Hengdian is the largest group performance training base in China.

A group of ignorant and immature rookie actors came here under the pick-up and drop-off of a bus.

The 50 contestants of "Actors Please Be in Place" have all completed the first stage of the team assessment, and each of them has joined the team of the four mentors to start their first round of competition adventure.

is different from the talent positioning of singers, although "Actors Please Be in Place" is also a draft, but the focus is also on the word training.

The competition system of the whole show is basically half of the competition and half of the training.

In each round of competition, the mentors in the first half cultivate and teach the contestants how to be a qualified actor, and the second half is the competition elimination.

And the first round of competition, the place of cultivation and teaching, is in Hengdian.

The 50 rookie contestants, regardless of whether they have had any experience in crew filming before, now have to start from 0 and experience crew life.

The four mentors were divided into two groups, a director and an actor, each leading 25 contestants to join the two TV drama crews filmed locally in Hengdian to experience the life of group performances.

The program team is playing real this time.

At less than six o'clock in the morning, the two buses of the program team drove downstairs to the contestants' dormitory, pulled up the sleepy-eyed contestants, and went to the crew.

Since it is to experience the life of a group performance, it is necessary to experience it thoroughly.

When they were in the car, the staff of the program team also distributed a unified breakfast to these contestants in accordance with the standards of the Hengdian crew.

A steamed bun, a flower roll plus a vegetable bun and eggs, and a packet of soy milk.

This is the breakfast standard provided to the group performers by 99% of the crew in Hengdian during the morning play.

Zhao Liying and other players who started as young actors in Hengdian are no strangers to this, and even have some nostalgia, and they eat happily one by one.

But for those from the big three universities, the taste of this breakfast is not so good.

There is no meat at all, the steamed buns are pure white noodles, the flower rolls only have a little green onions, and the only stuffing is still vegetable buns.

can study in the three major acting departments, the family conditions are really good, for them, such breakfast food is tasteless, but it is not good not to eat in front of the camera, so they can only be silent one by one, and eat these breakfasts like chewing wax.

"What's wrong, isn't it delicious?" Seeing Qiao Xin, who was sitting in the same row, couldn't help but have a disgusted expression on his face, Zhao Liying asked with some confusion.

Seeing that many people turned their heads to look over, Qiao Xin had no choice but to smile stiffly and explained, "No, I'm just not too hungry." ”

"Oh." Zhao Liying nodded, she didn't think there was anything unusual, she lowered her head and continued to eliminate her breakfast.

While eating, she also said: "When I first came to Hengdian to film, the crew also sent me such breakfast every morning. ”

"Wow, I was so happy at that time, I went to work to earn money and had free breakfast, which was much better than when I was working in my hometown."

"But then I couldn't eat, so the company assigned an assistant who helped me buy breakfast every day."

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, I thought it was a waste at the time, I didn't eat the crew's free breakfast, and I had to spend my own money to buy breakfast."

"Hey, hey, now that I think about it, my thoughts at the time were really naïve."

For Zhao Liying's sudden feelings, Qiao Xin didn't understand it at all.

In her opinion, there is really no point in eating such breakfast, even if it is free, it is better to spend a few yuan to buy a bun, xiaolongbao or something.

Of course, Qiao Xin still has the most basic emotional intelligence, she lowered her head and said, "It's the first time I've eaten breakfast provided by the crew." ”

"It's a novelty."

Well, it's a novelty, but it's enough to try it once.

In the atmosphere of their talking, laughing and laughing, as if they were on an outing, two buses pulled the fifty contestants to the vicinity of the Qin Palace in Hengdian.

There is a crew called "Warring States Policy", which is filming here in the Qin Palace.

And today, their fifty newcomers are the group performers of this crew.

They will do a group performance for 9 hours in this crew, and then receive a daily salary of 80 yuan.

Before the salary of group performances in Hengdian was reformed and increased, this was the maximum salary of ordinary group performances.

However, even after the reform and salary increase, the salary of ordinary group performers in Hengdian is only 120 yuan a day.

This amount of money is not worth mentioning even for the young actors who are already in the circle among the contestants.

Although "Actors Please Be in Place" claims to be a national audition, as long as you have a dream, you can sign up.

But in reality, class barriers still exist.

The finalists who were shortlisted for the 50-person list can at least play a small supporting role in the TV series, and it is impossible to be selected for a real group performance.

Not to mention the question of whether the acting skills are good or not, in terms of appearance, the gap between ordinary group performances and carefully selected actor seedlings is also a bit high.

A really handsome group performance, at least you can do a special group performance, you can earn a few hundred yuan a day, if you are with a group, you can earn 30,000 or 40,000 yuan with a crew for a month or two.

Well, it can also be seen how well the film and television industry has developed in the past ten years, and how crazy the salary has risen.

Back then, Liu Yifei only had 8,000 yuan in one episode of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and now a small supporting role with the group may only have about 100 lines in the whole episode, and he can get 30,000 or 40,000.

As the convener, Liu Yifei, who arrived at the Qin Palace one step ahead of these contestants, was shocked when he learned about the current group performance salary with the assistant director of the "Warring States Policy" crew.

"Can an ordinary group performance with the group get 6,000 yuan a month?"

"Can a character actor get thirty or forty thousand?"

"Can a small supporting actor get 100,000?"

"Can an important supporting role get three or a half million?"

"Can the hero and heroine get one or two million?"

"This is just a second- or third-tier actor?"

"The current TV drama crew is so rich?"

Liu Yifei, who has not filmed a TV series for many years, was envious after hearing this offer.

It's not that she thinks it's a lot of money, but she didn't have this condition when she was filming a TV series back then.

"It's really amazing, when Chen Kunge filmed "Like Rain, Like Fog and Like Wind", the salary was only 90,000 yuan, and he was crazy about it, until he was filming "The Family of Gold Powder", he didn't tell us about it."

"Now a small supporting role can get 100,000, it's good."

"Times are different." Gong Li, who came to the Qin Palace with Liu Yifei, didn't think it was anything unusual, and said with a smile: "When I first debuted, "Red Sorghum" only got a salary of 200 yuan. ”

"At that time, 200 yuan was a lot of money for me."

"And now? Now I'm looking for acting outside, and the quotations have reached more than 10 million. ”

"The rise in salaries is definitely a good thing for actors, and it also shows the prosperity of the domestic film and television industry, investors can afford to pay, and they have earned so much money that they are willing to give high salaries."

"If everyone had been like before, starring in a TV series to get a few thousand yuan per episode, the industry would have been over."

"You are optimistic about Laiwu, the set of first-line actors starts at $20 million."

"Yes." Liu Yifei nodded understandingly.

At this moment, the cell phone in her pants pocket suddenly rang.

"Hello?" Picking up the phone, Liu Yifei's face showed a bright smile.

"Senior brother, have you arrived?"

"We're here in the Qin Palace, come here, the contestants are almost here, and their group performance life is about to begin."

"I don't know if these newcomers who grow up in ivory towers and want to play the leading role after graduation can stand this experience."

"It's not easy to be a group performer." (End of chapter)