Huayu Entertainment 1995 started with hijacking.

Chapter 33 A Beauty Falls from the Sky
Wu Yuchen wanted to submit "Car 44" to the competition, not just for the fame and recognition of the award, but mainly for the money.

In his previous life, Jia Zhangke raised over 20,000 yuan from a film group crowdfunding, and eventually received 50,000 yuan in prize money, which he then distributed among everyone.

If Wu Yuchen, a reborn individual, raises 30,000 yuan through crowdfunding but doesn't get a single penny back, wouldn't he be worse off than Lao Jia? That would be a real disgrace to reborn individuals!

Although the Berlin Short Film Awards don't offer prize money, they are prestigious and attract many film dealers. Winning an award means you can sell the screening rights.

The short film isn't sold for theatrical release rights, but for television rights, which can fetch at least ten or twenty thousand US dollars. If it wins a major award, it will definitely earn even more.

Of course, Wu Yuchen would prefer to sell the film adaptation rights, which are more valuable than the television rights. However, he doesn't dare to have too high hopes right now; he has to see if any company is interested and can only leave it to fate for now.

However, he did not return to Beijing Film Studio, but instead headed to the Central Academy of Drama.

Last night, Sun Honglei brought Duan Long to see him, saying he hoped the production team could take "Car 44" to CCTV for a broadcast.

Wu Yuchen understood what the two were thinking. They had made a good movie and naturally wanted to go back and show it off, to earn face at school.

Returning home in glory!
Wu Yuchen naturally agreed without hesitation, and had the excited Lao Jia lead the team, who had already taken the copy over early this morning.

The Central Academy of Drama is Duan Long and Sun Honglei's home turf, so they should be the main characters. Therefore, Wu Yuchen did not plan to go over and steal the spotlight. Now that he has finished discussing important matters with his teacher, he plans to go over and see how things are going.

After getting off the bus, Wu Yuchen strolled leisurely over. When he was almost at the Central Academy of Drama, he saw a bookstore next door and went in to buy a bottle of water.

In 95, the most common soft drink in Beijing was Beibingyang, which was cheap and delicious. Even Coca-Cola and Pepsi could not compete with it. Unfortunately, after Pepsi entered into a commercial joint venture, it was shelved the following year. A national brand that had been around for decades stopped production. It was not until 2011 that it was taken back from Pepsi.

However, Wu Yuchen still bought a bottle of Coca-Cola, because nowadays all these domestic soft drinks are in cans or glass bottles, which are really inconvenient to carry!

Just as Wu Yuchen took the Coke from the shopkeeper and was about to leave, a crisp female voice rang out beside him:
"Boss, how much are these three books in total?"

Wu Yuchen subconsciously looked over and met the gaze of the woman walking over.

A white autumn coat, long legs that made light blue jeans look long and straight, and thick, newly grown hair casually draped over her shoulders.

Upon seeing the face in the middle, Wu Yuchen immediately pictured a face as beautiful as a lotus blossom, radiant and captivating!
It wasn't the delicate, refined beauty or the gentle, graceful beauty that you had to savor slowly; rather, it was a bright and radiant beauty, the kind that was so striking it was right in front of you that Wu Yuchen couldn't take his eyes off it.

Wu Yuchen murmured to himself, no wonder Bao Jianfeng said in his previous life that Zeng Li was a "once-in-two-hundred-years beauty" at the Central Academy of Drama. She was the school beauty Liu Ye mentioned, and the most beautiful girl in the school in the eyes of Qin Hailu and Zhang Tong. It turns out that Zeng Li really is pretty!

In his previous life, Wu Yuchen had never worked with Zeng Li; he had only seen her photos online.

To be honest, Zeng Li's beauty is very controversial. Many people don't think she's pretty at all, mainly because they think her face is too long.

Now that Wu Yuchen has met the person in person, he can immediately tell the reason for the controversy: he's not photogenic.

He studied art as a child and later majored in photography. In both of these art forms, his teachers mentioned a basic principle for drawing and photographing faces:

If the "three courts and five eyes" are correct, then it is a human face; if the proportions are wrong, it will look bad no matter how you draw it.

The "three courts" refers to dividing the face into three equal parts according to its length proportions: the upper court, the middle court, and the lower court. The "five eyes" refers to dividing the width of the face into five equal parts, which is exactly five eye lengths.

The beautiful Zeng Li in front of us has a long lower face, which makes her less photogenic and her face appear long on camera.

Because both fine arts and photography are essentially two-dimensional arts, even when animated, they are still composed of individual planes, requiring a high degree of attention to aesthetic proportions. However, reality is different; the human eye receives three-dimensional information, so these so-called aesthetic flaws no longer apply.

The woman in front of me, Zeng Li, is 170cm tall with striking features and long legs. In Beijing slang, she's absolutely gorgeous! A stunning beauty that's undeniable!

Zeng Li walked to the cashier, made eye contact with the boy standing there, and then looked away. She was thinking to herself that the Central Academy of Drama really was a training ground for actors; even a random person she bumped into in the bookstore was so handsome.

She had just handed the book to the shopkeeper to pay when she heard the boy next to her speak:

"Excuse me, are you planning to take the entrance exam for the Central Academy of Drama?"

Zeng Li was taken aback for a moment after hearing this, then smiled and said, "Yes, how did you know?"

Wu Yuchen pointed to the books in her hand and said gently:

"I can tell from these books. But I don't think your choice is very appropriate. Please wait a moment."

After Wu Yuchen finished speaking, he turned around, went to the bookshelf inside, picked out two books, and walked back with them.
"These two books, plus the red one you have in your hand, these three should be enough for you to handle the exam."

At this moment, the bookstore owner also smiled and said:
“Girl, this young man is right, he looks like he’s from a school.”

Zeng Li took the two books Wu Yuchen handed her, then smiled with her eyes crinkling:
"Thank you~ My name is Zeng Li."

Wu Yuchen extended his hand to Zeng Li in a very natural and generous manner.

"My name is Wu Yuchen, and I'm a freshman at Beijing Film Academy."

Zeng Li and Wu Yuchen shook hands, and Zeng Li asked in surprise, "Aren't you from the Central Academy of Drama?"

Wu Yuchen smiled and shook his head:
"No, I just came here to visit a friend. But the entrance exams for Beijing Film Academy and Central Academy of Drama are similar. If you have any questions, I can offer some advice based on my experience."

"Thank you so much! I was feeling a bit lost!"

Zeng Li carried the several books she had packed and walked out of the bookstore side by side with Wu Yuchen, chatting as they went.

"Is there no written test?"

"No, that's for sure. The first audition for the Central Academy of Drama is for recitation and group performance. Most likely, it will be a short impromptu skit performed by a few of you."

However, you absolutely must read these books on acting knowledge. One of the stages in the third round of auditions is an oral exam, where the teachers will casually ask you some basic questions about art and film. If you can't answer them, it might affect your mindset.

Wu Yuchen introduced them to Zeng Li.

It's 95 now. Art schools have a lot of autonomy in admissions, and there's no joint art exam at all. So whether or not there's a written exam is entirely up to the school.

However, this means that different schools will organize written exams at different times, and candidates will have to spend several months traveling between different schools starting in December, leaving them unable to do anything else.

Therefore, in 1998, the Education Bureau issued a letter on the reform of art examinations, and the joint art examination was born. Candidates only need to take the joint written examination once. If they pass, they only need to choose a school to register for and participate in the school's interview.

(End of this chapter)