After the completion of "Gate of Destiny", Wang Qi began to devote more energy to the post-production of zuò. The most important thing here is, of course, editing.

Even though the film industry is beginning to pay more and more attention to special effects, the importance of editing is higher than special effects. Without computer special effects, you can still make a good-looking movie.

But, can you watch a movie without editing?

Some directors of literary films, and even directors of commercial films. It is often easy to make a mistake, thinking that it is better for the director to edit the film himself, and can retain more of the director's personal style and art. Many directors are even a little resistant to editors cutting their works.

But in the history of film, the emergence of professional editors is a great progress.

It is precisely because editors are often better at editing than directors that there is a professional division of labor in the film industry.

The final editing rights in the American film industry are in the hands of major film companies and producers, and even many big-name directors may not have the right to edit.

The reason why American film companies are keen to snatch the final editing power from the director is essentially to realize that the director's own editing of the film may not be the best.

Because, the director is prone to narcissism, and from his personal point of view, it is easy to feel that the films he has shot and cut by himself are already flawless, and there is no need to retouch the editing. But in most cases, it's not that the quality of the film is really that good, it's just because the director himself is making up for it.

The beauty that is not reflected in the film is stored in the director's own mind, and only the director himself can appreciate it. It is precisely because of the brain supplement that the director is prone to blind spots, and he can't see some defects at all.

But professional editing bystanders will not fall into brain supplements and delusions, and it is easier to see the flaws and flaws in the film. Therefore, the film cut by the editor may be more in line with the audience's taste.

This problem has been criticized by the predecessor of the film academy, the teacher Taishan Beidou Zhou Chuanji in the Chinese film industry. Zhou Chuanji is the teacher of Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, and in the international film industry, he is also at the level of a great master. When you give a lecture in any country in the world, the top directors have to listen to the lectures with an open mind.

It seems that Zhou Chuanji is a director who has great respect for editing, and most of his later academic research is studying editing and advocating the importance of editors.

Regarding Zhou Chuanji's point of view, Wang Qinian deeply agrees.

After Wang Qinian finished filming the movie, he spent money to Beijing Film Studio and entrusted Beijing Film Studio to help with editing and other post-production, but the price was not very expensive 50,000 yuan.

Of course, if you don't have acquaintances, you may not be able to hire a good editor.

However, Zhao Laosan, the lighting engineer of the crew, was originally an employee of Beijing Film Studio, and he knew the level of the editor well, so he specially invited the high-level editor of Beijing Film Studio to help edit and process the movie.

In this process, Wang Qinian and Du Jie communicated with the editor throughout the process to avoid the editor's operation, which was not in line with their creators' wishes.

In this process, Wang Qinian and the editor were busy for three days, preliminarily splicing and editing a movie shot with a length of about two and a half hours.

These shots are just spliced together and slightly cut to the original shots, and they are not formal edits. Therefore, the work is only a completed "first cut".

Next, it's the real editing!

"Cut it!" Wang Qinian gritted his teeth and said.

"Let's talk about it first, editing is risky, don't rely on me if something goes wrong!" The editor said.

"Well, I know, do my best to cut it!" Wang Qinian said.

Today's editing is still a traditional craft. Editors and directors cut out some cumbersome shots and pictures according to their own perceptions, so that the plot and shots of the movie are more streamlined and better-looking!

But now with film editing, I have a business trip, and I have no regrets to eat. In this era, some commercial blockbusters, in order to avoid editing problems. The film has been copied many times beforehand, and if one of the films is cut incorrectly, another copy can be returned and re-edited.

And Wang Qinian, due to limited funds, only made a backup. So, it's even harder to afford the cost of a clipping trip cuò!

So, as the clip progresses!

Every time the key moment is cut, Wang Qinian and Du Jie pinch a cold sweat on their heads, for fear that the editor will cut the footage.

The first cut was a drastic cut!

Later, it became more and more refined!

The further you go, the more critical it is......

In this process, Wang Qinian thought of expensive jade and jade sculptures, and many sky-high jade and jadeite, which were processed by those skilled masters.

Good processing can be the icing on the cake, so that its value has a higher increase on the basis of raw materials. However, if there is a slight operation error, it may often depreciate the value of a sky-high jade jadeite.

Editing is also the craft of this kind of fine operation, and the editor's editing of the shot is not only accurate to the second, but "frame".

The movies and animations that people see on TV, computers, and movie theaters look dynamic to the naked eye, but in fact, every second of footage is composed of frames of static images.

In general, movies and TV series are generally 24 frames per second. The higher the frame rate, the clearer the film is, and the less likely it is for the audience to perceive it as a painting. Some HD movies may take 48 frames or even 6o frames.

And some cartoons, compared to TV anime, generally use 12 frames to cut corners. The method of 12 frames was a pioneer in the Japanese animation industry back then, and it was already very cost-effective. The fewer frames there are, the more the viewer feels that this is a painting, not an animation.

In the domestic animation industry, in order to save costs, some people cut corners to make the frame rate of animation less than 12 frames, and only five or six frames per second, which can also challenge the lower limit of the audience.

Of course, that's all a stretch.

In short, Wang Qinian participated in the editing process, and the situation has been constantly changing. Often because a certain section of the shot is well edited, the lens is greatly enhanced and exciting.

Sometimes, the editor's mistakes make him feel almost unacceptable.

Of course, the advantage of an experienced editor is that even if he sometimes cuts wrong, he will find a way to make up for it based on experience, and sometimes, even if he makes a mistake, the changed shot looks more artistic.

After two weeks of editing, the editing of the movie is done!

In the process of cooperating with the editor Master Zhang, Wang Qinian felt that Master Zhang's theoretical level was not as good as that of the professors in the school, but his craftsmanship was really unique!

"Uncle Zhang, I obeyed you, you are the uncle, you are the teacher, I want to worship you as a master!" Wang Qinian has a deep understanding of the power of editors, and he is a bit shameless.

Du Jie studied photography, and it is not a bad thing to learn some editing, and suddenly, he also made an apprenticeship.

Although the editor Uncle Zhang was a little proud, he also pretended to be calm and said: "Editing is not so easy to learn!" In addition, don't think that apprenticeship, you can get a discount if you ask me to cut a film in the future, that's no way! ”

"Master, if you accept us, there will only be filial piety, how can you suffer?" Wang Qinian: This is completely shameless rhythm. The purpose of apprenticeship is not simple.

Such an awesome editor, if he apprentices, won't he be the first to get the moon in the future, and he can get the master's long-term technical support?

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