Lu Yanhe has been saying that he should star in a play of Jump Up Theater, not only to set an example for this theater, but also to send a signal -This theater is not a place for fooling around. Even Lu Yanhe is willing to star in one of the plays. The rest of you don't need to be so cautious and wait and see.
The script for "Silent Stairs" has just been written.
Lu Yanhe read the script and nodded.
The quality of the script is very good. The whole story takes place in a house, which is a bit like a script-killing story - a very classic "Blizzard Mansion" model suspense story.
"This script is good. I'll play it."
Lu Yanhe nodded, and the Jump Up Theater released the first batch of film lists, which were divided into three parts:
【It’s popular now, let’s make a sample】
1. "Silent Stairs" starring Lu Yanhe.
2. "The Intern" starring Yan Liang.
3. "Love Negotiation" starring Jiang Yuqian.
4. "Lies and Love" starring Cheng Hai.
【Big IP, for newcomers】
1. "The Adventures of a Young Girl" (adapted from Ming Yin Gao's popular short story of the same name).
2. "The Whirlpool" (adapted from Liu Jiazhen's popular short story of the same name).
3. "Uncertain Ringtone" (adapted from Bai Yugao's popular short story of the same name).
[New cooperation, under negotiation]
Huang Kairen, Jiang Jun, Zhen Hongyu, Zhang Lan, Li Yuefeng, Bao Zhenzhu
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The last line of concluding remarks: New theater, new mode, new gameplay, we are serious about it!
Jump Up Theater has attracted attention because it is a new collaboration initiated by the magazine Jump Up, and because of Lu Yanhe's participation in it, it has attracted much attention due to his aura of successful miracle.
Now that the first batch of film lists have been released, it has shocked the entire network.
Especially when the names of the leading actors such as Lu Yanhe are put on the list, except for Cheng Hai who is a little weak, who among the others is not the most popular among the popular?
They all acted in one of the films, not caring at all about its experimental and risky nature, and the high possibility of failure.
This makes many actors in the entertainment industry who are hesitant because of this wonder if they did not catch the best opportunity?
At this time, the monthly sales of "Jump Up" magazine, which had always been stable at around 200,000 copies, suddenly saw a new increase in sales. While the March issue was reprinted twice, the pre-sale of the April issue also broke the record.
Because everyone was interested in this theater, they suddenly became curious about what kind of novel could lead to such a large-scale film and television adaptation plan.
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In order to build momentum for the theater, Chen Siqi accepted an interview on a Yuehu TV entertainment news documentary program.
The theme is why I want to create Jump Up Theater.
"The main reason is of course that we want to add something to the magazine and brand of Jump Up and expand its influence." Chen Siqi said frankly, without lying, "From having this idea to finally finding like-minded platforms like Yuehu TV and Northern Lights Video to work with, we actually experienced many twists and turns in the middle. Fortunately, because of Yan He's cooperation with them in Friends, we have a basis for communication, and they are more willing to listen to what we want to do."
"After we put forward the idea, I was actually a little nervous. This is because it has never been done before, specifically to make a theater and adapt only a novel published in a magazine. I actually thought it would be difficult to realize for a long time, but I didn't expect that after discussion and evaluation, everyone thought it was worth a try."
"In the process of promoting this project, I became more and more determined to do it. You know, for our authors, it is difficult for short stories to be adapted into TV series. The main channel for adaptation is film, but you also know that such adaptation opportunities are even more difficult. With such a fixed theater, in fact, for many of our authors, at the superficial level, they can earn copyright fees, and at the deeper level, it can also allow them to be known by more people."
"As for the film and television industry, I actually told Yan He that, after all, this is a test product, and it is mostly experimental in nature. We don't know whether it will succeed. He doesn't need to use the audience popularity and trust that he has accumulated with great difficulty to endorse this theater."
"But Yan He said that this theater actually has a very important significance for the film and television drama market. It gives many directors who have no chance to prove themselves and many good actors who don't get performance opportunities more opportunities to prove themselves."
"For a theater like ours, we put on more than 50 plays a year. Of course, each play is very small, only about two hours long, but even so, there are more than 50 projects. Putting aside the popular actors like Yan He and Sister Yu Qian who come to act as samples, to be honest, our theater mainly uses actors who may not be well known to the public, and directors who are capable and talented but lack an opportunity to direct independently. Because the budget of our theater is still relatively tight, and everyone is afraid of losses if they have never done it before."
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Following Chen Siqi's explanation, Jump Up Theater officially announced the premiere time.
The theater will open on the first Sunday in May.
The first drama to be aired was "The Adventures of a Girl" with a brand new cast.
Immediately, a netizen went to the comment section of the Jump Up Theater and asked: Why not put Lu Yanhe or Jiang Yuqian in the first play? Why not have a good start first to attract the audience?
The official Weibo account also responded, saying: The objective reason is that the two dramas starring them have not yet started filming and the broadcast schedule has not been determined. The more subjective reason is that we hope that through such a broadcast schedule, we can remind ourselves of the positioning of this theater: to tap into fresh blood in the film and television industry.
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"Lu Yanhe is a really ruthless guy. He created a jumping theater like this. It will be lively from now on."
When Luo Yuzhong went out to attend a meeting with others, many people were discussing the Jump Up Theater.
This new thing, just like when Lu Yanhe was doing weekly broadcasts, sitcoms, and simultaneous broadcasts, made the industry very confused. "It still needs young people to play around, and new things come out from time to time."
"What's new? Isn't it just that the number of episodes is getting smaller and smaller? Now it's better to just make a two-episode series. It might as well be released directly in theaters. Is this still a TV series?"
"Look at what you said. Can a two-episode drama not be a drama? What Xiao Lu did is good. It's a fresh creation. Maybe it can bring about something different."
"Have you read the novels in the magazine 'Jump Up'? They are either youth fantasies, secret love confessions, or suspense and mystery. They are all things that young people like to read. They are not realistic at all."
"What is realism? Does it have to be full of bitterness and hatred to be realism?" Someone immediately retorted, "At least there is such a magazine now, which constantly discovers new authors to create short stories and has different IP content."
"Does it need to be said that Lu Yanhe's theater is of great significance to the film and television industry? I heard that they have signed a lot of new directors and actors to work in this theater."
"It sounds so nice, but in fact, these are the newcomers that Yuehutai and Northern Lights want to sign. They have been training for a long time, and they are using this to practice."
“Whether these people are all newcomers who have signed contracts or not, this theater brings new things and new trends. How can this not be a bad thing?”
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Listening to the idle chatter and arguments of the people around him, Luo Yuzhong, as Lu Yanhe's teacher, said nothing.
He didn't interrupt at this time.
The controversy caused by the Jump Up Theater was actually completely predictable, because any new thing is bound to be accompanied by doubts and opposition from some "conservatives".
What Luo Yuzhong admires about these two young people, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi, is that they never just talk but do nothing, they are very daring.
Both of them are action-oriented, willing to take risks and try new things.
Chen Siqi failed in her Youth Project and was laughed at by many people. However, she did not let it discourage her and did not dare to try anything new. She turned around and started to work on the Jump Up Theater.
Lu Yanhe made art films, sitcoms, wrote his own scripts, and had on-again, off-again relationships with Beijing and Taiwan. Each attempt at transformation attracted controversy, but in the end he shut up all the critics with his dazzling performance.
Regarding what these two people wanted to do, Luo Yuzhong didn't want to participate in the discussion at all.
"Director Luo, what do you think of this Jump Up Theater?"
"Director Luo, don't be partial to Lu Yanhe just because he is your student."
“Will this jumping theater have an impact on our current shooting mode?”
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Everyone was talking about it.
"I don't know." Luo Yuzhong's answer surprised everyone. "A new thing may succeed, just like Friends, which led to the revival of our sitcoms, or it may fail, just like the Green Onion Project. But for young people's ideas of doing new things, whether it succeeds or not, I will definitely support it. We are a creative industry, and we must constantly come up with new things."
"Would Director Luo consider directing a jumping play?"
"This theater is mainly to provide opportunities for new directors. At my age, I won't compete with them for opportunities. In fact, this is a point I agree with. New directors have no experience. If they are asked to make a long drama of 20 to 30 episodes right away, it will be difficult and demanding. A short drama of only three or two episodes is more friendly to new directors and easier to get started. With experience, they will have a better idea when shooting a long drama."
"I heard that this theater only has one week to shoot the play. Can the quality of the filming be guaranteed?"
"For a 30,000-40,000-word script, if you have a good shooting plan in the early stages, coordinated with all departments, figured out the storyboards, and set the daily shooting tasks, isn't one week enough time for shooting?" Luo Yuzhong said, "I've read the scripts of several plays by Jump Up Theater. The stories they chose are not the kind of high-difficulty plays that require a lot of scheduling. In terms of the amount of shooting, one week is more than enough to finish it. Don't look at this theater with a conventional shooting mindset. The positioning is different, and the shooting mode is also different."
Veterans like Luo Yuzhong actually know very well why it is so important to control the shooting time within one week.
Time itself has never been the determining factor in whether a film is good or bad.
You know, in film history, many classic movies actually only took a dozen or twenty days to shoot.
They have many more shots than the ones in the Jump Up Theater.
To put it bluntly, domestic TV dramas are still weak in management and operation mechanisms, resulting in a lot of waste of resources and time. This time, Jump Up Theater used the shooting mode of "Friends", putting all rehearsals and preparations in the front, and only shooting was done on site, further improving the efficiency of shooting.
"Director Luo, won't you work with your student on another drama? You haven't worked together since The Golden Age. This is the third time Director Chen Lingling will work with him."
"It's coming soon, just wait and see." Luo Yuzhong said with a smile.
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Alas, I just finished my work and caught a cold and a fever. I wanted to write more for today's recommendation, but my brain is dizzy and it would be nonsense to write more. I'm going to sleep now. (End of this chapter)
