Chapter 569 Director Selection for "Those Years"
"Master, Yuehutai's Jumping Theater is recruiting directors. Do you think we should give it a try?"
Li Chao came to his master Wu Chi with his mobile phone and handed him the screen.
Wu Chi: "What is this?"
"Recruiting directors, Master, haven't you always wanted to be a director?" Li Chao said, "We have been doing editing, trapped in a small room every day, doing this kind of work every day. I think we can try this opportunity."
Wu Chi rolled his eyes at him and said, "Do you believe this kind of information? This is just marketing, recruiting directors... Are you kidding? How can you recruit directors like this?"
"No, it's true." Li Chao said, "They said that this theater needs a movie-length or short film every week, which will be broadcast on Sunday night. Many directors are needed, and the registration method is attached. We only need to send them some of the content we edited before. If they are interested in us, they will contact us."
After listening to Li Chao, Wu Chi hesitated for a moment, and seemed to be a little moved, but still didn't quite believe it.
"Don't lie."
"Then I'll send a message to Lu Yanhe and ask him. This is a cooperation plan between "Jump Up" and Yuehu TV, he must know it."
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The reason why Li Chao and Wu Chi knew Lu Yanhe was because they met by chance one night when they were editing the movie "Love Letter" here.
At that time, Li Chao took the initiative to add Lu Yanhe's WeChat like a "social gangster".
Although there was no contact after adding him.
However, Li Chao could still occasionally see Lu Yanhe post a circle of friends-
Because of this, Li Chao knew that he had neither blocked him nor deleted him.
He and his master have been doing the work of editing videos.
However, they have been looking for opportunities.
It's just that in the entertainment industry, if you don't have a background and resources, it's really hard to find opportunities if you work alone. Especially for those who "run alone", they will never be "one of their own", and good opportunities will never come to them.
They don't even have the opportunity to shoot online movies.
Because they are just editors who know a little bit about editing techniques.
When Wu Chi heard Li Chao say that he was going to send a message to Lu Yanhe, he wanted to ask him not to bother him for such a small matter, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back.
Maybe this is really an opportunity?
In the industry, they have heard more or less about which big names will support others and which big names never do this.
Like Lu Yanhe, he is a person who is very willing to support others. Many people know this. Many people he has helped are now famous figures. Jiang Jun is the most typical example. In addition to him, the editor Li Fenglei is also an example.
Li Chao knew that Li Fenglei, who had been editing movies opposite him, was favored by Lu Yanhe and signed to his company. He felt sour for several days in his heart - it was just a kind of pure jealousy and envy. Why didn't he get such a good thing.
Li Chao considered it several times before sending the message he edited to Lu Yanhe.
He thought he would have to wait a long time, but Lu Yanhe replied in less than three minutes: There is a big gap, you can send them your previous works to have a look, and they will contact you if they are suitable.
Li Chao immediately cheered excitedly and took the phone to show his master.
"See, Master, I told you that this time they are really casting a wide net to recruit directors." Li Chao said, "Let's give it a try, maybe they are willing to meet us and give us a chance."
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The first play of the Jump Up Theater is called "The Adventures of a Girl". The original work is a short story written by Mingyin. It tells the story of a high school girl who accidentally met another girl in a bookstore on a weekend. Because she picked up her dropped wallet, she chased her out, but unexpectedly found that another group of people were following the girl in the process of chasing her, and accidentally started a story of adventure.
The director of this play is An Yuanyuan, a 30-year-old female director.
She has never directed a feature film before, and only a 15-minute short film has been screened at a film festival.
Both the director and the two heroines are newcomers who are not well-known.
To this end, Yuehutai and Northern Lights Video also took great pains to invite several popular stars to guest star in several scenes.
On the day of shooting, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi went there specifically.
Because it was a new team crew, they were also worried that they would encounter troubles on the day of the start. If they were there, they could help solve one or two.
This play was used as the opening work of the Jump Up Theater. First, this short story is very famous. It was very popular with readers when it was published. Second, the original author Mingyin is one of the most representative authors of the "Jump Up" magazine. Since this theater is to be built, it must be led by her or Liu Jiazhen's works. Third, it is because in the official vote of "Which work do you most want to see adapted into a film and television" organized by the government, "Girl's Adventure" ranked third among hundreds of works.
Although the shooting cycle is only one week, before the official start of the shooting, this small crew of only a dozen people has held several meetings and is very familiar with the key points of shooting.
The crew operation model pioneered by the show "Friends" can be said to have created a new operating model that many crews can borrow from.
Both actresses are real high school students - both are child actors with rich acting experience.
This shooting mode is destined not to use newcomers with no acting experience. Once you overspend, you run the risk of losing money.
Because it is a new thing, despite its huge momentum and fierce momentum, so far few brands in Jump Up Theater have actively approached for sponsorship and placement.
The first scene was shot in a bookstore.
The bookstore used for filming was contacted by Chen Siqi, and it is the cooperative bookstore of "Jump Up".
The boss was very happy to spare half a day off from work for them to shoot.
Because he also knows very well that after this drama is broadcast, his bookstore will be the filming location of "The Adventures of a Girl", which will bring a lot of traffic to his bookstore.
Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi were at the scene to watch them filming. Because when they arrived, An Yuanyuan was already directing the two girls to shoot, they did not come forward, but stayed nearby. Neither of them entered the bookstore, separated by the glass window of the bookstore. , while watching and chatting.
"What is Yuehu TV's expected ratings for "Girls' Adventures"?"
"They will be very satisfied if it can reach 0.4%." Chen Siqi smiled, "But they also said that on Sunday night, the two leading actors are not popular stars yet, and their appeal may be limited, and the average market may only be 0.3 %. Northern Lights Video is slightly better. As you know, the calculation rules of the video platform are different from the TV station’s ratings. Because it has specially created a jump theater, the number of reserved viewers in this theater now is 30. More than 10,000."
"What's the second play at Jump Up Theatre?"
"It's "The Whirlpool" adapted from Liu Jiazhen's short story." Chen Siqi said, "This drama is a little better than "The Adventures of a Girl", and Zhang Meng is invited to star."
"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded, "Since you want to do this theater, let's keep doing it. If the ratings really can't go up because there are no stars to star in it, then I'll find a way later and invite some friends to perform."
"We still hope to make the theater's brand name as popular as possible and develop a group of audiences who watch this theater regularly." Chen Siqi said, "Otherwise, there will be no point in establishing this theater."
Lu Yanhe understood what Chen Siqi meant.
Just like Sunshine at Noon, when it comes to brand management, love theater, mist theater, and X theater are not as popular as Sunshine at Noon.
Those so-called theaters, although the major video platforms have such names, in fact the audience is not fools. They just put some similar themes together and package them based on the themes, without establishing a real brand effect at all. , there are hits and there are also trashy dramas.
As for Noon Sunshine, its films do not matter whether it is on a TV station or a video platform, because it attaches great importance to content creation from the source. It shoots ancient costumes, modern times, machinations, unlimited streaming, women, and entrepreneurship, all of which are successful.
Chen Siqi wants to build "Jump Up Theater" into a brand that audiences can trust with just these five words.
Lu Yanhe said: "In addition to the label of a drama adapted from the novel of "Jump Up" magazine, we actually need to add something else, which may make this theater more unique."
"What?"
"For example, your support for new directors." Lu Yanhe said, "Isn't this what you have always wanted to do? This time, An Yuanyuan, the director of "Girls' Adventures", has only made short films before. Strictly speaking, This is her first time directing a feature film.”
Lu Yanhe added: "If Jump Up Theater can really become the cradle of new directors, this label will definitely become a drama that attracts much attention in the industry. And if the industry really pays attention to it spontaneously and long-term, the basic market will actually come out. ”
Chen Siqi nodded thoughtfully.
The current base of Jump Up Theater is actually the readers and users of Jump Up magazine and major media channels.
Mingyin is a very popular author in "Jump Up Series".
Most readers who support her will also support "Girls' Adventures".
But compared with movies and TV series, the number of users of a magazine media is still too few.
It is still possible to reach out and use good content to attract more viewers.
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However, no one expected that He Sha, who had withdrawn from the competition in the first episode, would suddenly mention why she had to withdraw from the competition in a program after experiencing a hot topic for two or three weeks.
"It's not just because of the conflict of cooperation with Cheng Hai." He Sha said with an open-minded attitude that she had put this matter aside, "The difference between Cheng Hai and me is just in personality and preparation method. He is still quite good. I In the end, I made the decision to withdraw from the competition. Another key reason was because of the recording of this program. As an actor, I will be involved in Jump Up Theater in the future. To be honest, I am not a new actor anymore. I don’t want to say that this job will tie me to other jobs. Especially when it comes to acting, I still hope to be able to act in some works that I like.”
As soon as He Sha's words came out, after the fermentation of major media and exaggerated interpretations by major marketing accounts, it became that if actors want to appear in "The Birth of an Actor", they need to participate in the filming of Jump Theater.
Anything that is tainted with the word "mandatory" will definitely change its flavor.
The "Birth of an Actor" program team immediately responded with one word: fake.
The program director also directly posted a Weibo, pointing directly at He Sha: I don’t know what caused Ms. He Sha to misunderstand and think that she can get the role of "Jumping Theater" without auditioning by coming to our program.
The response was very tough, but He Sha seemed to have fallen into the sea and there was no new response.
Lu Yanhe and the others already knew that He Sha said these words just to continue to stir up the heat for herself.
The words she said in another program seemed to be said carelessly by chance, but her word-by-word sentence style, which was carefully chosen, could not make "The Birth of the Actors" sue her for spreading rumors, but it could achieve her effect, generating such criticism and constant topics.
There is no way, just like you step on a piece of sticky candy on the road, it sticks to you and disgusts you.
A positive response from the program team and the director is actually enough.
But at this time, Zhou Ping'an suddenly launched a fierce attack on He Sha as if he was settling accounts after the autumn.
Suddenly, all the lies and nonsense that He Sha had told over the years were exposed by various marketing accounts.
There were so many materials that it was difficult to easily associate it with the Internet trolls behind the scenes.
Because the revelations that were fueled by the Internet trolls were all about the same material.
But He Sha had too much material, and it was like a hundred responses. Inexplicably, He Sha's past black materials emerged like mushrooms after rain.
The core meaning is just one: He Sha is a woman full of lies.
He Sha is not afraid of negative news, but she is afraid of no popularity.
Therefore, the production team and director of "The Birth of Actors" directly exposed her lies, which caused a lot of discussion, but she didn't care -
I will find an opportunity to clarify later that what I wanted to express on the show at that time was not that the production team forced them to shoot, but caused misunderstandings.
The word "misunderstanding" is too useful.
However, Zhou Ping'an's counterattack seemed to be a gesture of nailing her on the list of bad artists.
Public opinion has solidified her image as a liar. Behind the scenes, Zhou Ping'an has not been idle in the industry. He has dug up a lot of black materials about He Sha backstabbing collaborators, having a bad work attitude, and overlapping roles, and spread them everywhere.
Originally, as long as there was popularity, He Sha could also take on many profitable jobs.
It doesn't matter if she can't shoot a movie. She can make money by going to a live broadcast room. The more people scold her, the more traffic she gets, and the more traffic she gets, the higher her salary will be.
Now, even live broadcast rooms don't dare to invite her easily.
Because there are reports that He Sha will hire people to do data in the live broadcast room where she appears, and hire a group of people to place orders, creating a posture of very gratifying sales and high ability to bring goods, and then return the goods.
These things were originally secrets in the industry and would not be widely spread. Naturally, people who are not aware of the situation will rush to cooperate with He Sha because of her popularity. Now it is different.
Several originally scheduled cooperations were directly cancelled because of this.
After He Sha and her team knew that it was Zhou Pingan's work, they knew that they had dragged Cheng Hai into the water before. Even though she tried to say a few good words about Cheng Hai on the show, she did not get Zhou Pingan's forgiveness.
And Zhou Pingan obviously had his eyes on her.
Whenever there was a partner who might want to cooperate with her, Zhou Pingan would ruthlessly ruin it.
Either he would intercept the work and snatch it back to the artist in his hands, or recommend it to others. The reason was the same. It was too cost-effective to cooperate with He Sha, so he would introduce someone with a higher cost-effectiveness and no negative public opinion.
With this, He Sha's good momentum suddenly came to an abrupt end.
This was also the path she chose herself.
Since she chose such a black and red road and hyped herself, she had no foundation and could not stand on her own ground if Zhou Pingan pinched her lightly. This could not be blamed on anyone.
There was no way, He Sha and her agent could only bow their heads to Zhou Pingan in person again.
Bow your head to apologize, admit your mistakes, and ask Zhou Pingan to raise his hand and let it go.
This was what they planned at the time.
If it really couldn't end, just do it.
It is not a big deal in principle. After the heat is over, it will not have much impact on the artist.
Then Cheng Hai is also a beneficiary of traffic.
Who knew that Zhou Pingan saw them coming to apologize, but he didn't listen to a word. He said in a sarcastic tone: "Don't, don't speak first, I'm afraid of you. I'll turn on the recording first, so that I don't have another recording of cursing people. Oh, forget it, I just can't help cursing. You'd better not talk to me. I'm too lazy to talk to you."
These words squeezed He Sha and her agent blushed, and they couldn't say a word for a while.
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"I can only say that evil people will be punished by evil people." This is Chen Ziyan's evaluation of He Sha's incident. "For people like He Sha who don't care about their face, only Zhou Pingan's methods can hit the snake at the weakest point."
Lu Yanhe: "Sister Ziyan, why do I feel that you appreciate Zhou Pingan more and more?"
Chen Ziyan: "Maybe this is a person who achieves the ultimate in a certain aspect. Even if you hate him, you can't deny his ability. Especially in the past few years, my work content in management has increased a lot. I A big part of my job now is to wipe the butts of subordinates who can’t do the job. I know that character is more important than ability, but to be honest, when you really don’t know what kind of trouble will come to you every day, you really don’t care whether your colleague is a scumbag at this time, as long as he can Just do his part well and don't cause trouble for me. He's a scumbag. Just don't affect me."
Lu Yanhe laughed endlessly.
Unexpectedly, while they were chatting about Zhou Pingan, Zhou Pingan's phone call suddenly came to Chen Ziyan.
Chen Ziyan waved the phone screen with Zhou Ping'an's name in front of Lu Yanhe's eyes and said, "I'll answer his call first."
Lu Yanhe nodded.
He said, "Then I'm going to use the bathroom."
After he went to the bathroom, he called Chen Siqi again and asked her what she was doing.
Chen Siqi: "What else can I do? I'm working. After jumping into theater, the number of submissions to our magazine increased, and we even received a lot of movie scripts."
"Really?" Lu Yanhe was pleasantly surprised after hearing this, "Then you can see that the volume of manuscripts has become larger again."
"Yes, but fortunately, our team is now huge, and the difficult period of shortage of manpower has passed." Chen Siqi said, "What are you doing?"
"I'm here at Shihuo," Lu Yanhe said, "reading the script with Sister Ziyan."
"Don't you already have a project to shoot this year?"
"Most of the scripts I'm looking at now will only start filming next year." Lu Yanhe said, "Sister Ziyan found a few good scripts for me, all of which are directors I have never worked with."
"Okay." Chen Siqi said, "I have a meeting with Zijun and the others later, so I won't tell you now."
"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded, "Bye, see you tonight."
"See you tonight."
Lu Yanhe hung up the phone and returned to Chen Ziyan's office.
Chen Ziyan looked at Lu Yanhe in bewilderment and said, "What do you think Zhou Ping'an called me for?"
Lu Yanhe shook his head, "I can't think of anything. It doesn't feel strange no matter what he does."
"No, you must feel strange about this."
"What's the matter?" After Chen Ziyan said this, Lu Yanhe became even more curious.
Chen Ziyan: "He hopes you can leave a role for Yan Liang in the movie "Dragon Gate Inn"."
"Huh?" Lu Yanhe was really surprised.
What should I say about this?
There are so many paradoxes that I don’t even know where to start.
The first paradox is that given the relationship between Lu Yanhe and Yan Liang, if Yan Liang wanted to play a role in "Dragon Gate Inn", it would not be Zhou Pingan's turn to do it - even if Zhou Pingan is Yan Liang's agent.
The second paradox is that given Zhou Pingan's usual behavior towards Yan Liang, he suddenly took the initiative to consider Yan Liang's career and tried to help him develop the film market, just like a weasel giving New Year greetings to a chicken - too abrupt and unkind.
The third paradox is that Zhou Ping'an didn't call Lu Yanhe directly about this matter - obviously after Lu Yanhe terminated the contract, the two of them slowly eased their relationship a little bit in subsequent contacts, and they didn't live together until death. It’s to the point where we can’t have normal conversations about our dealings or work. Zhou Pingan actually found Chen Ziyan, hoping that Chen Ziyan would do Lu Yanhe's job.
Chen Ziyan asked Lu Yanhe: "What did you think about it? Looking at the movie "Dragon Gate Inn" now, with Liu Bige as the director, you as the screenwriter, and Shang Yongzhou and Chen Bige starring, it can be said to be the best lineup for the movie, but "Given Yan Liang's current situation, it would be inappropriate for him to play a supporting role in a movie, especially considering his friendship with you."
Lu Yanhe thought for a while and said, "There are really no outstanding supporting characters in this script."
"Those eunuchs are actually quite good," said Chen Ziyan. "Actually, if Yan Liang plays such a contrasting role, the audience will indeed be surprised."
"If Zhou Pingan knew that you wanted Yan Liang to play the eunuch, he would probably regret making this call to you."
"The call from Zhou Ping'an is actually hoping that Yan Liang can borrow your movie and break into the film industry instead of hanging around in the TV industry." Chen Ziyan said, "If Yan Liang can play the role of the eunuch well, it will be refreshing for everyone. That can actually achieve Zhou Pingan’s goal.”
"Zhou Ping'an hopes that Yan Liang can pursue a career as a star." Lu Yanhe said, "Yan Liang has been insisting on martial arts training, and his skills in making action movies are actually good enough."
He hesitated and said, "Let me think about it and ask Yan Liang for his opinion. In fact, if Yan Liang really wants to make a martial arts film, I can just write another starring role for him in the future. That's what I told him." "
"You have thought about this matter yourself, but you also have to think about it. Since Zhou Ping'an called for the first time, it is very likely that he saw that Yan Liang actually wanted to act, but was embarrassed to talk to you, so he was good at acting. I hope we will take the initiative to let Yan Liang play the role." Chen Ziyan said, "No matter what you think or what decision you make, you should remember to check out Yan Liang's voice."
Lu Yanhe nodded.
"Okay, now that we've finished talking about these things, it's time for us to talk about our own business." Chen Ziyan said, "Look at this script."
Lu Yanhe took over a script from Chen Ziyan. On the script were the words "Oceanic sea, oh my bah".
"?" Lu Yanhe frowned subconsciously, but when he looked again, the screenwriter in the lower right corner wrote the word "Wu Chi".
This name...
It can't be such a coincidence, right?
However, this name should be difficult to repeat.
Seeing Lu Yanhe's strange expression, Chen Ziyan thought he was surprised by the name "Hai Hao, Bah". She explained: "Don't be fooled by its strange name. You will know after reading the script." Why should I show it to you?"
This is a movie script.
This script is about the adolescence of a high school boy, about a boy's restlessness, love and growth.
He quickly looked inside.
During this period, Chen Ziyan did not interrupt, picked up another script to read, and then waited silently for Lu Yanhe to finish it.
"This script -" Lu Yanhe spent an hour reading the script. He looked at Chen Ziyan with surprise and said, "It is very similar to the style of "Those Years"."
Chen Ziyan nodded, "Yes, that's right. Take a look at this again. It was sent along with the script, and there are several films he edited. This Wu Chi, he is an editor."
"Yes, I know." Lu Yanhe nodded.
"You know?" Chen Ziyan was stunned for a moment, then she realized, "You know him?"
"Well, we had a chance encounter. His apprentice asked me about recruiting directors at Jump Up Theatre. Could this be the source of this?"
"That's right." Chen Ziyan nodded, "It was Xu Fanxing who participated in this jump-up theater as a staff member of Linghe. She saw this script and these edited videos and sent these materials over. She knows that you are short She didn't want to be a director for a while, and she also knew that our company had another film called "Those Years" waiting to be filmed. She told me that this person's script and editing style were very similar to how she felt when she read the script of "Those Years." After watching it, I felt the same way.”
"Indeed." Lu Yanhe nodded, "The style of this script is so similar to "Those Years" that it even makes me feel like it is a replica of "Those Years". Although the structure of the story is different, it tells the same theme. "
Chen Ziyan nodded.
"When you watch the films he edited, this feeling will be more obvious." Chen Ziyan said.
Lu Yanhe sat in front of Chen Ziyan's computer again and carefully watched several films edited by Wu Chi, which were all fragments.
But if you want to see a person’s style, snippets are enough.
Chen Ziyan looked at Lu Yanhe and asked, "How about it? Do you want to meet him and have a chat? I think he is a person worth paying attention to in Linghe. Maybe after chatting, he will feel more suitable and can sign in with us." The company is coming.”
Lu Yanhe couldn't hold it back and smiled.
"Okay, let's make an appointment to meet." Lu Yanhe felt incredible at this moment. Suddenly, a director suitable for filming "Those Years" appeared, and he was someone he had met before.
"But there is one thing, Yan He, I want to communicate with you." Chen Ziyan said, "If we finally feel that he is suitable to be the director of "Those Years", I hope to let him film "The Sea, Oh My Bah" first, The production cost of this script is very easy to control, and it can be used to practice. He has never been a director. I hope he can accumulate experience in making a film before making "Those Years". So, if this is the case, "Those Years" may be necessary. I’ve postponed the filming to next year.”
Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "Okay, I have no problem with that." (End of Chapter)