The legend of rebirth

Chapter 464 Screen Sense

The production of film music is actually very difficult, and it is not the same thing as making pop songs.

The purpose of making pop songs is to highlight the singer's voice. The protagonist is the human voice, and the human voice itself is a part of the music.

But for film music, the protagonist is the picture, and the soundtrack is the background. The picture and the music are actually not the same thing, but they have to achieve the effect of matching each other.

Movie soundtracks are mainly used to render the emotions of plot scenes. In many cases, they will even replace the role of lines. This not only has higher requirements for musical expression, but also has stricter style restrictions.

Ye Luo has made music for three movies in China, one martial arts movie, another Taiwanese literary film, and "Queen of Songs" which she invested in.

"The Queen of Songs" first had Ye Luo's song, and then the film producer wrote the script based on the song, which is tantamount to taking Ye Luo's song as the core.

The situation is different now. Ye Luo has just arrived in the United States. Although the momentum of the two albums is very good, after all, their reputation is limited, so it is temporarily impossible to make movies around Ye Luo's music. Instead, Ye Luo's music can be used to match the movie. .

This has undoubtedly improved a lot in terms of production difficulty.

However, the two pieces of music that Ye Luo is going to write right now do not have specific plots as a reference, but the director Jason simply made two requests, asking Ye Luo to make two samples and listen to them.

According to what he meant, even if the producer finally nodded and agreed, the two songs would probably be scrapped, because there would be problems with the fit with the plot.

"Just write two songs for him." This morning, Song Yan checked her makeup with the small mirror in the makeup box, and said, "With your level, isn't it easy?"

"Don't make trouble." Ye Luo said, "Since you want to take this job, you have to be serious. Either don't do everything, or do it well."

"Then do you have a plan in mind?" Song Yan asked.

"Of course." Ye Luo nodded.

"Then write it out quickly." Song Yan said, "I'm still waiting for you to write an album for me."

"Of order, President Song." Ye Luo smiled, and began to make samples of these two electronic soundtracks.

Robots fighting monsters, there are many film and television dramas of this kind in another world.However, there are actually only one or two movies that have been made into blockbuster movies with outstanding background music, and the sources of material are not very wide.

Originally, Ye Luo wanted to create two new pieces of music by himself, just like the last time he did for the Taiwan literary film. longer.

Second Miss Song was sitting on the side. If Ye Luo wrote these two songs slower than usual, she would definitely be upset. She thought Ye Luo didn't want to write an album for herself and was procrastinating on purpose.

To fight against the outside world, one must first settle down inside, so this time, Ye Luo still wanted to be safe, called the music library of another world, and picked out two movie background music.

Of these two pieces of pure music, one of them burnt in a mess.The other one is tear-jerking, both of which are classic movie soundtracks from another world.

Anyway, Ye Luo doesn't plan to do film music for a long time, it's just to get a ticket once in a while, and it doesn't hurt to throw away a few classics.

The first song is actually electronic music, and there are more electronic analog sound effects, so Ye Luo didn't directly produce the score, but directly made it on the computer with software.

As the notes in his mind were drawn out bit by bit, Ye Luo soon entered the state, and the movements of his hands became faster and faster.In one morning, the sound track of the first song was all laid out.

Letting the computer run the format conversion, Ye Luo called up Notepad again, and began to code the score of the second song.

The second song is mainly composed of strings and piano, and the simulated sound effects are almost meaningless.

The printer in the office didn't stop all afternoon, and Song Yan became Ye Luo's arranger assistant again - humming the melody with the music score, and letting Ye Luo listen to it to correct mistakes.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, just as Ye Luo had finished encoding all the music scores, a prompt popped up on the screen, indicating that the format conversion of the first song's arrangement sample had been completed.

"Let me listen." Song Yan had sharp eyes and quick hands, and immediately picked up the monitor earphones on Ye Luo's desk.

Ye Luo smiled slightly, and used the mouse to drag the converted file into the player, then called up the sound card mixer, and directly pushed the output volume to the maximum.

The music sounded together, and Ye Luo, who didn't wear earphones, could hear it clearly at such a loud volume that even Song Yan was taken aback, so she slapped Ye Luo angrily.

This piece of music has an obvious progression, the volume is amplified little by little, and the music elements are superimposed little by little. The volume is so loud at the beginning, Ye Luo also felt that it was too heavy to start, so he quickly lowered the volume half.

Song Yan pursed her lips slightly, closed her eyes and listened. Her left hand didn't retract after the blow, but rested on Ye Luo's arm.

It's not that she deliberately behaved lightly, but that her attention was quickly attracted by the music, and she forgot about it.

As the music progressed step by step, Song Yan's palm began to exert force slowly unconsciously. This girl had a lot of strength, and Ye Luo felt a dull pain when pinching.

After listening to a piece of music, Ye Luo was already grinning. Song Yan finally came back to her senses, her face was a little embarrassed, and she took advantage of the situation to slap Ye Luo lightly, and said softly, "The arm is quite strong."

"Fortunately, I have practiced recently." Ye Luo smiled wryly, "otherwise I would be crippled by you."

"This song is too hot." Song Yan said excitedly, "What's the name?"

At this point, the music file is running in the player, but the name is still blank.

Ye Luo smiled, clicked on the naming option, and typed a line of English: "Pacific Rim."

"Asia-Pacific region?" Song Yan translated.

"The correct title is "Pacific Rim." Ye Luo corrected.

……

It was Wednesday, and Jason was reading the script of the new movie in the Columbia Pictures building.

Although the film has entered the pre-shooting stage, the casting has basically been finalized, and Jason has read the script, but he always feels that the script is almost meaningless, and he needs to revise it.

It is generally not the job of the director to change the script. If the director of the script is not satisfied, just call back and ask the screenwriter to rewrite it.But Jason is different from others, he likes to make changes by himself, which is also one of his specialties.

The evaluation of Jason in the industry is that "this is a director who can tell stories very well". In addition to the proficient use of camera language, an outstanding script is also an important part of it.

But today, Jason was having a hard time dealing with the ending of the movie. Several plans were fighting in his mind, which made him a little at a loss.

This is a sci-fi movie. Although the selling point at the box office is that robots fight monsters, as a director who is good at telling stories, his ambition is not only at the box office.

Just then, the phone on Jason's desk rang.

Jason glanced at the caller ID, his expression changed, and he yelled at the outside: "Kelly! Just answer the phone and say I'm not here!"

"Jason, you'd better give up resisting." Kelly, the female assistant outside, smiled, "If you don't answer her call, she will come here to deal with you in person, and you will be even worse."

Jason was right when he thought about it, and answered the phone with a bitter face: "My dear sister, what's the matter?"

"You are very courageous now." Melina's voice came faintly, "How dare you not directly use the musician I introduced to you, but ask him to write a sample first?"

Jason got down when he heard it: "Merry, listen to me, this is not what I mean.

The producer has already contacted a film music production team, but now you force one in, I can't handle it.

It was only after I talked about it that I won Ye Luo a chance to audition. "

"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" Melina asked.

"I didn't know at the beginning. The producer is not my subordinate. He doesn't need to report to me when he contacts the music team." Jason said with a bitter face, "It's too late for me to recommend Ye Luo."

"Really?" Merina asked again.

"It's true."

"Well, I'll spare you this time." Mai Ruina said lightly.

"Huh?" Jason suspected that he had heard it wrong, "This time it's so easy to coax?
But Mai Rui, let me say hello to you first.Ye Luo's music, the hope of being hired this time is very slim, after all, the music team has cooperated with us many times, and the level is also very high.

Everything is said first come first served.

Believe me, in the next movie, I will definitely give Ye Luo a better chance. "

"I don't think there will be a next time." Mai Ruina said, "Ye Luo doesn't know your email address, so his two samples are here now, I'll send them to you, if your producer is not deaf , will naturally know how to do it.”

"Really?" Jason said immediately, "Then send it to me right away, and I'll listen to it first."

After hanging up the phone, Jason immediately entered his email address into the computer. As soon as he opened it, a new email notification popped up.

There were two music accessories inside. Jason clicked to download, then threw it into the player and put on his headphones.

His player is set to play automatically.

Soon, a soothing string music, accompanied by piano percussion, began to slowly unfold one beat at a time.

This is a very typical rondo form, the strings are constantly repeating a certain set of melodies, the tone is very low and sad, even a little depressing.

But one minute later, under the guidance of the piano, the overall scale suddenly increased, and a soul-stirring feeling hit Jason's heart.

The imagery of this song is really strong.

Accompanied by this piece of music, Jason, as a talented director, has already conceived the matching shots in his mind out of professional habits.

Following the guidance of the music, he naturally completed the last set of scenes of the movie.

The ending of the movie was finally found, but Jason was already in tears.

With tears in his eyes, he looked at the computer screen and remembered the name of the song.

"Tennessee".

　PS: Recommended film soundtrack master, Hanz Zimmer's pure music work, "Tennessee".

　　


(End of this chapter)