Chapter 106
In particular, after Shu Miao and Qu Shoubai's "Orange Blossom Private School" and Ji Xue and Wen Zijing's "Hometown God" were broadcast one after another, Su Ning's "Suspense Theater Club" became more and more famous, and Light and Shadow Entertainment has proven its production level.
The Haicheng circle represented by him and Shen Mingzheng has established a firm foothold in the country with their solid works.
The same thing happened with Shen Mingzheng. After the success of Imperial Hospital, several main actors from Yan Kai Studio started a special comedy variety show on Nanjiang TV station, which was a skit show. They have been actively recruiting people, hoping to have more comedians join. Jianfeng Agency also signed a lot of people.
Everyone knows that there are many opportunities there. Because they made a lot of money in the past, they are also very generous in investment projects.
The next new drama that the suspense drama club that took drugs with Orange Video plans to make is a horror thriller. The script uses a more classic battle royale mode and the title is "Survival Game".
This play was a collaboration between Su Ning and Gao Shan Films. The director is from there, and the screenwriter is from Su Ning.
Director Tong Feifan of Gaoshan Pictures has taken a break since their last collaboration and is about to start a new movie. His realistic romantic style is rarely seen in the industry, and Ye Qiuxin has never acted in a similar work, so Su Ning secured her the role as the leading actress. In exchange, the female lead in "Survival Game" was played by an actress highly recommended by Gaoshan Pictures.
Su Ning has often cooperated with that team and the relationship has always been very good, but before he only helped to train some newcomers. This is currently the highest-level resource replacement, and the person who came is Dong Siyan.
She has more than 60 million fans on Weibo. She became famous a long time ago thanks to idol dramas and has always been a hot traffic star in the circle.
Of course, even the leading actress of Gaoshan Pictures cannot avoid taking on bad films.
Dong Siyan's recent works have not received high ratings. Not only the audience, but even her fans are very dissatisfied and say that her acting skills have regressed.
Dong Siyan was very talented when she first debuted, but her acting skills, to be honest, were just mediocre at around 65 points, and sometimes she encountered some perfunctory works, and was even said by film critics to be not even up to the passing line.
She is indeed not famous for her acting skills. Among the popular actresses of the same age, her acting skills have always been criticized.
Therefore, Mr. Gao Jianfango of Gaoshan Pictures sent her to Suning. Suspense dramas require a lot of acting skills, and most importantly, this series has high attention and quality, which can save her precarious reputation.
Her appearance was not suitable for the heroine in Tong Feifan's movie, otherwise Gaoshan Pictures would not have agreed to the exchange.
Dong Siyan has experienced too many resource replacements. She has been in the industry for so many years and has acted in all kinds of dramas. It was difficult for her to adapt when she first came here.
Whatever crew she joins, whether it's a movie or a TV series, there will be more or less investment from Gaoshan Pictures, and she is basically the heroine, so it is normal for the whole crew to praise her.
But this is not the case in the group in Su Ning.
The director of this drama is from Gaoshan Pictures, his surname is Meng.
When Director Meng came, Su Ning specifically told him to control the quality of the entire work.
Director Meng is an experienced TV drama director, but because of his experience, he sometimes tends to be overly cautious.
However, the screenwriter and assistant director of the crew are from Guangying Entertainment. The screenwriter is the screenwriter of "Orange Blossom Private School" and is good at this kind of dark and strange style. He is also signed to Guangying Entertainment. His surname is Xiao, and his name is Xiao Ye. He is usually referred to as Xiao Bian in the crew.
In Su'ning's drama crew, regardless of the investors, the director, screenwriter and crew supervisor have the greatest say.
Dong Siyan is not a big shot. She has been in the industry for a long time and is not so stupid as to lose her temper for no reason and ruin her career. In any occasion with people around, she always presents herself as a friendly person. However, some of the habits she formed in the industry cannot be changed for a while.
There is usually not enough time to polish a TV series line by line, and Dong Siyan did not do it perfunctorily. She did her best. The simple literary scenes in the beginning were fine, and the director and screenwriter present did not say anything. But there were some problems with a scene with ups and downs in emotions.
The heroine is a chemistry teacher who inexplicably enters this survival game, and then witnesses a "newcomer" like her trying to break the rules and escape and die on the spot. She is horrified but forces herself to calm down, and then suppresses her emotions to understand the rules.
This is a slightly complicated inner drama.
The heroine herself has a very calm personality, but anyone would naturally feel fear in this situation.
The actors have to handle this part of the performance well, but it is complicated but not that complicated. Dong Siyan is also a professional actor and she has performed well in previous works. Theoretically, she can do this part. Otherwise, Su Ning would not have agreed to let her play the female lead after reading her resume.
But the last drama was really bad. She had just joined the crew and hadn’t adjusted yet. The first time was not good, and she tried twice more, but still not good.
For a TV series, this kind of plot is not particularly important, and performing three takes is already quite a lot, but Director Meng still felt that the mood was not right. Generally speaking, in such situations, he does not want to offend the actors, so he usually turns a blind eye and lets it go, and then picks the best one from the three.
But screenwriter Xiao is here today, as are all the people from Guangying Entertainment.
He was sitting behind the monitor, frowning. The assistant director from Light and Shadow Entertainment who was standing next to him had already sensed something was wrong and took people to talk to Dong Siyan.
The producer of this play was recruited by Su Ning from Guangying Entertainment. She used to be an acting teacher and could guide actors in acting, but actors in many previous groups did not necessarily listen to her. But it was different in Su Ning.
Then, two more takes of this clip came. Dong Siyan’s comprehension ability was not bad, and it was much better after the adjustment. The assistant director asked, “What do you think, Director Meng?”
Director Meng already feels very good.
"It's much better than before," he said, feeling relieved. "It's just that I was a little late turning here, and here, but..."
He was just about to say that this was not relevant and that the play could be adjusted in post-production editing, but then the assistant director walked over and had a brief discussion with Dong Siyan.
This means there will be another one.
Director Meng is a director who dares not to offend famous actors. He has been in the circle for a long time. Even directors with many works have to look at the faces of investors to keep their jobs.
So when he saw the assistant director of Light and Shadow Entertainment go over and naturally ask Dong Siyan to shoot again, he was somewhat frightened, so he whispered to Xiao, the editor next to him: "Is this normal?"
Writer Xiao was stunned for a moment, then asked him, "What do you mean by abnormal?"
Shouldn't we make adjustments if an actor's condition is not right when he first joins the crew? He did the same thing the last time he joined the crew.
Xiao Ye still remembers that when Qu Shoubai first joined the crew, he was very nervous and had to be adjusted many times. He also took the initiative to apologize. Qu Shoubai must have a lot of fans. This is how an actor should be, doing everything to serve the role.
The words "special care" were not on the minds of the people from Light and Shadow Entertainment when they joined the team. However, Dong Siyan's cooperation was quite good, and after adjustments were made on the spot, everything went much more smoothly.
The filming went relatively smoothly over the next few days, and everyone gradually got used to it, including Director Meng, who was a little nervous at first.
He now felt that he was beginning to look like a chief director.
Only when a director has a say can his experience have a real impact on the work and be effective.
Although this drama is about a female lead, there is a great demand for actors in the battle royale genre. Dong Siyan knows several of the supporting roles, but she has never heard of some of them. It is said that they were all recruited through public recruitment.
She generally doesn't care about supporting roles, especially those who only appear briefly in a few scenes or dozens of scenes. In general perception, supporting roles should serve the protagonist.
But these actors are different.
Even though they were not famous, they worked very hard, even more attentively than she, the leading actress. Dong Siyan even saw some small roles with only a few scenes carefully write biographies for themselves.
In a subsequent scene, she couldn't remember one or two lines of the long lines, so she asked her assistant to bring her the script. However, before the assistant came, her co-star, an unknown minor supporting actor with an ordinary-looking face, accurately recited the two lines she had missed.
In order to better understand such a long speech, the other party even memorized the lines that were not his own.
They do this because hard work really pays off in the Su'ning crew.
Many actors who sign contracts with big companies don’t have to work too hard as the companies will make arrangements for them, so they don’t have any sense of crisis. But for most ordinary actors, signing with small companies doesn’t help much and they have to rely on themselves.
If they perform well here, the casting director will note their names and recommend them to other crews of the company. It is even said that the Su Ning president will come to visit the set to select actors, because such examples have happened before.
There is even a chance to sign a contract, even if you are not young, middle-aged grassroots actors will also sign.
It is very difficult for ordinary actors to get an opportunity. If they are unlucky, they may not be able to join a group for half a year. Sometimes it is not even a question of becoming famous or not, but even having to eat is difficult.
But here, they just need to work hard to play their roles well, and they will naturally get more opportunities.
Even if Guangying Entertainment has no vacancies in its own plays, Su Ning cooperates with so many platforms, TV stations and companies. If any crew is short of people, they will share their talents and recommend each other. Not all crews hold open auditions, and sometimes it is a rare opportunity to get to know the director through an audition.
Moreover, not all those selected by Su Ning using this method are grassroots, many of them are graduates of formal professional schools, but not all of them have smooth career development. Some of them have even participated in very famous works, but they were not the eye-catching roles in them and soon faded into obscurity.
Therefore, Dong Siyan soon discovered that her acting skills here were often suppressed by these desperate and unpredictable supporting roles.
It's ok that she couldn't compare with some of the older, more experienced and well-known important supporting actors in the circle, but when she acted opposite some of the obviously younger ones whom she had never heard of, Dong Siyan clearly felt the contrast.
At first, she thought she was here to gain some reputation and didn't have any plans, but now she has to cheer up and give it her all.
Director Meng adjusted his state and soon discovered that sometimes it was not that he was dissatisfied and wanted another take, but that Dong Siyan was overwhelmed by the scenes of the supporting roles and took the initiative to ask for another take.
But that's not enough.
Having been in the industry for ten years, has Dong Siyan ever felt that her acting skills were not good enough during this period? Of course she did.
When she debuted, she was criticized by many film critics for being superficial. But now that she has made it to where she is today, she has actually realized that acting skills are really important.
There are many people who have better acting skills than her, but none of them are as popular as her, so she doesn't care much about it now.
Well, although she still gets a little angry when she is scolded, it will be fine after a while. Even if her fans sometimes get angry and say that her acting skills have not improved in ten years, she has no great motivation to change. If her heart is not on this, she will not improve naturally.
Even though she was scolded online, in real life, everyone praised her.
But not caring about acting doesn't mean she is completely numb.
The whole play was overwhelmed by the performances of some supporting roles. Even if she didn't care much about acting, it would be impossible for her to continue like this.
The contrast was so obvious that even she couldn't bear to watch it.