Facing Shen Zhengyuan's sudden straight ball.

Zhao Lei blinked a little unexpectedly.

However, after all, I have had a lot of experience in negotiations, including with MBC, a well-known wireless station in South Korea.

Knowing that the negotiation process is a matter of fiction and reality, the president of Al Jazeera has come to probe himself to see how much he thinks about the copyright of the program "The Masked Singer".

If it comes to the degree of concern about the copyright of this show, Zhao Lei is not a lot, especially when his previous negotiations with MBC on the copyright issue of "Infinite Challenge" obviously showed some signs of breaking down. Under this premise, Al Jazeera's "The Masked Singer", a variety show that has become as popular as possible in South Korea, has naturally become the focus of his next copyright negotiation work.

To put it simply, if you don't get the best, you can get a second-level goal.

It's not that "The Masked Singer" is inferior to MBC's "Infinite Challenge", in fact, these two are completely different types of programs, Zhao Lei will have such an idea, and it is mostly because of the name of MBC and "Infinite Challenge" in South Korea, plus there were also TV stations in the same industry in China that had purchased the copyright of MBC's variety show to make it into a Chinese version, and because of this boom in China, there was a precedent, which naturally made Zhao Lei pay more attention to the copyright negotiation with MBC.

"Regarding the copyright of your TV station's "The Masked Singer", to be honest, we do have plans to buy it, but it's just ......"

Although Zhao Lei is not determined to win "The Masked Singer" in his heart, he also hopes to be able to negotiate a relatively good result. However, from his own standpoint, he could not prematurely reveal his negotiating cards, and it was certainly the goal of his visit to South Korea to negotiate the copyright, but if he spent too much money in this regard, it would be difficult for him to return to China to give an explanation.

"After all, singing shows are different from other variety shows, there is no fixed script process, and it is also a big problem in the positioning of the starring role in the later stage, especially I have seen the design of President Shen's "The Masked Singer", although the design of the show is quite innovative, and the creativity of the masked singer is also breathtaking, but this practice of eliminating a singer in each round is not quite in line with our Huaxia situation......"

Regarding what Zhao Lei said, Shen Zhengyuan was clearer.

There are certain differences between the production of variety shows in China and South Korea, the most obvious of which is in the use of production fees, South Korea's variety shows invest most of the funds in the production of programs, and the cost of the actors only accounts for a small part of the production costs, while the variety shows in China are just the opposite, and the actors are taken up by the actors.

Even, it is not an exaggeration to say that the salary of the actor in a variety show in China alone is enough to put it in South Korea to produce a good variety show.

Therefore, if the program is produced according to the model of Shen Zhengyuan's TV version of "The Masked Singer", it will definitely be a blood loss for Zhao Lei's Huaxia side.

After all, it is not easy to invite guests, especially to find those guests who can bring shocking effects, and it requires a lot of remuneration from the TV station.

Shen Zhengyuan heard the concerns in Zhao Lei's mouth, but he didn't look panicked at all, although he knew that the version of "The Masked Singer" he was now producing in South Korea was different from Huaxia's internal affairs, but he didn't think that Huaxia would really stupidly copy and produce his own version of the program after buying the copyright, and he would naturally make corrections according to the internal situation of his country.

However, since Zhao Lei has raised this question, Shen Zhengyuan doesn't mind putting forward some of his views on the Chinese version of "The Masked Singer".

In fact, it stands to reason that the "Masked Singer" produced by Al Jazeera is still changed by Shen Zhengyuan according to his original World Chinese version.

Shen Zhengyuan smiled and said: "Regarding this, Minister Zhao Lei doesn't need to worry too much, of course, if you are really not at ease, I have a little idea about the production and revision of the program, I can allow Minister Zhao Lei and the Huaxia TV station behind you to refer to it." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Lei subconsciously raised his eyebrows, glanced at Sun Yan on the side, and immediately recalled the information he had watched on the way to Al Jazeera. It seems that the several variety shows currently produced by this TV station are all produced by the president in front of him.

This is why, obviously discussing the copyright of "The Masked Singer", the producer or PD of this show did not appear during the entire negotiation process, because the president is the producer of the show.

"The Chinese version of "The Masked Singer" can invite six masked singers to play a two-on-two duel by drawing lots, each singing a song, and after the three groups of singing, the three winners will enter the second round. After singing one song each, the person with the highest vote will become the masked singer, take the stage, complete the glory unveiling, advance to the semi-finals, and eliminate the first round losers in a total of three ......"

"Just unveiled?"

Zhao Lei said out loud with a surprised face, if the program is produced according to the model proposed by Shen Zhengyuan, it will be completely different from the South Korean version of "The Masked Singer" except for retaining the masked singing.

"So what about the singers who failed in the previous competition, are they still directly unmasked like the original?"

When Shen Zhengyuan heard this, he looked at him and replied: "No, flexible rules can be arranged at this point, and the singer can choose whether to reveal or not." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Lei nodded subconsciously, such an arrangement is in line with the national conditions of China.

The winner of each issue takes off his mask, and the loser can choose to never show up, so that everyone can only guess the identity of the loser, which is obviously to protect the reputation of the losing singer and avoid the embarrassment of "can't afford to lose".

After all, if Zhao Lei's side really plans to produce a Chinese version of "The Masked Singer", it is naturally impossible to define the show as inviting some half-popular and non-purple powerful singers to participate in the same way as South Korea, but will be positioned above the big-name singers with ratings guarantee from the beginning.

Under such circumstances, Shen Zhengyuan arranged a flexible rule for the singer to decide whether to uncover his face, which is undoubtedly a stroke of genius for the TV station to want the Chinese version of "The Masked Singer" in the future.

Thinking of this, Zhao Lei couldn't help but glance at Shen Zhengyuan in front of him, the other party was not the producer who produced the "Masked Singer" program.

The use of creativity is really flexible