Millennium director

Hengdian is the largest group performance training base in China.

A group of ignorant and immature new actors arrived here under the transportation of a bus.

The 50 "Actors Please Take Your Place" contestants have all completed the first stage of the team assessment, and each joined the team of four mentors and began their first round of competition adventure.

Different from the positioning of singer-type auditions, although "Actors Please Take Your Place" is also an audition, the focus is also on training.

The format of the entire program is basically half competition and half training.

In each round of competition, the instructors train and teach the contestants how to be qualified actors in the first half, and the elimination is in the second half.

The first round of competition, training and teaching took place in Hengdian.

The 50 new contestants, regardless of whether they have any previous experience in filming as a crew, now have to start from scratch and experience the life of a crew.

The four instructors were divided into two groups, one director and one actor, each leading 25 contestants to join the crews of two TV series filmed locally in Hengdian to experience the life of group actors.

The program team is really serious this time.

Before six o'clock in the morning, two buses from the program team drove to the downstairs of the contestants' dormitory, picked up the sleepy contestants one by one, and headed to the set.

Since you are experiencing the life of a group performer, you must experience it thoroughly.

While in the car, the staff of the program team distributed a uniform breakfast to the contestants in accordance with the standards of the Hengdian crew.

A steamed bun, a flower roll, a vegetable bun, eggs, and a packet of soy milk.

This is the standard breakfast provided to the extras by 99% of the Hengdian crew when the morning show begins.

Zhao Liying and other contestants who started out as actors in Hengdian are not unfamiliar with this at all, and even miss it a little, and they all enjoy it.

But for those players from the three major universities, the taste of this breakfast is not so wonderful.

There is no meaty taste at all, the steamed buns are pure white noodles, the flower rolls only have some chopped green onion, and the only stuffing is the vegetable buns.

Those who can study acting in the top three majors have really good family conditions. For them, such a breakfast is tasteless, but it is not easy to eat in front of the camera. They can only stay silent and taste like chewing wax. Eat these for breakfast.

"What's wrong? Isn't it delicious?" Seeing the disgusted expression on Qiao Xin's face who was sitting in the same row, Zhao Liying asked with some confusion.

Seeing that many people turned their heads and looked over, Qiao Xin could only smile stiffly and explained: "No, I'm just not too hungry."

"Oh." Zhao Liying nodded and didn't think there was anything strange about it. She lowered her head and continued to eat her breakfast.

While eating, she said: "When I first came to Hengdian to film, the crew also gave me breakfast like this every morning."

"Wow, I was so happy at that time. I was able to earn money while working and have free breakfast. This is much better than when I was working in my hometown."

"But then I couldn't eat anymore. The company assigned me an assistant, who helped me buy breakfast every day."

"I'm not afraid of making you laugh. At that time, I thought it was a waste. I didn't eat the free breakfast provided by the crew, but I had to spend money to buy breakfast myself."

"Hehehe, now that I think about it, my thoughts at the time were really childish."

Qiao Xin didn't understand Zhao Liying's sudden feelings at all.

In her opinion, there is really no point in eating such a breakfast. Even if it is free, it is not as good as spending a few dollars to buy steamed buns, steamed buns or something like that.

Of course, Qiao Xin still has the most basic emotional intelligence. She lowered her head and said, "This is my first time eating breakfast provided by the crew."

"Very novel."

Well, it’s novel, but trying it once is enough.

As they chatted and laughed, as if on an outing, two buses pulled the fifty contestants to the vicinity of the Qin Palace in Hengdian.

There is a crew called "Warring States Policy", which is filming here in the Palace of Qin.

Today, their fifty newcomers are the extras of this crew.

They will perform 9 hours of extra work in this crew and receive a daily salary of 80 yuan.

Before Hengdian's extra performers' wages were reformed and increased, this was the maximum salary for ordinary extra performers.

However, even after the reform and salary increase, the salary of ordinary extras in Hengdian is only 120 yuan a day.

This amount of money is not worth mentioning even to the young actors among the contestants who are already in the industry.

Although "Actors Please Take Your Place" is known as a nationwide audition, anyone with a dream can sign up to participate.

But in fact class barriers still exist.

The contestants who were finally shortlisted for the 50-person list can at least play small supporting roles in TV series. It is impossible for real group actors to be selected.

Not to mention whether the acting skills are good or not, as far as looks are concerned, the gap between ordinary group actors and carefully selected actors is also a bit high.

Really handsome extras can at least be a special extra and can earn several hundred yuan a day. If they work with a crew, they can earn thirty or forty thousand with a crew for one or two months.

Well, this also shows how well the film and television industry has developed in the past ten years, and how crazy wages have increased.

When Liu Yifei filmed "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", it only cost 8,000 yuan per episode. Now, a small supporting role in the team may only have about 100 lines in the whole episode, and she can earn 30,000 to 40,000 yuan.

As the convener, Liu Yifei, who arrived at the Qin Palace earlier than these contestants, was shocked when she and the deputy director of the "Warring States" crew learned about the current wages of extras.

"Can an ordinary extra performer in the group get 6,000 yuan a month?"

"Character actors can even get thirty or forty thousand?"

"Can a minor supporting role get 100,000?"

"Is an important supporting role worth three to five million?"

"Can the hero and heroine get one or two million?"

"Are these just second- and third-tier actors?"

"Are the TV drama crews so rich nowadays?"

Liu Yifei, who had not filmed a TV series for many years, was extremely envious after hearing this offer.

It's not that she thinks the money is a lot, but she didn't have such conditions at all when she was filming TV series.

"It's amazing. When Chen Kun was filming "Like Rain, Like Fog and Like Wind", the salary was only 90,000 yuan. He was crazy about it. Until when he was filming "The Golden Family", he kept telling us about it. .”

"Now a small supporting role can earn 100,000 yuan. It's great."

"Times have changed." Gong Li, who came to the Qin Palace with Liu Yifei, didn't think it was strange and said with a smile: "When I first debuted, I only received 200 yuan for "Red Sorghum". "

"At that time, two hundred yuan was a huge sum of money to me."

"What now? Now I'm looking for an acting role, and the offer is over ten million."

"The increase in remuneration is definitely a good thing for actors. It also shows that the domestic film and television industry is prosperous. Investors can afford to pay and earn so much money that they are willing to pay high remuneration."

"If everyone was still like before, starring in a TV series and earning thousands of dollars per episode, then the industry would be over long ago."

"If you look at Hollywood, the first-tier actors' studios all start with $20 million."

"Yes." Liu Yifei nodded understandingly.

At this moment, the mobile phone in her pants pocket suddenly rang.

"Hello?" After answering the phone, Liu Yifei had a bright smile on her face.

"Brother, are you here?"

"We are here at the Palace of Qin. Come here quickly. The contestants are almost here, and their group performance life is about to begin."

"I don't know if these newcomers who have grown up in ivory towers and want to play leading roles after graduation can bear this kind of experience."

"Being an extra is not an easy task." (End of Chapter)