Chapter 42: The Olive Branch
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Angel Records (USA) has been established, Andy Murphy's designated CEO is Canadian Val GarrΓ©, Fang Jianhui has seen it with his discerning eyes, and found that his music production ability is as high as 91, so he is relieved to give him a lot of work to do.
For a week, Fang Jianhui has been in the company's recording studio, guiding Teresa Teng to record songs. During this period, it is worth mentioning the following:
Zhong Chuhong's first drama "Blue Water and Cold Mountain" finally started, and she basically spent the next two months in the crew.
At the end of the Spring Festival in Xiangjiang, as Fang Jianhui expected, Fang Long's first film "Junior Brother Out of the Horse" after joining Golden Harvest had a box office of more than 11 million, beating the more than 8 million of Angel Cinema's "Lin Shirong", becoming the third film in Xiangjiang and the first film outside Angel Pictures to have a box office of more than 10 million.
Andy Murphy's results have also come out, and the release of "The Sixth Sense" in North America has been handed over to United States, and the overseas distribution has not yet been decided. Luen Mei will open a large-scale film in North America on March 22, due to the happy cooperation last time, this time the distribution conditions are much more relaxed, there is no 50 million US dollars required, and it is changed to a ladder share, that is, every time the total box office reaches a numerical step, Angel Pictures' share will be more.
So far, about $600 million has been raised in the acquisition, of which $300 million will be loaned by Citibank and the remaining $300 million will be raised by Goldman Sachs' bond issuance. William has also been in contact with the shareholders of Twentieth Century Fox, and the other party intends to transfer, but there is a gap between the valuation of the company between the two parties, William's 680 million and the other party's 700 million, overall, the gap is not big, and there is only one step away from reaching the final deal.
The album has a total of nine songs, the title song is WomaninLove (Woman in Love), and the album's duet song of the same name Guilty (guilt), duet song WhatKindofFool, and Promise and other six female solo songs.
After entering the recording studio, Fang Jianhui really saw the professionalism and strength of his sister. Because she had already done her homework with Fang Jianhui in advance, every time she entered the recording studio, she was ready how to sing, and each song was recorded for no more than an hour. And when she sings, she doesn't record it sentence by sentence, but the whole song, so the atmosphere and feelings are very coherent.
A song, she sang it 9 times from beginning to end, the first 3 times was to test the machine and adjust the state, I felt that the state was almost there, I went in and recorded it again, and then sang it in its entirety 3 times. Then Fang Jianhui instructed her which sentence was good and which sentence was bad, which sentence should be dealt with, and how to connect between the two sentences. When she fully understands, go in again, sing it 3 more times, come out, and it's done.
This is also Teresa Teng, singers with inferior singing skills are recorded sentence by sentence, and then the better sentences are put together, and they are asked to sing to the end at one time, which is really embarrassing for them. In the future, with computer recording, the singers will be even happier, and they can slowly repair after singing.
The whole recording process was relaxed and pleasant, and Fang Jianhui was not in a hurry, so it was basically recorded according to the progress of a song for a day. The actual recording time is usually completed in less than a morning, and the rest of the time is to accompany the woman and go back to the office to sign.
Now it is at a critical moment of the acquisition, although he does not come forward much, but a large number of documents involved in the entire acquisition process need to be checked by him for the final check. Like loans, bond issuance, mortgages, notarizations, basically William has to send him a lot of documents every day for him to sign. That is to say, William and Andy are both produced by the system, and there is no problem with reliability, otherwise if you change the person, these documents are very professional, and you don't know when they were cheated, Fang Jianhui really didn't dare to sign it.
During the recording, sometimes Teresa Teng and Fang Jianhui would have different opinions, thinking that a certain sentence could also be handled like this, but as long as Fang Jianhui's face sank, his eyes widened, and said: "This is in the United States, and our goal is a billboard." You can only go back to Asia to sing that way!"
Teresa Teng playfully stuck out her tongue, didn't dare to refute, and obediently did as he said.
This scene happened to be seen by Lin Qingxia, who came to listen to it without class in the afternoon, and joked that you are recording a song, you are simply flirting and scolding.
Deng Lijun came over and grabbed her arm, and said coquettishly: "Qingxia, you have also seen it, Jianhui is so fierce! I was going to be scolded stupid by him." He also put on a look of crying.
Fang Jianhui distinguished: "Who killed you? I didn't dare to say a word about you, and I actually complained to Qingxia." β
Lin Qingxia smiled dumbly, and was speechless for this sister who was obviously older than her, but she acted like a little sister, so she had to comfort her and said, "Okay, okay, don't be sad, I'll help you make the decision." Turning to Fang Jianhui: "Jianhui, you are not allowed to be fierce in the future." β
Fang Jianhui made a few movements and took a deep breath, and said aggrievedly: "Don't be fierce, I won't murder you anymore, even if you are disobedient, I will only coax you." β
His aggrieved look made the two girls lean forward and backward, and they couldn't stand up with a smile. After a while, Lin Qingxia put away her smile and said, "Liyun, in fact, I envy you very much." β
"What do you envy me?" asked Teresa Teng.
"Take this song, for example. Lin Qingxia pointed to Guilty's score and said, "As long as I think that you and Jianhui may stand on the stage in front of tens of millions of people in the future, I feel very envious." β
The signs of this thought were not good, Fang Jianhui hurriedly said: "This is easy, I can also write a duet song and sing it with you." When the time comes, Lijun will hold a concert, and we will be her guests together, and we can just sing on stage together. β
Lin Qingxia shook her head: "I don't have all five tones, and I'm not singing material at all, so I won't accompany you to embarrass people." β
Deng Lijun also said: "Jianhui and I are just affectionate on the stage, you will make movies with him in the future, but you have to be intimate on the screen." β
made up for that kind of scene, Lin Qingxia was shy: "Cut, who rarely makes love to him on the movie!"
Seeing the goddess smiling, Fang Jianhui seemed to be full of dark clouds in the sky, and there was a light between heaven and earth.
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After returning home with her two daughters, Bai Annie reported to her that there was news from Taiwan again, saying that it was the highest award in Taiwan's television industry, the Golden Bell Award, which was restructured from this year, and the new 'Male Singer Award' and 'Female Singer Award' were newly established, and Teng Lijun was designated as the winner of the first 'Female Singer Award', and she was invited to return to Taiwan to participate in the awards ceremony to be held on March 24.
"This is an olive branch extended by the Taiwan authorities. Fang Jianhui said with a smile as he took the peeled apple handed over by Hei Mutong.
"Then Lijun is going back?" Lin Qingxia asked him.
"Of course not. Fang Jianhui took a bite of the apple and said, "Lijun's song hasn't been recorded yet, and besides, there are more important Oscars to participate in." β
Although Taiwan Island handed over an olive branch, a small Golden Bell Award is far from enough, and there is no explanation for the restrictions last time, of course Fang Jianhui will not let Teresa Teng return to Taiwan at this time. Teresa Teng is the only one who looks forward to her, she is now tired of being with Fang Jianhui every day, I don't know how sweet it is, so I don't want to go back.
Even if Fang Jianhui recorded it slowly and leisurely, after a week, he had recorded six songs.
In the following week, Fang Jianhui spent two days recording the remaining three songs, and then designed the album cover.
He called Du Kefeng and Zhang Shuping over, and asked the two of them to design a style for Teresa Teng and help take pictures. These two have followed Fang Jianhui to shoot three films, and their level has also risen, Du Kefeng's photography ability has reached 90, and Zhang Shuping's art direction ability is also 88, so it is purely a piece of cake for them to get an album cover.
With the sound of "Ka Ka" taking pictures, Fang Jianhui and Teresa Teng changed N sets of clothes and posed countless poses according to the requirements of the two professionals.
Teng Lijun's album, why do you want to shoot Fang Jianhui? Isn't there two duets in this album, and it is naturally Fang Jianhui who sings with Teresa Teng. Since he also sang on the album, it makes sense to have his image appear on the cover and coloring pages of the record.
There is another reason, that is, Teresa Teng is an Asian, and many Americans don't say it, but they actually discriminate in their hearts. Thinking of this, Fang Jianhui had no choice but to sacrifice his hue, go into battle in person, and use his beloved face to help the woman stand on the platform. Although he is also Asian, he is blessed with the passive skill of "appearance is justice", and his image can be recognized by everyone. When the album was released in the future, the sales frenzy set off showed that having him standing next to Teresa Teng could not only neutralize Teresa Teng's loss of points in the image of Asians, but also add extra points.
After a day's shooting, Fang Jianhui and Teresa Teng were either hugging, hugging, or holding, or gazing affectionately, or smiling, and all kinds of poses.
After the photos came out, Fang Jianhui and a group of women at home screened them one by one, and finally selected a photo of him holding Teresa Teng from the back as the cover, and selected a group photo and three solo photos of Teresa Teng as the album color pages.
At this point, his work was over, and the rest of the harmony, mixing, passing, post-processing, etc., were left to Val GarrΓ© to handle.
After finishing the album, the time also came to March 22, and "The Sixth Sense" was painted on a large scale in North America on this day.