Chapter 2 Planning
After a night's rest, Liu Zhou felt much more relaxed.

There are three days for new students to report. Today is the second day. Liu Zhouyi got up early and ran to the school playground.

Since you have decided to change yourself, start by strengthening your body.

Having a good body is important both for yourself and for your work.

In my previous life, I let myself go a little bit, and slowly turned from a 1.8-meter-tall young man into a middle-aged man with a greasy face and a big belly.

Although he remains attractive to women because his family has some assets, he sometimes hates himself when he looks in the mirror.

So Liu Zhou made up his mind last night to develop the habit of exercising and take good care of his current body shape.

After running ten laps and taking a shower, Liu Ye rushed in. Seeing Liu Zhou's wet appearance, he couldn't help but curl his lips and said:
"You southerners love cleanliness. You take showers so early in the morning."

"I just came back from working out. You're not the one who's been sleeping till now."

"Then why don't you call me? I also like to exercise. By the way, can you play basketball? I really like playing basketball."

"Of course, Yangcheng Jordan will find out."

"Tsk, let's spar sometime so I can show you what Changchun Thomas is!"

"Oh, you even know Thomas. It seems you know something about the NBA."

"Of course, I watch NBA a lot."

"Since you watch it often, you should know that Thomas has already been defeated by Jordan."

"Then do you admit that Thomas once beat Jordan?" Liu Ye said with a little pride.

"I'm not going to waste my time on this guy who knows so little about the NBA. Let's go have breakfast first."

After saying that, Liu Zhou walked out, and Liu Ye hurriedly followed him.

After walking for a while, Liu Ye saw Liu Zhou walking towards the school gate and couldn't help but say:

"Aren't we going to eat in the cafeteria?"

"You can eat in the cafeteria anytime. Let's go to the school area to see if there's anything good to eat. Then you can take your female classmates to eat first."

"Makes sense!"

I had a simple breakfast and walked around the school. It was already past ten o'clock when I returned to the dormitory.

I was still the only one in the dormitory, but there were already new classmates living in Liu Ye's dormitory.

When Liu Ye saw that some classmates from the acting department came, he abandoned his old love Liu Zhou without any hesitation and did not look back.

Liu Zhou looked at the quiet dormitory and lay down on the bed.

Being alone at this time, Liu Zhou also had a good time to think about what to do in the future.

In his previous life, Liu Zhou got a job at Zhujiang Factory after graduating from university thanks to his family connections.

But who could have imagined that the once-prominent Pearl River Studio would go from strength to strength and produce almost no films.

So Liu Zhou spent several years just idling around, and later he felt it was too boring so he went out to do it on his own.

The entertainment industry is very realistic, and screenwriters with little fame are worse than dogs.

However, Liu Zhou had no worries about food and drink, nor was he dependent on his parents. As natives of Guangzhou, the Liu family was fortunate enough to become a low-key rent collector.

Of course, the big guys may not be able to say that, but the rent for a month is also hundreds of thousands.

And since both his parents were only children and he himself was also an only son, in the end he was the one who inherited both the paternal and maternal properties.

Before his rebirth, as prices rose, Liu Zhou collected two to three million in rent every month and had fixed assets worth several hundred million.

But Liu Zhou really didn't want to live a boring life collecting rent every day, he had to do something of his own. Liu Zhou also felt that he couldn't let down what he had learned in the four years of the Central Academy of Drama, so with the help of his classmates, he started out as a screenwriter, of course just as a hobby.

None of Liu Zhou's classmates, including those in the directing department, made it.

If the Acting Department of the 96 class of the Central Academy of Drama was a hundred flowers blooming, then the Drama Department and the Directing Department of the 96 class of the Central Academy of Drama were a field of weeds, and many people later changed their careers.

In the end, it was Liu Zhou, who had no worries about food and clothing, who did the best. Not only did he have the opportunity to participate in several big projects, but before his rebirth, he was able to sign his name.

But if you want to make a name for yourself in the entertainment industry, continuing to be a screenwriter is definitely not the way to go.

Apart from the well-known ones, screenwriters in the Chinese-speaking world have the lowest status in the industry.

Even the most famous ones do not have a very high status, like Liu Heping, the screenwriter of "The Ming Dynasty 1566", who can be said to be the top screenwriter in the industry.

It took him several years to search for information and write the script for this TV series, and he wrote more than one million words of manuscript. After completing it with all his hard work, he still had to bow to the capital.

If it weren't for the wealthy Shonan TV station wanting to try its hand at the serious drama market and investing in filming, this TV series with the highest Douban score might have been difficult to produce.

With some understanding of the industry over the next twenty years, he could also make a name for himself as a screenwriter.

But if it happened again, Liu Zhou didn't want to have to keep having to look at other people's faces.

Therefore, the path of being an actor can also be ruled out. The status of an actor is actually not much higher than that of a screenwriter, and most of them are just selected.

Although many actors later became successful, they were a minority after all, and it would take more than ten or twenty years.

Liu Zhou couldn't wait that long, nor did he want to be under the spotlight all the time, which would leave him with little privacy.

Then the best choice is to be a director.

Unlike Hollywood, the status of directors in mainland China is very high.

With more than twenty years of experience under his belt, he will have no shortage of good stories and should be able to make a name for himself as a director.

Moreover, one can be promoted more quickly from a director to a capital and occupy the top of the entertainment industry.

Now that I have chosen the path of directing, the only problem is to learn how to be a director.

You don't need to spend too much energy on courses in drama, as long as you make sure you don't fail.

Liu Zhou did not complain about why he was not reborn earlier so that he could apply for Beijing Film Academy where they were the strongest in the directing major.

But to be honest, being able to get into the Central Academy of Drama is actually luckier than many people. Besides, even if I apply for the directing major at the Beijing Film Academy, I may not be admitted.

Moreover, the Department of Drama and Literature of the Central Academy of Drama has also produced some well-known directors. Diao Yinnan, a direct senior from the same department, is a representative example. He may be working on the project "Love Spicy Hot Pot" with a group of people who graduated from the Central Academy of Drama.

However, the most important thing for a director to make a movie is to get money, otherwise he will have to beg for investment at the beginning.

The sixth generation of directors all started out this way. They worked on a project for several years because they had no money. It was not until they won awards in Europe that people started investing in them.

Liu Zhou's family certainly has some money, but the assets in the family have not yet reflected their value, and are a drop in the bucket for making a movie.

Although Liu Zhou is confident in himself, no one can predict the current film market.

The family assets were his last resort, and Liu Zhou would be crazy to invest them in making a movie.

Besides, who would use his own money to make a movie?

We still have to attract investment!

However, if you want to take the initiative, you still need to have some capital and make some money yourself without using funds from your family.

Although there is gold everywhere at this time, I don’t seem to know anything else except collecting rent and writing scripts.

If you want to make money, it seems that you still have to focus on writing work, which is what you are best at!

(End of this chapter)