Chapter 1626: The Way of the Acting Academy

Li Mu plans to integrate the acting school into the project of the film and television base, and completely adopts Hollywood software, that is, all Hollywood talents and teaching models are used to train domestic actors.

When this acting school develops to a certain extent, it can copy other areas of the Hollywood film industry, such as screenwriting, directing, cinematography, editing, and so on.

However, Li Mu is not ready to complicate this school, and does not want it to assume any lofty role, so he positions it as a private training institution, and even the certificate of completion of its method does not need to be recognized by the education department, as long as the strength of the students can be recognized by the film industry.

Li Mu has always felt that whether it is Yenching Film Academy, Central Academy of Drama, or Shanghai Theater Academy, these so-called authoritative colleges in the Chinese film industry, the success rate of the actors cultivated is not high, which is not only related to the exaggerated acting industry, but also related to the entire actor training system.

Acting is a skill rather than a subject, so the most important thing for schools is to teach this set of skills to their students, and everything else is meaningless until the skills themselves are well educated.

Just like an English training institution like New Oriental, the real meaning of its existence is to let students really master the language skills of English, rather than to let students take the certificate issued by any institution.

In fact, in Li Mu's eyes, there are many actors in the Chinese film and television industry who have diplomas and no skills, just like learning English, they can easily take a sixth-level certificate, but when they see a foreigner's mouth bald, they can't speak a word of normal pronunciation, how can such a person be a good actor?

That's why he has to put skills training in the first place, even if the certificate of completion from this school is not recognized by the education department, it doesn't matter.

When Hong Kong TVB and TVB recruit new students, they only look at their external image and acting skills, so there will be Tony Leung who accompanied his friends to audition, and as a result, he was selected.

Besides, Li Mu himself has Makino Imaging as support, and he has a huge film and television base project, so the students trained by this school in the future will not have to worry about having no dramas to film.

Li Mu and Spielberg discussed it in detail, and at the beginning, the subject of acting training was set up, but it should be divided into two sets of academic systems.

A two-year school system, this set of school system is basically based on the method and rhythm of Hollywood group performance training, in two years, to cultivate ordinary actors who have passed the acting skills, but even if it is a group performance, after two years of systematic training, the acting skills are enough to pass.

There is also a four-year school system, which will carry out more in-depth acting training, so that actors can master deeper acting skills, at least they can be qualified for the main roles in general TV dramas and movies.

The four-year school system is the same as the undergraduate class of the film school, but all courses other than acting will be abandoned, so that students can devote themselves to honing their acting skills, as long as the training method is scientific and effective, four years is enough to cultivate an excellent actor.

Spielberg worked in Huaxia during this time, and also learned some things about the Huaxia film and television industry, he asked Li Mu: "How will the school recruit students at that time?" I feel that with the current national economic situation in Huaxia, it seems that there are relatively few people who can spend money to participate in a four-year training course. ”

Li Mu said: "This is natural, for many young people, they have a very urgent desire for film school, not only because the film school has a strong halo effect, but also because the film school itself is recognized by the education department of higher learning, at least you can get a bachelor's degree, let them give up this goal, directly participate in the four-year skills training, it is indeed a little difficult." ”

Speaking of this, Li Mu changed his words and said: "However, it all depends on what is on the other side of the scale, if the end of the scale only has the improvement of acting skills, and the end of the scale is four years of time, four years of tuition and giving up the degree, then I estimate that many people dare not take this step, so we can prepare with both hands." ”

"First-hand preparation, is a perfect scholarship system, we do not have a cultural class exam, only acting class, as long as the acting class can pass, we will position him as our enrollment object, at the same time, according to his performance test score, we can provide him with multiple levels of scholarship incentives, very good, the scholarship can cover all tuition and miscellaneous fees; more excellent, the scholarship waiver of most of the tuition and miscellaneous fees; not bad, exempt half or a small part of the tuition and miscellaneous fees;"

"The second-hand preparation is the pre-contract system for actors and artists, all students who have passed the acting exam can sign a contract with Makino Imaging in advance and become a signed artist of Makino Image, the brokerage contract starts from his entry into school, a total of six years, eight years, and ten years can be chosen, after signing with us, we will bear all their tuition and miscellaneous expenses, and excellent artists can even give a certain salary, so that they can get paid from the day they sign the contract. ”

After speaking, Li Mu paused, and then continued: "Except for these two people, the rest is willing to fight, if he really wants to hone his acting skills, and he doesn't need a diploma recognized by the education department, then he can come to our school." ”

"In addition, although our school cannot provide diplomas recognized by the education department, we have strong promotion resources, which means that we will have a strong star-making ability in the future, which is very attractive to many young people. ”

Spielberg nodded and said: "As long as this school can form a certain scale and steadily send one or two hundred actors with real acting skills to the Chinese film and television industry every year after a few years, then the changes to the film and television industry will be far-reaching." ”

Saying that, Spielberg gave an example: "Haven't you always been very dissatisfied with the acting skills of Huaxia group performances, I think this situation is not difficult to change." ”

"Although there are a lot of extras in Hollywood, there are generally only a few hundred to a thousand people who really often appear in film and television dramas, but these hundreds of people can be qualified for roles with certain lines and a certain degree of exposure, but on average, there are only a dozen such actors that can be used in a play. More than 20, plus everyone's style in each play is different, so these people are enough to meet the needs of Hollywood, our top priority is to cultivate a group of such actors first, the film and television industry is the same as other industries, I am most afraid that everyone will rot together, then it will be completely hopeless, but as long as one is not rotten, and it is getting better and better, others will definitely go up desperately. ”

Li Mu said very agreeably: "This is also the result I look forward to, once someone in this industry does things with heart, and more and more people begin to do things with heart, this industry will definitely get better and better." ”

Spielberg asked, "Has the project of the film and television base started now?"

Li Mu said: "We are making preparations for the start of construction, and if it is fast, it will be fully launched before the end of this year." ”

Spielberg said again: "In that case, I'm afraid it will take a long time for the school to be built, right?"

Li Mu said: "After I go back this time, I will first go to the site, and then I will come up with a set of plans as soon as possible, and the plan will be included in the first phase of the project, but before it is completed, we can rent a suitable place in Yanjing City." ”

Spielberg nodded: "I'll leave it to you." ”

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When Li Mu and Spielberg finalized the details of the acting school, there were countless topics about "Flying Tigers" on the Internet, and the on-site reporters sent by Makino Technology also began to release their own exclusive news, including news about the dog, that is, the corgi given by the queen.

Since the reporters of Makino Technology are tracking the whole process, they have detailed video materials, including a series of photos of Li Mu taking the dog to the airport, boarding, flying, and leading it to the shooting place.

The team of reporters immediately sent the photos back to the headquarters, and the editors of the headquarters immediately began to select, selecting dozens of satisfactory photos from hundreds of photos, and then began to publish these photos on Weibo one after another.

The editorial team of Makino Technology directly published the version in Chinese and English, which roughly means that Li Mu went to Yun Province today to visit the crew of "Flying Tigers", and deliberately brought the corgi given to him by the Queen of England.

With photos of Li Mu and the dog, this news quickly became popular on the Internet, and the popularity on Weibo and Titter rose very quickly, almost riding in a large number of related topics.

Just like the story of the richest man's son and his own sled dog in later generations, as long as people travel with dogs, they will definitely create hot news, although Li Mu doesn't know whether there is a behind-the-scenes driving force behind it, but it is undeniable that as an ordinary netizen, there is indeed a little extra attention to the dog raised by the richest man's son.

An ordinary sled dog can still create a hot topic, and the corgi given by the queen to Li Mu is enough to create a hot topic.

People all over the world have paid attention to Li Mu and his corgi, and in a short period of time, even the dog has a strong enough fan base.

Among them, British netizens are most interested in this Titter, thinking that the dog led by Li Mu was a gift from his own queen, and Li Mu also brought it to public events, which is enough to prove that Li Mu attaches great importance to this dog and the royal family, so this has a different kind of intimacy for British netizens.

For a while, the British royal family also became a hot topic, and people began to talk about the queen, the queen's dog, and the entire Windsor family.

The queen didn't expect to sit in Buckingham Palace, and hot news was created from southwest China, which won a lot of attention for the royal family on the Internet.