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 Drama Club" became more and more famous, and Guangying Entertainment has proved 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 is true for Shen Mingzheng. After the explosion of "The Imperial Hospital", several main actors of Yan Kai Studio started a special comedy variety show on Nanjiang TV station, which is a skit show. They have been actively recruiting people, hoping to have more comedians join. Jianfeng Agency has also signed a lot of people.
Everyone knows that they have a lot of opportunities there, and because they made a lot of money before, they are very generous in investment projects.
The next new drama that the suspense drama club that is working with Orange Video is planning to make is a horror thriller. The script uses a classic battle royale mode and the title of the drama is "Survival Game".
This drama is a collaboration between Su Ning and Gaoshan Pictures. 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 who has the most important role in "Survival Game" was played by an actress strongly recommended by Gaoshan Pictures.
Su Ning often cooperates with that team and has always had a good relationship, but before he just helped to train some newcomers. This part is the highest-level resource exchange at present, 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 movies.
Dong Siyan’s recent works have not received high ratings. Not only the audience, but even her fans are very dissatisfied, saying that her acting skills have regressed.
Dong Siyan was very talented when she first debuted, but her acting skills, to be honest, were barely at the 65-point level. 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.
That's why Mr. Gao Jianfan of Gaoshan Pictures sent her to Su'ning. Many requirements of suspense dramas are very demanding on the acting skills, and the most important thing is that this series has high attention and high quality, which can save her precarious reputation.
Her appearance is not suitable for the heroine of Tong Feifan's movie, otherwise Gaoshan Pictures would not have agreed to the exchange.
Dong Siyan has experienced too many resource exchanges. She has been in the industry for so many years and has played in all kinds of dramas. It was difficult for her to adapt when she first came here.
Every crew she joins, whether it's a movie or a TV series, will have more or less investment from Gaoshan Pictures, and she is basically the leading actress, so it's normal for the entire crew to praising her.
But this is not the case in Su Ning’s group.
The director of this film is from Gaoshan Pictures, and 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 too 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 weird style. He is also signed with Guangying Entertainment. His surname is Xiao, and his name is Xiao Ye. He is generally referred to as Xiao Bian in the crew.
In the Su'ning crew, no matter who the investors are, the director, screenwriter and producer of the crew have the greatest say.
Dong Siyan is not a big shot. She has been in the circle for a long time and is not so stupid that she would lose her temper for no reason and ruin her career. In any occasion with people, she always presents herself as a friendly person, but some of the habits she formed in the circle cannot be changed for the time being.
TV dramas usually don't have time to polish each line one by one, and Dong Siyan didn't do it perfunctorily. She tried her best. Some simple literary scenes in the beginning were fine, and the director and screenwriter present didn't say anything. But a scene with ups and downs in emotions was a bit problematic.
The heroine is a chemistry teacher who inexplicably enters this survival game, and then witnesses a "newcomer" like her who tries to break the rules and escapes and dies on the spot. She is horrified but forces herself to remain calm, then suppresses her emotions and understands 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 before. In theory, 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 play was really bad. She had just joined the crew and hadn’t adjusted yet. The first time was not good, and she tried twice, but still not good.
For a TV drama, this kind of plot is not particularly important, and performing three takes is already quite a lot, but Director Meng still felt that the emotion was not right. Generally, in such situations, he would not want to offend the actors, so he would usually turn a blind eye and then choose the best one from the three.
But screenwriter Xiao is here today, and so are the people from Guangying Entertainment.
He was sitting behind the monitor and frowned. The assistant director from Guangying Entertainment who was standing on the side had sensed something was wrong and took people to talk to Dong Siyan.
The producer of this drama was recruited by Su Ning from Guangying Entertainment. She used to be an acting teacher and can guide actors in acting, but the actors in many previous groups did not necessarily listen to her. But it is different here with Su Ning.
Then, two more clips came out. 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 when I turned here. And here, but..."
He was just about to say that it didn't matter and that the scene 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 offend famous actors. He has been in the circle for a long time. Even directors with many works have to consider the investors' feelings to keep their jobs.
So when he saw the assistant director of Guangying Entertainment go over and naturally ask Dong Siyan to shoot again, he was somewhat frightened, so he whispered to Xiao Bian next to him: "Is this normal?"
Screenwriter Xiao was stunned, and then asked him: "What do you mean by abnormal?"
Shouldn't an actor make adjustments if he's not in the right state 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 even took the initiative to apologize. Qu Shoubai has a lot of fans, and this is how an actor should be, doing everything to serve the role.
When the people from Guangying Entertainment joined the team, the words "special care" were not in their minds. However, Dong Siyan's cooperation was quite good, and after they adjusted themselves on the spot, things 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.
Only now did he feel that he was acting like a chief director.
Only when a director has a say can his experience truly have an impact on the work and be effective.
Although this drama is about a female lead, there is a huge demand for actors in battle royale type dramas. Dong Siyan knew several of the supporting roles, but she had never heard of some of them. It was said that they were all recruited through open recruitment.
She generally doesn't care about supporting roles, especially those who only appear in a few scenes or dozens of scenes. In general, 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 her, the leading actress. Dong Siyan even saw some small roles who only had a few scenes carefully wrote biographies for themselves.
In a scene she was filming later, her lines were too long and she couldn't remember one or two of them at once, so she asked her assistant to bring the script over. However, before the assistant came, her co-actor, an unknown minor supporting actor with an ordinary-looking face, accurately recited the two lines she had missed.
In order to enhance his understanding of such a long dialogue, the other party even memorized the lines that were not his own.
The reason they do this is because here in the Su'ning crew, hard work really pays off.
Many actors who sign contracts with big companies do not have to put in much effort and the companies will make arrangements for them, so they do not have any sense of crisis. But for most ordinary actors, signing with small companies is of little help and they can only rely on themselves.
If they perform well here, the casting director will note down their names and recommend them to other crews in the company. It is even said that Mr. Su Ning will come to visit the set to select actors, as such examples have happened before.
There is even a chance to sign a contract with Guangying Entertainment. Even if you are not young, Guangying Entertainment will sign middle-aged grassroots actors.
It is very difficult for ordinary actors to get a chance. 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 dramas, Su Ning has cooperated with so many platforms, TV stations and companies, and if any crew is short of people, they will recommend each other. Not all crews hold open auditions, and sometimes the opportunity to meet the director through an audition is rare.
Moreover, not all those selected by Su Ning using this method are grassroots. Many of them are from formal professional schools. However, not all of them have smooth career development. Some of them have even participated in very famous works, but they did not play eye-catching roles in them and soon faded into obscurity.
As a result, Dong Siyan soon discovered that her acting skills here were often suppressed by these hardworking and unruly supporting actors.
It’s ok that she can’t compare with some of the older, more experienced and famous important supporting actors in the circle, but when Dong Siyan plays opposite some of the obviously younger ones who she has never even heard of, she clearly feels the contrast.
At first, she just wanted to build up her reputation here, and she didn't make any further plans, but now she can't help but 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 to do another take, but that Dong Siyan was overwhelmed by the performances of the supporting actors and took the initiative to ask for another take.
But that’s not enough.
Having been in the industry for ten years, did Dong Siyan feel that her acting skills were not good enough during this period? Of course she felt it.
When she debuted, she was criticized by many film critics for being superficial. But now that she has made it to this day, she has truly realized that acting skills are really important.
There are many people who have better acting skills than her, but they are not 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, she will be fine after a while. Even if her fans 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 supported her.
But not caring about acting doesn't mean she is completely numb.
The whole play was overshadowed 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 she couldn't bear to watch it.
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