Many parents want to train their children into child stars, but they are deceived because they don't understand the routines behind the child star organization.
Case 1
Ms. Huang wanted to train her daughter into a child star and contacted a child star company through advertising. The other party promised to make her child a star. Ms. Li believes that she not only paid a fee of 10 million yuan, but also signed a ten-year contract with the company on behalf of her children. As a result, all the promises were dashed, and the company only taught children to sing and dance from beginning to end. Ms. Huang wanted to cancel the contract, but found that she signed an exclusive brokerage contract, and the liquidated damages indicated in the contract were as high as 2 million. You have to pay for filming, and you have to lose money for canceling the contract. You haven't finished filming yet. The child's acting career was ruined.
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Ms. Li's children are clamoring to be child stars. Ms. Li saw a children's training institution claiming to cooperate with the crew, and the director often went to them to choose children. As long as they train there, the children can get the chance to appear in movies. So Ms. Li signed up her child and paid 60 thousand. After the children received training in this institution, they really got the opportunity to film: several boys with cameras came, and several children got together to shoot some self-made dramas such as idioms and fairy tales, and put them on iQiyi. ...
Behind these cases, many parents believe the promise of Tongxing Company every year because they don't understand the industry situation, and finally suffer different degrees of losses. This kind of scam is reported every year, and people fall for it every year. Losing money is a trivial matter, but it is a big deal to cast a shadow over the child's future. There is a CCTV news called "Anxious Child Star Dream". If parents want to train their children into child stars, they can turn them out and have a look.
If you are a parent and want to train your child into a child star, you must be clear that most of the crews are not short of children!
There are three reasons.
First of all, the market demand for child actors is very small, and most film and television dramas have no children's roles at all. Except some children's film and television works need children to play the leading role, most adult-themed film and television works rarely see children, or the frequency of their appearance is very low. But even children's works need only a few children's actors, which can't form a scale.
Secondly, directors are not randomly selected. If a director wants to make a children's film and television drama and ensure the box office and ratings, he will first think of finding a child star who is already familiar with it. They not only have acting skills and experience, but also have a fan base and box office appeal. The director only needs to make a few phone calls in the circle of employing people, and does not need to go to the training institution to re-select.
Finally, the supply and demand of child actors is extremely unbalanced. In reality, countless parents have broken their heads and tried every means to cram their children into the crew. So it's not that the crew lacks children, but that there are too many children. Even in the original scripts of most film and television dramas, the role of the child does not actually exist, but is created temporarily by the director and screenwriter, and a child can be added temporarily for convenience.
If you are a parent who wants to be a child star, what are the ways to send your child to the crew? There are generally three ways for children to film: acquaintance introduction, broker matchmaking, and bringing money into the group. Let's see what is going on.
1. acquaintance introduction is the most reliable way. If directors, producers and film investors happen to have filming projects in their hands, and you happen to be their relatives and friends, and your children want to make movies, you can say hello to them. As long as the other party agrees, you can temporarily create a role, arrange the child to show up, or even say a few words. That's how most child stars get into the business. At this time, if your child just shows excellent performance ability and leaves a deep impression on the other party, then the road will be much smoother in the future. Next time, if you really need children to shoot, they will be the first to think of auditioning with your children. Those familiar child stars were basically cast by acquaintances at first, but later they left an impression because of their excellent acting skills and began to take more and more plays.
2. The broker is behind the scenes. The broker plays the role of an acquaintance here, and arranges your children to join the group through his own network resources, and charges a certain fee. The crew is originally a social network, and it is understandable to spend money to get through the network. However, if you want your child to film through an agent, you must sign a contract in advance to protect the rights and interests of both parties and prevent the other party from running away after failing. If you want to find a reliable broker, you can subscribe to our "Entertainment Big Brother" on WeChat official account, where there are channels to find a broker.
3. Bring capital into the group. In other words, invest a lot of money and become an investor in the crew. Bringing money into the group is a game for the rich. How to shoot the play, who to shoot and what you say, the director will listen to you. Because the director is only invited to work by investors. Film and television investment is a very grand topic, which contains many traps. We'll talk later. However, if a child has no acting foundation, or the congenital conditions are average, bringing capital into the league will not play much role. It is unsustainable to spend huge sums of money to let children play once or twice, and uncompetitive little actors will eventually be eliminated by the market. Of course, if you have a mine at home, it doesn't hurt to try it.
The above is the industry situation of child star market, and the way to let children enter the crew. I hope you can understand and digest it. If you are a child, if you want to be a child star, you must let your parents stand up and understand. Because on the Internet, if someone claims to be a staff member of Child Star Company, instead of talking to parents, they will chat with children specially, which is probably a bad person who deceives children. Regular employees don't pay attention to a child at all. If you are a parent who wants to cultivate children into child stars, you must stay awake, keep your eyes open, and don't trust the propaganda of training institutions. Training belongs to training, and what goes beyond the scope of training is excessive commitment and false propaganda. Don't blindly sign a brokerage contract and put your child at a very disadvantage.
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