Depressive Screenwriter

Half a minute later.

The long take, completely free of performance errors, was completed.

"Cut!"

Along with Shi Peihua's voice.

The coldness on Su Yan's face disappeared, replaced by a smile.

"Are you okay?" Su Yan handed the towel from his assistant to Gu Qingyuan to wipe the prop blood from her face.

"Thank you."

Gu Qingyuan said, reaching out to take the towel, but her fingers were trembling slightly.

"What's wrong? Even though it's a rain scene, the weather in June shouldn't be that cold."

Su Yan asked, or rather, although he was soaked, he still felt quite hot.

"It's not just that, I was a little scared by your expression just now," Gu Qingyuan said after a few seconds.

"I guess so, a face full of prop blood is a bit scary." Su Yan wiped his cheek.

"There will be more action scenes like this in the first and fourth episodes, especially the fourth episode, where you'll have to smear a lot of prop blood on yourself."

"No, what I mean by scary is that your acting is very good. After the fight scene, the look in your eyes... Even though I know it's acting, I still feel a sense of danger," Gu Qingyuan said after a pause.

"It's like, really facing a monster who has killed many people."

Hmm.

Su Yan was stunned when he heard this.

The Flying Heaven Sword Style that the system transmitted to him contained many scenes of sword training, as well as many real combat memories.

Perhaps those scenes were fake, but the emotions contained in the fights were real.

So, when Su Yan filmed action scenes, he was more or less influenced by those emotions, causing his entire temperament and form to look different.

Closer to the temperament of Kenshin Himura in the original anime.

Su Yan already knew this when he was acting with those martial arts actors before.

Others said directly that they didn't dare to look him in the eye when filming fight scenes, and always felt flustered.

It was only natural that a girl like Gu Qingyuan, who probably hadn't even seen boys fighting since she was a child, would be afraid.

"I'm sorry. I'll try to control it next time," Su Yan took a deep breath and apologized sincerely.

"No, it's okay," Gu Qingyuan waved her hand quickly when she heard this.

"Why should you apologize for acting well? I'm the one who needs to apologize. I need to work harder to get into the role... At least the Tomoe Yukishiro in the script wouldn't be frightened by Kenshin, it's my problem."

"You don't have to worry. It's just acting."

Xiaozaki Ikumi, who was listening to the two of them, walked over and put a coat on Gu Qingyuan.

Although she was holding an oil-paper umbrella, her clothes were also a little wet from the rain, and her hair had become damp.

"Let's go, go take a shower quickly, or you'll catch a cold later."

In a few days, Xiaozaki Ikumi and Gu Qingyuan had developed a good relationship. She laughed and pulled her towards the dressing room, and finally, looked back and waved to Su Yan with a smile.

"You should go change and wash up quickly too, don't catch a cold! See you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow," Gu Qingyuan said to Su Yan.

"See you tomorrow," Su Yan smiled, and didn't waste any time after watching the two leave.

It was already very late, and he had to go home to rest.

Su Yan flicked the prop sword in his hand, scattering all the prop blood and water droplets, leaving not a single drop. Then he waved the sword and released it, the blade rotating in the air, and the other hand quickly took off the scabbard from his waist.

The long sword flying in the air was vertical, and it steadily and automatically returned to its sheath.

The martial arts actors who hadn't left were twitching their eyes.

This action was so handsome and stable, why did this guy want to be a screenwriter?

In the Rurouni Kenshin crew, in addition to Shi Peihua being mainly responsible for the shooting of Tomoe Yukishiro and Kenshin's shots, the shots of other miscellaneous supporting characters were handed over to the assistant director to shoot.

But the budget for shooting is always exceeded, where would there be any balance?

Although it had been saved as much as possible, the shooting cost was still exceeded in reality.

However, Xiaozaki Ikumi had anticipated this situation.

Before the crew started filming, she had made an appointment with some GG implant manufacturers in advance.

For example, the sword in Kenshin's hand, the kimono worn by Tomoe Yukishiro, and some props such as bows and crossbows that appear in the series, will all implant information about related production companies.

Although the GG fee given by the other party is not high, even a mosquito leg is still meat, and the accumulation is quite considerable.

And after the TV series was filmed to the second episode, the literary drama part about Tomoe Yukishiro and Kenshin increased.

Perhaps because Su Yan had the blessing of the system's Flying Heaven Sword Style, Su Yan, who played Kenshin with a cold face, had a temperament that was quite in line, and was scolded less frequently by Shi Peihua during the filming process.

After all, the difficulty of interpreting the character Kenshin lies in the action scenes, and Su Yan is absolutely impeccable in this regard.

But from the second episode onwards, with the increase in literary drama, the acting requirements for the heroine Tomoe Yukishiro also increased rapidly.

The character Tomoe Yukishiro is not a simple cold beauty.

On the one hand, she wants to avenge her fiancé's killer, Kenshin Himura.

On the other hand, in this process, she is attracted by the young Kenshin. Kenshin's gentleness to her when he doesn't kill people, and standing up to protect her in times of crisis...

As a revenge spy, her inner contradictions and entanglements with the person she loves, often need Gu Qingyuan to interpret through the eye scenes of extremely short shots.

So she is often scolded by Shi Peihua in the crew.

Several times she was scolded until her eyes turned red, but she still controlled her emotions.

Every night, she had to practice the scenes to be filmed the next day alone until late at night, but over time, her progress was obvious to all, including Su Yan often being in a trance when acting with her, seeing her as Tomoe Yukishiro instead of the actress Gu Qingyuan.

Time, just like that, came to the end of June.

"Action actor?"

In the "Qingfeng" crew, Qing Tian Shan Zhi, Tu Heng, and the crew director and a group of actors, who have been filming this online drama for a month, have more or less heard some anecdotes from other crews in the Shanghai Film and Television Base.

In a low-cost film and television crew, there appeared a genius action actor who was praised by a group of veteran martial arts actors in the base.

Although there are many crews in the film and television base, the circles are actually intertwined, and this information spreads quickly.

Of course, this kind of thing is meaningless to Qing Tian Shan Zhi, his work is a youth idol campus drama, and there is no martial arts part.

But this so-called genius martial arts actor is from Sakura TV, that's strange?

"Rurouni Kenshin crew, screenwriter and male actor, Su Yan."

Qing Tian Shan Zhi burst out laughing when he saw this name.

"Genius action actor? It's him?"

"What's wrong?" Tu Heng turned to look at Qing Tian Shan Zhi.

He is a young man in his thirties, with a square face and a tall figure. At a glance, he is the kind of person who is very serious.

"Su Yan, a kid who has to pant for a long time to climb the fifth floor, what genius action actor, I don't know where the information came from?" Qing Tian Shan Zhi laughed.

"And the Rurouni Kenshin crew is so poor that the screenwriter is the lead actor... Amazing, Su Yan is really beyond my expectations."

The actors in the crew who were surrounding the main creators at this time also chuckled when they heard this, echoing Qing Tian Shan Zhi.

Among them, Feng Nannan, the female fourth in this work, opened her mouth to express herself.

"If I remember correctly, my classmate seems to be playing the heroine in this crew."

"Oh, how?" Qing Tian Shan Zhi became interested when he heard this.

"She ah... She also came to our crew to audition for the role of [Suga Miyu] before, but she was not selected, and she was preparing to go home to inherit the family business of growing grapes. Then, at the last moment, she was recruited by the Rurouni Kenshin crew to be the heroine."

Suga Miyu is the female third character in Qingfeng.

Everyone understood as soon as they heard it.

A person who is determined to go home to grow grapes can be recruited to be the heroine?

A new screenwriter does not do his job properly and becomes the male lead?

And the producer of this drama is Xiaozaki Ikumi, who is famous for producing the bad drama Sakura Island Love Song in the first half of the year.

Qing Tian Shan Zhi couldn't help it when he heard this.

"Top talents are all gathered in one nest."

"Okay, don't worry about them."

At this time, the director of the Qingfeng crew, Gang Bu Zhuang Jie, spoke.

"Starting tomorrow, Sakura Online will fully help [Qingfeng] with the pre-broadcast publicity. Although it is a web drama, everyone actually knows that the specifications of [Qingfeng] are completely produced according to the quality of TV broadcast episodes."

"The meaning of the production department of the station is also very simple. Not only our Sakura Online, but also Xingxia Online under the China TV Station, Hongsong Online under the Shanghai TV Station, plus Raccoon Online..."

"Among the web dramas broadcast on the four major web broadcast platforms in the summer country next season, the paid playback volume of [Qingfeng] in the opening episodes on the four major platforms must be the first, and the word-of-mouth must also be the first."

Although the summer country film and television drama market is still dominated by TV broadcasts, the number of paying users and attention of web dramas is also rising.

Deputy Minister Akasaka Yoshi also used the development of the web broadcast market as a reason to let the station invest tens of millions of funds, as well as a bunch of publicity resources to [Qingfeng] this web drama.

But if so much investment is made, and even the first place in the same period of web dramas cannot be obtained, then someone in the station will definitely be held accountable.

"That is to say..." Gang Bu Zhuang Jie looked at everyone.

"From past experience, [Qingfeng] must have an average paid playback volume of more than three million to be relatively stable in winning the first place."

These web broadcast platforms in the summer country are products that have risen with the development of the Internet in recent years, and are not as outrageous as the iTengyou that developed for more than ten years in Su Yan's previous life.

In the previous life, a popular web drama had more than 100 million views, and the broadcast copyright of this kind of drama could also be sold for more than 100 million.

The summer country has not yet developed to that stage.

But on the other hand, the summer country's paid system is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. An average of 3 million views does not seem to be anything, but these are effective paid views. There are no free riders, and all are VIP users who bought it with real money.

Therefore, this result is also a somewhat stressful performance indicator for the main creators of the Qingfeng crew.

After all, those web dramas with an investment of four or five million often have an average paid playback volume of only one to two million. After all eleven or twelve episodes are broadcast, there will be a paid sales amount of between 10 million and 20 million. The web broadcast divides half of the money to the production party, plus the GG implantation fee, and the TV station sells the broadcast copyright to some foreign media.

The TV station will make a small profit, but the profit margin will not be too exaggerated.

If you encounter a bad drama like Sakura Island Love Song that the audience does not buy, the TV station will also lose two or three million.

Producer Tu Heng's expression was a little dignified, and the director was also thoughtful.

Everyone is clear.

Having a relationship like Qing Tian Shan Zhi in the crew has the advantage that the station will give investment, and opening the green light will be very refreshing.

And once the project loses money, other people will often become scapegoats.

"Don't worry..." Qing Tian Shan Zhi said with a smile to ease the atmosphere at this time.

"I have learned about the dramas broadcast on the four major web broadcast platforms next season, and there are no strong competitors. An average of 3 million views is not our ultimate goal. Four million, five million is also promising. In short, we are sure to win the first place."