"First time here?" Li Xiaole asked Li Duohai with a smile.

"Yeah." Li Duohai just looked at it and found that groups of different sizes in the grassland all had a common feature, that is, there was a folding cross in front of each group, and their respective promotional posters were hung on the posters.

Various new recruitment information.

"The crew of "The Love of Red Bean Girl" is recruiting 2 set designers and 1 assistant director." "The crew of "Miss Mermaid" is recruiting a soundtrack engineer and a sound engineer." "The crew of "Everything is Happy at Home" is recruiting co-screenwriters." "Korean Night Talk"

"The program is recruiting dialogue script writers."

And behind the poster, there were familiar faces sitting, Jang Nara, Kim Ha Neul, Han Jaesuk, Jang Hyuk... These well-known actors were all following the agent, talking to the TV crew, and asked Li Xiaole in surprise:

"Director, what exactly is this place doing? Why are there so many crews here?"

"Is this the so-called 'TV drama supermarket'?" Li Xiaole explained: "The Broadcasting Bureau is a gathering place for low-level TV people other than the three major TV stations. Here you can find all the people filming a TV series from top to bottom.

Personnel, of course, except for the big stars.”

Before Korean TV dramas face TV stations, in order to shoot pilot short films, they need manpower, equipment, and funds. These can be provided by radio dramas, so radio dramas review the quality of pilot short films very strictly.

This also resulted in each crew making very rigorous preparations during the pre-production stage. In particular, the script and pilot short film must be refined to reflect the overall style of the series.

The crews seen here at the Broadcasting Bureau are all in the early planning stage of pilot films, and this stage usually lasts from six months to two years.

In addition to these preparatory crews, what Li Xiaole saw more was the people with yellow screenwriter numbers in the middle of the grass. They read passages similar to lines loudly, some of their voices were full of passion, and some of them were full of emotion.

, and from time to time I heard people clapping and applauding nearby.

These people are doing intensive training on line text for TV editing. All screenwriters are pursuing a character dialogue called "famous lines". They hope that their scripts can resonate with others and impress others, so many people will read them in front of other people.

Come out and ask the other person how they feel to make changes.

Li Xiaole wanted to select potential crew members here, but he felt that he had no way to start. He looked at a colleague passing by who had a "re-education prisoner" hairstyle and also wore a yellow screenwriter's brand name. He walked with a smile.

He seemed more easy-going, so he stopped him and asked:

"Brother, please ask, where can I find the directory of members of the Broadcasting Bureau Writers Association?"

"Oh, there's a bulletin board over there." The "re-education prisoner" has a square, dark and plump face, but his teeth are unusually white. When he smiles, people unconsciously focus on his pair of big protruding teeth.

"You...are Li Xiaole?" The toothy colleague who looked to be thirty years old looked at him for a long time, seemed to recognize him, and exclaimed.

"What did you say?" Li Xiaole shook his head, trying to hide it by pretending to be stupid.

But the toothy man was a smart man. He smiled more enthusiastically and pulled him affectionately: "Stop pretending, Director Li. I've watched your movie "My Heart Is at Night". I'm more photogenic in person than on TV."

So handsome, Director Li~ Just come here, come on, let me introduce you to the situation here."

"Brother, I actually want to know how to find the personnel list of the Broadcasting Bureau." Li Xiaole could only smile bitterly at the toothy man's enthusiasm as he spat at him at close range.

"Oh, then you should listen to my introduction. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Cui Dongxun. I graduated from the Academy of Film Arts. I have been in the Broadcasting Bureau for 7 years."

Cui Dongxun had a kind smile on his face and stretched out his hand in a familiar manner. This was the etiquette of making friends. Li Xiaole saw that he didn't put on the airs of a senior, so he shook hands with him: "Hello, Brother Cui."

"Xiao Le~ Let me tell you, you must not think that just because you have made a movie, you think the TV industry is easy to mess around with. Let me tell you~ the TV industry is very watery! These promotion managers in the broadcasting bureau are all robbers!

Do you know how to exclude dissidents from bandits? Most newcomers have no chance of getting ahead, and all the good people behind the scenes have been recruited away by them."

Cui Dongxun raised his eyebrows and said matter-of-factly. He pointed to the tent with the recruitment poster for the "Seo Jang Geum" crew. Behind it, there was a group of about thirty or forty people, including several actors in traditional costumes.

The scene of jumping around on the grass is quite time-traveling.

"That is the promotion team of the most powerful guys in the broadcasting bureau, one of the top five promotion managers, Lee Byung-hun. Director Lee Byung-hun is one of the only two directors in the bureau who is also a promotion manager. They like to make period films the most, and they almost have a monopoly.

All the good art, photography directors, screenwriters are also very good, and they are also the corresponding promotion team of MBC. If you want to shoot ancient costumes, it is best to find a way to follow Lee Byung-hun. The premise is that you are interested in historical dramas, and they are also very strict in selecting people.

New directors basically don’t accept them…”

"I have no interest in ancient costumes." Li Xiaole looked at Li Bingxun's group. Most of them seemed to be in their forties or fifties, and they had an old-fashioned smell, which he didn't like very much.

"Oh, it turns out you want to shoot a fashion drama, then you should ask the right person for me." Cui Dongxun put his arm around Li Xiaole's shoulders and pointed to the big locust tree more than ten meters high: "Do you know them?"

Li Xiaole looked along the gaze of his finger. About seventy or eighty people gathered on the grass. A huge poster was set up with a wooden board in front of the tent. Against the background of white snow, the silhouettes of a man and a woman were walking on a quiet forest road.

They are crowded together in the center, which is beautiful. Soothing light music is playing from the speakers next to them. Under the poster are written in artistic fonts: "Recruitment for the second part of Love Song of Four Seasons" in large characters.

"Is it Director Yixihu?" Li Xiaole knew immediately that this was the crew of "Winter Sonata".

Cui Dongxun gritted his teeth and nodded angrily: "Well, this is the most fucking popular group right now. That bastard Yi Seok-ho is also the director and promotion manager. Didn't he make the movie "Blue Life and Death" popular?

People from the broadcasting bureau have all gone to the Yixi Lake group. Last year they asked me to join, but I didn’t even like me. Now these bastards don’t like me anymore. What kind of bullshit... But their fashion drama

The signing rate is pretty good..."

"No wonder there are so many people." Li Xiaole nodded inwardly. From now to the next two years, the type of love tragedy created by Yixi Lake will become popular.

Due to the recent spread of the influence of "Blue Life and Death" in Asia, almost all TV stations are producing tragic love themes.

In Li Xiaole's mind, there are only a handful of Korean TV directors who can be called masters. Lee Byung-hun, who is good at historical themes, has beautiful compositions and musical touches, and the artistic and modern shooting scenes are unique in Korea.

Shin Woo-cheol.

In the decades of history of Korean TV dramas, these three are the only ones who can be called the founders of the sect.

Now in 2001, Lee Byung-hoon and Iseho have already become famous all over the world. The only one left, Shin Woo-cheol, is probably still working hard at the bottom and has not signed a long-term contract with any TV station.

Li Xiaole does not want Shin Woo-cheol to be his assistant director, but he wants him to be his art designer. Korean dramas are excellent in all aspects of behind-the-scenes production, but there is still a clear gap compared with those artists in the United States and the United Kingdom.

, the only aspect of the art design of sets and props is that the set and prop designers of Korean dramas can compete with any other country in the world for their artistic sensitivity to fashion and set colors.

The nominal set and prop masters in Korean dramas are different from the famous figures of Bao Dexi in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". They are usually just executors, and the real prop director in the drama is the director himself. The most typical example is Yi.

Xihu, who was once a professional music director, showed his amazing talent in expressing the poetry of music through scenery when he was a TV assistant, so he was also called a TV poet.

Ise-ho is about to shoot "Winter Sonata", and many of the scenes will be included in the Korean university textbook "Korean Current Art Painting History". You must know that even in such a big China, engaging in popular culture can be different from entering university.

Among the field textbooks, only the lyrics of legendary rock musician Cui Jian are included in the textbooks in the form of poetry. One can imagine the depth of Yixi Lake's artistic attainments.

Director Shin Woo-cheol, who studied art, is known as an aesthetic wizard who can turn piles of sand into diamond-like brilliance. Later, in his TV series, many international brands of clothing and accessories will supply new products to be launched this season.

The director chose and sponsored the costumes of the male and female protagonists. As long as the clothes or decorations chosen by Shin Woo-cheol, they would become the most popular products in the market that year.

However, this director who will be very successful in the future is still unknown where he is hiding in the radio drama, and it is not easy to find him.

Li Xiaole followed Cui Dongxun to the bulletin board, and his eyes were dazzled when he saw that there were probably thousands of names on the list.

Li Duohai asked kindly: "Director, who are you looking for? I'll help you find it. I'll look from behind."

"Shen Yuzhe." Li Xiaole told her, and Li Duohai ran to the other side of the bulletin board and knelt down to look for it.

It took the two of them more than 10 minutes to check the list, but they found four people named Shen Yuzhe, and no one answered their calls. Li Xiaole really felt a headache.

Seeing how he was struggling, Cui Dongxun was grinning with his big teeth. He thought to himself that this young director really didn't look like a person in charge. He couldn't find anyone, so he asked with a mocking tone:

"Xiao Le, brother, I'm very curious. How come you don't work as a film director but come to make TV series? Don't you all look down on this industry when you work in movies?"

"You can't say that." Li Xiaole shook his head and said with a smile: "Movies and TV series are essentially film and television arts. Although movies are more refined, in terms of shaping characters and emotions, the length of TV series is obviously better for ordinary audiences.

Generally speaking, characters in TV dramas leave far more memories than those in movies, and they also work much harder than those in TV dramas. This is also the reason why top talents in the industry like movies more."
Chapter completed!