Disaster Artist

The later stage of the film is tedious and complicated, including music, editing, special effects, sound effects, rendering, etc., including these but not only these. This is also a multi-departmental work.

As an important part of the film, the soundtrack and special effects, it goes without saying that they can make the film complete, and sound effects are also part of the post-production work.

For example, the sound of car tires rolling, the sound of bomb blasting, the sound of shoes rubbing against the floor, the sound of punching to the flesh, etc. These sound effects are often difficult to receive live. If the director wants to highlight a certain sound effect, it must be Post-production, highlighting the effect.

The same is true for rendering, including color matching, lighting, materials, light and shadow, etc. Through post-production, the picture can achieve the desired complete effect.

Just like photos need post-production adjustments, the post-production of movies is equally important. Through the carving of details and the overall adjustment, the mood and look conveyed by the picture can be changed. A good post-production can make a work, and a bad post-production can also be done. destroy a work.

And the most important thing is editing.

Editing, in this literal sense, is the cutting and splicing of shots. This is the core link to show the smoothness of the movie, and it is also an important link to show the sense of the movie.

For example, when a person widens his eyes and shows a surprised expression, and the next second is a picture of a turquoise zombie approaching the camera quickly, then the audience will naturally think that the person's surprise is "fear"; The picture of kneeling and proposing marriage with a bouquet, then the audience will think that the person's surprise is "joy".

This is montage, and it is also the art of editing. The stitching of pictures is completed through the action of editing to complete the presentation of emotions and stories.

For another example, when a person is lying on the lawn looking up at the sky, and the next second is connected to the picture of the clear sky, then the emotion conveyed is open and poetic; but the next second is connected to the overwhelming meteor shower, then the conveyed Emotion is the calm and calm before the end.

The connection of such shots can show the continuity of the story, convey emotions through the blank space of the picture, and then leave the space for thinking to the audience. This is a way of presenting the sense of film.

The above is only a small part of editing, and editing is much more than that.

For commercial films, editing also plays an important role in the rhythm control and climax creation of the narrative, which often directly affects the audience's perception.

To put it simply, editing is an important part of giving life to a movie, and it is precisely because of this that the "Best Editing Award" is also known as the "Small Best Movie".

For the film "Unfriending", when the camera lens is kept fixed, the rhythm is controlled by editing, and the perspective is also changed, which can effectively relieve the audience's visual fatigue; moreover, the connection between the lens and the lens creates tension And suspenseful atmosphere, breaking the audience's psychological expectations, this is also an important task of editing.

Before becoming an excellent work, Lu Qian still has a lot of work to do.

Therefore, after the studio work was completed, Lu Qian immersed himself in the material and started the post-production work day and night.

However, during the preparatory and mid-term filming, Lu Qian's mind had already started to spin at a high speed—

How has the picture been composed? What message should the lens convey? Where should the clip point be placed? What effect should the lens and lens articulation create? In addition to the plot narrative, should we increase the atmosphere of different screen renderings? Should the connection of editing be smooth or deliberately stuck to create different viewing effects?

Most importantly, how should the rhythm be controlled?

As a director, Lu Qian should clearly know what he is doing, how to execute it and how to present it, and devote himself to shooting with ideas, so that he can move forward on the right track.

The famous "sunglasses" director Wong Kar-wai is like this. Many times the crew doesn't know what to do, and they go into the filming work in confusion, but all the pictures, stories, and effects are all in the director's mind. In his crew, far and near There are so many things famous.

Takuya Kimura experienced such a situation when he filmed "2046".

The director told him, "You are waiting for someone", but who? Who is waiting? Waiting under what circumstances? How long have you waited? Why wait? What is the relationship between roles and roles? What is the feeling of waiting?

All have no answer.

Takuya Kimura is like a fool, standing in front of the camera and starting to perform, but he doesn't know what he is doing.

Moreover, the shooting cycle of "2046" was really too long. It took more than five years before and after, and there were so many similar predicaments that Kimura Takuya was so angry that he even had a psychological shadow, and there were many unpleasantness between him and Wong Kar Wai.

Later, the filming stopped for a period of time in the middle of the film, and while waiting for the resumption of work, Kimura Takuya simply did not come back because of the schedule conflict - the schedule conflict is indeed a conflict, and the film shooting cycle was too long, which seriously affected Kimura Takuya's other work, but In addition, whether there are other reasons, only the parties themselves know.

Even the cast members of a crew don't know if he will come back.

The most exaggerated thing is that a lot of scenes of Takuya Kimura were cut out by the director of UU reading www.uukanshu.com. He was supposed to be one of the main protagonists, but turned out to be an irrelevant supporting role. Until the movie was released, Kimura Takuya still doesn't know what his character is doing.

This special case is used to illustrate that the actors may not know what they are doing, and the crew may not know what they are doing, but the director must know.

Otherwise?

Otherwise it is a disaster.

Lu Qian did the same.

The whole movie is all in my head. The pre-arrangement and mid-shooting are consciously and purposefully carried out, and the post-production is much smoother.

In a trance, Lu Qian seems to have returned to his own parallel universe, where he is also working sleeplessly in the editing room, focusing on his own work wholeheartedly. Be what you want to be in your mind.

Then, witness the birth of the work.

But the difference is that this time, what Lu Qian wholeheartedly focused on was not a short film, but the first feature film of his career.

Just thinking of this, Lu Qian became more and more excited, like a chicken blood, there was always a steady stream of energy in his body to persevere.

"what…"

He raised his hands high and stretched a big waist. Although he was still mentally excited, and he didn't seem to feel tired at all, he still protested strongly at the physical level. He continued to work with high intensity and high intensity, and only occasionally squinted to sleep a few times. Hours, and then continue to work, really push the body to a limit.

But no matter what, the post-production of "Unfriending" is finally complete! That kind of joy and exhilaration, instantly let the tense nerves relax.