Chapter 568: Director Selection for

"Master, Yuehu Station's 'Jump Up Theater' is recruiting directors. Do you think we should give it a try?"

Li Chao came to his master Wu Chi with his mobile phone and handed the screen to him.

Wu Chi: "What is this?"

"Recruiting directors, Master. Haven't you always wanted to be a director?" Li Chao said, "We have been doing editing all along, trapped in a small room every day, every day is such work. I think we can try this opportunity."

Wu Chi rolled his eyes at him and said: "You believe this kind of information? This is just marketing. Recruiting directors... kidding, how can there be such a way to recruit directors."

"No, it's true." Li Chao said, "They said that this theater needs a movie-length film every week, broadcast on Sunday night, and needs many directors. They also attached the registration method. We only need to send them some content we edited before. If they are interested in us, they will contact us."

Wu Chi hesitated after hearing what Li Chao said. He was a bit moved, but still didn't quite believe it.

"Don't be a scam."

"Then I'll send a message to Lu Yan He and ask him. This is a cooperation plan between 'Jump Up' and Yuehu Station, he must know."

The reason why Li Chao and Wu Chi know Lu Yan He is because when the movie "Love Letter" was being edited here, one night, they met by chance.

At that time, Li Chao took the initiative to add Lu Yan He's WeChat in a "social bandit" style.

Although after adding, they never contacted again.

However, Li Chao could still occasionally see Lu Yan He post a Moments—

It is precisely because of this that Li Chao knows that people neither blocked him nor deleted him.

He and his master have been doing the work of editing films.

However, they have also been looking for opportunities.

It's just that in the entertainment industry, if you have no background and no resources, it is really difficult to find opportunities by yourself. Especially for people like them who "run alone", they are never anyone's "own people", and good opportunities will never fall on them.

Even the opportunity to film a web movie is not there.

Because they are just editors and only understand a little editing technology.

Wu Chi heard Li Chao say he wanted to send a message to Lu Yan He, and wanted to tell him not to disturb others for such a small matter, but the words came to his mouth and swallowed them back.

Maybe this is really an opportunity?

In the industry, in fact, which big names will support others and which big names never do this, they have heard more or less.

Like Lu Yan He, he is a person who is very willing to support others. Many people know this point. Many people he helped are now very famous figures, and Jiang Jun is the most typical example. And besides him, that editor Li Fenglei is also an example.

Li Chao knew that Li Fenglei, who had been editing movies opposite him, was favored by Lu Yan He and signed to his company, and he was sour for several days—it was just a simple jealousy and envy, why didn't such a good thing fall on him.

Li Chao deliberated several times before sending the edited message to Lu Yan He.

He originally thought he would have to wait a long time, but Lu Yan He replied to his message in less than three minutes: The gap is very large, you can completely send your previous works to them to see, if suitable, they will contact you.

Li Chao cheered excitedly and took his mobile phone to show his master.

"Look, Master, I said it, this time they are really recruiting directors widely." Li Chao said, "Let's try it, maybe they are willing to see us and give us a chance."

The first play of Jump Up Theater is called "Girl's Adventure". The original work is a short story written by Ming Yin. It tells the story of a high school girl who accidentally met another girl in a bookstore on a weekend. Because she picked up the wallet she dropped, she chased out, but unexpectedly discovered that another group of people were following the girl during the process of chasing her, and unfolded a strange adventure story by mistake.

The director of this play is An Yuanyuan, a 30-year-old female director.

She had never directed a feature film before, only a 15-minute short film released at a film festival.

Whether it is the director or the two heroines, they are newcomers with low popularity.

For this reason, Yuehu Station and Beijiguang Video also took great pains and invited several popular stars to guest star in a few shots.

On the day of filming, Lu Yan He and Chen Siqi went specifically.

Because it is a newcomer team crew, they are also worried that they will encounter trouble on the day of opening, and if they are on the scene, they can help solve it.

Using this play as the opening work of Jump Up Theater, one is because this short story is very famous, and it was very popular with readers when it was published. The second is because the original author Ming Yin is one of the most representative authors of "Jump Up" magazine. Since this theater is to be done, it must be started with her or Liu Jiazhen's works. And the third is because in the "Which work do you most hope to see filmed" vote organized by the official, "Girl's Adventure" ranked third among hundreds of works.

Although the filming cycle is only one week, before the official opening, this small crew of only a dozen people has held several meetings and is very familiar with the shooting points.

The crew operation mode created by "Friends" can be said to have created a new operation mode, allowing many crews to borrow it.

The two actresses are real high school students—both are child stars with rich acting experience.

This shooting mode is destined not to use newcomers without acting experience. Once over budget, there is a risk of loss.

Because it is a new thing, although the momentum is huge and coming fiercely, Jump Up Theater has not had many brands actively coming to contact naming and implantation so far.

The first scene was filmed in a bookstore.

The bookstore used for filming was contacted by Chen Siqi, and it is a cooperative bookstore of "Jump Up".

The boss is very willing to vacate half a day to close the business for them to film.

Because he also knows very clearly that after this play is broadcast, his bookstore will be the filming location of "Girl's Adventure", which can bring a lot of traffic to his bookstore.

Lu Yan He and Chen Siqi watched them film on the scene. Because when they arrived, An Yuanyuan was already guiding the two girls to film, they didn't go up, but stayed on the side, didn't enter the bookstore, looked through the glass window of the bookstore, and chatted while watching.

"What is the expected ratings of Yuehu Station for 'Girl's Adventure'?"

"If it can reach 0.4%, they will be very satisfied." Chen Siqi smiled, "However, they also said that broadcasting on Sunday night, the two leads are not popular stars, so the appeal may indeed be limited, and it may only have an average market share of 0.3%. Beijiguang Video is slightly better. You know, the calculation rules of video platforms are different from TV stations, because a Jump Up Theater was specially made, and the number of reserved audiences for this theater has reached more than 300,000."

"What is the second play of Jump Up Theater?"

"It is 'Vortex' adapted from Liu Jiazhen's short story." Chen Siqi said, "This play is better than 'Girl's Adventure', and Zhang Meng was invited to star."

"Hmm." Lu Yan He nodded, "Since this theater is to be done, stick to it. If the ratings really can't go up because no stars are acting, then I will find a way to invite some friends to act."

"Still hope to try to make the signboard of this theater hit, and cultivate a group of audiences who watch this theater regularly." Chen Siqi said, "Otherwise, in fact, this theater has no meaning to be established."

Lu Yan He understood Chen Siqi's meaning.

Just like Daylight Entertainment, if you really want to talk about brand operation, love theater, mist theater, X theater, the appeal is not as good as Daylight Entertainment.

Those so-called theaters, although major video platforms have taken such a name, in fact, the audience is not stupid. They just pack some similar themes together according to the theme, and there is no brand effect established at all. Therefore, there are hits, and there are plays that are garbage.

And Daylight Entertainment, its plays, whether on TV stations or video platforms, because it attaches importance to content creation from the source, it films ancient costumes, modern, power, infinite flow, women, entrepreneurship, all filmed successfully.

Chen Siqi wants to build "Jump Up Theater" into a brand that audiences can trust just by relying on these five words.

Lu Yan He said: "Then, besides the label of 'Jump Up' magazine novel adaptation, we actually have to add something, maybe it will have more uniqueness of this theater."

"What?"

"For example, your support for newcomer directors." Lu Yan He said, "This is not what you have always wanted to do? This time, the director of 'Girl's Adventure', An Yuanyuan, only filmed short films before. In a strict sense, this is her first time as a feature film director."

Lu Yan He added: "If Jump Up Theater can really become a cradle for newcomer directors, this label will definitely become a play that receives great attention in the industry. And if the industry really pays attention to it spontaneously for a long time, the basic disk will actually come out."

Chen Siqi nodded thoughtfully.

The basic disk of Jump Up Theater is actually the readers and users of "Jump Up" magazine and major media channels.

Ming Yin is a very popular author in the "Jump Up" system.

Most of the readers who support her will go to support "Girl's Adventure".

But compared to film and television dramas, the users of a magazine media are still too few.

Still have to reach the surface, use good content to attract more audiences.

However, no one expected that He Sha, who withdrew from the competition in the first episode, mentioned why she withdrew in a program after two or three weeks of topic heat.

"Not just because of the cooperation conflict with Cheng Hai." He Sha had an open-minded attitude of having seen through this matter, "There are only differences in personality and preparation methods between Cheng Hai and me, he is still quite good. I finally made the decision to withdraw, and there is another very critical reason, because the actors who record this program will all participate in the Jump Up Theater later. To be honest, I am not a new actor either. I don't really hope that I do this work, and it binds me with other work, especially acting. I still hope to act in some works I like."

As soon as He Sha said this, after the fermentation of major media and the exaggerated interpretation of major marketing accounts, it became that actors want to go to "Birth of an Actor", they need to participate in the filming of Jump Up Theater.

Any matter, once it is stained with the three words of mandatory, it will definitely change its taste.

"Birth of an Actor" program team responded for the first time, just one word: fake.

The general director of the program also directly posted on Weibo, pointing directly at He Sha: I don't know what reason made Ms. He Sha have a misunderstanding, feeling that coming to our program, you can get the role of "Jump Up Theater" without audition.

The response was very hard, but He Sha's side seemed to have sunk into the sea, without any new reaction.

Lu Yan He and the others already knew that He Sha said these words, actually just to continue to hype her heat.

The words she said in another program, which seemed to be said casually, were the edge-ball sentence structure that she could only come out with after careful consideration. It could neither let "Birth of an Actor" sue her, accuse her of spreading rumors, nor could it achieve her effect, causing such controversy and constant topics.

No way, just like you stepped on a piece of cowhide candy on the road, it stuck, disgusting you.

With the positive response of the program team and the director, it is actually enough.

But at this time, Zhou Ping'an suddenly attacked He Sha like settling accounts after autumn.

Suddenly, the lies He Sha had told over the years and the scenes of speaking without thinking were exploded by various marketing accounts.

There were so many materials that people could not easily associate them with the push of water army behind the scenes.

Because the revelations pushed by the water army generally explode the same material.

But He Sha's side, there were too many materials, like a call for response, inexplicably, He Sha's black materials emerged like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

The core meaning is one: He Sha is a woman full of lies.

He Sha is not afraid of negative news, she is afraid of no heat.

Therefore, "Birth of an Actor" program team and the director directly exposed her lies, causing many people to discuss, she didn't care—

Turn around and find another opportunity to clarify, that she wanted to express at the time on the program was not that the program team forced them to film, but caused a misunderstanding.

The two words misunderstanding are too easy to use.

However, Zhou Ping'an's counterattack had a posture of wanting to nail her to the list of artists with bad records.

In terms of public opinion, she was solidified as a liar image, and behind the scenes, in the industry, Zhou Ping'an was not idle, digging up many black materials of He Sha backstabbing collaborators, bad work attitude, and scheduling conflicts, and spreading them everywhere.

Originally, as long as there is heat, He Sha can also open black red to connect to many money-making jobs. It doesn't matter if she can't film, she can earn money by going to a live broadcast room. The more people scold her, the greater the traffic, and the greater the traffic, the higher her reward.

Now, even the live broadcast room dare not easily invite her.

Because there are revelations saying that He Sha's side will specifically hire people to do data in the live broadcast room where she appears, specifically hire a batch of people to place orders, create a posture of very gratifying sales and high ability to bring goods, and then return the goods.

These things were originally secrets in the industry and would not be widely spread. Naturally, there would be people who didn't know the situation rushing to cooperate with He Sha because of her heat. Now it is different.

Several cooperations that were originally decided were canceled directly after being tossed like this.

After He Sha and her team knew it was Zhou Ping'an's hand, they knew it was because she dragged Cheng Hai into the water before, even if she tried to say a few good words about Cheng Hai on the program later, she did not get Zhou Ping'an's forgiveness.

And Zhou Ping'an obviously stared at her.

But whoever the partner might want to cooperate with her, Zhou Ping'an would mercilessly ruin it.

It's not that the work was intercepted and snatched back to give to the artist in his hand, it's recommending to others, the reason is the same, cooperating with He Sha is too low cost-effective, he introduces a more cost-effective one without negative public opinion.

This toss, He Sha's good momentum suddenly stopped abruptly.

This is also the road she chose herself.

Since she chose such a black red road to hype herself, there is no foundation, and she can't stand firm when Zhou

There was no other way; He Sha and her agent had no choice but to go and bow their heads to Zhou Ping'an in person.

Bow their heads, apologize, admit their mistakes, and ask Zhou Ping'an to raise his hand and let them off.

This was something they had planned from the start.

If they really couldn't clean up the mess, they would do this.

It wasn't a matter of principle to begin with, and after the buzz passed, it wouldn't actually cause much impact on the artist.

That Cheng Hai was also a beneficiary of the traffic.

Who knew, when Zhou Ping'an saw them come to apologize, he didn't listen to a single word, and instead went straight to being sarcastic, saying: "Don't, don't you start talking yet, I'm afraid of you people. I'll turn on the recording first, lest there be another recording of me cursing leaked out later... Sigh, forget it, forget it, I'm just a person who can't help but curse, you'd better not talk to me, I can't be bothered to talk to you."

The remarks left He Sha and her agent red-faced, and for a moment, they couldn't say a single word.

"I can only say, villains have their own villains to deal with them." This was Chen Ziyan's evaluation of the He Sha incident, "For someone like He Sha who doesn't even want her face, only Zhou Ping'an's methods can hit the nail on the head."

Lu Yan He: "Sister Ziyan, why do I feel like you're appreciating Zhou Ping'an more and more?"

Chen Ziyan: "Maybe this is what happens when a person reaches the extreme in a certain aspect; even if you hate the person, you can't deny their ability, especially in the last few years, my management work has increased a lot, and a large part of my work content now is cleaning up messes for incompetent subordinates. I also know that character is more important than ability, but to be honest, when you really don't know what kind of trouble will come looking for you every day, you really can't be bothered to care if your colleague is a piece of scum; as long as he can do his part of the work well and doesn't come to cause me trouble, let him be scum, as long as he doesn't affect me."

Lu Yan He laughed uncontrollably.

Unexpectedly, just as they were talking about Zhou Ping'an, Zhou Ping'an's call suddenly came through to Chen Ziyan.

Chen Ziyan waved the phone screen displaying Zhou Ping'an's name in front of Lu Yan He and said, "I'll take his call first."

Lu Yan He nodded.

He said, "Then I'll go to the restroom."

After he finished in the restroom, he called Chen Siqi to ask what she was doing.

Chen Siqi: "What else could I be doing? Working, of course. After the Jump Up Theater incident, our magazine has received even more submissions, and we've even received quite a few film scripts."

"Is that so?" Lu Yan He felt pleasantly surprised, "Then your reading workload has increased again."

"Yeah, but it's okay, our team has grown large now, and the difficult period of being short-handed is over." Chen Siqi said, "What are you doing?"

"I'm at Shi Huo." Lu Yan He said, "Looking at scripts with Sister Ziyan."

"Don't you already have projects to film this year?"

"Most of the scripts I'm looking at now won't start filming until next year." Lu Yan He said, "Sister Ziyan found me a few good scripts, all from directors I haven't worked with before."

"Alright." Chen Siqi said, "I have a meeting with Zijun and the others in a bit, I won't talk to you for now."

"Mm." Lu Yan He nodded, "Bye, see you tonight."

"See you tonight."

Lu Yan He hung up the phone and returned to Chen Ziyan's office.

Chen Ziyan looked at Lu Yan He with an incredulous expression and said, "Guess what Zhou Ping'an called me for?"

Lu Yan He shook his head, "Can't imagine, I feel like nothing he does would be strange."

"No, you will definitely find this strange."

"What is it?" After Chen Ziyan said that, Lu Yan He became even more curious.

Chen Ziyan: "He hopes you can save a role for Yan Liang in the movie 'Dragon Gate Inn'."

"Ah?" Lu Yan He was indeed stunned.

How should one put this.

There are too many bizarre aspects; I don't even know where to start.

Bizarre aspect one: given the relationship between Lu Yan He and Yan Liang, if Yan Liang wanted to play a role in "Dragon Gate Inn," it would never be Zhou Ping'an's place to bring it up—even if Zhou Ping'an is Yan Liang's agent.

Bizarre aspect two: given Zhou Ping'an's usual style toward Yan Liang, him suddenly taking the initiative to consider Yan Liang's career and trying to help him expand into the film market is like a weasel paying respects to a chicken—too abrupt, and it seems like he has ill intentions.

Bizarre aspect three: for this matter, Zhou Ping'an didn't call Lu Yan He directly—even though after Lu Yan He terminated his contract, their relationship slowly eased a bit during subsequent contacts, not to the point where they were dead to each other and couldn't even talk about work normally. Zhou Ping'an actually went to Chen Ziyan, hoping Chen Ziyan would do the work for Lu Yan He.

Chen Ziyan asked Lu Yan He: "What are your thoughts? Looking at the movie 'Dragon Gate Inn' now, with Liu Bige as director, you as screenwriter, and Shang Yongzhou and Chen Bige starring, it can be said to be a top-tier film lineup. However, given Yan Liang's current situation, letting him play a supporting role in the film, especially considering his friendship with you, is not very appropriate."

Lu Yan He thought for a moment and said, "In this script, there really aren't any supporting roles that are too outstanding."

"Those few eunuchs are actually quite outstanding." Chen Ziyan said, "Actually, if Yan Liang were to play such a role with a huge contrast, it would indeed make the audience feel pleasantly surprised."

"If Zhou Ping'an knew you wanted Yan Liang to play a eunuch, he would probably regret calling you."

"Zhou Ping'an making this call is actually just hoping to let Yan Liang use your movie to break into the film circle, instead of always hanging around in the TV circle." Chen Ziyan said, "If Yan Liang can play that eunuch role well and give everyone a refreshing impression, then it can actually achieve Zhou Ping'an's goal."

"Zhou Ping'an is hoping Yan Liang can take the path of an action star, right." Lu Yan He said, "Yan Liang has been insisting on martial arts training, his skills for filming action movies are actually enough."

He hesitated for a moment and said, "I'll think about it and ask for Yan Liang's opinion. Actually, if Yan Liang really wants to film a Wu Xia movie, I can just write a lead role for him in the future; that's what I told him too."

"You've thought about this yourself, but you also have to consider one thing: since Zhou Ping'an made an unprecedented call, it's very likely he saw that Yan Liang actually wants to act but is too embarrassed to ask you, so he took the liberty of calling, hoping we would take the initiative to suggest Yan Liang for the role." Chen Ziyan said, "No matter what you think or what decision you make, remember to probe Yan Liang's thoughts."

Lu Yan He nodded.

"Alright, these things are settled, we should talk about our own business." Chen Ziyan said, "Take a look at this script."

Lu Yan He took a script from Chen Ziyan's hand; the script had the five words "Oh My Sea" written on it.

"?" Lu Yan He subconsciously frowned, but upon looking closer, the screenwriter in the bottom right corner had the name "Wu Chi" written on it.

This name...

It couldn't be such a coincidence, could it?

However, this name shouldn't be easy to duplicate.

Seeing Lu Yan He's expression was a bit strange, Chen Ziyan thought he was surprised by the name "Oh My Sea," so she explained: "Don't be fooled by its strange name; you'll know why I wanted you to see it once you look at the script."

This is a film script.

This script is about the adolescence of a high school boy, about a boy's restlessness, love, and growth.

He quickly became immersed in it.

During this time, Chen Ziyan didn't make a sound to disturb him, picked up another script to read, and silently waited for Lu Yan He to finish.

"This script—" Lu Yan He spent an hour reading the script, and he revealed a look of surprise, looking at Chen Ziyan, "The style is very similar to 'Those Years'."

Chen Ziyan nodded, "Yes, that's right. Take a look at this too; sent along with this script were a few clips he edited. This Wu Chi, he is an editor."

"Mm, I know." Lu Yan He nodded.

"You know?" Chen Ziyan was stunned, then realized, "You know him?"

"Uh, I've met him once. His apprentice previously asked me about the Jump Up Theater recruiting directors; could this be from that channel?"

"That's right." Chen Ziyan nodded, "Xu Fanxing, as a Linghe staff member, participated in this Jump Up Theater. She saw this script and these edited videos and sent these materials over. She knows you don't want to be a director again in the short term, and she also knows our company has 'Those Years' waiting to start filming. She told me that this person's script and editing style are very similar to how she felt when reading the 'Those Years' script. After I watched it, I had the same feeling."

"Indeed." Lu Yan He nodded, "The style of this script is too much like 'Those Years', it even makes me feel like it's a replica of 'Those Years'; although the story structure is different, it tells the same theme."

Chen Ziyan nodded.

"You'll feel it even more clearly after watching the clips he edited." Chen Ziyan said.

Lu Yan He sat in front of Chen Ziyan's computer again and seriously watched a few clips edited by Wu Chi; they were all segments.

But to see a person's style, segments are enough.

Chen Ziyan looked at Lu Yan He and asked: "How is it? Do you want to meet him and have a chat? I think he is someone worth paying attention to for our Linghe; perhaps after chatting, we'll feel he's even more suitable and can sign him to our company."

Lu Yan He really couldn't help it and smiled.

"Sure, let's arrange a meeting then." At this moment, Lu Yan He just felt it was too incredible; suddenly, a director suitable for filming "Those Years" appeared, and it was someone he had already met once before.

"But there's one thing, Yan He, I want to be clear with you." Chen Ziyan said, "If we both end up feeling he is suitable to be the director of 'Those Years', I hope to let him film 'Oh My Sea' first. The production cost of this script is very easy to control and can be used to practice his skills. He hasn't been a director before, and I hope he accumulates some filming experience before filming 'Those Years'. So, if that's the case, 'Those Years' might have to be pushed to next year."

Lu Yan He nodded and said, "Fine, I have no problem with that."