Chapter 1100

Since it's an actor, it's about schedule. Although the casting studio is still waiting for Xiao Yao to fix a specific time so as to inform the actors to come to the audition, Xiao Yao gave them a rough audition time when he contacted the other party in the early stage, so that the actors could arrange a time to come to the audition.

Because I don't know the process and result of inviting Lin Jingliang to Hong Kong Island, the audition time given by Xiao Yao is within one week. When he went to the northwest of Shanxi Province to choose scenery, Xiao Yao felt that one week was not necessarily enough, so the audition time had to be changed.

Xiao Yao is a man who does what he says. After deciding to go first, Xiao Yao immediately informed casting studio to change the audition time. This time, Xiao Yao didn't set a frame for himself. He only said that he would come back to audition after the selection, and he didn't estimate the audition time.

After the announcement from the casting studio, Xiao Yao is ready to set out with Lin Jingliang to choose scenery in Northwest Shanxi.

First, identify the members of the selection team.

Director Xiao Yao and art director Lin Jingliang are definitely going. Pei Minyi has completed the modeling and costume of the 101 women's troupe and returned from Hangzhou. Pei Minyi will definitely not miss the opportunity to travel and study with Lin Jingliang, a master of aesthetics. Lin Jingliang is going to take an assistant, and Xiao Yao is going to take Pei Minyi with him.

The production company of this film is Xiao Yao's own company. The producer and producer are both Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao himself is the investor, and he is the only investor. In terms of budget, Xiao Yao can decide. However, once the shooting location is determined, it is inevitable to discuss and communicate with local departments or local people about the shooting. This kind of thing, Xiao Yao doesn't plan to come out in person, so he specially pulled in Fang still and two employees in the film and television company.

Then, it is to select the scene to be investigated. Xiao Yao imagined that the shooting place should be a remote area with high altitude, drought and less rain. The selected shooting place is northwest Shanxi, but the scope of Northwest Shanxi is also very large, so we should choose several specific target sites.

Xiao Yao thinks that the location in the previous life's film "donkey gets water" looks very good. It should be a good choice to shoot his own film in the same place. Xiao Yao remembered that he had read a report on the Internet in his previous life, saying that the shooting place of the film "donkey gets water" was in a place under Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, near Qingshuihe area in Inner Mongolia. The specific place is not clear, so Xiao Yao is going to find it in Shuozhou City, near Qingshuihe area in Inner Mongolia.

The shooting place must be found by driving, but Shencheng is located in the southeast and the shooting place is far away from the northwest. Xiao Yao doesn't plan to drive all the way from Shencheng to the northwest. He must take a plane first, and then rent a car at the airport or charter a car locally.

The target city of Shuozhou is located in the northwest of Shanxi Province, but there is no civil airport in Shuozhou, and there are few cities with airports in Shanxi Province. If it is adjacent to the Qingshuihe area in Inner Mongolia, it is closer to the airport of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia. Therefore, a group of people set out from Shencheng by plane, and their destination is not Shanxi Province, but Hohhot in Inner Mongolia.

After arriving in Hohhot, Xiao Yao, the leader of the team, did not make any stop. He rented two cars and drove all the way south to Qingshuihe County, Inner Mongolia.

Hohhot is more than 120 kilometers away from Qingshuihe County. It took them more than two hours to get there. After arriving in Qingshuihe County, Xiao Yao found a nice looking hotel to stay, and announced that he would have a rest today and set out to the countryside to choose scenery tomorrow.

Inner Mongolia is a good place. Several of these people are here for the first time. We are very happy to hear that Xiao Yao announced that he would take a rest and set off for the scenery selection tomorrow. Although we can't see the grassland in the county, it's a place of ethnic minorities after all. We all went out to feel the exotic customs of the small county in the ethnic minority area.

Xiao Yao also came to Qingshuihe County for the first time, but he didn't go out for a stroll and feel the exotic customs, because he still had a task.

With the information in the memory of his previous life, Xiao Yao can go to the place closest to the shooting place of the film in his previous life. Further down, Xiao Yao is blind, so he wants to find a guide who is familiar with the surrounding environment in the county and take them out tomorrow.

Looking for a guide, of course, Xiao Yao can give it to Fang still or Pei Minyi or someone from the company. However, this place is brought by Xiao Yao. Everyone here is not familiar with the place of life. These people do not necessarily have an advantage over themselves, and this matter is still very important, so Xiao Yao plans to come by himself.

In addition, Xiao Yao is not only a director and producer, but also a coppermaker in the film. Xiao Yao also wants to take this opportunity to solve some of the problems needed to play this role.

The biggest difference between the role of coppersmith and Xiao Yao himself is the problem of skin color. Xiao Yao can solve this problem through some technical means such as black and makeup before the movie starts. In addition, Xiao Yao also needs to face the problem of language. The character of the coppersmith can speak Mongolian and sings a Mongolian song in the film. Although Xiao Yaohui has many languages, Mongolian is not included at present.

Xiao Yao originally wanted to find Hong Wei to help solve this problem.

Hong Wei was born in a Tibetan area. He is a Tibetan and a minority. As an ethnic minority, she has been committed to promoting the music of ethnic minorities. Moreover, she not only likes and often performs minority music, but also often supports and helps minority young singers. When Xiao Yao helped Jiang Kailin perform "a Diao" on "singer", the Tibetan singer who helped Jiang Kailin sing harmony was introduced by Hong Wei.Hong Wei is a Tibetan, but she knows and contacts more than Tibetan music and singers. She once sang Mongolian songs on the stage of singer. She knows Mongolian and knows some Mongolian singers. When Xiao Yao wants to learn Mongolian and learn Mongolian songs, the first thing he thinks of is Hong Wei.

However, since he has come to Inner Mongolia this time, Xiao Yao wants to take this opportunity to solve the language problem as well. Therefore, the guide Xiao Yao wants to find is someone who needs to be familiar with the surrounding areas, including some areas of Shanxi Province, and can take them to see the scenery. It's better to be able to teach Xiao Yao a suitable traditional Mongolian song.

Of course, if this man happens to be a coppersmith, or can do the work of a coppersmith, and can teach Xiao Yao some skills of a coppersmith, that would be the best. However, in the movie, the coppersmith is more of a title or a name, and there are not many places to do the real work of coppersmith, that is, to repair the clock in the school, as long as the action of taking tools is not layman. With the skills he learned when he learned how to make handmade dishes from others, Xiao Yao felt that he should have enough skills in this aspect, so he could learn this bronze work or not.

When Xiao Yao came to such a strange place, his eyes were almost black. He didn't know where to find a guide. However, he did not know the local people, but can go to know the local people. He knows that people like hotel owners are generally well-informed people who are familiar with the local conditions.

Xiao Yao and his party live in a small hotel. At a glance, it seems that the one who receives them at the front desk is the boss of the hotel.

If you just ask about a place to eat or where there is a place to have fun, as a resident, as long as you casually ask, the boss will give you warm advice. But if you want the boss to introduce them or even contact a reliable guide who can take them out and run around, Xiao Yao has to spend more time and communicate with others.

The owner of the hotel is a middle-aged man with dark complexion. His nails and teeth are yellow. There are cigarettes and ashtrays on the desk of the reception desk. At first sight, he is a smoker. When everyone else went out to hang out in the county, Xiao Yao bought a pack of cigarettes in the shop downstairs of the hotel, handed one to the boss, and chatted with the boss.

The hotel owner speaks standard Chinese, but he is not very fluent. He looks like a minority. Xiao Yao doesn't think that the so-called simple minority is applicable to everyone, but from the performance of the hotel owner, Xiao Yao thinks it is more reliable.

When Xiao Yao said that he was a film director and wanted to find a suitable place nearby to shoot a film, the hotel owner immediately wrote his disbelief on his face, saying that Xiao Yao was joking and making fun of him.

Looking at the hotel owner who obviously didn't know him, Xiao Yao felt a little sad about his fame and popularity again.

Since the hotel owner doesn't believe it, Xiao Yao doesn't plan to tell others who he is. Hotel owners don't believe in themselves, just because they are too young to be directors. They are young, but there are still some of them.

Lin Jingliang had been to Inner Mongolia before. On the way from Hohhot to Qingshuihe County, Lin Jingliang, who was on the same bus with Xiao Yao, was very excited to see the scenery along the way. But after entering the county, Lin's enthusiasm obviously dissipated. Other people went out for a stroll, but Lin Jingliang didn't go out. He stayed in the room thinking about the art scheme in the film.

Seeing that the hotel owner didn't believe that he was a film director, Xiao Yao changed his mind and said that he was an assistant to the director and helped the director. For convenience and face, he said that he was a director. Then he went upstairs and pulled Lin Jingliang down. He said that Lin Jingliang was the director and asked him to confirm his statement.

When he went upstairs to find Lin Jingliang, Xiao Yao explained the situation to Lin Jingliang. When he went downstairs to see the owner of the hotel, Lin Jingliang gave the owner a cigarette with a smile, saying that he was a director. Xiao Yao's task was to find a guide to take them to see the nearby environment and choose the scene for the film. As a director, I have a lot of things to do. I'll leave these trivial things to the young people and ask the hotel owner for help. As long as it is what Xiao Yao promised, he will fulfill it. After that, he said goodbye to the owner of the hotel and went back to the room upstairs to think about the art plan.

Lin Jingliang's age, style and some Hong Kong accent make him a director in the eyes of hotel owners. After listening to what Lin Jingliang said, the owner of the hotel believed Xiao Yao's words. As for being familiar with the guide nearby, the hotel owner really knows the right local people.

The hotel owner is also a happy person. After he agreed to help, he immediately contacted two Mongolian speaking locals to meet Xiao Yao.

They arrived soon, and Xiao Yao chatted with them in the hotel hall. After talking to them about the environmental requirements of the shooting place, listening to them introduce the possible suitable places, and listening to them introduce the surrounding environment, Xiao Yao chose a young man who looked very strong, agreed with him to be a guide tomorrow, took them out to find the shooting place, and agreed on the departure time tomorrow.

The price was negotiated on the spot, and Xiao Yao paid 20% in advance as a deposit. Xiao Yao doesn't care much about being slaughtered by the local people. After all, it's not going to be easy. It's right for people to earn some hard money.Xiao Yao is more concerned about safety, which is one of the reasons why Xiao Yao chooses to find the hotel owner to introduce the guide. After all, there is a shop here. If something happens, even if you can't find a guide, the hotel owner can't run away. Xiao Yao's worst-case scenario is to be taken to a remote place for robbery. He has two cars in his line, seven people, five men and two women, and his force value and on-the-spot reaction are absolutely able to cope with ordinary bad people. In addition, he has a real estate introducer. Xiao Yao thinks it should be enough.

After finishing the guide's work, Xiao Yao went upstairs to see Lin Jingliang. He found that he was still thinking about the film art scheme, and had no intention of going out, so Xiao Yao went out to hang out on his own.

If we all go out to play, we don't have dinner together. But this time I came out to work, and the place was relatively strange. We didn't play very late, so we all went back to the hotel early to have a rest, so as to conserve our energy for tomorrow.

The next morning, the young man named Alatan, who Xiao Yao said yesterday, arrived at the hotel on time to meet Xiao Yao and others. Xiao Yao introduced Alatan to you, and a group of people got on the bus and set out.

Qingshuihe County is a county adjacent to Shanxi Province. From the map, most of the East and south sides of the county basically press the provincial line. When you go out of Qingshuihe County in these two directions, you basically enter the boundary of Shanxi Province. Xiao Yao remembers that the shooting place in his previous life belonged to Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, so he asked Alatan to take them all the way to the East. Instead of looking at the place that belongs to the boundary of Qingshuihe County, he walked all the way along the towns and villages near the eastern provincial line.

After they left Qingshuihe County to the East and entered the boundary of Shanxi Province, Alatan felt that the environment in several villages of gaoshizhuang Township in the north might be more suitable, so he directed them to turn north.

Inner Mongolia and Shanxi are both in the northwest. There are many mountains at the junction of the two provinces, and the rural roads below are not easy to take. Fortunately, both Xiao Yao's and others' cars were good, and after entering the village, Alatan took the people to look at the village by village, and they walked and stopped to have a look, and they didn't feel too uncomfortable.

In one day, Alatan took us to five or six villages and saw seven or eight places, but they didn't find any places that Xiao Yao and Lin Jingliang were particularly satisfied with. However, Xiao Yao and Lin Jingliang did not expect to find their favorite shooting place on the first day. They were in a good mood. Xiao Yao even wanted to learn some Mongolian from Alatan.

Turning to the evening, we saw that it was almost dark, so we set out to return to Qingshuihe County, ready to continue tomorrow.