Chapter 127: "First Departure" Shooting
The competition for the eight-o'clock file is very direct and even a little tragic, the long-term prime time low ratings, ending the program is just the most ordinary response, the exaggerated may directly abolish a time period (change the program type), even more exaggerated, if you have a long period of low prime-time ratings for the entire channel, the production director or even the director is also replaced.
Compared with the failure of the eight-o'clock file, the low ratings share in other time periods and the punishment is at most the extent of three glasses of wine.
Therefore, when the comprehensive entertainment channel began to broadcast, "All Gather at 8 o'clock in the evening", and the TV series "Homecoming" began to broadcast, other TV stations that broadcast in Yangji also reacted very much.
Although Yangji TV station does not need to consider upgrading, it attaches great importance to ratings, and in the face of comprehensive entertainment channel programs whose quality is enough to compare with provincial TV stations, Yangji TV has also made its own reaction, although they do not have the variety show production capacity of the variety entertainment channel, there is no shortage of funds and relationships, in the two schedules of "All Assembled" and "Homecoming", they introduced three TV series that were broadcast for the first time in the country.
TV dramas are also graded, "Homecoming", a TV series produced by a provincial TV station, has the ability to broadcast a round of TV on a provincial TV station, but some TV dramas produced by entertainment companies or municipal TV stations usually only have the ability to broadcast the first round of municipal TV stations, and only when the ratings of the first round of broadcast are good enough will there be a higher level of TV station broadcast rights.
But even if it is broadcast in the first round of municipal TV stations, there is a difference, Yangji TV is at most a slightly higher level in the middle of the country's municipal TV stations, TV series produced by top municipal TV stations, Yangji TV usually does not buy, and the audience in Yangji City usually does not have strong requirements for new TV series, anyway, I can't see that Yangji TV has other stations to watch, but in the face of the attack of the comprehensive entertainment channel, Yangji TV also smashed the old book this time.
With three TV series in a row, combined with two other top TV series broadcast in three rounds, Yangji TV tried to "block" the comprehensive entertainment channel.
This blockade seems to have worked at first, and the initial ratings of the prime time of the entertainment channel are not pretty, except for the good share of "Homecoming", the ratings of "All Assemble at 8 P.m." are very sluggish.
But word-of-mouth on the Internet reversed all that, and viewers from other regions outside Yangji City, who saw the program on the Internet, gradually spread the word-of-mouth back to Yangji City, and the ratings of the all-staff assembly began to increase two months after the broadcast.
At first, it was only 5%, 6%, then gradually 10%, 11%, and finally, five months later, the share of "All Assembled" at 8 o'clock in the evening in Yangji exceeded 40%, and it has begun to try to challenge the provincial TV station to upgrade the standard.
The brand-new municipal TV station has obtained a 40% share of the prime time in less than half a year, and it is very difficult to do this, the inertia of the state-owned municipal TV station is very strong, unless the letter TV station and the new program far surpass other TV stations in quality, it is very difficult to win the original TV station, and this is what the comprehensive entertainment channel has done in half a year.
The staff of the comprehensive entertainment channel are very excited about this, but Fan Cheng is not satisfied, it is just the data of the municipal TV station, and his goal is far more than that.
"First Dispatch" is the first variety show he produced after returning to the TV station, but just like "Our Legend", he still does not plan to premiere this show on the variety entertainment channel.
After all, the platform of the comprehensive entertainment channel is too small, and if there is a choice, of course, a more advanced TV station will be chosen.
But what TV station you choose is crucial.
Subei TV, which got the sweetness, has been very concerned about Fan Cheng since the news that he was going to produce a new program, and obviously wants to continue to cooperate with the comprehensive entertainment channel, but Fan Cheng is cautious about the cooperation of Subei TV.
On the one hand, the price code given by Su Beitai is not good.
The earliest cooperation between Subeitai and Fan Cheng Comprehensive Entertainment Channel, the production of "Our Legend", the comprehensive entertainment channel took very little money here, on the basis of Subeitai being responsible for the production costs and retaining part of the copyright of "Extreme Physical Fitness King", the whole program Fan Cheng and the comprehensive entertainment channel as the producer not only did not make money, but even put some money in it.
Of course, the comprehensive entertainment channel didn't make no money, but the money earned was because of the fame of "Extreme Physical Fitness King", and through this part of the money earned, Subei TV almost got a program with pretty good ratings.
In this second cooperation, although Su Beitai raised the final price a little, the increased part still did not satisfy Fan Cheng, what he wanted was at least the same price as other variety shows in China.
But Su Beitai didn't think so.
Fan Cheng's new program type they already know, what kind of variety show is mainly for children, and Fan Cheng still wants the prime time slot at night, for Subei, using children's programs to do evening prime time, but also the normal price of variety shows?
It is said that at an internal meeting of the TV station, a station leader knocked on the table and asked: "Is our northern Jiangsu station open for Fan Cheng? What did he try, not to use his own TV station, but to try to take risks on our station? And not only do we not ask them for money, but we also want to give them money!?"
This is very unreasonable, what Subeitai got because of this is real ratings data, this data is directly related to the manufacturer's advertising price, although Fan Cheng's special program Subeitai didn't get much income, but the follow-up income, Subeitai also made a lot of money.
Fan Cheng, who heard this kind of words, felt that things were very simple, since you can't watch my program, then just let everyone shoot and disperse, what does it mean to get your TV station to try? If making a new program is called an adventure, everyone in the world's TV station may not have other programs to do, everyone is honestly doing the old programs invented by their predecessors.
Moreover, Fan Cheng is very confident, if you don't want my new show, there must be other TV stations that want it, I don't need to hang myself on your tree.
This is hard to say, but the problems faced when you really want to do it are quite serious.
Even if "Our Legend" was used as a stepping stone before, major TV stations were still quite hesitant about Fan Cheng's children's program concept, and no one could have imagined what effect this program would have after it was made.
Especially in terms of safety, when Fan Cheng first proposed the concept of the program, everyone in the station was very worried about safety, and outside, without the confidence of everyone in the station in Fan Cheng, other TV stations were even more worried about safety.
This show, the effect is not good, the audience doesn't like it, it's okay, once there is any safety problem, it will be a catastrophe!
Fan Cheng first contacted CCTV as a national TV station, and many of its channels are broadcast nationwide, even if it is broadcast not on one channel but on three channels, it can still ensure sufficient ratings and audiences.
But for CCTV, both the comprehensive entertainment channel and Fan Cheng are too small, so small that they don't care at all.
So when Fan Cheng came to CCTV with a well-crafted script and shooting plan, CCTV only filmed a staff member of their three-channel production department receiving Fan Cheng.
The production department of CCTV channel belongs to the top of the food chain in the Huaxia TV circle, and there has always been only others begging for them, and there is no reason for them to beg for others, such as this staff member, when facing Fan Cheng, he almost looked at people with his nostrils the whole time.
"You know, we at CCTV ourselves have the ability to produce TV programs, as for your project, it can be said that we are somewhat interested, so you can see that you can do this first, you do this program first, if it is done well and the quality is good, we don't need to use the fee, and it can be broadcast directly on our station when the time comes. ”
In other TV stations, after you make a program, you sell it to them, but in CCTV, at Fan Cheng's current level, if you want to be on CCTV, you have to pay for the right to use the channel time slot.
What's even more sad is that Fan Cheng's current identity is the so-called variety show producer and director, and he has almost touched the ceiling of this industry now, with the current domestic public opinion and habits, variety show directors are just doing variety shows, in the entertainment industry contempt chain, variety show directors are almost from the lowest level, and even advertising directors have a lot more influence than variety show directors.
In the eyes of many people in the entertainment industry, filming advertisements is also very particular, and they need to take care of the plot, and some advertising directors are almost the top in the industry in their pursuit of pictures, but what about the on-site directors of variety shows?
In fact, now the domestic entertainment industry has gradually understood some of Fan Cheng's strict production of variety show scripts, in the past, domestic variety shows didn't care about these, and most of the time relied on the artist's own play, this situation will gradually decrease in the future, the role of the program team will gradually increase, and the program team and producers will pay more attention to it, but at least now, it is difficult for the Chinese entertainment industry to face up to a producer like Fan Cheng.
This is a very subtle and ironic place, with Fan Cheng, who has almost touched the influence of the top of the variety show producer, but still can't have the ability to talk directly with CCTV, unless Fan Cheng becomes a real top TV or even film director in the future, or leads the country's top TV stations and production companies, he will never have the right to talk to CCTV head-on, as for the production ability and program quality?
Maybe Fan Cheng has stayed up for ten years, and every time he does a show in the past ten years, he is the top in China, otherwise, it will only take one or two or even two or three years, and he will not be truly recognized.
This is the cruel reality, and Fan Cheng, who gradually realized this, also began to think about the future path.
He loves variety shows very much, otherwise he wouldn't have been so persistent in being a funny artist in his previous life, but at the same time, he is not completely uninterested in singing and filming, and he also likes those classic works in Japan in his previous life.
It is impossible for Fan Cheng to accept CCTV's requirements, and the cooperation with northern Jiangsu is also a relatively low priority, so the next one may be other TV stations.
Before deciding on the TV station, the program team first determined the filming location of the program.
On the coast of Fujian Province, Jiulongling Village, Fenghuang Town, Phoenix Island, which belongs to Ludao City, became the filming location selected by Fan Cheng.
This Jiulongling Village is built on the mountain, there are more than 100 families hidden in the verdant trees, from the mountain down, walk about a kilometer to the seaside, the photos and videos of Jiulongling Village, beautiful like a fairyland on earth.
In addition to being beautiful, Jiulongling Village also has a high per capita income and simple folk customs, which can be said to be the most suitable place for location shooting.
As for Jiulongling Village, I am also very excited to have a TV station to shoot, Jiulongling has benefited from the reform and opening up, which is considered to have a good income, but it is also quite new for TV shooting.
After determining the filming location, it is natural to negotiate with the Fujian Provincial TV Station.
Fujian Provincial TV Station is not big or small, and it cannot be compared with the top provincial stations, but it is not the kind of TV station that is completely unconcerned by the province, so that there is almost no funding, Fan Cheng and Fan Cheng's programs have almost no influence in front of CCTV, but there is still some influence in provincial TV stations, and even said that his new program, in the past, Fujian Provincial TV had almost no possibility to win it, and the five provincial TV stations, the TV stations in Beilin Province, my hometown, are very fond of Fan Cheng's programs.
Now that Fan Cheng has come to their province to do a show, this is a good opportunity for Fujian Province, and they usually lack influence, but this time they also showed their sincerity.
Let's not talk about contracts and the like, when Fan Cheng negotiated with Fujian Provincial Taiwan, the TV station directly said that you can bring people here, and as for the filming equipment and cooperation with the local police, these things are all left to us.
This is very comfortable for Fan Cheng and the comprehensive entertainment channel, although the comprehensive entertainment channel has been desperately adding various hardware equipment this year, but its own heritage is not even comparable to the local municipal TV station, let alone the provincial TV station, Fujian Provincial TV is not only willing to provide shooting equipment, but even photography and recording and other technical personnel can be provided, such a good partner, not to mention whether the business can be successful, at least this future cooperation has laid a good foundation, especially compared with the previous CCTV's "face" , Fujian Province and Taiwan are even more comfortable.
When Fan Cheng finally went to Fujian Province, he only brought a dozen people and very little equipment, which made them take a lot less risk and be involved in the production effort.
After the group came to Fujian Province, Cheng Gaoge took people to the province to negotiate the contract, and Fan Cheng directly took people to Jiulongling to "step on the point", and he will shoot the show here for at least one week in the next week.