Chapter 446 My wife! How can I show it to so many people?
Lin Fan didn't know that he was being remembered by his future father-in-law and mother-in-law. Now Lin Fan is very busy because the project filing of "Legend of White Snake" has been completed, and now he has to start the preliminary preparations!
The preparatory work in the early stage is actually similar to the process of a film project. Lin Fan still provides the script, costume design, location shooting requirements and other content, and then lets the "Legend of White Snake" crew formed by all investment parties be responsible for the preparatory work in the early stage.
I will wait until the key points such as casting, location scouting, and formal shooting before joining the crew. Moreover, the producer of "Legend of White Snake" this time is Hu Yuhua herself, who is a gold medal producer in the industry. In this field, her professional level is much better than Yang Hongxia.
Lin Fan could trust Yang Hongxia, so he would naturally trust Hu Yuhua even more.
Therefore, Lin Fan didn't care how long the preparatory meeting for the "Legend of White Snake" project was going on. He plunged into the editing room and worked with Liang Wen and the post-production team to make a rough cut of "A Chinese Ghost Story".
Lin Fan, who participated in film editing for the first time, once again clearly and intuitively realized that although film editing and variety show editing have similar names, there is actually a huge gap between them. They are simply not products of the same type!
If Lin Fan didn't know what the finished film would look like, the editing process would have confused him to the point of doubting his life.
But it doesn't matter, Lin Fan has the help of an external person, and Liang Wen is an expert, so the editing process of the whole film went smoothly. It's just that sometimes Lin Fan and Liang Wen would argue because of their different opinions, such as:
“Why was this scene cut?”
Liang Wen expressed his confusion: "This scene is so good, it can reflect the relationship between the scholar and the female ghost, and it has further development. It is an indispensable main plot. Why did it have to be cut? And it was filmed so beautifully!"
In this regard, Lin Fan said: "The warming of the relationship between the scholar and the female ghost has been explained, and there is another sublimation later. It is completely unnecessary to add this plot here!"
"Why is it not necessary? They met, got to know each other, fell in love, and finally separated. Only then is the whole relationship complete!"
“It’s also complete without this part!”
Lin Fan insisted on his own opinion, because this part did not exist in the original version. This plot was improvised freely by Lin Fan and Xia Yan on a whim during the filming after they finished their assigned roles, and it was not included in the filming plan at all.
Of course, because this shot was indeed very well shot, Lin Fan kept it at the time. After all, he was free to improvise according to the plot, and it did not affect the normal filming, and it still needed to be edited in the end.
I just didn’t expect that Liang Wen would be so insistent on keeping this shot.
Lin Fan didn't know how to tell Liang Wen that these scenes were not included in the original version of "A Chinese Ghost Story".
Liang Wen couldn't convince Lin Fan, and Lin Fan couldn't convince Liang Wen either. In this situation, Lin Fan's opinion was usually the main one, but Liang Wen still wanted to fight for it.
"I know that you must have a finished version of A Chinese Ghost Story in your mind."
Lin Fan almost jumped up in fright at Liang Wen's words, and thought Liang Wen had discovered his secret. Fortunately, Liang Wen did not notice Lin Fan's abnormality.
“But the movie you imagine and the movie that is finally shot are always different. You have to allow it to have more possibilities and not just confine it to your own imagination. This is not fair to a movie.”
Lin Fan: ...You almost scared me to death! Can you please stop panting when you talk?
But what Liang Wen said made sense.
It is impossible for Lin Fan to copy that movie completely. Even if he tried hard to restore it, apart from the original actors who could not be restored, there are also various differences between the two worlds, such as location, shooting angle, actors' movements, etc., which are all objective existences.
Since it is destined not to copy everything, then what's wrong with allowing one or two more shots? Lin Fan was silent for a few minutes, and finally nodded: "You make a lot of sense."
Liang Wen just smiled triumphantly when Lin Fan said, "But this scene must be cut!"
"Why?" Liang Wen was confused. Didn't I convince you? Why did you still cut it off in the end? What did I convince you of? Loneliness?
Lin Fan looked at Xia Yan's smooth and delicate back in the camera with a sad look on his face: "Too revealing!"
My wife! How can you show it to so many people? Absolutely not!
This kind of shot can only be edited out, and I will take it home and enjoy it slowly! Liang Wen was speechless.
But putting these disputes aside, the entire editing work went very smoothly. During the editing process, the soundtrack and subtitles would be inserted in the later stage, which saved a lot of time when making the special effects at the end.
But even without special effects, the two felt very satisfied looking at the rough cuts!
Especially Lin Fan, who felt that he had captured the charm of the classic movie in his mind! Liang Wen was even more excited: "I didn't expect the effect to be so good! This can be used directly as a promotional video! Just releasing this shot can at least save a lot of publicity costs for publicity!"
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Lin Fan looked at the close-up of Xia Yan's face in the clip, which showed her lustful eyes and hesitant expression, and he deeply agreed with Liang Wen's words. At the same time, a sense of pride surged in his heart: That's right, don't you see whose wife she is!
However, the next second, Liang Wen suppressed Lin Fan's pride with one sentence: "Based on this progress, it shouldn't take three months. I think the film can be edited in about a month!"
Lin Fan's mouth twitched, and he felt powerless about the long film editing cycle.
Lin Fan, who was shooting a movie for the first time, also knew for the first time that the editing cycle of a movie was so long! In the past, he only knew that the special effects cycle was long, but he didn't expect that editing would also take a long time.
Forget it, being able to shoot the entire movie as planned is already pretty good, and there is no need to rush the editing. Lin Fan said that the most he could do is to squeeze the editors and ask them to finish the work within a month, which is not too much.
Lin Fan patted Liang Wen on the shoulder and handed the editing task to Liang Wen. He still needed to rush to the next scene - to preliminarily confirm the cast of "Legend of White Snake" with Shanghai Film Studio.
Of course, the process of being invited for auditions still needs to be followed, but some roles can be decided internally in advance and then the artists can be invited individually.
Lin Fan, who holds a veto power, must attend.
This also forced Lin Fan to face a decision, that is, whether he should play the role of Xu Xian or not? (End of this chapter)