The crew of the second season of "Black Shadow" chose to shoot in an area called Yueshan Township, Xinchui County, HZ Province. Frankly speaking, the shooting conditions were quite difficult.
Today is the opening ceremony. At the opening ceremony, the crew burned incense and worshiped in the hope that no "dirty things" would be photographed.
Standing at the front to offer incense is naturally the actors and actresses, Zhang Shixian and Fang Hanling. Fang Hanling is a female celebrity who has become popular in the past ten years. Her blog has more than 50 million fans. Although she has been criticized by many netizens for her extremely bad acting skills, but because of her good looks, the audience I will still watch her TV shows. With the explosion of information in the Internet age, people can irresponsibly express their opinions indiscriminately, disregarding morality and ethics, and shout out the stupid slogan of "face value is justice". And Fang Hanling filmed a total of 14 TV series in the whole year of last year, about half of which were aired this year, but the exaggeration is that many of them are obvious cutout dramas, and people with a discerning eye can see them as computers. synthesized.
The second season of "Black Shadow" is still produced by Lan Ling Media Company, which has obtained the copyright, so most of the main actors are signed actors of Lan Ling. In this drama, Su Jingyi, like the first season, plays the villainous female supporting role. Since about 20 years ago, domestic TV dramas have transitioned from romance dramas to horror dramas, but the pattern has remained the same. It is always "infatuated male lead + silly white and sweet female lead + heart-warming male lead two + vicious female lead two" It's a routine that never changes. Now due to the changes of the times, the main audience of TV dramas has gradually changed to netizens, and most netizens live in a fast-paced era, and they can't watch TV dramas with connotations at all. They love the adrenaline-pumping horror stories and corny tales of love between men and women.
It is also because of this that today's TV screenwriters pay less attention to literature than twenty years ago, and the original scripts are extremely scarce, and most of them will choose popular novels to adapt. The same routines, horror scenes that purely pursue visual sensory stimulation, and bloody and vulgar four-corner love plots constitute the routines of most horror TV dramas today.
The shooting location for this shooting is in the mountainous area where Yueshan Township is located. The traffic in the deep mountains here is extremely inconvenient, so the basic necessities of life have to be kept simple. For the film crew, it is very important to complete the shooting as soon as possible in the first shooting location, after all, Fang Hanling's schedule is too limited. Due to time constraints, even the recruitment of extras is done locally. Of course, there is another reason that the cost of recruiting extras in this place can be saved. Salary requirements are also greatly reduced. For people in the first-tier cities, 5,000 yuan may be used in a month, but in this place, as long as 5,000 yuan is used sparingly, it is enough to live for more than a year.
"What kind of broken place is this..." Fang Hanling is used to being pampered. She has bought several sets of luxury houses in almost all first-tier cities in China. She usually has dozens of assistants busy with her when she travels. It is a luxury hotel. Usually, even if she has to go to some remote places to shoot scenes for costume dramas, she doesn't even need to be there in person, as long as she shoots in a studio or in front of a green screen, and then cuts out the pictures and synthesizes them.
"Sister Fang, this..." Her female assistant Xiao Mu handed her the hand warmer she had prepared, and said, "Just bear with it, the crew said to try to speed up the shooting this time. The highest, when the second season airs, I believe you will have better film resources and advertising endorsements.”
Hearing the movie and commercials, Fang Hanling smiled. For a star, sometimes receiving an endorsement in an advertisement can earn more than making a TV series. After all, the purpose of filming a TV series is to sell advertising space. This year, she has already received a lot of reluctance to accept commercial endorsements, but I heard that the overseas ratings of this TV series are not bad. When the second season will be broadcast overseas again, she may be able to endorse some internationally renowned brands.
Even so, Fang Hanling was quite dissatisfied with the small and dilapidated homestay. I just hope to finish filming the current scene sooner and then leave here. Afterwards, she casually opened a brand new script, and her assistant was busy handing her a glass of water beside her.
"Hmm... Why did the script change again? How can I memorize my lines?"
"This...is a request from the advertiser..."
"There are too many advertisements placed this time, right? It feels like they are selling advertisements."
"This..." Xiao Mu laughed dryly, and said: "There are more advertisements placed, and the production cost of the TV series is relatively high. I believe the quality of the TV series will be relatively better."
"Too… "
Flipping through the script in her hand, she suddenly felt a little cold.
"This script... read it in one breath, it's still quite scary."
At the same time, more than 200 extras have been recruited at the temporary recruitment office set up by the crew. Most of these people don't have lines, at most they just walk a few steps in front of the camera and it's over, so there is no need to consider acting skills at all. However, there are also a small number of actors who have a few lines of dialogue, and some may even need to play against the protagonist, so it takes a lot of effort to choose some. After all, if the acting is too embarrassing, it won't work.
"Well... next one, Gao Ying."
The executive director and several other staff members who are in charge of recruiting group performances with the leading role, select actors in the house temporarily rented by the crew.
Originally, the executive director would not personally ask questions about the group performances. However, the schedule was too tight this time, and the executive director had to do many things by himself.
"Your name is Gao Ying, right?" The executive director looked at the handsome young man in front of him, and was a little surprised. This young man is so good-looking that it is not a big problem to play the leading role, "Well, have you read the script? Can you perform in front of me?"
Naturally, Gao Ying had already recited the lines of the script completely, and there were not a few lines in the first place.
"Yes. Please watch."
Gao Ying has already read through the exam papers for this exam. The key to this exam lies in the crew of this horror TV series filmed in the local mountain village. This parallel world is completely different from the real world, and horror movies are not restricted at all, so horror TV dramas are extremely popular. At the same time, the time is actually in 2030, and the Internet media is much more developed than his time.
And this TV series called "Dark Shadow" tells a rather scary story...
(end of this chapter)