novelraw Chapter 3 I'll Play the Leading Lady
Chapter 3 I'll Play the Leading Lady
And just like that, the tenth day arrived quickly.
Chen Zhou successfully completed his daily goals.
Because of word-of-mouth, customers started coming in steadily from the third day onwards, but Chen Zhou did not provide any extra service.
During this time, Liu Yifei called him specifically to share the good news.
Thanks to Chen Zhou's previous character analysis, Liu Yifei received high praise from the director during the script reading session for "The Forbidden Kingdom".
Therefore, Liu Yifei naturally wanted to share the good news with Chen Zhou, who was instrumental in his success, as soon as possible.
Liu Yifei also mentioned that she had mentioned Chen Zhou to the director, which made the director very interested in Chen Zhou.
It was a little after 3 p.m.
Chen Zhou finished explaining the knowledge about performance to the third customer of the day.
"Thank you, teacher. What you taught was really easy to understand. If I ever become famous, I will never forget you."
Filled with gratitude, Deng Jiajia left on her own.
Chen Zhou's strongest impression of Deng Jiajia from his previous life was that of the aunt in the sitcom "iPartment".
This is Hengdian, where you can easily run into actors who will become famous in the future but are still playing minor roles right now.
At this point, the virtual screen has automatically appeared as the task is completed.
[Ding! Congratulations, host, on completing the mission]
[Award Reward: Directing Skills & World-Class Cinematography]
[Ding! New task successfully issued]
[Task objective: Film and produce your first directorial work]
"Oh? A different approach. This time, the system task is related to the director's profession."
Chen Zhou thought to himself.
He immediately made a decision.
His most pressing task right now is to film his graduation project; he can't afford to actually postpone his graduation.
Anyway, the task only said that he should complete his first directorial work, but it didn't require him to make a theatrical film or anything like that.
Therefore, he doesn't need to put pressure on himself.
For a graduation project, a short film will suffice.
As for the short film script, Chen Zhou can write it himself, after all, he is a film and television enthusiast and has watched countless films.
If you asked him to recreate a movie script, he definitely couldn't; he doesn't have that kind of abnormal memory.
But a short film script is a piece of cake.
After closing the shop door, Chen Zhou started writing.
The short film script was quickly completed around 8 p.m.
Since it was a graduation project, he directly used the graduation season as the theme.
Short film title: Graduation Season - Goodbye.
Estimated duration: 8-10 minutes.
"Knock knock! Knock knock!"
Someone was knocking on the door.
Hearing the noise, Chen Zhou got up and went over, not knowing who was outside.
When Chen Zhou opened the door, he saw Liu Yifei with a big smile on her face, looking at him happily.
"Junior brother, I've come to see you again. Are you surprised or not?" Liu Yifei said cheerfully.
"Welcome, come in," Chen Zhou greeted them first.
Once inside, the two sat down facing each other.
Liu Yifei, with her sharp eyes, spotted the script on the table at a glance.
"Junior brother, is this the script?" Liu Yifei asked.
"Yes, I wrote it myself; I plan to use it as my graduation project."
"I'm going back to Beijing Film Academy tomorrow to film my graduation project."
Chen Zhou said.
Upon hearing this, Liu Yifei immediately became curious, "Can I take a look?"
"Okay." Chen Zhou pushed the script over.
Liu Yifei examined it carefully.
After reading it, Liu Yifei smiled and said, "This script is really well written. Have the male and female leads been cast yet?"
"No, but we have a rough idea of who the male lead will be," Chen Zhou said.
"I'll play the female lead. Anyway, 'The Forbidden Kingdom' hasn't started filming yet, and I'm free these next few days," Liu Yifei said.
"You?" Chen Zhou was very surprised.
"What, is it not allowed? I'm a professional actor. Acting in a short film is easy for me. If it weren't for the fact that your script is so good, I wouldn't have taken the role."
"And it's just a cameo appearance, so I won't charge you!"
"Heh heh heh, thank me!"
Liu Yifei has a slightly arrogant air about her.
"What I mean is, are you sure it's convenient for you to do this? You definitely have an artist contract," Chen Zhou said.
"It's okay, my mom is my manager, and I'm a grown-up now, I can make decisions about this little thing."
"But there's one condition: you can't use the final short film for commercial purposes."
"My mother would definitely not agree if it came to these aspects."
Liu Yifei spoke.
"No problem," Chen Zhou replied.
Liu Yifei cupped her cheeks in her hands, looking at Chen Zhou with expectant eyes, and said, "Let me see just how amazing your directing skills are, my junior fan."
fan?
Upon hearing this address, Chen Zhou was taken aback for a moment.
But then he immediately remembered that there was a huge poster of Liu Yifei on the wall of his shop.
This is probably why Liu Yifei misunderstood.
"Actually, the poster of you that's up in my shop was put up by the previous owner to cover up the cracks in the wall," Chen Zhou said with a smile.
"Ah? So...so that's how it is!" Upon learning the truth, Liu Yifei's face instantly turned bright red, and she wished she could disappear into a crack in the ground.
Seeing Liu Yifei's embarrassed expression, Chen Zhou immediately said, "It's okay. From now on, I'll treat you as my fan. That way, we'll be even."
Upon hearing this, Liu Yifei clenched a hammer in her right hand and slammed it onto her left palm. "That's right! That makes sense! You're a genius!"
But immediately after saying that, Liu Yifei retorted, "That makes no sense at all! I'm a grown-up now, not a silly little kid!"
"Hahaha." Chen Zhou couldn't stop laughing.
"Alright, alright, it's almost time, I'm going now."
"It's a promise, the female lead role in your graduation project must be reserved for me. You absolutely can't stand me up!"
Liu Yifei spoke earnestly.
"Hmm," Chen Zhou mumbled.
"Pinky promise." Liu Yifei extended her little finger.
Seeing this, Chen Zhou couldn't help but think to himself, "A little girl is just a little girl, she's not some little adult at all."
"Pinky promise, for a hundred years, never to be broken!"
Chen Zhou readily agreed and made a promise to Liu Yifei.
After Liu Yifei returned home.
Liu Xiaoli sat on the sofa, reading the newspaper.
Liu Yifei quietly stepped forward, hugged her mother's arm, and said affectionately, "Mom, I have something to tell you."
"Tell me, my darling, what do you need me for now?" Liu Xiaoli said.
"That's right, my junior classmate was preparing to shoot a short film as his graduation project, which was less than ten minutes long. I agreed to star in it for free," Liu Yifei said.
"What!" Liu Xiaoli shouted.
"Mom, why are you so agitated? You scared me," Liu Yifei said.
"Sissi, do you even know how valuable your business is? How could you secretly agree to something like this behind my back?"
"No, absolutely not, I will not agree."
"You're such a spoiled child!"
Liu Xiaoli rebuked.