Chapter 521 Film and Television Songs

After the recording of "Running Man" ended, Xiao Yao had no other pre-arranged publicity work for the time being. After that, he has about ten days of free time, and then he will go to the cinemas in several cities to run roadshows after the movie is released.

Running a roadshow is very hard, one city a day, each city has to run several theaters, and it is often so busy that there is no time to eat. Ye Jiaying specially arranged a break for Xiao Yao for these ten days, also so that Xiao Yao could recharge his energy and make some physical and psychological preparations for the hard roadshow in the next period.

For Xiao Yao, the psychological preparation for the roadshow has already been made, and as for the physical preparation, it does not take more than ten days at all. The free time of more than ten days is still relatively long, and Xiao Yao, who has nothing to do except go to school, thinks of Ah Zilai again.

Hong Wei's Haiyin Entertainment is a comprehensive entertainment company, but strictly speaking, it is also a regular record company. Ah Zi signed a contract with Haiyin Entertainment, and also signed a contract with a record company and became a signed singer.

After releasing a single in a row, participating in all nine of Xiao Yao's livehouse tours, and releasing two choral songs, Azi's popularity has grown significantly in the past two months, and her Weibo followers have exceeded five million.

Four of Ah Zi's songs have been in the top 10 on all three major music websites, two solo songs in the single have been in the top 30 for two months, and two chorus songs have also been in the top 10 for half a month. On current trends, it shouldn't be a problem for these four songs to stay in the top 100 for three months.

In fact, Xiao Yao has basically helped Ah Zi complete the gambling contract with his father now, but since he regarded Ah Zi as one of his tasks to send Ah Zi to the Spring Festival Gala before, Xiao Yao also wanted to help Ah Zi achieve this condition as much as possible, so that her father would have nothing to say.

It's already November, the chief director of this year's Spring Festival Gala has been determined, and CCTV has also begun the program selection and review of the Spring Festival Gala, but as far as Xiao Yao knows, Ah Zi has not received the program review notice from the director team of the Spring Festival Gala.

Every year, the director team of the Spring Festival Gala will conduct several rounds of review of the selected programs, and the preparation period is as long as several months. During this period, there are constantly primary programs that are eliminated, and new programs will also be selected. Although Ah Zi has not yet received the notice from the Spring Festival Gala program team, this does not mean that Ah Zi has no hope this year. Now there are still three months before the Spring Festival, and there is still a long time before the Spring Festival Gala program team determines the final program list, and Ah Zi still has a chance.

From September to now, there have been no big-name singers in the Chinese music scene who have released albums or singles. In the past three months, in addition to Xiao Yao, the most talked-about singer in the Chinese music scene is Ah Zi, who has released four songs in a row in the past two months. Two solo singles and two chorus singles are all popular songs that have caused heated discussions on the Internet. In terms of the speed of becoming popular, there is no new singer in the Chinese music scene who can compare with A Zi.

If it is the New Year's Eve party of a certain satellite TV, I believe that the current A Zi has a good chance, but CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, most of the director team still considers the performance of the whole year. Judging from the whole year, Ah Zi is not so conspicuous.

Although in the first half of this year, Ah Zi went everywhere to live broadcast in the live broadcast room of the anchor of other live broadcast platforms, which also caused some considerable discussions, but that kind of discussion was limited to the discussion of water friends in the online live broadcast circle. In the first half of the year, no works came out, just creating topics in the live broadcast circle, and the influence was still a little worse.

Xiao Yao's relationship with CCTV should be good, but he was invited by the Spring Festival Gala three times, only participated once, refused twice, and did not plan to participate this year, it must be difficult to recommend A Zi to the director team of the Spring Festival Gala. He wants Ah Zi to have the opportunity to go to the Spring Festival Gala, so he can only work hard from Ah Zi's side, so that Ah Zi himself can attract the attention of the director team of the Spring Festival Gala.

In fact, Xiao Yao's way of helping Ah Zi is also very simple, either to help her write songs, or to help her publicize. Now that Ah Zi's four songs have passed the initial peak of publicity, Xiao Yao can only continue to help Ah Zi write songs if he wants to continue to help Ah Zi. With the new song, it is good to do a new round of publicity.

Ah Zi is very popular now. If Ah Zi wants to attract the attention of the director team of the Spring Festival Gala, Xiao Yao feels that the conventional operation may not work, and some topics for discussion by the whole people are needed.

Xiao Yao's single for Ah Zi, a little-known rookie singer, is not very unexpected, but taking Ah Zi on a radio show to play songs for publicity is something he has never done before. In Xiao Yao's nine tours, Ah Zi is the only guest who appears in every show, and the only guest who performs a new song with Xiao Yao. After the end of the tour, two more choral songs composed by Xiao Yao and sung by A Zi were released.

Look at the things Xiao Yao has done for Ah Zi in the past two months, these are the treatments that even Fan Linxuan and Gong Chen in Xiao Yao's own studio have not enjoyed, they are all very topical, which is also one of the reasons why Ah Zi has become popular recently.

However, these are in the past tense after all.

Xiao Yao is now helping Ah Zi write songs, and everyone will not be surprised. In terms of publicity, singing and touring with the radio have already been done, even if Ah Zi has a new song created by Xiao Yao, the conventional propaganda methods are not impossible, but if you want to attract the director team of the Spring Festival Gala, it seems to be a little lacking.

If you want to talk about the breaking point, the best chance is undoubtedly the Eva show in Huaxia next month. If Ah Zi can perform on the Eva show, he will definitely become a hot topic of discussion among the people. But Eva is an American brand, and the show is broadcast on American TV stations for audiences all over the world. No matter how much Eva values Xiao Yao, it is impossible for her to agree to let a Chinese newcomer singer with almost zero international popularity be their guest performer because of his relationship.

So, Xiao Yao set his sights on an aspect that Ah Zi has not yet touched, film and television dramas. In the Chinese and even world entertainment circles, the influence of actors of the same level is basically greater than that of singers, that is to say, the audience, attention and topicality that can be aroused in film and television are stronger than in music. Singers are not insulated from film and television dramas, and there is such a bridge as film and television songs.

A Zi is a singer, not an actor, but if she can sing the theme song or ending song interlude of a well-known film and television drama, she can also use the influence of film and television dramas to enhance her popularity and influence.

Xiao Yao's work mailbox is never short of emails inviting songs. Since he disclosed his identity as XY, in addition to singers in the Chinese music scene, there have been many emails from directors and producers of various film and television dramas asking him to write the theme song and ending song. Since he thought of film and television songs, Xiao Yao immediately turned up the film and television song invitations in his work mailbox.

At that time, Xiao Yao wrote "Red Face" for Ye Jiaying, "Sword Like a Dream" written for Xiao Siqi, and "Book of Love" written for Gong Chen are all very good film and television songs, not only the content and style of the songs are very compatible with the TV series, but the popularity of singing is also very high, and they have made a lot of contributions to the early publicity of the TV series and the ratings during the broadcast. XY's works have a very good reputation in the film and television industry.

In the past, everyone didn't know who XY was, and they couldn't find it if they wanted to. But Xiao Yao disclosed his XY identity during his participation in "Singer" last year, and when everyone found out that this mysterious musician with a good reputation was actually the "genius musician" who won a record award at the "Golden Disc" Awards, many producers and directors also habitually sent film and television song invitations to Xiao Yao's external work mailbox. After all, in addition to being a simple music creator, Xiao Yao is also a young star with a very high topic and popularity, once Xiao Yao writes songs for their film and television dramas, there will be a good publicity point ready-made.

Therefore, even if Fang still cleaned up those expired invitation emails regularly, there were still a lot of invitation emails saved in the mailbox, and Xiao Yao was a little dazzled. What's more, Xiao Yao is not just a film and television drama. Others want to use his name to promote, and he also wants to use the influence of film and television dramas to promote Ah Zi, and he has to try to determine which of them are TV series and movies that are likely to be popular or box office hits.

When Xiao Yao buried himself in the work emails that asked him to write film and television songs, and selected film and television works suitable for Ah Zi to sing the theme song or ending song, two groups of people contacted Xiao Yao and wanted to visit him and talk to Xiao Yao about asking him to write songs.

To say that the people who wanted to find Xiao Yao to write songs in the past did not want to come to the door for an interview in person. But Xiao Yao is also a star, and the meeting must be booked in advance. If he is not very familiar with it, and his status in the circle is relatively average, Fang Fang, who is familiar with Xiao Yao's character, still directly helped Xiao Yao refuse. If it is an acquaintance or a relatively heavyweight figure, Fang will still tell Xiao Yao, but Xiao Yao will generally push it off on the grounds of "busy with studies".

Over time, there are very few people who ask for an interview in a boring way, basically just send an email, leave a hope and opportunity for cooperation, and contact Xiao Yao, a busy "student", when they are interested or have a suitable work.

But this time, the two groups of people who took the initiative to contact and came to the door were a little different. They are all film and television producers and crew directors who want to ask Xiao Yao to write the theme song or ending song, and more importantly, those who came forward to contact Xiao Yao are all acquaintances who have a good relationship with Xiao Yao and can be called friends.

came forward to contact Xiao Yao were two "new friends", and they were all met and familiar by Xiao Yao during the recording of "Running Man" two days ago. One is Xiao Yao's senior sister Ren Bing, and the other is Xiao Yao's senior brother Kong Zheng.

Several fixed MCs of "Running Man" have the identity of actors. Among them, Lu Hang, who has the weakest actor identity, has played supporting roles in movies, played the male lead in TV series, and the most powerful captain Cao Bin is an excellent actor who has won the best actor. Ren Bing and Kong Zheng both graduated from the Shenju Performance Department, and they are both young actors with good strength. Compared with recording variety reality shows, filming is their main business.

The first person to contact Xiao Yao was Ren Bing. At present, a TV series in which she is the second female has completed filming and is in post-production. After hearing that Xiao Yao participated in the recording of "Running Man" and got along well with Ren Bing, the producer and director of this TV series asked Ren Bing to contact Xiao Yao.

As the second female actor in this drama, the ratings of the TV series are good, and the topic is high, which is also good for Ren Bing himself, so Ren Bing is naturally obliged to agree to this request put forward by the producer.

Even if you throw away the aura of other identities, as far as musicians are concerned, Xiao Yao is also a very special existence in the entertainment industry. He doesn't worry about fame, he doesn't worry about song distribution channels, and he doesn't even seem to worry about income, so his songs are famous and difficult to invite. Xiao Yao's evaluation among reporters in the media is difficult to access, and his personality is a little strange. Ren Bing promised yes, but whether Xiao Yao would sell her face, Ren Bing actually had no bottom in his heart.

Although they got along well when recording the show, after all, they have only known each other for a few days, and they have only been in contact with each other once, really speaking of friendship, how much can there be between the two? Alumni are indeed a relationship, but with Xiao Yao's background and current fame, he is obviously not the kind of person who needs to rely on his senior brothers and sisters. Not to mention anything else, Ren Bing is a very good young actor in the entertainment industry, but she has not been the leading actor in a movie for four years since her debut, Xiao Yao's first movie is an absolute big male lead, such a resource, how many people in the entertainment industry can compare?

Dozens of people graduate from the Shen Opera Performance Department every year, and there are dozens of Xiao Yao's brothers and sisters who have become stars, and for Xiao Yao, the brothers and sisters are actually not so special. So when calling Xiao Yao's private phone, Ren Bing was apprehensive and nervous.

However, what Ren Bing didn't expect was that after Xiao Yao received Ren Bing's call, he happily agreed without saying a word, which also made her feel a little overjoyed.

Not long after hanging up Ren Bing's phone, Xiao Yao received another call from Kong Zheng.

Kong Zheng and Ren Bing's purpose is the same, they both contacted the producer and the director on behalf of the producer, and asked Xiao Yao to write songs for film and television works, but there are some differences between the two of them. Ren Bing asked Xiao Yao to write songs for the TV series, while Kong Zheng asked Xiao Yao to write songs for the movie. Moreover, Kong Zheng came forward to find Xiao Yao, not at the behest of the producer or director, but his own suggestion to the producer and director.

At present, a film with Kong Zheng as the male lead has completed filming and is in post-production, and the initial plan is to strive for release by the end of this year. Since it is a struggle, it will be released at the end of the year at the earliest. Ye Jiaying's "127 Hours" is scheduled from mid-November to mid-December, and there is no conflict between the two at all, so Xiao Yao also happily agreed.

On the phone, the two sides only expressed their willingness to cooperate and made an appointment to meet, and the specific details were discussed in person when they met. Of course, this kind of cooperation is not something that can be done simply by meeting once.

For the producer, the meeting with Xiao Yao is only a preliminary contact and understanding. Although they all value Xiao Yao's fame and reputation for his works, Xiao Yao's works are not suitable for their works, and in the end, whether or not Xiao Yao writes a song can only be made after seeing the finished product handed over by Xiao Yao.

For Xiao Yao, if you want to take advantage of the east wind of film and television works to continue to bring fire to Azi, you must first make sure that film and television works and songs can be popular. He also needs to contact the producers and directors of these two film and television works first, understand the content of the works, the main creative lineup and publicity plan, and judge their prospects.

The TV series is a Xianxia theme, and the script is adapted from a popular Internet game, which belongs to a big IP TV series with the bonus of fans of the original work. The cast of this TV series is very strong, Ren Bing, the popular little flower, plays the second female, and the male and female first are played by the popular Xiaosheng and Hua Dan in the film and television industry who are more famous than Ren Bing. Judging from these two points, as long as the publicity is in place and the director doesn't shoot too badly, it will definitely be a hit drama with good ratings.

Kong Zheng's film is an urban romantic comedy. This movie is a movie with two male protagonists and two female protagonists, the two male protagonists are played by Kong Zheng and another popular actor who is not inferior to Kong Zheng, and the two female protagonists are newcomer actresses who are slightly less famous. However, the theme of romantic comedy is very likable, as long as the shooting is not bad and the publicity is in place, the prospects are also very good.

After learning about the script, the main creative lineup and their publicity plan, Xiao Yao felt that these two film and television works had the potential to be popular, and he happened to have more suitable songs in his heart, so he took over these two jobs.

While taking over these two jobs, Xiao Yao also put forward his own conditions: one is that he only writes one song, and as for whether to use it as the theme song or the ending song, of course, it is up to them to decide. What's more important is that the singer of his songs is decided by himself! The songs are produced by himself and directly handed over to the finished product, and the joint copyright of the song and the original singer is given, and they cannot take the lyrics and find other singers to record another version for film and television songs.

For Xiao Yao's first condition, the producers of the two film and television works have no problem. They asked Xiao Yao to invite songs, not Xiao Yao to be the soundtrack of film and television works, and they didn't plan to let him do all the songs. As for the latter one, they also have no room to refuse. After all, the copyright of Xiao Yao's works is in Xiao Yao's hands. The songs in film and television dramas are absolutely for commercial use, Xiao Yao does not authorize them, and other singers can't use them even if they record a cover version, and if they use it, it is infringement.

But even if they couldn't refuse, both groups of people still asked about the singer Xiao Yao planned to use, after all, it was also related to their follow-up publicity plan. Xiao Yao was also very frank, and bluntly said that the TV series was a song sung by men and women, the female singer was determined to be A Zi, and the male singer was not decided for the time being, but it was confirmed that he was a well-known first-line or second-tier singer in the music world. For that movie, it was a song sung by Ah Zi solo.

In fact, the producers of the two film and television works are worried about the reputation of the singers, who knows if Xiao Yao, a strange person, will want to write songs for some pure newcomers who are not famous at all? Hearing that Xiao Yao said that the singer who sang was A Zi, they were half relieved. After all, Ah Zi is the fastest singer to become popular in the past few months, and his fame is definitely enough. As for whether the song she sings is suitable or not, it depends on the finished product that Xiao Yao came up with. Anyway, they finally decided to use it or not, and they had to wait until Xiao Yao produced the song and handed it over to them for inspection.

After discussing with the producers and directors of the two film and television works, Xiao Yao devoted most of his free time to the recording of two film and television songs.