When the time was approaching September, when the major TV stations started to rebroadcast new episodes of the TV program, Levi and the production team had already returned from Germany.

"This is the best message I've ever received in months." The happiest thing about the return of the crew is not these people who have left the United States for a month, but Alexander, another owner of the Mystery Company who has been staying in the United States. No one was happier when he heard that Levy had returned—as September was approaching, the affairs of the Mystery Company were gradually increasing, and Alexander was now very busy, and he was naturally very excited to hear that Levy had returned.

It stands to reason that the two programs of the Mystery Company have their own producers, and there is no Alexander's business, but there are thirty screenwriters on both sides of the company alone, and if you add the actors of the crew, the consolidation of the personnel, and the film crew, there are hundreds of people, and the management of these people has to be managed by Alexander, of course he is also very tired.

When he heard that Levy was back, he was naturally excited. When Levi returned to the company the day after he saw that Levi's office was staffed, he took the work arrangement for Levi and broke into Levi's office.

"Nick, what will you do when you get back...... Oh no. ”

Alexander, who hurriedly walked into the office, suddenly found that there was someone else after breaking into the office. But when he pushed the door open and saw Theron sitting on Levy's lap and not knowing what to talk about, he realized that he had come at a bad time.

He heard Clark over there mention that Levy's relationship with the heroine of this movie seemed to be quite ambiguous, and he didn't pay much attention to these words all along, but when he bumped into it, he found it quite embarrassing.

Upon discovering his arrival, Theron jumped to his feet, and Levy grabbed her, keeping her by his side, and then glanced at Alexander with some resentment. However, Alexander had no intention of leaving: he was tired and half dead, and Levy was still having a good time here, and he was not in the mood to make conditions for him, "I didn't expect you to be here...... Well, chat. Nick, I thought you came to the office early to talk to Clark about post-production. ”

"I do have this in mind...... But Clark told me that I didn't need to interfere over there. Levy shrugged, he could see that Alexander didn't want to go, and he knew that Alexander must have something serious, so he was embarrassed to hold Theron anymore and let go of her wrist.

Theron glanced at Levy with some embarrassment: it was strange that she wasn't shy if someone broke such a thing. However, seeing that Alexander didn't want to leave, Theron was also slightly annoyed, she moved a chair herself, sat down, and responded with a slight smile in the face of Alexander's questioning gaze.

The bold girl - Alexander commented in his heart, but he was not interested in caring about Theron anymore, "Clark won't let you be nosy?" So, you don't have any jobs anymore? ”

Levy spread his hands, indeed, he has no job now.

The filming of the film is over, and the rest is post-production. After the pre-shooting of a movie, the actors and filming related personnel can go their separate ways, and the rest of the thing is that the director takes the post-production staff to start editing, soundtrack and other related matters.

This process will take about a month or two to complete: after the film is shot, it has to be handed over to the editor for rough cuts and the story according to the script. At this point, the director doesn't have much to do - in general, the editor is the main editor when it's rough cut. Because if it is handed over to the director for editing, the director is likely to make the film long and boring because he is reluctant to take his own shots, and this work cannot be done for Levy.

Editing is very important for a movie, and a high-level editor can make the originally dull and boring shots energetic through the use of some shots. Through a quick switch, the actors' acting skills are lacking and their performance is not good, and of course, the most important thing is that they can use their performance techniques to show all the director's ideas.

This part of the work, Levy has long said that Clark is in charge: the editor is the person who needs to express the director's ideas, just as the gaffer must follow the cameraman's orders to show the shots, and the editors must be able to edit good enough shots to show the idea of the film. Find someone who is not familiar with you, and you will inevitably make a mess when editing. Only Clarke, who was familiar enough with Levy's ideas, did the job that Levi was relieved.

"The previous part is more of a parallel clip. The two parallel lines can better highlight the psychological changes of the characters. The playwright's gradual process of wanting to rebel, the heroine's process of succumbing to her acting career, the process of the watcher from surveillance, to appreciation, and then to protect them, it is best to use parallel editing to highlight the characters. When it comes to the ** part, when you need to create suspense, use cross-editing, but it doesn't have to be too much. Also, the plot is relatively flat in some places, and I need you to consider using more different angles and close-ups of the characters' faces to adjust the audience's observation points, so as not to make the plot too ......flat."

When talking about the revision and finishing process of the film, Levy also said a lot of his own opinions.

"You don't have to tell me one by one, the gist of this movie you want to express has already been told to me more than once. I'll do what you think, don't worry. Clark had already completed part of this work when he was in Germany, and Levy had talked to him many times about his ideas, and at this point, Clark had taken over the command.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of everything, and even if I can't do it well, the final editing power is still in your hands, what are you worried about?"

Clarke's words are not wrong, Levy really has nothing to worry about: he is the director and producer of the film, he has the final editing rights, and he really doesn't have to care too much about the early editing.

After the rough cut, the director can go through the director's editing according to his own artistic vision, and ask the film to use more techniques to show his ideas. And after this section of editing, there is the final step of fine editing, which completely shapes the film - of course, this movie has no special effects, therefore, in the editing, there is no need to consider the lens superposition, rendering, retouching and other work of special effects, and the fine editing work is very simple.

After the finishing is completed, the next step is to perfect the sound part. First the dialogue, then the sound effects, and finally the soundtrack, after the mixing, the picture and sound of the film are no longer problematic, and it is a good film - these are the things that require Levy's nod.

The film was invested by Mystery Inc. itself, so the final editing rights were also in Levy's hands: although it was easy to lose money on a movie that paid for itself, it also had this benefit.

The final cut of a movie is often an important factor in determining the quality of a movie. But film companies sometimes edit like crazy, and the reason is simple: if a movie is two hours long, it can be shown twice in one night. If it's four hours long, then it can only be shown once. In order to show a few more shows and increase their income, they cut the movie.

As for the intentions of the directors? The film company is too lazy to care, for them, money is everything. The American Past was cut from four hours to two hours, and the edited version of the Heavenly Dynasty simply cut out all the most important ideas of the director -- these films, the theatrical version, and the director's edited version, are basically two movies. There are many directors who have been working hard for this all their lives, once because their films were cut, they paid for obituaries in magazines, announcing that their films had died before they were released, James Cameron was shooting movies in his early years, because the company did not give him the editing rights, he took advantage of the middle of the night when there was no one, he pried open the door of the editing room by himself, and went in to edit his own films - for this right, the directors fought very hard.

Levy spent his own money, worked hard to make the movie, and prepared for the movie for so long, just for this one final editing right. He knows the importance of this power, and even if he loses money, he can't lose it.

Now that this job has been handed over to Clark, Levy naturally has nothing to do. He had a good relationship with Theron at this time, so naturally they were together when they had nothing to do. It's just a little embarrassing to be bumped into by Alexander.

"If it's okay, how about I find you something to do? I don't care what you do outside, but don't mess around inside the company, right? Nick, I'm half tired now, there are so many things in the company, it's okay if you don't want to help me, don't show off your happiness in front of me, right? ”

Alexander's slightly complaining teaser only made Levy and Theron look at each other and smile, and neither of them spoke. Alexander knew that his words had no effect, and he could only roll his eyes.

"Nick, I know you may not listen to the company's affairs right now, and I didn't expect you to help me do much, but there are a few things I have to tell you." Alexander didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, "One thing, it's the screening of the movie, and another thing, it's the Emmy is coming." ”