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Chapter 89 Composing for Movies

"Hey, hard work!"

Yesterday he accompanied Da Niu Zhang to go shopping all afternoon. Women never get tired of shopping, but poor Gu Zhongyu fought all night and worked as a rickshaw driver during the day.

Originally, she planned to chase after Zhang Zilin, but she was still in the car, and she timidly said that her relatives had come...

So Gu Zhongyu had no choice but to repeat the old trick, but this time it was lucky, Zhang Daniu didn't waste it.

"Mr. Gu, seeing that you are so sleepy, go back and rest!" Guo Fan saw that the editors dragged the video clips into the cutting track one by one, processed the sub-shots according to his wishes, then turned to look at the yawning Gu Zhongyu, and advised him not to stare here

The special effects of "Ball Lightning" have been basically completed, and now the final editing of the literary and opera parts is almost completed.

"No, I have to guard!" In Gu Zhongyu's opinion, the importance of editing in the later stage of a movie is no less important than shooting.

Or it can be said that if your shooting is not good enough, you can still rely on editing to save it.

The literary film "Fireworks in the Day" won the Berlin Golden Bear Award and achieved a big box office harvest. The film's director Diao Yinan likes the slow and dull video aesthetic style, but audiences may not like to watch such films.So the film studio invited Yang Hongyu to be the editor, hoping to cut a highly enjoyable film.

This film has a suspenseful and tense storyline, so Yang Hongyu made some rhythmic changes on this basis, and the suspenseful sense of plot advancement was greatly enhanced.After Yang Hongyu's edited version came out, it was not only recognized by the director, but also recognized by the market and investors.

The same is true of the famous classic war film "Apocalypse Now". The original film can easily be reduced to a messy and vague film, but Murch and the editing team worked hard to weave together the seemingly scattered scenes and a temporary ending, so that the final film can be appreciated as a linear story and become a master editing model.

But many directors in China have a problem: heavy camera, light editing.

Undecided long shot!
A word disagrees with the long shot!
Anyway, I think it's a long shot

So although Gu Zhongyu has full trust in Guo Fan, this is the company's first sci-fi film after all. He is afraid that Guo Fan will let go of himself, so he has personally directed the editing work here these two days.

Although Gu Zhongyu was not an editor, his vision and experience accumulated over the years since his debut is still better than that of Guo Fan now. He knows what the audience likes to watch, so it is not a problem to guide the editing work.

"Here, when the protagonist returns home and finds a strange phenomenon, add some water piano sound effects..."

"Delete these long shots, there are too many..."

"Most of the audience is not interested in these dialogues full of physical terms, and then cut it back..."

Guo Fan saw that Gu Zhongyu seemed to have a lot of experience in editing, so he came over and started working with him. With the efforts of the two of them, the efficiency was much faster.

Guo Fan was quite satisfied with the finished film after the initial cut.

Suddenly, he remembered a very important thing!

Then he rubbed his hands and looked at Gu Zhongyu with a lewd smile, "Teacher Gu...I...want...you..."

what?Are you okay, Guo Fan?

Gu Zhongyu immediately clutched his chrysanthemum tightly, as if swearing to die!

"Help us with the whole theme song of this movie." Guo Fan remembered that "Ball Lightning" still lacks a theme music, and it is basically perfect. Gu Zhongyu has always been famous, and has written songs for many film and television dramas, so he must be the right one.

Can you fucking stop panting!
After hearing that Guo Fan wanted him to help make the theme song, Gu Zhongyu did not agree immediately, but began to think in his mind, what song is suitable for the music of science fiction films.

It's been so many years since time travel, Gu Zhongyu has almost used those good songs that can last a lifetime, such as "Blue and White Porcelain", "In the Name of the Father" and "Crescent Bay" have already been written by him (I'm very sorry for Jay Chou!), But just like this, he is still the number one pop king of Chinese music!

Of course, this is also because Gu Zhongyuzhi is not here, plus he has to show some face, and he didn't really finish copying Jay Chou's songs, otherwise, he would have already become a god in the music world!

Moreover, Gu Zhongyu feels that his talent in music is very average, and his singing skills can only be said to be better than those of Hua Chengyu and Xue Zhiqian of later generations, but compared with veterans such as Chen Yixun and Zhang Xueyou, he is still far inferior, so he didn't put much effort into it. He just released four or five albums for fun, and won a few Golden Melody Awards.

But these few albums have already made him the second person in the Chinese music scene after Jay Chou, and his fans are no less than movie fans, although he hasn't written many songs in the past few years.

Sometimes, Gu Zhongyu would meet the real creator of the original song who came to him to buy the copyright. He never charged money. You can write other people’s songs in advance, and it’s really too much to ask people for money.

Plagiarism, after all, is a disgraceful thing.

But now that his own movie "Ball Lightning" lacks the theme music, he has no choice but to be a copycat once again, and grab the wool of a certain singer!
What song is suitable?

There are so few to choose from!
Because domestic popular songs were learned from Hong Kong and Taiwan in the early years, and most of the songs in Hong Kong and Taiwan are covers of foreign songs such as Neon and Goryeo. As the saying goes, there are tens of thousands of Chinese songs, and neon covers account for half of them.

Just one old aunt Miyuki Nakajima does not know how many Chinese singers she has supported...

There is nothing wrong with singing the cover, the problem is that the original song is about friendship, family love, and nostalgia for hometown. After arriving in China, it becomes You Love My Love.

For example, Rene Liu's "Later" is a cover version of the neon song "Future へ", but the lyrics are completely irrelevant, turning a touching mother-daughter song into a love song.

After popular songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan became popular in the mainland, the mainland also began to imitate them and create a large number of love songs.It has even been developed to the point where there are people who specialize in arranger music or those who cover songs from other countries and use their songs directly, there are people who specialize in writing lyrics, and there is also the most important good-looking singer. Among the three, the first two basically serve the latter, and the company is willing to package it like this.

Of course, the general public in China does prefer love songs, you love me and I love him, if you don't love me, you will commit suicide...

There will be more of what people want to hear.

Otherwise, why do so many people live like a human being in the middle of the night? I'm sorry, I don't dare to go deep, I'm afraid it's a big dream and so on... a bunch of Internet suppressing cloud users.

All the boys and girls at the age of sixteen or seventeen have experienced more than their parents!

So now there are not many songs left for Gu Zhongyu to copy!

It must be in line with the theme of the movie and in line with the sci-fi tone of "Ball Lightning", which sounds mysterious and mysterious.

Seeing that Gu Zhongyu seemed a little tangled, Guo Fan thought he was stumped: "If we don't have time, we can ask someone to write lyrics and music outside, and then you can sing it, Mr. Gu, or you can use old songs from the past."

Got it!

Why does it have to be a song?Isn't pure music suitable?
"Come with me!" Gu Zhongyu dragged Guo Fan to the music room next door. He stood in front of the piano, recalled the melody in his mind, and then tried to play it.

"Ding Ding Dang Dang..." As the fingers tapped, an elegant melody came out. The rhythm was relatively slow at first, but as Gu Zhongyu continued to play, the tune became more and more exciting...

Guo Fan was also slowly moved emotionally. When he began to immerse himself in the atmosphere of this pure piano music, he seemed to be able to feel the vastness and majesty of the universe, as well as the mysteries hidden behind countless mysterious realms.

Stunning, Shocking, Void, Infinity, Vastness, Sublimation, Eternity, Love, Awakening, etc.

As the last note fell, Gu Zhongyu ended his performance, but Guo Fan, who was shocked, still couldn't recall it for a long time. Although he is not a music player, he also felt the profoundness and grandeur of this piece.

"It's amazing, Mr. Gu! You prepared this song early in the morning, or improvised it." Guo Fan thinks this song is really good, especially the deep and ethereal, it is really suitable for a science fiction film.

"I made up a short section before, but it wasn't finished. When I edited "Ball Lightning" today, I saw those scenes and felt inspired, so I completed it."

At this time, Gu Zhongyu could only apologize to the creator of the original song in his heart.

Uncle Hans, I am so sorry!

You can only change the BGM of "Interstellar", I believe you are older than Chopin, it will not be difficult to create another song!

This piece of pure music is the theme music of the later sci-fi masterpiece "Interstellar", originally called "Cornfield Chase", composed by German music master Hans Zimmer in 2014.

"How about it? Do you think this song can be used in a movie?"

"Of course you can! I feel that this song was born for science fiction films. Mr. Gu, you are so awesome! If you concentrate on making music, you may have won the Grammy by now."

"Ahem... A good work is made by nature, and it's just a chance to get it. If you think it can be used, I'll find someone to come over and re-edit and record it."

"Then does this music have a name?"

Gu Zhongyu thought about it for a while. This piece was originally called Chase in the Fields, but "Ball Lightning" is actually about the protagonists' pursuit of the mysterious lightning. It's enough to simplify it.

"Call it "Chase"! The English name is Chase."

The name is quite appropriate. Guo Fan felt that there was nothing to be picky about. After finishing the film music, he went back to the editing room. He didn't plan to go home today, so he would sleep here tonight!

Gu Zhongyu recruited several arrangers and sound engineers to play "Chasing" again, wrote down the score, and went home.

He doesn't plan to stay here and work overtime. It would be great to find the little sister to do something beneficial to the body and mind in the evening. He will go to Secretary Jiang Shuying's house today.

(End of this chapter)