After the screening of the entries, the big screen returned to darkness. A few seconds later, a sudden voice sounded from the guest seats under the stage. It was a beauty wearing a slim-fitting evening dress.
She stood on the steps and continued to speak as she walked towards the stage. Judging from the tiny microphone next to her mouth and the equipment tied to her waist, she was obviously the host of today's award ceremony.
The screen lit up, recording the scene of the female host arriving in real time. Qin Jue was interested in listening to her introduction, but unfortunately his level was limited and he was unable to speak the Onelian language. He could only make the background board seriously, wait patiently, and applaud at the right time.
About ten minutes later, the female host who was already standing on one side of the podium paused briefly. As she gestured with her hand, the camera on her shoulder swayed across the front row of seats, and the three members of the official jury of the 82nd Venazzola International Film Festival stood up and stepped onto the stage amid the introduction.
At the same time, there were official interpreters who did not know where they were simultaneously translating Onelian into English, which solved the language problems of some of the guests present.
Following the tradition of previous years, the jury president of this film festival is director Melia Finley, who won the "Best Film Award" last time. One of the two vice-chairmen is "Best Screenwriter" Tadel Stephen, and the other is actress Pana Velasquez.
Qin Jue heard from He Xu’s assistant about the number of vice-chairmen. He Xu was said to have won the “Best Director Award” and “Best Screenplay Award”, “Best Actor Award” and “Best Screenplay Award” respectively in the previous session. The two winners of the "Actress Award" were invited to choose one, and now it seems that this is indeed the case.
Immediately afterwards, the big-screen lens showed close-ups of the remaining jury members one by one. These highly respected directors, playwrights and producers do not go on stage to award awards, but they are always available to follow them to ensure the gold content of the reaction.
The chairman and vice chairman sat down facing the audience and interacted with the host appropriately, thus making the scene a little less serious.
During this short chat, the hostess in a long black dress walked onto the stage in a low-key manner from the other side.
The host ended the topic naturally and directed the attention of everyone present to the stage to the left of the judges. There, several vertical pillars slowly rise in two rows, with different heights. Eleven trophies are placed on the top square table in sequence.
What's special is that among them, only the golden trophy with the "Lifetime Achievement Award" printed on the nameplate on the countertop is covered by a spotless glass cover. Thinking of the special nature of this award, Qin Jue speculated that perhaps the "Lifetime Achievement Award" would not be awarded this year, but that it would be required to appear at the current stage as usual.
Without any gimmicks or appetizing speeches, the host announced the official start of the 82nd Venazzola International Film Festival Awards Ceremony with a smile.
"The works nominated for this year's 'Best Documentary' award include: 'Pulse of the Earth', 'Return to the Wolves', and 'Civilization: 30° North'."
The female host's tone was uneven, "Now I would like to ask the chairperson of the jury, Ms. Finley, to announce the award results."
Melia Finley, who had light green eyes, pushed up her half-rimmed glasses, moved slightly closer to the desktop microphone, and spoke slowly:
"The winner of this year's 'Best Documentary' is——"
""Civilization: 30° North"!"
As soon as she finished speaking, a burst of majestic music resounded throughout the audience. Amidst the applause, a dark-skinned man in a suit left his seat in surprise and surprise. The camera recorded his walking towards the stage.
The hostess took the trophy from the podium and handed it to the award presenter Tedder Stephen who had already stood up. When the chief director of "Civilization: 30° North" walked onto the stage, what awaited him was the "Best Documentary" trophy, which symbolized honor and recognition.
"Thank you very much."
The chief director thanked him profusely in English with a strong accent.
With tears in his eyes, he came to the standing microphone in the center with a delicate and compact trophy in his hands. When delivering his acceptance speech, he still couldn't suppress his excitement, and his voice broke several times.
Qin Jue and others applauded together. When the chief director mentioned that it took seven years to shoot this documentary, he was deeply moved and clapped even harder.
There is a consensus inside and outside the industry that planning and filming a documentary is thankless. Those who can persist in filming and succeed must have a strong love behind their perseverance.
After finishing his speech, the chief director came off the stage with a lot of gratitude, holding his trophy firmly in his arms all the way.
The close-up shot on the live screen cut back to the host. She paused and announced the shortlist for the next award, "Best Restoration Film Award."
Film restoration has always been a niche industry. If other literary and artistic practitioners are "creating", then restorers engaged in this industry are "rescuing".
Save culture, save history.
Films produced in the old era all rely on film. As time goes by, the film turns yellow and the content is damaged, and a classic work may disappear from the world. Therefore, the first thing film restorers have to do is to clean the film, physically repair it, and then digitally convert the film, refine the picture, restore the color, and synthesize and export it. After all this is done, they have to go through the screen again. Confirming the results also identifies the repair technology. *
Only after the first five processes are completed can the old film be declared successfully restored, and what awaits it is a diverse collection of restorers full of joy.
Due to the rapid development of contemporary science and technology, many people think that restoring movies is a simple job, such as "throwing the 480p video into a small program and waiting for export, and then uploading it after the ultra-high-definition quality results are available." But in fact, the level of difficulty and arduousness of film restoration and documentary shooting are almost the same. They are all the hard work of the workers behind the scenes.
However, times are changing, and some ideas and concepts are also changing. For example, the "Best Restoration Film Award" at the Venazzola International Film Festival expanded the scope of the awards a few years ago to include "reproduced films".
Although the names of film restoration and film restoration are similar, in a sense they are two different things. Restoring movies focuses on "restoration", which aims to show the truest and original appearance of classic movies to the public; while re-enacting movies focuses on "reappearance", which aims to restore plots, shots, etc. The process is no different from ordinary movies. Second, it’s all “preparation, mid-term shooting, and post-production adjustments.”
In other words, replicating a movie is equivalent to having a ready-made script and storyboard. There is no need for any adaptation or the addition of new ideas. The producer or director only needs to select and determine the roles, and then follow the rules. Just shoot it.
When the concept of replicating movies was first born, people were criticized for "eating what is ready-made" and "using the achievements of predecessors to embellished one's own face." However, this is also a misunderstanding. The reason for the emergence of replica movies is that some classics cannot be safely restored on the physical level for various reasons. If they want to be reproduced in the world, they can only compare the incompleteness. An incomplete remake.
Just like this remake of the movie "The Beauty" that competes with "Searching for Uloda", the film of its original film "Cornflower Lover" was burned in a fire and very little was left. The producer wanted it to be released because of some complex feelings. Active on the silver screen again, so after two years of searching, I pieced together the storyboard and rough plot based on feedback from viewers who had watched the film in the past, and started a new team to shoot again.
Unfortunately, the "Best Restoration Film Award" not only looks at "repair" and "restoration", the quality of the film itself will also be taken into consideration. A large number of missing plots in the original work make the overall story line of "Peerless Beauty" full of myths, and it fails to clearly restore the thoughts and feelings of the original creator. Therefore, the jury president Melia finally announced that the winner of the award was "Looking for Uroda" directed by Lupo Vincent and starring Quentin Visconti.
After the two awards, it came to the "Best Short Film Award".
The criteria for classifying short films at the EU Federal "Three Special" Film Festival are all within 45 minutes. The award-winning film at this year's Venazzola International Film Festival is called "Clockworker". The whole film is 27 minutes. The story begins when the protagonist accidentally enters the hotel. Somewhere, everyone who accidentally discovers this place has a small clockwork embedded in his back.
Under the control of clockwork, everyone works and lives step by step. The child wakes up at the same time every morning, secretly pours out half of the milk at the same time, goes to and from school at the same time, and is invited by the neighbor's children to play football together. His mother, the hotel proprietress, gets up at the same time, makes breakfast at the time, and comes to school at the time. I sit downstairs at the front desk. When someone comes, I stand up and say introductions, ask questions about guests, collect money and give directions. I just sit there when no one is there. I keep sitting there. The frequency of breathing and blinking is exactly the same and has never changed.
After the protagonist observed it, he became very curious, so he unplugged the clockwork while the landlady was taking her regular nap.
The boss lady who lost her clockwork did not show any abnormality after waking up, and still worked regularly and steadily. After being confused, the protagonist lost interest and forgot about the clockwork in his pocket.
He was traveling and wandering from scenic spots to slums. He saw a homeless man lying on the ground, not knowing whether he was dead or alive. He also found that there was only a gap in the tramp's clothes on his back and there was no spring, so he inserted the spring that he pulled out from the landlady's body into the tramp's body.
A miraculous thing happened. The tramp started to kick his legs. He came to life, but as if he didn't see the protagonist, he turned around and went back to the bench to sit paralyzed. He groaned from time to time and stretched out his hand to turn the broken bowl in front of him - -It turned out that he was a beggar who begged regularly.
The protagonist couldn't help but smile, feeling that he had discovered a huge secret. When he returned to the hotel, he saw the windless landlady lying on the counter and falling into a coma, as if dead, which further supported his inference.
Out of some bad taste of "helping others", the protagonist began to pull out more clockworks, making those who lost their clockworks comatose and sleep, and then inserted new clockworks into those who had no clockworks. Look at them. Wake up and return to your regular routine.
Gradually, the protagonist became addicted to it and joked to himself, "This is to help them take regular vacations."
He does this kind of prank every day.
Every day he walked out of the hotel door, unplugged the clockwork along the way, inserted the clockwork along the way, and returned to the hotel room.
He wakes up at the same time every day with his eyes open and closes his eyes at the same time every day to sleep.
One day, he accidentally touched his back.
I don't know when there was a small clockwork there.
*The source of the information is Vogue Me-Intern in the World, compiled by Wei Xixian and Dayan
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Accidentally passed midnight, yesterday’s update.
3000+, totaling 6,000 words together with the 3000+ chapters of 12.18. In addition to the updates for 12.18 and 12.19, 12.9 updates have been added.
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