Millennium director

The preparation of a variety show is naturally not something that can be done in just a few words.

However, under the leadership of the heads of the two companies, the implementation of Light and Shadow Era and Light and Shadow Fast Broadcast was very fast.

It is not an easy task to make a variety show, whether it is a studio variety show or an outdoor variety show.

In particular, both Light and Shadow Times and Light and Shadow Kuaibo have no experience in variety shows at all.

This thing can't be accomplished by just writing a plan.

Just like making a movie, you don't have to have a script to be able to shoot it perfectly according to the script. You also need a professional crew team and an excellent director.

If you want to create a variety show, you must first have a writing and directing team.

In this regard, the Light and Shadow Era has to take action.

After a brief meeting with Chen Dewei and confirmation of the project, Li Xiaoping took the lead.

It is unrealistic for Guangying Times to develop its own team. Li Xiaoping’s choice is of course to start poaching people with a hoe.

The first target is the team that digs the mangoes first.

Needless to say, among the major TV stations in the mainland, Mango’s variety show team is the best at producing talent shows. Starting from the “Super Girl” that year, Mango has produced several talent shows for male and female singers, and has accumulated Lots of experience.

Moreover, the salary paid by the TV station to the director and behind-the-scenes production team is really not high to be honest.

Even if the team that made the hit "Super Girl" and "Fast Boy" received the highest salary in the industry, that is, a monthly income of over 10,000 yuan, most of the money was made by the TV station and the agency established by Mango.

When Li Xiaoping sets her sights on them, she wields a money stick and doesn't want to poach people too easily.

Of course, she is not just eyeing Mango Channel for poaching. Oriental TV's variety show production team also received job-hopping invitations from the Light and Shadow Era.

Dragon TV's "Come on!" "Good Man" program is also a leader among mainland talent show variety shows.

Jing Boran, Qiao Renliang, Fu Xinbo, Zhang Chao, Li Yifeng, Wang Chuanjun, Pu Bajia, Ma Tianyu and other singers and actors who later became famous in domestic entertainment all came from this variety show.

More than "Come on!" "Good Man", Dragon TV also has a program "My Style, My Show", which is also a star-making machine.

Representative figures who have emerged through this program include Zhang Jie, Qi Wei, Joker Xue, Liu Wei, Yuan Chengjie, Zhao Yingjun, etc. They are also a gathering of talents.

Mango Channel and Dragon TV are considered to be the most experienced in talent show variety shows in China, and their teams are also the best.

Li Xiaoping immediately targeted these two companies and poached people with a big stick.

And her vision is not limited to the country.

South Korea next door also came into her sight.

When the perspective is enlarged to the Asian perspective, South Korea is undoubtedly the largest team in the field of variety shows in Asia, the most experienced, and the best.

In terms of outdoor variety shows, romance variety shows, studio variety shows, idol interactive variety shows, and comedy variety shows, South Korea is currently the number one in Asia.

Even in terms of talent shows, although the 101 that shook Asia has not yet been born, South Korea already has a singer talent show called "Super Star K".

Although there is a language barrier, as long as they spend a little money and have a translator, Korean variety show teams can still recruit Chinese people to work.

In order to prepare this ground-breaking actor talent show, Li Xiaoping has put in a lot of effort.

Only by first building a top domestic variety show production team can we not waste such a good variety show idea, create the most perfect effect for this variety show, and strive to make a sensation across the country and become a phenomenon like "Super Girl" back then. Variety show!

However, this takes time.

While preparing the variety show production team, Li Xiaoping also sent invitations to the mentors who were interested in inviting them.

She accepted Chen Dewei's suggestion, and the first person she approached was Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou is feeling a little proud this year.

The failure of "Three Guns" in 2009 once made Zhang Yimou the target of ridicule on the Internet, and he suffered from online exposure for a long time.

There are endless criticisms that Zhang Yimou has fallen from the altar, his talent has been exhausted, and his talent is no longer there.

Zhang Yimou, who had just passed the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games and was awarded the title of National Master, had not even lasted a year, and the word "National Master" had become derogatory. The two words were also interpreted as a joke.

It was not until the release of "Hawthorn Tree" last year that the trend of criticism and ridicule of Zhang Yimou was finally stopped, and his declining reputation was stopped.

In the first half of this year, "Hawthorn Tree Love" was shortlisted for many domestic and foreign awards. It won the Best Film at the Huabiao Award and the Best Actress at the Valladolid International Film Festival in Spain. This made Zhang Yimou feel proud. Some.

And it just so happened that he was free now.

In January, his new movie, the heavily prepared "The Thirteen Hairpins", started shooting in Nanjing, and the filming has now been successfully completed.

Although there is still post-production work to be done, compared with Zhang Yimou's previous pace of filming, preparing for, and writing another movie, this time Zhang Yimou doesn't even have a plan for his next movie. The schedule for the next year is empty, and I only need to do the post-production of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling".

This bit of work can even be considered a break for Zhang Yimou.

Maybe it's just the luck of the light and shadow era that happened to coincide with Zhang Yimou's loose schedule.

When the variety show plan for "Actors Please Take Your Place (Tentative Title)" was sent to Zhang Yimou, he had no intention of doing a variety show. He just did it for the sake of the company and Wu Yuan. Take a look at Zhang Yimou, who planned the case, but after watching it, he was immediately attracted to this variety show.

An actor talent show for newbies!

This was so fresh, and it just struck a chord in Zhang Yimou's mind.

If there is any major domestic director who likes to use new actors the most, it is undoubtedly Zhang Yimou.

In almost every movie he makes, he boldly casts new actors, and often there are even two or three new actors taking the lead.

"Love at the Hawthorn Tree" stars two new actors as the male and female leads, and "The Thirteen Hairpins" also stars a new actor as the female lead.

In Zhang Yimou's view, new actors are the most spiritual. They are like a blank sheet of paper, which has not been dyed with any indelible colors. They can best show their true emotions and have nothing to do with themselves. Discover the colors.

This time, Light and Shadow Times plans to invite fifty new actors to compete on the same stage, and let four mentors personally train these new actors, and finally create the best performance team among the fifty people.

Wow, this really attracted Zhang Yimou's interest.

He is very good at training new actors.

It's a bit technical. (End of chapter)