Los Angeles, United States, 7 January 1999.

The last scene of "Saving the Female Soldier Rachel".

It's still that run-down town, it's still the extras who play the German Nazis, and the American GIs, starring, Big Bird Lucci, Stormy, Abraham, John Kane, and other major supporting actors.

The crew, assistant director Bill Bunny, cinematographers, gaffers, make-up artists, and more, everyone gathered.

And Yi Feiyang stood tall on a military vehicle, ready to shout at the end.

"Guys, friends! I know that everyone has been working hard and working hard these days, and we are all looking forward to today! Yes, this drama is almost finished, and nearly two weeks of filming is coming to an end, so I want to say, please keep your momentum and don't drop the chain at a critical moment! Use this last shot to prove our glory! I ask you, can you do it? Yi Feiyang almost roared, and his voice resounded throughout the venue.

"Can—" Everyone made a deafening sound together, like a huge wave, about to overturn the entire set.

"So good, now, the photographer is ready, and the actors are all buried!" Yi Feiyang jumped down from the military vehicle and gave an order.

Everyone acted immediately, quickly and orderly. And there was an expression of excitement on everyone's face.

Seeing that everyone was in their place, Yi Feiyang took a deep breath, stood behind the camera, glanced at the surrounding scenes, and then used all his strength to shout: "All attention, the last scene of "Saving the Female Soldier Rachel". Three. Two. One, start shooting! ”

With Yi Feiyang's order!

The filming started immediately, only to see the blaster press the switch, and the explosives that had been buried in advance exploded in seven or eight places in a row, the earth flew, the walls collapsed, and then, the extras who played the German Nazis rushed together with the American GIs with guns in their hands!

Fierce battles. It's officially started!

Many people have watched American blockbusters, especially the American war blockbusters, which give people the feeling that the scene is grand and magnificent, and to put it in detail, the planes are roaring in the sky and the tanks are roaring on the ground.

However, as a small investment of more than 300,000 US dollars, it is impossible for Yi Feiyang to make up a heavyweight weapon such as an airplane and a tank, and it is impossible to make a fierce scene of thousands of troops fighting each other.

All he can do is capture the essence of a single element in battle.

Like what. Close-up of an American GI fighting a bayonet with a German Nazi. Both died in the trenches. Another example is a black soldier who saved a white comrade-in-arms who had always looked down on him for discriminating against him, but he was hit in the head by a Nazi evil bullet and fell to the ground......

What Yi Feiyang captured was the spirit and humanity of these people in the war. Although there is no too majestic scene, it can use these valuable details to move people.

Because there were too many Nazi enemies, when Colonel Miller led his small team to save Rachel from the enemy, his comrades died on the battlefield one by one.

Looking at these guys who followed him from the United States to the European battlefield, who were originally talking, laughing, and jumping around, leaving him one by one, seeing the blood staining their military uniforms and helmets, and staining this strange land, Colonel Miller only felt an uncontrollable sadness rushing out to the sky.

Faced with more and more Nazi enemies, he could no longer dodge, rushing out of the trench with a heavy machine gun and firing fiercely.

"Damn bastards, go die!" He cursed and resented, and vengeful bullets rattled from his machine gun.

The fire dragon formed by the heavy machine gun temporarily suppressed the Nazi enemies behind the wall, not daring to show their heads.

But in the building not far away, the German ace sniper Hoffmann had already turned his gun on Colonel Miller, who was venting his anger.

Seeing that he was about to gently pull the trigger, Colonel Miller was about to be shot in the head by a dark bullet!

Whoosh!

Shrill whistling!

Hoffman went limp and fell to the ground, a bullet piercing his forehead, blood gushing from his face.

At a sniper spot opposite, Rachel let go of the sniper rifle in her hand, then scratched the butt with a small blade and whispered, "Three hundred and eight." ”

Sniper game, over!

The last close-up.

Artillery fire rang out from the rear of the Nazis, and it turned out that the Allies came to support, Rachel found the immortal Miller, and the two supported each other, looking at each other and smiling in the fire and smoke.

The camera is frozen here, their backs are elongated, and behind them is a large area of blood-red corpses of their fallen comrades......

“cut！” When Yi Feiyang shouted to stop behind the camera, there was a cheer all around, Bill the Rabbit, Rudge Bird, the beautiful Stormy, and Abraham and others, as well as all the staff, everyone rushed out of the hall and hugged each other tightly, and there was a burst of champagne and thunderous cheers.

After two weeks of hard shooting, 14 days, and 336 hours of sleepless work, the big guy has finally waited for this moment!

They laughed, kissed, and even shed tears of emotion!

Looking at this group of "crazy" people, Yi Feiyang watched from afar, silent, because only he understood the joy in the heart of the big guy!

……

On the second day after completing all the filming of the movie, Yi Feiyang did not immediately rest or relax. On the contrary, pinching his fingers, there are still more than 20 days before the end of the Christmas schedule, and he must hurry up to get this drama on the picture, otherwise, he will miss a good opportunity to release it.

Of course, before that, the first thing Yi Feiyang had to do was to return those rented props. These things are veritable "vampires", each of which is not calculated in the sky, but in terms of hours and minutes, and it can be said that seconds are money.

As a good director, you must control the cost of shooting, what can be saved must be saved, and what can be reused must be recycled as much as possible, and Yi Feiyang has at least done a very good job.

In addition, although the movie is finished, it will only be busier in the future, because Yi Feiyang has to edit this drama himself!

Some people will say, isn't there a special editor for editing this kind of work, why bother yourself?

The reason is very simple, Yi Feiyang is not worried about those sharp scissors, let alone the scenes he worked so hard to shoot, which were cut into a mess, besides, TOP Film Company has no editing talents, so Yi Feiyang simply does it himself.

Actually, how important is the post-editing of a movie? It can almost be said to be equivalent to filming work. Editing is no simpler and easier than shooting, which again requires a lot of patience. The film material is selected, assembled, and then compiled into a smooth movie, and the editing can be said to be the second creation of the whole work, with different lens combinations, length of time, etc., and the resulting film effect is completely different.

If it's a blockbuster, you also need to consider dubbing, soundtrack, color, and a whole host of other things. Therefore, the general post-production work is very cumbersome, and the more beautiful the results come up, the more time it takes to process.

In particular, the play "Saving the Female Soldier Rachel" is an erotic movie with a war theme, and it is especially required that the soundtrack can be smoothly combined with the story content in order to show the background of that era, as well as highlight the character and fate of the characters, and stimulate the audience's sense of substitution when watching.

In terms of soundtracks, Yi Feiyang is not an expert, but after the previous life, he liked to listen to some American pop music and jazz tunes, so when editing, he would substitute himself as an audience to see what kind of music was more appropriate, whether it was American country, jazz, pop ......

This "Saving the Female Soldier Rachel" was filmed with nearly 300 minutes of satisfying footage, which includes a lot of flashy and temporary footage; Most of them are shots with different performance effects, such as several passion scenes between Stormy and Ruchi, where they need to be deleted so as not to affect the rating, where they need to be retouched in order to become more aesthetically pleasing, and where they need to be exaggerated in war scenes, where they need to be simplified, etc., all of which need to be examined by Yi Feiyang with the audience's eyes, and then make an editing effect, calling Rabbit Bibi and others to judge. After all, the more than 300-minute material can only be cut into a standard film length of about 90 minutes.

In the past few days, Yi Feiyang almost didn't eat or drink, he was really hungry, so he nibbled on a few mouthfuls of instant noodles and drank a few sips of boiled water when he was thirsty......

For some reason, Henry, the elephant, as an investor, didn't come to the crew again these days, nor did he call Yi Feiyang.

Yi Feiyang speculated that he might be afraid of disrupting his work, or that he was busy with some charity activities, such as carrying a spoon and becoming a chef at an aid station......

During this period, Anne Hathaway, who had initially established a hazy relationship with Yi Feiyang, came once, and looked at Yi Feiyang's exhausted appearance distressedly, but she couldn't do anything, so she had to quietly watch Yi Feiyang edit the movie, stay for a while, and leave without wanting to disturb him.

The fat man Gao Jiabao also came once, bringing a big bag of food and drink, and even barbecued pork buns from Chinatown, which made Yi Feiyang eat a big meal.

In short, in the past few days, Yi Feiyang has been like a nervous disorder, staring at the computer screen with a pair of eyes, constantly playing back the editing effect. The bitter rabbit Bill and others were called over by him from time to time to "watch" to see which clip was good.

As time goes by, the editing work becomes more and more smooth, and Yi Feiyang even adapts to this kind of endless editing work, because under his sharp "scissors", you can be surprised to find that many fragments can be changed into N different shots, and these shots can form many different stories.

This can't help but remind Yi Feiyang of the "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance 2" in his previous life, it is said that the original play was going to be filmed as a "tragedy" by director Li Lizhi, but the emperor disagreed, and deprived him of his editing rights after the worst, and temporarily handed it over to comedy director Wang Jing to edit, and Wang Jing lived up to expectations, picking and picking from those miscellaneous shots, and finally turned the tragedy into a comedy.

Therefore, the movie editing is really amazing, it can be a ghost counterattack, and the essence of the whole drama can be influenced! (To be continued......)