The title of the finals of the CCTV Young Director Competition is very interesting, and the organizer only gave two simple words - drama.

Xizi, formerly known as a professional opera actor, contains the meaning of contempt.

In ancient times, the opera belonged to one of the "lower nine streams" and had no official status.

That is to say, people in this line of work cannot participate in the imperial examination, which is the deepest pain in the heart of the opera, because even if you become famous and become a corner, you have no social status, you are abandoned, and you have no umbrella, you live a flattering life, and you are worried every day.

Nowadays, the status of opera actors has been greatly improved, and the word "opera" is no longer often mentioned, but replaced by the word "artist".

Of course, artists do not only refer to opera actors, but to all cultural and artistic workers.

However, the status of these "cultural and art workers" is not the ninth rate, and some of them have been raised to a pathological level, and even have another name, that is, "stars".

Qin Yan was like this in his previous life, and so is the world today.

This time, CCTV took the word "drama" as the title of the competition, and Qin Yan didn't know what it meant.

He thinks that this may be a reminder to the majority of artists not to forget their original intentions, and not to forget their social responsibilities while their status and income have increased significantly, or it may be to promote the quintessential opera of Xia Kingdom, or it may have other meanings.

For this kind of open-ended topic, everyone's examination question is different and the same is the same, and the angle of solving the problem is naturally different.

Qin Yan frowned and thought about it seriously.

If you want to win the final victory of the competition, the angle of solving the problem must be novel, profound, and have profound meaning.

He searched the Internet and found that Mu Jie's movie had been established, and the name was "Inheritance".

Looking at the name, Qin Yan guessed that it should be a positive energy film that composes the difficulty of inheriting opera and promotes traditional culture.

Although this question is not new, it is decent, and at least there will be no political mistakes.

And if the script is exciting enough and the actors are strong enough, the script is still easy to shine out.

Qin Yan looked at the name of the screenwriter again, and found that it was Liu Yuan, the deputy director of Shengtian's second screenwriting department, this is a veteran screenwriter of Shengtian, even when Qin Yan was still in Shengtian, his status was not as good as the other party.

And the actor column surprised Qin Yan even more.

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Even if Lin Yifan's first-line traffic is muddled, he shouldn't participate in an online short story that can't be on the big screen!

And what the hell is Xiao Muyu?

How did she come to join in the fun?

With Zhang Lan's shrewd character, he said that Xiao Muyu should not be allowed to participate in this kind of "three-five film" to lower his value.

In addition to Lin Yifan and Xiao Muyu, Qin Yan also saw several third-tier artists of Shengtian Entertainment in the cast.

With this kind of actor specification, it is more than enough to shoot a big production with tens of millions of investment, but now it is used to shoot a short film.

Wipe!

Isn't this a knife for killing chickens!

He couldn't figure out whether Shengtian's move was to praise Mu Jie, a rookie director, or to be able to pull himself down in the game.

"Interesting, it looks like I'm going to have to do my best this time!" Qin Yan touched his chin and muttered to himself.

The opponent is strong, but he is not presumptuous.

Compared with the script, he is not afraid of Liu Yuan.

Compared with directing skills, he is even less afraid of Mujie.

And backstage, although Mu Jie is standing behind the giant Shengtian Entertainment, he is not alone, and he also has his own network resources.

Qin Yan, who was full of fighting spirit, immediately returned to the study, and after thinking about it seriously, he began to write the script for the battle.

This time, he was ready to go off the rails.

Since Mu Jie used the theme of "promoting traditional culture", he used the perspective of "career and responsibility" to solve the problem!

And the earth in the previous life happened to have such a story, and this story also has a very good song!

Pulling the keyboard, Qin Yan began to write the script:

In the 26th year of the Republic of China, with the sound of a gun from the Japanese army, the Xia State fell into dire straits.

Anyuan County was surrounded by regiments, and the commander of the Japanese army came to the most lively theater in the Xia Kingdom......

Qin Yan wrote for three hours in one go, and finally finished writing the entire script.

Once you have the script, it's time to assemble the crew and find the actors.

The organizational structure of Magic Shadow Entertainment has become more and more perfect, and with the addition of various talents, it is naturally not difficult to form a small crew.

But it is not so easy to find actors who are suitable for filming this drama.

First of all, the actors Qin Yan needs must be able to know opera, and they are about forty years old.

Then, except for the people who played the Japanese army, the other actors almost all knew some opera performance skills.

Qin Yan didn't have time to find someone to train actors in professional opera for a short movie, so he could only find professional talents.

And that's when his connections come into play.

Picking up his mobile phone, Qin Yan dialed the phone number of Xu Changyou, vice president of Yenching Film Academy.

This is the teacher of Qin Yan's screenwriting class when he was in school, and the relationship between the two is quite good, and half of Qin Yan's skills are learned from him.

"Teacher Xu, I'm Qin Yan, I want you to do me a favor with something."

"You stinky boy, if you don't need me, you won't call me?" Xu Changyou scolded with a smile.

Qin Yan was a little embarrassed, and said, "Hehe, I've been a little busy lately, and I'll come to make amends to you when I'm free another day." ”

"It's pretty much the same, let's say, you came to me because of some difficulty, I don't usually see you kid looking for someone to help." Xu Changyou said.

Qin Yan directly said his request, while Xu Changyou easily solved his problem.

"There are a lot of actors who can play in our film academy, if you don't ask for it to be an insider, then it's better to let Mr. Wang Donglin from the Academy of Drama go over, as for other small roles, I think I can simply give Mr. Wang Donglin's students in the class, this is also a fertile water that does not flow into the fields of outsiders, giving your younger brothers and sisters a chance to practice." Do you think this will work? Xu Changyou said.

Qin Yan nodded excitedly, this is too good!

He knows Mr. Wang Donglin's strength, this is definitely not worse than a professional actor, if the other party can come over to play the leading role, it would be the best.

Although Mr. Wang Donglin is not a star, Qin Yan doesn't care about this at all.

And Mr. Wang Donglin is a junior, and those students have no problem playing supporting roles in a short story, anyway, most of them are group dramas, and there are few individual shots.

"Thank you Mr. Xu, Mr. Wang Donglin is definitely okay! I'll have to give you two bottles of good wine another day. But for this salary, how much do you think I should give? Qin Yan asked his last question.

Since it was the person who Vice President Xu helped find, Qin Yan must not let everyone suffer, and Xu Changyou, who was also provincial, was in a dilemma in the middle.

Who knows, Xu Changyou said: "What kind of money to give, you can give the school a free social practice opportunity, it's too late for everyone to thank you." Besides, you are also a person from our film academy, if he Wang Donglai is embarrassed to accept your money, see me come back and not smoke him! Okay, I'll hang up first. ”

Xu Changyou hung up the phone after speaking, but Qin Yan couldn't cry or laugh.

Although Xu Changyou said so, he couldn't help but give this money.

But since Xu Changyou has something to say, it will definitely not work according to the standards of the entertainment industry, fortunately, it will be given according to the level of normal practical activities in the school, anyway, his movie is not used to make a profit.

In the afternoon, Qin Yan found Zhang San, who had cooperated with him at the beginning, and it must be no problem to hand over the problem of group performance to this "Hengdian group leader".

And some costumes and other props, Zhang San also has his own channels to find.

After two days of these preparations, the film can start shooting.