Chapter 8: The Beginning of Performing Arts
After the jade shop was renovated and renovated, Chen Xiang was familiar with the original rules and regulations, and reorganized the management system, and actually used the content he learned in the business administration major of the Gold and Coin College of the Imperial University, which also seemed to be smooth, and soon the jade shop was on the right track again, and even because of the fermentation of this matter, the reputation of the jade shop increased greatly, and the new store manager was a jade master, and the story of exposing the truth of the old store manager's deception of the senior Tibetan customer Huang Dahai spread everywhere. Even some people began to take jade materials that they couldn't judge to Chen Xiang for identification.
Just as the days in this jade shop were going smoothly, something new came to Chen Xiang.
Within two days, Xu Yicheng, who was in a hurry, sent the script, the assistant agent and the teacher who taught acting skills, hoping that Chen Xiang would quickly get into the state to participate in this important film shooting plan. This acting teacher is in his forties, he is a man who is not good-looking, he looks very honest and honest, it is said that he is a senior professor at the Imperial Film Academy, and he is a person who should not be underestimated, and the class fee for a day can reach a height of 30,000 yuan, and ordinary people may not be able to make an appointment with him.
The so-called agent assistant is obviously also an experienced master, this professional woman with black-framed glasses and always a neat suit skirt, named Murong Yanzi, about twenty years old, almost from the beginning without showing a trace of Lian Hongxia to the air, making Lian Hongxia naturally become the assistant of this senior agent assistant, although nominally Lian Hongxia is the agent, and Murong Yanzi is the assistant, but the reality is completely reversed, Re-embarked on the track that Xu Yicheng needed.
This woman's essence is even admired by Chen Xiang, she is really a rare outstanding talent, and she does things neatly. He is very familiar with all the things that a film actor needs, and he is experienced and organized. to later. Although Lian Hongxia also understood this, she was helpless that the facts had already been caused. And the other party is indeed very good, and it is very worth learning from himself, so he calmly regarded this experience of making movies as an early internship for himself.
Stationed these two elites by Chen Xiang's side, it seems that Xu Yicheng is indeed betting all the treasures on Chen Xiang, and such an excellent two people must have spent a lot of money, which shows how much Xu Yicheng and his father's company hope that Chen Xiang can succeed.
Chen Xiang didn't pay attention to these things. Instead, I began to study the script intently.
The script is actually very simple, it is a very typical Bauhinia City movie routine, the male number one played by Brother Hua Long is a retired police officer, and his daughter played by Liu Yan lives with his ex-wife and the gang boss.
Later, the gang boss is killed by the newly rising black wolf, played by Wang Kun. The daughter played by Liu Yan had to return to Hua Long again, and at the same time, Hua Long's apprentice, Ah Bao, a police newcomer played by Jin Tingfeng, found himself in love with Liu Yan.
Later, the gangster played by Chen Xiang snatched Liu Yan, which angered Hua Long and Jin Tingfeng, and then Hua Long and Jin Tingfeng would kill Chen Xiang together. found that Liu Yan had gone from Chen Xiang's hands to Wang Kun's hands, so he further played the game of killing the evil dragon and snatching back the princess, and also discovered the real conspiracy of the gangster Wang Kun. It was actually a huge conspiracy that could endanger the entire city and even the whole world, and in the end, of course, it was Hua Long and Jin Tingfeng who upheld justice and saved the entire city together.
In this script, Chen Xiang does not appear in many scenes, and there are very few lines, basically less than ten sentences, and most of them are short sentences of no more than twenty words, and the most important thing is that the opportunity to appear is only seven or eight corner shots and a fight of about five minutes.
Who made Xu Yicheng's family just a third-rate film company, and the highest role that can be brought out is only worthy of playing a supporting role with Brother Hualong.
This is already a qualitative breakthrough, there is a main actor who can appear on the stage of a world-class movie, if it can be successful, it will definitely open up a new world, otherwise Xu Yicheng's family will attach so much importance to this matter.
Chen Xiang's brain is very useful now, and he barely remembered it, so he wrote down the few poor script lines and the scenes he needed to appear, and with the help of his acting teacher and agent, he carefully figured out the image of this character, and he must shoot it well this time, and leave a deep impact on the audience.
The rest of the thing, that is, as a complete newcomer to the entertainment industry, Chen Xiang needs to understand and master many rules about the entertainment industry, you must know that the entertainment industry is a very chaotic place, a world with complex rules and chaotic behavior, and it is not who can sweep everything with high force value.
Under the careful teaching of the two teachers, after a week and a half of intensive training, Chen Xiang has completely mastered his role, and at the same time, he has become familiar with the basic rules of the entertainment industry.
In terms of acting skills, Chen Xiang, as a supporting role that is almost reduced to a trick, is not a particularly difficult thing. Everything is already in place, and all that is left is the east wind.
According to the explanation of the 'senior agent assistant', the investor of this film mainly wants to praise the new actress Liu Yan who plays Hua Long's daughter, Hua Long and Jin Tingfeng are both big names who have been famous for a long time, so naturally they don't need to add any more fame. Therefore, the plot will highlight Liu Yan's role, and Chen Xiang, who will interact with the heroine, will become a character similar to Yin Zhiping who strongly attracts hatred, with his own tyranny and badness, to bring out the heroine's strong wit, and arouse the audience's pity for the heroine, so that the audience will put their hearts on the protagonist's side, and if they want to repair the bad guys, they must protect the poor heroine with more love.
is actually such a plot, Chen Xiang is also a little helpless, but as the first movie he filmed, Chen Xiang did not have the idea that the world should be centered on me, and accepted this not very good arrangement very calmly.
When everything was ready, everyone was ready to pack up and set off.
This is a movie in the international metropolis Bauhinia, so when the film was decided to start filming, Xu Yicheng, Chen Xiang and his two agents took a plane together and embarked on the road to make a movie.
As far as the process of making a movie is concerned, basically every sub-shot has been set, and in the process of shooting, it is only necessary to show and record each sub-shot according to the director's will, and the rest is the post-production work and tasks. So shooting is actually a simple and complex thing to do.
The simple thing is that you basically don't need to spend a lot of brains, you just need to shoot those specified shots. The complexity is because the shooting needs to involve many openings and departments such as camera, lighting, field affairs, and personnel deployment, and if it is a big scene, I am afraid it is not much simpler than fighting a battle.
Of course, as an actor, you don't have to worry about so many problems, especially as a supporting role in a supporting role, Chen Xiang only needs to shoot a few sub-shots, so he doesn't need to keep up with the crew at the very beginning, just need to appear when he is needed.
It is for this reason that when Chen Xiang and his party appeared in Bauhinia City, about half of the movie had already been filmed.
In fact, according to Xu Yicheng's company's previous plan, the actor Wang Wolf, who originally participated in the show, will follow the team throughout the whole process and stay in the shooting team from the beginning, so as to increase the opportunity to contact with first-line superstars such as Hualong Brother and Jin Tingfeng, and establish a relationship with the key characters of the director, at least be familiar with each other, and pave more ways for the future.
I didn't expect that when Xu Yicheng took Wang Wolf to find trouble with Chen Xiang, there would be such a thing as a meat bun beating a dog, Wang Wolf refused to come back in order to pursue martial arts, but Xu Yicheng didn't expect it, and now he finally invited Chen Xiang to come, but a lot of time has passed, so he had to retreat and start to follow halfway.