Chapter Forty-Eight: Be Cold
The crew of "Crow" is in a small village in southern Shaanxi.
It's a relatively backward place, and everyone lives in yellow adobe houses.
Looking at the rows of historic adobe houses, Feng Kai was a little incredulous.
He originally thought that the quality of the temporary houses in "Mine Bottom" was worrying, but he didn't expect that the quality of the adobe houses in "The Crow" seemed to be even more worrying.
The conditions of the crew are very hard, when the cold melts, you don't even have hot water, lying on the bed, itching all over your body, and you can often see fleas......
There is a song called "Mountain Road Bend", which depicts a small closed village, and the tractor has to walk a long, long mountain road to transport food out and then exchange it for some basic living materials.
When the crew went up the mountain, they did not take a van, but an old electric mountain wheeler, and the crew's equipment was placed in each mountain wheeler, and people took turns pulling it up.
There is no stone road, no cement road, no oil road, the whole process is muddy, and even around the mountains a little to the side is the cliff playful, which makes people tremble. It's cold!
This kind of suffering is not because of investment, it is completely required by Wang Shuai.
Not only do they have to walk the mountain road a lot, but they even have to live for a month in this small village where birds don't poop, and when they go down the mountain, they have to use whatever the villagers use.
Director Wang Shuai requested.
He demanded that realism, and he felt that the real realism was not a performance, but a figure that came from the heart.
After Feng Kai went up the mountain, the whole person vomited to death, tossed into a trance, and felt that he was going crazy.
However, everyone in the crew squinted at him, and occasionally showed a burst of disdain and disdainful private ridicule.
Feng Kai knew that they looked down on him.
Look down on it from the bottom of your heart!
They feel that he is not rich enough in spirit, has no understanding of art, and does not have a sense of piety for movies.
Well, like an embroidered pillow.
Feng Kai really couldn't bear this feeling, he had insomnia on the first day in the mountains, and after being bitten by fleas and not knowing how many bags on his body, he felt very painful and lonely!
He used to be a man of the stars and the moon.
And now......
Wang Shuai also followed up the mountain.
Although he took Feng Kai's notebook and stayed in the director's room all day, he rarely paid attention to Feng Kai.
Occasionally met in the pit, Wang Shuai just nodded at him expressionlessly, which was regarded as a greeting.
Feng Kai felt like an abandoned outsider, full of self-doubt and despair.
But......
In Wang Shuai's inadvertent words, Feng Kai realized that the movie "Mine Bottom" may be very awesome!
There are no edited movies, so Wang Shuai holds them all day long, and seems to be pondering, and occasionally watches them with the crew, so the edited movies may be ......
What the can I make it to Berlin?
But......
That movie was obviously made by him!
He also helped with most of the shots, and Zhou Yang didn't know much about photography skills at all!
Why do these people still look down on him?
Why!
This emotion has been echoing in Feng Kai's heart, and several times, he wanted to directly ask Wang Shuai for a showdown to explain his importance in "Mine Bottom", explaining that if "Mine Bottom" did not have him, it would not be filmed at all......
However......
"Director Wang, why don't you let this straw bale go? I see this guy staying here all day and not understanding anything, what is this drag bottle doing here? That's not how the Cypriots are stuffed, right? ”
"Wait a little longer......"
"Director Wang, I don't think I can wait any longer, if the movie "Mine Bottom" is really participated in by this guy, then why don't the editors let him participate in the cutting, but they still have to stuff our crew at the critical time of the movie? I think this guy is an authentic relation, who came to brush up on his qualifications, and he himself admitted that the director of this "Mine Bottom" is Zhou Yang, the screenwriter is Zhou Yang, and the starring role is also Zhou Yang...... I don't deny that even the material of this movie is shot at a very high level, but what does this level have to do with him? ”
“……”
Feng Kai heard the chattering sound next to the earthen house.
Suddenly, his mentality was a little broken.
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Zhou Yang, who was immersed in editing and learning, didn't pay attention to what was going on outside.
He just felt like a sponge, frantically absorbing all kinds of water and nutrients.
Every day after getting up and having breakfast, he squatted in the editing room and watched the dailies over and over again, constantly pondering the shots, recalling the plot of "Blind Well".
When the staff is editing, Zhou Yang will pick up a small notebook, and write down all the shortcuts and operation methods of the video editing software in the notebook, if he encounters a little problem that he doesn't understand, he will ask as soon as possible, if the staff can't solve it, Zhou Yang will write down the problem, and after a busy day's work, lie on the bed and continue to read the relevant books to find the answer.
In fact......
It's not difficult to learn the software, learn all kinds of editing basics and post-production.
The really hard part is the art of editing.
Art is really very difficult to understand, and it's not something you can achieve with a lot of effort and effort.
This thing is pure talent!
Inevitably, Zhou Yang had an indescribable sense of frustration deep in his heart.
He has felt that he has no artistic talent more than once, and even the more he learns these tedious lens arts, the more he feels like an ignorant fool, very unsuitable for the film industry!
Even......
He is not suitable for even the most basic video editing.
He only knows the skill of cutting, but he doesn't know what it means to cut like this, and what kind of feeling it will give the audience......
He felt ashamed.
Self-confidence is starting to take a bit of a hit.
Of course......
Although his self-confidence was hit, the editing process of "Mine Bottom" was not cumbersome, and the time was far less than he imagined, after all, when filming, Zhou Yang was already strict to the point of demanding details, and after the film was carved, there would not be so much.
February 7, year 29.
"So be it!"
“……”
When the last version of the sample was cut, Zhang Lei looked at Zhou Yang very carefully.
When he saw Zhou Yang frowning for a long time and finally nodded, Zhang Lei breathed a long sigh of relief, and the whole person almost collapsed on the chair.
He felt relieved!
Although "Mine Bottom" completed the editing work ahead of schedule, Zhou Yang's strictness made his nerves collapse for a while, and he was busy until nine o'clock in the evening every day, and more importantly, Zhou Yang would not even let him sleep well, knocking on the door of his dormitory early every morning, and after knocking on the door and coming in, he would always ask some strange questions......
Working with Zhou Yang is definitely a very torturous thing.
But......
Finally finished filming!
"Good work!"
"It's not hard, it's not hard, Director Zhou, are you sure you won't go home for the New Year?"
"No ......"
When Zhou Yang got the sample, he watched it several times, and finally after he couldn't pick anything, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
It's just that then, he felt that he was cut very awkwardly, and he couldn't say what was awkward, and Zhang Lei, Qian Wei and others couldn't say either......
Just as he was leaving, Zhang Lei's inadvertent question made him tremble slightly in the depths of his heart, diluting the awkwardness.
Family?
The company is his home.
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"Knock knock."
"Come in!"
"Mr. An, "The Bottom of the Mine" has been cut, you can take a look at it a little."
"Okay."
Zhou Yang hadn't seen An Xiao for a long time.
When he saw it again, Zhou Yang still felt amazing.
An Xiao was wearing a pair of rimless glasses, her slightly curly hair was draped casually over her shoulders, soft and smooth, and she was wearing a beige small fragrance suit, and the top two buttons were not buttoned, revealing the lace base inside......
At this moment, she was looking down at a report, two strands of hair hanging down to her ears, and the wind was blowing, moving slightly.
Zhou Yang's hanging hand couldn't help but hook, and his eyes turned to the side of the coffee machine.
"Here we are." Seeing Zhou Yang, An Xiao rarely showed a smile, put down the document, raised his hand and stroked it gently, and the hanging hair was hooked behind his ear.
"Coffee?" As he spoke, he got up, revealing a pair of straight and slender legs, smooth and delicate, that is......
Isn't she cold?
"No, no." Zhou Yang became more and more at a loss: "Mr. An, this is a cut movie." ”
Zhou Yang stretched out his hand and handed her the USB flash drive from afar.
"Poof." An Xiao laughed, plugged in the USB flash drive, and looked at it seriously.
"Sit, don't stand like this, otherwise I think you have to look up......" When she realized that Zhou Yang was stupid, she showed a little helplessness, "Don't be so restrained, just treat it as your own home." ”
"Oh, good." Zhou Yang nodded and sat opposite An Xiao, but still didn't look at her directly.
"Hmm...... There is one place to change. ”
"Where?"
"You can't add Director Feng ...... in the director column"
"Huh? Why? ”
"Director Feng himself strongly requested, and including the trailers or shooting records that will be shown in the future, you also have to cut Director Feng out......"
"He asked for it too?"
"yes, that's what he agreed on when he directed this film, I'll show you."
"Oh, good" Zhou Yang glanced at the agreement requirements that An Xiao took out, and saw that the first column was not allowed to add his name in any way or form, nor was he allowed to appear in any way.
"However, Director Feng has a role ......"
"That's okay, as long as he agrees."
"Oh, okay!" Zhou Yang nodded honestly and wrote down all the revisions in his notebook.
"I'll keep looking."
"Okay."
Just as An Xiao was about to watch the movie seriously again, her phone rang.
When she answered the phone, a hint of surprise suddenly flashed in her slightly cold eyes.
"You've arrived! Good! I'm in the office! ”
“……”
"Director Zhou, Wang Shuai, Director Wang and the others will come in, you don't have to be nervous, be natural...... Well, it's better to be a little cold......"
"Huh?" Zhou Yang was at a loss.
What does high coldness mean?