Happy is very attentive to his first film, and naturally wants to keep improving. However, a good editor is hard to find.

There are probably a dozen of the greatest directors in the world today, but there are only a few of the greatest film editors. Their names are often not known to the general public, which is also determined by the nature of their work - editing.

A good film allows the audience to immerse the audience in the story, the emotions and fate of the characters, without seeing the traces of editing, which is the supreme effort of the editor, and editing is the mark that distinguishes film from photography, drama, performance, literature, and finally declares itself as an independent art form.

Some people say that in this era of digital video cameras, not necessarily more and greater directors will be born, but will definitely give birth to a generation of great editors, the reason is simple, when anyone can shoot hundreds of hours of footage at every turn, without a pair of wise eyes and a pair of quick and decisive hands, any potential classic may become a passing cloud, visual garbage.

In this industry, Happy also has its own idol, Hollywood editing master Walter Murch.

It was a Hollywood "godfather" who created miracles in the dark editing room, and of course, not only because he created the legend of the "Godfather" trilogy for Coppola, but also because he edited countless classics. In the absence of editors as "invisible artists", Walter Murch is the only master editor in the world who frequently appears in people's cultural vision.

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Of course, it's useless to talk about it now, and I'm happy that I don't have the ability to go to Murchi. What he needs now is not a big-name editor, nor how skilled the editor is, but one who understands his intentions and has enough tacit understanding.

What are the ones in China?

The answer is no, I don't know. Maybe in a few years, there will be many choices, such as Zhang Yifan, the "Jiang Wen's royal editor" in the future, he still knows a little bit about it, but he is still working in a foreign advertising company. He instinctively abandoned the domestic editors at this stage.

So the question is, do you still have to go to Hong Kong to pay a high price to hire people?

Needless to say, the importance of editing in a movie is needless to say, in fact, most directors are editors, except for some cutting-edge directors, or directors like Wong Kar-wai who are too lazy to care about editing. Because even if their skills can't keep up, but the overall grasp of the movie, whether to go or stay, and other issues are also within the director's responsibility.

Hong Kong used to have the "four scissorhands", they are "Hong Kong's first scissor" Mai Zishan, "versatile editor" Hu Dawei, "low-key editor" Jiang Quande, "smooth heavenly master" Zhang Yaozong, it is they and their apprentices and grandchildren who make the shots in the movie compact and smooth, and the spiritual power is killed.

There are also today's authorities Chen Qihe, Li Dongquan, Lin An'er and others.

He wants to be happy, but he also has to think about a lot of things.

Whether these people are willing to come to the mainland to help him, a penniless person, edit movies is secondary, and the difference in cultural background determines that they can't cut what they want happily, and you can't let a very Westernized person edit Chinese stories. Please pay the gold medal editor, it is estimated that the asking price is not cheaper than Siqin Gaowa. Please, in general, he didn't want to.

――No one knows what kind of picture they want better than they are happy, so they are reluctant to do it themselves.

During his internship at Pixar, he was exposed to the world's latest computer editing equipment, as well as advanced ideas, and his abilities were honed in Hollywood. If you really want to do it yourself, you won't be afraid at all.

There is still very little material for the whole movie, only more than 200 minutes, which is quite little in the average movie. This is due to the fact that he has the original work to refer to and compare, and most of the shots are shot in the order in which the edited version is produced. And it also includes a lot of shots that were added at a moment's notice; Most of them are shots with different performance effects, such as the child's eyes and smile when performing a certain piece of content, smiling purely, he is satisfied, and his eyes are innocent, and he is also difficult to give up.

The current editing work is to ask him to make a choice, which can only be cut to a standard film length of about 90 minutes. Moreover, there is also the super assistant of Po. He is looking forward to what effect will be cut out with Po's help.

It was very decisive to decorate a dark editing room in the company, and immersed himself in it.

The era of the domestic shake film has passed, and the current stage of film editing technology has been on par with the international level in terms of equipment, and the film is directly scanned into a digital signal by the negative, and then stored in the hard disk, edited in the machine, and then done special effects, after everything is synthesized in the computer, and finally the finished film is made into a copy.

The boss had to complete the post-production of the film by himself, and the whole company was curious.

"Boss, your Longjing tea." Bai Xiaoya walked in with a teacup and peeked, "Can I see how it was edited?" ”

Happy immediately rushed people and said: "You have nothing to do, right, go to the entrance of Beiying and Chinese Opera to recruit." ”

"Cut, what's bullish, which company's boss will murder employees all day long." Bai Xiaoya put the teacup on the table angrily.

This "miser" attribute of the treasurer is really indispensable now. Originally, Bai Xiaoya came to the company for an internship, and the school had already opened at that time, but the crew was still filming intensively...... With such a tense shooting, interrupted by this kind of thing, can you imagine how big the fire will be? She had to make a choice.

Although this top student of the Finance Department of the Central University of Finance and Economics has not worked for a long time, he has already developed feelings for this small company, and finally decided to stay, which is equivalent to giving up his PhD for the sake of movies.

I didn't know that I was happy at the beginning, but after the movie was finished, I learned about Bai Xiaoya's sacrifice. He is not the only one who is paying for the whole movie.

Thinking of this, Happy immediately changed to a smile, "I'm still angry." Are you the boss or am I the boss? Editing is a quiet job, and you don't understand it. As soon as I interrupted, my efforts were all gone. ”

"Go out, and when the time comes, you'll definitely be the first to see the movie come into play."

It's good to say that Lai finally sent away the arrogant treasurer. The office lights dimmed, and Happy officially entered the editing state.

"Bao, let's start work, let's go through the film material as a whole."

"Yes sir." Po's magnetic synthesized sound echoed through the room.

It is also difficult for directors to edit their own films, because there will be strong subjective factors when filming, because there will be too many hearts in some places when editing, and they will be reluctant to give up, and they will often fall into the choice of tangled.

There are too many choices, if you can't solve it, you will be happy and even doubtful, and you will have depression when you finish cutting this movie...... Fortunately, there is still Po.

"Po, do you comment on the difference between these two shots? The way you think about it, think that shot is better. Once again, I was entangled in a pair of shots, so I had to ask Po for help.

"Sir, according to my analysis, the spectral hue of lens No. 2 is 35.235% similar to the average tone of the whole film, while the spectral hue of lens No. 1 is too different, only 1.3% similarity......"

"It can't be, it's such a big difference." Happy was taken aback, no matter how the two shots looked, they looked the same, and he argued with Po again.

"Yes sir, my analysis is accurate to the last thirteen decimal places. The database has scanned the 5,000 classic movies you have selected, and the comparative analysis shows that No. 2 is the most suitable choice. In addition, according to Walter Murch's six editing rules, the order of 'emotion, story, rhythm, visual tracking, spatial continuity, and two-dimensional plane' is emphasized. Excluding emotions and story factors that Po doesn't understand, the pacing, visual tracking, and continuity all have a higher proportion of similarities in the film library. ”

"Well, you win."

Happy reluctantly gave up, "Continue to the next one, shot 175." ”

"Sir, according to the classic case of the film library, it is more appropriate for you to advance the 175th shot by 0.02358 seconds." The screen flashed, and the No. 75 lens appeared on the monitor. Playing back and forth, comparing the before and after editing effects.

But if you rub your eyes happily, you can't see the difference.

“…… Whatever you want. ”

Happy also gradually found joy in editing, first let yourself integrate into the emotions and cut it, and then delete and adjust the places where you feel uncomfortable. In the end, let Po edit it in his own way and compare and analyze each other. It's like a classic "everyone finds fault" game.

From time to time, he quarrels with Po, and sometimes deliberately chooses shots that are contrary to Po's "authority" to show that his subjective factors are better than objective factors, but most of the time he loses.

After working for a week, the final version was finally determined.

Play it again from beginning to end, although there is no soundtrack, but the effect of excellence has made Happy Eyes shine. He kept comparing it with the original in his mind, and he felt that this version of the finished film was better than the original. And the choice of details also abandons the style of the original Brazil, which is more suitable for today's China.

For the first time, I also admitted in my heart that Po compares the top 5,000 classic movies in the world at every turn, "Maybe it's really an unknown scientific verification method." ”

"Bao, is the subtitle translation job completed?"

"Translations have been completed into 36 major languages around the world. Sir, do you need to check? ”

“…… Forget you. ”

Happy to be defeated again.