Rebirth of the Director in Korea

“In terms of theaters, Lotte Films and Television can give the greatest sincerity and arrange the film. Not only that, the promotional expenses of the film are borne by us and CJ Entertainment.”

When I saw this article, Jung Hyuk-jae had to admire the atmosphere of Kang Sung-sin. Not only did he give a lot of benefits in terms of film arrangement and publicity costs, but also gave up Lotte Entertainment on the film’s commission. Don’t underestimate this 1%. When the number multiplied by it is larger, the 1% represents a huge number.

As a film production and distribution company, Lotte Entertainment really hopes to open its own situation in the somewhat stubborn circle of South Korea film circles, even Jung Hyuk-jae dare not say that he is Really stepping into this circle can only be said to have opened a gap with the help of the tens of millions of movies called “Welcome to Dongmakgol”. The next road still needs to be step by step by itself.

For joint issuance, Jung Hyuk-jae does not contradict from the bottom of his heart. Joint issuance certainly has its drawbacks, such as the distribution and settlement of the final benefits will always delay some time, but the benefits are also obvious. Yes, that is, the joint distribution can better promote the film, the coverage of the film promotion is wider, and the audience is larger. After all, the quality of the promotion effect is not a decisive factor in the box office of a movie, but it is definitely a key factor.

Since Lotte Entertainment has finalized the cooperation with CJ Entertainment, Jung Hyuk-jae is more at ease. The two parties finalized the time for signing the contract, and Kang Sung-sin left the cafe with a smile, and passers-by could see his bright mood.

Seeing the back of Kang Sung-sin leaving, Jung Hyuk-jae sat quietly in the cafe for a while, then got up and left. As for the bill, Kang Sung-sin had already settled the bill before he left.

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Seoul Cineworld Entertainment, as a film production company founded by Lee Joon-ik himself, after several years of development, although there is no way to compare it with a large company like CJ Entertainment, It can’t be compared to a potential company with strong financial resources such as Lotte Entertainment, but it has a good momentum of development in small and medium film production companies.

Before the filming of “The King and The Clown”, Cineworld Entertainment did not have too many works that can be obtained. It can only be said to be a food and clothing. After all, Lee Joon-ik is just a director. The problem of keeping the industry is still a bit inadequate, without the thinking of entrepreneurs, otherwise Cineworld Entertainment will not have those difficult years, and it is almost bankrupt.

Fortunately, Lee Joon-ik’s re-directed “Mount Huang” has successfully rescued Cineworld Entertainment, otherwise the company that cost Lee Joon-ik a lot of effort may disappear.

Jung Hyuk-jae came to Cineworld Entertainment at 2:30 in the afternoon, and everyone had just started work. The young lady at the front desk of the company immediately bent over and respectfully said, “Jung Hyuk-jae -ssi, hello!” because of the relationship between “The King and The Clown”, Cineworld Entertainment and JHJFilm Jung Hyuk-jae has been to Cineworld Entertainment many times, and the young lady at the front desk of the company has almost become acquainted with him.

“Relax, I won’t eat people!” Seeing the nervous expression of the girl at the front desk, Jung Hyuk-jae waved his hand, “Are you Boss back?”

Seeing a small face on Jung Hyuk-jae’s face, the girl at the front desk blushed and said to Jung Hyuk-jae: “The boss came here in the morning, but it seems that the mood is not very good.”

Jung Hyuk-jae nodded expresses his understanding. I have also been like this for a while. It seems that there is a professional term. It seems to be called’new film release stress syndrome’. As for which doctor gave it the name , The doctor’s name happens to be Jung Hyuk-jae.

“I see, goodbye, beautiful Young Lady!”

Looking at the back of Jung Hyuk-jae’s departure, the two girls at the front desk have not been able to come back to His senses, encouragement for a while, only then did the two of them react, one of them was holding their hot red cheeks, and the other was praying with their hands together.

“I have decided, I want to chase him!” A girl suddenly spoke, solemnly vowed. Another girl heard her colleague’s words and couldn’t help but look at her brightly. Before the colleague could react from her beautiful fantasy, she had stretched out her right hand and pressed it against her colleague’s forehead, “Jingmei , You won’t be screaming!”

“Fuck, you are screaming!” The famous Jingmei’s sister gave her angrily.

“It’s not a groan, then you have a fever, how can you daydream in broad daylight!” She continued to dispel the curiosity of her colleagues.

“What do you do not daydream in broad daylight!” Jingmei said as she stared at Jung Hyuk-jae’s back through the glass curtain wall behind her, she had a pair of pretty eyeballs. A heart shape is almost floating in it.

“Okay, okay, don’t be disgusting, no matter how daydreaming, people won’t look at you!” Seeing her colleague’s nymphomaniac, she was so angry In all cases, it is necessary to verbally dispel the enthusiasm of colleagues in this matter.

“Who made me naturally beautiful? Men saw me and fell under my pomegranate skirt!” Then, she took out the mirror under the table and carefully sorted it through the mirror. Everyone who sees his own hair will call it “perfect”!

“Oh…” Listening to Jingmei’s “narcissism”, she couldn’t stand it anymore, as if there was a foreign body in her throat.

“Haha! I lied to you.”

“You missy!”

For the two girls at the front desk behind him, Jung Hyuk-jae didn’t think too much, and didn’t expect that the topic of the girls would whirl on him. After walking twenty steps from the door to the inside of the company, he was already standing in front of the editing room. Before he opened the door to enter, he had heard the quarrel coming from the house.

“No, no! This cut is not at all possible, so the plot is completely scattered, the audience will be confused at the end, how can this work!”

“Old Lee, it’s okay to do this, so don’t worry!”

Only hearing Lee Joon-ik arguing with someone, Jung Hyuk-jae was able to guess that the two were arguing endlessly. The reason is for what, in fact, simply don’t have to guess, it must be because of the editing of the movie.

If it is said that the completion of the filming is half of the ten thousand li Long March, then the post-production, editing and soundtrack will be a hurdle in the second half of the ten thousand li Long March, only to say it is finished. Only at this stage can the film production be fully completed.

“Brother Li? Brother Zhao?”

The two people in the editing room were still arguing with their red necks when they suddenly heard someone calling their name, and then turned their heads. After seeing Jung Hyuk-jae, the two of them couldn’t help but blush. They were ashamed and ashamed to throw them in front of the younger generation.

“Oh, it’s Hyuk-jae~ah, why are you free today?” Fortunately, Lee Joon-ik reacted quickly and stood up when he saw Jung Hyuk-jae , Took Jung Hyuk-jae’s arm into the room, and closed the door of the editing room so as not to be overheard by the subordinates outside the door.

After all, they are all adults. Lee Joon-ik and the editor are even more sophisticated characters. After the embarrassment just now, they immediately reflected. The old face didn’t blush anymore, and he spoke. It was neat, “Why did you come over and have a look today?”

“I heard that the film is already in post-production and editing, and it happens to have time this afternoon, so I wanted to come over and have a look.” said Then, Jung Hyuk-jae glanced at the screen on the table, and it seemed that the two people quarreled because of this section.

“There are not many places where special effects are needed in the later stage. In fact, the most important thing is editing.” Lee Joon-ik said truthfully.

Film editing is a very magical technique. With a few’scissors’ down, the fragmented and broken scene seems to be alive.

Like movies, film editing is also an art. If the director understands Screenwriter’s intentions and creates a world, then the editor undoubtedly understands the director’s intentions and breaks this world. Rebuild again, but the director and editor will inevitably have a difference in concept, such as this time.

Lee Joon-ik has his own ideas, and the editor also has his own plans. No one can persuade anyone, “The public says the public is reasonable, the mother says the mother is reasonable”, not only Lee Joon-ik and the editor Brother Zhao has a headache, even Jung Hyuk-jae, who has just been here for a while, feels a little headache.

I want to shoot TV series at the beginning, but the final post-production is not so troublesome. Most of the time, Jung Hyuk-jae is staring at the post-editing, and in Production crew, Jung Hyuk-jae speaks stand by. The master of one’s word, it’s really not as compatible as fire and water like Lee Joon-ik and the editor. After all, the editing work at the time was the final decision. Another reason was that it was a TV series. And this is a movie, the difference between the two is completely different.

After all, the TV series are filmed according to the number of episodes. I won’t say that the filming is so trivial like a movie. I took this shot during the day and the shot again at night. I just finished shooting today and started. Camera, the 2nd day is about to shoot the Grand Finale scene, this is the movie.

Because the picture is too trivial, the importance of the editor is highlighted at this time. Although the director is Helmsman in film production, the filming process is too complicated and it is inevitable that there will be omissions. local. All the clips of “The King and The Clown” add up to nearly five hours and three hundred minutes, which is a considerable amount of work.

There are causes and climaxes in writing, and there are also in movies. The flat and straightforward film structure does not attract the attention of the audience at all. It’s just that the first cut version of the movie lasts for nearly three hundred minutes. No matter how good the story is, the audience’s patience will wear out sooner or later after nearly five hours of watching the movie.

Modern movies, especially commercial movies, rarely have more than 120 minutes. Generally, the total length of movies is about 10 minutes to 120 minutes. “The King The first cut version of “and The Clown” has three hundred minutes, which means that at least one hundred and eighty minutes of footage needs to be deleted. This is a very hard work for the editor.

Three hundred minutes, every shot and picture in it was taken by the director’s hard work. Lee Joon-ik was naturally reluctant to cut it, but it must be cut for the sake of the length of the movie. Lee Joon-ik is reluctant to start, Lee Joon-ik is reluctant, but the editor is accustomed to the black hand, he is the most willing one, so there is the arguing between the previous two.

“Dangdang…”

Looking at Jung Hyuk-jae sitting in front of him, Lee Joon-ik was about to ask something when he heard someone knock The door shouted: “Mr. Li, Master Zhao, the takeaway is here for you.”

A smile appeared on Lee Joon-ik’s face when he heard the subordinates outside the door, and then he stood there. I got up and came to the door, opened the door, “Give this to me.”

“Brother Junyi, you guys haven’t eaten yet, are you?” Jung Hyuk-jae said in surprise.

When he heard Jung Hyuk-jae’s words, Lee Joon-ik couldn’t help but give him a blank look. Isn’t this nonsense? Who wants to order takeaway after dinner?

Lee Joon-ik didn’t speak, but the editor Zhao Ge explained, “It’s more than lunch, I didn’t even have breakfast, and it’s even more drooling from morning till now. I didn’t drink much.”

Lee Joon-ik passed the jajangmyeon in his hand to him, and passed a pair of chopsticks over, opened the plastic wrap, poured the sauce into the bowl, and stirred. Asked.

“Didn’t you tell me to continue letting CJ Entertainment do the distribution of this movie? Why did you mean that I’ve heard it changed in the morning?”

I heard Lee Joon In the case of -ik, Jung Hyuk-jae explained it. In fact, this matter is also easy to explain. “The publisher has not changed, but an agent publisher has been added. CJ Entertainment is also one of our publishers.”

Hearing what Jung Hyuk-jae said, Lee Joon-ik was relieved. In fact, he gave the movie to CJ Entertainment for distribution. He was quite relieved. After all, CJ Entertainment has a big business and publicity. There are also many channels. You only need to promote the movie. The number of viewers at the end is definitely not bad. If the distributor is not CJ Entertainment, then Lee Joon-ik really think about it. In order to shoot this movie, Lee Joon-ik is almost the same. Put all the working capital on the company’s books into it. If the number of movie viewers is not ideal, this is a pain for Cineworld Entertainment!

“In addition to CJ Entertainment, Lotte Entertainment is also the distributor of our movie.” Jung Hyuk-jae said.