Chapter 39 Preparations for Upgrades
On the other hand, in the production of late-night programs, after two months of training, the production of the program by the Wang brothers has also begun to get better.
Since it is a late-night file that is only broadcast on Fan's TV station, there is really no need to insist too much on the festival or something, man, in fact, who doesn't have a little evil careful thinking, the script written by Fan Cheng opened their eyes at first, and gradually they began to try to add their own ideas, although these ideas are far inferior to Fan Cheng's, but in the junior TV station in this world, these things are enough to make a show.
And the effect of the show is also obvious, the popularity of Fanjia Hotel is increasing day by day, and soon the occupancy rate of more than 80% is reached again.
The popularity of the two shows has finally attracted attention.
But this voice of concern is not a good voice.
"Eight O'clock Gathering" and the new late-night file "The Light of Gilgamesh" have attracted the attention of many people and the media with their increasing popularity, even if it is "Eight O'clock Gathering", which does not produce large-scale variety shows on the surface, in fact, there are a lot of strange things in it, such as the lust of the city lord among the stupid city lords, and for example, in the short drama, there is a little awakening and the like, in the back, games, conversations and other links are also taboo, and the car is driving up, I dare to say anything, for this who has just struggled out of the Iron Curtain of the Cold War, Just about to start blooming their freedom, but haven't had time to reach the open enough world, these shows are a little too exciting.
The public opinion of the three northern provinces, because there is a northern bloc, so the opposition is not loud, and the media in the three northern provinces do not have these scruples, and the leading Tomato Satellite TV commentary program among the domestic provincial TV stations said: "What should a TV program look like? Is it right to let it grow wild? Is it that what the audience likes, we have to give them? ”
Modu Satellite TV also asked: "Recently, some TV shows don't consider what is depth and artistry, blindly pursuing funny or some obscene jokes, and in the end they can only get superficial laughter." ”
What's even more exaggerated is that Song Yulong, who has criticized Fan Cheng's four episodes of the program a lot, the so-called father of puzzle variety shows, is simply scolding Fan Cheng and Fan Cheng in his newspaper column.
"This guy named Fan Cheng and what his nasty program team did are very dangerous! Because this show will open an opening! As soon as his show is allowed to continue broadcasting, our TV circle is degenerate! Audience friends, think about it, do you want to see a TV circle full of idiot variety shows everywhere, or is it a normal, reasonable, and healthy TV circle that is now mainstream? Song Yulong asked.
Song Yulong's voice seems to represent the voice of the mainstream variety show circle in China at this time, as soon as his column comes out, the evaluation of Fan Cheng's programs will be settled, in short, mainstream variety shows have classified Fan Cheng and his programs into the column of shame of Chinese variety shows, and there were originally some media who wanted to invite Fan Cheng to do new shows, but now Song Yulong's speech is almost equivalent to a blockade order to Fan Cheng, and those invitations disappeared in an instant.
Fortunately, the broadcast of the Northern Group's "Eight Points Gathering" has not stopped, after all, the scale of this program has not yet reached the point where it will be seized, and the audience scolded and scolded, but the ratings and advertising effects were very good, obviously everyone was still watching honestly while scolding.
As for Fan Cheng's small TV station, such a small TV station doesn't have to be real, no matter what is broadcast, it is no problem.
Even Fan Cheng noticed that since March, those small private TV stations in China that do not have large enterprises as backstage and the original Fanjia TV have begun to try to do similar programs, although the programs made by these TV stations are still very poor and have not found the focus, but the audience also lacks sufficient appreciation, so the effect of these similar programs is not bad.
From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with Song Yulong's worries in some aspects, after all, his show does play a bad role, those who blindly follow him do not have the level of making the show look good, and can only follow behind to do some embarrassing, purely full of desire works, if even the mainstream media is filled with such desires, it is indeed problematic.
But when I found out, whether to really manage it, whether to resist it as if his show was the root of all evil is another question, his show does have a subtle ***** but the central idea of this content is to make the show interesting, to make the audience like these shows, this is the biggest difference between him and those imitators, as for those evil, seemingly obscene things, it's actually very simple, you find a man, let him say something funny or do something funny right away, Under the conditioned reflex, he will make a yellow joke nine times out of ten, and a man will think of a nasty thing every few minutes, which is human nature and men's nature, so to exercise a person's humor ability, in fact, let him tell more pornographic jokes is the most effective, and many people's thinking in this area is often the most active.
Fan Cheng lacks enough time to cultivate mature and excellent announcement artists, and in his opinion, producing this kind of program is the most convenient shortcut, and other TV stations that learn from him, for the time being, they may not be able to grasp the key point of this kind of program production, but don't worry, smart people will always have it, and gradually, people will be able to appreciate the real role of producing this kind of program.
As for making this kind of show popular in the mainstream media and then bringing it bad?
It seems that the requirements for producers are actually very high, although they can train artists well, but for producers, you must completely control the program, let all the topics and artist reactions be in your own hands, and at the same time deeply understand public opinion and the acceptance of ordinary people, because your program will always step on the center of what can be broadcast and what can not be broadcast, and the topic will be too exaggerated and boring, and if you are conservative, it will be boring, and one episode of the program is fine, but what if it is the first quarter? What about a year? What if it's a few years? Can you always control the scale of the show under the premise of constantly innovating? It's not that easy in reality.
Time entered April, after a few months of broadcasting, the new comprehensive entertainment channel finally saved enough qualifications to upgrade to a municipal TV station, and could apply to upgrade the program for the municipal TV station, but before that, Fan Cheng still needed to spend a sum of money.
As I said before, the TV station is a huge gold-swallowing beast, just a set of very ordinary photographic equipment cost Fan Cheng's first pot of gold, and now it is the same, Fan Cheng bought something, but the two main cameras that are not the top are 800,000, plus the supporting lens lines and other things cost a total of nearly 1.5 million.
Then there is the rental of the new office space, the final payment for the first rental of the studio and the next rental, the funds for the photographers and technicians who can control these new equipment, and the various preparations for a large number of new programs......
Fan Cheng's two programs, the large and small advertisements and sponsorships in the middle, plus the share of the cooperation of the Northern Channel, brought them about one million income, a program can earn so much so quickly is actually very powerful, you must know that the investment in shooting equipment is all one-time, remove the investment in equipment and venues, and the shooting method of not inviting stars at all makes the investment in the program very small, not even 200,000 yuan, but who let them have these huge investments, Fan Cheng, who couldn't afford to buy cameras and other equipment directly, had to borrow about 3 million from a bank under the North Group to deliver all the money.
Yes, that's right, after a few months of filming of the show, Fan Cheng not only did not make money, but even had a foreign debt of three million.
He knows the people of the TV station in this harsh reality, although he has the cooperation of the Northern Group, but the cooperation is not the support of his own people after all, the poor financial situation is something that they have to face with a small TV station with no background, and now, they have no way out, the upgrade is a complete one-shot deal, either a successful upgrade, or the capital chain is broken and bankrupt, as for the failure of the upgrade back to the current state is almost impossible, in history, there are too many private TV stations that have disappeared because of the failure of the upgrade, The names and memories of these stations have been lost to history.
After three million plus about one million earned, a total of nearly four million were spent, the comprehensive entertainment channel finally barely managed to get together the configuration of the three groups, not to say that the three groups were divided into three groups for shooting, but enough for the three groups to be in a studio before and after and the equipment for location shooting, this is already the minimum configuration that Fan Cheng thinks can make a TV station operate, a TV station's main program, a strip information news program broadcast every day, plus a group that specializes in running exterior locations, to build such a TV station, In addition, the purchase of various copyrighted works can make up enough time for a TV station to broadcast every day.
After building all these ready, Fan Cheng finally came to the office building of Yangji TV Station.
During this time, he worked in the studio of Yangji Station, so he also knew a lot about the TV station, but to his surprise, the person who came to receive him was not Qin Yufen, the deputy director who had been in charge of his work before, but Zhao Lin, another deputy director of the station.
"Fan Cheng, we think that the upgrade of your station will be received sooner or later, but your program has been very controversial recently, so as a national TV station, we have to say that that the kind of program with a large scale cannot be broadcast on a serious TV station like it outside." Zhao Lin said.
"Of course I know this, and I definitely won't do that kind of variety show." Fan Cheng nodded.