Chapter 1049: Vinazola International Film Festival Awards Ceremony (V) (1219)
Chapter 1049: Awards Ceremony of the Venazola International Film Festival (V) (12.19)
After the screening of the highlights of the entries, the big screen returned to darkness. A few seconds later, a voice suddenly sounded from the guest seats below the stage. It was a beautiful woman in a slim evening dress.
She stood on the steps and continued to speak while walking towards the stage. Judging from the micro microphone beside her mouth and the equipment tied behind her waist, she was obviously the host of today's awards ceremony.
The screen lit up and captured the scene of the female host approaching in real time. Qin Jue listened to her introduction with the help of the simultaneous interpretation in the headphones. There was no problem in understanding the meaning of the sentence. Unfortunately, he was not a native speaker after all, so he could only slightly appreciate the poetic beauty of this opening speech from the relatively faithful and elegant translation and the rhyme of her words.
About ten minutes later, the female host who was already standing on the podium on the side paused. As she extended her hand to signal, the shoulder-carrying travel machine swung past the front row of seats, and three members of the official jury of the 82nd Venazola International Film Festival stood up and stepped onto the stage in the introduction.
At the same time, there were official interpreters who were not known where they were translating the Onelian language into English. Seeing that the language problem was solved, Qin Jue naturally raised his thumb and rubbed his hair. In the process, he had already taken off the pocket interpreter headset to avoid unnecessary signal interference.
Following the tradition of previous years, the jury chairman of this film festival was Melia Finley, the director who won the "Best Film Award" last year. One of the two vice chairmen was "Best Screenwriter" Ted Stevens, and the other was the actress Hiana Velasquez.
Qin Jue had heard from He Xu's assistant about the number of vice chairmen. It was said that the invitation was sent out from the winners of the "Best Director Award" and "Best Screenwriter Award" and the winners of the "Best Actor Award" and "Best Actress Award" last year. Now it seems to be true.
Immediately afterwards, the big screen gave close-ups of the remaining jury members one by one. These respected directors, playwrights and producers did not go on stage to present awards, but there were cameras watching them at any time to ensure the quality of the reaction.
The chairman and vice chairman sat facing the audience and interacted with the host appropriately, which reduced the solemnity of the scene.
During the short chat, a hostess in a black dress walked onto the stage from the other side in a low-key manner.
The host ended the topic naturally and guided the attention of the audience to the stage on the left side of the judges. There, several vertical columns rose slowly in two rows, with different heights. Eleven trophies were placed on the top square table.
What is more special is that only the golden trophy with the "Lifetime Achievement Award" printed on the nameplate is covered by a spotless glass cover. Considering the special nature of the award, Qin Jue guessed that perhaps the "Lifetime Achievement Award" would not be awarded this year, but it was just required to appear in the current session according to convention.
Without any gimmicks or suspenseful speeches, the host announced with a smile that the 82nd Venazola International Film Festival Awards Ceremony officially began.
"The works nominated for this year's 'Best Documentary' award are: 'The Pulse of the Earth', 'Return to the Wolf Pack', and 'Civilization: 30° North'."
The female host's tone was staggered, "Now, please invite the jury chairwoman Ms. Finley to announce the winners."
Meria Finley, with light green eyes, pushed her half-frame glasses, slightly moved closer to the desktop microphone, and slowly spoke:
"The winner of this year's 'Best Documentary' is——"
"Civilization: 30° North!"
As soon as she finished speaking, a magnificent music sounded throughout the venue. A dark-skinned man in a suit left his seat in surprise amid the applause. The camera recorded his figure walking to the stage.
The etiquette lady took the trophy from the podium and handed it to the award presenter Ted Stevens 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. Thank you very much."
The chief director thanked repeatedly in heavily accented English.
With tears in his eyes, he came to the standing microphone in the center holding the exquisite and small trophy. He was still excited when he gave his acceptance speech, and his voice was wavering several times.
Qin Jue applauded with others. When he heard the chief director mention that it took seven years to shoot this documentary, he sighed and clapped even harder.
It is a consensus within and outside the industry that planning and shooting documentaries is thankless. Those who can persist in shooting and succeed must have a strong love behind their perseverance.
After the speech, the chief director thanked the audience profusely and left the stage, holding his trophy tightly in his arms all the way.
The close-up shot on the live screen switched back to the host. She paused and announced the list of candidates for the next award, the "Best Restored Film Award".
Film restoration has always been a niche industry. If other literary and artistic practitioners are "creating", then restorers in this industry are "rescuing".
Rescue culture, rescue history.
Films from the old days all rely on film. As time goes by, the film turns yellow and the content is lost, and a classic work may disappear from the world. Therefore, the first thing that film restorers have to do is to clean the film, physically restore it, and then digitally convert the film, fine-tune the picture, restore the color, and synthesize and export it. After all this is done, it has to be screened again, which is both to confirm the results and to identify the restoration technology. *
After the first five processes are completed, the old movie can be declared successfully restored, and what awaits it is a group of restorers full of joy and diversified storage.
Due to the rapid development of contemporary science and technology, many people think that restoring movies is a simple task, such as "throwing a 480p video into a small program and waiting for it to be exported, and then uploading it after the ultra-high-definition quality results come out". But in fact, movie restoration and documentary filming are almost the same in terms of hard work and arduousness, and both are the deep efforts of the workers behind the scenes.
However, the times are changing, and some ideas and concepts are also changing. For example, the "Best Restored Film Award" at the Venazola International Film Festival expanded the award scope a few years ago to include "reproduction movies".
Although the names of reproduction movies and restoration movies are similar, they are two different things in a sense. Restoration movies focus on "restoration", aiming to show the most authentic and original appearance of classic films to people; while reproduction movies focus on "reproduction", aiming to restore the plot, shots, etc., and the process is the same as ordinary movies, all of which are "pre-preparation, mid-term shooting, and post-adjustment".
In other words, a remake is equivalent to having a ready-made script and storyboard. There is no need for any adaptation or new ideas. The producer or director only needs to select and cast the characters, and then shoot them in a regular manner.
When the concept of remake was first born, it was criticized for "eating ready-made" and "using the achievements of predecessors to gild one's own face". However, this is also a misunderstanding. The real reason for the emergence of remakes is that some classics cannot be safely restored on the physical level due to various reasons. If they want to reappear in the world, they can only be remade according to the incomplete mold.
Just like the remake "Peerless Wind and Flower" that competes with "Looking for Uloda" this time, the film of its original work "Cornflower Lover" was burned to ashes in a fire. The producer wanted it to be active on the screen again because of some complexes. So after two years of searching, he pieced together the storyboard and the general plot from the feedback of the audience who watched the movie in the past, and re-shot it with a new team.
Unfortunately, the "Best Restored Film Award" is not only about "repair" and "reconstruction", but also about the quality of the film itself. The large amount of missing original plots makes the overall storyline of "Peerless Beauty" full of mystery, and it has not been able to restore the ideas and feelings of the creators more clearly. Therefore, the jury president Melia finally announced that the winner of the award was "Searching for Uroda" directed by Lupo Vincent and starring Quentin Visconti.
After the two awards, it was time for the "Best Short Film Award".
The EU Federal "Three Specials" Film Festival has a standard for short films of less than 45 minutes. The winning film of this year's Venazola International Film Festival is called "The Clockwork Man", which is 27 minutes long. The story begins when the protagonist accidentally enters a place and accidentally discovers that everyone in this place has a small clockwork embedded behind their backs.
Under the control of the clockwork, everyone does things and lives step by step. The child gets up on time every morning, secretly pours out a small half of the milk on time, goes to school and comes home on time, and is invited by the neighbor's children to go out and play football together on time. His mother, the hotel owner, gets up on time, makes breakfast on time, and sits at the front desk downstairs on time. If someone comes, she will stand up to say the introduction, ask the guests, collect money and show the way. If no one is there, she will sit and sit all the time. The frequency of breathing and blinking is exactly the same and has never changed.
After observing, the protagonist was very curious, so he pulled out her spring while the proprietress was taking a nap.
The proprietress who lost the spring did not show any abnormality after waking up, and continued to work regularly and steadily. The protagonist lost interest after being puzzled and forgot about the spring in his pocket.
He went out to travel, wandering from the scenic spot to the slums, and 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 clothes behind the homeless man, and there was no spring, so he inserted the spring pulled out from the proprietress into the homeless man.
A miracle happened. The tramp began to kick his legs. He came back to life, but as if he didn't see the protagonist, he turned straight back to the bench and sat slumped, groaning from time to time, and reaching out 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, thinking that he had discovered a huge secret. He returned to the hotel and saw the proprietress without a spring lying on the counter in a coma, as if she was dead, which further confirmed the inference.
Out of some kind of "helping others" evil taste, the protagonist began to pull out more springs, making those who lost the spring unconscious and sleeping, and then plugging new springs into those who didn't have springs, watching them wake up and return to their regular daily lives.
Gradually, the protagonist became addicted to it and joked to himself, "This is to help them take a regular vacation."
He did such pranks every day.
Every day he walked out of the door of the hotel, pulling out the springs along the way, plugging in the springs along the way, and returning to the room of the hotel.
He opened his eyes and got up at a regular time every day, and closed his eyes and went to bed at a regular time every day.
One day he was washing his face, and the camera moved to his back.
A small clockwork appeared there at some point.
*Source: Vogue Me - Human Intern, compiled by Wei Xixian and Dayan
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It was past midnight by accident, and this is yesterday's update.
3200+, together with the 3000+ chapters on 12.18, a total of 6,000 words. In addition to the updates on 12.18 and 12.19, the 12.9 copy was added.