Even after being reborn, you're still in the entertainment industry?

Chapter 108: Guest appearance in "Wulin Waijia"?
He went to the company to stabilize the morale and boost the spirits, and at the same time, he got some free food to ensure that the company had sufficient funds on its books.

Afterwards, Sheng Yunxuan went to the crew of "Qiao Family Courtyard" and was brought by director Hu Lu to show his face in front of investors. Then he successfully got the contract to play the leading male role in the drama.

The filming of this drama was scheduled to start after the New Year, and there were still about ten days left. Sheng Yunxuan began to busy himself shooting his own New Year short film.

Sheng Yunxuan was quite experienced in acting, but this was his first time directing...

Well, a short film director is also a director. After all, Sheng Yunxuan's first "direction" is still very memorable!
After all, I have the memories of my previous life, and there are many good scripts and inspirations from home and abroad in my mind.

I'll train first, and then I can develop into a director in the future...

With the help of Qin Qianrong, who has extensive connections, Sheng Yunxuan organized a small but well-equipped filming team, including cameramen, costumes, makeup, and props.

This is the initial team that Sheng Yunxuan prepared for his future team. It is not difficult to shoot a short micro-film.

The most difficult thing in preparing for the filming was actually finding suitable actors!

Sheng Yunxuan didn't plan to appear in person, so he needed to find three actors to appear on the scene, especially two rural uncles and aunts with a simple and rustic temperament!

There weren't any rural legal education dramas back then, so actors of this type were hard to find, so it took a bit of effort to find the right ones...

The shooting location was chosen in a rural area near Yanjing.

Before filming began, Sheng Yunxuan described it to Qin Qianrong, who was delivering the equipment:
"This is a story about a man who had already returned home to prepare for the Lunar New Year, but was called back by the company at the last minute. The protagonist casually asked for sauerkraut dumplings, and his elderly parents stayed up all night secretly preparing dumplings for him..."

In fact, among the short films on the theme of "Chinese New Year", "Chopsticks" and "Going Home" produced by CCTV are more impressive.

However, the "Chopsticks Chapter" requires filming in various places to express the connection between local customs, traditional culture and chopsticks. This will take too much time and energy and is not suitable for the time being.

The “Going Home” segment also requires advance contact to select the subjects for the shoot.

And more importantly, migrant workers these days are not rich enough to buy motorcycles, and most of them still squeeze into the train to go home...

Sheng Yunxuan was particularly impressed by only a few ideas, so he chose this content in the end.

Fortunately, these days, "making dumplings" has not yet become a meme that makes people speechless, so there is nothing to be afraid of when filming it...

The short film chosen by Sheng Yunxuan was actually an advertisement for a dumpling brand in 14, and its theme revolved around family reunion and maternal love.

In 14, this short film had 54 views on the day it was released, making it a relatively successful micro-film!
After Sheng Yunxuan selected this content for filming, he even asked the company's people to contact those dumpling brands to negotiate advertising cooperation.

For Sheng Yunxuan, this advertising fee is nothing.

However, if you want to attract more creators, relying solely on subsidies from the website is not enough. It is best to introduce brands to place advertisements.

Due to the fact that the Internet has not yet been fully popularized, brands' main advertising expenditures are still placed on TV advertising and celebrity endorsements.

As you can imagine, the investment in online advertising must be very small.

This amount of advertising fee is very little for the operation of the website, so Sheng Yunxuan is not greedy for this little money. However, for the video creators, this advertising fee is quite attractive!

This was a good opportunity for Sheng Yunxuan to take the lead and launch the website's "Creator Incentive Program"...

Qin Qianrong, who had come along, was just there to watch; she didn't really care about the filming. Few actors were becoming directors these days, and she hadn't expected Sheng Yunxuan to have ambitions to become a director.

At the same time, she only had a vague idea about Sheng Yunxuan's business venture and website creation, so she didn't think much about it at this time.

She knew that Sheng Yunxuan liked to take some photos and post them on the Internet, and as a result, he gained great favorability and popularity among netizens.

Since that was the case, it wasn't a bad thing anyway, so she just let Sheng Yunxuan do whatever he wanted.

"You can do whatever you want...but be sure to protect the equipment when shooting, and remember to return it as soon as possible after shooting." Qin Qianrong nodded.

Originally, Sheng Yunxuan planned to shoot the film himself with a DV, but Qin Qianrong used his connections to help him borrow a set of filming equipment from a nearby crew.

Having said that, Qin Qianrong also said:
"You've met the person who agreed to lend us the equipment before. He's Hao Yaning, one of the investors in Qiao Family Compound. He has a project filming nearby, so he readily agreed."

"Since he's so polite, I'll just agree to it for you. You can go to his crew and make a cameo appearance later."

Friendly guest appearances are very common in the circle.

Do me a favor, I'll go and make a cameo appearance as a favor.

There's no need to worry about the quality of the show or the character's image, because it's just a cameo and it won't affect anything...

Sheng Yunxuan nodded after hearing this, and then asked casually:

"What crew?"

"I think it's called Wulin...Wulin Waishi? They're filming in Pinggu nearby, so it's not far away."

"Wulin Waishi? Wasn't that drama filmed a few years ago? Is it a remake?"

I don't think I remember it, but I have some impression of the drama Sheng Yunxuan that came out in the past two years...

Then at this moment, Sheng Yunxuan was stunned, and then said to Qin Qianrong uncertainly:
"Uh, it shouldn't be called 'Wulin Wai Zhuan'!"

"Yes, that's the name! Have you encountered it before?"

"Hehe, I think I heard someone mention it before..." Sheng Yunxuan laughed twice, then explained vaguely.

It’s true!

This is "Wulin Wai Zhuan", how could Sheng Yunxuan not know about it.

If we talk about the drama that has left the deepest impression on the public in the past two years, it is obviously only this classic. Even twenty years later, it is still a great drama for many people to watch while eating.

Sheng Yunxuan was a little concerned at first, but since most of the actors they chose were from the old cast, he didn't insist on getting involved.

I didn't expect that after all these twists and turns, I would end up being connected to Sheng Yunxuan, and by some strange coincidence I would even have to make a guest appearance!
It can be seen that this entertainment industry is really a "circle"...

(End of this chapter)