Chapter 506 Late Writers' Annual Meeting
December is the end of the year, and there are many books piled up this month. In the days when big sellers like Lin Han appeared, the book sales market can be said to be full of flowers!
After nearly a month of best-selling, Lin Han released "Time Traveler's Wife" in November has declined. It is no longer as powerful as the previous few weeks, and sales have begun to slow down and stabilize.
His other books also maintain their proud sales ability. With new books hit every month, they can still steadily rank among the top 20, top 30, top 50, and top 100!
After there was no leader, these novels fell into a melee, and each wanted to occupy more sales and gain a larger reader base based on their abilities.
Lin Han is not interested in this matter now. He is worried about watching the filmed materials in the movie editing room. Even though he has memories of his previous life, he couldn't help but shoot hundreds of minutes of materials during the shooting. Now he wants to edit these materials into a ninety-minute movie!
The materials for these hundreds of minutes were born with his own eyes. He felt so distressed that he could delete any paragraph and wanted to keep them all, even if that was impossible.
"Sure enough, being an editor requires ruthlessness."
At this moment, Lin Han finally understood why many directors had the right to edit, but they had to ask an editor for help.
These materials are all the director's children. If you can't do it yourself, you can only let unrelated people edit them out!
Editing is an art. A good editor can cut a protagonist into a supporting role with only 2 minutes of scenes, or edit a supporting role into the most outstanding character in the film.
The editing that people often come into contact with is TV programs, such as a professional singer competition project in the previous period. The first and the latest episodes of the editing are superb. Tan Jing appeared on the stage and participated in the final ranking announcement, but under the editor's magical skills, it seemed that there was no such person at all, and disappeared directly from the picture!
Reasonable, clever, and correct editing can enhance the artistic expression and appeal of the film. Under normal circumstances, it takes half a month to one month to edit a movie, but it doesn't take Lin Han that long. In fact, he has already thought about the trend of the entire film in his mind.
This is not his first time to be edited. He used a not-so-professional machine to edit movie materials when he was studying at home. In addition, he also edited the first trailer for "Martian Rescue".
Compared with "The Martian Rescue", the filming materials of "Immortality" are simply a slim figure. After all, one investment is only 100,000 yuan, while the other investment is over 100 million yuan!
Lin Han is not ready to edit any trailer. Anyway, he has enough promotional materials in his hands. Then he will reveal a little bit outside every week, and it is enough to keep the movie mysterious.
The advantage of not requiring special effects is that Lin Han can now combine the plot as he pleases. Although there is a lack of soundtrack, this is not a great thing!
Day after day, he almost regarded the editing room as his home, soaked in it for a lot of time every day, and even considered editing when he went home to take a shower and sleep.
He can't survive without being crazy. He obviously took more than ten days of work but was compressed by him in five days before the editing was completed!
The final cut version of the movie lasts 93 minutes, which is quite normal for a 2D movie, at least not too short. After all, the plot is limited, so if you get 120 minutes, it will be too long-winded.
After producing subtitles and cast members, Lin Han put the easter eggs in it. This will be the most important part of the film. As long as you can persist in seeing the easter eggs broadcast, the audience will be shocked!
After Lin Han edited the video, he began to deal with the sound of the movie. He didn't know how to play the soundtrack, and he would go to a special soundtrack to deal with it later.
During the filming of "Immortality", the concurrent sound was chosen, that is, the recording and closing sound was recorded at the shooting site. The advantage of this is that the dialogue is more realistic and natural, and there is no need to go to the recording studio to record it separately.
But there are also disadvantages, that is, they will include some unnecessary noises during recording. Although they use a handheld recording device to collect the sound, the filtering effect is not obvious!
Therefore, when Lin Han is post-production, he needs to modify and polish the sounds of the same period to eliminate messy and unnecessary noises, add some sound effects required by special effects, etc.
After doing this, his work was basically over. Now he is waiting for the musician to appear. Of course, he also wants to ask a master like Hans Jimo to help!
There are few domestic soundtracks, and there are not many top-notch ones, not to mention that Lin Han can’t afford to pay for his current budget, so he can only settle for the second best.
Music is the last few links of a movie. Never expect a movie to have a sufficient budget for music to squander. The current budget of "Immortality" is only 12,000 yuan. After Lin Han recommended it to a movie alumni from his own film school, he found a music studio and signed a contract at this price!
The price is what you pay for. After Lin Han handed the script to the studio, he waited for the music there and then recorded it. After everything was recorded, Lin Han would decide on what time to place the different music.
After all, not every part requires a soundtrack. Some soundtracks can even be used directly in ready-made ones, but a copyright fee is required.
Time always slips away inadvertently. By the time Lin Han finishes all these things, half of December has passed!
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"I still think about the film making too simple. After I took it myself, I realized that there are problems everywhere and I need to do it carefully everywhere."
Lin Han is now receiving massage with Wang Hao and Li Wenyuan, which is to give himself a vacation to relax.
For men who live in a fast pace and overloaded work pressure, taking a massage in a quiet environment is the best way to quickly eliminate physical and mental fatigue and completely relax!
Wang Hao closed his eyes and felt the technician's hard massage on his back. He sighed and said, "Yes, your speed is already very fast now, no one else is as efficient as you."
"You used to have a team to help you, but now you are the only one who does it alone. It's normal to be slower." Li Wenyuan didn't know much about the post-production of the movie. He said in confusion: "The promotion has not started yet. When are you going to release it?"
Lin Han now feels that the Spring Festival is a little anxious. After all, the soundtrack has not been released, and it has to be submitted for review. After passing the review, it will be copied digitally to the theater. I don’t know how efficient the people in the Film Review Bureau are and whether they will use large scissors. He doesn’t want to be cut into pieces.
"We originally planned to be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Anyway, the investment in the movie is not big. We will try to be screened in every city across the country. If time cannot catch up, we will have to wait for the Lantern Festival or later!"
This is not something Lin Han can decide, he can only pray more.
Li Wenyuan paused, and he suddenly remembered: "By the way, are you still going to this year's annual writer meeting?"
"When will it be held? I have no impression of it!" Lin Han patted his head. He still remembered that he attended the writers' annual meeting held by the General Administration of Press and Publication last year and won an award. I don't know how this year is.
"It's just tomorrow night, it's impossible that I didn't send you an invitation."
In the past year, Lin Han is the most popular person in the entire book market and the entire literary circle. If he had not received the invitation, then the people from the General Administration of Press and Publication would probably be stupid.
Lin Han was not confused about this issue either. He smiled and said, "I have been busy with movies recently and didn't check my email address. I guess Chen Jiaxuan was afraid that I would be distracted and didn't want me to be tired, so she didn't tell me. I'll go back to ask in the evening!"
Last year, Lin Han's reputation was not as great as this year, so he became the focus of news. This time he happened to get familiar with the General Administration of Press and Publication, and he would apply for a book number faster in the future.
"Speaking of this year's Writers Annual Meeting is a long time late. I remember it seemed to be held in October before." Lin Han only participated once and did not have rich experience.
"The time has not been fixed, but this time it was very late. I thought they were not going to hold it anymore. If this tradition was cancelled, there would be no chance to see so many writers at once!"
As a former science fiction leader, Li Wenyuan has participated in it for more than ten consecutive years, but unfortunately he has not been super amazing with Lin Han like this.
This "horse kills chicken" is indeed very comfortable. Lin Han lay on the bed and felt the movement of his shoulders and cervical spine. He slowly spoke, "This is the real annual meeting, it will be held at the end of the year. If it were left for the previous few days, I would definitely not go there."
Li Wenyuan couldn't help but turn his head and look at Lin Han. The three of them were lying side by side, so they could chat, "If you don't go, the General Administration of Press and Publication will probably put you on the blacklist. Now the publicity plan listed online is that you will definitely join. Those reporters are expected to go to the backstage for interviews after you win the award, and their posters and other posters have been released!"
"I haven't replied whether to participate or not, they just took my name to promote it?" Lin Han was a little angry. If he didn't go, wouldn't he take the blame?
Wang Hao said gloatingly: "If you don't go, you will change your itinerary or be a big shot. Anyway, just treat it as relaxing, it's no big deal! Can you bring a guest in?"
"No, only the invited writers themselves can do it. Why are you going to join in the fun?"
Chapter completed!