Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 441 There is nothing in the world comparable to it
"Why don't you add classical music to this advertisement? I feel that the images you shot have the beauty of baroque music. Well, I recommend Albinoni's 'Adagio in G Minor', which is very suitable."

David Watkin spent a few more days with his partner in Stockholm, and after touring the city, he stopped by the post studio where Ronald worked, to watch his edits.

"Can you help me find an Adagio in G minor?" Ronald has done most of the film editing, and now adds the soundtrack and narration for the commercial.

Soon, the staff found a copy of Albinoni's "Adagio in G Minor". As soon as Ronald played it, a very sad tune was played from the earphones.

Ronald had a chill. The music made people feel very sad. Maybe it would be better to be the soundtrack of the funeral industry advertisements.David Watkin claims that his appreciation of classical music is the first, and his film shooting skills are second. It seems that people have unrealistic estimates of some aspects of themselves.

"How is it? Doesn't it fit very well?"

"Uh...it's okay, but let's stick to the original plan. Saab hopes this is a very powerful advertisement, and I need a bit of a strong rhythm." Ronald asked the sound engineer to switch back to the original track.

"Dangdangdangdang...dang...dangdang" A burst of strong piano music came, coupled with the slow motion shot with an upscaling lens, Ronald began to carefully adjust the editing of each frame.

This theme song was written by a specially found composer for the advertisement.The melody has a looping and progressive rhythm.And Ronald kept switching between the Saab 900 car and the Saab Thor fighter jet, doing parallel editing, explaining the beauty and strong power of the fighter jet and the car, and trying to keep the picture close to the rhythm of the music.

This is a new approach that Ronald came up with. A one-minute-long advertisement has no time to tell a complete short story. Only by letting the picture dance with the music can the audience's attention be firmly attracted. Next What will happen in one shot is full of expectations.

This method was learned by Ronald when he was filming a music video. Since the MV has lyrics, the singer's mouth shape on the screen must match the lyrics in the audio track.Ronald found that images processed in this way would hold attention for a short period of time.

The two drivers stood at the door of the warehouse with SAAB written on it.

"Dangdangdangdang..."

The door of the warehouse slowly opened to both sides, and then Ronald cut the scene to the front faces of fighter jets and cars, and the light outside the door came in through the gap, polishing the Saab logo.

Another burst of theme melody.

Both the plane and the car roll out of the warehouse in slow motion and begin to turn.

Next, Ronald edited the footage to the runway.Since the audience's imagination can fill in the gaps in the middle of the picture, when the audience sees this montage, they can make up fighter jets and cars by themselves, turn around and drive to the track to compete in the same field.

"From £750 million to about £[-]..."

The narration by a man with a British accent cuts in.

The engine of the fighter turned on the afterburner, flames sprayed out, the air on the surface was heated, and a blur made the fighter gradually disappear.The scene cuts to the front of the car again, and the powerful headlights suddenly turn on, illuminating the eyes of the audience.

The commonality of Saab's two top products - strong power, has left a mark on the hearts of the audience.

"Nothing On Earth Comes Close", the narrator cuts in again just right, and the fighter jet appears from the horizon and takes off by scraping the roof of the Saab car.

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"Oh..." After the sample was cut, the managers of the Swedish Saab company were very excited to see it, and some young people even applauded.In this relatively introverted nation, it is not common to express one's emotions so bluntly.

The last shot of the fighter jet leaping over the car and flying over the camera lens after taking off made the manager of the Saab fighter jet department who came to review the advertisement very happy. He came over and shook Ronald's hand and said excitedly, "Isn't this Swedish beauty very strong?" ?”

In the end, it was even proposed to put this paragraph in the promotional video of Saab's aircraft manufacturing department.

Saab unanimously approved the one-and-a-half-minute cut by Ronald and the two 40-second versions of the ad.Ronald, who heaved a sigh of relief, was sent back to the Stockholm Grand Hotel.

Ronald and Richard enjoyed fine wine and food together.Ronald didn't thank the pickled herring, but ate meatballs and cardamom rolls called "fika".Then there are fresh blueberries and fruit wine made from blueberries.

"Your ticket has been bought, and you will go to London early tomorrow morning. The arrangement there is the same as last time. Our colleagues in the CAA London office will take you to the Pinewood studio." Richard took out the ticket, and the contact information of his colleagues, Pass it to Ronald.

Ronald took over the plane ticket, and tomorrow he will fly to London to visit Helen.

"My colleague, I will apply for a pass tomorrow. After receiving you, you don't need to go through the formalities, and you can go directly to the Pinewood studio."

"Thank you." Ronald said happily.After months of intense filming, Helen doesn't know how she is doing now.

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On the Pinewood studio outside of London, the largest super-studio, today happened to be the Superwoman played by Helen Slater, and her classmate Lucy Lane, played by Maureen Tiffey, was filming a school scene.

The two became friends at school and often went out together.The witch Selina, played by Faye Dunaway, discovered that Linda Lee, a high school student, was the visitor she was looking for from Krypton.

It was only 10 minutes before the scheduled start time, and the movie's top star, Faye Dunaway, hadn't arrived yet.Even if she came now, she would still have to rehearse and move positions, and it would be impossible to start filming within half an hour.

Helen and Maureen Tiffy had no choice but to go back to the dressing room and wait while chatting.

"Dunaway has always been like this recently. She is often late and drags off the morning scenes until the afternoon." Helen gradually fell in love with the role of Superwoman after filming slowly. The unprofessional behavior of the leading supporting role made her a little bored.

Faye Dunaway was not only late, but her concentration also began to slacken. In many scenes, the other party would not respond to the lines she carefully practiced, which made Helen, who had just started acting in movies, afraid that her performance would be affected.

"Leave her alone, just act as if you're acting with this puppet." Maureen Tiffy, Ronald's old acquaintance, who played the heroine in "Fame" back then, got along with Helen Yes, we became friends both on and off the screen.

She is much older than Helen and has a lot of experience. She is the one who comes to explain Helen at this time.

"Faye Dunaway has a big problem. I heard that the director wanted to replace her, but she couldn't find an actress of the same level to take over in a short time, so she was allowed to continue."

"I never thought that an actor with the highest salary in the crew would become so unprofessional." Helen began to complain.

"She doesn't want to either." Maureen Tiffey reminded Helen of this childish thought, "She is now deeply involved in illegal drugs and cannot extricate herself."

"Huh?" Helen's blue eyes widened, "I'm really dull, is she?"

In the classroom interior scene set up in the studio, director Schwak sat on a chair, his eyes focused on infinity, and others seemed to have no focus.

"Go and urge the assistant to pay, and see when she can clean herself up." The director looked at his watch, half an hour had passed, and there was still no news from Dunaway.

In today's scene, the witch played by Dunaway, Selina, will have direct contact with Superwoman for the first time, so there is no way to shoot Helen's scene first.

"Alas..." In Dunaway's room, she was crying bitterly. Her husband Terry O'Neill did not come to the hotel today, and she felt that her whole body was in pain.

"Fei? How do you feel?" The assistant was opening the door and came in, asking her tentatively.

"Terry? Terry, are you here? You're not Terry, where is Terry? Find him!" Faye Dunaway saw that it wasn't her second husband, and rushed forward with a hoarse voice. , grabbed the assistant's clothes and began to beg.

"Ah..." The assistant was startled, quickly jumped out of Dunnawei's scratching, and ran away without looking back.

Hearing the whispers of Dunaway's assistant in the studio, director Schwak reluctantly announced that today's shooting would be cancelled.

"Hey, it's canceled again. I think if this continues, the director may delete the part of the witch scene." Maureen Tiffey heard the news in the lounge, and lamented that the filming would probably be overdue, and she was trapped in London , I don't know if the agent can find more invitations for himself.

"Hmm..." Helen couldn't figure it out. Faye Dunaway received the highest salary of all the actors in the crew. After such unprofessional behavior spreads out, he will have a bad reputation in the future, and the possibility of taking the role well less.

The two friends took advantage of the filming break to go shopping in town and then have a meal.Anyway, the image of a superwoman requires muscle and body without dieting.This period of time can be said to be the period of time when Helen has the healthiest weight since she attended the performing arts college and prepared to become an actress.

Helen, who was about to go back to the hotel to change, suddenly found a familiar figure in the studio.

"Ronnie? Why are you here? I thought you were working on that movie script in Los Angeles?" Overjoyed, Helen, wearing a green jacket and gray skirt school uniform, rushed up happily.

Ronald lifted Helen into his arms, "I miss you, there is nothing in the world comparable to you."

(End of this chapter)