Reborn Japan for entertainment

Chapter 632 Movie Theme Song

Although NHK has intentionally replaced the red and white hosts, it has been regarded as an open secret.

However, after all, this is a matter of great impact, and it is impossible to settle the dust immediately.

Besides, even if THE SUN can follow the example of Johnny's Lan in the previous life and compete for the red and white hosts as a group, it doesn't mean that NHK must choose the three of them.

Even though, they have already become the number one band in Asia. . .

If THE SUN wants to win this important host, it not only needs invisible soft power such as popularity, popularity, influence, etc., but more importantly, it needs to conduct public relations with various figures from all walks of life!

And PR, takes time.

Public relations, simply put, is the exchange of interests.

In the entertainment industry, everything that is right and wrong is nothing more than the word "interest", which can be summed up.

Whether it is the protagonist of a movie or TV series, the winner of an award, or the spokesperson of an advertisement, as long as you pay a certain price, you can basically win it.

The same is true for the host of the Red and White Song Club.

If THE SUN wants to become the host of Red and White, it depends on how much Sony Music behind THE SUN can pay for public relations.

Just like the Oscars in Hollywood, there are countless examples of major film companies finally getting the statuette through the power of public relations before the awards.

The most famous public relations experts in Hollywood, the two Weinstein brothers, can be said to be good at it.

In order to promote "The Silver Lining Behind the Dark Clouds", Weinstein Films even directly hired the deputy manager of Ao Guanhai's campaign team to help.

The annual public relations expenses of the eight major Hollywood companies are enough to make a blockbuster movie that burns money. . .

One can imagine the importance of public relations.

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's top priority is not how to public relations, but to complete the post-production of "Those Years" as soon as possible, and put his debut film on the big screen.

After all, he is not a wage earner, and it is OK to send his subordinates to do public relations matters.

As for the post-production of the film, it cannot be done by someone else.

Therefore, after letting Hikari Kitahara focus on NHK's next move, Kiyoshi Sakamoto hastily devoted himself to the post-production of the film.

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Pre-production, mid-term shooting, and post-production are the processes followed to complete a film.

After completing the first two steps, only 2/3 of the work of the entire film production has been completed.

It can be said that the remaining 1/3 is the most important step.

The post-production of a film is basically a process of initial cutting, formal editing, composition and selection, special effects recording, and dubbing synthesis.

Primary cut, also known as "rough cut".

In the initial cutting stage, the director will stitch together the captured material according to the order of the script, and edit it into a version without visual effects, narration and music.

After the initial cut is approved by the director and screenwriter, you can enter the stage of formal editing. This stage is called "fine cutting".

In the fine-cutting part, first of all, it is necessary to modify the unsatisfactory parts of the preliminary cut, and then to modify the pictures that need to be changed.

Although it was the first time to get into a small black room to edit a film, Kiyoshi Sakamoto was not alone.

In order to edit better, Sakamoto Kiyane specially recruited Hiroki Fujii, the editor of classic films such as "Flower and Alice" and "Love Letter" with the famous film supervisor Shunji Iwai.

While discussing how to edit with this experienced veteran, Kiyoshi Sakamoto also grew rapidly through his strong learning ability.

After nearly a month of "rough editing" and "finish editing", and after nearly a month of arguing for reason, Kiyoshi Sakamoto finally edited the final version of "Those Years" in early June!
Fortunately, this is a campus youth film without any special effects, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto didn't spend too much time in the stage of fine editing.

Soon, the progress of "Those Years" was already over half.

Next, is the film's soundtrack and the composition and selection of the theme song.

Especially the theme song of the movie is very important.

If the choice is appropriate, the theme song and the movie will form a virtuous circle that promotes each other.

Take the popular TV series "ROOKIES" as an example, the theme song "キセキ" that fits the plot very well, not only made the ratings of "ROOKIES" soar, but also sold millions of copies!
If it weren't for Sakamoto Kiyoshi's personal graduation song "さくらのうた", the sales volume is too high and the influence is too great. "キセキ" may still have a chance to win the single of the year. . .

Therefore, for the box office of the movie, the choice of movie theme song must also be very cautious.

Generally speaking, the theme song and soundtrack of a movie can be composed or selected.

The difference between the two is: if you choose to select songs from the music library, it will be more economical in terms of cost, and it is also very suitable for some low-cost movies.

However, the biggest disadvantage is that other movies may also use this music. . .

That would be very embarrassing. . .

After all, bumping into music is similar to bumping into shirts, whoever is ugly is embarrassed.

If you choose to recompose, the movie will have unique music, and the music can form a perfect combination with the pictures in the movie, just like the notes on the score, so fascinating.

It's just that, in this way, the cost dedicated to film creation is relatively expensive.

However, for Kiyoshi Sakamoto, not to mention sufficient funds for filming, this small amount of money can be completely ignored.

Just the importance he attaches to this movie is enough to make him choose the path of composing. . .

Moreover, his versatile supervisor has the ability to create film music himself!
Therefore, in this movie, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who has multiple roles, is not short of another title of music director. . .

For the theme song, soundtrack, etc., he decided to do it himself!

Speaking of the movie theme song of "Those Years", in fact, he has already prepared it.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who has watched the original version of "Those Years", is very fond of "Those Years" sung by Qingquan Prince Xiaohu.

I also think that song is very suitable for this movie.

Therefore, he didn't mean to recreate a new theme song, but directly chose the Japanese cover version of "Those Years", "あの单~ジンジンバオヂュオニー", as the theme song of the movie!

This song was only sung by GReeeeN's sister group, whiteeeen, in 2015. The original lyrics and music of "Those Years" were interpreted in Japanese, which is very suitable for the Japanese version of "Those Years" movie theme song!
Moreover, he also thought that this theme song was sung by THE SUN, who hadn't released a Japanese single for a long time.

After the movie is released, THE SUN can also release this single as a new song to meet fans!
In this way, it can not only solve the situation that THE SUN has not released a new album for a long time, but also use the popularity of THE SUN to attract their fans to the theater to watch this movie.

It can be said that kill two birds with one stone, kill two birds with one stone!
(End of this chapter)