A short video dream of horizontal drift
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Author / Li Danqi p>
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Video / Feng Chengjie Li Danqi p>
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blockquote>With strong drums and bright lights, in the middle of an open-air dance floor formed by a noisy crowd, there are several middle-aged people who are flying on their own, and they are singing and dancing wildly in front of mobile phones. p>
Here is Wanghong Street of Hengdian. No exaggerated performance will make people fuss. In front of the camera of the mobile phone, they were completely immersed in a virtual and reality environment, performing a different dance with their body movements. While dancing, they kept a happy smile on their faces, because only here is their home field. p>
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As a member of the Hengdian group performance, Ru Lan also appeared on this noisy street. Unlike the crazy dance person, she used her mobile phone camera to record and broadcast the scene behind her. The protagonist in the screen of someone else’s mobile phone becomes the human flesh background in her video. In a small world built by this network, she has become the number one woman in other people’s screens. p>
Hengdian has its own dreams, but in the end it can’t bear the ruthlessness of reality. In this cold winter, “star actors have no movie to shoot” made headlines on the news section. In the eyes of the sky, in 2019, a total of 1884 film and television companies shut down, which has become the film and television industry.The horn of a downhill road. p>
But in front of the lens screen of the rise of short videos, some people have already become the most impressive protagonists in other people’s mobile phones. p>
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This is Liu Hengguan’s second year. p>
Scholars, passers-by, shop juniors, soldiers, bandits … Liu Hengguan’s roles in the performance are too many to remember. However, he can clearly feel that there are fewer and fewer shows this year. p>
Fortunately, Liu Hengguan has a short voice called “Actor Xiao Erlang”. The short video with the most likes is as high as 2.083 million. This is the lifeblood of Liu Hengguan. p>
“In the past, when Hengdian was the most popular, it had to receive more than 300 crews a year. There were dozens of crews filming at the same time in Hengdian in one day. The restrictions were imposed and all were withdrawn. Take last year, Last year, there were 40-50 mobile production crews every day, and now there are only 20 or so. Originally, “The Concubine of the Concubine” was a big production like “The Concubine of the Concubine”. . At the time, many staff members of the film crew of “The Princess of Concubine” had already stayed at the hotel, and when the restrictions were imposed, they withdrew. “Sun Fuyuan said. p>
Sun Fuyuan is a 9-year-old “Old Crossover” and also the “royal” actor in Liu Hengguan’s short video. Like many celebrities, Sun Fuyuan is just a stage name, specially requested by the master. p>
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Liu Hengguan (left) and Sun Fuyuan (right) p>
In the video, Sun Fuyuan was wearing a costume of the Eighth Route Army and said to the people next to him “spoilers”: “Yang Zi did not have a group performance alone that day. When the fragrant honey was heavy, Yang Zi was on Mountain 2 Tangcheng filmed, and said during the break that the group brothers have worked hard, come over to get water, and then she pulled the carriage with a commercial car. P>
Star gossip is the most popular subject in the short videos of Liu Hengguan and Sun Fuyuan. p>
It is impossible to succeed for a hundred years h2>
I worked in Hengdian for 2 years, and the monthly income of Liu Hengguan, born in 1997, always swayed around 3,000 yuan. p>
A day’s play, the salary is only a hundred dollars. Fortunately, when I met a meal, the crew managed the meal. This helped save a lot of money for group performances like Liu Hengguan. p>
When performing a group performance in Hengdian, Liu Hengguan knew in his heart that even if he drifted for a hundred years, he would not succeed. p>
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It coincided with the start of a group video program supported by a short video platform, so in the gap between running shows, he took a daily upload of the group performance to the short video platform, and unexpectedly became a small influencer. p>
On several short video platforms, “Actor Kojiro” has a total of 210,000 fans. The attention of hundreds of thousands of people also made Liu Hengguan a little sense of accomplishment. After all, in the thousands of group performances in Hengdian, there are only a handful of people who can reach this number of fans. It seems to be implemented on the short video platform. p>
Sun Fuyuan, who works with Liu Hengguan, is not so lucky. Sun Fuyuan has only a few hundred fans on several short video platforms. Among 70 works, the number of likes has not exceeded 10,000. As Liu Hengguan ’s short video with the highest appearance in the Internet, he sometimes used the “actor Xiao Erlang” account with Liu Hengguan. p>
“He has a lot of fans, and sometimes I think, I must be a little unbalanced, but we are all a team, for a purpose and ideal, so there is nothing. I just want my own fans to come back a little, Do n’t be so lonely when I broadcast live. Also, no matter if I use my own or his live broadcast, I can tell my fans what movie or TV series I play. I hope my fans will support it! “Sun Fuyuan Seriously. p>
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For 9 years, Sun Fuyuan has participated in many film and television works. p>
I have cooked for Zhao Liying h2>
As a group performer in Hengdian, life is simple and boring. No matter how many faces are shown on TV, the audience will never remember what the human flesh background appears next to the lead role. But when you open a short video, their world will be completely different. Hundreds of thousands of people in the world on the other end of the phone are looking forward to their exciting appearances. p>
In a short video, Liu Hengguan asked Sun Fuyuan, “Don’t you say you know Zhao Liying?” Sun Fuyuan replied with a shameful smile: “That was a long time ago. I gave her several meals. It ’s definitely not working now. I told me to walk away two meters away. Now it ’s different. She is the goddess of golden eagle, and I am a crowd actor.The difference between the two of us is the distance from China to the United States. “ P>
It’s such a video, like 424,000, 8793 comments, 683 retweets. p>
Perhaps I found a way to increase the fan. Of the 17 videos released by Liu Hengguan Douyin, half of the videos are similar in style. p>
In addition to actor Yang Zi, his video also mentioned the principles of Zhang Guoli, Fan Bingbing, Li Qin, and hot spots. It seems to work for both big stars and group performances. The number of likes and readings of these videos have already been Thousands. p>
Although not a professional short video producer, Liu Hengguan has extremely high requirements for his vibrato videos: each video has a yellow background, and the video is a title he typed out in black and white, named “Daily performance of group performance” or “group performance vlog”, every word in the video was subtitled by him and accompanied by music. p>
At the bottom of the video, there is a line of words, such as “Have you ever dreamed of a better future”, “Do you think your dreams will be successful”, “‘Revealing’ the psychological status quo” and so on. p>
Like a high amount of praise has brought more fans to Liu Hengguan. With a small fan base, Liu Hengguan’s live broadcast also has more viewers than the ordinary number. p>
Every day after dinner, around 8 o’clock, Liu Hengguan will broadcast live at home. Although the income of the mass actors is not high, he is happy to invest in live broadcasting. Professional net red fill light, mobile phone live stand, looks like a professional live broadcast. p>
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Shoeboxes are piled with books that teach people to talk p>
Before the live broadcast, he took out his half-height net red special tripod fill light. After skillfully debugging the light, he put a mobile phone live stand 20 cm in front of the fill light and installed his iPhone. Go up. p>
When everything is ready, he takes off his coat, takes off the black frame myopia glasses on his face, sits in front of the only small white wall in the rental house, and starts broadcasting. When there are not many viewers, the two will take the initiative to remind the audience who watched the live broadcast “You talk more and solve difficult questions for you” to alleviate the embarrassing atmosphere. Whenever the audience gradually disperses, the interest of the two will gradually decrease. . p>
For Sun Fuyuan, the happiest time is when he is recognized by fans, he also promises to take photos with them like a star. p>
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A corner of the rental house p>
Every night when there is no drama, the bright fill light of Liu Hengguan’s house will light up regularly. p>
This area has become the most dazzling place in the whole rental house. Just like the stage under the spotlight, Liu Hengguan and Sun Fuyuan in front of the camera shine in another world connected by the Internet. p>
Life is like a play h2>
Ru Lan, born in 1987, is already a mother of two children. p>
On the 16th of January 2018, after arguing with her husband many times, she finally decided to leave her hometown in Anhui and set off on a train leaving the country. Without a destination, Ru Lan wandered for a long time at the station. p>
The drama is like life, and the life is like a drama. Thinking of her suitability as an actor, she eventually became one of the tens of thousands of people in Hengdian. p>
When you first arrived, everything didn’t go as smoothly as you thought. p>
A group performance of 8 hours and 70 yuan. The fatal thing is that there is no filming every day. There is only one week of filming in a month, and there is no money to pay the rent. After 10,000 yuan, she finally returned to the place where she could pursue her dreams. p>
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Ru Lan in the play p>
The interview with Rulan was about nine o’clock in the evening when the reporter arrived in Hengdian. p>
During the day, Ru Lan had just been invited to participate in a net red event in Yiwu. When she arrived at the hotel where the reporter was at night, she wore a black down jacket, tied two braids, and left the net red. In two words, she feels just like the big sister in life. p>
The only thing that sets her apart from Zhixin is that she still wears delicate light makeup on her face. She told reporters that a few hours after the interview, at two o’clock in the morning, she would go to the Actor Guild Actor Service Department near the hotel to gather and take part in the filming of the next day’s TV series. p>
It is not uncommon for crowd actors to gather at two or three in the morning in Hengdian. Hengdian’s crews are mostly costume dramas. In the costume dramas, each female group performance must be turned. Male actors must stick to wigs. It only takes several hours to make up and wear clothes. When it comes to group performances, they need more group performances. , Earlier. p>
Fortunately, we will meet at 2:20, we will start working at 2:40, and we will receive 90 yuan until 10:40 in the morning. If it is overtime, we will add 9 yuan per hour. If you are lucky to be seen by the director, you may still be able to take a photo. However, it’s really too difficult for a regular group performance to be photographed. p>
The rare chance that an ordinary actor will be selected for a photo shoot is less than the chance of winning a lottery. As far as Ru Lan is concerned, as long as there is a movie to shoot, she feels very satisfied. After all, I’m still in a stage where there is no film to shoot. I was just “blocked” by the team leader a while ago. I can only take the chance to “pick up pigeons” when I want to shoot a film. p>
Blocked multiple times h2>
In Hengdian, all group performances are managed by the Actors Guild. p>
Every day at 7 pm, the person in charge of the group performance WeChat group will be here to release the group performance announcement on the second day on time. Today, 20 group performances are required, and 50 group performances are required tomorrow. There is no extra text. When the word “Sign up now” is released, the group performances will immediately report their names in it. When finalizing the number of people, you can only see whose name is in front. The order of registration is based on the order displayed by the group’s mobile phone WeChat. p>
Of course, there are also selected group performances because of the early morning work or a variety of questions about “putting pigeons”. Sometimes, they will find someone on top, or the group head will post information again in the group. . Rulan, who was “banned”, picked up the “dove” this time. p>
In fact, this is not the first time Ru Lan has been banned. p>
There is a well-known chain of scorn in the crew. p>
The group ’s lowest status is group performances. When encountering a tightly controlled crew, group performances are not allowed to play mobile phones on the scene, and videos and photos are not allowed. Group photos with stars and lead actors are even more taboo. Previously, when actor Zhang Yishan was filming Lu Dingji in Hengdian, a group show of Zhang Yishan’s video was arrested. Not only was the mobile phone taken away, the video was deleted, but he was no longer allowed to participate in the shooting. p>
Each group show has an actor certificate. If the administrator of the actor’s association makes the group perform out of the group, this mass actor will also be difficult to add to the other group show WeChat group, because the administrator will group the illegal group show. The photo of the actor’s card was posted in more than ten WeChat groups inside. p>
Ru Lan was banned for the first time because she shot a vlog introducing the props on the set. After this humble video was sent out via Douyin, the number of likes in a short period of time reached 15,000, with thousands of comments and 39 retweets. p>
In the video, Ru Lan photographed the props that had been inedible for several days, and was unfortunately seen by the film crew’s producer. He asked Ru Lan to delete the video on the basis of leaking the crew information. Ru Lan didn’t think it was leaking the crew information and refused to delete it. Later, Ru Lan reported the name in the WeChat group for a few days and never received the show. p>
The reason for the transition from being a media vlogger is that when the income of the group performance is too low, life is difficult to survive. One month down, onlyWith an income of more than 1,000 yuan, he cannot support himself at all. In order to receive more dramas, such as Lan Fengren’s self-introduction will definitely bring a sentence: I can also play a man. p>
“Since the shooting of props is not allowed, I will shoot myself.” Rulan was comforted after being blocked. Not long ago, she went back to her hometown to visit two children and spent more than 10,000 yuan. With such a large expenditure, Ru Lan’s life has returned to its original state. She needs to make more videos and make money by playing more videos. p>
However, Rulan was banned for the second time. In one shot, Ru Lan followed the little sister to shoot a video of herself changing clothes. Before the clothes were changed, the actor’s union leader called her phone again. “Ru Lan, you will leave the group if you shoot again, don’t bother me!” P>
At the shooting scene, Ru Lan thought for a long time, and finally quit the WeChat group of the group performance by herself. “I don’t know who offended me, I was spotted, I was blocked right and left anyway, and I didn’t want to bother the leader. When I ate lunch at noon, I resigned from WeChat group.”
Last box lunch h2>
No drama to shoot, such as Lan had to go to the horse team, women dressed as men, wearing heavy and flavored armor as the human flesh background. p>
Ru Lan sat on the horse for a day, and when she got off work in the afternoon, her legs and legs were sore that she could not walk normally. Despite this, she still insisted, because as long as there is a movie to shoot, she can make money, and she can continue to be a vlogger. p>
Take a short video, you never know which video will be hot. p>
Because of being blocked, Ru Lan is blessed by misfortune. On the day she left WeChat group by herself, she stayed up all night to finish the last night show, sat in an unoccupied corner, choked and took a video of her last boxed lunch, and another explosion, just up to 24 likes Million. p>
Stand-in for Zhao Liying and Xing Fei, but Ru Lan has always been a “little person who is working hard for his dream.” This label also appeared in her WeChat signature. No education, no background, and although the outside world may be better than Hengdian group performances, Rulan is still reluctant to leave Hengdian. p>
“We also perform acting, although not so professional, the group work is still very tangled, acting is not normal, either crazy or fool. If we want to persist for life, we still return Persist. Doing self-media and waiting for filming, we just do n’t know how to do it, just like filming. ”Rulan said. p>
Short videos bring a new life change to Ru Lan. With short videos, her income is getting higher and higher. “When I make money, I plan to take over my two sons and live in Hengdian.” P>
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In the art photo, Ru Lan is a bit immortal. p>
The kiss scene is a real kiss h2>
As the famous online influencer of Hengdian, Ru Lan was blocked by most group shows. However, in the eyes of actor Chen Pippi, this situation not only has techniques to follow, but also shoots more videos from the front line. p>
Chen Pippi in 1997 is a group performance Xiao Mengxin. After less than a year in Hengdian, Douyin called “Actor Chen Pippi Chong 100,000 Fans”. In the hundreds of videos released, they were praised 663,000 and the number of fans was 83,000. p>
In the thousands of group performances in Hengdian, Chen Pippi’s existence is like a little transparent. p>
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Chen Pipi starred in costume drama p>
But his tremolo is just the opposite. Unlike Liu Hengguan’s elaborate production, or focusing on himself like Lan, Chen Pippi’s videos focus on filming, and they are all front-line shooting scenes. p>
The kiss show of the male and female master is a real kiss, female No. 3 walking, female No. 1 dazed, almighty green cloth, actor makeup hanging Wei Ya, and even Guan Xiaotong, Xiao Zhan, Li Qin, Zhang Yishan, Ju Jingyu , Zhao Liying and other stars. p>
When working in a group show in Hengdian, sometimes hard work may not necessarily be useful. “One person is full and the whole family is not hungry.” Chen Pippi was content with her childhood. p>
“Counterfeit” fighters h2>
In terms of filming, Chen Pippi is not very diligent in filming. When performing a group show in Hengdian, it costs 10 yuan to add rain and 10 yuan to the blood on the face. The weather is too hot and there is a high temperature subsidy. Others rely on hard work for filming and Chen Pippi depends on the mood. Do n’t go if you ’re in a bad mood, do n’t go if it ’s too hot in summer, run a show in the “Buddha Department”, in Hengdian, there is a network of relationships. If you get along well with the group leader, the actors will secretly remind Chen Pei during the filming Hide “Snapshot”. p>
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Where did Chen Pipi go and shoot? p>
Chen Pippi’s video focuses on “counterfeiting”, an accidentally shot candle prop, with a playback volume of 550,000, “Martial arts actors play like this”, a playback volume of 7.488 million, and a “professional lying dead shooting scene” of 708,000 “Actor Chen Haomin’s filming gap” was played 502,000 times, “Small Soldier Zhang Ga walked in the crowd” was played 3.265 million times, and Chen Pippi’s 341 vibrato works could easily get a high number of plays. p>
He also summarized a shooting experience: In the past, short videos were shot in all directions, and the effect was not good. Now, if you want to shoot short videos, you just stare at something or someone. It is simple. You can get good playback. p>
Sometimes, you also need to partner with girls. Male audiences like to watch beautiful women. In the end, his explosive logic becomes simpler. In the fast hands, just type the TV series that lied to you ** “It’s basically a hit.” p>
Chen Pippi ’s short video also attracted many fans to come to Hengdian as a group show to experience life. p>
“Next year, many of my fans and my friends who have played before will come to Hengdian for group performances. I will let them come to my house and I will cook for them.” Phi knows clearly that being a group performer in Hengdian is not suitable for making money and is only suitable for experience. He also knows that most of his fans come here to play and will leave after 1-2 months. p>
With the short video, Chen Pippi’s dream is no longer to show his face on the camera. He now wants to be an influencer anchor. “In 2020, my fast hand rose to 10,000 fans, and the vibrato rose to 100,000 fans, and I will try to do live broadcast. I was found by an e-commerce company before, and I hope I can carry the live broadcast.” P>
In Hengdian, a scenic spot called “The Great Temple of the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Period”, every time Chen Pippi went, he would use his mobile phone to take pictures of the scene’s props. p>
“You see that the rockery is fake, it’s made of plastic foam” “You see this well is fake, and a bucket is placed below.” Pumpkins, apples and other props. After Chen Pippi saw it, he quickly stepped forward, picked up two pumpkins of different colors, and displayed it in front of the reporter: “Look at this as falsehood,” he threw the pumpkin prop on his left hand to the ground. “Look, this It ’s made of foam, it ’s very light. ”He shook the darker pumpkin on his right hand.“ This is true, this is not dare to lose. ” P>