Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 441 Nothing in the world can match it

   "Why don't you add classical music to this commercial? I feel that you shoot the pictures, which has a baroque aesthetic. Well, I recommend Albinoni's 'Adagio in G Minor', which goes well."

  David Watkin spent a few more days in Stockholm with his partner, and after touring the city, came to the post-production studio where Ronald worked to watch his edits.

   "Can you find me an Adagio in G minor?" Ronald has done most of the film editing, and now adds the soundtrack and narration to the commercial.

   Soon, the staff found a copy of Albinoni's "Adagio in G Minor", Ronald played, a very sad tune, and played it out of the headphones.

  Ronald had a chill, this music made people feel very sad, maybe it would be better to make a soundtrack for the funeral industry advertisement. David Watkin claims to be the first in his appreciation of classical music and second in filmmaking skills. It seems that people have unrealistic estimates of certain aspects of themselves.

   "How is it? Does it fit very well?"

   "Uh... ok, but let's stick to the original plan. Saab wants this to be a very strong ad, I need a bit more rhythm." Ronald asked the engineer to cut back to the original track.

   "Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang" came a burst of strong piano music, and with the slow motion shot with the upgraded camera, Ronald began to carefully adjust the editing of each frame.

   This theme song was specially written by a composer specially found for the advertisement. The melody has a looping, progressive rhythm. And Ronald kept switching between the Saab 900 car and the Saab Thor fighter, doing parallel editing, explaining the beauty and power of the fighter and the car, and trying to keep the picture close to the rhythm of the music.

This is a new method that Ronald thought of. An advertisement of more than one minute is too late to tell a complete short story. Only by letting the picture dance with the music can the audience's attention be tightly attracted. What will happen in one shot, full of anticipation.

  This method was learned by Ronald when he was shooting music TV. Since the MV has lyrics, the singer's mouth shape on the screen must fit the lyrics in the track. Ronald found that images processed in this way would grab attention for a short period of time.

  The two drivers stood at the door of the warehouse with SAAB written on it.

   "Dangdangdangdang..."

  The door of the warehouse slowly opened to both sides, and then Ronald cut the picture to the front face of the fighter jet and the car, and the light outside the door shone through the gap, polishing the Saab logo.

   is another theme melody.

   Both the plane and the car slowly drove out of the warehouse in slow motion, then began to turn.

   Next, Ronald edited the footage onto the runway. Since the audience's imagination can fill in the gaps in the middle of the picture, the audience can make up the fighter jets and cars by themselves when they see this montage, turn and drive to the runway to compete on the same field.

   "From 7.5 million pounds, to about 7,500 pounds..."

   A narration by a man with a British accent begins to cut in.

  The fighter engine turned on the afterburner, flames shot out, the air on the surface was heated, and a blur made the fighter gradually disappear. The picture cuts to the front of the car again, and the powerful headlights suddenly turn on, illuminating the eyes of the audience.

  A common feature of Saab's two fist products - strong power, so it has made a brand in the hearts of the audience.

  "NothingOnEarthComesClose", the narration was inserted just right, and the fighter jet appeared from the horizon, wiping the roof of the Saab car and taking off.

  …

   "Oh..." After the sample was cut, the managers of the Swedish Saab Company were very excited, and some young people even applauded. In this relatively introverted nation, it is not common to express one's feelings so frankly.

In the end, the fighter jet leaped over the car and flew over the camera lens after takeoff. The manager of the Saab fighter jet department who came to review the advertisement was also very happy. He came over and shook Ronald's hand and said excitedly, "This Swedish beauty, isn't it strong enough? ?"

   In the end, he even proposed to put this paragraph in the promotional video of Saab's aircraft manufacturing department.

   The Saab Company unanimously approved the one-and-a-half-minute Ronald cut, and the forty-second two versions of the commercial. Ronald, who breathed a sigh of relief, was sent back to the Stockholm Hotel.

  Ronald and Richard enjoyed wine and food together. Ronald was insensitive to marinated herring, and instead ate meatballs and a cardamom roll called Fika. Then there are fresh blueberries, and fruit wine made from blueberries.

"Your ticket has been bought, and you will go to London early tomorrow. The arrangement there is the same as last time. Our colleagues in the London office of CAA will send you to the Pinewood Studio." Richard took out the ticket and the contact information of his colleagues, Hand it to Ronald.

   Ronald took the ticket, and tomorrow he will fly to London to visit Helen.

   "My colleague, I will go to apply for a pass tomorrow. After receiving you, you don't need to go through the formalities and can go directly to the Pinewood Studios."

   "Thank you." Ronald was in a good mood. After a tense few months of filming, Helen doesn't know how she's doing now.

  …

  In the Pinewood studio outside London, the largest super studio, today happened to be Helen Slater's Supergirl and her classmate Lucy Lane, played by Maureen Tiffy, filming the school scene.

  The two became friends at school and often went on activities together. And Selena, the witch played by Faye Dunaway, found high school student Linda Lee, the Kryptonian visitor she was looking for.

   It's only ten minutes before the scheduled start time, and the film's star star Faye Dunaway has not arrived yet. Even if she came now, she still had to rehearse and move, so she wouldn't even think about starting filming within half an hour.

  Helen and Maureen Tiffie had to go back to the dressing room and wait and chat.

   "Donna Wei has always been like this lately, often late, and dragging the morning scenes into the afternoon." After slow shooting, Helen gradually fell in love with the role of Supergirl. The unprofessional behavior of the leading supporting role made her a little annoyed.

  Faye Dunaway was not only late, but her attention was also starting to lose its focus. Many times, the other party would not respond to the lines she had meticulously practiced, which made Helen, who had just started acting in movies, for fear that her performance would be affected.

"Leave her alone, you can't just act on this puppet." Maureen Tiffie, an old acquaintance of Ronald, who played the heroine in "Famous in the World" back then, got along with Helen. Yes, they became friends on and off the show.

   She is much older than Helen and has a lot of experience, so she is here to solve Helen at this time.

   "Faye Dunaway has a big problem. I heard that the director has an idea to change people, but she couldn't find an actress of the same magnitude to take over in a short time, so she was allowed to continue."

   "I never thought that an actor with the highest salary on the crew would become so unprofessional." Helen began to complain.

   "She didn't want to either." Maureen Tiffey woke up Helen's childish thought, "She is now deeply involved in illegal drugs and can't extricate herself."

   "Huh?" Helen's blue eyes widened, "I'm really slow, she's all?"

  In the interior of the classroom set up in the studio, the director Schwak is sitting in a chair, his eyes are focused on infinity, and others seem to have no focus.

   "Go and urge Fei's assistant again to see when she can pack herself up." The director looked at his watch, another half hour had passed, and there was still no news from Donna Wei.

  Today's scene, the witch Selina played by Donna Wei, will be in direct contact with Supergirl for the first time, so I can't shoot Helen's scene first.

   "Alas..." In Dunaway's room, she was crying bitterly. Her husband Terry O'Neill didn't come to the hotel today, and she felt uncomfortable all over her body.

   "Fei? How do you feel?" The assistant opened the door and came in and asked her tentatively.

"Terry? Terry here? You're not Terry, where is Terry? Get him for me!" Faye Dunaway screamed in a hoarse voice when he saw that he was not his second husband , grabbed the assistant's clothes and started pleading.

   "Ah..." The assistant was startled, quickly jumped out of Donna Wei's scratching, and ran away without looking back.

   Hearing the whispers of Dunaway’s assistant in the studio, director Schwak reluctantly announced that today’s shooting was canceled.

"Hey, it's canceled again. I think if it goes on like this, the director may delete the witch's scene." Maureen Tiffie heard the news in the lounge and lamented that the shooting was likely to be overdue, and she was trapped in London , I don't know if the broker can find more invitations for himself.

"Well..." Helen couldn't understand, Faye Dunaway took the highest salary of all the actors in the crew, and after such unprofessional behavior spread, it would have a bad reputation in the future, and it was possible to take over the role. less.

  Two friends took advantage of the stoppage to go shopping in town and have a meal. Anyway, the image of Supergirl requires muscles and body, without dieting. This period of time can be said to be the healthiest period of weight after Helen joined the Academy of Performing Arts as an actress.

   Helen, who was going back to the hotel to change clothes, suddenly found a familiar figure in the studio.

   "Ronnie? Why are you here? I thought you were working on that movie script in Los Angeles?" Helen was overjoyed, wearing a school uniform with a green jacket and a gray skirt, and rushed up happily.

   Ronald picked up Helen, "I miss you, there is nothing in the world that can compare to you."

   (end of this chapter)