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

Liu Yifei: I've been so busy lately!

Xu Heng: How can you be busier than me?

Liu Yifei: I'm very busy too. I have to do interviews, shoot magazines, attend classes, and prepare for exams. After recording Happy Camp on the 21st, I have to go back to Beijing for the press conference on the 24th, then go back to school, and in a few days I have to shoot an endorsement video for GG...

Xu Heng: Understood

Liu Yifei: What do you know?

Xu Heng: I know you're quite wealthy now, you've even landed endorsement deals.

Liu Yifei: This is my first time accepting an endorsement, and if you were willing to take on more endorsements, you would definitely take on more than I have.

Xu Heng: Not only do I get more endorsement deals than you, but don't forget my endorsement fees are definitely higher too.

Liu Yifei: Yes, yes, you are a big star and a tycoon, of course I, a small actress, can't compare to you!

Xu Heng: Hmph, good to know.

Liu Yifei: Hmph!

Xu Heng: Don't worry, I won't forget your birthday.

Liu Yifei: Pfft, I don't care.

While chatting with her three roommates, Liu Yifei continued texting Xu Heng, remaining outwardly calm and collected.

Her 16th birthday is on the 25th of this month. She just finished recording Happy Camp, and on the 24th she will return to Beijing to participate in the promotional activities for "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils".

It was Monday the 25th, and if nothing else was going on, she would have gone back to school anyway, even though it was her birthday.

On the other side, Xu Heng looked at the text message on his phone and couldn't help but shake his head.

He and Liu Yifei were just friends, at most their relationship was slightly better, but there was a feeling that they were being secretive.

Nowadays, there are many male and female celebrities in the entertainment industry who have good relationships, such as Chen Kun and Zhou Xun, and Ren Quan and Li Bingbing.

As for Happy Camp, he wasn't interested.

"Our Times" only needs 800 million in box office revenue to obtain skill points, which is his minimum requirement.

Given the quality of the film and his and Liu Yifei's popularity, achieving that goal shouldn't be too difficult.

Two days later, on Sunday, August 3rd, the post-production of "Our Times" was completed.

From the official start of filming on March 21st until now, it has taken more than four months, a full 136 days.

The film was shot in 72 days and post-production took 64 days, with no rest in between.

The total cost was over 280 million, which means the production cost was over 280 million.

If the school closures hadn't significantly increased costs, the production cost could have been even lower.

However, what has been produced so far is only the version submitted for review.

Furthermore, an internal audit by Qingying Film Studio must be conducted before the film is submitted to the State Administration for review.

As for the screening, it was to give the school leaders a sense of involvement, since the school had given them a lot of support for the film.

Meanwhile, after the film's post-production was completed, the "System" panel underwent another change, and his director skill was finally upgraded from Lv.1 to Lv.2!

Clearly, the director skills in the system also include post-production capabilities. After experiencing the complete production process of a movie, his Lv.1 director skills were finally "completed"!

As for his singing skills, after practicing and consulting with professionals for a period of time, he finally improved them to Lv.3 on his own!

According to the system's description, Lv.3 is equivalent to a professional singer's level of singing ability. He then re-recorded the song he sang in the movie!

Name: Xu Heng

Age: 19

Skills: Cooking (Lv.4), Programming (Lv.3), Singing (Lv.3), Martial Arts (Lv.2), Directing (Lv.2), Acting (Lv.2), Screenwriting (Lv.2), Composing (Lv.2), Recitation (Lv.2)

Current target for hijacking: Chen Yushan, director of the film "Our Times"

Remaining skill points: 0

Remaining interception points: 1

Another day passed, Monday, August 4th, Qixi Festival.

Early in the morning, a large crowd had gathered outside the school's screening room. By then, news had already spread that "Our Times" was going to be screened on campus.

Currently, there are two screening rooms on the Beijing Film Academy campus, one of which is a standard screening room with more than 200 seats.

One is a medium-sized screening room with more than 120 seats.

There are also some small screening rooms that are usually used for teaching.

This screening will be held in a standard screening room, which does not currently support the screening of digital films.

However, yesterday, Xu Heng had already converted the film from digital format to 35mm film format.

At 9:30 a.m., the heads of several departments and the director in charge of content review from Qingying Film Studio arrived, and the screening officially began.

As for the college and university leaders, they don't even think much of his low-budget film, which only cost two or three million to make, unless the film really becomes a box office hit!

Xu Heng sat in the first row, next to Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei was clearly excited to see the movie she starred in for the first time.

But she felt a little unhappy because Xu Heng had secretly worn a suit again today, making himself look incredibly handsome!

However, she knew that even if Xu Heng told her, she could not dress as formally as Xu Heng.

This is not only because she is not as famous as Xu Heng, but also because she is just an actress, while Xu Heng is a director, whose status is undoubtedly much higher than that of an actor.

The Beijing Film Academy has never lacked big-name actors and stars while they are still in school, but there are very few directors who can make theatrical films while they are still undergraduates.

The last person to meet this criterion was Jia Zhangke, who is now quite famous, six years ago.

Furthermore, Jia Zhangke is not from the directing department, but from the literature department.

However, Jia Zhangke's film "Xiao Wu" was filmed in the second semester of his senior year of college and was not released normally in China.

Thinking back to how confidently Xu Heng spoke with the school leaders, she couldn't help but feel a surge of admiration, but she certainly wouldn't tell Xu Heng that...

Nearly two hours later, the movie ended.

As Liu Yifei sang the ending theme song "A Little Happiness," a very enthusiastic round of applause rang out from the audience.

However, since they are all classmates, the leaders certainly wouldn't be so unreserved.

All actors and crew members involved in the filming and production, as well as freshmen through seniors of the acting and directing departments, are welcome to attend today's screening.

At Beijing Film Academy, the most attention is paid to students majoring in acting, but the highest status is definitely held by students majoring in directing.

Even the dormitories for the directing department are all set up by one class occupying an entire floor, so as to avoid being disturbed by students from other departments.

Chen Kaige, a graduate of the directing department of Beijing Film Academy, has always looked down on Zhang Yimou, a graduate of the cinematography department of Beijing Film Academy.

After the screening, Xu Heng arranged a dinner at the school's guesthouse, which Liu Yifei didn't need to attend.

With his current physical condition, he could easily drink a pound of baijiu (Chinese liquor).

I don't need to drive today, so having a little alcohol shouldn't be a problem.

It's not that he doesn't understand social etiquette; he just has his own principles.

After the dinner, he sent the sample film to the Qingying Film Studio for internal review that afternoon.

After the film is approved, Qingying Film Studio will submit it to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television for further review.

According to current regulations, the State Administration for Market Regulation's review period is 30 calendar days, so the results of the first review should be known by the beginning of next month at the latest.

As for the internal review by Qingying Studio, it was just a formality.

Although his film was affiliated with Qingdao Film Studio, it had nothing to do with the studio, and the studio did not receive any share of the profits.

Asking Qingdao Film Studio to submit the film for review was simply to make it easier to pass the review.