This director needs to apologize

Chapter 243: Just flying, not landing on the moon

It was almost noon, and the three of them left the editing room and went to the cafeteria of the Phantom Factory to have lunch. After taking a short rest, they returned to the editing room for the official opening.

From now on, it’s time to work slowly and carefully.

In the first scene of the opening scene, Chen Yiming ordered Wang Suqiu to cut out the scene where the male lead appeared as a simultaneous interpreter and jump directly to the wedding of the second male lead.

As expected, Xiangrui jumped up again, "Stop, stop, stop, there's such a long background description of the male protagonist, how can you just cut it out? It's so abrupt, there will be bugs later."

Chen Yiming directly pushed back, "Let me ask you, is the theme of the movie the current male protagonist or the past male protagonist?"

Xiangrui replied, "The hero is the hero, why should we separate the past and the present?"

Chen Yiming was speechless. Overly immersed directors have the same problem as experiential actors. They can't leave after filming.

But when editing, it would be unprofessional to stay in the director's perspective. You should switch to the audience's perspective to examine the material.

Chen Yiming signaled Wang Suqiu to continue, and he said to Xiangrui, "The theme of "Love Letter" is love in student days. Other parts of the movie can be regarded as foreshadowing. It doesn't matter if there is more or less.

The profession of the hero is not important. You should take your emotions away from the foreign language test paper as soon as possible. "

On the monitor at this time, Wang Suqiu had already brought up the wedding scene, and Chen Yiming pointed at the screen and said to Xiangrui.

“We can use a grainy white light mask in the opening to give the audience a hint that this is a movie about memories.

After the fade-in, the voice-over is used to cut directly to the wedding scene. The actor's identity and occupation are revealed through the best man's dialogue, and the relationship between the characters is explained concisely and clearly. What's wrong? "

Wang Suqiu has a great sense of imagery. Chen Yiming is talking here, but he has already called up relevant materials on his hand. Several smooth switches perfectly fit Chen Yiming's description.

Next, the bridesmaids made it difficult for the groomsmen to write a farewell letter to their previous girlfriend, and the hero wrote this love letter ten years late.

"How are you? I'm fine!"

The second female lead mailed the letter in a funny way, and the story of "Love Letter" officially began.

The hero received an unexpected reply, so he approached the second hero to discuss the follow-up.

Here Xiangrui made changes to the script, changing the male protagonist's solo show to a male one and two male opposite roles.

In the original version of "Love Letter", the heroine turned to Lan Yan to complete the process of finding the truth. Xiangrui's adaptation was actually based on the same logic. A one-man show requires too much acting skills, and a rival show is more conducive to the many newcomers in the crew.

After Chen Yiming thought about it carefully, he agreed with this adaptation.

The boy and the girl were love rivals when they were students. Because of the existence of the heroine, they unexpectedly established a friendship. Ten years later, they became bad friends.

Ten years later, the first male who had been single suddenly established contact with the first love they once shared. The person who can be discussed at this time is naturally the second male who is already married.

This character relationship has dramatic tension, but will not cause the audience to dislike it because it is too bloody. It is indeed an adaptation that takes advantage of the situation.

Next, the male protagonist and the second male protagonist confirm the identity of the person who responded to the letter. The second male protagonist encourages the male protagonist to continue the correspondence, pretending to be the male protagonist’s suitor, and inquires about the male protagonist’s deeds in his student days, thereby testing the female protagonist’s mind.

These two paragraphs are just plots. Xiangrui's filming was solid, and the characters of the male protagonist and the second male lead were also well reflected.

The male lead, Liu Dongjun, has gone through the hard work of "1951" and is also tall. The baby face of the second male lead, Ye Zuxin, is perfect for playing a fool. When the two of them stand together, they really look like they are in their twenties. The taste of social people.

Wang Suqiu cut smoothly, and after Chen Yiming made some adjustments, this part came to an end.

After meeting his bad friend, the man returns home and writes a letter for the second time. With the close-up of the pen tip moving on the letter paper, the movie enters the memory part.

In Chen Yiming's view, the memory of the auspiciousness was well shot, especially the contrast between the male and female protagonists' perspectives, which has a strong symbolic meaning.

The campus from the perspective of the male protagonist, from the camera to the lighting, is simply full of fantasy. Anyway, I must have added a lot of soft light filters.

An Xixi in the male protagonist's memory is surrounded by a warm-toned halo, especially the moment when the male protagonist looks at the female protagonist for the first time, the backlight from the side clearly outlines the profile of An Xixi.

She was leaning on the desk, holding the test paper horizontally with her left hand, and holding a pen in her right hand and tapping on the test paper, her brows furrowed cutely.

The broken hair on her temples fell down. She raised her right hand to hold the pen and elegantly tucked her hair behind her ears.

Seemingly noticing someone's gaze, she turned her head, and the male protagonist lowered his head in panic.

This scene has nothing to do with the era. It is a common adolescent past for almost every boy. It was vividly portrayed by Xiangrui in three simple shots.

Wang Yiming drastically deleted passages from the test paper, retaining only the most essential parts. Chen Yiming even felt that just the frame of An Xixi's backlit profile was worth the price of admission.

After the transition, the same classroom changed back to a realistic gray-blue tone, and An Xixi, dressed as a teacher, walked out of the classroom after class.

A long shot reveals the background of An Xixi's character through pleasantries with passing students and teachers, until she sits at her desk and the school janitor delivers a letter from the male protagonist.

From the female protagonist's perspective, this letter originated from an accident. One of the male protagonist's suitors accidentally learned about the male protagonist's high school that year, so he sent a love letter without expecting a reply.

However, the heroine with the same name as the hero happened to return to her alma mater to teach, and unexpectedly received this letter. Although she wrote to explain the reason, what she didn't expect was that the suitor actually wrote again and took the opportunity to chat with her.

This also made the heroine start to reminisce about her past middle school days. Thinking of the transfer student in her sophomore year of high school, the blurred memories became vivid again. Naturally, this part is not An Xixi's one-man show. This fairy is full of atmosphere when she doesn't speak and poses, but once she needs to show her delicate acting skills, she can't rush it.

So Xiangrui added a female colleague in the same office, and through dialogue and side-by-side shots, An Xixi's immature acting skills were somewhat concealed.

The camera jumps to the heroine's home, and with the close-up of the second movement of the pen tip controlled by the delicate fingers, it enters the heroine's first memory.

Another clever transition from the same scene, the gray-blue tone continues to deepen, and Xiangrui raises the contrast, making the overall picture texture darker and pale, like a cloudy day before a heavy rain.

In the bedroom, the heroine is sitting at the desk next to the bed, with the hero's 57-point foreign language test paper in front of her.

Then the camera cuts to the living room, the door opens, and the heroine's parents enter.

The camera returned to the bedroom. An Xixi, a girl in school uniform, stood up from the desk and walked into the living room with a calm expression.

The dull living room only had a few pieces of furniture, and there were a few large suitcases in the open space in the middle. The heroine's mother said, "The car is here," and then went out carrying the luggage with her father.

An Xixi's face looked a little disappointed. She walked slowly in the living room, stretched her fingers out and traced the wall in a circle, and turned in when she reached the bedroom door.

Only then did the camera show the full view of the bedroom. The place had been tidied up, but traces of various trophies and certificates on the bookshelf on the wall gave a hint that An Xixi was both good in character and learning.

She came to the desk again, folded the test paper, put it into the schoolbag on the back of the chair, then put her schoolbag on her back, walked out of the bedroom, picked up a suitcase, and walked out of the door.

In the next shot, a Ford sedan is driving on the street, and then the perspective cuts to the inside of the car. The father who is driving the car says without looking back, "Nanny, your school is in front of you. Do you want to stop?"

After a moment of silence, the co-pilot's mother turned her head and looked at An Xixi with concern.

The latter lowered his head and folded the test paper back and forth, but answered, "No need."

The Ford drove past the school gate at medium speed. The heroine's eyes followed the men and women in school uniforms on the playground through the gap in the railings until she could no longer see them.

Just like the previously revised script, the heroine's first memory is her last day before dropping out of high school.

On that day, she didn't have time to say goodbye to her classmates, especially the male protagonist, so she quietly disappeared into the class.

Of course, the heroine's feelings will not be directly revealed in the movie, or the heroine herself has not yet determined her feelings.

However, from the close-ups of several test papers, the audience can easily see that the male protagonist with the same name occupies a specific corner in the female protagonist's heart, and is not an ordinary passerby.

This sets the tone of the entire movie, which is not an ignorant one-way secret love, but a potential two-way love.

Chen Yiming discovered with a headache that as long as the test papers were involved, Xiangrui would be full of creativity, and his unrestrained mind would have nowhere to rest.

When Wang Suqiu pulled the material, Chen Yiming could clearly see the situation in the material library. In the original sample, the heroine's one-way farewell scene was also shot very "full" by Xiangrui.

That paper was like a VIP, with an astonishing sense of presence. Chen Yiming had reason to speculate that it was the love token of the male and female protagonists.

Isn't that so?

Even in the version after Wang Suqiu lost weight, the close-ups of the test papers still seemed too many and too deliberate.

The whole house is so clean, but I still have to pull out the test paper and put it on the table for review. What kind of longing is this!

It’s no longer consistent with the original intention of the script!

In addition, Xiangrui also put a lot of effort into portraying the heroine's parents.

Not only did a lot of lines be added, but close-ups were also added to the two middle-aged guest actors to highlight the parents' concern for the heroine.

After the whole scene was treated in this way, it was indeed fuller, but it also really overshadowed the scene.

With no other choice, Chen Yiming had to ask Wang Suqiu to restore all the samples of this section and edit them again.

Fortunately, Xiangrui was just flying and not landing on the moon. She did not discard the original storyboard draft reviewed by Chen Yiming, but "created it a second time" after filming the original version.

Moreover, Xiangrui's release is not all useless. Some of the shots are full of aura, and Anxixi is so beautiful in the picture.

After Chen Yiming reviewed the dailies, he re-edited the scene based on the original storyboard. The heroine took out the test paper in the bookcase before leaving, and stuffed it into her schoolbag after a close-up.

Until the part where he passed by the school gate without entering, Mr. Exam Paper stayed in his school bag and no longer jumped out to steal the show.

Accordingly, the technical editing part also had to be reworked. Since the film was not entirely recorded live, for example, the part where the heroine's parents opened the door required post-dubbing.

Wang Suqiu's rough cut did not involve sound effects, so he could only edit according to the story line. The scene where the heroine's parents opened the door had to stay.

However, Chen Yiming has a complete image in his brain. He only needs to add a door opening sound effect here, and the original shot can be skipped directly.

There are also shots such as the heroine getting into the car, the vehicle starting, and the street panorama, which can actually be cut.

After losing weight again, the entire paragraph became more compact, and the original length of seven or eight minutes was cut in half.

　I have to go out again today, and it is not convenient to code because of limited time, so I will update it every day and try to keep it above 3K.

　　I will resume double updates when I come back next weekend.

　　I'm really sorry, and I ask for your understanding, readers!

　　

　

(End of this chapter)