"Dragon set actor is very difficult, actor agents have everyone, encounter black hearts, tired and half dead can not earn money." Director Xiaoshi told Pin to play.
Hengdian Studio City, which announced the suspension of work on January 27, entered the resumption phase in late April after nearly three months of empty windows. According to the weekly crew dynamic data released by the "Hengdian Film and TELEVISION City" WeChat public account, there are more than 100 crews gathered in Hengdian in the most weekly Hengdian.
Hungry for more than half a year of cross-drifters also resumed in the Hengdian early greedy black running dragon set daily, Xiaomi told me that their daily income in the range of 120-200 yuan, not necessarily every day there are plays, long good-looking points by the director to find a prospect play to make more money, the long almost can only be blinded to wait for the group leader to be assigned to watch the day to eat.
In June, a notice titled "On Building the First Village of Taobao Live Hengdian" broke the routine here. Hengdian Group Performance Village calls on the group performers who have not acted for a long time to take a long-term view, actively develop a second career besides acting: live broadcasting, and openly recruit more than 500 positions related to live broadcasting.
This makes the word "drifting", which was once quite romantic and harbored countless star dreams, now become particularly realistic. "There are dramas and dramas, no drama side business to do live broadcasting", "live broadcast horizontal drift first side business, the second choice of life", "Taobao live broadcast play slip, more money on the road to chasing dreams", has become a true portrayal of the post-epidemic era of horizontal drift.
<h2>Hengdian's nameless dragon set, the internet celebrity blogger on the platform</h2>
Last year, short videos and live broadcasts became a fire trend, and Hengdian had a number of group performances that tested the waters, and most of the group performances played irrelevant roles in the dragon set drama, such as: passers-by, yakuza, and dead bodies. After the work, they edited the daily bits and pieces of the crew into videos, or engaged in live broadcasting and selling goods on various platforms.
Some of the good things are gradually showing their strength, director Xiao Wei told Pin Play that he can often brush to the Hengdian actor short video blogger on Douyin and Kuaishou this year. "It's an opportunity for them to at least be a C-bit protagonist in a short video than a movie that can't show up." Xiao Wei told Pin to play.
Ah Hang loves to eat, Fei Fei, Hengdian Xiaoyi, is the popular dragon set blogger on the Kuaishou platform. Ah Xing and Fei Fei are still college students, and the daily box lunch and makeup and hair of the commentary crew are the main contents of their short videos. In addition, Fifi is also running a fast hand shop, live broadcasting of the next play, and even mai pk. Hengdian Xiaoyi was called "Hengdian Zhou Xingchi" by netizens because of his voice, and he often filmed his own segments arranged in the crew into the video.
The daily short videos of the Hengdian Dragon Set bloggers similar to them generally record the "scraps" of the crew: for example, what the crew wore today, what the crew made today, and what the crew ate today. Lucky to star in a prospect or special offer, you can even witness the big stars up close, bad luck to sit on the cold bench for a day.
Occasionally, they were scolded by the crew for filming videos and asked to be deleted. Director Xiao Wei said that due to the consideration of plot secrecy, the crew will basically explicitly prohibit the belt of mobile phones, or stop shooting after discovery. "Of course, the crew doesn't want spoiler information from these people, makeup and hair and daily meals to basically not cross the line, it depends on the rules of each crew."
Such fragmented content is actually not new, and even the repetition rate is very high, just like the crew's breakfast is basically two buns plus an egg, a bag of milk, but these seemingly tedious content into a short video on Kuaishou but let netizens not get tired of watching, and even circle countless fans.
At present, Ah Hang has 40.9w fans, 85.7w of Fifi, and 319.2w of Hengdian Xiaoyi, who are no-name pawns in the dragon set play, but they have become internet celebrity bloggers on the short video platform. No one in the play responded to their help, but under each short video there were countless enthusiastic messages from fans: "Waiting for you to play the main role", "I look at you with a female face", "It's really better and better, come on!" "And so on and so forth.
Netizens are out of curiosity about filming, and then some people also see the shadow of themselves and dreams from these ordinary drifts. They are also hoping and looking forward to the future of these unknown people, and whether they can achieve it is not important, it seems that the process of effort has been enough.
These dragon set bloggers also feed their fans all the time. Even after staying up on the set for a few days and nights, it still maintains the fullest state in the short video shot, pouring out the helplessness of life and the persistence of dreams, and cooking a pot of 100% rich chicken soup for everyone.
Dragon set actors like Ah Xing and Fei Fei, who are good looking, do give themselves a lot of opportunities through short video exposure, and they will meet their own fans on the set, and even the casting director knows that she is an Internet celebrity blogger. Therefore, compared with the general group performance, they can get the opportunity to prospect and special actors, and the salary will naturally be higher. "Prospect can earn 220 a day, but work 16 hours." Xiaomi told Pin to play.
Fei Fei frankly said in the live broadcast: "The most important thing in Hengdian is the dragon set, it can be said that 10% of the dragon set still has dreams, and the remaining 90% is in the mixed day." Someone swiped the screen in the barrage and asked her what kind of person she was, maybe Fifi didn't see it, she didn't answer.
Xiaomi said that for the dragon set actors who do not know the day of the beginning, making money from short videos is not a good way out, which is an opportunity brought to them by the Internet era. "Sometimes we squat for a day, we can't get enough money for a few days, the star dream of Wang Baoqiang's era has passed, and the king of the dragon set may not be able to replicate." Everyone has that dream in their hearts, but who is stupid to hang on a tree? It is more practical to earn money to survive. ”
<h2>Be an "internet celebrity" for the sake of reality</h2>
The resumption of work and production, or even the acceleration of the resumption of work, does not mean the recovery of the entire Hengdian economy. According to the survey data of the Film and Television Center of the Cultural Industry Research Institute of Peking University, 80% of the domestic film and television bases are in loss, 15% are in subsistence, and only 5% can be profitable.
Director Xiao Wei said that although Hengdian has seen a large number of crews in recent months, the dragon set actors still face the dilemma of more monks and less porridge. "Hengdian is still far from economic recovery, and there is never a shortage of dragon sets here, but who can really stay?"
Perhaps in order to attract more talents to stay and revitalize the development of local tourism, Hengdian issued a notice in June this year to build a Hengdian live broadcast net red village to create a side business to increase income for the side business gathered here.
Many dragon set actors have already tasted the sweetness, after all, this money is obviously much faster than when the group performance. But obviously relying on short videos and live broadcasts also requires more energy, and even some talent.
Xiaomi has been a dragon set actor for less than two years, and at the beginning of this year he began to try to shoot his own segments on the platform. From a few clicks to a hundred, the best time to break a thousand, Xiaomi found that doing "net red" is not easier than shooting a dragon set.
"In the group performance, there are a large number of people taking videos with mobile phones, and the videos taken by some people have clicks, and some people have not taken them." It is also a miscellaneous filming crew, but the effect is different. Xiaomi xiangpin play analysis, those fans of the dragon set bloggers, not their own good looks, or the operation of a good person: "Don't look at the simple eating box lunch, you also have to eat feelings and feelings."
Xiaomi told me that after becoming a short video blogger, his rest time has become less, and after staying up late to shoot the scene, he still has to cut videos and think about paragraphs on the bus on the way back, although he is tired, but he also has to raise his spirit to add energetic lines to the video. "I don't know how much of an impact these videos will eventually have on the platform, or if they'll give me the opportunity to play a bigger role, but at the moment it does give me some additional benefits, money, exposure, and somewhat better than being a stuffy dragon."
As for whether the future will be completely transformed into short videos and live broadcasts, Xiaomi is not easy to say for the time being, he decided to take a step to see:
"Life is like a drama, Hengdian can act, the Internet can also play."
This reminds people of the dragon suits that were once very popular on the Internet. In addition to the rare horns like Wang Baoqiang who counterattacked from the dragon set, there were also dragon set drama bones stationed in the horizontal drift like Shi Zhongpeng. The latter became famous because he had played a Japanese soldier and died eight times in one day.
Shi Zhongpeng once brought "how a dragon set actor interprets the 8 ways of death of a Japanese soldier" on the "China Dream Show", and took advantage of this to become popular, and some film and television company owners promised to help him realize his dream of playing the Eighth Route Army.
This is the way that has left people with memories in countless ways, and now it may have to be changed. Some people may still be dead, but there are still some people who may no longer simply cling to the so-called star dream.
They may be delving into "8 daily shooting methods of a dragon set actor crew", "8 tricks to eat a dragon set actor crew box lunch", "how a dragon set actor can make money live than acting", which will become a new self-cultivation of dragon set actors.
(At the request of the interviewer, the names of the interviewees in this article are pseudonyms)