Chapter 189: Thunder in the Silence
The next day, early in the morning.
At the "Homeless Child" ratings report analysis meeting, everyone was cheered and very satisfied with the results - the average rating of the first episode was 20.1%, and the highest hourly rating reached 21.9%.
Rin Chihara was also very satisfied with this result, but this score was better than the original drama, which was somewhat beyond his expectations. But he thought about it and felt that it was normal, this is not the achievement of "Homeless Child" alone, but also the credit of "Naoki Hanzawa", "Unnatural Death" and "Human Observation", if it were not for the perseverance in accumulating audiences in this period in the previous year, so that the audience would have confidence in this period subconsciously, the first episode may not be able to get the results that can only be achieved by the opening of this national hit drama.
What's more, the creation of word-of-mouth prime time seems to have begun to bear fruit, and even if the audience doesn't know the specific content of the show, they are still willing to wait and watch it at 8 o'clock on Friday night, thinking that this should be one of the must-follow dramas this season.
That's all there is to be for!
Haruki Tsumura is very excited, he is the first time to officially become a director, if he can make a national hit drama for the first time as a director, this will undoubtedly be very helpful to his future - he is a character who likes to joke, but he was excited at this moment, but he didn't speak, just pinched the ratings report and trembled slightly.
It's not easy, starting as an assistant director, and now it seems that he is finally going to get out of the mix, thanks to the broken mouth of Shingo Yoshizaki who scolded Jiro Ishii, otherwise it would not be his turn to follow Chihara Rin - when he fled to the Kanto United in embarrassment, he just wanted to make some money here, but the harvest was so big, and there were really surprises everywhere in his life.
Iori Murakami's pressure has been greatly reduced, the results of the previous three consecutive dramas were not good, she was very worried about going all the way to the end, and now with this result, she can at least cover up one or two, and her face will not be too ugly.
Shiraki Katsuruma is also smiling, in fact, he has more to worry about this drama than Chihara Rinren, and now he has good results, and he is full of satisfaction.
Rumi Nishijima was still looking at Rin Chihara without a trace, observing his reaction, but found that his expression had not changed, and he was still very calm, and he had the style of a general who was not shocked by honor and disgrace.
Everyone was really satisfied, after all, who doesn't like good results, and they whispered congratulations to each other there. Iori Murakami took out a white envelope, happily showed it to everyone, and asked with a smile, "Guess what this is?"
Everyone looked over together and found that the envelope was crookedly written, "Please pass it on to Rei-chan", and Iori Murakami didn't sell it anymore, and opened the envelope directly, and inside were six bills, one 10,000 yen, and five 10,000 yen, for a total of 15,000 yen.
Rin Chihara was stunned, I didn't expect this to really happen, the child star's sentence "Sympathize with me, give me money" in the original play is very lethal, attracting many people to send money to the TV station, I didn't expect Mei Qianzi to be more powerful, this drama was broadcast last night, and the money will be automatically delivered to the door this morning - the mail can't be so fast, someone must have sent it in person.
He couldn't help but ask, "Who got this?"
Iori Murakami shook his head and smiled: "I don't know, when I came this morning, the security guard handed it over to me, saying that an old lady of sixty or seventy years old brought it before dawn." She is very happy, not because she picked up this money for nothing, but because it means that some audiences have a high recognition of this show, so high that they no longer care whether it is true or not.
She smiled again and asked, "Qianyuan, what should I do with this money?"
This money can't be returned, Chihara Rin thought about it and said with a smile: "Wait first, if there is still one, get together, in the name of the crew...... Well, in the name of Michiko herself, let's donate it to a child protection organization, the kind of public welfare. ”
Murakami Iori was slightly stunned, will someone send money again? She thinks it's unlikely, it's rare to have such a wonderful audience, can you still form a team?
But she won't refute Rin Chihara in person, she usually pays attention to maintaining the prestige of Rin Chihara in the team, and if she really has an opinion, she will say it in private, and immediately responded: "Okay, then wait a few more days, and then the crew can add more and donate it to public welfare organizations together." ”
Of course, she must use this to post an advertorial for publicity, don't expect her to waste her budget in vain, but this goes without saying, it seems that the utilitarianism is too strong and not good.
Rin Chihara naturally did not object, and after answering the "good", he brought the meeting back on track and began to analyze the ratings report with everyone - good results are good results, but don't be careless, work still has to be down-to-earth.
In the ratings report, the curve of the first half of the episode fluctuated slightly, but after Rei Aizawa confronted Katashima-sensei, that is, after she shouted the phrase "sympathize with me, give me money", the time-sharing ratings immediately stabilized and began to go all the way up, and it didn't fall back as usual at the end, but set the highest time-sharing rating in the last five minutes.
The situation is excellent, there is a good time period, there are loyal fans, the quality of the script is passable, Mei Qianzi's acting skills are reliable, as long as there are no major problems in the future, it is not a big problem for this show to achieve good results, and you can even try to hit the 40% ratings mark.
They gathered together in a bunch of people, discussed it for a while, and then disbanded and went their separate ways.
Rin Chihara took Rumi Nishijima back to the office again, and began to review the scripts behind each drama as planned - he now has an additional [proofreading] skill, which is very useful in this regard, don't say typos and sick sentences at a glance, even if the punctuation marks are wrong, you can't miss them, and even some logical errors will be reminded, so that his work efficiency will be greatly improved again.
Of course, the episode screenwriters and assistant screenwriters felt very painful in the face of a main creative screenwriter who could even make a mistake, so they could only be more careful when writing the script, for fear that when the script was beaten back, it would be full of red ticks, as if they had scored 0 points in the exam.
Rumi Nishijima watched silently from the side for a while, and saw that he was looking at ten lines at a glance, moving his pen like flying, constantly ticking around the script, only occasionally stopping to ponder for a moment, and then writing a line of notes or adding a paragraph directly to the script, and then she looked away - almost three months, she has become accustomed to the "perverted" behavior of Rin Chihara, and feels that she can't understand the world of "genius".
The longer she followed Rin Chihara, the more she felt that she was overconfident before, and compared to Rin Chihara, she was really a waste, and even lost her confidence in becoming a producer - if she became a producer, she would definitely be pressed to the ground and rubbed repeatedly with people like Rin Chihara, and she would have no power to fight back.
There is no vanity under the fame, sure enough, there is only the wrong name, there is no wrong nickname, the ghost is the ghost, and the real pervert is like a ghost.
It's true, she thought about it carefully, if she was in the position of Chihara Rin Ren, she would either be hospitalized due to work illness at this time, or she would not be able to complete such a large workload at all, and she was directly forced to death by her subordinates, and this guy was still alive and kicking around, and the work efficiency was terrifying - the TV station gave him a salary that really made a lot of money, and it was not too much for such a person to pay five times his salary.
She is the assistant officer of the people of Chihara Rin, and the people of Chihara Rin are dealing with the writing work, she has nothing to do for the time being, she was there for dozens of seconds, picked up a newspaper casually, and flipped to the family entertainment version to pass the time, but she immediately found that it was different from a few days ago, and there were a lot of drama reviews about "Homeless Child" on today's family entertainment page - "Cold and Warm World", "Xiangbang" and "Obstetric Doctor Hongniao" did not have this treatment, and the critics didn't mention it much after the premiere, it felt like they hadn't watched it.
She thought about it and quickly understood, she knew that these five dramas were all controlled by Rin Chihara himself, and at most she could only say that the degree of care was strong and weak, but outsiders didn't know, and it was estimated that she only thought that he had a reputation for quality supervision at most, and that the TV station was consuming his fame, and she didn't believe that he had the energy to worry about five dramas at the same time, but only recognized the eight o'clock file on Friday night, thinking that this was his real work.
It's reasonable, if she didn't know Chihara Rinto, it would be difficult to imagine that a person could toss to this point.
She figured it out, but she was really curious, and took a closer look at what these drama critics had to say.
didn't mention Rin Chihara much, but put all the pen and ink on Michiko, praising her for her extremely good acting skills, and her future is limitless, creating a perfect "Aizawa Rei".
Acting skills are very virtual things, and they are also very subjective things, and sometimes it is difficult to compare, but critics generally believe that Michiko's performance has reached a certain height in sound, shape, expression and artistic conception, and no one thinks that she is acting, but thinks that she is Rei Aizawa, and Rei Aizawa is her.
This is not easy, "sound" usually refers to the line skills, in addition to the meaning of the line itself, you can also use tone and intonation to convey something, and "shape" refers to the information transmitted to the audience through the body.
For example, with a calm voice and a light cigarette and a trembling hand, the audience can read the current state of the character, and even see the character's heart, and the character will stand up.
An actor can do a good job in these two aspects, even if it is good, and the "expression" behind is even more embarrassing, I want to convey enough information through the expression, so that the audience can understand what the current state of the character is and what is thinking in their hearts, which requires thinking about the role with heart and trying it over and over again in the mirror - many directors dare not give close-ups of the actors' faces, that is, the actors are not up to the mark in terms of "expression", and they can make the audience play in an instant if they really give a close-up of the face.
Rumi Nishijima was stunned when she saw this, and recalled that when making the script, Rin Chihara emphasized many key points, and asked for a close-up of Michiko's face in the script, obviously full of confidence in Michiko's strength from the beginning.
No wonder she has to name her to star, no wonder she can enjoy the privilege of building a script around her, not just because of the master-apprentice relationship, but because of her own strength, this master and apprentice are really a perfect match!
Rumi Nishijima was distracted for a moment, and then looked down, and found that in terms of "artistic conception", the critics still had a high evaluation of Michiko - the sound, shape, and expression are combined and perfectly integrated, which can be said to have performed the "artistic conception", and the audience only has characters in the eyes, not actors.
In other words, if you can act to this point, it is the great success of the actor, and it will have a "sunny" effect, as long as the character appears on the screen, the audience's attention will be concentrated, and they can't take their eyes off it at all, let alone change the channel, and if the audience doesn't change the channel, the ratings will not be able to drop.
Rumi Nishijima is not a director and doesn't know much about acting, but after reading the critics' comments, I feel that what I said is right.
I really didn't choose the wrong actor, I really didn't see that Mei Qianzi's little girl has this acting strength, she can be so dedicated, and she is so focused on the diagonal - she can perform this effect, you said that Mei Qianzi has not tried hundreds of times in private, and she has thought about it repeatedly, she is the first to not believe it!
It's rare, and he's really a super good actor!
Rumi Nishijima has a great impression of Michiko, and then she continued to look through other drama reviews, and found that in addition to praising Michiko's acting skills, not many people mentioned the plot of "Homeless Child", it seems that the plot has not been developed?
She thought about it for a while and felt that it was wrong, the plot of "Homeless Child" unfolded very quickly, and there were still many points to discuss in the plot, but why not?
After a while, it dawned on her that these critics don't need to discuss the plot, they just need to mention it, because everyone has already tacitly accepted that this is an excellent work, this is the main creation of Chihara Rinto, so it is a matter of course, no need to talk nonsense, it is better to talk more about Mei Chiko's acting skills, this is new to readers......
Rumi Nishijima is really speechless, only the first episode was broadcast, and the critics have collectively acquiesced that it must be a good work, and it can only be said that it is the unique reputation of a big screenwriter and a big producer - usually speaking, after the first episode is broadcast, the critics will talk less and observe again, so as not to damage the professional reputation, but the prestige accumulated by Rin Chihara can already ignore this, and it is worth boasting about when others open their mouths.
That's a bit awesome!
Rumi Nishijima was secretly sighing there, obviously she didn't mention Chihara Rin much, but after thinking about it, she had a sense of shock of listening to thunder silently, and Chihara Rin also found that she was flipping through the newspaper there, and asked with a casual smile, "Are you watching the evaluation of the series?"
"Yes. Rumi Nishijima immediately replied, "Full praise, congratulations, Chihara-san." ”
"It's all wallgrass, don't pay attention to those words, we just care about what the audience thinks. As he spoke, Rin Chihara picked up a folder in the messy office, handed it to her, and said with a smile, "You can take a look at this, that's what really helps." ”