Chapter 189: The selection of the male and female protagonists of "The Beginning".
Due to his father's birthday gift, a few days later, Song Yi's company also moved from the original office building in the commercial center to the office building near the lake.
Because the space is big enough and the rooms are large enough, each department also has its own independent office space, and there is no need to work together.
Not only that, but there are also various supporting facilities outside the work area.
At Song Yi's suggestion, Chen Ying added a staff canteen for dining, a rest room for coffee and chatting, a gym for sports and an indoor swimming pool, etc., for employees to use during work.
Such a treatment and working environment make the employees in the company happy.
Even with such a large amount of money, Song Yi's utilization rate of the entire office building is only one-third, and there are still many places left unused.
However, he believes that as the company grows and grows, more and more colleagues will be added in the future, and many new departments will be added until the entire office building is fully occupied.
Another point is that in terms of the ownership of the office building, Song Yi also accepted the suggestion of the company's financial director.
Public is public, private is private.
Although this is his Song Yi's private property and can be used by the company for free, financially, she still suggests that it be made in the form of a lease.
In this way, the company can use the cost of rent to reasonably offset part of the tax.
Song Yi doesn't understand finance, and he doesn't know if there is such a thing.
After listening to the financial explanation, he agreed.
Although I don't evade taxes or lose money, I don't need to pay some money, of course, I don't have to pay it, and I can use it to invest in Zhang Yitong's benefit fund and do some charity, how good.
As time goes by, the days of the Chinese New Year are getting closer and closer.
Tang Wanqing's "Unnatural Crew" filmed in Yunlan is also about to come to an end.
Director Zhou Jingyu sent back all the materials from the previous shooting, and asked Chen Ying to hand them over to the company's post-production team to start editing and producing some interesting tidbits on the shooting site.
After these tidbits were edited, they arranged for people to buy traffic from a short platform, and then began to launch, promote, start small-scale warm-up, and release news to pave the way for the start of broadcasting next year.
At the same time, because the Chinese New Year is coming, the film works of various companies and directors are being previewed one after another, and in order to compete for the annual drama, they are inextricably fought.
Song Yi also watched the excitement.
His main battlefield is now in TV series, and he has no plans to enter the movie.
After a period of rest, he began to write a new script.
There's no way, now the output of the entire company's works, he is the only one, and he can't do it if he doesn't work hard.
This time, he wrote about the Internet hit drama "The Beginning", a film that once made everyone sit on the bus, and the fear of being enveloped by the music of Canon's mobile phone and the pressure cooker.
Song Yi chose this drama for several reasons.
First, its subject matter angle is good, there are few such time-looping and brain-burning TV series in this world, which are relatively novel.
Second, if your company wants to quickly stand out in the circle, it needs a large number of high-quality works.
And this drama, its plot is compact and not procrastinating, there are only ten episodes, the filming cycle is relatively short, and the results are fast.
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Third, there are still too few artists under his company, and compared with the popular artists of other companies, the competitiveness is insufficient.
If you spend money to poach artists from other companies, not only is the cost too great, but the success rate is also low.
So instead of this, he might as well use the Internet hit drama to bring out some newcomers quickly and increase the overall strength of the company.
While Song Yi was writing the script, he was also starting to choose the role of this drama.
At present, from the establishment of the company, to now, Chen Ying has also signed some newcomers one after another.
For these newcomers, Song Yi has not met them a few times, and he doesn't know what their potential is.
So, he's going to give these newcomers a try.
If it turns out well, you can find one inside
is more suitable for newcomers to this show.
So he called Chen Ying in advance and sent her a script from "The Beginning" and asked her to give it to the newcomer.
After receiving Song Yi's call and script, Chen Ying put down what she was doing, came to the artist department as soon as possible, and told all the newcomers about it.
"I have a script here, which is the content of your audition tomorrow, take it back and prepare it well, and the boss will come to select people.
Remember, this is a great opportunity for you to make your debut.
If you perform well tomorrow and are favored by the boss, the next drama will be one of you."
Chen Ying's words made everyone instantly excited.
As a newcomer, everyone wants to get this great opportunity.
The next day, Song Yi came to the company as promised, and accompanied by Chen Ying, watched all the newcomers' auditions.
Although he didn't find the heroine he liked, he found a newcomer who satisfied him.
This is also a relatively good result.
"That's it."
Song Yi pointed at the other party, got up and said, "You can ask this newcomer to come to my office."
"Okay, Mr. Song."
After Song Yi left, Chen Yigang shouted at the boy who had just been selected, "Ning Zhiyan, come with me to the office, Mr. Song is looking for you."
"Manager Chen, I was chosen?" Ning Zhiyan asked with some surprise.
Chen Ying smiled and nodded, "Well, our next drama will be you."
In an instant, everyone else around him cast envious, jealous and hateful glances and congratulated.
"Congratulations, Ning Zhiyan."
"Thank you."
Ning Zhiyan said happily, "After work later, I will invite you all to dinner."
"Okay, come with me, don't make Mr. Song wait for a long time."
"Okay, Manager Chen."
A moment later, Ning Zhiyan followed Chen Ying to Song Yi's office with excitement.
Song Yi smiled and asked, "What's your name?"
"Ning Zhiyan."
"I called you here to tell you that I decided to let you play in my next play, do you have confidence?"
Ning Zhiyan replied, "I have faith."
"Well, from today onwards, in the preparation process before the start of filming, you should watch more film and television dramas that involve the concept of "time loop", find a feeling, and let yourself have a clear understanding."
"Okay, Mr. Song."
Ning Zhiyan responded, and then suddenly hesitated, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped.
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Song Yi asked suspiciously, "Do you have anything else to say?"
Ning Zhiyan took a deep breath and asked boldly, "Mr. Song, Manager Chen, do you have a suitable candidate for your heroine?"
"Nope."
Song Yi shook his head and smiled, "What's wrong? Do you have the right person to recommend to me?"
Ning Zhiyan said with some apprehension: "I know a girl who is only a sophomore now, she is my junior sister, she has a good grade in her major class, can you let her give it a try?"
Song Yi stared at him for a while.
Originally, he was already lucky to be selected, and he should be content.
Unexpectedly, at this time, I still have the heart to help others recommend it.
It seems that the relationship is not ordinary.
Song Yi asked curiously, "That girl, is it the girl you like?" Or a girlfriend?"
"Neither."
Ning Zhiyan denied: "I just think she is very good, so I thought about recommending it to the company."
"Do you have a picture of her?"
Song Yi smiled, "You can show me first."
"Yes." Ning Zhiyan hurriedly took out his mobile phone, flipped out the girl's photo, and then handed it to Manager Chen next to him.
Chen Ying glanced at it, and then handed it to Song
Resolute.
Song Yi looked at the girl's photo, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.
Isn't this Zhao Jinmai?
No way, it's a parallel world.
He pretended to give the phone back to the other party, and said casually, "Okay, I know, you can get out."
"Oh."
Ning Zhiyan thought that his recommendation had failed, and walked out with some pity.
He didn't lie to Song Yi, the reason why he took the risk today and helped the other party recommend it was really just for his friends and wanted to help the other party.
Because her father was hospitalized with cancer, the family is in a difficult situation, and now she needs to make money urgently.
After Ning Zhiyan went out, Song Yi said to Chen Ying, "Manager Chen, you immediately find someone to investigate this girl privately for me."
"Okay, Mr. Song."
Chen Ying didn't know why Song Yi didn't show interest directly in front of Ning Zhiyan just now, but let herself contact in private.
But as a qualified subordinate, she doesn't need to know, she just needs to do what the boss tells her.
A few days later, Chen Ying sent the other party's information to Song Yi's mobile phone.
It turned out that this girl's name was Liang Siyao, a single-parent family, and her father was currently hospitalized for cancer.
Because of financial pressure, she has applied for a leave of absence this semester and is currently looking for a job everywhere to make money.
「......」
After Song Yi watched it, he said, "You contact the other party and arrange to come to the company as soon as possible to audition."
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During this time, Liang Siyao came out of school, looked for a job to make money during the day, and took care of her sick father in the hospital at night.
The little savings of the family have almost been spent on treatment.
Otherwise, she would not have applied for a leave of absence.
After all, art school is very expensive.
But she is only a sophomore, and she is not too outstanding, and she has interviewed several more famous entertainment companies one after another, but there is no news.
Some crews recruiting actors, she also submitted resumes and tried some plays, but they were unsuccessful.
There are even some small crews, directors and screenwriters directly hint to her that as long as they can satisfy them, they can consider giving her a role.
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Just when she was at a loss, her future was bleak, and she was even a little desperate, Chen Ying found her, introduced herself, and handed her a business card, asking her if she was interested in trying her company's new play.
If so, you can call her.
At first, Liang Siyao thought that the other party was a liar.
But when she looked up the company and name on her business card on the Internet, she was a little surprised.
Not only that, but the recent hit drama "The Silent Truth" is the work of this company.
and some time ago, Teacher Tang Wanqing, who dominated the hot search headlines, and Mr. Yu Xiaojiuyu, a rookie, are also artists under this company.
"This is another village?"
With a hint of hope in disbelief, Liang Siyao dialed the other party's phone.
"Hey, hello, is it Manager Chen of Song Tang Company?"
"I am."
On the phone, Chen Ying asked, "Are you?"
Liang Siyao introduced herself when she heard this: "I am the girl you gave me a business card that day, you said that I should come over to audition, is it true?"
"Of course it's true, so you're coming?"
Liang Siyao nodded and said, "Well, I want to give it a try."
"Okay, I'll let you come over when I have a good time for the audition."
Chen Ying, who hung up the phone, immediately reported the situation to Song Yi.
Song Yi thought for a while, and just happened to have some time tomorrow morning, so he said directly, "Just let her come tomorrow morning."
"Okay, Mr. Song."
So, Chen Ying immediately called Liang Siyao again.
"Hello, Chen
Manager." Liang Siyao.
"Come here tomorrow morning." old
Ying asked, "By the way, you know the address of the company, right?" Do you need me to have someone pick you up?"
"No, no."
Liang Siyao refused: "Your business card has it written, I can come by myself."
"Alright, we'll see you tomorrow morning."
The night before, Liang Siyao took the script and practiced hard for most of the night in the ward where she was taking care of her father.
The next day, after only sleeping for 4 hours, she took a taxi to Songtang Entertainment Co., Ltd. alone.
Looking at the office building in front of her, she was a little shocked in her heart.
Coming to the front desk in the company lobby, she explained her intention.
The young lady at the front desk seemed to be waiting for her for a long time, and took her directly to Chen Ying's office.
When Chen Ying saw her, she smiled and said, "Let's go, let's go to the training room, someone is already waiting for us."
When she came to the training room, Liang Siyao saw a man who was not much older than herself sitting there.
When I walked in, it turned out to be the screenwriter Song Yi.
Could it be that the play I tried was Mr. Song Yi's new drama?
Liang Siyao's heart beat faster instantly.
You must know that the two works currently written by Mr. Song Yi are both highly praised, and they are known as the saviors of domestic bloody TV series in the future.
"Teacher Song, hello." Liang Siyao shouted nervously.
After Song Yi saw the real person, he looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but sigh: In this world, there are really people who look exactly the same.
"You're Liang Siyao, right? Don't be nervous, just do a good job later."
After Song Yi gave her ten minutes to prepare, she began the audition.
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Although in the process of performing, he is still a little green and not particularly good, but it gives people the same feeling as Zhao Jinmai in "The Beginning" in his previous life.
That's it.
Originally, this drama did not have very high requirements for the acting skills of young actors, and when they left, the plot was brain-burning.
As long as it's not embarrassing, perform the feeling of a college student, and don't play.
On the contrary, there are several supporting roles, and you need to find some powerful middle-aged actors.
After the audition, Liang Siyao looked at Song Yi a little nervously, waiting for his result.
Song Yi got up and said, "It's not bad, congratulations, you have become the heroine of my next drama."
"Thank you, thank you, Mr. Song." Liang Siyao couldn't believe her ears.
I really chose the heroine of Teacher Song Yi's script.
Song Yi said to Chen Ying, "Next, you communicate with her, improve the procedures and contracts, and I'll leave first."
"Okay, Mr. Song."
After Song Yi left, Liang Siyao followed Chen Ying back to her office.
Chen Ying told her about the contract.
Although she was chosen, if you want to play the heroine of Teacher Song Yi's next drama, you must sign a contract with the company and become an artist under the company.
Seeing Liang Siyao hesitate.
Chen Ying handed her the contract and said, "You can look at our contract conditions first, and then decide."
After reading it, Liang Siyao signed it without the slightest hesitation.
Now she has no choice at all, and such an opportunity must be seized.
What's more, she took a look at it, compared with the newcomer contracts signed by her senior brothers and sisters with other companies, Chen Ying's contract is much better in terms of treatment and conditions.
Chen Ying nodded with satisfaction, put away the contract, and said with a smile, "Welcome to our company."
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Pure little hands