1154. Final Editing Rights

Chen Hang's suffering is not over yet.

In fact, working with a Hollywood team, if you get used to it, you will feel very comfortable.

Because, in terms of professionalism, the Hollywood team is really like an assembly line in a factory.

Every type of work they do is professional.

Many people say that the gap between Huaguo's movies and Hollywood's is mainly in the market.

But after the film market in Huaguo rose, everyone discovered to their astonishment that it was not.

Or more than that!

In Wang Yifan's view, the biggest gap between Huaguo and Hollywood is not actually the special effects technology, nor the capital, nor the market.

Special effects technology, Hollywood is indeed advanced enough, but in fact the gap is not as big as imagined.

In fact, it can be said that most of Huaguo's special effects teams can achieve 80% of the effects produced by top Hollywood special effects companies with the support of enough money.

Yes, eighty percent.

It seems that the gap of the remaining 20% ​​is not that big.

However, it is precisely the remaining 20% ​​effect that is the real biggest gap.

Because, purely in terms of money, the first 80% of the effects may only need to account for 20% of the special effects costs of Hollywood special effects companies, and the remaining 80% of the costs , they will use to achieve this last twenty percent effect.

It may sound difficult to understand, but, in fact, it is.

Why Truck Driver, his movies, often make people scream and can create record-breaking scores.

Because of perfection, "Titanic" actually doesn't need to spend so long simply looking at the plot in it, and the special effects in it don't seem to be the most cutting-edge special effects technology.

Many special effects companies, if they have enough money, can do it.

But why has no one been able to copy the "Titanic"?

Many people may not be able to imagine that when Cameron was filming "Titanic", his requirements for details could be said to be outrageous.

Cameron and his team struggled to bring "Titanic" to the big screen. But the production cycle of "Titanic" was not long. The studio of Fossbach Studios started construction on May 30, 1996. It covered a 40-acre beach with a large water tank and a 32,000-square-foot large The stage is also equipped with production offices, prop warehouses, power plants, welding workshops, changing rooms and other auxiliary facilities. It took about 100 days for a very majestic "Titanic" to stand on the coast of Mexico, and the main shooting began. The 775-foot ship is only about 10% smaller than the real Titanic, Cameron said: "You can't imagine how big the Titanic was, and it took us a long time to really realize that it has It is 882 feet long, has a displacement of 48,000 tons, and the actual steel weight is nearly 60,000 tons. Simply put, it is a monster." Thomas Andrew, the shipbuilding coordinator of the Titanic, said: "It takes 3 million rivets and rivets to build a good ship. Lots of sweat."

Many people find it difficult to understand, and even feel that it takes so much manpower and material resources to build a ship like "Titanic" that can only be used for filming movies, and even a ship that can't move. After filming, it will cost money to dismantle it Ship, isn't it too wasteful?

Is it too difficult for people to accept?

What's more, all the items of the "Titanic", including tableware, etc., are specially customized, perfectly recreating the details of the "Titanic".

Let's imagine, in fact, if there are not so many perfect details, it seems like a movie, it doesn't seem to be too bad, right?

But this is where the biggest difference lies.

It is precisely because of the attitude of pursuing perfection to the point of obsessive-compulsive disorder that "Titanic" is hailed as the pinnacle of film history.

The same is true for special effects.

Many special effects seem to be the same, but the money spent is several times.

Just to make the final special effects look a little bit better, it turned out that a huge amount of manpower and material resources were spent.

This is also where the gap lies.

Because in terms of industrial design, in terms of the performance of many technological products, there is often such an attitude.

Pursue the last one percent, but the cost is many times more than the ninety-nine percent!

Closer to home, Wang Yifan believes that the biggest gap between the Huaguo film industry and the Hollywood film industry has always been only one, and that is people!

yes people!

Not a star, not an actor, but a professional worker behind the scenes!

Such as lighting engineers, such as photographers, such as pyrotechnicians, etc., and so on.

In this regard, most of the people in Huaguo are actually half-way monks, but in Hollywood, these people are all professionally trained.

This is where the biggest gap lies!

Of course, the reason why Chen Hang's suffering is not over is that it has just arrived.

Because, the final editing rights!

Yes, for a movie, many people think that as long as it is shot well, it will be over, but in fact, editing is really crucial.

A good editor can turn decay into magic, and a bad editor, no matter how well you shoot it, can still make you lonely in the end.

For a director, the final editing right actually means whether this movie is what you, the director, want, or what the producer wants.

Because when a movie is shot, there will be a large number of shots.

And the sequence is rarely shot in the order in which the movie plays.

There will also be a large number of improvised shots by the director.

At this time, editing becomes particularly important.

But a movie, most of the time, is about two hours long.

Of course, some movies that are several hours long are different. Under normal circumstances, large commercial productions are about two hours long.

However, the shots taken are often as high as hundreds, or even hundreds of hours.

Then at this time, the editing needs to choose.

Some shots must be discarded, even if the shots are perfect, but they are not of much use to the plot of the movie, at this time, they must be discarded.

Likewise, how do you tell a story, flashbacks? Or positive narrative?

Even, whether a shot is kept and when it appears may affect the entire movie.

Or how much to keep, etc., will affect the effect of the entire movie.

Therefore, the importance of the final editing rights is self-evident.

Once there is no final editing right, it can even be exaggerated to say that the director is almost a tool man.

Many directors don't even admit that movies that they don't own the final editing rights are their own movies.

Because, editing, in many cases, endows the idea of ​​​​the film leader, but this idea may not be the director's!