Shenhao UP Lord

Chapter 253 The Legendary Assistant Director?
Just listening to Ding Xu can already feel the bitterness of the group performance. The physical fatigue is only part of it, and the mental contempt is the most torturous.

"Hey, in fact, going to the prospect is not much better than the first week of group performance life in Hengdian. Although the role of the group performance in the foreground is not important, it basically takes a long time to prepare every day, such as getting up at two or three o'clock to make up, etc. wait."

"Although it's three to four hundred a day, which is much higher than a year ago, I gradually understand the truth behind the wages of extras. Even the same scene in the same shot will have different prices."

"The reason is very simple, it depends on whether you were selected through legitimate channels or arranged through the back door!"

"For the same job, you might get 200, but someone else gets 500. I was angry at first, but then I got used to it."

Ding Xu nodded, and added to the camera: "Brothers, do you hear that? Brother Xu is not talking nonsense, right?"

"The key is that [-] is not the initial price set aside by the crew for the extras, but the price after the assistant director and others deducted layer upon layer."

"At that time, the Hengdian Guild had not yet developed the level of supervision that it does now. The connection between the extras and the crew was all done through some private studios."

"For example, when a crew comes to Hengdian to film a movie, the studio often makes a private agreement with the person in charge of the crew, basically the assistant director, to contract out the casting task to himself and promise to give him certain benefits."

"I once saw a female ensemble performer who was asked to perform a large-scale nudity scene at the scene. At the beginning, she was told that she would only show her back and promise to pay [-] yuan. Finally, when the performance officially started, she found that it was not that simple and expressed dissatisfaction on the spot. "

"The director was also very angry, cursing that you won't act in a scene for 2000 yuan?"

Fat Tiger was shocked, you are too dark!
Only two hundred for the backless?

How much of this kind of work do I want!

"In fact, all the money has been earned by the studio and the assistant director, and there are also cases where the crew defaulted on wages. Many extra performers can't even afford the bus tickets to go home during the Chinese New Year. The friends who came with me also At this time, I chose to return to my hometown and continue to live a stable life from [-] to [-]."

"Even now, we can't really kill the phenomenon of deductions. Every group performer has to pay taxes every day. Generally speaking, 1 hours a day is 10 yuan, and 100 yuan will be deducted. Overtime is counted as overtime, and 10% of the total amount will be deducted."

"There is a so-called salary scale for extra actors here. A strange phenomenon is that when the guild or the assistant director selects actors, if they see that you were paid one or two thousand a day before, they will give you almost the same amount when they hire you. This price.”

"But if you were paid three to five hundred before, you will definitely not give an extra penny this time. How much you earn depends on how capable you are."

It may feel that what I said was a bit too much, the old demon hurriedly added: "Of course it is good to have a union, so that group performers have more protection, at least there are fewer and fewer wage arrears, right?"

Fat Hu and Lao Zhang looked at each other, there were many things they couldn't say.Xiangshan still has a studio management model, and many directors have even moved to that mountain to film.

For group performances, they prefer to shoot in Hengdian, which has better guarantees. To put it bluntly, going to Xiangshan to run among the masses is equivalent to entering a small thief boat?

"After doing a group performance in the foreground for a period of time, I unknowingly found that even if I don't go to the crew to send materials, someone will come to me to act on my own initiative?"

"At that time, I couldn't help but feel a little bit of joy in my heart. I felt that I was slowly getting ahead, and was promoted from the foreground ensemble to the special actor. There were also more considerations for the matching scenes. I no longer accepted the foreground ensemble, and I would not accept the ones without lines."

"I also understand that my biggest advantage is actually two brushes: Japanese and calligraphy."

The old demon said with a smile: "Needless to say Japanese in anti-war dramas, I later found out that the same is true for brush characters. Many costume dramas often have scenes of characters writing brush characters. We are also commonly known as hand substitutes."

"Actually, whether it's Japanese or brush calligraphy, I don't necessarily have to be very good professionally, but I just need to be a little bit better than those who don't know it, speak a little more fluently, and write neatly."

"This is called choosing generals among cripples."

Ding Xu laughed, there was no other way, it was impossible to pick one out of thousands of ensemble performances without any talent.

"Now the crew that needs me to speak Japanese can get 1000 yuan for a few words a day, and 2000 yuan for a little more lines. A few days ago, I wrote 800 yuan for a few words written with a brush for a large drama crew."

The old demon said easily: "I heard that there was a production about gourmet cooking, and they wanted to find an extra with good knife skills. The shredding performance cost three thousand a day, and twenty thousand for seven days!"

"After searching for a long time, I couldn't find it, so I had to invite a chef from other places."

"I've seen many ensemble performers who actually work hard, but they can only be reckless. In fact, whether it's Japanese, calligraphy, cooking, or dancing, singing, taekwondo, etc., as long as you have a little bit of expertise, the life of ensemble performers will be great. Much easier."

"I even feel that Hengdian group performances are becoming more and more popular as they get older!"

Ding Xu feels the same way. Two-thirds of the so-called [-] extras are young people. They basically come here on impulse. They can't work for a few months and just run away.

On the contrary, it is easier for middle-aged actors like Lao Yao to take on roles because they have fewer people and have been around for a long time, so they have accumulated resources.

This is especially true for older actors. Those who can survive are elites, and they are thieves who are old but not dead.

The old demon took a sip of water and continued: "Since 18, under the influence of various restrictions on antiquity, capital ebb, and tax inspection turmoil, the Hengdian crew has indeed been somewhat depressed. Even if they are acting as special actors, it is inevitable. The bottom group Not to mention acting."

"Actually, before I came to Hengdian, I thought the assistant director was quite good. After all, there is only one word difference between him and the director, right?"

"But I found out later, especially after personal experience, that the difference behind a word is not 01:30. The so-called assistant director is nothing more than a person who passes information and receives photos!"

"Many come from bad backgrounds, such as hooligans, gamblers, loafers, and loan sharks. But as long as you can flatter your horse and be eloquent, you don't need much cultural ink. After two months, you may be able to soar into the sky and change your appearance. You can also become an assistant director, group leader, team leader, etc.”

"Once I went to the production crew to hand over information, and I met a certain assistant director who asked me where I came from and if I had ever studied acting. In the end, I was asked to improvise a white-collar scene."

"After the performance, he even specially instructed me, saying that my acting was wrong. I thought to myself that I had worked as a white-collar worker before, so why was my acting wrong?"

"Later, I heard from friends privately that the assistant director was originally a vegetable seller."

"A person like this can actually pick on you by wearing the hat of an assistant director?"

"Judging you?"

"Even tell you a play?"

(End of this chapter)