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- The filming of the short film went smoothly in the theater. In the end, with warm applause, all the crew members of "Dance of Angels" thanked everyone for their support and the film was officially completed.
Ye Wei¡¯s passionate speech not only made everyone understand his dream, but also completely shattered the dirty conspiracy of Focus Movies. The students believed in him, and the parents also believed in him. Come on, VIY, and work hard to create a miracle!
The old principal also sent his blessing: "Weige, you said that there is a missing type of human beings. In addition to zombies and living people, there is another type called heroes. Heroes are a source of power for living people to bravely fight against zombies. You will be a hero."
A hero! What a heavy expectation, but Ye Wei likes it.
The shooting phase is over, and the post-production phase has followed. There are only 11 days left before Christmas. Naturally, the sooner the post-production of the short film is completed, the better.
Ye Wei¡¯s plan was to complete this task within a week.
So he just gave himself a night off and went on a great date with Lily, first to dinner and then to the cinema, their first date to a movie, which was half-way through I watched "The Haunted Mansion" for three months, and I didn't get scared or fall asleep. I just laughed a little.
When walking out of the cinema, both of them agreed that they should watch "Love is Compromise".
The next day, Ye Wei plunged into the short film post-production work and continued to ask for leave from school because he needed to go to the University of Southern California.
"But it's winter vacation in a few days, and I won't miss many classes, or in other words, X amount of time.
Uncompressed standard definition video is 30MB per second, 1800MB (1.75GB) per minute. The available footage taken in these three days is more than an hour. How much is that? 105GB! He formatted his PC's hard drive before installing it, but the poor memory still couldn't be processed during editing.
The Sony Media Center building at the University of Southern California has a variety of professional post-production equipment, such as a digital editing room with a full set of non-linear editing equipment. With Darum's ID, Ye Wei can show off his talents.
If it is said that when shooting on the set, the further you go, the more boring you become, then in post-production, almost the entire process is dull and boring.
Think about it, sitting at a computer desk all day long, looking at several display screens, processing frames of images, constantly combining, arranging, deleting and adding, there is really no fun in that, unless you love it. Therefore, to be a good post-production staff, one must be able to endure loneliness, have super patience, super concentration, and be mentally strong!
And be mentally prepared to contribute silently, because even if the work becomes a big success in the future, no one will remember who the editor is or who the audio producer is
Editing, vocal music, special effects, these are jobs in film production that have a lower status than screenwriting. Ironically, they are extremely important.
This time, Ye Wei acted as the editor himself, and the special effects were helped by several students from the Department of Animation and Digital Art that Darum and the others had contacted. They could complete it within a week.
Editing and special effects production are carried out at the same time, because the shot numbers are the same. After the special effects are done, they can be directly overlaid.
To make the soundtrack, of course, you have to edit it first, but after you have a rough cut, you can start working on the audio editing. First, make the four audio tracks of dialogue, dynamics, environment, and sound effects. This task is led by Fulin, and others I started doing it when I had time; the rest of the music track was handled by Ye Wei, who also served as the composer.
His goal is to complete the editing within three days and then focus on vocal music. Time is running out.
On the first day, in the morning, Ye Wei sorted out all the materials. In the afternoon, the rough cut came out and it looked good.
The next day, he made a fine cut based on the rough cut. The length of the feature film could only be less than ten minutes. Due to the many scene changes, the rhythm needed to be carefully controlled.
At the same time, Darum and the others helped make subtitles and ending credits. There were not many crew members inside and outside, but there were too many people to thank. Hundreds of people had to take care of each one. It would take until the end of the world to broadcast. It¡¯s over, solet¡¯s make the font smaller. The most important thing is your heart.
In addition, they are also responsible for the color school work, according to Ye Wei's intention, summer, winter and spring.
On the third day, Ye Wei continued to revise the preliminary refined version, making the best choice of details and application of techniques.
It was still morning, and in the dimly lit editing room, there were four monitors on the U-shaped desk placed against the wall. The two on the left and right displayed the page of the editing software Sony-Vegas, and the two in the middle showed a close-up of Anna. , a different shot of Nijou, her smile is slightly different, the left side is brighter, but the right side has a bit of naughty feeling.
Ye Wei sat on the office chair,His eyes were unblinking, thinking about which one to choose.
Suddenly, there were a few knocks on the door of the editing room, and then it opened, and a surprised voice rang out: "Hey, who are you?"
¡°The person who came in was a middle-aged white man, who must be a teacher at the college. He looked stunned, obviously not understanding why there was a teenager editing something here.
"Me?" Ye Wei turned his chair, faced the visitor, and said with a calm smile: "A Trojan."
"Really" the man frowned and thought, but had no clue, "What's your name? Why do I seem to have never seen you before"
"Oh! This is so embarrassing." Ye Wei shrugged, not knowing who the other person was. In that dream, he had never seen this person before, so he said: "My name is Ye Wei, a student majoring in film and television production. Come here. It¡¯s just a short film assignment. Hey sir, I have some choices, can you come over and help me?¡±
This is a killer move, ensuring that the opponent will run away. Besides scissors, who would like to edit?
As expected, the man's eyes changed, and he said: "I still have some things to do, so you can take your time and cut." After saying that, he turned around and left in a hurry without looking back. There is such a young man in the college. Asian students of the same age? Strange, that should make an impression, right?
Ye Wei whistled softly and continued to look at the screen, choosing the naughty one!
After the third day, the refined version is complete! Everyone was very happy to see it, and just watching the silent film was great.
On the fourth day, Ye Wei started to compose music! The most important thing is music. Music is so important for movies, especially short films. It depends on it to express emotions, create atmosphere, and set off the climax. Just imagine when "Titanic" "You-Jump, I-Jump" was played, "My Heart Will Go On" was not played. Is there something missing?
After this period of deliberation, he already had a good idea of ??the soundtrack for the short film. There are four places in the film where music is needed: the opening scene, the first day-night scene, the second day-night scene, and the montage of Anna regaining her strength.
The beginning is accompanied by a piece of gentle and joyful music, the sound of bamboo flutes and bagpipes are both good; the second part is also joyful, more brisk, and uses a flute; the third part is a sad wailing, Irish bagpipe, like "Danny-boy" It feels good, with a little piano sound from Tchaikovsky's "Path¨¦tique".
These three places are easy to match and find. The soundtrack studio here has many commercial music libraries, such as BACKTRAXX, which can be completed for a few hundred dollars.
But the fourth montage is a bit challenging. It is the most touching and tear-jerking point in the film. The music must not only highlight Anna's strength, but also describe the greatest love for her from her parents, Bella, and everyone, and it must also give The entire story sets the tone and continues until the stage scene plays again, supporting the climax until the end credits roll.
So it must be paired with an explosive 4 or 5-minute song.
It¡¯s just that it¡¯s impossible for him to create and record a good song. He really doesn¡¯t have that talent and can only use ready-made songs. Then we go back to an old problem copyright! Royalty fees!
He can¡¯t just use Britney or Timberlake¡¯s songs, they don¡¯t know him, but he knows the daughter of a rock star.
Yes, Lily! Yes, the song her dad wrote for her, "You'll-Be-In-My-Heart"!
This song is so suitable, the lyrics are suitable, the melody is suitable, the duration is suitable, and I contacted you to obtain the right to use it. Everything is perfect!
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? It¡¯s the best original song at the Oscars. How touching and explosive it is, how good it is, right? Anyone who doesn¡¯t know the soundtrack knows it?
Although this is a bit presumptuous, "Dance of Angels" is a student short film without any commercial purpose, so that night, Ye Wei asked Lily out and made this request to her while drinking juice at the lemonade restaurant.
""You'll-Be-In-My-Heart"?"
Under the watery night sky, the two of them were still sitting at a remote small dining table on the street outside the store. After hearing this, Lily burst into laughter: "It can't be the version played by the super band, right?"
"No, that version is suitable for all comedies, but this time, I need to use the version played by Mr. Collins." Ye Wei's face was full of seriousness.
"Mr. Collins so serious." Lily's laughter became more cheerful. She drank a few sips of apple juice, her shoulders shook slightly, and she was still laughing: "He gave me this song a long time ago, so can you use it?" , There¡¯s no point asking him, ask me.¡±
Ye Wei smiled and continued in a serious tone: "Can I use it, Miss Collins?"
"Well, I need to think it over carefully, there are too many things involved here" Lily held up her chin with her right hand, looked at his bright eyes and blinked, then smiled and said: "Think about it!"?How smart I am, the answer is - YES! You can use it to make it more classic! "
"Thank you! That's great!" This was an expected result, but Ye Wei was still very happy. After cheering a few times, he said, "But we still have to prepare written authorization documents."
"Okay, you can use it first. After the short film is finished, give me a copy and legal documents. This Christmas, my father and his family will come to the United States to spend time. I will give him a surprise then!" Lily is looking forward to it. Soon, her father will , mother will know a very talented young man.
"OK." Ye Wei nodded and said his sincere words again: "Thank you, Lily."
Lily drank the juice with a smile and said nothing.
After talking about business, the two laughed and talked about how to spend the upcoming holidays. Christmas and New Year are coming one after another.
Ye Wei still has no travel plans; and Lily is planning to go to New York for vacation with her mother, and then spend a few days with her father's family in the Big Apple City. She almost invites him to play with her, but she just thinks it's not suitable, so she Suppress this thought and buy more gifts!
"Actually, Christmas has no special meaning to me. I'm not a Christian, but I like its festiveness and liveliness." Ye Wei's voice was calm.
He thought he would take this opportunity to find out some information about each other. If you are just ordinary friends, there is no need to talk about these taboo topics; but if you want to have an in-depth relationship, it is better to know. He didn't want to offend her and remain confused, and he believed she was too.
"I was about the same. My mother had just moved back to the United States, and she only knew one other child my age, Tristes, who studied St. Martin of Tours, so I went there too, even though I was not a Catholic. But then After so many years, I feel like I¡¯m half a Christian, right? I don¡¯t know.¡± Lily raised her eyebrows and thought for a moment, but she didn¡¯t have an answer.
Ye Wei said OK and asked, "Can I ask about your bloodline? I don't want to offend you suddenly."
"Let me think about it" Lily said while counting on her fingers: "My grandfather is a Russian Jew, my grandmother is an American with half German ancestry, and my father's side is all British, that's it."
"Jews, Russia, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom, this is the European battlefield of World War II!" Ye Wei couldn't help but said, "You are more like a descendant of a veteran."
"Hey, you've offended me now!" Lily said angrily, kicking him under the table.
"Sorry, I just have the shortcoming of being outspoken and heartfelt." Ye Wei smiled, "I am 9/10 Chinese and about 1/10 alien. I was abducted and transformed by aliens when I was a child. Injected with some alien genes, they said they came from a planet called Ku."
"Hahaha, isn't it called the planet of narcissism?"
After the happy date, on the fourth day, post-production continued and all the soundtracks were completed!
On the fifth day, all audio production was completed, and the five audio tracks began to be mixed.
On the sixth day, all the special effects shots were done. In the editing room, Ye Wei clicked the mouse to replace the original ordinary shots with the special effects shots.
On the seventh day, the mixing is completed! Add titles, credits, subtitles, compress, encrypt, and copy to DVD!
When the computer screen displays 100% and the copy box disappears, it means that "Angel Dance" is officially completed!
"Yeah!!!" In the editing room, Ye Wei, Darum and others laughed and clapped, and they were all very excited. The hard work and efforts in the past few days have finally turned into shining results! It is this feeling of dreams coming true that makes them love film and television production so much.
"Brothers, I really appreciate your help, thank you! I love you!" Ye Weiyi hugged these college students and shouted with a smile: "I love you!"
"It's not enough to just say thank you. If you really become a producer and director of independent feature films in the future, it's time for us to graduate, right? You have to give us a job!", "Yes, but next time There¡¯s a salary!¡±, ¡°And a bonus, haha!¡±
¡°Don¡¯t worry, when the filming of my feature film starts, there will definitely be a place for you to do odd jobs!¡±
Just as they were laughing and looking forward to the future, suddenly the door of the editing room was knocked and opened, and it was the middle-aged teacher again. He looked at them in shock. After investigation, it was already certain that there was no teenage student in the college.
"Darum, Peter? What are you doing here? Who is that kid?!"
Everyone looked at each other and suddenly laughed: "Our director, Wei."
Ye Wei blew a whistle and pulled out the DVD from the computer drive. It was better to get out of the way before USC security arrived - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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