It was March 6, 2001.

"When Happiness Knocks on the Door", which has been filmed for a month, has finally come to completion.

On this day, everyone's mood was very nervous, after all, they had been suffering for more than a month, and what they were waiting for was today.

The filming location was an office of the Dream Entertainment Company, and Yi Feiyang instructed people to decorate it to look like a stock investment company, arranged hundreds of telephones, and let some employees of the Dream Entertainment Company act as extras, and their job was very simple, that is, pretending to be a stockbroker to pick up the phone and pretend to make a phone call to solicit customers.

Because the scene was a bit big, Yi Feiyang was afraid that the scene would be chaotic and difficult to grasp during the official shooting, so he asked the gang to audition.

The guys who have never acted before are also acting well, but Yi Feiyang still told them, "Don't look at the camera later, you can just be yourself." ”

Looking back, Yi Feiyang found the starring Will Smith again and told him about this scene.

This scene is very important as a finale drama, mainly about the male protagonist "Ganard" played by Will Smith after working in a stockbrokerage company, working hard for his dream, and finally using his sincerity and enthusiasm to finally impress the customers he knows, make the first transaction, and take a solid first step towards success.

"Will, it's up to you next!" Yi Feiyang said, "Do you have confidence in yourself? ”

Welsh Smith patted his chest, "Of course there is!" Let's get started, man! ”

……

The spotlights are turned on, and Charlie, as the gaffer, tries to reflect the surroundings of the office as much as possible. In this way, it will not be gone after the shooting. Or light leakage.

Cindy the photographer sits high on a boom. After a while, he had to follow the instructions of director Yi Feiyang, from top to bottom, looking down and filming the busy scene of the entire "stockbrokerage company".

This kind of scene can be seen in many Wall Street movies, but this time everyone shot it more realistic and intuitive than those.

As the director, Yi Feiyang saw that the scene was almost ready, picked up the loudspeaker and shouted: "The camera is buried, the actors are buried, everyone is in place......"

After a short pause, Yi Feiyang shouted, "Ike God! ”

Filming officially began.

High-altitude shots. The whole office is ringing, and everyone is busy, or talking on the phone, or taking a pen to record the amount of stock.

The camera slowly lowers, shifts, and close-ups of a black man standing silently in this chaotic "battlefield", looking at everything busy around him, encouraging himself: "Ganard, you can do it, yes." You can! You can't fail anymore, the trial period has arrived. If you can't make a deal yet, then you have to fuck off! ”

"Hey man, you can! Come on! Martin (Clinton), a white elite who helped Garnard join the company, walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and encouraged him.

As the camera progresses, Garnard takes a deep breath and smiles, "Yes, come on!" He picked up the phone.

I looked through the notebook and picked the client I thought was the most likely to persuade – John.

Garnard: Hello, John. You sent us a postcard a few weeks ago. Said that you want to inquire about high-quality stocks with a wide range of prospects, and it is very risky, remember?

John: yes, I'm interested.

Garnard: I'm calling today because, John, I just saw a stock, and this is the best one I've seen in half a year, and if you have a minute to spare, I'd like to talk to you, are you available?

John: Say, I'm really interested, the name of this company?

Garnard: Kongtai International, which is a high-end technology company, right in the Midwest, is about to be approved, a new generation of radar detectors, which are widely used in both military and civilian fields, and now, right here, John, this stock is now priced at $1 a share, and John, our analysts point out, it can go up far beyond that, and you can get a return of 6,000 just by spending $6,000 on your investment.

John: Oh my God, I can pay off the loan

Garnard: Exactly, you can use it to pay off the loan.

John: Is this stock safe?

Garnald: Jhon, even in this market, I can assure you of one thing - I don't have to peddle junk stocks to my valued clients, because your success is my success, and your failure is my shame! Yes, I have lovely kids to feed just like you, so let's try it together!

The other end of the line sank for a moment.

John: Well, for the sake of the child, I was touched by your sincerity! Buy it, I'll buy 4000!

Garnard was excited: That's 4,000 shares, John, I'll lock this deal now, and then ask my secretary to tell you the specific information, okay, John?

John: Okay, okay.

Garnard: Great, John, thank you for your vote of confidence, and welcome to our company.

John: Thank you, brother

Garnald: See you soon!

"Yes! I did it! I finally made my first business! ”

In the camera, Garnard jumped up like a child, tears falling from excitement, and everyone around him, led by Martin, applauded him.

The camera switched, and Ganard, whose face was full of excited tears, kept saying "Xie Lu Xie" to everyone around him, and then wiped a handful of tears, and he ran towards the gate, because he wanted to tell his lovely son the first time about this great news - "Dear baby, your dad and I have succeeded!" ”

……

At the moment when "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" was completed, the promotion of Colombia's "Boxing King Ali" entered the most advanced stage.

After spending a lot of money, Abbas invited several heavyweights in the world of boxing to tell the story of the boxing champion Ali on TV and trace the glorious deeds.

I have to say that for the American people who love boxing, this is a very good way to publicize. Almost all the ratings are far ahead of other TV shows.

Time. The expectation index for the drama "Boxing King Ali". directly surpassed Yi Feiyang's "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" and became the first in Internet searches.

In the face of such a situation, many movie audiences and film critics are no longer optimistic about "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", which is fighting with "Boxer Ali", for them, although the new film has not yet been released, the high and low have already had results.

""Boxer Ali" will definitely explode the street of "Happiness"!"

"Ali is our hero, what about the Ganard waiting to knock on the door, who knows what kind of birdman he is?!"

"We feel sad for China. The play has not yet been released, and he has already lost more than half of it, poor guy, may God bless him! ”

……

Yi Feiyang naturally scoffed at this. If Abbas is a man who wants revenge and doesn't care about money-making opportunities, then he doesn't need to worry about Abbas having the qualifications to be his enemy. But this is all good, at least Yi Feiyang thinks it is a good thing to have a challenger to let him show his authority.

Now, Yi Feiyang's only interest is busy with the post-production of "Happiness". The edited trailer has been shown on FOX TV, and magazines and newspapers close to Dream Entertainment have leaked out all aspects of the news. It soon whetted the appetite of the media again, and the craze continued until the second version of the trailer was released.

The entire "Happiness" crew, Yi Feiyang, is the busiest person. In the special effects department of Dream Entertainment, the post-production department is the post-production department. After Yi Feiyang dragged Will Smith to finish the narration for the film, he began to work on the preparation of the effect sound source again.

The sound source of the effect is the ambient sound in the film and the like. And all of this requires a skilled voice artist. Yi Feiyang is on the side, and he only needs to be responsible for telling the head of the dubbing team about his concept. Luckily, after the filming of "Happiness", each department approached their work with absolute rigor and enthusiasm, which made the post-production of the film extremely perfect.

For example, the sound of cars in the film, Yi Feiyang's effect is definitely not very noisy and loud, but a relatively light effect, so as to increase the perfection of the film and show the characteristics of rich people driving sports cars in that era. The recording team worked very seriously, and in order to match the few car sounds in the film, they proposed a lot of plans, such as using a loudspeaker to modify the sound sharply, giving people a feeling of being dustless together.

Even to match the sound of footsteps, such as Will walking down the street, it requires some empty space and some confident and very rapid sound. In fact, the recording team did a very serious job of this, and even Yi Feiyang admired it greatly.

And in terms of dubbing in subtitles and other languages, the talents that Dures instructed the human resources department to find are indeed elite. Among them, there are not only local language experts in Hollywood, but also Asian language experts in order to facilitate the translation into Chinese for release in Asia, and even foreign language professors as professional consultants.

Of course, language is definitely not translated literally, and Yi Feiyang has always felt that this is too stupid. So the translator basically doesn't translate exactly the literal, but analyzes the meaning of a certain line of dialogue in the film word by word, and when they turn it, they have to keep the dialogue and the atmosphere and style of the film consistent, which is definitely a very difficult thing.

Fortunately, Yi Feiyang has been preparing for all this since the formation of Fantasy, so in terms of pre-preparation and post-production, Dream dares to say that it is second to none in Hollywood and even in the United States.

Many people, including Dures, are puzzled by the fact that the boss Yi Feiyang attaches so much importance to the Asian market, believing that the only reason is that the boss himself is from Hong Kong. However, only Yi Feiyang knows that in the future, the Asian film market will surpass the European market and become the most important distribution place for Hollywood films, and what he needs to do now is to consolidate the resources here and lay a good foundation for the future.

Subtitling and dubbing are just a lot of technical work, but soundtracks and editing are extremely artistic work.

The soundtrack musician looked at the silent picture and asked Yi Feiyang: "Hi, dear director, do you want the sound and picture to be synchronized, or do you want the sound and picture to be aligned?" ”

Yi Feiyang knows that these two types are actually the types of techniques that the soundtrack usually chooses, and as a professional soundtrack, he actually started to create when he encountered a scene that might need a soundtrack during the filming process of the crew. In the later stage, it's basically a screening process.

Looking at the film screen, Yi Feiyang's fingers tapped gently, and the sense of rhythm made him gradually experience the inspiration of this creation. This time he will no longer rely on memory to choose the soundtrack. Suddenly, I opened my eyes. Yi Feiyang pointed to the picture of Will running around in the heavy rain on the screen: "This paragraph needs to be revised." But don't have too much rhythm! ”

In fact, this time Yi Feiyang chose the soundtrack technique of music and painting counterpoint. It is that the picture and the music are opposed, but vaguely unified, in order to create a sense of layering. Yi Feiyang didn't want to destroy the artistic conception of the original shots in the film, so he chose to score on the unimportant plot.

The soundtrack is definitely a very artistic work, which is not only about the music style and layout, but also whether the design can match the style and plot changes of the film. It is also necessary to make the beginning and end of each piece of music able to mobilize the mood and atmosphere of the film, and it must also match the sense of the picture, whether it is the director or the soundtrack. Just one oversight can lead to a situation where the soundtrack doesn't fit well with the film.

Soundtrack artists are not easy jobs, they often have to know a variety of instruments and instruments, and must also have a considerable degree of understanding of various music and materials, requiring the ability to control the length and rhythm of music. It's no exaggeration to say that the work of a soundtrack artist is definitely much harder than that of a piece of pop music.

The soundtrack Yi Feiyang chooses in this film is rarely because of the strong rhythm of the film, and almost every soundtrack is inserted in the way of seeing the seams. After completing this process, Yi Feiyang was not satisfied, but played all the films, and then experienced the feeling and said: "This soundtrack is deleted." This paragraph can be a little more intense. ”

The rest of the work is editing, in fact, there have been several processes before. The picture when Yi Feiyang created the soundtrack is the picture after the re-cut. The earlier editing was mainly to match Yi Feiyang's creative intentions, and unnecessary fragments were cut.

In front of the reverser and splicer, Yi Feiyang quietly enjoyed the film, in fact, the unedited film was simply not watched by people. Pointing to the part where Will and his son were sleeping on the street and had to hide in the bathroom for the night, Yi Feiyang squinted his eyes and said to the editor: "Here I want to cut out the ......"

Continuing to enjoy the film, Yi Feiyang kept pointing out his requirements. In fact, there is no need for Yi Feiyang to say, the editor probably knows what Yi Feiyang wants, because he has been following the crew and has a very deep understanding of the creative intention of the film, as well as the overall concept and character of the characters.

The editor had cut many films, but none seemed to be more special than this one in his memory. The biggest special thing is that this film contains inexplicable tearful factors from beginning to end, especially the father-son relationship depicted in it, which makes people feel extremely sad and moved after watching it.

In addition, it is not the first time that he and Yi Feiyang have worked together, and throughout the fantastic works, there are always very special novelties, which makes the editor very interested. This level of interest is not even taken to heart by how many big companies throw an olive branch to poach him. For him, being able to edit a good film is more tempting than what high salary.

In short, with the efforts of Yi Feiyang and the crew members, soon, the drama "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" will be released.

At the same time, Sony's Columbia also announced that the filming of "Boxing King Ali" will be released soon, and is ready to hold a grand premiere ceremony on March 12.

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On the day of the premiere, Columbia gathered all the famous Hollywood superstars to come to the show, and celebrities from business, politics, and various industries also came.

Abbas led the entire crew of "Boxer Ali", under the support of the president of Colombia, and became the protagonist of the whole premiere.

Compared with the premiere of "Boxer Ali", which took the high-end route, "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", which was released at the same time, was not-for-tat and extravagant. On the contrary, at the initiative of Yi Feiyang, this black inspirational movie was arranged to be screened in the poorest and most backward neighborhood in Los Angeles!

This neighborhood is where the black dad is located, Yi Feiyang, who had no money, no strength, and no status, premiered his first movie here, and it can be said that this is where Yi Feiyang made his fortune. It is also the neighborhood that supports Yi Feiyang movies the most.

More than three years have passed, and the neighborhood has changed a lot, the old poor and backward places have built new schools, shops, and movie theaters, the original scenes of queuing up to carry water are gone, running water has been installed in every household, the original scenes of black children playing football in the streets are gone, they have all gone to school, the bad guys who used to get together to talk about drugs and crime are gone, they have gone to work in shops, or become projectionists in movie theaters......

All in all, it's a sea change, and if you've been here before, you'll be amazed at how much it has changed. And these changes are all brought about by one person, and he is - Yi Feiyang!

Yi Feiyang has never been a sentimental person, he made a fortune here, and almost all the films after the establishment of the company were shown in the small cinema here, and after the success, he did not forget the supporters here, as well as the enthusiastic residents, so he spent a lot of money to renovate the environmental facilities here. The residents here have not forgotten him, so when they heard that Yi Feiyang actually premiered this important new film here, everyone in the neighborhood was excited.

"We're going to support him!"

"Dear Yi, our best friend!"

"God willing, this premiere will be a great success!"

A powerful spiritual force came out majestically! (To be continued......)