Chapter Ninety-Eight: There Are Thieves
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In the last days of filming, Murphy has already kept Bill Rothes busy contacting the appropriate post-production room, the last one used, it will take three weeks to use it, but what he wants to hurry up most is time, now it's the end of May, post-production zuò takes time, it also takes time to find a suitable distributor, if you wait and waste some more time with the distributor, I'm afraid that even if the film enters theaters, it will be close to September.
Even if September passes, there will be a long buffer period for the film market to recover, and a film like "Chainsaw" is bound to have a longer buffer time.
On a street near Santa Monica in West Hollywood, Murphy and Jody Griffith, accompanied by Bill Rothes, walked into a small five-story building, took the elevator directly to the top floor, and after finding the person in charge, they led around the fifth floor.
It is a post-production studio owned by an advertising agency and is often rented out to film companies to produce zuò films.
"How?" Bill Rothes asked Murphy, who looked at the Da Vinci palette in front of him and nodded in satisfaction, "Not bad." ”
I've seen two zuò rooms in other places before, but they are not very satisfying, the main point is the lack of da Vinci color palettes.
Quite a few of Murphy's shots were shot in good light, but the required for the finished film was dark tones, and the da Vinci palette was an indispensable piece of equipment for post-production.
Since its birth, the da Vinci color grading system has been known as the standard for post-production, and the film crews who use da Vinci color grading are all over the world, and Da Vinci color grading can be seen in many films, commercials, documentaries, TV series and music video productions, and its finished effect is incomparable to other color grading systems.
Corresponding to this, the system is expensive, ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars, and has no other use than color grading, and even in deep-pocketed Hollywood, some post-production zuò studios are not necessarily equipped with da Vinci color palettes.
In addition, the studio is equipped with an Autodesk hardware and software processing machine, which can be specially used to handle the image compositing, editing and finishing work of 35mm film, although it is far less advanced than the blade server equipped with highly intelligent digital technology software in the future, but it is definitely synonymous with efficiency in the post-production of this era.
Now that digital technology is just emerging, film post-production is not as fully IT-enabled as it was a decade later.
In the studio's final room, Murphy also saw a relatively rare gel-to-magnet device of the era, which could convert content shot on film into an easy-to-store digital signal from a computer.
It's a pity that this device is of little use to him.
At least until now, Murphy had no idea of using digital technology, and film was his first choice.
"When will Stanton Studios have such a post-production room?"
After the two sides negotiated the rental fee for a month, Murphy took the elevator downstairs with some feelings, "Instead of looking for a rental after every shoot, it depends on other people's time." ”
"You don't have to think about it for a while!" Jody Griffith patted his arm and gestured upstairs, "The equipment in this studio isn't top-notch in the industry, but it would cost at least a million dollars to set it up." ”
Murphy shrugged his shoulders and said no more, this kind of thing should not be thought about in the short term.
When the elevator reached the ground floor, Bill Rothes walked out first, and when he left the building, he handed the lease contract in his hand to Murphy, reminding, "If the lease can't be completed within the time limit, be sure to say hello to me in advance." ”
"Don't worry." Murphy took the contract and stuffed it into his briefcase, "I won't forget this kind of thing." ”
The cost of renting a lease in just one month is as high as $50,000, and anything to do with money is a big deal for Murphy now.
The three of them walked to their respective cars, and Murphy was about to open the car door when Bill Rothes got out of his car behind him.
"Murphy!" He beckoned this way.
Murphy closed the door that had been opened and looked back at him, "Is there anything else?" ”
Bill Rothes took two steps forward and came to the side of the Ford, "I helped Carrey with the withdrawal process yesterday. ”
"Hmm." Murphy nodded.
He knew about it, and Carey Mulligan called as soon as he finished the formalities.
"Bill......" Murphy said, remembering the phone call he had made yesterday in Guò, "I told Carey that she agreed, and you better connect her with a suitable acting school." ”
This age is often a critical period for an actor, if you are willing to work hard and seize the opportunity, you will have to take a lot of detours in the future.
"I'm already in contact." Bill Rothes hesitated for a moment, but said, "Because of the dropout, Carey moved out of Julian Fellowes' house. ”
Although I don't know what Kerry Mulligan used to force his parents and Julian Fellowes to agree to drop out of school, it was rather stiff to think about, and it would not be surprising to move out.
Murphy didn't think much of it, and many people in this country would move out of their homes after the age of sixteen.
"Where is she going to live?" He asked Bill Rossies.
"This ......," Bill Rothes swallowed back, waving his hand to leave, leaving a sentence as he walked back, "You'd better go ask Kerry yourself." ”
Murphy scratched his head and pulled out his phone to make a call, when Jody Griffiths in front of him happened to drive over and beckoned to him, "I'll go first." ”
"Goodbye." He beckoned, too.
Pulling the car door, Murphy got into the car, threw his phone into the passenger seat, and planned to go back and call again, and since Kerry Mulligan moved out, he was not in a hurry at this time.
It's not far from Santa Monica's Green Zone, and it's easier to come and go in the post-production period, Murphy drove back to Stanton Studio, parked the car on the side of the road, and walked to the flower iron door with his briefcase, and the whole person immediately raised his vigilance.
After the filming was completed, he gave everyone including the studio a holiday, and when he left here to see the post-production studio, he locked the iron door with his own hands.
Now the iron door was not only open, but the chain lock was still casually on the ground, and it was obvious that someone had broken in.
Murphy picked up his phone and subconsciously wanted to dial 911, but thinking of what he had done before, he put it away again and walked slowly to the door of the house.
The door to the house was hidden, and when Murphy walked in, he could faintly hear a voice on the other side of the stairs, which was the entrance to the storage room......
"Is there a thief?"
He slowly walked into the living room, looked around, and there was a steel pipe left over from the props in a corner, grabbed one casually, and prepared to go over to see who was so bold as to break into his home and steal things.