Chapter 599

From the beginning to now, Murphy has always been very clear that all film shooting is for editing, and the post editing must be taken into account when shooting shots.

For any film, the continuity of the story is very important. If the director has editing thinking when shooting, he will get twice the result with half the effort and save a lot of trouble when editing later.

Editing thinking in shooting, or shooting for editing, can be a great help in post production.

As a director, Murphy has editing consciousness when shooting, such as how to shoot and what materials to shoot, so as to make full use of in post production.

Film is a handicraft, and lens and editing are the characteristics of film.

From this point of view, if a film can make the audience have an indelible impression on a certain shot in the film, excluding the plot and characters, it can be said to be a success.

Frankly speaking, it's also one of the biggest pride of being a film.

Of course, this is not to say that the use of aerial lens, track zoom and other lens techniques is a good lens. Lens is a kind of language. When using this kind of language, it must fit the story, scene, keynote and other factors of the film itself.

Sometimes, the film needs to use difficult lens technique, sometimes, just keep the camera still, you can shoot a great shot.

Every excellent shot is built on the basis of careful consideration and has sufficient motivation and reason. As long as the shot can show the content of the film incisively and vividly, it is a good shot.

"As far as I'm concerned, real photography has been brewing before shooting, and the composition and prediction of the lens have long been thought over in my mind."

In the middle of October, the filming of the crew ended smoothly. Murphy was interviewed by the media of 20th century fox. "Today, we watch the great scenes presented by those great films in the history of film. All of them are the hard work of directors and photographers. A great lens is like a fleeting meteor. Only by dedicating everything to yourself can you catch the meteor. "

He added, "dreams are not only about having dreams and daring to think, but also the process of dreaming and thinking.".

After the shooting, Murphy didn't stop and immediately went into the post production work. Due to Jodie Griffith's physical discomfort, Murphy decided to do the editing in person.

In the post production of this film, only a few shots need special effects processing. In addition to the necessary work of color matching, it is mainly based on editing.

Lens is the basis of editing, and editing is the rebirth of lens.

Godard once said that the lens is the beginning of film creation. Editing is like dressing up. When the original lens materials are put in front of the editor, the editor is like the greatest magician in the world, presenting the audience with a beautiful fairy tale of an ugly duckling turning into a white swan.

How to shoot, how to connect and how to put them together largely depends on what the director wants to express. Is it a very tense action scene, or a tender romantic scene, the director wants to use this scene to emphasize the protagonist's facial expression and action? Think about what is the most important part and when to express it.

For example, the protagonist's hand a small thing or a casual look is not worth catching.

Once the film decides to start editing, when editing different lengths of shots, you will be surprised to find that one or two wonderful moments will change the feeling of the whole film.

Murphy first edited the aerial shot used to make the opening scene of the film. After watching all the shots again, he quickly determined the way of editing.

Murphy takes the perspective lens of downtown Los Angeles as the first lens, giving them a guide, then a black-and-white medium shot, and finally a black-and-white close-up lens centered on the old Chinatown.

After the editing, he felt that there were still some shortcomings, and added a positioning lens of a dilapidated slum, so that he could explain the background of the story with a short lens - the most chaotic place in Los Angeles.

There won't be any characters in the opening shot, but in the subsequent shot, Murphy will directly introduce Diego Ross as the protagonist, so the lens editing must focus on the characters.

Similarly, before editing, Murphy needs to take a closer look at the shot.

How to organize and select materials is not what a good editor really needs to do. To do a good editing, you only need to master one thing: you know when to cut.

Murphy never edited according to the so-called "knowledge", but integrated into the film and felt it with his heart.

This is not a commercial film. The editing method used in the past is not suitable for such a serious looking biographical film.

From the scene shots, find out all the shots of little Robert Downey. Murphy puts the editing point on little Robert Downey's eyes. Because this is a memory, eyes are the key to editing. Eyes can express the emotion of the picture more than anything else.

This is especially obvious when Murphy works with good actors, because they know how to express their emotions with their eyes rather than relying solely on body language.To cut out the effect of "full of words to say, but no lines", the hero can not speak, but when editing, he can connect his eyes with the picture he is looking at, and know what he is thinking without language.

In addition, for example, for close-up shots showing emotions, Murphy will give a few seconds. This is a typical editing technique of art films, that is to say, shots and clips should give the protagonist's emotions a period of time.

The audience usually feel a connection with the characters in the film. That's because they have enough time to detect the expressions of the actors before they speak. Of course, it also includes the expressions after they speak. Murphy has to grasp how long the emotion needs to be given. In many scenes that reflect the emotion of the hero, he gives little Robert Downey a "one shot to the end" four seconds before he speaks ”To express the inner complexity and struggle.

In order to express the protagonist's struggle in the face of choice, Murphy also edited five multi shot combinations with the length of 4.15 seconds, 4.9 seconds, 3.6 seconds, 2.17 seconds and 1.23 seconds in one scene, creating the effect of stacking and slow playing, pushing the climax in shorter and shorter time, and reaching the peak of emotion. After five shots, he deliberately pulled more and more In this clip, Murphy takes 15 seconds to reach the climax, and twice as long to return to calm, so that the audience has time to feel Diego Rose's emotions.

In Murphy's editing, 70% of the time is controlled by rhythm. Compared with the fast rhythm of previous films, the rhythm of this film is quite slow. Only when there are many body movements in the picture, the editing rhythm will be faster. When walking and daily street scenes appear, it will be close to the rhythm of natural life.

Of course, he will also use some editing techniques appropriately. For example, when the story is in a hurry, he will lengthen the time of a seemingly insignificant shot. When the anxiety index is about to explode, the moment before the watch is the place to cut.

Editing is a very gifted profession, without enough talent, perhaps through continuous efforts, can become an excellent editor, but want to become a master is basically impossible.

Murphy has some talent for this.

He constructed the story of the whole film through editing. There are six elements, and they are listed in the order: emotion, story, rhythm, visual tracking, spatial continuity and two-dimensional plane.

Use these priority Murphy as a pattern and editing plan to make sure your movie doesn't have any editing problems.

Among them, the top three are the most important: emotion, story and rhythm. After years of field experience, Murphy can see that these three are closely linked, and they play a very important role.

Although she is the director of the film, Murphy tries to keep herself in a more objective state when editing. She does not regard herself as a director, but as an audience, to really feel all kinds of rhythm, details and good play in the middle.

Some films are suitable for what kind of method he must use to cut, general commercial blockbuster, can let the audience ignore the existence of the clip is the best clip, but such a small minority of the film is different, he must show the existence of a different clip.

That's why Murphy spent so much time editing.

After finishing the fine cutting of the whole film, Murphy didn't relax. Instead, he looked back at the whole film, looking for extra shots, and then cut them all. Cutting out unnecessary shots will make the film more fluent.

It took a whole month, a week before Thanksgiving, for Murphy to finish editing the film and cut an official trailer for 20th Century Fox's publicity department.

The production cost of this film is limited, and the investment in publicity, marketing and distribution is also limited. For example, in terms of trailer advertising, there is only one, not the past three or four.

It's almost late November, and the traditional Thanksgiving holiday in North America is just around the corner. Although there are still many work to be done, such as dubbing, music and sound editing, Murphy has put aside his post production work for the time being and specially invited a costume designer to prepare suitable clothes for him and Gail gado to attend the upcoming film premiere.

Directed by Seth Logan, starring Stanton partisans and released by 20th century fox, "the end of the world" will hit the North American film market in more than 3700 cinemas over the weekend before Thanksgiving.

This science fiction thriller comedy, which is guest starred by many Hollywood stars in their real names, has attracted much media attention before its release. In the 20th century, fox specially prepared a grand global premiere for the film at the China Grand Theater in Hollywood. (to be continued). )