Chapter 63 Where is Luteng City?
Among the remaining main roles, the second female "cheerleader Deng Linyue", which is the role that Li Yitong auditioned for at the beginning, was given to Zhu Xudan, the "little fan" of Meng Bai.
This girl is also miserable. Although she is a contracted artist of Leshi Films, the company basically "let her go" and has never had any resources.
Especially this year, Leshi Films signed a girl named Zhang Huiwen, who is the latest generation of "Mou Girl". Although her popularity is not high, her resources are really good. In this comparison, Zhu Xudan's situation is undoubtedly more miserable.
As the big investor of the crew, Leshi is not very good if it does not arrange an actor from the family. In this case, Meng Bai also took advantage of the situation to take care of his own sister.
When Zhu Xudan received the news, she was happy for a long time in the dormitory holding her mobile phone. For her, taking a new play is a small matter. The key is that "Senior Brother Meng Bai" is thinking about her.
"Can you be more reserved, silly girl? A small role makes you so beautiful." Liang Jie looked at her best friend's "rushing" appearance and couldn't help rolling her eyes and saying "disdainfully".
"It doesn't matter how big the role is, as long as I can see Senior Brother Meng Bai." Zhu Xudan said with a smile. After that, she looked at Liang Jie who was speechless on the side: "By the way, I recommended it to my senior brother. He said that there is a best friend in the plot of my character, and there are many scenes. You can give it a try."
"Really!" Liang Jie's expression changed, and she said in surprise: "I said, Senior Brother is such a good person, I was right!"
Zhu Xudan: "..."
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Landao City, the new campus of Landao University of Technology.
On the side of the wide campus road, a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses stood on the side of the road, looking in the direction of the school gate.
The man's surname is Wang, and he is the director of the external publicity department of Landao University of Technology. A few days ago, he received a message from the Landao Cultural Tourism Department that a crew wanted to rent their school's new campus as a filming set.
For the external propaganda department, which usually has few opportunities to perform, this is a rare highlight work that can be written into the annual summary. Therefore, Director Wang attaches great importance to this matter. He brought people to wait here early today.
In the distance, a business car drove towards him. He adjusted his glasses and tried to look at the license plate, and found that it was the car he was waiting for.
The car drove slowly and slowly stopped in front of Director Wang. When the door opened, he immediately tidied his clothes, gestured to the person behind him, and then greeted him with a smile on his face.
"Dear leaders, welcome!"
Director Wang looked at the group of people getting off the car. The first one was a section chief named Qin from the Landao Cultural Tourism Department who had contacted him before. The few people following closely behind him, although I have never seen them, but at a glance at the style of clothing and behavior, they must be personnel from government agencies.
The only more conspicuous ones were the last man and woman to get off the car. The man wore very casual clothes and looked young, about the same age as a college student in school. The girl was petite and cute, and at first glance she looked like a junior high school student.
Director Wang was a little surprised. He had received a notice that Section Chief Qin from the Tourism Bureau would come with the producer of the crew today. In his opinion, capable producers are usually middle-aged people. But the two people in front of him didn't look like them.
Although he was confused, he didn't show it, and just looked at Section Chief Qin calmly. The latter probably understood what he was thinking and took the initiative to introduce: "Old Wang, let me introduce you. This is Mr. Meng from Arc Light Films, and he is also the producer of this filming crew. The person behind is his assistant, Assistant Hua."
"Oh, hello, Mr. Meng." Director Wang immediately put on a warm attitude and looked at Meng Bai and said, "I didn't expect Mr. Meng to be so young. He is really young and promising."
"Director Wang, you're welcome." Meng Bai also shook hands with the other party in a friendly manner, and said with a smile: "This time we will borrow your campus for filming. I'm afraid I will have to trouble Director Wang for some time in the next period of time."
"Haha, Mr. Meng, please feel free to 'trouble' me if you have anything." Director Wang waved his hand and said, "Shall we go to the office to talk?"
Meng Bai waved his hand: "No hurry, Director Wang, please show us the environment and construction of our campus first."
"No problem." Director Wang said readily: "Follow me, I will introduce the situation of our new campus to you first."
After that, he led everyone to the inside of the school.
Looking at the empty and somewhat desolate scenery around, Meng Bai listened to Director Wang's introduction while thinking about the plot scenes that could be used.
When filming "Soul Ferry" before, because the scenes were simple and mostly interior scenes, except for the specially built "Convenience Store No. 444", the rest of the scenes were basically rented temporarily.
But this time is different. The plot and scenes involved in "Psychological Crime" are much more complicated. Take the most important "Green Ivy University" in the play for example. This time, unlike the several dormitory buildings in the new campus of the Central Academy of Drama that Meng Bai temporarily borrowed before, a complete university campus is needed.
Meng Bai naturally couldn't "build" another university like he did before to decorate the convenience store. He is not a big director like Chen and Zhang, who builds a city for each play.
So long before the actor auditions began, he was already looking for a suitable filming location.
As one of the stories in the entire "Green Ivy Series", the requirements for the filming location must not only meet the plot needs of "Psychological Crime", but also consider the expansibility of the subsequent stories. Therefore, when choosing, Meng Bai will give priority to coastal cities with more diverse terrain and landscape.
After considering multiple conditions such as cost, location, preferential policies, etc., Meng Bai finally chose his hometown, Blue Island, between Tianjin, Bincheng, Xiamen and Blue Island as the prototype of "Green Ivy City" in the entire "Green Ivy Series".
As for Hua Yan, who came with him, it was simply because this "Lolita girl" fully demonstrated the qualities of a poor student, and was "invited" out of the Finance Department by Chen Jing on the grounds of "unsuitability". It just so happened that Meng Bai also needed a follower to run errands, so she transformed herself and was promoted from "financial assistant" to "boss assistant".
"So Mr. Meng is also from Landao." While walking around the campus and chatting, Director Wang became more enthusiastic when he heard that Meng Bai was a local: "It is said that our Landao has many talented people and many celebrities come from here."
This is true. There are many people from Landao in the domestic entertainment circle. There was even a rumor about the "Jiaodong Gang".
Unfortunately, Meng Bai was just a small transparent person on the periphery of the film and television circle before, and he had no chance to meet those big names.
So Meng Bai just smiled at Director Wang's words and changed the subject: "This time, we still have to thank our Landao Cultural Tourism Department for providing a lot of preferential conditions and policy benefits for our small crew."
"Ha, Mr. Meng, you are too polite. Supporting the development of our local entrepreneurs is what we should do." Section Chief Qin said, "Moreover, in the past two years, our Blue Island has also tended to support the film, television and entertainment industries. Meng has finally caught up with the right time."
After that, he joked, "I am now worried that Mr. Meng's series of criminal investigation and crime stories are all shot in our Blue Island. Don't let outsiders really think that this is the 'City of Sin'."
Meng Bai smiled and said, "It would be great if we can really make such a big name. At that time, we can say 'There is Gotham in the West and Green Ivy in the East'. We can develop a 'Green Ivy Series' theme film and television park, which may be a new attraction."
Meng Bai said this as a joke, but Section Chief Qin's eyes lit up, "Don't mention it. The city actually had a similar plan last year, thinking of working with Rongchuang and Wanda to create the 'Blue Island Oriental Movie Metropolis Film and Television Base'. If the influence of our series is high enough, we can really apply for a place in it to build a theme park or something like that."
"Oriental Movie Metropolis?" Meng Bai asked puzzledly, "Do you want to build a film and television shooting base?"
"Yes, there are many film and television bases in China, but most of them focus on costume dramas or period dramas. We hope to find a new way and focus on fantasy and science fiction movies."
"Science fiction?" Meng Bai stopped and shook his head and said to himself: "Can domestic movies still have science fiction?"
(End of this chapter)
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