Actor's Road

On March 2010, 3, Saturday, Anyang came to the office for training as usual every weekend.

It has been five months since Anyang signed the contract with AMUSE.Anyang originally thought that he would get the chance to act in a TV series before he signed the contract, and that he would immediately devote himself to intense filming after signing the contract. Instead, he was handed over to the training department of the firm, and he was trained in performance, body, lines, camera, etiquette, common sense, etc.-especially lines and common sense, which are important for ordinary islanders. The relatively simple course is the key training content for Anyang.The TV dramas and movies in the island country are usually filmed on the spot, which requires a relatively high level of script skills for the actors. Although the island language in Anyang is acceptable, as a foreigner, it is still somewhat substandard. When filming "Samurai High School" before, there were only one or two lines in an episode, which was not a big problem, but if he wanted to volunteer as an actor, he still needed to work hard on pronunciation.

There are no professional acting schools in the island country. Although many universities also have art departments, most of the actors in the island country are not from majors, and they rely on the stage and the studio to hone their acting skills.For newcomers, the agency's acting training is very important.In the past few months, Anyang has been going back and forth between Tokyo and Kanagawa. When the school is not in class, he spends most of his time practicing in the office.

"Anjun, Mr. Harada asked you to go to his office." The speaker was in his thirties, with a Chinese character face, and looked very serious. His name was Andalong, and he was the manager arranged by Mamoru Harada for Anyang.Adachi is one of Harada's agents, mainly responsible for bringing in newcomers. Besides Anyang, he is also in charge of a newcomer named Nomura Shuhei born in 1993.Nomura participated in the national selection finals held by AMUSE last year and won the championship.Anyang and Nomura's relationship is okay.Nomura's grandfather is a native of China, so although he grew up in an island country, he can speak a few words of Chinese.

After signing the contract and entering the firm, Anyang realized how unlikely it was to be discovered by Harada Shou in Harajuku, because Harada was neither a scout nor a small agent who obeyed orders and had no decision-making power. , but one of the four managers of AMUSE's male artist department.Only then did he understand why Haruma Miura was always tentative when talking to him on the set of "Samurai High School".

Entering Harada's office, as usual, he first asked about Anyang's recent training progress, and then handed him a thin booklet, "Anjun, go back and read the script carefully, the shooting will start in a week."

Looking at the large characters "New Participants Chapter [-]—Apprentice in a Restaurant" on the cover, Anyang was a little dazed at first, and then ecstatic. He touched the thin script and bowed to Harada, "Mr. Harada, I I will definitely take a good shot, and I won’t embarrass you.”

"By the way," Harada called Anyang, who was about to leave, "I'm about to officially debut, have you decided whether to use Chinese characters or hiragana for your name?" Although most islanders' names are written in Chinese characters, but with Chinese pronunciation is different.If Anyang wants to keep the Chinese pronunciation of its name "AnYang", it will inevitably use hiragana, which is equivalent to Huaguo's pinyin.At the beginning, in the ending credits of "Samurai High School", Anyang didn't think much about it because he hadn't officially debuted yet, and he used Chinese characters directly. As for how others read it, it was not within his thinking at that time.

"Let's write Chinese characters directly!" Anyang thought for a while and replied, of course it would be more comfortable to write his name in Chinese characters.

After discussion, Anyang finally decided to write "Anyang" as his stage name, pronounced "AnnAkira". "Yang" is pronounced "Akira" in the island language, and the meaning expressed is bright and bright, which is similar to the meaning of "Yang" in Chinese characters.

"AnnAkira, AnnAkira." Harada repeated several times, jokingly, "Akira, Akira, I hope someday you will be as famous as that famous girl Akira."

Anyang froze for a moment before realizing that the "female Akira" that Harada mentioned was the actress Yang Yueming. , "Xu" and many other Chinese characters can be pronounced "Akira". "It's a bit difficult, isn't it?" An Yang's eyes widened in surprise.Among the new generation of actresses, Yang Yueming's popularity and acting skills can definitely be ranked among the top few.

Harada was speechless, couldn't he understand that he was joking?Forget it, he waved his hand to indicate that this straightforward boy can go out.

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"New Participants" is adapted from the novel of the same name by Keigo Higashino, a well-known mystery writer in the island country. It is a TV series that TBS TV plans to broadcast every Sunday at 4 o'clock in the spring (April-June), commonly known as the nine-day drama.The ninth episode of the day can be regarded as the Kanban section of TBS TV station. The themes are mostly social, political, workplace, suspense, family, etc., and the leading actors generally tend to choose older actors with higher status.

Now Anyang, after several months of training, is no longer in a state of being completely confused and ignorant about the process, mode, and production of TV dramas.The TV series in the island country are basically produced by the major TV stations themselves. The year is divided into four seasons according to the four seasons. From April to June is the spring drama, from July to September is the summer drama, from October to December is the autumn drama, and 4 Winter dramas are from January to March, and the prime-time and late-night serials are normally broadcast one season a season and one episode a week, which means that the serials generally have only nine to twelve episodes.Moreover, island TV dramas generally adopt the mode of filming and broadcasting at the same time. Although a TV drama may put forward a plan six months to a year ago and start writing scripts, most TV dramas are broadcast a month or two before the TV drama is broadcast. The month of shooting started.Because TV stations play a leading role in the production of TV dramas, TV stations have very strict control over TV dramas.Generally, an episode of forty to five 6-minute TV series can be produced in one week, with a maximum of three days for location shooting, two days for in-studio shooting, and two days for post-production.The three-month schedule reserved by the actors for the TV series being filmed will not be filmed every day, and the actual working days may only be 7 days or less.

There are great differences between island country TV dramas and Huaguo TV dramas in terms of mode, production and shooting.Huaguo TV's self-produced TV series are just starting now, and only Xiangjiang Satellite TV has tried to produce a few TV series.Most TV dramas still adopt the system of separation of production and broadcasting. After the production company finishes filming, they sell the copyright of the TV dramas to major TV stations. This has caused many TV dramas to be broadcast after a year or more after filming. There are even many TV dramas that have never been broadcast on TV after they have been produced.Because the price of TV series is calculated according to how much each episode is, the number of TV series is generally [-] to [-] episodes, and in recent years, the number of TV series has become longer and longer.

TV dramas in island countries can be roughly divided into two types: Situationdrama and Storydrama. The popular explanation of the former is that it can be completed in a single season or can last for several seasons. A season is released every year.The latter is a relatively common TV series that can be completed in about ten episodes, such as romantic dramas like "Long Vacation", or suspense dramas like "Sandware".In recent years, with the development of society, the appeal of romantic dramas to the audience has gradually declined, and criminal dramas and medical dramas have become more popular.

The TV series in the island country are probably because they only broadcast one episode a week, and there are only about ten episodes in total. The mode of the story, even if it is a school drama, family drama, ethics drama, social drama, a TV drama with one or several main lines, the sub-plots of each episode are complete, so that the audience will not have to wait for a week Forget about the previous plot.And because it is filming and broadcasting at the same time, although the filming of the island country TV series will not be filmed completely according to the development of the plot, they will basically be filmed in episodes, which will not make the scenes shot by the actors jump too much.

"New Participator" tells the story of a woman who lived alone was strangled in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, and the newly appointed detective Kyoichiro Kaga uncovered the truth of the case little by little.The protagonist Kaga Kyoichiro is played by Hiroshi Abe, a senior who debuted in 1987. He has profound facial features and a height of nearly 1.9 meters. He is definitely an outstanding existence in the entertainment circle of the island country.Mizobata Junpei, who was born in 1989, plays the detective Shuhei Matsumiya of the Metropolitan Police Department who partnered with Kaga in the play.Mizobata Junpei made his debut in 2006 by participating in the 19th "JUNONSUPERBOY" competition and won the championship. He has a handsome appearance. In 2009, he starred in the hit TV series "Boss" and "Zero Second Shot" one after another. He is now a hot popular comedian.The mysterious female reporter who plays Kaga's junior is the actress Kuroki Meisa from Okinawa.Among most of the island actresses who are either pure, cute, healing, or hearty, Kuroki Meisa is definitely an alternative existence. As a mixed race, her facial features have a kind of wild beauty, which is rare. Actress with a pure line.Moreover, this drama also invited veteran artist Tomokazu Miura as the main axis to play the husband of the murdered woman.The guest lineup in each episode is also very luxurious, such as Kagawa Teruyuki in the first episode, Natsukawa Yui in the second episode, and Baisho Mitsuko in the third episode.

Different from the traditional one-episode reasoning and criminal investigation drama, "New Participator" uses ten episodes to solve a case, but each episode Kaga will focus on investigating a suspect or related person. Small stories make up a big story.

The character played by Anyang is Sasaki Shuhei, an apprentice in a restaurant, and the clue character in the second episode.

Just looking at the title of the single episode, An Yang thought that the story of this episode would revolve around his role as a restaurant apprentice, but after reading the script, he found that he was overthinking.How could such a big-budget TV series use a newcomer as a guest for a single episode?The restaurant apprentice he plays is actually just a character who leads the plot, and the real clue character is the proprietress played by Natsukawa Yui.This is why the script he got was so thin, because the script he got was not complete at all, only the part he played himself.

New participant means a newcomer in the island language. The main character, Kyoichiro Kaga, is a new detective at the Nihombashi Police Station, and the woman who was killed is also a newcomer to this neighborhood. "Alright, let me, a real new participant, make a good start in this debut!" Looking through the script, Anyang was ready to show his talents.