I am a director, but I have the skills of an actor

Chapter 12 Editing
"Girl, which piece do you want?"

Chen Yumo, expressionless, looked at the pork on the butcher stall and remained silent.

Just when the butcher shop owner was impatient, Chen Yumo pointed to a piece of pork that looked good.

"That's it, weigh ten dollars."

"Good Le!"

When the butcher shop owner was cutting meat, Chen Yumo turned his eyes and looked closely at a piece of pork that looked very bad on the butcher stall.The deep eyes were full of pity and anger!
After the butcher shop owner cut the meat, he saw that Chen Yumo was still staring at the piece of pork that had been sold for several hours from early morning to now.

He felt happy and said quickly, "Girl, if you want this piece, I can sell it to you cheaper."

"No!" Chen Yumo replied loudly as if he was greatly stimulated.

Soon, she calmed down and apologized to the pork boss, "Sorry!"

Immediately, she handed over the ten dollars, took the pork, and left quickly.

Then, Chen Yumo's back disappeared from the lens, and the shot was completed.

Before Wan Qingshan on the director's chair could say anything, Chen Yumo turned around and ran over.

"Did you pass this time?"

This shot has been shot dozens of times.It has always been the case that Chen Yumo's expression when he looked at the piece of pork that didn't look good was not expressed properly, leading to reshoots.

In the previous filming, although Chen Yumo's performance was not perfect, he did not retake a single scene more than five times.

Now, the last shot of "Selection" is full of ngs, which greatly shocked Chen Yumo, who had been performing smoothly before.

Wan Qingshan, who was behind the monitor, looked at the camera carefully. Although Chen Yumo's eye scene was better than before, it was still not enough.

However, when he looked up and saw Chen Yumo's expectant eyes and the words 'do it again' on his lips, he couldn't bear to say it.

He thought for a while, Chen Yumo didn't like acting, so he probably wouldn't care about winning awards.

So, he changed his words and said with a smile, "I passed."

Immediately, he stood up and shouted, "I announce that "Selection" has been completed. Everyone packs up and wraps up the banquet tonight."

Lu Jian, Yan Dong and others immediately started cheering like ghosts and wolves howling.

As for the people Li Yancheng called, they were all people who had been in the film and television industry for several years.They were not as excited as Yan Dong and others who were filming for the first time. They were not happy about the completion of filming.

"Selection" has finished filming, and their current thinking is that it's time to find the next crew.

At the closing banquet, before they had even eaten a few bites of food, Lu Jian and the others took turns toasting to Wanqing Mountain.

Seeing this, Wan Qingshan could only shout, "I can't drink well. Everyone knows that I can only drink water instead of wine."

Everyone felt a little disappointed, but they couldn't force Wan Qingshan to drink.

Just like that, everyone's thoughts of noisy were gone and they could eat in peace.

After taking a few bites, Yan Dong suddenly raised his glass and said sincerely, "Qingzi, I want to thank you. If it weren't for you, I would still be taking photos of models, and I might not have the chance to take pictures in the future. Thank you!" "

"Don't say that, Yan Dong, we are helping each other."

Wan Qingshan said, picking up the water glass, clinking it, and then took a proud sip.

puff!
As soon as they entered, Wan Qingshan quickly turned around and sprayed towards the ground.

Although a lot of it squirted out, a small amount flowed into the stomach.

While everyone was laughing, Wan Qingshan quickly picked up his chopsticks, picked up the food and stuffed it into his mouth, regardless of what dish was in front of him.

After suppressing the smell of alcohol, Wan Qingshan said angrily to Chen Yumo beside him,
"Chen Yumo, you know that I don't know how to drink, so you replaced my plain water with white wine. You want me to die."

Chen Yu's big, inky eyes were blinking, and he said with an innocent look,

"Director Wan, what kind of liquor is that? I don't know what you are talking about."

Wan Qingshan rolled his eyes and drank, but it was useless to say anything.

Baijiu has a strong stamina. At first, Wan Qingshan didn't feel much after using vegetables to suppress the feeling of alcohol.

But later on, the stamina increased, and Wan Qingshan felt like his head was getting bigger and bigger.

Then, before he was about to die, Wan Qingshan hurriedly left in advance.

The next day, at noon, the group packed up and returned to BJ.

Wan Qingshan went to China Film to change the shooting equipment, and then - starting from the next day, he stayed at China Film.

Because of the poor film market, studios owned by China Film Group rarely produce movies.

However, the studio will not stay empty forever, and will engage in external contracting, rental of filming equipment and post-production business.

Wan Qingshan did the film editing and post-production at China Film Studio.

"No, you must not cut it here!" "If you don't cut it here, when the camera behind you comes in, this section will be very abrupt."

"Then, then, cut it." Wan Qingshan rubbed his tired eyes and said helplessly.

This conversation has been happening since the first day of editing.

Today, on the fourth day of editing the film, this conversation is still happening.

The editor, Lu Ben, has worked with many directors and knows how stubborn new directors are. Cutting a scene is like cutting flesh from their body, and he is reluctant to cut it.

However, this was his first time meeting a new director who had to explain every scene he cut.As a result, he, who had always had a good temper, couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.

Wan Qingshan is very familiar with filming.But this was his first time doing editing.

In his previous life, once the movie was shot, there was nothing else to do. He was not qualified to enter the editing room.Now, when I enter the editing room and watch the editor cut out the scenes that I thought I was very satisfied with, I feel like, oh, I can't even express my anger.

"Qingzi!"

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door and Yan Dong's shouting.

Wan Qingshan was a little curious. After thinking for a moment, he stood up and said, "Teacher Lu, just look at the cutting first. Anyway, you already know the effect I want."

"Well, don't worry, if you don't have time to come, it's okay. You can see the results directly when the time comes. If you are not satisfied with the results, we will discuss it again." Lu Ben didn't look away and didn't stop moving his hands.

Wan Qingshan rolled his eyes and complained in his heart, "Of course you wish I didn't come, so you would be free and don't have to waste your time."

Yan Dong walked out of the editing room, wearing inconspicuous home casual clothes and flip-flops on his feet. Yan Dong, who had a very official manner, said to Wan Qingshan with a mysterious face,
"Qingzi, do you know? Something big happened at school."

"Did the school get bombed?"

"I'm telling you seriously, I'm not kidding you."

"Since I'm being serious, you should know that after I came back from Chongqing, I stayed in the editing room every day. How dare you ask me if I know anything about the school?"

Yan Dong was so reprimanded by these words that he didn't know what to say, so he simply told him bluntly,

"I heard that people from the Film Administration are going to interview Senior Brother Jia and Senior Brother Lou at school."

Wan Qingshan was stunned for a moment and muttered in his mind, "Is it the Seven Gentlemen incident of the independent film? If so, does it mean that the film industry is about to be reformed?"

Wan Qingshan did not remember the specific time when the independent film Seven Gentlemen incident occurred, but he remembered that after the independent film Seven Gentlemen incident, policies began to encourage private enterprises to invest in films.

Even theater chains have been relaxed, allowing private capital and foreign investment, which can be said to have broken the monopoly of state-owned enterprises.

This relaxation has led to the rapid development of the film and television industry in a few years, and the rapid growth of various private film and television companies.

"Where did you hear that? Is there a specific time?" Wan Qingshan asked after regaining consciousness.

"I went to school today to see our class teacher. When I walked to the door, I overheard Teacher Liu Yi from the Performance Department chatting with our class teacher. How do I know the specific time? Do you want me to tell the teacher that I just heard It’s time for you to talk.”

"Then tell me not to disturb my editing." Wan Qingshan said, turning around and walking towards the editing room.

Now, Wan Qingshan is focused on the later stages of "Selection".As soon as he came out, he began to worry that Lu Ben had cut too many scenes.

"Hey, hey, don't leave. I want to ask you, why do you think the General Administration invited Brother Jia and the others? The movies made by Brother Jia and the others are all underground movies." Yan Dong quickly grabbed Wan Qingshan.

"What else could I do? I just pounced on "Heroes of Heaven and Earth", which had high hopes from the higher-ups and hoped to recreate the box office success of "Heroes".

Moreover, most of the top ten box office films are foreign films. In this case, do you think the higher-ups can take it easy?

In such a hurry, I can only think of Senior Brother Jia and the others, and hope that Senior Brother Jia and the others' movies will gain some reputation in the future. "

Two days ago, as soon as Wan Qingshan came home after watching the editing all day, he was dragged by Chen Yumo to watch a movie.What I watched was Zhao Feite, who claimed to have invested 8000 million and could wear a military flag to show his innocence, and was good at cutting leeks, and "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" starring Jiang Mazi.

"Heroes of Heaven and Earth" was released in late September. When Wan Qingshan and Chen Yumo went to see it, it was almost sold out and there were very few people in the cinema.

The reviews for this movie online were very poor, so bad that Chen Yumo wanted to see how bad it was.

In his previous life, Wan Qingshan had only heard that this movie was a box office hit, but he had never seen it.

After watching it, Wan Qingshan could only say that it was normal for this movie to fail at the box office.The story of the European Middle Ages was filmed in ancient China, and the result was a completely different picture.

Especially when the Buddha's light shines at the end, how can the audience accept it? This is not a mythical film.

After watching the movie, Wan Qingshan was curious about the box office of this kind of movie. He looked up the news and found out that the mainland movie market is now almost occupied by foreign movies.

Yan Dong's face became a little ugly. As a newcomer in the film and television industry who had just graduated from college, he was not like a veteran who only considered his own interests.

Facing the fact that his own film market was occupied by foreign films, he felt very sad and angry.

Yan Dong, who was a little hard to accept, said harshly, "It can't be said that it was occupied. Last year's "Hero" was a huge hit at the box office. It was more than 2 million."

Wan Qingshan rolled his eyes, "You also said it was last year. In terms of box office, why didn't you talk about Big Ship, which was released in 98? Okay, I won't talk to you anymore, I have to go in and watch the editing."

Yan Dong, who had accepted this reality in his heart and was very worried about domestic movies, had no intention of dragging Wan Qingshan to keep talking.

He dragged his flip-flops with some confusion in his heart and walked out of the Central Film Institute.

(End of this chapter)