Chapter 33： Editor

Passing through the three-piece arch and bypassing the Van Punk sculpture, Ronan came to the Film and Television Department of the Film School of the University of Southern California, entered a small office building, and soon arrived at the office of his pre-school tutor.

He knocked on the door, and a familiar voice came from inside: "Please come in."

Ronan pushed the door in and saw an old man who was nearly sixty years old and said, "Good morning, Professor."

"Oh, Ronan." Professor Johnson took off his reading glasses, "Sit down."

Yesterday, Ronan called Professor Johnson. You are not welcome. He found a chair and sat down and said with a smile: "Professor, I'm here to trouble you again."

Professor Johnson turned to face this side: "Don't say these polite remarks, you shouldn't have dropped out in the first place."

Ronan knew that Professor Johnson used to value Little Anderson very much, so he came to USC only a few times. At this time, he could only sigh and said: "I was really a little impulsive at the time, but Shahai Entertainment was the hard work of his father. Take over."

These words are full of emotion, Professor Johnson can no longer entangle in this aspect, and instead said: "You are too anxious."

Ronan nodded: "After failing once, I realized that many things are completely different from doing."

Professor Johnson looked at Ronan, remembering these few meetings, and said: "You are more mature and stable than before." He exhorted: "Ronan, you must remember that movies cannot be based on impulse alone."

"I know." Luo Nan followed the professor's words and said, "So, I come to ask the professor for help."

Professor Johnson asked directly: "The production?"

Ronan replied: "There is this aspect. I deeply feel that my ability is insufficient, and the knowledge learned in school is far from enough to cope with the current job."

"I have been out of the frontline for almost ten years, and I was not very successful before." Professor Johnson is getting older, and he is less concerned about the success or failure: "The projects where I was a co-producer, 80% They all ended up in box office failures. To say that I can’t help you much with the experience of success."

He opened a file cabinet, took out a few black notebooks that were obviously older, and said, "These are some work notes and personal experiences I made back then. There are reasons for my analysis of the project failure. Also, these are some students entering After Hollywood, I recorded some film projects when I talked to them. There were more failures and less success."

Ronan quickly took it over. These are precious experiences, and it is what he lacks the most.

"Actually, I have been observing you a few times since you have come here." Professor Johnson said slowly: "If you are like when you just left school, I can't help you."

Ronan understood the meaning of these words. When Little Anderson dropped out of school, he was arrogant and did a lot of young people's impulsive stupid things.

"I was faint at the time." Ronan smiled embarrassedly: "Fortunately, the professor reminded me that I was not lost."

Everyone would like to hear good words. Professor Johnson exhorted again: “I have taken some of these records to do teaching plans. Failure is actually a gain. You can draw some lessons from the failure cases to avoid Step into it again. By the way, you take out a copy and return the original."

Ronan could guess that he was not the first person to receive these. After all, Professor Johnson is famous for his enthusiasm and often helps students, but this is very rare for him. He quickly said, "Thank you, Professor for reminding." Then he said: "There is one more thing, I would like to ask the professor for help."

"Go ahead." Professor Johnson has always been generous to students.

Ronan stopped going in circles and said: "The film I invested in, "The Human Removal Project", lacks an editor who is good at editing horror and thrillers. Can the professor recommend a personal choice for me?"

Anyone who knows a little bit about the USC Film School knows that the academy teaches more than theory. Some teachers in the college are even practitioners in Hollywood related industries. Many graduated students have become the backbone of Hollywood's technical work behind the scenes.

If I only teach theory, my eyes will be smeared when I leave the school gate, and my head will be broken, especially in an industry that requires practical skills such as movies.

Professor Johnson asked directly: "Do you need an editor?"

"Yes." Ronan looked sad: "I found a few, but none of them are suitable."

Professor Johnson said directly: "Let me introduce one to you. The film and television graduates three years earlier than you are also my students.

Ronan scratched his head, seemingly embarrassed: "Is the fee high?" He smiled embarrassingly: "My crew budget is very low."

Professor Johnson asked: "Isn't it an open budget of 11 million US dollars?"

Ronan was not afraid of being asked, and said directly: "This is all for publicity."

This kind of thing is very common in the circle, and Professor Johnson doesn’t care, saying: “She’s Jessica Felton, a genius in editing. She worked as an assistant editor in the eighth part of Friday the 13th. The **** horror films "Death Run", "The Age of Guns and Blood" and "The Wild West" served as the main editors... Oh, these three films are all directly released videotapes."

"Female?" Ronan was a little surprised.

Professor Johnson found a phone book and pointed a phone number to Ronan: "You go to see the three films first, and contact her if appropriate."

Female editors are rare in Hollywood, but Ronan has little Anderson's memory of Professor Johnson. This is a very reliable person and immediately took down Jessica Felton's call.

I also talked to Professor Johnson about the "Human Removal Project", and specifically asked about some difficult problems in preparation. Ronan left the USC Film School and specially found a Blockbuster chain rental store to lease the three. Take a look at the video tape.

Entering the store, Ronan reported the titles of the three films and said to the clerk: "I want to rent these three films. Where can I get them?"

The clerk pointed to the right with a big hand: "There is the horror and thriller classification area, go find it yourself."

Ronan saw several large rows of video tape shelves and densely packed video tapes placed against the wall, and dizzy for a while: "Which shelf is on which floor?"

"Who can remember that kind of small film?" The clerk shook his head straight: "You can find it."

Ronan had no choice but to come to the horror-thriller category. Several large shelves were densely packed with thousands of video tapes. Except for the popular ones, if you want to find outlandish ones, you really have to look carefully.

It took more than 20 minutes for him to find two of the three films, and he couldn't find "Death To Run".

There was no way, Ronan had to go through the lease procedures for two films. Due to the large number of customers, he queued for nearly ten minutes.

After leaving this Blockbuster store, sitting in the car and looking at the huge Blockbuster sign, Ronan had a first-hand experience this time. Compared with the previous world online shopping or online rental, this traditional video rental model is really out of date. .

Search is not cheap, UU reading www.uukanshu. It is very troublesome for com to find non-popular movies, the waiting time is too long, the procedures are cumbersome, and it is easily annoying.

These points alone are quite fatal.

The future is an era of faster and faster pace, and the patience of the general public is getting worse and worse.

Think about Netflix's model, which can be searched freely. After registering as a member, there are almost no procedures. The fees are calculated on a monthly basis, and there is no late fee for rental.

I have to say that Netflix is ​​the future in terms of movie rentals.

Fortunately, he has already caught sight of Netflix, and the highly-paying research company will send a report every week on time.

Ronan went directly back to the company, and it happened that George and Robert, two experienced guys, were there, called them in, briefly said, and started watching the video together and studying the editing of the film.

I watched these two video tapes several times, and even lunch was ordered for take-out, until the end of get off work, the three people turned off the TV and VCR.

Ronan was basically satisfied, worried that his lack of experience would lead to erroneous judgments, and asked, "What do you think of the editing?"

Robert took the lead and said: "The shots of this film are very average, and I won't say anything about the quality, but the editing is very powerful." He looked down at the notebook: "Ninth minute, 17th minute, 23rd minute. Minutes, fifty-fifth minutes, and the final ending. The filming problem of the director is obvious. The editing not only corrected the low-level mistakes made by the director, but also created a particularly strong atmosphere of plasma horror."

George has a face full of folds, and he speaks less, but he is straightforward: "This editor is capable and has not been discovered yet."

This kind of situation is very common. There are quite a lot of capable people in Hollywood, but only a small part of them are really prosperous.

Ronan nodded: "I will visit tomorrow."