rising director

Wan Xiaohu responded indiscriminately, but remained indifferent.He always has a sense of urgency, eager to do everything well, to review the shots as soon as possible, to finish the film as soon as possible, to release it as soon as possible to become famous, and to make other films as soon as possible.The good time left to him is only 14 years, and every minute and every second is extremely precious.

It was only at three o'clock in the morning that Wan Xiaohu took notes on the shots that needed to be re-shot tomorrow.When I came to the bathroom, I wiped my face indiscriminately, went to find hot water to soak my feet, and fell into a deep sleep on the bed...

Although "Waiting Alone" is a very simple urban romantic comedy, for a group of students with zero experience, how to make a movie well and more carefully in an effective time.Not only the students feel the difficulty, Wan Xiaohu also feels the difficulty.

After fifteen days of regular filming, the time points to March 3th.

Most of the plot of the movie has been transformed into tapes and film.For the first time, Wan Xiaohu brought these contents to Nortel's editing room, trying to edit the film into samples. The content of DV shooting needs to be edited non-linearly on the computer. When Wan Xiaohu was playing micro movies in his previous generation, he did this for a long time, and the editing was very smooth.

But editing the film into it is a hassle.Because the film is edited in a linear and physical way, the only way to embed the DV content with the film content is to use the magnetic transfer technology to convert the DV content into the form of film and edit it together.Wan Xiaohu was reluctant to part with the money, and went back and forth to convert it, so he could only mark the content that needed to be pieced together first.

After the film is finished, we will seek chimerism.

However, after the first edit, Wan Xiaohu had a headache when he watched the samples.

There is a big gap with the ideal content.

It's not that the actors did not perform well, but that the connection between the shots is very incoherent.

"What's the matter, Director Wan, are you frowning so tightly?" The management teacher of the editing room is Wang Youquan, associate professor of the Department of Directing at Nortel, in his 50s.Because of poor health, he retreated to the second line and was transferred to Nortel to teach.

Wan Xiaohu smiled wryly: "Professor Wang, don't embarrass me, I am very worried now."

"What's going on? Something went wrong with the movie?" Everyone in Nortel knew about Wan Xiaohu's movie making, so Wang Youquan asked this question.

"That's right." Wang Youquan is highly respected, and Wan Xiaohu just poured out his bitterness on him, "I made the movie "Waiting Alone", it should be said that the sense of screen has been well arranged, and I also recognize the acting skills of the actors. But Now that I edited it to see the effect, I realized that the coherence of my actors' acting is not enough, and there will always be a slight stagnation between the two shots."

"Really, let me see."

Wan Xiaohu quickly played back the sample.

Wang Youquan laughed halfway through, "Xiaohu, what can I say about you, you really should take editing courses. Your editing ability is not good enough!"

"What's the matter?"

"You put the content of each shot aside."

After the contents of the single shots were played one by one, Wang Youquan explained: "I see, although the actors are still very immature, they are students of Nortel after all, and they are not bad at acting. The point is, your editing method is too monotonous , have you noticed that your editing technique is too fast-paced."

"Too fast pace?"

"Look at this shot and this shot, do you feel that the time is not smooth?"

"Yeah, does this have anything to do with my editing?"

"It doesn't matter. I'll guide you. You can edit it again and try again. Reserve this shot for one more second, and then delete this shot for two seconds. You can add this shot and keep it from the beginning to the end. The three seconds in between. You can see the effect now."

When this clip was released, Wan Xiaohu immediately felt admiration for Wang Youquan.Jiang is still old and hot. Wang Youquan edited and immediately supplemented it with discarded shots to eliminate the sense of stagnation just now, making this clip look smooth and unobstructed.

Full of fluency.

"Professor Wang, how did you do it?" Wan Xiaohu sincerely asked for advice.

Wang Youquan smiled with a particularly superior demeanor: "A good director is not necessarily a good editor. This sentence is not without reason. It is not that the director is reluctant to use the scissors to cut well, but many directors cannot tell the difference. Clearing the perspective of the director and the audience, the director's perspective is often used to replace the audience's perspective..."

0024 [Nortel Goodbye]

Many directors, especially commercial directors, don't edit films themselves.The reason is not because the director is reluctant to part with what he has made, this is also reluctant, and that is why he cannot edit a good-looking movie of more than 100 minutes. The most fundamental reason is that the director cannot do it. Take the viewer's point of view.

Before the director shoots the movie, he already has a shot script that outlines the full content of the movie.In other words, he knew the movie from beginning to end, how to make it, and why.It's like opening the God's perspective, there are no dead ends.

The audience is different. The audience can only see the content of the film and follow the camera instead of the script.The audience has never been able to do it, just like the director, has the perspective of God.

Naturally, it is impossible to understand movies edited from God's perspective.

Professional editors always edit a movie from the perspective of the audience, and choose the content that best suits the taste of the audience to combine the plot.In a mature movie pipeline, especially a movie with a business model, the director has only one job, which is to shoot the content perfectly.

The screenwriter produces the script, edits and edits, all for the purpose of marketization.

Of course, this does not mean that the director is not taken seriously.The director is always the soul of a movie. For a real classic, the director must be at the heart, and everything revolves around the director.

Only when the director dominates everything can he be called a great director.James Cameron who filmed "Titanic", and Steven Spielberg who filmed "Schindler's List", these are the real big directors who dominate everything in the movie!

The current Wan Xiaohu is obviously still a thousand miles away from the great director.

He can't even do a good job as an editor.

However, this does not prevent him from setting out towards his ideal.

What if I can't edit?

Learn!

"Professor Wang, can I invite you to be the editor of "Waiting Alone"?"

"Well, you student, you know how to hit a snake with a stick. But I'm sorry, I'm old and in poor health, and I don't want to bother to edit a movie. If you want, I often forget Run around the editing room, or go to my house, and I can tell you about my 30 years of editing experience." Wang Youquan said with a smile.

"Then I'll call you Teacher Wang?"

"It's up to you, I don't pay attention to the old and antique rules of status and apprenticeship."

Editing is the third creation of the film, and Wan Xiaohu is very fortunate to have a veteran editor with many years of experience who is willing to teach him the experience.

Wan Xiaohu aspires to become a great director. If a great director can't even be an editor, what's the point of talking about a great director?A real great director is a character who coordinates a movie from the three dimensions of script, shooting and editing.For Wan Xiaohu, the script and filming are both his forte. Only editing needs to be learned from scratch.

"I have countless good movies, I can learn and practice, the future is just around the corner!"

Saying goodbye to Wang Youquan and the editing room, Wan Xiaohu clenched his fists vigorously.

The revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard!

……

In the following time, Wan Xiaohu went to the editing room while filming the follow-up content, listened to Wang Youquan's class, and then fumbled to edit "Waiting Alone".I am also fortunate that most of the content of "Waiting Alone" was shot on DV, and the data was directly uploaded to the computer, so I could edit it however I wanted without considering the cost.

If it was film photography, Wan Xiaohu would not be willing to cut the film back and forth, as film is very expensive.

On April 4st, the weather was fine. At Beijing West Railway Station, the crew of "Waiting Alone" packed up their photography equipment and squeezed into two Xiali cars.

"Brother Tiger, are you done with my shots?" Yao Chen, the second female lead, sat in the back seat, leaning on the back of the co-pilot's seat with both hands, and said loudly in Wan Xiaohu's ear.

Wan Xiaohu raised his feet, flipped through the dilapidated script, and said without turning his head: "Yes, you are free. Now go back and wait. After the University Film Festival, you will become famous in one fell swoop."

Yao Chen laughed loudly: "I'm about to become famous, if you ask me to act again, it's an agreement, I won't give you any discount."

"What do you mean?" Wan Xiaohu turned his head, looked at Yao Chen, and the heroine Miaopu next to Yao Chen, "Do you know, after all, you two are called 'Tiger Girls', and I am the Bole who supports you , people will say wherever they go, just these two beauties were brought out by Wan Xiaohu."

"So what?" Miaopu asked in the dialect of Xishan.