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Chapter 659 Editing
Han Yi let him win the Oscar, but that is all in the past tense. After locking the statuette in the safe, Han Yi continued to film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

After the Spring Festival, due to various things, the shooting of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" basically came to a standstill.

This time it can be regarded as the official start of filming, and the next scenes will basically be filmed in Beiping.

I went to a CCTV interview on the way, and there was nothing else to do. After nearly 20 days, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was finally completed, and then the post-production was done.

Post-production also requires the coordination of multiple departments and teams, and the basis of all this is undoubtedly editing. It is no exaggeration to say that Han Yi and even any director's shooting are serving editing.

Han Yi's studio does not have its own editing team, and this time it also borrowed it from Li Xiaolong's studio.

Unlike the simplicity of Han Yi's studio, Li Xiaolong's studio is almost a big company. Except for the theaters that distribute it, he can independently complete all the shooting of a movie.

This studio is absolutely unique in China, and it is estimated that there is no such studio in the world.

This has something to do with Li Xiaolong's own experience and personality. He is worried about handing over these lifelines to other people.

Originally, he even wanted to start a theater chain, but in the end he really couldn't afford it so he gave up.

At the same time, as a "martial arts person", Li Xiaolong is very loyal, and he is not willing to give up to everyone, which gradually develops the huge scale of Li Xiaolong's studio.

As a director with a strong desire for control, Han Yi is in charge of editing. Before editing, to be precise, Han Yi already had a very clear idea when writing the script.

The world's first-class directors are basically masters of editing, and they will personally control the process.

Of course, there are also some unlucky directors who don't know what their films will look like before the film is released.

This post-production, all work will be carried out around editing, and Han Yi has also made careful preparations for this.

Some people say that "the best editing is the one where no trace of editing can be found."

This is really the biggest misunderstanding of editing. It should be said that the editing that cannot be found is the editing that "makes ordinary audiences have no barriers to receiving information", but it is not the best editing. After more than 100 years of development, there have been many It is a kind of aesthetic standard and possibility, and the connotation is very rich.

Of course, as a commercial film, and as much as possible for the public fans, Han Yi must maintain the smoothness of editing.

Editing that does not "make ordinary audiences have no barriers to receiving information" is not a tricky show off, let alone obscure.

In order to maintain a smooth editing acceptable to the public, the first thing is to determine the appropriate editing points for all shots.

The cut point is the transition point between two shots, including sound or picture. Accurately grasping the cut point of the shot can ensure the smooth switching of shots. Therefore, the selection of the cut point is the most important and basic work of Han Yi’s rough cut.

The editing points of all the shots in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" can be simply divided into two categories: the first category is the screen editing points, action editing points, emotional cutting points, and rhythm editing points; the second type is sound editing points, including dialogue , music, sound effects editing points.

In a film, most of the editing is carried out around the actions of the characters. The actions here do not refer to fighting, but the behavior of the characters.

The point of action editing is the coherence of the main body’s actions. Action editing is of course also for the sake of clear narrative, but it focuses more on the coherence of actions outside the shots. The coherence of actions can increase the fluency between shots.

Han Yi's selection of action editing points is very important, which will directly affect the effect that the final film can achieve.

The rough cut of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was divided into two parts by Han Yi.

The first step is collage, and collage means to use the combination of some lenses to produce different types and give people different feelings.

Then the second step is cutting, specifically to control the rhythm, the rhythm and mood of the whole film.

In film editing, rhythm is very important, but as far as Han Yi's techniques are concerned in this film, everything still depends on the storyline and emotions. Han Yi always believes that controlling the rhythm of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is the most important thing. The important thing is the emotion. When the emotion is here, what it needs of you, and what kind of change or treatment you will do.

During the editing process, Han Yi hoped that he could maintain a more objective state as much as possible, and really treat himself as an audience, to truly feel the various changes in rhythm and details, whether the play is good or not, and so on.

What kind of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is suitable for it, then what kind of technique he uses to cut it, so that the audience can get into the play when watching it.

Relying on these, Han Yi and his team spent nearly half a month to complete the rough cut, and the next fine cut is more important, which will directly determine the quality of the finished film.

It can also be seen from the name that fine cutting is far more complicated than rough cutting.

Han Yi has to ensure that the refined editing is tight enough, the editing is tight but the scenes are not too short, which means editing out unnecessary pauses in the actor's dialogue, shortening the blank part in the middle of each sentence, and even subtracting lengthy and unimportant dialogues.

Most moviegoers generally don’t spend more than 150 minutes concentrating on it, which is equivalent to the length of general mainstream commercial films. The rough cut version completed by Han Yi is more than 300 minutes long, which needs to be compressed to about 120 minutes in the fine cut. After editing, if the film is two and a half hours or even longer, then "major surgery" is required.

This is a very painful process for every director, because he can't bear to give up every second, it's like Han Yi's child, he is reluctant, but even if he is reluctant, he must reduce it.

Every time at this stage, Han Yi is very painful.

In fine cutting, many aspects that are difficult to take into account in rough cutting have to be taken into account, such as the coordination of actions and pictures, and the use of actors' gestures, props, line of sight or positioning is one of the editing methods. The best way is to let emotions express naturally, or cut To produce a smooth narrative rhythm, technical editing is not the key.

Unlike others, Han Yi also used temporary background music as an aid while editing.

This method generally cannot be used as a normal method for editing. Once you like temporary music during editing, it will be difficult to find a suitable soundtrack that feels good, which is terrible.

However, this method is used for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Han Yi thinks there is no problem.

(End of this chapter)