Chapter 40: Participating in the Beijing Film School Exam
Everyone was a little surprised, including Li Jingkun himself.
But it's a bit normal to think about it, after all, his current reputation is okay. And most of the audience is junior and senior high school students; The first two books may have more male readers. However, when it comes to "Heartless Mage", the ratio of male and female readers may be about the same.
As for why I didn't want to expose my identity as a writer in high school, it was because it was useless, so I could only pretend to be forced. And now take the initiative to introduce, of course, for extra points! In order to get more chips!
More than 1,000 people chose more than a dozen, and he was not sure of victory, so he could only take out everything he could.
"What? Have any of you read his novels? ”
The three examiners noticed something unusual, and the one in the middle asked, and his examiner's name tag read "Su Zhijun".
Yang Hailong is also a little curious, in fact, he doesn't read youth books, he feels that it is not nutritious, it is better to read famous books. So he hadn't heard of it.
But someone has read Li Jingkun's novel? Is he famous?
"Actually......" a boy said, "Actually, I'm a fan of him, I've been a fan of his books since "Qingming Phantom River", his novels are quite popular, and the two volumes of "Qingming Phantom River" have sold at least 600,000 copies. The last book, "Heartless Mage", has sold at least 300,000 copies. ”
Everyone was a little shocked, this is nearly a million copies sold, it should be considered a very famous author, right?
Li Jingkun was quite surprised and surprised, but he didn't expect that there were his own readers in it. And they can really be regarded as fans, otherwise it is impossible to specifically understand these.
So he also looked at the boy, well, it should be the first time to take the school exam, right? About his age.
"What did you say was the name of your novel? I'll look for it and take a look. ”
Su Zhijun spoke, and really took the pen and prepared to write down the title of the book. Therefore, Li Jingkun said the title of the book again.
But since you are all famous writers, why do you still apply for the directing department?
One of the examiners asked the question again. But in fact, Li Jingkun has just answered: he also likes language audio-visual art, likes to use images to express emotions and tell stories, and has already made two short films.
"You made two short films when you were in high school?"
"It's amazing, that's really versatile."
"Did you bring any of your works?"
There are really a lot of accidents today, and several examiners are very interested. However, there are a lot of people who bring their own works every year, but it is really rare to start preparing in high school. And also a juvenile writer.
Of course, the works have been brought.
What is an interview? The interview is all about meeting you as a person and getting to know you as a person.
Now that you have a work, of course it is one of your qualifications, and it is a very important qualification, so of course you have to understand.
Therefore, Li Jingkun directly took out three USB flash drives and gave one to each of them to the examiner.
"Not so much, right? One will do. Su Zhijun said.
"It's okay, I've prepared a dozen USB flash drives." Li Jingkun said.
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Everyone was a little speechless, but they also understood his determination.
The other candidates were a little uncomfortable, because in comparison, it seemed that Li Jingkun was much better than them······
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Li Jingkun was a little surprise in this group, so he chatted a few more words. However, there are actually many people who dare to apply for the directing department. There are actually quite a few powerful people.
Yang Hailong has passed the school exam before, and his professional skills are better than most people.
So they were a group of six people, and finally passed two people: Li Jingkun and Yang Hailong.
Out of the examination room, Li Jingkun naturally chatted with his fans. The other party still can't believe that he is "King Li Tang".
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Those who failed the re-examination could only pack up and go home, while Li Jingkun continued to live in Kyoto.
If you can pass them all, you'll have to stay here for at least six or seven days.
The third test is the appreciation of art works, music works and story conception.
Because of the gold finger by his side, the latter two can be said to be his strengths, and the appreciation of art works can also be a test of your feelings, it can be said that there is no standard answer, in short, the three tests have been successfully passed.
The four tests are proposition creation, creative problem discussion and performance.
The difficulty here for him is acting. Because it's a bit uncontrollable, because you need to work with other people.
In groups of 8 to 10 people, each group has a theme, and then create a skit and go up together to perform.
Truth be told, almost none of the shows are good.
However, the examiners obviously don't want them to perform well, but the most important thing is to observe everyone's ideation, communication and collaboration skills. In addition, there is also a ability to resist pressure (each group is led by a teacher when creating a show, which is actually a kind of exam, and the teacher is already secretly observing everyone).
After all, the director belongs to the leader of a crew, so many people need him to make decisions every day, and there are often unexpected situations for him to solve, so it is a special test of a person's heart.
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A few days later, the school examination for the directing department ended, and the teachers also put down a task.
However, for these students who have passed the school exam, they will still exchange a few words from time to time.
"That Yang Hailong is here for the third time, right?"
"yes, it's been two years."
"I remember he's okay, didn't he last time?"
"It seems that the college entrance examination score line has not passed, right?"
"Then I have to go back and review it well this time, I've been repeating it for so many years."
Although there are many students who have been interviewed, after so many days of face-to-face communication, many of them must have been familiar with it for a long time, not to mention Yang Hailong, who has come two or three times.
"Li Jingkun is not a bad kid, his basic skills are okay, I think he is very malleable." Su Zhijun likes Li Jingkun more, including his conversation, image and performance in the past few days.
"It's okay, the overall ability is good." Another teacher also said that he happened to be in charge of Li Jingkun's group of exhibition matches. "The brain is very fast, and there is a lot of personal thinking. Storytelling skills are also good, so they can be recognized by others. ”
Su Zhijun nodded: "The acting ability is also okay." ”
"I heard it's a teenage writer?"
"Yes, last time I went to check the Internet, there are his personal entries on the Internet - but it is written under his pen name, and his works have sold more than a million copies."
"Really? Is this kid so good? That should be a bit famous, right? Why didn't you hear about it from the media when you came to our school for the exam? ”
“…… How many people can pay attention to the school examination of the directing department? ”
"That's right, everyone only cares about the acting department."
"But the most important thing is his two short films, both of which are well shot, have you seen them?"
"I've seen it, the quality is okay, and the story is told completely."
"There are some basic skills, and the short film is very good."
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"So you...... It's all over once? ”
The school examination is over, and more than 1,000 people have passed the school examination, and finally about 20 of them passed the four exams.
Yang Hailong has passed, and Li Jingkun is also one of them.
It's not that no one can pass it all at once, but Yang Hailong himself has taken the exam three times, so it is still a little uncomfortable to see others pass it all at once.
"There is still a college entrance examination ahead, and we can't let our guard down yet." Li Jingkun said.
Yang Hailong also passed the school exam, after all, he also passed it once before, and his comprehensive ability was still good, but he was brushed off after failing to do well in the college entrance examination.
Generally, the score line of the directing department is about 70% of the first-line grades. The cut-off score is not too low.
"And how are your grades?" Yang Hailong said.
"Cultural achievement?" Li Jingkun said.
"Definitely."
Li Jingkun remembered that Teacher Su Zhijun also asked him this question, obviously afraid that he would not pass the college entrance examination. He said: "If you play normally, there is no problem in passing the undergraduate batch. ”
“……”
What the hell are you talking about?
Yang Hailong scolded in his heart, and decided not to tell him more.
It's important to go back and review the topic, and you can't afford to make mistakes again this time.
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After passing the school examination, Li Jingkun refocused on the college entrance examination. Then, in May, a devastating earthquake struck the Sichuan region.
Li Jingkun thought about it for a while and decided to donate a sum of money in the name of "King Li Tang".
Li Jingkun donated 200,000 yuan, which is not a lot, let's do my part. A lot of things really can't be changed by one person. Especially since he's only a high school student now.
However, every year after that, he would try to give some money to charity. In addition to some natural disasters, they may mainly do public welfare in education, such as donating to schools.
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After the school exam, you can simply sort out the things in the last six months.
In April, "Heartless Mage 2" was already on the market, with a first printing of 300,000 copies. Coupled with the money earned from the previous book, minus the 200,000 donations, and minus the money left for the renovation of the house, the net worth is now about 1.4 million.
After the song "Queen of Heaven" was performed at the New Year's Day party, of course, a video was recorded, and later I went to the recording studio to record the song and upload it to the Internet.
Maybe it's because this song is better, or maybe they already have a little fan base, so this song didn't push much money, but hundreds of comments came, and the clicks and listens exceeded 1,000 for the first time, and there were more than 3,000 hits a few months later.
And even if you don't recharge your money every week, it's slowly rising. There were also people who left messages saying that they wanted to buy songs from them at a high price, but Li Jingkun ignored them.
Of course, there are still 108,000 miles away from becoming popular and becoming Internet hits such as "Two Butterflies" and "Mice Love Rice".
The aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys.
It is difficult for regular singers to push a song, let alone a wild one like them, and they don't want to spend money.
To sum up, they have a total of three original songs: "10,000 Sorrows", "The Rest of the Summer" and "The Queen of Heaven".
Of course, there will be celebrations after the school exams. At the beginning, I wanted to say that it would be okay to invite the "Aurora Band" and Song Hairong and Zhu Miaotong and others. But as soon as Song Hairong returned to the dormitory, his roommate (who was also Li Jingkun's former roommate) would also come.
Please Zhu Miaotong, then she and Wang Yajing will definitely have to come to the same table.
So in the end it's a whole bunch of people.
It may be that everyone is familiar with it, or it may be that the atmosphere in the third year of high school is too tense, they are all playing crazy, and they even bring their own guitars to KTV to sing.