Chapter 475

"Click", the key turns, the lock is untied, and the light voice rings slightly in the quiet of the morning. With the sound of wheels rolling slowly in the track, a ray of light is released, tearing away the darkness in the room. The quiet and warm air suddenly becomes restless, and the cold wind dispels the dullness and turbidity in the field of vision.

Matthew Dunlop skillfully put his briefcase on the sofa, walked to the window with steady steps, pulled down the strict shading curtain, scattered the thin sunlight, and the strong night was like the tide receding, rolling away. In a moment, the whole room became bright.

In the early spring of New York, the sun is not dazzling. The dense high-rise buildings seem to support the sky high and far, through the thousands of difficulties and dangers, and through the reinforced forest. When it falls to the ground, the golden sun is no longer dazzling or hot. Instead, it is stained with some of the lingering winter atmosphere.

But compared with London, the weather is pretty good.

The bed on the left hand side was full of turning over. Without looking back, Matthew knew that lanli must be hiding in the quilt again, covering his head with the quilt and refusing the call from the warm morning.

"Blue, get up." Matthew raised his voice, which broke the peace of the room, destroyed the last evidence of the night, and officially announced the arrival of a new day. "There is still a whole day's work today. That's your original words, not mine." Mathieu Shi ran finished, did not pay any attention to Lan Li, but walked to the kitchen.

Lan Li covered his ears with a pillow and covered his eyes with a quilt, artificially creating a quiet and dark effect and continuing to float and sink in his sleep. But after a while, the smell of fried eggs began to float in the air. After a night's energy consumption, my stomach began to rumble.

It's really annoying.

Today is the first day of working in a recording studio and the beginning of a new life. This is a very different form of work from filming.

Strictly speaking, filming and recording are actually a kind of artistic creation, which depends on the inspiration and state of the performers and presents different forms of art. If inspiration bursts out, filming or recording is irresistible; On the contrary, it will be stumbling, intermittent and unsustainable.

But the biggest difference between filming and recording is that filming tends to work in groups, while recording tends to work alone.

Shooting a play requires at least the cooperation of camera, lighting, drama, actor, director and other links. If an actor can't find the state, either the whole crew and other people adjust the state, or temporarily shoot the parts of other actors. The whole day's work will always be maintained at about eight hours, so as to avoid overtime work as far as possible.

Especially in the current perfect development of the film industry, due to the poor state of a famous actor, the whole crew has to cancel a whole day's work, which still exists, but is gradually decreasing.

The recording of a song is basically a matter between the singer and the producer. At most, a recording engineer can be added. In many cases, the producer also works as a recording engineer. Once the singer can not find the state, even if the producer pulled out his hair, it is helpless.

A song is only four minutes. When the inspiration is outstanding, the whole song can be recorded in less than half an hour; But when the inspiration was bad, I was trapped in the studio for 12 hours and couldn't record the desired effect. Everything is uncertain, completely dependent on work inspiration and presence.

Therefore, recording is a job that has no start time or finish time. The process of recording depends entirely on the singer's state and the recording effect of the day. It may start at noon and end at less than three, or it may start at ten in the morning and end at twelve in the evening.

In essence, this is the work of artistic creation; But in terms of form, the film has already formed a shooting system, while the music still maintains the artist's randomness and freedom.

Generally speaking, the film crew works eight hours a day. If there are no special shooting requirements such as night scene, sunrise and sunset, they work at nine o'clock every day, have a two-hour break at noon and leave work at seven o'clock in the evening. Especially for those works completed in the shed, the life of the crew is no different from that of office workers.

But musicians are different. Most musicians are nocturnal animals. They are used to writing in the dead of night. Even if they are not, night is also a time for parties and revelry; In addition, in the morning, because of physical reasons, singers are not easy to open their voice. They get up at 7 o'clock in the morning to sing. Even the sounds of nature will become a disaster.

Therefore, most of the recording work starts in the afternoon, and then continues to the evening, even all night. Even if it starts in the morning, most singers will choose after 10 o'clock or even after 11 o'clock. There is a world of difference in work patterns.

Although all arts are interlinked, there are great differences between different arts. Putting into the production of the album is a new challenge for lanli. Even though two singles have been recorded in the city of sound before, the production of the whole album is obviously at different levels, which is really exciting.

Conventionally speaking, lanli doesn't need to get up at 7:30 every day as he did during filming. Today, he can sleep until he wakes up naturally. After lunch, he goes to the recording studio to start today's work; But today is the first day to enter the studio. It's a special day to start from scratch.

Before formally entering the recording job, producers and recording engineers need to have a consensus on the keynote of the album, including the style of music arrangement, the way of singing, the focus of interpretation, etc., which will have a joint impact on the singer's recording, which can be said to be a key to determine the direction of work.

Although George Slade is the producer of the whole album, all the tracks of the album come from the creation of Langley. From this point of view, Langley is also one of the producers of the album; More importantly, lanli is currently composing the original music. Before recording, it is necessary to arrange the music according to the style of the album and the positioning of the singer. This is a crucial link, and lanli can't be absent.

In addition, to enter a brand new recording studio, lanli also needs to be familiar with the equipment, the production team and the rhythm of recording work, which are the basic links that need to spend time running in.

George said that he would arrive at the recording studio at about 9:30. First, he would have a simple communication with the recording engineer and get familiar with it. Langley would just show up at about 10:00. The main work of the first day is to lay the tone. If everything goes well, you can start recording at any time; However, if there are differences during the discussion, the recording work will not start so soon.

According to the Convention, lanli set the alarm clock at 8 o'clock. He can stay in bed for 10 or 15 minutes. He can get up before 8:30. After taking a bath and having breakfast in the morning, he can go to the recording studio leisurely. It's still more than enough time. But I didn't expect that Matthew showed up on time. Without looking at the alarm clock, lanli knew that it must be exactly eight o'clock.

Lanli couldn't help but help him. As long as he knew, he would not give Nathan a holiday.

Not to mention that this morning's main work is to determine the style and tone of the album. Assistants can't help at all. Even in the recording process, assistants' role is very limited.

Unlike the crew, in the process of recording, it's more often the communication between the singer and the producer, the tangle between the singer and himself, and other people can hardly help - on the contrary, it may even help; Moreover, the working space is always fixed in the recording room, with complete facilities, no need to move, and no need to take care of.

In other words, the meaning of assistant's existence is very weak, that is, helping to order meals and ordering takeout during lunch; Help to buy afternoon tea in the afternoon, and then help to run errands under special circumstances. That's it.

As a result, lanli asked Nathan to continue his holiday and show up in the studio around 12 o'clock. Instead, lanli asks Matthew to wake him up so that he doesn't have too much sleep to wake up.

I didn't expect that Mr. Matthew Dunlop, the "honest boy", actually showed up at 8 o'clock on time, and his idea of staying in bed for a while went bankrupt. He really hit himself in the foot.

Zila, Zila, with the sound of the oil pan, the smell of bacon permeates the apartment; Gudu, gudu, the sound of boiling water reverberates for a while, and then the fragrance of black tea wafts

His stomach protested again. He just wanted to stay in bed for a short time. This dream also became extravagant. He pulled down the quilt with regret. Then he saw Matthew standing at the end of the bed. He was holding a mug in his hand. The curling smoke of black tea was floating. His suit was flawless. The sparse sunlight outlined his deep facial features and straight shoulders.

"Lipton black tea is looking for a leading actor in the advertisement next season. Would you like to have a try?" Blue speechless can't help make complaints about egg. When you see it, you see a breakfast on the bedside cupboard: scrambled eggs plus Bacon, a toast baked by the side, and tomato salad with salad. The spice of burning makes saliva involuntarily secrete.

Lan Li rolled his eyes without saying a word. His eyes were full of resentment.

Matthew picked up his mug, took a sip of black tea and said calmly, "if it's the Lipton case, I might be a little interested."

It's a man without any sense of humor.

But lanli had been used to it for a long time. He lifted the quilt and walked toward the bathroom barefoot. "Because you drank Lipton black tea, did you start to have diarrhea?"

In a simple joke, matthewton's three black lines on his forehead and his calm and indifferent face immediately broke through. He looked at Lan Li's back and said, "once, just once!"