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After two days of short sabbaticals, Wayne came to a post-production studio at Warner Bros. Studios to work on The Departed.

Compared with the shooting of film footage, the post-production process is also never a simple matter, and undoubtedly requires the cooperation of multiple departments and teams, and the basis of all this is editing.

When the general public understands filmmaking, the first impression is that the director directs the crew to shoot. In fact, on the contrary, it is rude to say that no matter how powerful the director is, including Wayne, all the previous filming work is for editing. And service.

There is no difference from the previous years. The editing team of Dwayne Scott is still working with Wayne. This high-level commercial film editor has always cooperated with him in a very tacit understanding.

Therefore, no matter how well a film is shot, the editing part of the film is indispensable. When editing a film in the post-production stage, the most important thing is to pay attention to the editing of the film fragments.

These days, Dwayne Scott, with his assistants, developed a set of working samples from the negatives Wayne filmed, and prepared all the pre-editing work.

Today, they officially use this set of samples for editing. They select the required lenses and films from a large number of samples, cut the film with scissors, and stick them together with tape or glue.

Then it's watching the cuts on the editing table, usually he'll ask Wayne and Gilmour's opinion, and be sure, it's a process that needs to be repeated and produced.

This is also the so-called first rough cut, which is relatively repetitive work and the basis for subsequent fine cuts.

When you enter the editing part of the film, you really enter the non-linear part of the film, because he knows Wayne's intentions and ideas very well. Most of the time, Dwayne Scott, who is highly skilled, will not follow the steps when editing the film.

That is to say, it will not be edited one by one in a sequence. Often, it will be cut from the middle, a shot will be inserted, or some pictures will be cut out, and the desired picture effect can be quickly stitched together.

Editing is a tedious and meticulous work. A story film often has as few as a few hundred or as many as a thousand shots. There are interior scenes, exterior scenes, real scenes and built scenes.

The content in the same scene is usually shot by Wayne, and Dwayne-Scott needs to rearrange the sequence of content when editing. Some important scenes in the film are often shot repeatedly by Wayne for performance or technical reasons, and all need to be selected during editing.

As early as the beginning of the filming of this film, or before the script was written, the final film effect was already printed in Wayne's head, which would also save a lot of time for the fine-cutting work in the future. After all, he took this into consideration when shooting.

Between Martin Scorsese and Wayne, a large part of the shooting style is similar, which is one of the reasons why he chose this film.

If you have carefully paid attention to those representative works of old Martin, from "Mean Streets", "Goodfellas", "Taxi Driver", to "Raging Bull", "Casino Wind and Cloud", etc., the shooting perspective is focused on the lower-class civilians. Real life, likes to use images to record a corner of North America in life, the "panorama" of the lives of various immigrant groups.

Therefore, the media has always called Martin Scorsese a "movie sociologist", praising him for always objectively revealing the truth of the world with his lens.

Of course, there is also the necessary blood and violence.

It is precisely Wayne who also likes this set. Whether it is to expose social problems or human nature, the first thought is to make good use of blood and violence.

The difference between the two is also quite obvious. Almost all of Martin Scorsese's films have broken and subverted the traditional narrative, which strictly follows the narrative structure of beginning-discovery-high nest-end. And he likes to use the filming techniques of documentaries to enable actors who are closest to "life".

Wayne is the exact opposite. He is used to following the linear narrative structure of the traditional academic school. Whether it is a so-called commercial film or an art film, it is the foundation to tell a story well and understand a story from beginning to end. .

Regardless of whether it is a multi-line or single-line narrative, promoting the plot according to the timeline has always been his hallmark. There is no such thing as good or bad between these two styles, but there are some differences when editing.

"Zach Snyder just came over and saw you discussing the movie with Dawn, and went back again."

Nina waited for Wayne's work to come to an end, handed him a cup of coffee, and said in a low voice, fearing that it would affect other people in the room.

He put the cup to his mouth and tested the temperature, and found that the coffee was not hot, just right. After taking two sips, Wayne walked out of the editing room with the assistant.

"Didn't say anything?"

Sitting on the lounge chair by the door, he asked. "It is estimated that the first cut of "The Matrix" has been completed, otherwise he will not have time to come here."

"I didn't say it, but I didn't look anxious." Nina took the coffee cup in his hand, poured some more from the thermos, and then consciously opened the handbag and took out the cigarette and lighter.

"Also, the bearded New Zealand director, who also called before, will probably arrive before lunch."

In a cloud of smoke, Wayne nodded, signaling that he heard it. At this time, in addition to the video being edited, all that was left in his mind was the various arrangements for the summer vacation.

When the two were resting, there were footsteps in the corridor. Before he could finish smoking a cigarette, Zach Snyder ran over again and saw them sitting at the door, with a hint of joy on his sloppy face.

"Is there a problem with The Matrix?"

Without waiting for Zha Dao to say hello, Wayne took the initiative to move to the side, leaving a place for him, and asked curiously.

"Post-work is no problem." Zach Snyder shook his head immediately after sitting down. "The initial cutting work has been basically completed. You can go and see it when you have time. Judging from the current progress, all the work can be completed around mid-April."

"Shit, how long has it been since you changed your clothes?"

Even with the cigarette burning constantly, the moment he sat down, Wayne still smelled a sour smell. Looking at the folds on the other party's clothes, it was obvious that he had been wearing it for at least a week.

The people here have a heavy body odor, and if they encounter some people with well-developed sweat glands, they can get a head start without taking a bath for a day.

So most men like to spray some cologne to cover up their body odor. Not to mention men, women are not too different. Caucasian girls look very seductive. In fact, when you look closely, you can find that most of the skin is rough and the pores are large.

This brings about a more obvious body odor, but ordinary people will deliberately take a shower and spray some perfume before going out.

"Is there? I haven't been home for more than a week. You have too little time for The Matrix."

Raising his sleeves and smelling it, Zach Snyder looked indifferent, but looked over with resentment in his eyes.

If it weren't for him and the editing team, working overtime like his life, "The Matrix" would never have completed the initial editing so quickly, and then there would be a lot of work such as special effects rendering, soundtracking, dimming, dubbing, etc., otherwise It's impossible to make it before the summer season.

"ok, ok."

Wayne raised his hands in a gesture of surrender. "Let's talk, there is an unsolvable problem that can make you drop your work and come here twice! While I still have some time."

"Stephenson, Elella and others, as soon as the filming was over, they made it clear to me that they would not be involved in my next project, **** it."

Noticing that he might not have made it clear, he quickly explained: "Stevenson is the director of photography on the set, and Elera is the director of lighting on the set. I don't understand, they didn't give me a chance to prove myself at all, and now I have joined other crews. ."

The core team behind the scenes has disbanded. This kind of problem is very common in Hollywood. Most of the people who have been smoothed out are living this kind of life. In their eyes, this is just a job. a job.

Most of them don't care whether the film is released or not, unless it is a box office hit that will attract the attention of these people. But the probability of a big box office hit is too low. There are so many projects launched in Hollywood every year, and only a small part of them are successful at the box office.

"What are you trying to say? Isn't this normal?" Wayne shook his head, not quite understanding why it was so frustrating.

Zach Snyder saw that he didn't understand, so he leaned back in his chair and continued: "I talked to Robert and Schwartz, these are the behind-the-scenes guys who have been following you, and never had the idea of ​​leaving. It's strange right. Well, if you hadn't given me this chance, I would never have thought that I would be shooting alone."

Then he turned his head and stared at Wayne behind the smoke seriously. "I need some experience, the work experience you didn't teach me before. Otherwise, every time you finish a film, you have to change the core behind-the-scenes team, which requires too much energy."

A group of industry elites get together, it has always been a happy trouble Because these people will never lead well. Now, the team that Warner Bros. helped Zach Snyder put together can also be said to be top players in the industry, but they have parted ways after working together one by one.

A stable behind-the-scenes team is the biggest foundation for a director's success. Movies are never the product of individualism. Even if it is a small-cost mill film, it requires the cooperation of various types of work to be produced.

Zach Snyder knows that the future path will definitely focus on filming commercial productions. Now his biggest concern is how to lead a stable team and let those good players surround him closely.

"I see, Zach."

Wayne nodded, stretched out his fingers holding the cigarette, pointed at him rather mysteriously and said, "Self-driving force!"

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