Chapter 55

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Murphy filmed a thousand minutes of material. Although the shooting followed the development of the story, it still took a lot of work to edit these films into 90 minutes or so.

The whole post editing work is mainly completed by Murphy and Griffith. Intern Paul Wilson and Griffith's two assistants act as assistants.

Griffith is responsible for the editing, and Murphy is mainly responsible for reviewing and explaining the requirements for the film.

Any clip will have a main line. Murphy's main line is very simple. Haley finds the crime hidden in Jeff's room, and then gives corresponding punishment, and then finds and punishes again, until the final castration and hanging.

In fact, the reason for this is very simple. In the film modified by Murphy, the heroine Haley is more fierce, which is also to increase the attraction with large-scale pictures. However, there are also problems, and the audience is likely to have an aversion to the heroine, which is not what the director wants to see.

I'm disgusted with the main characters. Is the film still attractive?

Therefore, Murphy increases the evil degree of the hero Jeff. Every time Haley is tortured, he can always find a new evil, which makes people more disgusted with him. Thus, Haley's behavior naturally becomes popular.

But this method can not be used too much, Murphy prepared three main stages, a binding spray pepper water, a castration, a hanging.

Of course, the corresponding language and psychological devastation is also essential.

Post production is more than editing. Murphy is the first to do this work. He and Griffith repeatedly watched the black-and-white opening shot material shot from all angles, and finally decided to use the oblique overhead shot No. 7 as the opening play of the whole film.

The effect of this shot is quite brutal. The different performances of the victim played by Emily and the perpetrator, Jeff, are displayed in an all-round way.

The first scene is only a few minutes. It's a complete long shot. After negotiation between Murphy and Griffith, they don't plan to edit it again for the time being, but use it directly.

The progress of editing work is not fast. Even if it's just rough cutting, Murphy has just confirmed a shot in the morning.

He is very careful, more attentive than shooting, editing can directly determine the success or failure of a film.

Nowadays, montage is a completely cinematic word. In fact, montage is to connect different scenes and scenes through picture editing and picture synthesis to create a unique film time and space to guide the audience's emotions and psychology.

The most typical role of montage is to speed up the rhythm of the film, which is also the biggest application in the simple narrative film "fruit candy".

Later, Griffith edited the first meeting between Haley and Jeff. He was using montage to speed up the pace. When two strangers meet, they are bound to talk a lot. The length of the film determines that it must be concise and clear. Through editing, the picture changes constantly between Haley and Jeff. These scenes can be completed in a few minutes.

Griffith stands in front of the workbench and concentrates on his work. In front of him is an old-fashioned screen with a piece of chalk in front of it. This is a common way used by some veteran editors. They will find something that is proportional to the screen - for example, a cigarette or chalk in front of the screen - to judge what it's like to be on the big screen through the reference of things. This is a good idea The process of rough shearing.

However, after each clip is cut, Griffith takes a real look at it on the big screen.

After finishing the rough cut, Griffith handed it to his assistant and played the clip on the 27 inch screen.

In the screen, there are only Haley and Jeff, and the camera revolves around them all the time.

"Jody!" Murphy went up to Griffith, pointed to the two people on the screen, and said, "can we add some separate shots of two people, so that the screen can frequently switch between the gray and red they represent?"

Griffith immediately understood what Murphy meant and patted his palm. "Good idea."

He asked his assistant to pause for the clip.

Paul Wilson on the other side has been paying attention to this side. He is a professional, but he lacks experience. He can't understand what Murphy and Griffith mean. He can't help but walk behind Murphy.

Paul Wilson is willing to be an unpaid intern in order to study. He will ask if he doesn't understand.

"Director," he asked softly, "I..."

I'm sorry, Paul didn't cut his head.

"What Jody and I mean is trying to make a montage switch between Haley and Jeff to compare and contrast images." Murphy liked the hard-working and free labor very much, and said in a low voice, "imagine that the pictures are constantly changing between Jeff's gray and Haley's red. These two completely different colors can not only introduce the meaning they may represent, but also compare the two to establish possible conflicts."Paul Wilson immediately thought of the hidden thread in the film - Little Red Riding Hood killed the wolf, and suddenly realized.

When he saw the re edited picture on the screen, he nodded his head and said in admiration, "director, your idea is really wonderful."

Murphy just laughed.

He can think of a lot of things, but in practice, it's far worse than an old hand like Jody Griffith.

Jodie Griffith still seems dissatisfied and continues to improve this clip. Murphy calls Paul Wilson to his desk and asks him to help him edit another clip.

Compared with those just now, this clip is much simpler. When shooting, Murphy has carefully considered the final effect that needs to be presented.

This is a clip of Haley chatting with Jeff on the Internet.

When Murphy was shooting, he did not let the actors appear in the camera. Naturally, there was only a computer screen when he was editing. At the beginning of the editing, all the shots were close-up, and then cut from top to bottom according to the chat content, so that the chat content was presented in the picture.

"Moving the camera from top to bottom can also force people to browse the content quickly, which makes people have a sense of tension at the beginning, and also determines the tense and fast-paced tone of the film."

While finishing the work at hand, Murphy also made some explanations for Paul Wilson, who was curious and asked questions. However, in the next clip, instead of using close-up, he used the content of panning. "Panning can gradually narrow the range of depth of field, from a few words at the beginning to a word or two, making the film oppressive and curious I want to know what's going to happen after that. "

Although his level is not high, Paul Wilson, a rookie, still nods his head convincingly.

Murphy added, "it's going to take dubbing to get the best results."