Chapter 21 Movie Editing, Promotion, Soundtrack (Part 1)
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The fact that the movie is finished does not mean that Lin Chengxun can relax. On the contrary, he will be even busier.
If the creation of the movie script is the first production, and the filming is the second production, then the post-editing is called the third production.
For a complete movie, shooting is only the first half of the entire movie workflow. Later, it also requires editing, dubbing, scoring, editing, and even color grading. You even need to find actors to reshoot some scenes and insert them into the movie.
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The editing work is an extremely important part of the entire film creation. According to each director's own preferences, the film footage is edited and sequenced differently, and the audience's perception is also different. Strict film creation has professional requirements.
Editors, most commonly in Hollywood, the editor's industrial process is the film rule of thirds, which divides a film into templates at fixed points in time, so that the plot of the film fluctuates and has a story based on the time points.
The climax expands the tension of the movie's plot.
There was once a saying that the editor is the pacemaker of the movie, and editing determines how the movie will make the audience feel.
Although Lin Chengxun forgot who said this sentence, and for the time being, he just assumed it was Lu Xun who said it, he still agreed with it.
Of course, editors are also divided into high and low levels. Some gold medal editors can perfectly embody the director's own film language and exaggerate the emotions of the characters to the extreme, thus arousing the resonance of the audience.
However, these gold medal editors are all wishful thinking to Lin Chengxun, for no other reason than poverty.
Therefore, Lin Chengxun had to do the editing of the "Melting Pot" movie by himself. Fortunately, he also had editing experience in his previous life, and he had a relatively successful "Melting Pot" film in his mind for comparison. It was not difficult to edit "The Melting Pot".
Live him.
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Bong Joon Ho Studio.
Lin Sung-hoon is a busy-worker but he has troubled Mr. Bong Joon-ho so many times, so he needs to borrow the editing room again.
In the editing room, there was chaos and smoke. Lin Chengxun sat in front of the editing table, with stubble all over his chin. As he was thinking about it, he uncontrollably touched his pocket.
Huh? Have you finished smoking again?
Lin Chengxun rubbed his eyes and fell into deep thought again. What put him in a dilemma this time was a set of long shots. The shots were full of sense and laid out the psychological activities of the male protagonist very well. At the time, almost everyone was filmed.
I was very satisfied after watching it, but now when looking at the entire film, Lin Chengxun found that it was too lengthy and gave people the feeling that the plot of the movie was a bit draggy.
Cut it! In the end, you have to take into account the rhythm and atmosphere of the entire movie.
Lin Chengxun thought like this, and he cut off with heartache. After a while, he comforted himself with the thought that he had cut even a few minutes of his own shots. Why can other people's shots be cut? Yours can't be cut, just because of you, Su Ji Sub.
He is the male protagonist, who is more handsome?
During this period of editing work, Lin Chengxun would have this kind of ideological collision in almost every scene he edited. At first, he would still hesitate for a long time, but as the times increased, he would still feel heartache, but the time to make a decision became faster.
Quite a few.
"Auntie, help me buy a cigarette, an old brand, and order some takeout for me."
Not sure what time it was, Lin Chengxun opened the door of the editing room and yelled out of habit. The aunt he was talking about was a cleaning staff at Bong Joon Ho's studio. At first, Lin Chengxun could go downstairs to buy things by himself.
, but in the later stages of the editing work, even going to the bathroom was counted by the seconds, and the whole person stayed in the editing room day and night. When I was thirsty and hungry, I asked my aunt to help buy it, and I paid some travel expenses; when I was sleepy, I just started editing.
Sleep indoors.
He had already made preparations. Not to mention quilts and pillows, he also brought a box of heating pads.
The door opened, and unexpectedly a pair of peach blossom eyes came into view.
"Second...Second brother?"
"Huh? It's the fourth child. What's the matter?" Lin Chengxun squinted his eyes and felt that his throat was a little dry.
"Promotion of the film."
"Oh, let's get started. My editing is almost at the end. All that's left is the soundtrack and editing. You're going to just release the gimmick of So Ji-sub's last work before serving in the military. You'll first use the fan card to promote it, and then you'll do the publicity work later.
Follow the step by step we discussed before." Lin Chengxun also became lazy after hearing this, so that his brain could clear up a little, and he said carefully.
The movie "The Crucible" is a low-cost movie. Unlike a big production like "The Han River Monster", there won't be much publicity funds at all, so it can only rely on the story, the starring and other topics to drive early traffic.
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In fact, if it weren't for So Ji Sub's company's disapproval, Lim Sung Hoon would have planned to use the gimmick of a love affair between the actors and actresses of "The Story of Bali", including "Kang In Wook and Choi Young Joo exchanged dramas to fall in love" and "Kang In Wook abandoned Lee Crystal and fell in love with Choi Young Joo" and so on.
Lim Sung-hoon can name more than a dozen titles with his mouth. He can even use later methods to drag the other two actors Ha Ji-won and Jo In-sung in "The Story of Bali" into trouble to create a topic for the movie "The Melting Pot"
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But it's a pity that Su Ji Sub didn't agree, so Lin Chengxun had no choice but to give up.
Fortunately, it is not that there are no other ways. As long as it works, such as the works of Bong Joon Ho Studio, changes in real events, Peninsula Scandal, etc., Lin Chengxun will never show mercy.
"Oh, I've already made preparations over there, but second brother, you have to pay attention to rest."
The fourth son, Xu Shuaili, stumbled and said, although he knew that Lin Chengxun was so busy during this period that he didn't even return home, but he didn't expect that Lin Chengxun now looked like he was more than ten years older. As soon as the door of the editing room opened, there were a lot of people.
All kinds of smells hit his nose, making him vomit.
"Okay, okay, I know it myself. Remember to contact the school. After all, I am considered a student of Yonsei University, and the school needs to provide support. You can also contact the writer Gong Jiyong.
She shows off her strength on SNS.”
"Oh." Xu Shuaili replied dryly, knowing that his persuasion would be of no use, so he simply turned around and left to get busy with the promotion of the film.
After sending Xu Shuaili away, Lin Chengxun was busy for another afternoon. The editing work was finally completed. He fast-forwarded and watched it more than ten times. Satisfied, he took the film to find the scorer.
Lin Chengxun, who was an artistic young man in his previous life, naturally understands arranging and scoring, but understanding does not mean proficiency. Therefore, Lin Chengxun can be a director and editor, but he cannot be a film scorer.
Therefore, this salary cannot be saved.
Still holding on to Bong Joon-ho, he worked hard, and the music composer was also hired from his studio. For Bong Joon-ho's sake, although the music composer did not bite Lin Chengxun hard, the price still made him feel heartache.
Lin Chengxun took the music composer to watch the embryo of "The Crucible" and tried his best to express his thoughts to the music composer in words, what type of music he wanted and what feelings he wanted to express...
In fact, if he wasn't afraid of being acclimatized, Lin Chengxun would have really wanted to play a segment of "Advanced Animals" directly at the beginning of the film. He would tell the audience what indifference and cruelty are from the very beginning of the movie, which would make me cry!
However, because the song is so ridiculing and experimental in nature, "The Melting Pot" itself has a strong impact on the audience. It is better not to overwhelm the audience at the beginning. The two together will have the opposite effect.
, and finally Lin Chengxun chose to give up.
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"Teacher, do you think it would be better to add a children's song here?"
"Children's song?" The soundtrack engineer frowned suspiciously. The scene in the movie at this moment was a court trial, the moment of trial for the crimes of Li Jiangshuo and others. However, the trial ended with the failure of the protagonist Jiang Inho. The place itself was silent, but at this time Lin Chengxun suddenly
Qi wants to play a children's song.
"You want to be sarcastic?"
"Yeah." Lin Chengxun nodded. Just thinking about these beasts that violated children being acquitted in the sound of children's songs, the irony stimulated his heart to contract violently and his adrenal hormones to surge.
The soundtrack engineer also thinks this idea is good, and it will stimulate the audience very much, but he is still a little hesitant: "But will it be too much? If it is not good, the audience will easily be upset, and then your movie will be ruined."
Already."
Lin Chengxun didn't speak, tapping his knuckles with his thumb, and he mused: "Let's change the tune of the children's songs, instead of using human voices, and use the siren's singing, which makes it more sad and longer."
As he said this, Lin Chengxun simulated this section. It didn't sound very good, but the tune came out. The melody was obviously a happy children's song, but it sounded like a child's low cry, like the silent and sad cry of the deaf-mute school children in the movie.
It's inexplicably scary.
The composer's brows jumped. This was not meant to be ironic. It was clearly a blatant attempt to stimulate the audience. He completely dismembered the fragile covering on their surfaces and pointed directly at the audience's noses.
There was nothing he could do.
Just such a resentful chant matched the plot, directly heightening the atmosphere of the entire movie and adding fuel to the anger in the audience's hearts. If there were some grumpy people in the audience, they would probably smash up the theater in a matter of minutes.
"Okay!" The composer nodded.
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