A not-so-busy Spring Festival is coming to an end, and Tang An has no time to pay attention. He has been involved in editing "Operation Red Sea" since the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.
Every movie, photography, lighting, color tone, etc. have a tone, and different methods can determine what a movie will look like.
The same is true for editing. Different movies have different editing styles. You must first determine the style and determine the style of the entire movie.
"Operation Red Sea" doesn't have much to think about. Starting from determining the authenticity of the film, it can only be a sharp editing style.
It is often used in many action movies, such as Michael Bay's early action movies, such as the "Bourne" series.
"Operation Red Sea" needs to be fast and use various lens switching to show the reality of war and create an appropriate sense of tension.
Coupled with the vocals, music, plot advancement, and restraint of the characters' emotions, etc., this brings a sense of oppression, making the audience feel immersed in the scene and have a stronger sense of immersion.
Quick camera switching, panorama, close-up, first-person perspective, subjective perspective, overhead shot, follow-up shot, upward shot, and also used a wide-angle lens.
Anyway, on the basis of not making the audience dizzy and not recognizing the actors, try to cut as fast as possible.
After all, the two-hour set is still in 3D, so some viewers may not be used to it and may feel uncomfortable to their eyes.
After all, movies are for the audience, and the audience’s viewing experience must be considered.
More than ten years ago, there was a crime movie "Irrevocable" starring Monica Bellucci, the heroine of "Legend of Sicily", but it did not consider the feelings of the audience at all.
Almost every scene in this film is shot to the end, without splitting. Between scenes, the camera is rotated to transition between scenes. It rotates and rotates, and the camera keeps shaking. It makes the viewer dizzy and very depressing.
After all, the scene was awesome, but the director was just showing off his skills. To put it bluntly, it was just pretentious.
Even the name of the producer and actors in the opening title are all reversed, and most of the shots are rotating.
This is just to show off and not consider the feelings of ordinary viewers at all.
"Operation Red Sea" is a 100% commercial film, so it naturally has to consider the audience.
The war scenes are too real, too bloody, and the camera editing is sharp, which will inevitably make you feel a little uncomfortable.
In addition to putting pressure on the audience, it is also necessary to reduce the pressure on the audience. At the same time, there will be multiple lines such as street fighting, sniper battles, tank chases, etc. After the description of one line is enough, quickly switch to another line.
It will make the audience feel abrupt, but it will relax the highly concentrated nerves and play a certain buffering role.
Another example is the scene where Xu Hong and Stone were being cut and Tong Li was surrounded in the earth building. It was extremely tragic.
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Xu Hong's left arm was blown off, and Tong Li's spirit was about to collapse. Then Shitou's throat was pierced. At this time, the strong emotions had reached the point. The scene was bloody and made the audience feel very depressed. After all, the audience was immersed in it.
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This needs to be interspersed and cut together, so as not to give the audience too much time to think and react.
When doing the soundtrack in the later stage, the music and the sound of gunfire should also gradually weaken, strengthen the vocals, and slow down a little.
Tong Li's heartbreaking cry at the end was able to vent all her emotions, and at the same time it gave the audience a good stress relief and a complete emotional release.
These are very critical, otherwise if it is not handled well, too many negative emotions will accumulate in the audience's hearts and become too depressed, which may even lead to the box office being cut in half.
Feng Xiaogang's two movies of similar genres, "Tangshan Earthquake" and "1942", have such a big gap in box office because the audience's feelings after watching the two movies are completely different.
Although the previous one was a disaster movie, "Tangshan Earthquake" is more heart-warming and shocking, and you will be moved after watching it.
However, "1942" opened up the scars and did not have a happy ending. It made me feel even more depressed and moved me to pieces.
The core of commercial tragedy is to move. No matter how miserable the protagonist's life is, the most important thing is to move the audience.
If you want to make money at the box office, you have to focus on the needs of the audience, so some directors who have proven themselves at the box office have begun to talk about reason and humanity, because they are no longer audience-centered.
Naturally, the audience also taught me how to behave.
Although Tang An no longer needs to prove himself at the box office, he is still young and does not have that much truth and life insights to talk about.
It’s not like I graduated from a film school, I didn’t learn anything about art, I don’t need the approval of the “mainstream film circle”, those “seniors” do whatever they like, they like to scold me, they don’t care at all.
There is nothing important for the group. They will naturally deal with the listing of several of its companies. There is nothing to worry about in terms of investment or film and television production.
Tang An has been staying in the editing room since the Chinese New Year, editing his own movies himself.
Every movie is like the director's child. Any director who has some editing skills will edit it himself. If not, he will also participate and always provide advice.
After staying in the editing room for twenty days, Tang An stopped what he was doing and went to attend the Sixth Directors Guild Awards Ceremony.
I have my name as a vice-president in the association, and I will spend a day to support it when I have time.
That is to say, go out for a walk, relax, and have some soy sauce.
The real kicker is that it was Tang An’s turn to be the chairman of the final judging panel. Feng Xiaogang, who is also the vice chairman, became the chairman last year.
However, Tang An didn't have the time to spare. He could just be the final judge and cast two votes instead of being the chairman of the final judging panel.
When we arrived at the venue, it was not too lively. After all, it was not as popular as the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers, or even less popular than the College Student Film Festival.
There were quite a few people in the industry at the scene. After all, it was the Directors Guild Awards, and the nominations were selected by more than 300 directors from the association. There were quite a few directors present.
Several big directors came, and naturally some actors also came.
Zhang Hongsen, director of the Film Bureau, attended on behalf of Optoelectronics. Kang Pei, Wang Zhongjun, Yu Dong, Fan Luyuan and others also came.
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Tang An walked over and said hello to Zhang Hongsen, and then greeted others.
"Director Kang, Director Wang, and Director Fan, you busy people are here too."
"Haha." Wang Zhongjun smiled, "How can we not be as busy as you, Director Tang? It's such a big company and we have to make movies."
Yu Dong asked, "How is Tang Dong's "Operation Red Sea" doing? The summer vacation is coming soon."
"It's not bad. I still have half a month to finish editing, scoring, dubbing, and special effects. I can finish it on time. There will definitely be no problem with the summer schedule." Tang An said with a smile.
Zhang Hongsen said, "Send a copy over for review as soon as you finish it. We all want to see what the military movie you made looks like."
"Of course, you must check it with the leader as soon as possible."
Military movies, or wars fought abroad, have too many areas that need to be reviewed, so they must be submitted for review early to prevent various problems.
While chatting casually, Fan Luyuan mentioned the Spring Festival that just passed.
"This year's Spring Festival stalls are a bit deserted. Only "Omen" has exceeded 1 billion. Even "Wolf Totem" invested by Tang Dong seems to have stopped at the threshold of 700 million."
Tang An wasn't too surprised when someone mentioned this movie. If the movie you want to sell ends up being a box office hit, it's inevitable that some people will ridicule it.
It would have been better if it had been someone else. After all, no matter who makes mistakes, it would be normal.
But over the years, Tang An has never failed to watch a movie he liked.
This time, the film that I wanted to sell happened to be a big hit. It was really the first time, and it was also a good opportunity that outsiders had not found in several years.
Sure enough, as soon as Fan Luyuan finished speaking, Kang Pei spoke immediately.
"Haha, actually, Director Tang didn't expect this movie to sell at such a high box office. I thought that the investment share of 8 million US dollars that Director Tang had originally was sold to me for 6 million.
Kang Pei looked like he had seen through everything, and then smiled and said, "But I thought I couldn't let Director Tang suffer, so I didn't agree. Now the movie is really a hit."