Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Why don't you set this commercial with classical music? I feel that the images you shot have the beauty of baroque music. Well, I recommend Albinoni's 'Adagio in G Minor', it matches very well."

David Watkin stayed with his partner for a few more days in Stockholm. After touring the city, he came to the post-production studio where Ronald worked to watch his edits.

"Can you find me an Adagio in G minor?" Ronald has completed most of the film editing and is now adding music and narration to the commercial.

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

Ronald felt a chill. This music made people feel very sad. Maybe it would be better to use it as a commercial soundtrack for the funeral industry. David Watkin claims that his appreciation of classical music is first and his film shooting skills second. It seems that people have unrealistic estimates of certain aspects of themselves.

"How's it going? Does it fit very well?"

"Um...it's okay, but let's stick to the original plan. Saab wants this to be a very powerful advertisement, and I need something with a strong rhythm." Ronald asked the sound engineer to cut back to the original track. .

"Dang-dang-dang-dang...dang...dang-dang." A burst of strong piano music came, and coupled with the slow motion shot with an upgraded lens, Ronald began to carefully adjust the editing of each frame.

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

This is a new processing method that Ronald came up with. An advertisement of more than one minute is not enough time to tell a complete short story. Only by letting the picture dance with the music can the audience's attention be tightly attracted. Next There is so much anticipation about what will happen in one shot.

This method was learned by Ronald when he was filming music videos. Since the music video has lyrics, the singer's mouth shape on the screen must fit the lyrics in the soundtrack. Ronald found that images processed this way captured attention for a short period of time.

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

"Dangdangdangdang..."

The warehouse door slowly opened to both sides.

Ronald then cut to the front of the fighter jet and the car, with light from outside the door shining through the cracks, polishing the Saab logo.

Another theme melody.

Both the plane and the car slowly drove out of the warehouse in slow motion and 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, when the audience sees this montage, they can make up the fighter jets and cars in their own minds, turn around and drive to the runway to compete on the same field.

"From seven and a half million pounds to about seven thousand five hundred pounds..."

The narration of a man with a British accent begins.

The fighter engine turned on the afterburner, flames spurted out, the air on the surface was heated, and the fighter gradually disappeared in a blur. The scene cuts to the front of the car again, and the powerful headlights suddenly turn on, illuminating the audience's eyes.

The commonality between Saab's two flagship products - strong power - has left a mark on the audience's mind.

“There is nothing on earth that can compare to it (nothing on earth orges close)”, the narration intervened at the right time, and the fighter jet appeared from the horizon and took off against the roof of the Saab car.

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

The last shot of the fighter jet leaping over the car and flying past the camera lens after taking off made the manager of the Saab fighter department who came to review the advertisement very happy. He came over and held Ronald's hand and said excitedly, "Isn't this Swedish beauty very powerful?" ?”

Finally, it was even proposed to put this paragraph in a promotional video for Saab's aircraft manufacturing department.

Saab's entire company unanimously approved two versions of the one-and-a-half-minute and 40-second commercials edited by Ronald. Ronald, who breathed a sigh of relief, was sent back to the Stockholm Grand Hotel.

Ronald and Richard enjoyed fine wine and delicious food together. Ronald declined the pickled herring and instead ate meatballs and fika, a cardamom-rolled bread. Then there are fresh blueberries and fruit wine made from blueberries.

"Your ticket has been bought and you will go to London early tomorrow morning. The arrangements there are the same as last time. Our colleagues from the CAA London office will take you to the Pinewood Studio." Richard took out the ticket and the contact information of his colleagues. Pass it to Ronald.

Ronald took the ticket and flew to London tomorrow to visit Helen.

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

"Thank you." Ronald said happily. After several intense months of filming, Helen didn’t know how she was doing now.

…

The largest super sound stage at Pinewood Studios outside London happened to be filming school scenes for Supergirl, played by Helen Slater, and Lucy Lane, a classmate played by Maureen Tiffey, today.

The two became good friends at school and often did activities together. The witch Selina, played by Faye Dunaway, discovered that high school student Linda Lee was the visitor from Krypton she was looking for.

There are only ten minutes left before the scheduled start time, and the movie's top star Faye Dunaway has not arrived yet. Even if she came now, she would still have to rehearse and move into position, and she couldn't even think of starting filming until she had half an hour.

Helen and Maureen Tiffey had to go back to the dressing room and chat while waiting.

"Dunaway has been like this lately, often being late and dragging the morning scenes until the afternoon." After slowly filming, Helen gradually fell in love with the role of Superwoman. The unprofessional behavior of the leading supporting actor made her a little annoyed.

Faye Dunaway was not only late, but her attention also began to lose focus. Many times during the scenes, the other party would not respond to her carefully practiced lines, which made Helen, who had just started acting in movies, fear that it would affect her performance.

"Ignore her, just act like this puppet." Maureen Tiffey, Ronald's old acquaintance, the actress who played the heroine in "Famous", actually got along with Helen. Yes, we have become friends both on and off screen.

She is much older than Helen and has a lot of experience. She is the one who can help Helen at this time.

"Faye Dunaway has a big problem. I heard that the director had the idea to replace her, but he couldn't find an actress of the same caliber to take over in a short period of time, so he let her continue."

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

"She didn't want to either." Maureen Tiffey reminded Helen of this childish idea. "She is now deeply involved in illegal drugs and cannot extricate herself."

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

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

"Go to the assistant who is urging you to pay, and see when she can sort herself out." The director looked at his watch. Another half hour had passed, and there was still no news from Dunaway.

In today's scene, the witch Selina, played by Dunaway, will have direct contact with Supergirl for the first time, so she can't film Helen's scene first.

"Alas..." In Dunaway's room, she was crying bitterly. Her husband Terry O'Neill did not 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, tentatively asking her.

"Terry? Terry, are you here? You are not Terry. Where is Terry? Find him!" Seeing that he was not her second husband, Faye Dunaway howled and rushed towards her with a hoarse voice. , grabbed the assistant’s clothes and started begging.

"Ah..." The assistant was startled, jumped out of Dunaway's grasp, and ran away without looking back.

After hearing the whispers of Dunaway's assistant in the studio, director Schwack reluctantly announced that today's shooting was cancelled.

"Hey, it's been canceled again. I think if this continues, the director may delete the witch scene." Maureen Tiffey heard the news in the lounge and lamented that the filming was likely to be overdue and she was trapped in London. , and I don’t know if the agent can find more invitations for me.

"Hmm..." Helen was a little confused. Faye Dunaway received the highest salary of all the actors on the crew. After such unprofessional behavior spreads, she will have a bad reputation in the future, and there is no possibility of accepting good roles again. Just less.

The two friends took advantage of a break from filming to go shopping and have a meal in town. Anyway, the image of a superwoman requires muscles and a figure, no need to diet. This period can be said to be Helen's healthiest period of time since she attended an acting college to prepare to be an actress.

Helen was about to go back to the hotel to change clothes when she suddenly noticed a familiar figure appearing in the studio.

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

Ronald picked up Helen and said, "I miss you. Nothing in the world can compare with you."

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