Chapter 210: Small soup dumpling

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"How's it going?" Ryan walked into the newly established editing room of Orion Films and asked Chris Paul, who was busy.

As Orion Pictures gradually gets on the right track, it is impossible to release only a few films a year, and more or less low-budget films will be released.

Almost all of these low-cost films come from film festivals, such as the Sundance Film Festival in the United States, the New York Film Festival, and the San Francisco Film Festival.

There are also some European film festivals, such as the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, and Venice Film Festival, which buy out the North American copyrights of some films at low prices.

Films bought from these film festivals hardly enter cinemas, and are usually directly released offline videotapes and discs.

Adding all these things together, they can at least bring hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even millions of dollars in revenue to Orion Pictures every year.

A film bought for thousands of dollars, at most ten or twenty thousand dollars, can often be sold for a good price after being edited by Orion Films, and it can also enrich the company's film copyright library.

This is the main performance guarantee for most second- and third-tier distribution companies in Hollywood. Only a few leaders of second-tier distribution companies dare to try such large-scale commercial films as investing in "Terminator 3".

As a result, Orion Pictures needed to have an editing room of its own.

Chris Paul became an editor of Orion Films, not only increased his income a lot, but also returned to the ranks of Hollywood commercial film editors again.

Chris Paul continued to work on the work at hand, and said without turning his head: "Basically, it is over, and it was re-edited according to your requirements, and the rest only needs to be checked a few times from beginning to end."

No editor can guarantee that there will be no goofy scenes in the film he edits.

The best way is to find a few more people, watch it repeatedly, and try to find out the goofy shots.

"Show it first." Ryan wanted to watch it himself first.

To be honest, Knight-Shyamalan's shooting standards are obviously worse than those in his previous life.

No matter in terms of experience, character dialogue, and plot handling, they are all a little worse than the original version of "The Sixth Sense" in the previous life.

Of course, there is no way to do this. Compared with Nate Shyamalan in his previous life, he lacks the experience accumulated over time and can only make up for it in editing.

When Chris Paul edited for the first time, he only used the shots shot behind the crew. Ryan watched the sample and was basically satisfied, but felt that something was missing.

So I asked someone to bring over the original footage shot by the crew and edit it again.

Many shots that are useless in the eyes of novice directors can turn into different effects in the hands of experienced editors.

The simplest example, "Apocalypse Now" is a work directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

The film editor Walter Murch edited a classic film out of a bunch of messy shots, which fully demonstrated the level of master editing.

Now "Apocalypse Now" has become a master editing template.

Frank Marshall himself carried the edited samples, went to the front of the projector, and started showing the film.

At this time, there was an extra person in the editing room, to be precise, it should be an underage girl, Scarlett Johansson.

Her parents have been at odds recently, almost to the point of divorce, her father stays at home all day drinking, and this is her father's second marriage.

So for a while, Scarlett Johansson will stay in Los Angeles, even if she has no plans to return to New York during the holidays.

Ryan ignored the curious Scarlett Johansson, staring at the screen intently, every scene needs to be watched carefully.

About halfway through the film, Ryan suddenly stopped, "Go back a few seconds, right here."

"Nicole Kidman's outfit has changed from the last scene."

"Just now she should have been wearing a pair of diamond earrings, but now the diamonds on them have turned into pearls."

Nate Shyamalan looked at it carefully several times, and his face became a little embarrassed.

At the time of filming, he, the director, didn't pay attention to these details at all. If Ryan hadn't suddenly called a stop and pointed out the leaks, he might not have discovered it until now.

In fact, he can’t be blamed, mainly because Nicole Kidman’s blond hair is too long, it can easily cover the earrings, and most people can’t find it without looking carefully.

"Any other lens changes?" Ryan asked, turning to Chris Paul.

The best way is to change to another lens, as long as the earrings are not exposed.

As for reshoots!

Let’s not talk about whether Nicole Kidman has time, right now this is Los Angeles, not New Zealand, it’s impossible to build it in a studio according to the scene in the film, let alone bring the whole crew, Return to New Zealand for reshoots.

"I need to check."

Chris Paul began to flip through and record, and said: "There are a few shots, you can choose from them."

There are very few shots that pass through at once, and those shots that shout to stop are also editing materials.

Ryan nodded and continued watching the sample without saying anything.

For Chris Paul, this little matter can be easily resolved.

The film of "The Sixth Sense" is not very long, even if it is a rough cut sample, it is only about 120 minutes.

Soon the screening of the whole film ended, and Ryan was very satisfied with Chris Paul's editing level.

It is obviously much better than the last time, and overall speaking, the effect of the film is no worse than that of the original "The Sixth Sense".

Even, the handling of some subtle plots is better than the original version.

What satisfies him the most is that Scarlett Johansson's performance in the film is very good, which makes people's eyes shine.

No wonder, Nate Shyamalan exclaimed, our little Scarlett Johansson, as if overnight, she suddenly grew up.

"Our little soup dumplings are doing well." Ryan reached out and rubbed Scarlett Johansson's hair.

"Ryan!"

Scarlett Johansson pushed Ryan's hand away like a lion cub with its hair blown up, and stared at him fiercely, "Don't call me Xiaotangbao, or I will tell everyone that you are talking to someone else again. woman fucks."

"It's up to you." Ryan looked at her with a smile, "Anyway, I like the name Xiaotangbao, which makes me feel kind."

The crew just came back from New Zealand a few days ago. Sophia took Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman to Chinatown to experience what the Chinese New Year is like, and had a Chinese meal by the way.

When Scarlett-Johnson was eating a kind of soup dumpling, she was too impatient to eat it, so the soup inside was scalded hard.

Since then, Natalie Portman has ridiculed it as a small soup dumpling.

(It is said that she got this name "soup dumpling" because she was accidentally scalded while eating soup dumplings in a city on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.)

"Chris, cut it again, and then ask someone to make a soundtrack for the film." Ryan did not continue to choose Skywalker sound effects this time, but chose a more professional soundtrack company.

Chris Paul nodded, "Actually, Orion can buy a small music studio, which can save money and be more convenient."

"Many of the films that have been edited twice have terrible soundtracks, and it's not cost-effective to find someone to remake the soundtrack~www.wuxiaspot.com~Chris-Paul couldn't help complaining, "I don't know how those people chose soundtrack. "

The seven major Hollywood film companies all have their own music studios, including original music production, sound effect production, audio editing, ADR recording, and a series of sound productions.

Even many second-tier film companies are no exception, and the sound effects of Skywalker belong to Lucasfilm.

"Good suggestion." Ryan nodded, accepting the suggestion.

It can improve the production capabilities of Orion Films, and it doesn't cost much.

"Then it's up to you."

Ryan turned around and reached out to rub Scarlett Johansson's hair again. Under her angry eyes, he said, "How about going fishing in the afternoon!"

"Natalie needs to train with the acting teacher in the afternoon." He added a special sentence.

Natalie Portman has almost been confirmed, and she will star in "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" and will be an important role in the film.

For this reason, Helen hired an acting teacher specially for her, to familiarize herself with the script for a period of time and experience the characters.

As for Charlize Theron!

After Helen read the script, she directly gave up on this plan. There was no character suitable for Charlize-Theron at all.

Scarlett Johansson's eyes lit up, "I'm going to catch a few more fish and let that damned guy see what I got."

Ryan rolled his eyes, knowing that this would be the case. The relationship between Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman, instead of improving over time, became worse.

The only consolation is that the two of them have never really fought at least, at most they have verbally attacked and ridiculed each other, plus countless pranks.