Chapter 385 "Ghost hits the wall" in music!
The reason why we need to make snippets of music first.
Precisely because this clip is so unique.
This is one of the most standout moments in the movie.
"Space Elevator"!
The lens language of this space elevator, in Director Guo's design, is a long lens that combines movement, stretching, amplification and other means.
What is a long lens?
There is just no transition.
One shot to the end!
Except for the connecting paragraphs that need to be paved before.
The long shot showing the entire space elevator from end to end lasted 55 seconds!
Obviously, such important lens design and distribution informed Li Jinglin that this was a huge climax and an important part of promoting the audience's emotions.
What Director Guo wants to achieve is to use such a long lens.
Driven by a sci-fi romantic mood taken to the extreme.
Combining music and images to achieve the ultimate "audio-visual experience".
Let the whole place explode.
It is really the top priority.
Pictures, camera techniques, and music are all indispensable.
This is a big challenge for composers.
The difficulty does not mean how important this lens is, or how handsome it is, and how to match it.
Instead, it's another question.
How can we ensure that there are no urine spots at all during these 55 seconds, so that the music and images can maintain the "driving force" of the space elevator rising into space during these 55 seconds?
Yes.
For up to 55 seconds, there is a continuous and continuous pushing feeling on the back.
You need to use images, lenses, music, audition, and use synaesthesia.
The "back-pushing feeling" of the space elevator is also brought to the audience.
"Brother Lin? Is this difficult?"
The person here who knows Li Jinglin’s musical abilities best is undoubtedly Huang Jun.
Huang Jun has also watched Li Jinglin's composition scenes many times.
But being able to show such an excited expression is very rare.
Almost as long as he shows such an expression, it means that this task is very difficult and cannot be achieved by anyone.
But it also represents the birth of god-level music.
"Well, it's really difficult."
Li Jinglin nodded.
"This shot is too long, 55 seconds, but there are no peeing spots. Almost every frame has the ultimate visual impact."
"Music is an art with ups and downs, and it's really not easy to coordinate well."
If you look at it as an ordinary person.
Maybe you will feel that.
It's not that difficult.
Can't I just blow it up?
But it doesn’t work.
The impact of music on emotions is far more complex than imagined.
Why can music bring emotional impact to people?
Among them, one of the most important influencing factors.
It’s “contrast”!
Almost everyone knows that if you write a beautiful character and then give her a knife, if it is handled well, the strong contrast will form a huge contrast and cause a huge fluctuation in emotions.
This is it.
The same goes for music.
In music, the reason why people feel that emotions can rise and fall with the music.
It is precisely because of "contrast".
This contrast.
It includes the contrast of the colors of major and minor keys, the contrast of warm and cold tones of musical instruments, the contrast of light and dark chords, the contrast of volume, and the contrast of slow and tense rhythms.
wait wait wait.
But now that there are these comparisons.
That means good music is never static.
The reason why many people feel that some popular music is boring or inexplicably unpleasant after listening to it too much.
It is the sameness that results from being too formulaic.
There are ups and downs, and there are ups and downs.
For an ordinary musician, it would be hard to even imagine this.
What kind of music can continuously give the audience a "push-back" feeling for up to 55 seconds?
Whenever there is too obvious a contrast at 55 seconds, it is easy for the audience to feel that the 55 seconds of continuous ascent to the sky is not as exciting as imagined.
But once there is a lack of contrast, it will quickly make people feel tired.
The aesthetic fatigue of music affects the subconscious emotions for the first time and pushes the time limit.
That is definitely much shorter than 55 seconds.
Just like any explosive music.
In a high-burning paragraph, it is difficult to be as long as 55 seconds.
This is why Li Jinglin became interested.
I want the music to have contrast, but it must also give the audience a pushing feeling that lasts for 55 seconds.
Let’s look at it in terms of music creation.
At least at first glance.
This is a contradictory proposition.
It's like your wife wants you to go slower and harder, or she wants you to go faster and you want to be gentler.
If it's not good enough, the soundtrack will be absolutely mediocre.
But it was mediocre and obviously unacceptable to Director Guo.
because.
This 55-second long shot.
Cost per second.
Starting price is 300,000.
With more than 10 million shots thrown in, the music requirements are naturally extremely strict.
"That's why I say it's difficult."
Li Jinglin explained in detail.
Everyone nodded understandingly.
After all, who isn’t a filmmaker?
Filmmakers may not understand music, but they must know something about soundtracks.
It's not difficult to explain.
"Don't tell me. When you explain it like this, I suddenly feel that it is indeed contradictory!"
Sha Yi frowned.
"It's like having ups and downs, and constantly going up."
"you are right."
Li Jinglin chuckled.
"There's this paradox in geometry called the Penrose Step."
"You keep walking up, but the steps are connected end to end."
"It looks like you keep climbing, but actually the level remains the same."
"I know this!"
Sha Yi's eyes lit up.
"Isn't this Inception?" "Yes, that's it."
Li Jinglin nodded.
"The hanging soul ladder described in Ghost Blowing Lantern also has such a structure."
Everyone suddenly became interested.
I also feel the difficulty of composing music more intuitively.
"In other words, you need to achieve a Penrose-style work in music?"
Director Guo frowned and started thinking.
"Probably, music actually has ups and downs, but it also gives people a feeling of constant upward movement?"
"Or is it an illusion?"
"Well, almost."
Li Jinglin nodded.
In fact, when Li Jinglin knew the mission, he had already prepared the structure.
The principle is actually very simple.
Take advantage of the octave relationship.
do, and high-pitched do.
The listening experience is completely similar, only the difference in height is felt.
And when different instruments are interspersed and matched, they are not only similar, but may also be confused.
Utilize the octave relationship and the homophonic interplay of different instruments to connect the beginning and end of the instruments.
It will appear that the music is constantly rising, but in fact the pitch is spinning in place within the octave range.
It forms an auditory ghost wall.
It is also the "Penrose Steps" in the field of music.
Li Jinglin's confirmation made everyone feel surprised.
illusion.
It sounds, even feels, like a musical illusion.
Well known.
Illusion, fantasy.
Those who play these things, whether they are in anime, movies, novels, or games.
Basically all of them can only be played by characters with high IQs.
At the very least, the "spiritual" or "intelligence" attribute must be quite high.
For example, Aizen in "Bleach", Uchiha Itachi in "Naruto", and Rokudo Skeleton in "Tutor"
Except for the weird "JOJO".
And I want to get involved in music production.
It really feels a bit outrageous.
The truth is actually so outrageous.
If this request were made to music composers in the industry.
It’s not that others can’t do it.
But I will definitely have a headache for a while.
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He glanced at everyone.
Li Jinglin curled his lips.
I still kept what I wanted to say in my stomach.
Actually.
How this music needs to make people feel.
This constant pushing feeling.
You can also add an extra layer of “insurance processing”.
This "insurance processing" is very subtle and interesting, but it is not easy to talk about.
It's not a trade secret.
If you must say.
Let’s use another easy-to-understand description, that is.
"Inch Stop Challenge".
Yes.
Although it is outrageous.
But it’s really vivid.
Stop by an inch once, stop by an inch twice, and stop by an inch three times.
It keeps falling back to 0 at key nodes where the charge reaches %, then rises to charge and then falls back again.
Form "inch stop".
Everyone who loves to play DIO should know it.
The harder you hold it in, the harder it is to stop
The process of stopping lasts longer.
Then, the duration of the emotional outburst will be longer.
You can talk a lot, or even keep talking without being able to stop.
This makes it easier to express the complete ascension to the sky in a long shot.
Although, it's a bit unbelievable that these two things are related.
But the end of this world
Still Thurs.
Of course, there's more to it than that.
After chatting for a while, Li Jinglin retrieved the documents and temporarily returned to the hotel to settle down and prepare to have dinner with everyone.
Quite a few ideas have appeared in Li Jinglin's mind.
It's similar to using the friction sound of Dubstep electronic drums to create a friction feeling that is similar to metal but completely different from metal.
You can even suggest that the space elevator is made of carbon nanotubes.
Yes, sound can not only express the sense of technology, but also any technology can express it clearly to you.
Sense of steam technology and cyber technology, space technology
Various senses of technology are expressed through the "material sense" of music.
With various thoughts, Li Jinglin walked into the box booked by Director Guo.
"Okay, Lao Li, don't think about music for now. Drink less today."
Director Guo smiled and patted Li Jinglin on the shoulder.
The party wasn't big, nor was it a "dinner party."
That is, just chatting and drinking casually with Director Guo, Sha Yi, Wu Jing, and Huang Jun.
Sha Yi was startled by Li Jinglin at first.
It was a bit reserved at first.
After all, the name of a person is the shadow of a tree.
But after three rounds of drinking and becoming more familiar with each other, Sha Yi was surprised to find that
This "demon in the entertainment industry" is actually the easiest person to get along with.
There is no need to consider the twists and turns in the entertainment industry, it is very comfortable to go straight.
He smacked his lips.
Sha Yi felt it again.
What is truly pathological is just the entertainment industry.
If the space elevator clip is paired with other high-burning music.
Many people will find it tasteless, or even inferior to the original song.
In fact, this is not a question of whether the music is good or bad.
But what I said in the article is that the emotional contrast of the music and the 55 seconds of pushing back created a conflicting problem.
For example, a toothpick cannot rinse a large vat.
And precisely because this soundtrack is very unique and exquisite, it is quite suitable for any roller coaster, high-speed rail, train, airplane and other high-speed and long-term moving things.
It's because music has a long-lasting sense of pushing back.
(End of this chapter)
