Chapter 078: Meeting with Uncle Shao
The sedan drove smoothly on the way to The Peninsula Hotel. www.biquge.info In order to thank TVB for lifting the invisible ban on Cheng Weiliang, and at the same time wanted to contact his feelings, he asked Uncle Shao Liu and Ms. Fang to the famous Peninsula Tea House for afternoon tea on Saturday, and he took Cheng Weiliang to the appointment.
"Wei Liang, you really wrote these two scripts? Oh, you kid really surprised me!" Sitting in the back seat of the car, Zheng Donghan read the two scripts that Cheng Weiliang handed him yesterday with great interest, although he was not very good at TV and movie scripts, but he could still see that the story in the script was relatively smooth, at least the story could attract him. It is not easy for Cheng Weiliang to be able to write such a story for the first time.
"It's the first time I've written it, Mr. Zheng, what do you think of these two stories?" Cheng Weiliang asked with a smile.
"This "Rogue Tycoon" story is more tortuous, and it should be very suitable for the taste of the small citizens of Xiangjiang. And this "Meteor Garden" tells the story of a group of middle school students on campus, and the plot and character settings in it are very novel, I don't judge very much!" Zheng Donghan thought about it, told his thoughts, and then asked Cheng Weiliang rhetorically, "You told me yesterday that you wanted to focus on the next drama, tell me, what are your plans?"
"This is a story about youth that takes place on campus, four aristocratic boys and a Cinderella girl, both real and dreamy. The protagonists are four rich children, and they form a four-member campus band because of their common music hobby, which is called the "F4 band" by the teachers and students of the school, that is, the four-member flower4! Cheng Weiliang slowly spoke his thoughts as he drove to the Peninsula Hotel.
"This will be a new style of youth idol drama, which will be very attractive to young people, especially young students! And more than 80% of my fans are young people under the age of 30. ”
"My idea is that in the plot of this youth drama, embed a few of my songs, my fans will go to watch the TV series because they like those songs, if the TV series becomes popular, in turn, more people will like my songs, if this drama can rush out of the Xiangjiang River and go to Taiwan Island, Southeast Asia, and even Japan and South Korea, then my songs can also follow the TV series and quickly occupy the market over there!" Cheng Weiliang said to Zheng Donghan with an affirmative tone.
If you want to convince others, you must first convince yourself! Cheng Weiliang's original intention was to use this modern youth idol drama that swept most of Asia as his directorial debut, but when he persuaded Zheng Donghan, it must be said that it was to better promote his songs.
Although he was born in the directing department, in addition to his graduation work and a few micro-film short films, in the past few years since he graduated, because he inadvertently offended the big bowl in the circle, he has been able to sink and float at the bottom of each crew, helping others, and never got a chance to really take charge of the director.
The closest he got to directing opportunity was when he put down his body, begged his grandfather to worship his grandmother, sang with him, drank with him, and drank so much that he almost went to the hospital, and only then did he get a film investment of 5 million from a rich second-generation tyrant with a more fun-loving temperament. As soon as he got the investment, but the bad news that his mother was seriously ill and needed surgery, coupled with the excessive demands made by the investors and producers, Cheng Weiliang was disheartened, and finally chose to quit the film industry, returned to his hometown to accompany his parents, found a job in the provincial capital, and returned to a stable life from 9 to 5.
Now that he has the opportunity to be a director again, the requirements for making movies are relatively high, and he decided to pick an easier TV series to practice his skills first, and the idol drama "Meteor Garden" is undoubtedly a good choice.
"That's an interesting idea. After listening to it, Zheng Donghan first affirmed Cheng Weiliang's marketing ideas. "Everyone else is a movie or TV that comes out after it becomes popular, and you go to make a TV series for the promotion of the record. ”
Cheng Weiliang saw him groaning and knew that he had something to do.
Sure enough, Zheng Donghan paused for a moment, and then said: "It's just that you have thought about it, if you want a TV series to become popular and rush out of the Xiangjiang River to Asia, what a small chance it is! ”
"The previous script is okay, the campus theme of "Meteor Garden" may not be liked by TVB. If they don't invest, we can only take the risk of hundreds of thousands of funds independently. ”
Cheng Weiliang said: "If TVB accepts the script and they shoot it themselves, then I only ask to be an assistant director and follow the crew to participate in the production process." If they don't accept it, then I'll invest in being a director independently, borrow TVB's actors and equipment, and then ask them for a producer and an experienced assistant director. ”
Zheng Donghan thought for a while, and said: "Independent investment? You haven't had any experience in filming before, you can rely on writing scripts, but if you don't have actual experience in filming, I'm afraid you'll suffer." ”
"Yes, inexperience is a problem, and it's easy to lose all your money in the end. But I'm just curious, and I want to try everything. I wrote two scripts in my spare time, and I had more than one million spare money in my hands, so I was very itchy and wanted to learn to shoot it myself. Hehe, filming should be a very interesting and challenging thing, right?" Cheng Weiliang knew that it was difficult for Zheng Donghan to understand his approach, so he had to deliberately act willful and say his motives lightly.
When Zheng Donghan saw Cheng Weiliang say this, he knew that he would be determined to do it even if he invested alone. In that case, let him toss it. However, the company can't say nothing at all, and will have to borrow his musical talent in the future.
Zheng Donghan was also in a good mood today, and after the efforts of several parties, Fang Yihua finally relented and promised to lift the ban on Cheng Weiliang.
Cheng Weiliang's three songs on a small disc, one song won the weekly championship of the chart two weeks after landing, and after a week, another song won the weekly championship today. I wonder if the last song "Cao Cao" will be able to win the weekly championship in the end? If you take it, it will be a high-quality disc full of weekly champion songs!
The sales data also made the company very satisfied, and for four consecutive weeks, Zhou Zhou ranked first in the best-selling list of various districts in Xiangjiang.
Cheng Weiliang's first solo album will be launched next month, and it can be predicted from the situation of the fine disc that the sales data of the album after it is listed will definitely not be bad!
The first album was released in August, and the second album was released in November, with a gap of three months. Forget it, just let him develop his hobbies and toss it himself.
Thinking of this, Zheng Donghan patted Cheng Weiliang on the shoulder and said with a bold smile: "It's right for young people to dare to think and dare to do, I support you very much." In this way, the company will invest 100,000 Hong Kong dollars in your campus TV series. You study hard to shoot and strive to make a refreshing musical TV series in the end. ”
"Also, when you and I meet Uncle Shao Liu, hand him both scripts. With him nodding, it is more convenient for you to borrow TVB's actors and crew. Their people have a lot of experience in filming, and if there is any problem at that time, you, as a rookie director, should seriously ask their experienced directors for advice. ”
Seeing that Zheng Donghan was willing to take 100,000 yuan to invest in this drama, Cheng Weiliang was very happy to thank him.
100,000 yuan is still a trivial matter, the key is to have the golden sign of Polygram to join, Cheng Weiliang can be a lot more convenient when shooting in the future. If he invests in the production alone, I'm afraid that the actors and crew of TVB's old fritters will not be convinced by him!
It is much better to pull the banner of Polygram than to rely on the name of a music talent, singer, and investor to suppress those veteran crew members.
Although those people may still think, you Cheng Weiliang, a yellow-haired boy who has not yet reached the age of 20, just came to Xiangjiang for a few days, and you want to be a layman to direct them insiders, so go back and write your songs and be your musical talent! Filming is not something you want to film, you can shoot if you want to!
But as long as they are still concerned about the relationship between Polygram and TVB bosses, they can only resist secretly at most. When the time comes, it will depend on whether he Cheng Weiliang has a good means to suppress the "professionals" in the film and television industry with his nostrils in the sky.