Chapter 5: to prepare

From the second day after meeting Helen, Ryan got busy, starting to prepare for the filming of "The Blair Witch".

Shooting a movie is a very rigorous thing.

Even if it is a pseudo-documentary that mainly focuses on publicity and marketing, it still cannot be careless in the slightest.

There has never been anything in Hollywood that can be successful casually. Behind every success, there are countless hardships.

The first thing to solve is that the crew needs to find a suitable town near Los Angeles as the shooting scene, and at the same time select three suitable actors.

There are no special requirements for actors, and they can be relaxed, except that the appearance of actors should not be too low.

Actors are relatively better, you can just find two younger and cheaper ones.

Such young male actors are easy to find, and Helen has suitable ones.

Actresses are relatively demanding. In addition, Starry Sky Brokerage Company has just started, so it will inevitably take some time to find a suitable actress.

In addition, filming also requires a person who coordinates the miscellaneous work of the crew. Even in a small crew, there are many trivial matters that need someone to handle them specially.

Fortunately, Helen was responsible for almost all of these tasks, and even Heidi, the first employee of the Star Brokerage Company, acted as an assistant.

It can be said that the business of the entire Star Brokerage Company is almost suspended, and all personnel are preparing for the filming of "The Blair Witch".

According to Helen, the filming of "The Blair Witch" is the most important business of Starry Sky Brokerage Company at this stage, there cannot be even one outsider, and everything must be kept secret.

Unless the film is released, no one can leak any news to the outside world. Everyone, including Heidi, has signed a non-disclosure agreement, and the breach of contract fee is staggeringly high.

In just three days, Helen chose a small town as the shooting location.

The location of the town is very remote, the total population is only in the early 200s, and there are very few outsiders on weekdays.

Ryan was busy with actor auditions. To put it bluntly, he was watching how the contracted actors of Starry Sky Brokerage Company performed poor acting skills.

In fact, there is nothing to choose, almost all of them are some young actors at the bottom of Hollywood, who usually hang out in various crews, serving as background cloth, passers-by, corpses, etc., so just pick two at random.

It was the first audition for a leading actress, and perhaps the only audition for a leading actress in the film, and Ryan somewhat looked forward to it.

He also doesn't care much about the heroine's acting skills. A pseudo-documentary like this doesn't need any acting skills at all.

On the contrary, Helen is very cautious, as long as the film is successful, the three leading actors will surely gain a lot of fame.

Even being scolded by countless media and movie fans is still a kind of reputation, which is much better than being unknown all the time.

In the next step, the development of the star agency company will mainly revolve around them, so she is more concerned about casting than Ryan.

Ryan had just entered the Xingkong Economic Company, and found that there were more than a dozen young female actors in front of him, who came earlier than him, and all of them had exquisite makeup, which set off their slender figures, which was pleasing to the eye.

It can be said that in the aspect of single-wheel appearance, all of them are above the passing line.

There is nothing strange about this, Hollywood has never lacked beauties, but actresses are the most competitive circle in Hollywood.

From where these actresses sit, it can be seen that they are all vigilant, very far apart from each other, and do not talk.

No one touched the water and food prepared by Heidi.

Most people, only see the most glamorous side of Hollywood actresses, never see behind.

Often, many actresses face the trouble of age when they just become famous. In Hollywood, actresses are not evergreen, and they eat youth food.

Unlike male actors who are more popular as they get older, many big-name male actors are still active on the screen in their 70s and 80s.

So those actresses who come to Hollywood with the dream of becoming famous will never let go of any opportunity.

Ryan has long been familiar with this. He would only feel strange if someone talked without scruples and drank water or food casually.

Regardless of past and present lives, all kinds of rumors or real people and real things have always been common.

Especially in terms of diet, most actresses would only eat the food and water they brought, even if it was prepared by the crew, they would not touch it.

This is the most basic self-protection.

When he came to the third floor to do business, Ryan chatted with Helen for a while, and said with a hint of teasing, "I thought I'd see a red sofa or a red carpet."

Memes of red sofas or red carpets have long spread throughout the world.

If an actor in Hollywood participates in a crew audition and wants to get a role.

If you open the door and walk into the audition venue, you see a red sofa in the middle, or a red blanket on the sofa.

Then if an actor wants to win this role, he will consciously close the door, take off his clothes, and lie naked on the sofa.

Of course, there is no such rule in Hollywood now, and everything is on the bright side. The red sofa that has been used for decades has faded out of people's sight as early as a few years ago.

The main reason is because there is no need, if you want to, you can invite directly.

"If you think the red sofa looks good, I can ask Heidi to move one over for you."

Helen said indifferently: "However, the newcomers probably don't know the meaning of the red sofa."

This kind of old-fashioned rule, unless it is some senior actors, I am afraid that few people know it now.

"Let's forget it, Heidi is already busy enough, if I move the sofa, I'm afraid she will kill me." Naturally, Ryan didn't really want a red sofa.

The two talked for a while, and officially started the audition.

Auditions in Hollywood have long been programmed, and they almost all look the same.

The only difference is that the office in front of him is relatively rudimentary and there are no cameras prepared.

The actresses who came in introduced themselves first, and just performed a line at random. There was no script, and no insights into the roles.

The main reason is naturally for the sake of secrecy. So far, only Ryan and Helen know about the script or plot of "The Blair Witch". Even Heidi is kept in the dark.

One morning passed, and a total of eight actresses had auditioned.

But none of them are familiar to Ryan. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com are all young actors who can't be named, or they are just some extras. In the previous life, they were some good-looking extras.

"Ryan, you are the director of the film, and I need your opinion."

Seeing that Ryan remained silent, Helen could only speak in person.

Ryan gently puffed his fingers and said, "First of all, blacks and Asians or Latinos can be excluded. The three do not meet the requirements of the film at all."

"It's better to be younger, with a petite figure, and with a sweet or weak appearance, so that it is easy to arouse the sympathy of the media and movie fans."

A black heroine or an Asian or Latino heroine obviously cannot attract the attention of the public, which is not conducive to the promotion of the film.

Only native-born Americans can attract the attention of the media and the public.

The key to the success of "The Blair Witch" is precisely because the distribution company uses the attention and sympathy of the media and the public to attract a large number of people into the cinema.

This is the core of the film.

A heroine who can arouse the sympathy of the media and the public is what he wants.

Helen took a deep look at him and said meaningfully, "Hollywood never lacks actresses with acting skills."

Almost all actresses are pretended. It is not difficult for them to be sweeter and weaker.

It was Ryan's performance that surprised her a little.

Hollywood also has no shortage of talented directors, but few who can truly understand the needs of the North American public.

If a director who can understand the needs of the North American public can promote without a bottom line, perhaps no film critics or old academics will like it in the future.

But it will definitely win the favor of the film company.