Chapter 1154: .Final editing rights

Chen Hang's suffering is not over yet.
In fact, working with the Hollywood team, if you adapt, you will feel very comfortable.
Because the Hollywood team is really like a factory assembly line in terms of professionalism.
Each of their jobs is professional.
Many people say that the gap between Chinese movies and Hollywood is mainly in the market.
However, after the rise of the film market in China, everyone was surprised to find that it was not.
Or more than just!
In Wang Yifan's view, the biggest gap between China and Hollywood is actually not special effects technology, nor capital, nor the market.
The special effects technology is indeed advanced enough in Hollywood, but the gap is not as big as imagined.
In fact, it can be said that most of the special effects teams in China can achieve 80% of the effects produced by Hollywood's top special effects companies with the support of enough money.
Yes, eighty percent.
It seems that the remaining 20% ​​gap does not seem big.
However, it is precisely the remaining 20% ​​of the effect that is the real biggest gap.
Because, purely from the perspective of money, the first 80% of the effects may only account for 20% of the special effects cost of the Hollywood special effects company, and the remaining 80% of the cost , They will be used to achieve this final 20% effect.
It sounds difficult to understand, but in fact, it is true.
Why Truck Driver? His movies often make people scream and can create record-breaking results.
Because of perfection, "Titanic" actually simply watched the plot inside, and it seemed that it didn't take that long at all. The special effects in it didn't seem to be the most cutting-edge special effects technology.
Many special effects companies can do it if they have enough money.
But why is "Titanic" still no one can copy?
Many people may not be able to imagine that when Cameron was filming "Titanic", his requirements for details were outrageous.
Cameron and his team took a lot of effort to bring the "Titanic" to the big screen. However, the production cycle of the "Titanic" is not long. The construction of the studio of the Fosbach Studios began on May 30, 1996. It covers a 40-acre beach, has a large water tank, and a large 32,000 square feet. The stage is also equipped with production offices, prop warehouses, power plants, welding workshops, dressing rooms and other auxiliary facilities. It took about 100 days for a very majestic and magnificent "Titanic" to stand on the coast of Mexico, and the main shooting began. This 775-foot ship is only about 10% smaller than the real Titanic. Cameron said:
You can’t imagine how big the Titanic is. It took us a long time to really realize that it has It is 882 feet long and has a displacement of 48,000 tons. The actual steel weight is nearly 60,000 tons. Simply put, it is a giant." Titanic shipbuilding coordinator Thomas Andrew said: "It takes 3 million rivets and A lot of sweat."
Many people find it difficult to understand, and even feel that it takes so much manpower and material resources to build a ship like "Titanic" that can only be used for filming, or even a ship that cannot be moved. Is the boat too wasteful?
Is it too difficult to accept?
What's more, all of the "Titanic" back then, including tableware, etc., were specially customized to perfectly reproduce the details of the "Titanic" back then.
Let's just think about it. In fact, if there are not so many perfect details, like a movie, it doesn't seem to be too bad.
But this is the biggest difference.
It is also precisely because of the attitude of pursuing perfection to the point of obsessive-compulsive disorder that created "Titanic", a work known as the pinnacle of film history.
The same is true for special effects.
Many special effects seem to be the same, but the money spent is multiplied.
It was just to make the final special effects look a little better, but it took a huge amount of manpower and material resources.
This is also where the gap lies.
Because in industrial design, the performance of many technological products is often this kind of attitude.
Pursue the last one percent, but the cost is far more than that of only ninety-nine percent!
Closer to home, Wang Yifan believes that the biggest gap between the Chinese film industry and the Hollywood film industry has always been only one, and that is people!
Yes, people!
Not a star, not an actor, but a professional type of work behind the scenes!
Such as lighting engineers, such as photographers, such as pyrotechnics, etc., and so on.
In this regard, most of the Chinese are actually half-way monks, but in Hollywood, these people are all professionally trained.
This is where the biggest gap lies!
Of course, the reason why Chen Hang's suffering is not over is that it has just arrived.
Because, the final editing right!
Yes, for a movie, many people think that as long as it is made well, it is finished, but in fact, editing is really important.
A good editor can turn decay into magic, and bad editing, no matter how good you shoot, can finally cut you out of loneliness.
For a director, the final editing right actually means that this movie is the work you want the director or the producer wants.
Because when a movie is shot, there will be a lot of shots.
And the order is rarely shot in the order in which the movie is played.
There will also be a lot of improvisational shots by the director.
At this time, editing becomes particularly important.
But a movie, most of the time, is about two hours.
Of course, some movies that are several hours old are offbeat. Under normal circumstances, large commercial productions take about two hours.
But the shots taken are often as high as hundreds or even hundreds of hours.
Then at this time, editing needs to be selected.
Some shots must be abandoned, even if the shots are perfect, but they are not of much use to the plot of the movie. At this time, they must be abandoned.
Similarly, how to tell a story, flashback? Or is it true?
Even the retention of a shot and the time it appears may affect the entire movie.
Or how much to keep, etc., will affect the effect of the whole movie.
Therefore, the importance of the final editing rights is self-evident.
Once there is no final editing rights, it can even be exaggerated to say that the director is almost a tool man.
Many directors don't even admit that the films they do not own the final editing rights are their own films.
Because editing, in many cases, gives the idea of ​​the movie leader, but this idea may not necessarily be the director's!