Entertaining Children

   Chapter 1218 Subjective Questions

Zhou Jingyi will have a job in China in the near future. Two Yankees, Kevin Scott and Russell Seth, have not had a job recently. It is the first time to come to China. They are planning to take the opportunity to play in China. Mu Ying has not returned for a long time. China is here, and there is no job in the United States for the time being, so they are not in a hurry to return to the United States.

  Immortals will have a concert tour in the second half of the year, and they have some work in the United States in the near future. They are returning to the United States. However, their schedule is not that tight. They can still play in China for two days without returning to the United States on the second day of the Golden Dragon Awards ceremony.

  After Xiao Yao attended the Golden Dragon Award ceremony, the focus of the next stage of work was the TV series that he worked with Yin Xi. The preliminary preparations for this TV drama project have been carried out to a certain extent. Xiao Yao did not personally participate in much work before, but as a producer and producer, he has to audition for other roles in the drama except for a male, a female, and a female. Participated.

  The filming location of this fashionable urban TV series was set in Shencheng, and the casting and audition work was also carried out in Shencheng. So after attending the Golden Dragon Award ceremony, Xiao Yao wants to fly back to Shencheng to audition for casting. However, the casting and audition work was handed over to a casting studio in Shencheng for preliminary personnel screening. The specific audition time was set by Xiao Yao. This date has not yet been determined, and it is not impossible for Xiao Yao to take a two-day rest.

Muying, Kevin Scott, and Russell Seth didn’t need Xiao Yao to manage their actions in China. Xiao Yao, the band member, still had to take care of it, and the band members didn’t stay for long, so After the Golden Dragon Awards ceremony, Xiao Yao and Zhou Jingyi who was waiting for the team members to play in Yanjing for two days, went to the airport to send them back to China, and then set off for Shanghai.

  In the past two days, Zhou Jingyi’s private team also arrived in China and joined with Zhou Jingyi. Since Zhou Jingyi is in Yenching, her team flew to Yenching from Los Angeles. Zhou Jingyi’s next studio, Donghai TV’s reality dance show, they are going to Shanghai TV Station to discuss with the program team, so the group went to Shencheng with Xiao Yao’s team and Yin Xi’s studio team.

  After arriving in Shanghai, Zhou Jingyi enters the working state, and her daily schedule is arranged by her personal team. Xiao Yao also entered the working state, contacted the casting studio selected by the project, and asked him to arrange the casting audition.

  In the casting of the movie "Donkey Deshui", although Xiao Yao gave some qualifications, to be honest, there were not many actors who were willing to audition.

  On the one hand, although external comments say that Xiao Yao is a genius, he is very good at doing everything, and many people are not hesitating to follow him to praise, but when it comes to vital interests, it is inevitable that there will still be many concerns.

  It is true that Xiao Yao has achieved good results in short films and animated films, and has won awards, but his ability to independently direct a live-action feature film has not been proven. Being able to make good short films and animated films does not necessarily make a good live-action film. There is still a big difference.

  To talk about live-action movies, Xiao Yao had already released a work at that time. "Parkour Boy", which was released during the Spring Festival last year, was very good at the box office, and its reputation was not bad. Xiao Yao is undoubtedly one of the core characters of this movie, but when it comes to the ability to direct and produce behind the scenes, that movie does not seem to be enough to prove Xiao Yao's ability.

  That movie, Xiao Yao is just one of the directors. Although the theme of the movie is parkour and Xiao Yao is one of the founders of parkour, from the perspective of the film style and the age, experience and experience of the two directors, the outside world generally believes that the two directors are still the one of the two directors. Mu Ying, a master student of the Directing Department, is the main one. People in the industry are generally at a loss as to what a feature-length film independently directed by a young man in his early twenties can look like.

  On the other hand, the producers and producers of the movie are both a newly established company, a young film and television company. The industry does not seem to be very confident in a company that they co-founded and looks a bit fun. After the establishment of this film and television company, the first two projects announced were two projects of the brand new team.

  Dare to use new people as the production team in front of and behind the scenes. Except for some independent film crews with insufficient funds, there is generally no film and television company that can do that. And this new company not only did it, but also opened two. Although many people follow the media to trumpet that they dare to think and do, they have ideals and motivation, but in their hearts, their true thoughts are: whether it is for a gimmick of confrontation between schools or to find job opportunities for classmates, these two Projects are very unreliable behavior. Sure enough, it was a company founded by a group of star two generations, and it was just for fun with the money.

  From the perspective of the director who occupies a core position behind the scenes or the production company of the film, the film did not arouse much interest in the industry. When Xiao Yao said in the show that the heroine set was Sun Tingting, a pure newcomer with no acting experience at all, everyone was even less optimistic about it. Even if it was later reported that Xiao Yao had brought in the famous art master Lin Jingliang to be the art director of the film, it did not save too many people's impressions.

  So, when casting the cast of "Donkey Gets Water", the casting studio received very few actor resumes.

  However, this TV drama project is different this time.

  First of all, the producer and producer of this TV series is still Xiao Yao's young film and television company, and this is their company's second TV series project.

  In the past six months or so, the two film and television works produced by Young People's Film and Television Company have been broadcasted and screened successively, and both have achieved good results and are considered to have a certain reputation. As far as the TV drama project is concerned, the ratings of the TV drama project of the brand new crew of the Youth Film and Television Company last year are very reasonable.

  TV drama projects and movie projects are different. Compared with film projects, the director is more important to TV drama projects, but the team, that is, the production company, is more important than the director. Of course, even if you look at the director alone, this project is not bad. The director of the new TV drama project of the Youth Film and Television Company is not Xiao Yao, nor is it a newcomer, but a director who has a good reputation for making urban dramas in the industry.

On the whole, there are not many newcomers in the behind-the-scenes production team members announced for this project. Instead, there are many well-known staff in the industry. So logically speaking, this TV drama project should be better than the previous TV show that is full of newcomers. better.

  Secondly, the scripts received by all brokerage companies and entertainment companies bear Xiao Yao's signature. Regardless of the quality of the script, this is a project of Xiao Yao’s young film and television company. Xiao Yao is a screenwriter. The age of the male first in the script is not much different from Xiao Yao’s actual age. The casting company said that it would not be responsible for the male-female audition, which means that the male-female one has probably already been set. Many people can't guess who the female one is, but they basically guess that the male one is probably Xiao Yao. Even if it is not Xiao Yao, at least it is one of Zhao Rui and Lin Qisan.

  With Xiao Yao’s current fame, once this TV series is broadcast, at least the ratings and topicality should be guaranteed. Although the opportunity for one male and female one is gone, brokerage companies and entertainment companies are not all first-line big names in their hands. They are actors who play the protagonist. If the second and third line actors in the company can participate in this TV drama project, then wait. After this TV series is broadcast, it is very possible to take this TV series to go further.

  So, the casting studio responsible for the preliminary screening of the TV drama project has received a lot of actor resumes, and the list of candidates for Xiao Yao is far more than Xiao Yao imagined.

  Before I was busy with film promotion, and then I was busy with the Golden Dragon Awards ceremony. For the next two days, Xiao Yao accompanied Zhou Jingyi and the band members to play around in Yanjing, and did not want to enter the working state, so Xiao Yao didn't have time to watch the list of candidate actors after he arrived in Shanghai.

  As an actor, especially a star actor, even if he didn’t enter the crew, he might have other tasks. On the producer side, the director and producer are not always available every day during the preparatory stage. The casting studio arranges the audition time and needs to take care of two aspects of the schedule.

  After Xiao Yao came to Shencheng, he entered into a working state and would not pick up work later, which means that his time was fixed. The director of this play is called Chen Jun. At present, in addition to caring about the formation of the crew behind the scenes, he is waiting for Xiao Yao to choose the cast. After the time on the producer’s side was free, the casting studio began to contact all the candidates’ agents or agencies to communicate with them to determine the specific date and time of the audition.

  There are many candidates for each role, so it takes a certain amount of time for the casting studio to arrange auditions. At the beginning, the casting studio told Xiao Yao that all arrangements could be made in about three days, and it is estimated that the audition could begin in two days at the earliest.

   During these two days, Xiao Yao has not been idle either. Now that he got the list of candidate actors and their information, Xiao Yao also took the time to understand it in advance. Not only did Xiao Yao look at their materials, Xiao Yao even found out their previous performances, and even found out about the news during the acting period.

  As a result, after so much understanding, Xiao Yao found the casting studio the next day and asked him to re-adjust the candidate list. Because of the many actors on the list, Xiao Yao felt that there was no need to audition.

  When drafting the list of candidates for audition, the casting studio kept communicating with the producers. Xiao Yao has not seen the list of candidates for a long time, but the director of this TV series has already seen this list. The casting studio can send this list to Xiao Yao, which basically means that this list is approved by the director.

  Although the position of directors in TV drama projects is not as good as film directors, they are also quite authoritative. Xiao Yao didn't want to destroy the director's authority at will, so before looking for the casting studio to adjust the list, Xiao Yao first contacted the director Chen Jun, communicated with him, and then went to the casting studio to ask him to change the list of cast members.

  The director of this TV series is called Chen Jun. Although he is not very old, he is less than forty years old, but he is also a well-known director in the industry. Chen Jun is the director hired by the Youth Film and Television Company for this TV drama project. He does not belong to the Youth Company. He signed the contract with the company for the drama project. Since he was not a person from the company, but a partner, Xiao Yao did not call him for an interview with the company. Instead, he invited him to a coffee shop outside and communicated with him in a relatively relaxed environment.

  The two met in the coffee shop. After greetings, Xiao Yao quickly entered the topic and smiled and said to Chen Jun: "Director Chen, I asked you out today to discuss the audition with you."

"Mr. Xiao, do you have other things to be busy lately? There is a problem with the audition time?" Chen Jun smiled, "Now the preparation of the crew is progressing well, and the behind-the-scenes people your company is looking for are very good. I am very satisfied. So I’m basically fine now, as long as you can make the casting studio match the time of the audition actors with your time. There is no problem on my side. You can use all your time."

   "I have freed up the time for the next few months, and there will be no other things to be busy." Xiao Yao said, "So it's not a question of audition time, but a question of auditioning actors."

   "The question about the audition actors?" Chen Jun said strangely, "Didn't the casting studio have set the list of audition actors? It should have been sent to you? Do you think there is a problem?"

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, "I have received the list of audition actors. I looked at it and felt that some people are not worth our time to audition. I want to find a casting studio to adjust the list of actors for the audition. The casting studio said that you have read this list, so I want to talk to you before asking them to modify the list."

   "Okay," Chen Jun nodded, "What do you think is the problem with this list?"

   "Right," Chen Jun continued, "To be honest, such a list of audition actors, I think it is a little bit better than I expected."

   "How unexpected?" Xiao Yao looked at Chen Jun.

"Yeah!" Chen Jun said, "You have already set a male and female one. All the roles that need to be auditioned for this drama can be regarded as supporting roles, so there are not many actors on the list that are considered first-line stars. But this one is almost all candidates for supporting roles. In terms of the list, it should be the list of candidates with the highest average popularity that I have seen in recent years."

"It turns out that the popularity is unexpectedly good!" Xiao Yao laughed, "For a play, the high reputation of the actors is naturally a good thing, but the key is that we should not only look at the popularity of the actors, but also whether the actors will be well-known or not. Acting!"

  "Will you be acting?" Chen Jun smiled, "The people on this list should be okay? There are not many newcomers on this list. Those who have acted before, should all be able to act."

   "Having played in the past does not mean that we can act. What we are looking for is acting well." Xiao Yao said.

"Whether the acting is good or not, this is a very subjective question." Chen Jundao, "Some people think that a role in the same play is well-acted, and some people think that it is not well-acted. This is normal. Even if we All professionals in this field may have different ideas. You are the producer of this project, of course you have a say in the selection of actors, but I am the director, and I also have a say. Let’s not talk about the audition. The question of the cast, I want to ask first, if we have a disagreement during the audition, how can we resolve it?"

  (End of this chapter)