Chapter 603

"I don't even know where you found this group of actors; how are they so good at acting?"

Chen Yu was also drinking with Xin Pingqing. After three cups, Chen Yu had already started chattering away.

"I used to film with my teacher, and every time the hardest part was finding actors. Good actors suitable for the roles are too hard to find, and scheduling is a huge difficulty," said Chen Yu. "How did you manage to make every actor in every role so impressive?"

"The actors of the Jump Up Theater have all gone through auditions. For actors who aren't experienced, they will hire acting coaches to lead them in exploring their characters. Moreover, after the crew is officially established, the director will start working on the script with the actors, rehearsing offline," said Xin Pingqing. "It's basically like a stage play. When this show started filming, everyone had basically rehearsed many times in private."

Chen Yu couldn't believe it.

"Are they willing to invest so much time in the early stages?" he asked.

Xin Pingqing said: "Unless it's at the level of a lead actor like Yan He, and they have to be very good at acting, we won't be worried. For actors who can't invest time and energy from the early stages, we won't hire them. We made this very clear during auditions."

"Alright, then you guys are impressive. If we made such a request to actors, many wouldn't come," said Chen Yu. "The Jump Up Theater is still different."

"No, actually, many people hear such requests and don't come either," said Xin Pingqing. "But we have built a very large actor database. Every time an actor comes for an audition, we build an information file. This way, when we choose actors, many roles have direct target candidates. After having choices, if some actors don't come, they don't come."

Chen Yu was shocked.

"This is really something only your Jump Up Theater can do. Otherwise, we might have one project a year, or even one project every two or three years; building such an actor database doesn't have much significance."

Xin Pingqing nodded: "So, actually, there are professional casting companies in the industry now."

"Professional casting companies have a problem: they aren't that familiar with the crew's requirements; they all look for people based on a few key characteristics," said Chen Yu. "Yours is more precise than their targeting."

Xin Pingqing nodded: "Mainly because, on average, we start a project every week, so doing such a thing is very necessary."

"I've learned something," Chen Yu nodded. "In the future, if I can't find actors, I'll come to you."

Xin Pingqing laughed.

"Mainly because my leaders have great courage. Each show has one actor who can carry the show, or even none, it doesn't matter. They interview actors completely from the perspective of character suitability and acting considerations," said Xin Pingqing. "Besides here, which crew in the industry can do this? Which audition isn't followed by all kinds of human favors and undercurrents? You never know who is standing behind an actor."

"Isn't this quite good? The Jump Up Theater is really changing the industry's ecology time and time again," Chen Yu nodded. "I hope that in the future, major film and television companies will follow your lead and copy the model."

When he said this, he toasted Xin Pingqing. After drinking, he asked: "However, Qing-ge, what happened to Director An? How did he suddenly become unable to direct? It shouldn't be a sudden illness, right?"

Xin Pingqing was stunned and looked at Chen Yu with some surprise.

"I've already been pulled onto this boat by you anyway, so you have to tell me what happened to the people who were on this boat before, right?" said Chen Yu.

Xin Pingqing showed hesitation.

Liu Yuan was a person sent by the Jump Up company to the *Silent Staircase* crew, serving as a financial assistant.

He didn't expect that one day he would suddenly start doing human resources work.

Before the boss came, she asked him to privately investigate which people in the crew were brought by Director An Jian, and to organize a list, including any information he could get.

Although Liu Yuan was puzzled, a worker wouldn't directly raise questions because of confusion.

He still very seriously followed Chen Siqi's request to understand the relevant situation.

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However, after he organized it, it was even stranger.

Logically speaking, shouldn't this kind of thing be handled by Xin Pingqing, the production assistant?

He had all the information about everyone in the crew; why ask him, a financial assistant who had nothing to do with it, to do this?

He took the information to Chen Siqi.

Chen Siqi nodded and asked: "Is there any problem with the crew's finances?"

"Every account is clear," said Liu Yuan.

"Alright, thank you for your hard work," Chen Siqi nodded.

After Liu Yuan left, Lu Yan He asked her: "Why didn't you just let Xin Pingqing organize this information for you?"

"He's so busy right now."

Lu Yan He paused: "But for him, this information is readily available."

Chen Siqi looked back at Lu Yan He: "Alright, to tell the truth, he is also one of the people who received the anonymous letter and is related to this matter. I want to find someone unrelated to investigate what An Jian's interpersonal relationships in the crew are really like."

Lu Yan He: "You suspect Xin Pingqing?"

"A little," Chen Siqi asked. "Don't you find it strange? Only two people in the entire crew received the anonymous letter. One was Director An Jian himself, which we can all understand. Then why was the other person Xin Pingqing?"

Lu Yan He: "Because he's the production assistant?"

"Then why not send it to the producer, but to a production assistant?" Chen Siqi pressed.

Lu Yan He frowned slightly: "Because Xin Pingqing is from Linghe Film and Television, but the executive producer on site is from Beijiguang Video? In this person's eyes, Xin Pingqing is more trustworthy?"

"Director An Jian is the director we decided on, not Beijiguang Video. If we're talking about being more trustworthy, according to the degree of intimacy, Beijiguang Video's relationship with Director An Jian is the most distant," Chen Siqi waved her hand. "But I'm just suspicious, I don't have any evidence. I'm just investigating according to my judgment first."

"I'm just surprised that the first person you suspected was Xin Pingqing."

"I didn't suspect him first, but I do have suspicions about him," Chen Siqi said bluntly. "Because Hu Siwei mentioned to me that Xin Pingqing's attitude toward An Jian wasn't very friendly. Knowing that An Jian wanted to join Linghe, he expressed his opposition to this matter to Hu Siwei."

Lu Yan He was slightly stunned.

"There's such a thing? Why is that?"

"Who knows," said Chen Siqi. "People who can know these things about An Jian must be people who have known An Jian for a long time. After all, these things haven't been exposed, and the scope of people who know about this is limited. I can think of either old people who followed An Jian for a long time, or people who know these old people. So, I asked Liu Yuan to help me inquire and investigate in the crew. This kind of private relationship can be seen from the resume, but sometimes, it can't be seen from the resume."

Lu Yan He nodded.

"By the way, how is your communication with the *Tropical Rainy Season* side? When is the latest you have to go over?"

"It's okay. Wang Biao coordinated with them, and they can adjust my filming time later. Anyway, I don't have many scenes," said Lu Yan He. "The time here is much more relaxed. If a week really isn't enough, or if reshoots are needed, I can cooperate."

"That's good," Chen Siqi smiled. "By the way, I will also go to Malaysia in June."

Lu Yan He laughed: "Visiting the set?"

"Visiting the set, and by the way, to discuss the publication of the Chinese and English versions of *Jump Up* in Malaysia," Chen Siqi also smiled. "A cultural foundation invited us to discuss cooperation. Because there are many Chinese in Malaysia, this foundation is already doing the overseas dissemination of Chinese culture. Knowing that our *Jump Up* has been trying to make an impact overseas and wants to go to sea, they took the initiative to contact us."

Lu Yan He: "That's true, Malaysia, Singapore... there are still quite a few places in Southeast Asia where there are many Chinese."

"Yes," Chen Siqi nodded. "Although the sales of the three books currently published by *Jump Up* in Japan are average and have been losing money, it's really frustrating."

Lu Yan He: "Work hard on operations."

"I have already planned to let the Japanese version of *Jump Up* cooperate with celebrity agencies to see if celebrities can bring goods."

"It's not impossible, but the cost of this cooperation shouldn't be low, right?"

"It depends on the cooperation model," said Chen Siqi. "The Jump Up Theater has been built up. These shows will have the opportunity to be broadcast overseas in the future. I plan to use this influence to translate the theme books of *Jump Up* wherever they are broadcast."

"That works too," Lu Yan He nodded. "The premise is that the film and television show must have popularity and popularity in the local area."

"Anyway, work hard to do it. Fortunately, the cost of making books is not that high, and it can be supported by our advertising fees," Chen Siqi smiled. "Especially now that the Jump Up Theater is done, our copyright operation revenue has soared, giving us the capital to continue tossing."

"Quite good," Lu Yan He nodded. "In this day and age, there are not many companies that can rely on print media to earn advertising fees."

Many people think that *Jump Up* magazine relies on advertising fees from other channels to support this magazine. In fact, many people don't know that the revenue brought by the advertising pages distributed with the magazine every month is enough to support this magazine to make attempts to go to sea. At the same time, the sales volume of about 250,000 copies per month, as well as the sales revenue of the electronic version, make the annual net profit of this magazine more than 10 million, completely achieving self-sufficiency. Not to mention the revenue from copyright derivative cooperation led by the Jump Up Theater.

Chen Siqi herself summarized why *Jump Up* can succeed, and it is a continuous success. There is a key factor: this magazine has never been conservative, only staying in its own safe zone, and has been trying various cooperation, from electronic versions, to inviting famous writers to publish articles, from combining holidays or some themes to make special issues, creating topics, to deep cooperation with the film and television circle, whether it is the columns of celebrity artists or the development of the Jump Up Theater, Chen Siqi and her team have never felt that the success of *Jump Up* has reached a bottleneck and can stop there.

Everyone still believes that the readership and audience of this magazine can be more, constantly tossing, and really little by little, the readership of this magazine is constantly expanding, and then, a solid user base has been accumulated for the entire Jump Up media matrix.

"Our kind of big ensemble show, which is also a show that tells stories mainly through character dialogue, everyone's rhythm is very important. One sentence, one second early, one second late, the feeling is not right."

What people didn't expect was that Chen Yu pulled several main actors to eat together every day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, without missing a meal.

Every time they ate, Chen Yu would talk about his understanding and views on this show while eating.

Mainly because time was too tight.

Chen Yu didn't have any other time to communicate with everyone.

And if a director cannot understand his actors enough, it often leads to a result of being together in body but not in spirit for the scene—this does not refer to the relationship between the director and the actor, but the understanding of the director and the actor for the character presentation.

"The slap that Teacher Yufen gave at the end of the scene filmed this morning was just right, a performance at the level of a best actress," Chen Yu gave a thumbs up to Peng Yufen. "Too impressive. At five seconds, three kinds of emotions changed at once, and then a slap was slapped over, and the feeling of the whole scene came up."

Peng Yufen smiled and waved her hand, saying: "The director is too good at praising people."

Zhang Yuan immediately asked: "Director, is it possible that I acted worse than her?"

Peng Yufen immediately put away her smile and rolled her eyes at him, "How old are you, still begging for praise?"

Chen Yu seemed not to notice the discord between the two at all.

"The feeling between the two of you is just right," Chen Yu smiled. "After the show is broadcast, I think many viewers will eat your CP."

"What the hell?" Zhang Yuan immediately widened his eyes.

Peng Yufen also looked disgusted.

"Viewers should eat something good, don't eat everything, it's easy to get a stomachache."

Chen Yu laughed loudly, turned his head to look at a photographer responsible for filming the crew documentary next to him, and said: "Remember to cut this dialogue out. When the audience eats this CP later, put this dialogue out!"

When he said this, the two of them were embarrassed to continue to choke each other, glared at each other, and stopped talking.

Lu Yan He smiled.

It's really a bit funny.

However, Chen Yu can have a trick to suppress these two old cannons who don't get along, it can only be said that he really has two brushes.

Lu Yan He was very curious about how Chen Yu grew up. Young directors have talent, Lu Yan He is not surprised, talent is more than half of the talent, born with it, amazing, that also has to thank God for the meal, but this kind of four-two-thousand-pound human sophistication, handled with points and inches, advancing and retreating, really needs acquired practice.

At this moment, Lu Yan He really wanted to dig Chen Yu to his company.

However, it was just such a thought, he timely dispelled this thought.

At the beginning of *Love Letter*, digging a Li Fenglei was already troublesome enough.

Lu Yan He didn't want to experience such trouble again.

Known, keep a cooperative relationship, and cooperate together when there are suitable projects in the future.

There is no need to want to dig people to his company when he meets someone he appreciates.

His company is not a warehouse, and all good things have to be collected.

Lu Yan He's mobile phone suddenly vibrated, it was a message from Chen Siqi: Xin Pingqing's father was once a screenwriter in Director An Jian's company, and later committed suicide.

The smile on Lu Yan He's face suddenly stiffened.

Recommend the old book *I Became a Scandal Heroine Overnight* and the new book *Sword of the Demon Hunter* ===== CHAPTER 604 =====