The University of California, Los Angeles is located in Westwood District, Los Angeles. It is built on the hillside. It has beautiful and quiet natural landscapes. It is adjacent to Beverly Hills, a luxury residential area where Hollywood stars live. The campus covers an area of ​​1.7 square kilometers and is the university with the largest number of applicants in the United States.

Zhang Ran parked the car in the parking lot outside the school, got out of the car with Huang Lei and Sun Li, and walked towards the south gate of the school.

Today, Huang Lei and Sun Li wore yellow couple outfits. The couple seemed to love to wear couple outfits. Zhang Ran wore a blue T-shirt with the UCLA school badge printed with the words "U$C" on it, which satirized Nanka University for nothing but money. During the war in the same city every year, students from both schools liked to wear this T-shirt that mocked their opponents, and some teachers even participated.

The UCLA campus is relatively spacious and quiet. Ancient trees with a history of nearly a hundred years can be seen everywhere, as well as Renaissance-style Italian red brick buildings with extremely unified styles, giving the entire campus a heavy atmosphere. Zhang Ran and others climbed a small slope and saw the campus's portal student activity center.

Walking to the square in front of the activity center, a huge wooden box three or four meters high attracted the attention of Huang Lei and Sun Li, which read "The fairy bear is hibernating."

Sun Li felt strange and pointed to the wooden box and asked, "Zhang Ran, what does this mean?"

Zhang Ran explained: "Inside is the school's mascot, the fairy bear, a bronze brown bear. At this time of year, the school will hide the fairy bear so that the students of the University of Southern California will come to cause damage and pour paint on the fairy bear!"

Sun Li asked curiously: "Is this the case with Southern California? You will also go over and cause damage?"

Zhang Ran nodded with laughter: "Yes, they are the same. The mascot of Southern California is a bronze statue of the Trojan Warrior. It is tall and cannot be hidden in a box. At this time of year, they will seal it tightly with tape paper and send volunteers to guard it day and night to prevent the bronze statue from being splashed with paint."

At this moment, a violent boo suddenly came from behind. Zhang Ran looked back and saw a group of students wearing uniform red T-shirts walking towards this side, including men and women. Their T-shirts were printed with words such as "BeatUCLA", "FUCLA", "UCLAgay".

Wearing such a T-shirt to show off in UCLA, just like the students of Beijing Film Academy wearing "Central Opera is all sissy" and "Central Opera is garbage" clothes to wander around the campus of the Central Opera, which is definitely a provocation. The students of UCLA naturally booed them without mercy.

However, this group of students, whether boys or girls, was relatively calm and seemed to be accustomed to it. They walked lightly and walked towards the north campus like the wind.

Sun Li looked at the slogans on the group of students and asked in surprise: "This is a student from the University of Southern California. How dare they come here in such clothes? Aren't they afraid of getting beaten?"

Zhang Ran explained: "This is a tradition. People can laugh at each other, but they won't hit people. These people should go to the Reus Auditorium to watch the movie confrontation. This year's confrontation will be held on our side, which is an editing war."

Although Huang Lei is an actor, he has the intention of being a director. He has been practicing director skills and is quite confident in his editing skills: "The editing war sounds very interesting, let's go and take a look!"

Zhang Ran said: "Royce Auditorium is on the North Campus. We will go here and go there in the afternoon. There will be ten editing battles, so the winner will be decided in the afternoon!"

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The Reus Auditorium is located on a hill with its gate facing north and is made of red bricks. It is built in imitation of the Church of San Ambrose in Italy. It is a typical Romanesque building, giving people a solemn and solemn feeling.

When Zhang Ran and the other three walked into the Reus Auditorium, there was a lot of people inside, with almost no place to take a foot. The three of them pushed and squeezed through the crowd, and came to a corner close to the stage and stopped.

At this moment, the stage was shrouded in warm orange lights, and there were two electronic timers in the center, one belonging to UCLA and the other belonging to Nanka University. The timer has been started, and the numbers on it are changing rapidly. On both sides of the timer, there are two contestants' chairs, and next to the chair is a huge film editing machine. The two contestants are sitting in front of the editing machine and busy.

Huang Lei had never seen such a game before. He looked at the players on the stage and asked, "What are the rules of this game?"

Zhang Ran explained: "The rule is to edit based on the materials provided by the conference. The shortest time is to get one point. The edited short film is the closest to one point for 3 minutes. Then the three judges judge based on the content of the editing and choose the best edit. Each referee has one point. The total of three items is five points. Students in two schools, students within three years of graduation can participate."

Huang Lei immediately understood and explained to Sun Li next to him: "This competition is more comprehensive than the editing speed, accuracy, and conception, and the content of the investigation is very comprehensive!"

At this time, Zhang Ran saw clearly the appearance of the Southern Canadian representative on the stage and his face darkened: "Jason Retman has actually made the stage, and Southern Canadian directly sent out the strongest player!"

Huang Lei looked at the foreigner with long hair and tall and thin hair on the stage and asked, "This person is very powerful?"

Zhang Ran nodded with a serious expression: "Jason Reitman's father is Ivan Reitman, the director of "Dragon Brothers and Rats" and "Ghostbusters 2". He was taken to the set 11 days after he was born, and the movie accompanied him through his entire childhood. He picked up a family camera at the age of 10, served as the film's set assistant at the age of 12, and produced a public service advertisement about AIDS at the age of 15, and successfully won the award. In 1998, the short film he filmed was shortlisted for the Sundance Film Festival and was the youngest director at the festival. In the past two years after graduating from college, Jason was an advertising producer. The commercial advertisements he filmed include BMW and General Motors, and many world-class brands, but everyone believes that advertising is just a springboard for him to reach the film country!"

There is one thing Zhang Ran didn't say, Jason Reitman will become famous in a few years with the low-cost independent film "Juno", and then continue to shoot Oscar popular films such as "In the Clouds" and "Teen". He is a real genius, director, actor, screenwriter, and editing. He is Chu Qiao, a young independent filmmaker.

The theme of last year's film confrontation was photography, and Zhang Ran also participated, and eventually lost to Jason Retman. At that time, he lost without any temper and the gap in strength was too big.

beep--

Jason Retman, who completed the editing, ran quickly to the timer, pressed the buzzer, and the time stopped at 25 minutes and 36 seconds. He handed the edited video to the judges, then returned to his position, held his hands in front of his chest, and looked at the UCAL contestants playfully.

It took five minutes for UCAL contestants to finish the editing. Then the video edited by the two began to play, and the three judges evaluated the video.

The length of the video Jason won the victory with 3 minutes and 3 seconds, and the votes of the three judges also gave Jason the votes, and Jason finally ended up with a 5-0 victory.

The students from Southern California University stood up and celebrated the victory unscrupulously. Last year, UCAL students were so angry that they couldn't breathe in the Temple Hall of Southern California. This time, they completely exhaled.

The students of UCAL looked unant, and their faces were very ugly. They felt deeply humiliated by being slapped in the face, so they fought back with boo.

Applause and booing were heard one after another, and the whole auditorium seemed to have become a lively football field, which made people feel like they were at the scene of the football derby.

It was Bai Yunfei's first time participating in a city war. He didn't understand the situation of the school's film school. Seeing that his school was humiliated, he couldn't help asking: "Where are the masters in our school? Why haven't the masters come out yet!"

A Chinese boy wearing a Nike T-shirt said depressedly: "The most amazing thing is Lin Yibin. He won the Nancai Temple Auditorium last year without any temper. Unfortunately, he has been graduating for three years and cannot participate in this competition. Otherwise, how could it be their turn to be arrogant. Now the most amazing thing in our school should be Neil Bromkamp, ​​but Neil Bromkamp and Jason Retman have competed four times and lose every time. The possibility of winning this time is not high!"

"If Lin Yibin is still here, how will it be the turn of these guys from Southern California to be arrogant!"

"Hey, the feng shui will change. In the past two years, we have been suppressed by Nanjiada, and we have no temper at all. Last year, Lin Yibin even beat Nanjiada in the auditorium of the Temple of the Southern California to lose his armor and have no temper at all. Now it's their turn to show off."

Bai Yunfei heard several compatriots constantly mention the name Lin Yibin and asked curiously: "Lin Yibin sounds like a Chinese. Is he very powerful?"

"He is a Chinese, a master of art from the Film Academy. He is really amazing. He is proficient in directors, editing, photography, and screenwriters. When he graduated in 1997, he made the movie "The Strange Flowers of the Sea of ​​People". He has been preparing for a new movie in the past two years. I heard that it has been filmed, and everyone believes that he will become famous in one fell swoop."

At this moment, a cheer sounded from UCAL, and everyone looked at the stage. A young man, eighteen or nineteen years old, walked onto the stage and sat on the contestants' seat.

A student from the University of Southern California curled his lips disdainfully: "UCAL is getting worse and worse. He can't find a capable player. He actually sent out all the freshmen. I think you can just admit defeat!"

The UCAL student next to him immediately responded: "Don't be proud of you. This is Josh Trank, a movie genius who was admitted to our school last year. Although he is relatively young, he may not lose! Even if he loses now, he will win back in a year or two!"

"Hahaha, geniuses, you UCAL are all geniuses! Unfortunately, you can't compare to us. The USC Film Academy has always ranked first in the United States!"

UCAL students rolled their eyes when they were choked. It was a fact that the USC Film Academy ranked first in the United States, and it was impossible to argue. UCAL is richer, has better hardware, and has a closer connection with Hollywood. Even Spielberg will teach semesters every three years. UCAL is really incomparable.

Zhang Ran looked at Josh Trunk on the stage and shook his head slightly. He had heard of this person and knew that Josh Trunk would become famous in the future with "Super Power Out of Control". However, judging from the level of Josh Trunk's future performance, the possibility of winning Jason Retman is almost zero.
Chapter completed!