Chapter 495 Zhang Yimou: I Am Really Good at This

The preparation of a variety show is naturally not so simple that it can be done in a few words.

But under the leadership of the heads of the two companies, the implementation speed of Light and Shadow Times and Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast was very fast.

To make a variety show, whether it is a studio variety show or an outdoor variety show, it is not an easy thing.

In particular, Light and Shadow Times and Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast have no experience in making variety shows.

This thing can't be done with a plan.

Just like making a movie, it is not possible to shoot it perfectly according to the script just because there is a script. It also requires a professional crew team and an excellent director.

If you want to make a variety show, you must first have a director team.

Light and Shadow Times has to go out in this regard.

After a simple meeting with Chen Dewei and confirming the establishment of the project, Li Xiaoping took the lead.

It is unrealistic to let Light and Shadow Times train its own team. Li Xiaoping's choice is of course to wave a hoe and start poaching people.

The first goal is to poach Mango's team first.

It should be said that among the major TV stations in the mainland, Mango TV's variety show team is the best at making talent shows. Since the "Super Girl" of that year, Mango TV has made several talent shows for male and female singers in succession, and has accumulated a lot of experience.

And to be honest, the salary that the TV station pays to the directors and behind-the-scenes production team is really not high.

Even if the team that made the hit "Super Girl" and "Fast Boy" got the highest salary in the industry, that is, a monthly income of over 10,000 yuan, the majority of the money was earned by the TV station and the agency established by Mango TV.

When Li Xiaoping set her sights on them, she waved the big stick of money and poached people.

Of course, she was not only targeting Mango TV to poach people. The variety show production team of Dragon TV also received an invitation to switch jobs from Light and Shadow Times.

Dragon TV's "Come on! Good Man" program is also a leader in the mainland talent show variety show.

Jing Boran, Qiao Renliang, Fu Xinbo, Zhang Chao, Li Yifeng, Wang Chuanjun, Pubajia, Ma Tianyu and other singers and actors who later became famous in the domestic entertainment industry all came from this variety show.

In addition to "Come on! Good Man", Dragon TV also has a program "My Style My Show", which is also a star-making machine.

Representative figures who have emerged through this program include Zhang Jie, Qi Wei, Xue Zhiqian, Liu Wei, Yuan Chengjie, Zhao Yingjun and others, who are also a gathering of heroes.

Mango TV and Dragon TV are currently the most experienced and have the best teams in the field of talent shows in China.

Li Xiaoping targeted these two companies right away and poached people while waving a big stick.

And her vision is not limited to China.

South Korea next door has also entered her sight.

When the perspective is enlarged to the Asian perspective, South Korea is undoubtedly the country with the most teams, the most experience, and the best performance in the field of variety shows in Asia.

Outdoor variety shows, dating variety shows, studio variety shows, idol interactive variety shows, and comedy variety shows, South Korea is currently the best in Asia.

Even in the field of talent shows, although the 101 that shocked Asia has not yet been born, South Korea already has a singer talent show called "Super Star K".

Although there is a language barrier, as long as you spend some money to get a translator, the Korean variety show team can still be poached to work in China.

In order to do this groundbreaking actor talent show, Li Xiaoping has put a lot of effort.

Only by creating a top domestic variety show production team first can we avoid wasting such a good variety show idea, make this variety show the most perfect effect, strive to make a sensation across the country, and become a phenomenal variety show like "Super Girl" back then!

However, this takes time.

While preparing the variety show production team, Li Xiaoping also sent invitations to the mentors who were interested in inviting her.

She accepted Chen Dewei's suggestion and the first person she found was Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou has a slightly proud year this year.

The failure of "Three Shots Surprise" in 2009 once made Zhang Yimou the target of ridicule on the Internet, and he suffered from online exposure for a long time.

Zhang Yimou fell from the altar, and there were endless criticisms such as "Jiang Lang's talent is exhausted and his talent is no longer there".

Zhang Yimou, who had just been named the national teacher through the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games, had not lasted for a year before the praise of the national teacher became a derogatory term, and these two words were also interpreted as a joke.

It was not until the release of "The Love of Hawthorn Tree" last year that the trend of criticizing and mocking Zhang Yimou was finally stopped, and his declining reputation was stopped.

In the first half of this year, "The Love of Hawthorn Tree" was nominated for many domestic and international awards, winning the Best Film of the Huabiao Awards and the Best Actress of the Valladolid International Film Festival in Spain, which made Zhang Yimou feel a little proud.

And it just so happens that he is free now.

In January, his new movie, the heavily prepared "The Flowers of War", started shooting in Nanjing and has now been successfully completed.

Although there is still post-production work to do, compared with Zhang Yimou's previous rhythm of shooting one, preparing one, and writing another at the same time, this time Zhang Yimou has no plan for his next movie. The next six months to a year are empty, and he only needs to do the post-production of "The Flowers of War".

This work can even be regarded as a break for Zhang Yimou.

Perhaps it is the luck of the light and shadow era that Zhang Yimou's schedule is relaxed.

When the variety show proposal of "Actors Please Take Your Place (tentative name)" was sent to Zhang Yimou, he had no intention of making a variety show. He only looked at the proposal for the sake of the company Guangying Times and Wu Yuan. However, he was immediately attracted by this variety show after reading it.

A variety show for new actors to compete in!

This is so fresh, and it just hits the spot in Zhang Yimou's heart.

If you want to say which big director in China likes to use new actors the most, it is undoubtedly Zhang Yimou.

In almost every movie of his, he will boldly use new actors, and even often has two or three new actors take the lead.

"The Love of Hawthorn Tree" has two new actors playing the male and female protagonists, and "The Flowers of War" also has a new actor playing the female protagonist.

In Zhang Yimou's view, new actors are the most spiritual. They are like a piece of white paper, not yet stained with any indelible color, and can best show real emotions and colors that they themselves have not discovered.

This time, Light and Shadow Times plans to invite 50 new actors to compete on the same stage, let four mentors personally train these new actors, and finally create the best performance team among the 50.

Wow, this really attracts Zhang Yimou's interest.

He is so good at training new actors.

I am a little itchy. (End of this chapter)