Cross the road of the director

As the start time of the micro film competition is getting closer, Dongyuan Entertainment has also entered the promotion mode.

Relevant announcements on major portal websites, tweets by well-known directors and celebrities, text advertisements on social software... It can be said that Dongyuan Entertainment used its housekeeping skills in this promotion, and even contacted those fans who were self-taught. Millions of major bloggers have spent a lot of money to invite them to help promote it.

This kind of generosity covers half of Twitter's knowledge, and even the half-closed Crow of Twitter has received an invitation to tell the truth.

In addition to the Internet, subways, TVs, and newspapers in real life also have related advertisements for this microfilm competition.This kind of publicity is a complete copy of the "Idol Project" routine of the talent show, even worse, the attitude is called a correct and serious, industry model.

In order to maintain the popularity, the official blog will release new news every once in a while. Today is "Micro Film Contest <Future Star has invited outstanding students from the director department of major film schools to participate", and tomorrow is "Confirmed Cheng Jing's participation in a certain film" The shooting of the short film", and the day after tomorrow there will be "The Final Four of the Contest Have a Chance to Enter Dongyuan Entertainment"... >

A new micro-movie competition, relying on such a long-term marketing, just managed to draw everyone's attention, and also attracted the attention of a large number of netizens.

"The director department of the Film Academy? Is it necessary to specially invite a group of young people who haven't graduated? Dongyuan Entertainment is discriminating against folk directors, right?"

"Cheng Jing was last year's draft winner, right? With her popularity, why did she act in an unknown short film? It's too cheap."

"Is the upstairs deliberately acting stupid?"

"Cheng Jing is an artist of Dongyuan Entertainment. This time, she obviously participated in the show to help her company promote the competition, and isn't the director's name revealed yet? With Dongyuan's ability to make trouble, my intuition tells me It’s definitely not easy to direct.”

"Hahahahaha, there must be something good to watch in Dongyuan's big fight."

"It's just a micro-movie competition, and this will enter the top three? Oh, I suddenly became interested in making movies."

"There is one thing to say. Now those directors with professional background are too routine and there is no surprise at all. Directors who have entered the industry are like this, let alone students. I really don't understand why Dongyuan called those students."

"People's imagination is boundless, but I am optimistic about young people."

"The master is among the people. I really want to see the story of the dark horse riding Juechen and defeating many good horses. So @Future Star, can you arrange it?"

"What's there to watch in the short film competition? This time it's so big, can next year's "Idol Project" still work?"

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Netizens come to Future Star's official Twitter blog to eat melons if they have nothing to do. They are as excited as chasing dramas. Whenever they see breaking news, they immediately stop and discuss with gusto.

Under this overwhelming brainwashing, everyone has an illusion that "Future Star" is a show that gathers new-generation directors, competes with their strengths, and finally selects the best director.

The gold content of "Future Star" is definitely not bad, as long as it can emerge from here, it will definitely become a big shot in the future film industry.

The people at this time believed it.

In fact, they were right. This year's "Future Star" has become the only one in the history of micro-movies.The number of talents it has unearthed is far beyond the industry's imagination, and it will be difficult to achieve even if similar programs are held later.

At this time, no one in the film industry could guess its potential. Most people in the industry thought that "Future Star" was just a sensationalist, and only some young directors who had no chance to make their debut would pay attention to it. Take it as an opportunity to soar, and take it seriously.

Just like what Professor Li said, news of Chinese opera graduates participating in the competition soon spread to their school, and it was deliberately posted on the official Twitter of "Future Star".

The tweet that day briefly introduced the history of Chinese opera, and named the outstanding graduates of this year, and the words were full of expectations for them.

The Huaxia Academy of Drama and the Imperial Film Academy are both located in the imperial capital, and they are also the top film academies in China, so it is inevitable that they will come into contact with each other.However, the strengths of the two schools are similar, which often causes friction. Years of getting along with each other and robbing each other of resources has long turned them into deadly rivals.

It is well known that the two academies do not fight each other, so when the official announcement of Boxian Anlihua drama, the students of the Imperial Film Academy, no matter which department they are in, all exploded.

The Internet is even more lively...

"Huaxi has sent graduates here?"

"So what about graduates? They're not big shots who haven't really entered the industry yet."

"Hahahaha, I just want to know what the students at the Imperial Capital Film Academy are thinking, @卢叶, brother, you seem to be there, how do you feel?"

"Hey, I feel very honored to be a student of Huaxi."

"The Chinese opera is good, and the Emperor's Academy is also good. They say they are all top schools in China, so you don't have to worry about it at all?"

"The emperor's courtyard just wants to say - the official is blind."

"Hehe, only the senior graduates of the Chinese opera can do it, right? It's not like our school, the sophomores in our school are in it. It's much better than you don't know."

"What nonsense? Our Huaxi..."

People from the two schools quarreled as they came and went. Affected by them, some well-known actors and directors who graduated from the two schools were also compared by Aite.

Seeing this, some passers-by who feared that the world would not be chaotic, started to quarrel with enthusiasm, saying that the Chinese opera was not good, and that the imperial courtyard was rubbish.

Under the intentional involvement of passers-by, the anger on both sides grew. They all said that their home was the best, and someone immediately began to encourage the two sides to make a bet.

The students didn't think too much, one by one let go of their bold words to enter the finals, and they planned to spend their living expenses to gamble...

Then, the Internet police appeared, deleted the messages on both sides, and left a message of 'No Gambling'.

"I'm going, internet police? What is this?"

"Hahahahaha, it's okay to ban gambling, and the Internet police are out, so stop arguing with each other..."

"It's the first time I've seen the internet police, let's take a picture together."

The appearance of the internet police immediately attracted everyone's attention, and all of them were downgraded in the original comment|Playing internet police brother, the original topic was also distorted.

The netizens here are buzzing, and the students of the two schools are not convinced.They couldn't chat on Twitter, so they went to each other's forums to quarrel, and even formed a group to bet on 'which one is stronger'.

Of course, this time they didn't dare to gamble with money anymore, but instead gambled with 'comic books', 'collector's edition movies', 'signed photos of famous actors'... and so on.

The content of the bet is very simple, which is to see which company has the best short film score.

So, without Lu Jue's knowledge, he took part in the microfilm competition with the hopes of his school's students on his back.

Li Zhe, over [-] years old, looks ordinary, even unattractive.However, even so, he persisted in his dream, and stayed in the movie city in H City for more than eight years as a trick.

The appearance of "Future Star" this time directly made many people who can film and can't act, just for the one in ten thousand possibility.

Actors are needed for filming, so the extras are all alive.

In the film and television city of H city, whenever there is a director who wants to make a short film, the actors will always rush forward, trying their best to sell themselves, only hoping to get a role.

With the popularity of "Future Star", as long as the short film he acted can enter the top [-], it will be regarded as a publicity; if it can enter the top [-], it can be considered a small limelight; .

This is a huge opportunity.

Therefore, no matter whether the director is well-known or not, no matter how much money he pays, no matter how good a friend is, they can fight for a protagonist, showing what is called plastic brotherhood.

Because of Li Zhe's appearance, most directors look down on him. Even if he is selected, he is still a small supporting role with only two lines of lines, and he is always forgotten in the corner.

In half a month, Li Zhe has participated in more than ten short films, most of which are passers-by, and there are only a handful of characters with names and surnames.

Li Zhe is not a great actor, but he has played tricks for so many years, so he knows the director's tricks somewhat.

The experience of this period of time made Li Zhe realize that most of the directors who shoot these short films are muddle-headed. They often want this feeling one second and that expression the next second. .

On this day, Li Zhe, who had no job, squatted in the corner of the movie city as usual, looking at his colleagues with a dull face, with indescribable irritability in his heart.

Suddenly, he noticed a middle-aged woman with a gentle appearance standing in front of the group leader and talking, the two became more and more excited as they talked, the group leader waved away, but the woman refused to leave with a stubborn face...

"Brother Zhao, what's wrong?"

Curiosity drove Li Zhe to come over.

The man named Brother Zhao glanced at him, and said dissatisfiedly: "This eldest sister wants to find an actor. Tsk, an actor who costs ten yuan a day can't even afford food. Where can I help her find it?"

Li Zhe looked at the woman. She blushed and explained embarrassingly: "No, no... Most of my savings are used to rent cameras and so on. I can only take out 800 yuan for actors." After a pause, "This short film can be shot in ten days, so it won't waste too much time..."

"800 yuan for eight actors, isn't that ten yuan a day? Seeing you like this, I'm afraid you can't even pay for the box lunches the actors eat? As for the ten days you said? Heh, go ask how many people are filming now. For short films, two short films can be shot in ten days at such a fast speed, is this a short time?"

Brother Zhao shook her off impatiently and strode away, not wanting to hear what the woman said next.The woman watched Zhao Ge go farther and farther, sighed with a dejected expression, with undisguised exhaustion on her body.

"Sister, do you want to make a short film to participate in the micro film competition?"

Li Zhe looked at the woman thoughtfully.

Without raising her head, the woman sighed, "Well. He is the third group leader I've found, and the result is still the same. There is no way to find a suitable actor here with this money..."

Li Zhe squinted his eyes halfway, and said, "Well, everyone is here to make a living. It's normal for the group leaders to be unwilling if they have too little money. Sister, besides us, there are students from the school's acting department? As long as your script is good enough, they I am willing to act without asking for money.”

Hearing this, the woman said without thinking: "No, those children are too young, they are not the actors I want."

"...Well, sister, what do you think of me? As long as you are willing to let me be the protagonist, I don't need any money, and I can also find other people who are willing to play according to your requirements."

At this time, Li Zhe no longer concealed his purpose, and made a straightforward request.

The woman was startled by his words, and subconsciously looked up at him, only to realize that the person in front of her was so ordinary, ordinary and even ugly.

"Sister, it's not me. In fact, I have participated in many big productions and have a lot of experience in acting. My acting skills will definitely satisfy you. And I have also acted in many short films during this period. I know the situation of other directors. This is a huge advantage for you."

"Look, it's been a month now. I don't know how much time it will take to film and post-production. If I don't turn on the phone, I won't be able to catch up with the registration time for the microfilm competition."

Li Zhe spoke nonsense with his eyes open, and worked very hard to be the protagonist once.Under his persuasion, the woman's tense expression gradually moved.

After pondering for a moment, she asked, "Is there really no salary?"

After getting an affirmative answer, the woman gritted her teeth and complied with Li Zhe's request, giving him the absolute leading role, and even revised the original script for this.

In fact, in order to be able to stand out in the micro film competition, many unknown actors and extras are willing to star in for free.

It's just that they also carefully select such things as free white jobs.Those directors either had filmed works in the early years and were capable; or they seemed to have the potential of a famous director to make them willing to pay for free.

The woman's temperament is too gentle, she is more like a housewife from an ordinary family than a director. Brother Zhao and the others are naturally unwilling to invest, and they are even more unwilling to deal with other tricks.

That is to say, Li Zhe, this weird guy, took the initiative to approach and took the opportunity to win the male number one.

In the following days, Li Zhe helped find all the people according to the female director's request, and started filming in a hurry without even the opening ceremony and daily box lunch.

The female director is a very serious person, and after a period of running-in, Li Zhe also knew something about her.

The female director is Qiu Yuling. She is 35 years old. She used to be a close apprentice of a certain director. She worked as an assistant director for two or three years. Later, the first film she directed was well received and was signed by the entertainment giant Red Star Entertainment.

When she was young, Qiu Yuling thought that entering Red Star Entertainment was just the beginning, but it turned out that it was the end.

Qualifications, connections, abilities...

It is difficult for women in the directing industry. Qiu Yuling is soft-tempered, doesn't like to argue with others, and is not good at fighting for the benefits she deserves.

To make matters worse, Qiu Yuling's master quit the entertainment circle due to health reasons, and no longer worked as a director, and her backer was gone.

Glory is too short.

In a place like Red Star Entertainment, there were too many seniors with more seniority and stronger personalities than her, and the upper echelon would always choose them over Qiu Yuling when selecting candidates.

Qiu Yuling's ideals and integrity were consumed and wiped out time and time again in Red Star Entertainment.

Over time, her talent and aura seemed to disappear, and she was just buried in the talented Red Star Entertainment, without any sense of existence.

For ten years, Qiu Yuling married and had children according to her parents' wishes.

Her husband didn't like her being a director very much, but seeing that Red Star Entertainment was very popular, Qiu Yuling seldom had filming tasks and could take care of the family for a long time, so he acquiesced in this matter.

In the past two years, Red Star Entertainment carried out reforms and layoffs. Qiu Yuling was not well-known and naturally no other entertainment company offered her an olive branch. Later, she was judged as incompetent and fired by Red Star Entertainment.

dismiss.

This was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, and awakened Qiu Yuling, who was just living numbly.

Qiu Yuling used to be talented and temperamental, and she was a rare female director in the director circle.Back then when she was an assistant director, she was loved by others and had a successful career, so she was so high-spirited.

But now?

An ordinary, almost pitiful housewife who was fired from the company.

Faced with such a result, Qiu Yuling couldn't accept it at all. She was not reconciled, her life shouldn't be like this.

After being fired, Qiu Yuling lost her income, but still dreamed of being a director.

So at her husband's suggestion, she became a full-time housewife, and only in her free time could she take pictures of flowers and plants and passers-by on the street with an old DV, and occasionally submit resumes to entertainment companies.

Time and time again, her resume always fell into the sea with no news.

This time Dongyuan's "Future Star" is the hope of the bottom directors.

Qiu Yuling knew that it was the only chance, so it was rare for her to strongly express her desire to participate.However, when her husband found out about this, he turned his face and resolutely opposed it.

The couple had a lot of trouble because of this incident, and even their elders were involved.

The old people persuaded Qiu Yuling not to daydream, but to live a good life with her husband is the reality... Too many "reasons" fell on her, as if she had done something wrong.

Faced with this situation, for the first time, Qiu Yuling ignored her husband and family members with a strong attitude, and even signed the divorce agreement when her husband raised the divorce warning, and left the original home with her savings.

In order to participate in "Future Star", in order to regain her original dignity and dreams, Qiu Yuling spent all her money on renting cameras, props, and costumes, which was really desperate.

Having not directed for many years, Qiu Yuling seemed very immature when she first started filming.

She didn't know how to express her thoughts to the actors, so she could only let the actors understand with a storyboard that only she could understand.

Time and time again, Qiu Yuling would reshoot if she was not satisfied, and the progress was much slower than expected.

According to this schedule, it was obvious that the short film could not be finished in eight days, and the other actors also began to feel a little dissatisfied, thinking that Qiu Yuling was looking for trouble.

Li Zhe felt Qiu Yuling's seriousness, and with a high EQ, he started to fool the other actors. He fooled everyone for a while, thinking that Qiu Yuling was a potential stock, so he didn't care about it anymore.

After all, Qiu Yuling has experience. With the shooting again and again, she regained the feeling she used to have, and the communication with Li Zhe and the others became more and more familiar, and the shooting progress quickly increased.

Thirteen days.

After Qiu Yuling and Li Zhe finished filming, she thanked Li Zhe solemnly and then went back to the rented house to start editing the work.

In the end, it was successfully submitted one week before the deadline for registration and became a contestant.

Looking at the email replied by Dongyuan Entertainment, Qiu Yuling had a bright smile on her face for the first time.The sun shines on her face through the window, setting off her smile so beautifully, it is the beauty called self-confidence.

The author has something to say: I didn’t add too much today, I’m sad QAQ

There are really few female directors in the film industry, so let Qiu Yuling shine in the novel~

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