Chapter 76: Serving the Country with Loyalty
After filming the key scenes of these competitions, the atmosphere of the crew suddenly relaxed, and I felt that victory was in sight. Everyone doesn't have to train hard for national arts and dance at night, and they have more free time, so they can film more happily. In the past two days, Zhou Yi has to take time to go to the studio at night to do post-dubbing for the movie. He received a notice from Director Zhao that he must do his job well.
Director Zhao knew that the filming of the TV series was going well, the filming of the competition scene was over, and Zhou Yi had free time, so he called him over. The actors don't have to go to dubbing together, whoever has their turn can go. It just so happens that Zhou Yi has time at night, so he will not delay the filming of the crew.
Zheng Longshi's participation in "The Voice of China" is also progressing smoothly and has successfully passed the mentor assessment.
With his strength, it is not a problem at all.
It's a natural thing.
But there's one thing that has to do with him.
On Monday, Zhengdong Pictures received a cooperation intention from the crew of "Man Jianghong", it turned out that they took a fancy to a song "Loyal to the Country" sung by Zheng Longshi on the Voice stage, and wanted to buy the copyright to use as the theme song of the TV series. It is said that a mentor of "The Voice of China" listened to Zheng Longshi's singing, praised the song, and recommended it directly to the crew.
The mentor and the director of the crew of "Man Jianghong" are friends, and they know that they are worried about the theme song of the TV series, and suddenly encountered such a suitable song, of course he has to report it immediately and highly recommend it.
In this way, the crew over there immediately knew, watched the online video of "The Voice of China", and immediately decided to go all out for this theme song.
In order to be in a hurry, they sent their cooperation intention to Zhengdong Pictures on Monday morning.
At the moment, the music department is discussing this matter and discussing how to maximize the benefits.
But such a major matter must require Zhou Yi to make decisions in person.
Zhou Yi was filming in the morning, of course he couldn't be disturbed.
For Zhou Yi, this is not a big deal, and it is not worth influencing his filming.
Xi Wei will naturally judge the priority of things, as a little assistant, she will not immediately bother Zhou Yi with everything. It wasn't until Zhou Yi finished filming the morning scene and had lunch that Xi Wei informed him of the incident.
Knowing this, Zhou Yi was very interested.
Man Jianghong? It should be written about Yue Fei's TV series.
From this point of view, the theme is indeed very consistent with this song "Serving the Country with Loyalty".
I remember that the TV series that used this song in my previous life was "The Sword of the Three Boys", it was ridiculous, it sounded very confused, completely inappropriate, the lyrics and pictures did not match at all, and the artistic conception was completely out of tune, Zhou Yi was embarrassed to think about it.
Even an amateur player like him would not choose the theme song for the TV series like this, it is completely different, it is too.
Anyway, the situation in this world is a little more reliable.
But reliable is reliable, after all, we have to consider the interest factor.
If there is no interest relationship, Zhou Yi is not a benevolent person, no matter how suitable it is, he will not make a wedding dress for others.
The TV series is a hit, will you give Zhou Yi money?
Let's take a look at which company filmed this TV series first. Hiromi Entertainment? What kind of company is this?
Zhou Yi has never heard of it, but he has not heard of it, which does not mean that people are not famous. Most companies in the industry, except for the six major companies in China, Zhou Yi has never heard of it, but in fact, he has not paid attention to it. This doesn't mean anything, and Zhou Yi himself understands this.
However, with such a majestic name as "Man Jianghong", he thought it was filmed by CCTV!
It seems that it is self-inflicted, not filmed by CCTV.
Since the other party is not CCTV, there is no need to consider the issue of giving face. And it's not Yanjing TV, it's not Taiwan TV, it's not Yousheng Group, it's not Griffin, and it's not about the human factors between allies.
That can only be measured in terms of business interests.
Looking at the intention fax sent by the other party, their crew thought that Zheng Longshi's voice was a little immature, after all, Zheng Longshi was still young, and his voice was immature. Can he really soar out of the voice of a domestic tenor in his thirties and forties? Isn't that a monster?
The other party wants to buy the copyright of the song and hire a famous domestic singer to sing the theme song.
But in this way, what benefits can the due east side reap?
People have tens of thousands of Chinese dollars in the sky, what is next?
Is it just a collection of songwriter royalties? Don't be funny! How many records can be sold? How many concerts can be held? How much does a song cost in royalties? Benefits simply cannot be maximized. If you don't need Zheng Longshi to sing the theme song, then you can't make your own artists popular, you can't increase your popularity, it's not good for endorsements in the future, what benefits are there?
If you are an ordinary songwriter, you may be willing to use your lyrics and songs to become the theme song of a large TV series, which is conducive to making a name for yourself in the industry.
But Zhou Yi is the owner of a film and television company, those are two different things, and the angle of consideration is different: you can't bring me substantial benefits, why should I support you? Do you think Zheng Longshi's voice is immature now, that's your problem, what does it have to do with me?
Zhou Yi shook his head, intending to refuse, the two sides had no cooperative relationship before, so there was no need to think about it so much. He asked Xi Wei to reply to the company's headquarters, if he couldn't find any special interests, just to collect some lyrics and music royalties, he would just refuse it!
He didn't miss that little money, and he thought it was boring.
This is simply Zhengdong's unilateral effort.
If cooperation is really reached, the other party's crew will benefit, and the singer who sings this song will benefit, but what benefit can Zhengdong get? At least Zhou Yi couldn't see any obvious interests. So what else can you do if you don't refuse?
This point can be clearly found and told to the other party that Zhengdong doesn't care about that little money.
Don't look at a song, it's not a big deal, but if it doesn't matter, Zhou Yi still won't let the other party take advantage of it in vain.
In the business world, you have to pay for what you want.
Equivalence can be exchanged, and the same is true for favors.
This song may be important to the other party's TV series, but the other party's TV series has nothing to do with Zhou Yi. Of course, if the boss behind the other party is a certain prince, find out the relationship as soon as possible, and talk about it, otherwise don't talk nonsense.
After dealing with this matter, Zhou Yi thought it was okay, but he didn't expect that the Bomei crew really valued this song. The director of the other party is still filming in other places, but he wants to have a formal meeting with Zhengdong's speaker online through video chat.
When it comes to the copyright of the song, Zhou Yi is in charge of this matter, and it is useless for Zhuo Qinglian to talk about it, she directly transferred the matter to Zhou Yi's side.
The other party was so persevering, and Zhou Yi was also a little surprised.
He paid attention to the name of the other party's director, it was director Yu Bofu. Knowing the director's name, Zhou Yi still didn't understand, and during the filming break, he asked Xi Wei to search on the Internet, and then report the situation.
Through searching, Xi Wei told Zhou Yi that this Yu Bofu director is amazing, he is a big TV drama director, from Hong Kong, his status is similar to that of director Wan Dongliu, he has filmed many famous TV series, and he has also become popular with first-line superstars in the industry.
Bomei Entertainment was able to pull this director over, obviously it took a lot of effort and strength.
Zhou Yi nodded, the situation was as expected.
On this matter, he also asked Director Wan Dongliu to confirm it.
Director Wan told him that Director Yu is indeed a very famous TV series director in the circle, no worse than him, if he can have a good relationship, it is best to be cautious, maybe when he can use others! In the circle, you can't look up and look down.
So Zhou Yi agreed, after filming today, he and Director Yu officially met online video in the evening.
I believe that Director Yu will also be busy filming during the day, and everyone will have free time at night.
In this way, the daytime shooting work was completed, and after dinner, according to the agreed time, Zhou Yi officially had an online video conversation with the other party.
Tang Yan stopped accompanying her brother, she felt so bored, she and Xi Wei went to play with Qiu Cao.
In this way, Zhou Yi was quiet and officially talked about work with Director Yu.
Director Yu Bofu has big ears, thick eyebrows and wide eyes, and looks very solemn, not as dry and thin as Director Wan, but the two are about the same age, and their expressions are very serious, Director Yu is still wearing glasses, a bit of a scholar-type director, probably the directors of their era are like this, usually always very serious, not smiling. However, the two video chatted, and Director Yu was very polite to Zhou Yi.
"I didn't expect Yi Shao to be a person talking about things in Zhengdong, it's really unexpected, it scares me, young and promising, it's commendable!"
"You're so kind! I have admired Director Yu for a long time. I'm filming here, and I often hear Director Wan talk about it. ”
The two exchanged pleasantries, and there was no shortage of courtesy.
Director Yu naturally understands things, and he will not treat Zhou Yi as a young junior.
Next, to get to the main topic of negotiation, Director Yu wants to persuade Zhou Yi.
Since he knows that Zhou Yi is the chairman of Zhengdong Pictures and has a very deep background, a little favor and a small profit will definitely not impress him, and it is in vain. But director Yu Bofu has been in the industry for most of his life, and if he can't even do such a simple persuasive job, he will be in vain.
Director Yu's words are very sincere and frank.
He knew that Zhou Yi wanted to make his own artists popular, and he was unwilling to make wedding dresses for others in vain. But he said that if this is a youth idol drama and let Zheng Longshi sing it, it really doesn't matter, but this is a historical war drama.
With Zheng Longshi's current voice conditions and the singing strength he showed on the stage of The Voice, he may be able to easily crush his peers, but he is far from meeting the requirements of singing the theme song of this heavy historical war drama.
Listening to his singing, there is talent and talent, but it is still too reluctant, and the value of the song is a bit wasted.
If a famous singer in the industry can sing 120% of the value of this song, then Zheng Longshi can only sing 85% of the value at present. He does sing well, no one says that he sings badly, but he can't meet Director Yu's requirements for the time being.
Director Yu also said that Mr. Liang Yirong, the deputy music director of your company, also mentioned that the Dynasty Band should sing, but to be honest, they have just left school, and they are not much older than Zheng Longshi, and their level is still worse, not to mention that this kind of theme song needs to be thick and strong, and there is no need for any rock style. Such a song, with such a TV series, is suitable for those famous singers to sing.
In his previous life, Tu Honggang sang this song, and he was also thirty years old.
Of course Zhou Yi understands this, but whether it is suitable or not, what does it have to do with him?
Is it suitable, I don't care about interests, just change someone else to sing?
The point is, what can you give me?
As the chairman of Zhengdong, of course, he will only consider the interests of his own company.
Mrs. Yu Bo is old and experienced, and of course she understands Zhou Yi's thoughts.
He bluntly said that Yi Shao was reluctant to authorize, I am afraid that he felt that there was no benefit.
In fact, some interests are invisible, you can't see it, but it doesn't mean that there is none.
Next, Director Yu introduced some of the situation of Bomei Entertainment.
"We have a lot of investment in the TV series "Man Jianghong", a historical war drama, can the investment be not big?"
"With such an investment scale, it shows that our company has both strength and a certain background. The behind-the-scenes investors of our Bomei are the few new entrants recently, such as Chang'an Venture Capital, South China Capital, and United Trust, all of which are very powerful. This TV series is our work to test the waters, and it is also a work of sincerity, and there are even actors and actresses and TV emperors and queens to participate, just to win awards. ”
"Feitian Award, Golden Eagle Award, Magnolia Award, don't you want it?"
Zhou Yi thought to himself: Does this have anything to do with me? It's not a TV series produced by our Zhengdong, what's the benefit of being better than me?
Yu Bofu went on to explain.
"As an original songwriter, Yi Shao is actually very hopeful of winning awards, and our company will do some behind-the-scenes work."
"If it doesn't match such a large-scale historical war drama, can such a song be related to the award? No matter how popular it is, it is a main theme song after all, and in the professional field, it is difficult for it to win those awards. Even if you can get it, I don't know when, maybe it's far away, and now there is such an opportunity, why not do it? ”
"If a rookie singer comes to sing, don't talk about how well they rap, can they have this kind of influence in the industry? Only old singers have this kind of influence, hope to win awards, and facilitate our behind-the-scenes operations. Yi Shao doesn't have to worry that we don't do our best, you know, an excellent theme song will help the TV series a lot, and we will not give up this publicity point. ”
"And once you win the award, who goes up to receive the award? This is a TV drama award, not a song award, it is given to the creative staff behind the scenes. Singers are not eligible to receive awards on stage, and the original song award is Yi Shao himself on stage to receive it! Such an award can help Zhengdong expand its influence in the industry. Isn't that taking advantage? Singers are certainly stained with the light of Yi Shao, but if you are easy to be less, you will also be stained with the light of others. ”
"Yi Shao, do you think that's the truth?"
Zhou Yi understands that this kind of large-investment TV series is indeed of great help to the promotion of songs.
Even if the immediate income is not much, it does have a good chance of winning the prize.
Of course, even if he can't win the award, Zhou Yi has nothing to lose.
Zhou Yi will not ask the other party to make a guarantee.
Who dares to guarantee such a thing?
Seven points of effort, three points of luck!
But in any case, it's worth a try.
In particular, Director Yu said that although the price they paid was not high, they only bought the authorization of the theme song, not the complete copyright, which did not affect Zhengdong's future use of the song at all. The singers they hire don't care if someone else sings another version.
Of course, whether you can sing better than others is another story.
It's up to you.
But not matching this TV series is indeed a loss for this song.
It depends on whether Zhou Yi can have the beauty of an adult.
Zhou Yi understands that the other party is really taking advantage of this, but people don't treat Zhou Yi as a fool, the matter is clearly here, it depends on whether Zhou Yi is willing to let Bomei take advantage of this. In the industry, after all, there are many friends and many paths, not to mention that Director Yu has come to this point, with the identity of others, no matter whether he can win the award in the end or not, Zhou Yi will give face after all.
In fact, before the talks, Zhou Yi had this kind of psychological preparation.
In this meeting, he just wanted to hear how the other party persuaded him.
Now is the time to make a decision.
"Haha! Director Yu is really amazing, you convinced me. Happy working together! Zhou Yi was very simple.
"Yi Shao is really generous, I hope we can have the opportunity to cooperate in the future, and say hello to Director Wan for me."
The two negotiated, and the rest of the things were easy to handle.
Zhou Yi informed Zhuo Qinglian of the exchange process here, and naturally knew how to deal with it. Zhou Yi also asked Zhuo Qinglian to remind the music department that he must make an official version of this song and hang it on the Internet for publicity. Although the other party didn't need Zheng Longshi to sing it himself, Zhengdong didn't lose anything, so he still used the song and made an official version first, so that everyone could listen to the level.
If the big-name singers invited by the other party want to overpower Zheng Longshi, they also have to rely on their own strength.
Of course, it is very likely that people will crush Zheng Longshi, but Zheng Longshi can't retreat and be afraid. And it's a propaganda hype. As a rising star, what is there to be ashamed of losing to the famous singers of your predecessors and the generation of your teachers? As long as you sing about the same, there will be a large number of fans, so won't you quickly become famous?
Maybe there will be a lot of fans who will fight for you!
Some fans may like this young and immature singing style, but they don't like that mature singing style.
There's something for all in the industry.
Besides, it is also a good thing to get an industry evaluation of a "rising star" who is "not inferior to his predecessors".
Do you have to step on your predecessors to become famous? Taking advantage of the momentum of his predecessors, he can still become famous.
Of course, Zhuo Qinglian understood what Zhou Yi meant, she would explain this matter to the music department in detail, and she would definitely do a good job.
It is estimated that Zheng Longshi is holding his breath over there!
After listening to the song I sang, you just want to buy the copyright of the song, but you don't want me to sing it myself? What does that mean? Do you think cripples are easy to provoke?
To say that you don't want to really compete is false.
Zheng Longshi is also a high-minded and arrogant person!
The more disabled you are, the more reluctant you are to be looked down upon.
Of course, he has to come up with an official studio version, no matter whether he wins or loses, he has to fight hard, and he can't lose the momentum, there is no doubt about that.
However, he doesn't blame Zhou Yi for making such a choice, there must be major interests involved in this. In particular, Zhou Yi took care of his psychology and personally called him to explain the negotiation process to him. Zheng Longshi was born in a legal family, and he has been nurtured by his family since he was a child, and he has always been very sensible, understands the truth, and will not be blinded by some unnecessary negative emotions.
In fact, he himself knows that with his current voice conditions and singing strength, he is indeed a little immature, and people are right, if it is to sing the theme song of a youth idol drama, the requirements are not so much, not so strict, naturally there is no problem, but to sing the theme song of this heavy historical war drama, it is indeed reluctant. Understand and understand, but fight or fight, Zhou Yi also means this, you can't defeat yourself without fighting.
As long as he sings his own version well, he can also become famous, and he should be a spur to himself.
Talent can't be everything!
If you want to rely on talent to go all over the world, it won't work, after all, you have to rely on your own continuous efforts.
Zheng Longshi has a deep understanding of this, in fact, this is a good thing. If life is too smooth, it may not be a blessing.
In the company, there are classmates and friends to take care of, but outside, even if he is crippled, no one will take care of him at work, and he can only speak with strength.
At present, he is just a fledgling young newcomer who is participating in "The Voice of China", and he has not even attended the Central Conservatory of Music. No matter how good the voice talent is, it's just talent. can understand this, can figure it out thoroughly, and the future is limitless, Zhou Yi can rest assured. He believes that his classmates will calm down and work hard. If you can't do this, it means that the future is limited, and where is it worth Zhou Yi's trouble.
For Zheng Longshi's calm temperament, Mr. Su Jian, as well as Liang Meng, the two deputy directors, are very appreciative, extremely satisfied, and even more optimistic.
In the face of setbacks, it is enough to be able to calm down and have a high spirit, and you can't ask for more.
And looking at Zheng Longshi's appearance, this incident will not affect him to continue to participate in the Good Voice at all.
That's good.
This is how it was settled.
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