Become Famous Another Day

"Master, Yuehutai, a jumping theater, is recruiting directors. Do you think we should give it a try?"

Li Chao came to his master Wu Chi with his mobile phone and handed him the phone screen to look at.

Wu Chi: "What is this?"

"Recruiting directors, master, haven't you always wanted to be a director?" Li Chao said, "The two of us have been working as editors, trapped in a small room every day, working like this every day. I think we can try this opportunity. Try it.”

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

"No, it's true." Li Chao said, "People have said that this theater requires a movie-length film every week to be broadcast on Sunday nights. It requires many directors. There is also a registration method. We only need Send them some of the previously edited content, and if they are interested in us, they will contact us.”

After Wu Chi heard what Li Chao said, he hesitated for a moment. He seemed a little moved, but he still didn't 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 Yue Hutai. He must know about it."

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Li Chao, Wu Chi and Lu Yanhe met by chance one night when the movie "Love Letter" was being edited here.

At that time, Li Chao took the initiative to add Lu Yanhe's WeChat account like a "social gangster".

Even after I added him, I never contacted him again.

However, Li Chao can still occasionally see Lu Yanhe posting a message on Moments -

Because of this, Li Chao knew that people had neither blocked him nor deleted him.

He and his master have been doing film editing work.

However, they are always looking for opportunities.

However, in the entertainment industry, if you have no background or resources and work alone, it will be difficult to find opportunities. Especially those like them who are "one-man gangs" are never one of their "own people", and good opportunities will never come to them.

I don’t even have the chance to take a big shot at the Internet.

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

When Wu Chi heard that Li Chao said that he wanted to send a message to Lu Yanhe, he wanted him not to disturb others for such a trivial matter, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back.

Maybe this really is an opportunity?

In fact, in the industry, they have more or less heard 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 of the people he has helped are now well-known figures. 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, had been spotted by Lu Yanhe and signed into his company, he felt sour for several days - it was just pure jealousy and envy. Why didn't he get such a good thing? .

Li Chao thought about it several times before sending the message he edited to Lu Yanhe.

He originally thought he would have to wait a long time, but Lu Yanhe responded 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 his cell phone to show his master.

"Look, Master, I just 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 the Jump Up Theater is called "The Adventures of a Girl". The original work is a short story written by Ming Yin. It tells the story of a high school girl who accidentally met another girl in a bookstore on a weekend because she picked up the girl she dropped. wallet, so he chased her out, but unexpectedly discovered that another group of people was following the girl while chasing her, and an unexpected adventure unfolded by accident.

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

She had never directed a feature before, and had only a fifteen-minute short that had been screened at film festivals.

Both the director and the two heroines are newcomers who are not very well-known.

To this end, Yuehutai and Northern Lights Video also took great pains to invite several popular stars to guest star in several scenes.

On the day of filming, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi went there specially.

Because they are a new crew, they are also worried that they will encounter trouble on the day of start-up. If they are there, they can help solve one or two problems.

This play is used as the opening work of Jump Up Theater. First, because this short story is very famous and was very popular among readers when it was published. Second, because the original author Ming Yin is the most representative of Jump Up magazine. One of the authors of sex, since this theater is going to be done, it must be her or Liu Jiazhen's work as the first one, and the third one is because in the officially organized voting of "Which work do you most want to see filmed?" , among hundreds of works, "The Adventures of a Girl" ranks third.

Although the shooting cycle is only one week, before the official start of shooting, this small crew of only a dozen people has held several meetings and is familiar with the key points of shooting.

The crew operating model pioneered by the show "Friends" can be said to have created a new operating model that many crews can borrow.

Both actresses are real high school students—both are child actors with rich acting experience.

This shooting mode is destined not to use newcomers with no acting experience. Once you overspend, you run the risk of losing money.

Because it is a new thing, despite its huge momentum and fierce momentum, so far few brands in Jump Up Theater have actively approached for sponsorship and placement.

The first scene was shot in a bookstore.

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

The boss was very happy to spare half a day off from work for them to shoot.

Because he also knows very well that after this drama is broadcast, his bookstore will be the filming location of "The Adventures of a Girl", which will bring a lot of traffic to his bookstore.

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi were watching them filming at the scene. Because when they arrived, An Yuanyuan was already directing the two girls to shoot, they did not come forward, but stayed nearby. They did not enter the bookstore, separated by the glass window of the bookstore. , while watching and chatting.

"What is Yuehu TV's expected ratings for "Girls' Adventures"?"

"They will be very satisfied if it can reach 0.4%." Chen Siqi smiled, "But they also said that on Sunday night, the two leading actors are not popular stars yet, and their appeal may be limited, and the average market may only be 0.3 %. Northern Lights Video is slightly better. As you know, the calculation rules of the video platform are different from the TV station’s ratings. Because it has specially created a jump theater, the number of reserved viewers in this theater now is 30. More than 10,000."

"What's the second play at Jump Up Theatre?"

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

"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded, "Since you want to do this theater, let's keep doing it. If the ratings really can't go up because there are no stars to star in it, then I'll find a way later and invite some friends to perform."

"We still hope to make the theater's brand name as popular as possible and develop a group of audiences who watch this theater regularly." Chen Siqi said, "Otherwise, there will be no point in establishing this theater."

Lu Yanhe understood what Chen Siqi meant.

Just like Sunshine at Noon, when it comes to brand management, love theater, mist theater, and X theater are not as popular as Sunshine at Noon.

Those so-called theaters, although major video platforms have such a name, are actually not fools. They just put some similar themes together and package them based on the themes, without establishing a real brand effect at all. , there are hits and there are also trashy dramas.

As for Noon Sunshine, its films do not matter whether it is on a TV station or a video platform, because it attaches great importance to content creation from the source. It shoots ancient costumes, modern times, machinations, unlimited streaming, women, and entrepreneurship, all of which are successful.

Chen Siqi wants to build "Jump Up Theater" into a brand that audiences can trust with just these five words.

Lu Yanhe said: "In addition to the label of "Jump Up" magazine novel adaptation, we actually need to add something else, which may 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 "Girls' Adventures", 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 the cradle of new directors, this label will definitely become a drama that attracts much attention in the industry. And if the industry really pays attention to it spontaneously and long-term, the basic market will actually come out. ”

Chen Siqi nodded thoughtfully.

The current 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 "Jump Up Series".

Most readers who support her will also support "Girls' Adventures".

But compared with movies and TV series, the number of users of a magazine media is still too small.

It is still possible to reach out and use good content to attract more viewers.

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However, no one expected that He Sha, who had withdrawn from the competition in the first episode, would suddenly mention why she had to withdraw from the competition in a program after experiencing a hot topic for two or three weeks.

"It's not just because of the conflict of cooperation with Cheng Hai." He Sha said with an open-minded attitude that she had put this matter aside, "The only difference between Cheng Hai and me is in personality and preparation method. He is still quite good. I In the end, I made the decision to withdraw from the competition. Another key reason was because of the recording of this program. As an actor, I will be involved in Jump Up Theater in the future. To be honest, I am not a new actor anymore. I don’t want to say that this job will tie me to other jobs. Especially when it comes to acting, I still hope to be able to act in some works that I like.”

As soon as He Sha's words came out, after the fermentation of major media and exaggerated interpretations by major marketing accounts, it became that if actors want to appear in "The Birth of an Actor", they need to participate in the filming of Jump Theater.

Anything that is tainted with the word "mandatory" will definitely change its flavor.

The "Birth of an Actor" program team immediately responded with one word: fake.

The chief director of the program also directly posted on Weibo, directly pointing out He Sha: I don’t know what caused Ms. He Sha to misunderstand her. She thought that by joining our show, she could get the role of "Jump Up Theater" without passing an audition.

The response was very tough, but He Sha seemed to have lost her temper, without any new reaction.

Lu Yanhe and the others already knew that He Sha said these words just to make herself more popular.

The words she said in another program seemed to be said carelessly by chance, so her side-stepping sentences that were only carefully considered could not make "The Birth of an Actor" sue her. Spreading rumors can achieve her effect, generating such criticism and endless topics.

There's nothing you can do about it, it's just like stepping on a piece of brown sugar when you're walking on the road, it'll stick to it and make you sick.

A positive response from the program team and director is actually enough.

But at this time, Zhou Ping'an suddenly launched a fierce attack on He Sha, as if settling scores after the fall.

Suddenly, the lies and indiscriminate talk that He Sha had told over the years were exposed by various marketing accounts.

There are so many materials that people can't easily think that there are trolls behind it.

This is because there are usually trolls who push the flames to break the news, and they all break the same news.

But there is too much information on He Sha's side, and it's like a response to a hundred questions. Inexplicably, the dirty information about He Sha's past has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

The core meaning is just one: He Sha is a woman full of lies.

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

Therefore, the program crew and director of "The Birth of an Actor" directly exposed her lies, which aroused many people's comments, but she didn't care -

I would like to find an opportunity to clarify again. What I wanted to express on the show at that time was not that the show team would force them to film it, but it caused a misunderstanding.

The word "misunderstanding" is very useful.

However, Zhou Ping'an's counterattack was quite intent on putting her on the list of bad artists.

Public opinion has solidified her image as a liar. Behind the scenes, in the industry, Zhou Ping'an has not been idle either. He has dug up a lot of dirty information about He Sha backstabbing her collaborators, having a bad work attitude, and cheating on her dramas, and spread it everywhere.

Originally, as long as the popularity was there, He Sha could drive a black and red car and take on many lucrative jobs. It doesn't matter if she can't film, she can still make money by being in the live broadcast room. The more people criticize her, the greater the traffic, and the greater the traffic, the higher her reward.

Now, even the live broadcast room does not dare to invite her easily.

Because there are rumors that He Sha will hire people to do data in the live broadcast room where she appears, and hire a group of people to place orders, creating a very impressive sales volume and high delivery ability, and then return the goods.

These things were originally secrets in the industry and would not be widely disseminated. Naturally, there would be people who did not know the situation and wanted to cooperate with He Sha one after another because of her enthusiasm. But it is different now.

Several originally scheduled collaborations were canceled directly due to this.

After He Sha and her team knew that it was Zhou Pingan's work, they knew that she had dragged Cheng Hai into the water before. Even if she tried to say a few good words about Cheng Hai in the show, she was not forgiven by Zhou Pingan.

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

Whenever any partner might want to cooperate with her, Zhou Pingan would ruthlessly mess with it.

Either he cut off the work and snatched it back to the artist in his hands, or he recommended it to others. The reasons were all the same. The cost-effectiveness of working with He Sha was too low. He would introduce someone who was more cost-effective and had no negative publicity.

With this move, He Sha's good momentum suddenly came to an abrupt end.

This is also the path she chose.

Since he has chosen such a black and red road to hype himself up, he has no foundation and cannot stand up after being pinched by Zhou Ping'an. This can't be blamed on anyone.

There was no other way, He Sha and her agent had no choice but to bow to Zhou Pingan in person.

He bowed his head to apologize, admitted his mistake, and asked Zhou Ping'an to let it go.

This was what they had planned at the time.

If you really can't get over it, do this.

It is not a principled matter in itself. After the heat is over, it will not have much impact on the artists.

Na Chenghai is also the beneficiary of traffic.

Who would have thought that when Zhou Ping'an saw them coming to apologize, he didn't even listen to a word. He just got angry and said, "No, don't speak now. I'm scared of you. I'll turn on the recording first, so I don't curse again." The recording is out... Oh, forget it, I just can't help but curse, you'd better stop talking to me, I'm too lazy to tell you."

The words made He Sha and her agent blush and couldn't say a word for a while.

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"It can only be said that evil people have their own trials and tribulations." This is Chen Ziyan's evaluation of He Sha's incident. "For someone like He Sha who has no shame, only Zhou Ping'an's methods can hit a snake with seven inches."

Lu Yanhe: "Sister Ziyan, why do I feel that you appreciate Zhou Pingan more and more?"

Chen Ziyan: "Maybe this is a person who is the best in a certain aspect. Even if you hate him, you can't deny his ability. Especially in the past few years, my work content in management has increased a lot. I A big part of my job now is to wipe the butts of subordinates who can’t do the job. I 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 at this time, as long as he can Just do his part well and don't cause trouble for me. He's a scumbag. Just don't affect me."

Lu Yanhe laughed endlessly.

Unexpectedly, while they were chatting about Zhou Pingan, Zhou Pingan's phone call suddenly came to Chen Ziyan.

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

Lu Yanhe nodded.

He said, "Then I'm going to use the bathroom."

After he went to the bathroom, he called Chen Siqi again and asked her what she was doing.

Chen Siqi: "What else can I do? I'm working. After jumping into theater, the number of submissions to our magazine increased, and we even received a lot of movie scripts."

"Really?" Lu Yanhe was pleasantly surprised after hearing this, "Then you can see that the volume of manuscripts has become larger again."

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

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

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

"Most of the scripts I'm looking at now will only start filming next year." Lu Yanhe said, "Sister Ziyan found a few good scripts for me, all of which are directors I have never worked with."

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

"Yes." 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, "What do you think Zhou Ping'an called me for?"

Lu Yanhe shook his head, "I can't think of anything. It doesn't feel strange no matter what he does."

"No, you must feel strange about this."

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

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

"Huh?" Lu Yanhe was really surprised.

What should I say about this?

There are so many paradoxes that I don’t even know where to start.

The first paradox is that given the relationship between Lu Yanhe and Yan Liang, if Yan Liang wanted to play a role in "Dragon Gate Inn", it would not be Zhou Pingan's turn to do it - even if Zhou Pingan is Yan Liang's agent.

The second paradoxical thing is that given Zhou Ping'an's usual behavior towards Yan Liang, he suddenly took the initiative to consider Yan Liang's career and tried to help him develop the film market, just like a weasel giving New Year greetings to a chicken - it was too abrupt and seemed unkind.

The third paradox is that Zhou Ping'an did not directly call Lu Yanhe about this matter - obviously after Lu Yanhe terminated the contract, the two of them gradually eased their relationship a little in the subsequent contacts, and they did not have any contact with each other until they died. , to the point where I can’t even talk normally about work. Zhou Pingan actually found Chen Ziyan, hoping that Chen Ziyan would do Lu Yanhe's job.

Chen Ziyan asked Lu Yanhe: "What did you think about it? Looking at the movie "Dragon Gate Inn" now, with Liu Bige as the director, you as the screenwriter, and Shang Yongzhou and Chen Bige starring, it can be said to be the best lineup for the movie, but "Given Yan Liang's current situation, it would be inappropriate for him to play a supporting role in a movie, especially considering his friendship with you."

Lu Yanhe thought for a while and said, "There are really no outstanding supporting characters in this script."

"Those eunuchs are actually quite good," said Chen Ziyan. "Actually, if Yan Liang plays such a contrasting role, the audience will indeed be surprised."

"If Zhou Pingan knew that you wanted Yan Liang to play the eunuch, he would probably regret making this call to you."

"The call from Zhou Ping'an is actually hoping that Yan Liang can borrow your movie and break into the film industry instead of hanging around in the TV industry." Chen Ziyan said, "If Yan Liang can play the role of the **** well, it will be refreshing for everyone. That can actually achieve Zhou Pingan’s goal.”

"Zhou Ping'an hopes that Yan Liang can pursue a career as a star." Lu Yanhe said, "Yan Liang has been insisting on martial arts training, and his skills in making action movies are actually good enough."

He hesitated 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 another starring role for him in the future. That's what I told him." "

"You have thought about this matter yourself, but you also have to think about it. Since Zhou Ping'an called for the first time, it is very likely that he saw that Yan Liang actually wanted to act, but was embarrassed to talk to you, so he was good at acting. I hope we will take the initiative to let Yan Liang play the role." Chen Ziyan said, "No matter what you think or what decision you make, you should remember to check out Yan Liang's voice."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

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

Lu Yanhe took over a script from Chen Ziyan. On the script were the words "Oceanic sea, oh my bah".

"?" Lu Yanhe frowned subconsciously, but when he looked again, the screenwriter in the lower right corner wrote the word "Wu Chi".

The name…

It can't be such a coincidence, right?

However, this name should be difficult to repeat.

Seeing Lu Yanhe's strange expression, Chen Ziyan thought he was surprised by the name "Hai Hao, Bah". She explained: "Don't be fooled by its strange name. You will know after reading the script." Why should I show it to you?"

This is a movie script.

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

He quickly looked inside.

During this period, Chen Ziyan did not interrupt, picked up another script to read, and then waited silently for Lu Yanhe to finish it.

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

Chen Ziyan nodded, "Yes, that's right. Take a look at this again. It was sent along with the script, and there are several films he edited. This Wu Chi, he is an editor."

"Yes, I know." Lu Yanhe nodded.

"Do you know?" Chen Ziyan was stunned for a moment and then came to her senses, "Do you know him?"

"Well, we met once before. His apprentice asked me about the recruitment of directors at Jump Up Theatre. Could this be the source of this?"

"That's right." Chen Ziyan nodded, "It was Xu Fanxing who participated in this jump-up theater as a staff member of Linghe. She saw this script and these edited videos and sent these materials over. She knows that you are short She didn’t want to be a director for a while, and she also knew that our company had another film called “Those Years” waiting to be filmed. She told me that this person’s script and editing style were very similar to how she felt when she read the script for “Those Years.” After watching it, I felt the same way.”

"Indeed." Lu Yanhe nodded, "The style of this script is so similar to "Those Years" that it even makes me feel like it is a replica of "Those Years". Although the structure of the story is different, it tells the same theme. "

Chen Ziyan nodded.

"When you watch the films he edited, this feeling will be more obvious." Chen Ziyan said.

Lu Yanhe sat in front of Chen Ziyan's computer again and carefully watched several films edited by Wu Chi, which were all fragments.

But if you want to see a person’s style, snippets are enough.

Chen Ziyan looked at Lu Yanhe and asked, "How about it? Do you want to meet him and have a chat? I think he is a person worth paying attention to in Linghe. Maybe after chatting, he will feel more suitable and can sign in with us." The company is coming.”

Lu Yanhe couldn't hold it back and smiled.

"Okay, let's make an appointment to meet." Lu Yanhe felt incredible at this moment. 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 finally feel that he is suitable to be the director of "Those Years", I hope to let him film "The Sea, Oh My Bah" first, The production cost of this script is very controllable, and it can be used to practice. He has never been a director. I hope he can accumulate experience in making a film before making "Those Years". So, if this is the case, "Those Years" may be necessary. I’ve postponed the filming to next year.”

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