Pushing open the editing room door, Ronan could smell the sour smell mixed with various foods. He couldn't help holding his nose to retreat, but when he saw the woman working attentively in front of the workbench, he stubbornly walked away. Went in.
The open space behind the door is almost turned into a garbage dump.
Leftover take-out lunch boxes, crumpled paper towels, discarded packaging bags, empty Coke bottles, etc., piled up in a mess, waiting for the fermentation to turn smelly.
Ronan looked at Jessica Felton again.
This woman has long no longer looked like a Latin goddess. Her long brown hair is greasy and dreaded, and she can fry eggs in a flick of a pan. The white tight-fitting T-shirt is about to become a rainbow. The denim shorts on the legs seem to be hard and tight...
"Don't make a sound!" Jessica Felton heard the voice behind, without turning his head back, "put things down and get out immediately."
Ronan understands that this is taking himself as a food delivery person.
"Jesse!" Ronan walked two steps quickly and came to behind the editor. He almost fell over on the spot with a greasy smell. He took a step back and said, "I haven't cleaned this place?"
Jessica Felton heard Ronan's voice, turned his head and glanced at him, and continued to be busy on the pick-up machine in front of him: "It's too noisy, someone came to clean it and I drove me away."
Ronan looked at her T-shirt and asked, "How many days have you not washed your clothes?"
I remember this is the dress she wore on the first day.
Jessica Felton doesn’t change her face and is still busy with the work at hand: "I wore all my clothes. I found the clothes I changed the other day. This set is the cleanest..."
Ronan nodded, what can he say when facing his subordinates who are devoted to work? He slowly said, "I was wrong. I should provide you with a full-time life assistant."
"If you have something to say, wait for me to finish this editing." Jessica Felton talked to death directly.
Ronan stopped talking, subconsciously stayed away from the female editor, and made up his mind to provide her with a full-time nanny, even for his nose, he could not save the money.
After ten minutes of suffering and regret, Jessica Felton finally finished the job at hand.
Ronan saw her raising her head and stretching her waist, her bulging chest was full of oil, and she couldn't help shaking her head again. Once this person enters the working state, he doesn't even care about it...
When came to the window, he drew the curtains and opened the window. The fresh air pounced on people and washed away the foul air, immediately shocking people.
Ronan took a deep breath of fresh air, turned his head and said, "Jesse, you have a break, I will let someone come in and clean it."
"No." Jessica Felton said again: "I will continue with a glass of water."
Ronan guarded this important fresh air inlet by the window and said, "Okay, listen to me, rest for two hours, and then go take a shower."
While talking, he pointed to Jessica Felton's T-shirt.
Jessica Felton is just obsessed with editing, after all, it’s not that there is a problem with her head, she glanced at her body and nodded slowly.
Ronan made a call, and soon someone came to clean the room, and soon he also figured out what happened these days.
Since he saw Jessica Felton in this editing room, the female editor has never been out of the editing room again. The meal is delivered by someone to facilitate and sleep in the adjacent rest room. The clothes are dirty. When I changed it, I just threw it aside. I never wanted to wash it in the past. In the end, I didn't have any clean clothes to change. I just found the cleanest set from the dirty clothes.
It's not that no one has made any comments, but they were all dismissed impatiently by her, and Ronan had also confessed before, not to let people disturb her work.
In the end, it became like this.
Of course, Jessica Felton's work has been outstanding.
Ronan took advantage of the cleaning time and watched the film edited by Jessica Felton. The progress was unexpected and the first cut was almost complete.
In the two-and-a-half-hour-long version that is about to be completed, the storyline of the entire film is quite clear.
Unfortunately, James Huang is not here.
The director was not deeply involved in post-production. After the shooting of "Human Removal Project", after only a few days of rest, he and his good friend Glenn Morgan invested in the early planning of "Reaper Is Coming".
The script of "Death is Coming" still needs to be revised.
Of course employees with outstanding performance should be given preferential treatment.
Ronan asked someone to go to the housekeeping company and hired a 24-hour nanny to take care of Jessica Felton, so that the editing room would not turn into a garbage dump again. He would come here often. Others can bear it. He also can not stand it.
"When you are working and when you are not working, you are totally two people."
Looking at Jessica Felton putting on new clothes, Ronan shook his head: "I can't tell which is you."
Jessica Felton doesn’t care at all: “You’re invested in a career you love, and it’s easy to overlook other things. For example, many game enthusiasts can play games for a few months in addition to eating and sleeping.”
Ronan nodded and said, "You should pay attention to things other than hobby work."
It is said that he is also very busy all day, dealing with work, learning to charge, and never slept before 12 o'clock in the evening, but he did not become like Jessica Felton.
Isn’t that dedicated enough?
Jessica Felton replied by pulling away the chair and sitting at the workbench again.
Ronan didn't want to smell a sour work partner, and said, "If this goes on, you won't find a boyfriend."
"What do you want a man to do?" Jessica Felton didn't care: "Can I cut it for fun? How interesting is the film? Why do you want a man to suffer?"
Ronan can see clearly that this is a woman who devotes her limited life to an unlimited editing career.
So, he immediately changed the subject: "You cut very fast, the first cut is almost complete."
"Have you seen it?" Jessica Felton heard the editing and immediately got serious: "It is expected that the re-cutting will start the day after tomorrow. Do you have any suggestions?"
Ronan said directly: "The plot arrangement and editing rhythm are more compact. The title is not very good. Edit it again."
Jessica Felton asked: "How to cut?"
"The title uses news-style editing to bring the entire backstory." Ronan had this idea when he watched the first cut version just now: "The background of the time should be clear from the beginning of the film."
Jessica Felton closed her eyes and seemed to edit the scene in her mind. After a while, she said, "Will this be too simple and straightforward? The story has been drawn to the bottom from the beginning."
Ronan raised his finger and shook his head: "This is the effect I want, the film is simple and easy to understand."
Jessica Felton was born in an academy, and it is inevitable to be contaminated with some of the academic style, but his head is not rigid, and after a little thinking, you can understand Ronan's meaning and said: "It's something I think Many, this is an entertainment film."
Ronan said: "Very correct." He added: "There are too few black roles, which aggravates his role."
The role of black people in this film is very important. When filming, he passed through James Huanggou. Black people are the standard black life.
"Okay." Jessica Felton said immediately: "I will change it."
As she moved her hands, she said: "As for the action scene, I want to use more short shots and use sharp rhythm changes to arouse the emotions of the audience."
Ronan didn't object: "Try editing a paragraph first."
Looks like the last time I went to Jessica’s apartment, she was studying short-shot editing.
But he will not use it rashly. The sharp short shot editing is more suitable for pure action movies. For example, Michael Bay’s films are representative of this.
The first cut was completed quickly, and the re-cut started immediately. The post-production departments also began to cooperate closely. The dubbing room also found several existing soundtracks, which are very suitable for the atmosphere of the film. Ronan paid money to get the copyright.
There is very little expenditure in this area. In this age, several thousand dollars are enough.
James Huang also put aside the work at hand and joined the post-production.
Ronan, Jessica, and James Wong do not have much disagreement on the concept of the film, which allows the editing to proceed smoothly, rather than enforce it with the authority of the producer.
From mid-June to early August, after nearly two months, the post-production of "Human Removal Project" was 90% completed.
The rest are basically titles or subtitles added, don’t worry.
The film meeting was also put on the agenda by Ronan. He went to many distribution companies again and personally sent the invitation.