In early September, a pier in Yau Ma Tei.

Li Zicheng (Zhou Runfa), who was wearing a torn suit, was smoking a cigarette in one hand and holding a watermelon knife wrapped in old newspaper in the other, walking out of a row of low buildings, people and cars on the dock, when Ah Cheng's few slightly curly hair fluttered in the sea breeze, he said to the front side as he walked, "Hang Mao, hurry up!" ”

Ding Qing (Wan Ziliang), who was small-headed, ran out with his pants and walked side by side with Li Zicheng, "I'm sorry, I urinate frequently when I'm nervous, I'm sure I'm fine, it's really strange." ”

Then the two of them walked forward in small strides in the fish pens, sweepers, and porters on both sides of the dock, Ah Cheng just continued to smoke two puffs of cigarettes, Ding Qing turned around, and ran away crampedly, "Come back when I finish peeing." ”

Li Zicheng was so angry that he almost dropped his cigarette, and when he opened his mouth to shout, Ding Qing ran farther and farther.

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After a while, Zhao Donghuai, who was sitting behind the viewfinder, said loudly, "Click, it's over!" Fixing! ”

Filming started in mid-July, and now it will be finished in early September, which is still under the confidence that Zhao Donghuai has almost all the storyboard scripts in his mind.

This new world, compared with many Hong Kong films of this era, is considered to be slow to shoot, not to mention that this is still the completion of the crew, and it will take time for post-editing, dubbing, soundtrack, etc.

This made Director Zhao sigh with emotion, he had at least five or six scenes.

The good news is that he went to the mainland for the second time to trade the waste paper shipped back from Ah Mei's house, and at that time he took out more than one million, and at the end of August, he got 6 million Hong Kong dollars from several paper mills in Jinhai, Ludong and northern Hebei provinces.

At that time, I filled in the more than one million funds of the crew, and there were still more than 4 million in my hand.

I have money in my hand, and I don't panic in my heart.

More than 4 million, when he is busy with the crew and finishes the sample editing, he plans to take the time to buy a big house to live in before the release, and buy a few cars to attach to his Zhao International Trade banner.

It's only been 83 years, and the current housing prices on Hong Kong Island are still at a low point.

Buying a house is basically not a loss.

In 83 and 84, the average house price in Kowloon fell by 5,601 feet, but in 87 it rose to more than 800 feet, and at that time, Kowloon Tong and Tsim Sha Tsui had already exceeded 1,000.

Breaking a thousand feet is tens of thousands of square meters.

In 1990, the average price was 151 feet, and Yau Tsim Mong and Kowloon Tong would only soar to the 2,000 foot mark.

With Zhao Donghuai's words, the behind-the-scenes staff of the crew breathed a sigh of relief, called it a day, turned off the machine, and so on.

Wan Ziliang, who was playing Ding Qing, a man with frequent urination, and Ah Fa immediately cheered.

Zhao Donghuai pressed the loudspeaker and said, "We have been busy together for nearly two months, in such a time, how is the quality of the film shot by our crew, I believe everyone also has a rod and scale in their hearts, I won't say anything more, the finale banquet in the evening, everyone who can come." ”

"When the editing is over, I wish myself a box office hit, and I also hope that everyone can use this resume to take their careers to the next level!"

When the voice swept the audience, the cheers of the crew near the pier became louder.

Yes, we have been working together for almost two months, both during the day and at night, even if this is not the digital age.

This is the era of film, how do you shoot something, basically only wait for a roll of film to be printed, you know, that is still a professional can understand, the nature of the audience has to wait for the end of the editing, dubbing and soundtrack.

But whether a crew is good or bad, and what level of things are filmed, everyone has a rod and scale in their hearts.

In the cheers, many people ran to Zhao Donghuai's vicinity and said goodbye to him warmly.

This is also a short goodbye, everyone goes back to wash and scrub, and see you at the final banquet.

Zhou Yanfa came over in a ragged suit, rubbed his messy hair, and said with a smile, "Director, we will definitely sell at the box office, we will!" ”

Wan Ziliang also nodded excitedly, "I estimate that after the film is released, the image of my big brother with frequent urination will suddenly be famous in Hong Kong, haha~"

One of the two protagonists has been in the industry for six years, and the other has been in the industry for ten years, so they know how the movie is.

Zhao Donghuai also laughed, "If you want to be stereotyped as Brother Urine Pin, it can only be said that your acting skills still need to be improved, okay, call it a day!" See you in the evening! ”

The ordinary crew is now at an end, and he is still busy as a director.

In the evening, I had a casual finale banquet, and then I took a roll of film to the Clearwater Bay studio, which was the largest studio of the Shaw Brothers, and at its peak, two or three thousand people worked here together.

There are no idle studios for more than a dozen studios, which are much larger than Golden Harvest, and the Golden Harvest Studio, which is located on Axe Mountain Road, only has four shooting areas in ABCD.

Similarly, here at Shaw Brothers, there are professional office areas for post-production processing, editing, recording, etc., which are handed over to the printing agency to print first, and he leaves four bodyguards to flash people.

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A few days later.

Director Zhao returned to the set of Clear Water Bay, and what he started was editing.

Film editing is also the top priority, almost frame by frame, a little bit of dubbing, color grading, retouching, etc., the specific process is to hang the printed copy on the editing table, while turning the hinge, holding the scissors over and over again, clicking, very delicate and detailed.

In the mainland of the 21st century, the sample films made by most directors are about 10 to 1 compared with the edited results.

For example, shoot 1,000 shots, select 100 in the end, and edit them together to form a 90-minute movie, and 90% of the shooting materials have to be discarded.

How to choose, you can imagine how difficult it is.

It's a lot of torture for directors and editors, you have to look at all the footage from cover to cover and know which shots to cut and which to keep.

It is estimated that the editing that encounters the difficulty of choosing can be tortured miserably, and the editing is not good...... A good movie can become a big bad movie! Editing is known as a three-degree creation.

Many editors are also the same as art directors, the film is still in preparation, and it is about to start, and the understanding of the entire story line must catch up with the director.

But for famous directors such as Jiang Wenzhi, it is not uncommon for the ratio of shots to 50 to 1 between the sample film and the finished film. In this era, there is also a magical director in sunglasses, who understands everything.

The typical representative is Hollywood's Heavenly Dynasty, a director's cut version and a theatrical version, and the gap is too big to say.

Editor, Zhao Donghuai is looking for Mai Zishan, who is also a famous name in later generations, but he has cooperated with Xu Ke the most, A Chinese Ghost Story Part 23, Qingxia version of Dongfang Undefeated, Li Lianjie's version of Huang Feihong 2345, Double Dragon Club, Fengyun and so on.

A whole bunch of masterpieces.

In the mid-eighties, he hung up with Lao Xu and became one of Director Xu's signature subordinates.

Zhao Donghuai here, compared with the sample shot and the finished product that he wants to edit in the end, the lens ratio is two to one, which may not be enough.

Don't think that movies with this proportion are too rare, in the Hong Kong Island movies of the 80s, such as Fat Tsai Jing, who finished filming one in more than a week and one in two or three weeks, he ignored some shots in pursuit of speed.

Do you think those fast gunners can go for the 10-to-1 ratio of most normal directors? The films created by the fast gunners are also the norm to be a little bit to one.

In the studio, Mai Zishan watched all the finished films again, and then compared the storyboard scripts he had seen a few times before, and shook his head with emotion, "Director Zhao, if the editing is as simple as yours here, then my work will be much easier." ”

The number of one-to-one pairs of shots, as well as the perfect storyboard script.

This job is too difficult.