This celebrity is absolutely wicked.

Chapter 348 Actors Must Know How to Act
At this moment, Lu Ran remembered something.

When he has time to go to "The Earth Trainee", it should be right around the time of the wheat harvest.

Wheat grown in the Guanzhong region is generally harvested around the end of May or the beginning of June after overwintering.

According to the script of "Earth Trainees", this season of "Earth Trainees" will end soon after the wheat harvest.

Zhao Long and his group had ill intentions; they were just waiting to call him over when it was time to harvest the wheat.

Lu Ran made a tough decision and decided to learn how to operate a combine harvester.

With everything mechanized, why would anyone want to harvest wheat by hand? What are they thinking?

Lu Ran then chatted with Shen Qingyi about the specifics of Xinghuo Film and Television Company.

This company was founded with funds jointly invested by him and Shen, the wealthy woman.

It has to be said that Lu Ran felt he had made a lot of money during this period; he had earned far more than Shen Fupo.

But Shen Fupo's pool of funds is still bottomless. As long as a film and television project needs investment, no matter how much, Shen Fupo can take it out.

Shen Qingyi handed a document to Lu Ran.

"This is a development plan I wrote for the future of the company."

Lu Ran sat in the chair and slowly began to read.

A legitimate production company should at least have a director team, a filming team, and post-production editing personnel.

One more thing: Lu Ran must break free from the existing small-workshop model of film and television production processes.

The reason why Li Yannian was able to film "The Beginning" and "A Man of Both Literary and Martial Arts" so quickly is because he did not use a small workshop-style working method.

Everyone says the film and television industry is chaotic these days, but Lu Ran has already seen firsthand where that chaos lies.

As a pure engineering student, Lu Ran had a course called "Technical Process" in his major courses.

To produce a product, a process flow needs to be established for the entire production process. A good process flow can improve production efficiency and reduce production costs.

A product that originally required six steps to produce can be produced in just three steps after the process is optimized. This is the effect of a good process.

This only covers the production stage.

For example, producing potato chips involves steps such as product development, supply chain management, manufacturing, sales and distribution, packaging and finished product management.

Relevant personnel need to refine each step and prepare the entire process based on market demand.

However, in the film and television market, the production model is a workshop-style production model centered on "people".

One issue is that many projects nowadays are only initiated because of a particular actor; without that actor, the project wouldn't even exist.

Many scripts are tailor-made for this actor. It doesn't matter if the actor can't speak Mandarin or his lines aren't standard; I'll just write a male lead with an accent for you.

After all, this actor has a large following.

This is even more true within the production team. Once the director is chosen, the producer is the director's wife, good friends serve as co-producers, and acquaintances are all placed in important positions.

Lack of ability is not important.

With the photography, lighting, and makeup teams in place, we just quickly put together a script and started filming.

It often happens on set that, for example, the lighting technician takes forever to adjust the lights, and the entire crew has to wait for four or five hours, or even seven or eight hours.

This shows that there was no planning or preparation work done during the filming process.

If you don't prepare things in advance and only start preparing them on set, what's the difference between that and not rehearsing before going into battle?

Unfortunately, this is what a large number of teams in the industry are doing now.

What Lu Ran needs to do is cultivate a progressive production team.

In this regard, Mrs. Shen deeply understood his thoughts and wrote them out in her future plans.

Ms. Shen added, "I plan to build our own actor database. Other companies are doing this too, but each company has different standards. With an actor database, it will be easier for us to select actors in the future."

"Okay, how do you plan to choose?"

Shen, the wealthy woman: "An actor needs to know how to act, right?"

Lu Ran nodded: "You're right."

Unfortunately, many actors nowadays simply can't act.

"Let's start by choosing from the actors we've already contacted."

Lu Ran has worked with quite a few actors, including the group of actors in "China in Classics," all of whom are skilled actors.

If Spark Company can continuously provide projects for everyone to film, even if these people don't sign with the studio, they will still be Lu Ran's people.

"If you want to make progress, you have to unite all the forces that can be united. Starry Media, Golden Age, just you wait." After talking with Shen Qingyi, Lu Ran went to the editing office of Xinghuo Film and Television Company.

At this moment, there are a lot of people in the editing department.

Upon seeing Lu Ran enter, Meng Yichuan, who was chatting with an editor, immediately came over.

"Mr. Lu, we're currently editing 'Day and Night,' would you like to take a look?"

The filming of "Day and Night" has wrapped up recently.

"Let me see."

Meng Yichuan led Lu Ran to a computer and showed her a sample of the first episode.

Lu Ran nodded after watching for more than ten minutes.

The editing of "Day and Night" is quite good.

Once this drama is released, Xinghuo will basically be able to establish itself in the film and television industry.

……

the next morning.

The filming location of "Soldiers Sortie".

This is a training ground borrowed by the film crew to shoot the part about the Steel Seventh Company, which is also one of the main contents of the entire series.

A car stopped at the entrance of the training ground.

Gao Yuhui and Dou Yong came down from upstairs.

Then, Liu Dayong and Lu Ran also stepped forward to greet them.

Dou Yong looked at Lu Ran with satisfaction.

"Comrade Xiao Lu, our Red Star Art and Culture Center owes a great deal to you this time. The performance of Li Yannian, who is both literate and martial, has been very successful."

Lu Ran smiled and said, "I have to thank the Red Star Art and Culture Center for their assistance; otherwise, it would have been impossible to finish this drama so quickly."

The Red Star Art and Culture Center is a national team, after all. They may have fallen behind the market, but their craftsmanship has not.

The entire filming process can be described as highly industrialized.

Dou Yong shook hands with Lu Ran: "You know how to talk, kid."

He muttered a curse to himself.

"This guy is no better than Xu Gaomin."

Young people in the arts and culture scene are definitely more capable than the older generation.

The group walked inside.

While Liu Dayong and Dou Yong were chatting, Gao Yuhui moved closer to Lu Ran.

"Hey, is everything scheduled for today's filming?"

"Don't worry, there will be absolutely no problem."

The shooting order was temporarily adjusted today, so we had to give Dou Yong a little shock.

No one watches shows without female characters?
Are you kidding me?
With such a large market like China, there are bound to be people who enjoy this kind of show.

At this moment, Dou Yong was also a little uneasy.

As Hong Yankun and Xu Gaomin pointed out during the previous meeting.

One cannot go against the market.

In today's film and television market, everyone wants to see romance. If you don't have female characters and you don't write about romance, who will watch it?

He wanted to revive "Soldiers' Sortie," but that was a gamble, a gamble on his career.

Unless "Soldiers Sortie" can really give him a different feeling.

The group arrived at the playground, where actors dressed in camouflage uniforms were already waiting.

Liu Dayong first greeted the actors, saying that the leaders had come to visit the set, which gave Dou Yong plenty of emotional support, and then began to arrange the filming schedule.

Soon, the actors were lined up.

The script supervisor also hit him with a board.

The shooting officially started.

(End of this chapter)