Subtitle of this chapter: Who said our Master Yuan was going to make a movie?! He's clearly ......

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"Brush lalalala......"

Mr. Victor Fleming himself acted as a projectionist, showing the wasted films one by one. In fact, "film" is the transliteration of film.

The only two spectators, Yuan Yanqian and Griffith, sat in the small dark room smoking cigars and cigarettes, and did not say a word from beginning to end.

"Brush lalala...... Hoo! ”

"Neo, it's all over."

“ell，ell，ell……”

Because the doors and windows were closed and the curtains were drawn, there was only the light of the projector in the room. So the big director and the cinematographer couldn't see the expression on Master Yuan's face clearly, and they didn't know if he was really appreciating or mocking.

"Whoa!"

"Smack, smack, smack!"

Yuan Yanqian stood up herself, opened the curtains and opened the window, then turned around and applauded: "Good Job!" Gentlemen, you have done a great job! ”

He's really not satirizing these two filmmakers, it's really good that they can make it like this with the current technical conditions.

In fact, the biggest difficulty of this long shot is the transformation of the three scenes from the village to the countryside, and from the countryside to the main road.

Of course, these three segments can be shot separately and then edited together in post-production. It's not that Griffith hasn't tried this approach, but after watching it, even screenwriter Yuan Da felt that filming separately completely lost the shock of the script.

The others are just fine. But for Master Yuan and Master Griffith, who are bent on holding back an epic film, they can't satisfy their ambitions at all.

Of course, in later generations, computers can be used to solve the flaws and mistakes, but in 1921, where to find an industrial-grade computer that could run 3DMAX?

But......

Just when the great director and the cinematographer were in doubt, our master Yuan walked to the workbench, pointed to the knives and bottles and cans, and asked curiously, "Is this what you use to edit?" ”

In these days, it is naturally impossible to convert images into digital and then edit them on a computer with software, and it is completely dependent on human manual labor. And this kind of editing work is not lofty at all, the simplest words, a pair of scissors and a bottle of super glue will do.

"yes, Neo. That's what we rely on......"

Mr. Victor was only halfway through his sentence when he saw Yuan Yanqian take off his coat. He couldn't help but ask, "Neo, what are you going to do?" ”

"What am I going to do?" Master Yuan picked up a pair of scissors, picked up another film, and said as a matter of course, "Of course it's editing."

"Oh, you don't have to worry about me, go about what you should be done......" he waved to the two of them.

"But ......"

"But ......"

Of course, these two wanted to take care of him, and immediately spoke out against it. Even if these are waste films, they can't be ruined by this layman.

Seeing that they didn't listen to him and had to persuade him again, Yuan Yanqian was not very happy to throw down the things in his hand, and stood up with a displeased face and said, "There is nothing to do, and there is nothing to do." Gentlemen, don't forget that I am the biggest investor! ”

"Please get out."

"But ......"

"But ......"

As he spoke, he pushed and shoved Griffith and Fleming out of the door.

"Gentlemen, please trust me......" Our Master Yuan stood in the room, shadows covering his face, while his black eyes flashed with a strange light, somehow making it impossible for the two to say words of dissuasion.

I only heard Yuan Yanqian say very seriously, "Because I am a miracle!" ”

"Bang dang!"

The big director wanted to raise his hand and knock on the door, but he raised his hand and did not fall on the door, but took out another cigarette and smoked it.

The photographer turned to him and asked, "David, what are we going to do?" ”

Griffith, who was smoking a cigarette, said sullenly, "We'll wait here for a while...... That's right, Victor. Go tell them to rest this afternoon. ”

So the two of them waited outside the door, and waited, and waited, from noon until the sun was in the west.

"Squeak!"

The door finally opened, and Yuan Yanqi, who was full of energy, walked out from inside.

He first yawned and stretched a big waist, then looked up at the sun in the sky, then looked down at the cigarette butts on the ground, and said to the two people outside the door: "David, Victor, so you have been waiting here......

Without waiting for these two to ask, our Master Yuan beckoned, "Gentlemen, come in." Take a look at the results of my work this afternoon! ”

Well, in fact, he didn't do anything this afternoon, just "wanted" to do something, and he slept when he had plenty of time.

David Griffith and Victor Fleming glanced at each other, both smiled wryly and shook their heads slightly, and reluctantly followed the Chinese into this small dark room......

"SBH is the shorthand for the post-production department within DreamWorks Films, which is actually an abbreviation for Small Black House. Perhaps it's because the early post-production of films took place in a small dark room, hence the quirky name.

Now if you ask anyone who knows anything about the history of cinema, he will tell you that the first stage of cinematic development can be divided into "before DreamWorks" and "after DreamWorks".

Before "DreamWorks", movies were all coarse, crude, and even vulgar in the world's mind. And after the establishment of DreamWorks, film became a real "seventh art".

However, if you know enough about DreamWorks, an epoch-making film company, you should know that movies should be divided into two types: "SBH-produced" and "non-SBH-produced".

The first post-production film in this mysterious department, whose members even DreamWorks middle managers did not know, was "The Orphan of Famine," which caused a worldwide sensation in 1921.

Regarding the artistic achievements and historical significance of this film, the author does not need to repeat it here. What is less known is that the film got into trouble during filming for technical reasons, and it was at that point in time that the "Little Black House" appeared, and this mysterious department, or mystery editors, solved the post-production of that famous long take.

In addition to the fact that their identities are unknown, we don't know what mysterious methods they used, and even so far no one has been able to answer.

In short, this or these skilled almost godlike editors have stitched together dozens of short shots into long shots that no one can see flaws. If it weren't for the fact that the cast and crew knew that Mr. David Griffith didn't finish shooting this long take, then everyone would have thought it was a real long shot.

In fact, the "supernatural" in the film "Famine Orphan Girl" is not only the long shot at the beginning, there are many visually outstanding clips in the whole film, which completely exceeds the technical level of the film at that time.

And all this has to do with that mysterious "little black house"! ”

——Excerpt from "The Little Black House of Dreamworks"