Six Hundred and Twenty-One - The Big Ship Is Coming

After mid-November, all filming of "X-Men" ended. The entire crew, led by Kevin Feige, returned to Los Angeles and immediately began the post-production work of the film at the urging of 20th Century Fox. .

At the same time, Wayne went to lead some of the crew members of "The Flash" and boarded a chartered flight to Canada. The main shots were almost finished shooting. The crew had to rush to conduct on-site inspections according to the pre-explored plan before the filming was completed. Framing work.

"The news just came that the crew of "Charlie's Angels" has disbanded at the airport."

On the outskirts of Toronto, Canada, Nina glanced at the filming scene that had just ended, leaned next to Wayne and reported in a low voice: "John Gray asked for permission. Director Joseph McGinty-Nitcher wants to join in the post-production work."

"Let him join, but only for editing suggestions!"

When Wayne heard the news, he thought about it for a moment and said, "Inform John that the editing opinions are still based on him as the producer, but if Joseph is also involved, his opinions can be properly considered."

"OK."

Nina nodded, took out her mobile phone, covered the phone and walked away.

Wayne is a director, but because he is a director, he understands that the post-production work of a film, especially the editing work, cannot be left to the film director. This is also a common practice in Hollywood. Novice directors and even some famous celebrities The director also has no right to make editing decisions.

It is understandable that the direction in which you look at things will change when you stand in different positions. The reason why Hollywood allows producers to take charge of the post-production work is because the producers will edit the film from the perspective of the employer and completely focus on the market.

For directors, they definitely want to be able to personally edit what they shoot. But decades of experience in the industry have shown that often when the director makes the final decision, the finished film will have things that refute the market.

For example, when it comes to the length of a movie, every director will of course try to preserve the material he or she shoots. But from a market perspective, commercial films must compress their duration, and the shorter the better. Only in this way can the movie be screened more times in a single day after it enters the theater.

It's very simple. Compared with a two-and-a-half-hour movie and a 100-minute movie, the latter can open two to three more shows in a day than the former. Compared with the same movie quality, the box office gap between the two is Very big.

That's right, many Hollywood film companies have frequently been exposed to failures caused by kicking directors out of projects after filming was completed. Some big directors with considerable status in the industry will inevitably have such experiences, and Ridley Scott is definitely the most qualified to speak in this regard.

But relatively speaking, if such things are put into the entire Hollywood, the proportion will become very small, so small that they can be ignored. More often, producers who have a better understanding of the market will preside over editing meetings. Much more reliable.

"Mr. Greenberg, are you sure, uh..."

While Robert and others were packing up the camera equipment, the actor James Franco came over and asked hesitantly: "Are you sure it's enough for me to just pose with an expressionless face? Aren't you? Need another performance? I know this scene..."

"enough."

Waving his hand, Wayne interrupted the other person with a smile. "You have to know, James, all the shots we shoot have to be edited in post-production."

Although this movie, whether it was the large number of performances under the green screen or some actions during the filming, made James Franco feel baffled, but he still chose to keep his mouth shut.

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"Julia."

The smile on Wayne's face did not diminish. Seeing the depression on his hero's face, he turned to shout to his senior sister not far away. "Dear senior, please tell our Mr. Franco what the Kuleshov effect is."

The editor Julia, who looks like a black aunt, usually acts as a bystander in the crew, but she has never been absent from the filming process, because only in this way can she better understand the director's ideas in the subsequent post-editing. intention.

"ok, no problem."

After hearing Wayne's teasing instructions, she opened her mouth with a smile, revealing a pair of white teeth and looked at James Franco.

"As early as 1918, the entire film industry in the world was in its infancy, and all techniques were still being developed..."

Her slow narration not only attracted the attention of James Franco, but also aroused the interest of many staff members in the crew. A group of people surrounded Julia, busy with the work at hand, and listening to her talk about the so-called The "Kulishov Effect".

"In that disintegrated polar bear country, a film director named Kuleshov did a very interesting experiment. He first took a close-up of an actor's expressionless face, and then compared this shot with three The unrelated shots were put together and then shown to three different groups of people, and the viewers were asked to record their feelings.”

Looking around at the crowd of curious babies, Julia opened her hands to Wayne. This was actually only necessary knowledge for editors, but these actors and the staff responsible for pre-production had not necessarily heard of it.

She continued talking without stopping. "The first group of viewers first saw a close-up of the man's expressionless face, and then saw a bowl of soup. After watching the show, the audience praised the man's acting skills and said that his eyes were full of hunger for food.

The second group of viewers also first saw a close-up of a man's expressionless face, and then saw a woman lying on the coffin. After watching it, the audience still praised the man's acting skills and said that his eyes were full of sympathy and compassion.

The third group of viewers still saw a close-up of a man's expressionless face first, and then saw a little girl holding a teddy bear. This time the audience still praised the man's acting skills, saying that his eyes were full of fatherly love that was visible to the naked eye! "

Speaking of this, James Franco had a very obvious look of embarrassment on his face. From these words, it is not difficult to imagine that the reason why I feel that I performed well during the filming, and I am often proud of being shouted out by the director after performing once or twice, is most likely because of the same situation!

"Do you want to continue talking?" Julia keenly saw the actor's embarrassment and asked with a smile.

"It's okay." James Franco noticed that the smiles on the faces of all the staff around him were all kind, so he simply spread his hands and nodded. "I mean of course."

"So, Kulishov discovered that when one shot is edited together with another completely unrelated shot, it will produce a third meaning. Later, this common psychological effect was called (Kulishov Schoff effect)."

Almost everyone had a look of realization. Wayne smiled and shook his head, lighting the cigarette while holding the fire with his hand, and took over the conversation with a smile. "Maybe you are unfamiliar with it this way, but if you put it another way, you will definitely feel very familiar. With the development of the film industry, the editing technique known as the Kuleshov effect is now called: montage."

With a cigarette in his mouth, he reached out and patted James Franco on the shoulder, explaining: "So, don't think that you are just putting on a pose. The expressionless shot is useless. More pictures and effects, in fact It has always been in the minds of Julia and I. After these scenes were edited and processed in the post-production process, after they appeared on the big screen, they brought a completely different meaning to the audience."

For James Franco now, acting is still a process of realizing his ideals, so he still maintains curiosity when faced with some things he didn't understand during the filming process. But as time goes by, after most actors become stars, this industry has nothing to do with ideals, and is more of a job to make a living or gain fame and fortune.

This is the difference. Those veterans will not ask the director the meaning of their performance. What they care about is whether more of their scenes will be retained, the length of time they appear on the big screen, and this After the work is over, how much money and fame can it bring to yourself.

This is the reason why Wayne was willing to explain to him. In fact, most actors generally do not have access to post-production work. After the filming of the crew is completed, they will look for the next job and perform in other crews according to the director's requirements.

Throughout mid-to-late November, some of the crew members of "The Flash" stayed in Canada and continued filming work. Most of what they are shooting now will be combined with previously shot footage in post-production editing and synthesis.

"I'm so grateful to God for the privilege of joining the cast of The Flash."

Seeing that December is coming, the crew quickly ended their work in Canada. After returning to Los Angeles, as the male lead of the crew, James Franco, the focus of many media attention, said in an interview with reporters at the airport:

"I learned so much from Mr. Greenberg. Whenever I had questions about filmmaking, he would patiently explain to me. Why do we use mobile photography in different scenes? Why do we need to use mobile photography in different scenes?" When using a static camera, why do you need to perform specific tracking shots at a large elevation angle, etc.

He is like a knowledgeable film teacher. Every discussion with him makes me understand more about the difficulty and difficulty of a director's work. But, you know, that's the joy of working with a great director, and I was able to build a very interesting character from his mind, and it was just like a dream journey. "

Seeing that the filming of "The Flash" is coming to an end, Warner Bros. has inevitably begun pre-publicity, and James Franco's interview is just one of the arrangements.

Since returning to Los Angeles, the crew will release a movie poster or related information every one or two days on Warner Bros.'s media and the increasingly emerging Internet, making "The Flash" appear frequently in ordinary people's media. in people's lives.

By mid-December, although the filming of "The Flash" was about to end, Wayne was already too busy to care about any other issues. He had to put down his work temporarily, put on a formal dress, and went to attend the event. A movie premiere, because the big ship is finally here.