Chapter One Hundred and Twenty One. [Shocking Killing Drama]
Los Angeles, United States, January 7, 1999.
The last scene of "Saving Rachel".
It’s still the same dilapidated town, with the same group of extras playing German Nazis and American soldiers, starring Big Bird Lucci, Stormy, Abraham, John Caine, and other major supporting roles.
As for Yi Feiyang, he stood tall on a military vehicle, preparing his final speech.
"Guys, friends! I know that everyone is very hard and working hard during this period, and we are all looking forward to today! Yes, this drama is about to be finished, and the nearly two weeks of filming are about to end.
For this reason, I want to say, please keep your energy and don’t let yourself down at the critical moment! Use this last shot to prove our glory! I ask you, can you do it?” Yi Feiyang almost shouted,
The sound echoed throughout the venue.
"Can---" Everyone made a deafening sound together, like a huge wave that was about to overturn the entire set.
"Okay, now, the photographer is ready and the actors are all in position!" Yi Feiyang jumped down from the military vehicle and gave the order.
Everyone took action immediately, quickly and orderly. And everyone's face showed excitement.
Seeing that everyone had arrived at their place, Yi Feiyang took a deep breath, stood behind the camera, scanned the surrounding scene, and then used all his strength to shout: "Everyone, pay attention, the last scene of "Saving Female Soldier Rachel"
Scene three, two, one, start shooting!"
Follow Yi Feiyang’s order!
The filming started immediately. The demolitionists pressed the switch, and the explosives that had been planted in advance exploded in seven or eight places. The soil flew up, and the walls collapsed. Then, the extras playing the German Nazis held guns in their hands and rushed towards the American soldiers.
Together!
The fierce battle has officially begun!
Many people have watched American blockbusters, especially American war blockbusters, which give people the impression that the scenes are grand and majestic. To put it more specifically, planes roar in the sky and tanks roar on the ground.
However, as a small investment of more than 300,000 US dollars, Yi Feiyang could not create heavyweight weapons such as airplanes and tanks, nor could he create a fierce scene of thousands of troops fighting each other.
All he can do is capture the essence of a single element in battle.
For example, in a close-up, an American soldier and a German Nazi fought with bayonets. They both died in the trench. Another example is, a black soldier saved his white comrade who had always looked down on him and discriminated against him, but he was hit by the Nazi's evil bullet.
Head, fell to the ground...
What Yi Feiyang captured was the spirit and humanity shown by these people in the war. Although there were no majestic scenes, he was able to impress people with these valuable details.
Because there were too many Nazi enemies, just when Colonel Miller led his small team to rescue Rachel from the enemy siege, his comrades died on the battlefield one by one.
Watching these guys who followed me from the United States to the European battlefield, who were talking, laughing and jumping around, leaving me one by one, I saw the blood dyeing their uniforms and helmets red, dyeing this strange land red,
Colonel Miller felt an uncontrollable sadness rising out of the sky.
Facing more and more Nazi enemies, he no longer refused to hide. He rushed out of the trench with a heavy machine gun and fired fiercely.
"Damn you bastards, go to hell!" He yelled angrily and angrily, and vengeful bullets rattled out from the machine gun.
The fire dragon formed by the heavy machine gun temporarily suppressed the Nazi enemies behind the wall and did not dare to show their heads.
But on a building not far away, German ace sniper Hoffman had already pointed his gun at Colonel Miller, who was venting his anger.
He was about to pull the trigger lightly, and Colonel Miller was about to be shot in the head by a dark bullet!
Whoosh!
A sharp whistling sound!
Hoffman's body softened and he fell to the ground. A bullet penetrated his forehead and blood was flowing out.
At a sniper station opposite, Rachel let go of the sniper rifle in her hand, then used a small blade to make a vertical mark on the butt of the gun, and whispered softly: "Three hundred and eight."
The sniper competition is over!
One last close-up.
Artillery fire rang out from behind the Nazis. It turned out that the Allied forces came to support. Rachel found Miller who survived the disaster. The two supported each other and smiled at each other amidst the artillery fire and gunpowder smoke.
The camera finally freezes here, with their backs elongated, followed by a large mass of blood-red corpses of their fallen comrades...
"Cut!" When Yi Feiyang shouted cut from behind the camera, there was cheering all around. Rabbit Bill, Big Bird Luqi, Beauty Stormi, Abraham and others, as well as all the staff, rushed out and hugged each other.
They hugged each other, champagne was flowing everywhere, and there were thunderous cheers.
After two full weeks of arduous filming, 14 days, and 336 hours of non-stop work, everyone finally waited for this moment!
They laughed, kissed, and even shed tears of excitement!
Looking at this group of "crazy" people, Yi Feiyang watched from a distance, silently, because only he understood the joy in everyone's heart!
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On the second day after completing all the filming of the movie, Yi Feiyang did not take a rest or relax immediately. On the contrary, he calculated that there were still almost twenty days before the end of the Christmas schedule, and he had to seize the time to make this film
Paintings should be included in the play. Otherwise, a good opportunity to be shown will be missed.
Of course, before that, the first thing Yi Feiyang had to do was to return the rented props. These things are veritable "vampires", and each item is calculated not on a daily basis, but on an hourly, daily basis.
Calculated in minutes, it can be said that every second is worth money.
As a good director, you must control the shooting costs, save what you can, and recycle what can be reused. Yi Feiyang at least did this very well.
In addition, although the movie has been completed, it will only get busier next time, because Yi Feiyang has to edit the movie himself!
Some people may say, don’t there be dedicated editors for editing work? Why do you have to ask for trouble?
The reason is simple. Yi Feiyang doesn't trust those sharp scissors, let alone the scene he worked so hard to shoot, will be cut into a mess. Besides, Top Film Company doesn't have many editing talents, so Yi Feiyang simply does it himself.
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In fact, how important is the post-editing work of a movie? It can almost be said to be equivalent to shooting work. Editing is not simpler and easier than shooting, and it is also a very patient job. After selecting the film materials,
Assembling and then editing it into a smooth movie, editing can be said to be the second creation of the entire work. Different lens combinations, length of time, etc., will produce completely different movie effects.
If it is a blockbuster, you also need to consider dubbing, soundtrack, color and a lot of other things. Therefore, post-production work is generally very cumbersome. The more beautiful the result is, the more time it takes to process it.
In particular, "Saving Rachel, the Female Soldier" is a war-themed movie. It requires the soundtrack to be smoothly integrated with the story content to show the background of that era, highlight the character's character and fate, and inspire the audience to watch the movie.
The sense of immersion when watching, etc.
Yi Feiyang is not an expert in scoring, but after his past life, he likes to listen to some American pop music and jazz ditties, so when editing, he will put himself in as the audience and see what kind of music compares.
Appropriate, it is American country, jazz, pop...
This "Saving Rachel Rachel" filmed nearly 300 minutes of satisfactory footage, which included many shots that were temporarily added when inspiration struck; most of them were shots with different performance effects, such as Stormi and
Among Lu Qi's passionate scenes, which parts need to be deleted to avoid affecting the classification, which parts need to be modified to make them more beautiful, and where the war scenes need to be exaggerated, which parts need to be simplified, etc., these all require Yi Feiyang to use the audience
I looked at it with my own eyes, then made editing effects, and called Rabbit Bibi and others to judge. After all, these more than 300 minutes of material could only be cut into a standard movie length of about 90 minutes.
In the past few days, Yi Feiyang almost didn't eat or drink. He was really hungry, so he ate a few mouthfuls of instant noodles, and drank a few mouthfuls of boiled water when he was thirsty...
For some reason, Henry the Elephant, as an investor, has not come to the set these days, nor has he called Yi Feiyang.
Yi Feiyang guessed that maybe he was afraid of disturbing his work, or maybe he was busy doing charity activities, such as carrying a spoon and acting as a chef at the rescue station...
During this period, Anne Hathaway, who had initially established a vague relationship with Yi Feiyang, came once. She looked at Yi Feiyang's exhausted look with distress, but she couldn't do anything, so she had to look at Yi Feiyang quietly.
I edited the movie and stayed there for a while, then left without wanting to disturb him.
Fatty Gao Jiabao also came here once, bringing a large bag of food and drinks, including barbecued pork buns from Chinatown, which gave Yi Feiyang a delicious meal.
In short, over the past few days, Yi Feiyang seemed to be mentally ill, staring at the computer screen with his eyes, constantly replaying the editing effects. The hard-working Rabbit Bill and others were called over by him from time to time to "observe" and see what was going on.
A good clip.
As time goes by, the editing work becomes smoother and smoother, and Yi Feiyang has even become somewhat accustomed to this endless editing work, because with his sharp "scissors", you can be surprised to find that there are many fragmentary things in the original.
, can change into n different shots, and these shots can form many different stories.
This reminds Yi Feiyang of the movie "Tang Bo Hu Spots Autumn Fragrance 2" in his previous life. It is said that the drama was originally going to be filmed as a "tragedy" by director Li Lichi. However, the Emperor did not agree and in the end deprived him of the editing rights and temporarily handed it over to him.
I asked the comedy director Wang Jing to edit it, and Wang Jing lived up to expectations, picking and choosing from those odds and ends, and finally turned the tragedy into a comedy.
Therefore, film editing is really wonderful. It can counterattack and influence the essence of the whole drama! (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
