Author / SuSu
They are all talking about the plight of actors, why does no one pay attention to online movie actors?
The essence is real and cruel: at this stage, the star-making ability of online movies is weak, so that 99.5% of online movie actors are zero attention and zero scandal state - because of zero attention, so "zero gossip".
From traditional film and television dramas with group special appointments, acting classes, non-science classes, Internet celebrities, running group performances, and even crew members and actor assistants may play an online movie male three women three. As we all know, the entry threshold is low, the cost of exiting the circle is small, the group mobility is large, and it "comes and goes freely", in fact, there is no rough number to quantify how big this group is. Besides, how many actors will stick to the online movie position all their lives?
With the increase in the volume of investment in online movies in recent years, some head-on actors are paid more than ten or hundreds of thousands, "one brother" can be millions, and there are more running group performances, and a project takes one or two thousand, or even thousands. These silent majorities are struggling with "youth meals" and staying up all night without conditions, are they practicing their ideals or struggling for life?
Secondly, compared to the "grounding gas" of film remuneration, the greater prejudice comes from "Do online movie actors also need acting skills?" ”
When the word "actor" with its own starlight meets an online movie that seems to have a poor production of low-end "original sin", what is the real survival situation of the group of online movie actors? When time, funds, and environment are limited, does the director speak live? We selected several actor representatives, non-science class, "internet celebrity" transformation actors, network & theater line are involved in several molding samples, brokers signed to content production companies, a glimpse of the real ecology of online movie actors.
Of course, the real set environment and acting skills first need the director to speak out personally:
See the director of the actor's acting skills
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The weak ability to make stars is ultimately a problem of the influence of the work, so the core of the problem is to improve the influence of online movies.
Actors also need good scripts and good productions. No matter how good an actor is, he can't be known and loved in a bad work. Perhaps, to introduce online movie actors to the outside world, the best old moon is a good work.
The shooting cycle of each project is not sufficient, and the cost of funds is inevitably limited. Cinema movies also always feel that the budget is not enough. But as far as actors are concerned, there are no bad actors, only bad directors. A good director can always tap the inner potential of an actor. This is also a subject that I am constantly learning.
There are thousands of expressions, if the expected performance method actors are not perfect, can we change the way? Does a person have to cry when his father dies? If you can't cry, can it be designed that this person will be irritable and eat when he is sad? Or when you feel uncomfortable, you like to bite your fingers. Looking at the dead relatives in front of them, the hands are biting and bleeding, and there is still not a tear, which may be more moving. So when the actor is not so close to his intended way of expression, he decisively changes the method. After all, no good actor can play anything. Proper casting in the early stages is important.
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When the conditions on the set are limited, the actor's acting skills are not up to standard, this part is a problem that can be avoided in the casting stage, usually the actor himself fits the role, which will improve the efficiency of some shooting and production stages, so some casting teams will participate in the casting of online movies.
The so-called "actors" will not be too different from whether they are online movie actors, because there are almost no actors who only act in online movies, and their rising demand is very strong. At present, the biggest dilemma is that the acting skills and comprehensive quality are not good enough.
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The director must have requirements for acting skills, and if the conditions allow the performance to be bad, it will come over and over again, and if it is really not good, it will change the play, or post-editing. The actors I contact not only act in online movies, but also in theaters, TV series, web dramas, and advertisements - actors who only make online movies I have not been in contact with, and directors and screenwriters who only do online movies seem to have some.
Of course, at present, actors and other departments are facing the same problems: improving their abilities and having scenes.
Before each play, the actors enter the group for one or two days to read around, one or two days to try on makeup posters, and the time for tricks is as small as it is, generally about three or five days. To say that experiencing life, there is basically no at present, of course, this is also related to the theme. Other things that affect acting skills and performance rely on the actor's self-consciousness and line memorization to adjust on the spot.
"Hopefully, the movies I'm acting in will be the same as my vlogs."
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After the "Retro National Wind Goddess" photo, #Nansheng vlog # is her second work that has made a noise on Weibo and has a strong recognition. Since his debut, he has starred in various film and television dramas, and in 2019, Nan Sheng starred in 4 online movies and sang theme songs for these works.
"The scenes I took over were all set aside for pre-preparation time, including the discussion of the script, the setting of the characters, and the design of the shape."
At the moment, she starred in "Xin Abandoned Disease 1162" in iQiyi, Nan Sheng understood the role of Li Shuanghua as "barbaric growth and pure affection", she was accompanied by Hao General Xin Abandoned Disease to fight on the battlefield, born into death a touch of female bright color. To this end, before entering the group, Nan Sheng controlled diet, fitness, and archery training for nearly a month.
She is also the "Green Snake" in the women's online movie "Two Worlds Green Snake" released in August. To this end, I have done more desk work, character psychological analysis, body adjustment control, etc. "This character has a snake-like posture, the body is very weak, often lying on her stomach or lying down, so her body is somewhat lazy and flexible."
Released in early 2018, "Journey to the West 4 Volts" is the first network movie that Nan Sheng participated in, and the "very feminine role" Chun Sanniang in the film is a breakthrough in Nan Sheng's role and image, different from the little girl, villain, etc. "This role has great staying power, and now someone has sent me a private message saying that I like Chun Sanniang, I am very happy."
She introduced that these two years are half life and half in the crew, and online movies sometimes have to enter the group a week in advance to prepare. There are reading and makeup, just finished the filming of "The Lawless Mountain of the Tight Curse", the script has been read for several days, the director will also show the actors the storyboard, producers, screenwriters, etc. have been working on the set.
"Now some theater teams are also making online movies, and the platform also welcomes excellent works to set the tone for this market."
"Some of the scenes are good to shoot"
In fact, well-known people such as Di Li Reba did not shoot for seven or eight months, which is partly the result of a two-way choice. Network movie actor brain door Erdene is not the same, non-class, Mongolian, wrestling boxer origin, as a fitness coach, from the special actor was discovered, all the way to the "Big Snake 2" starring, and in today's cold wave, he bluntly said that "some of the scenes are good to shoot."
180cm tall, 85kg, burly and strong body give Erdene the advantage of a type actor. In 2015, he debuted as a special actor in YangLiu's "Bow Horse Whistling West Wind", thus falling in love with the profession of an actor, and since 2017, he has participated in "There Are Trees in the South" and "The Wind is Strong" as a special actor, but the economic pressure has also come. "17 years is particularly difficult, there is a period of 3 or 4 months without any films, almost gave up."
The turning point was to meet the director Lin Zhenzhao, who is considered to be "Bo Le". From the first group of special actors to go offline in "The Great Snake", he has since starred in the "Dark Path of Di Renjie", "The Flame Mountain of Qitian Dasheng", "Huo Yuanjia's Jingwu Tianxia", "Big Shark", and then successively starred in the "Axe Brother" in "Big Snake 2". The experience is somewhat inspirational.
Erdene has filmed 6 or 7 plays this year, and the current 3 plays have been filmed together before and after, with no end in between. At the moment, he did not dare to refuse to find the project, "Now there is a film to shoot is not bad, from the end of last year to the middle of this year there is almost no drama, after filming this there is still a play in the conversation, there is no decision." ”
He belongs to the category of actors who are serious about their roles. Filming "Huo Yuanjia's Jingwu Tianxia" to play an anti-number one Japanese samurai, The Brain Gate went to the Taoist gym in Shanghai more than a month in advance to learn Japanese kendo, etiquette and other cultural customs and physical function training, at his own expense. "Big Snake 2" has a lot of chase scenes to escape monsters, and he runs in advance of the camera before each boot, so that the body, breath, and emotions are ready, and the sweat and makeup and hair are all adapted to the state of the character.
"I was brewing half an hour in advance, adjusting myself to wait for the role, waiting for the director to tune is not a very professional performance." Brain gate indication.
Through a casting team in Shanghai, Erdene also got the opportunity to star in the variety show "City of Illusion" and Xu Zheng's "囧Mom". Only, his plan for himself is to hope to find a professional brokerage company, while he strives to make progress, the company can help to do some in-depth publicity, can dock with the big drama, "want to go up, do not want to just stay in the network movie this piece."
Brainmen said that as an actor, he usually pays attention to practicing more in the mirror, remembering expressions, honing his acting skills through filming, so that the directors he has cooperated like, and then he can continue to cooperate, "try to shoot more, make more money, and accumulate more experience." ”
"Compared with the cinema, the fault tolerance rate of online movies is high"
Liu Wei made 17 plays in 2019, spanning cinema movies, online movies, online dramas and so on. He regarded the "Mourning Women's Heavenly Troupe" starring himself as a special case of full support from the platform in the online movie, which is a special business card.
"Since my debut, I have shot more than 120 scenes, and there are 30-40 online movies, none of which are the same as "Mourning Girl's Heavenly Group"."
"Lamentations" has won numerous awards in online audio-visual programs, and in October 2019, Liu Wei also won the recommended actors of the first China Internet Film Week for his performance in it. The day after the awards ceremony returned, more than 30 online movie scripts were found together, and the price was open. Liu Wei said that (their psychology) is because they feel that the platform recommendation must have a good relationship with the platform. (This is beneficial for the distribution of the film)
"You don't feel excited at all, even a little sad." In the end, he took over one of the online films of Hong Kong's Mesozoic directors, Liu Said, who is the most enjoyable director he has worked with this year.
In 2019, Liu also rejected a scene about "how a bunch of people rushed to the toilet", although the other party opened the highest salary for this year's online movies. Nowadays, for some scripts and roles, he has his own selection criteria. "Demon catchers, costumed dicks inexplicably counterattacked, titles, characters stupid to no logic, these I don't want to shoot again, unless I give me double the price." 」 He smiled and said.
"But after receiving it, because I want to be responsible for myself, I want to change the book and change the characters, and I will become a 'drama bully' in other people."
As the first actor to test the waters of online movies, Liu Wei has seen the most barbaric, enthusiastic and chaotic online film crews, there are teams that only want to earn production fees, completely irresponsible for the work, and there are artists who focus on content with enthusiasm and enthusiasm, and as a result, they can no longer get up after being educated by the market. He said some chaos is still happening in the 2019 online movie crew. "Although when it comes to online movies, everyone is always only concerned about making money, but I am more afraid of making money in this kind of drama."
The door of online movies has been opened, and Liu Wei has also participated in high-profile cinema films such as "Dear", "Rescue Mr. Wu", "Winter Goes to Winter Again", "The Man Who Was Taken by the Light", etc. He said that listening to the director's lectures in those crews is completely enjoyable.
But Liu Wei also feels that in some current online film crews, even if the actors have self-expression creations for the role, it is difficult to achieve the probability. Some costume drama groups, most of them have not yet had the turn of the director to say the play, and the martial arts director asked when directing the play, "You make the reaction." Liu Wei said to himself that this is the way he can't stand it the most- "I have worked hard as an actor for more than ten years to remove a lot of unnecessary reactions, and now I am asked to pick it up." ”
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Even so, Liu Wei also believes that the most meaningful thing about online movies is that the performance tolerance rate is high.
"In theatrical films, I can show my best and best performance, and there is only one opportunity. I can also try the types of roles that others can't think of me in online movies, so online movies not only give newcomers the opportunity, but also give mature actors the opportunity to debug and correct their performances and try more roles. If there is a good performance and can be controlled, the theater side can also find me. ”
He also bluntly said that more film remuneration income comes from online movies, and it is reflected in online movies to make a value increase in the theater.
For the current hot acting variety show, Liu Wei clearly realized whether he could go on that stage, and decided what the agency he belonged to could exchange resources with the platform, and how much traffic the actor himself brought. "The chief screenwriter is my classmate, but I still have to have the company's resources."
"Online movie actors don't have acting skills? Just tell everyone with your work."
Zheng Tuojiang graduated from the Department of Directing of the Communication University of China, met the director Mai Tian in college, and after several tacit cooperations, signed a contract with Mai Tian Yinghua. In addition to starring in the company's earliest batch of network movies, in recent years, Mai Tian Yinghua has made efforts to develop network dramas, and he has tried a variety of different types of roles in "The Wrong Year of the Flower Falling Court", "Wait until the Smoke Is Warm and Rainy", and "Ink Life", and successfully circled a group of acting fans.
"Whether you are a director or an actor, you are accumulating, and you can only say that the current accumulation is not enough." Just like the frank face of the staggering of his own director's class background and choice to be an actor, Zheng Tuojiang is not shy to talk about his identity as an online movie actor, which is different from those roles on the screen that are either cheerful, or dashing, or obsessive, and he himself has a stable, free and calm temperament.
"Acting is actually more important than whether the scene can produce something, and it has nothing to do with the actor's origin", he said, saying that online movies do not need acting skills, the production is rough, and it is no longer that era. And online movie actors do not have attention, then use the work to tell everyone, it is not to accept an interview, emphasize how good their acting skills can be.
In Zheng Tuojiang's view, the so-called network movie actors do not need acting skills, in fact, it is an early misunderstanding, the presentation of a role, not only the actor's expression itself, but also the addition of the comprehensive environment such as on-site lighting, environment, time, and budget. With the large increase in the volume of project investment today compared with before, a recent online movie starring himself has greatly exceeded the original expectations.
He introduced that the crew is first in the preparation time, cycle, action drama pre-training, are rigorous a lot, not only the main actor needs training, group performance, supporting roles, special appointments, martial arts will be pre-training, more attentive to the production; secondly, in the production of the sophistication to a higher level; and then there is more in-depth communication between the crew, clear and comprehensive, treating a role, the actor not only talks to the director, and the screenwriter, costumes, makeup will be carefully discussed.
Throughout 2019, Zheng Tuojiang filmed 2 network dramas and 3 online movies, a total of 8 months in Hengdian, and therefore pushed two film contracts in December, "need to breathe, but also need to precipitate the harvest of this period."
Because he still had group acting experience in high school, he deeply understood the actors who insisted on running online movies for their dreams, "or practice the ideal of more ingredients, after all, the traditional film and television threshold is too high." ”
In fact, at present, there are not many online film companies with mature artist management experience. As a content creation company, Mai Tian Yinghua, for the planning of signed artists, Deputy General Manager Xiao Tianren said that in addition to continuing to deepen production, paying attention to the matching appropriateness of actors and roles, so that the content quality highlights the role image, the company will also do more in-depth artist publicity, and rely on the role to gradually develop a mature artist rising training mechanism.