Hong Kong Entertainment's Life Simulator

Chapter 38 The power of at least five or six scenes

In early September, a pier in Yau Ma Tei.

Li Zicheng (Zhou Runfa) in a tattered suit, smoking a cigarette in one hand and holding a watermelon knife wrapped in old newspapers in the other, walked out of a row of low buildings. When he was walking, he said to the front side, "Diao Mao, hurry up!"

Ding Qing (Wan Ziliang) with a small cropped head ran out with his trousers in his hands, and walked side by side with Li Zicheng, "I'm sorry, I urinate frequently when I'm nervous, I'm sure it's fine, it's really strange."

Then the two walked briskly forward while the fish pens, sweepers, and porters on both sides of the pier were doing various tasks. As soon as Ah Cheng continued to smoke a couple of cigarettes, Ding Qing turned around and ran awkwardly, "Wait I'll come back after peeing."

Li Zicheng was so angry that he almost dropped his cigarette, and shouted, Ding Qing ran farther and farther.

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

The filming started in mid-July, and now it will be finished in early September. This is because Zhao Donghuai has almost all the scripts in his mind.

Compared with many Hong Kong films of this era, this New World was filmed slowly, not to mention that it was still a filming crew, post-editing, dubbing, soundtrack, etc. also took time.

Director Zhao was deeply moved by this, he has at least five or six powers.

So busy now, the 500 million filming cost has been spent, and only a few hundred thousand are left. The good news is that he went to the mainland for the second time to trade the waste paper brought back from Amei’s house. Received 600 million Hong Kong dollars from several paper mills in Jinhai, Shandong, and northern Hebei provinces.

At that time, I added over one million yuan from the film crew, and I still had more than four million yuan in hand.

With money in hand, don't panic.

More than 400 million, when he is busy with the crew and finished editing the sample film, he plans to find time to buy a big house to live in before the release, and buy a few cars to be affiliated with his Zhao International Trading Group.

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

Buying a house is basically worthless.

In 83 and 84, the average housing price in Kowloon fell by five or six hundred and one square feet, but in 87, the average price rose to more than 800 per square foot.

A thousand feet equals tens of thousands of square meters.

In 1990, the average price was 2000 square feet. Yau Tsim Mong and Kowloon Tong would only soar towards the [-]-square-foot mark. The more expensive the housing prices were, the greater the increase in the best prosperous areas Amazing, above average rise.

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

Wan Ziliang, who played the frequent urination boy Ding Qing, and Ah Fa, etc. immediately cheered.

Zhao Donghuai said on the loudspeaker, "We have been busy for nearly two months. During such a short period of time, how good is the film shot by our crew? I believe everyone has a steelyard in their hearts. I won't say anything more. I will come to the green banquet tonight." all come."

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

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

Yeah, we've been working together for almost two months, daytime and nighttime, even if it's not the digital age.

This is the age of film. Basically, you will only know what you are shooting after the rolls of film are developed. Professionals can understand it. Audiences will have to wait until the editing is over and the soundtrack is dubbed to enjoy watching.

But whether a film crew is good or bad, and the standard of the filming, everyone has a steelyard in their hearts.

Amidst the cheers, many people ran to the vicinity of Zhao Donghuai and bid him farewell warmly.

This is also a short farewell, everyone will go back to wash and brush, and see you at the finale.

Zhou Runfa came in wearing a torn suit, rumpled his messy hair, and said with a smile, "Director, we will definitely sell well at the box office, we will!"

Wan Ziliang also nodded excitedly, "I guess after the film is released, my image as a frequent urinating brother will become famous all over 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. I know how the movie will go.

Zhao Donghuai also laughed, "If you want to be stereotyped as Brother Pi, it can only mean that your acting skills still need to be improved. Okay, call it a day! See you tonight!"

The ordinary crew members are now off work, and he is still busy as a director.

In the evening, after having a casual wrap-up banquet, I took rolls of film to the Clear Water Bay studio. Clear Water Bay is the largest Shaw Brothers studio, with 3000 to [-] people working together at its peak.

There are more than a dozen studios, which are much larger than Golden Harvest. The Golden Harvest Studio located on Fushan Road only has four filming areas, ABCD.

Similarly, at Shaw Brothers, there are professional office areas for post-production development, editing, recording, etc., and they are handed over to the printing agency to develop first. He left four bodyguards and left.

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a few days later.

When Director Zhao returned to the Qingshuiwan set, he started editing.

Movie editing is also the most important thing, almost frame by frame, a little bit of dubbing, color correction, film editing, etc. The specific process is to hang the printed copy on the editing table, while turning the shaft, hold Scissors, click click, very fine and detailed.

In the mainland of the 21st century, the comparison between the samples produced by most directors and the edited results is about ten to one.

For example, one thousand shots are shot, one hundred are finally selected, and edited together to form a 90-minute movie, [-]% of the shooting materials have to be discarded.

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

The torture for the director and editor is not small. You have to read all the materials from beginning to end, and know which shots to cut and which shots to keep.

It is estimated that editing will be tortured if you encounter difficulty in choosing, but if the editing is not good...a good film can also become a bad film!Editing an item is called third-degree creation.

Many editors are the same as art directors. The film is still in preparation and is about to start work. The understanding of the whole story line needs to catch up with the director.

But for famous directors like Jiang Wen, it is not uncommon for the ratio of shots between the sample and the finished film to be fifty to one.In this era, there is also a miraculous director Sunglasses Pharaoh, who knows everything.

The typical representative is Hollywood's Kingdom of Heaven. There is a director's cut version and a theatrical version. The gap is too big to say.

Editor, Zhao Donghuai is looking for Mai Zishan, who is also well-known in later generations, but he has collaborated most with Xu Ke, A Chinese Ghost Story II and III, Qingxia's version of Dongfang Invincible, Li Lianjie's version of Huang Feihong [-], Double Dragon Club , Fengyun and so on.

There are a lot of masterpieces.

In the mid-80s, he hung with Lao Xu and became one of Director Xu's signature subordinates.

For Zhao Donghuai, the ratio of the shot samples compared to the finished product that is going to be edited is two to one, which may not be enough.

Don't think that movies with this proportion are too rare. Among the Hong Kong Island movies in the 80s, for example, Fat Boy Scene was shot more than one in a week, and one in two or three weeks.

Do you think those fast shooters can pursue the [-]:[-] cutting ratio of most normal directors?It is normal for the films created by the fast gunners to be a few to one.

In the studio, Mai Zishan re-watched all the finished films, and then compared the scripts of the scenes that he had seen several times before, shaking his head with emotion, "Director Zhao, if the editing is as simple as yours, then my work will be much easier .”

The number of shots is matched at a ratio of one to one, and there is also a perfect script for the shot.

This job is too difficult.

(End of this chapter)