The first round of editing took only five days, and more than 700 shots were finally assembled into 54 film clips, and the editor Leo was deeply shocked by the fact that Jude's precise computing skills were not produced during the filming process.

Before starting the second round of editing, Jude asked Leo to number all these film clips and divide them into four parts according to the different protagonists involved in the plot, which is the four main plot lines of the film.

At this time, Leo finally understood why the movie was called "Gun, Big. hemp and money" is such an awkward name, because the whole movie revolves around these three things, miraculously connecting the four plot lines together.

"The rest of the story is much simpler, you just have to put all the clips together in order, and the whole movie is edited...... By the way, I asked people to take clip 41 to do a fast-forward edit, is the processed film with you? ”

Fast and slow motion are really not difficult special effects for film-shot films, and Jude sent the film to a film studio specializing in editing and production three days ago for them to handle, and if nothing else, it should have been delivered yesterday.

Leo rummaged through the reels of film, then quickly held one of them up and said, "Here, it's marked with a 3x fast forward rate." ”

"That's the one, put it together with the other clips, and then put all the clips together and see the effect." Jude sat behind the monitor and replied.

Leo took the film and stood there hesitating to do so.

"May I ask a question?"

"What's wrong?" Jude took off his headphones and glanced up at the other party.

"Is it really feasible to put a 2-minute fast-forward clip into a movie without editing? I mean, it's so abrupt that the audience may not be comfortable watching it. This was the first time Leo had put his own opinion on the editing of a film, and working under Jude was so easy that he almost forgot that he was an editor and that his original role was to make changes to the director.

"I only agree with the second half of your words, fast-forward editing is really rarely used for a long time in movies, and it is generally used to show the passage of time, the flow of people and vehicles and other scenes, but this is just a general situation, the special situation is that if the shooting is used in slow motion, fast-forward editing is just to restore the speed to normal, which is often used in action movie shooting." Jude paused deliberately at this point, then looked at Leo and smiled, "This is the plate you are holding in your hand now." ”

To prove his word, Jude called Leo to the monitor.

"I used a long shot in this shootout scene, starting from the gang boss leading people into the house to shoot and shoot, until he was the only living person left in the house, it was difficult to achieve the effect I wanted with normal shooting, and finally had to change to slow motion shooting." Jude pulls through the two-minute sequence as he explains, and Leo's eyes never take off the screen for fear of missing any of the details.

The sharp shooting techniques and the perspective without any switching have narrowed the distance between the movie and the audience to the greatest extent, the sound of banging gunshots is blowing the eardrums, and the fierce rush hits the retina, Leo swears that this is definitely the smoothest and most shocking gunfight scene he has ever seen, more than 30 people died in the 2-minute battle, and the room was full of corpses, it stands to reason that the scene should be very bloody, but in fact, Leo did not have such a feeling, but felt that some of them were not completely fun.

"Two minutes is too short, can I watch it again?" Leo looked at Jude expectantly.

Jude presses play again, leaving Leo addicted again.

"It's so exciting, it's definitely a shootout scene that can enter a movie shooting textbook!" Leo couldn't help but admire after watching it, he could shoot the shootout so violently and beautifully, and it was the first time he had encountered it after being an editor for so many years.

Jude spread his hands and put his headphones back on under Leo's adoring gaze.

"It's not time to celebrate, we need to get things done."

Jude didn't need to say anything more this time, Leo already knew what to do next, and he was now curious to know what kind of surprise the whole film would bring when it was fully edited.

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In a week's time, Jude successfully completed the first cut of "Two Smoking Guns" with the assistance of Leo, and Shay White gathered all the company's executives to watch the film in the conference room as soon as he got the dailies.

From listening to Jude explain the script in person two months ago, Shay-White had already guessed that this was a typical movie that played with structure, narrative and camera, and although Jude himself did not admit it, Shay still thought that the filming of this movie was definitely influenced by Quentin's "Pulp Fiction".

Sure enough, this conjecture was confirmed at the beginning of the film, and the first eight minutes of the movie completely gave people an inexplicable feeling, and the projection screen was transformed into this group of people for a while, and it seemed to have nothing to do with it, making people unable to figure out the way.

If Shay didn't know the full plot, he would have been dizzy when he saw the movie directly, not to mention the executives of the new line company who didn't know what the movie was talking about.

All they saw was a group of actors with a thick London accent, mixed with boring British foul language, and the use of various slow motion, close-ups, sub-shots, and abnormal shots was dazzling.

Because this is a sample of the first cut version, the subtitles and soundtrack have not yet had time to be produced, which is a disaster for the new line executives who are not very familiar with the London accent.

If it weren't for Shay White continuing to sit there and not moving, I'm afraid someone would have stood up and questioned what kind of shit movie this was, and it was made so that people couldn't understand it at all.

"What the hell is this movie about?" Finally, someone couldn't sit still and whispered to the person next to him.

"Four thugs went to a gamble, and the gang boss asked his men to steal two antique guns, that's probably what it looked like...... There's so much British slang in there, and I'm not sure if that's all there is. There was obvious hesitation in the other party's tone.

"But what does it matter?" The man asked again.

"There should be an explanation later, right?" The other party comforted him, but listening to the tone, I am afraid that even he himself did not believe what he just said.

The office was small, and the conversation could easily reach Shay's ears. The limit that ordinary viewers can endure this kind of scattered plot is about half an hour. If the plot is not allowed to have a meeting point at this time, many people will lose patience or even leave the scene directly.

Thirty minutes into the film, the most critical four-player game officially began, and the high-level executives in the conference room were temporarily aroused by this gambling scene, and did not continue to dwell on the previous scattered plots.

Seeing this, Shay breathed a sigh of relief, all the foreshadowing and the cause of the conflict had been buried before this, as long as he survived this dizzy beginning and understood its general structure, there would be waves of surprises in the remaining hour.