Chapter 31: Writing the Script
Li Xiuping didn't immediately decide whether to open an entertainment company with Da Mi Mi, now Da Mi Mi has not become popular, it is too early to say these at this time, so Li Xiuping quickly put it down, he thought that since he didn't know how to invest now, he would save the money first and make plans later.
But after all, he has money, Li Xiuping plans to change the environment to work, and the small courtyard rented in HD is very cheap, but as the "headquarters" of a film and television company is too shabby, if you want to attract investment, this façade can scare away all investors, and the lease period is about to expire. So Li Xiuping planned to change his office and accommodation location, he thought about it and decided to move the new dream film and television company to BJ.
BJ has the most film and television companies in China, most of the mainland stars have real estate in BJ, and there is also the best film and television school in the country, the School of Music.
Li Xiuping has no acquaintances in BJ, Gao Gaoshan and Liu Shengli are partners, and the only friend is probably Da Mi Mi, so he called to ask Da Mi Mi if he could help, and Da Mi Mi readily agreed.
A day later, Da Mi Mi helped Li Xiuping find a place, she helped Li Xiuping find a place at the junction of BJHD district and CP district, the office is on the seventeenth floor of the Angel Building, the traffic is good, the price is also affordable, the office building plus the warehouse together has 250 square meters, the rent plus the property plus the elevator fee and so on are a total of 30,000 a month. The accommodation is in a rented apartment not far from the Angel Building, with ten rooms on two floors and two halls for 20,000 a month.
Li Xiuping signed a one-year lease contract with the owners of these two places, and then he asked Liu Haoyu to hand over the work of the water army studio, and then moved all the things in the HD rented courtyard to BJ, and at the same time took two fellows to BJ, after arriving at BJ, the three of them purchased furniture and daily necessities, supervised the decoration and layout of the office building, and recruited a receptionist, a clerk, an accountant, and a lawyer consultant, in short, Li Xiuping handed over all the procedures for opening a normal company to Liu Haoyu.
Lost all the troubles to Liu Haoyu, and Li Xiuping himself sat in the room to write the script for the second season of "Crime in the Heart", because Teng Xun was urging him, so Li Xiuping planned to complete the script writing within fifteen days.
The second season of Li Xiuping's "Crime in the Heart" is not the same director as the first season, and the director of the second season, Cheng Hao, seems to be deeply influenced by American dramas, not only borrowing from some American dramas in some scenes, but also keeping up with popular American dramas in terms of plot structure. Not only does a main line run through the whole play, but the main line extends out of several branches, and the branch lines not only promote the main line, but also make the main plot more tense, so that the protagonist has something to do, but the audience will not feel that it is a mess of.
The most typical case of this kind of American drama is the famous "Prison Break", "Prison Break" has established the main line from the beginning, the protagonist wants to escape from prison with his brother, and then it has extended several branches, such as the difficulties of the prison guards, the obstruction of the FBI, and the interference of other prisoners in the prison. And the protagonist solves these troubles one by one, just like upgrading and fighting monsters, rushing all the way forward, almost every episode has conflicts, and two or three episodes have a small climax, so that the audience is dizzy and dare not miss a minute or second of the plot.
And the second season of "Crime in the Heart" directed by Cheng Hao mainly has two major cases, namely the indoctrination field and the dark river, of which the indoctrination field runs through the whole play, which is the main line of the second season of "Crime in the Heart". Outside the main line are some other cases, but after all, they are adapted from novels, and these cases in the original book have nothing to do with each other, under Cheng Hao's adaptation, these small cases have a relationship with the education field, but they are still not close enough, so the plot is a little dragged.
In addition, compared with the first season, the second season of Cheng Hao's "Crime in the Heart" added two new characters, a technical policewoman engaged in the Internet, and a female psychiatrist, removing the female forensic doctor in the first season.
Li Xiuping doesn't like the role of a technical policewoman very much, so the script he writes will not have a technical policewoman, and he will keep the female forensic doctor. In the first season, the female forensic doctor and Tai Wei have an emotional drama, and the second season will be extended, in the first season, Tai Wei does not want to have more in-depth contact with the female forensic doctor, and in the second season, Li Xiuping will make the female forensic doctor more autonomous, she still likes Tai Wei, but she will no longer follow Tai Wei, she will scare Tai Wei from time to time.
As for the female psychiatrist, Li Xiuping will keep it, but in Cheng Hao's version of "Crime in the Heart", the female psychiatrist is not only in love with the male protagonist, but also a psychiatrist, a computer hacker, and the final boss. Such a complex setting is too unreal, Li Xiuping plans to let the female psychiatrist fall in love with the male protagonist, and the computer hacker and the big boss will write another role.
In the outline of the second season of "Crime in the Heart" written by Li Xiuping, the actor Fang Mu and the supporting actor Tai Wei will have emotional scenes in the second season, but they are all to the point, with only a few strokes, and it will definitely not exceed 10% of the entire plot.
When Li Xiuping wrote the script of the first season of "Guilty in the Heart", he was mostly recalling the plot of the first season of the first 15 versions of "Guilty in the Heart". Now writing the script for the second season of "Sin in the Heart", he hopes to write more script settings that he approves. Therefore, the plot of the second season will be more compact, the plot will be more tense, and there will naturally be a lot less emotional drama between men and women.
Perhaps many people will not understand why Li Xiuping chose a fast-paced, fiercely conflicted, and interlocking plot that makes the audience dare not come out. Some people watch the super-pleasure "Prison Break", and the grinding and chirping "Dream of Red Mansions" is the same?
Because Li Xiuping is a traverser, he knows the aesthetic trend of young audiences in China.
There are many life dramas of mothers-in-law and mothers in the TV dramas broadcast by various TV stations in China, there are many messy costume romance dramas, and there are many inexplicable anti-Japanese dramas. The plots of these TV series are chaotic and procrastinating, there is no distinction between primary and secondary, and the rhythm is a mess, and many people still watch it. But the audience of these TV series is those boring uncles and aunts, middle-aged housewives who live at home.
The existence of these bad dramas divides a very large number of viewers, and they are one of the important factors for young audiences to start watching dramas on mobile phones and computers.
There is a huge aesthetic gap between the young audience and the old audience, and the old audience watching TV is a pastime, and they watch what the TV station shows. As for the young audience, they have mobile phones and computers, they can go shopping, they can go to bars, they can play ball, they can go to karaoke, they want to stop and watch, not only must they have enough attractive plots and characters, but also require the plot to be tense and full of suspense, all of which are essences, without half a sentence of nonsense.
Li Xiuping has no intuitive data to show his opinion, but he knows two examples. The first is the weakening of TVB dramas in the mainland. TVB TV dramas have been dragging their feet for decades except martial arts dramas, whether they are urban dramas, detective dramas, or life dramas.
In TVB TV dramas, there are often such scenes, that is, the protagonist runs home from morning exercises, meets neighbors on the way, the protagonist happily greets the neighbors, and then goes to work beautifully, and is still happy to greet colleagues when he arrives at the company. This paragraph, about three minutes, expresses the optimistic and cheerful character of the protagonist, but is this really what the audience wants to see? There is no doubt that it is not, this kind of shaping of the protagonist's basic personality can be completely replaced by other methods, such as raising a pot of flowers on the windowsill in the office, such as wearing a bright tie, and the effect that can be achieved by a flashing shot, TVB takes three minutes, why is this?
However, the most procrastinating thing about TVB is not the character building, but the setting of the plot, and TVB's screenwriters like a set of models very much is to talk about the situation, that is, half of the plot is about the protagonist's feelings, and half is about the protagonist's upgrade and fighting monsters.
Take TVB's classic TV series "Forensic Pioneer" as an example, half of the plot talks about the protagonists solving the case, and half about them falling in love, such a plot structure was no problem ten years ago, but now it is absolutely not possible, forensics! Big brother, the audience wants to watch the Niu Niu of the Forensic Department pretend to be @forced to know? No one wants to watch them fall in love, what is there to watch, what is there to watch a group of older and not handsome people fall in love? If you want to watch Korean dramas when you fall in love, who watches Hong Kong dramas?
So Hong Kong dramas are becoming more and more popular in the mainland, and almost no TV stations will introduce Hong Kong dramas until now, there are actually only two Hong Kong dramas that have really been popular in the decade from 05 to 15 years, namely "Stealth Sniper" and "The Practitioner", these two dramas have come out of the circle of Hong Kong drama fans, and many viewers who watch Korean dramas and American dramas will also look for it, as for the other "Heart Storm" and "Pursuit of Victory", they are only popular in the circle of Hong Kong drama fans, and they have not become popular outside the circle.
The viewership of Hong Kong dramas in the mainland is young audiences, the procrastination of Hong Kong dramas is abandoned by the audience, and the dramatic conflict and fast-paced "Stealth Sniper" and "The Practitioner" are sought after by the audience, which is the most direct evidence of the aesthetics of young mainland audiences.
The second example is Yu Ma's drama, Yu Ma studied under TVB, and the script he wrote was very similar to TVB, plus he lived in a small public act in his heart, so he also liked to talk about the situation.
In 2010, Yu Ma was preparing for "Gong Yi", this drama will be a big hit, and it will be the peak of Yu Ma's life.
Why Yu's mother hit the street so quickly, it's not because he offends the audience with his cheap mouth, the little steel cannon's mouth is even cheaper, and the person is not a good mix. The main reason is that Yu Ma's drama is outdated, and his very unpleasant plot setting has been abandoned by the audience.
In 2016, Ding Mo had two detective romance dramas broadcast at the same time, namely "Beauty Danger" and "If the Snail Has Ai Qing", "Beauty Danger" is Yu Ma's drama, and "If the Snail Has Ai Qing" is produced by Noon Sunshine, these two dramas have a strong contrast between Yu Ma and Noon Sunshine's market acumen. "Beauty Danger" is a typical TVB style, while falling in love, solving the case, falling in love grinding and chirping, the male and female protagonists are constantly entangled, sad, and nervous. "If the Snail Has Ai Qing" is different, mainly to solve the case, there are emotional scenes between the male and female protagonists, but there are very few, and it will not interrupt the audience to enjoy the pleasure of solving the case and revealing the truth step by step. As a result, "Beauty Danger" was bought for a few days of hot searches, but it actually hit the street, and "If the Snail Has Ai Qing" had an excellent word-of-mouth broadcast, becoming the top ten film and television dramas on Douban in 16 years.
The viewership group of Yu Ma's drama is young audiences, and this group of people abandoned Yu Ma, doesn't it prove that Yu Ma's set is not good?
The decline of Hong Kong dramas and Yu Ma dramas is the best reference, so Li Xiuping wants to write a fast-paced and super-fast plot, but because Remy has not yet written Dark River in 2010, Li Xiuping can't write the plot of Dark River, he decided to take the indoctrination field as the main line and write four branch cases by himself, one case to Tai Wei to solve, and three cases to Fang Mu to solve.
Li Xiuping has liked to watch mystery detective movies since he was a child, so he thinks that he should have no problem writing a few small cases, but he feels that something is wrong when he writes it, because the cases he writes can find prototypes in detective novels, and he unconsciously borrowed from the detective novels and movies he had watched.
"I only have half a month, do I rewrite it myself, or can I just copy it from a few cases?"
"Damn, can I sell scripts to Hollywood and not think of a few small cases?"
"What can you do if you think about it? Will the audience care? Copy it to save time. ”
In the claustrophobic room, Li Xiuping lit the table and fell into deep thought.