Since Duane's distribution plan was adopted, the promotional plan was also changed, and the funds were concentrated. After the specific theaters came down, they would concentrate on the cities where these theaters were located for graphic promotion: bus station advertising columns, floor posters, subway station advertising... This is also the limit of two million publicity funds. DreamWorks wanted to start promotion on TV stations, but unfortunately the sky-high advertising fees of TV stations are not affordable by their mere 2 million publicity funds.

Fortunately, once Duane's distribution plan is done, the scheduled theaters will be concentrated in first-tier cities and slightly larger second-tier cities, and the number of places that need to be advertised is reduced a lot, which also allows the two million funds to be used more effectively.

After the promotion and distribution plan was formulated, everything was ready, and there was only the east wind - just wait for Duan to complete the later stage and submit it to the review and pass.

So Duane also fell into a tense post-production process.

"No, no, I need this picture, you can't cut it."

Duane looked at the computer monitor screen and shook his head repeatedly.

This is a rented film cutting room - DreamWorks has limited funds and has not yet established its own post-production center.

Sitting beside Du An is Kong Jinglei, a female editor from Beijing Film Academy and an editor of "The Pretty Beauty". When he thought of this person's background, Du An felt a little ache in his head: finding a qualified deputy director from Beijing Film Academy, and finding another editor also from Beijing Film Academy, it is not difficult to see how powerful the power of the Central Academy of Drama is in the entertainment industry, but he had violated the authority of these two major colleges before.

Fortunately, economic and social interests are the most important, and the influence of Central Academy of Drama Beidian is great, but in the end it is impossible to conquer life and death like the Shaolin Wudang in ancient times.

Thanks to this omnipotent economic society.

As for the deputy director Ning Hao? Du An would ask him to be an assistant director and just wanted an executive director. Du An did not intend to give him a say in the tone of the film, so Ning Hao's work was over when the scene was completed.

Faced with Du An's words, Kong Jinglei didn't turn her head and just said, "It must be cut here, it's too slow." This woman who has edited many art films, including "Standard", spoke very calmly.

Du An looked full of pain, and deep down he wanted to kick this woman away.

When a movie is filmed, the effective material time is often dozens or even hundreds of times that of the final film. Most of the pictures in these effective materials are loved by the directors, and they will stay. And in front of these directors, the editor ruthlessly deletes the things they like one by one, denying them as a burden. I believe that every director feels uncomfortable when facing this scene.

But Duane did not object again.

He is no longer the time to film "Saw".

At that time, when he was editing the movie, he could say to the editor arrogantly, "I am the director, I have the final say." But the facts made him know that he was wrong - looking back at the completion of "Saw", from Duane's current perspective, it can be said that there are many loopholes, especially the rhythm is not well grasped, which is a bit dull, and many unnecessary shots can be deleted. Although there is the responsibility of the young editor who was not well-known at the time, he has a greater responsibility.

Just like in one sentence: I don’t know the true face of Mount Lu because I am in this mountain.

As the director who shot these scenes, he is too subjective and needs an editor to help him make rational analysis.

So he didn't speak anymore this time, just continued to watch quietly.

Seeing Kong Jinglei move several more cameras out, he finally couldn't help it and said, "It's absolutely impossible to cut it here!"

Kong Jinglei had to explain to the director patiently: "These scenes are too childish and too childish. They don't match the style of the whole film and also damage Qi Wei's mature temperament. If you cut them off, not mentioning this, it will make Qi Wei's mood more level and more charming."

The scenes she wanted to cut were Qi Wei dressed like a lady after shopping, and drove her out of the store before mocking the clerks.

Duane shook his head and said firmly: "This scene is very important, echoing the previous scene, and it does not damage the image of Qi Wei. You are a woman, and sometimes you don't understand that the thing that attracts a woman is not how smart and beautiful she is, but how cute she is. A woman is beautiful because of her cuteness, not because of her beauty."

"Maybe for a woman who has received higher education and mature minds like you, this scene is very childish, but this is exactly what I want. She is not a perfect woman, she is just a woman who has not received higher education and does not know what it means to be generous. Under her perfection, there are such flaws and shortcomings, which can make her more charming and accessible. After all, for a person who is too perfect, we often feel that it is unreal. This scene makes her more real and cute, so you can't cut it."

Kong Jinglei continued to argue with Duane, but Duane's attitude this time was very firm. No matter what she said, she couldn't cut it. She debated from the overall temperament of the film, character creation, and even the audience's education level. In the end, Kong Jinglei was exhausted and had to follow Duane's opinion.

The editing work is to slowly pass through this bargaining process.

After the editing work was finally completed, the final editing version with two hours of ending subtitles was released, Du An and Kong Jinglei said goodbye, and then welcomed his new partner, musician A Kun. The workplace also moved to Nanyang City to rent the best soundtrack studio: four high-end computers, two 88-key midi keyboards, guitar, piano, violin, BASS, drum sets... Corresponding to this, it is naturally a considerable rental fee.

The soundtrack is very important for a movie. A good soundtrack can set off the mood of the movie, enhance the appeal of the movie, show the character, add icing on the cake of the whole movie, and even bring back the dead. The soundtrack is so important that Duane is naturally willing to spend money, so he rented this expensive studio for this reason without blinking.

The musician named Akun has a rich academic qualification. He has taken turns to the University of Electronic Science and Technology, mid-speaking, and Sichuan Yin. He has solid foundations, but lacks practical experience. So far, he has only provided music for two TV series. Duane also checked it out, and those two TV series have not even been broadcast on any TV station!

But that doesn't matter. Du An was attracted by his solid foundation at the beginning.

"I want some exciting music here, the kind that is exciting, but not too exciting. It should be a little cheerful and at the same time relaxed and pleasant. Uh, isn't it a bit contradictory?"

Duane said, pointing to the clip being played, then smiled embarrassedly again, "I don't understand music very much, but you should understand what I mean, right?"

Akun is a young man in his twenties, older than Duan, and with a beard, he looks older. He heard Duan’s request, closed his eyes and thought for a while, then opened his eyes and smiled, saying, “I can understand what you mean. Country rock should meet your requirements, but I have no idea now. It’s better to finish watching this movie first, and you can probably have some idea.”

So the two of them watched the version without soundtrack until they finished watching it. Akun closed his eyes and thought for a long time before he stood up and walked back, picked up a guitar and tuned the notes, then played it a few times, and then played it intermittently. After a while, Duan was a little impatient to watch it, and he finally played a coherent piece of music.

"It feels a little bit."

Duane expressed his opinion after listening silently.

A Kun recorded the sound again, went to the drum set to record a short paragraph, and then the electronic piano... He recorded the sound one by one, then skillfully matched the sound tracks with software, and finally released them.

The music created temporarily by A Kun was not long, and it only looked less than ten seconds, but Du An's eyes lit up immediately after listening to it.

"That's how it feels!"

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