While picking up Mei Zihan and Jiang Ying to their destination, Will briefly told them about the crew.
The main actors of "The Crown" are basically in place. For the budget of the whole show, Will does not plan to invite too well-known actors.
"The actor of the male lead is McCann. He has played supporting roles in major TV series all the year round, but he was not lucky enough to be familiar with him. He also graduated from a regular film and television major, and he is very kind. You will get along well. And then there's the cast of Archbishop…”
The actors that Will invited, except for a few necessary veteran actors and special actors, are almost all unknown, and almost all the investment and production costs are spent on the set and special effects.
As for the screenwriter, Will invited his wife.
Yes wife.
It is said that this Mrs. Martha was originally Will's college classmate, and she was also the flower of the Department of Editing and Directing. It is said that Mrs. Martha was in love with the most famous student of the actor department at that time, and Will was a backup tire for three full years. It was not until Mrs. Martha's boyfriend cheated and ended the relationship that Will dared to confess to his goddess.
In other words, it is to take advantage of the void.
Jiang Ying was Will's classmate at the time, although she didn't understand feelings, she also helped out with ideas. When they got married, Jiang Ying gave a generous gift. After all, they haven't seen each other for many years.
"I'm surprised. After graduating from the directing department with the first place, Martha didn't enter the entertainment industry but concentrated on being a housewife at home. This doesn't match Martha's personality." Jiang Ying couldn't help asking curiously .
Although prying into other people's privacy may seem impolite to Westerners, they have a friendly relationship and don't think it's inappropriate.
"It's not that Martha doesn't want to enter the entertainment circle, it's just that she can't bear the endless tampering of her script by investors."
A well-known screenwriter is naturally the core of the entire crew, and any actor who wants to die can die. But as a new screenwriter, even if Martha got the first graduation result in the academy, she still had to accept the investor's guidance on the script.
Well, forgive him for not wanting to use the word pointing at all.
"At the beginning, all American dramas relied on criminal investigation and suspense, but the themes written by Martha were sci-fi in nature. Not only the investment was high, but also the production level of special effects was high. If you want to make such a script, you must find Several different investors, and even a director with a keen eye, you know I'm not good at science fiction themes."
Many newcomers who graduated from the film and television academy may not enter the entertainment industry even if they have achieved excellent results. Some of them choose to marry and have children, some choose to change careers, and some are unwilling to change their minds based on other people's plans.
All over the world, art students are always bolder than ordinary people.
"Martha said that she would rather stay at home and slowly ponder her own script than hand it over to an ignorant director." Will shrugged, "If the film I'm shooting now "The Crown" has become popular, so Martha will probably be able to get to know more insiders."
"If you are short of funds at that time, please come and find me." Jiang Ying immediately took his words, "Compared with you, I actually trust Martha's ability more. After all, every final exam, you were Come to me for study notes, and Martha got a scholarship for three years."
The filming base of the film crew is far away from here. The two chatted and recalled the past, and the small car was full of joy.
Mei Zihan was listening to the conversation between the two, as silent as a chicken.
He had never participated in Jiang Ying's college life, so listening to the conversation between the two of them, it seemed that he was also enrolled with them.
But it didn't matter, the occasional flash of loss was quickly replaced by joy.
Without the past, I still have Jiang Ying's present and future.
The main plot of "The Crown" takes place in an ancient castle, and the oriental businessman Feng lives in the innermost layer of the castle.
"Originally, I wanted to help you decorate the rooms according to the layout in your oriental movies, but after thinking about it, you should do it yourself. After all, I don't have any extra money, so I will hire another oriental person to be a scene consultant. I heard that You guys like the big red quilt, if I need it, I can find someone to drag it over for you."
"No need, actually we don't like it at all. The oriental costumes or scene layouts in the foreign population are actually very outdated in our eyes." Jiang Ying explained with a smile, "In our country, whenever Seeing the characters and plots about Dongfang Huaxia appearing in foreign TV dramas, in fact, most of them are complaints."
The West believes that Easterners like peonies, so they should print all the images of peonies on the fabric in large and large flowers. It often happens that some high-end luxury brand products for the Rabbit Country market collide with the low-end goods worth more than a dozen yuan from Taobao.
Also from a merchant family, Jiang Ying is well aware of the foreign pursuit of the Rabbit Country market. Adding a little Chinese style seems to be able to arouse the patriotism of the Chinese people and buy their luxury goods wantonly. As everyone knows, such a casually added style is incompatible with the style of their brand itself.
In the end, it can only fall into the end of group ridicule.
"Okay, as for the role of Dongfang Merchant Feng, I will leave the layout of the room to you, and you can just say that we will be responsible for finding the materials for you. I will take you to meet the scene designer of our crew later. Oh yes, because we The shooting location is very remote, so our usual room may be in our crew. The signal there is not very good, do you two want to live in the same room?" Will asked with a smile.
Jiang Ying kept saying that Mei Zihan was half of his students, even though the two of them hadn't talked much since getting in the car, Will could clearly feel the tacit understanding between the two.
This is definitely not the tacit understanding that ordinary friends can achieve.
It was only when Will himself was on the honeymoon with Martha that he occasionally radiated this kind of light that can blind others without talking.
This is probably the so-called human instinct for emotional perception.
Will thought it was funny, maybe he could try to include it in his own shot.
"Okay, then I will trouble you."
Jiang Ying and Mei Zihan looked at each other and laughed at the same time.
The three got out of the car, and as soon as they entered the old castle where the film crew was mainly filming, they saw a person dragging two large suitcases, struggling to climb the stairs.
Will hurried up to help carry it.
"Jefferson, why did you come here alone?" Will asked while helping to carry the suitcase, "Where are the assistants you brought with you?"
"The designs they drew were terrible, and I fired them all." Jefferson waved his hand impatiently, "I taught them for more than half a year, but the things they drew were still lifeless, and they were not suitable Be my assistant, just let them go."
"Jefferson, they are already the best students. And in the field of design, everyone's style is different, you can't ask every assistant to draw what you imagined." Will couldn't bear it Live said.
This is the fifth batch of assistants that Jefferson has resigned from.
Although Jefferson is indeed a cutting-edge designer with a great reputation in the design industry, without the help of his assistant, if he wants to complete so many designs and fabric selections by himself, the time will be greatly slowed down.
"No matter how picky I am, there will be wave after wave of students who are willing to work under me as assistants. If it doesn't work, I'll go to Paris to look for it." Jefferson waved his hand, not caring about it.
All over the world, there are countless people engaged in the design industry. If you can’t find an assistant in the United States, you can go to France. If you can’t find an assistant in France, you can go to East Asia. As a designer who has successfully carried out several shows, and as a consultant for high-end brand ER, Jason definitely has no shortage of assistants.
"Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you. Jefferson, this Mei Zihan over here is the actor of the male Erfeng in my TV series. The one on the left is my college classmate at the time. Invited advisor Jiang Ying."
"Mei Zihan and Jiang Ying, this Mr. Jefferson is an old friend of mine and also the costume designer of our show. Because we are going to shoot this step, we need to incorporate some fantasy elements from the Middle Ages, so in the retro At the same time, we must also pay attention to some fantasy textures. And Jefferson is the best designer in this batch of retro waves."
After Will was kicked out of the crew after the success of his last show, he started to form his own private team.
His wife Martha, his old classmate Jiang Ying, and his good friend Jefferson, whom he has known for many years, are all members of the team he wants to form.
These are people he has known for many years and trusted. There will definitely be more than one season of "The Crown" filming. In order to avoid the fact that the vast majority of well-known dramas have to change the crew every episode, so when forming a crew at the beginning, it is necessary to choose those he can trust.
In contrast, the choice of actors for the crew is not so important.
In American dramas, many supporting actors will want to increase their pay after the drama becomes popular, and they will leave if they can't negotiate, and die in a certain way in the plot reasonably. But only the starring role is almost the same. Many actors can only act in one drama in their lifetime. If they give up this unique advantage, their future will become confused again.
No one is willing to give up the success at hand.
"This Mr. Mei Zihan, have I seen you somewhere?" As Will's good friend, Jefferson has heard Jiang Ying's name countless times from Will. But he didn't expect that when the person was actually placed in front of him, what he was curious about was not Jiang Ying, but Mei Zihan.
"Sorry, I've never seen you before." Mei Zihan looked at Jiang Ying and Will curiously, and shook his head slightly.
Jefferson didn't pay attention to Mei Zihan's answer, but fell into his own thinking.
"I remembered, have you ever photographed a vampire aristocrat's cover?"