From the dream-chasing showbiz to remake bad films

Chapter 24 Untitled
After Xia Yike said "Okay" in a bewildered manner, she ran away.

Pei Yang reached out to grab it, but only caught a shadow.

Pei Yang pouted like a Muggle, so does the kind of girlfriend who can directly kiss and hug after confessing his love really exist?
Closing his eyes and sniffing the remaining fragrance of Xia Yike's hair on his hand, Pei Yang laughed.

It smells really good.

Although he didn't get the benefits, that little fool Xia Yike still gave them.

Next, we have to work hard.

Pei Yang's staying up all night was not fruitless, he had already roughly cut the film.

More than 300 hours of samples left [-] hours.

Pei Yang plans to cut the film to between 109 and 119 minutes.

The reason is simple. Pei Yang shot a lot of sensational clips and empty shots in his creation.

Although these shots are conducive to the fullness and artistry of the story, they actually lengthen the story intentionally.

Movies are an art that needs to tell one or several stories in a short time (without connotation).

It’s not that the longer the time, the better, especially if you can tell a good story in a very short clip (there is no connotation in "Tianji. Dwelling in Fuchun Mountains" and "Big Bombing").

Otherwise, it will only appear that the story is not only complicated and disordered, but also... (tens of thousands of books on film research are omitted here), anyway, it is ugly.

The story that Pei Yang wants to tell is very simple, and there is only one story line, which belongs to the best kind of movie.

It is nothing more than: Ke Jingteng met Shen Jiayi and developed a good impression. A series of things happened in the process of chasing her, and Shen Jiayi also developed a good impression of Ke Jingteng because of these things. I have enough artistic cells and like acting, so I went to study art, but the dream of learning acting represented conflicted with the love represented by liking Shen Jiayi. In the end, Shen Jiayi chose to cut off this hazy emotion that was still budding, and Ke Jingteng also chose to let go Go chase your dreams.

The cicadas in that summer were noisier than any other year, and the branches grew wildly outside the classroom window, but they couldn't block the scorching sun.

The singing of cicadas in the attached middle school still reverberates, No. [-] Road is covered with sycamore leaves, flowers are blooming all over the White Horse Alley, and the young man is trapped in that midsummer.

It's just a line, it's positive youth.

Pei Yang didn't go out of his way to shoot the plots of growing up, he made youth films, pure youth films.

Youth does not need to grow up, and there will be no youth when you grow up.

And for this simple story, it takes about five to ten minutes to build the skeleton with the necessary shots, plus many details to deepen the characters and the story, which also takes about three to ten minutes.

During these eight to 10 minutes, you cannot move.

Pei Yang also left about [-] minutes for himself, and he also wanted to mix some of his own things, that is, mix private goods.

After all, Pei Yang still has an ambition to become a great director.

And the big directors are good at mixing their own things.

He wants to perfectly express the hazy emotion mixed with joy in the confusion that he thinks of youth.

That feeling is like the first light of the morning reflected by dew crystals on the cedar needles, like the moonlight reflected quietly by the mountain spring without rush or delay.

Pei Yang carefully edited, and by the way, realized that he still had a little youth.

Editing is actually a very painful thing.

Part of it is that you shoot a lot of material, you have a lot of different clips to choose from, and you have a lot of ways to combine them.But there are pros and cons to these combinations, as well as imperatives.

You can only choose a combination that is as perfect as possible, and this process is a process of constant trial and error, and constantly overthrowing the previous choice.

And these are all hard-earned clips, but no matter how you cut them, you will inevitably discard some of them. This feeling is like abandoning your comrades and children.

Pei Yang was really in pain, not just because of choice phobia.

Another part of the reason is that editing is a work that requires inspiration and experience.

That's why editing geniuses are all young, because they have plenty of inspiration, and editing masters are relatively old, because they have rich experience.

Pei Yang's biggest reliance now is his youth, and new inspirations that pop up from time to time.

But he is very inexperienced, belonging to the kind who doesn't even have the lowest B-level of academic templates.

So his editing is tantamount to a big gamble, either he succeeds in one fell swoop and becomes a generation of editing ghosts, the film is successful, sells well, and breaks through the competition audition as a big devil, or he fails directly and cuts the good shooting clips into a pile of shit. On the pillar of shame in Chinese film history.

Of course Pei Yang worked very hard, because he didn't want his name to go down in history (no Hei Bi Dao, really).

So he regretted not leaving a few days to experience the time limit of the card for editing.

At this time, he had a contradiction in the choice between the degree of delicacy and the degree of warmth.

If he used Ke Jingteng's detailed performance, Ke Jingteng's characters would appear full, but it would also make the story too warm, beyond the faint and hazy feeling that Pei Yang wanted.

This also reflects a question: In the movie, do the characters serve the story, or the story serves the characters.

In your movie, do you use characters to tell stories and then reflect your attitudes and opinions, or use stories to shape the characters? Your attitudes and opinions are lower than the fullness of the characters.

Obviously, Pei Yang chose the story, so he abandoned Ke Jingteng's detailed performance.

What he wants most is still the kind of hazy and green.

And for this goal, he was even willing to cut out all irrelevant scenes, including his new girlfriend - Xia Yike's scenes.

In the clip, there are two very important things, one is a brown drink, the kind with gas, and the other is a pack of sticks, the kind that can be ordered.

Without these two things, it is like missing a soul, especially the latter.

So Pei Yang lit a Hetian and took a sip.

He actually doesn't like this taste very much, but there is no way, it's really strange to death.

This kind of thing controls your inspiration like a switch, like an enchanting ritual, like a sense of ritual.

However, although Pei Yang needs it to bring help, he knows exactly what he wants, so he controls himself and does not want to be a slave to that kind of thing.

It was not until evening that Pei Yang put down his work.

He picked up the silent phone, only to find that Xia Yike, who used to be like a sparrow with ideas, hadn't sent even a single message.

Pei Yang smiled helplessly, it seems that this little thing has been affected a lot.

He typed on WeChat:

Pei Yang: [Girlfriend? ]
Pei Yang: [Have you eaten? ]
　Do you guys want to watch more Xia Yike, or do you want to watch more private movies?

　　We are newcomers, so we can't handle it.

　　Asking for votes, asking for follow-up reading, now the policy of Dianniang has changed, you must follow-up reading to recommend, everyone, even if you want to keep a book, you have to move your little hands every day to click on the latest chapter, otherwise it will be easy to keep it to death. .

　　


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