The production of film music is actually very difficult, and it is not the same thing as making pop songs.

Pop songs are made to highlight the singer's voice, the protagonist is the human voice, and the vocal itself is part of the music.

But in movie music, the protagonist is the picture, the soundtrack is the background, the picture and the music are not the same thing, but they must match each other.

Movie scores, which are mainly used to render the plot scenes, will even replace the role of lines in many cases, which not only has higher requirements for the music table, but also more stringent in terms of stylistic restrictions.

Ye Luo has made music for three movies in China, a martial arts movie, another literary film on Taiwan Island, and "The Queen of Songs" invested by himself.

"The Queen of the Song" is a song with Ye Luo first, and then the film producer writes the script according to the song, which is equivalent to taking Ye Luo's song as the core.

The current situation is different, Ye Luo has just arrived in the United States, although the momentum of the two records is very good, but after all, the fame is limited, so it is impossible to make the movie around Ye Luo's music for the time being, but on the contrary, Ye Luo's music to match the movie.

This is undoubtedly a lot more difficult to make.

However, the two pieces of music that Ye Luo is going to write at the moment do not have a specific plot as a reference, but the director Jason simply put forward two requests and asked Ye Luo to make two samples to listen to.

Listening to what he meant, even if the producer nodded and agreed in the end, these two songs are estimated to be invalid, because there will be problems with the fit with the plot.

"Just write two songs for him." That morning, Song Yan was checking her makeup with the small mirror in the makeup box, and said, "With your level, isn't it easy to catch it?" ”

"Don't make a fuss." Ye Luo said, "Since you have to take over this job." Just take it seriously. Either you don't do anything, or you have to do it well. ”

"Do you have a score in mind?" Song Yan asked.

"Of course." Ye Luo nodded.

"Then hurry up and write it." Song Yan said, "I'm still waiting for you to write a record for me." ”

"Yes, President Song." Ye Luo smiled and began to make samples of the two electronic soundtracks.

Machine qì people fight monsters, film and television dramas with this theme. There are a lot of them in the other world. But if it is made into a blockbuster movie, and the background music has an outstanding performance, in fact, there are only one or two, and the material is not very wide.

Originally, Ye Luo wanted to create two new pieces of music by himself like the last time he gave Taiwan Island a literary film, which is not difficult for Ye Luo, and the level will not be worse than the current song from another world, but it will take a longer time.

Miss Song Er was sitting on the side, if these two songs were written slower than usual. This Nizi will definitely be unhappy, thinking that Ye Luo doesn't want to write a record for herself, so she is deliberately procrastinating.

If you go outside, you must first settle inside, so this time Ye Luo still sought stability, called the music library of another world, and picked out two movie background music.

These two pure music, one burned to the ground. The other is a tear-jerking, both of which are classics of the film from another world.

Movie music anyway. Ye Luo doesn't plan to do it for a long time, just to get a vote occasionally. Don't feel distressed to throw off a few classics.

The first song is actually electronic music, and there are more electronic analog sound effects, so Ye Luo does not directly produce the score, but uses software to do it directly on the computer.

As the notes in his mind were drawn out little by little, Ye Luo soon entered the state, and the movements in his hands became faster and faster. One morning. The soundtrack of the first song is all finished.

Let the computer run the format conversion by itself, Ye Luo called up the notepad again, and began to code the score of the second song.

The second song is mainly based on strings and piano, and the analog sound effect is almost meaningless.

The printers in the office haven't stopped all afternoon. Song Yan became Ye Luo's arranger assistant again-humming the melody with the score, and letting Ye Luo listen to the correction.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Ye Luo had just finished coding all the scores, and a prompt popped up on the screen that the format conversion of the arrangement sample of the first piece had been completed.

"Let me hear it." Song Yan's eyes were quick, and she immediately picked up the monitoring headphones on Ye Luo's desktop.

Ye Luo smiled slightly, and used the mouse to drag the text jiàn that had completed the format conversion into the player, and then called up the sound card mixer, pushing the output volume directly to the maximum.

The sound of music was together, and the huge volume made Ye Luo, who did not have headphones, hear it clearly, and Song Yan was even more startled, and slapped Ye Luo angrily.

This song has an obvious level progression, the volume is amplified little by little, the musical elements are superimposed little by little, and the volume at the beginning is so loud, Ye Luo also felt that he was too heavy, so he quickly lowered the volume by half.

Song Yan pursed her lips slightly, closed her eyes and listened, her left hand did not retract after the beating, but rested on Ye Luo's arm.

It's not that she deliberately behaves lightly, but that her attention is quickly drawn to the music and forgets about it.

As the music progressed step by step, Song Yan's palm began to unconsciously and slowly exert force, this Nizi had a lot of strength, and she pinched Ye Luo with a faint pain.

After listening to a song, Ye Luo was already grinning his teeth, Song Yan finally came back to her senses, her face was a little embarrassed, she gently slapped Ye Luo again, and said softly: "My arms are quite strong." ”

"Thankfully, I've practiced recently." Ye Luo smiled bitterly, "Otherwise, you will be crippled." ”

"This song is so burning." Song Yan said excitedly, "What's your name?" ”

At this time, the music text jiàn is running in the broadcaster, and the name is still blank.

Ye Luo smiled, clicked on the naming option, and typed a line of English inside: "PacificRim." ”

"Asia-Pacific?" Song Yan translated.

"The correct name is 'Pacific Rim.'" Ye Luo corrected.

……

It was Wednesday, and Jason was reading the script of a new movie in the Columbia Pictures building.

Although the movie has entered the pre-shooting stage, the casting has basically been decided, and Jason has read the script, he always feels that the script is almost meaningless, and he needs to revise it well.

It is generally not the director's job to change the script, if the script director is not satisfied, just send it back and let the screenwriter rewrite it. However, Jason is different from others, he likes to change it himself, which is also one of his specialties.

The industry's evaluation of Jason is that "this is a very good storyteller", in addition to the skillful use of camera language, excellent scripts are also an important part of it.

But today, the handling of the end of this movie made Jason a little difficult, and there were several plans in his head fighting, which made him a little confused.

This is a science fiction movie, although the box office selling point is the machine qì people fight monsters, but as a very good storyteller, his ambition is not only at the box office.

Just then, the phone on Jason's desk rang.

Jason glanced at the caller ID, his face couldn't help but change, and he yelled to the outside world: "Kelly! Answer the phone and say I'm not there! ”

"Jason, you'd better give up resisting." Kelly, the female assistant outside, smiled, "If you don't answer her phone, she will come here to clean you up in person, and you will be even more miserable at that time." ”

Jason was right when he thought about it, and picked up the phone with a bitter face: "My dear sister, is there something wrong?" ”

"You're bold now." Merina's voice came faintly, "The musician I introduced to you, you dare not use it directly, but let him write a sample first?" ”

Jason came down as soon as he heard Khan: "Merry, you listen to my explanation, this is not what I meant.

The producer has already contacted a film music production team, and now you shoehorn one in, and it's not easy for me to do it.

I talked about it so badly, so I won a chance for Ye Luo to audition. ”

"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" Merina asked.

"I didn't know at first, the producer is not my subordinate, he doesn't have to report to me when he contacts the music team." Jason said with a bitter face, "When I go to recommend Ye Luo again, it's too late." ”

"Really?" Merina asked again.

"Absolutely."

"Alright then, I'll spare you this time." Merina said lightly.

"Huh?" Jason suspected he had misheard, "So coaxing this time?"

But Merry, I'll say hello to you first. Ye Luo's music, the hope of being hired this time is very slim, after all, that music team has worked with us many times, and the level is also very high.

Everything, come first, come first.

You believe me, in the next movie, I will definitely give Ye Luo a better chance. ”

"I don't think there's going to be a next time." Merina said, "Ye Luo doesn't know your email address, so the two samples of his songs are here with me now, and I will send them to you to listen to, if your people are not deaf, they will naturally know how to do it." ”

"Really?" Jason immediately said, "Then you send it to me right away, I'll listen to it first." ”

After hanging up the phone, Jason immediately typed his email address into the computer, and as soon as he opened it, a new email prompt appeared.

There were two music attachments inside, and Jason clicked on download, then casually threw it into the player and brought up the headphones.

His player, the settings are autoplayable.

Soon, a soothing string music, accompanied by piano percussions, began to unfold beat by beat.

It's a very typical rondo, where the strings repeat a certain set of melodies over and over again, in a very low, sad, and even somewhat depressing tone.

But a minute later, under the guidance of the piano, the overall scale suddenly increased, and a sense of resonance struck Jason's heart.

This song, the sense of picture is too strong.

Along with this music, Jason, as a talented director, out of professional habit, has already conceived a shot in his head to match it.

Following the guidance of the music, he naturally completed the last set of scenes of the film.

The ending of the movie has finally been found, but Jason has burst into tears.

With tears in his eyes, he looked at the computer screen and remembered the name of the piece.

《Tennessee》。 (To be continued......)

PS: PS: Recommend the pure music work of the film score master, HanzZimmer, "Tennessee".