After his cousin returned to school, Fang Xing officially began the preparatory work for the new play.

The crew of Ark Culture is very mature, and the preliminary preparations are very smooth.

While writing the script, Fang Xing discussed the plot arrangement and shooting techniques with the company's director team.

The script is still being improved, Fang Xing first wrote out the synopsis of the character and discussed the selection with the director team.

Fang Xing's dramas have always had high requirements for the acting skills of actors.

This time was no exception.

"This new drama mainly unfolds the story from the perspective of the heroine, so there are several requirements for the casting of the heroine......"

Fang Xing began to arrange the selection of work, and the most important thing is naturally the choice of the female number one actor: "First of all, the female number one must be a big beauty, and her acting skills must be good.

"In the play, the age of the adult heroine is 36 years old, so it is best for the actor to be between 35 and 40 years old, and if the conditions are right, the age can be appropriately relaxed."

The casting director frowned and said that it was very difficult: "Director Fang, this selection requirement is not that it is difficult to find, but it is difficult to invite actors of this level." ”

"A big beauty with good acting skills, this is a scarce resource in the film and television industry.

"Basically, they are all behind-the-scenes actors, and if you want to invite them, you can't just talk about money."

Of course, Fang Xing knows this.

A beautiful woman with good acting skills, in her thirties, is basically a super first-line in the entertainment industry, and even at the after-eye level.

There are many beautiful women in the entertainment industry, but there are relatively few in their thirties, or even in their forties, who are still beautiful.

That's not the key, the key is good acting.

The requirement of good acting skills can eliminate most actresses.

The remaining actresses who meet the three conditions are all super first-line, even at the level of the queen.

For an actress of this level, it is not enough to just talk about money.

"Huh! How about Chen Yumei, who just won the Flying Eagle Award? The queen of literary films, there is absolutely no problem with acting. Zhang Yigao immediately thought of the Flying Eagle who came to the stage with Fang Xing to accept the award not long ago.

Fang Xing recalled Chen Yumei's image in his mind, as well as the film and television dramas she had acted, and finally shook his head and said: "Chen Yumei's acting skills are definitely fine, but she is not beautiful enough."

"She's beautiful, but she's not quite what I expected for the character.

"Moreover, the image does not match the identity of the character.

"The first female is a girl who has been bullied, strives to improve herself, and seeks revenge on the bully after 18 years.

"Therefore, the image of the first female should conform to the setting of being single, and Chen Yumei's image is more like a good wife and mother, which does not match the image of the character."

Zhang Yigao pondered for a moment, and then proposed: "What about Song Li?" Song Li's acting skills are no problem, she is an absolute beauty, and her temperament is also amazing. ”

Fang Xing thought for a moment, nodded in agreement: "Song Li's image is in line. ”

The casting director shook his head and reminded: "Song Li is a shareholder of Storyboard Film and Television. Her company and Storyboard Film and Television are both co-producing dramas, and they almost don't take on scenes outside.

"If it's a script she likes, she will also buy the script and shoot it with storyboard films."

Song Li is indeed no longer a small actor who makes money by taking on a large number of plays in the entertainment industry.

The drama "Bright Moon at That Time" is Song Li's Lijing culture, which was co-filmed with storyboard film and television.

Lijing Culture is the production company and investor of "Bright Moon at That Time".

Therefore, Song Li may not shoot a drama until three years, but the strength of the team is online, and every drama is an S+ hit.

One drama tops ten other actors.

"When I last won the Eagle Award, I added Song Li's contact information. I'll talk to her first and see if she's interested. You continue with the casting and get ready to schedule the cast auditions. ”

Fang Xing wasn't sure if Song Li was interested, but it was always okay to meet for a meal and chat.

Even if you can't cooperate, you can still be friends and connect with each other.

Originally, Fang Xing wanted to make an appointment for dinner, but Song Li didn't eat dinner and only ate fruit.

In the end, I had to make an appointment for afternoon tea.

……

The tea house was ordered by Song Li, a red clay tea house in the East China Sea International Financial Center.

Fang Xing is the first time to come to this red mud tea house.

In the past, when I drank tea with other people, I went to a tea restaurant, and in addition to tea, there were many pastries to eat.

This red mud tea house really only drinks tea.

Moreover, the process of cooking tea is a very tedious tea art.

Of course, if you don't know the art of tea, you can ask the waiter to come.

After the waiter brought the tea set, Song Li directly asked the waiter to go down, and then cooked the tea herself.

"It's really tea." Fang Xing said with a smile.

"Or else?" Song Li smiled and continued to fiddle with the tea set.

Although Fang Xing rarely fiddles with such a cumbersome tea set, he still knows how to drink tea and will not be burned.

After tasting the second course of tea, Fang Xing took the initiative to ask, "Mr. Song, have you recently received a new script?" ”

An actress of Song Li's level, there are not ten scripts to find her, but she is not the kind of prolific actor, and TV series only shoot high-quality products.

"Not yet, how? You don't want me to play your school bullying drama, do you? When Song Li heard this, she guessed that it might be this incident.

"Interested?" Fang Xing did not deny it.

Song Li shook her head and smiled: "Director Fang, are you making a mistake?" Do you think I'm still suitable for playing a teenage girl? ”

In her habitual thinking, school bullying generally occurs in middle school.

This means that the actor has to play a middle school student.

There is nothing wrong with Song Li playing the heroine, but if she is asked to play a teenage middle school student, she will never do it.

Fang Xing smiled and explained, "It's not what you think, the age of the first female is 36 years old. ”

Song Li raised her eyebrows, showed a curious smile, and joked: "Female No. 1 36-year-old school bullying? University for the Elderly? ”

Fang Xing was also amused by her, and was about to speak.

Song Li reacted quickly, and immediately thought of another possibility: "Eh, the first female is a teacher?" Is school bullying interpreted from a teacher's perspective? ”

She frowned in thought as she spoke.

The reason why she has been able to consistently shoot high-quality TV series is not only because her team is experienced, but also because she has a good eye for herself.

She thought about it for a moment, shook her head and said, "Interpreting school bullying from a teacher's perspective is unpleasant, and it's easy to turn into preaching, and I can't think of any potential." ”

Fang Xing shook his head and smiled, took out a script printed on A4 paper, and handed it over: "It's very different from what you think, I think I'd better give you the script directly." Take a look, and if you're interested, you can talk about it again. ”

As the director and starring in the filming of "Wulin Gaiden", "Hurricane" and "Langya Bang", even if the script is very bad, at least the actors can take a serious look.

Although Song Li is not interested in the theme of campus bullying, since Fang Xing gave the script, she will still read it carefully.

It's not that she has any opinion on the subject of school bullying, she just feels that she is not suitable for this subject.

"Okay, I'll take it back and take a good look." Song Li took the script, put it aside, and continued the tea cooking process in her hand.

After a while, she added, "Are you in a hurry to reply?" ”

Fang Xing thought for a moment and replied: "I'm not in a hurry, of course, it's best to give an answer in a week, the crew has already started casting and will start auditions in two days." ”

Song Li nodded and agreed: "Yes, it's no problem for a week." ”

She is also very curious about what kind of script the director who can shoot "Wulin Gaiden" and "Hurricane" will come up with to interpret school bullying.

……

After drinking tea, Fang Xing came out of the Red Clay Tea House, found a noodle restaurant, and ate a bowl of noodles to fill his stomach.

In the tea room just now, I really only drank tea.

After eating noodles, I went back to the company to deal with the preparations for the new drama.

Qiao Yinghong took a few documents and came over to sign, and after signing them, she hesitated for a moment and said, "Boss, I received an email from the company's mailbox, I think it is necessary for you to take a look." ”

"Oh? What mail? ”

Fang Xing was a little curious, what kind of email it was, he needed to read it for himself.

The official email address of Ark Culture is managed by a special person.

E-mails are screened before being reported.

Qiao Yinghong also read this email and felt that Fang Xing should see it, so she brought it up.

Fang Xing clicked on the company's work mailbox and prepared to find the email.

Qiao Yinghong added: "I didn't send it to my work mailbox, I'll send it to you separately." ”

As she spoke, she used her mobile phone to send the email to Fang Xing's private mailbox alone.

Fang Xing clicked on the email and read it carefully.

And, the more I looked, the more surprised I became.

This email was sent by another victim of the bullying incident.

The student was a student at Baitang Township No. 1 Middle School a year ago and later transferred away.

In the reason for transferring to school, it was written that it was because of family changes, but the email said that he was bullied and couldn't bear it.

The email included a lot of photos of the student being bullied.

After Fang Xing finished reading it, he fell into deep thought.

In fact, I thought at the beginning that in addition to Zhong Keke, there might be other victims who were bullied.

It's just that the leaders of Baitang Town have dealt with it, and the bully has also been punished and transferred to another school.

This is the end of the matter.

Fang Xing looked at the time of the email, and it was sent a week after the bullying incident was exposed.

Why would it take a week to send such an email?

The answer was already in the email.

Because of the three members of the bullying group, they were transferred to the school of this unlucky high school student.

That's right, this unlucky high school student transferred to another school because he couldn't stand the bullying.

As a result, the bully was disciplined and transferred to her school.

"Boss, do you still have to take care of this matter?" Qiao Yinghong asked.

Fang Xing thought for a moment and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Qiao Yinghong thought about it for a moment and replied: "From the incident itself, Baitang Town has already dealt with it, and the matter is over.

"If you don't want to do a lot of things, you can leave it alone. Moreover, the punishment that the bully has already received should be a little more restrained, right?

"And, in fact, school bullying is inherently difficult to deal with.

"The bully himself is a minor, and it does not constitute a minor injury, it does not rise to a criminal case, and there is no other way to deal with it except for a demerit."

Fang Xing fell into deep thought, swiped through the email, and couldn't help frowning as he watched the victim's description of the process of being bullied.

Judging from the description of the victims, the three people in the bullying group are indeed quite ruthless.

It's just that the bullie's behavior did not cause minor injuries to the victim, and he was a minor, so it was useless to call the police for this kind of thing.

After Fang Xing thought about it carefully, he made a decision: "In this way, you help me find someone to investigate the three people in the bullying group, find out all the people they have bullied, and collect information first."

"As for what to do later, we will make a decision after collecting information."

"Okay, I'll arrange it." Qiao Yinghong agreed to come down, and then went out to make arrangements.

……

After arranging the follow-up of the bullying incident, Fang Xing began to concentrate on preparing for the new drama.

When the preparations were in full swing, Fang Xing received an interview from the State Administration of Radio and Television.

The establishment of a TV series project needs to be submitted to the State Administration of Radio and Television for approval, otherwise there is no way to start it.

For the approval of the project, a synopsis of the TV series must be submitted, and it is not necessary to submit the entire script.

Of course, the synopsis can't be scribbled, otherwise the final TV series will be too different from the story approved at the beginning, and in the end it won't pass the review and won't be able to be broadcast.

Fang woke up to the State Administration of Radio and Television and met the deputy director Guo Chunlei.

When "Hurricane" was approved, Fang Xing had seen this Deputy Director Guo.

At the beginning, the sensitivity of the content of "Hurricane" was impossible to shoot without the endorsement of the higher authorities.

Now, the subject matter of the new drama is also very sensitive.

"Fang Xing, the project you submitted for approval, we have seen it, the subject matter is still too sensitive, and it will not have a good impact on the image of our local town." Guo Chunlei put forward the approval opinions.

In fact.

If the State Administration of Radio and Television does not agree to the establishment of this drama, it can be rejected directly, and there is no need to talk about it.

It's just that Fang Xing has filmed "Hurricane" before, and the sensitivity of "Hurricane" is much higher than that of this new drama.

"Hurricane" can be filmed, there is no reason why this new drama can't pass the trial.

"The synopsis of the script is very clear, the background of the story is not domestic, but takes place in a small country in East Asia, how can it affect the image of a local town?" Fang Xing asked rhetorically.

"Everyone knows that you want to make this drama because of the things uploaded on the Internet, and it will definitely have an impact." Guo Chunlei still hopes to dissuade Fang Xing from filming this drama.

Later, didn't netizens praise the leaders of Baitang Town for handling it well? Netizens are very real, as long as things are handled well, ZF's image will naturally be good. At that time, Fang Xing had publicly stated that he accepted the results of Baitang Town's treatment and helped Baitang Town eliminate the negative impact.

So far, the image of Baitang Town is positive.

After a pause, Fang Xing continued: "Sometimes, a TV series like this is needed to change something, and if it can awaken the public's attention to school bullying, wouldn't it be a good thing?" Or is it something that the higher authorities are afraid of. ”

Fang Xing's attitude was very resolute, and he continued: "If the competent department really doesn't approve it, it doesn't matter, but I will still shoot the drama and seek overseas distribution, Netflix has developed rapidly in the past two years."

"Of course, I still hope that the higher authorities will be a little responsible, and last year there was a movie about school bullying.

"Since movies can, then TV series should also have a drama on the theme of school bullying."

Guo Chunlei did not give an accurate answer, but he did not directly dismiss it.

In the end, the State Administration of Radio and Television agreed to wait for the drama to be filmed before approval.

Fang Xing thought at the beginning that this drama might not pass the approval.

However, the solution has also been thought of, if the domestic approval cannot be passed, the road of overseas issuance.

(End of chapter)