Entertaining Children

   Chapter 1222 We are here to audition

After the casting studio issued a supplementary explanation, not every actor on the audition list chose to continue to participate in the audition like Yu Shaoting, so the list of audition personnel was changed.

  The list of audition personnel has changed, so the audition time will naturally need to be rescheduled. Since the actor’s agency or agent’s response time is different, and the producer here hopes (mainly the director Chen Jun’s request) to arrange the audition of the actors of the same role as much as possible in order to make comparative judgments, so this It will take some time to reschedule the audition time. However, this does not mean that the start of the audition must be delayed.

  In this TV series, some supporting roles are older roles, and the actors considered for these roles are middle-aged actors in the 40s and 50s in the circle. Most of the middle-aged actors who are used to playing supporting roles in this age group are experienced but not high-volume capable actors in the circle. Basically, they are not affected by the supplementary explanation. There is no change in the cast of this part of the audition.

  These actors do not have much work activities other than filming, and their schedules are relatively free. When adjusting the audition list of actors and rescheduling the audition time, the casting studio advances the audition time of these older middle-aged actors, allowing the producers to audition for these actors first.

  The attitude of Xiao Yao and director Chen Jun to the audition of this part of the actors is absolutely very polite and respectful. The focus of these actors’ auditions was not on their auditions, but on the communication between the two of them and these senior actors. The two chatted with these senior actors about the script and their understanding of the roles they had to play in the play. For these actors, there are generally no problems with acting skills, and more depends on their understanding of the role and whether the two are in line with each other.

  Of course, this part of the audition is not completely omitted even for senior actors with excellent acting skills and old opera bones. It's just that what the two of them mainly looks at in this part is not whether the auditioning actors have the ability to play that role, but whether their image, state, and feeling when they perform the role are consistent with what they think in their minds.

  It is rare to decide directly on the actors during the audition. In general, the producers and directors make decisions after all the actors who are fighting for the same role have auditioned. In the choice of actors for this show, Xiao Yao said that the final decision is in the hands of director Chen Jun. Since Chen Jun did not decide any actors on the spot in the audition two days ago, no actor was appointed on the spot either.

  The audition time is basically arranged during the day, starting from ninety o'clock in the morning until four or five in the afternoon. In the evening, Xiao Yao and Chen Jun watched the audition video recorded during the day and discussed and decided on the roles. After the actors are determined, the results will be notified to the casting studio and the administrative department of the crew. The relevant personnel of the company will negotiate with the actors and their brokerage companies to sign contracts, and inform those actors that have not been adopted or their brokerage companies.

  This TV series is expected to be only about 30 episodes. Compared with the big productions of forty to fifty episodes or even sixty to seventy episodes, the volume of this TV series is not large, so the number of characters in the play is not particularly large.

  Almost three days later, Xiao Yao and Chen Jun completed the auditions for all the actors in the older roles in the play, and determined the actors for those roles.

  Three days later, the casting studio also re-arranged the audition time for those young actors. So after all the middle-aged actors' auditions were over, Xiao Yao and Chen Jun didn't have time to rest, and then they began their auditions for young actors.

For today’s actors, it is nothing new to audition for two or more roles in a film and television work at the same time. There are even actors who originally auditioned for a certain role, but they were considered by the producer to be more suitable for another role. , There are also things that have won another role. But in this project, there are not many cases where two or more roles are applied at the same time.

  Actors actively apply for two or more roles when they audition. Generally, the proportions of the roles applied for are similar.

   Among the younger characters in this play, there are three relatively heavy roles, two women and one man. One is a colleague Anna of the female one in Midsummer, the other is the sister of the male one Lin Dongyang, the female one is a student and best friend Lin Dongyue, and the other is the younger brother of female one midsummer, and is also a classmate and best friend of the male one Lin Dongyang.

  It goes without saying that the sexes of men and women are different. This is not a costume drama, and there is no possibility of cross-talk. Although the two female characters are relatively young characters, one is about the same age as the female one, and the other is about the same age as the male one. One is in his thirties and the other is in his twenties. There is still a certain gap.

  Although it is normal for an actress in her thirties to play a role in her twenties, there are obvious differences in the image and overall temperament of the two characters.

Although Lin Dongyue is a store manager, but because of her brother's perennial dependence, some parents feel that the image is simple and the temperament is more at home, while Anna is a young white-collar worker with a more fashionable and sophisticated image, and her temperament is partial to the elite of the workplace. . Due to the large gap between the images and the characters, there is no overlap between the actors who auditioned for these two roles.

  However, even if actors do not have any overlap in applying for audition roles, there are still many actors competing for these roles.

  The supplementary explanation sent by the casting studio has achieved a certain effect. After the supplementary explanation was issued, some actors and their agencies indeed decided to withdraw from the audition for this project. However, the number of actors who opted out of auditions on their own was not as many as Xiao Yao thought.

  The reason is, on the one hand, because there are actors and companies with the same ideas as Yu Shaoting. On the other hand, it's because the company's response time to the casting studio is not consistent.

After the casting studio issued a supplementary explanation, Xiao Yao and Chen Jun directly began auditions for middle-aged actors. To put it bluntly, an audition is also a kind of interview, just like corporate recruitment, it is actually a process of selection by both parties. It's not just the crew choosing actors, but the actors are actually choosing the crew.

Before the audition, the casting studio only said that it would not choose the male-female one, and did not announce the specific actors of the male-female one. Many companies think that the male one is Xiao Yao is a guess, and there are even guesses that the male one is Zhao. Rui or Lin Qisan's. Many people will naturally ask this point during the communication process of the actor's audition. Actors want to join the filming, so they naturally want to know who their opponents will be in the future. At this point, Xiao Yao did not keep secrets.

  So, after the audition began, the news that the actors of this TV series were Xiao Yao and Yin Xi, also spread in the industry. Guessing that the first man is Xiao Yao and determining that the first man is Xiao Yao is still different for many companies. After the news came out, not only some agencies and actors who originally planned to withdraw from the audition changed their minds, but even some agencies and actors who did not plan to participate in the project were also moved.

  The initial stage of role selection has passed. Companies and actors that newly apply for audition roles can justly refuse, but companies and actors that originally entered the audition list cannot refuse. When the casting studio issued a supplementary explanation, it did not explicitly reject any of the actors on the list to participate in the audition, but hoped that they would consider those conditions and withdraw on their own. Xiao Yao and the casting studio could not know who was because they knew Xiao Yao was a male Only later did I decide to continue auditioning.

  Because there are a lot of actors participating in the audition, the audition time is relatively intensive. Therefore, in the casting studio, many actors who participated in the audition on the same day ran into them while waiting for the audition.

  Although the casting studio wants to arrange the audition time of the audition actors for the same role as much as possible, but due to the reasons of the actor's schedule, it cannot completely do this. Relatively speaking, young star actors now have more jobs than middle-aged actors, and it is more difficult to do this.

  On the fourth day of the audition, we began to audition for young roles. The auditions scheduled on this day were not all actors fighting for the same role.

  Since Yu Shaoting was very determined, the company did not discuss it long before agreeing to Yu Shaoting to continue auditioning. Relatively speaking, Yu Shaoting’s company responded earlier, and the audition time was also arranged earlier. Not only was it the first day of auditioning for young roles, it was also in the morning.

  The audition starts at nine o'clock in the morning. Yu Shaoting was not the first actor to audition. The casting studio informed him that the audition time was around ten o'clock. However, because Yu Shaoting attaches great importance to this role and the audition, the company did not arrange any work schedule for him this morning. He went to the casting studio before nine o'clock in the morning.

  The audition time did not come. After Yu Shaoting arrived, the staff of the casting studio naturally arranged to go to other places to rest and wait.

  The casting studio is not a performance agency. It is impossible to prepare many separate lounges for star actors, so the place where Yu Shaoting waits is a common lounge. This lounge is not the kind of lounge for performance agencies. It only has sofas, no dressing rooms and changing rooms, and it has a lot of space.

  Originally, Yu Shaoting and fellow agent Zhang Wenqing thought that they had arrived very early, but they did not expect that when they entered the lounge, they found that there were other people inside.

   "Mr. Zhao, Mr. Lin, how are you!" After seeing the two resting on the sofa, Zhang Wenqing immediately pulled Yu Shaoting forward and smiled at the two and stretched out his hand to greet them.

  The two people sitting on the sofa are Zhao Rui and Lin Qisan. Although both of them are younger than Yu Shaoting, in terms of coffee positions, neither of these two became popular last year, and Yu Shaoting, who has not yet shaken off the title of traffic star, can be compared.

   "Hello!" Zhao Rui and Lin Qisan, who were sitting on the sofa, stood up, smiled and shook hands with Zhang Wenqing.

   "I am Zhang Wenqing of Yier Media, my agent." Zhang Wenqing pointed to Yu Shaoting beside him and introduced, "This is our company's artist Yu Shaoting. We are here to audition today!"

  "Hello! This is Yu Shaoting!" Yu Shaoting also reached out to the two of them.

   "Hello! Long admiring the name!" Zhao Rui and Lin Qisan have never cooperated with Yu Shaoting. This is the first time they have met, and they both smiled politely and shook hands with Yu Shaoting.

"Where," Zhang Wenqing said with a smile, "we have long admired you! Shao Ting is about the same age as you, and may be a little older than you, but you debuted earlier, so you can be regarded as Shao Ting's predecessors. In terms of acting, he still has to learn from you!"

"That's all you need to say to Stone," Lin Qisan smiled, "He has been acting since he was a child, and he has indeed made his debut for many years. I am different, not to mention that I am late in my debut, and there are not many masterpieces. How about sir!"

"You laughed." Zhang Wenqing smiled, "You graduated from the Department of Acting Department of Shen Opera. You are a classmate with Xiao Yao, and your father is a movie actor. Even if you don't have many film and television works, your acting skills are better than Shaoting. Less."

   "Thank you for the compliment!" Lin Qisan smiled.

Although Lin Qisan’s current film and television works are basically supporting roles, he has not played a heavy role such as a male one male two, which is not a masterpiece, but it is just his picky vision of Lin Qisan, he does not want to take the drama casually, and does not want to rely on his own family The relationship with your brothers is just to grab roles with others or your own brothers. In terms of acting skills, even if it is not as good as Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei, Lin Qisan admits that it is not bad, at least not worse than the traffic star who has transformed from a singing talent show after his debut.

"By the way, I remembered that for the project we auditioned today, the main investors and producers are young people's film and television companies. The young people are a company established by you and Xiao Yao in partnership, and you two are also the bosses. "Zhang Wenqing asked, "You two bosses are here today, are you also going to participate in the audition?"

   "Yes, we are here to audition!" Zhao Rui nodded.

"Then why are you here?" Zhang Wenqing said strangely, "Our Shaoting audition time is at ten o'clock, but I heard that the audition starts at nine o'clock. Now the audition is about to begin. You two shouldn't be auditioning. Waiting for today’s first actor to audition in your room?"

Zhang Wenqing’s first reaction was that these two people were one of the examiners during the audition. After all, as the boss of the investor’s producer, he is naturally the producer and producer, and he has a great say in the choice of actors. . However, the facts are not as Zhang Wenqing imagined.

"You misunderstood," Zhao Rui smiled. "Although we are both shareholders of young people, we are not the producer or producer of this TV drama project. Both of us came to the audition today as audition actors. Participating in the audition is to fight for the role!"

   "Huh?" Zhang Wenqing was surprised, "You two are here to participate in the audition and fight for roles?"

  (End of this chapter)