Chapter 1026 Chapter 101: Fugue

The filming of "Autumn Fairy Tale" in the United States was smooth, but it was not until the filming of the film in the United States that Lu Lingxi finally dared to breathe a sigh of relief.

Not for anything else, the main reason is that Li Qian really didn't intervene in the filming of the crew!

Others don't know, but she knows it herself, let alone a person who is used to being a director, even if she is just an actor with ideas, as long as she is a little bit stronger, she will easily follow her own understanding of the characters and the plot. When the director discusses it, if it is serious, he will even interfere with the shooting.

For this, Lu Lingxi has always been particularly guilty.

The script belongs to him, the first producer belongs to him, the boss belongs to him, the lead actor belongs to him, even the whole team belongs to him, and his past achievements, experience, ability, talent and status in directing and producing movies, They all showed an absolute crushing trend towards themselves. The entire filming team, from the behind-the-scenes staff to the actors in front of the stage, obeyed his words and never disagreed with him in the slightest.

It can be said that as long as he wants to interfere, he can say any suggestions and opinions casually, and he is completely powerless to resist.

But Li Qian didn't.

Although Lu Lingxi also felt that it was possible that he was distracted and had too many things on hand, so he really couldn't take care of his own shooting, but there was still some gratitude in his heart.

After all, if Li Qian wanted to interfere, it really didn't take much effort. On the other hand, if he said a word lightly, it might cause him to fall into endless distress. As for himself, he can actually do what he should, without affecting him at all.

So he felt that being busy was probably only a very minor factor!

The main reason is that Li Qian wants to achieve himself thoroughly.

Therefore, when he first gave the script, he just hit his own weak point all of a sudden. Later, when he asked for people to give and money for money, he asked him to play the leading actor, and he agreed. He behaved particularly low-key, and never refuted his request for shooting. In terms of his status, ability and talent, if it wasn't a deliberate achievement for him, what else could it be?

Of course, maybe it also has something to do with how hard he pulled the other two beauties to play so many natural cards with his uncle?

Who cares, come back victorious anyway!

As soon as Li Qian came back, he went back to work in the company. It is said that the company was busy with the selection of directors. However, at this time, Han Shunzhang, who is best at these things, was busy preparing for his new play "The Condor Hero" Couple", these things, relying on Jin Han alone, are naturally very difficult. Now that Li Qian is back, no matter what angle he starts from, he will definitely participate in it.

In addition, there is also the casting of "Avatar".

The final audition with makeup will finally determine the candidates for several key roles, which is obviously not to be careless - it is said that even if the technical investment in the early stage is not counted, it is only a single investment in the movie "Avatar". It will be as high as 500 million Chinese yuan!

If this amount of investment is true, it will not only be Li Qian's personal film history, Minghu Cultural film investment history, but even the largest investment in the history of Chinese films so far!

Even Li Qian did not dare to ignore it.

But Lu Lingxi doesn't care about that. Although "Avatar" has a huge investment, it is Li Qian's work. Today, Lu Lingxi has absolute confidence in his original student, even if the investment is large, even if he wants to play. What kind of new technology is said to be very risky, but she believes that since Li Qian dared to do that, it must have shown that he has a solid foundation in his heart - besides, even if it fails, the current Minghu culture can afford it!

Lu Lingxi is just extremely excited that his first film is about to be completely finished.

After returning to China, considering that the production team was indeed exhausted after running around recently, she generously gave the entire production team three days off to let everyone adjust the time difference and take a rest.

Three days later, when the crew reunited, it only took one and a half days, and the filming of "Autumn Fairy Tale" in China was completely finished——Lu Lingxi excitedly announced that the movie was finished!

Lu Lingxi let out a long breath.

But she was not willing to be idle, just rested at home for a day, and couldn't help running back to the company, and then it was almost like living in the editing room, and started the extremely exciting and painful first cut!

Movies are different from TV shows.

TV dramas tell stories, even if it’s the best filming and production, in the final analysis, it still tells stories, and its stories often rely on the dialogue of characters and the transition of scenes to move forward, so it is relatively simple. When shooting, the requirements are simple, and the director is not even required to shoot too much material. Of course, post-editing is relatively easy.

But movies are different. For a 100-minute movie, due to the various ideas and requirements of the director during the shooting stage, it is likely to shoot up to several thousand minutes of material—Minghu Culture has always paid special attention to the cultivation of directors over the years. Based on commercial thinking, "Autumn's Fairy Tale" is also a relatively simple movie with a not too complicated plot and few metaphors, and because Li Qian himself is the screenwriter and the leading actor, Lu Lingxi is afraid that he will have If you are dissatisfied, you will speak out and take your own power, so the filming is more cautious, basically not doing too much outside the script.

In this way, the material accumulated during the filming period of the entire film is not too much. The clips and selected materials together only lasted more than 700 minutes.

This is a relatively small amount of material in the film circle of any country.

But in Minghu Culture, this is a very normal data-the only exception is probably Jin Han. During the filming of "Dragon Inn", this guy spent nearly ten million more than the original plan, and most of them All the money was spent on film. So in the end, it was finished. For a 100-minute movie, he had accumulated more than 2,100 minutes of material in his hands.

The more materials accumulated, the more choices the director has. In theory, there are more things to choose from, which makes it easier for the director to edit a version that is more in line with his own ideas when doing post-editing.

But the truth is also true in reverse. There are too many materials to choose from, but not every director can easily manage them, and easily select all the shots that best suit their wishes.

But with less material, editing is more labor-saving-the target is precise!

Just like that, Lu Lingxi plunged into the editing room.

In fact, "Autumn Fairy Tale" is still early in the release, and Lu Lingxi can do this work leisurely and leisurely, but in the heart of a person who has just finished directing his first film, the kind of eagerness to see The feeling that one's own work is fully formed is incomprehensible to outsiders—maybe for several editors in the company, such as Daqing and Liu Qing, they spend every day in the editing room to assist the director in processing a piece of work. Another film, after a long time, will be quite boring and boring, but for Lu Lingxi, even if he just looks at his pile of more than 800 minutes of material, he feels beautiful in his heart. After taking that piece of film, I can vividly remember the scene of the shooting at that time, and I can remember it like a treasure.

This kind of work, no matter how hard or tiring it is, will feel very refreshing and fulfilling.

However, when the editing really started, when the material of more than 800 minutes was quickly cut down to less than 250 minutes in more than ten days, and the whole story had been preliminarily composed, a director The most painful stage began to come-every subsequent deleted shots were a painful and tangled process for the director.

The pain of this process can even drive countless ambitious and confident directors crazy. In contrast, the editing and post-processing of TV series that Lu Lingxi has experienced before is simply child's play. With this painful process, it is simply not qualified to be compared.

And during this process, Lu Lingxi's mind was full of his own film and his own story, and he entered a trance state about everything that happened around him-it is said that many directors would Get into this miraculous state.

When a person is in this state, he doesn't take food, clothing, housing, transportation, food, drink, and casualties to his heart at all. Even who he met just now or what he said just now, he just forgets in a blink of an eye.

During this period, in fact, many important things happened in Minghu Culture, and on many important occasions, now, as an important member of the director group of Minghu Culture, and next, Lu Lingxi, who is the focus of promotion, participated went in. But in hindsight, she was almost unimpressed.

At the beginning of January 2005, "Autumn Fairy Tale" was completed and began to enter post-production.

Three days later, for the remaining twenty-six directors who had passed the previous two rounds of screening and interviews, Minghu Culture conducted interviews with Li Qian himself for three consecutive days. After rounds of conversations and exchanges, finally, Minghu Culture Culture selected seven of the twenty-six young directors who wanted to join the company, and agreed to sign a three-year formal work contract with them. Of course, not a director contract.

After they join Minghu Culture, they will start as assistant directors. After further inspection, if they find that they are capable enough, they will be delegated to be directors of TV dramas. As for the film director, of course it will be later, and within three to five years, I don't even think about it.

For the remaining 19 people, Minghu Culture also provided a job contract with a relatively low salary, treatment and starting point, so it was convenient to stay or stay.

In the end, 17 of these 19 people chose to join Minghu Culture, and temporarily joined the army of Minghu Culture's behind-the-scenes staff, waiting for their own opportunities.

As for this signing ceremony, Li Qian seemed to attach great importance to it. He specially summoned a wave of directors who were relatively successful in the company. Of course, Lu Lingxi also went.

On January 14, the final makeup audition for "Avatar" began. This Lu Lingxi did not participate, but when Sun Yuting came to the editing room that day, she casually mentioned a few words to Lu Lingxi.

But she forgot about it.

On January 19, the annual meeting of Minghu Culture was held.

This deer consonance is gone.

But when she got there, she started to eat like crazy. Many people came to say hello. She responded stupidly, but she didn't know what she said to them at that time. When she was full, she said hello to Han Shunzhang and left. She didn't know anything about what happened afterwards.

As for the following, the production team of "The Legend of Condor Heroes" made a high-profile announcement that it was officially established, and it was confirmed that filming would start in March. The press conference, Fu Hongxue's role in Li Mochou brought a huge shock to the Chinese entertainment industry, etc. Wait, Lu Lingxi just turned a deaf ear to these things.

Even when Jin Han's new movie "A Chinese Ghost Story" officially entered the preparatory stage and publicly announced that it would select actors nationwide, when the Chinese entertainment industry exploded a wave of sinkholes, she was still ignorant. Busy in the editing room, quarreling with Da Qing and the others, getting restless, and having trouble sleeping and eating.

The length of the film has been compressed to 163 minutes.

Lu Lingxi felt that he had squeezed out all the moisture in the movie, and now the remaining scenes, every second of the shot, were all dry stuff!

But this is obviously impossible!

A little love movie with little love and little love, you let the audience sit in the movie theater for 160 minutes?

What are you kidding!

For this type of love movie, 100 minutes is already the limit!

Of course Lu Lingxi understood this in his heart.

Even the many suggestions given by Liu Qing, after thinking about it afterwards, she still thinks they are very pertinent. After all, Da Qing started working with Li Qian when he edited "Legend of the New White Snake", and everyone has been working together until now. Even in terms of experience, Daqing's skill is absolutely not to be underestimated.

What's more, from Li Qian to Jin Han, and then to Zhao He and Feng Bicheng, they all praised Da Qing's editing ability, so you can imagine that his level, his understanding of editing and rhythm, must not be my own Comparable to a rookie director who just directed his first film!

Not to mention others, when Lu Lingxi was editing the previous two TV series, she also heard a lot of advice from Da Qing, and she herself knows what this guy is capable of!

But no, Lu Lingxi seems to have entered another strange state - whoever said to cut a certain scene, her first reaction was "No! Absolutely not!"

She knew she couldn't go on like this, but she felt powerless to get rid of it!

This situation lasted until a certain day in early February.

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My aunt passed away suddenly due to illness, and she is currently attending a funeral. The funeral will be held on the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, that is, February 12th in the Western calendar. I am not sure if I can write it on that day. I will let you know in advance. If there is no update on that day, please forgive me.