When it comes to crime dramas, most of them are modern dramas, and in terms of ancient dramas, there are very few that are really popular.

Or, usually, there are fewer episodes of this kind.

Because costume dramas are naturally much higher than modern dramas, in terms of cost, because costume dramas need to involve some costume props, if you use five cents to do it, of course, it is difficult to make high-quality products.

Secondly, the difference between a drama and an absurd drama, making a drama is more difficult, although the absurd drama is relatively simple, but in the same way, the combination of absurd drama and suspense crime often seems nondescript.

"Working with the Island TV team?" Chen Zhi was a little surprised.

"Yes, even a long-term cooperation can be reached, crime dramas cannot be broadcast in prime time on our domestic TV stations, but on Hong Kong Island, there is no such restriction on Treasure Island. ”

"Although the market is a little smaller, the team at Island TV is known for its efficiency, and they have many years of shooting experience. ”

"We can co-invest with them to produce some crime dramas with a Hong Kong Island background, and we only need the online rights. This can greatly reduce costs. And the TV drama actors on Hong Kong Island are not small, but the salary is not high. ”

"Of course, we can't walk on one leg and we need to develop our own team. Lin Xiao said with a smile.

"What about the type?" Chen asked.

"What do you think?" Lin Xiao asked rhetorically.

"I'm a clever woman, it's hard to cook without rice, but if Lin Dong can provide you with ideas or scripts, I don't think it's a problem. Chen Zhi said with a sneer.

"Script, you know, I'm so busy making a new film right now, I can't find time to write it, but I can provide a couple of script outlines and ideas. Lin Xiao pondered for a moment and said.

After that, Lin Xiao gave Chen Zhi the outline of the script for several projects.

As for the filling of the story content, this is not a problem.

But when he saw the outline of several scripts given by Lin Xiao and the type of content above, Chen Zhi was also a little confused.

This is not new, but do you want to do it when it becomes a time-traveling drama?

However, online dramas are acceptable, the key is that Lin Xiao's remarks on the outline of the script made Chen Zhi look confused.

Most of the time, although it is said that in order to save costs, the costumes and other props in the play should be simplified to a certain extent, but they are not as bad as Lin Xiao said.

Look at the follow-up again, costume detective dramas?

Can there be a market for this type of genre?

And, the key thing is that they are all dramas, which is not so easy to film.

Lin Xiao saw Chen Zhi's doubts, but he said with a smile: "Look at ECCOM, watch Tianyu, watch Storm Network, these video websites, each has its own characteristics, and our sweet potato video network also has to create a brand." ”

"Therefore, the former is to create Internet celebrities, create topics, and hype online dramas with topics, and the latter is to build the brand of our sweet potato video network, which will be the signature of sweet potato video network for a long time in the future. ”

"The former doesn't have to be too costly, but the latter needs to be refined, and in terms of modern crime dramas, you can discuss it with Hong Kong Island. ”

"But costume crime dramas, as far as I know, there are no outstanding dramas in the current domestic market. Chen Zhi said.

At this moment, it was Lin Xiao's turn to be a little dazed.

"No?" Lin Xiao asked.

"It's really not, it's not that no one shoots this kind of drama, but, it almost dates back to ten years ago, and even ten years ago, crime dramas were mainly modern dramas, costume suspense detective dramas, there are, but there is almost nothing too outstanding. Chen Zhi has done some research in this regard.

"Then what do you think caused this result?" Lin Xiao asked.

"In many ways, on the one hand, crime dramas are not allowed to be broadcast in prime time, which makes dramas with this theme unable to sell at a good price. Naturally, powerful TV drama production companies will turn to other genres. ”

Later, online dramas began to emerge, but after all, online dramas have limitations, and their revenue capacity is definitely not as good as those TV series broadcast on the stars. Costume dramas, especially costume detective dramas, can only be reasoning-based, but there are some costume anti-corruption historical dramas that punish corrupt officials, but this kind of drama requires a lot of production costs, so there are few self-made dramas involved. ”

"Once it comes to reasoning, the requirements for the script for the case need to be of a very high level, so fewer and fewer people are involved, and some are involved, but they fail, and the result is complained about by others, thankless, and modern crime dramas are different, most of them are bizarre unsolved cases, and most of the time the process of solving the case is not partial to reasoning, but partial to technical investigation. ”

Lin Xiao thought about it carefully, but this was really the case.

Filming TV series, especially mystery dramas, has really high requirements for stories in this regard.

And this kind of drama can't be broadcast on the stars, or in other words, few TV stations are willing to spend a lot of money and end up buying a series that can only be broadcast in some free time.

Therefore, as a result, many TV drama production companies naturally cannot invest too much in dramas with this kind of theme, or even directly abandon the script of this kind of theme.

This has formed a vicious circle, any drama of any theme, from the beginning to the gradual maturity, needs to be tested by the market, and the more you shoot, what the audience likes to watch and what they don't like to watch, in order to form an experience.

And this kind of theme can't be sold at a good price, so naturally, it is gradually abandoned.

In the same way, fewer and fewer people will start writing scripts on this kind of subject.

"I watched a costume detective drama adapted from the Internet by ECCOM, but the original rigorous style was adapted into a joyful comedy detective drama, and the final result was naturally not very good, and it was scolded by book fans, and ordinary audiences did not buy it, resulting in fewer and fewer scripts of this type of theme. ”

On the contrary, in terms of modern crime dramas, because of the large number of self-made dramas, they have brought forth new ones, with various themes of technical investigation, high-tech categories, and mysterious types, and there are so many tricks.

That's what the market decides, you can't test DNA in costume detectives, right? You can't take fingerprints, compare them, and there's no surveillance, right?

This has led to the fact that in costume detective dramas, there are fewer routines you can use, and the requirements for the script, the story, and the case have become more brilliant.

This can be said to be the reason for the market, not because the subject matter is not good, but because the market restricts people's development of this theme.