Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 196 Why not make a movie yourself?

On the afternoon of May 5th, Shen Juan landed in Shanghai.

"Squid Stew" has been filming for a week.

However, I have been basically filming scenes for the heroine and other supporting roles in the recent period.

So now that Shen Juan joins the crew, they can finally start filming the male lead part.

After arriving at the set, I met with director Xiang Xujing and the main creative team and had a brief exchange with them.

The heroine Yang Zi seems to be slightly prettier than the Zizi in our impression, but her prettiness is quite limited.

Of course, appearance is not important to her, because she is not an artist who relies on her looks to make a living.

In fact, her acting skills are not as good as her fans say, but the dramas she starred in are always a hit. We can only say that she is really talented in choosing scripts and being popular with the public.

And what about Hu Yitian, the second male lead who was stuffed in by Huace to play the male lead in the sequel under the title of "special appearance"?
I don’t know if it’s because he’s in a bad mood because his recent exposure of sleeping with a female internet celebrity caused a large number of fans to unfollow him, or if it’s just his personality, but he doesn’t talk much. When chatting with Shen Juan, he seemed indifferent and taciturn, and it was obvious that he didn’t want to chat with him more.

In this case, Shen Juan naturally wouldn't try to please him.

After all, in the domestic entertainment traffic circle, with his current number of fans and status in the circle, it is only others who come to lick him and please him, and it is impossible for him to take the initiative to please others.

The album's success not only brought an increase in popularity among fans, but also increased his attention from capital and his status in the circle.

At the very least, he can be regarded as a lawless local tyrant in this crew without any other big-name actors, and the director and producer have to act according to his wishes.

Yangyangjin was on the phone, speaking politely.

After Shen Juan met with the crew members, he added them on WeChat and set up a note. When he saw her in the lounge, she had just hung up the phone and her expression was not very good.

"These domestic film and television projects are really not good."

Yangyangjin sighed, feeling a little emotional.

In fact, the capital in the circle was still very optimistic about traffic in the past few years. For this reason, they specially looked for suitable scripts in the script library and launched many film and television projects that serve traffic, with the main purpose of harvesting traffic fans.

Unexpectedly, movie projects starring popular actors failed one after another, and it was even difficult to recover the costs.

So much so that when Shen Juan and other new traffic stars born after 95 developed and were ready to venture into the film industry, there were only a few film projects left that were suitable for their age and had good script quality and production team.

So it can be said that Lu Han, Li Yifeng, and Wu Jiaheng, the first generation of top stars, reaped the first dividends from the rise of the traffic era, when major capital companies rushed in to reap the profits. This made them all have very good national popularity and film and television achievements, and they look very awesome.

However, the corresponding thing is that this group of old top-tier stars who have been overexposed in recent years and no longer have fans can't enjoy the second batch of dividends as the traffic era enters the mid-term and the consumption capacity of new fans is greatly improved. This makes the sales of their business magazines very poor.

The fans' spending power has been greatly surpassed by the new traffic group including Shen Juan, Cai Xukun and the three little boys.

So that one after another they were eliminated by the times.

The time period when Shen Juan really became popular happened to be in 2017, which is the dividing line between natural traffic and industrial traffic, and the key node between the end of the early traffic era and the middle of the traffic era (the rise of talent shows and gay dramas).

If he develops well, he will have the hope of becoming the last batch of traffic artists to reap the unlimited upper limit of the national popularity dividend.

After all, as time goes by, the fans' spending power becomes stronger, the fan culture becomes more mature, the entertainment industry becomes self-sufficient, and there is no need to do marketing in the sinking market. Naturally, the national popularity of traffic will become lower and lower.

If it does not develop well or is not handled properly, we will be in an awkward position of being worse off than the best but worse than the worst.

He was unable to gain enough national popularity like his predecessors to facilitate his subsequent transition to variety show stardom, nor was he able to attract enough fanatical new fans like talent show idols and gay-themed stars.

Fortunately, Shen Juan’s career development has not stagnated or been interrupted in the past six months, and he has been producing works all the time. Otherwise, he might not be able to withstand the traffic craze of Idol Producer.

Shen Juan walked over and pinched her shoulder, then asked with a smile, "What's wrong, sister? Why do you look so unhappy?"

Yang Yang Jin was still angry: "Lu Chuan's new project doesn't even have a decent script, and he wants you to reduce your salary to act in it. Aren't you playing us for fools?"

"Lu Chuan, his movies have such a bad reputation, is he still filming now?" Shen Juan actually always knew that there were not many film and television projects suitable for actors of his age.

Otherwise, Yi Yang Qianxi wouldn't have gone to film a gay-adapted and Pu-mei-adapted film with our Taotao to sell their brotherhood, right?

"He's been filming all the time. He can't rest. Look! Nine-story Demon Tower 2 has invited you to be the male lead."

"Nine-story Demon Tower 2" is the famous "749 Bureau" that helps Kaizi return to the pre-liberation era.

"Just reject it directly. Some directors may fail due to market reasons, but some directors fail simply because they are not born to be directors." Shen Juan meant that Lu Chuan was obviously the latter.

The fact that he was able to climb to his current position has nothing to do with his personal talent, but is purely due to his background and support from resources.

So it’s better to give such top-level resources to Kaizi. After all, there are not many projects suitable for actors of their age group in the circle. Shen Juan will not compete with him for the opportunity to work with a well-known director.

"Oh, by the way, sister, do you think our company can organize a movie and make it ourselves? We can't just keep waiting like this!" Shen Juan tried to find other possible ways out of the situation.

"Of course, we can, but usually we'll bring in other companies to join us, and the risk of being responsible for our own profits and losses is still too high." Yang Yangjin thought he had noticed Shen Juan's intention, "You want the company to tailor a movie for you?"

Although the movie market is huge at the moment, 90% of the box office is for mainstream movies and comedies. Shen Juan obviously doesn't look like someone who can act in a comedy, and Le Hua doesn't look like a company that can work with mainstream movies.

So choosing to make a movie at this time, at least it doesn't seem to be a good choice.

"Why not?" Shen Juan smiled, "I think we can organize a movie now."

His idea was very simple, that is, to make a semi-fan-oriented feature film like Jay Chou's "Secret", which he wrote, directed and starred in himself (he was only listed as the director and screenwriter, and asked professionals to help with the professional content).

After all, his fans are really good now.

As long as the quality of the movie itself is not too bad, and the release date is chosen well and the off-site marketing is done well, it is estimated that there will be no problem in making a small profit by breaking the 1 billion box office.

Moreover, he happens to be planning to release a Chinese EP in the second half of this year, which will not only expand his domestic popularity, but also allow large capital companies such as Penguin and NetEase to make money.

When the EP becomes a big hit, the biggest publicity gimmick will be to directly announce that one of the singles will be adapted into a movie.

He even had the title of the movie in mind.

Yue Lao. (The one played by Ke Du Chong)
Both the plot and the characters.
They all seem to be quite suitable for his traffic identity.

Yang Zi was quite curious about Shen Juan.

Because their development paths are basically opposite:

Shen Juan was a trainee in the Kpop system, came into the public eye as an idol in a talent show, and became famous all over the country with his rap.

If I hadn't been admitted to the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy, if I hadn't had a fresh campus web drama and an art film that "only heard of the name but never seen the person" been broadcast in advance.

She didn't even know that Shen Juan, such a great singer, actually had an additional identity as an actor.

As for her, she debuted as a child star and became famous all over the country because of "Home with Kids" at a very young age. However, Song Dandan advised her not to develop in the entertainment industry because she was not good-looking enough.

Fortunately, she persevered in the end.

Although I experienced many lows and bad things during this period, I finally climbed to this position.

First, he teamed up with "the strongest sorcerer in history" Feng Feng to film "Fighters Legend", and then teamed up with "the strongest sorcerer in modern times" Shen Juan to film "Go Go Squid!"

It can be said that I have reached where I am today step by step through my own efforts and correct choices.

So she has always been quite proud and confident.

However, in front of Shen Juan.
It was really hard for her to be confident.

After all, at this stage, Shen Juan's fan traffic, professional achievements and performance are too damn exaggerated, and do not belong to the dimension of traffic at all.

He is even far ahead of Li Yifeng, the "national school idol" who was once at the peak of his career and fought against South Korea.

And it goes without saying that this idol drama starring Shen Juan will definitely be released overseas in the future and will be watched and reviewed by fans in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

So she is under a lot of pressure now.

I'm really worried that I'll mess up this play, embarrass myself abroad, and be mocked and humiliated by Alovers all over the world.
The first day of filming for the male lead was mainly about getting used to the characters, so the plot was very simple:
After the team lost the game, Han Shangyan, played by Shen Juan, went to the Internet cafe alone to spend the night to relax. He happened to meet Yang Zi, who came to the Internet cafe to help his cousin work part-time as a network administrator.

The heroine fell in love with the hero at first sight.

It still has the familiar flavor of domestic idol dramas.

But what makes it different from other domestic idol dramas is that "Go Go Squid!" has done very well in other aspects, and during its broadcast period it also took advantage of the rising popularity of e-sports, so that many viewers ignored the silly and sweet idol drama routines in the plot.

"3, 2, 1, action!"

Shen Juan, wearing a black windbreaker and giving off an aura of "don't mess with me if I'm annoying", walked down the stairs, pushed open the door of the Internet cafe, and walked to the network administrator's counter with a frown on his face.

"Night."

Yang Zi, who was originally lying on the table to rest, woke up the moment he saw Shen Juan.

At this time, the camera directly gave a close-up shot of Shen Juan's face. While showing Shen Juan's superior appearance, it was also explaining to the audience that it was understandable for the heroine in the plot to fall in love with the hero at first sight.

This guy is really handsome!

"All night." Seeing that the silly female network administrator in front of him had no reaction and just stared at him blankly with wide eyes, Shen Juan could only repeat it again impatiently, and his tone seemed to have become a lot colder.

"Please give me your ID card." Yang Zi came back to his senses and replied quickly in a daze, but his eyes were still staring at Shen Juan's thrilling face.

"Cut, this is good!" The director was very satisfied.

　Chapter 3 will be a little later today

　　
　
(End of this chapter)