"This is your improvised script!?"

Looking at the draft script Charlotte handed her, Jodie Foster was a little surprised,

"Rushed out in the last few days?"

“...... Yes. ”

Although this is not the case, Charlotte is not stupid enough to say what he has done in the last three days, he nodded,

"After watching "Legend of Sleepy Hollow", I was very interested in the adaptation plan you mentioned, so I rushed out a draft script. ”

"You ...... the script"

Judy groaned,

"It seems that the adaptation of the original book is very large!"

"It's inevitable!"

Charlotte spread her hands,

"The original book is Washington Irving's early 19th century work, and many of the conceptual differences are too great compared to this era. To meet the tastes of today's audiences, large-scale adaptation is a must!"

"That's true!"

Miss Actress was persuaded by Charlotte,

"So you introduced a lot of detective movie elements?"

"That's right!"

Charlotte gave a wicked smile,

"I'm actually curious to know what a follower of Sherlock Holmes, who believes in logic and reasoning, will look like when he encounters a real monster like the Headless Horseman. ”

"You're a bad person!"

Imagine that scene, the actress also covered her mouth and laughed,

"But I like the idea. ”

"In my plan, this will be a dark fantasy horror film. ”

Charlotte went on to state her plans,

"And after incorporating the elements of detective films, there may be some funny elements. ”

"Sounds interesting!"

Jodie Foster nodded,

"Speaking of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a film that was released more than a year ago, it seems to be called "Sherlock Holmes Returns""

"That movie!"

Charlotte suddenly remembered that he had seen the tape of that movie with Charlize before,

"It's a story about Sherlock Holmes coming to the modern world, and although it didn't come out at the box office, I personally think it's quite interesting. ”

"You've seen it too!?"

Judy suddenly became interested,

"I was still secretly ...... Ahem, anyway, is that what you want?"

"It shouldn't be the same!"

Charlotte frowned and thought about it,

"I would rather have a sense of fantasy and horror than ...... What can I say?"

His eyes suddenly lit up,

"I'll give you a rough demonstration!"

"Demo!?"

Judy was stunned by Charlotte's words, but the next moment, when she saw what the other party took out of her handbag, she jumped up suddenly.

"Why did you get this thing again!?"

What Charlotte was holding in her hand was the leather book that had confused her for a long time!

"Don't be nervous!

Charlotte hurriedly explained,

"Now the book, which I've revamped, has a special purpose. ”

"Special use!?"

Jodie Foster looked cautiously at the human skin book in Charlotte's hand, as if it was a beast that would choose to eat people at any time.

"Won't be again"

"Let's take a look!"

With that, Charlotte opened the human book.

"This is"

Jodie Foster was stunned for a moment.

On the pages of the human skin book, there is no longer a complicated ancient text, but a yellowed blank space.

No, that's not a blank!

Judy's eyes were fixed on it, and in the yellowed blank space, a black dot could be seen gradually enlarged

"This is the Headless Horseman!?"

Seeing the black dots gradually enlarge, and finally turned into a knight who was covered in pitch black, holding a battle axe, riding a black horse, but without a head, the pupils of the actress dilated suddenly,

"How did you do that?"

"Of course, something mysterious. ”

Charlotte shrugged,

"After killing the evil god, I studied whether I could use this book for waste. Later, I realized that I could directly use this book to visualize some of the images I had in my head. ”

"Like that?"

Judy stunned and pointed to the headless horseman on the leather book,

"It's really intuitive. ”

"It's not all," Charlotte smiled smugly,

"Look!"

With his words, the picture on the human skin book changed all at once

The pitch-black Headless Horseman suddenly moved, and in front of him, a panicked man appeared, fleeing.

The Headless Horseman galloped his horse, getting closer and closer to the man, and then

"Poof!"

Blood Splashes!

"Ahh

Although the picture on the skin book is closer to the animation, the real texture still makes Jodie Foster subconsciously exclaim.

"This thing ......"

The actress immediately realized the purpose of the human skin book

"You're not going to use this for pre-animation, are you?"

"Don't you think it's a good fit?"

Charlotte asked rhetorically.

In the process of filming, there is often a problem that a good script, or a good story, does not make a good movie.

The reasons for this are very complex, but if you exclude some human factors and consider it from a purely technical level, it is actually a problem in the process of the director transforming the text script into a dynamic picture.

In fact, the difficulty of converting from text to picture is so difficult that all directors know, which is also the reason why storyboard scripts are produced.

And most directors have good painting skills, just to be able to visualize the picture imagined in their minds according to the script.

However, even then, what can often be manifested is only a single static image.

Compared with a movie of at least 90 minutes, the embodiment of these other static images is simply a drop in the ocean.

And this is also the reason why movies are prone to pacing problems

Although directors can imagine the script as shots and pictures, it is too difficult for them to calculate the time required for these scenes in the imagination process.

So, when the directors shot all the shots they had in their minds, the problem arose

Some shots are smelly and long, and some shots are obviously short of time, and it is very easy to put them together, and the unreasonable allocation of ** points and flat areas is very likely to occur.

It's time for editors to save the world!

It's just that editing isn't a panacea.

Not to mention that some movies are simply hopeless, and even if they can be saved by editing, they often create a new problem

The narrative is not clear!

After all, editing, as the name suggests, is to cut out a part and splice it. The more you cut out of the original plot, the harder it will be to tell the story.

The production of a film is actually such a process of constantly solving problems, and then constantly generating problems.

And when the final problem can't be solved, the movie is basically not far from hitting the street.

Of course, this is a bit far away, and when it comes to the rhythm problems that movies are prone to, the root cause is actually in the process of transforming the film from a static script to a dynamic picture.

Will filmmakers sit back and resign themselves to this question?

Not really.

In some large productions, due to the abundant resources, the filmmakers will often make some simple animations before filming to further evaluate issues such as pacing and special effects scenes.

That's the upfront animation.

Theoretically, at least 60% of the problems in the process of converting static scripts to moving pictures can be exposed in the early stage of animation.

However, this is only theoretical, and due to cost and lead time, even the biggest productions of the 21st century rarely produce pre-script animations for the entire script.

This trick can only be used for some clips that the director attaches more importance to.

And now in the 90s of the 20th century, there are even fewer crews who can use this trick.

After all, the cost and time of making a pre-animation are very touching.

However, now Charlotte's human skin book has the possibility of turning the impossible into a possibility.