Huayu: Starting with Hijacking from "The Story of a Noble Family"

They chatted in the homeroom teacher's office for almost an hour, and when Xu Heng left, he took the opportunity to ask for a long leave.

Given his talent in acting, it would be difficult for him to raise his acting skills to Lv.3 on his own, so there's no need for him to continue taking classes so seriously.

Moreover, there is a lot of preparation work before the film officially starts shooting, such as sending the script for review.

The script also needs to be broken down according to the characters to make it easier for the actors to understand and for filming.

And auditioning for roles, determining filming locations, etc.

In addition, "The Story of a Noble Family" is scheduled to air on the 20th of next month, which is less than a month away. During this time, he will also participate in some promotional activities.

Fortunately, filming can still begin even if the script is not approved, as long as it passes the review and obtains the film license before the release.

Therefore, he temporarily set the start date for filming for the 21st of next month, which is the day after "The Story of a Noble Family" airs.

CCTV only purchased the first-run broadcast rights for "The Story of a Noble Family". The production company will continue to sell the series to other TV stations, so there will still be a lot of promotional activities after it airs on CCTV.

However, given his achievements with CCTV, his absence from these activities won't have a significant impact.

Over the next few days, Xu Heng and his three roommates began searching for filming locations all over Beijing.

In addition to the school setting, the film also features a significant amount of out-of-school content.

Meanwhile, news that Xu Heng, a famous second-year student in the acting department, will be directing a movie that will be officially released in theaters and that he will be casting the film at the school has already spread throughout the Beijing Film Academy.

Many interested students took action, making Xu Heng's dormitory extremely lively these past few days!

Another week passed, and it was Saturday, March 8th.

After spending two whole weeks out searching, Xu Heng has finally confirmed all the filming locations and made all the necessary arrangements. Today, he will also be conducting the first round of auditions for the film.

Liu Yifei, the female lead, naturally didn't need to audition, but she still came to the school to join in the fun, and Liu Xiaoli followed along.

"Xu Heng!"

Seeing Xu Heng walking over, Liu Yifei smiled and waved.

She has already received the movie script and really likes the story. She has also written a lot of thoughts and insights in the past few days.

After her mother read the script, she thought it was fine and agreed to let her take the role. She had already told Xu Heng the news.

"Effie!"

Xu Heng smiled and greeted Liu Xiaoli as well.

Liu Xiaoli came to the school today, clearly wanting to see the details of his film crew.

"Go ahead and do your work, don't worry about us!"

Liu Yifei continued.

She knew her mother's intentions, but she had faith in Xu Heng.

She had seen some of the crew's situation when she went to Xu Heng to get the script before.

In her opinion, Xu Heng's film crew was extremely professional, even more so than the two film crews she had worked on before!

Ever since the news of Xu Heng's upcoming film project spread at the Beijing Film Academy, the entire academy has been mobilized.

Teachers from various departments recommended their outstanding students to join the film crew, especially those from departments other than acting and directing.

These departments mainly train behind-the-scenes personnel, but nowadays, domestic film crews value connections more than ability.

For example, lighting technicians are often from the same place and are likely related by marriage.

So much so that even students majoring in lighting at the Beijing Film Academy's cinematography department don't find it easy to become lighting technicians in film and television productions after graduation.

But in terms of professional skills, students from Beijing Film Academy absolutely crush those self-taught students!

If these students could join Xu Heng's film crew and participate in the filming and production of a theatrical film, it would be an extremely important experience and qualification!

Even so, she still greatly admired Xu Heng for being able to assemble such a production team in such a short time!

"Um."

Xu Heng nodded; he did indeed have a lot to do right now.

Turning around and glancing around, I saw some students waiting outside the classroom for their auditions.

There were other people maintaining order around; these were all behind-the-scenes staff from the film crew, and also students from the Beijing Film Academy.

The fact that such a well-organized film crew could be assembled in less than two weeks clearly demonstrates Chen Yushan's excellent coordination skills, but it also reflects the fact that film and television crews in China are currently too closed off.

If these students can't get a job in a film crew after graduation, they might only be able to work for GG Company and shoot GG videos, and even the opportunity to shoot music videos is very rare.

Unlike students from the Central Academy of Drama, who, even if they don't get into film and television production teams, have an easier time getting jobs in theater troupes than students from the Beijing Film Academy.

He then glanced at the time, nodded to Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli again, and walked into the audition room.

Liu Xiaoli smiled and nodded in return.

Seeing Xu Heng and her daughter like this, she couldn't help but worry again.

It's only been a month since I last saw him, and Xu Heng seems even more outstanding than before...

Soon, all the class advisors from the performing arts department of several grades arrived. This time, they would all serve as audition judges to ensure fairness.

Ever since the news of Hsu Heng's upcoming film project spread, people have been constantly trying to pull strings for him.

There were also female classmates who secretly slipped him notes with their phone numbers written on them.

The auditions were mostly for supporting roles, but there was one female lead and one male lead who theoretically needed to audition.

Because the second male lead, who is also the female lead Lin Zhenxin's initial crush, has been cast by Zhang Zichen.

Zhang Zichen had been flattering him for so long, he had to be rewarded with something.

Besides, Zhang Zichen is the most handsome guy in their dorm besides him, and he's more suitable for the role than Sun Haidong and Wang Hongyu.

Sun Haidong and Wang Hongyu will play the two sidekicks of the main character.

The auditions started with first-year students, and the first one to come in was Wang Jia, the class monitor of the 02 undergraduate class of the Performing Arts Department, who was also Liu Yifei's classmate and roommate.

She auditioned for the role of the second female lead, Tao Minmin. At that time, Wang Jia, wearing a high school uniform, looked very pure, but her appearance was a little ordinary.

In the drama, Liu Yifei had to deliberately make herself look ugly most of the time, otherwise it wouldn't be convincing.

Which male student could resist such good looks? At least that's how it seems to the audience.

Even if Liu Yifei deliberately makes herself look ugly, she will never actually be ugly, so the second female lead's appearance cannot be too low either.

After Wang Jia's audition, Zhou Yang, Liu Yifei's other roommate and also the classmate with whom Liu Yifei had the best relationship, came in.

She's pretty, but she looks a bit too effeminate. However, she's perfect for the role of the second female lead.

The female lead, Lin Zhenxin, is a pure and innocent girl, so it's not good to choose the same type for the second female lead.

It's perfectly reasonable that female students who know how to present themselves during their school years are more popular.