The predecessor of the Beijing Film and Television Academy was the Beijing Film Academy, which was founded in 1946. It is exactly 60 years old this year.
It is the largest professional film and television school in China and Asia. It is jointly established by the Beijing City Government, the State Administration of Press and Publication and the Ministry of Education. It is known as the "cradle of Chinese film talents" and enjoys a reputation around the world.
Beijing Film Academy has a total of 11 undergraduate majors, covering literature, directing, acting, photography, recording, beauty, management, animation, and film theory and technology, covering all fields of film and television drama creation. There are more than 4,000 teachers and students of various types in the school.
Over the past sixty years, there have been countless film and television drama talents who have come out of Jingying Film and Television. Directors, actors, cameramen, and celebrities from half of the entertainment industry will come to celebrate every school anniversary!
Of course, the management of Beijing Film Academy is very strict. Not just anyone can go in and visit. Even if you want to choose actors, you have to go through official channels. In other words, you have to have connections.
Sister Li has a wide network of contacts, and it was not her first time coming to Beijing Film Academy. She had acquaintances with the college management, so she got the permission without much effort.
Everyone in the industry knows that students from Beijing Film Academy have no worries about "getting married", especially in the acting department. The annual admission rate is astonishingly low, often several hundred to one.
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Talent is rare, and there are naturally many entertainment agents and film and television companies who are eyeing Jingying. However, the threshold for Jingying is also very high. Even if a small company or unit has connections, students from the acting department may not pay attention.
Of course, Lu Chen personally came forward to select candidates. I believe many people will be interested. In fact, the college also encourages students to enter the circle early. What they learn in actual work is often better than academic theory.
The person responsible for receiving Lu Chen and others was a teacher Chen from the Academic Affairs Office of Beijing Film Academy. He was still very young in his thirties.
He recognized Lu Chen at a glance, and he also knew Fang Hui.
Leading Lu Chen and others into the school gate, Teacher Chen asked with a smile: "Teacher Lu, are you planning to choose roles for the new drama? There should be no shortage of people for your project, right? The previous one sold so well.
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This teacher Chen is a native of Beijing. He is well-informed and talkative. After a few words, we became familiar with each other.
Lu Chen smiled and said: "Call me Lu Chen. I don't dare to be a teacher here. The main reason is that there are a few roles where there are no suitable candidates, so I wanted to come here to have a look."
After he announced his plan to film a new drama on his blog, many entertainment agencies came to him and recommended many people. In addition to some roles that have been confirmed, there are still several main roles that are vacant.
The investment in this new drama has doubled several times, and Lu Chen worked with an attitude of striving for excellence, so when it comes to character selection, he will not give in casually, nor will he lower his requirements just to sell favors.
Actors must conform to the image of the characters in the story. This is the most basic requirement. Nowadays, many domestic dramas, especially IP adaptations, often have such problems. The actors and roles do not match, and then the plot is changed arbitrarily, and the audience scolds them after they are filmed.
Half dead.
Lu Chen had already thought about it. If Jingying couldn't find a suitable one, he would go to Beijing Opera and China Media.
If you can't find the ideal candidate, then just have an audition!
Teacher Chen smiled and said: "We at Beijing Film Academy are full of talented people, and I promise we will not let you down."
He took Lu Chen and the four of them to the small performance hall of Jingying Film.
There are two large and small auditoriums in Beijing Film Academy. The large auditorium is used for meetings and theatrical performances, while the small auditorium doubles as an acting classroom. Some of the acting classes of all classes in the acting department are held here.
In the history of Beijing Film Academy, there have been many directors who picked their favorite students in small auditoriums and then led them on to a dazzling stardom.
When Lu Chen and others came over, there were four or five male and female students performing on the stage of the small auditorium, and there were thirty or forty people sitting in the auditorium that could accommodate one to two hundred people, including students and teachers.
One of the teachers sitting in the front row was holding a microphone in his hand, obviously giving on-site guidance.
"Let's sit here"
Under the guidance of Teacher Chen, Lu Chen and others sat down together in the third row on the right side of the auditorium.
Teacher Chen introduced to Lu Chen: "This is a class for the 15th grade performance department."
Beijing Film Academy's acting department usually has one class per class, and each class only recruits about thirty or forty people. The real elite among the elites, who are very popular after graduation, are born with a higher starting point than other artists.
But having said that, there may be many talented people who graduate in one class, or they may all disappear, especially since the competition in the entertainment industry is so fierce now, it does not mean that you will definitely become a star if you graduate from the Beijing Film and Television Acting Department.
In fact, there are quite a few graduates of Beijing Film Academy’s acting department who have changed careers.
Once the foundation is established, subsequent hard work and luck are indispensable.
In this palace of art, Lu Chen, Fang Hui, and Sister Li did not dare to make any noise. They came to sit quietly for fear of disturbing other people's class. However, their appearance still inevitably disturbed the teachers and students present.
Teacher Chen waved to the instructor in front of him, who nodded and didn't care.
However, many students were not so calm because they/they recognized Lu Chen, and whispers of surprise, curiosity, and joy spread in the small auditorium.
Lu Chen's attention was entirely on the stage.
There are five students, three men and two women, who are performing excerpts from a play. If you look at the appearance alone, the men are handsome and the women are beautiful. Each has its own characteristics. Basically, there is nothing to be picky about.
It is recognized that there are many handsome boys and beautiful girls in Beijing Film Academy. Not to mention the acting department with the highest quality, the average appearance of other departments is also higher than that of ordinary universities, which is enough to make people happy.
Lu Chen looked at each student carefully. The new drama he was going to shoot was an urban romantic light comedy, which could also be classified as a youth idol drama. Naturally, he had high requirements for the appearance of the character actors.
And good looks are not enough, you must have distinctive characteristics that can impress people or arouse good impression.
Then comes the acting.
Youth idol dramas have relatively low requirements for acting skills, so even a first-year Beijing Film Academy student can do it with a little polish, and it won't be a starring role anyway.
The comments from the classmates and the careful attention of Lu Chen and others obviously put a lot of pressure on the young performers on the stage, and they made more mistakes.
They undoubtedly realized that the opportunity had come, but their experience was not enough to handle such a situation skillfully and freely, so the instructor present had to stand up and stop their performance.
Several students walked off the stage with frustrated expressions. ——
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