fantasy blockbuster era

Chapter 4

It's not an easy thing for Zhang Yang to start a company, shoot a drama for the first time, and everything is the first time.

The first thing he considered was to make a movie or a TV series?
In the end, I chose the form of a TV series!
why?
According to the system's experience value calculation method, the method of gaining experience from filming movies is obviously much faster than filming TV series.

But there is a problem. In fact, Zhang Yang wants to shoot a fantasy story first and tell it well and in detail.

Obviously, in order to achieve this goal, TV series will be more convenient!

He plans to shoot the drama Romance of the Dragon and Snake in seasons, with 12 episodes per season, and all the funds will be used by the producers of the series to create scenes and plots that are more in line with the original.

In the first season of the drama Romance of the Dragon and Snake, he only planned to shoot the part where Wang Chao and Zhang Wei, the three tigers of Guangdong, were fighting on the cruise ship, and just finished filming a climax. The world, presented in front of the audience, is enough to attract the audience's interest.

If the response is good enough and the experience points are enough, he will continue filming the second and third seasons until the end. If it is not good enough, he will wait for the rest of the plot.

From the point of view of the book, the content of the first season is just a short paragraph, but there are many characters, the most important of which is the hero Wang Chao, followed by the heroine Tang Zichen, followed by Zhao Xinglong, Zhang Tong, Captain Cao, etc. Some supporting characters.

Unlike ordinary TV dramas, in this drama, the heroine actually appears relatively rarely, especially according to his expected shooting content, she will appear in 1.2 episodes at most.

The four characters that really appear most throughout the first season are Wang Chao, Zhang Tong, Captain Cao, Zhu Jia, and the others are minor supporting roles.

And among these four characters, except for Wang Chao, no one else will appear in each episode, only in the middle or later.

So when Zhang Yang was preparing to recruit actors for the crew, he had to choose the role of Wang Chao well.

As long as Wang Chao plays well, the whole show will be fine!
But the role of Wang Chao is very difficult. At the beginning, he was just an ordinary high school student. After the martial arts competition in the middle, he had the street stalker's attitude of grabbing money from a hooligan. There are so many changes, it is very challenging to act.

From what he saw, there were almost no young actors in the entire entertainment industry who could perform the role of Wang Chao with charm.

In the Dragon Kingdom entertainment circle, all the young fresh meats are popular now. It is too difficult for them to play the role of Wang Chao, and the cost can be tens of millions. Even if Zhang Yang has 5000 million in his hand, he still cannot afford it.

He was planning to spend most of the money on special effects, martial arts, props, etc. How could there be so much money for Xiao Xianrou!

"This is the problem we are facing now, what do you think we should do?"

"My company has some young actors, but if they are really asked to play the role of Wang Chao, I'm afraid they won't be able to. First of all, they don't fit Wang Chao's temperament at first glance!"

In the office of Xuanyu Film and Television, Wang Fei thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't come up with a good solution.

He read the novel "Dragon Snake" from Zhang Yang overnight, and he liked it very much, and he didn't want to smash the novel.

"We are a start-up now, and we don't know anything about the industry. If we have money, what can we do without actors, and other small roles don't matter, but if we want to continue filming later, it's not just Wang Chao, but Tang Zichen, who has a larger length in the later stage. You have to choose the characters well, you can't choose randomly, it will mess up the reputation, and if the drama is not filmed well, the investors will withdraw their capital and it will be over."

"Makes sense."

Zhang Yang nodded, the problem Wang Fei said does exist.

He doesn't worry about investors, but actors are really important, and they will be used in subsequent episodes, so they can't be replaced at will. Even if the role of the first season is not big, they must be carefully selected.

Many TV series in Longguo are filmed on a seasonal basis, often changing actors in the second season, destroying the good reputation accumulated in the first season.

In the audience's mind, no matter how bad the first season was, if there is no significant improvement in the second season, then the replacement must be a problem that will be complained about.

"The company has just been established, and there are no signed actors at all. They are not well-known and have no one. I think it's better to hold an audition for actors on the Internet."

The two thought about it for a long time, and Zhang Yang came up with a solution. "Now is the Internet age. Douyin, Kuaijia, and Guangbo are all very good channels. The company pays to put ads on these software, and there should be good ones." The effect. In addition to advertising, you can talk to your parents, activate your relationship, and contact a few celebrities and anchors who are familiar with you and have some fans to advertise. I will pay how much it costs. It should be a multi-pronged approach. It works."

Wang Fei nodded: "That's fine too. Together, there should be quite a lot of coverage, and our Xuanyu company can also take the lead in the circle. I will arrange a few employees to go to several film and television cities in China to recruit them. Criticize extras and small actors, that’s about it.”

Zhang Yang also thinks this method is very good.

"Well, we're only filming the first season, and we don't need too many actors, and the actors selected in this way are more in line with our ideas, and the asking price is also cheap, which is completely enough."

As soon as he said it, Zhang Yang immediately contacted several short video platforms and Guangbo, and spent several million on advertising, plus the people from Wang Fei's family, all of them worked together, and the actor of "The Romance of the Dragon and Snake" Audition activities are starting!
The entire event lasts for one month, and anyone who is interested can sign up.

The number of applicants is preliminarily screened by the company, and those who do not have enough external conditions and whose image obviously does not meet the characteristics of the characters are removed. There are not many people left. Finally, these people will be invited to the company for a unified interview to finally determine the actors.

Sure enough, after spending millions of dollars, the advertisement had an effect, and a lot of water was splashed on the Internet. The book "Romance of the Dragon and Snake" itself has a foundation, coupled with the platform push, the audition event quickly rushed to the hot search list Shan, trembling, the heat of the dragon and snake inside Kuaijiao also remained high.

Many bloggers who made short videos took advantage of the popularity and made a few videos to popularize the book Dragon Snake, which pushed the popularity even higher, and the whole Internet was boiling for a while!

There are a lot of discussions, people who watch the excitement, those who eat melons, those who criticize, those who dig into the history of entertainment, and there are also many people who sign up for activities. Every day, people call the company's customer service department for consultation.

This audition activity is mainly to recruit those characters with names and surnames that appear in the book, and some characters that will also appear in the follow-up episodes.

For example, Wang Chao, Zhao Xinglong, Zhang Wei, Zhang Tong, Tang Zichen, Zhu Jia, Cao Captain, Cao Jingjing, etc. are among them, and the rest of the supporting roles, like Li Wanji, can be found directly at the film and television city. A supporting role to play, plus a few extras is almost enough.

(End of this chapter)