Chapter 10: Small trial meeting (thanks to the life of the dead)

After watching the material of the film, Chris Paul kept his head down and said nothing. It is a low-budget film, very shoddy.

As usual, he edited it directly into a video tape, and didn't even think about entering the theater.

The theater edited version and the videotape edited version have different emphases and need to be edited separately.

"How do you want to cut this video!"

Chris Paul rubbed his temples and finally felt better. After more than 200 minutes, even he felt a little dizzy.

"The content should be as concise as possible, and all unnecessary dialogue should be cut out, so that the film looks like a pure interview, rather than a specially shot film."

"Also pay attention to the camera shake, don't shake too much, and bring out some horror and mystery."

"Of course, this is not a real horror movie, nor can it be cut into a real horror movie. It just needs to create enough horror and mystery. The whole movie should not be too long, preferably not more than 100 minutes."

Ryan is very helpless about the shake of the camera. Leaving aside the problem of the hand-held camera, if you want to make the film more like a real story, then you need a certain amount of shake, which cannot be seen at a glance. Photographed on purpose.

But if the camera shakes too much, it will make people feel dizzy, and they have to fall into a kind of contradiction.

"You mean to make it look like a horror movie, but not a horror movie!" Chris Paul asked half understanding.

He didn't understand what Ryan meant, and the video cut out in this way was a bit too weird.

"No, no, that's not what I meant."

Ryan paused, seeming to organize his words, and said: "I mean the first impression of the film is that it is a real documentary, not a movie, just like the protagonist in the film. It’s as if I photographed it myself.”

In the face of an editor, it is difficult to keep true confidentiality, and only some information can be revealed.

Anyway, when the movie is released, he will understand it immediately.

As for the secrecy, Ryan is really not too worried. As a professional editor, he has his own rules in Hollywood, and he will never talk nonsense to the media without the consent of the crew.

Unless he wants to bear high legal fees and leave Hollywood completely,

In Hollywood, no matter whether it is a big crew or an independent film, such a person will not be liked, just like Ryan some time ago.

"You mean to make the audience think that this is a real event, not a filmed movie!"

Chris Paul couldn't believe it. Looking at Ryan, he never thought that the young and outrageous director in front of him would come up with such an idea again.

He who has been in Hollywood for many years, how can he not understand the meaning of it, he just wants to make a fuss about publicity to lure the public into the theater.

Many Hollywood film companies have done things like this, but the person in front of him obviously has no lower limit.

When the film is released, he will lower the already low limit of the entire Hollywood film company and distribution company down by a large amount.

"It's a great plan, but this film was obviously shot, and it's a bit difficult to achieve the desired effect."

"I need a professional editing room, a qualified assistant, and at least a week."

There was a hint of excitement in Chris Paul's eyes. Such a film would definitely cause a huge sensation when it was released!

It is not a good opportunity for him, and he may even get rid of his current life and return to the mainstream Hollywood crew.

A professional editing room, with an assistant!

Ryan only hesitated for a moment before agreeing, saying, "No problem."

Of course, he will not hire an assistant again, he can only serve as a part-time assistant.

Also, as Chris Paul said, the public is not stupid, the media is not stupid, and film critics are not stupid. It is difficult to achieve the desired effect.

So the next publicity is the key, so that people can feel first that it is a true story.

This kind of publicity has only one chance, and it will be difficult to succeed next time. The best way is not to do similar publicity in the past few years.

What's more, as the public is being fooled more and more times, it will only backfire.

On the same day, Helen contacted a professional editing room, which was a professional editing room under Lucasfilm.

It can be seen that the relationship between Helen's parents and George Lucas is far closer than Ryan imagined.

A full week passed, Ryan and Chris Paul walked out of the editing room with tired faces.

At the same time, the first thing he did when he came out was to contact Helen and ask her to notify the distribution company to hold a small preview session.

In the early morning of the next day, Helen and Ryan went to Lucasfilm to meet George Lucas with the samples and publicity plans. After a few words of greeting, they went upstairs to a small screening room. room.

During this period, Ryan hardly said a word, it was all Helen's entertainment.

To put it bluntly, it was just a tryout meeting for favors, nothing more than for the sake of George Lucas, 20th Century Fox publishers had to come and walk.

There are trial sessions like this in Hollywood almost every day.

It's just that, with George Lucas here this time, even if the 20th Century Fox publishers had some thoughts in their hearts, they didn't dare to reveal them.

The executives of Twentieth Century Fox have been in contact with George Lucas, hoping that he can restart the "Star Wars" series, and the investment and distribution channels will all be resolved by Twentieth Century Fox.

Right now they naturally dare not offend George Lucas.

After a while, seven or eight selection staff from 20th Century Fox gradually walked in.

Although there were no senior figures from 20th Century Fox in the screening room, Ryan was not disappointed at all, but rather nervous.

Even the selection staff of 20th Century Fox is not a small person to Ryan, and it is difficult to meet them on weekdays.

Besides, this film does not have Lucasfilm's investment, and the scene in front of it is already for Helen's sake.

It is conceivable that without Helen as an agent, Ryan could only run around copying distribution companies one by one, or look for professional buyers.

Several 20th Century Fox film selection personnel did not intend to talk to the two at all, or they were not interested in the film that was about to be screened.

An unknown newcomer, with a pitiful investment, on weekdays, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com They will never come.

And the young rookie director seemed to have written a promotional plan, which made people laugh.

If it weren't for George Lucas' face, they would come here in person unless they were crazy.

However, Twentieth Century Fox's distribution arm wanted to distribute the film, even if it was a worthless piece of crap.

From the perspective of the company's top management, maintaining friendship with George Lucas and the distribution rights of "Star Wars" in the future are only good for 20th Century Fox.

As the distribution department of Twentieth Century Fox, they have always wanted to restart the filming plan of the "Star Wars" series, so as to increase the company's performance.

However, the key to restarting the "Star Wars" series is not 20th Century Fox, but George Lucas and his Industrial Light and Magic.

As the film gradually began to be screened, most of the film selection staff focused on how to get closer to George Lucas, so as to persuade him to restart the "Star Wars" series of films.

A film shot with a hand-held camera made them have no desire to watch it. They made up their minds to arrange a few theaters to screen it at that time. tens of thousands of dollars.

Almost no one cares about Ryan's publicity plan.

Including the 20th Century Fox executives who did not come, it seemed that they all had the same idea and took the opportunity to make friends with George Lucas.

As for the video playing in front of you, it is dispensable.

However, there are also one or two professional film selection personnel who stare at the screen intently, and occasionally look down at the promotion plan in their hands, their faces changing.