Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 52 Grass Stage Team
"Sister An, I just accepted a short film, and it was Brother Ye who told me." Li Tang said helplessly.

Naian got him another job this time, a small role was needed in a TV series about martial arts in Hengdian that was being filmed.Don't look at Li Tang as the leading male lead in Shanghai Film Studio's gift film as soon as he debuted. In fact, such a small role is in line with his current positioning.

Movies haven't been released yet, TV dramas haven't been broadcast, and they haven't been tested by the market, let alone popular.Speaking of which, the biggest reason why Naian was able to get this job was because of "Returning the Pearl II". "Returning the Pearl" became popular, and "Returning the Pearl II" will naturally not be far behind.

"How long will this short film take?"

Because there is no salary, not even a contract, Naian doesn't know this situation yet.

"At least half a month." Li Tang thought for a while.

The crew of "Criminal" has been established, and Cheng Er has brought in seven or eight students from Nortel to act as the main creators behind the scenes, including photography, lighting, art design, recording, etc., and announced to the public that it is a "joint work of Nortel's 99 graduates".

Li Tang just met the other two main characters in the short film yesterday. The guy who plays Hu Tian’s younger brother Hu Di is a young man named Hu Ge, who is only 17 years old today. high school.

Shanghai No. [-] Middle School is very close to the drama center, and has a tradition of cultural and artistic performances. Xu Guangtou graduated from this middle school.

The young man is quite handsome, about the same height as Li Tang, not to mention standing together, he really looks like a brother.And after all, having been a small host for many years, he has a certain foundation in acting.

Hu Tian's lover and clerk Xiao Zhang is played by a young model named Huang Yi who has just debuted in commercials. He is three years younger than Li Tang. He is pretty, but his voice is rough.

In the final analysis, the crew had no money, and Cheng Er requested that the short film be all in Shanghainese, so he could only use local actors from Shanghai.

"That should be fine."

Nai'an was relieved, and continued: "This drama has just started shooting, and it is expected to be filmed for about two months. Your role doesn't have many scenes, only about eight episodes. I will discuss it with the crew and wait until you finish shooting this short film. The crew can report in time."

"Well, that's fine."

It is of course a good thing to have live pick-ups. With the opening up in the past few years, many Bay Area and Hong Kong dramas have come to the mainland to shoot. The motherland is a beautiful country and the labor cost is low.Generally, the leading actors and main creators are their own people, and the supporting roles are mainland actors, at most a male or female lead or something.

But to be honest, Hong Kong and Taiwan stars are indeed well-known in the mainland these days and are very popular with mainland audiences.In a sense, the success of "My Fair Princess" has indeed made Little Swallow the first mainland idol star.

Probably because of the glory of "Returning the Pearl II", Li Tang played this small role in the eight episodes this time, and the other party still offered a remuneration of [-] for one episode, [-] for eight episodes, and [-] after deducting the share.

"Don't worry, when "Returning the Pearl II" airs, I will dare to call out the salary of [-] per episode." Nai'an laughed.

It seems that now everyone is full of confidence in "Returning the Pearl II", Naian has already made preparations for Li Tanghong.[-] per episode, that's the treatment of the number one male.

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"Brother Li, what do you want to discuss?" Sun Li approached Li Tang with a smile.

He is Cheng Er's classmate, and works as an art designer in the crew. Compared with Cheng Er's taciturnity, this guy is much more active. When he sees people, he is either a brother or a sister. His mouth is like honey, and he is especially good at talking.

"Smiling is not a good thing. Tell me, what's the matter?"

"Brother Li, can you shave your hair?"

"Shave your head? No problem." Li Tang said.

He shaved his head bald during the filming of "Returning the Pearl II", and now more than two months have passed, his hair has grown a lot, and the sides and back have been slightly trimmed, and now he has short and neat hair.Li Tang thought this hairstyle was a bit trendy and not suitable for a character like Hu Tian, ​​so he wanted to have a crew cut or something.

But then Sun Li hesitated and said: "I mean to shave my head bald, do you think it's okay?"

"Bald? Why?" Li Tang was stunned.

Either he didn't want to, or the hair grew out after a lot of effort, so why did he have to shave his head again?

"Hu Tian took the box in the hotel lobby. The police found the person who took the box from the surveillance video. Because it was not a frontal shot, a more eye-catching feature was needed. I discussed it with the director. The best way is to shave Bald."

"Is that so..."

Li Tang thought for a while, and felt that what Sun Li said was reasonable, so he said straightforwardly: "No problem, let's shave."

As an actor, everything must serve the play.

So after a while, Li Tang appeared in front of everyone with a big round bald head.

Hu Ge was very surprised. The 17-year-old boy is just the time to love beauty. Because he is going to be a host, his hairstyle is not too trendy and exaggerated, but he wears gel water every day and combs it smoothly.

Seeing Huang Ye, she covered her mouth with both hands and made an exaggerated expression, then said with a smirk, "Brother Li, you have a really nice hair shape, and your bald head is also beautiful!"

Because of her family background, this little girl came into contact with the society very early. She has a bright personality and can come to things. The look in his eyes changed differently, a little intentionally making friends.

Li Tang also felt a bit of sympathy for her. Everyone's parents divorced when they were very young, and he still has a father who loves him like a mountain.This little girl is much worse, her parents don't care, she can only live with her grandparents.

So Li Tang understands this very well. For a little girl who has neither backing nor resources, if she wants to change the status quo, she can only give up any possible opportunity, even if the possibility is very small.

It was because of this mentality that when Li Tang heard her praise, he touched his bare head and rolled his eyes at her: "Thank you, I thank you for your family!"

Huang Yi giggled and said loudly on purpose: "Brother Li, what I said is true."

In fact, the more Li Tang had this attitude, the more natural Huang Yi felt.Young people, it's normal for everyone to joke and bicker together.But if you are too polite, then the distance between the two parties will be further apart, and there will even be a feeling of being thousands of miles away from others.

In the two days since the start-up, I basically focused on shooting empty shots, mainly for running-in.Regardless of the fact that they are all classmates of Nortel, they often quarrel over a shot or a composition, as if everyone is an artist, but Cheng Er always insists every time, doesn’t talk much, but resists to the end. Everyone had to accept his opinion.

This is the basic quality of a director. If he can't even control a crew, Li Tang probably should really think about whether he should be given enough trust.

Today is the first time to shoot a scene with human beings, and it is also a major scene. The shooting location is the lobby of the International Equatorial Hotel on Yan'an Road.

This time the crew was able to easily enter the hotel lobby to shoot, thanks to Huang Yi, because she was the front desk of the hotel before, and the hotel gave the green light for this.

In this scene, Hu Tian was waiting for a friend in the hotel lobby, but the friend missed the appointment. He accidentally encountered an empty box, and after some ideological struggle, he picked up the box and ran away.

There are three elements in this scene. The first one is waiting, waiting for a friend to borrow money to save his life, but the friend has not arrived for a long time, which is obviously the depression after being released; the second is panic, when he encounters that The box, when you find out that it is definitely not an ordinary box, the panic of wanting to take it for yourself; the third is the urgency to escape, and finally make up your mind to take the box and run away.

"Brother Li, you can start now."

The on-site camera positions have been set up, and the lighting adjustments are in place, but this grass-roots team has no monitors at all. The director Cheng Er is standing next to the camera, and a buddy is holding a stopwatch in his hand to check the time.

It is said that it is ready to start, but in fact it is not to start the real shooting, but to act first, make sure there is no problem, and then measure the length of the required film according to the time pinched out by the stopwatch, and finally start the real shooting.

Because there is no money, the film is carefully calculated to ensure that every frame of film is valid, and there are no second chances.In this regard, the so-called monitor is meaningless, because you have no chance to start over.

(End of this chapter)