Chapter 343
Many people know that the competition in the film and television industry is fierce, but not many people can really tell how fierce it is.●⌒,. In fact, the competition in the film and television industry is much more tragic than many people imagine. It is really a path of climbing up by countless corpses.
Take Peking for example. There are more than 300,000 people engaged in acting careers from first-tier celebrities to extras. The average annual TV series and movies is only 6,000 opportunities. Apart from extras, there are only 6,000 characters from the top male lead to small supporting roles, and there are only 6,000 characters with lines.
More than 300,000 people compete for 6,000 roles, and the well-known and related ones have to be separated by more than half, and there are even fewer roles left. For newcomers, it is really harder to make their way into this circle than to reach the top. Graduation is equivalent to unemployment, which is really not an exaggeration at all.
Some students in Zhangran's class went out to run the group since they were sophomore. They ran for more than a year and ran for hundreds of crews, but they still didn't get a single role. In the end, Zhang Ran secretly called Chen Zhenghong and asked him to help find the crew and gave the student a relatively important role. Zhang Ran was a well-known director at all. It was so difficult for his students to go out to run the group, so his students could imagine it.
Therefore, when students in the performance department graduate, teachers will tell students not to treat actors as their main business, but to find a main business that can support themselves, so that they can still have a bite of food when there is no acting, and they will not starve to death.
Zhang Ran has been teaching 01 Phonebook for three years and has spent a lot of effort on students. He does not expect that all the students in his class will become famous. This is impossible. He just feels that the students have studied with him for so long and suffered so much. When they graduate, they can at least apply what they have learned, and at least they have a chance to perform.
This report performance was for this consideration. Zhang Ran found someone to rely on his relationship and used almost all the power he could use. He asked his grandfather to invite leaders of professional drama troupes such as the People's Art Theater and Guodian, as well as people from film and television companies such as Rong Xinda, to come to watch the performance, hoping to find a way for the students in the class.
The report performance was scheduled on the night of the 11th. That day, Zhang Ran came to the school early, set up the stage with the students, and then took them to rehearse.
Nortel Electronics has already had a holiday at the end of June. Except for Zhang Ran’s class, all other students have left school. I thought there would be fewer audiences, but I didn’t expect that many people came to the theater early. Zhang Ran is now a well-known director and is very interested in the performances of the students in Zhang Ran’s class.
At almost seven o'clock, the students were preparing in full swing in the backstage, and the whole backstage was in a mess, and everyone was both nervous and excited.
Zhang Ran looked at the students who were busy and were very dissatisfied: "Why are you in a mess? Since you entered the school, I have told you that actors are soldiers, you must have a strong heart and be able to be stable. What do you look like?" Speaking of this, Zhang Ran's eyes slowly swept across everyone's faces: "Do you know that people who know that there are arts and Chinese dialects come over, and you will be scared?"
"No, I'm not afraid, what's scary!"
"We have worked with Hollywood superstars like Keanu Reeves, and have also met big directors like Luc Besson and Martin Scorsese. What's so scary about it!"
"Yes, it's just a report to the performance, what's scary!"
Zhang Ran laughed: "It's great, what you want is this effect. We can be beaten to death, and we must not be scared to death. People's Art Theater and Chinese dialect have always been to pick people in Central Academy of Drama. I don't look down on our students from Beijing Film Academy. Let them see today. Our students from Beijing Film Academy are not only not worse than Central Academy of Drama, but also better than them!"
Cao Bingkun raised his right hand and shouted: "Down with the Central Academy of Drama!"
The other students shouted in unison: "Down with the Central Academy of Drama!"
Zhang Ran was very satisfied with the students' mental state and didn't say anything more. He came out of the backstage and came to the theater to greet all the gods who came to support him.
"Sister Xiaowan, you are here."
"Mr. Fei, I didn't expect you to come. Our Beijing Film Academy is the film school to cultivate film talents, and you Huayi is a film company. I hope you will have opportunities to cooperate in the future!"
"Director Zhao Baogang, I didn't expect you to come. It's so brilliant!"
While saying hello, Zhang Ran heard a commotion behind him and turned his head to see that it was Hu Jun and Feng Yuan who were stunned. The one standing between them was Pu Cunxin, the vice president of the People's Art Theater. Before that, Zhang Ran called Hu Jun and Feng Yuan, begging them to help, even if they could not bring President Liu Jinyun, they had to bring Pu Cunxin.
The People's Art Theater and the National Drama Troupe are all public institutions, and if you can enter these scripts for the second half of your life, you will be guaranteed. As Zhang Ran said, these drama troupes like to recruit students from the Central Drama because the Central Drama teaching itself is aimed at the drama stage and the students' basic skills are more solid. However, Zhang Ran does not think that the students in his class will be worse than those from the Central Drama Troupe. He believes that these people will understand this after reading it.
When Zhang Ran saw Pu Cunxin coming, he quickly went up to meet him: "Teacher Pu Cunxin, it's so honor to see you. You are an actor I particularly like. I have watched many performances at the People's Art Theater. I especially like your "Li Bai". It's such a superb performance."
Pu Cunxin seemed very polite: "I've won the prize, I've won the prize. I've watched your movie and it was really good. I Tingyuanzai told Hu Jun that you have a very in-depth study of performance and the students you brought out are very excellent. I'll come and take a look. I believe it will be a wonderful performance!"
Zhang Ran said politely: "The students in our class are still young and have many shortcomings. If there are masters like you to give them some advice, it will definitely be of great benefit to their future development."
Pu Cunxin waved his hand and said, "I really don't dare to take this, so these seniors are the masters. I am far from being apart. But if there is any problem, I can communicate."
Zhang Ran asked Pu Cunxin and the others to sit down, and then went to greet other guests.
At 7 o'clock in the evening, the curtain slowly opened and the performance officially began.
"Hello teachers, thank you very much for watching our performance. First of all, please enjoy the clip of "Chengdu, Please Forgot Me Tonight". Performers: Cao Bingkun, Huang Shengyi, Guo Zhen!" Zhao Ke walked to the stage to report.
"Chengdu, Please Forgot Me Tonight" is a novel published by Murong Xuecun in Tianya. It tells the story of the warm and gorgeous lights of the little characters struggling with each other. The tide of material desires surging in people's hearts. After the novel was published, it caused a strong response among netizens and quickly became popular. Murong Xuecun also joined Li Xunhuan, Annie Baby, Jin He Zai as one of the "Four Internet Writers". Cao Bingkun and others intercepted a section in which the conflict in the novel was relatively strong, especially able to show the character's character for performance.
In the past, Zhang Ranban did not use lights for performances, and the set was extremely simple. The whole performance was leaning towards poverty dramas. But this time, the entire set was very exquisite and the lighting effect was used to the best. The entire performance reached its best state with the advancement of lights and music.
At the end of the performance, the three students stood in the center of the stage and bowed to the curtain call, and the audience applause was thunderous.
Zhang Ran clapped vigorously, his heart full of pride. Ye Mei played by Huang Shengyi and Zhao Yue played by Guo Zhen all performed the characteristics of the characters; while Cao Bingkun played the soul of the character Chen Chong and the inner contradictions of the characters. He could not control his beastly impulses and desires, but he also subconsciously reflected and denied what he did.
Pu Cunxin nodded and praised: "These three students played well, especially the boy who played Chen Chong. This role is very complicated, decadent and dirty. The depth of desire brings him a sense of emptiness. The purposeless life is like a casual and happy person and it is painful. This student has played the complexity of his heart. It is very rare for junior students to act to this level!"
Feng Yuanzai introduced: "This boy is the male class monitor of Zhang Ran's class, named Cao Bingkun. He is a very hardworking and serious student, and is very outstanding. However, he is not the best in Zhang Ran's class. There are several students of his level!"
Pu Cunxin was stunned and nodded slightly: "It seems that Zhang Ran is really good at performing!"
Li Xiaowan didn't say anything and shook her head helplessly. She watched Zhang Ran's freshman report and performance. She fell in love with Huang Shengyi at that time. She felt that this girl must have a bright future and wanted to sign her. Unexpectedly, Zhang Ran disagreed, and Huang Shengyi actually listened to Zhang Ran's words. Now Huang Shengyi has signed Xinghui, and unfortunately missed it.
Next, other students took their own works to perform on stage. Wang Luodan and Ji Chen's work "Love Me Don't Leave", is adapted from "Diet if I'm addicted to it"; Jia Niaoliang and Guo Zhen's work "Other people's children", is adapted from "Boy Jiali"; Zhang Xinyi and Wang Junyi's work "Because I Love You", is adapted from "Give Me a cigarette"...
Zhao Baogang was slightly stunned when he heard that a student was going to perform "Give Me a cigarette". He had bought the copyright of the novel and was about to make it into a TV series. Unexpectedly, the students in Zhang Ran's class would actually perform this. So he watched the performances of several students very seriously, wanting to see what they could perform this drama.
When the performance ended, Zhao Baogang's eyes shone brightly. Ye Zi played by Zhang Xinyi was not only beautiful, but also performed extremely well, which was very consistent with Ye Zi's image in his heart.
No need to find an actor anymore, this is the leaves I want!
All the gods present were invited by Zhang Ran through connections. Many of them, especially the People's Art Theater and the Chinese Theater, are not particularly optimistic about the students in the Zhang Ran class. After all, Beijing Film Academy is a film school, and they are not as good as those in the Central Academy of Drama in training drama actors.
Unexpectedly, the whole performance was astonishing as their expectations. The performance was exciting, both in terms of lines, shape, and performance itself. The People's Art Theater and Guodian have recruited several good students in the Central Academy of Drama this year, but if they recruited them in Zhangran's class, they can only be considered to be middle-to-middle-level. The students in Zhangran's class are amazingly high, and three or four particularly outstanding students can even be on the stage of the People's Art Theater.
The people present at the theater troupe had completely changed their eyes when they saw Zhang Ran, and they did not have the arrogance of the elders as they used to look at the younger generation. Instead, they were respect and even awe.
This Zhang Ran is really not simple!
Time flies so fast that the whole show finally comes to an end.
The boys in the class quickly completed the scene work, and then Huang Shengyi walked onto the stage to report: "Please enjoy the sketch "There is a tree in front", performers: Zhao Ke, Bai Ling, Guo Zhen!"
The guests present knew that this was the last work, and they were a little surprised that the finale was actually a sketch! Generally speaking, the finale was the most important work, and there were few sketches in such a report performance. However, with the strength shown before the 01 watch book, it is definitely not easy to be able to finish a sketch.
The guests were all upright, their eyes focused on the stage, preparing to enjoy the finale sketch.
Zhang Ran's eyes were also focused on the stage. The reason why he put this sketch at the end was that he hoped that all the students in the class would take a look at this sketch. This sketch was not only prepared for Bai Ling, but also for them.
The lights dimmed, and then the melodious music started. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!