Tong Yan and Cao Fan jointly owned, the name is Stone and Wood Studio, take the stone of "rock" and the wood of "", Tong Yan injected 500,000 yuan, accounting for 60% of the shares, Cao Fan invested 200,000 yuan, accounting for 40% of the shares, set up this studio, Tong Yan is with a compensation psychology, the car was rushing to him, but Lao Cao became the biggest victim, originally he wanted to give him half of the shares directly, but Cao Fan disagreed, resolutely took out 200,000, and became a partner of the studio. Because the studio's daily business is all on him, his shares are higher than his investment.

Now a big question in front of Woodstone Studio is whether to take the original path or find a suitable story adaptation from the online text.

Tong Yan feels that since he is in the online literature circle and knows so many writers, he naturally wants to take advantage of this convenience, his novels are not suitable for adaptation of online dramas, but some urban novels are still very suitable, "They themselves have high popularity, as long as we don't shoot very badly, we don't need to publicize it at all, and we can naturally attract a lot of audiences." ”

Cao Fan doesn't see it that way, "Online novels are usually known for their large scenes and surreality, judging from our current funds and the current situation of the online video industry, we can't make them too well-made, which is easy to arouse the disgust of the original author, even if we invest in it and shoot it beautifully, it is difficult to recover the cost in the end, and I tend to temporarily engage in small-cost originality." ”

He cited a very popular online drama "Hip Hop Quartet" on the Internet as an example, this online drama directed and starred by Lu Zhengyu, an admirer of Zhou Xingchi, quickly became popular after it was launched on Youku, becoming the first phenomenal online drama in China with more than 100 million clicks, and is known as the most bullish online drama.

"All the scenes of this drama are almost an office, and there are only three or four characters, but because of the strong screenwriting skills. is young and funny, so it easily captured the hearts of young netizens, and it is very easy for such a drama to make a profit, because it costs very little. ”

A small workshop has to start small, and then slowly grow bigger. can't be done overnight, this is Cao Fan's idea, and then he calculated an account for Tong Yan, if he adapts the online novel to produce the online drama according to his idea, how much will the investment be, maybe their registered capital will be thrown out, and it is impossible to recover the cost 90%, because the only place for the online drama is the video website. And few video sites now have the courage to spend such a large amount of money to buy a new team's online drama.

is worthy of studying in Hengdian, Cao Fan knows the operation of film and television dramas well, Tong Yan can't say that he can't agree with his idea, it seems that his idea of generating income for writers is not necessarily correct, and he may even pit himself in the end.

Then it's time to discuss what kind of original drama to make, and the place to participate in the discussion is at the dinner table, and the studio has just been established. It needs to be celebrated, and a lot of old folks from Cao Fan are willing to come over and help him. There are photographers, gaffers, enthusiastic performers, and those who are good at accounting, and Tong Yan's roommates also expressed their need, although they also appeared at the opening banquet.

Speaking of scripts, people first look at Tong Yan, who is a well-known writer on the Internet. He must be the first choice for this kind of storytelling.

The screenwriter is Cao Fan's weakness, so he can only count on Tong Yan, and he put forward three requirements for Tong Yan, "save money, be funny, and be novel." "If you want to get the love of netizens, it won't work. Comedy is the cheapest and most effective means, because Chinese live too tired, they need laughter to release long-term repression, at least at this stage, there is nothing more attractive than comedy for online video lovers.

However, Tong Yan's point of view is that comedy is the most difficult to write, even if his "Monstrous" is known for his relaxed and witty writing, he still does not dare to touch pure funny literature, and often begins to fight monsters and play inspirational after a few paragraphs.

Speaking of comedy, Tong Yan thought of his friend Zhang Xiaohua, a "The First Chaos in History" made him fame and fortune, but it also seemed to exhaust his inspiration and talent, three months after the end of "Chaos", Xiaohua cautiously opened a new book "I Am a Monster", the new book was unexpectedly compared with "Chaos", and then he was unsurprisingly considered to be Jiang Lang's talent, and he could no longer write anything new.

"I Am a Monster" will be on the shelves this month, and it will enter the top ten on the new book monthly ticket list, which is very inconsistent with his status as the first god of funny writing.

At the same time, there are two top platinum gods' new books on the shelves this month, Tomato's "Jiuding Ji" and "Yang God" dreaming of a divine machine, and the most unexpected thing is that "Yang Shen" actually beat "Jiuding Ji", and the big score leads the first place in the new book and the overall list, this may be the second novel after "Monstrous" to win both the new book and the overall list monthly ticket champion, and readers are rushing to tell each other: the sharpest JJ is back! Correspondingly, Tomato also ushered in his small trough.

To get back to the truth, Cao Fan threw the screenwriter's problem to Tong Yan, but Zhuge Garfield helped them come up with an idea.

During the dinner, Zhuge Garfield received a phone call, and after hanging up, he told the brothers present something, "My cousin is a pet store, you should all know, my marshmallow was given to me by my sister, and now her pet store has changed its address, and it has been upgraded, from selling pets to a comprehensive pet park that includes sales and care treatment, she just called me and asked me how to promote this pet park." ”

Zhuge Garfield likes small animals, and his relationship with this cousin is also very good, he used to help in his cousin's pet store, and now the old sister needs help, he is duty-bound, just because he is embarrassed to choose the topic, so he made a suggestion, "You can see if you can use the animal paradise as the background to create an online drama, my sister should be able to give some sponsorship." ”

Tong Yan thought of his debut novel in the true sense of the word, "The History of Little Soldiers", which created the concept of cats and Wang Xingren, and portrayed the image of a group of highly intelligent cats and dogs.

At this time, he was wondering if he could create a short drama from the perspective of cats and dogs, where the protagonist is not a human but an animal, so that he could save his salary, and it was novel enough.

As soon as Tong Yan's proposal came out, it was met with crazy opposition from several people led by Cao Fan, "Don't you know the three major difficulties in film shooting, children, animals and water, I would rather pay than find a few actors who can't understand me at all!" "it.

Zhuge Garfield thinks Tong Yan's idea is very good, photographing the animals in the pet park is much more interesting than the people in the pet park, "I think Tong Yan's idea is good, my sister has raised a few special photogenic and sensible small animals, maybe they can do it." ”

In the end, Tong Yan put forward a new concept: "Don't think about letting the animal actors act according to your script, can't we write the script based on the performances of the animal actors?" (To be continued.) )

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What is a Taoist?

Answer: "There is no image in the ten directions, and there is no trace in the six directions." Jumping out of the Three Realms, not in the Five Elements. ”