Chapter 389 Casting? Of course I have to choose it myself
The variety show "Longing for the Yard" became popular, and the most obvious change it brought was that more and more brokerage companies called Yang Hongxia to ask if there were any vacancies in the guest list, when preparations for the second season would begin, whether there was any room for cooperation on the project "A Chinese Ghost Story", etc.
They were all blocked by Yang Hongxia.
The first season of this variety show has not been completely filmed, and the first episode has just been released, but these people are already thinking about the second season.
Even if the second season is to be prepared, it will not start until the second half of the year, and filming will be next year. It is really too early to talk about this now.
It’s not that these brokerage companies and their artists are too anxious and eager to take advantage of the opportunity, but the benefits that a popular variety show can bring to the artists are indeed huge.
For ordinary artists, such as actors, there are only a few dramas they can get in a year. It takes several months to shoot a drama, and a year to shoot two or three dramas. Then they can only wait for the release of the drama. If it can be released normally, it’s good. Even if the final result of the drama is not so good, the artist can bear it, after all, there is still work and exposure.
But if it doesn’t get released, all your months or even a year of hard work will be wasted.
The movies they filmed cannot be shown, which not only wastes time and energy, but also reduces the value of the artist. If an artist disappears from the audience's sight for a long time, he/she will easily become outdated. After becoming outdated, he/she will not be able to get work, and without work, there will be no works, and even less exposure, and then it will enter a vicious cycle, which will repeat over and over again and is difficult to get rid of.
For example, a certain young actress in Lin Fan’s previous life filmed 3 dramas in 2 years. As a result, because the male leads were worse than the last one and the last one even went to jail, all 3 dramas were wasted and 2 years of time were wasted.
What a terrible thing it is. An actor is out of the audience's sight for two years, and those two years are the most youthful years of his life. It is basically half-wasted.
Therefore, at this time, popular variety shows have become the best choice for artists to maintain their exposure and maintain fan stickiness.
Moreover, it takes very little time to shoot a variety show, which does not affect normal work such as filming, and can maintain exposure, so that the show will not disappear from the public eye for a long time due to filming or the new show cannot be released. This is also one of the reasons why there are more and more variety shows and their formats are becoming more and more diverse.
The popularity of "Longing for the Yard" is equivalent to providing the entire circle with another platform to choose from to maintain its own exposure, so of course everyone is paying attention to it.
Even when Lai Siu-tung was recording another variety show, he was asked by the guests of the same show about the second season of "Longing for the Courtyard", but Lai Siu-tung evaded the question. But it also shows that a good variety show is also a scarce resource in the eyes of artists.
However, at this moment, Lin Fan was not dazzled by the performance of the variety show. On the contrary, because Lin Fan knew how well the original variety show performed and how popular it was, he was more cautious about his own version of the variety show.
I was afraid that because of my modifications, the program would not achieve the expected results.
Once again accompanying the post-production team to fine-tune the latest episode, Lin Fan announced: "Everyone go take a break, I'll go through the film first and look at the details."
Director Liu Nan couldn't help but advise: "You can't do everything yourself, otherwise your body won't be able to handle it. Don't rely on your youth to endure it. When you get older, you will know how much suffering you will suffer when you are old if you don't take good care of your body when you are young!"
Lin Fan smiled and did not refute.
The variety show "Longing for the Yard" is Lin Fan's masterpiece. From directing to process, from editing to online release, Lin Fan is involved in everything. In addition to ensuring the final effect of the program, Lin Fan's main purpose is to accumulate experience for the project "A Chinese Ghost Story".
Just like he didn't want to ruin variety shows like "Longing", Lin Fan didn't want to ruin the classics in his mind.
This is Lin Fan's first time directing a movie. Although he has a wealth of theoretical knowledge, Lin Fan has also seen the finished film and knows what the final effect should be like. At the same time, his system skills are also very powerful and can provide him with a lot of help.
However, if you don’t have operational experience, you don’t have it. When you haven’t encountered many things, no one knows how to solve them. Lin Fan can only keep learning while filming variety shows. Even though everyone knows that filming variety shows is completely different from filming movies, this is the only operational example that Lin Fan can get in touch with, and Lin Fan is unwilling to miss it.
In fact, Lin Fan had also thought about finding another director to shoot the film. As long as he asked the other party to strictly follow the script, he believed that even if the final film was different from the movie in Lin Fan's memory, the effect would not be much different. After all, there were still many excellent directors in Blue Star China.
But Lin Fan finally realized that what he wanted was not a good movie, but that movie.
Except for the actors, Lin Fan wanted to copy the movie completely so that people in this world could also take a good look at the classic movie on Earth.
Instead of those crappy magic-adapted movies!
Therefore, Lin Fan could only go by himself.
While recording variety shows, he was learning how to act, learning directing techniques from Liu Nan, participating in the preparation and production of film projects, and following the post-production and production of variety shows throughout the entire process... In short, this was the first time that Lin Fan made himself so busy and so tired.
But I enjoy it.
Liang Wen, the assistant director of the "A Chinese Ghost Story" project, called Lin Fan and said, "The role interview is about to begin. Do you want to come and select the actors in person?"
Lin Fan's eyes lit up: "Yes!"
There are not many main characters in "A Chinese Ghost Story". The male and female protagonists have been played by Lin Fan and Xia Yan, leaving only a few names with identities and lines. Among them, Yan Chixia and the tree demon grandma are the most important, followed by another female ghost and the unknown knight who insists on competing with Yan Chixia.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
The rest are just extras.
These four roles are going to be interviewed this time.
Lin Fan initially thought that not many people would compete for these roles. After all, from the director to the team, from the leading actors to the investment, none of this movie was very reliable. It was no exaggeration to say that it was a makeshift team. Lin Fan was even prepared for no one to come for the interview and that he would eventually have to select good candidates from the extras.
But the result was beyond Lin Fan's expectations.
There were many actors who came for the interview, including quite a few veteran actors who had excellent acting skills and had played relatively important roles in other movies, and there were also many newcomers who were sent by agencies to "give it a try".
Liang Wen said: "Don't be surprised. For many actors, having a role to play is great. Good actors with good acting skills and experience also lack roles to play. So as long as there is an opportunity, they will come and try, even if the director is a singer-songwriter who came from a talent show."
Lin Fan was helpless: "Director Liang, you are already joking."
Liang Wen patted Lin Fan on the shoulder and said, "Relax, don't put too much pressure on yourself. Everyone knows the general script of your project, and since you are so popular now, your movie won't be too bad. Of course, this is about the box office."
As for Lin Fan's acting skills and directing abilities, people still have doubts.
But what does it matter? For most actors who have not made it to the top and newcomers, it is already very rare to have a role to play. How can they be picky? Let's interview for the role first! The circuit breaker only tripped the socket. It might be the water heater at home. I will try to unplug the water heater today.
(End of this chapter)