I, the traveler, will guide me directly in the Mi Universe.

But no matter how many flaws this method has, it can't outweigh one advantage - it works quickly!

Moreover, with Ying, a responsible and professional director, her method of giving actors templates to help them get into the role as soon as possible is naturally not comparable to those teachers in the acting crash course.

Ying very cleverly instilled some of the core concepts of the method into the quick template flow, helping the actors to bring back the characters by calling on their own inner emotional expressions. It is not limited to the mechanical interpretation of the characters, and can use their own emotions to This naturally leads to a series of highly creative performances.

Therefore, the overall performance effect is not bad.

As for why you don't choose the experience school, which seems to be more 'professional' to outsiders?

After all, isn't there a saying - people who are experienced people act like someone else, while people who are methodical people act like everyone they act like themselves.

For an actor, doesn’t the former show his professionalism more?

Well……

If these words were told to people who really studied acting or directing, they would be like going to a rocket expert and saying that burning coal is better than using liquid fuel because coal is solid, has a higher density than liquid, and can be stored per unit volume. Coal is of higher quality than liquid fuel, and it's also ridiculously economical.

Not to mention that the method school was born out of the experiential school, and there is no difference between the two. Simply put, the difficulty of the experiential school in producing plays is fatal to non-professional actors.

Among the experience school, as far as I know, among the well-known actors who are difficult to get into roles, the domestic one is Leslie Cheung, and the foreign one is Heath Ledger.

As for actors who are not very good at acting but are also experienced actors, that is Liu Shishi. A large part of the reason why she chose to marry Wu Qilong was that she was too deeply involved in the filming of "Step by Step" and really connected with the character. The two become one and fall in love with the love interest in the play.

The so-called love caused by drama is more or less related to the experiential school.

Yingke is very clear about how healing the plot of the drama "Honkai Academy" will be. When the time comes, she will really train the actors under it to become experience-oriented. She is afraid that Kiana will film Tianqiong City and Mei Yi will film the sky. There will be problems when it comes to plots related to the city and paradise.

Closer to home, after filming the scene of Bronya and Mei Yi playing games in the dormitory, the next scene was the scene of Vaite knocking on the door and abducting them.

The actors who play Watt, or the actors who play the members of the anti-entropy force in the plot, are all strong men recruited from the anti-entropy technology.

As for how Ying persuaded those 'tech geeks', we can only say that the appeal of 'free' advertising is very impressive, and the other party is obviously also very interested in the anti-entropy setting in "Honkai Academy". He was very interested, especially when he learned that Yingying planned to film a separate spin-off specifically for the establishment of the Anti-Entropy Organization, and he became even more enthusiastic.

In this case, Watt, as a clone of Walter Joyce, was naturally played by Joyce himself, the current helmsman of anti-entropy technology.

Joyce's character itself is biased towards Walter Joyce, and belongs to the Asasi type. Although he is very interested in Walter, a crazy and violent man with obvious personality defects, it is always difficult to grasp the performance. Essence.

Chapter 20 "Honkai Academy" has fatal problems

For someone like Joyce who could never get into the role, Yingdao was already prepared.

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She did not try to bring Joyce into a hysterical mood. After all, Joyce has been having a smooth journey all the way. Originally starting a business and starting Anti-Entropy Technology, he should have spent a period of time in the early stage that was completely boring. The embarrassing situation of the business was saved by the movie "Honkai Academy".

Therefore, even if you tell Joyce now and let him imagine as much as he wants, it is completely impossible for Anti-Entropy Technology to fail to invest in Tianming Group and then suppress it in various ways.

Tianming Group:?

The reality is that Anti-Entropy Technology did not reject the Series A financing from Tianming Group, but as the founder, Joyce still firmly holds more than 51% of the equity and more than half of the voting rights, and will not appear as a company in the future. The founder was kicked out by the board of directors.

Therefore, Ying chose another approach.

She prepared a whole hard drive of study materials.

Well, it's real learning materials, which she asked Pera to sort out. Those are film and television performance-related scenes that have very similar characteristics to the character of Watt.

Joyce is very smart. Although she has little acting talent, she can't stand up to the big bricks.

Directly feed hundreds of film and television clips directly, let Joyce familiarize and digest them, and then choose the one that is easiest for him to imitate for performance.

Such a crazy character is more expressionistic in nature. Therefore, this obvious trace of imitation will make the character look more exaggerated and tense, and can create a classic.

The so-called expressionism does not emphasize starting from the self, but emphasizes first constructing a "character image" in the heart and emphasizes imitation.

Highlight the character's personality through external expressions, including props, specific expressions, label-like actions, etc., which are especially external.For example, exaggerated comedy performances fall into the category of expressionism.

Even Joyce, who was very unconfident about his performance before filming started, couldn't help but scratch his head when he looked at the second scene shot on the screen through a small monitor after finishing filming. He couldn't believe the scene in it. The person is really who he is.

Especially when he was wearing the navy blue coat. When Mei opened the door and lured her with lies, he also put on the hood of the clothes, covering the part above the tip of his nose, but highlighting the part below the tip of his nose. The exaggerated mouth shape makes this person appear to be both arrogant and domineering.

Just this shot can make the audience think that this kind of clumsy and undisguised coaxing method may not be the original intention of this character. Watt is obviously just carrying out something that he does not agree with so much. Plan, perhaps he hopes the lie will be discovered by the other side more than anyone else.

Just a small design of wearing a hood and the use of light and shadow on the scene allowed Joyce, a pure new actor without any relevant theoretical basis, to clearly understand the intention of this shot. It is obvious that Ying's director skills are very good. Not vulgar.

Seeing that Joyce, Bronya and Mei had successfully completed the second scene, they confirmed that everyone’s movements were correct throughout the scene, and there were no stupid mistakes like people walking out of the camera, and Various interlude shots were shot with on-site photography equipment. At the same time, they also confirmed with Joachim, the special effects director on the side, whether in the scene just shot, it was possible for Watt to take Mei Yi away by force and Bronya to summon heavy equipment. After the special effects were added to the scene where Bunny fights back, it was announced that the filming of the second scene was completed.

These two scenes all took place inside the dormitory, and the total time required was only 5 minutes, but the filming took a whole morning.

In fact, this scene was supposed to be a night scene, but since it was an indoor scene, it was easy to create a night scene, as long as some hints from the camera were given.

For example, an electronic clock hanging on the wall with a 24-hour display.

Even when night comes, you can take a supplementary shot of Bronya and Mei sitting on the sofa playing games, with a dark night outside the side window.

Now you can also shoot a shot, but you need to use props outside the window or post-production special effects to synthesize the night look.

It's just that there are too many places in "Honkai Academy" that require the use of special effects or related props. Some of the shots that can be shot in real scenes, Yingying still hopes to be able to shoot them as much as possible.

Therefore, Ying directly chose to add the shot that hinted at the time to the subsequent reshoots.

It may not necessarily be the reshoot today, because there will be a fight scene where a conflict breaks out between the two parties in this dormitory, and many of the arrangements on the scene will be 'destroyed'.

Moreover, once there is a problem with the filming, the scene needs to be restored before the destruction continues.

Ying doesn’t know how long it will take to shoot that set of shots. He may have to spend all day on it. It’s unclear whether there will be time for reshoots in the evening.

This kind of shooting method may be time-consuming, but the film must ensure the excitement of the fighting scenes, which to some extent determines the upper limit of the drama "Honkai Academy".

Ying is very clear that this world has many similarities with the world before she traveled. The most similar point is that with the development of the times, the entertainment methods between men and women have begun to differ greatly.

In addition to short videos that occupy fragmented time regardless of age or gender, the differences in entertainment styles between men and women are reflected in all aspects.

For example, reading novels is divided into men's novels and women's novels, watching videos is divided into variety shows or film and television dramas, domestic dramas or imported dramas, TV dramas and online dramas or movies, live-action movies or animations, etc.

Playing games can also be divided into whether you play pvp games or pve games, mmo or stand-alone games, otome-oriented or otaku-oriented, etc.

It can be said that in this era of unlimited subdivision in any field, if you want to succeed, you must accurately grasp the user groups you can cover, prioritize meeting the needs of the core user groups, and then consider how to expand the audience. .

If we specifically break it down into the field of domestic online dramas, not surprisingly, the audience is actually dominated by Chinese women who have free time and can watch movies and TV dramas online.

But the family knows their own affairs. Although the main characters of "Honkai Academy" are all women, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a so-called "female lead drama", but its main target audience is male audiences.

This point, whether it is presented in the form of a game or a web drama, will not change much.

From this we can see that the project "Honkai Academy" turned into a web drama actually has the fatal problem of misaligned target groups.

Chapter 21 Ying’s Content Marketing Strategy

This problem is not completely unsolvable. At least before the time travel, the Honkai Impact [-] game itself has ushered in a new peak in daily activity on its sixth anniversary, and there are quite a lot of plot reaction videos of various female VUPs and female VTBs at home and abroad, so she pointed it out. the future direction.

Ying now only needs to do two things to stabilize the situation.

One is to ensure the quality of the plot content, whether it is candy or knives. If the quality is insufficient, it will not be able to form a herd effect and attract more people to watch.

The second is to use cool fighting to attract male viewers who are supposed to be the audience of "Honkai Academy" but generally do not pay attention to domestic online dramas.

Many people have a feeling that martial arts dramas from childhood are actually very popular among male and female students, but the focus of everyone's attention is different.

The male students are all interested in the cool moves and heroic heroes. Qiao Feng, who appears carrying a speaker and performs the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, is their favorite.

The female students are more concerned about the chivalrous tenderness shown in the works. Although they also have the idea of ​​walking around the rivers and lakes to do justice like the heroines in the plot, I am afraid they are more looking forward to having a 'Brother Jing' or 'Brother Jing' of their own. The Condor Hero'.

In fact, in the early years of TV series and movies, audience groups were not strictly divided.

"Dream of Red Mansions" seems to be the most glamorous among the four famous classics. The proportion of men among red scholars definitely far exceeds that of women.

This also led to the rise of the Internet novel era. Many screenwriters complained about the fact that online novels were divided into male and female channels. They felt that these works should not be divided into male and female channels.

But the reality is that this phenomenon has been restored to film and television dramas very truly.

Not to mention the audience tendencies of dramas with female protagonists and dual male protagonists, which have become more and more common in TV dramas in recent years.

Just talking about the film field, isn't there a distinction between tough guy movies and chick flicks?

Even in superhero movies, solo movies with female superheroes as protagonists have begun to be shot.

In fact, with the development of the times, it is inevitable that the camera will focus more and more on women. It cannot be violated and there is no need to violate it. Everything can be left to the market and the audience.

However, what Ying wants to do now is somewhat contrary to the laws of the market.

She wants to attract male viewers who are not interested in this kind of drama through an online drama currently marketed as a 'female lead drama'.

It's hard to be honest.

Don't look at it. Because of Eden's relationship, the first promotional video of "Honkai Academy" set off a frenzy of discussion on WeChat on Saturday, and it is still warm to this day.

But you must know that the audience of micro-customers in this world is the same as before the time travel, and most of them are women.

On the other hand, at Station Y, because domestic and foreign dramas of various types are available on the shelves, the audience does not have obvious gender differences, but a promotional video alone may not be able to attract male viewers to watch the drama.

Therefore, the filming of the fighting scenes in the plot is very important.

Ying has already thought about how to do viral marketing - that is to select the fighting scenes with full special effects and very cool lines in each episode and give them to the up owners with large fans on the short video platform, as well as Female VUPs with a relatively high proportion of male fans at Station Y have issued business orders, attracting the attention of these male viewers who have not yet retreated from the spirit of middle school to pay attention to "Honkai Academy".

For Ying, the problem is only how to promote "Honkai Academy" to others. As for the effect after the promotion, she is confident in her directing skills and can retain the audience.

As for where the most critical marketing expenses come from?

Hmm...Tomorrow, Monday, the regular meeting at Tianming Film and Television Company should have a result.

With the current momentum of "Honkai Academy", it shouldn't be difficult to double the funding and allocate it in one go.

Under Ying's attitude towards excellence in fighting scenes, even though Joyce, Bronya and Mei only had to pose for a few poses, especially Mei, who only had to pretend to be unconscious in Joyce's hands, they were still tortured. That's enough.

It was not until late at night that the scene was completed under Ying's high requirements.

As soon as Ying let go, both the actors and the staff on the scene all breathed a sigh of relief, and each of them beat their sore and sore bodies.

Even Ying felt extremely tired at the moment.

She doesn't always sit behind the monitor. She also contributes when adjusting the scene. At the same time, she also demonstrates it personally every time she explains the scenes and moves to the actors. Therefore, she is simply no better than anyone else. He is relaxed, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the most tired one.

In the past, no matter how tired she was, she would just grit her teeth and hold on.

But thinking that after tomorrow, the crew would have plenty of money, so Yingxin immediately announced that after cleaning up the scene, everyone would go have a meal together.

Originally, I was thinking that since we were so tired, we should all go to a health care clinic.

Well, it's just a simple general health care, massage, foot massage, etc. are all here to relieve everyone's fatigue after a tiring day today.

But after thinking about it, I thought it was better to forget it. It would be too arrogant, and it would not look good when reconciled with the producer.

Therefore, after much deliberation, it would be better to have a late-night snack and offer sacrifices to our five internal organs temple.

After a day of filming, although the lunch boxes were not missing for everyone, it has been five hours since the evening meal, and they have long been digested. At this time, everyone is empty.

So, the entire crew, numbering a hundred people in total, sat in several commercial vehicles and headed towards the night market closest to St. Freya Academy.

As soon as Ying got into the commercial car, she felt her phone vibrate in her pocket.

She quickly took out her phone, woke up the screen, and found that someone was looking for her on WeChat.

Ying thought about it carefully. Could it be that the person who contacted her late at night was her cheap stepmother?

Ahem, don't get me wrong, it's not that there is anything between Ying and her cheap stepmother, but that she is worried that the other party will bring her some bad news about her cheap dad.

Although Ying was very disgusted with the behavior of the handsome old man kicking his legs and falling unconscious after he owed a sky-high debt, she never expected him to really kick him out completely. She also thought that the other person could wake up and put the five men together. Billions of debts were taken from her!

Well...that's not realistic.

It’s not that it’s unrealistic for the cheap dad to wake up, but it’s that it’s unrealistic to transfer the debt back from the other party to his wife.

After all, even if the handsome old man wakes up, his body will definitely not be as good as before. In addition, his spirit will be severely damaged. For the rest of his life, he will be counting on his beloved wife and his only daughter.

Chapter 22 Meeting Alicia for the first time

Pay off debt?Or a huge debt of [-] million?nonexistent!

In short, Ying carefully opened WeChat and was slightly relieved when she found that the person who sent the message was not the cheap stepmother, but Eden.

However, soon, Ying's heart was filled with curiosity.

This should be considered the first contact between the two after adding WeChat, right?

She didn’t know why Eden was looking for her.

Could it be that he came to congratulate her for having "Honkai Academy" ranked No. [-] on WeChat?

Shouldn't be...

Not to mention that more than a day has passed now, but with the situation in Eden, it should not be focused on the number one hot search on WeChat.

The so-called global superstars do not need to prove their value by being the first in the hot search on WeChat. On the contrary, WeChat needs to prove their value by using the global superstar to be the first in their own hot search.