After a short silence, the loud applause and cheers were like a volcano erupting violently, and the students of ucLa released their inner excitement to the fullest.

Even some USC students are applauding, which is a blind cut, a technique that is not easy for top editors to master. Even if it was an enemy, they admired Zhang Ran.

"Zhang Ran is so powerful, how did he practice?" Bai Yunfei asked while clapping.

"Don't ask me, where do I know this?"

"This is the legendary genius, it's incredible!"

Huang Lei looked at Zhang Ran, who was sitting on the player's seat with a faint smile, and sighed: "This kid is so powerful, it's really unheard of to watch the film directly for editing!"

Sun Li looked at Huang Lei and whispered: "I think Zhang Ran will be terrible in the future!

Huang Lei knew that Sun Li was concerned about his future, held her soft little hand, and said with a smile: "I know, although he is powerful, I am not bad!"

Most of the students at USC are extremely depressed, and they don't want to lose to anyone they want to lose to Zhang Ran, a nasty guy, but fortunately, Zhang Ran is only temporarily ahead, and there is still a chance to turn the tables.

"Blind cutting is all about feeling, it's easy to make mistakes, and Jason will definitely be able to reverse it!"

"It won't be long before he's arrogant, Jason will definitely win!"

"But we just won one game, and there were two games to go! Neil also led 1-0 just now, and in the end it was Jason who won. ”

……

Zhang Ran sat on the player's seat, smiling, lost in thought. After this game, he found that his editing skills had improved. It took him almost 21 minutes to complete the editing at his original level, but this time it only took 19 minutes, an improvement of 2 minutes, and he also found that his judgment of light and shadow was stronger, which should be the result of memory fusion.

In the previous life, Zhang Ran was born in the photography department, and had a deep understanding of art, lighting, and composition, but there were deficiencies in directing techniques, but in this life, he graduated from the directing department and had a strong understanding of the director's techniques.

However, after a short period of excitement, Zhang Ran calmed down again, he knew that he still had a huge shortcoming, too little experience in directing, and until now, he had not made a real movie.

Duaf

Jason finally pressed the buzzer, and the time stopped at 29 minutes and 24 seconds, which was ten minutes slower than Zhang Ran.

The scene was extremely quiet, and everyone's eyes were focused on the three judges, waiting for their judgment.

The judge, who was sitting in the middle, stood up and announced the result: "The film edited by Zhang is 2 minutes and 15 seconds, and the film edited by Jason is 2 minutes and 55 seconds, and the winner of the second game is - Jason!"

The students of ucaL were stunned, and then they were all depressed, Zhang Ran used the blind cut, everyone saw the hope of victory, but they didn't expect this result.

The USC students burst into laughter, and then cheered wildly, even more excited than winning the championship. The accuracy of this editing is also too poor, nearly 1 minute short, Zhang Ran's blind cutting level is too watery, right? They even suspect that Zhang Ran can't blind cut at all, but just pretends to be blind cut, so as to tease everyone, otherwise how can it be so bad.

The lights in the auditorium went out, and the screen began to play a video edited by the two men.

The first thing to play is Jason's film, Jason's film has a relatively soothing rhythm and has the feeling of a literary film.

This is followed by a short film by Zhang Ran, and USC students expect to see Zhang Ran make a fool of himself, but as the film plays, they realize that they are wrong. Zhang Ran is definitely not cut randomly, the whole short film is edited very sharply, the impact is very strong, and it is an obvious Hollywood thriller style.

After the film ended, the lights in the auditorium came back on.

Everyone present at this moment knows why Zhang Ran's film is 40 seconds shorter than Jason's, in Jason's film, the actor first takes the things in the vending machine after discovering the black hole, then takes the things in the desk, and finally steals the money in the safe; In addition, Zhang Ran also used two jump cuts and deleted several intermediate shots.

Shots in a movie are usually in a logical order such as panorama, medium shot, close-up, close-up, or close-up, close-up, medium-shot, panorama. Jump cut is to assemble the shots in a relatively large jump, omitting the time and space process, for example, first give a panoramic shot, and immediately take a large close-up, skipping the middle and close shots.

The material in Jason and Zhang Ran's hands is exactly the same, but the style of the cut film is very different. If Jason cut out a literary film that makes people think, then Zhang Ran cut out a thriller that gives people a strong impact.

"The difference is so big, it's like two different movies, who do you say will win?" Bai Yunfei asked curiously when he encountered the same film for the first time, but cut out two different styles.

"I think Jason's is better, mainly because the rhythm is good, and Zhang Ran's editing is too jumpy!"

"I like Zhang Ran's editing, the visual impact is very strong, very shocking!"

……

The audience held their breath and pricked up their ears, waiting for the judges to give their verdicts.

The first judge gave the answer: "Zhang, your editing is amazing, it's a miracle to be able to complete such an editing at your age, I'll give you this vote!"

The second judge smiled and announced his answer: "I like Zhang's editing!"

The third judge smiled and announced the answer: "Zhang, you embody the quality that a good editor should have, it's great, my ticket is for you!"

4:1, Zhang Ransheng!

"Robin!"

With a bang, the students of ucLa erupted in a huge cheer, and the huge sound could almost tear off the roof of the auditorium. At this moment, there was only the voice of "Robin" on the scene, and the entire auditorium turned into a boiling blue ocean!

USC students have mixed feelings, disdain, sadness, anger, and eventually a deep sense of loss. obviously won eight games, and seeing that the final victory was in hand, who knew that Zhang Ran suddenly killed out, making all expectations come to naught.

This time they didn't boo Zhang Ran, they didn't have this mind, although there was still one game, but Zhang Ran's skills were too superb, and USC had no chance of winning!

USC loses!

The last judge's words exploded in Jason's ears like a thunderbolt, making his whole face bloodless. Zhang embodies the quality that an excellent editor should have, and he embodies the quality that an excellent editor should have!

Jason knew where he was losing, he was too focused on winning and losing, and the editing was completely geared towards the outcome of the game, and although the pace of the film was well controlled, the shots seemed lengthy. Zhang Ran is different, he didn't think about the outcome of the game at all, he thought about how to make this film more exciting, how to make this story better, and the whole editing was clean and neat, all in one go.

This is the quality that an editor should have!

From this point on, I lost completely!

Jason settled down, walked up to Zhang Ran, looked at him, stretched out his hand and said, "Congratulations, I lost this game!"

Zhang Ran shook Jason's hand and said with a smile: "Thank you!"

Jason asked, "Will you be there for next year's competition?"

Zhang Ran didn't think about this problem, today's participation in this competition is just a coincidence, who knows how it will be next year, maybe he is making a movie, shook his head and said: "I just stopped by this time, I'm afraid I won't come next year, but I can't say, it depends on the situation!"

Jason said sincerely, "Hope to see you next year!"

Absolutely some USC students don't have such a good mentality as Jason, Zhang Ran, the guy everyone hates the most, won, and they are not only depressed, but also depressed.

"Damn, how could this be? Didn't he lose 0:5 to Jason last year? Why is he suddenly so good this year?"

"I'd rather give anyone than lose to him, this guy is too arrogant!"

"Hey, this damn guy has only graduated for a year, and he can still take it twice, and our school will be in trouble for the next two years!"

Bai Yunfei looked at Zhang Ran on the stage, then looked down at Lin Yibin and pondered Lin Yibin, lowered his voice and asked, "Who do you say is the best editor between Zhang Ran and Lin Yibin?"

Huang Ming was stunned for a moment, and then said: "It should be Zhang Ran, after all, he can cut blindly." Anyway, with Zhang Ran here, our school can continue to abuse USC in the next two years!"

"It's not that simple, although Zhang Ran's editing is great, but other techniques may not be very strong, have you forgotten that last year he lost 0:5 to Jason compared to photography?"

……

Lin Yibin didn't hear Bai Yunfei's conversation, and lowered his head to recall the footage edited by Zhang Ran with all his might. He has always been a genius in the mouth of his teachers, a leader among young directors, and even Jason, a master who grew up on the set, is not his opponent. But now he suddenly found that Zhang Ran's editing thinking and techniques were a level higher than his own, and a huge sense of loss that he had never felt before rose from his heart.

No, I'll have to go back and re-edit Good Luck Tomorrow, and I won't lose to you!

Lin Yibin originally planned to wait for the end of the game to chat with Zhang Ran, but now he didn't have this mind, looked up at Zhang Ran on the stage, and turned to leave.

Zhang Ran didn't know that he had hit this alumnus, and he didn't know that after that, Lin Yibin spent a whole month re-editing "Good Luck Tomorrow", which raised the editing level of the film to a higher level.

In the end, "Good Luck Tomorrow" shined on Sundance Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize, and was also bought by mTV Pictures for distribution rights, and achieved a box office of 5.5 million at a cost of less than 500,000. As a result, Variety magazine named Lin Yibin as one of the top 10 most watched new directors, and he successfully knocked on the door of Hollywood, and his future is bright from then on.

(Thanks to "Wind and Clouds Dust, Running Snail 007, 710714863, and the Original Generation" for rewarding, collecting, and recommending!)