First, first.
1, when extras are freelancers, there is no company to provide you with full-time jobs, and there is no so-called company to recruit extras full-time. All kinds of online film and television companies that recruit extras are deceptive.
2. The director will not directly select and recruit extras, nor will he pay attention to the quality of group performances. Extras generally have no lines and independent shots, and extras are generally recruited by group leaders or deputy directors.
3. If you don't continue your studies, you will be an experienced group performance for one year and an experienced group performance for ten years, but you can only be a group performance.
Extras are not directly employed by an employer, but form a loose cooperative relationship with the crew, which is not managed by the crew, that is, they do not have typical labor relations characteristics. Extras do not have labor contracts, and to put it bluntly, they are individual workers without employers, and their professional risks are great. They have no stable source of wage income, social insurance, housing accumulation fund and other social security. Extras are not contract actors, and it is better for actors who want to be part-time actors and have time!
Secondly, secondly.
1. What is an extra?
Extras or extras, commonly known as caffeine, episode or passerby A in Hong Kong, refer to actors who play idle roles such as pawns, diners and passers-by in restaurants. Because their nature is similar to the walk-on in China traditional operas, they are sometimes called walk-on. In movies, stage plays or TV programs, these actors are usually employed on short-term contracts and are called "extras", commonly known as "temporary records" in Hong Kong.
Extras refer to people who frequently appear in various film and television crews, go out early and return late every day, and wait for the director to greet them most of the time, earning tens of yuan a day. Some are for making money, some are for acting fame, and some are just for idolization. More often, it is just a "green leaf" starring silently. Being an extra actor in Beijing has to find a way to take over the play every day, which is basically a daily job. Without food and shelter, they all rent their own houses, which is a very unstable job. Whether they can receive programs or not depends mainly on their own channels and ways of receiving programs.
2. How does the crew recruit extras?
(1) Then someone will ask, how did the director choose the extras?
I'm also telling you here that the director doesn't pick extras and doesn't pay attention to the quality of group performances. They are usually randomly selected as the person in charge. Recruiting a group to perform a group performance is generally handed over to the head of the cooperation group for recruitment. In Beijing, it is generally a day job, the day the employer finds it, and the day's work. Extras are like handing out cabbage. The head of the team is arranged, and the crew will count the number of people here. When you meet a beautiful group, even the number of people is not counted. As much as you say, and then pay per head. For group performances, the standard is 100- 150 yuan for one day, or higher. When the group is sent to the group performance, there are only eighty or ninety left.
(2) The main roles are decided by the directors and producers, and some are special guests of several plays, and the extras are handed over to the assistant directors of the actors to meet with the leaders of the troupe. The assistant director of the actor contacted the group leader directly. Simply put, the team leader recruited extras according to the requirements of the deputy director!
(3) Registration requirements for extras: send personal photos, height and age, and other information is not needed. So even if you are talented, no one can see it, and your resume can't beat the director! Usually what you can see at the shooting scene is the assistant director. Or executive director! Even if you meet the director, the director is not idle to chat with you or watch you recommend yourself! What's more, there are thousands of actors who graduated from professional colleges, and which director will care about your recommendation as an extra actor!
Being an actor is the dream of many people, especially young people. They all want to be chased by others for autographs one day, just like those glamorous big stars. This kind of wish, for most people who have done group performances all their lives, may be impossible to realize and will always be just a "daydream". But if you don't have a professional performance foundation, or you don't come from a professional course or graduate from a professional college, you will always be an extra actor, and the best development prospect is Tuan Te or Xiao Te!
Finally, where is the way out for group performance?
(1) If you are still young, you dream of taking the road of being an actor, and you have a good family background and are talented, then your best way is to take an art school. If conditions permit, you'd better take an art school, such as Nortel, Chinese Opera, Shangxi and PLA Art School.
(2) You become a monk halfway, and you don't even have access to the resources of the art school. You haven't studied professional acting, and you don't have contacts in art school. We can only move forward, starting with the group performance. If you really want to go far and develop, then continue to study and further your studies.
Generally speaking, from the role of extras-group expertise-special performance-we should move up step by step. It's easy for the masses to go to the group, but the group invited them, not only personally participated in many works, but also must have a certain professionalism and a good resume! Many newcomers want to join the group or recommend themselves to the director without even touching the group performance, which is very unrealistic. On the surface, actors eat by their faces, but in fact, actors eat by their acting skills and works.
Stars need to create works, and they must first become role actors.
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