Chapter 54 Booting up

Including "Assassins", this is the third play Yang Hao has invested in in the Beijing Film Academy circle, and he has invested in three plays in a row in just over a year.

Unknowingly, Yang Hao had become quite famous in the small circle of Beijing Film Academy.

In the crew of "The Blade of the Assassin", the main creative team, Lu Yang, Yang Hao, Yang Mi, Zhou Yiwei, and Li Dongxue all graduated from Beijing Film Academy.

The entertainment industry is a circle, and Beijing Film Academy is a small circle within it. The investor and director of "The Blade of the Assassin" are from Beijing Film Academy, so when selecting actors, if the conditions are similar, those who graduated from Beijing Film Academy will definitely be given priority.

To quote Li Hongzhang’s words to Ding Ruchang in the TV series “Towards the Republic”.

"Appointing people based on personal connections, what a joke! If I don't appoint people based on personal connections, then I'm going to appoint people based on their innocence? If I have to make my subordinates disobedient and oppose me everywhere, isn't that cultivating personal power?"

Yang Hao, who had experience in his previous life, was deeply touched by this sentence, and he had to employ people based on their personal relationships.

The profession of actor is so replaceable that as long as the acting skills are up to standard, who to use and who not to use is up to the investors and directors.

Nepotism is particularly evident in the entertainment industry.

There is a saying in the online literature circle: good writing can be criticized.

The entertainment industry also has ways to break the rules, and there are roughly three ways to break these rules.

First, if you are famous enough to bring attention to the movie and bring in certain expected box office revenue, you can break the rule of nepotism.

The second is to bring money into the group, such as RMB players like Da Tiantian, but such RMB players are still a minority. Most of them are signed to brokerage companies, and the brokerage companies invest money into the group or exchange resources.

Third, your acting skills must be strong enough to make the director and investors feel that you are the only one who can play this role.

Yang Hao himself is actually a RMB player similar to Da Tiantian, who brought money into the crew. Da Mimi joined the crew through her own connections. Of course, she is also a popular star and can bring traffic to the crew. She is a combination of one and two.

Nie Yuan and Wang Qianyuan have strong acting skills and joined the crew in a legitimate way.

Zhou Yiwei and Li Dongxue graduated from Beijing Film Academy. They had previously worked with director Lu Yang and were able to join the crew through director Lu Yang's relationship.

As long as it is a formal crew, the selection of each creative staff member has its own considerations, either personal relationships or interests. There are very few roles that can be auditioned openly and fairly.
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Director Lu Yang is no longer a pure new director. He has previously directed "Blind Cinema" and "RV Adventure". "The Blade of the Assassin" is his third film.

Director Lu Yang has experience in filming, and the main creative staff of the crew are all close friends, which gives him a strong control over the crew of "The Blade of the Assassin".

This is probably the advantage of nepotism.

The production cost of "Knife of the Assassin" was only 2500 million, which was enough. However, Director Lu Yang had high requirements for location shooting and insisted on shooting in the tourist attractions of Laozi's hometown and the Mongolian grasslands, which increased the cost of shooting.

There was no other way. In order to save costs, the original shooting period of 90 days was directly reduced to 65 days. Lu Yang had been polishing the script of "Embroidered Spring Blade" for many years. The storyboard script was designed with more than 65 pages, with a total of more than shots, and the shooting period was only days, which meant that at least to shots had to be shot every day to complete the shooting task in such a short shooting period.

You have to know that the average crew only shoots about 20 shots a day, while "The Blade of the Assassin" has 40 to 50 shooting tasks a day, which is double the task. The workload is not small.

Because of this, Director Lu Yang directly started the crazy mode. Main actors such as Yang Hao and Yang Mi suffered a lot. They had to get up at four or five in the morning to put on makeup and wait for the performance. They didn't get off the set until seven or eight in the evening. Working overtime on filming has become the norm, and they only get five or six hours of sleep a day.

This kind of crazy shooting mode was the first time that Yang Hao encountered it. He had originally planned to show off his directing skills in front of Lu Yang, but under this high-intensity work state, he no longer had the mind to think about directing.

Yang Hao even suspected that Brother Lu Yang had heard some rumors and knew what happened between directors Yan Fei and Peng Damu on the set of "Charlotte's Troubles", and deliberately put himself in high-intensity work.

The Husky destroys the house when it is raised by itself, but why is it so obedient when it is raised by its grandparents?

Answer: I take my Husky out for morning exercise in the morning and for a walk in the evening. If I am in a good mood, I will take my Husky to dance square dance. If the weather is good, we will go hiking in a group.

Tired, really too tired. Yang Hao felt like a Husky raised by his grandparents, exhausted like a dog every day.

Because he was too tired, Yang Hao had no time to care about how Lu Yang was filming.

Da Mimi is fine. As a model worker in the industry, she is accustomed to this kind of intense work. No matter how busy she is during the day, she will give Yang Hao some intense work at night.

It is obvious that the two people's labor intensity is similar. Yang Hao's energy and spirit are getting worse day by day, but Da Mimi seems to be oiled. She is radiant every day, and her acting skills are often beyond her level.

However, due to Yang Hao's daily loss of energy and spirit, his appearance dropped by two or three points in the system's rating.

Fortunately, this is a martial arts drama, and the requirements for appearance are not as high as those in idol dramas. Even if the appearance declines a little, it will not affect anything under the cover of ancient costume style.

"Click", a fight scene ended, and Lu Yang stood up from the director's chair with a smile.

Several on-site assistants from the crew came over quickly and helped Yang Hao take off his thick ancient costume.

It's already May and the weather in BJ is already quite hot. While filming a fight scene in costume, I was sweating all over. I felt like I had been in a sauna and my whole body was soaking wet.

"Yang Hao, I've seen your performance in "Charlotte's Troubles" and I know that you're good at literary dramas, but I didn't expect that you're also good at filming fighting scenes," Lu Yang walked up to Yang Hao, gave him a thumbs up, and praised him with a smile.

"How could that be? You're the best at filming, senior brother." Yang Hao was very happy that the fight scene was filmed smoothly. If the fight scene had been filmed a few more times, it would have been fatal.

When Yang Hao obtained the director skill from the system, his acting skills were also improved to the proficient level by the system. This improved acting skill naturally also includes martial arts. The proficient level of martial arts should be considered outstanding among the younger generation of actors, so he can naturally handle this kind of not-so-difficult fighting scene with ease.

Lu Yang was becoming more and more satisfied with Yang Hao at this time. He was a very humble person, brought money into the crew, had solid professional skills, and had a certain fame. Such actors were a scarce resource in the entertainment industry.

(End of this chapter)