Chapter 65: Circles
Chapter 65
The next day, Lao Jia took the crew to Fenyang to shoot his first movie "Xiao Wu".
The crew Lao Jia has already been found, except for Yu Liwei, who came from Xiangjiang, the others are basically from Nortel, and he has cooperated with Lao Jia in the short film "Little Mountain Goes Home", Zhou Bai is not worried about his control over the crew.
People have a lot of beautiful reveries in this era, thinking that the film director is the boss of the crew, and the director has the final say on everything, but this impression is actually caused by a lack of in-depth understanding of the industry.
For the film and television industry of the Celestial Empire, the director in this era certainly has a lot of power in the crew, but it is not as people imagine, they can control everything casually, and the right to speak has always been based on strength, not just position.
For example, directors in this era, although the influence of capital is not large, if you think that everything is up to you, then you are a little naïve.
Film is expensive, the status of the photographer is sometimes higher than that of the director, many directors can be bullied by the photographer to death, the big crew is a small society, and it is a dream to carry it if you have no experience and no ability.
In fact, because film is very expensive, the requirements for craftsmanship have become very high, take the actor as an example, your performance does not meet the director's requirements, and your acting skills are not up to par, resulting in a lot of NG times, and no one will look for you next time.
Lao Jia cooperates with fellow brothers, and everyone has been together for a long time, and if he can't pee into a pot, he won't cooperate, so he doesn't have any problems controlling the crew.
It can only be said that in this era, the creative environment and capital itself have determined that the entire crew can only work together and do a good job of the movie wholeheartedly.
In this way, you will have something to eat, everyone is based on word of mouth, the circle is so small, you can't get mixed up if something happens.
Because the market is small, it is not easy to eat in this industry, and if you are not careful, you may lose your job, so there are not many people who die.
How big the market is in the future, Guanghengdian doesn't know how many crews are working at the same time, this crew can't go to the next crew, and there are more people, there are all kinds of bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods, but it is much more complicated than now.
In later generations, under the influence of big capital, everyone felt that the director was more like a chef who cooked in a restaurant, directing a group of people to make a dish, and the management was the owner of the restaurant.
Another advantage of business development is that the market will force the industry to reform, often tens of millions of funds, one person has the final say, basically gone, everything to the market first, clear rights and responsibilities are easy to do.
It's right that the boss is a different chef, but that may also make the restaurant go out of business, except for a group of local tyrants and nouveau riche who really don't care about it in the past few years, but after market screening, a large number of such people have been eliminated.
Businessmen are basically the most flexible people in the world, as long as you have real skills and can bring him profits, I can't wait to treat you as a grandfather.
And a movie sometimes involves the production company, distribution company, artist management company, etc., and it is necessary to have full responsibility, which is the result of multiple wrestling.
Of course, the entry of capital into the market must be mixed, some people blame the capital for the decline in the quality of movies, the shoddy production has become more, the actors do not watch the acting skills, the script is changed indiscriminately, the drama has become a trend, the sky-high salary, all kinds of unspoken rules are secretly in the dark, and the atmosphere of messing around is endless.
In addition to the back two, the front is indeed brought by capital, but there are such things as unspoken rules and messing around, and many strange things that you can't imagine actually happened in this seemingly simple era.
It's just that because the media is not so developed, many of them are just circulated among a limited number of people in the circle.
The entertainment industry is originally a flashy circle, with the entry of capital, media attention, and the various influences brought about by the impetuous industry style, this circle has left a lot of bad impressions on everyone, but this is actually a manifestation of the market beginning to mature.
Lao Jia drank a lot of wine that night, and talked with Zhou Tiantian's Hu Kan, Yu Liwei and Wang Hongwei and Gu Zheng, and the five big men drank one cup after another.
Although Lao Jia was very angry when he talked about the movie environment, it was one of the manifestations of his true love for movies, and movies were his beliefs.
Zhou Bai could see that he was actually very excited in his heart, presumably this time he pulled the crew to Fenyang, and he would turn this excitement into work motivation and toss hard.
Although the shooting time will be longer, this kind of tossing makes Jia Zhangke very enjoyable, in one sentence to describe it as pain and happiness.
Lao Jia's movie will make him truly famous in the film industry, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as being born out of nowhere, becoming one of the representatives of the sixth generation of directors.
A few days later, Zhou Bai also won the award, but this award made him cry and laugh, and it had nothing to do with the movie.
The award Zhou Bai got was called the Sports Fashion Award for the Eight Art School Basketball Competition, and when he won the award, he was awarded a trophy and a certificate of merit, he couldn't figure out how he won the award, a broken trophy for a few yuan, and an ugly certificate of award, which made him not excited at all.
Liu Ye won the award for the best player, which is what people call MVP, this product was so happy that he smirked for a long time, which made Zhou Bai roll his eyes, is he so excited about a broken award?
After the basketball game, the Chinese opera won the championship, mainly because Liu Ye and Zhou Bai couldn't find an opponent in the eight major art schools and swept all the way to win the championship.
The circle is a very magical thing, it is a circulating thing, one person in the circle knows another person, and another group of people will know each other, for example, Zhou Bai is very magical to know the "factory flower" Chen Kun.
To be sure, I met many people in Nortel's 96th level, which is mainly due to Huang Xiaoming, who occasionally asked Huang Xiaoming to play basketball after the ball game, and got acquainted with Huang Xiaoming after coming and going, and then met the factory flower incidentally.
As we all know, there are two star classes in the 96th class, one is the Chinese Opera 96 performance class, and the other is the Nortel 96 performance class, and the most famous in the Nortel 96 performance class is the "Nortel Three Musketeers", which is Zhao Wei, Huang Xiaoming, and Chen Kun, who were later famous in the entertainment industry.
Chen Kun and Huang Xiaoming are iron buddies, he is more delicate and sensitive, he didn't play basketball originally, but because Huang Xiaoming sometimes pulled him over, and then Zhou Bai met Chen Kun.
Speaking of acting, it seems that Chen Kun is of course better than Huang Xiaoming in people's impressions, in fact, this is related to his acting habits, he is more cautious, rarely takes bad movies, and his performance requirements are not low, so he has become the acting school in everyone's minds.
But in fact, if you talk about it carefully, there is really no difference between Chen Kun and Huang Xiaoming in terms of honor, mainly because his acting path is not too wide, and he often plays between 80 and 75 points, but there is no role that has played 95 points, if it is evaluated, he is acting well.
This seems like a scary thing, doesn't it?
But looking at Chen Kun's honors, Huabiao Outstanding Actor, Hundred Flowers Best Actor is okay, and the most popular actor among college students is also an okay honor, but what is the Golden Phoenix Award of the Celestial Performing Arts Society and the Best Actor Award of the Magic Film Critics Association These are awards that have no influence.
The honor of the leader includes the Golden Rooster Best Actor, the Best Actor of Hundred Flowers, the Outstanding Actor of Huabiao, and the Best Actor of Changying.
In fact, to put it bluntly, it is a matter of image management, and there are not many honors in the factory, but everyone's impression is that his acting skills are better than those of the leader, and it can only be said that the leader has enough talent in acting, but the focus is really not on this.
After May, Lao Jia is still patting day and night, more than a month, and now it is only the end, it is estimated that he will have to wait for a while after the toss, of course, Zhou Bai knows that it is actually because the funds are almost used, and Lao Jia has no choice.
Zhao Wei got the permission of their homeroom teacher and took a play, I heard that it would be filmed during the summer vacation, Huang Xiaoming couldn't help but be envious and helpless when he said it, Zhou Bai didn't know how to comfort him, the goddess was getting farther and farther away from him, which was indeed a blow.
Zhou Bai also knew about this, Zhao Wei had talked to him, Zhao Wei who received this drama was completely different from Zhao Wei who did not receive this play, and now the sect leader still has a chance, but when this drama comes out, the sect leader will be completely hopeless.
The main reason is that the influence of this drama is too great, although this is now only known to him.
This TV series is a cooperation between Wanwan and Mango Channel, Grandma Qiong Yao is the screenwriter, and the filming budget is only 1.5 million, but its influence and profits created cannot be accurately described as exploding.
That's right, it is the "Huanzhu Gege" that can be said to have turned the entire entertainment industry around.
By the way, Zhao Wei received the role of Ziwei, can you imagine what she looks like as Ziwei?
Anyway, Zhou Bai couldn't imagine that a good court drama might have become a supernatural drama, mainly because it was too terrifying.
However, after Zhou Bai's various bloody things later, Zhao Wei would play Xiaoyanzi, and then this TV series also began to move towards the altar.