Chapter 6

Having sent Li Xiaoran to Qingdao to experience life, Cao Yang felt a sense of relief; the remaining supporting roles weren't that hard to find.

The appeal of this film lies entirely in the female lead; as for the other supporting roles, as long as the age is appropriate, it doesn't matter who plays them. For this film, they are just symbols.

Of the three main male supporting roles, the role of the philandering director was given to Old Tian, and of the remaining two, one was given to Sun Honglei.

Currently, Sun Honglei is still a nobody in the film and television circle. The reason he was able to join the crew is that Ding Jiali is coming to play one of the female supporting roles, and the condition was that Sun Honglei must be given a role.

She is truly good to her young boyfriend, worrying her heart out for his career, often humbling herself to beg others, looking for resources everywhere, and even willing to lower her status to play a supporting role for others.

One can only say that Sun Honglei's charm is strong enough.

The last male supporting role was given to Wang Jinsong, a teacher in the Acting Department.

Wang Laoshi's acting skills are excellent, especially the segment of "pulling out a rubber band to hit your window," which has always been an enduring classic scene.

Speaking of which, it's also quite interesting. At the time, Cao Yang went to the Acting Department to find Huang Lei, wanting to invite Milk Tea Liu to have Huang Lei pass on the message, and Wang Jinsong happened to be there too.

Upon learning that Cao Yang wanted to make a movie, both Wang Jinsong and Huang Lei expressed their support, urging Cao Yang to prioritize students from the school's Acting Department if the roles were suitable. Wang Laoshi even joked, asking if he could be left a role as well.

A few days ago, Cao Yang ran into Wang Jinsong and mentioned it, not expecting that he would agree immediately, showing his support with actual actions.

He does what he says, doesn't play games, and is truly a model of a teacher.

Unlike some teachers who only know how to build a persona and think they are very good at playing the social game.

For the three main female supporting roles, one was given to the coal boss's mistress to play the girlfriend of the friend in the cafe. This role doesn't have high requirements, just play it casually; it's not the highlight anyway, so it's easy to play.

To be honest, the coal boss's taste is still okay—plump and curvy, youthful and beautiful, with a face full of collagen, very pleasing to the eye.

Ding Jiali plays the female lead's friend abroad and has quite a few scenes with the female lead. Hopefully, she won't crush Li Xiaoran when the time comes.

Actually, there's no need to worry; this role doesn't have much room for performance and is equivalent to an NPC talking to the protagonist. As long as Li Xiaoran finishes experiencing life and enters the state a little, it's hard for her acting to be crushed.

What's more, Cao Yang still has an "Acting Experience" in his hand; when the time comes, he'll stack it on Li Xiaoran. Although he doesn't know what the effect will be, it will always be of some use.

For the other best friend who kisses the female lead in the play, Cao Yang is considering giving it to Yu Feihong. She promised to make a guest appearance and can give about ten days; for those two scenes, the time is completely sufficient.

Just thinking about the scene where two beauties who look somewhat similar and are both cool and intellectual kiss and act coquettishly feels very good.

For other roles with only one or two lines or no lines, he'll find students from the Beijing Film Academy. As a person from the Beijing Film Academy, supporting the academy is an unshirkable duty; one cannot learn from predecessors who go to the Central Academy of Drama at every turn without any self-awareness.

At the same time, it can also complete the students' teaching practice—how great is that.

When the time comes, he can also find more students to be assistants on the crew, with a student assistant for every position, covering food and lodging—wouldn't the teaching practice task be over-fulfilled?

As for why the female lead isn't from the Beijing Film Academy?

Cao Yang can righteously say, didn't I send invitations to Yu Feihong and Xu Jinglei at the beginning? What can I do if they don't come to be the female lead?

Aren't they from the Beijing Film Academy?

I thought of the Beijing Film Academy the first time; this is the self-awareness of being a director from the Beijing Film Academy.

Unlike the National Master Zhang Yimou, his female leads, whether Gong Li or the International Zhang, are all from the Central Academy of Drama.

Nor is it like Old Tian, whose female leads Xu Fan and Lv Liping are also from the Central Academy of Drama.

The actors have been found, the staff can be in place at any time, the script has been sent for filing, the receipt will be down soon, and the exterior location has been negotiated. It's just missing the female lead entering the state, and it can start filming at any time.

Li Xiaoran's time lately has been... how should I put it? At first, it was quite comfortable.

Sunshine, beaches, large villas, plenty of food and drink, classic movies to watch non-stop every day, listening to songs when tired, watching the sea, strolling on the beach—it's truly a god-like life.

At the very least, for the first few days, she truly felt that life was so beautiful.

Except for being a bit wasteful of paper.

The sweeter the romance in these movies starts, the more heart-wrenching the ending is. I really want to send a blade to the dog director.

As time passed, the more heart-wrenching movies she watched, the more sad love songs she listened to non-stop. In such a large villa, she was all alone, and loneliness and sorrow began to haunt her heart.

Watching movies, crying, listening to songs, feeling sad.

Strolling on the beach, the cold autumn wind, the lonely sunset, the sad and desolate atmosphere lingering around her—Li Xiaoran felt that such a life was not so beautiful after all.

Just like this, day after day, she didn't know how many days had passed. Every day was muddled, full of wild thoughts, and sentimental.

Thinking alone, walking alone, laughing alone, crying alone, feeling sad alone, talking to herself alone, humming to herself alone, waiting for the moon to fall and the morning to rise alone.

Suddenly one day, Li Xiaoran couldn't help but think in her heart, has this world abandoned me? Why am I so lonely and sad?

Cao Yang arrived. The first time he saw Li Xiaoran strolling on the beach, he knew it was almost done.

He couldn't find words to describe Li Xiaoran at this moment—aloof from the world? Perhaps.

This was Cao Yang's second visit. The first time he came, although it was a bit interesting, he always felt it was still lacking something. So he began to coach Li Xiaoran on the acting, telling her what kind of story this was, telling her about the female lead's tragic encounter, telling her about the philandering director's promiscuity, telling her about the pressure of the secular world...

After Li Xiaoran fully understood the story, Cao Yang left, and the film could also be pushed forward.

!

So he returned to school to gather the crew members and held a meeting to discuss the shooting details. He gathered the actors other than the female lead, read the script together, and let everyone get familiar with the story and their colleagues.

Another half a month passed, the shooting details had been finalized, and the 35mm Kodak film, each roll of which could shoot 4 minutes, had also arrived. A total of 125 rolls were bought, purchased at a ratio of 5:1 for shooting.

Cao Yang estimated that Li Xiaoran should be ready, so he took the crew and set off for Qingdao.

Fortunately he came; otherwise, if he waited another month, she might really become depressed.

"Xiaoran?"

Cao Yang raised his hand and greeted her.

By the edge of that boundless blue, Li Xiaoran was in a clean, white, sleeveless dress, with a khaki trench coat over it, quietly blending into this tranquil beach.

She smoothed her long hair, which had been messed up by the sea breeze, took out a single earphone, first looked at Cao Yang in a daze for a moment, and then smiled stiffly.

Pale skin, red-rimmed eyes, haggard face, tired expression, messy long hair—what a tragic and beautiful picture.

"It's done!"

Cao Yang couldn't hide his excitement and immediately called to notify everyone: get ready, damn it, we start filming tomorrow!

Then he thought for a moment and opened the system.

Host: Cao Yang

Current Reputation: 10627

Available Reputation: 10627

Acting Experience: +1

Film in Preparation: "On the Beach at Night Alone"

Female Lead Actor: Li Xiaoran

Cao Yang didn't hesitate anymore, clicked on Acting Experience, and added it to Li Xiaoran.

Let me stack another buff for you; I hope you can perform beyond expectations.

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(End of chapter)