One person's entertainment

Chapter 89, "Almighty Artist"

Shen Lingyou was also looking at everyone.

There are so many familiar ones.

You Yongzhi, the second thief who speaks Shaanxi dialect in "A World Without Thieves".

Sun Honglei, Liu Huaqiang, the founder of "瓜保熟吗刺人" in "Conquer".

Wen Xingyu is the grandfather of Xia Xue, Xia Yu and Liu Xing in "A Family with Children".

Han Tongsheng, Li Youtian who plays Youtian Going Down the Mountain in the Fast and Furious 2: Youtian Going Down the Mountain in "The Fate of the Furious".

Zhang Lingxin, Jiang Yafei in "Parents' Love", is also Yan Danchen's classmate.

Among them, the one who impressed Shen Lingyou the most was Yu Feihong.

Yu Feihong, 26 years old, is two years younger than when she played the fairy Jinghong in "The Little Li Flying Dagger".

A typical Chinese beauty, with standard three-part and five-eye features and a face with clean lines, gives people a sense of grandeur, gentleness and dignity, yet exquisiteness.

"let's start."

This two-day script reading session was hosted by Huo Wenxi, who also temporarily served as the narrator, which gave her a chance to practice her Mandarin.

Frankly speaking, Zhao Baogang recognized the role of this activity, but he was not very optimistic about its effectiveness.

Usually, there are more script readings for Korean and American dramas.

In China, actors have busy schedules, especially first-line actors, who are given very little time. When the crew starts filming, they have to directly put on makeup and attend the opening ceremony. They don’t have any extra time. What’s worse, they have to let their agents read the script and let their assistants rehearse the scenes.

Even if we held a script reading session, it did not achieve any purpose other than going through the process step by step. There was always a sense of emptiness and fatigue, like pouring water on a duck's back, which did not leave any deep impression.

However, Zhao Baogang was quite surprised that Shen Ling was able to do this.

Because only actors who have risen to the top step by step know how embarrassing it is to fail to perform well on the spot and be speechless due to embarrassment if there is no script reading; while those singers who have risen to the top overnight do not understand why there is a script reading at all.

Just for this reason, Shen Lingyou gained a lot of points in his heart.

As time passed, the atmosphere in the conference room became more and more lively.

At first, everyone read the lines according to the script.

Slowly, under the leadership of Shen Lingyou and Zeng Xiaolai, I began to enter the atmosphere created by the script. From the actions of other characters, I better understood the choices and significance of my own role, and adjusted and pointed out the unreasonable or uncompacted parts.

Zhao Baogang also got involved and fine-tuned the performance style of each actor based on the characteristics and opinions shown by each actor during the reading process.

"That's all for today. Thank you for your hard work."

Huo Wenxi saw that it was already very late and they hadn't even had dinner yet. He was worried that some actors would not be able to handle it. The filming was about to start and there couldn't be any mistakes, so he forcibly interrupted the script reading.

"Feihong, from the perspective of your teacher in the acting class at Beijing Film Academy, what do you think of Xiao Shen?" On the way to the restaurant, Zhao Baogang chatted with Yu Feihong who was standing beside him.

"Director Zhao, I've only been a teacher for a few days, so please stop making fun of me." Yu Feihong said with a wry smile.

"Although you have only been a teacher for a few days, you have the ability. Li Ran praises you very much." Zhao Baogang said with a smile.

"The teacher is too kind to me." Li Ran was Yu Feihong's homeroom teacher at the Beijing Film Academy. It was based on her advice that Yu Feihong decided to stay on to teach at the school. However, she resigned later because she felt that the knowledge she possessed was too shallow.

"Honestly, Xiao Shen's performance today really impressed me. Not to mention the well-written script, his understanding and skills in acting are much better than the new generation actors of the same age, and even some middle-aged actors." Zhao Baogang took on the role of "Never Forget You" purely for the story.

When I saw the list of leading actors before coming here, I was ready to shoot it anyway.

Unexpectedly, Shen Lingyou and Zeng Xiaolai gave him a surprise.

Not only does he have a deep understanding of his role, he also makes careful preparations for his performance.

When Zeng Xiaolai has a stern face and doesn't smile, he looks particularly cold, making people feel a little scared, but when he smiles, he looks particularly bright. Ouyang Lanlan in the play is such a person.

As for Shen Lingyou, before entering the role, he was sunny and handsome, giving people a maturity and stability beyond his age; after entering the role, his expression became very innocent, he looked well behaved, and smiled naively, which fits the image of Xiao Tong in the play quite well, and he exudes an innocent student spirit.

This is the result of the two acting together during this period. "His performance is indeed not like that of a freshman at the Central Academy of Drama. He does not have the immaturity of a beginner, and his understanding of some aspects is deeper than mine." Yu Feihong also gave a very high evaluation.

"It's hard to imagine that he studied acting at the Central Academy of Drama, debuted as a singer, and wrote a good script." The only multi-talented stars Zhao Baogang has seen who are good in every field are the Four Heavenly Kings, but at best they are only good at singing and acting. He has almost never heard of anyone who can do songwriting, singing, acting, and writing scripts first-rate.

In his opinion, a person's ability and energy are limited, and there won't be too many outstanding people.

The appearance of Shen Lingyou refreshed his three views. It turned out that "all-round artist" really exists.

He couldn't guess what kind of achievements Shen Lingyou would make in the future, but as long as he didn't get carried away after becoming famous, he would definitely go higher and higher on this path.

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The original plan was to hold a two-day script reading on April 4 and 26, but because the effect was so good, it was extended for two more days.

Early in the morning on the 30th, "Never Forget You" started filming in Yanjing with a high profile, and invited many media to attend the opening ceremony.

What Shen Lingyou meant was that Xinghuo's film and television dramas must shorten production time while ensuring quality. They cannot be like some TV dramas and movies, which take a year or even several years just to shoot, which is too slow.

He hopes that the preliminary preparation will take about a month, the shooting time will be about three months, and the post-production time will be about three months.

If it’s a movie with a lot of special effects, that’s a different story, it can’t be done quickly.

In short, try to produce the finished product within about seven months.

This is already a lot of time. Just look at Hong Kong, where "A Chinese Odyssey" took 27 days, "All's Well, Ends Well 92" took 13 days, and "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber: The Demon Cult Leader" took 7 days. It is efficient and classic.

Whenever a new film starts shooting, there must be an opening ceremony - that is, choosing an auspicious day and holding a ceremony to worship the gods.

Generally speaking, during the opening ceremony, Guandi is enshrined on the table used for offerings, with incense burners, roasted suckling pig and fruits on both sides.

Then a camera was covered with a red cloth, and the main creators of the crew burned incense and worshipped the gods in turn. Finally, the red cloth on the machine was lifted and the start of filming was announced.

It is said that this procedure originated from the fear of "dividing".

The so-called "scratch" refers to the early years of film, when the film in the camera was accidentally scratched by the parts inside during shooting. If scratching occurs, it will cause immeasurable losses to the crew, but machine scratches are unpredictable and difficult to prevent. The only thing that can be done is to cover the camera with a red cloth to "suppress evil."

After completing the opening ceremony, we entered the media interview phase.

The reporters surrounded Shen Lingyou and Zhao Baogang, who were the two most famous people in the crew.

"Director Zhao, I heard that you gave up "Snowless Winter" and chose this play. Can you tell me why?"

"I'm not giving up, I'm still in the process of preparing. 'Never Forget' is very well written. I will definitely regret it if I don't accept it."

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"Shen Lingyou, it is said that this script was written because of a song. Is that true?"

"Yes, a song for everyday heroes."

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"Shen Lingyou, you chose this time to get involved in the film and television industry. Does this mean that there will be no new album this year?"

"On the contrary, in June, my new album Spark will be released."

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It is normal for Zhao Baogang to deal with media reporters with ease, after all, he is an experienced director.

Huo Wenxi was quite surprised to see Shen Lingyou doing it with ease.

She has seen many newcomers get nervous and at a loss when faced with these cameras.

(End of this chapter)