Chapter 010: Goal Setting

A sitcom (Situation Comedy/Situation Sitcom), also known as a situation comedy, is a form of comedy performance.

There are many different scenes in a sitcom, but the filming techniques are much the same, and there are only three main ones: live audience, live shooting, no live audience, live shooting (some sitcoms later include recorded laughter), and location shooting.

In the history of TV dramas in the Celestial Empire, the earliest sitcom was the family sitcom "I Love My Home" produced by the Celestial Empire International Culture and Art Center in 1993.

The play tells the social cross-section of a family of six in the imperial capital in the 90s and their neighbors, relatives and friends, etc., reflecting various types of characters in the society, and showing the various scenes of the world in the 90s of the last century.

It is through this drama that many viewers have gained an in-depth understanding of the form of 'sitcom'.

In the following years, various sitcoms appeared one after another, but only "The Story of the Editorial Department" was considered to have had an impact, and others, such as "A Family in the Northeast", "Sister Idler", etc., all received negative comments such as "boring", "embarrassing acting", "forcibly squeaking the audience" and so on, until "Wulin Gaiden" in 2006, the sitcom ushered in another peak.

In fact, in Li Mo's view, the reason why the sitcom before "Wulin Gaiden" did not gain the recognition of the audience is actually very simple: the creators did not understand the viewing needs of the viewers at all.

From "I Love My Family" to "A Family in the Northeast", and even "Sister Idler", the target viewing groups are not clear enough.

"I Love My Home", as a pioneering work, was a new form of expression that all audiences had never seen at that time, and the audience's tolerance for it was also the highest, and during the filming of "I Love My Home", director Yingda also followed the trend and found Jiang Shan, Wang Zhiwen, Uncle Ge and others, who were popular at the time, to make cameos, which ensured the audience's pursuit of freshness to a certain extent.

But when it came to "A Family in the Northeast" and "Sister Idler", the starring influence of the drama was limited, and the performance mode was still at the stage of imitating "I Love My Home", and the audience would naturally increase their viewing expectations after experiencing the baptism of "I Love My Home".

And "Wulin Gaiden" is a masterpiece that adapts to the needs of the audience.

What it really wants to talk about is not martial arts, and what it wants to talk about is not actually about rivers and lakes, it is in the form of costume comedy, dressed in the coat of "martial arts drama" and "sitcom", in a whimsical world, it enhances the contrast with life, avoids the fetters of reality, and satirizes reality without scruples.

Although dressed in ancient costumes, the actors staged the trivial lives and joys and sorrows of modern people, and this contrast formed a strong comedic tension, thus narrowing the emotional distance between the series and many young audiences.

The reason why the joke of "Wulin Gaiden" can be on the hall of elegance is that its "joke" scale is very accurate, it deconstructs and satirizes martial arts, but does not subvert the chivalrous spirit, the style of expression is avant-garde and fashionable, and the technique is not limited by time and space, regardless of the classification of the subject, dialects, jokes, games, advertising terms, film and television culture, pop music, etc.

For the young audience in 2006, the long-lost desire to follow the drama has been released, and it has been well received, and it is natural for it to become the drama of the year.

It's 2011, and it's been 5 years since the drama "Wulin Gaiden" became a god, and during this time, there is no new work in the sitcom, but "I Love My Home" after 16 years launched a sequel "I Love My Home 2 • Yuanyuan Story" last year......

"I Love My Home" Zhuyu is in front, it is not a pleasant thing to make a sequel, Guan Ling has grown up from a cute little Lori to a round-faced fat girl, which is naturally not attractive to the new generation of audiences, although the old team such as Aunt Song and Uncle Liang Tian have been recalled, and newcomers such as Jiang Chao have also been added, but if you can't keep up with the times, you can't keep up with the times, and you can use the way of thinking in the 90s of the last century to shoot works for the audience in the 21st century, and the results can be imagined.

There is no accident, the ratings of "I Love My Home 2" hit the street, and the main creators were scolded half to death, Guan Ling simply quit the film and television industry directly, and went home to give birth to a baby and become a mother.

However, these have become good news for Li Mo.

"Love Apartment", which was supposed to appear in 2009, is gone, and there was a bad sitcom last year, presumably young audiences' expectations for sitcoms will increase to a certain extent.

As long as you can make a work that is close to young audiences and has reliable quality, it shouldn't be very difficult for the audience to pay, and you don't even need to do anything innovative.

The original version of "Love Apartment", although it bears infamy such as "Love Copy Apartment", "Simultaneous Interpretation", and "Scene Restoration", at least as far as the first two parts of the series are concerned, the quality of the finished film is still satisfactory.

Moreover, Li Mo understood that the initial cost of the love apartment series was not high, and when it was filmed in the first quarter of 2009, the total cost did not exceed 1.5 million yuan, even if it was 2011, according to Li Mo's estimate, 3 million yuan was already a very abundant number.

learned from Sun Yuyang that the prototype of "Love Apartment" actually appeared in this time and space.

According to him, between 08 and 09, an Internet company called Lianfan Computer Technology Modu Company had a whimsical idea to create a promotional film for its upcoming dating community 'Love Apartment', and at that time it had solicited scripts and proposals for this in the screenwriter and director circle of Modu.

The company originally intended to shoot a promotional film and put it on its website as an advertisement, but the script it received at least started with 20 episodes......

The most outrageous thing is that when the little directors and screenwriters who were looking for opportunities figured out the ultimate purpose of the company, and planned to continue to work hard to take over this 'small job' with the idea of 'mosquito legs are also meat', the company's major shareholders were revealed to be inextricably linked with the underworld, coupled with the global financial crisis, the Internet company's capital chain was broken without warning, and finally they chose to close the branch in the magic capital directly and dismissed all personnel......

The owner of the gold is gone, and this matter is naturally yellow......

Hearing this news, Li Mo looked up to the sky and sighed, ecstatic, if it wasn't for the end of that broken company, how could it be his turn to pick up such a big bargain as "Love Apartment......

If you don't take it, you will suffer from it......

didn't say it, the drama "Love Apartment" will be surnamed Li in the future!

PS: The male protagonist only crossed over as the director of one drama in his previous life, although the box office of that drama was nearly 2 billion, but in the film industry, there are not too many people who become famous in a fight, and then finish playing, Nate Shyamalan, who is known as the pit all over the six, is like this, so don't think that with a work of 2 billion, you can be called a big director.

Secondly, regarding the issue of plagiarism, there is no romantic history of parents in this time and space, so there is no plagiarism setting. Do not sit in opposite seats.

Third, if you are already rich and handsome after being reborn, with countless women around you, mansions, planes, and a lot of money, what else do you see?

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