What is Montage? The so-called montage is the transliteration of the French Montage, which was originally an architectural term, meaning the spatial structure and composition of the building. With the development of visual arts, the word extends to the film industry, and montage has existed since the birth of film, and the meaning of montage in the academic language of film is not complicated, that is, visual art, and in popular terms, it is the use of lenses.

Pushing, pulling, rising, descending, long shots, gradients, overlaps, wide field shots, and more are all montages.

The use of lenses has a profound impact on a movie, representing the director's own ability and view of the film, the same plot of a movie will achieve completely different effects with different montage shooting techniques.

There are also some directors who insist on using depth-of-field lenses and long shots to adhere to the purity of the film, believing that only the most original films can arouse more resonance with the audience, but the development of the film and television industry in modern times has almost eliminated this kind of director. Therefore, if you want to make a movie, it is very necessary to learn montage.

Once the decision was made to make a film, Harvey's time went from being plentiful to being pressed against the clock to get everything done at hand.

There are no movies in this world, so basically everything needs to be arranged by Harvey himself, and to put it bluntly, the success or failure of the world's first film depends on Harvey himself. Harvey needs to write the script of the film, learn the techniques of filmmaking from the Endless Library, and at the same time continue to refine the Crystal, at least before the official start of filming.

Harvey's arrangement for the Brenda Theatre Company is to find suitable actors as soon as possible, although the Brenda Theatre Company is large, it is not enough to make a movie, drama and film are fundamentally different, and Harvey is not sure whether the theater actors can play the role of a good movie.

The theater was originally intended to play a propaganda role, and Harvey also assigned some work to Jared in the face of manpower shortages.

After returning home, Harvey stayed up all night focusing on rewriting the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" into a movie script, which is much simpler than the novel film script writing, simplifying the important information in the novel, including time, place, characters, and events, so that the actors can know what they should do when performing, what kind of expressions they should show, and what lines to say.

In one night, Harvey wrote the script for the first half of "The Count of Monte Cristo", and the script stopped at the scene where the Count of Monte Cristo re-meets his unmarried Mercertes. Harvey's habit of writing with spells, and with novels as references, the speed at which movie scripts are written can be described as appalling.

In the early morning, as the sky grew brighter, Harvey laid out on a separate blank sheet of paper all the things that needed to be prepared, based on the first half of the script that had already been completed, mainly arranging the cast of the Brenda Theatre Company.

"The makeup techniques in this world are not as brilliant as they are in modern times, and it is very important to choose an actor who looks and has the right temperament."

"The Count of Monte Cristo, Mercetes, Haydai, hmm..."

"Haidai is the daughter of the governor of Ali, she is of noble birth and has an excellent appearance, and she is not the eldest lady type in the novel, and she can express her love for the Count of Monte Cristo very passionately and bluntly, and Eva's actor Christy Isaiah has a very suitable temperament."

"What's next for Mercetes?" Harvey's consciousness moved, and the planner floating in front of him automatically fell to the table, and he began to ponder the search for a suitable actor for the role. He already had the best answer in mind, and every time he wrote about Merce, Tess Harvey, he didn't consciously think of his maid Shirley.

Gentle and elegant, with glasses added to the intellectual beauty.

But Shirley has no acting background, and Harvey doesn't plan to let his maid show his face.

After several ideological struggles, Harvey still couldn't find the best actor for the Count of Monte Cristo and Mercetes. Maxwell, the owner of the Brenda Theatre Company, is a veteran theatrical actor in his own right, and his temperament and appearance have many similarities with the Count of Monte Cristo, who was imprisoned for more than ten years, and can be listed as one of the reserve candidates.

Harvey was considering whether he should go into battle himself, directing and acting himself, he has no acting background but has a wealth of knowledge and experience, and now he has changed his previous frivolous image and has an advantage over Maxwell in playing the young Count of Monte Cristo.

The point is that he himself is a little unable to pull down, as the author of "The Count of Monte Cristo", a spellcaster actually went to be an actor.

Harvey stared at the planner in front of him, and the black handwriting on the white paper gradually faded into something else: "If she becomes the Count of Monte Cristo, Christy Isaiah can play Mercer Tess as a girl, and Shirley plays Mercer Tess after she gets married, and Haydai plays the role of Celestial..." Diana..."

Harvey patted the back of his head and shook his head with a smile, dispelling the idea, if nothing else, Diana's haughty personality could not have agreed to become a theater actress.

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The next evening, Harvey and the members of the Brenda Theatre met again at the Theatre, and Harvey simply handed Maxwell the list of The Count of Monte Cristo and asked them to choose the right actors. Maxwell was taken aback when he saw the cast, there were already more than ten or twenty leading and supporting roles combined, and there were all kinds of roles, and the scale of the characters was beyond his expectations.

Harvey handed the median spellcaster Kenneth Randolph a translation of his knowledge of photography, Kenneth was proficient in illusion, had a deep understanding of visual perception, and was exposed to modern lens art knowledge, and was fully qualified to become a professional photographer. After Kenneth watched Harvey's summary of the use of the camera and the filming technique, he looked at Harvey with the same eyes as if he were looking at a monster, he was already about to believe in the legend about the Adrian family, and Harvey must have exchanged knowledge through demons.

Inside the conference room

Jared stood up and asked, "Harvey, what should I do?" ”

Seeing that everyone else has an important division of labor, he is also a little impatient as a representative of the drama theater, and he is ready to do a big job.

Harvey picked up a suitcase he had brought with him and put it on the table and opened it, revealing the colorful barron pounds inside, a large amount that made the others look straight at once. Harvey took out a portion and handed it to Maxwell: "Mr. Brenda, these are the funds advanced to the Brenda Theatre for the event, and the rest is for you, Jared." ”

Jared looked at the thick dozens of stacks of barrons and swallowed his saliva, he really hadn't seen so much money when he was so big, and he stammered in a trembling tone as he weighed one of the stacks: "I said... Harvey, this... How much money is here. ”

He couldn't count how much money he had, but he didn't know if he had a tenth of the proceeds of a show in the theater! Remembering that Harvey is the author of "The Count of Monte Cristo", I also feel relieved that Harvey can come up with so much money.

"Pay fifty thousand barrons to the Brenda Theatre Company, and one hundred and fifty thousand barrons to the Evan Theatre."

No matter what Jared said, he was from a noble background, and after being dazzled by Barron's eyes, he calmed down and asked cautiously: "Okay, what do you want me to do with so much money?" Let's talk about it first, I'll sell everything but my life! ”

"Didn't I already say yesterday, this money is for filming, if you want to use it for anything, first you need to prepare the costumes of the Kingdom of Augustine, and secondly, rent a medium-sized wooden sailboat, prepare wedding props, etc. Any one of these costs a lot, and all of them may add up to more than 150,000 balun pounds, so for now, you just need to think about preparing the props that you need to use in the early stage. ”

Harvey touched his chin and muttered, "Anyway, let's try to shoot a trailer first." ”

Trailer!?

The others figured out the meaning of the word in their hearts, and now everyone in the meeting felt Harvey's determination, but it was difficult to say that hundreds of thousands of balun pounds were placed in front of them without feeling the determination.