Chapter 436

Back in Los Angeles, after a short rest of three days, Murphy went to a post production studio in Century City of 20th century fox to start the post production of shameless bastard.

Post production also needs the coordination of multiple departments and teams, and the basis of all this is undoubtedly editing. It is no exaggeration to say that the shooting of Murphy and even any director serves for editing.

This time, it's still Jodie Griffith's editing team that works with Murphy.

Before editing, to be exact, as early as when writing the script, Murphy had a very clear idea. Quentin Tarantino's films would play a lot of tricks in editing, especially the famous chapter style. Although Murphy is not the kind of director who relies on traditional editing, but different from Quentin Tarantino, this film will not use Chapter style In other words, the final film of shameless bastard will be presented as a multi line narrative.

This post production, all the work will be around editing, Murphy also made careful preparations for this.

Some people say that "the best editing is to let people not find the traces of editing."

This is really the biggest misunderstanding of editing. It should be said that the editing that people can't find is the editing that "let the ordinary audience have no information acceptance obstacles", but it's not the best editing. After more than 100 years of development, editing has a variety of aesthetic standards and possibilities, and the connotation is very rich.

Of course, as a commercial film, and as far as possible to face the public fans, Murphy must keep the editing fluency.

The editing that does not "let the ordinary audience have no barriers to information acceptance" is not a pretentious show off skill, nor is it obscure and difficult to understand.

In order to maintain the smooth editing acceptable to the public, the first thing is to determine the appropriate editing point for all shots.

Clip point is the transition point between two shots, including sound or picture. Accurate grasp of the clip point of the shot can ensure smooth shot switching. Therefore, the selection of clip point is the most important and basic work of Murphy and Jody Griffith video rough cutting.

The editing points of all shots in shameless bastard can be simply divided into two categories: the first category is the splicing points of picture, action, emotion and rhythm; the second category is the splicing points of sound, including the splicing points of dialogue, music and sound effects.

In a movie, most of the clips are based on the action of the characters. The action here does not mean fighting, but the action of the characters.

Action editing point is the coherence of the main action. Although action editing is also for clear narrative service, it focuses more on the coherence of the action outside the lens, which can increase the sense of fluency between the lens.

Murphy and Jodie Griffith are very important for the selection of action editing points, which will directly affect the final film effect.

Murphy and Jodie Griffith divide the rough cut of shameless bastard into two parts.

The first step is to spell, that is to say, to use the combination of some lenses to produce a different kind and give people a different feeling.

Then the second step is to cut, specifically to control the rhythm, the rhythm and emotion of the whole film.

It's very important for you to control the rhythm of moods in movie Griffith.

In the process of editing, Murphy hopes to keep a more objective state as far as possible, and really regard himself as an audience, to really feel the changes of various rhythms and details in the middle, whether the play is good or not, and so on.

"Shameless bastard" is suitable for what kind of technique he and Jodie Griffith use to cut, so that the audience can watch when they can enter the play.

Relying on these, Murphy and Jodie Griffith spent nearly half a month to finish the rough cutting, and the next fine cutting is more important, which will directly determine the quality of the film.

It can be seen from the name that fine cutting is much more complicated than rough cutting.

Murphy needs to make sure that the cutting is tight enough, the editing is tense, but the scene is not too short, which means that unnecessary pauses in the actor's dialogue need to be cut off, the blank space in the middle of each sentence can be shortened, and even the lengthy and unimportant dialogue can be subtracted.

Most movie audiences generally spend less than 150 minutes to concentrate, which is equivalent to the length of mainstream commercial movies. The rough cut version of Murphy and Jodie Griffith has more than 300 minutes, which needs to be compressed to about 120 minutes in the fine cut. If the film is as long as two and a half hours or even longer after the fine cut, it needs "major surgery" ”It's too late.

Unlike the previous clip, Murphy's clip also uses temporary background music as an aid.

This method can be used in special films such as shameless asshole, but it can never be used as a normal way of editing. Once you like temporary music in the editing, it is difficult to find the right music. Murphy is usually more willing to edit a powerful film scene and make it perfect through proper editing. If a scene can stand on its own, The soundtrack will be icing on the cake."Shameless bastards" is just one exception.

In fine cutting, we should take into account many aspects that are difficult to take into account in rough cutting, such as the coordination between the action and the picture. One of the editing methods is to use the actor's gesture, props, line of sight or walking position. The best way is to let the emotion show naturally, or to cut out a smooth narrative rhythm, but the technical editing is not the key.

The editor's job is to get the audience involved in the plot.

In shooting, there are a lot of pure action shots, many action scenes, Murphy uses the mobile lens to shoot, these also need to be processed through fine cutting.

Moving lens is the main way to shoot action scenes. Murphy has used orbital camera, revolving arm camera, camera stabilizer and stannikon successively. The action scenes in the film must present a tense atmosphere. He and Jodie Griffith edit when the lens is moving to ensure that one lens after another is in motion.

In this way, the action play is more compact, which makes the audience dizzying.

In this shooting, Murphy used pure single shot shooting for some scenes, but this is only a part. For most other scenes, he continued his usual style of shooting with multiple cameras and multiple angles.

When a multi angle shot is edited into a movie, it can't be cut back to the same angle mechanically all the time, or reread the same series of mirror positions used not long ago.

Of course, there are only two angles in a conversation between Lieutenant Aldo and Colonel Hans, so it is difficult to avoid repeated editing.

This kind of multi angle lens switching scene also needs to be processed. Murphy is in groups of three, and it can be longer at least for 1.5 to 2 seconds.

For example, when sousana enters the banquet hall in Goebbels and looks around the scene, Murphy takes three as a group of editing point of view lens, which can directly show the audience the whole scene that the protagonist sees, imitate the real world, and let the audience immerse themselves in the scene.

Among these multi angle shots, the actor's eyes are the key point of editing. The actor attracts attention by his face on TV, in movies and on stage, but the most important thing is the actor's eyes. When editing a heated dialogue scene, Murphy pays great attention to the actor's eyes. Do they convey appropriate emotions? How did the actors react to the play? The actor's performance determines the editing.

Sometimes, Murphy is more focused on the main actor of the conversation and cuts out the reactions of others.

That's to get rid of the unimportant side effects of the actor's performance.

Murphy likes a tight clip rhythm, which is obvious from the beginning. Exclusion is necessary to keep the rhythm.

Most actors exaggerate their performance beyond the appropriate level. They will emphasize pause, make more mistakes than the script requires, and perform stuttering for a longer time. At this time, they need to make the performance return to normal through appropriate editing, and cut off the lengthy actions and dialogues to make the film real rather than artificial.

So, if an actor wants to win the performance award, the director and the editor are also the key.

These methods are all for the film to form a story to serve.

It is said that there are three types of films in the world: script type, shooting type and editing type. No matter which type of film is edited, we should pay close attention to the story context and not be afraid to change the script or shooting content, as long as it is meaningful.

Murphy has been using screenplay to record and visually present the story, which can help Jodie Griffith determine the most smooth logic to present the story to the audience.

Finally, Murphy asked Jodie Griffith to make his own choice.

Although they have cooperated for many times, they certainly have different views on some plots and scenes. Moreover, a successful director needs the assistance of an excellent editor, especially to inject some differences into it and correct mistakes that the director does not notice.

The film has always been a product of teamwork, and the director is just the helmsman. If there are problems in other links, they may also fail.

In other words, is there anyone in this world who doesn't make subjective mistakes and doesn't pay attention to them?

A director like Murphy doesn't review every shot in post production, but modifies it according to the version of Jodie Griffith's clip performance, whether or not he appreciates the actor's performance.

If he does appreciate the different performances of an actor, he will suggest modifying the clip or finding the right part from the viewfinder. The more refreshing and convincing the editing scene is, the more the director will agree with the editor's technique.

Murphy and Jodie Griffith continued their work in this area until the end of May, and then finished the first edition of the fine cutting, which will take a lot of time and energy to continue to repair later. However, Murphy has to put down his work for the time being to participate in an extremely important Premiere of Robert Downey Jr. (to be continued). )