Ten years of film queen, finally became a top star

Chapter 312 2nd Audition

Yu Jiang was listening in from behind. It seemed that every department was full of resentment. Her brother Ning's role as chief director was not as impressive as when he was the director of photography.

In addition to Dao Ge and the set design, even Sister Cheng, the master of ancient costume makeup, is almost driven crazy. She has to make hair accessories every day and her fingers are almost broken.

Not to mention the costume team. After the costume design draft is approved, sometimes it turns out to be not good after it is completed.

Except for the screenwriter team and historical consultant, the rest of the people behind the scenes are eager to launch a coup in the crew and kill the director.

Fortunately, the scene has been set up, the costume team whose sewing machines are smoking have also made the costumes, and the jewelry for the new hairpin lady Sister Cheng is also ready.

The only one who is still busy in a frenzy and ready to go crazy at any time is the casting director.

He has to take care of the newcomers at the training base, contact the actors who are auditioning for the second time, and follow up with the selected young actors.

He is so busy every day that he is about to take off, but the wicked director always urges him to complete the work.

Ning Ruifeng's status became lower and lower during the meeting. At the end of the meeting, the assistant director stood up with resentment and gave a summary.

"Director Ning, as of now, there are 46 people in Sister Cheng's styling team, 19 of whom have resigned; there are 67 people in Dao Ge's props team, 32 of whom have resigned; there are 110 people in the set design team, 40 of whom have resigned; the costume production of the costume team has changed three production studios..."

The more he listened, the more guilty he felt. Ning Ruifeng sat back in his seat and dared not say a word.

Originally, many of the big names in the group were invited by him through his connections, and it was also his first time as chief director, so he always wanted to make everything perfect.

However, there were many minor difficulties in implementing the high standards and strict requirements, and his position as chief director was ruined before filming even started.

Fortunately, he has the advantage of being eloquent. His mobilization speech before the meeting made everyone very excited, as if this was not a job, but a time to roll up their sleeves and write the history of Chinese TV dramas.

Although everyone was dissatisfied, the results produced under the stringent requirements were indeed beyond their usual level.

This is the real motivation for them to persevere. If they had to rely solely on salary, they would have resigned long ago.

So many people resigned before the filming even started, and I'm afraid some people will have to run away when the filming starts later.

What Ning Ruifeng was most worried about was the etiquette team. Other crews had etiquette instructors, but he just set up a team.

Every instructor in the group graduated from a related major or is engaged in related work. His requirement is that every scene must be accompanied by an etiquette instructor.

It seems that he will have to spend a lot of time on mobilization in the future. Except for the photography team, there is a possibility of large-scale resignation in every group.

The second audition took place seven days after the meeting. In addition to Ning Ruifeng and Yu Jiang, other directors and producers also interviewed them.

In the past seven days, Ran Feng has been working and reading scripts and thinking about the scenes. It’s not that he loves this role so much, but he doesn’t want to lose to the newcomer and be embarrassed.

Following the method Yu Jiang had taught him, he marked all the lines of his character in the clips that he might be selected for the audition.

From logical emphasis to comprehension annotations, the originally ample blank spaces are filled with writing.

Yu Jiang has been following the crew to watch the early preparations these past two days, and it’s quite new to him because he has never seen it before.

The audition day finally arrived. Ran Feng was quite nervous and deliberately did not meet Yu Jiang today, fearing that it would affect his mood.

The audition is not an audition for a single role, but all the actors are present and audition each role in turn, which takes at least a whole day.

Although it is a biographical TV series with female characters as the main character, most of the characters are male, and there are a lot of male actors in the room.

Start with the small characters and move forward one by one.

There has already been a round of auditions, and those who remain are those with great hopes. Only the main roles have five or six actors, and for minor roles, there is a maximum of one out of three.

Ning Ruifeng is a photographer by profession. Regardless of whether the role matches the actor, his appearance is top-notch.

After a whole morning, I finally got the audition for an important role.

The first audition in the afternoon was for the third female role, the half-sister of the heroine, who was considered a villain.

Although she is the third female character, other than the female lead, the other female characters in this drama don't have many roles. This princess died in the early period of the Yu Dynasty Palace.

There were three actors who auditioned, one of whom was Cao Yaji. Everyone, including Yu Jiang, thought that Cao Yaji's image and temperament were most suitable for this role.

The elected Cao Yaji will get part of the script and can go back and wait for the Art Director to contact her.

Cao Yaji was able to star in a big-budget TV series for the first time. She wanted to jump up and down when she went out. She made a lot of phone calls to show off before sitting in the corridor waiting for Dai Manwen.

The next role to audition was the second female lead, the maid and secret guard of the heroine, Jiang Ci. There were mostly fighting scenes, and she only made her official appearance on the eve of the palace coup.

There were also three people competing for this role. One was a new actor who graduated from a drama school, one was a beautiful girl who used to be a martial arts stuntman, and the last one was the famous Yang Xiaohan.

Yang Xiaohan arrived in the afternoon just like Ran Feng. When she arrived, the audition had not officially started yet. Seeing that Yu Jiang was able to talk, they had been chatting for a long time.

Each of the three performed a segment. The first two performed the fighting scenes that they were good at, but Yang Xiaohan chose a literary scene with an emotional outburst.

If she really wants to fight, she can do it, but among the three candidates, her advantage is her acting skills.

Among the three clips, Yang Xiaohan's performance was indeed the most impressive, but it was a pity for Shao Wanning, the drama school actor who was good at fighting scenes and had dramatic eyes.

After the results were announced, Yu Jiang jokingly comforted the two people who lost the election, "Don't be discouraged, it's not that you are not perfect, but that your opponents are too strong."

The unsuccessful candidate had lost hope since he knew he would have to compete with Yang Xiaohan, and he left happily after receiving the comfort from a senior like Yu Jiang.

Their unusual expressions confused the actors in the corridor, who thought both of them were chosen.

Ran Feng had been sitting in the room watching since the afternoon audition. Now that it was finally his turn, he was not nervous at all.

He has done all the necessary efforts and faced this opportunity with the most sincere attitude. If he is not selected, the worst that can happen is that he can write songs and appear on variety shows. Isn't there plenty of work for him?

The third male lead also has to choose one from three. It seems that Ning Ruifeng's obsession disorder has not been cured yet, and he wants to keep all the ones he likes.

If Yu Jiang and the assistant director hadn't persuaded him before, he might have had to do a third round of auditions.

Sitting in the front row waiting for the audition, watching Yu Jiang whispering with the director, Ran Feng's heart began to beat wildly again.

He had never appreciated his girlfriend from this perspective. The difference in their identities brought him back to the time when they first met.

Beautiful seniors and good-looking teachers reminded me of the initial excitement they gave me because of their looks.