Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 63 Where is Green Vine City

Among the remaining main roles, the second female role "Cheerleader Deng Linyue", which was the role that Li Yitong auditioned for at the beginning, was given to Meng Bai's "little fan girl" junior sister Zhu Xudan.

This girl is also miserable. Although she is a contracted artist of Leshi Films, the company basically gives her a "free-range" attitude and she has never had any resources.

Especially this year, Leshi Films signed a girl named Zhang Huiwen, who is the latest generation of "Mou Girl". Although her popularity is not high, her resources are really good. In this comparison, Zhu Xudan's situation is undoubtedly more miserable.

As the major sponsor of the crew, it would be bad for Leshi not to arrange an actor from their family. In this case, Meng Bai also took advantage of the situation to take care of his junior sister.

When Zhu Xudan received the news, she was so happy that she held her phone in her dorm for a long time. For her, taking on a new role was not a big deal. The key was that "Senior Brother Meng Bai" was thinking about her.

"Can you be more reserved, silly girl? A small role has made you so beautiful." Liang Jie looked at her best friend's "overeager" look and couldn't help rolling her eyes and saying "disdainfully".

"It doesn't matter how big or small the role is, as long as I can see Senior Brother Meng Bai." Zhu Xudan said with a smile. After that, she looked at Liang Jie who was speechless and said, "By the way, I recommended it to my senior brother, and he said that my character has a best friend in the plot, and there are quite a few scenes, so you can give it a try."

"Really!" Liang Jie's expression changed, and she said in surprise: "I knew it, Senior Brother is such a good person, I really wasn't wrong!"

Zhu Xudan: “…”
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Landao City, new campus of Landao University of Technology.

On the side of the wide campus road, a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses stood on the side of the road, looking towards the school gate.

The man's surname is Wang, and he is the director of the external publicity department of Landao Polytechnic University. A few days ago, he received a message from the Landao Cultural Tourism Department saying that a film crew wanted to rent their school's new campus as a filming location.

For the external propaganda department, which usually has few opportunities to show off, this is a rare highlight that can be included in the annual summary. Therefore, Director Wang attaches great importance to this matter and brought people here early today.

In the distance, a commercial vehicle was approaching him. He adjusted his glasses and tried to look at the license plate, and found that it was the car he was waiting for.

The car drove slowly and slowly stopped in front of Director Wang. When the door opened, he immediately straightened his clothes, gestured to the person behind him, and then greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Dear leaders, welcome!"

Director Wang looked at the group of people getting off the car. The first one was a section chief named Qin from the Landao Culture and Tourism Department who had contacted him before. Although he had never seen the few people following closely behind him, he was sure that they were also staff members of government agencies based on their clothing style and behavior.

The only people who stood out were the last two people to get off the bus, a man and a woman. The man was wearing casual clothes and looked young, like a college student. The girl was petite and cute, and at first glance, she looked like a junior high school student.

Director Wang was a little surprised. He had received a notice that Section Chief Qin from the Cultural Tourism Department would come with the crew's producer today. In his opinion, capable producers are usually middle-aged men. But the two men in front of him didn't look like them.

Although he was puzzled, he did not show it, and just looked at Section Chief Qin calmly. The latter probably understood his thoughts and took the initiative to introduce: "Old Wang, let me introduce you, this is Mr. Meng from Arclight Films, and also the producer of this filming crew. The person behind is his assistant, Assistant Hua."

"Oh, hello, President Meng." Director Wang immediately changed his attitude to a warm one, looked at Meng Bai and said, "I didn't expect President Meng to be so young. He is really promising at a young age."

"You're too polite, Director Wang." Meng Bai also shook hands with the other party in a friendly manner and said with a smile, "We are using your school's campus for filming this time. I'm afraid I'll have to trouble Director Wang for the next period of time."

"Haha, Mr. Meng, if you have anything to ask, just 'trouble' me." Director Wang waved his hand and said, "Shall we go to the office to talk?"

Meng Bai waved his hand: "No hurry, Director Wang, please show us the environment and construction of our campus first." "No problem." Director Wang said cheerfully: "Follow me, I will introduce the situation of our new campus to everyone."

After saying that, he made a feint and led everyone towards the inside of the school.

Looking at the empty and somewhat desolate scenery around him, Meng Bai listened to Director Wang's introduction while thinking about the plot scenes that could be used.

When we were filming "Soul Ferry" before, because the scenes were simple and mostly interior scenes, except for the specially built "Convenience Store No. 444", the rest of the scenes were basically rented temporarily.

But this time it is different, the plot and scenes involved in "Psychological Crime" are much more complicated. Take the most important "Green Ivy University" in the play for example, this time it is different from the several dormitory buildings in the new campus of the Central Academy of Drama that Meng Bai temporarily borrowed before, what is needed is a complete university campus.

Meng Bai certainly couldn't "build" a university like he did with the convenience store. He wasn't a big director like Chen or Zhang who could build a city for every movie he made.

So long before the actors' auditions began, he was already looking for a suitable filming location.

As one of the stories in the entire "Green Ivy Series", the filming location requirements must not only meet the plot needs of "Psychological Crime", but also consider the expansibility of subsequent stories. Therefore, when choosing, Meng Bai will give priority to coastal cities with more diverse terrain and landscape.

After considering multiple conditions such as cost, location, preferential policies, etc., Meng Bai finally chose his hometown Landao among Tianjin, Bincheng, Xiamen and Landao as the prototype of "Green Vine City" in the entire "Green Vine Series".

As for Hua Yan, who followed him, it was simply because this "loli girl" fully demonstrated the qualities of a poor student and was "asked" out of the Finance Department by Chen Jing on the grounds of "unsuitability". It just so happened that Meng Bai also needed a follower to run errands, so she changed her job and was promoted from "financial assistant" to "boss assistant".

"So Mr. Meng is also from Landao." While walking around the campus and chatting, Director Wang became more enthusiastic when he heard that Meng Bai was a local. "It is said that Landao is a land of talented people and many celebrities come from here."

This is true. There are quite a few people from Landao in the domestic entertainment circle. There was even a rumor about the "Jiaodong Gang" at one point.

Unfortunately, Meng Bai was just a nobody on the periphery of the film and television industry, and had little chance to meet those big names.

So Meng Bai just smiled at Director Wang's words and changed the subject, "We should thank our Blue Island's cultural and tourism department for providing a lot of preferential conditions and policy benefits to our small crew."

"Ha, Mr. Meng, you are too polite. Supporting the development of our local entrepreneurs is what we should do." Section Chief Qin said, "In addition, in the past two years, our Blue Island has also tended to support the film, television and entertainment industries. Meng finally caught up with the right time."

After that, he joked, "I'm worried now. Mr. Meng, all your series of criminal investigation and crime stories are shot in our Blue Island. Don't let people from other places really think this is the 'City of Crime'."

Meng Bai smiled and said, "It would be great if we could really make such a big name. Then we can say 'There is Gotham in the West and Green Ivy in the East'. Later we can develop a 'Green Ivy Series' themed film and television park, which may also be a new attraction."

Meng Bai was joking, but Section Chief Qin's eyes lit up: "You know what, the city actually had a similar plan last year, thinking of working with Rongchuang and Wanda to build the 'Blue Island Oriental Movie Metropolis Film and Television Base'. If the influence of our series is high enough, we can really apply for a place in it to build a theme park or something like that."

"Oriental Movie Metropolis?" Meng Bai asked doubtfully, "Are you planning to build a film and television shooting base?"

"Yes, there are many film and television bases in China, but most of them focus on costume dramas or period dramas. We hope to find a new way and focus on fantasy and science fiction blockbusters."

"Science fiction?" Meng Bai paused, shook his head and said to himself, "Can domestic films still have science fiction?"

(End of this chapter)