Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

In terms of the entire ecology of China's entertainment industry, it is a pyramid shape in terms of the degree of respect and the amount of income.

The top of the tower is naturally an actor, and actors in China mainly have three forms of performance: movies, TV dramas and stage plays, and stage play is a broad term. Under the subdivision, there are so-called dramas, operas, dramas, musicals, Subcategories such as Musical Theater.The threshold for an actor is relatively high, either one has a professional background, or a grass-roots team has accumulated a lot of experience after running for several years; at the same time, the standards for actors are also very strict. The performance details of the actors, as long as they can't break through themselves, they will be criticized as "not thinking about making progress".

Below the actors are the so-called cultural people and musicians. They are all very professional existences, and they are considered to be on the fringes of the entertainment circle, but their income is very high, especially under the strict copyright of Huaxia Kingdom.No kidding, even if someone randomly sang a line of lyrics on the TV station, the TV station will eventually have to pay the copyright royalty to the author of the lyric.Under cultural people and musicians are anchors, hosts, and variety show guests. The threshold for anchors is relatively high; but the threshold for hosts and variety show guests is zero, as long as they can be funny.However, it takes at least five years for an anchor to go from being a reporter to sitting on the worst morning news anchor station; it is impossible to sit on the evening news anchor station without ten years.Comedians who can enter the TV station must have at least ten years of experience in the industry, and those who can have their own titled program and become the host are old monsters who have been in the comedy circle for 20 years.

Below this is the singer. In fact, the original status of the singer should be regarded as the third or even the second class, but at that time, the physical record was extremely brilliant.At that time, as long as a singer or band could sell a platinum record, they would basically live comfortably for a lifetime; if they sold diamonds or even crown sales, it would not only be enough to live comfortably for a lifetime, but enough to spend several lifetimes.But with the avalanche of physical record sales, life has become difficult for singers.Fortunately, the singer still has two income channels of KTV and live singing, so he can still maintain the fourth level of income in the entertainment industry.

Under the musicians are cross-border sports athletes. The alliance between athletes and the entertainment industry was a matter of 20 years ago. After that, many active or retired sports athletes came to the entertainment industry to develop and became a part of the entertainment industry.However, most of the athletes do not have serious income in the entertainment industry, and their influence is limited, so they are ranked fifth.

Under the athletes are overseas entertainers and cross-dressing entertainers. Overseas entertainers have also emerged in the entertainment circle in recent decades. Their exotic styles and weird accents have brought a different style to the entertainment circle.

The cross-dressing artists under the overseas artists are a force that has only emerged in the last ten years. They disguise themselves as men and women and become the favorite resident guests of various variety shows.

And in the penultimate layer of the entertainment industry are the idols with glamorous appearance. Although the idols sell well in records and have high TV ratings, the commission of the agency is terrible.Either take [-]% or [-]% of the money, or simply give you a monthly salary.Although many idols seem to be superhuman, their actual income is nothing more than ordinary white-collar workers, but their expenses are several times that of white-collar workers.Therefore, many idols are already behind the backs of brokerage companies or setting up stalls to earn some living expenses, or simply apply for low-income protection funds from the government.

Below the idols are photostars. Although the income of a photobook is relatively high for photostars, the stability is far less than that of idols.At the same time, as general photo albums are becoming more and more unsalable, many so-called cool photos have become the direction of work that photo stars have to choose.

In Li Wei's view, once he chooses cool portraiture, he is not far away from becoming a teacher who is both virtuous and artistic.

However, this division is also a general division, and each class has very special cases.For example, among the musicians, there are a few big creators whose annual copyright income is about 20 million yuan, and they are directly among the top ten regulars in the entertainment industry income list; and there are also ace hosts like "Three Kings and One Queen" in the variety show host world , their annual income is also in the top ten of the income list; even among the lowest photo actresses, there are photo queens like Zhong Mingyan, and their income last year exceeded [-] billion yuan, successfully reaching the top ten of entertainment star income .

However, the success of Zhong Mingyan alone cannot change the tragedy of the photo stars. Most of the photo stars are shooting stars in the entertainment industry, and less than 1% of the cases can be successfully transformed.Because of this, Li Wei has designed a future for his idols, hoping that they can successfully transform in the middle and late stages of their idol careers.Or become a professional singer, or become a professional actor, no matter how bad it is, you must become an excellent comedian so that you can gain a firm foothold in variety shows.

Of course, Li Wei will not waste the company's resources for those idols who are getting by.Li Wei is the boss who was born as an idol, so he is willing to give opportunities to juniors who are also idols, but if he can't seize the opportunity or doesn't care about the opportunity at all, then Li Wei will not become the Virgin Mary when they are in trouble. Come to save them, "Those who save themselves, people will always save them."

Li Wei is now acting as the executive director of the stage play with Du Wen. Although Li Wei's age makes many people want to bully, but when they think of Li Wei's true identity, this group of staff immediately dare not.Aside from being afraid of directors and screenwriters, actors are most afraid of the on-site photographers, lighting engineers, makeup artists and costumers.As long as they put some tricks in their hands, they will be destroyed in the camera.

Smart actors will treat the main crew members to afternoon tea on the first day they come to the crew, and then they will even invite these major crew members to have a meal before the official shooting of themselves.Since then, I have to buy coffee, milk tea and snacks every now and then to treat these big brothers and sisters.Only in this way can we live safely in the crew and receive some gossip when nothing happens.

But Li Wei himself is the executive director, and the boss of these big brothers and sisters is himself.They can indeed submit to Li Wei's ignorance, but if they tear their faces apart, will Li Wei, the boss of a group, let him off easily?Therefore, everyone who thinks of Li Wei's other identity dare not make mistakes, and cooperate with Li Wei obediently.

The rehearsal of the stage play is actually very boring but essential, because the stage play is a live film and television drama with a super long shot with only one fixed camera position.If there are flaws or improper coordination in the film and television drama, you can stop and restart, but the stage drama cannot.

The most important thing is that the on and off stage of those props are also time-controlled, and there is no way to stop on the stage to allow you to start over.Especially now that stage plays are becoming more and more complicated, with more and more scenes, and more and more exaggerated props.For example, in "Across the Ocean and Sea to Love You", which is being performed enthusiastically, even the helicopter has become a prop.Du Wen pointed out that the trouble with the props of this stage play is that the stage background is constantly switching between reality and fantasy, so the teachers in the props group will be exhausted by Du Wen.

One side is a realistic black and gray urban forest background, and the other part is a beautiful dreamland.In less than half an hour, the background style on the stage was about to undergo a major change. Thanks to the sharp lips of the actors, they were able to come up with jokes to save the scene in case of emergencies.Therefore, excellent film and television actors are fairly easy to find, but excellent stage actors are rare.

After more than half a month of rehearsals and the last few walks on stage, the day of the official screening has finally arrived.Although the stage play is not very popular, there are still many audiences in big cities such as Donghai City or cities with relatively concentrated universities.The loyalty of this group of audiences is high, and these audiences belong to the high-income class, so the tickets for stage plays are relatively expensive. In addition to the beautifully printed show catalogs and limited makeup photo posters and photo albums of the actors, many stage shows As long as the show is performed locally for ten shows, it will be considered a breakeven. If it can be toured for a year, everyone can basically have a happy New Year.And classic masterpieces like "Across the Ocean and Sea to Love You", "Rebirth", "Return" and "The Bell Tower Wail", after decades of performances, their original production teams have already entered the century. millionaire class.

Even so, some publicity that should be done still needs to be done.As the director and on-site director of this play, Du Wen and Li Wei appeared on many talk shows to introduce their romantic comedy stage play called "Peach Blossom Love".After all, compared with those masterpieces, Du Wen and Li Wei are freshmen who have just set foot in stage play production, and most of the actors are rookie actors who have just graduated from drama schools, so not many people are optimistic about this stage play.

The only publicity highlight may be that Du Wen, a bohemian and talented director, after filming "The Past Cannot Be Chased", which has a good box office and good reputation, immediately filmed a film with a very personal style that was blasted into scum by the film critics at the same time. The film "Luxurious" that rushed to death at the box office. Naturally, no one dared to ask Du Wen to make a movie after "Paper Drunken Gold", so Du Wen bought the copyright of a short love story himself, and then adapted it into the current "Peach Blossom Love".

Just listening to the name, I feel that this is a vulgar love drama.No gays!No unrequited love!No sadomasochism!Didn't love you enough to kill you!This... How can this satisfy the literary and artistic youth who love stage plays.Literary and artistic youths are living a life beyond the reach of ordinary people. When the spring is cold, they wear thin silk clothes, and with the support of a beautiful maidservant, they palely admire a crabapple flower that quietly bloomed yesterday.Then he spit out a mouthful of blood, and chanted tremblingly, you smell like her perfume, slowly paralyzed like □□, let me continue this drama...

"Director Du, why do I think we don't take the production company's money too seriously?" After the show, Li Wei couldn't help asking, "Since the main audience of the stage play is so hypocritical, we can also be hypocritical. Ahh. The big deal is car crashes, amnesia, leukemia and other bloody plots! Then there is a love triangle, a four-corner love, a five-corner love...the stepmother loves the stepson, the younger brother loves the older brother, and finally the lovers are brothers and sisters... Wow, After this filming, those literary youths will not be moved to death."

"Hahahaha, I found that you are more disgusted than I am! Sure enough, it is not wrong to ask you to be the executive director." Du Wen was made to laugh out loud by Li Wei's words, "I found that you have already become more interested in the director's technical work. There is no problem, what is lacking is the understanding of the artistic part of the director’s job. Let me give you a suggestion, either to be a photographer, or to be a leading actor, and then slowly figure it out. After three or four years, you You can try to make low-budget movies. Then, if you are interested in being a leading actor, here is a movie that is very suitable for you. Are you interested in going crazy with me?"

To be continued...

The author has something to say: the rest of the third update is estimated to be released in the early morning, everyone should watch it tomorrow morning.