Chapter 84

What is montage? The so-called montage is the transliteration of French montage, which used to be an architectural term, meaning architectural space structure and composition. With the development of visual art, words extend to the film industry. From the beginning of the birth of the film, there is montage. The meaning of montage in the academic language of the film is not complex, that is, visual art. Generally speaking, it is the use of lens.

Push, pull, up, down, long shot, gradient, overlap, wide shot and so on are montages.

The use of lens has a profound influence on a film, which represents the director's own ability and views on the film. Different montage shooting techniques can achieve completely different effects for the same plot of a film. To understand it simply, the use of lens for a film is equivalent to the writing style of a literary work.

There are also some directors who insist on using the depth of field lens and long lens to insist on the purity of the film. They think that only the most original film can arouse more resonance among the audience. However, with the development of modern film and television industry for so many years, these directors are almost eliminated. Therefore, if you want to make a movie, it is very necessary to learn montage.

Once he decided to make a movie, Harvey's time changed from abundance to urgency, and he had to race against the clock to finish everything at hand.

There is no movie in this world, so basically everything needs to be arranged by Harvey himself. To put it bluntly, the success or failure of the first movie in the world depends on Harvey himself. Harvey needs to write a movie script, learn about film shooting skills from endless library, and continue to improve photographic crystal, at least to study the auto focus function before shooting.

Harvey's arrangement for Brenda theater is to find suitable actors as soon as possible. Although the scale of Brenda theater is large, it is not enough to shoot a film. Drama and film are different in nature. Harvey is not sure whether the actors can play a good role in the film.

The theater was supposed to play a propaganda role. Harvey also assigned part of the work to Jared in the case of manpower shortage.

After returning, Harvey stayed up all night and focused on rewriting the novel the count of Monte Cristo into a screenplay. Compared with a novel, screenplay writing is much simpler. It simplifies the important information in the novel, including time, place, characters and things, so that the actors can know what they should do when they perform, what kind of expression they should show and what lines they should say.

One night, Harvey wrote the first half of the screenplay of the count of Monte Cristo. The screenplay stops at the scene when the count of Monte Cristo meets him again and goes to Meredith unmarried. Harvey is used to using magic to write words, and with novels as reference, the speed of screenplay creation is appalling.

In the early morning, as it was getting light, Harvey listed all kinds of preparations on another piece of white paper according to the first half of the script, mainly arranging the actors of Brenda theatre company.

"The make-up technology in this world is not so superb as that in modern times. It is very important to choose an actor with the right appearance and temperament."

"Count of Monte Cristo, Meredith, Haide, eh..."

"Haide is the daughter of governor Ali, with noble birth and excellent appearance. In the novel, it is assumed that she is not the type of big girl, and can express her love for the count of Monte Cristo with great enthusiasm and straightforwardness. The character of EVA's actor, Christie Isaiah, is very suitable."

"And then Meredith?" Harvey's mind moved, and the schedule floating in front of him automatically fell to the table. He began to meditate and find a suitable player for the role. He had already had the best answer in his mind. When he wrote the count of Monte Cristo, Harvey did not consciously think of his maid Shirley when he wrote about Meredith.

Gentle and elegant, add a bit of intellectual beauty after wearing glasses.

But Shirley has no acting foundation, and Harvey doesn't plan to make her maid public.

After several ideological struggles, Harvey still couldn't find the best actor of the Earl of Monte Cristo and Meredith. Maxwell, the boss of Brenda theatre company, is a senior dramatist himself. His temperament and appearance are quite similar to the count of Monte Cristo who has been imprisoned for more than ten years. He can be listed as one of the reserve candidates.

Harvey is considering whether or not he should take part in the fight, direct and act by himself. He has no acting foundation, but he has rich knowledge and experience. Now he has changed his previous frivolous image and has more advantages than Maxwell in playing the young count of Monte Cristo.

The key is that he can't save face. As the author of count of Monte Cristo, a caster went to work as an actor.

Harvey looked at the schedule in front of him, and the black handwriting on the white paper gradually faded into something else: "if you are the count of Monte Cristo, Christie Isaiah can play the part of Meredith when she was a girl, and Shirley can play the role of Diana after Meredith got married."

Harvey shook his head after patting himself, and dismissed the idea. Apart from other things, Diana's arrogant character could not agree to become a dramatic actor.

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The next evening, Harvey and the members of Brenda theatre met again at the theatre. Harvey simply handed the list of count of Monte Cristo to Maxwell and asked them to choose the right actors. Maxwell was surprised when he saw the cast. There were more than ten or twenty supporting roles, and there were all kinds of dragon roles. The size of the characters was beyond his expectation.

Harvey gave Kenneth Randolph, the middle caster, a translation of photography knowledge. Kenneth is proficient in magic, has a deep understanding of visual perception, and has contact with modern lens art knowledge, so he is fully qualified to become a professional photographer. After watching Harvey's lens application and shooting techniques, Kenneth looks at Harvey almost like a monster. He is about to believe in the legend of the Adrian family. Harvey must have exchanged knowledge through demons.

In the conference room

Jared stepped forward in high spirits and asked, "Harvey, what should I do?"

Looking at other people's important division of labor, as a representative of the theater, he was also a bit impatient, rubbing his shoulders to prepare for a big fight.

Harvey picked up a suitcase he had brought with him, put it on the table and opened it to reveal the colorful Baron pounds inside. The amount of Baron pounds made other people look straight at him. Harvey took out a part and gave it to Maxwell: "Mr. Brenda, these are the advance funds for the Brenda theater. The rest is for you, Jared."

Jared looked at the thick dozens of baleen pounds and swallowed his saliva. He had never seen so much money before. He shivered and weighed one of them, and stammered: "I said... Harvey, how much money is there..."

He couldn't count how much money he had, but he didn't know if there was one tenth of the total income of a performance in the theater! Remembering that Harvey is the author of the count of Monte Cristo, I feel relieved that Harvey can spend so much money.

"Fifty thousand barons for Brenda theatre, and one hundred and fifty thousand barons for Evan theatre."

Jared said that he was all aristocratic. After being dazzled by Barron pound, he calmed down and asked carefully, "well, what do you want me to do with so much money? First of all, I'll sell everything except my life! "

"As I said yesterday, the money is for shooting. If you want to use it for anything, first you need to prepare the clothes of Augustine Kingdom, second you need to rent a medium-sized wooden sailing boat, prepare wedding props and so on. Any one of these items costs a lot, and the total cost may have exceeded 150000 balun pounds, so at present, we only need to consider the props needed for the early plot. "

Harvey touched his chin and said to himself, "all in all, try to make a trailer first."

trailer!?

Other people understood the meaning of the word according to the meaning of the word. All the people in the meeting felt Harvey's determination, rather than hundreds of thousands of barons in front of them.