"The user you are calling is temporarily unavailable, please dial again ......"

Shen Huan took the phone away from his ear, pressed the button hard, hung up the phone, and finally couldn't help cursing: "Niang Xipi!"

He now knows that his luck doesn't seem to be so good.

This is the sixteenth phone he dialed today, and the object on the other end of the phone is Wu Zengyi, but he has not been able to get through.

said that he would come to the actors' union today to go through the rest of the process and officially sign the contract, but Wu Zengyi suddenly evaporated from the world, Shen Huan waited in the actors' union until four o'clock in the afternoon and did not wait for her to appear, and dialed several calls in the middle, but no one answered. Shen Huan even went to check her registered residence in Liangdu, and took a taxi to go over, but no one was at home, and finally saw that it was getting dark, so she had to go back to the hotel and continue to call, but she didn't get through until now.

This is a bad sign.

"Could it be that she lost her mobile phone?......"

A voice came from the side, it was Chu Hong.

This is Shen Huan's room, she is sitting on the sofa next to her, but Qin Muyang is not there - this time he came to Liangdu, in addition to casting, he, the executive producer, also has a lot to run.

Chu Hong's face was ugly, but she still asked such a sentence by luck, just looking at her complexion, it was obvious that she didn't believe this nonsense reason.

If you lose your phone, you can always go to the actors' union, right? Now people can't find it, obviously deliberately avoiding them.

"Maybe someone cut off his beard. ”

Shen Huan's voice was a little heavy, and he said such a possibility. Chu Hong didn't show surprise when she heard this, obviously she also thought of this possibility.

As soon as Shen Huan's voice fell, the mobile phone suddenly rang.

He reflexively quickly picked up his mobile phone and looked at it, but it was not Wu Zengyi's call, but the Bu Ting from the actors' union.

After picking up the phone, there was no nonsense on the other end, and directly said the information that Shen Huan wanted to know: "Chen Zekai's crew, TV series, "A Life of Wrong Love", Wu Zengyi plays the second female. ”

Shen Huan's face sank.

Sure enough, it was cut off.

It's just that he scavenged the memories that belonged to "Shen Huan" in his mind, and he couldn't remember any famous director named Chen Zekai in this circle. If he is also a freshman director, why is Wu Zengyi willing to play a daughter there and not want to come to his crew to play a girl?

"Who is Chen Zekai?

Bu Ting said at the other end: "The price is not clear, they didn't go to the Actors' Union, they talked about it themselves, as for Chen Zekai, he just graduated from the directing department of Yenching Film Academy this year and is Chen Zishan's nephew." ”

Shen Huan's eyes were thoughtful.

Graduated from the directing department of Yenching Film Academy, this head in the film and television industry is indeed more appealing than him, a third-rate actor and a rising star in the music industry, but the most fatal thing is that this guy is Chen Zishan's nephew.

Chen Zishan, one of the top directors in the Chinese film industry, directed the highest-grossing "Under Heaven" in film history, and also won the Huabiao Award for Best Director, and his status in the film industry is quite high. With such an uncle, no wonder this Chen Zekai has just graduated and will be able to direct a TV series, and Shen Huan believes that this is just a transition, it won't take long, after he accumulates a little experience, I'm afraid he will direct a movie soon.

Entering the crew of such a promising prince does look much more promising than entering Shen Huan's crew, even if she is only a second female there.

"Thanks, Brother Bu, I'll invite you to dinner tomorrow. ”

"Hey, it's just a gesture......"

After hanging up the phone, Shen Huan narrated the situation to Chu Hong, and then fell silent.

He didn't settle down immediately yesterday, and he still had a fluke idea of "maybe there may be better ones in the future", Wu Zengyi seems to be the same, facing multiple crews at the same time, choosing the best. There's nothing to say about this, it's just that he's still slow to do it.

"This person is so unkind, it doesn't matter if you don't make an appointment, Producer Shen, you have made an appointment with her, she can still go back on her word, it's really a bad character!"

Shen Huan was silent, but Chu Hong was indignant.

She is also very satisfied with Wu Zengyi, judging from their existing conditions, this is already a pretty good choice, and the result is empty joy.

What I'm afraid of is not that there is no hope at the beginning, but that after giving them a hope, I extinguished this hope, which is uncomfortable, and it is no wonder that Chu Hong is so annoyed.

Shen Huan waved his hand, "It's just a verbal agreement, and it has no legal effect." Forget it, there's no point in talking about that now, let's discuss how to proceed next......"

……

Although the selected heroine suddenly flew, Shen Huan's workflow had already been set, so they could only temporarily follow the workflow and select some other roles first, such as Hua Ze as the second male, male supporting Simon, Misaku, etc.

Well, that's right, the TV series that Shen Huan finally chose to shoot was "Meteor Garden".

The reason why he finally decided to shoot this TV series actually has something to do with Lin Hexi: that night, in order to fool Lin Hexi into changing his appearance, he casually said that this was preparing for the TV series he was about to shoot about a sparrow turning into a phoenix. Although it was just nonsense at the time, the more Shen Huan thought about it afterwards, the more reliable he felt.

What he is most worried about is that he is a director for the first time, and his lack of experience is not enough to control the crew and shoot the effect he wants, so he will retreat from movies to shoot TV series, but TV series are not difficult at all. Some well-made TV series in another world will not be much worse than movies in terms of shooting difficulty, especially some well-made American dramas, which are comparable to some excellent movies in terms of picture effects.

So even if you are filming a TV series, it is best to choose one with low shooting difficulty, and "Meteor Garden" just meets this condition.

As the originator of the Taiwan puppet genre, the drama "Meteor Garden" is the research goal of many people in the industry, and Shen Huan, a guy who is unwilling to accept the status quo and keeps learning, has naturally studied it many times and is familiar with it.

"Meteor Garden" has created a new drama mode, which is the fundamental factor of its success, but in terms of shooting techniques, lens use, actor scheduling, etc., "Meteor Garden" is really very rough and simple.

This is a shortcoming, but in Shen Huan's opinion, it is an advantage - simple, low threshold, just suitable for a novice like him to operate.

In addition, the investment in "Meteor Garden" is not high, which is important.

Shen Huan remembered that the original investment in "Meteor Garden" was about NT$23 million, which was about NT$5 million when converted into RMB. This was a very poor crew in Taiwan at that time, and the costumes of F4 were all bought by the producers with them in the clothing wholesale market.

Combined with the economic environment and labor salary in Taiwan at that time, which was much higher than that of the mainland in the same period, it was almost possible to convert to the current mainland of the world, about 3 million - for this reason, Shen Huan also specially calculated the price conversion based on his own memory, and only then came to this conclusion roughly.

3 million, although Shen Huan didn't have so much money for a while, but with the arrival of the follow-up income from album sales, it was enough to pay.

There are two more issues to consider, the first is the possibility of success.

The huge success of "Meteor Garden" is inseparable from the times. If you put "Meteor Garden" in another world in 2018, the possibility of failure is very high, but fortunately, it is now 2005, and in terms of the background and social environment of the times, there are not many change factors, and the possibility of success is still relatively large.

The second is the broadcast conditions.

Shen Huan remembers very clearly that when "Meteor Garden" was introduced to the mainland, it directly attracted a **** ban on screening after a few episodes. But fortunately, the cultural environment of this world is much more relaxed, and even the film classification system has come out, and the **** of this world is obviously very different from another world.

Shen Huan was still afraid of not being safe, so he investigated a large number of data cases in detail, and found that China in this world does have a relaxed cultural environment, and there are a large number of works that deviate from the core values of socialism and are more crooked, none of which have been banned, and "Meteor Garden" is naturally even more afraid.

After thinking everything through, he finally decided to shoot this work, which is why he attaches so much importance to the heroine.

In "Meteor Garden", the other characters have very single personalities, and the acting requirements are relatively simple, only the heroine Shancai has a large number of emotional twists and changes in it, which is the number one position in the real sense. If you want to shoot well, the heroine needs a certain amount of acting skills, and it is not just a vase to come.

didn't expect that the teacher was unfavorable, and the heroine was selected first.

But fortunately, the casting process for the other characters is quite smooth, and the members of F3 have been put in place, all of them are tall and handsome guys, and the acting skills can only be said to be so-so, but it is enough. As for the other supporting actors, the implementation went even more smoothly.

The casting work was generally smooth, and the preparation of the crew was smoother.

According to the requirements, salaries and other conditions formulated by Shen Huan and Qin Muyang, each trade union has given corresponding suitable candidates, because there are only technical requirements, so the candidates for each group were quickly finalized one by one, but it took less than ten days, and the entire crew was basically completed.

But at this time, the question of the choice of the heroine was put in front of them again.