All language subtitles for Module 40

And now let's look at something
that's simple in appearance,

but is actually complex in its execution.

Thinking of contrast

we go from.

A slower scene, one
that's filled with dissolves

and in-camera moves,
but one that's very fluid

in some ways.

It represents a certain.

Part of their relationship

and the following scene.

Is something that is very different
stylistically, very different editorially.

In this scene, this in this actual scene,
this was not a prerecorded track.

This is one of the numbers in the movie
in La La Land,

where it is actually
Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling singing live .

The piano playing is done by Justin
Hurwitz, who is in another room.

Playing the music and it was recorded

on a separate track while their vocals
were recorded on another track.

So Ryan Gosling is is playing a piano
with the keys dampened so that it doesn't

dirty their vocal tracks,
but they can hear the piano playing

this scene, this moment here and again.

And it was.

It was one

take, but it was important for us
to adjust the timing.

We needed to adjust the timing here.

So on this move, to have it land

the way Damien wanted it to, to land it,

we had to actually take out
a portion of this take.

We took a portion out
a certain amount of time and we joined

the two pieces of film with a morph.

So there's a fluid morph here,

which actually is very difficult to do

when you're on an actor's face.

It's probably one of the least forgiving

types of shots to do manipulation.

You have to be very careful.

But we were able to do it because
the VFX artists, we have a very talented.

And just from a story point

and a formal point, we needed to do it.

And all this lighting.

This is very important to Damien
to light this a certain way.

This is actually a reference
to the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo,

where the color green plays
a very specific

role. And.

It's something that to

Damian was kind of the color of.

In some ways the color of death.

And to Damien, this is the beginning
of the end of their relationship

in the way that we know it.

So even though they are singing

and have some joy.

It was something he wanted to do.

He wanted to bathe in this color.

On one hand, it looks very beautiful,
but on the other hand,

it was it was something that he chose
for a very specific reason.

And since this was live,

the little laughing,
you know, all those moments are organic.

Those moments are

are really Ryan and Emma breaking

because maybe they laughed
at the way they sang something.

It's it's something
that was just kind of improvised.

And that's
that's the beauty of doing something live

is that every performance
will be slightly different.

And you can sometimes
you can get nice results like that.

And this was a number they felt
because the choreography was very simple.

They felt that they could record it live
as opposed to with a prerecorded track.

Now this scene.

Was simple in some ways,

but was very challenging in other ways.

It was challenging.

It was simple
because we had dissolves to work

with in very specific elements
to tell our story.

But it was challenging
because those points had to hit the music

in exactly the right way
that Damian wanted.

So the dissolves had to be
a certain length

and the choreography
had to hit at a certain point.

So we spent a lot of time
trying to perfect these moments.

They seem simple.

They are in some ways, but we spend
a lot of time trying to get them right.