Previously, there were still 1,000 popularity points left in the system. In the afternoon, Xu Yi protected his wife in a dashing manner at the airport and earned 3,000 popularity points from Little Ju's fans. Now, he had a total of 4,000 popularity points.
Xu Yi checked the system and saw that there were many skills for him to learn, such as "Talent in Singing and Composing","Increase Cold Resistance","Proficiency in Literature and Art Creation", and so on.
Most of these skills cost 2,000 popularity points.
Xu Yi now had 4,000 points, so he should be able to pick two skills to learn and master.
These days, ever since he helped Xiao Ju take on the role of " The Legend of the Pearl of the Nine Provinces " as a manager, Xu Yi had begun to study the production line-up of this drama.
Then, he realized that his decision back then was extremely correct. The director, producer, and broadcaster of this TV series were all the best in the country. It was a big production that only appeared once every five years.
Based on this judgment, coupled with Xu Yi's time constraints, he felt that the best way for him to show his value now was to join this production team.
If he could get himself a spot in this movie, he should be able to gain some fame and enter the entertainment industry.
Once he gained some fame, he could use his popularity points to exchange for more skills in the system. From there, he could smoothly advance to the top of the entertainment industry and become a man worthy of Xiao Ju.
Xu Yi's goal was clear. His 4,000 popularity points would be used to exchange for skills related to acting.
Xu Yi browsed through the available skills. In the end, he spent 2,000 popularity points to exchange for the Master Level Wier Technique. He spent another 2,000 popularity points to exchange for Wushuang's acting proficiency.
Xu Yi had some acting skills now, but as someone who had no trust, he had to start from scratch even if he was powerful.
Although he had the title of Xiao Ju's manager, he might have an advantage in this aspect. However, Xu Yi did not want to be a man who relied on his wife's name to live off a woman, so he would not make such a choice.
The next day, Xu Yi and Xiao Ju entered the set together. When Xiao Ju was doing her makeup and filming, he started to understand the operating mechanism of the production team.
After a brief understanding, Xu Yi found his starting point. Any big-name actor would start off as an extra.
Extras were the beginning of the newbie village. Xu Yi decided to join the drama as an extra and get used to it personally.
After Xu Yi made up his mind, he went to the production crew's stage supervisor to sign up and easily became an extra.
Through the stage supervisor's introduction, Xu Yi learned that extras were also divided into levels. Some of them acted in ordinary scenes, such as a group of eunuchs, a group of Japanese, or a group of soldiers.
Other than that, there were also some extras who had to act in difficult scenes, such as fire scenes, wire scenes, water scenes, circus scenes...
Depending on the difficulty of these roles, extras were sometimes classified as stuntmen. In that case, his salary would double, many times over.
When Xu Yi first applied for the role, the first role he got was very ordinary. He played a soldier from the Western Qin Dynasty.
He was acting in a scene of a great battle. He only needed to hold the long knife prop and swing it to fight the soldiers on the opposite side.
As Xu Yi had learned acting, he had also learned about the camera. For this scene, he realized that the director had used a long shot and had been shooting from afar.
The camera finally zoomed in. Xu Yi thought that he would finally have a chance to perform when he was almost by his side.
He didn't expect his performance to be edited into the post-production stage and be seen by the audience when it was broadcast on TV. The only thing he hoped for now was that his performance could enter the director's screen and be seen by the director.
As long as he entered the director's screen, Xu Yi was confident that he could use his acting skills to move him and leave a deep impression on Director Zhang. Only then would he be able to fight for a better opportunity.
However, when the camera zoomed in, the director suddenly shouted cut. It turned out that this scene was specially used to shoot close-ups of the male lead fighting on the battlefield.
However, this male lead was obviously not very good at fighting scenes. Xu Yi did not bother to count them over and over again, but according to his incomplete statistics, the male lead had at least a dozen bad takes.
Before sunset, he finally finished this scene. Xu Yi went to the stage supervisor to collect his reward, which was only two hundred yuan.
Xu Yi was a little down, but it was not because of the low pay. That was not the main point. The key was that he did not say a single line today, so he could not get a chance to stand out.
However, Xu Yi quickly adjusted his emotions and comforted himself." Today was his first day in the entertainment industry. After all, he was still a newcomer and had to take it step by step.
This state lasted for two days. Xu Yi had always been an ordinary extra and had not been able to get the chance to fully display his acting skills.
It was not until the afternoon of the third day that he heard the stage supervisor shouting,"We're short of extras now. The reward is two thousand!”
2,000…It was ten times more than a normal extra.
However, despite such good treatment, the stage supervisor shouted for a long time, but no one went to register.
Xu Yi felt that there must be something inside. His chance had come.
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