After a one-day audition, most of the actors were decided, including several people who played ghosts.

Yes.

In the book "The Wish of the Dead", there is more than one ghost.

This is different from the original time and space "Soul Ferry", Sun Quan remembers that in the play "Soul Ferry", there seem to be only one or two ghosts.

And in his book "The Last Wish of the Dead", he set up a number of ghosts.

There are men and women, old and young.

Each ghost cha is only in charge of one place, and in the setting of "The Last Wish of the Dead", as the male protagonist Chen Yang goes to different cities, the ghosts he encounters are not the same.

Sun Quan set it up like this in this book for several purposes.

First, because when he first watched "Soul Ferry", he felt that there were only one or two ghosts, which seemed a bit monotonous, and second, because he felt that adding a few ghosts could increase the number of main characters in the book.

In addition, setting a few more ghost differences can also make the action scenes of this show more interesting.

Because the fighting methods of different ghosts are definitely different, and the fighting methods used by the actor Chen Yang in the face of different ghosts must be different.

In this way, the action scene part is more interesting.

In short, there are many benefits to setting up a few more ghosts.

Different ghosts and differences in personality will also have different impacts on the plot.

For example, according to the character of the first ghost who appeared, there must be a difference between the way he deals with something and the way he deals with another ghost with a different personality, and this difference can make the plot of this book go in a direction that the audience expected.

……

After this day, the selection of actors for this drama continues, and the characters who have not yet been selected for the right person must be selected.

At the same time, other work is being carried out simultaneously.

The work of selecting actors is still done by Tao Yujuan.

As an assistant director, Wang Zheng began to set up a complete set of behind-the-scenes crews, and Xue Zihan, who is the general manager of Salted Fish Film and Television, is looking for a suitable building in Hengdian, just waiting for her to find a suitable building, Sun Quan will buy the building here, and then decorate it as the headquarters of Salted Fish Film and Television.

While Xue Zihan was looking for a building, she was also recruiting staff for various positions, and she was working on these two tasks simultaneously.

Otherwise, when the company building is there and there are no staff, isn't the so-called headquarters of the Salted Fish Film and Television Company an empty shell? What is the point of asking for an empty shell?

Compared with the two of them, Sun Quan, who is the largest shareholder of Salted Fish Film and Television, is much more leisurely.

He's not that busy.

He returned to M City, firstly, to take care of the 99 Yellow Braised Chicken and Salted Fish Studio under his name, and secondly, to ...... He still has to code words every day.

The "Wish of the Dead", which is being filmed, is his work, but his book is still too early to end, and the professional screenwriter Wang Zheng was looking for before can only make up a part of the script according to his current plot.

The follow-up script has to wait for more plots to be written in his grandson's book before it can be figured out.

Therefore, for the web drama "The Last Wish of the Dead", the most important job for him Sun Quan at present is to write more plots out of the original work.

He doesn't want his own drama, like "Killing and Grass...... No, it's the same as "Game of Thrones", the whole series has been filmed, and the original "A Song of Ice and Fire" still has two volumes left unwritten.

In other words, after he watched that drama back then, his biggest feeling was that the drama was unfinished.

Especially in the last season, after watching it, he was not good.

Then he searched the Internet for the original book, and he wanted to know if the final plot of that drama had deviated from the original plot.

The result?

found that the whole drama had been filmed, and the last two volumes of the original book had not been written.

What does this mean?

Sun Quan felt at that time that it was no longer a problem of departing from the original work, but a problem of train derailment.

The plot of the next two volumes turned out to be all played by the screenwriter himself.

Even if there is news on the Internet that the screenwriter communicated with the original author when writing the last plot, Sun Quan felt that it was too child's play.

If the screenwriter is really so good, then what else does the original author do?

The lessons from the past gave Sun such a deep understanding, and now he is ready to shoot his own "Last Wish of the Dead", of course he doesn't want to make such a mistake.

Therefore, after the audition that day, he returned to M City, tried his best to concentrate on writing the follow-up plot of "The Last Wish of the Dead", and handed over the other preparations for this drama to Xue Zihan, Wang Zheng and Tao Yujuan.

This hand-shaking shopkeeper, he should be at ease.

Anyway, he doesn't understand those professional jobs, and he can't do them well.

It's better for everyone to do their own work and do their own work well.

……

A month and a half has passed in the blink of an eye.

The time has come to January.

The weather is cold, but the preparations for "Wish of the Dead" have been almost prepared, salted fish film and television...... The building was also bought and renovated.

Personnel for various positions within the company have also been recruited.

In the video conference that night, Xue Zihan told Sun Quan that the drama was ready to be filmed.

Discuss the start-up date with Sun Quan.

At this time, the book "The Last Wishes of the Dead" was not finished.

In a previous video conference, the few of them had already discussed that the show was tentatively scheduled for two seasons, and this time only the first season would be filmed.

If this is arranged, the problem of the script is solved.

The follow-up plot does not need the screenwriter to play himself.

"The day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, January 20th, let's start on that day! What do you think?"

In front of the computer, Sun Quan pondered for a moment and proposed this date.

Xue Zihan had no opinion, "Okay! ”

Wang Zheng and Tao Yujuan also had no opinion, they both said yes.

Then, Tao Yujuan asked: "Ah Quan, what about our start-up ceremony this time...... Do you want to do it in a big way, or do you want to keep everything simple and do it in a small way? Do you want to invite more media reporters to help us publicize it?"

This is a problem.

But that's not a problem with Sun Quan.

He shook his head without hesitation, "Don't bother......! We need to do it, but for the time being, we don't need the media to help us publicize, I will publicize it in our online literature circle, and you will also publicize it on our company's official bib, the early publicity work, I think this is almost the same, and the follow-up publicity, we will also be this routine for the time being!

Xue Zihan, Wang Zheng, and Tao Yujuan had different expressions.

Xue Zihan frowned slightly, a little hesitant.

Wang Zheng smiled and did not express an opinion.

Tao Yujuan also frowned, and said: "Is this okay? Isn't it too simple? We didn't invite any big stars in this drama in the first place, and if the media doesn't do some publicity, isn't the movement too small? If you do it like this, when the time comes, when our drama is filmed, I'm afraid it won't be sold at a good price!"

Xue Zihan nodded slightly, "Or...... Let's hire a few media outlets, shall we? It won't cost much anyway......."

Sun Quan shook his head, "No need! This drama is the pioneering work of our company, the quality of the drama is the first, and all the money should be spent on improving the quality of the drama as much as possible! The publicity in the early stage will be as I said! This is an online drama after all, and it should be enough for us to publicize it on the Internet in the early stage, as for the problem of not being able to sell at a good price after filming......

After a pause, Sun Quan continued: "You don't have to worry about this for the time being, I'll figure it out when the time comes!"

He is the major shareholder, he insists so much, although Xue Zihan and Tao Yujuan are still frowning, they have no other way but to nod in agreement.

It's just that their expressions are a little helpless.

The helplessness of Sun Quan's helplessness.

Their thinking is probably the same as that of the TV station, and they always feel that when shooting a TV series or movie, the publicity work in various media must be done well.

But Sun Quan's thinking is different from theirs.

In his opinion, the best publicity position for the drama "Wish of the Dead" should be on the Internet.

For example, the online literature circle is the best publicity circle.

After all, "The Last Wish of the Dead" is an adaptation of an online article, and his grandson's current status in the online literature circle is not bad, at least his book is the holder of the highest first record in the online literature circle.

He believes that as long as the publicity work in the online literature circle is done well enough, then after the drama is filmed and launched, it will be able to attract a large number of online writers and readers to watch it.

And the number of these people ...... It's definitely beyond many people's imagination.

As long as the authors and fans of this circle can generally give praise after watching this drama, the reputation of this drama will definitely spread outside the circle.

Then it can naturally attract a large number of people outside the circle to watch.

Of course, he thinks so, which does not mean that this drama will not be promoted in traditional media in the future.

When the filming of this drama is completed, he will naturally increase publicity in all directions.

As for what Tao Yujuan was worried about just now - because the early publicity of this drama was insufficient, it couldn't sell at a good price......

Sun Quan doesn't think so.

He feels that even if this drama is well promoted in the early stage, those video platforms may not be willing to give high prices in the future.

It's like the online literature circle he knows.

Are there any powerful newcomer authors in the online literature circle?

Naturally, there is!

There are so many wonderful new people every year, just like a woman has a few days every month.

However, Sun Quan has never seen a rookie author who can get a god or a platinum contract for his first book, or a high-priced guaranteed contract.

Why?

The reason is very simple: new authors are in an absolutely weak position in front of the website platform, and they are not qualified to negotiate at all.

The way the website treats newcomers is generally to throw you an ordinary contract, and the newcomer author can choose to sign or not to sign, but he is not qualified to dispute the terms of the contract.

No exceptions.

Therefore, Sun Quan thinks that after "The Wish of the Dead" is filmed, there will definitely not be much qualification to negotiate in the face of those video websites.

Unless he buys a video website with his own money, or buys a stake in a video website.

In that case, the price of this drama will naturally have room for negotiation.

He did think about this, but he immediately gave up.

His efforts have been scattered across several industries, and he is reluctant to expand his investments at will.

Moreover, as far as he knows, every video website in these years is operating at a loss, and hundreds of millions of funds are lost every year.

This continued until he was reborn, and it didn't change much.

So, he wasn't interested in getting into that pit.

He put the hope of making money from this show in the second season.

As long as the word-of-mouth and views of the first season are good enough, they will start the first shot of salted fish film and television, polish the signboard of the drama "Wish of the Dead", and when the second season of this drama comes out, the price will naturally go up.

In this line of thinking, in the first season of this show, he was certainly not willing to spend too much money on publicity.

Instead of spending money on publicity, you should spend as much as possible on improving the quality of the episodes.

In his opinion, the first season of this show is the best publicity.

Therefore, he didn't plan to make money in the first season, he put his hope of making money in the second season.

Because of this, he didn't plan to shoot too many episodes in this first season, and in his plan, the first season was around 20 episodes.

It can be 18 episodes, it can be 22 episodes, but definitely not more than 22 episodes.

And the second season ......

He plans to shoot 40 episodes.

He didn't tell Xue Zihan and others about these plans, because it's too early to say these things, only if the reputation and views of this first season are good enough, his plan has real value, otherwise he wouldn't have filmed as many 40 episodes in the second season.

……

The next day, Sun Quan took a plane to the magic capital.

The purpose is not only to visit his wife and children, but also to shoot for the next "Dead Wishes".

The filming location of the first season of this drama was set in the magic capital.

This is the result of his discussion with Xue Zihan and others.

There are pros and cons to setting the filming location in the magic capital.

The advantage is that there are many iconic buildings in the magic capital, the kind that are well known to audiences across the country, such as the Pearl Tower...... Wait a minute.

When the audience often sees these landmark buildings in this drama, it will definitely increase everyone's sense of substitution.

In addition, many places in the city of Magic City are relatively new and prosperous, and the pictures filmed here must be very beautiful, which can invisibly enhance the B grid of this drama.

That's the positive side.

And on the downside......

I think it's the cost during the shooting.

The magic capital is prosperous, and it is difficult to find a more prosperous city in the whole country, but the back of the prosperity is the high consumption here.

Whether it is food, clothing, housing and transportation, it is more expensive than other cities in the country in all aspects.

In this regard, it is difficult to find a more expensive city in the whole country.

But Sun Quan still decided to set the main filming location of this season here.

On the one hand, for the quality of the episodes, and on the other hand, ......

is to take care of his wife.

Yuan Shuiqing's belly is bigger, although it is still early before the due date, Sun Quan has already mentioned it in his heart, and he is worried that she will be born prematurely.

Therefore, in order to take care of her and the two children in her belly, he deliberately chose the filming location in Modu, so that he could at least be with her every morning and evening, and even if she really had a problem, he could rush to her side as soon as possible.