Chapter 5 Joining the Group

Wu Yuan waited for more than two months. Performance

In the blink of an eye, the second semester of the second year of college was almost over, and Wu Yuan finally received a call from Wang Xiaoshuai confirming the start of filming.

"Hello, Yuan'er, where are you?"

"The crew has completed the preparations. Come to Fengze Garden tomorrow, let's get together, and you leading actors can also get to know each other."

It is already mid-June, and the film academy is about to have summer vacation. Joining the crew at this time is a very good choice.

The only thing that Wu Yuan regrets is that the summer vacation, the most suitable time for selling pirated discs, will be occupied.

In the past two months, in order to avoid the limelight, Wu Yuan's pirated disc business has slowed down a lot. At least in Dongcheng, he dares to sell it once every three to five days.

As a result, his part-time income in the past two months has also dropped sharply, and he can barely make 500 yuan a month.

Although the national average annual salary of urban employees in 2000 was 9,371 yuan, and the average monthly salary was 780.9 yuan, the capital is the capital after all, and the average monthly salary of employees in Beijing has exceeded 1,300 yuan.

This is the average salary of employees, that is, the level of "in the system". As a family with a good family background for three generations, Wu Yuan naturally has to look to it.

"I wonder how much money I can get for playing this leading role." Wu Yuan thought with some curiosity.

His curiosity did not last long.

The next day, when Wang Xiaoshuai came to pick him up, he revealed the secret.

Wang Xiaoshuai drove a Santana 2000, which has been the most popular in recent years. The first sentence he said to Wu Yuan was: "This time you are shooting "Seventeen-year-old Bicycle", and you can get 10,000 yuan in salary."

"So much?!" Wu Yuan was shocked by Wang Xiaoshuai's words before he had time to appreciate this rather "retro" car.

This is the millennium, not 2020!

At present, when the marketization of the film industry has not yet begun, there is no such thing as a movie star.

At least in the mainland, except for Jet Li and Zhang Ziyi, other people can only get 3,000 to 5,000 yuan for an art film, whether they are the main actor or the supporting actor, and new actors can only get 1,000 to 2,000 yuan.

On the contrary, the money for acting in TV series is not bad. You can get 2,000 to 3,000 yuan for one episode, and 100 to 200,000 yuan for a TV series.

However, TV series take a long time to shoot, while movies can be finished in a few days to more than ten days, so this price is still acceptable.

But Wu Yuan is a newcomer, and it is a bit exaggerated for him to get 10,000 yuan for his first movie, even if he is the male lead.

"I don't lack money for this movie. Since the preparation, many people are willing to invest in me."

Wang Xiaoshuai said nonchalantly while starting the car:

"Now we are in the transition period of relevant policies. Although the stage of complete marketization has not yet begun, it has been relaxed a lot."

"For this "Seventeen-year-old Bicycle", as long as I pay the film studio to buy the factory logo, I can find someone to raise the rest of the funds.

"I have raised funds from France and Formosa, and these people are really rich, giving a lot and straightforwardly. "

"You are my junior brother anyway, you should take care of your own people."

There is such a good thing?!

Wu Yuan was delighted.

Wang Xiaoshuai is different from him. Before preparing to shoot "The Bicycle of 17", he had won the Best Director Award at the Italian Smina Art Film Festival, the Best Film Award at the Greek Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the International Film Critics Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival, and the Un Certain Regard Unit at the Cannes Film Festival.

Lao Wang is not only famous in China, but also a well-known director in Europe. There is really no shortage of people who want to invest in him to make art films.

"Thank you, senior brother!" Wu Yuan thanked him happily.

Wang Xiaoshuai glanced at him with his eyes and snorted: "But don't talk nonsense everywhere. You have the highest salary among the actors in the crew. The other male lead only gets 5,000 yuan. If someone asks you about it, you can also say that the salary is only 5,000 yuan. "

"The extra five thousand yuan is not given to you for nothing. In the crew, besides being the male lead, you will be the crew runner."

"Also, when you are not in the filming, you will also have to take on some of the work of the assistant director."

"Okay, leave it to me!" Wu Yuan patted his chest and agreed without hesitation.

The crew runner, this is a position that Wu Yuan has a long memory of.

In the film era, according to the shooting conditions, every day or at least every week, the crew will have a "runner" responsible for transporting the exposed film to the processing plant, and then bring back the processed samples.

This processed sample is commonly known as "rough film".

Every time the rough film is obtained from the processing plant, it will be checked and screened.

It is mainly for technical inspection, such as exposure, focus, whether there are any details such as goofs.

Of course, the most The important thing is that the directors will discuss and judge the content and performance of the filmed images. If they are not satisfied or have new ideas after watching the sample film, they may reshoot the next day.

The job of the film runner is to transport the film back and forth, because if the unprinted film has an accident, the loss will be huge, so this job is very important.

For Wu Yuan, if he works as a film runner, he can also join the discussion meeting on the filmed materials every night.

This is the best opportunity to understand and learn a director's shooting skills and abilities in the film era!

General runners are just errand runners, and they definitely don’t have this opportunity, but Wu Yuan is special. These days, his direct junior brothers are really the favorites of his senior brothers!

Every director who can rise in the film industry has the help of one or more senior brothers behind him!

This is also why the mainland director circle, especially in the first 15 years of the 21st century, has been criticized for being closed and factional.

Now, Wu Yuan has found a good big brother!

The half-hour drive passed quickly as Wu Yuan and Wang Xiaoshuai chatted.

When they arrived at Fengze Garden, the other members of the "Seventeen-year-old Bicycle" crew had already arrived and were waiting in the box.

Wang Xiaoshuai, the biggest director in the crew, carried Wu Yuan, the newbie, and pushed open the door of the box.

"Shua——"

Whether it was the actors or the crew members, when they saw Wang Xiaoshuai, they all stood up from their chairs immediately.

In these days, in independent films, the director is the most important person in the crew, and the supervisor or producer cannot shake the director's power.

Even most directors are producers, and there is no supervisor in the crew. The one who has the final say in the crew is like a king.

Following behind Wang Xiaoshuai, Wu Yuan looked at the situation in the box curiously.

Needless to say, the seven or eight crew members were all unfamiliar strangers.

But Wu Yuan was very familiar with the young people sitting at the central round table.

The young man with a shaved head, dark complexion, delicate appearance but extremely nervous, no need to ask to know that he is Cui Lin, another male lead of "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle".

And the two beauties standing on his left and right are big stars who are so familiar to Wu Yuan!

"Gao Yuanyuan!"

"Zhou Xun!"