However, while we are enjoying movies, if there is a mismatch between the video picture and the sound, the feeling of enjoyment will come to an abrupt end, and then "spit" will fly all over the screen.
As a dedicated editor, how can you let this happen? Therefore, we should learn to deal with the "listening" in the audio-visual language, and achieve the "integration of sound and picture" so that the audience can enjoy it, which is also the affirmation and recognition of our behind-the-scenes workers.
There are three main sources of sound materials for film and television: pre-recording, synchronous recording and post-recording. Different sound materials have different processing and editing methods, and then look down.
Pre-recording refers to recording, shooting and editing.
This special rule is generally applicable to musical films (MV, opera, ballet, etc. ), opera movies (Beijing Opera, Huangmei Opera, etc. ) and art films (comics, puppet film, newspaper clippings, etc. ).
In view of the particularity of this kind of shooting, it is not possible to cut the picture according to the music sample first, and then synthesize the picture with the official recording, which is easy to cause the sound and picture to be out of sync.
For example, when we edit the MV, there are only two editing methods, the right type and the wrong type.
You can find some MVs to watch, or recall the MVs you have seen before. There are mainly two kinds of pictures in it.
One is, what are the lyrics or what are the lyrics sung, and what are the characters' mouths or actions. This is antithesis, which requires the sound to be consistent with the mouth or body movements of the character. The key to dual editing lies in the selection and mastery of editing points (I won't go into details for those who have written articles before).
The other is that no matter what the lyrics of the sound are, the picture is mainly composed of some characters and scenery, or even all of them are scenery, which is the wrong type, as long as the sound is consistent with the main characters, scene activity positions, camera movements and picture modeling.
For example, we often say that static connection and dynamic connection belong to wrong compilation.
If you are not very clear about this, you can look at the MV works of the network musician He Tu. From the summer solstice of 38 years, the nostalgia created by the film Farewell My Concubine and the artistic conception of the lyrics are intoxicating.
Especially in the music interlude, several groups of pictures with symbolic significance of the times are interlaced, the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, the Japanese invaders ... The audience comes and goes, and only He on the stage is still charming, leaving only two sentences in our minds: the people under the stage? Time changes; On the stage, he hasn't changed for many years.
You can have a good look at this MV work. Due to the limited conditions, there is no way to find an actor to shoot, but the editing technique here is still a pre-recorded classic case.
Synchronous recording refers to recording while taking pictures.
This recording method can make the picture and sound closely combined, more realistic, and shorten the production cycle. Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages, that is, high requirements for equipment, limited by environment and conditions, and great difficulty in operation.
The content of synchronous recording is mainly dialogue and sound.
When editing the dialogue between characters, we should take the echo of the dialogue content and the emotional exchange of characters as the main factors of lens connection and transformation, grasp the reasonable time-space relationship of lens connection, select the right starting point and switch lenses.
Generally, there are two editing techniques and five processing forms.
Parallel editing, also known as juxtaposition or parallel cutting, is generally suitable for people with large spatial distance, stable conversation tone and slow emotional rhythm.
Simply put, whoever speaks will be given a shot, and the shot will be left blank or plugged in. There are three common ways to deal with speech-empty head-empty lens-talk, talk-empty lens-talk-empty lens, talk-talk.
Interlaced editing, also known as crosstalk or crosstalk, is suitable for occasions with short space, close emotional communication between characters and fast language rhythm.
Simply put, you are still talking, and the camera is given to the person who listens to you in advance; Or you stop talking and the camera stays on your photo. These are two common ways to cut strings.
Imagine that you and your brother are drinking and talking about life at a barbecue stall. At the beginning, it was all about talking and laughing, cutting flat, inserting some barbecue pits around the barbecue stalls, people talking about the world around them, and so on. Suddenly, you two quarreled over a trivial matter, and the more intense the quarrel, the more suitable it was to use string scissors. You are still arguing, and there is a disdainful expression of your brother in the camera. You are stuck, and your mind is still trying to say something. Your brother's cursing voice has already sounded.
Girls can imagine you and your best friend going shopping to buy clothes or cosmetics. Start by gossiping and picking up some pictures of shopping malls. Later, I quarreled about a limited amount of lipstick ... I made it myself.
Of course, this is just an example to understand some knowledge. Misunderstandings are inevitable in life. Just communicate and solve it. We are brothers, and there are no obstacles.
As for audio clips, first of all, don't cut them easily, otherwise it will easily destroy the sense of reality, so cut them carefully; Secondly, the scene orientation of the picture has changed, and the sound has to be pulled up and down. After all, there must be a difference in the distance between sounds. If the sound does not match the picture, you can also process the picture or sound by cutting or splicing; Finally, if it still does not meet the requirements, we can deal with it according to the basic rules of sound intensity, weak connection and weak connection.
Post recording, to be exact, should be called post dubbing. It is usually recorded in a special recording studio, including white matching, voice-over, dubbing music and action sound, crowd noise and so on.
This requires high dubbing. For editing, it is easier to deal with the work of collocation, sound and picture connection.
When editing, no matter where the sound material comes from, we should handle the sound of dialogue, music and sound well, and we should not interfere with each other, so that the audience can understand it clearly; It is also necessary to connect with each other to form a good audio-visual effect.
In short, the purpose of editing these sounds is to give full play to the role of sound, combine the pictures, form a smooth and beautiful audio-visual language, and bring good-looking movies to the audience.
To be continued. . .
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