Chapter 753 You and I think exactly the same

   Cynthia Rhodes became very clingy, maybe thinking that she would leave the crew tomorrow, she almost monopolized Ronald by herself, dancing with him all the time.

   Of course Ronald's dancing skills are not as superb as Patrick Switz's, but fortunately, Mambo is not a very difficult dance. Under Cynthia's active leadership, the two danced very similarly.

  The assistant director Emil next to him, carrying a video camera, watched the dance of Ronald Cynthia and Patrick Eleanor in the center of the crowd, and started to shoot the behind-the-scenes shots.

   This is an additional task that Emil takes on besides the assistant director. He also shot several shots of the details of the entire film.

  Current movie marketing likes to use talk shows or talk shows. With these tidbits, you can play the edited clips by the way when you are on the show to arouse the curiosity of the audience, and it is best to have some humorous passages.

   "Bang... bang..." Eddie specially transported the high-quality champagne from the next city in a truck with cold storage, and was opened one by one.

   "Click", Ronald opened the door of his suite. Cynthia in her arms was beautiful, and the champagne-flavored breath sprayed onto her face with heat.

  Ronald has long been attracted by Cynthia's natural beauty. He didn't understand the intention of this southern beauty in the dance just now.

   "Crack", Ronald turned on the light, Cynthia seemed a little embarrassed, and a natural blush climbed up her cheeks.

   "Don't turn on the light".

   Ronald turned off the light. Tonight at the hot spring resort hotel, turn on all the lights to celebrate the completion of filming. The light from outside seemed to leak in through the window, illuminating Cynthia's face a little.

"Um…"

  Cynthia in real life does not seem to be like Penny in the movie. In other words, unlike a Hollywood actress who knows how to cater to the relationship between men and women, Ronald has found some feelings in his youth, treating him tenderly, and suddenly the two of them are in harmony.

   An hour later, the lights outside the window finally went out, leaving only a faint moonlight shining into the window, reflecting Cynthia's white and bright back beautifully.

  Ronald gently put his hand on it, and Cynthia just hummed. She was so exhausted that she couldn't even open her eyes. Ronald took advantage of the situation to hug her close to him, and the two hugged each other and fell into a deep sleep.

  Early the next morning, Ronald's biological clock was still in the fighting mode for filming. He woke up naturally at five o'clock in the morning.

   Seeing Cynthia Rhodes beside him sleeping soundly, Ronald first went to the living room to make a phone call and asked the kitchen to deliver all the breakfast to the room at six o'clock sharp. Put on your running shoes and go for a run.

   After running and taking a hot shower, Ronald waited until the hotel delivered a full breakfast. Cynthia finally woke up.

"I don't know what you like to eat, so I ordered all of them." Ronald pushed the breakfast cart into the room, just in time to see her stretched out on the bed, her white legs were close together, tiptoes Stretch. Ballet girls are always so graceful.

   "Are you always this considerate to girls?" Cynthia smiled.

   "Not always, just courting pretty girls." Ronald joked.

   "If there is a boy around me who is so considerate to me, I will marry him." Cynthia also laughed, and rushed into the bathroom to wash.

   "Why, isn't there such a person?" Ronald asked her.

  Cynthia's voice came from inside, "Yes, but he is younger than me. I don't think we will be able to grow old together in the future."

   "Oh", Ronald waited for Cynthia to finish, and went to the dining table with her. Ronald also poured her a glass of milk and himself a glass of orange juice.

   "Sometimes, it's not good to think too much. I also knew a ballerina girl before... It would be very rare if both of them could be moved by each other. Who can tell what will happen in the future?"

  …

  The two said goodbye immediately in the morning. Hollywood men and women, like butterflies and bees, get together when they have nectar, and go their separate ways when they are finished.

   After the last day in North Carolina, Ronald and the daydreaming Eddie returned to Los Angeles with all the equipment and dailies.

  The negatives of the movie were shipped directly from the eastern printing factory to the Paramount film production department.

  Paramount's laboratory has branches in several regions across the country. Ronald relied on his relationship with Ned Tanin to get a favorable price. Not only will it be developed at their laboratory in the southeast, but they will also end up borrowing Paramount's negative editing equipment and copy production line.

   However, before that, the important work he still needs to do is to visit Walter Murch with the newly released work copy.

   "That's all? Your original film is not very long."

   Murch moved all the film into the office in the rented Paramount editing room, along with Ronald, assistant director Emil. Counting the number of film discs, compared with directors like Coppola, Ronald has less material.

"Yes, I used a new method this time. Many shots are turned on at the same time during rehearsal. Often the effect of the first time is better than that of the actual shooting, so it is very rare to shoot a piece more than a dozen times. The film also saved some."

  Ronald opened a large bucket bag he brought, and took out the "Murch Super Clip Tape" that Bard Jr. brought from the small factory on Staten Island.

  The current new editing tapes have all been produced by the small factory cooperated by Ronald and Murch. Even Murch himself has to ask Ronald for the goods.

This kind of tape has a very good response in Xiangjiang, and Jackie Chan’s demonstration effect there is very good. Once he uses this kind of tape, many studios have also discovered that with this new type of tape, the edited copy can be tested directly, without A new copy was remade, which saved the money for a copy, so people rushed to buy it.

  There is a lot of demand, so that Ronald can let those workers start working every day, produce slowly, store in the warehouse during the off-season, and ship more to sell when the number of filmings increases.

  Starting work in this way every day, the purchase of raw materials, labor costs, etc. are also reduced. The average cost can be reduced a lot. When the cost is reduced, there is room for price reduction, so that the sales in the local market of America are also improved.

  In America, the retail price of Ronald's tapes has gradually become twice that of old-fashioned tapes, and the wholesale price for production companies like Roger Coleman can be reduced even lower.

  Many studios that shoot low-cost productions have also begun to switch to this tape because they want to save money for a copy.

   Slowly, the reputation of "Merch Super Editing Tape" was not limited to a few high-level directors in America, and gradually all practitioners began to purchase this tape.

"The quality of the factory over there is really good and stable. It's a little worse than what I made by hand, but it's more stable. If I don't ask that friend to make it, the quality will be much worse." Walter Murch picked up Several large rolls of tape were placed on the editing table.

"This year's dividend will be good, just treat it as my Christmas present for the children," Ronald said with a smile, "ah, no, this is what I brought back from the crew. They used tapes of different materials on the scene .It worked great, and this time I was on two major locations, and it didn't cost me money."

  Ronald put back a couple of other tapes.

  Walter Murch shrugged, put the first tape on the editing machine, and began to compare it with his own pre-shooting table of estimated shot times.

   "Your idea seems to be exactly the same as mine. The shooting time I estimated in advance is very similar to your final filming time."

  Walter looked at it for a while, then suddenly said to Ronald.

   "Really?" Ronald was also interested. After looking at the duration of more than a dozen shots, it was indeed very close to Murch's estimate.

   "It may be that you are deeply influenced by Coppola's genre. I have worked with them for a long time, and I also use their method to estimate the length of the shot."

   "Maybe." Ronald thought to himself, is it possible that his own learning of editing thinking will also affect the director's work in turn? After all, Murch taught me some of my skills in editing.

   Accompanied Murch for two days, and the two went through all the materials. Looking at it all, the dance scenes at the beginning and climax of several climaxes shot by Ronald are quite different from Murch's estimated time.

"I didn't expect you to be able to shoot like this." Murch was very surprised. "Your dance scene is very different from your 'break dance'. It is a bit different from the original western cowboy movie and the fighting scene in Xiangjiang's action movie. similar.

   What is important is to cooperate tacitly to show the beauty of the dance itself. Coupled with the fact that the chemical reaction of the two protagonists is visible to the naked eye, this is also a good film technically. "

   "Why are you watching Xiangjiang's movie?" Ronald laughed. When he was filming, he didn't think so. Perhaps subconsciously, I used some of the practices of those movies.

  “A lot of people are watching, and they think their route is very interesting, very different from Hollywood. Many people say that Jackie is like Buster Keaton in Hollywood’s early silent film period.”

   "JackieChan? That's my buddy." Ronald laughed, "It's also the agent of our tape over there. I have the opportunity to introduce you to each other."

   "I will first synchronize the audio and video, and then prepare the sound design. When you come back from vacation, we will start editing together." Murch nodded and said to Ronald.

   "Rough editing first. Don't wait for me to come back. You taught me my editing techniques. Besides, you also said that our ideas are close. When I come back, I will make fine adjustments."

   With Murch at the helm, Ronald is happy to be at ease. He left his assistant Emile in the editing room to study and went on vacation to relax.

  (end of this chapter)