After Christmas, The Times published an interview with Lin Zixuan. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is a comprehensive newspaper with 40 pages, covering news, commentary, culture and arts, business and finance, television entertainment, and other aspects.

The interview with Lin Zixuan is not the kind of news that is time-sensitive, and it will not be said that today's interview will be published in the newspaper tomorrow, and it will take a few days before it will have the opportunity to be published.

If there are too many manuscripts on the literary and artistic pages during this time, it may take a week or two.

The interview took up half of the page and was not conspicuous in the newspaper as a whole.

It's Christmas in the West, and it's about to usher in the new century, and there are countless news happening every day, and not many British readers are paying attention to this interview.

For them, Lin Zixuan is just a foreign writer with some fame.

Lin Zixuan read the report, and the reporter's draft was quite realistic, and he did not deliberately misinterpret his meaning.

There is a bust photo on it, introducing his past works, focusing on the interpretation of "Xiaoxue's Great Adventure".

The whole story is decent and unusual.

The Times is a relatively serious newspaper, different from the tabloids that like to be sensational.

For example, the title of this article is "Interview with Chinese Writers, the creator of "Xiaoxue's Great Adventure".

If you want to catch the reader's eye, you can use more pompous headlines like "He created the wizarding world" or "Wizards attack Britain".

This is exactly what some British tabloids reported on the signing of "Little Snow's Adventure", and it was not very long.

The accompanying picture is a group photo of Chen Luo and a young reader, which is more attractive than the photo of the writer himself.

Lin Zixuan's signing caused some repercussions in the UK, but the response was not large, far from the point of sensation.

According to the publisher, "Little Snow's Big Adventure" sold more than 5,000 copies around Christmas, which incidentally stimulated the sales of the first two novels.

According to their predictions, the total sales of the series in the UK will exceed one million.

This is related to the population base of the United Kingdom, their entire country has a population of less than 60 million, and there is no comparison with the more than one billion people in China, so it is very good to have this sales.

In China, the total sales of "Little Snow's Great Adventure" reached 8 million copies, and if you count pirated copies, there can be 15 million copies.

Moreover, the impact of the series is just beginning to be felt, and it will snowball in the future.

Especially after being made into a movie, the combination of popular fiction and pop culture can lead to a big explosion of sales.

On The Times' bestseller list, "Little Snow's Big Adventure" is at the top of the list.

It will not be until February next year that the novel will be published in the United States and Europe and other countries, and it will be regarded as a real world.

Lin Zixuan flipped through other newspapers, and the content was similar, there was nothing worth paying attention to, or his influence had not reached the point of sparking controversy in the British media and literary circles.

On this day, he and Chen Luo went to the store to shop, saw the enthusiasm of the British people, and bought a lot of gifts.

In the evening, when the little girl was sent back to the host family, he was relieved and went to work.

The assistants and lawyers he brought with him have been busy reviewing contracts and negotiating with lawyers in the UK to ensure that Lin Zixuan's novels are profitable in various countries.

It's not that he doesn't trust his literary agent, it's just that "Xiaoxue's Big Adventure" is different.

British publishers and Ritter just regarded it as a potential bestseller, but they couldn't imagine how much value the novel could create in the future.

Lin Zixuan wants to ensure that there will be no legal disputes in the future.

"Mr. Lin, the contract has been reviewed, and it has been modified according to your opinions, and the other party can sign it after confirmation. The lawyer reported, "As for the matter of registering trademarks, I have consulted, and it is best to find an agency in the UK to handle it, as well as derivatives of novel content, which involve many industries and need time to sort out." ”

Lin Zixuan wants to register the name associated with "Xiaoxue's Great Adventure" in the United Kingdom and the United States and other countries.

Including the names of the characters, the name of the magic academy in the book, and so on.

Once it is preemptively registered by others, it will be very troublesome, and it is better to keep litigate, it is better to start first, he can authorize others to use it, so as to charge a certain authorization fee.

There are many types of spin-offs from the novel, such as magic robes and magic hats, as well as various species that appear in the book.

The profession of magician has long existed in the West, and any clothing store can make magic robes, but you can't embroider the names of characters from "Little Snow's Great Adventure" on magic robes and sell them.

Derivatives involve clothing, toys, theme parks and other industries, and the industrial chain is huge and requires a team to manage them.

Piracy is rampant in China, and derivatives have basically nothing to do with writers, but they represent huge benefits abroad.

Although it seems early and the influence of the novel is not so great, it is always prepared.

"Well, if you stay in the UK for the rest of the year and get things done, the project will develop, including the production of the film and the adaptation of the stage play. Lin Zixuan arranged, "This time, lay a good foundation and find an agent who can cooperate for a long time, it will be much more convenient in the future." ”

When Lin Zixuan attended the book signing in London, Li Yu was doing post-production for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in New York.

The drama "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" took nearly ten months from the preliminary preparation to the completion of filming, of which Li Yu did not go home for eight months, and spent most of his time on the set.

In the process of filming, you must maintain a high degree of sensitivity, be excited, and be able to persevere.

After filming, his body began to protest, and he was hospitalized for a few days.

The post-recording was divided into two groups, the first group had four people, who specialized in recording music and cooperating with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra to record film scores in the Shanghai Radio and Television Building.

The Hucheng Radio and Television Building purchased a new set of recording equipment according to the specifications of the British recording studio.

The other group did the sound effects and mixes of the film in New York, mixing music, dialogue and sound effects.

The sound effects of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are more complicated, and the sound engineers in the United States have never done martial arts films and lack experience in this area.

For example, the sound of the Qingying Sword is unpredictable, and the sound changes during the confrontation of weapons cannot be recorded at the shooting site.

Because the martial arts scenes were just for example during filming, and the weapons couldn't touch each other at all, how could they make sounds, and these sounds were all recorded in post-production.

The sound engineer wanted to experiment with the frequency change of the sound little by little, and Li Yu stared at it.

As soon as there was a slight difference between the dialogue and the sound effects, Li would call back and ask the sound engineer to redo it until he was satisfied, which put a lot of pressure on the mixing engineer.

If you want to make something of a high level, you have to grind it slowly. (To be continued.) )