Shooting commercials
Originally, Li Lai was supposed to rest for a month due to her foot injury. On the fifth day, Lan Yan told her to participate in an advertising shoot.
"Oh, Lan Yan, don't do this for me. How could I have the honor to be filming this commercial? You wouldn't agree to any harsh conditions just for me, would you?"
Li Li hugged Lan Yan like a dramatic spirit: "Be good, be obedient, even if we are poor, we must be ambitious and resolutely say no to unequal treatment."
Lan Yan sneered: "With your current worth, you are not worthy of me giving up my pride and asking for help."
"Oh, that's really too much. Back then, I was also asked to do a commercial with a bad check."
"A man of honor never brags about his past achievements. Besides, that's my marketing promotion. Who would actually give you a blank check to shoot a commercial?"
Li Li was not angry even though he was poured cold water on. He was just curious about who would ask him to shoot an advertisement.
"A car company's advertisement, which is also the sponsor of your last drama, approached me and asked about your commercial endorsement. I have a drama lined up that day, so I agreed to it on your behalf."
After hearing this, Li Li laughed at himself and said, "Oh, I'm getting better now. I can now take on commercials for car companies."
"So are you going to answer it or not? If not, I'll call them back."
"Take it, I'll process your discharge now."
With her current net worth, she can only take advertisements from car companies. Even if it means being a background board, Li Li dares to take it.
When we drove to the commercial building, the receptionist was a boy who looked like he had just graduated. He spoke and acted very energetically, which made Li Li very envious.
"Sister Li Lai, please take a seat first. The planning team is still in a meeting. The carriage should be here soon."
In front of Li Lai was a cup of sweet and greasy pearl milk tea. After a few sips, her mouth felt sticky. She remembered there was a vending machine at the corner upstairs, so she prepared to buy two bottles of mineral water.
Unexpectedly, when I opened the door, Jing Shengxi and his management team were standing outside.
Both parties inside and outside the door were stunned. No one expected to meet each other here.
"Li Li?" His agent, Zhao An, pushed up his glasses. "What are you doing here?"
Unlike the agent who asked questions despite knowing the answer, Li Li came to this house to participate in the filming of a car company's advertisement.
Li Lai imitated Zhao An, looked her up and down, staring at the Lujia bag in her hand: "Of course I'm here to work, you have something to do."
"Nothing, I'm just curious if it's really okay for you, as an artist, to drink a high-sugar, high-calorie drink when you're on camera."
Li Li said calmly, "As long as you eat in moderation, it's fine. You can't eat vegetable salad every day, or you'll be unable to walk."
This alludes to the fact that an artist under Zhao An accidentally fainted on a red carpet a few days ago, which immediately made headlines. Afterwards, she said on her Weibo that being a female artist is really hard, and in order to maintain her figure, she can only eat vegetables every day.
"However, female artists should still pay attention to their figures. The face of a 30-year-old cannot be compared with that of a 20-year-old.
Li Li chuckled and then said sarcastically, "Sorry, I've been hearing this sentence every day since I turned 30. It no longer threatens me."
Zhao An rolled his eyes in anger, and a sweet voice came from a distance.
"You are here too, Jing Shengxi."
Following the sound, I saw Hu Xuechun and two tall ladies walking towards me.
One of them said, "I was going to introduce you to each other, but I didn't expect you three to run into each other first. Let's go inside and talk."
The woman claimed to be the creative director of a car company, and the man next to her was the director of this commercial. He was dressed in light grey cotton and linen, had a string of crystals on his hand, and looked at people with a sense of alienation and disgust with his three sclera-white eyes.
"My last name is Mu, you can call me Mu Yan."
After he finished speaking, he looked at the people sitting in the room and said, "Why don't you three introduce yourselves?"
"Li Li."
"Jing Shengxi."
"Hello everyone, I'm Hu Xuechun."
"Okay, now that everyone is acquainted, let me briefly talk about the planning of our advertisement."
The director of the car company gave them a booklet. The first two pages introduced the car, and the last few pages contained the advertising plan.
The advertisement mainly highlights the car's stable driving performance and comfort in various areas.
The filming content is that the earth is invaded by alien creatures at the end of the world. In order to save the earth, the Space Administration appoints a team of newly employed male and female protagonists to deal with the monsters.
In order to chase the monster, she and the male protagonist have to drive a car across the vast plains and dangerous deserts, but under the powerful deterrence of the monster, they can only choose to drive the car and die with the monster.
Fortunately, the car performed exceptionally well and the two miraculously survived.
After reading the planning proposal, Li Li rubbed her eyebrows.
Is it okay to continue filming according to this plan? Why does she look like she is in a motorcycle commercial in the last scene?
Mu Yan replied, "Our board of directors is very satisfied with this plan. The public relations issues have been taken care of. Now I'll have to trouble you three."
"Three," Hu Xuechun flipped through the plan book, "There's only the male and female protagonists here, where does the third character come from?"
Mu Yan was surprised as he flipped through the plan: "Maybe I didn't write it clearly enough. This alien creature that invades the earth is played by one of the actors."
Eh?
Li Li felt that these words seemed to be said intentionally to her.
"The male lead will definitely be played by Jing Shengxi, a man.
With only two roles, it is impossible for Hu Xuechun to play this alien creature. According to his current status, it seems that only he is the reasonable candidate.
I naively thought that good luck had come to me and I would get an endorsement, but I never expected that I would get a human-shaped doll role.
Li Lai raised his hand: "Then I am the alien character."
Hu Xuechun said with concern: "That's not good, it's very difficult to play an alien creature. Your acting skills are good, how about I play it? Although I also want to play the heroine's role, but for the final effect of the advertisement, I can play the alien alien."
Li Li: "After all, I have won several awards, so it should be okay. But if you want to act, I will let you give it to me."
After saying that, Li Li wanted to laugh, laughing at the fact that Hu Xuechun had not won a single substantial award in all his years of debut.
Sure enough, Hu Xuechun pouted and got angry, pulling Jing Shengxi's sleeve: "Brother Jing, I didn't mean anything else."
Jing Shengxi frowned and looked at Li Li. Li Li refused to be outdone and retorted, thinking to himself, if you dare to say anything in return, I will say something about you too.
"Have you two confirmed the roles you will play?" Mu Yan interrupted the two women's bickering. In her eyes, such childish behavior of women bickering and tearing hair flowers really lowered her personality.
"You choose first," Li Lai stretched out his hand and let Hu Xuechun choose first.
"My film and television work will be released soon. For the promotion of the film and television, I will play the leading female role."
Li Lai: "I play an alien creature."
Mu Yan: "Now that the three roles have been confirmed, we will try on the clothes in a while. In the meantime, please read the commercial script carefully.
The script delivered this time was thicker than the planning document. It not only wrote the plot, but also drew the storyboard manuscript.
Li Li admired the manuscript so much that she thought he could become a cartoonist. She saw Hu Xuechun taking the script to discuss it with Jing Shengxi.
"Where are you going? We need to review the script."
"Go to the bathroom." Jing Shengxi did not forget to take the script when he left.
Li Li ignored the two people and continued reading the script. After finishing the forty-page script, Li Li no longer felt that this plan was the same as a certain motorcycle plan.
This planning proposal was written while watching the short play.
In the play, he actually looks like an alien creature, but in fact he is an alien who decides to destroy the earth because he is jealous of Jing Shengxi's love and doesn't get her love.
Hu Xuechun's character is Li Li's sister, and naturally she is also an alien. She came to Earth to prepare for the invasion of a planet, and then fell in love with Jing Shengxi and decided to fight against her own planet for Jing Shengxi.
Jing Shengxi's character design is very charming. He is an aviation bureau special police officer who has never loved anyone. He falls in love with Hu Xuechun at first sight while on duty.
Yes, it is another scene where a couple joins forces to fight against evil forces, so ordinary yet so popular.
The scene where Li Lai transforms into an alien required CG to capture her movements. At the same time, Hu Xuechun and the others had already started shooting the commercial.
Capturing movements is more painful than filming a movie. One movement needs to be performed more than ten times to find the best one.
During the break, Li Li watched the designer comparing various things on the computer and asked curiously, "What is my alien character?"
"It's a giant python."
Li Lai's system is down, which means that the planner must have seen a certain motorcycle advertisement, and in the end they drove a car and smashed their tongues.
"I know what you're thinking. To be honest, when we heard the design concept, our team mistakenly thought it was copied from a certain advertisement. Mu Yan told us that in many religious myths, pythons represent many different meanings, including tradition, fertility, blessing, and evil. In the planning, the hero and heroine didn't just smash the python; it was a new and unconventional move against traditional culture."
Li Li seemed to understand Monty Python's intention in this advertisement, saying: "Car companies need to innovate and profit, and the heroes and heroines need to break free from their constraints."
"What else?" Mu Yan walked over from the studio next door.
What else?
Li Li didn't quite understand what Mu Yan meant.
"Honestly, I wanted you to play the leading female role. This role was tailor-made for you. You could even say that I came up with this plan because of you.
The more Li Li talked, the more confused he became. He couldn't remember who he had made a promise to that he would star in the other party's commercials in the future. Besides, his current commercial value was not enough to afford to shoot commercials for car companies.
Mu Yan found the video he had saved on his phone. Li Li in the video looked obviously haggard. She dodged the camera when answering the reporter's questions. But when facing this question, there was a flame burning in her eyes.
"If you could have the chance again, would you still choose to take action? Would you regret taking action later?"
Li Lai: "Men are not born to be beaten, and women are not born to be humiliated. I can't stand seeing such a disgusting thing happening before my eyes. Choosing neutrality and silence is like being an accomplice to the criminal. No matter how many times, I will choose to do so again, because I firmly believe that the purpose of life is to do things that are just and meaningful. Besides, if you ask me if I regret it, I think you should ask that man."
Mu Yan put away his phone and said calmly, "I don't know much about you. You were just the golden supporting actress who reporters said was unlucky with the lead role. That afternoon, I was going to buy sleeping pills, but I happened to see an interview and changed my mind. I wanted to survive, and I thought if you were in the hotel, I wouldn't be bullied by that bastard."
Noticing the scar on Mu Yan's wrist, Li Li's eyes moistened, and he looked at Mu Yan's aggrieved eyes with apology: "I'm sorry, I was not in the hotel that day, and I let you get hurt. I'm sorry.
Mu Yan leaned on Li Li's shoulder: "Thank you for comforting me."
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