Chapter 8
There are no small roles, only small actors
On the way to the office building, Ling Suisui checked the system.
Her current points balance is 151, a slight increase from when she first activated the system.
Although there are sign-in rewards every day, she also has to spend points in the system study room every day.
Ling Suisui can teleport objects with a volume of less than 1 cubic meter into the study room. She usually reads books and watches movies in it, madly increasing her viewing volume and knowledge reserves.
She has discovered that the study room is a good place to study, but it has limited impact on improving her acting skills. Because acting requires her full commitment, it would be useless if she only relies on her consciousness to practice without being able to control her body.
After half a month, she was lucky enough to be able to save these points. After all, there were some unlucky people who only got 1 point for sign-in reward during this period.
It’s not easy to accumulate points, Ling Sui sighed.
The door on the right side of the inner space was still not opened, so she had to save some points for it. Therefore, even though her consciousness would not be tired at all after entering the study room, and in fact the effect would be better than sleeping, she still only stayed there for three hours a day.
As for the props and beauty items in the system mall... Ling Sui could only say that she would consider it when she had enough points.
She got on the elevator and took the opportunity to check Chen Yuening's favorability.
89, not bad. Ling Sui was a little surprised that the stock price had only been rising for the past half month.
Tang Bing's office was at the end of the corridor. Ling Suisui checked her appearance before knocking on the door.
A bun, ash-gray eyebrows, earth-colored eyeshadow, and nude lipstick are the teachers' favorite simple and elegant makeup.
Tap-tuk——
"Hello, Mr. Tang, I'm Ling Suisui."
"Come in."
Ling Suisui walked to Tang Bing's desk and Tang Bing found a chair for her to sit down.
She asked her: "Do you have any plans for the National Day holiday?"
In fact, Ling Suisui wanted to go home, but since Tang Bing asked, he definitely didn't want to.
"I don't have any other plans. I plan to study on my own at school and take a Mandarin certificate exam during the winter break."
Tang Bing smiled and said, "You should take an exam. An actor's Mandarin must be at least Grade 1B. If you can get Grade 1A, that would be even better."
Ling Suisui nodded obediently.
She understood that Tang Bing attached great importance to the actors' dialogue skills. Then, she will focus on mastering Mandarin and practice more on voice and breath.
Tang Bing: "I have a producer friend who is currently working on a mystery variety show. He said that for the National Day recording, he needs a female NPC who is good at crying scenes, so that the show will be better and the audience will have a stronger sense of involvement."
"He interviewed several people, but felt that none of them were suitable, so he was looking for someone to introduce him to. Then I remembered that you are quite good at crying."
"How about it, are you interested in going over and giving it a try? You should have enough time to review in the next few days."
Ling Suisui didn't even think about it and immediately answered, "Okay, teacher, I'm willing to go. Thank you for giving me the opportunity."
Isn’t it just a crying scene? No problem, she cries the best.
No matter how the program team wants her to cry, Ling Sui can show it to them and will definitely cry until they are satisfied.
Tang Bing gave her contact information to the producer and encouraged her to perform well.
She half-jokingly said, "Although we haven't officially started acting classes yet, you'll be my student once you step outside. Please don't embarrass me."
Ling Suisui made a promise: "Don't worry, I will never do that."
With Tang Bing's personal recommendation, the producer on the other side didn't even mention an interview and directly made the decision.
The recording will be on 10.3 in Xingcheng. Food and accommodation will be provided after arriving at the program crew. In addition to the film remuneration, her economy class round-trip airfare can also be reimbursed.
Wow, this treatment is pretty good. Ling Suisui instantly had a deeper understanding of Tang Bing's status in the circle.
After leaving the office building, the system was back online.
System: [The host seems to be in a good mood. 】
Ling Suisui: [I am indeed very happy. It can be seen that Teacher Tang is still very optimistic about me. 】
System: [But she didn't mention the film and television project. 】
Ling Suisui smiled, the system was too impatient.
She has been in the entertainment industry, so she knows very well that the cycle from the decision to shoot a film or TV series to the official launch of the film is relatively long. The more important the project, the more stakeholders are involved, and the more considerations the producers, directors, and investors will have to make.
So far, there has been no news about the filing or casting of this project on the Internet, which means that it is still in the planning stage, and Tang Bing and Qinghe still have many details of the cooperation to discuss.
However... the system would say this, probably in the original timeline, Chen Yuening was already in contact with this project at this time.
This is also normal. Behind Chen Yuening is Huacai Film and Television, which is also a well-known large company in the domestic entertainment industry. It is very likely that it is a co-producer of this project.
It doesn’t matter. There is no competition between Ling Suisui and Chen Yuening in this drama.
She was an ordinary student, a layman unlike a star. Apart from waiting to be selected by Tang Bing, she had no other channels to fight for in such a big project.
System: [What will the host do if Tang Bing doesn’t choose you in the end? 】
Ling Suisui said calmly: [If this drama is not selected, there will be the next one. I am only seventeen years old this year. The most important thing is to study hard in the Film Academy. There is no rush for other things. 】
Her birthday is in December, so she is still a minor even when she goes to college. Ling Sui needs her mother to sign the electronic contract that the producer just sent to make it legally effective.
What she said to the system just now was indeed the truth, but Ling Suisui felt that the probability of her getting one of the roles was very high.
In the entertainment industry, where connections and factions are most important, Tang Bing would say "you are my student" and recommend her to variety shows in this way, which is sending a signal that she will focus on training her.
Otherwise, the producer who had found many actresses who were not suitable would not have skipped the interview process and directly decided on her.
After returning to the dormitory, Ling Suisui first searched for information about this variety show on the Internet.
"Inference in Progress" is an immersive plot-based reasoning variety show produced by Antenna Video. The guests will participate in the plot set by the program team as detectives and uncover the truth through reasoning and evidence collection.
The first season of this program was filmed last year, and it received good response when it was aired at the beginning of the year, with both high viewership and good reputation.
The original cast returned for the second season, and it is still the original creative team, so fans have high expectations. Ling Suisui estimated that with the fan stickiness of the variety show, the second season will at least be a hit.
After understanding the basic situation of the program, Ling Sui opened the NPC information sent by the producer.
The character she plays is called "Jia Zhenzhen", a key character in this episode.
Jia Zhenzhen's parents both died, leaving her a huge inheritance. She has a boyfriend named Zhang Nuo. After getting their marriage certificate, they decided to hold their wedding on a cruise ship and invited many relatives, friends, and partners to watch the ceremony.
The program’s regular MC group, “Starlight Detective Agency” was also among the invited guests. They thought it was a vacation trip, but a murder occurred on the cruise ship.
Jia Zhenzhen's husband Zhang Nuo suddenly died in the room. Jia Zhenzhen found the Starlight Detective Agency, hoping that they could investigate the truth and catch the murderer of Zhang Nuo.
Ling Sui looked through the lines and found that her role was mainly to seek help from the detective agency, cooperate with the search for evidence, and provide timeline information from Jia Zhenzhen's perspective.
There aren’t many words, just two pages in total. If the detective agency asks a question that is not in the script and an answer is necessary, the on-site director will tell her what to say through the headset.
As for the "crying scene" that the producer specifically requested, it refers to the scene where Jia Zhenzhen seeks help from the detective agency after discovering her husband's death.
There are also notes on it, which require the character to cry heartbreakingly and be extremely sad, no matter how miserable it is, it would be best if people felt that Jia Zhenzhen could not live happily without her husband.
Normally speaking, this scene in a mystery variety show does not need to be emphasized, after all, it only serves as a background for the story. But the reason why the program team emphasized this point is because the character of Jia Zhenzhen has a big reversal at the end.
What the detective team is trying to discover is that Nuo deliberately murdered Jia Zhenzhen in order to seize her wealth so that he could inherit the estate as her husband, but in the process, he accidentally killed himself;
As for the second truth... Jia Zhenzhen had long known that he had ulterior motives, and her love turned into hate, so she decided to go with the flow and send him to hell.
Therefore, the production talents paid special attention to the crying scenes of this NPC.
The better the actor cries, the more he can mobilize the audience's emotions when the two truths are revealed.
The first level is the sadness and pity for Jia Zhenzhen; the second level is the unexpectedness when the situation reverses again.
Ling Suisui decided to add a small goal for himself based on this.
Stanislavski once said that there are no small parts, only small actors.
Therefore, even if she is just an NPC in a variety show, Ling Suisui will go all out and prepare well, striving to make others applaud her acting skills.
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