Become famous another day.

"Master, the Yuehutai Jumping Theater is recruiting directors. Do you think we should give it a try?"

Li Chao took the phone and came to his master Wu Chi 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 editing and stuck in a small room every day. I think we can try this opportunity."

Wu Chi rolled his eyes at him and said, "You believe this kind of information? This is just marketing, recruiting directors... Are you kidding me? How can you recruit directors like this?"

"No, it's true." Li Chao said, "They said that this theater needs a long or short film every week to be broadcast on Sunday night. Many directors are needed. They also attached a registration method. 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 what Li Chao said, Wu Chi hesitated for a moment. He seemed to be a little moved, but still didn't quite believe it.

"Don't be a liar."

"Then I'll send a message to Lu Yanhe and ask him. This is a cooperation plan between Jump Up and Yuehutai, he must know about it."
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The reason why Li Chao, Wu Chi and Lu Yanhe knew each other 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".

Even after adding each other, we never contacted each other again.

However, Li Chao could still occasionally see Lu Yanhe post a circle of friends -

It was because of this that Li Chao realized that no one had blocked him or deleted him.

He and his master have been working on video editing.

However, they are always looking for opportunities.

However, in the entertainment industry, if you have no background and no resources, it is really difficult to find opportunities on your own. Especially for those who "run alone", they are never "insiders" of anyone, and good opportunities will never come to them.

There is not even a chance to shoot a movie online.

Because they are just editors who know a little about editing techniques.

When Wu Chi heard Li Chao say that he wanted to send a message to Lu Yanhe, he wanted to ask him not to bother him for such a small matter, but he swallowed the words back when they came to his lips.

Maybe this really is an opportunity?
In the industry, they have actually heard more or less about which big names will support others and which big names never do this.

Lu Yanhe is a person who is very willing to support others. Many people know this. Many people he has helped have become famous figures now. Jiang Jun is the most typical example. In addition to him, the editor Li Fenglei is also an example.

When Li Chao found out that Li Fenglei, who had been editing movies opposite him, was spotted by Lu Yanhe and signed to his company, he felt jealous for several days - it was just pure jealousy and envy, wondering why he didn't get such a good thing.

Li Chao considered it several times before sending the message he had edited to Lu Yanhe.

He originally thought he would have to wait for a long time, but Lu Yanhe replied to his message in less than three minutes: There is a big gap, you can send them your previous works and they will contact you if they are suitable.

Li Chao immediately cheered excitedly and took the phone to show his master.

"Look, 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 will be willing to meet us and give us a chance."
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The first play of 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 one weekend. Because she picked up the wallet that the girl dropped, she chased after her. However, she unexpectedly found that another group of people were following the girl in the process of chasing her, and an adventure story unfolded by accident.

The director of this play is An Yuanyuan, a 30-year-old female director.

She had never directed a feature film before, only a 15-minute short that was shown at a film festival.

Both the director and the two leading actresses are relatively unknown newcomers.

To this end, Yuehutai and Aurora Video took great pains and invited several popular stars to guest star in several scenes.

On the day of the shoot, 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 start day. If I were there, I could help solve some problems.

This play was chosen as the opening work of the Jump Up Theater because, firstly, this short story is very famous and was very popular with readers when it was published; secondly, the original author Mingyin is one of the most representative authors of Jump Up magazine. Since this theater is to be created, her work or Liu Jiazhen's work must be the first one to be launched. And thirdly, in the official vote on "Which work do you most want to see adapted into a film or TV series", "The Adventures of a Girl" ranked third among hundreds of works.

Although the shooting period was only one week, this small crew of only a dozen people had already held several meetings before the official start of the filming and were very familiar with the main points of the 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 former child stars with extensive acting experience.

This shooting mode is destined to not use newcomers without performance experience. Once the cost exceeds the limit, there is a risk of loss.

Because it is a new thing, although it is very loud and powerful, so far few brands have actively contacted the Jumping Theater to sponsor and implant it.

The first scene was shot in a bookstore.

The bookstore used for filming was contacted by Chen Siqi, and it is a cooperating bookstore of "Jump Up".

The boss was very happy to take half a day off the business to allow them to take the photos.

Because he also knew very well that after the show was broadcast, his bookstore would become the filming location of "The Adventures of a Girl", which would bring a lot of traffic to his bookstore.

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi were watching them filming on the spot. When they arrived, An Yuanyuan was already directing the two girls in the filming, so they did not go forward but stayed aside. They did not enter the bookstore but watched and chatted through the glass window of the bookstore.

"What is Yuehu TV's expected ratings for "The Adventures of a Young Girl"?"

"They are very satisfied if we can achieve 0.4%." Chen Siqi smiled, "But they also said that since it is broadcast on Sunday night, the two main actors are not popular stars yet, so their appeal may be limited, and the performance may only be 0.3% of the average market. Northern Lights Video is a little better. You know, the calculation rules of video platforms are different from those of TV stations. Because they have specially built a Jumping Theater, there are already more than reserved viewers for this theater."

"What is the second play of the Jump Up Theater?"

"It's 'The Whirlpool', adapted from Liu Jiazhen's short story." Chen Siqi said, "This play is better than 'The Adventures of a Young Girl', and we invited Zhang Meng to star in it."

"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded. "Since you want to do this theater, just keep going. If the ratings really don't go up because there are no stars, I'll find a way to invite some friends to perform."

"We still hope to make this theater famous and cultivate a group of regular audiences," Chen Siqi said. "Otherwise, there is actually no point in establishing this theater."

Lu Yanhe understood what Chen Siqi meant.

Just like Noon Sunshine, if we really talk about brand operation, Love Theater, Mist Theater, and X Theater, none of them have as much appeal as Noon Sunshine.

Although the major video platforms have given those so-called theaters such a name, the audience is actually not stupid. They just package some similar themes together based on the subject matter, and do not try to establish a real brand effect at all. Therefore, there are hits and there are also rubbish.

As for Noon Sunshine, no matter whether its dramas are on TV stations or video platforms, because it attaches importance to content creation from the source, it can shoot costume dramas, modern dramas, political intrigues, infinite flow, women, and entrepreneurship.

Chen Siqi wants to build "Jumping Theater" into a brand that the audience can trust with just these five words.

Lu Yanhe said: "In addition to the label of "Jump Up" magazine novel adaptation, we should actually add a little more, maybe it will 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 "Girl's Adventure", 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 a cradle for new directors, this label will definitely make it a highly watched drama in the industry. And if the industry really spontaneously pays attention to it for a long time, the basic foundation will actually emerge."

Chen Siqi nodded thoughtfully.

The current basic 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 the "Jump Up Series".

Most of the readers who support her will also support "The Adventures of a Girl".

But compared with film and television dramas, the number of users of a magazine media is still too small.

We still have to focus on the details and use good content to attract more audiences.
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However, no one expected that He Sha, who withdrew from the competition in the first episode, suddenly mentioned the reason why she withdrew from the competition in a program after being a hot topic for two or three weeks.

"It's not just because of the conflict of cooperation with Cheng Hai." He Sha looked open-minded and said, "The only difference between Cheng Hai and me is our personality and preparation methods. He is a very good person. I finally decided to withdraw from the competition. Another key reason is that the actors who recorded this program will participate in the Jump Up Theater later. To be honest, I am not a new actor. I don't want to say that doing this job will also tie me to other jobs, especially acting. I still hope to act in works that I like."

After He Sha's words were fermented by major media and exaggerated by major marketing accounts, it became that if an actor wants to be on "The Birth of the Actors", he needs to participate in the filming of the Jump Up Theater.

Anything will become distorted once it is tainted with the word "compulsory".

The production team of "The Birth of the Actors" responded immediately, with just one word: fake.

The program director also posted a Weibo post directly, pointing directly at He Sha: I don’t know what caused Ms. He Sha to misunderstand and think that by joining our program, she can get a role in "Jumping Theater" without passing an audition.

The response was very firm, but it seemed as if there was no response from He Sha.

Lu Yanhe and the others already knew that He Sha said these words just to continue to hype herself up.

The words she said in another program seemed to be spoken casually and accidentally, but her carefully chosen sentences could not make "The Birth of the Actors" sue her for spreading rumors, but at the same time she achieved her effect of generating such controversy and constant topic.

There's nothing you can do about it, just like when you step on a piece of taffy while walking on the road, it sticks to you and makes you sick.

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 to settle a score.

Suddenly, all the lies that He Sha had told and her careless remarks over the years were exposed by various marketing accounts.

There is so much material that it is difficult to easily associate it with the involvement of some internet trolls behind the scenes.

Because the information is usually leaked by internet trolls, and the information is all the same.

But on He Sha's side, there was too much information, and it was as if one call attracted a lot of responses. Inexplicably, all the negative information about He Sha popped up like mushrooms after a rain.

The core meaning is this: He Sha is a woman who is full of lies.

He Sha is not afraid of negative news, what she is afraid of is the lack of popularity.

Therefore, the production team and director of "The Birth of the Actors" directly exposed her lies, which caused a lot of discussion, but she didn't care.

I'll find an opportunity to clarify later. What I wanted to express on the show was not that the production team should force them to shoot, but that it caused misunderstanding.

The word "misunderstanding" is very useful.

However, Zhou Ping'an's counterattack seemed to be intended to put her on the list of bad artists.

Public opinion solidified her image as a liar. Behind the scenes, in the industry, Zhou Ping'an was also not idle. He dug up a lot of negative information about He Sha, such as her backstabbing of collaborators, her bad work attitude, and her overlapping filming schedules, and spread it everywhere.

Originally, as long as she was popular, He Sha could also take on many lucrative jobs. It didn't matter if she couldn't film a movie, she could make money by going live. The more people scolded her, the more traffic she got, and the more traffic she got, the higher her salary would be.

Now, even the live broadcast room doesn’t dare to invite her easily.

Because there were reports that He Sha would hire people to compile data in the live broadcast room where she appeared, and hire a group of people to place orders, creating an impression that the sales volume was very gratifying and the ability to bring goods was very high, and then the goods would be returned.

These things were originally secrets within the industry and would not be widely spread. Naturally, there would be people who were unaware of the situation and would rush to work with He Sha because of her popularity. But now it is different.

As a result of this, several originally planned collaborations were cancelled.

After He Sha and her team found out that it was Zhou Ping'an's work, they realized that they were the ones who dragged Cheng Hai into this. Even though she tried to say a few good words about Cheng Hai on the show, she did not get Zhou Ping'an's forgiveness.

And Zhou Ping'an obviously had his eyes on her.

If there is any partner who might want to cooperate with her, Zhou Ping'an will ruthlessly ruin it.

He either snatches the work back from the artists he has, or recommends it to others. The reason is the same: the cost-effectiveness of working with He Sha is too low, so he wants to introduce someone with better cost-effectiveness and no negative public opinion.

With this, He Sha's good momentum came to an abrupt halt.

This is the path she chose.

Since he has chosen such a dark and famous road to hype himself, he has no foundation and will be unable to gain a foothold if Zhou Ping'an pinches him lightly. He cannot blame anyone.

There was no other way, He Sha and her agent could only go and bow to Zhou Pingan in person again.

Bow your head to apologize, admit your mistake, and ask Zhou Ping'an to raise your hand and let you go.

This was what they had planned at the time.

If you really can't finish it, just do this.

It’s not a big deal of principle in itself, and after the heat has passed, it won’t have much impact on the artist.

Then Chenghai is also a beneficiary of the traffic.

Who would have thought that when Zhou Pingan saw them coming to apologize, he didn't listen to a word and said in a sarcastic tone, "No, don't say anything yet. I'm afraid of you. I'll turn on the recording first, so that I don't get another recording of me cursing out... 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 made He Sha and her agent blush and they couldn't utter a word for a while.
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"All I can say is that evil will be punished by evil." This is Chen Ziyan's evaluation of He Sha's incident. "For someone like He Sha who doesn't care about her dignity, only Zhou Ping'an's method can hit the snake in the weakest part."

Lu Yanhe: "Sister Zi Yan, why do I feel like you appreciate Zhou Ping An more and more?"

Chen Ziyan: "Maybe this is a person who has reached the extreme in a certain aspect. Even if you hate him, you can't deny his ability, especially in the past few years, my management work has increased a lot, and a large part of my work now is to clean up the mess of incompetent subordinates. I also 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 or not. As long as he can do his part of the job well and doesn't cause trouble for me, he can be a scumbag and don't affect me."

Lu Yanhe laughed loudly.

Unexpectedly, while they were chatting about Zhou Ping'an, Zhou Ping'an's phone suddenly called Chen Ziyan.

Chen Ziyan waved the phone screen with Zhou Ping'an's name on it in front of Lu Yanhe and said, "I'll take his call first."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

He said, “I’m going to the bathroom.”

After he finished using the restroom, he called Chen Siqi again and asked her what she was doing.

Chen Siqi: "What else can I do? I'm working. After the Jump Up Theater incident, our magazine received more submissions and even received quite a few movie scripts."

"Really?" Lu Yanhe was pleasantly surprised. "Then the amount of manuscripts you read has increased again."

"Yes, but fortunately, our team has grown larger now, and the difficult period of shortage of manpower is over." Chen Siqi said, "What are you doing?"

"I'm here at Shihuo." Lu Yanhe said, "Reading the script with Sister Zi Yan."

"Don't you already have a project to shoot this year?"

"Most of the scripts I'm reading now won't start filming until next year," Lu Yanhe said. "Sister Zi Yan found me a few good scripts, all directed by directors I've never worked with before."

"Okay." Chen Siqi said, "I have to have a meeting with Zijun and the others later, so I won't talk to you for now."

"Yeah." 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, "Guess why Zhou Pingan called me?"

Lu Yanhe shook his head. "I can't think of it. I feel like no matter what he does, it won't be strange."

"No, you will certainly find this strange."

"What's the matter?" After Chen Ziyan said this, Lu Yanhe became even more curious.

Chen Ziyan: "He hopes you can reserve a role for Yan Liang in the movie Dragon Inn."

"Ah?" Lu Yanhe was indeed surprised.

How should I say this?

There are so many weird things that I don’t know where to start.

The first irony is that given the relationship between Lu Yanhe and Yan Liang, if Yan Liang wanted to play a role in "Dragon Inn", it would never be Zhou Ping'an's turn to ask for it - even if Zhou Ping'an is Yan Liang's agent.

The second oddity is that given Zhou Ping'an's usual attitude towards Yan Liang, he suddenly took the initiative to consider Yan Liang's career and tried to help him expand the film market, just like a weasel paying New Year's greetings to a chicken - too abrupt and seemed to have ill intentions.

The third strange thing is that Zhou Pingan didn't call Lu Yanhe directly about this matter. It was obvious that after Lu Yanhe terminated the contract, the two of them gradually eased their relationship in the subsequent contacts. They didn't reach the point where they had no contact and couldn't even talk about work normally. Zhou Pingan actually found Chen Ziyan and hoped that Chen Ziyan would do Lu Yanhe's work.

Chen Ziyan asked Lu Yanhe, "What do you think? The movie Dragon Inn, as it stands now, has Liu Bige as the director, you as the screenwriter, and Shang Yongzhou and Chen Bige as the leading actors. It can be said to be a top-notch movie lineup. However, given Yan Liang's current situation, it's not appropriate for him to play a supporting role in the movie, especially considering his friendship with you."

Lu Yanhe thought for a moment and said, "In this script, the supporting roles really aren't that outstanding."

"Those eunuchs are actually quite outstanding." Chen Ziyan said, "In fact, if Yan Liang played such a contrasting role, it would indeed surprise the audience."

"If Zhou Ping'an knew that you wanted Yan Liang to play the eunuch, he would probably regret calling you."

"Zhou Ping'an called because he actually hopes that Yan Liang can use your movie to break into the film industry instead of staying in the TV industry." Chen Ziyan said, "If Yan Liang can play the role of the eunuch well and give everyone a refreshing feeling, then Zhou Ping'an can actually achieve his goal."

"I think Zhou Pingan hopes Yan Liang can become an action star." Lu Yanhe said, "Yan Liang has been practicing martial arts all the time, so he has enough skills to act in action movies."

He hesitated for a moment 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 him a leading role in the future. That's what I told him."

"You've thought about this yourself, but you also have to consider one thing. Since Zhou Ping'an called us for the first time, it's very likely that he saw that Yan Liang actually wanted to act, but was too embarrassed to ask you, so he took the initiative to call us, hoping that we would take the initiative to ask Yan Liang to act." Chen Ziyan said, "No matter what you think and what decision you make, remember to test Yan Liang's attitude."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"Okay, now that we've finished talking about these things, it's time to talk about our own business." Chen Ziyan said, "Take a look at this script."

Lu Yanhe took a script from Chen Ziyan, on which were written the five words "Oh, the sea, bah!"

"?" Lu Yanhe frowned subconsciously, but when he looked again, he saw the words "Wu Chi" written on the screenwriter in the lower right corner.

This name...

It can't be such a coincidence, right?

However, this name should be difficult to have the same name as others.

Seeing Lu Yanhe's strange expression, Chen Ziyan thought he was surprised by the name "The Sea, My Bah". She explained: "Don't be fooled by its strange name. If you read the script, you will know why I want to show it to you."

This is a movie script.

This script tells the story of a high school boy's adolescence, a boy's restlessness, love and growth.

He quickly looked inside.

During this period, Chen Ziyan did not make any noise to disturb him. She took another script to read and then waited silently for Lu Yanhe to finish reading.

"This script..." Lu Yanhe spent an hour reading the script. He looked at Chen Ziyan with surprise, "It's very similar to the style of Those Years."

Chen Ziyan nodded, "Yes, that's right. Take a look at this. Along with the script, there are also several clips he edited. Wu Chi is an editor."

"Yeah, I know." Lu Yanhe nodded.

"You know?" Chen Ziyan was stunned for a moment, then reacted, "You know him?"

"Well, we met once before. His apprentice also asked me about the recruitment of directors for the Jumping Theater. Could this be from this channel?"

"That's right." Chen Ziyan nodded. "Xu Fanxing participated in the Jump Up Theater as a staff member of Linghe. She saw the script and the editing videos and sent them here. She knows that you don't want to be a director again in the short term, and she also knows that our company has a movie called Those Years waiting to be filmed. She told me that this person's script and editing style are very similar to the feeling she had when she read the script of Those Years. After reading it, I felt the same way."

"Indeed." Lu Yanhe nodded. "The style of this script is too similar to Those Years. It even makes me feel like it is a copy of Those Years. Although the structure of the story is slightly different, it talks about the same theme."

Chen Ziyan nodded.

"If you watch the films he edited, you will feel this more clearly," said Chen Ziyan.

Lu Yanhe sat in front of Chen Ziyan's computer again and carefully watched several clips edited by Wu Chi.

But if you want to see a person's style, fragments are enough.

Chen Ziyan looked at Lu Yanhe and asked, "How is it? Do you want to meet him and have a chat? I think he is someone worth paying attention to in Linghe. Maybe after the chat, you will think he is more suitable and can sign him to our company."

Lu Yanhe couldn't help but laugh.

"Okay, then let's make an appointment to meet." At this moment, Lu Yanhe just felt it was too incredible. 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 all think he is suitable to be the director of "Those Years", I hope to let him shoot "The Sea, Oh My God" first. The production cost of this script is easy to control and it can be used for training. He has never been a director, and I hope he can accumulate experience in making a film before shooting "Those Years". So, if this is the case, "Those Years" may have to be postponed to next year."

Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "Okay, I have no problem with that." (End of this chapter)