Zhou Jingyi will have a job in Huaxia in the near future, Kevin Scott and Russell Seth, two Yankees who have no jobs recently, and it is the first time they have come to Huaxia, and they are ready to take the opportunity to have a fun in Huaxia, Mu Ying has not returned to Huaxia for a long time, and there is no job in the United States for the time being, so they are not in a hurry to return to the United States.

In addition to the concert tour in the second half of the year, the band Immortals has some work in the United States in the near future, and they are going to return to the United States. However, their schedule is not so tight, and they don't have to leave for the United States on the second day of the Golden Dragon Award ceremony, and they can still play in China for two days.

After Xiao Yao participated in the Golden Dragon Award ceremony, the focus of the next stage of work was the TV series with Yin Xi. The preliminary preparations for this TV series project have been carried out to a certain extent, and Xiao Yao has not personally participated in much work before, but as a producer and producer, he has to participate in the casting auditions for other roles in the play except for the male and female characters.

The filming location of this fashionable urban TV series was set in Shencheng, and the casting audition was also carried out in Shencheng. So after participating in the Golden Dragon Award ceremony, Xiao Yao had to fly back to Shencheng to conduct the casting audition. However, the casting audition was handed over to a casting studio in Shencheng for preliminary personnel screening, and the specific audition time was determined by Xiao Yao. This date has not yet been determined, and it is not impossible for Xiao Yao to take a two-day break.

Mu Ying, Kevin Scott, and Russell Seth don't need Xiao Yao to take care of their actions in Huaxia, Xiao Yao, the person in the band, still has to take care of it, and the people in the band don't stay for long, so after the Golden Dragon Award ceremony, Xiao Yao and Zhou Jingyi, who was waiting for the team members to the end, played with the band for two days in Yanjing, and after going to the airport to see them back to China, they left for Shencheng.

During these two days, Zhou Jingyi's private team also arrived in Huaxia and joined Zhou Jingyi. Since Zhou Jingyi is in Yenching, her team flew to Yenching from Los Angeles. Zhou Jingyi's next studio, the dance reality show of Donghai Satellite TV, they were going to Shencheng TV to discuss with the program team, so the group went to Shencheng with Xiao Yao's team and Yin Xi's studio's team.

After arriving in Shencheng, Zhou Jingyi entered the work state, and her daily itinerary was arranged by her private team. Xiao Yao also entered the working state and contacted the casting studio selected for the project and asked him to arrange the casting audition.

During the casting of the movie "Donkey Gets Water", although Xiao Yao gave some qualifications, to be honest, there were not many actors who were willing to audition at the beginning.

On the one hand, although the outside world comments say that Xiao Yao is a genius and is very good at what he does, and many people do not hesitate to tout it, but when it comes to vital interests, it is inevitable that there will still be many concerns.

It is true that Xiao Yao has done well in making short films and animated films, and has won awards, but his ability to independently direct a live-action feature film has not been proven. Being able to make a good short film and an animated film does not necessarily make a good live-action movie, and there is still a big difference between that.

If you want to talk about live-action movies, Xiao Yao already had a work released at that time. "Parkour Boy", which was released during the Spring Festival last year, had a good box office and a good reputation. Xiao Yao is undoubtedly one of the core characters of this movie, but when it comes to directing and producing ability behind the scenes, that movie doesn't seem to be enough to prove Xiao Yao's ability.

In that movie, Xiao Yao was only one of the directors. Although the theme of the movie is parkour, and Xiao Yao is one of the founders of parkour, judging from the film style and the age, experience and experience of the two directors, it is generally believed that Mu Ying, a master's student of the USC directing department, is the main among the two directors. What a feature film directed independently by a young man in his early twenties can look like, people in the industry generally still don't know what to do.

On the other hand, the producers and producers of the film are both young people film and television companies, a newly established company, and the industry does not seem to have much confidence in them, a company co-founded by several friends and looking a little fun. After the establishment of this film and television company, the first two projects announced were the two projects of the new team.

Dare to use newcomers as the production team in front of and behind the scenes, except for some independent film crews that are underfunded and really can't do it, generally no film and television company will do that. And this new company not only did it, but opened it up to two. Although many people follow the media to boast that they dare to think and do, have ideals and drive, but in their hearts, their real thoughts are: whether it is for the gimmick of confrontation between schools or to find job opportunities for classmates, opening these two projects is very unreliable behavior. Sure enough, it is a company opened by a group of second-generation stars, and it is to burn money to play.

Neither the director who is at the center of the scenes nor the company that produced the film has attracted much interest in the industry. When Xiao Yao said in the show that the heroine was Sun Tingting, a pure newcomer with no acting experience at all, everyone was even more optimistic about it. Even if it was later reported that Xiao Yao brought the famous art master Lin Jingliang into the group as the art director of the film, it did not save the impression of too many people.

Therefore, when "Donkey Gets Water" was casting, the casting studio actually received very few actors' resumes.

However, this TV series project is different this time.

First of all, the producer and producer of this TV series is still Xiao Yao's young film and television company, and this is their company's second TV series project.

In the past six months or so, the two film and television works produced by the young film and television company have been broadcast and released successively, and they have achieved good results, which can be regarded as having a certain reputation. As far as the TV drama project is concerned, the ratings of the TV drama project of the new team of young people film and television company last year are very reasonable.

A TV series project is different from a film project. Compared with film projects, TV series projects actually pay more attention to the team, that is, the production company, rather than just who the director is. Of course, even if you look at the director alone, this project is not bad. The director of the new TV series project of the young film and television company this time is not Xiao Yao, nor is he a newcomer, but a director in the industry who has a good reputation for making urban dramas.

On the whole, there are not many newcomers in the behind-the-scenes production team announced for this project, but there are many well-known staff in the industry, so it stands to reason that this TV series project should be better than the previous TV series that was all newcomers.

Secondly, all brokerage companies and entertainment companies received scripts with Xiao Yao's signature. Let's put aside the quality of the script, this is a project of Xiao Yao's young film and television company, Xiao Yao is the screenwriter, and the age of the male lead in the script is not much different from Xiao Yao's actual age. The casting company said that it was not responsible for the audition of the male and female auditions, which means that the male and female auditions are likely to have been decided. Many people can't guess who the female number one is, but they basically guess that the male number one is likely to be Xiao Yao. Even if it's not Xiao Yao, at least it's one of Zhao Rui and Lin Qisan.

With Xiao Yao's current fame, once this TV series is launched, it should be guaranteed at least in terms of ratings and topicality. Although the opportunity for a man and a woman is gone, the brokerage companies and entertainment companies are not all first-line big names, actors who play the leading roles, and if the second- and third-tier actors in the company can participate in this TV series project, then after the TV series starts, it is very likely to take this TV series to go further.

Therefore, the casting studio responsible for the early stage of the actor screening of this TV series project has received a lot of actors' resumes, and the list of candidates for Xiao Yao is far more than Xiao Yao imagined.

I was busy with movie promotion before, and then I was busy with the Golden Dragon Award ceremony. In the next two days, Xiao Yao accompanied Zhou Jingyi and the band members to play around in Yanjing, and he didn't want to get into a working state, so Xiao Yao didn't have time to see the list of candidates until he arrived in Shencheng.

As an actor, especially a star actor, even if he does not enter the crew to film, he may have other work tasks. On the producer's side, directors and producers are not available every day in the pre-production stage. The casting studio arranges the audition time and needs to take care of both aspects of the schedule.

After Xiao Yao came to Shencheng, the whole person entered the state of work, and he would not take over the work later, which means that his time was determined. The director of this drama is called Chen Jun, and in addition to caring about the formation of the behind-the-scenes personnel of the crew, he is waiting for Xiao Yao to cast together. As soon as the time on the producer's side was free, the casting studio began to contact all the agents or agencies of the candidates to communicate with them to determine the specific date and time of the audition.

There are quite a few candidates for each role, so it also takes a certain amount of time for the casting studio to arrange auditions. At the beginning, the casting studio told Xiao Yao that it would take about three days to arrange everything, and it was estimated that the audition would start in two days at the earliest.

In the past two days, Xiao Yao has not been idle. Now that he got the list of candidates and their information, Xiao Yao also took the time to learn about it in advance. Not only did he just look at their information, Xiao Yao even found out their previous performances and looked at them, and even learned about the news during the acting period.

As a result, after such an understanding, Xiao Yao found the casting studio the next day and asked it to readjust the shortlist. Because of many actors on the list, Xiao Yao felt that there was no need to audition at all.

When formulating the list of candidates for audition, the casting studio was in constant communication with the producers. Xiao Yao has not seen the list of candidates for a long time, but the director of this TV series has already seen this list. The casting studio can send this list to Xiao Yao, which basically means that this list is approved by the director.

Although the status of the director in the TV series project is not as good as that of the film director, he is also quite authoritative. Xiao Yao didn't want to undermine the director's authority at will, so before looking for the casting studio to adjust the list, Xiao Yao first contacted director Chen Jun and communicated with him before going to the casting studio to ask him to change the list of auditioning actors.

The director of this TV series is called Chen Jun, although he is not very old, less than forty years old, but he is also a well-known director in the industry. Chen Jun is the director found by the young film and television company for this TV drama project, and he does not belong to the young people's company, and he signed a contract with the company for the head of this drama. Since he was not a member of the company, but a collaborator, Xiao Yao did not call him to the company for an interview, but made an appointment with him to a café outside to communicate with him in a relatively relaxed environment.

The two met in the café, and after greeting each other, Xiao Yao quickly got to the point, and said to Chen Jun with a smile: "Director Chen, I asked you out today to discuss the audition with you." ”

"Mr. Xiao, do you have other things to do recently? There is a problem with the timing of the audition?" Chen Jun said with a smile, "Now the preparation of the crew is progressing well, and the behind-the-scenes personnel that your company is looking for are very good, I am very satisfied." So I basically don't have anything to do right now, as long as you can get the casting studio to match the audition time with your time, and I'll have no problem with it, and I can do it all on your time. ”

"I've set aside the next few months to do anything else. Xiao Yao said, "So it's not a question of audition time, it's a question of audition actors." ”

"Isn't the casting studio setting up a list of auditionees?"

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, "I received the list of auditioning actors." I took a look at it and felt that there were some people who weren't worth our time wasting on them and wanted to find a casting studio to adjust the cast list for the audition. The casting studio says you've seen the list, so I'd like to talk to you before I ask them to change the list. ”

"Okay," Chen Jun nodded, "What do you think is wrong with this list?"

"By the way," Chen Jun continued, "To be honest, I think such a list of audition actors is a bit good beyond my expectations." ”

"Unexpectedly good?" Xiao Yao looked at Chen Jun and said.

"Yes!" Chen Jun said, "You have already decided on a man and a woman, and the roles that need to be auditioned for this play can be regarded as supporting roles, so there are not many actors on the list who are first-line stars." But in terms of this shortlist, which is almost entirely supporting roles, it is probably the average list of the most well-known candidates I have seen in recent years. ”

"It turned out that the popularity was unexpected!" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "For a play, it is naturally a good thing that the actor's popularity is high, but the key is that we can't just look at the popularity of the actor, but also look at whether the actor can act!"

"Can you act?" Chen Jun said with a smile, "The people on this list should be okay, right? There are not many newcomers in it, and those who have acted before should all be able to act." ”

"Acting in the past doesn't mean that we can act, what we are looking for is acting well. Xiao Yao said.

"Whether the acting is good or not is a very subjective question. Chen Jun said, "It is normal for a character in the same play to be played well, and some people think it is bad." Even if we are all professionals in this industry, we may have different ideas. You are the producer of this project, of course you have a say in the choice of actors, but I am the director, so I also have a say. Let's not talk about the list of auditioners, I want to ask first, if we have a disagreement during the audition, how can we solve it?"