new kung fu king

Chapter 53
"Movie montage is some actions that collide with each other, not only the collision between the shots, but also the collision within the shots." This sentence was put forward by the former Soviet Union Eisenstein in "The Form of Film".

The greatness of this sentence is that it clearly points out two important tasks of a good martial arts instructor: what kind of movements to design and what kind of movements to express.

To put it bluntly, "what kind of action to design" is to design corresponding martial arts actions based on the script, story background, and character personality, while "what kind of action expression to design" mainly refers to post-production and editing of martial arts actions.

After "Fist of Fury" is finished, most of the actors can rest for a few days, and then go to find other studios to continue working for their lives. Bruce Lee needs to go home to reunite with his children, and Wang Xiaohu, the assistant director, has to take film (film) Came to Golden Harvest headquarters, looking for an editor to perfect the post-production of the film.

The film editing work at this time was done by professional editors using simple machines, far inferior to the computer "non-linear" editing (digital editing) that Wang Xiaohu was familiar with in his previous life, so editing was a heavy and meticulous work.

Zhang Zongyao, chief editor of Golden Harvest, looked at the poor film in Wang Xiaohu's hands and said, "That's all?"

Wang Xiaohu nodded and said, "Yes, that's all."

Zhang Zongyao took the films with a wry smile, and he was quite puzzled about Wang Xiaohu's position as an assistant director.Does this kid know how to make movies? A feature film often has as few as a few hundred shots and as many as thousands of shots.There are interior scenes, exterior scenes, real scenes and constructed scenes in the picture part.Important shots often have to be shot several times due to performance or technical reasons, and they need to be selected when editing is required.Most of the shots are taken in longer lengths, and it is necessary to find the most ideal cutting point; some scenes need to be interspersed with long and short shots, and they are shot continuously on several strips of film, which need to be cut into many shots during editing. The most effective shots are lined up in order.

And this kid has only taken so much film, if the editing effect is not ideal, it will be a big deal if the film reshoots are delayed and the release is delayed!For this reason, many directors bring a large amount of film when they edit, in order to select satisfactory effects from them, but the film brought by Wang Xiaohu is about half less than other directors, so Zhang Zongyao thinks this is a joke, deep in his heart. Chu thought Wang Xiaohu was an outsider.

Zhang Zongyao complained in his heart while turning on the editing machine: "Boss Zou, why did he invite such an unruly layman to shoot a movie? Damn it, it seems that my workload today is more than ten times higher than usual!"

According to the editing practice, the first job is to process the material, that is, to connect the shots according to the logo of the film scene combined with the shot script, the characters' physical movements, dialogues, and reactions. This is a preliminary processing process. , is often the most complicated and most troublesome project for Zhang Zongyao, God knows if this layman will make a mess!

But when Zhang Zongyao started working, his thoughts immediately changed 180 degrees, because most of these films are composed of long shots, and the pictures shot are surprisingly smooth, which is simply a coherent work, whether it is the movements of the characters, or the front and back The connection seems to have gone through repeated scrutiny and comprehensive editing of the scene.

"This, how is this possible?" Zhang Zongyao felt a strong earthquake deep in his heart. Unbelieving, he took out several sets of film for verification. The verification results were all the same. They were all long-shot combinations. He, the chief editor of Golden Harvest, There is nowhere to start.

"Director Wang, are you sure you're not kidding me?" Zhang Zongyao asked with a strange expression.

Wang Xiaohu rubbed his nose and didn't understand what he meant: "Uh, what did you just say? Is there something wrong with the film?"

"No, no, there is nothing wrong with the film. I just want to ask if the film has been cut and recut."

"Primary cut? Double cut? What does that mean?" Wang Xiaohu didn't explain.

"God, you don't even know the first cut and the second cut!" Zhang Zongyao was completely depressed! "The first cut is to sort out the order of the film roughly, and the re-cut is to make corrections on the basis of the first cut."

Wang Xiaohu shook his head and said, "No, if we had an editor, we wouldn't have come to Brother Yao for help."

Zhang Zongyao threw the magnifying glass on the table and said: "Then why are these shots so smooth and coherent!"

Wang Xiaohu smiled and said: "Oh, that's what you're talking about. These shots are the results of our one-month training. Brother Yao, what you see are long shots, mainly some martial arts scenes in the film. We trained After the completion, I started shooting directly, so I felt that the picture was very smooth, almost all in one pass!"

"." Zhang Zongyao looked at Wang Xiaohu speechlessly, the muscles on his face began to twitch, the guy in front of him was either a lunatic or a genius, whoever shoots a martial arts action movie needs to rehearse before shooting, what a waste of time, who doesn't shoot at the same time While designing actions, some difficult actions cannot be post-processed without wasting a lot of film.

"Then, then, I don't have anything to do!" Zhang Zongyao blushed and finally choked out a sentence.

Wang Xiaohu smiled and said, "Why have nothing to do? We only take long shots for martial arts action, mainly to reduce Yao brother's workload as much as possible. As for some narrative scenes such as literary dramas and dialogues, we still need Yao brother to help. of."

Zhang Zongyao didn't know how to answer anymore, he nodded in a daze in his mind and said, "Oh, thank you then!"

When Zhang Zongyao returned to work again, he fully understood what Wang Xiaohu said just now. Indeed, all the shots involving martial arts scenes in these films were long shots, and the movements were very coherent and smooth. The modification is already a perfect finished product, and what he has to do is to connect the literary and martial arts according to the order of the script, and perform re-cutting, perfect the dialogue and mouth-synthesis comparison of the characters, and record the lines. .

Since more than 60% of Zhang Zongyao's workload was reduced, the editing of the film went very smoothly. Wang Xiaohu also took this opportunity to learn from Zhang Zongyao about film editing, and Zhang Zongyao naturally donated his money.

Through study, Wang Xiaohu now finally understands that in addition to special editing methods such as "three shots" and "slow motion", there are also techniques such as "overlapping editing" and "repeated editing" in film editing, and for some important fighting scenes. For close-ups of prominent characters, sometimes these several editing methods are used in combination. After a few days, Wang Xiaohu showed a little stubble on his lips, but he also benefited a lot.

(End of this chapter)