Chapter 4 We Really Don't Look at Faces

In the variety show recording hall of S-BS TV, the opening match of K-POP-STAR has been almost recorded. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Kwon Bo-ah no longer has a close-up shot, and there are no lines to say, just need to finish the cutscene with the big slip. Her nerves relaxed a bit, and she could paddle and think wildly.

Gu Cheng sat in the studio, watching her performance, giving her great comfort and encouragement.

At this moment, her mind couldn't help but think of Gu Cheng's speech at the internal meeting of S-M Company and Eslite Film and Television before the end of the year. It is precisely because of that high-level outline that it has contributed to today's The Voice of China and K-POP-STAR.

"Super Girl does consciously or unconsciously emphasize the show attribute of 'their show is more focused on singing than appearance', but do we really believe it? Will the audience really believe it? I'm afraid not.

Or they just verbally and superficially express that they believe it, but their subconscious still doesn't believe it, and it won't guide their actions or cause them to watch the 'Super Girl' show. Ratings are the best proof of this. ”

"As we all know, in middle school and college, we are used to seeing a large group of classmates who have almost no sense of existence, either because they are too ugly, or because they are fat, short and dark, in short, because of various appearance problems, and are not paid attention to by social circles. THESE PEOPLE ALSO TEND NOT TO LIKE THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, AND ARE NOT INTERESTED IN ANY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS OR CELEBRITIES - UNLESS THEY ARE PURELY PRIVATE IN FRONT OF BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS OF JECK-OFF.

In the past few years, no matter whether 'Super Girl' or 'Girls' Generation is good or bad, they won't watch it, and the classmates around them who chase stars talk about these topics, and they don't join. It seems that these silent users will always be insulated from the entertainment industry, and they are inferior users of content industry companies, who can only be expected to read obscene online articles, but cannot let them chase stars.

Even Mango Channel's 'Super Girl' program only verbally says 'don't pay attention to appearance', but in fact, it doesn't pay attention to these users at all, and it doesn't really think about how to pull these people into the crowd who pay attention to the entertainment industry - and the new generation of talent variety shows we want to engage in is this pain point to solve, and what we want to discover is this group of new users who 'never pay attention to the entertainment industry'.

Colleagues, the explosive growth of Internet video and talent show variety shows has come to an end, and the era of demographic dividends in the blank market has also passed. The soft fat meat is eaten up, and all that is left to gnaw on is hard bones. We have to do fine work, vertical subdivision, put away slackness, and fight tough battles. ”

Quan Baoya still remembers that when she first heard this, she herself felt a burst of enthusiasm. Every time she recalls this, the corners of her mouth can't help but smile warmly.

At that time, everyone's blood was boiling, but they all said that Gu Cheng's task was just to draw a big pie and did not give specific execution, so it could not be implemented. And Gu Cheng's answer is like this:

"Execution? The specific solution? Isn't that something you should be thinking about? Sure, I can give you some inspiration, but I don't want that to limit brainstorming and brainstorming.

For example, we can set up the competition as 'The judges start to have no idea who is about to play or who is on the field.' All the guests' chairs must be turned away from the contestants, listen to the song first, do not look at their appearance, make sure that they are interested in each other's singing, and can give positive comments, and then press the button to turn the chair to communicate with the contestants'.

Or, we can ask the judges to give the contestants a vocal question to be examined, give instructive vocal suggestions, let the audience see that the contestants have made progress in vocal skills at the beginning and end of the season, and pave more relatively professional vocal skills to the audience in simple terms - aren't these all ways to make the audience feel from the bottom of their hearts that our program does not pay attention to appearance, but only pays attention to good voice? ”

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As soon as the recording of the show ended, Kwon Bo-ah also took back her thoughts from her memories, said goodbye to the PD of the show and other guests, and then returned to the dressing room, took out the makeup remover and roughly removed the makeup.

The door of the room behind him opened with a soft "click", and the sound of light men's leather shoes was symmetrical and steady, so that Quan Baoya couldn't even raise the vigilance to turn around.

Because she heard the footsteps, she knew that it was Gu Cheng who came in.

"The performance is good, and I am much more mature than when I was a guest judge in 'Girls' Generation' - congratulations in advance on the success of the show." Gu Cheng's magnetic voice gently encouraged the girl.

"That's it, I've been doing variety shows for so many years." Quan Baoya's tone couldn't hear pride, but it was a quiet and tranquil matter of course.

After blotting up the last trace of residual liquid with a makeup remover pad, and then splashing it with water for the last time, Quan Baoya took a fluffy small towel and sucked the water and threw it away naturally. His hands hooked Gu Cheng's neck and kissed him deeply skillfully.

There's no one else in the dressing room anyway.

It has been two and a half years since she first became Gu Cheng's woman. Kwon Bo-ah, who used to have shawl and short hair, has also regrown waist-length hair.

Since she recovered from her injury, retired from the first-line music scene, and entered the Yonsei University School of Music, she has not held another concert in three years, nor has she participated in any commercial endorsement activities, let alone made commercials.

The record is still out, but it is more based on interest, purely only including the songs that I have occasionally experienced in writing lyrics and composing in the past few years, which can be regarded as three years of sharpening a sword, working slowly and meticulously, and no longer singing songs written by the company's creator team.

The rest of the time, the main thing is to go to class, talk about love with Gu Cheng, and occasionally participate in the recording of music variety shows as a judge.

Oh, she also made up for a semester of film acting courses, and then participated in the filming of a movie, which can be regarded as her debut on the big screen.

It was the end of '06. At that time, Gu Cheng got a good script, called "The Secret That Can't Be Said", a musical, which is more suitable for newcomer actresses who are not very good at acting. There is no profound meaning, it is impossible to win awards purely by pretending to show off skills and pure love romance, so it will sell at the box office.

Gu Cheng naturally couldn't directly use Zhou Jielun's script "The Secret That Can't Be Said", so he personally manipulated the magic reform and grafted many elements from the famous Fuso animation director Makoto Shinkai's masterpiece "Your Name" into it.

It's just that the story background of "The Secret That Can't Be Said" is used to dilute the Fusang atmosphere in "Your Name". also changed the wedge of "crossing the elements" from "drinking and chewing wine" in "Your Name" to playing the piano to show off his skills, and communicating with rhythm and sound. However, the source of the crisis of "Crossing Over" still retains the extinction of the meteor in "Your Name", reduces the element of man-made disasters, and does not have a villain with low IQ, making fate more beautiful.

The reason for this change is also to process the elements in "Your Name" that are more suitable for the expression of cartoons into more suitable for idol show-off music films. The whole film is both poignant and pure, both earning tears and relaxing, no need to be cynical, purely a healing agent for moaning without illness in the sad spring and autumn.

Gu Cheng has only made such a movie in three years, after all, he is busier than when he made "Sunset in Three Chomes", and his business is bigger, and he has been working on a film for three years on and off, purely as a hobby in his spare time, which is more suitable for Gu Cheng's rhythm of life.

This film changed the script during the summer vacation of 06, and it was split in late autumn, and it was filmed intermittently until the summer of 07.

After the shutdown, Gu Cheng invited the best Hollywood special effects company on the other side of the ocean to do the post-production of the movie. An idol musical film has spent more than half a year doing post-production, and now it is just about to be released.

Without a doubt, the best special effects company on the planet is Industrial Light & Magic at Lucasfilm. The special effects company invited by Gu Cheng is exactly this one. In the post-production process, Liu Hui, who had just been released from prison at that time, also discussed with Gao Dasong, and then applied for a budget of several hundred million yuan from Gu Cheng, set up a special effects studio, and undertook some low-tech outsourcing business links from Industrial Light and Magic (starting with the cutout of the minion...... In the end, it also planted a seed for the first batch of special effects studios in China that are in line with international standards.

These are the things that Quan Baoya has roughly participated in over the years, and now, a new variety show has begun, and she is about to graduate. She has been holding the title of director of S-M for many years, but she is too young to take care of things. Now, with the growth of experience and academic qualifications, she is about to slowly move to the second line and start a new life.

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After lingering in the dressing room for a while, Gu Cheng was calmer, pushed the girl away, and tidied up her clothes. Commanded:

"Hurry up and pack up, go to the graduation ceremony, and then come back with me to see the premiere of the movie."

"The Unspeakable Secret" is ready to be released in all East and Southeast Asian countries for the first time. However, due to the consideration of distribution and holidays, Dongyi and Fusang are a few days later than Huaxia (no more than a week). So to watch the premiere, I still have to go to China to watch it.

As for Southeast Asian countries, the release will naturally be later. And Europeans and Americans almost can't appreciate this kind of foreign language film. Although there are also a few interested filmmakers who are willing to introduce Gu Cheng's popularity benchmark, Gu Cheng also sold out the distribution rights in Europe and North America directly for 10 million US dollars.

After all, Gu Cheng is now a big celebrity, a character in the top 20 on the global wealth list, even in Europe and North America, there are many people who are willing to go into the cinema or buy books and discs just because of his name, so his name is worth 10 million US dollars.

Quan Baoya calmed down, suppressed the flush on her face, packed her things and went out to get into the car.

Today is not only the day she finished recording the show, but also her graduation day.

The convoy drove as low-key as possible to Yonsei University. Because Kwon Bo-ah's graduation time is not the end of the academic year (as mentioned earlier, Dongyi is the end of the semester during the winter vacation, which is the end of the academic year), but the early approval after the end of the junior year, so the auditorium where the graduation ceremony is held on campus is not busy at the moment, and there are only a dozen or so students who are qualified to graduate early.

The arrival of Gu Cheng's team also reduced the sensation as much as possible.

Rao is like this, the dozen or so students who can't avoid still have extremely envious eyes.

"Ahh Isn't that the legendary Gu Cheng? He really came with Sister Bao'er. What a envy. "A fan girl who is still a little beautiful, she can't walk when she sees Gu Cheng, and her posture for taking graduation photos is also stiff a lot.

"If you want me to say that they must have been secretly filming for several years, but they are too famous to make it public." A girl next to her, who also graduated early, said with a little resentment.

"That kind of thing that violates the law, I guess I don't dare to make it public, Quan Baoya is also a public figure, I heard that her father is still a high-ranking official, I will always be afraid of scandals." The person who said this was obviously a little angry, but the other party fought hard again, and there was a good father and a good man.

It's a pity that this argument was quickly countered by Quan Baoya's fans: "But this year it's no longer illegal, I also specifically inquired about this year's marriage law on 'men and women are forbidden to the fifth generation of collateral blood relatives', which has been abolished, and we are all in line with those countries in China." ”

"Hmph~ That's just a coincidence, I was obviously going to get on the bus first and then evade the ticket, and suddenly I heard that the ticket was free."