Actors have no vacation

Chapter 231

When Liu Lihao was young, he was keen to play against others, and he was already very arrogant before he entered the industry. At that time, he firmly believed in one sentence-talent cannot be hidden. Talented people will burst out sooner or later. As long as the talent is enough, they can succeed no matter what.

I was really hurt by this sentence.Liu Lihao was flamboyant and domineering, but before he had time to show off his talents, he was properly hidden by others, strictly guarded.

Fiction writing is a lonely art, and all you need is a pen and a piece of paper to gather the means of production; as an actor, if you leave the team, you will have no roots and cannot survive alone.

Actors rely on the team, especially reliable teams, directors, screenwriters, editors... If there is a link that lags behind, then even if the actor has the level of the actor and actress, he can only resign himself to fate in the end.

The audience can only find good actors in good works.

When Liu Lihao recognized this reality, his career was already half-wasted.After breaking up with the brokerage company, the industry couldn't tolerate him after a few greetings.Of course he tried making independent films without getting paid, but in the end he found that acting hard in a story that didn't make sense would only make him worse and worse.No matter how talented he is, there is no way he can create together with an Internet celebrity heroine who has no acting experience, a director who has been doing nothing in college for four years but feels that he is a giant, and a mediocre screenwriter who can only learn from other people's works. Produce a work worthy of the name of [movie].In order to have a movie to film in the future, he even had to pay the director of Silly Bi not to post his work everywhere, so as not to completely ruin his weak possibility of turning himself around.

Therefore, when Guan Chen declared that he was not afraid of being suppressed and that he would produce and shoot his own movie without a film contract at worst, Liu Lihao flattered and expressed his full support, but he was happy to see the joke in his heart.

Liu Lihao had been lurking around Guan Chen for a long time, and found that Guan Chen was very contradictory.

Guan Chen is extremely cautious in life, like a neurotic, he can imagine countless crises out of thin air. He has to be in the most convenient place to escape from indoors and outdoors at all times, and is always suspicious. However, when it comes to movies, this person is naive as hell. People who are film professionals have the ability to make good movies, as long as they want to, anyone can make movies.It's just ridiculous.

Since Guan Chen insisted on playing house, Liu Lihao naturally complied.

This was probably Guan Chen's only weakness.

Liu Lihao made up his mind to add fuel to the flames, so that reality could give Guan Chen a painful blow, and when Guan Chen led the useless grass-roots team and stumbled and lost his way, he could take advantage of the void and wisely step forward to point out the direction of life and guide Guan Chen. The talent brought to a broader place, helping Guan Chen, also helping himself.

"I've seen the trailer, and it seems that your short film crew are all neighbors..." the hostess asked Liu Lihao.

"Living Alone" currently has two issues.The first episode showed the daily work life of Guan Chen and his unreliable staff. The second episode showed several unlucky newlywed clients who were "broken up" by Guan Chen one by one before they got married. In the trailer, after the quarrel, one of the unlucky couple still agreed to cooperate in the filming, making the process of acquaintance and falling in love into a short film, and then Guan Chen led the program team to start the formation of the filming team.

The members of the team are almost all neighbors from the wedding street.Some came from the barber shop, some came from the nail shop, and some simply passed by on the street to watch the excitement...

The whole recruiting process looks a lot like the protagonist of a crime movie convening a gang. When the protagonist calls, the supporting actors are all excited. They drop their jobs, beat up the chattering boss, and do big things with the protagonist without telling their wives and daughters.

"A group of laymen come to make a movie, is it reliable or not?"

The hostess speaks directly, and usually vomits on the spot: "You broke up other people's weddings and let them make bad movies, which is simply a second injury. For the effect of the show, you are too unscrupulous businessmen!"

Liu Lihao really wanted to say that everything presented in the program is not the effect of the program at all, and that studio is so ridiculous from top to bottom... But he kept the purpose of this trip in mind, and quickly started public relations, explaining that it is not necessary to break up the newlywed clients. It's not them, but the hidden dangers lurking in the relationship. They just pointed it out. To some extent, they did a good thing.

"As for bad movies, we don't know how to shoot them." Liu Lihao said solemnly: "Although our team is all laymen, we are actually not weak at all. Because the experience in the wedding industry can be grafted into film and television production !"

Liu Lihao looked determined, as if he had spoken some truth in the world.

Immediately afterwards, he began to instill in the host and the audience how much wedding celebrations and film and television have in common:
For example, they all involve service, scene layout, and on-site scheduling. "Weddings also have various themes, and everyone needs to change their clothes before entering the venue; there are also various places for weddings, some in palaces, some in grasslands, and some In the spaceship; sometimes for the atmosphere and sense of reality, the wedding company will actually invite actors to the wedding to play the role."

Then there is the logistics aspect, the location of the residence, the travel arrangement, and the choice of catering. Very experienced."

It is also necessary to face various ambiguous needs of Party A/director.Sometimes if you are not satisfied with a material or a texture, you will immediately ask someone to replace it and start over. "Sometimes the other party doesn't know what they want, but they must ask you to give a satisfactory answer."

We must always be prepared to clean up the scene full of situations, late absence, drunkenness, repentance, temporary price increase, stage collapse, fights into the detention center... "The wedding is the same as the set, anything can happen."

More importantly, after getting the budget, these wedding people know how to spend it, "Give us tens of thousands of dollars, and we can make it very cost-effective; give us a few million, and we have channels to spend all the money On the knife's edge, because what I earn is planning fees, I basically don't take kickbacks—other companies don't know, and our studio absolutely doesn't take kickbacks."

Liu Lihao almost convinced himself.

"When you say it like this, it seems that this is really the case!" The host, the audience and the other two guests felt that Xie Jinzhu was very powerful. Keep a low profile, and when the opportunity comes, you will be able to make a comeback immediately!

If Liu Lihao hadn't had confidence in Xie Jinzhu's IQ, he would almost have thought it was a big game of chess.

Actually not.

The above-mentioned rhetoric was all used by him to incite Guan Chen, so that Guan Chen would willingly take a bunch of trash to make a movie.

Manager Qian, as the last line of defense of the studio and the only person working seriously, naturally held objections and discouraged the plan in every possible way.Unfortunately, as always, it didn't work.As Guan Chen's personal lackey, Liu Lihao's most important job during the day is to keep an eye on the Internet, to prevent someone from randomly changing Guan Chen's height and weight in the encyclopedia entry, and then spread the good deeds of Guan Chen everywhere on the Internet with a trumpet; The second most important job is to inform Manager Qian that Guan Chen is not available every time Manager Qian comes to see him—even if Guan Chen is just three meters away, eating ice cream or playing with ants.

When Guan Chen took a copy of "Teaching You to Make Movies Hand by Hand" rolled into kelp and went to the street to catch young men one by one according to the above list, Liu Lihao knew that his plan was on the right track.

The make-up artist is a senior designer in a barber shop, the stylist is a new apprentice in a tailor shop, the photographer and lighting engineer are from a photo studio at the end of the street, and the art director is the owner of a painting and calligraphy shop on the next street. At the first sight of excitement, Guan Chen, who was passing by, took it into his bag... The team composed of such a group of people is more like a neighborhood committee than a crew.It would be a huge mockery of all studios and film academies if this would result in a passing film.

Even if there was even a shred of reliable possibility in it, he was lucky enough to pinch it out by Liu Lihao.

For example, Guan Chen originally booked a foreigner named Hawley as the director.Liu Lihao has checked the other party's resume. Although the other party has been out of work for many years, he has won award-winning works, and he has already made great works before graduation. Maybe he still has the ability to lead a mob to turn the tide.Is this worth it?This son must not stay.So Liu Lihao finally persuaded Guan Chen that "calling Holly is an overkill", and went to film school to find two unknown college students with ordinary grades, poor popularity, to act as director, screenwriter, sound effects and editing.

"What about Guan Chen? Will he star in the short film?" The male host asked curiously: "If Guan Chen also appeared in the show, then no matter what the filming looks like in the end, I think many customers will be willing to buy this service."

The hostess said excitedly that if Guan Chen played the role, she would buy the short film service immediately and let Guan Chen play the role of a marriage robbery.

For this kind of good idea that can increase the revenue of the studio, Liu Lihao quickly killed it: "Guan Chen will not act, he is the producer."

"Producer." The male host nodded, and asked another guest who was an assistant director, "What is the job of a producer?"

The guest assistant director said: "Investors pay, directors use money, and producers act as a bridge between the two, balancing art and commerce. The core job is to manage money. It is necessary to use money to keep the director from flying, Make sure that the budget is not overrun, and after the overrun, go to the investor to get more budget, so as to get more creative space for the director." The assistant director added that in fact, all issues related to the production team except creation are under the responsibility of the director. The producer is in charge, so it is not easy to be a good producer. "In the few studios I've worked in, any related household who wants to come in will first be given the position of production assistant. The scope of functions of this position covers all aspects of the crew. It's like a brick, which can be moved wherever it is needed. It is very training. "

The male host turned around and asked Liu Lihao: "Do you think Guan Chen is qualified to be a producer?"

Liu Lihao answered fiercely as no one expected: "Perfect!"

The hostess said with a smile: "I found that you are really old-fashioned, you don't hesitate for a second."

Liu Lihao looked blank, as if he couldn't hear the other party's insinuations.

(End of this chapter)