Chapter 51: The Pen’s Yours, You Write
Never write on an airplane, don’t ask how Teacher Yu knows…
High concentration easily causes dizziness and blurry eyes, but he wasn’t that bad, just slight tinnitus during the flight, and he didn’t write much in a few hours.
In the novel, the Singer-songwriter competition is still continuing, write two more rounds to enter the second half of the season, and the protagonist can switch to a new instance, returning for the finals.
Teacher Yu plans to keep updating, try to finish the plot of these two songs during the Chao Yue Ban recording period, then redeem them early and save them.
Writing and using immediately is still too rigid, it’s no harm to keep a few more trump cards for things like that.
For this competition’s theme, he plans to check it during recording the program, write whoever he encounters then, and directly greet them on the spot to save a lot of trouble.
He doesn’t believe none of the guests participating in the program have sung songs before.
Chao Yue Ban’s filming location is at the film and television base in Beijing, also a concentration area for many extras drifting north, and Teacher Yu has seen quite a few entertainment novels starting here.
Opening: extras, climax: number one in film history, ending: topping the world.
Unlike other reality shows, this variety show has no so-called orientation session, each episode has four film crews, and interested actors can audition themselves.
The guest introduction segments are also briefly mentioned, the main highlights are still in the film crew selection and mentor commentary stages.
The young people and old-timers invited for this program aren’t great at acting either, the program films their eye-searing acting skills and the mentors’ scenes of being unable to watch, with plenty of famous scenes.
With Teacher Yu coming, the Program Team is definitely happy, his popularity has been consistently high lately, occasionally rushing to Trending Search to show his face, a surefire hotspot generator.
With him joining, the popularity of this episode is self-evident.
“Teacher Yu, you can go to Director Qi first, the trainees are more concentrated there, get to know everyone first.”
“Sure, but really don’t call me teacher.”
Flattery from peers is fine, but this camera brother looks forty or fifty, calling teacher every mouth, can you stand that?
Having him go directly to see Qi Yunming first, it’s hard not to suspect the Program Team is intentional, after all, his live broadcast with Qi Yuan was quite popular, setting the platform’s popularity value record for the month.
Is this trying to stir up some off-site popularity?
Qi Yunming is filming an indoor scene, simple setting with distinct persona, one of the easier types to film.
Plus this director is quite laid-back and doesn’t criticize much, which makes the trainees regard this as their first target.
The competition is fierce…
Teacher Yu saw from afar the artists around the set eager to try, some already teaming up to rehearse, most still watching.
Mainly because it’s too intense here, picking three out of more than ten people, trial-and-error cost is a bit high, they haven’t made up their minds yet.
There’s even a bed scene?
This isn’t the corpse bridge he arranged for Zhang Lingye, but a real caught in bed infidelity scene, though not much detail.
After understanding the relevant plot, Teacher Yu then went over to greet a few trainees.
Though they don’t understand why Teacher Yu is here to learn acting, his fame and ability are real, so they were one more enthusiastic than the other.
Teacher Yu, look at me more!
Amidst the constant flattery of teacher, he actually encountered a familiar face, Chi Leying standing in the corner, holding the script obviously memorizing lines.
Calculating the time, HELLO Roommate should have just finished filming not long ago, seamlessly connecting to a new variety show shows how good her resources are.
This is a real crown princess.
Chi Leying didn’t act too surprised seeing him, just nodded to him from afar, then proactively came over to chat.
Clearly only a month or so apart, but in Chi Leying’s eyes, Teacher Yu had completely changed into another person, especially with that book’s appearance, thoroughly shattering her filter on Teacher Yu.
Last time she always thought Teacher Yu was an artist with stars and seas in his heart, but it turned out to be chapter after chapter of cheesy fun little plots.
It’s not that it’s bad or anything, just… very contrasting.
She could no longer understand this person at all, so she simply didn’t want to play any mind games, since she couldn’t guess anyway, better to treat normally.
“You want to enter the film and television industry?”
Chi Leying’s question was actually what many people wanted to ask, after all, Teacher Yu had just made a name in singing, no need to learn a new track skill at this time.
Even with zero acting skills, once he blows up, people will naturally come to him for filming, why seek far when near is available?
“I’m here for material.”
Others find crossovers hard due to lack of energy and talent, but Teacher Yu is different, he has cheats, not using them fully would be wasteful.
Web novel authors are great, anything can be explained as going out for material.
“Looks like you really love writing novels.”
Chi Leying actually glanced at this book at first, but she really couldn’t muster interest, so she only skimmed a few key chapters.
In the center of the set, Qi Yunming was directing a young actor auditioning, but progress was extremely slow.
The level of these young actors now is really too poor, can’t even deliver lines well, either reading stiffly or too colloquial, basics not up to par let alone understanding.
But he was too lazy to explain in detail, it’s just recording the program, good enough.
Anyway, whether he’s professional or not, the pay won’t decrease, being too harsh would offend people, why bother?
Qi Yunming had long noticed the newly arrived Teacher Yu, he actually quite admires this young man, but no need to specially get acquainted.
There are plenty of awesome people in the world, knowing such a person exists is enough.
Teacher Yu was looking at the script in Chi Leying’s hand, this scene is actually very simple, the protagonist and the mistress having an affair, then caught in bed by the wife, big argument, wife disheartened and leaves in anger.
The only difficulty is the emotional explosion upon discovering the husband’s infidelity, and Chi Leying wants to try that.
“I get the reason, why isn’t the mistress wearing the wife’s clothes?”
Isn’t this the “you’re so slutty” famous scene?
But this scene segment is from the love film Unfaithful, mainly about the wife’s emotional struggle, not revenge.
To others, this sentence sounds very strange, why would the mistress wear the wife’s clothes, what logic is that? Just for stimulation?
It is indeed quite stimulating!
The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intent, to Qi Yunming, this small change was very interesting.
Clothes symbolize identity, the mistress wearing the wife’s clothes represents her attempt to completely replace the wife’s position in the family, embodying her twisted competitive psychology and lack of morality.
The protagonist knowingly wearing his wife’s clothes yet still committing infidelity shows he’s falling while fully aware, long having cast aside the so-called original partner, even more hypocritical.
At the same time, the wife’s clothes also become an extension of her personality, laying groundwork for the subsequent disheartened departure.
This kid is interesting.
As expected of a novelist, such thorough understanding of characters and plot, much better than many hack screenwriters he’s seen.
Before, Qi Yunming wondered after hearing Teacher Yu’s song, how such a talented young man would write inexplicable novels, turns out it was to hone storytelling ability.
With one small change, the plot tension ramps up, and this way, a lot of emotion-stuffed dialogue in the plot can be cut, streamlining quite a bit.
Fewer lines, easier for these young people to handle, and saves him effort in directing, best of both worlds.
Professional writers are different.
“Pen’s yours, you do it.”
