hollywood draw

Seeing Naomi's back disappearing from the corner of the street, he returned to the second-story building in a happy mood and re-entered the heavy post-work.

Since Luke started working later, he almost never offered his opinions without asking him. Every time Wayne took the initiative to find him and discussed with him. Most of the time, Luke always sat silently in the corner of the room, watching him and Julia's hard work.

He always remembers that the biggest purpose of his participation in this film is to deeply learn the production process of a feature film. So he always watches silently and records it hard.

Wayne and the crew members, including various actors, are limited to work scope. Luke is different. He is almost the butler of the crew. He participates in or helps in coordination with everything, so Luke has a good relationship with everyone.

In the eyes of all crew members, Wayne is a miser, Grandet, synonymous with Jewish capitalist. No matter what the crew does, his first requirement is to save money and quality.

But in Luke's eyes, Wayne is definitely a person who knows how to make plans and work strictly according to plans. This is by no means something that a miser can describe. Just like this film, he strictly implements all plans he has set and ensures that all shots are shot to the maximum extent.

Luke knew that the importance of the plan to a director was that Wayne demonstrated it completely, and the result was self-evident. These alone were much more useful than what he learned from so many crews he had run after graduation.

While Luke was thinking about it, the door of the editing room was gently pushed open. The manager here, Jennings, looked at Julia and Wayne who were working for a while, walked to Luke and sat down.

"Hi Luke. I heard this is the first movie you made? The work progress is very good, congratulations."

Luke closed his workbook, looked at Jennings with a smile, and said:

"Thank you, yes, to be precise, this is the first feature film directed by Wayne. He did a great job. From the very beginning of getting the script, I really didn't expect that he could do this. The teacher is right, Wayne is indeed talented in some aspects."

Jennings seemed particularly interested in Wayne, stared at his back and asked Luke softly:

"Your instructor thinks he has great potential? Can you talk about him? Why do your instructor think he is talented?"

"Mr. Jennings, you seem to be particularly interested in him. You have come in and watched it silently several times these days."

Luke did not answer his question, but instead expressed his own questions.

"He is a director, Luke. Director can be said to be the dominant job of the entire film industry. Yes, every year there are countless film practitioners, and almost few people who want to become directors have success. But a friend of mine thinks he has hope and potential."

"Your friend? Sorry, can you ask who it is?"

"Steve Wilson, the lighting maker of your crew. We are old classmates and he has a high opinion of Wayne. Steve shouldn't have gone to your small crew because of some accidents, and he couldn't find another job."

Luke suddenly remembered that Wayne had a very high opinion of Steve, and even believed that Steve's professional ability was far beyond everyone in the crew.

Jennings chatted with Luke casually, without any hiding these things. They did not have a strong conflict, but his own curiosity.

"Luke, Steve's first sentence for comments about Wayne is: 'This is a very smart person, with a clear understanding of himself'. In Steve's eyes, Wayne chose the path with the lowest failure rate of novice directors."

Luke listened to him, yes, Wayne is a person with an absolutely clear understanding of himself, and he has been avoiding what he is not good at.

"Mr. Jennings, yes, I think he will succeed even if the film is not successful. The director is a high-risk and high-pressure job. Shooting a film itself is a high-pressure job. If the filming is frequent, it will be enough to drive ordinary people crazy.

So the directors we remember are all furious. But Wayne never got angry at all the shots of this film. He can always adjust his state to drive everyone."

Jennings smiled and listened to Luke's unswerving compliments, and said his praise to his director. Looking at Wayne who was working hard with Julia in front of him, he walked out silently and gently closed the door.

Perhaps Luke saw one side of Wayne's ability to work on the crew, and Jennings was interested in the other side that Steve told him. The movie scripts mentioned by friends can only be considered neat and smooth at best, and there are many old-fashioned ways to learn.

But as the shooting progressed, old friends gradually began to discover that the unsatisfactory scripts were full of elements that attracted the audience. To successfully attract the audience's attention with low-cost independent films like this, it is nothing more than a beautiful woman, plasma and self-salvation with extremely low cost, which are sufficiently expressed during the shooting.

So these days, he has always observed Wayne silently and became interested in this Jewish director. His script was old-fashioned and his creativity was not outstanding, but he was full of gimmicks that attracted young people. However, these gimmicks were wrapped in a light black personal style, and he was indeed a smart person.

"Luke, come and see the effect together."

Wayne called Luke to the front, and the three of them watched the finished film together. The film still looks very rough now, but it already has a bit of a full-blown feeling.

Until they were about to get off work, they finished watching the effect of the rough cutting. The length of the film exceeded 200 minutes. Wayne's plan was to start the second editing as soon as possible tomorrow and start the fine cutting immediately.

In the end, the entire duration will be compressed to about ninety minutes, which will definitely speed up the pace of the film and remove some unnecessary shots. After finishing the fine cutting, you must also make the film's soundtrack as soon as possible. Wayne means to make some suitable soundtracks. He has no money to hire someone to make a special soundtrack.

"Wayne, we have to speed up the pace of the film. This is not a literary film. This slow narrative rhythm is absolutely not possible."

After Luke finished reading it, he rarely took the initiative to give Wayne his work suggestions.

"Of course, I'm going to use a lot of montages."

He and Luke agree that he must speed up the film festival to attract audiences. Montage can now be considered a completely cinematic word. To put it bluntly, montage is to create a unique film time and space through the editing of the picture and the synthesis of different shots and the combination of different scenes to create a unique film time and space to guide the viewer's emotions and psychology.

The typical function of montage is to speed up the pace of the film, which is also the biggest function of Wayne in a simple narrative film like "Happy Day".

He told Julia about her request in advance and asked her to prepare, and the three of them finished their work together.

Time slowly came before Christmas, and Wayne, Luke and Julia completed the editing soundtrack of the film. The work went smoothly, Wayne still had more than 100,000 dollars left in his hand. The production was completed. The whole film was often 96 minutes, and the total cost of the whole film was 1.04 million dollars.

As the work was completed, he thanked Julia, a middle-aged aunt editor, who used her superb and dedicated work standards to make Wayne's later work harder. In order to thank her for her efforts and celebrate the end of the work, Wayne decided to go out for a meal together to celebrate.

He ordered an ordinary French restaurant, located in the suburbs of Burbank, not far from the studio. The three of them sat together, happily picked up the champagne and touched it, and smiled and celebrated the smooth completion of the work.

"Wayne, you said you were going to the St. Dennis Film Festival?"

Julia cut the beef and chatted with him casually.

"Of course, it's up to my teacher to get the invitation letter to the film festival. I hope to seize the opportunity to see if I can find a distribution company."

He hasn't considered that much now, and just wants to use the film festival platform to try hard to display his films. This is a low-cost and rare opportunity to promote.

The biggest advantage of participating in this film festival is that it saves Wayne's time and effort, so he doesn't have to go to distribution companies to sell his own videos one by one.

A group of people who will appear in any film festival are movie buyers and film watchers from major film companies. He hopes that they can be attracted to his film at the film festival, and he has confidence in his film.

Julia took a sip of champagne and tried to swallow the beef in her mouth, saying:

"We all watched this film today. To be honest, I was very surprised by the production completion. It is very rare for a novice director to do this. In my opinion, there will definitely be companies interested in your film. Believe in my opinion, Wayne!"

Of course he believed that after watching the movie today, not only Julia and the others were optimistic about it, but even Jennings was usually silent, he praised Wayne very rarely. Not to mention him, he had strong confidence in what he had filmed.

"Thank you! Luke, do you remember what we said? This movie will definitely appear in the theater. We will definitely appear in the producer column and be seen by all viewers."

Luke was stunned for a moment, yes, now it's only time to find a distribution company to send this film to the theater. This is also the most difficult step. If a company is willing to release it, his name will really appear in a theater movie.

"Wayne, don't forget that there is another important task.mpaa. This film is probably grading with pg13, but if we send it ourselves, the large-scale bloody shots you retain will be highly likely to be assigned to R-level. In that case, the value of the film will be drastically reduced, and you have to consider it, after all, we have no background."

Luke expressed the issue of grading the film with concern. He knew that Luke was completely wrong. There are great differences in the audience between PG13 and R-levels, and the value of the film will also be very different.