When "12 Years a Slave" was completed, the biggest news in Hollywood was not the start of filming of this movie or "The Expendables 2", the biggest news in Hollywood at present was that several giants signed a recommendation for Shao Yingying at the party, believing that Shao Yingying had made enough contributions to Hollywood, and asked Hollywood to give Shao Yingying the opportunity to leave a famous Walk of Fame.

When he saw similar news, Shao Yingying felt a sense of grievance that good things turned bad, on weekdays, he coveted the Oscars at most, and things like the Avenue of Stars didn't have much luxury, and now he seems to be asking Hollywood to give himself an outsider a little honor to increase confidence, anyway, it's not good to say, no matter what, it doesn't sound right. It's just that this matter was completely planned by Harry Sloan alone, and Shao Yingying's place in charge was to attend the party, and nothing else had been done.

As soon as the news came out, the response of netizens who paid attention to Hollywood was okay, and most of the netizens in Mi believed that Shao Yingying gave a due attitude, at least the posture was not placed in a particularly strong position like against the Hollywood media. As for Huaxia, this trend has not yet entered Huaxia, and Shao Yingying does not have to worry too much.

The next thing Shao Yingying has to be busy with is to put the post-production of the whole movie on the agenda, and this time, Shao Yingying has his own editing mind.

It's interesting to edit this thing, because when the pieces of the same camera are put together, they can create two completely different effects, such as a person who is smoking a cigarette in a room and has no expression on his face, and at this moment if he is connected to a plant shot. This articulation, then, represents silence; Instead, turn the clipped things around, and a plant appears in the sunlight first. Then there are people who smoke, which probably means that something has taken a turn for the better.

Early films are all short, just a single shot of a long shot, the length of the events is the same as the length of the shots, and only later do some directors start telling stories (simple stories that require more shots). In this regard, the academic community believes that the development of film narrative was facilitated by directors in France, England and the United States. In the early 20th century, directors had invented a practical style of editing. This is called 'continuous editing', and this method of editing is still used in feature films. This style of editing is a shorthand, long-standing habit. Continuity editing is not complicated because it does not fully represent the whole and retains the continuity of time. But it allows the audience to see the movie clearly at a glance very simply and clearly, and will not fall into the trap of some directors who are good at playing with editing techniques. Among them, the most representative use of continuous editing is the journey to the moon shot in 1902.

Of course, editing is both a technique and an art. There are also a variety of editing techniques. There is realism, classicism, formalism, and so on. Realism also includes passage shots (representative of the film "The Train Arrives") and continuous editing; Classicism is a more traditional classical clip, such as "The Birth of a Nation"; Formalism is divided into montage and abstract editing, and the representative works are Guerde's 32 very short stories and "Rhythm 21" respectively.

Perhaps these films are not familiar to most people now, after all, they are too old, even Gourd's thirty-two extremely short stories were completed in 1994, but there are also masterpieces such as Quentin's "Pulp Fiction".

There's a very classic scene in the Pulp Fiction movie where John Travolta and Uma Thurman are inside the restaurant. Including that dance is ...... In fact, the scene of this scene takes place in a small seat in a restaurant, and it stands to reason that the director can put two people in the same shot. Let them face each other, but this scene uses a different strategy. Travolta plays a drug addict who wants his boss to take his wife to dinner when he goes out of town. He was careful to deal with her frivolity and unconventional play, lest one of them would kill him, so he 'kept his distance' from her. So how can this 'distancing' be expressed in a small space?

Quentin first used traditional shots to distinguish between the traditional shots and the reverse shot technique during the shooting, emphasizing the psychological distance between the two of them, and then, when editing, the two shots were cut in half, so that the two of them presented each other's singleness in the shot, rather than sitting side by side close, when the editing was completed, the psychological distance between the two appeared at once, and the audience could understand why Uma Thurman was fascinated by the alienation of Trevolta, because this man is not the kind of pug who will be full of rumors and horns up as soon as they meet. He's not like any other man.

Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor's "Moulin Rouge" is also very special, this song and dance film is done with a very explosive short editing method, director Buzz Luhman's editing style is back to the big studio era Berkeley's kaleidoscopic editing method, the director focuses on the actors, music and style, not everyone likes his quick cut style developed from music videos and commercials, but this style appeared in Hollywood, for professionals, it, It's unique.

In Hollywood, the more famous editing techniques are full of jumps, such as the "Spy" that most fans must have seen, and the jump editing techniques helped the film to a higher level, and Matt Damon's amnesia made it no surprise that the audience was in a chaotic situation where he was skilled in weaponry, defensive and offensive skills, but couldn't figure out whether everyone who appeared in front of him was friend or foe. The beating clips shaped his memories, flickering from time to time, reinforcing his panic because he couldn't put them together.

Editing is such an interesting thing, it can be composed of scattered shots from the unreasonable to the reasonable, but also can make the normal narration of the story become reversed, so that the audience is confused. However, in Hollywood, where commercialization is becoming more and more serious, editing has also been very different from art films, and most Hollywood's requirements for editing are only two hard bars that are not allowed to be crossed, first, all films that enter the editing program must have a standard time; Second, no matter what you cut it into, it has to be understood by everyone when it comes to internal screenings.

Hollywood is not against artistic editing, however, playing artistic editing here must meet the above two points, the movie can sell well at the box office, and a movie without a good box office represents a niche, niche does not refer to the number of audiences of a certain type of theme, and the number of preferences, niche means that the movie is not accepted by most people!

Is art niche? Obviously not, because as long as these two words appear in front of anyone's eyes, they will be raised to a certain position to be worshipped, and art in today's world does not represent alienation, a word that has been accepted by most people, how to say that it is a minority?

In this world, as long as it is accepted by most people and exists, it is already the public, Shao Yingying never believes that the word art belongs to the niche category, if you play art and mess up, I'm sorry, please don't pull it to the niche side, just say that your craft is over.

Shao Yingying, who entered the editing room, has not personally manipulated any editing, and his understanding of editing is more often accompanied by the editor to tell people what kind of plot he needs, and then through the editor's technology, he is editing out what he needs, just like buying seeds and planting them in the ground, no matter what it looks like, at least he knows what is planted here and what grows. As for the details such as weeding, fertilizing, watering, etc., it is slowly being studied.

When the prototype of the movie that has been edited for the first time comes out, Shao Yingying first looks at it alone to see if it conforms to the ideas in his mind, and if it does, then he will jump out of the more dazzling and uncomfortable places like a gardener transforming the appearance of a growing flower bed, and when everything has entered the normal procedure, it will be carefully repaired over and over again.

Hollywood's understanding of editing style is actually to define style as the usual technique of a director or editor, just like Wang Jiawei's Gage stealing print, as long as people see this kind of thing, the first thing people think of must be Lao Wangtou, and he is by no means the creator of this technique.

Slowly, no one in Hollywood cares about the editing style, what they really care about is only insiders, they will have a deep impression of whose editing techniques are more special, for the audience, the editing techniques are just a tool to connect the story, but the audience is paying more and more attention to the level of the box office, and the movies that can get the attention of the audience at the box office will reach a higher height, and many good movies that have not been discovered will be ignored by the theater like selective blindness.

Not only Hollywood, but also the mainland now, "Second Gunner" originally scheduled for more than 40 episodes of the TV series cut a lot of things, leaving only the main line, many straight lines are changed to Spring and Autumn brushwork, and even in the documentary filming of this TV series, there are obvious traces of the deletion of the scene records when shooting those branch lines, and the brilliance of the actors and characters completely covers up the editing part that should be the most important flaw. What's more obvious is "Wu Fan Ye", the radio and television masters gave an order, do you want to see the full plot? Open your brain, if you don't open your brain, you won't be able to connect at all, or you won't say that the two lumps of round rolling kill people, at the beginning, the reputation of Lao Mouzi's pit was swept away, and now Fan Ye has been pit solidly.

Where is editing free?

At the awards ceremonies in New York and the Netherlands, there, many niche films that could not receive the public's attention were reflected in their original taste, and the niche here was not because of art, but because of the attention, the artistry in the hearts of fans around the world was increased due to the decrease in attention. Because it doesn't make money. (To be continued......)