Of course, Xiao Ran is naturally not such a hated person, otherwise it would be impossible to have so many friends in the circle. Therefore, like Zhou Xingchi, who will be worth 200,000 yuan after becoming popular, the price of the phantom looking for him to shoot "Happy Family Events" is mentioned as 100,000, which can be regarded as a concession between the two parties.

And this kind of business, which is absolutely money-losing in the early stage, has already been done, which means that Pan Disheng will make movies for a long time, rather than suddenly stopping the company's business in its heyday as in history.

Although Xiao Ran has always regarded this as the biggest mystery in the Hong Kong film industry, he very much hopes to explore and understand. However, he is not here to be a tourist now, but to be a changemaker, and some things will happen now and in the future, and some things will not happen, which is different from his original understanding.

Xiao Ran doesn't care about money now, although he has a considerable part of Microsoft's stock in his hands, but he really doesn't care about money. However, not caring about money does not mean that he likes to be challenged, he hates the taste of being challenged head-on, which is a blasphemy against his authority.

"I understand what you mean, you plan to take over their power to accelerate the expansion of Hong Kong films and save time." Lin Qingxia's smile was really funny, Xiao Ran dared to swear, he had never seen Lin Qingxia so cute.

Lin Qingxia's words surprised Xiao Ran, he never expected that Lin Qingxia, who didn't know much about finance and economics before, would be able to understand the meaning of his words. Lin Qingxia saw the surprise in Xiao Ran's eyes, restrained her exaggerated smile, and said shyly: "Since this period of time, I have been idle, so I have read some related books!" ”

Xiao Ran was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that Lin Qingxia was doing this just to help him, and a warm current flowed through her heart. He hugged Lin Qingxia tightly and said softly in her ear: "Qingxia, never leave me, without you, my life is incomplete!" There are not too many touching love words, and Lin Qingxia is the same, and her face blushed for a while because of Xiao Ran's words.

The bad news didn't stop, and the next day, as soon as Xiao Ran arrived at the office, Wei Dongling broke in like a whirlwind and shouted out bad news: "Fang Ruohai spent 300 million to buy ATV!" ”

Worst! Xiao Ran was startled, and suddenly stood up without himself. This is definitely bad news, and in this way, Fang Ruohai has a very advantageous platform. In fact, he wanted to get involved in the TV industry for a long time, and the artist training department was preparing for this, but the pressure of wireless was really irresistible, so he had to give up this idea for the time being. I didn't expect to be attacked by Fang Ruohai first.

After thinking about it, Xiao Ran smiled. Yesterday, he personally called Fang Yihua, hoping to strengthen close cooperation with wireless, but Fang Yihua politely refused. Xiao Ran knew that Wireless was planning to take a neutral route, but since Fang Ruohai had acquired ATV, he was destined to become the enemy of Wireless, so he didn't believe that Wireless didn't lean on him.

Wei Dongling obviously thought of this as well, and looked at Xiao Ran with a smile. Xiao Ran nodded to him and didn't say anything. Needless to say, if Wei Dongling couldn't even see this, he wouldn't have to mess around.

Of course, Fang Ruohai definitely can't see it, but he definitely can't imagine how vicious TVB is in the process of monopolizing the Hong Kong TV industry. Xiao Ran smiled secretly, in this way, there will be wireless to help bear some of the pressure from Fang Ruohai, maybe it can also indirectly shake the alliance of the four major companies.

Two days later, Fang Ruohai announced the establishment of Haile Group, Xinyicheng and Xinyibao, as well as ATV as subsidiaries of Haile Group. On the fourth day, the Haile Group acquired a newspaper and a magazine. A week later, Fang Ruohai announced the reorganization of the new art city.

And the media have discovered that I don't know when, this famous Fang Ruohai appeared again, and even made a series of big moves, faintly with the taste of Hong Kong's number one entertainment company. At the beginning, the matter of Xiao Ran and Fang Ruoxin was also raised, and Fang Ruohai immediately issued a strict order not to allow his newspapers and magazines to report this matter.

And Xiao Ran is the opposite, completely laissez-faire. This may be the biggest difference between Xiao Ran and Fang Ruohai, Fang Ruohai always likes to control everything strictly. But Xiao Ran knows very well when to loosen and where to tighten. It is an old saying: Zhang Chi has a way. Just like writing a novel, there is a tense and exciting **, then there must be enough foreshadowing space and low tide.

What makes the media more interested is that after the reorganization of the new art city, it turns out to be exactly the same as the structure of the Phantom, which is simply copying the structure of the Phantom Company. And when the new team of the new art city came out, the media was about to go crazy.

Because they were shocked to find that there were several high-level executives in the new art city who used to work in the phantom some time ago. Extrapolating from this, they quickly connected with everything that happened before, and deduced that Xiao Ran had a feud with the Fang family because of this incident.

In this regard, Xiao Ran naturally scoffed. If Fang Ruohai was a person who wanted to take revenge and didn't care about the opportunity to make money, then he didn't need to worry about Fang Ruohai having the qualifications to become his enemy at all. However, this is all good, at least Xiao Ran thinks it is a good thing to have a challenger to let him show his authority.

Just when the media seemed to be crazy to dig out the inevitable or accidental relationship, Tianluo Company was also reorganized, and the structure was still not much different from that of the Phantom Company. This made Pan Disheng very puzzled, he didn't quite understand why the two major companies did this.

This is because the structure of Hong Kong film companies has always been an empty shell, and there is no division between departments and departments. It is a very small number of large companies like Debao and Golden Harvest, which do not have so many departments, at most they are divided into production department, distribution department and finance department. A structure like that of the Phantom Company undoubtedly adds considerable administrative expenses to the company.

In Pan Disheng's office, Cen Jianxun, who had a very strange hair style, scratched his head, and showed a shrewd look that was completely opposite to him on the screen: "Why do Tianluo and Haile imitate the Phantom Company?" Could it be that the Phantom's structure is really that good? ”

Pan Disheng couldn't give an answer to such a question, but the situation made him have a wonderful feeling, which told him that he had fallen behind the three major companies, and if he didn't catch up, he was afraid that it would be difficult to catch up in the future.

Pan Desheng was a very cautious man, but this time he really felt embarrassed. The dilemma is to either choose to follow or to maintain the status quo. He is well aware that if a company is faced with such a choice, it means that the company has reached a crossroads. Biting the pressure, he finally made a bold decision: "We will also reorganize!" ”

When the news of Debao's reorganization reached He Guanchang's ears, he couldn't help but jump, he was already surprised by the reorganization of Yang Qi and Fang Ruohai, but now Debao actually learned from the Phantom Company to do the reorganization, which is really ridiculous and outrageous.

After discussing it with Zou Wenhuai, they all thought that these guys were crazy. Of course, this is just lip service, and they are all puzzled in their hearts, is the structure of a film company like the Phantom really excellent? At least they don't dare and don't want to try, Jiahe now has a big business, and it hurts his muscles and bones to move.

What is Xiao Ran doing? He is celebrating Fa Ge as the best actor at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival. Similarly, the Phantom Company's "Autumn Fairy Tale" beat the Koreans' "Pawn Wife" and won Best Picture and Best Actor. It's a pity that in Xiao Ran's impression, "A Chinese Ghost Story" was supposed to get the best soundtrack in the Asia-Pacific region this year, but because it hadn't been produced yet, it had to be done. and New Art City's "Dragon and Tiger" won the best editing.

In addition, Xiao Ran was still surprised by Fang Ruohai and Yang Qi's bold learning. Fang Ruohai had such a vision, he was not surprised, but if he could put down his face and imitate it, it was not necessarily Fang Ruohai who did it. But now that the facts have happened, this only shows that Fang Ruohai is more unscrupulous than before after experiencing a fatal fiasco.

Xiao Ran was not interested in this, because he was busy with the post-production of "Dark Flower". The trailer for the second edition has been broadcast wirelessly, and its magazines and newspapers have leaked all kinds of news bit by bit. It soon whetted the media appetite again, and the craze continued until the third version of the trailer was released.

In the entire crew of "Dark Flower", Xiao Ran is the most busy person. In the special effects department of the Phantom, that is, the post-production department, Xiao Ran dragged Fa Ge to finish the narration for the film, and began to be busy with the preparation of the effect sound source.

The sound source of the effect is the sound of the fight in the film, and these are all done by a skilled voice artist. Xiao Ran is on the side, and he only needs to be responsible for telling the head of the dubbing team about his concept. Luckily, after the filming of "Dark Flower", each department approached their work with absolute rigor and enthusiasm, which made the post-production of the film extremely perfect.

For example, the gunshots in the film, Xiao Ran's effect is definitely not very loud, but a relatively heavy effect, so as to increase the perfect surname of the film. The recording crew worked very seriously, and in order to match the few gunshots in the film, they came up with a lot of plans, such as covering the gunshots with a cloth, which sounded more somber.

Even in order to match the sound of footsteps, such as the sound of Yaodong walking on the street, this requires some empty space and some cold, and very unhurried sound effects. In fact, the recording team did this very seriously, and even Xiao Ran admired it.

In terms of dubbing in subtitles and other languages, the talents that Wei Dongling instructed the human resources department to find are indeed elites. Among them, there are not only local language experts in Hong Kong, but also mainland language experts in order to facilitate the conversion into Chinese, and even foreign language professors as professional consultants.

Of course, language is definitely not translated literally, and Xiao Ran has always felt that this is too stupid. Therefore, the translator basically does not translate exactly the literal, but analyzes the meaning of a certain line of dialogue in the film word by word, and when they turn it over, they have to keep the dialogue and the atmosphere and style of the film consistent, which is definitely a very difficult thing.

Fortunately, Xiao Ran has been preparing for all this since the formation of the Phantom, so in terms of pre-preparation and post-production, the Phantom dares to say that it is second to none in Hong Kong and even in Asia.

Subtitling and dubbing are just very tedious technical tasks, but soundtracks and editing are extremely artistic jobs. Lin Daoyun looked at the silent picture and asked, "Brother Ran, do you want the synchronization of music and painting or the alignment of music and painting?" ”

Xiao Ran knows that these two types are actually the technical types that the soundtrack usually chooses, and Lin Daoyun actually started to create when he encountered a certain scene that might need a soundtrack during the filming process of the crew. In the later stage, it's basically a screening process.

Looking at the film screen, Xiao Ran's fingers tapped gently, and the sense of rhythm made him gradually experience the inspiration of this creation. This time, he will no longer rely on memory to choose the soundtrack. Suddenly opened his eyes, Xiao Ran pointed to the picture of Fa Ge running around on the screen: "This section is needed, but the sense of rhythm should not be too strong!" ”

In fact, this time, Xiao Ran chose the soundtrack technique of sound and painting counterpoint, that is, the picture and music achieve opposition and hidden unity, so as to create a sense of layering. Xiao Ran didn't want to spoil the artistic conception of some semi-still shots in the film, so he chose to score on the unimportant plot.

The soundtrack is definitely a very artistic work, which is not only about the music style and layout, but also whether the design can match the style and plot changes of the film. It is also necessary to make the beginning and end of each piece of music able to mobilize the mood and atmosphere of the film, and it must also match the sense of the picture, whether it is the director or the soundtrack, as long as one negligence is very likely to lead to the fact that the soundtrack and the film are not very compatible.

Musicians are not easy jobs, they often have to understand various instruments and orchestrations, and must also have a considerable degree of understanding of various music and materials, requiring the ability to control the length and speed of music and rhythm. It's no exaggeration to say that the work of a soundtrack artist is definitely much harder than that of a piece of pop music.

Xiao Ran chose very few soundtracks in this film, because the film has a strong sense of rhythm, and almost every soundtrack is inserted in a seam-piercing way. After completing this process, Xiao Ran was not satisfied, but played all the films, and then experienced this feeling and said: "This soundtrack is deleted, this one can be more intense." ”

The rest of the work is editing, in fact, there have been several processes before, and the picture when Xiao Ran and Lin Daoyun scored the music is the picture after the re-editing. The earlier editing was mainly to match Xiao Ran's creative intentions, and unnecessary fragments were cut.

In front of the reverser and splicer, Xiao Ran quietly enjoyed the film, in fact, the film that was not edited was simply not watched. Pointing to the section where Achen went to see Brother Ji in the dark, Xiao Ran squinted his eyes and said to Zhang Yaozong: "Here I want to cut out ......"

continued to enjoy the film, Xiao Ran kept pointing out his requirements. In fact, there is no need for Xiao Ran to say, Zhang Yaozong probably knows what Xiao Ran wants, because he has been following the crew and already has a very deep understanding of the creative intention and overall concept of the film, as well as the characters' surnames.

Zhang Yaozong has cut many films, but none of them seem to be more special than this one in his memory. The biggest special thing is that this film is almost terrifyingly quiet from beginning to end. Although there are occasional dialogues and the like, the stillness seems to come out of the bones, indifference and loneliness.

In addition, it is not the first time that he and Xiao Ran have cooperated, and throughout the works of Phantom, there are always very special novelties, which makes Zhang Yaozong very interested. This level of interest is not even taken to heart by the joint warnings of the four major companies. In fact, although he hasn't signed a contract with the Phantom yet, he has always worked with the Phantom, and it has little to do with it.

*****

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