Chapter 20 Filming Completed

At sunset, Nanaya's camera was set up on the corridor on the third floor of the abandoned building that served as the Fujou Building, filming Ryougi Shiki looking up at the building.

"I didn't expect to end up back here."

Originally, in order to allocate the budget reasonably, they started shooting the scenes of Fujou Building first, but unexpectedly, because of the heroine's affairs, Nanaya finally returned here to finish it.

The saying "unpredictable things in life" probably refers to situations like this.

Because these shots all have wide views, Nanaya used a wide-angle lens for the first time to shoot the scene from above.

In order to make the pictures more poetic, he specially captured the sunrise in the early morning and the sunset in the evening. Although similar effects can be achieved by using filters, Nanaya feels that the realism is stronger under natural light.

Of course, Nanaya was able to do this because Illya's funding greatly alleviated the funding gap of the crew, and also gave Nanaya the capital to waste like this.

However, the time periods of dusk and dawn were too short, so it took the crew several days to finish just a few shots, which greatly delayed the filming progress.

If the footage Nanaya shared with everyone wasn't really good, someone in the crew would have complained.

Today is the fifth day that the crew has been shooting at dusk, and it should also be the last day.

Nanaya stood on the third floor and looked at the images in his camera. He was very satisfied with the current lighting effect.

"Shonan! Lower your camera a little more." Nanaya controlled Shonan Rantaro, who was shooting the ground shot, through the loudspeaker, "After I start here, you will immediately do a 720-degree surround shot of Ori, especially slow down the speed every time you take a close-up of her face, do you understand?!"

Shonan didn't respond directly, but he raised his hand and made an OK gesture.

"Ori, show me your ice beauty expression! The cooler the better!"

"Do you believe me or not? I will cut you into pieces with a knife!" Upon hearing Nanaya's adjective "ice beauty", Ori went berserk.

However, Nanaya gave a thumbs up with great satisfaction: "Very good, this is the expression! Action!"

Following Nanaya's order, Ori immediately put on a serious expression and looked up at the camera, his eyes filled with anger and fighting spirit...

"Perfect!"

After this scene ended, Nanaya didn't use a loudspeaker but shouted to everyone with a hoarse voice: "Now, I declare... all the filming of "Kara no Kyoukai" is over!"

After shouting this, Nanaya sat down on the ground. He felt as if he had lost all strength.

There was a sparse applause. After such a long period of intense work, everyone in the crew was exhausted both physically and mentally. Now that the movie was finally completed, they felt more relieved than happy.

With the purpose of saving money, and based on the principle of using transvestites as women, women as men, and men as animals, Nanaya can be said to have squeezed the labor of everyone in the crew to the maximum.

Fortunately, Nanaya is from Japan, where people are used to hard work and endurance. If he were in Hollywood, the various unions would come to his door and ask him to stop filming.

After finishing the filming, the crew immediately sealed up all the filming materials and waited for the post-production team to process them.

Then Nanaya took out the little remaining filming funds and treated all the crew members to a good meal at a nearby barbecue restaurant, which served as a wrap-up party.

The crew members, who had been eating cheap lunch boxes for almost two months, did not hold back. They ate barbecue and drank cold beer, and almost finished all the ingredients of the barbecue restaurant that day.

Therefore, the next day, many people in the crew reportedly suffered from indigestion symptoms due to overeating.

"You're not young anymore, haven't you ever thought that eating too much is bad for your stomach?"

Nanaya, who didn't spend too much because he felt sorry for the budget, looked at the staff who had collapsed with a bit of gloating. He was very lucky that he had escaped the disaster because of his stinginess.

"Shut up you bastard!"

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As the filming is completed, most people in the crew will get a very long vacation to adjust their work status, and then devote themselves to the work of the next film with full energy.

However, this group does not include several important later workers, including Nanaya.

After taking only one day off to get some sleep, Nanaya immediately started working on the post-production with Shonan Rantaro, Ikeda Subaru and Ryougi Ori.

For a movie, post-production is generally divided into three parts: shot editing, shot special effects, and sound effects production. Of course, any one of these will have many branch tasks that need to be completed one by one.

With the development of the film industry, the proportion of film post-production in the entire film project will become more and more important. The situation where one month of shooting and half a year of post-production is basically the norm in the film industry after 2010.

The post-production of "Kara no Kyoukai" was not that complicated, but for a movie with only 4 people doing the post-production, each person had a heavy burden.

The only thing that made Nanaya feel lucky was that he had the final editing rights of the film, which at least saved a lot of time from wrangling.

The first thing Nanaya did was to divide the four people present into groups. Ori's job was to stay at the animation company that accepted the special effects outsourcing of the "Kara no Kyoukai" crew, and supervise and follow up the production of special effects pictures; Ikeda took the crew's only remaining 200,000 yen to find musicians to produce music for "Kara no Kyoukai"; and he and Shonan Rantaro edited the shots that did not require special effects production in advance.

The editing room was unusually quiet at this moment. Nanaya held his chin with both hands and watched the footage on the monitor intently.

Thanks to Nanaya's previous experience watching the theatrical version of "Kara no Kyoukai", he had a draft of the shots at the beginning of filming. This not only allowed him to shoot far fewer shots than ordinary film directors, but also made his editing work extremely smooth.

"Rantaro." Nanaya instructed Shonan, "Try changing the A17's lens to the A20."

"Okay, Nanaya-san~?"

Shonan immediately replaced the lens he needed according to Nanaya's instructions. He had no dissatisfaction with his job positioning. Rather, he felt that this job, which did not require him to use his brain and follow orders, was very suitable for him.

Of course, it would be even more perfect if he could change his frivolous tone and stop playing games secretly.

The scene was replayed, and the monitor screen showed Ryougi Shiki walking on the street.

"Keep lens A20 for 7 seconds... No, 6 seconds. At the 7th second, Adachi Satomi's face is revealed."

Although the inclusion of her face in the film was deemed an infringement of her portrait rights at someone's request, this did not mean that all previously filmed footage was invalidated.

If the face can't be shown, then the back can be used, right? And aren't the silhouette and the head and below the camera also usable materials?

You have to know that Illya's funding was only 5 million yen, which would definitely not be enough to reshoot all the shots of Ryougi Shiki's appearances. So Nanaya, who transformed into Zhou Baopi, tried his best to use the previously shot shots, and then used Ori's shots to graft them.

Fortunately, Ori, Sera and Adachi Satomi are of similar body shapes, otherwise Nanaya wouldn't be able to play like this.

Anyway, when the time comes, we just need to announce to the public that all the shots were taken by Ryougi Ori. No matter whether others believe it or not, Nanaya himself believes it.

Bang!

Just as Nanaya was concentrating on splicing the shots, the door of the editing room was suddenly pushed open, and Subaru Ikeda walked into the room with a helpless look on his face.

"Passed again?"

When he heard the other party come in without cheering, Nanaya guessed the result.

Ikeda rolled his eyes and said, "Yeah, this is the eighth rejection. Your budget of 200,000 is really too little. No one wants to take this job. And your alternatives are all those famous music producers. Do you know that after I quoted the price, they all looked at me like I was an idiot?!"

Nanaya curled his lips in disdain: "These short-sighted guys, wait and regret it like those screenwriters who rejected "Iron Man" in the future!"

Although he admitted that he wanted the horse to run but not eat grass,

"What movie was that?"

At this time in 2000, Marvel was still struggling on the brink of bankruptcy, and the "Iron Man" movie plan was still in its infancy.

As the future leader of the MCU, he is not well-known outside the American comics circle, and is even less well-known in Japan, the graveyard of superheroes. So Ikeda Subaru didn't understand Nanaya's words at all.

"Forget it. You should think of a solution quickly. Musicians need time to create. Don't let the time pass when someone is willing to do it but there is not enough time." Ikeda complained while sitting in an empty seat.

Nanaya put his hands on the back of his head and said, "So where can I find music producers with high quality and low prices~"

"Who said Nanaya-san is such a stingy person~?"

Seeing that Nanaya temporarily stopped editing and entered a state of thinking, Shonan directly turned on the computer in the editing room and started playing games.

"Shonan! You're slacking off again!"

After discovering this situation, Nanaya immediately gave this guy a throat lock.

"It's going to break, it's going to break~?"

"Stop disgusting me! Huh? What are you playing?" Nanaya looked at the picture on the screen and found that the round face full of pixel flavor looked a little familiar.

Nanaya let go of Shonan and looked at the screen thoughtfully: "It seems that the problem has been solved."