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Chapter 138 Challenge the Taboo: The Keys Come!
Before returning to Beijing from Shancheng, Gao Shuang and Ye Anlei decided on the post-production company.

The later company that Ye Anlei helped introduce was called "You Zhan He (Jingcheng) Digital Technology Co., Ltd.".

The name is a bit arrogant, but the technical strength is really strong.

The business scope covers post-production of commercials, post-production of films, etc., and has won numerous awards at home and abroad.

You see, Feng Peishan, the owner of the company, was one of the shareholders of the brokerage company before Ye Anlei quit the entertainment industry.

Because of his relatively upright personality and stubborn temper, he was very unhappy with the original shareholders, so he set up his own door and started a post-production stage of film and television.

During the heyday of Zhongxing Entertainment, the two companies cooperated quite closely.

Feng Peishan is more nostalgic, and has always regarded Ye Anlei as a student and junior, and has taken care of Zhongxing Entertainment over the years.

Although the power of the film and television department has plummeted after the separation of the stars, the two companies have also cut off business exchanges for a year or two.

But when Ye Anlei approached Feng Peishan again, Feng Peishan happily gave the stars the lowest post-production price and business arrangement.

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Formal post-production is naturally impossible to be as sloppy as Gao Shuang's last editing of "Blue Star".

And this time the film is all using digital cameras, so the editing is more advanced and convenient.

The post-production of film and television can be roughly divided into five stages.

Preliminary editing, fine editing, composition or selection, input of special effects, dubbing and synthesis.

All footage of "Crazy Stone" has been handed over to the editing department of the production company.

Feng Peishan specially arranged two experienced editing assistants to help with the preliminary work of the first editing.

The so-called first cut is actually the filing and classification of the footage.

Cut off the obvious excess at the head and tail, and then roughly arrange it on the video track.

It is convenient for the director to prepare for subsequent fine editing.

It's not a very technical thing.

How can you not do your best for the work that the boss personally explained?

The two editing assistants are riveting!
It only took one day to complete the initial cut of the material according to the script number, scene, shooting method and scene on the script and the scene board.

But after the first cut, the two fell directly into a state of autism!
After the initial editing of the general movie is completed, basically you can follow the sequence of the shots to sequence the plot.

You can probably see a little bit of quality in how the movie is shot.

But after the footage of the movie "Crazy Stone" was cut, let alone the quality, it didn't even match the script.

A mess arranged on the video track!
Can't see it at all! ! !

What the hell was this filming about? !

Assistant Xiao Zhang stared at the screen and said hesitantly, "Brother An, isn't it... What's wrong with our arrangement?"

"It shouldn't be!" Another editor, An Hua, scratched his scalp and said with a tangled face: "It's all based on the sequence of shots marked on the scene board..."

Xiao Zhang dragged the material box with the mouse and asked, "Could it be that some of the materials they gave are missing?"

"That's even more impossible!" An Hua has much more experience than Xiao Zhang, he frowned and pointed to some of the footage, "It's not a lack of material now! It's a plot that is repeated at the same time. There are too many! If these repetitive plots are not used, the length of the film will definitely not be enough. If all of them are used, it will be too cumbersome! How can there be a time line that tells the truth three or four times?!!”

"You said... Director Xiao Gao is going to use some special non-linear narrative technique?" Xiao Zhang guessed.

There are generally two ways of telling a movie!

They are linear narrative and non-linear narrative.

Linear narrative is easy to understand, and basically most of the narrative films we watch are based on the plot.

Generally, the story time and development sequence are the clues, and the causal relationship of the story is the driving force of the narrative.

The storyline of the film is narrated according to the logical structure of "beginning - development - climax - ending".

Non-linear narration, compared with linear narration, breaks the audience's linear understanding of the movie world.

It can subvert arbitrary rules in narrative elements, such as the increase of clues, the dislocation of time, the confusion of space, and the rupture of cause and effect.

These are the methods that are often used in non-linear narratives.

But non-linear narratives also have inherent logic to be found!
I've never seen such a large amount of overlapping timelines after so many years of editing work!

Hearing what Xiao Zhang said, An Hua immediately raised his brows, and his heart suddenly became abrupt: "You mean..."

Xiao Zhang suddenly lowered his voice and said to An Hua, "I think this movie looks like it accidentally stepped on the pit of parallel narrative?"

He didn't say the specifics, but everyone was doing editing and post-editing, and he knew that Anwar would definitely understand what he meant.

"I can't do it! Director Gao was born in a major, so he shouldn't make such a low-level mistake..."

An Hua also had a bad feeling in his heart.

But then he shook his head again, put down the script in his hand and said to Xiao Zhang, "Director Gao will be here soon! Let's check again if there are any mistakes, and we'll see how the director arranges it later."

"to make!"

……

When Gao Shuang came to the editing room, he saw An Hua and Xiao Zhang doing their grooming work with a frown.

"Is the first cut finished?" Gao Shuang knocked on the door of the editing room.

The two got up almost at the same time, An Hua hurriedly greeted him, held Gao Shuang's hand and said, "Director Gao! You are here! This... Something went wrong during the first cut!"

Seeing the embarrassed expressions of the two of them, Gao Shuang pointed to the engineering computer and said, "Come on! I'll take a look at the first cut material."

"Okay! Come here!" An Hua gave away the main seat in front of the computer to Gao Shuang, while he pulled a stool and sat beside him.

After sitting down, Gao Shuang casually looked at the order of the materials they arranged, and it was as expected.

The two of them didn't even understand their intentions at all!
He smiled and turned to the two of them and asked, "The timeline of the material conflicts, I don't know how to cut it?"

"Yeah!" Xiao Zhang slapped his thigh and said, "Many scenes in the material you gave happened in repeated timelines, we have never seen this before, we can only organize the material and wait for you to come. I saw..."

Gao Shuang explained: "Many paragraphs of my film use non-linear multi-line narrative advancement. When editing the film, parallel montage must be used to complete it!"

"Multi-line narrative? Parallel montage?!"

As soon as these two words came out, Xiao Zhang and An Hua were completely stunned!

It's not that the two are ignorant and have never heard of these terms!

But they know these two words too well!
In the courses related to Blue Star Films, when it comes to narration and editing, there is no way to avoid multi-line and parallel montage techniques!

Any textbook will tell you clearly!

This is such a big hole! ! !

A sinkhole big enough to fall to the death of any ambitious and confident up-and-coming director!

Multi-line narrative is one of many non-line narrative techniques, and is a structure in which the narrative is separated by several clues.

Seeing that several clues that seem to be unrelated are moving fast under the pull of a core motivation.

Then when a time node is reached, one of the clues connects other stories and pushes the dramatic climax.

There is nothing wrong with this narrative technique.

Even used in novels is a very amazing method!
But it's a big problem when used in movies!
In films made with this narrative method, the characters and scenes change too quickly, the key points are often not prominent, and many characters will be reduced to purely instrumental existence.

In the end, even the main line may be obliterated by the cluttered time and space jumps.

The audience will feel very tired when watching, and the content is repetitive and cumbersome, which is very uncomfortable!
The film is, in a nutshell, telling a story through the lens.

The length of the movie is very limited, and it is not easy to tell a main story in a limited time.

You also have to open multiple lines and develop in parallel!
You still tell a fart story to come up with such a complex time-space relationship? !

Parallel montage is almost a standard editing method for multi-line narratives.

In the Blue Star silent film era, this non-linear multi-line narrative film expression method has been proved by a large number of forerunners to be an extremely clumsy and bad method.

So it was completely abandoned by later filmmakers! ! !

Blue Star's films have developed for so many years, and it is not without new directors who do not believe in evil and try to challenge this taboo method.

But more than 90 minutes is too short for the screen display!

All of these directors fell to the ground without exception.

Looking back on the materials that they had compiled before, the two suddenly understood!

This "Crazy Stone" not only used multi-line narrative and parallel montage techniques, but also deliberately killed it, and used it in the movie a lot!
"Director Gao! You have a grudge against the investor..." Xiao Zhang was blunt, and he directly said what was in his heart!
Gao Shuang's head is full of black lines!

My investor is me!

Do I have a grudge against myself?

Stew yourself in a wok?
An Hua fiddled with Xiao Zhang, motioning him not to talk nonsense.

This kid is still too young, he belongs to the lack of heart who is devoted to technology!
After all, he is a director, so it would be a bit presumptuous for you to say that!
But when he turned his face, he cautiously reminded Gao Shuang: "Director Gao, I think, your idea is a bit too out of line! Why don't you... think about it again?"

Gao Shuang said nonchalantly, "I've already thought about it very clearly! And it's impossible for me to assemble the crew again for reshoots!"

"But your way of doing it is definitely doomed! These are the rules summed up by generations of filmmakers, and you will die if you touch them!" An Hua was also a little anxious!

He's been in the assistant editor position for a few years now!
He could be promoted to the official editor at a glance, and was arranged by the boss to come to the project of Gao Shuang.

I thought it was an easy job to brush my qualifications, but who would have thought it would be a fire pit!
Now that he has signed the project contract, he is a grasshopper tied to a rope with Gao Shuang.

At the end of the credits, the editing column is required to be signed by yourself!
If this order is ruined because of such a low-level mistake, he estimates that he will have to continue to waste a few more years at the assistant level!
Of course, Gao Shuang knew Anhua and the others' concerns. With this special narrative method, Blue Star's director couldn't use it well, and it didn't mean that Earth's director couldn't use it well either!

Although there are not too many multi-line narrative movies on the earth, there are also many overturns. It is really not easy to make them well!
However, most of the successful ones are brilliant!
"Two Smoking Guns" and "Crazy Stone" are the best among them!
Gao Shuang said with a half-smile, "Sometimes, rules are meant to be broken! Maybe you guys will create history with me?"

"But! You..."

An Hua wanted to struggle again, but Gao Shuang raised his hand to interrupt him and said, "How about this, I'll cut a section today, and you can see the effect! If it doesn't work, I will take the initiative to tell President Feng to let you all quit. project!"

"This..." The two looked at each other hesitantly.

Gao Shuang's words have been mentioned for this sake, and it will be a little bit awkward to entangle this issue with him.

Just cut a section, it only takes a few hours, and the two are not short of this time.

An Hua nodded to Xiao Zhang, and then said to Gao Shuang, "That's okay, Director Gao, you can cut it first."

Gao Shuang rolled up his sleeves with a smile, stretched out his hands, and said arrogantly:

"Key here!"

……

Xiao Zhang Ma slipped the special keyboard for video editing in front of Gao Shuang!

Gao Shuang opened the system interface and called up the original video as a comparison reference.

Control the scroll wheel and various shortcut keys on the keyboard, and quickly drag and capture the material of the movie footage.

Combining these fragmented images in a spooky way.

Trim excess clips to make the picture appear more and more jumpy!

Xiao Zhang and An Hua were a little unconvinced at first.

Even the interest in watching is a little lacking.

Just waiting for Gao Shuang to finish the toss, so he can quickly leave this unfortunate project and find a way to hide away!
However, after Gao Shuang started editing, the two casually glanced at each other for a while, and were immediately attracted by the fast interspersed pictures on the monitor!
Especially when Gao Shuang was cutting frame by frame.

The switching details of multiple narrative lines are clearly presented in front of the two of them!

The transformation and connection like flowing clouds and water!

A suffocating rhythm!

It simply broke through all the limits of their inherent cognition!
In fact, not only Xiao Zhang and An Hua were amazed, but Gao Shuang, who edited the original film, also benefited a lot!
It can be said that editing such a complex film is a sublimation and baptism of one's own film technology!

In the past, as an audience, when viewing this film, I would only think that this way of presentation is novel and interesting.

But after the actual operation, the parallel montage seen in Gao Shuang's eyes is like a parallel universe in the movie world.

They are at the same time, but in a different space, like a car driving on the upper and lower passages of an overpass at the same time.

When I was in elementary school, there was a poem in the Chinese textbook that said, "On both sides of the Yangtze River, the willow branches have just sprouted. In the Daxing'an Mountains, the snowflakes are still falling."

The description of this scene is a perfect description of a parallel montage.

It witnesses the joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows at the same moment and in several different spaces.

This is the conquest and exploration of time and space!
It is a mockery of the multidimensional universe from the perspective of God! ! !

This omnipotent sense of control...

Maybe it's the director's charm!

……

In about three hours, the clips of the first seven minutes of the movie were basically edited.

Gao Shuang pulled the positioning line to the starting position, enlarged the frame to the full screen, and pressed the play button!
On the monitor, a high-altitude view of the mountain city popped up.

Gao Shuang temporarily skipped the scene where the male protagonist sees a doctor in the hospital.

In order to demonstrate the multi-line narrative, the scene from Xie Xiaomeng picking up girls on the ropeway to the completion of the traffic accident was directly edited.

In just seven or eight minutes, on the same timeline, three independent and related events are intertwined with each other, but they are clearly expressed!

After reading it, Xiao Zhang and An Hua fell into silence again...

They looked at Gao Shuang almost together, with complicated expressions all over their faces!

Can parallel montages work like this?

It turns out that the key to multi-line is rhythm? !
What's the matter with this kind of pleasure of clearing the clouds and seeing the sun?

I really want to watch the movie in one go!what!what!

The most important thing is that judging from the current situation, this young and somewhat excessive director has really proved that he is capable of challenging that taboo technique that no one has ever succeeded in! ! !
Thinking of this, the hearts of the two gradually began to become hot!
As for the original plan to quit the project?

Go to hell!

Director Gao seemed to have said just now that he would take them with him...

make history? !

(End of this chapter)