Chapter 250: Unwavering
Director Zhang noticed Xia Mu's eyes, but he didn't know.
It was right that he advocated the deletion of Zhao Chenyu's scenes, but who made her too squeamish, she was injured so much after only a few days of filming, so when she went to shoot the martial arts scenes in the game in the later stage, she had to live in bed every day?
Is the drama still filmed?
It's one thing to make slow progress, the most important thing is that Director Zhang is afraid of the news that "Zhang Weiguo treats the actors harshly, and the actors rush to work with injuries", thinking that he has always had a good reputation in the industry for many years, and is loved by actors because of his humor, if the negative news comes out, then his big advantage will be gone.
When you have a good reputation, you can also use low salaries to invite actors to save some money. At least the actors can ignore the low salary for the sake of the relaxed atmosphere of the crew, but if the news of rushing to work with injuries comes out, it will be over, and the low salary or something will be unless you dream.
Besides, Zhang Weiguo is also really thinking about the plot, the setting of this second female is a bit annoying, and I always feel a little uncomfortable jumping from time to time, if it's a weak female protagonist, it doesn't matter, the existence of the second female protagonist can also arouse the male protagonist's desire to protect, but-
This drama is set by a strong woman!
Can the heroine slap the second female on the wall with a slap!
In this way, it is better to reduce her role.
Xia Mu actually agreed with his proposal because of this.
At this time, Zhao Chenyu felt a chill in his heart.
This chill started after she got the new script, although she had been mentally prepared in advance, but when she saw that the scene had been cut by nearly a half, the mood was still like falling into an ice cave.
Although Zhang Weiguo and Xia Mu looked at her with gentle expressions and some apologies at this time, this could not erase the grief and anger in Zhao Chenyu's heart.
She took a deep breath, tried to raise her smile, and said gently, "Director Zhang, screenwriter Xia, I just read the script, and I found that there are indeed a lot of deletions, I can obey any arrangements of the crew, but the role of the supporting actress has been reduced to so little, is it not a little inappropriate for the plot? Now there seems to be no drama that is a pure male and female protagonist, and sometimes the role of supporting roles cannot be ignored." ”
"We've also considered this, but for me, "The King of E-sports" is the story of two people fighting together for their dreams, there are bitter and sweet, but there are still fewer and fewer episodes like jealousy and misunderstanding, and the audience has long been tired of watching it, and they feel that it is bloody and cliché. Xia Mu said.
Since dog blood is cliché, why are you writing in it?
Now that it's already been written, why cut it now?
Speaking of which, isn't it still to pave the way for the heroine!
Zhao Chenyu's hand on her knee had quietly clenched into a fist, but her face remained unchanged:
"But after all, this is a TV series, the number of episodes is put there, will too many deletions lead to the final episodes not enough to go to the plot? Director Zhang, screenwriter Xia, Yu Gong, I also want to make our drama more perfect after it comes out, Yu Privately, I am an actor, this is my job, of course I want to make my own scenes a little more. I know my performance may not have been satisfactory for a while, but I promise to work hard in the future, can you give me another chance?"
After speaking, she looked at the two of them sincerely, with a plea in her eyes.
I have to say that her attitude made Zhang Weiguo a little moved.
In fact, it is too common to change the script and change the role after filming starts, because some problems are only discovered after filming starts, such as actors' acting skills, financial problems, personnel schedules and episode settings, etc.
But this kind of deletion of other people's scenes is really not very good, and it is quite innocent for the actors, and she did not ask loudly and angrily when she heard the news, but was very reasonable, which is not easy, and her literacy also made Zhang Weiguo look at her.
It's just that the moved face is moved, but the changes that have been made will not be easily shaken.
So Director Zhang smiled apologetically, "Chenyu, you performed very well, we also did this to make the effect of the show better after it was broadcast, and now there are actually many dramas that have abandoned the male and female protagonists, leaving only the male and female protagonists and the main line, so that after it comes out, it can still capture many audiences, as for the number of episodes, we don't need too many episodes to collect money, and it should only be a medium and long episode after it comes out." ”
"Yes, at the beginning of filming, we estimated that we would only shoot 40 episodes at most, the script is not complicated, and if it is too long, it will be grandma's footcloth. ”
Xia Mu lifted his glasses and said.
Zhao Chenyu was surprised, "No more than 40 episodes?
The investment in this drama is not small, mainly because there are game special effects in it, which is the bulk of the money.
The more you invest, the more you need to make money, otherwise it will be difficult for the investor to explain.
The current TV series are all super long, with more than 50 episodes, and some have even reached 70 or 80 episodes, but this one is no more than 40!
However, after listening to Zhao Chen's words, Zhang Weiguo and Xia Mu both laughed.
"Investors, they don't have opinions, as long as they can make money, then everything is easy to say, we have such confidence. Zhang Weiguo said.
Zhao Chenyu was unwilling in her heart, she couldn't wait to say the last sentence directly, "In the end, it's not because Jiang Xiaobai has the support of investors behind her", but reason made her extremely calm, she knew that if she said this, then the matter would really be irreparable.
So she nodded and stood up, "I understand, I'll get familiar with the new script as soon as possible." ”
"Thank you for your understanding. Director Zhang breathed a sigh of relief.
Coming out of the room, Zhao Chenyu looked at the already dark sky outside, and suddenly laughed silently.
After this day, Zhao Chenyu was in the crew as usual, she was still elegant and gentle, took her work very seriously, and was polite and gentle to the staff, and she never saw Dong Ran and Jiang Xiaobai alone.
Jiang Xiaobai felt that things were very weird, Zhao Chenyu's performance was obviously a little inconsistent with the last look at her that day, and she was a little too calm, but after observing for a while, she couldn't see Zhao Chenyu's true thoughts, and she had nothing to do except be vigilant.
Jiang Xiaobai's next scenes are mostly with the actor Bai Chen, Bai Chen can really laugh people to death at first, it's okay when filming, he will act strictly according to the script, but as long as it is between filming, his identity as the boss will quietly emerge, like a schizophrenia patient, and there are a lot of jokes for this.
But fortunately, the relatively high-intensity work finally made him normal, and he himself was extremely satisfied because of this-
"I finally got rid of the shadow of the last drama, it's good to be a normal person. ”
Whenever he came up with one or two lines in the past, the people around him looked at him with that kind of mentally retarded eyes, and he couldn't stand it anymore!