The crew of "The Crow" is in a small village in southern Shaanxi City.
This is a relatively backward place, and everyone lives in yellow adobe houses.
Looking at the rows of historic adobe houses, Feng Kai felt a little unbelievable.
He originally thought that the quality of the temporary houses in "The Mine" was worrying, but unexpectedly, the quality of the adobe houses in "The Crow" seemed to be even more worrying.
The conditions on the set were very harsh. When the ice melted, you didn't even have hot water. You were lying on the bed, itching all over your body, and you could often see fleas...
There is a song called "The Winding Mountain Road", which describes a small closed village. A tractor has to walk a long mountain road to transport food out and exchange it for some of the most basic living supplies.
When the crew went up the mountain, they didn't take a van, but an old electric mountain bike. The crew's equipment was placed in each mountain bike, and people took turns pulling it up.
There are no stone roads, no cement roads, and no asphalt roads. The whole journey is muddy. Even if you look slightly to the side of the mountain, you can see the cliffs, which will make people shiver!
This kind of suffering is not due to investment, but entirely at Wang Shuai's request.
Not only do they have to walk on mountain roads frequently, they even have to live in this barren little village for a month. During this period, when they go down the mountain, they have to use whatever the villagers use.
Director Wang Shuai requested it.
He demands that sense of reality. He feels that the real sense of reality is not something performed, but something that comes from the heart.
After Feng Kai went up the mountain, he was vomiting so much that he was in a trance and felt like he was going crazy.
However, everyone in the crew looked at him sideways, and occasionally made bursts of contempt and disdainful private laughter.
Feng Kai knew they looked down on him.
I look down upon it from the bottom of my heart!
They feel that his spiritual level is not rich enough, he has no understanding of art, and he has no sense of devotion to movies.
Well, like an embroidered pillow.
It was really hard for Feng Kai to bear this feeling. He suffered from insomnia on the first day on the mountain and was bitten by countless fleas. After that, he felt very painful and lonely!
He was once a man admired by many stars.
And now...
Wang Shuai also followed him up the mountain.
Although he took Feng Kai's notebook and stayed in the director's room all day long, he rarely talked to Feng Kai.
Occasionally, when we met in the latrine, Wang Shuai would just nod expressionlessly at him 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 "Mineral Bottom" might be awesome!
There was no edited movie, so Wang Shuai watched it all day long, seemingly lost in thought. Occasionally, he watched it with the crew, so maybe the edited movie...
Can he really be shortlisted for Berlin?
but……
He was obviously the one filming that movie!
He also helped with most of the shots. Zhou Yang didn’t know much about photography skills at all!
Why the hell do these people still look down on him?
Why!
This emotion has been reverberating in Feng Kai's heart. Several times, he wanted to go directly to Wang Shuai to explain his importance in "The Mine" and to explain that if "The Mine" did not have him, it would not be filmed at all...
However……
"Director Wang, why don't you let this idiot go? I've been watching this guy stay here all day and I don't understand anything. What's the purpose of putting such a drag bottle here? That's not how people are imprisoned, right?"
"Just wait a little longer..."
"Director Wang, I think we can't wait any longer. If this guy was really involved in the movie "Mineral Bottom", then why didn't the editors let him participate in the editing and instead forced him to join our crew at the critical moment of the movie? I
I feel that this guy is an out-and-out well-connected person who came here to brush up his qualifications. Moreover, he himself admitted that the director of "Mineral Bottom" is Zhou Yang, the screenwriter is Zhou Yang, and the starring role is also Zhou Yang... I don't deny it.
Even the material of this movie is shot to a very high standard, but what does the standard have to do with him?"
"..."
Feng Kai heard chattering sounds next to the earthen house.
He suddenly lost his temper.
…………………………
Zhou Yang, who was immersed in editing and studying, didn't pay attention to what was going on outside.
He just felt like a sponge, frantically absorbing all kinds of water and nutrients.
After getting up and having breakfast every day, he squatted in the editing room and watched the dailies over and over again, constantly thinking about the shots and recalling the plot of "The Blind Shaft".
When the staff is editing, Zhou Yang will pick up a small notebook and write down all the shortcut keys and operation methods of the video editing software in the notebook. If he encounters any questions that he does not understand, he will ask them immediately. If
If the staff can't solve it, Zhou Yang will write down the problem. After a busy day's work, he will lie in bed and continue to read relevant books to find the answer.
actually……
It is not difficult to learn software and learn various editing basics and post-production.
What is really difficult is the art of editing.
Art is really difficult to understand, and it simply cannot be achieved by putting more effort and effort into it.
This thing is all about pure talent!
Inevitably, Zhou Yang felt an indescribable sense of frustration deep in his heart.
He has felt more than once that he has no artistic talent. The more he learns these tedious lens arts, the more he feels like an ignorant fool and is very unsuitable for the film industry!
even……
Even the most basic video editing is not suitable for him.
He only knew the technique of cutting, but he had no idea what it meant by cutting like this, and what kind of feeling it would make the audience feel...
He felt ashamed of himself.
My self-confidence started to get a little bit shaken.
certainly……
Although his self-confidence was severely damaged, the editing process of "Mineral Bottom" was not cumbersome, and it did not take as long as he imagined. After all, during the filming, Zhou Yang was already very strict in picking out the details before completing the film.
After carving, there won't be so much trouble.
February 7th, year twenty-nine.
"So be it!"
"..."
After the final sample was cut, Zhang Lei looked at Zhou Yang very carefully.
When he saw Zhou Yang frowning for a long time and finally nodding, Zhang Lei breathed a long sigh of relief and almost collapsed on the chair.
He felt liberated!
Although the editing work of "Mineral Bottom" was completed ahead of schedule, Zhou Yang's harshness caused his nerves to collapse for a time, and he was busy until nine o'clock every night. More importantly, Zhou Yang would not even let him take care of himself.
To sleep, he would knock on the door of his dormitory early every morning. After knocking on the door and coming in, he would always ask some weird questions...
Working with Zhou Yang is definitely a very torturous thing.
but……
Finally finished editing the film!
"Thanks for your hard work!"
"No hard work, no hard work, Director Zhou, are you sure you won't go home to celebrate the New Year?"
"No..."
When Zhou Yang got the samples, he looked at them several times, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he finally found nothing to choose from.
But then, he felt that his haircut was particularly twisted. He couldn't explain what was awkward about it, and Zhang Lei, Qian Wei and others couldn't explain either...
Just as he was leaving, Zhang Lei's inadvertent question actually made him tremble slightly deep in his heart, diluting the awkward feeling.
Home?
The company is his home.
……………………
"Dong dong."
"Come in!"
"Mr. An, the editing of "Under the Mine" has been finished. Please take a look at it."
"OK."
Zhou Yang hasn't seen An Xiao for a long time.
When he saw it again, Zhou Yang was still amazed.
An Xiao is wearing a pair of rimless glasses, her slightly curly hair is draped casually on her shoulders, soft and smooth, and she is wearing a beige small fragrance suit, with the top two buttons unbuttoned, revealing the lace base underneath...
…
At this moment, she was looking down at a report, with two strands of hair hanging by her ears, moving slightly when the wind blew.
Zhou Yang's hanging hand couldn't help but twitch, and his eyes turned to the coffee machine next to him.
"Here we come." Seeing Zhou Yang, An Xiao showed a rare smile, put down the documents, raised her hand and gently lifted her hanging hair behind her ears.
"Want to drink coffee?" He stood up, revealing a pair of straight and slender legs, smooth and delicate, just...
Isn't she cold?
"No, it can't be done." Zhou Yang became more and more at a loss: "Mr. An, this is the edited movie."
Zhou Yang stretched out his hand and handed her the USB flash drive from a distance.
"Pfft." An Xiao laughed, plugged in the USB flash drive, and looked at it seriously.
"Sit down, don't stand like this, otherwise I have to look up at you..." When she realized that Zhou Yang was acting stupidly, she showed a bit of helplessness, "Don't be so restrained, just treat it like your own home."
"Oh, okay." Zhou Yang nodded and sat opposite An Xiao, but still did not look directly at her.
"Well... there is one thing that needs to be modified."
"Where?"
"You can't add Director Feng in the director column..."
"Ah? Why?"
"Director Feng himself has strongly requested that you also cut out the trailers or shooting records that will be shown in the film later..."
"Is that what he asked for?"
"Yes, this is the agreement requirement when he directed this movie before. Let me give you a look."
"Oh, okay." Zhou Yang glanced at the agreement requirements that An Xiao brought out, and saw that the first column was that he was not allowed to add his name in any way or form, and he was not allowed to appear in any appearance.
"But Director Feng has a role..."
"That doesn't matter, as long as he agrees to it, it doesn't matter."
"Oh, okay!" Zhou Yang nodded honestly and wrote down all the revision comments in his notebook.
"I'll keep looking."
"good."
Just when An Xiao was about to watch the movie seriously again, her phone rang.
After answering the phone, a hint of surprise suddenly flashed through her slightly cold eyes.
"You're here! OK! I'm in the office!"
"..."
"Director Zhou, Director Wang Shuai and Wang Shuai will come in later. Don't be nervous. Just be natural...well, it's better to act aloof..."