Zhang Yifan

Zhang Yifan

Zhang Yifan, a famous film editor, has worked with many famous domestic directors such as Jiang Wen, Lu Chuan, Zhang Yibai, Ning Hao, Xu Jinglei and Zhang Jiarui to win the best editing award of the 44th Golden Horse Award for Taiwan film for "the sun also rises".

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Zhang Yifan, a famous film editor, has cooperated with many famous domestic directors, such as Jiang Wen, Lu Chuan, Zhang Yibai, Ning Hao, Xu Jinglei and Zhang Jiarui. He has accumulated rich experience in film editing and directing in more than ten years of film editing work. won the best editing award of the 44th Golden Horse Award for Taiwan film for "the sun also rises.". representative works: the devil is coming, looking for a gun, a letter from a strange woman, red river, Curiosity Kills the cat, night Shanghai, legend of Bruce Lee, the sun also rises, Mr. fashion, crazy racing car, etc. Zhang Yifan is known as Jiang Wen's imperial editor, but both Zhang Yifan and Jiang Wen disagree with the word "imperial", because in their view, the relationship between the director and the editor is that of mutual understanding, trust and penetration into each other's bone marrow.

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Zhang Yifan was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province in March 1971. He grew up in Xinjiang Construction Corps and returned to his hometown in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Art Department of the PLA Academy of art and the director department of Beijing Film Academy in the 1990s. Recently, the reporter interviewed Zhang Yifan, the general manager of Kunlun sunshine film and Television Culture Communication Co., Ltd., which is located in Beijing Asian Games Village. The interview time is 10 pm. Zhang Yifan and his colleagues are working overtime. Modern editing equipment is put in different offices. The films being edited include a new film supervised by Jia Zhangke, female director Li Hong's secret, and many advertisements and MVs. Zhang Yifan's latest job is to be stationed in Jiang Wen's crew. "It's a suspense movie, and another movie king will join in and star with Jiang Wen." this news is undoubtedly very exciting, but out of respect for his good friend Jiang Wen, Zhang Yifan doesn't want to reveal too much. as an editor, Zhang Yifan is very proficient in business, familiar with English and music, and has a solid foundation in fine arts. He was admitted to the Fine Arts Department of the PLA Academy of art with the second place in the national professional examination, and then studied film and television director in Beijing Film Academy. At the time of graduation, Zhang Yifan was favored by the boss of a foreign-funded enterprise because of his advantage in English. He worked in a big advertising company. In this process, he was exposed to the world's latest computer equipment, as well as advanced ideas, his ability has been trained in foreign enterprises. by chance, in 1998, Zhang Yifan joined Jiang Wen's "here comes the devil" crew. At the same time, the crew invited a senior editing expert from the United States, Zhang Yifan, to be his assistant. In his work and communication, the American found that Zhang Yifan was a potential threat to him, because Zhang's ability was not inferior to him. In their work, they have to use the same computer to share some resources. If Americans find that Zhang Yifan has touched these resources, they will be very angry and feel that Zhang Yifan's threat to him is growing. In such a working environment, Zhang Yifan has been "suppressed", while the American expert still has the momentum of "either you die or I live" for him. For the sake of overall consideration, Jiang Wen was very embarrassed to give up Zhang Yifan. At that time, Zhang Yifan agreed without arguing. Jiang Wen was very moved by his attitude. After a period of time, Jiang Wen's assistant called Zhang Yifan and asked him to come to the troupe. As soon as he arrived at the troupe, he heard Jiang Wen say to the staff, "buy plane tickets for American editors." then he turned to Zhang Yifan and said, "you come to the troupe.". It turns out that in the process of cooperation between Jiang Wen and American experts, due to the cultural differences between China and the West and the different working concepts, many contradictions occurred. Jiang Wen trusted and affirmed Zhang Yifan's working ability, and let Zhang Yifan take over and edit independently. With the completion of "the devil has come", it has been widely praised at home and abroad, which has contributed to the friendship between Zhang Yifan and Jiang Wen and their tacit cooperation. Zhang Yifan told reporters that the era of shaking films in China has passed, and the film editing technology at this stage is equal to that in the world in terms of equipment. In making films, negative films are directly scanned into digital signals, then stored in the hard disk, edited in the machine, and then performed special effects. After everything is synthesized in the computer, the finished films are finally made into copies. In terms of the differences between domestic and foreign editing, Zhang Yifan still takes "here comes the devil" as an example: "different cultural backgrounds determine that foreigners can't cut Chinese things. You can't let a very westernized person edit Chinese stories. When the first draft of "the devil is coming" was edited by an American, Jiang Wenfang showed it to his good friends, including the American editor. Jiang Wen asked him what he thought, but the American editor said it was not a movie. You can imagine Jiang Wen's feelings, because it's all Jiang Wen's thoughts and efforts. " the relationship between the editor and the director is not the relationship of execution and being executed, but the relationship of mutual supplement and mutual trust. Zhang Yifan thinks that the editor should be more calm than the director, and should treat the style and style of the film more objectively, because the director has a strong subjective factor when shooting, and if the director is also responsible for editing, he may give up because he pays too much attention in some places We must not give up. The editor will analyze whether or not a shot should be removed. The time, experience and process of the director's intervention are much more than those of the editor, but the final stage is inseparable from the editor's screening and modification. Zhang Yifan's editing style is to let the director blend in the emotion and cut it once, then he will delete and adjust the uncomfortable parts, and finally the director will cut it for the third time. Such a process has been recognized by directors. No director has ever sat down with Zhang Yifan for a single shot. to be an excellent director, you need to have many qualities. To be an excellent editor is also very demanding. Of course, professional knowledge is the first, followed by literary accomplishment, then the feeling of pictures and music. It is a highly rational and emotional career. At present, the proportion of academic editors and experienced editors in China is half, and there are more and more new generation editors, who gradually occupy the mainstream of film and television editing team. Zhang Yifan, who was born in 1971, is a little bit frightened by this situation. Therefore, he plans to make his own film in the next two years, making a Chinese version of the story of "beautiful life". One is to calm down in the increasingly fierce competition in the editing industry. The other main reason is that Zhang Yifan often feels depressed because he cuts so many films, What kind of director will meet, some directors usually make him feel very confused, will doubt how such a level dare to come out to make a film, so I want to try to do the ability of director, before him, although the editor background of people change to do director, but there are integrators, such as big director John Woo has done editing.

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