The editor chosen this time is Lin An'er, the gold medal scissorman who has won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Editing several times, and also enjoys the reputation of "the first cut in the rivers and lakes" because of the majority of editing kung fu films. Including the "Huang Feihong" series, "Hero", "Kung Fu", "Ambush on All Sides", "Seven Swords", "Red Cliff", "Yangtze River No. 7", "People in Embarrassment", "Journey to the West" and many other classics, the editing of hundreds of works are from her hands.

"Enlightenment, it's a pleasure to meet you, I didn't expect you to be younger than what you read in the newspaper. Your "Grand Central Station" is amazing, I heard that you did it yourself from editing to soundtrack? "Although Lin An'er is famous, she is just a kind woman.

"I have admired the daimyo for a long time." smiled happily and took the initiative to greet him, and said, "It's just a little difficult to edit by yourself." I don't want to do everything on my own unless I have to. So this time, the conditions were relaxed, and I immediately invited Miss Lin over, and you are also welcome to participate in my film editing. ”

"Thanks." Lin An'er smiled heartily: "Then let's talk about the movie, director, what kind of deconstruction do you want." ”

"That's exactly what I'm going to tell you." Xingxing took out the script and handed it over, and said seriously: "This is the movie storyboard script, you can take a look at it first." The movie as a whole follows a linear narrative model, one ring starts from the other, like dominoes, and the plot passages before and after are connected. The plot of a single scene in the paragraph is deconstructed, starting from a single plot fragment, abandoning the normal view of time and space, and combining the plot with cause and effect. He didn't hesitate at all, "We can discuss the specific situation." But the film as a whole presents something that may be a bit similar to MTV, incorporating rapid cuts, fragmented space, non-linear time, stylized styling, etc., and what you want is an unparalleled cool rhythm. ”

The two chatted for a long time, and after they came out, they happily put forward a new concept and took the initiative to invite Lin An'er to be the post-production coordinator of the whole movie.

What is post-co-ordination?

This is actually a very important concept, but so far it is not very well understood in China, and no one has done this specifically before Happy. In fact, it has nothing to do with editing, how to arrange the whole post-production, who does the music, who does the sound effects, etc.

For the entire post-production, the early stage is to cut the film, the later stage is to add body effects to match the picture, and there are many, many other details, because there are a lot of computer special effects, as well as the current popular digital dimming, etc., so the post-deadline co-ordination has to manage all of this, until the final movie is seen in the theater. You need to know not only the editing, but also the post-production knowledge such as color grading, lighting and so on.

Strictly speaking, it is a bit late to appoint a post-coordinator now.

Just like I read a report in my previous life, in the later stage of "No Thieves in the World", Hualong did not match the original bottom after he finished the stunt, this is a technical problem, and this is the thing that the person who is responsible for the later stage of the co-ordination is to take care of. The real way is to communicate with the photographer before the Hualong stunt, how do you play the light in this scene, what is the final color, and then use it to communicate with Hualong, and then the first layer of work has been done when scanning, and there will be no problem of color mismatch after this work is done.

When filming "Kung Fu", the post-production special effects were done by the famous Hong Kong special effects company Xiantao, and Lin An'er served as the entire post-production coordinator. It is said that at that time, she called all the animators and said that you don't just look at how you do this shot, you have to see how the previous shot is connected to the next one. You're flying out from the right, and the next shot can't be in the middle. Sure they look at the front and back shots, as well as pay attention to the color changes of the characters' clothes, she and Stephen Chow sit in the middle, surrounded by a dozen animators who talk about stunts in the middle, and she and Stephen Chow take turns reviewing the animations they make.

Xiantao's animation is already the top in Asia, but she still hopes that they will do a little better, especially the animation of digitalstunt/digital special effects, which is a bit fake, and the digital humans they make are too mechanical Russians are relatively fine, and they will study how real people fall from the upper floors. The scene where Yuan Hua fell from the upper floor, the action was still hard, and he was stunned and argued for a full month, and finally invited Xiantao's boss to come over and asked him if it was like it, "If you say that Jue is like an elephant, I will jump down from your Xiantao's upstairs, you shoot me, let me do a reference, see how I move, and then re-animate." ”

In fact, this is also the basic way of working in Hollywood, all special effects are closely tracked during filming.

But there is basically no such concept in China, they only know that when they shoot in the early stage, they find an artist and others, and then there is a producer in the middle, and they feel OK, and in the later stage, they will feel that it is very simple, and there are not too many technical problems. Lin An'er was also surprised, she had been hoping to introduce this concept in the Chinese film circle, but she didn't expect someone to come forward. She suddenly felt like she had found a soulmate, "I hope that the next time there is a big drama, I can book my schedule before I can mention it, and let me accumulate experience." ”

Happy to know her energy, took the opportunity to pull the relationship and said: "I have my own animation studio, and I am a technician myself. You may not know, but I worked part-time at Pixar for four years in college, and the technology is still guaranteed. If Miss Lin has a business in the future and the Hong Kong special effects company can't take care of it, you might as well come to us to try it. ”

"Oh? As far as I know, there is no rise in domestic special effects, so you are the first. Lin An'er was even more surprised, and half-jokingly: "I have very strict requirements for special effects." ”

Not to be outdone, Happy said: "We don't do all kinds of movies, and we definitely satisfy you." ”

"Okay, then I'll take it seriously."

For a whole week, Happy and Lin An'er were busy in the editing room, working, and even arguing and arguing, in order to elevate the film to a higher height. Happy also learned a lot from her, which is really different from the previous movie where she crossed the river by feeling the stones. Lin An'er has no doubt about her experience, and she can find several examples of any problem. Happy intends to ask for advice, and she doesn't hide her secrets, "Actually, when it comes to editing, do you know where the most critical place is?" ”

"What?"

"The most important thing is a matter of rhythm."

Happy straight frowned, he had read a lot of editing books, how could he not know the rhythm, "I know that rhythm is very important for editing, but how to grasp this rhythm, how to judge which rhythm is beneficial to the movie, these are the key points." How do you grasp it? ”

"Hey, young people are so greedy." Lin An'er pointed her finger at him and teased.

Happy grinning, "Don't ask now, it's obsolete." ”

"When it comes to rhythm, it can be said that it can be said that it can be said for several days or ten minutes, but in fact, everyone has a different rhythm in their minds. I think it's important for you to know what you know as a good editor. But if you want to go higher, you have to do it in your heart, and you have to master a basic rhythm, just like the beat in music, but later it will be very flat, and everything has only one rhythm. That's why I say that when you have a number in your heart, I hope you can take a step forward and become innumerable. ”

Happy thoughtfully, "Then what do you think is the editing rhythm of my movie?" ”

Lin An'er said: "What you said about one ring after another, dominoes, that's just a structural statement. The real rhythm, just one word, fast. It's easy to cut out a fast pace, but when it's fast, it's important to grasp it, and you can't just go fast. I heard that Hollywood was working on a fast pace of 0.5-second shots, and I couldn't imagine how fast it would be. But Hollywood dominates movie pop culture, and it may or may not become mainstream in the future. I usually use a different rhythm when I cut each film, and it is possible that I will deliberately cut the foreshadowing very flat, flat to a point, and then suddenly become very fast, to grab the audience, so that he wants to watch it again, to see if there is something better. What I'm talking about is that when you get to a certain rhythm, you have to start making some different changes in the middle, and when dealing with different movies, TV or MTV, you should find some different rhythms in the middle to improve the film or picture. ”

It's fun and I feel like I'm being educated. When he cut "Central Station", he still referred more to the original work, and then compared and modified it with the help of Bao Wushuang's database, but he didn't expect so much.

"I'll tell you a story."

"Well, listen up."

Lin An'er recalled: "I remember that I had just started to enter the industry at that time, in Baohe Company, in Hong Jinbao's company, once Chen Long talked to the screenwriter and Wu Zhi, he said, how to shoot this scene? As soon as I came out, I jumped over and slammed, snapped, and when I was done, I jumped to another staircase and snapped, snapped. He quickly finished the scene, and then he said to the screenwriter, do you understand?

You can write it down for me. The screenwriter said, ah, what am I writing? Later, the screenwriter's script also wrote slap, slap, split. Do you understand what he means? ”

Happy and not stupid, what are they talking about after so much talking, "Rhythm? ”

"Yes." Lin An'er nodded and said: "But I didn't understand what it meant at the time, and then I cut it more, and I knew that this was Chenlong talking about his rhythm, pop, short, snap, long, split, short and long." I made two moves in this shot, one move in the next shot, and three moves in the next shot, so that he told his screenwriter and assistant about the rhythm of this scene, and the effect of the play was like this. Later, when I was lecturing to my classmates, it was very important to master the rhythm, especially before I cut it, I had to know what the play was. After a pause, he exclaimed: "But I've been editing for so many years, and it's the first time I've encountered a movie of your type." Without your guidance, I wouldn't have been able to think of this kind of editing idea. Again, it's amazing how you managed to make so little discarded footage film. ”

Happy sweat: "You have won the prize, and I am the beneficiary." ”

The editing and soundtrack are in the post-production work at the same time, and the soundtrack of the film is the most exciting in the original work.

A few original songs, happily composed the general melody early, and then found someone to fill in the Chinese words, or simply use English words. There are a few songs that are irreplaceable, and people have been sent to the UK to buy the rights to the songs. It's all old songs, and the other party also knows that it's only a low-cost production here, and the asking price is not high.

British Rock (HundredMileHighCity) in the opening scene; The Happy Gang and the Neighbor Gang each have matching soundtracks when they appear; "Police & Thieves" by Snow White and three little scientists; The music of the thug's son when he squatted around (TheBoss); Of course, DustySpringfield's Spooky; playing cards (Liar, Liar); Mental trance after the fiasco (WannaBeYourDog); Explain to your peers what is going on (WhyDidYouDoIt); A night of carnival after making a big profit (WalkThisLand); Ready to Fire (ZorbatheGreek); Get the pound back from the casino boss (ThePayback); The days of loan sharking (FoolsGold); Let's say I have a third hand (WithaBullet). The most perfect is the song WhyDidYouDoIt......

The whole article is full of "moving times, moving times", how joyful, and the artistic conception is also seamless with the providence of the four people.

Lin An'er also found a veteran soundtrack artist to take the helm, and she was in charge of the overall planning, and she was even more relieved when she was happy.