From traffic to movie star

Chapter 134 Idol burden is too heavy?

Unlike TV dramas, China's current variety shows are similar to Blu-ray TV's "Call Me an Actor", Red Mans TV's "Gold Medal Singer" and "Sound on the Scene", all of which are produced by satellite TV itself.

TV dramas can be produced by private companies, then sold to TV stations, and then broadcast by TV stations on stars.

But variety shows, no one has done this yet.

Wei Xun's plan was to take advantage of "Charlotte's Annoyance" as a small-production comedy film, which was relatively easy to shoot, and at the same time he could be a variety show producer to make "The Voice of China".

This practice of producing variety shows by a private team and then selling them to satellite TV has an exclusive term called separation of production and broadcasting.

On Earth, the first "The Voice of China" was the first variety show in China to adopt the method of separating production and broadcasting and produced by a private team.

It is worth mentioning that the last variety show was bought by a TV station at a sky-high price of 8000 million.

In the past, Wei Xun didn't intend to spend too much time in the music industry, because his main energy was still in the film industry.

But this time when shooting "Charlotte Annoyance", relying on the few songs released before, he easily replaced the copyright of the song he wanted, which made Wei Xun feel the need to change his mind.

Perhaps instead of copying songs like the hero Charlotte, he can change his mind and create a super hit music program, which can also gain a firm foothold in the music circle.

The Chen Yan team of Platinum Ghostwriting Group is writing "The Prehistoric Era".

Wei Xun is the main producer of movies, and by the way, he also makes music. In this way, the three lines of book, video and audio will develop side by side, and the initial territory of Medal Media will be established.

But I don't know what the three of Lin Zi think. In short, the three of them did not continue to chat with Wei Xun about the mentor of "The Voice of China" in the past few days.

At present, there is no precedent for a variety show in China that produces and broadcasts separately. People will definitely consider it. This is normal.

On the third day of filming "Charlotte's Annoyance", Wei Xun finished filming the scenes of the three singers Lin Zi, Guo Chaoyang and Qi Chen, and then began to formally set the makeup of the actors.

Before work started, Mao Bin asked: "Brother Xun, it seems that Lin Zi and the others will not agree to participate in "The Voice of China". Should we find a way to continue contacting other heavenly kings and queens?"

"Not for now, just wait."

Wei Xun said with a smile: "I guess Lin Zi is also waiting, don't forget, in half a month, the Golden Melody Awards will be nominated, if I can get a few important nominations by then, maybe Lin Zi and the others will Will contact me."

Although these three are not very popular now, they are also heavyweight singers, and they are not so easy to be fooled.

Wei Xun wanted to invite them as a private variety show producer, and getting tickets for the Golden Melody Awards would definitely be the best bonus.

When "The Voice of China" is really confirmed to be recorded, the plot in the movie about Charlotte and Lin Zi being mentors in "The Voice of China" can be re-shooted at that time, anyway, it's just a matter of a few shots.

If someone refuses to agree to be a mentor in the end, then you can't force them to come, just ask someone else when you have a chance.

Mao Bin thought for a while and said, "Okay, then let's reserve a part of the funds for the production of "The Voice of China" first."

Half an hour later, the actors put on their makeup and came out to take a set photo.

Ma Dongmei, played by Zeng Li, was already a middle-aged woman when she first appeared on the stage. She looked worn out by work, haggard and shabby.

Another important role, Yuan Hua, was played by a young actor Wei Xun recruited from Huaying Media, Yi Henglai.

At the beginning of the movie, Yuan Hua is a middle-aged successful person, high-spirited, mature and handsome, and Yi Heng looks pretty good.

As for the school girl Qiuya, she is Yi Heng's girlfriend. Both of them are insiders. They usually get together less often because of filming. This time they rushed to shoot a film together. There is also an emotional scene in the movie. All very happy.

In the movie, the school girl Qiuya has always been a beautiful goddess from the beginning to the end, so standing with Yuan Hua is a perfect match.

And the rest of the characters in the script, Dachun, Teacher Wang, Zhang Yang, Meng Tejiao, Mother Charlotte, etc., are ordinary actors recruited by Wei Xun from the Beijing Repertory Theater through Sun Kuo.

"Charlotte's Annoyance" is a story starting from small characters. Even the looks of the male and female protagonists are ordinary. Except for Yuan Hua and Qiu Ya, the rest of the characters are more ordinary than the other, and some are even more ordinary. Ugly hot eyes.

So when a group of people came out after putting on their makeup, everyone looked at each other, feeling a little uncertain.

Can a movie where everyone plays ugly really work?
Even Zeng Li, who was amused to tears after reading the script before, began to feel uneasy now.

Zou Min was also a little worried, and couldn't help asking, "Director Wei, are you sure they want to set the makeup like this?"

"Yes, although it is indeed ugly, it can add a comic effect."

Wei Xun finished speaking with a smile, and greeted everyone to take a makeup photo, and then said: "I'm just as handsome as I can wear these two days, and I have to look ugly later."

Charlotte in "Charlotte's Annoyance" is a greasy middle-aged man. In order to fit the character design, Wei Xun has stopped exercising since half a month ago.

But the reason why he didn't start gaining weight immediately was because he wanted to play himself in the movie.

That's right, in the revised script, Charlotte travels back in time and realizes that she can copy songs to become popular. He sang Wei Xun's "Story of Time" and "Youth and Promise". These two songs have won the love of many people. .

Many years later, Wei Xun went to participate in "The Voice of China", and the songs he created were similar to "Young and Promising", so he was criticized for plagiarism by Charlotte, who had already become popular in the music world and was sitting in the mentor seat.

To put it simply, Wei Xun wants to play two roles by himself.

Play Charlotte and play yourself.

Charlotte played by Wei Xun traveled to the past and copied Wei Xun's own songs.

A very interesting one I copied from my own set.

After filming Wei Xun's true colors, he will gain weight quickly, and at the same time, he will first shoot the scenes of other characters in the movie, and after he gains weight successfully, he will start filming his own scenes.

"I see that on your weight gain plan, it says that you want to gain [-] catties, and it's still in just one month."

Zou Min sighed, and jokingly said: "What a handsome guy, you have to think about acting ugly. I guess when this movie is broadcast, your fans will be pissed off in the cinema."

Wei Xun smiled and said, "It's just what the role needs. If you can't even do this, it's not professional enough."

On the same day, the characters including Ma Dongmei, Dachun, Yuan Hua, Qiuya and other characters had their make-up done, and a group photo was taken after the completion to be used as a promotional poster.

Because Wei Xun has not had time to gain weight, the male protagonist Charlotte put a photo of her life as a temporary makeup photo.

It says, actor Wei Xun, actor Wei Xun.

However, a week later, after the stills of "Charlotte Annoyance" and the initial promotional posters were released through the official newsletter platform of Medal Media, it caused dissatisfaction among netizens.

Because Wei Xun is too fashionable, it doesn't match the image of Charlotte, a greasy, overweight middle-aged man, the male lead of "Charlotte Annoyance". Everyone thinks that Wei Xun is an idol who has too much burden and refuses to play ugly.

(End of this chapter)