"It seems that there is something really wrong with Nanhua Hospital."
After watching the live broadcast, Lu Ban came to a conclusion.
But he doesn't have time to deal with this matter for the time being. He is not a member of the Ghostbusters. His top priority now is to make his own movie.
Lu Ban sent a message to Song Yunyan's secretary Li Zijian, reminding him of the matter at Nanhua Hospital, and then immersed himself in work and study again.
A week later, Lu Ban completed the rough cut. From a cinematic perspective, the film is now watchable, at least the plot can be understood.
But the storyboards, rhythm and everything else are very simple.
If you want more details, it will take at least another week, which means it will be October.
But before that, Lu Ban still has some scraps to do.
First is the background music, the theme song.
In his previous videos, kneeling in reality, the background sound of the real scene was the best soundtrack.
But it definitely won't work if put into a movie. This is not a pseudo-documentary shot with a handheld camera. It still needs some music at critical moments.
Besides, someone has to sing a song after the movie.
Therefore, Lu Ban found a very good independent musician to take charge of the project through Song Yunyan's connections.
He went to see this musician today.
The other party's studio is located in the center of Jiangcheng City, only three subway stops away from the old street. It is on the sixth floor of an office building and looks quite artistic.
"Hello, my name is Hammer."
The other person looked only two years older than Lu Ban, with the air of an artistic youth. It seemed as if he could sit down with an acoustic guitar at any time, looking up at the sky at an angle of forty-five meters, with a bright sadness falling from his face.
"I'm Lu Ban."
Lu Ban greeted him and looked around the other party's music studio.
"Your studio is quite nice. There's nothing weird about it."
"Strange things?"
Hammer didn't quite understand, but he didn't ask any more questions.
After all, the other party gave too much.
Otherwise, as a currently popular music producer, he would not take on the task of composing the soundtrack for an online drama that would not be released in theaters.
After a few pleasantries, Hammer got straight to the point.
"I wonder what kind of music you want?"
"Let me think about it."
Lu Ban thought about it.
He actually doesn't understand music. The instrument he's best at is the recorder, which he learned in elementary school, and he can barely play "Ode to Joy" well enough.
So it is a bit difficult for him to talk about the needs.
"We need a really weird, scary piece of music, we need another really scary, weird piece of music, and then we need a piece of music that's not so weird, that's a little warmer."
“…”
Black lines appeared on the hammer head.
If you ask someone who doesn't know much about the subject to describe their needs, they will usually use descriptions like this colorful black, which he has seen a lot.
"How about this, do you have any samples or clips? I can take a closer look and help you think of a plan."
Hammer asked.
Music producers like him have a certain library of songs, most of which are accumulated from daily inspiration.
Generally speaking, if he needs to compose music for a movie or TV series, he would find some inferior songs from the music library, adapt them himself, and then package them and sell them, which can be considered as recycling waste.
For more advanced ones, if the film producers have special requirements, they will ask to watch the corresponding clips to create. Although it is called creation, it is actually just picking songs from their own music library.
If you pay more, you will have to compose music on the spot.
So some people see that when Hammer makes music, it is so easy. It is not inspiration at all, it is just pure accumulation.
For a music producer like him, what he fears most is that the other party has nothing in hand and cannot describe his own ideas, leaving him to rely on his own free will and pick and choose.
"Yes, yes, I cut a sample clip, do you want to see it?"
Lu Ban took out his cell phone.
"Let's go to the cinema."
Hammer waved his hand, looking very happy.
It would be nice to have samples, making music is easy.
He brought Lu Ban to the small screening room in the studio, copied the film to the projector, and clicked play.
At the beginning, there is a small boat floating on the waves. The camera is taken from a bird's-eye view. Hammer thinks that a drone must have been used to create such a lonely and deserted atmosphere.
"The water is quite blue, and the environment is really nice."
Hammer praised.
Then, he followed Lu Ban's sight and saw the huge monster at the bottom of the sea.
The azure blue sea and the pitch-black monster enveloped the small boat like a black hole, creating a suffocating feeling of fear.
This is what deep-sea phobia looks like.
Hammer originally thought that this was just a movie, but when the shadows on the seabed gradually became thicker, he became instinctively nervous.
Puff——
The monster broke through the waves, creating huge waves. It was obviously an extremely thrilling scene, but for some reason, Hammer actually saw some beauty in it.
Just like a giant blue whale rising to the surface to breathe and swimming in the sea, the magnificence of this natural creation is breathtaking.
"Is this a special effect? It would be too dangerous to film it like that..."
Hammer muttered.
Then, the boat was overturned and Lu Ban sank into the water. Through his eyes, Hammer saw the clear scene of the seabed.
The body of the monster was made up of countless huge, wriggling tentacles that extended in all directions as if to pull people into the abyss. The camera zoomed out, revealing Lu Ban's tiny figure suspended in the sea, forming a sharp contrast with the huge monster.
At that moment, the insignificance of human beings and the greatness of nature were fully revealed.
Hammer took a breath.
The ultimate enjoyment of this kind of picture does not require any cost of understanding, just like humans will prostrate themselves when seeing the power of thunder and tremble when witnessing the rush of floods. Just looking at this scene is enough to make people forget to breathe.
Just when Hammer felt that the real and somewhat depressing scene made him breathe hard, he found that he really couldn't breathe.
Just like being in water, the lungs of a drowning person will be filled with water until the air in every alveolus is squeezed out. He will feel as if his whole body is being grabbed by the hand, and no matter how he struggles, he can hardly escape the fate of death.
Drowning is one of the most painful ways to die.
Hammer felt chest tightness and shortness of breath until a beam of light fell from the sky and landed on the huge monster.
Buzz——
Just like a swarm of bees dispersed by flames, the huge monster suddenly split into countless tiny beings, but those beings were burned by the flames, lighting up a brilliant light on the bottom of the sea.
Only then did Hammer take a deep breath and stare at the pale fire that stretched for miles on the seabed. Suddenly, he felt a sense of holiness, solemnity and dignity.
As Lu Ban in the movie was pulled up, Hammer finally came back to his senses. Although there were almost no lines in the first few minutes, the overall picture was extremely excellent and full of tension. He was actually fascinated by it.
"Lu Ban... Teacher Lu Ban, your movie is really interesting."
Hammer recalled the subtle feeling of suffocation, the loneliness as if he was in the sea, and finally the sense of redemption when he saw the pale flame. Now there are very few images that can give him such a rich experience. As a highly inspired music producer, the experience just now alone made Hammer come up with several different melodies.
These melodies crawled into his brain like worms, as if they were meant to be that way.
"Well, it's just so-so."
Lu Ban nodded in agreement, but he was a little confused after seeing the performance of the music producer next to him.
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