Chapter 535 Rough Cut

In the afternoon, Morgan and his mother left Highland Park and returned to New York. Mariah Carey showed her cards in person. He was naturally unhappy and didn't want to stay in Chicago for a night, but their mothers still approved of the marriage, so The only problem now is the wedding date.

"Inever would', I'd be here writing this song, Buthere Iam, next to you, Thesky isso blue in Malibu..."

Mariah Carey was relieved, and she quickly became optimistic. At night, accompanied by the splashing shower, she happily sang the malibu Song Ya gave her, "Ahhh..." and added a high-pitched coloratura.

"How is it? Honey?"

After singing the song, she casually put on a bath towel, and cheerfully flung herself into the arms of her fiancé, who was half lying on the bed and making a phone call.

"Okay..." Song Ya pointed to the microphone, "I will go, um... Are there any plays that need to be dubbed? Okay... I see, see you at Universal Studios."

Hang up the phone, "You sing really well." He hugged her back and complimented her.

"This song has too much bass..." she complained.

The original female singer's voice is a bit hoarse, and she doesn't take the vocal route, "No way, I wrote this for you because I was inspired by Mr. Geffen's private beach." She said cheekily.

"I like it very much, the lyrics are so sweet?" She was very pleased, "Are you really so attached to me?"

"certainly."

If there is no voice, the apocalypse will not come. From this perspective, it is indeed my own voice.

She rubbed her face on Song Ya's chest happily, "Who were you calling just now?"

"Old Larry, I'm going to L.A. to do some re-recording in two days and see how they're doing with my film. Will you come with me?"

I still use live radio for most of my life, but during the editing process, I always find that the recording of some passages is not good, or the old Larry wants to adjust the lines.

"Don't try to get rid of me..."

She's a haunting goblin now, and the next day, the two arrive at Deep Ocean Studios to work on the last track on the soundtrack.

This is a hip-hop and R&B song with a reggae style. Naturally, Song Ya will not copy the original singer's Caribbean accent, but retains the other party's "hot mouth" way of articulating words, so it will be very different from his previous singing. Big difference.

Mariah Carey, who was devoted to her fiancé, took the initiative to take on a harmonization job and followed into the recording studio.

"Haha, my dear, the way you handle it is so Latin."

Her sensitivity to music is top-notch. When Song Ya sang the first two lines, she could hear it with one ear. Latin native speakers often speak English in this tone.

"Hey, the harmony singer over there, please pay attention to your identity and don't interfere with the lead singer!" Song Ya pretended to be serious and made fun of her.

"I'm sorry, Big Singer." She squeezed her throat to cooperate with role-playing.

"Remember the time before? Mimi, when I was recording IStillBelieve, it was the same as today, you helped me make the harmony."

Since it was a song sung by a man and a woman, Brenda, who was seriously underpaid in emotional intelligence, was also in the recording studio. She suddenly intervened in the flirting between the two, and recalled the past when Mariah Carey worked as a harmony singer for her before she became popular.

"Of course I remember, I miss that time very much..."

Mariah Carey still held her throat, and rolled her eyes as soon as Brenda turned her head.

Song Ya shook his head and laughed. After the song was recorded, he found an opportunity to ask Linda, "Have you and your husband emphasized to Brenda? I don't want her to reveal too much in front of the media after she releases the song, and Mimi's previous In the past, it is enough to mention it occasionally as a meme, to stir up some heat, and to add points for Mimi's reciprocal kindness."

"Don't worry, Brenda is indeed not very smart, but after all, she was once packaged as a female singer, and she knows what she can say and what she can't say."

Linda replied: "You gave her the opportunity to be envied by the whole music circle,

She appreciates you. "

"That's good."

After finishing this matter, he and Mariah Carey took a private jet to Los Angeles, met with old Larry and others in a professional viewing room in Universal Studios, and watched the rough cut version.

All the soundtrack songs have already been recorded, and Dion Wilson will send them over later.

"A little rough."

After watching the three-hour movie, the editor opened the curtains, and Song Ya squinted her eyes and said nonsense. Of course, the rough cut version was very rough, retaining too much material, resulting in a very slow pace of the whole movie. Mariah Carey, who watched the movie, has fallen asleep in her arms.

In order to make it easier for him and other relevant personnel present to watch the movie, a live audio track without post-processing was added during playback.

The tone between the paragraphs of the film has not been unified in post-production. When the old Larry shot the MV, he was absolutely mainstream, but in this movie he used a lot of post-modern compositions that he used to splice movies in his old profession, and was responsible for The image style of Zack Schneider in the location team is relatively avant-garde. Although he was successfully suppressed by the old Larry, he can still see a touch of comic style in some location scenes.

Everything else is fine. Basically, this movie will be much more refined than the original version. For example, in the original version, when the hero goes to art school for the first time, the scene where the crowd is so crowded that it looks like a public middle school will no longer appear. Replaced by the corridors that really befit a good art school, with sculptures and paintings, and students who dress more 'artistically'...

The overall plot did not deviate too much from Song Ya's script, and several of the more exciting passages in the original version have been cut so that the prototype can be seen.

"One hundred minutes."

The person in charge of Universal Distribution sitting in the back row of the viewing room said: "This film cannot exceed 100 minutes, otherwise the theater will quit, and it will also affect the viewing experience."

"OK."

Old Larry agreed in a low mood. As a director, every frame he shoots looks like his child, so it will be a very difficult choice for him to discard those clips, which is why Hollywood has always been very cautious in the final The reason why the editing rights are handed over to the director himself is because the director really can't do things according to his own ideas. There are too many lessons.

According to Amblin Entertainment's plan, when the final version is close to being edited, the old Larry will basically avoid it, and hand everything over to the editor and Universal, which is in charge of distribution.

"The role of the second female lead and her boyfriend is a bit too much, and it needs to be greatly cut. The plot of the two of them in this drama is irrelevant."

Catherine's husband is also there. Catherine prefers production and management, and he prefers distribution and grasping the general direction. "What do you think of APLUS?"

"Can."

Song Ya nodded, the plot line is probably the relationship between the second female played by Taraji and Terrence Howard, plus the two story lines of the heroine's little boy friend stealing Terrence Howard's song, the original movie has this point It was handled well, and it was explained clearly in a small space, but old Larry added some more clear and logical scenes, "We only need to..."

So he also made some comments based on the relevant clips in the original movie.

"I think so."

Catherine's husband looked at him quite unexpectedly, "APLUS, you really have thought it through."

"Okay." Old Larry discussed with the editor for a few words, and basically accepted Song Ya's suggestion.

"The host family scene of the male second will also be greatly cut." Another person from Universal said.

This editing meeting lasted for a long time, and the main tone was to cut everything and leave everything alone. Old Larry was easy to talk to at first, but then he suddenly couldn't hold back and argued with the people from Universal.

"What do you think of APLUS?" The head of Universal Publishing didn't argue with him, and asked Song Ya again.

"Our movie must compress the viewing time, Larry." Song Ya persuaded the old Larry, the original movie was exactly 100 minutes long, and the rhythm was not too tight. We won’t take the risk of letting the audience sit in the theater for more than two hours, too long will definitely affect the scheduling of the film.”

"I know I know."

Old Larry took off his glasses, "Although this movie is not an art or mainstream commercial blockbuster, there are quite a few elements in it, singing and dancing, love, inspirational, sports..."

"Don't exercise don't exercise."

Universal's people found another point that could be cut, "The scene where APLUS and the male second play baseball should also be compressed, as long as they can explain the characters of the two."

"There can be more singing and dancing. People like to watch lively singing and dancing. APLUS dances very beautifully. The heroine's skills are very good, but her expressiveness is not as good as APLUS..." Catherine's husband also saw the problem of Amy's dance expressiveness. Very hard, "There can be more shots depicting the heroine's figure, but it should not affect the grading."

Amy's figure is better than that of the original heroine, her breasts are not smaller than the original heroine, her waist is thinner, her clothes are more high-end, and some of the frontal shots after dancing have slight bumps, which is more seductive.

"First is singing and dancing, then love, and finally inspirational, sports? Go to hell." The person in charge of global distribution complained: "There are too many sports inspirational films these days. There is a baseball angel in the same period in July. We are not here. Compare it with the above."

"We are the only song and dance genre film, right?" Song Ya asked.

"Yes, but this is not necessarily good news. American audiences are sick of musicals. It is because of a series of box office failures that Hollywood gradually seldom makes films." The person in charge of global distribution explained.

"I understand." Song Ya also knew the truth.

"However, you are the first to use street dance elements, so... everything can only depend on the market reaction, and no one can grasp the taste of the audience 100%."

There is no possibility of winning awards in my life, so I have no chance to rely on winning awards to affect the audience's desire to watch movies. After the promotion is done, I can only wait for the audience's word-of-mouth to ferment.

"Okay, that's all for today."

The person in charge of global distribution got up and yawned, and led his staff out of the viewing room.

"Issuing companies are always so annoying." Someone in the front row complained, and it was old Larry's friend Stan Brackey.

"Hehe, there is no way, they are naturally strong." Catherine's husband also left.

"What? Is the movie over?" Mariah Carey just woke up at this time, and she asked in a daze.