1990: Starting from Baojia Street

After the crew of "Yongzheng Dynasty" came, the studio became much more lively, and as more and more people came, it became more and more lively.

Although the office of "Yongzheng Dynasty" is located in the TV drama department, because the general workshops are all in the film department, the film department has more contact with them.

Originally, most of the students from the Central Academy of Drama were relatively idle when they came to the studio, and they had nothing to do. However, "Yongzheng Dynasty" was short of people, so Lin Juan went to discuss with Jiang Mengfei and sent a few students to the crew to help.

These students from the Central Academy of Drama do not have enough professional ability and experience, so they naturally cannot help much, but with them helping out, they still share some pressure for others.

In order to allow students to better integrate into the crew and learn something, Lin Juan, the team leader, went there in person and took the lead in helping.

The makeup team of "Yongzheng Dynasty" has a total of seven people, all of whom have been determined, and all are makeup artists from Changchun Film Studio.

However, Changchun Film Studio now has its own work to do, and it is impossible to transfer makeup artists so long in advance.

Besides, even if Changchun Film Studio was willing to send people here in advance, Liu Wenwu would not agree, after all, he would pay them a day's wages for staying here for a day.

Although the salary of makeup artists is not high, the salary will not be a small amount if the number of people and the number of days are more.

Besides, now they are all in Zhou Yan's studio, which has everything, so naturally they will not let the makeup artists of Changchun Film Studio come here in advance.

Now if the crew needs any makeup, they basically ask the makeup workshop of the studio to help complete it.

It happened that Lin Juan brought her students to help here, so Lin Juan took care of the makeup.

Generally, Lin Juan and Zhang Ziyi completed the small makeup by themselves. When she encountered a more troublesome and labor-intensive makeup, she helped coordinate people to come.

Although Lin Juan and her friends did not help for free, Liu Wenwu would give them red envelopes, but compared to letting the makeup artists come in advance and continue to pay wages, it was really cost-effective to give Lin Juan and her friends some red envelopes.

Because of the many helpers, Lin Juan became familiar with Hu Mei as soon as she came here.

Hu Mei also deliberately built a good relationship with Lin Juan. She knew that Lin Juan and Jiang Mengfei were both old subordinates of Zhou Yan, and they had a special relationship. Now that they had taken root in the studio, they would inevitably trouble her in the future.

On the afternoon of the 15th, Lin Juan was telling Zhang Ziyi about the relationship between different eras and different makeups. Hu Mei came over with a smile, "Director Lin, are you teaching students?"

Lin Juan smiled, "No, just a simple talk. Although she is studying acting, it is not a bad thing to learn more."

"Haha, girls, it is always right to learn some makeup knowledge." Hu Mei looked at Zhang Ziyi again, "Student Zhang, you must learn from Director Lin. She has participated in big projects and is good at all types of makeup."

Zhang Ziyi nodded, "Well, I will definitely learn well."

Lin Juan said modestly, "Director Hu, you are too kind. I am still in the learning stage. According to Brother Zhou Yan, we still have a lot to learn."

When they first met, Hu Mei felt a little uncomfortable when she heard Lin Juan call him "Brother Zhou Yan". She always felt that this girl was a little bit unorthodox.

But after two days of listening, Hu Mei got used to it. After getting to know each other, Lin Juan gave people a very simple feeling. The reason why she kept calling him Zhou Yan was probably because they had a good relationship.

Lin Juan was right. Zhou Yan often told them that they had a lot to learn.

Although their makeup team was already the best in the country, Zhou Yan had higher requirements for them.

Zhou Yan had seen the makeup level in Hollywood and knew that China still had a long way to go in this regard.

"You are too modest, Director Lin." Hu Mei smiled and said, "Do you have time now? I have something to trouble you."

"What is it?"

"It's like this. I have an audition here and want more people to participate, but we don't have enough actors here. I wonder if I can borrow some people from you?"

"It's an audition?" Lin Juan asked.

"Well, just an audition, nothing else, okay?"

"If it's just an audition, of course you can, just use the few people I brought here to help."

"These few alone may not be enough."

"Not enough? How many do you want?"

"How many do you have?"

"There are only 20 students from the Central Academy of Drama."

Hu Mei said with a smile, "Can you call all these 20 students over?"

"We have 20 students, but not all of them can come to the studio every day. There are a total of nine people who signed in today, but there should be a few more coming later."

For students participating in school-enterprise cooperation, the time to come to the studio naturally depends on their class schedule.

However, basically, as long as the students don't have classes in the evening, they will come to the studio in the evening.

When they come in the evening, in addition to having dinner in the cafeteria, they will also go to the "theater" to rehearse some programs.

The experimental theater of the Central Academy of Drama is too small, the effect is not good, and there is always a queue, so students are willing to come to the studio.

The "theater" in the studio is large, the effect is good, and no one fights for it.

Not only students who participated in the school-enterprise cooperation project would come, but these students would also bring their classmates.

So, Lin Juan said that there would be more people in a while.

"Then wait a while and call as many as you can."

“Okay then.”

It’s a good thing for students to help with the audition, so Lin Juan naturally had no reason to disapprove.

“Our audition starts tomorrow morning, but we need to review the script with them tonight in advance, so can you please call them over now and I’ll have a meeting with them?”

“We also need to review the script?” Lin Juan was very surprised.

She is also an old man in the industry. After joining so many groups, she has only heard of rehearsing before filming, but she has never heard of rehearsing the day before the audition, and there are so many people.

In Lin Juan’s opinion, if there are so many people, they must be just passers-by.

Since they are passers-by, they naturally have no lines and no shots. Even if it is a formal filming, the director does not need to speak too much to these groups.

Now they are helping with the audition, what can be communicated in advance?

Hu Mei smiled and nodded, "Well, I'm used to preparing in advance."

Hearing what Hu Mei said, Lin Juan didn't say anything else. She turned to Zhang Ziyi and said, "Ziyi, you go back to our workshop first, and call the students over later."

Zhang Ziyi nodded, "Okay."

She agreed quite straightforwardly, with a little excitement in her voice.

These two days, they helped the crew of "Yongzheng Dynasty" and worked hard without complaint, but they were also uncomfortable doing some odd jobs all the time.

Now Zhang Ziyi was naturally happy to hear that she could help with the audition.

Although helping with the audition did not allow them to act, being able to observe other people's performances up close and possibly see the script was enough for them.

In the eyes of Zhang Ziyi and others, Hu Mei is a real big director who is usually out of reach. Now if they can follow Hu Mei and learn up close, it will naturally be a lot of good for them.

……

When Hu Mei was acting with the students, Lin Juan watched for a while, but didn't find anything special. She gave Zhang Ziyi and others a few instructions and went off work.

Normally, she would definitely stay to accompany the students for a while today, but she had something important to do tonight and was in a hurry to go.

Lin Juan rode her bike out of the campus gate, rode to Xinjiekou North Street, crossed the North Third Ring Road, and then rode not far before entering an alley.

About thirty meters from the alley entrance, there was a courtyard door that was open. Before Lin Juan arrived, she heard the chattering voices inside.

She parked her bike at the door and walked in with a smile.

No mistakes, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

There were seven or eight people gathered in the yard at this time. When they saw Lin Juan coming, they all greeted her with a smile.

"Secretary Lin is here."

"Secretary Lin came early today."

Lin Juan replied with a smile, "He came just after get off work. It's just you guys. Where are the others?"

"It will probably take a while. And there weren't many people today. There were only about 20."

"Only about 20?"

"Yes, there are more bases and the personnel are dispersed during this period."

"That's good. Didn't everyone complain that it was a bit crowded before?"

"Yes, I think it's not good to have too many people. Fortunately, Chu Changsong's TV is big enough, otherwise there would be too many people and nothing could be seen."

The courtyard where they were was not small. There was a table in the middle of the courtyard with a color TV on it.

The screen of this TV should be about 30 to 40 inches, which is larger than the size of mainstream color TVs.

In front of the TV, there were also many small stools, and the seven or eight people were sitting on the small stools.

Lin Juan smiled and found a small stool to sit down.

After sitting down, she asked, "Doesn't the show start at 7:30? Why don't you find something to watch now?"

A girl sitting in front of her nodded and said, "Well, when you were not here just now, Xu Yongke suggested to review Teacher Zhou's previous Yanjing concert, but I want to watch Teacher Zhou's concert in Tokyo more. What do you want to watch, Secretary Lin?"

"I'm fine with anything." Lin Juan smiled.

The girl pouted, "You always say that."

"Why not watch the videotape of "Distant Journey", that's more interesting."

"Yeah, that's more interesting."

This suggestion was responded to by most people, and then everyone decided to watch this. A boy stood up and found a videotape in the drawer and put it into the VCR.

"Distant Journey" was the videotape that Nomura Hide and others made when they interviewed Zhou Yan before. This videotape is also sold in the mainland, and the sales are decent.

Although everyone present has watched this videotape many times, they still like it very much after watching it again.

Lin Juan also put her hand on her chin and looked at the TV screen very seriously.

The people in the courtyard are all members of the Zhou Yan Fan Club of Yanshi University, and this courtyard is the home of one of the members.

This member has a good family background, and his family usually lives in other houses, so he contributed the courtyard as the base of the fan club.

Mainly because his family has a large color TV and a set of audio equipment, the members usually like to get together to watch Zhou Yan's videos and listen to Zhou Yan's songs.

If there is any program, they will also get together to watch it.

The reason why they got together today is that at 7:30 pm, CCTV 3's "Music Bridge" column has a special program about Zhou Yan.

The program was announced before, so they agreed to watch the program together today.

Lin Juan had joined the fan club not long ago. It was by chance a few years ago that she met someone from the fan club. She came to attend a gathering out of curiosity and joined the fan club.

Although she had not joined for long, because she was a little older and had contributed a lot of Zhou Yan's materials, everyone respectfully called her "Secretary Lin". In fact, she did not have any position in the fan club.

As time went by, more and more people came to the courtyard. At 7:20, almost everyone had come.

Chu Changsong, the owner of the courtyard, looked at the time, turned off the video, and then turned the TV to CCTV-3.

Although it was a 7:30 program, he must have turned it on in advance to prevent problems and miss the program.

"Music Bridge" was a replay of the previous "How Much Do You Know About Music". The program ended quickly, and then there was a long advertisement.

There are a lot of TV advertisements these days. Some TV stations do not broadcast their programs as long as the advertisements every day. Some TV stations almost exclusively broadcast advertisements.

Even CCTV channels are not immune to this. There are a lot of advertisements between programs.

At 7:32, the program "Music Bridge" officially began.

In fact, there are quite a few special programs related to Zhou Yan. Not to mention the three channels, even the first channel has spent time reporting on Zhou Yan before.

However, no matter which special program it is, it seems that none of them really explain Zhou Yan's affairs clearly. After all, the program length is limited, and it can usually only focus on a certain point.

So as long as there is a special program about Zhou Yan, everyone will watch it very seriously.

CCTV Channel 3 is the opera and music channel, and this program is also called "Music Bridge", so today's special program is naturally mainly related to music.

The beginning of the program is a collection of several videos, including Zhou Yan's "Xu Sanguan" winning the second prize of the Outstanding Composition Competition for the 130th Anniversary of Sun Yat-sen's Birth, Celine Dion singing "all of me" on stage, Mariah Carey singing "young and beautiful" at the concert, and the piano youth orchestra performing at Radio Music City.

After this scene, the camera turned to the studio. The host Liu Lu sat in the studio and said with a smile, "Hello, audience friends, welcome to the Music Bridge program. Today, we will introduce you to the talented musician Zhou Yan." (End of this chapter)