Chapter 69 A Stroke of Genius! Tears in the Flames

Chen Xiao turned to the end, nodded calmly, and returned the tablet to the assistant.

"From the information they know, it is natural to have these doubts, and it is not bad. Don't watch it, take a rest. I have to go to the post-production base the day after tomorrow."

As he said, Chen Xiao stood up.

The assistant was a little stunned, "Director Chen, they doubt you like this, aren't you angry?"

"What's there to be angry about? It's too cold to sit for a long time, I'm going back."

After saying that, Chen Xiao rubbed his hands and returned to the hotel room.

The media has not seen the feature film of "Farewell My Concubine". It is normal to put forward some new ideas for traffic.

Behind him, the assistant looked at him with admiration.

Alas, Director Chen has a really good mentality.

It is also because Director Chen has a good mentality at ordinary times that he will basically not be scolded for making mistakes.

So he has always been very grateful to Director Chen for tolerating himself.

Now that he sees the media questioning him, he wants to write down these media and slap them back.

But since Director Chen said so, forget it.

……

After a day of rest

Chen Xiao brought his team to the post-production base.

Post-production includes editing, sound processing, color grading, visual effects, film output and quality inspection.

When making "Titanic", he focused on the soundtrack.

But this time, there are a large number of opera experts in the crew.

He naturally doesn't have to worry about the opera accompaniment.

And before that, the Ministry of Culture estimated that he would compose pop songs, but was not good at heavy styles, so it specially invited an old composer to be responsible for the theme song.

He didn't have to do the theme song himself.

It's good, leaving some creative space for other crew members.

And this time he really didn't want to take care of the music.

He wanted to focus on color grading and visual effects.

There are metaphors in the color and visual effects. I really don't feel at ease to leave it to others.

After two days of busy editing work, New Year's Day came.

After a short three-day break, the post-production team returned to the base again.

Time passed quickly, and ten days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was the morning of January 14th.

In the post-production base, in front of three monitors.

Chen Xiao and the visual effects artist sat side by side.

On the screen, a clip of "Farewell My Concubine" was playing.

In order to protect himself, Duan Xiaolou publicly drew a line with Juxian.

The next scene slowly faded in.

The special effects artist pressed the pause button.

The camera shot upward, making the audience feel as if someone was lying here, looking up.

In the sky, the flames were burning, and the person was like lying on a battlefield of failure.

"Director Chen, are you referring to this picture?"

Yesterday, the special effects of this clip were completed.

Just now, Chen Xiao called him and told him that the special effects of this picture were missing.

But this is already perfect, right?

The battlefield of failure and the swallowing feeling of the falling flames are all shown.

Is it because the flying ashes are not miserable enough?

"Yes." Chen Xiao said, "Move forward a little and adjust to the picture that just faded in from Juxian."

The special effects artist moved forward for half a second.

Chen Xiao nodded, pointed to the lower right corner, and said to the special effects artist: "Add two drops of sliding tears here, and slide them to the bottom of the screen."

The special effects artist was stunned.

The effect after adding appeared in his mind.

Hiss——

The special effects artist couldn't help but shudder.

So sad...

These two drops of tears are really a stroke of genius!

He nodded slowly and swallowed his saliva, "Change it, I'll change it right away."

"Then you are busy, send it to me after the change." Chen Xiao got up from the chair, patted his shoulder, and walked towards the door.

The special effects artist immediately got up, "Take care."

Chen Xiao left the room, but the shock in the special effects artist's heart did not stop.

I thought that shot was perfect enough.

Unexpectedly, a tear made the tragedy of the entire criticism meeting reach a new level.

This idea is really... God!

After sighing for a moment, he immediately found the tear shape from the material library and started to make special effects.

Another week passed, and it was a sunny afternoon.

Just when netizens thought they would have to wait another month or two to see Farewell My Concubine.

Chen Xiao had already arrived at the Ministry of Culture with the disc.

Director Li’s office.

Chen Xiao knocked on the door and entered, “Director Li, the post-production of Farewell My Concubine is complete, here is the disc.”

Director Li stood up, walked to the sofa, took the disc, and said in surprise: “You are too fast.”

Although I knew that Chen Xiao planned to complete it in 20 days, I received a call from Chen Xiao the night before to schedule a meeting.

But looking at the disc with the poster of the leading actor in my hand, it was still unbelievable.

Knowing that he was fast, I deliberately approved only half a year of funding.

In the end, it was finished in three months?

“Thank you for your hard work. I will find two people to watch it first and review it briefly. If there is no problem, arrange for people to watch it collectively in the afternoon.”

The notice for collective viewing was sent out yesterday.

However, just in case, before everyone shows it, check whether there are any factors that are overly provocative.

If there are any, cancel the collective viewing activity.

Chen Xiao nodded, "Okay, no problem."

Director Li patted his shoulder and said with concern: "You have worked hard during this period. Take a good rest next time. The broadcast will be handled by the department."

He often heard about Chen Xiao's hard work during this period.

From the beginning of casting, he was busy day and night.

Even when he went to Cannes to receive the award, he did not take advantage of his talent when he came back, and continued to shoot steadily.

Talented, humble and conscientious.

He is far superior to his peers in every aspect, even to 99% of film and television people.

This makes his appreciation for Chen Xiao soar!

In fact, he already had an idea in his mind.

Let Chen Xiao join the Ministry of Culture!

However, ordinary administrative positions are a waste of his talent.

In the past half month, he has been thinking about how to let Chen Xiao join the Ministry of Culture without wasting his talent, so that he can shine without delaying the filming of works?

After thinking about it for half a month, he finally came up with a way to have the best of both worlds.

Director Li said kindly: "Chen Xiao, I heard from Teacher Lu Qi that you have a lot of insights into literature and art. Are you willing to become a policy advisor to the Ministry of Culture?"