"Ensemble, assemble with me!"

"Hurry up, it's going to turn on soon!"

An assistant director, holding a loudspeaker, stood on the square of the main hall of the Qin Palace, shouting.

The contestants of "Actors Please Be in Place", who wore inner service clothes and maid clothes in the style of the Warring States Period, took small steps one by one and came out of the side hall next to them.

The steps are not big, there is no way, the lower body of this kind of clothing is relatively tight, and they are only allowed to walk fast in small steps.

After finally standing in the square, the casting director who managed the group performances continued: "Your task today is very simple. ”

"Just play the role of your maid and chamberlain!"

How to act?

Very simple.

More than a dozen drama managers stepped forward and quickly guided these contestants to their respective positions.

Both inside and outside the temple.

Their task was to stand still and do their job.

The scenes to be filmed by the crew of "Warring States Policy" today are the scenes of King Qin's last dynasty.

In this play, there are about more than 20 scenes involving the court meeting, and the crew is concentrated in five days, planning to shoot them all in one go.

Today, there are five or six schedules, starting from 8 o'clock in the morning and arranging until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun begins to set, the work will be closed.

In other words, these actors who make guest appearances in the group will stand guard for eight hours except for an hour after lunch at noon!

You don't need to do anything, just stand where you should stand, and watch the starring actors of the trial minister and the prince "play".

Then kneel in the line prompts of a special actor who specializes in playing eunuchs, such as "go to court" and "kneel down", and it's over.

Lines?

No.

Lens?

It is estimated that when the starring role is filmed, it can occasionally bring half of a contestant's face.

This is the simple and unpretentious one-day shooting task of the ordinary group performers in Hengdian.

At the beginning, the contestants of "Actors Please Be in Place" still had a sense of expectation, after all, many of them experienced crew work for the first time.

It's just that when they stood there in a daze for half an hour, watching the third-tier actor in the circle who played the male lead standing in the main hall "indignantly" arguing back and forth with the emperor, turning on, NG, and then turning on, and so on several times, the contestants who still thought it was interesting at first began to feel bored.

It's really not interesting to watch these actors play the same scene over and over again.

"Hey, bro."

"Is it usually like this in group performances, just standing here for a day?"

Standing outside the gate of the main hall, Marco, who was in charge of playing the eunuch guarding the gate, chatted with the guards standing next to him, wearing armor and holding Changge in his hands.

This guard is a real group performance, and the crew invites 4,000 yuan a month to perform in a group performance, specializing in playing guards, attendants, subordinates and other roles without lines.

"What if not?" The group actor named Li Jiu didn't squint, just opened his mouth slightly, and whispered to Marco: "Being able to stand still for a day is already a relatively easy role." ”

"It's tiring to play that kind of passerby, you have to keep walking back and forth on the street, every time the director shouts, we just sit down on the spot to rest, otherwise we will be so tired that we can't walk after walking for a long time."

"The easiest thing is to play the dead."

"Is it easy to play the dead?" Marco asked curiously.

"Of course it's easy!"

"Especially that kind of anti-Japanese war film, sometimes you have to shoot battlefield scenes all day long, and you only need to put on makeup to play the dead, find a pit casually, and lie down for a day."

"I know a buddy who is very powerful, even if the cannon fire on the set is non-stop, he can sleep."

"He is specifically looking for this kind of anti-Japanese war film dead man play, every time he receives it, he goes directly to the Internet café the night before and stays all night, gathers at six o'clock in the morning to go to the set, buries two blood packets in his chest, and falls asleep on the ground."

"When I woke up, I made the money."

Listening to Li Jiu's sharing, Marco was dumbfounded, which was too different from the "actor" he heard from the teacher at school.

"Really?" He asked incredulously.

"Of course it's funny." Li Jiu couldn't hold back his laughter, he felt that these high-achieving actors who were selected from Nortel, Chinese Opera, Shanghai Opera and other universities were just like that, stupid, and didn't even know a little common sense.

"How can the crew really let you sleep for a day?"

"But I didn't lie to you, my friend is really powerful, he can fall asleep on the "battlefield", and he has been caught by the assistant director several times, and he has been scolded a lot. ”

"Uh-oh." Marco nodded stunned.

At this time, their chat finally attracted the attention of the assistant director on the scene, and the assistant director with a pinch of mustache immediately picked up the loudspeaker and scolded: "Those two group performers standing outside the hall!" ”

"What are you talking about during the shooting?"

was interrupted by him, and the scene that was being filmed was scrapped, and it was going to be reissued.

Several actors who were speaking their lines had a little dissatisfied look on their faces, and turned their heads to look outside the hall.

was stared at by a group of "ministers" all of a sudden, and Marco panicked, and hurriedly bent down to apologize: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." ”

That is, he is a contestant in "Actors Please Be in Place", and he is not really a group performance, otherwise he would have to be educated hard from the assistant director to the group leader.

"Don't take it as an example!"

"Do it all over again!"

"Ready!"

In a side hall of the Qin Palace.

At this moment, the side hall has already been changed into a "studio", and more than a dozen monitors display the real-time shots taken by more than a dozen cameramen on the scene.

Marco's chat with the big brother of the group performance was naturally faithfully filmed.

Seeing the clear and stupid Marco, Wu Yuan shook his head and smiled, "This section can't be cut." ”

"This group performance is quite interesting, it's a joker!"

"Marco can also be regarded as borrowing his mouth to help the audience understand the work of the group performance."

Doing group performances is really not an easy job.

Playing the dead is not as easy as Li Jiu said.

Although the dead are indeed easier than the roles of passers-by and guards, and they do not need to stand for hours or walk back and forth to consume physical strength, but playing the dead, especially the dead in the battlefield scene, must wear the makeup of the dead.

That is, you have to stuff a lot of blood bags on your body, and then break the blood bags, and you have to wipe a lot of dirty things on your face.

Lying on the ground for a day with such a dirty, smelly thing is not a comfortable thing.

Especially for some crews with strict requirements, in order to prevent goofs, you "die" in this position, so generally in these scenes, you can't move, you have to stay in this position, and wait for all the scenes related to this scene to finish filming before you can move.

is also because there are more restrictions on group performances for playing dead people, so they can get an extra fifty yuan a day.

"Everyone says that the entertainment industry is good, and they want to enter the entertainment industry, become an actor, and come to Hengdian to break through."

"But there are so many good things in the world."

"Doing a group performance in Hengdian, unless there is really no other job choice, it is really not a good thing, it can only be said to be a waste of youth."

Wu Yuan, who has worked as an assistant director of the crew for more than ten years in his dream, knows very well how difficult it is for the group to perform, and how hopeless and promising it is.

"I hope that after our program is broadcast, the life and work of these group performers will be realistic, and it will cool down some young people who are overheating now, regard Baoqiang as an idol, and want to come to Hengdian as a group performer regardless of everything." (End of chapter)