121. Some Background Music

"It seems like there really is something wrong with Nanhua Hospital."

After watching the live stream, Lu Ban drew a conclusion.

However, he doesn't have Kung Fu to deal with this matter for the time being. He's not a member of any ghost-hunting squad. His priority right now is to make his own movie.

Lu Ban sent a message to Song Yunyan's secretary, Li Zijian, reminding him of the matter at Nanhua Hospital, before immersing himself in his work and studies again.

A week later, Lu Ban completed the rough cut. From a cinematic perspective, the film was now watchable, at least the plot was understandable.

However, the storyboarding and pacing were very rudimentary.

To get more details, it will take at least another week, which means we won't see anything until October.

However, before that, Lu Ban still had some leftovers to do.

First, there's the background music, the theme song.

His previous videos, featuring him kneeling on real, authentic scenes, served as the best background music.

But it definitely won't work in a movie. This isn't Mockumentary with a handheld camera; at crucial moments, it still needs some background music.

Besides, after the movie ends, someone has to sing a song, right?

Therefore, through Song Yunyan's connections, Lu Ban found a supposedly very good independent musician to handle the project.

He went to see this musician today.

The other party's studio is located in the center of Jiangcheng City, just three subway stops away from the old street. It is on the sixth floor of an office building and looks quite artistic.

"Hello, my name is Hammer."

The other person looked to be only two years older than Lu Ban, with the air of an artistic youth, as if he could sit down with a wooden guitar at any moment, tilting his head up at a 45-degree angle to gaze at the sky, casting a bright yet melancholic shadow.

"I am Lu Ban."

Lu Ban greeted them and looked around the other party's music studio.

"Your studio is pretty good, nothing strange about it."

"Something strange?"

Hammer didn't quite understand, but he didn't ask any more questions.

After all, the other party gave too much.

Otherwise, as a currently popular music producer, he wouldn't accept the role of composing soundtracks for web dramas that aren't shown in theaters.

After a few pleasantries, Hammer Door Opening.

"What kind of background music would you like?"

"Let me think about it."

Lu Ban thought for a moment.

He doesn't actually know much about music; his best instrument is the recorder, which he learned in elementary school, and he can barely play it to the level of "Ode to Joy."

Therefore, it's somewhat difficult for him to explain his needs.

"We need a really weird, scary piece of music, another really scary, weird piece of music, and then a less weird, warmer piece of music."

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Black lines appeared on the Hammer head.

When someone who doesn't know anything about the subject describes their needs, it's usually something like a colorful black, which he's seen quite often.

"How about this, do you have any sample footage or clips? I'll take a look at them and then help you think of a solution."

"Hammer asked."

Music producers like him usually have a certain repertoire of songs, mostly accumulated from their daily inspirations.

Generally speaking, if he's composing music for a movie or TV series, he'll find some less-than-ideal tracks from his music library, rearrange them, package them up, and sell them—a way of making use of waste materials.

For more advanced productions with specific needs, the production company will request to see corresponding clips for creative work. In reality, this is just about selecting songs from their own music library.

Those who are paid more will then have to compose their own music on the spot.

So when some people see Hammer making music effortlessly, it's not inspiration, it's just accumulated experience.

What music producers like him fear most is that the other party comes empty-handed, unable to describe their own ideas, leaving everything to Hammer's own improvisation and nitpicking.

"Yes, yes, I edited a sample video, would you like to see it?"

Lu Ban took out his phone.

"Let's go to the screening room."

He swung the Hammer with great joy.

If we had a sample video, producing music would be a piece of cake.

He led Lu Ban to the studio's small screening room, copied the film onto the projector, and clicked play.

The film opens with a small boat bobbing on the waves, shot from above. Hammer thinks a drone must have been used to create this lonely and desolate atmosphere.

"The water is really blue, the environment is really nice."

Hammer gave a compliment.

Then, following Lu Ban's gaze, he saw the enormous monster in the sea.

The azure sea and the pitch-black monster loomed over the small boat like a black hole, creating a suffocating sense of dread.

This is a manifestation of the Deep Sea.

Hammer initially thought it was just a movie, but as the shadows on the seabed gradually intensified, he still felt instinctively tense.

Pfft

The monster burst forth from the waves, creating enormous billows. It was an extremely dangerous scene, but for some reason, Hammer found a touch of beauty in it.

Like a giant blue whale rising to breathe, swimming in the sea, the magnificence of nature's creation is breathtaking.

"Is this special effects? It would be too dangerous to film like that in real life."

Hammer muttered something.

Then, the small boat was capsized, and Lu Ban sank underwater. Through his eyes, Hammer saw the clear seabed.

Countless enormous, writhing tentacles made up the monster's body, stretching out in all directions as if to pull people into an abyss. The camera zoomed out, revealing Lu Ban's small figure floating in the sea, creating a stark contrast with the colossal creature.

In that instant, the insignificance of humankind and the magnificence of nature were fully revealed.

Hammer took a light breath.

This kind of visual enjoyment requires no understanding. Just as humans prostrate themselves at the sight of Thunder or tremble at the sight of a raging flood, simply watching this scene is enough to make one forget to breathe.

Just as Hammer felt the so realistic and somewhat oppressive scene making it hard for him to breathe, he realized that he really couldn't breathe anymore.

Just like being in water, a drowning person's lungs will be filled with water until all the air in each alveolus is squeezed out. He will feel as if his whole body is being gripped in Affliction, and no matter how much he struggles, he will find it difficult to escape the fate of death.

Drowning is one of the most Affliction ways to die.

Hammer felt a tightness in his chest and shortness of breath until a beam of light descended from the sky and landed on the huge monster.

Buzz—

Just as a swarm of bees was dispersed by flames, the enormous monster instantly split into countless tiny beings, which were then scorched by the flames, shining with a dazzling brilliance on the seabed.

Hammer gasped for breath, gazing at the Pale fire stretching for miles on the seabed, and suddenly felt a sense of holiness, solemnity, and reverence.

As Lu Ban was pulled up in the movie, Hammer finally came to his senses. The first few minutes, although there was almost no dialogue, had an excellent overall visual quality and was full of tension. He had been completely absorbed in watching it.

"Lu Ban, Mr. Lu Ban, your movie is pretty good."

Hammer savored the subtle suffocation he had felt earlier, the loneliness of being in the middle of the ocean, and the sense of redemption he felt upon seeing the Pale flames. Few images could evoke such a rich experience in him now. As a highly inspired music producer, that experience alone had given Hammer several different melodies.

These melodies crawled into his brain like insects, as if they were meant to be that way.

"Hmm, so-so."

Lu Ban nodded in agreement, but he was somewhat puzzled by the performance of the music producer next to him.

Isn't there something off about this video?