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Murphy shot a thousand minutes of material. Although the filming followed the process of the story's development, editing these into films of about ninety minutes still requires a huge amount of work.

The entire post-editing work was mainly completed by Murphy and editor Griffith, with intern Paul Wilson and two assistants of Griffith acting as assistants.

The specific editing was handled by Griffith, and Murphy was mainly responsible for reviewing and explaining the requirements for the film.

Any editing will have a main line. Murphy's main line is very simple. Hayley finds Jeff's sin hidden in the room, and then gives corresponding punishments, finds and punishes again, until the final castration and hanging.

In fact, the reason for this is very simple. In the film modified by Murphy, the heroine Haley is even more ruthless, which is also to increase the appeal with large-scale pictures. However, there are problems that arise, and the viewer may be disgusted with the heroine, which is not what the director, as he, wants to see.

I'm disgusted with the protagonist, is the film still attractive?

Therefore, Murphy increases the evil degree of the male protagonist Jeff. Whenever Haley tortures, she can always find new sins, which makes people feel disgusted with him deeper, so that Haley's actions naturally become very satisfying.

But this method cannot be used too much. Murphy prepared three main stages, one for binding and spraying pepper water, one for castration, and one for hanging.

Of course, corresponding linguistic and psychological destruction is also essential.

Post-production is not just editing, but Murphy is doing this first. He and Griffith repeatedly watched the black and white opening shots shot from all angles, and finally decided to use the obliquely shot No. 7 as the opening scene of the entire film.

The effect of this shot is quite brutal, and the different performances of Emily and Jeff, the perpetrator, are all displayed in all aspects.

The opening scene is only a few minutes, and it is a complete long shot. After Murphy and Griffith discussed it, they do not intend to re-edit and use it directly first.

The editing work was not fast, even if it was just rough cuts now, Murphy had just confirmed a shot in nearly a morning.

He is very cautious and more attentive than when shooting. Editing can directly determine the success or failure of a film.

Nowadays, montage is a completely cinematic term. In fact, montage is to connect different shots and scenes through screen editing and synthesis to create a unique film time and space to guide the audience's emotions and psychology.

The most typical function of montage is to speed up the pace of the film, which is also the biggest application in a narrative simple film like "Hard Fruit Candy".

Later, Griffith edited the first meeting between Hayley and Jeff was to use montage to speed up the pace. The meeting between two strangers would inevitably be long-winded. The length of the video determines that it must be concise and clear. Through editing, the picture will continue to change between Hayley and Jeff. These scenes can be completed in just a few minutes.

Griffith stood in front of the workbench and worked attentively. In front of him was an old-fashioned screen with a piece of chalk in front of the screen. This is a common method for some editing masters. They would find something to scale with the screen - such as putting a cigarette or chalk in front of the screen - through reference to the things, we can judge what it feels like when the big screen is. This is the process of rough cutting.

However, every time after cutting a clip, Griffith would actually take a look at it with a big screen.

After completing this part of the rough cut, Griffith handed it to his assistant and put the clips on the twenty-seven-inch screen to play.

In the screen, there are only Haley and Jeff, and the camera always rotates around the two.

"Jody!" Murphy walked to Griffith, pointed to the two on the screen, and said, "Can we add some separate shots of two people so that the picture can frequently change between the gray and red they represent?"

Griffith immediately understood what Murphy meant and patted his palm gently, "Good idea."

He asked his assistant to pause the playback and prepare to re-edit.

Paul Wilson on the other side has been paying attention to this. He is a professional but lacks experience. He can't figure out what Murphy and Griffith mean, so he can't help but walk behind Murphy.

Paul Wilson is willing to be an intern without pay in order to study, and he will naturally ask questions when he encounters someone he doesn't understand.

"Director," he asked softly, "I..."

Murphy turned to look at him, and Paul Wilson touched his head embarrassedly, and the second half of the words were not spoken.

"Jody and I mean to try to compare and compare images between Hayley and Jeff." Murphy liked this diligent and free labor and said in a low voice. "Imagine the picture constantly changing between Jeff's gray and Hayley's red. These two completely different colors. By editing them, we can not only introduce what they may represent, but also compare the two to establish possible conflicts."

Paul Wilson immediately thought of the hidden line in the film - Little Red Riding Hood's counterattack on the Big Bad Wolf, and suddenly realized it.

When he saw the re-edited scene played on the screen, he couldn't help but nod and said admiringly, "Director, your idea is really amazing."

Murphy just smiled.

He could think of many things, but in practice, he was far inferior to veterans like Jody Griffith.

Jody Griffith seemed unsatisfied and continued to improve the editing. Murphy called Paul Wilson to his workbench and asked him to help him edit another clip.

Compared to those just now, this clip is much simpler. Murphy had carefully considered the effect that needs to be presented in the end during the shooting.

This is a clip of Hailey's online chat with Jeff.

Murphy did not let the actors appear in the camera during the shooting. Naturally, there was only the computer screen during the editing. The edited shots were all close-ups at the beginning, and then they were edited from top to bottom according to the chat content, so that the chat content was presented in the picture.

"The camera moving from top to bottom can also force people to browse the content quickly, giving people a sense of tension from the beginning, and also confirming the tense and fast-paced tone of the film."

While completing the work at hand, Murphy also gave some explanations to Paul Wilson, who was curiously asked questions, but in the following edit, he no longer used close-up shots and replaced them with pan shots. "The pan shots can gradually narrow the depth of field range, from a few words at the beginning to one sentence to one or two words, making the film feel oppressive and curious, making people eager to know what is going to happen later."

Although his level is not high, Paul Wilson, the rookie, still nodded convincingly.
Chapter completed!