Chapter 1218

Zhou Jingyi will have a job in China in the near future. Kevin Scott and Russell Seth, two Americans, have no job recently. They are coming to China for the first time. They are ready to take the opportunity to play in China. Muying has not returned to China for a long time, and there is no job in the United States, so they are not in a hurry to return to the United States.

In addition to a concert tour in the second half of the year, immortals has some work in the United States recently. They are going to return to the United States. However, their schedule is not so tight. They don't have to leave to return to the United States on the second day of the Golden Dragon awards ceremony. They can still play in China for two days.

After Xiao Yao's participation in the golden dragon award ceremony, the focus of his work in the next stage is the TV series he cooperated with Yin Xi. The preliminary preparation of this TV drama project has been carried out to a certain extent. Before, Xiao Yao didn't participate in much work in person, but as a producer and producer, he wanted to participate in the audition for other roles in the drama except one man and one woman.

The shooting location of this fashionable urban theme TV series is set in Shencheng, and the audition of casting is also carried out in Shencheng. So after attending the Golden Dragon Award presentation ceremony, Xiao Yao will fly back to Shencheng for audition. However, the audition work was handed over to an audition studio in Shencheng for preliminary personnel screening, and the specific audition time was decided by Xiao Yao. The date hasn't been fixed yet. Xiao Yao wants to have a two-day rest.

Muying, Kevin Scott and Russell Seth didn't need Xiao Yao to control their actions in China. Xiao Yao, the band member, still had to control them. In addition, the band members didn't stay long. So after the golden dragon award ceremony, Xiao Yao and Zhou Jingyi's soundtrack team, who were waiting for the team members to come to the end, played in Yanjing for two days. After they went to the airport to send them back home, they left for Shencheng .

In these two days, Zhou Jingyi's private team also arrived in Huaxia to join Zhou Jingyi. Since Zhou Jingyi is in Yanjing, her team flew to Yanjing from Los Angeles. Zhou Jingyi's next studio is the dance reality show of Donghai satellite TV. They are going to Shencheng TV station to discuss with the program team, so they went to Shencheng together with Xiao Yao's team and Yin Xi's team.

After arriving in Shencheng, Zhou Jingyi entered a working state, and her daily itinerary was arranged by her personal team. Xiao Yao also entered the working state and contacted the selected studio to arrange the audition.

In the casting of the film "donkey gets water", although Xiao Yao gave some restrictions, to be honest, there were not many actors who were willing to audition at the beginning.

On the one hand, although outside critics say that Xiao Yao is a genius and does everything very well, many people are willing to flatter him, but when it comes to his vital interests, it is inevitable that he will have many concerns.

To be sure, Xiao Yao's achievements in making short films and animated films are very good, and he has also won awards, but his ability to direct a live action film has not been proved. If you can make a good short film and animated film, you may not be able to make a good live movie. There is a big difference.

When it comes to live action movies, Xiao Yao already had a movie on at that time. "Parkour boy", released during the Spring Festival last year, has a good box office and a good reputation. There is no doubt that Xiao Yao is one of the core characters in this film, but when it comes to the ability of directing and producing behind the scenes, that film does not seem to prove Xiao Yao's ability.

Xiao Yao is only one of the directors of that film. Although the theme of the film is Parkour, and Xiao Yao is one of the founders of parkour, judging from the film style and the age, experience and experience of the two directors, it is generally believed that the two directors are mainly Mu Ying, who is a graduate student of the director department of USC. People in the industry generally have no idea what a long film directed by a young man in his early twenties will look like.

On the other hand, both the producer and producer of the film are young people's film and television company, a newly established company. It seems that the industry is not very confident in their company, which is co founded by several small partners and looks a little funny. After the establishment of this film and television company, the first two projects announced are two projects of the brand new team.

In addition to some independent film troupes that are short of funds and can't help it, generally no film and television company will do that. And this new company not only did, but also started two. Although many people follow the media to boast that they are bold, ambitious and energetic, but in their heart, their real idea is: whether it's for the sake of fighting between schools or for the sake of finding jobs for students, it's very unreliable to start these two projects. Sure enough, it's a company run by the second generation of stars. It's just playing with money.

No matter from the directors who occupy the core position behind the scenes or the production company of the film, the film has not aroused much interest in the industry. When we listen to Xiao Yao's statement that sun Tingting is the new woman who has no acting experience at all, we are even less optimistic about her. Even later, it was reported that Xiao yaola came to Lin Jingliang, a famous art master, as the art director of the film, which did not save many people's impression.

Therefore, at the time of casting for donkey got water, the casting studio actually received very few resumes of actors.However, this TV series project is different.

First of all, the producer and producer of this TV series is still Xiao Yao's young people's film and television company, and this is their second TV series project.

In the past half a year or so, two films and TV works produced by young people's film and television company have been broadcast and released successively, both of which have achieved good results and gained a certain reputation. As far as the TV series project is concerned, the ratings of the TV series project of young people's film and television company's brand-new team last year are very reasonable.

The TV series project is different from the movie project. Compared with film projects, which value the director more, TV series projects value the team more, that is, the production company, rather than the director. Of course, even the director alone, the project is not bad. The director of the new TV series project of young people's film and television company is not Xiao Yao, nor is it a new person, but a director with good reputation in the industry.

On the whole, there are not many new people in the behind the scenes production team of this project. On the contrary, there are many well-known staff in the industry. Therefore, according to the truth, this TV drama project should be better than the previous TV drama which is full of new people.

Secondly, all the scripts received by brokerage companies and entertainment companies are signed by Xiao Yao. Regardless of the quality of the script, this is a project of Xiao Yao's young people's film and television company. Xiao Yao is a screenwriter, and the age of the first male in the script is not much different from Xiao Yao's actual age. The casting company said it would not be responsible for the audition of male and female, which means that male and female are likely to have been decided. Many people can't guess who the first girl is, but they basically guess that the first boy is probably Xiao Yao. Even if it's not Xiao Yao, at least it's Zhao Rui and Lin Qisan.

With Xiao Yao's current fame, once the TV series is launched, it should be guaranteed in terms of audience rating and topic. Although there is no chance for one man and one woman, brokerage companies and entertainment companies do not have all the first-line actors. If the second and third line actors in the company can participate in the TV series project, they are likely to take advantage of the TV series to further development after the TV series is broadcast.

Therefore, the casting studio, which is responsible for the screening of actors in the early stage of this TV drama project, has received quite a lot of actor resumes, and the list of candidates given to Xiao Yao is far more than Xiao Yao imagined.

I've been busy with film promotion before, and then I'm busy with the golden dragon award ceremony. In the next two days, Xiao Yao accompanied Zhou Jingyi and the band members to play around Yanjing. He didn't want to enter the working state, so Xiao Yao had time to watch the list of candidate actors after he arrived in Shencheng.

As an actor, especially a star actor, even if he doesn't work in the cast, he may have other tasks. On the producer side, the director and producer are not free every day in the preparatory stage. The audition time of casting studio needs to take care of two aspects.

Xiao Yao came to Shencheng, the whole person into the working state, behind will not take work, that is to say, his time is determined. The director of the play is Chen Jun. at present, besides caring about the formation of the people behind the scenes, he is waiting for Xiao Yao to choose roles together. When the time on the producer's side is free, the casting studio starts to contact the agents or agencies of all the candidate actors to determine the specific date and time of the audition.

There are many candidates for each role, so it takes a certain amount of time for the casting studio to arrange auditions. At the beginning of casting studio, Xiao Yao was told that it could be arranged in about three days. It is estimated that the audition can start in two days at the earliest.

Xiao Yao is not idle these two days. Now that he has got the list of candidate actors and their information, Xiao Yao also took time to get to know them in advance. Not only did Xiao Yao look at their information, he even looked at their previous performances, and even learned about the news during the performance.

As a result, with this understanding, Xiao Yao found the casting studio the next day and asked it to readjust its candidate list. Because there are many actors on the list, Xiao Yao doesn't think it's necessary to audition at all.

At the beginning, when making the candidate audition cast list, casting studio always kept in touch with the producers. It's not long since Xiao Yao saw the list of candidate actors, but the director of this TV series has already seen the list. Casting studio can send the list to Xiao Yao, which basically means that the list is approved by the director.

Although the position of the director in the TV drama project is not as good as that of the film director, it is also quite authoritative. Xiao Yao doesn't want to undermine the authority of the director at will, so before looking for the casting studio to adjust the list, Xiao Yao first contacted the director Chen Jun and communicated with him before going to the casting studio to ask him to change the audition cast.

The director of this TV play is Chen Jun. although he is not very old, he is still less than 40 years old, but he is also a well-known director in the industry. Chen Jun is the director of the TV series project for the young people's film and television company. He doesn't belong to the young people's company. What he signed with the company is the first contract of the play. Since he was not a member of the company, but a partner, Xiao Yao did not call him to the company for an interview. Instead, he asked him to a cafe outside to communicate with him in a more relaxed environment.They met in the coffee shop. After greeting, Xiao Yao quickly got to the point and said to Chen Jun with a smile, "director Chen, I'm asking you out today to discuss the audition with you."

"Mr. Xiao, do you have other things to do recently? Is there a problem with the audition time? " Chen Jun said with a smile, "now the progress of the production team is good, and the people behind the scenes your company is looking for are very good. I'm very satisfied. So I basically have nothing to do now, as long as you can let the casting studio match the audition actor's time with your time, I have no problem, I can make do with all your time. "

"I've made the next few months free. I won't have anything else to do." "So it's not about the audition time, it's about the audition actors," Xiao said

"Audition actor question?" Chen Jun said strangely, "didn't casting studio decide the list of audition actors? Should have been sent to you? Do you think there's a problem? "

"Yes Xiao Yao nodded, "I have received the list of audition actors. I looked at them and thought that some people were not worth our time to audition. We wanted to find the casting studio to adjust the audition cast. The casting studio said that you have seen this list, so I want to talk to you before I ask them to revise it. "

"Well," Chen Jun nodded, "what do you think is wrong with this list?"

"By the way," Chen Jun went on, "to tell you the truth, such an audition cast list, I think it's a bit better than I expected."

"Surprisingly good?" Xiao Yao looks at Chen jundao.

"Yes Chen jundao said, "you've decided a man and a woman. All the roles that need to be auditioned in this play can be regarded as supporting roles, so there are not many actors on the list who are first-line stars. But as far as this list of candidates, which are almost all supporting actors, is concerned, it should be the list with the highest average popularity I have seen in recent years. "

"It turns out that the popularity is beyond expectation!" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "for a play, it's a good thing that the actor's popularity is high, but the key is that we can't only choose actors by their popularity, but also by whether they can act."

"Can you act?" Chen Jun said with a smile, "the people on this list should be OK, right? There are not many new people in it. All of them who have acted before should be able to act. "

"Acting before doesn't mean acting. We're looking for someone who performs well." Xiao Yaodao.

"Whether the performance is good or not is a very subjective question." Chen jundao said, "it's normal for a character in the same play to be well performed or not well performed. Even if we are all professionals in this field, we may have different ideas. As the producer of this project, you certainly have a say in the choice of actors, but as a director, I also have a say. Let's not talk about the audition cast. I want to ask first, if we have differences during the audition, how can we solve them? "