In order to further convince Shao Yifu, Lin Youlun also proposed the idea of a music reality show.

"The current singing competition has a single form, lacks the potential of the contestants, and the audience only cares about the results and does not care about the process, which also causes the show to have higher ratings only in the finals, and if there is a big difference between the judges' tastes and the audience in which year, the gold content of the champion determined by this year's competition will be greatly reduced."

Lin Youlun's example is the rookie singing contest jointly launched by Wireless and Huaxing Records, this competition was the sixth last year (1987), and the seventh competition is about to start this year, but except for the first champion Mei Yanfang and the third champion Zhou Comian, the attention of other competitions is not high, and the winner was signed by Huaxing, and there was no too bright performance in the music world. Wireless is also constantly reforming this competition, such as introducing singers as judges, trying to increase the attention of the competition program, but the actual effect is not very good.

Lin Youlun's original intention was to make a new program, but Shao Yifu rejected Lin Youlun's earliest proposal of full funding of wireless, Lin Youlun found someone to be responsible for the mode of program production but was unwilling to accept Lin Youlun's full contribution, wireless only as a broadcast platform model, so it was finally decided to use the original team of the rookie singing contest as a cooperation platform, Lin Youlun is responsible for the transformation of the rookie singing contest, if the program ratings reach a certain standard, both parties will jointly participate in the sharing of program advertising and other revenues.

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The decision made by Lin Youlun and Shao Yifu during afternoon tea caused a lot of shock within the wireless, which is already after the reform of the Hong Kong sister selection. For the second time, the company's top management carried out a drastic reform of its programs. Among them, the most apprehensive is the program team that was originally in charge of the rookie singing contest. Because every program reform will inevitably lead to large-scale personnel changes.

The day after the decision was announced by the wireless executives, the entire program group was called for a meeting, and more than 30 people sat in the conference room, each with a nervous expression on their faces.

Lin Youlun walked into the conference room, and the discussion below stopped abruptly.

Under the gaze of everyone, Lin Youlun sat down, cleared his throat and said, "I know that everyone is worried about whether they will be laid off now. So I can tell you first that for the time being, there are no plans for layoffs in the program team. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the conference room breathed a long sigh of relief, but what Lin Youlun said next made their hearts that they had just put down lift again.

"Of course, not laying off employees now does not mean that there will be no layoffs in the future, ugly things have to be said in front, if your next performance can not satisfy me, it is a matter of time before you leave."

The carrot and stick method works well. Up and down the program team, no one raised any objections to this.

Lin Youlun is very satisfied with this. Then he continued: "Since I personally took over the transformation of this show, what I want to do is naturally not tinkering, but a radical change, so from today onwards, everyone here has such a psychological understanding - the rookie singing contest has become history, and we are producing a brand new show, although the purpose of the show is still to select popular and potential singers, but the show itself is not a simple singing competition, if there must be a definition, you can call it a reality music show." ”

"Mr. Lin, I have a question." It was the choreographer of the original program group who spoke, and after getting the acquiescence of Lin Youlun's eyes, he continued: "The registration for each rookie singing contest has started since December of the previous year, and this year's program team has received more than 100 entry forms, what should these people who have signed up for?" ”

"The registration continues, and the interviews also start at the same time, screening out those who have potential and characteristics, and then directly let them participate in the recording of the new program." Lin Youlun paused, "Speaking of which, I believe everyone will have such a question in their hearts, isn't this still the same as the previous singing competition?" Of course not, through registration is just a way for us to find potential singers for our new program, and this way is very passive, what I need you to do now is to turn passive into active, you have to go to the whole of Hong Kong to find, including bars, music schools, and even find insiders to recommend, the purpose is to try to find high-quality singers to participate in our program, this is the only thing we need to do in the first phase of this program. ”

Lin Youlun looked around the conference room, "Here I will first announce a reward and punishment provision, the show will only need 32 potential singers in the end, and these 32 people will be produced from all the applicants and the people you took the initiative to excavate, among the singers you took the initiative to find, as long as one person is selected for the list of 32 people, the reward is 8,000 Hong Kong dollars, the same reason, if no one of the people you find is shortlisted, this month's salary will be halved." ”

In front of Lin Youlun, someone in the conference room couldn't help but whisper, compared with the bonus of 8000 Hong Kong dollars, the punishment of halving the salary is a bit insignificant, as long as one person can be found, the bonus alone is worth a normal few months' salary, and for a while, everyone is gearing up, and they can't wait to rush to the bar to pull people immediately.

For ordinary members of the program group, Lin Youlun only needs to tell them these at this stage, and after speaking, he directly announced the dismissal of the meeting, leaving only a few people in charge of the program group.

"I emphasize that this new show is more than just a competition, because this time I am ready to introduce a mentorship system." Seeing the puzzled expressions on the faces of several people, Lin Youlun further explained: "The mentors in the show have some of the functions of the previous judges, but they are not completely. The 32 selected singers, the first stage of the grouping, the method of this grouping is through the blind selection of the mentor, the program recording site designed four seats that can be rotated back and forth, when the 32 contestants sang on stage, the mentor sat with his back to them, only the voice was selected, and it was not disturbed by any other factors. If the instructor has a favorite player, he can press the button on the table, and then the chair can be turned from facing away from the player to facing the player. As long as one mentor presses the button, the player is considered to have successfully advanced, if there are multiple mentors at the same time, the same player is considered to be successful. It's up to the players to make their own choices. Each instructor selects 4 contestants as their own mentees. The other sixteen singers who were not selected were eliminated even if they were eliminated in this round. ”

After such an explanation, the eyes of several people in charge of the program team lit up, and it was the first time they had heard of the competition, but it sounded very interesting, and it was even more exciting to make a show.

"The popularity of this show can be driven by mentors at the beginning, but what really determines the success or failure is the quality of the participants, so you must be strict in this regard. I won't be soft on anyone who has a problem! Lin Youlun said ugly things in front of him at the beginning, just to prevent someone from taking care of people and opening the back door, he didn't want to make any shady news after the show started.

Several people in charge exchanged glances in private, but no one would suspect that Lin Youlun was joking, and in wireless, if Lin Youlun was ruthless to deal with a person, it was estimated that Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua's intercession would not have much effect.

Lin Youlun's assistant pushed open the door of the conference room and walked in, bent down and whispered a few words in Lin Youlun's ear, Lin Youlun nodded after hearing this, and then said to several people in charge at the conference table: "That's it for today." Go down and prepare. ”

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Just when Lin Youlun was in a meeting with the program team, in a room not far from the conference room. Mei Yanfang and Zhang Yurong are teaming up to "interrogate" Zhou Yimin.

"Comet Min, tell me honestly, what is the matter with Mr. Lin coming to us this time?" Zhou Yimin is Mei Yanfang's younger sister, and the relationship between the two is good, and she has no scruples when she jokes.

"Yes, yes, otherwise the next time you have a concert, we won't be a guest for you." Zhang Yurong also helped on the side.

"Sister Mei, Rong Shao, don't be like this, I really don't know about this matter." Zhou Comin said helplessly.

Mei Yanfang looked Zhou Yanmin up and down, and then poked Zhang Yurong next to her with her elbow: "Hey, did you say that Comin lied to us?" ”

Zhang Yurong pinched his chin with his hand and pondered for a moment before saying, "It looks like it's real, but it's not like it's real." ”

Luo Wen, who was sitting on the side, finally couldn't stand it anymore, and stood up to administer justice for Zhou Comin and said: "Okay, you two are big brothers and sisters in the music world, how can you bully people like this?" ”

Luo Wen is the most famous and powerful singer in the Hong Kong music scene today, and he is also the oldest of the four people in the room, and has sung the theme songs of many classic TV series, "Under the Lion Rock" and "Xiao Li Flying Knife" have been sung to this day.

Zhou Comin hurriedly ran over and grabbed Luo Wen's arm, "It's better to Uncle Wen." ”

"Oh, it seems that good people really can't do it, help you talk once, and you call me uncle, am I really that old?" Luo Wen said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

In terms of age, Luo Wen and Zhou Comin are indeed more than 20 years apart, which can be regarded as two generations, but in the entertainment industry, it is not uncommon for people to be in their twenties but talk about each other as equals, and it is not unreasonable for Luo Wen to say that he was called old.

Zhou Yimin's face flushed, and he was thinking about how to explain this matter, when Lin Youlun pushed the door and walked in at this time.

"I'm sorry, something delayed for a while, and I made a few people wait for a long time."

Except for Cailuowen, everyone else in this room was very familiar with Lin Youlun, and after saying hello, Lin Youlun invited the four of them to sit down together. He didn't make any detours, and said straight to the point: "I invited a few people here this time, in fact, I want to discuss something with you." ”

Familiarity is familiar, politeness in this kind of formal occasion is still necessary, Luo Wen took the lead and said that Lin Youlun was too polite, Zhang Yurong and Mei Yanfang also responded one after another, only Zhou Comin sat and did not speak, with her relationship with Lin Youlun, saying these others would only feel very fake.

"I am ready to cooperate with Wireless to make a new singing talent show on the basis of the original rookie singing contest, and I want to invite four mentors to serve as mentors for the first season of the competition."

Before Lin Youlun finished speaking, Zhang Yurong and Mei Yanfang readily agreed, Lin Youlun had helped them a lot before, and on this basis alone, they would not refuse.

Lin Youlun laughed, "Sister Mei and Rong Shao aren't afraid that I will pit you?" ”

"I don't know how many people in Hong Kong are waiting in line to be 'pitted' by Mr. Lin, can I say that this is my luck?" Zhang Rongrong replied with a grin.

"That's right, such a fun thing, why should I be counted as one." Mei Yanfang also followed suit.

"I'm okay with that." Zhou Comin said weakly beside her, seeing Mei Yanfang and Zhang Yanrong's eyes looking at her became a little "ill-intentioned", but she blushed and didn't dare to look at others with her head down.

"I want to ask what is the difference between this mentor and the judges, do you want us to accept the contestants as apprentices?" Luo Wenlao Chen was steady, and the questions he asked were the most practical.

"It's so formal to confiscate apprentices, it's to be their teacher during the competition and give them a guide." Lin Youlun carefully explained the rules of the program to the four people, "In the second stage of the show, after the four star mentors selected their students, they will be specially trained, and the last batch of students will compete on the same stage, 12 students are designated by the mentor to be divided into 6 groups, two by two PK the same song, who goes and who stays is decided by the mentor and the jury, the winning 3 contestants directly enter the finals, and the three students who failed are conducting a PK, and one person is promoted to the finals, and then 4 into 2, 2 into 1, to determine the champion." ”

Such a game setting, the four people present are all hearing of it for the first time, novelty is novelty, but how to set up the game is actually something that the program team considers, and what is really related to the four people is the distribution of interests.

In the past, the way to invite guests to TV programs was relatively simple, and the program group packaged the quotation or calculated according to the number of shows, and the guests were paid for each episode of the program. This time, Lin Youlun offered the price of 2 million to the four mentors, of course, he also provided another option.

"At the beginning, people didn't have any money, they didn't have appearance fees, they didn't pay for the performances, and they didn't pack up for a lump sum payment. The program will cooperate with Huaxing Records to explore the potential of each student in an all-round way and transform it into commercial value, and the four of them will participate in the development and advertising revenue sharing of the later stage of the program with me. ”

"Just like the last time we filmed "Ocean's Eleven", everyone didn't get paid at the beginning, and finally participated in the box office dividends?" Zhang Yurong said the most intuitive understanding of this model, which was recognized by Lin Youlun.

"The one time I made the most money making a movie was to share with Mr. Lin, so I also chose a share this time." Zhang Yurong was the first to express his position.

Mei Yanfang and Zhou Comin also made the same choice as him, but Luo Wen hesitated for a while, he was more old-fashioned and a little uncertain about this novel sharing model.

In the end, he chose to get a 2 million appearance fee alone.

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