Written by 丨 Fat West
Editor 丨A Po
Almost at the same time on May 6, the two dramas "Building Dreams" and "Listening to the Snow Building" played the same pair of actors in the boyhood of the male and female protagonists, 12-year-old Huang Yangtiantian and 16-year-old Huang Yi.
Compared with the post-00s Huang Yi, the younger post-05s Huang Yangtiantian has a richer acting resume. And this is basically the general situation of today's post-05 small actors - strong business, more work, high visibility, debut soon after the exclusive fan support association, and even have a mature agency behind the operation.
The title of "child star" was once accompanied by an over-consumed childhood, and the burden of becoming famous too early, after all, there are too many lessons from the early fame but the fall of adulthood. However, with the overall maturity of the domestic film and drama market, the fan economy + cultivation system is popular, in such an industry background, post-05 child stars have an unprecedented variety of channels, resources and star treatment that matches fame, and at the same time, academics are also guaranteed.
Child stars have become a sustainable profession with promising prospects. Prior to this, there were not a few who directly transitioned from child stars to adult artists - there were Yang Zi, Guan Xiaotong, Wu Lei, Zhang Xueying, etc. after 95, And Zhang Zifeng, Jiang Yiyi, etc. After 00, under the subtlety of these people's "successful cases", the growing post-05 child stars were even more like a tide.
High yield: Bilateral demand has spawned a large number of child stars
The coexistence of the centralization and diversification of film and television drama themes is the basis for the large number of post-05 child stars. Before the ancient order, there were many costume dramas about the life of the big heroine, and even if it was a family drama with a stable audience, small actors were indispensable. Previously, the Qing Palace and the house fight drama were widely popular, which also led to an increase in demand for child stars. For example, there are many princesses in "Ruyi Zhuan", and in "Do You Know If It Should Be Green Fat Red Skinny" (hereinafter omitted "Know It or Not"), in order to reflect the whole picture of the entangled family, many child stars are also needed to participate in the performance.
Therefore, child stars with a certain degree of popularity often participate in such dramas with high topics or good reputation.
For example, Liu Chutian and Shi Yue An Xin both participated in "The Legend of Mi Yue", the latter in "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" (hereinafter omitted "Three Lives and Three Lives"), Wu Yujue also participated in "Three Lives and Three Lives", and at the same time, he also starred in "Ruyi Chuan" with Huang Yangtiantian, while Liu Chutian, Wu Yujue and Tao Yixi all participated in "Knowing Or Not".
As a result, high-profile child stars are often very prolific themselves. Huang Yangdiantian debuted in 2017 so far, the works have exceeded 12, an average of more than six a year, considering that child stars also have to take care of their studies, the workload can be regarded as amazing, and In 2013, Shi Yue Anxin, who debuted at the age of only 6, has more than 15 works.
Although a large number of high-quality child stars are popular, they have also successfully attracted attention with a single work.
Earlier the fire of "Small Drama Bones: Dream of the Red Chamber Of Liu Grandma Into the Grand View Garden" (hereinafter omitted "Small Drama Bones: Dream of the Red Chamber"), with the theme of "children acting in big dramas", brought a group of small actors to the fire. Zhong Yipan, who has few works, played Xue Baochao with his mature acting skills without a trace in "Small Drama Bones: Dream of the Red Chamber".
The prosperity of such works has made many agencies focus on post-05 or even smaller actors, trying to explore more commercial value and other possibilities in child stars with mature operation models - child stars themselves have innate advantages that adult actors do not have: acting qualifications and audience affinity accumulated in childhood.
Circle powder: short-lived to the cultivation system operation
The traditional child star model has the characteristics of looking forward and ignoring the future, which makes the "evening scene" of child stars almost become a generation consensus. But today, when the concept of cultivation is becoming more and more popular and there are successful precedents, the prospects of child stars can be said to be more optimistic than at any time in the past.
After 05, this batch of high-yield child stars, without exception, has a fairly strong reputation for acting skills. Taking Huang Yangdiantian as an example, in the broadcast of "Building Dreams" and "Listening to the Snow Building", he showed mature and delicate acting skills, and was evaluated as "a small actor who can make people fall deep into one shot", and the effect is that many people think that the role of small actors is too small to watch.
Jiaxing Media, to which Huang Yangdian belongs, officially signed three child stars in February this year, in addition to Huang Yangdiantian, there are also Zhang Mingcan after 10, and Qu Zhihan after 05, who is famous for singing. Judging from the past performance of Jiaxing's operation of adult artists, its strategy of seeking qualitative change by quantity is also a necessary means to sharpen child stars and form a large-scale word-of-mouth effect.
And The era Fengjun (TFboys company), which has the most successful experience in cultivating artists in China, also signed Deng Enxi after 05. Unlike other post-05 artists who have appeared in various TV series, Deng Enxi has targeted movies since his debut. From "The Dedication of Suspect X" to "Hello, Zhihua", to last year's well-known "The Unknown Generation", her natural and fresh temperament was quite affirmed in the movie.
Post-05 child stars with strong business ability and fast output of works are also treated as comparable to the current traffic artists. With Liu Chutian, who played Xiao MiYue's popular role in "The Legend of Mi Yue", he also starred in Xiao Minglan in "Know It or Not", the number of Weibo fans has reached 3.67 million, and the number of super talk readings has reached 81.43 million, not to mention the station, support association and local branches, which have been established for a long time.
The high attention and star treatment from the works are the biggest difference between post-05 child stars and traditional child stars in the past, but the harsh scrutiny of the market behind this high prosperity often shows a multiplier effect.
Change: Rapid growth promotes the realization of acting skills
When the post-00s were still doing child stars, the fan economy had not yet fully risen, and when Jiang Yiyi entered the Chinese opera, Zhang Zifeng became a representative of a new generation of small flowers, and also enjoyed the attention of fans of the scale of sub-traffic artists.
The difference between the post-05 generation is that they became child stars during the climax of the fan economy, and under the proportional growth of acting skills and audience popularity, the risks are also multiplied - while facing the discussion, they are not necessarily praised.
Most of the confidence in domestic artists comes from TFboys, although even Times Fengjun may not be able to fully replicate the success of TFboys under the same operation model. Although the status quo is so unpredictable, the audience's enthusiasm for post-05 child stars can also be regarded as a kind of "class cultivation system" at present - multi-channel follow-up work process, all-round understanding of child stars' daily life, and the new drama will inevitably have fans' self-made materials on the file. In such an environment, once the smooth transition to adulthood, this batch of post-05 child stars have long been professional artists with very comprehensive literacy.
Of course, although there are many post-05 child stars at present, the quantity does not necessarily determine the quality, and even the final output cannot be determined. However, we may wish to hope that these post-05 young actors under the spotlight will bring about benign changes in the composition of the current actor market after they become professional actors. After all, the era of excessive pursuit of traffic is slowly receding, and the head child stars after 05 are growing rapidly, and at the moment when "hard power" is generally optimistic, the future "concentrated realization" of this group of small actors may be able to bring some new impetus to the overall upward level of the industry.
Post-05 child stars are not fully profiled
(in alphabetical order)
Cui Xuan
Date of birth: September, 22 2006
Debut year: 2013
Representative Douban score: "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky" 8.2; "The Legend of Wu Meiniang" 5.0; "Tiger Mother and Cat Father" 6.8.
Weibo followers: 116,000
Super talk reading volume: 4.313 million
Star Comments: Children are common in family dramas, and the drama road is stable.
Dunn Hee
Date of birth: April, 18 2005
Debut year: 2017
Douban score: "The Dedication of Suspect X" 6.3; "Hello, Zhihua" 6.7; "The Unknown Generation" 8.1.
Weibo followers: 495,000
Super talk reading volume: 36.527 million
Star Comments: Looks very old, once caused controversy after signing the contract, and there is a sense of first love under the film lens.
Boxwood tin sweet
Date of birth: July, 9 2007
The representative works Douban score: "Chu Qiao Biography" 5.0; "Langya List of The Wind Rising Changlin" 8.5; "Ruyi Zhuan" 7.4.
Weibo followers: 2.1 million
Super talk reads: 190 million
Star comments: The heroine of the big drama is the first choice in childhood, with excellent acting skills and great potential.
Ji Zihan
Date of birth: October, 9 2007
Debut year: 2010
Representative Douban score: "The Biography of Zhen Huan" 9.0; "Tiger Mother and Cat Father" 6.8; "Witness of the Whole People" 7.7.
Weibo followers: 2.23 million
Super talk reads: 180 million
Star Comments: Once played Princess Wenyi, the drama road is broad, and the appearance is sweet.
Kaneko
Date of birth: March, 3 2007
Debut year: 2014
Douban score of the representative works: "Balala Little Devil Fairy" 5.5; "The Legend of Mi Yue" 5.5; "Catch the Demon" 6.7.
Weibo followers: 303,000
Super talk reads: 229,000
Star comments: Children's dramas, adult dramas are available, and the acting skills are natural.
Liu Chutian
Born: September, 5 2009 in New York
The representative douban score: "Qin Shi Mingyue" 4.7; "The Biography of Mi Yue" 5.5; "Do you know whether it should be green fat red thin" 7.6.
Weibo followers: 3.673 million
Super talk reads: 81.46 million
Star comments: "The Legend of Mi Yue" is a blockbuster, national Lori, and the completion of "Know It or Not" is still very high.
Li Yazhen
Date of birth: October, 29 2008
Debut year: 2016
Representative Douban score: "Niangdao" 2.5; "Mekong Action" 8.0; "Bursting Silence" 8.3.
Weibo followers: 208,000
Super talk reading volume: 100,000
Star comment: Taking the daughter route, very cute.
Li Qingyu
Date of birth: September, 15 2011
The representative douban score: "Lonely Fang Does Not Appreciate Himself" 3.0; "Flying Life" 6.9; "The Legend of Mi Yue" 5.5.
Weibo followers: 404,000
Super talk reads: 23.89 million
Xingfan comments: Mature and stable acting skills, cute contrast, very popular with the audience.
Liu Ruogu
Date of birth: October, 13 2006
Representative douban score: "Tiansheng Long Song" 8.2; "Beauty for Filling" 5.9; "Choosing Heaven" 4.1.
Weibo followers: 707,000
Super talk reading volume: 32.098 million
Star Review: Outstanding acting resume, "old" actor.
Liu Jinhang
Date of birth: December, 21 2008
Debut year: 2015
Representative Douban score: "A little smile is very overwhelming" 6.6; "Lonely Queen" 4.0.
Weibo followers: 329,000
Super talk reads: 173,000
Star comments: The fat appearance is very prominent among child stars, and the acting skills are pleasing.
Rong Zi Shan
Date of birth: February, 3 2006
The score of the representative works Douban: "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers" 7.9; "That Year the Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Round" 7.2; "The Best of Us" 8.9.
Weibo followers: 89,000
Super talk reads: 1.116 million
Star Comments: Acting skills are overaged, vivid and natural.
Shi Yue An Xin
Date of birth: October, 18 2007
The representative works douban score: "The Legend of Mi Yue" 5.5; "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" 6.4; "The Long Song Line of Beautiful Rivers and Mountains" 5.9.
Weibo followers: 185,000
Super talk reading volume: 59.039 million
Star Comments: Natural acting talent, delicate and outstanding camera performance ability.
Tao Yixi
Date of birth: April, 8 2006
Representative Douban score: "Beacon Lady" 6.9; "Little Drama Bone: The Legend of the White Snake" 8.4; "Do you know if it should be green fat red thin" 7.6.
Weibo followers: 375,000
Super talk reading volume: 100 million
Star comments: There are many talents, and the acting skills are highly optimistic.
Wu Yujue
Date of birth: October, 2, 2005
The representative douban score: "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" 6.4; "Ruyi Zhuan" 7.4; "Do You Know If It Should Be Green Fat Red Skinny" 7.6.
Weibo followers: 209,000
Super talk reading volume: 17.777 million
Star comments: Acting skills win, modern, ancient costumes are suitable.
Wang Tingwen
Date of birth: June, 22 2009
Representative Douban score: "Because I Met You" 4.8; "Starry April" 4.5; "Small Drama Bone: Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" 6.1.
Weibo followers: 273,000
Super talk reading volume: 18.057 million
Star Comment: Daughter professional household, very cute.
Xu Xihan
Date of birth: February, 23 2006
Debut year: 2011
Representative Douban score: "Parental Love" 9.4; "Peking No War" 8.9; "Burning Heart" 8.0.
Weibo followers: 483,000
Super talk reads: 53,000
Star Comments: Mature acting skills like an adult.
Ye Kaiwen
Date of birth: September, 14 2005
Douban score of representative works: "Ruyi Zhuan" 7.4; "The Legend of Qingqiu Fox" 5.5; "The Pretender" 8.4.
Weibo followers: 155,000
Super talk reads: 199,000
Star Comments: Rich acting resume, hard-working child star representative.
Zhang Zimu
Date of birth: January, 6 2008
Representative douban score: "Divine Eagle Hero" 4.3; "The Biography of the Female Doctor Ming Concubine" 6.2; "Lanling King" 7.0.
Weibo followers: 3.475 million
Super talk reading volume: 230 million
Star Review: Outstanding appearance, many fans.
Zhong Yipan
Date of birth: May, 1, 2005
Representative Douban score: "Little Drama Bone: Dream of the Red Chamber Liu Grandma Enters the Grand View Garden" 9.1.
Weibo followers: 166,000
Super talk reading volume: 33.665 million
Xingfan comments: Xue Baochao has attracted attention naturally, and the follow-up development is expected.
Zhang Yihan
Date of birth: December, 12 2010
The representative douban score: "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" 6.4; "Problem Restaurant" 5.7; "Rescue Against time" 4.7.
Weibo followers: 1.055 million
Super talk reading volume: 80.945 million
Star Fan comments: "Three Lives Three Ten Mile Peach Blossom" small group of a circle of powder.