Chapter 47: Zhang Ran plays

Neil is the strongest player at ucLa, and if he loses, it means that no one can stop Jason, and it also means that the final victory is already in the pocket of USC.

In the Royce Auditorium, the red-clad USC students sang and danced and celebrated the victory, turning half of the auditorium into a sea of restless red, while the blue-clad UCLA students on the other side fell into a deep silence, and their faces showed deep loss.

Huang Ming sighed in great depression, raised his head, and suddenly saw a familiar figure. His eyes lit up, and he pulled his companion: "Chen Xi, the one with a baseball cap, is it Lin Yibin?"

"That's right, it's him, he can't participate in the competition, I didn't expect to come!" Chen Xi looked at the familiar figure for a moment, and then nodded very affirmatively.

Bai Yunfei's ears were almost calloused when he heard the name Lin Yibin today, and now he heard that the real person was next to him, so he looked over according to Huang Ming's pointing, and saw a young man wearing a baseball cap, twenty or ten years old, with a baby face.

At this moment, Lin Yibin's eyes lit up and he spit out a sentence: "Strange, didn't he go back to China? Why did he appear here, he wouldn't be here specifically to participate in the battle in the same city, right?"

When Huang Ming heard this, he followed Lin Yibin's gaze, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Hey, it's Zhang Ran!"

"Eh, isn't that Zhang Ran? Why did he run to the stage!" Bai Yunfei also saw Zhang Ran walking towards the center of the stage, he rubbed his eyes, and looked again, it was indeed Zhang Ran, not dazzled.

What the hell is going on, isn't Zhang Ran traveling to Los Angeles, isn't he a middle school teacher?

"Oh, Zhang Ran is out! Didn't he go back to China to teach? Why did he appear here, he came back specifically to participate in the competition, right?" Chen Xi's eyes widened suddenly, and he said with a shocked expression.

When other ucLa students who knew Zhang Ran saw him, they became excited one by one: "It's really Robin, Robin is out, there's a good show to watch now!"

"Robin must have some idea, right? Haha, the USC guys are going to be unlucky again!"

"Haha, welcome to our Robin Hood!"

Zhang Ran stood up on the stage and waved at his alumni: "Everyone, I'm back again!" After receiving warm cheers from the alumni, he waved his hand from the students of USC: "Friends of USC, your favorite Robin is on the stage, where is the applause?"

The USC students let out a wave of earth-shattering students, some of whom directly yelled, "Die, sissy!"

"Sissy, gay!"

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Because of Robin's unlucky name, Zhang Ran, a pure man who can stand on his fist and walk on his arm, is called a sissy, which is all caused by cultural differences.

Jason Reitman was slightly stunned when he saw Zhang Ran, he didn't expect Zhang Ran to play, he had a game with Zhang Ran last year, and he was more impressed by Zhang Ran. At that time, although Zhang Ran lost 0:5, Zhang Ran's conception of the camera shocked Jason, very thoughtful and creative, but Zhang Ran studied acting as an undergraduate, and only transferred to directing as a graduate student, and the technique was too rough to realize his idea at all, otherwise it would be unpredictable to win or lose.

Jason was a little curious, but he felt that Zhang Ran was too far away from him, and there was no suspense in this game, so he smiled at Zhang Ran very gracefully.

Zhang Ran also smiled and nodded, and then sat down in the player's seat with an indifferent expression. You may not be able to win compared to others, but if you compare yourself to editing, you will definitely not lose.

When Zhang Ran arrived in Beiping, he worked as a camera assistant in the crew of "Assembly", and one day he found that there was a logical problem with a shot on the storyboard used by the crew for shooting. More than 4 minutes into the opening of the movie, before the street battle, Liao Fan reconnoitred the enemy, and the camera gave Liao Fan a frontal close-up, and the next shot was someone rushing out of the bunker. The impression given to the audience is that Liao Fan sees the enemy rushing out of cover and the encounter is about to unfold, which is a subjective shot.

The subjective shot is a shot that takes the character in the movie as the point of view, such as the scene that often appears in horror films, a person walking in the forest, feeling as if someone is following him, then give the character a close-up of horror, and then go to shoot the woods and see the bushes move. In these two shots, the close-up of the human face is an objective shot, and the shot of the woods is a subjective shot, which is seen from the perspective of the characters.

The same is true of the two scenes in "Assembly", but through the later plots, the audience will find that it is not the enemy who actually rushed out of the bunker, but Wang Baoqiang behind Liao Fan, and this shot misleads the audience.

Of course, in order to make the picture smoother or more appealing, editors sometimes deliberately let go of seemingly obvious mistakes. However, the correct way is to deceive the audience through the precise control of the editing points and the actions of the characters, so that the audience will not be aware of it.

This shot of "The Assembly" is too obvious and will make the audience misjudge, and Zhang Ran feels that there is an obvious logical error. He found Feng Xiaogang and said, your shot is wrong, you should let him look back at Liao Fan at the same time, so that Wang Baoqiang rushed out of the cover, and the logic is right.

Feng Xiaogang smiled and nodded at the time, the young man was good and thoughtful. Zhang Ran was very happy and was praised by Director Feng Da, feeling that he might be reused.

Unexpectedly, the next day, the director of production came to Zhang Ran and asked him to leave the crew, on the grounds that he did not understand the rules and was self-righteous. As for the scene Zhang Ran said, Feng Xiaogang did not change it, and put it in "Assembly Number" as it was.

In fact, many young directors who have just graduated have similar experiences, Ang Lee worked as an assistant director in the crew after graduation, and he often found the director on the set and said that this plot should not be handled like this, what should the next shot be, etc. This made the director very unhappy, and he was quickly demoted to watching equipment.

The film and television industry is very small, and Zhang Ran is a newcomer, and he can't get along in this circle if he is labeled by a big director who doesn't understand the rules and thinks he is self-righteous, and finally started a pirated video website. However, Zhang Ran has never given up his dream of making a movie, and has been honing his skills.

Editing is the basic skill of a director, and if you don't know how to edit, you can't design shots. Over the years, Zhang Ran has worked editing, and he is very confident in his editing skills.

Bai Yunfei saw that the students of the two schools had a particularly strong reaction to Zhang Ran, and felt strange, and asked, "Is Zhang Ran very famous? I see that many people know him!"

"Of course, he's the hero of our school, the public enemy of USC!"

"What did he do? How could he become a public enemy of Nangar?"

"On the night of the start of the Great War in the same city in '97, Zhang Ran and the students of the School of Engineering made a hot air balloon, filled with colorful paint, and through careful remote control devices and positioning calculations, it was detonated just above the Trojans, and the Trojans that USC was proud of were splashed miserably!"

No wonder he will become a public enemy of Nankai, it is really awesome! Bai Yunfei had heard about this, but he didn't know that the legendary Robin was Zhang Ran.

At this time, he finally understood why Zhang Ran didn't say that he was a student of ucaL on the plane, and Zhang Ran was too good at ucLa. If he knew that Zhang Ran was the legendary Robin at that time, then he would definitely ask what happened, and Zhang Ran was afraid that he would have said these things thousands of times, and he would have been tired of it, so he simply didn't say his identity.

Lin Yibin stood in the corner, looking at Zhang Ran sitting in the player's seat, and a smile was hooked on the corner of his mouth. His opinion of Zhang Ran is somewhat similar to Jason's, and he thinks that Zhang Ran is a very creative person and extremely talented in directing, so he has some expectations for Zhang Ran's next performance.

The timer in the center of the stage was cleared, and the editing materials, storyboards, and scene notes were placed in front of Zhang Ran and Jason. The referee walked over and asked, "Are you ready?"

Jason said lightly, "Yes!"

Zhang Ran smiled and nodded, "Ready!"

Seeing that both of them were ready, the referee immediately gave an order: "Start the time!"

As the timer began, the first thing Zhang Ran and Jason did was to read the storyboard, the so-called storyboard is to draw the shots of the movie one by one according to the script, a bit like a comic, which is often called a hand-drawn storyboard script.

Zhang Ran's short film story is more peculiar, in the office at night, a clerk used a printer to print a black hole on a piece of paper, through this black hole can reach the rear, even if there are obstacles, you can pass through, he found out and used this to get the things in the vending machine, take the things in the desk, and then he put the paper printed with the black hole on the safe, to steal the money in the safe. As a result, because he was too greedy and wanted to take more money, the whole person got into the safe, and the paper fell down, and he was locked in the safe.

After reading the storyboard, knowing the content of the story, and the design of the shots, the two began to check the shooting effect of the film against the scene schedule. However, the methods of viewing the two are very different, Jason turns on the projector and looks at the content of the film through the projector, while Zhang Ran directly picks up a piece of film and looks at the light overhead.

Sun Li felt strange and asked, "What is Zhang Ran doing, how can he just take the film and look at it, can he see it clearly?"

Huang Lei had never seen an editor who directly held the film to see the effect, and shook his head in surprise: "I don't know, he was very confident when he came on stage, there should be some special means!"

Ordinary people don't know what's going on, but Lin Yibin, Neil, and Josh Trunk, who are proficient in editing, all changed color, staring at the movements in Zhang Ran's hands stupidly, with a hellish expression.

Could it be......

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

It's a technique that Hollywood's top editors can't master, how can he possibly master it?

When pigs fly!

(Thanks to "Xiao Yao'er's Meng Guoguo, 710714863, Overseas A Fei, Zhuikeng, and Orfenglin" for rewarding!