movies in China according to the 4 to 1 cutting ratio. In the case of a TV series, it is estimated that it will take 3 minutes to shoot and at least 2 minutes to be released, otherwise it will be considered a mistake.

There are many more TV series that are not made on "film", but cheaper "tape".

(That is, a "videotape" taken with a "tape recorder".) The kind that was shown in the domestic video hall in the 80s, JVC was put into production in 1976. This is a lot cheaper than "film" because it is stored in digital mode. However, there are problems with image distortion and sharpness, so it is downstream of the chain of contempt compared to "film". ）

Gu Biao finally said something wrong, and the other party took a step back:

"Don't mention the money, vulgar. If the advertisement is really successful in the end, give each of us a box of 'YL Special Song', even if it is a celebration together. ”

A box of six bottles of mid-to-high-end liquor costs only thirty or forty yuan, so it was decided.

Before breaking up, Zhang Yimou and Gu Changwei also left Gu Biao's contact information and dormitory address in the school, so that Gu Biao could find them directly next time he had any chance to practice, and he was not polite.

……

After sending the film to Hujiang, Gu Biao could finally breathe a sigh of relief and take care of all kinds of complicated affairs at the beginning of the school year.

With the arrival of September, he is also a full-fledged junior in college. In addition to his busy schoolwork, he was also arrested as usual and took a lead in the reception of new students.

This year, there is no need for him to personally go to Chongwenmen Railway Station to pick up new students to register, but who made him the most dazzling among the 77 seniors. All kinds of public speeches and reports to encourage the new students were inevitable, and they took up two or three days of his time.

This year's new students have expanded by half to 90 people. 60 of them are still in the diplomatic class, and the remaining 30 are in the non-diplomatic direction such as the news media (these 30 people will not be included in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the future.) In the future, there will be more students from the Foreign Affairs University who are not included in the ministry)

After this period of time without a few feet, it suddenly entered the middle of September.

"The Call of the Distant Mountains" finally premiered in China, and Xinhua Cinemas in the four major first-tier cities and most of the developed second-tier provincial cities got copies on the same day and began to be screened.

As for the remote second-tier and lower-tier cities, it will take a few days to wait because there are also logistical delays in the delivery of copies, as is the case in this era.

Gu Biao also took Esminaya's senior sister and secretly went to the cinema to watch it, but he was too busy to catch the premiere day.

After careful calculation, it has been two and a half years since he traveled to this era, and Gu Biao is really the first time to enter the cinema, and he is indeed quite curious.

Nowadays, there are very few movie theaters, at least not a single official open for business within a kilometer of the Foreign Affairs Academy, ***** there are.

He asked his roommate Huang Xun if the nearby movie theater was reliable, and Huang Xun also questioned with disdain: "Why do you still look for a movie theater to watch a movie?"

"I'm down to business!" Gu Biao looked very serious.

"Wouldn't it be an enlightenment, do you want to date a girl alone in the dark?" Huang Xun looked at it with a smile before confiding, "If you have to find someone who is open to the outside world, it should be the nearest workers' club outside Xuanwumen, and the environment is not bad." The high school attached to the division university and the glaze factory are next door. ”

Gu Biao: "Thank you." ”

Huang Xun gossiped: "Hey, are you going to ask Ye Kun?"

"It's none of your business!"

"Stingy!"

……

Gu Biao drove the Volga and took the schoolgirl to the Workers' Club Theater.

Ishminaya was a little excited in her heart, this was the first time that the senior had asked her out alone because of something other than work.

Although the movie itself to be watched、The title of the film is posted with an advertisement made by themselves。 But the movie "The Call of the Distant Mountains" itself, Isminaya really hasn't seen it-

The copy of the sample film to be reviewed in the school's collection is in the original Japanese language. Isminaya majored in several foreign languages in the Middle East, and she didn't know anything Japanese, so she didn't want to bother her classmates in the Japanese class to watch it together.

There are still ten minutes before the start of the screening, and the movie theater is full, and it seems that all the tickets are sold out.

A movie ticket of 1~2 cents is quite affordable for the people of Beijing. Because of the explosion of "Manhunt" in the first half of the year, I now heard that "The Call of the Distant Mountains" is also starring Ken Takakura, which naturally attracted a large number of star chasers.

It can only be said that the publicity of the distribution is very efficient, and it directly hits the selling point of "Ken Takakura".

When the opening commercial sounded, the crowd was slightly commotioned, but then calm was restored. Some viewers who came to learn the theme song for the second time have a posture of "Ji Cao Don't 6" to give literacy to the new audience around them: What's all the fuss, isn't it just an advertisement?

Especially when the advertisement was put to the end, everyone listened to the song of "Shooting the Condor and Drawing the Bow and Galloping Outside", and watched a tall and mighty tough guy on the screen who was handsome and powerful to the point of exploding, and fired arrows at a flying eagle reflecting the rising sun.

At last the horses were reined in, and the men stood up. From the hand of the beautiful woman beside him, he took a bottle of liquor thrown over, broke the cap and poured it directly into his mouth.

"YL Te, the choice of a real man. "The vulgar advertising slogan sounded.

But the impact of visual communication is definitely proportional to the degree of vulgarity.

"Have you ever thought of the scene where Ken Takakura was at the Hokkaido Racecourse in "Manhunt"?"

"This commercial is more handsome than the feature film. ”

Between the whispers of the audience, the movie cuts to the feature film.

"The Call of the Distant Mountains" is a feature film set in Hokkaido Racecourse, so all domestic audiences who have watched "Manhunt" have a good first impression of this entry point.

This impression quickly resonated with the advertising effect.

"Looks like it's going to work well. ”

"Senior, the smell of smoke is so strong next to him, can I lean over?"

"Really, do you want to change positions?"

"Ah, no, no, the smell of smoke on the other side of you is also strong, so you can just help me block it. ”