Chapter 52: Whose Boy Is Romantic
If you only write melodies, just like Zheng Longshi helped Zhou Yi compose music, of course it is easy, and it can be done in ten minutes with professional training. But that kind of song is just Zhou Yi asked the company to register the copyright of the lyrics and songs first, which is actually of little value. Zhou Yi wanted to sign Zheng Longshi and participate in the composition of the dividend, but Zheng Longshi was embarrassed to ask for it at all. What kind of money does it cost to write that kind of main theme, or is it ready-made?
What is the value of that thing, Zheng Longshi knows it, and he will not use it to pit his classmates' royalties.
In fact, to do this kind of work, the academy does not recognize this as composition at all, that is the popular name.
If Zheng Longshi didn't even go to a professional university, he could compose music for classic songs, which can't be described as a prodigy.
Actually, it's not like that. Composition means composing and arranging, and to be able to write the melody of the accompanying instrument, all the notes must be completed, rather than just writing a melody. There is a difference in the understanding of the academy and the general public.
If there is no arrangement, only lyrics and songs, it will become a street singing, playing and singing by himself, which is particularly simple.
These arrangements like the Dynasty Band do are extremely valuable. Not only do they arrange their own music, but they also go into the studio to record the instruments, and they do the musicians' work, and even the orchestral music can do some of it. How many of them are in the music department, who do they don't do?
They also have to help Zheng Longshi adjust the pitch, process the voice, adjust the rhythm of the paragraphs, try to help him do the best in the song, and tutor him to sing, which is really dedicated and valuable.
Zheng Longshi has not received more professional college training, and he really needs the help of seniors in this regard.
It's not that you can sing at the best level if you have a good voice, you must have a good arrangement.
Many popular pop songs become popular because of their excellent arrangement, but fans generally think that singers are popular, but in fact, singers are only the last link in the music production process, not the most important part. Anyone who sings a good song can be popular, as long as the singer's level is not bad. But Zheng Longshi's voice is very good, and some songs can be sung by others, but he sings them as classics.
This is where Zheng Longshi's value lies, and it is also what distinguishes him from ordinary singers.
Zhou Yi took the time to listen to the arrangement of the Dynasty Band, and he really thought it was very exciting.
At least in terms of arrangement, it's no worse than in the previous life.
After all, they still have Su Jian behind them, it is impossible to make mistakes, it is normal to have this kind of achievement.
Of course, they work so hard and are extremely valuable, the company will not treat them badly, and the arrangement fees paid to them are definitely not expensive, which are above the normal level of the industry, and there will be dividends when they release records in the future.
A real arranger is naturally very valuable, and the cost of arranging is sometimes higher than that of a songwriter, but ordinary people generally only pay attention to singers, and do not pay much attention to behind-the-scenes arrangements, and the media rarely publicizes, no one pays attention, what is promoted? Only propaganda singers are watched.
A lot of the real people behind the scenes are not very well-known.
But Zhou Yi understands the truth and attaches great importance to these talents, although the music copyright must be owned by the company, but the treatment given to them is absolutely very high. The Dynasty Band all understand that if they go to other companies, it is impossible to have such a high salary. There is no one in the east now, and of course they are valued. But this situation is definitely not the norm in the industry. You can't think that if you go to another company, the treatment will be better.
The human heart is not enough for a snake to swallow an elephant, but a snake cannot swallow an elephant after all, and will only be choked to death.
The bigger the company, the less you earn, because there are too many talents and many pillars, and you don't need a good job, you can only do the bottom work, how much can you earn? The ones who really make a lot of money are those well-known composers, who can get high salaries and dividends, and it is not a problem to get millions a year. But the Dynasty Band went to them, not to mention whether they can come out or not, some work can only be done from the bottom and slowly get up.
The big guys above generally only do small samples and divide the voices, and they do complex refinement and multi-part mixing, and they can't get much money at all, let alone dividends. Many companies in the industry don't give dividends to the arrangement at all, and just give some money to send it, usually a few thousand songs, but they can't retain talents and can't make classic arrangements. Zhengdong Company is not going to make a few tunes to finish, nor is it just to help Zheng Longshi participate in The Voice, the music department plans to do it for a long time, so it is natural to retain talents and write classics, of course, it will not treat these people badly.
For these potential professionals, it is impossible for them to be inferior to the treatment of the martial artists of the crew.
Despising lowly talents is not the way to long-term development.
For Zhengdong, giving money and dividends is a trivial matter, and owning copyright is the most important thing.
Money is earned later, not now.
In fact, whether the music department makes money or spends money, compared with the movie, it is not worth mentioning at all.
In the future, when they hold concerts, it will be the time to really make money, and now it is basically pure investment.
As for the arrangement of several theme songs on the TV series, they will definitely have to wait until they are busy before they can produce them.
In fact, the Dynasty Band is not dedicated to behind-the-scenes work, but there is no one in the company now, and they need to do these jobs, and if they don't do it, no one will do it! But they are bands after all, and they still have to stand in front of the stage.
They worked so hard to arrange the music, but also for themselves, not only for Zheng Longshi.
There are some songs that they can also take and sing, and they are all from the same company anyway.
Zheng Longshi does not disagree with this.
Anyway, there are good songs, and Zhou Yi will write them in the future, so he doesn't have to care at all. He still has to go to university and continue his education, and there is no need to enter the professional music scene now. He didn't even sign the contract, so what's the urgency now?
And he has a different style from the Dynasty band, he is a soloist, and the Dynasty is a band singing, and even the arrangement is different.
These people of the dynasty can make different styles of arrangements.
The main theme of the song remains the same, or according to the characteristics of the singer, fine-tune the details, change the high and low tones, mainly because the accompaniment instrument changes, there will be a variety of different arrangement versions, such as dance music version, rock version, jazz version, rap version, fresh version, Chinese style, etc., the arrangement can give a song a mood, different arrangement styles, different moods, giving people very different feelings.
These people in the dynasty are all high-achieving students in the academic class, and they are very talented, but they are different from Zheng Longshi's talent. They have a deep knowledge and talent for musical styles and the playing of various instruments, and can show different arrangements and moods.
In this way, Zheng Longshi doesn't care anymore, he is very confident and not afraid of comparison at all. In his opinion, you can sing, I can sing too, as long as you sing well, there will be fans who like it. Good songs are not afraid of covers.
There are many covers in the industry, otherwise how can the copyright be sold for money.
What's more, with Zhou Yi here, he will not lack songs, so naturally he doesn't mind.
Now his goal is to go to The Voice first and get a place in the rankings.
Of course, he didn't forget the matter of Zhou Yi and Lang Jun's competition, no matter what ranking he won, he must overpower An Dehai.
However, An Dehai has acted in movies, and many fans have cheered him, Zheng Longshi wants to crush the other party, he has to put in more effort, and the singing must have an absolute advantage in order to win in the end, otherwise it's really hard to say.
From this point of view, Lang Jun is not completely at a loss, he also takes advantage of helping Zhou Yi promote the movie!
Whether you suffer a loss or take advantage of it can only depend on what you think.
However, Zhou Yi doesn't feel that he suffers, what if the other party has a little advantage, he believes in the strength of his classmates, and he believes in his own creative ability. No matter how hard Lang Jun tried, he didn't believe that Lang Jun could "retaliate" back, and it was not easy to step on him.
Let Lang Jun be depressed every day!
Zhou Yi is quite bad-hearted.
In fact, Zhou Yi is still a little envious of Zheng Longshi, he himself has not been on CCTV, Zheng Longshi can actually shoot a show on CCTV, which is really good. It's a good stage for publicity. Of course, no matter how much publicity is promoted, it will not have much effect on the movie. Now that it has been promoted for two weeks, the popularity of related news is declining, and this kind of hot news cannot be reported for a long time, and now it does not play a big role in stimulating the box office of the movie.
Now that the box office of "Five Poisons" is really coming to an end, looking at the company's data, the box office has fallen again, and it is very good that the box office can exceed 10 million this week, and then it may insist on the closing box office of several million for another two or three weeks, and it will be finished.
Naturally, the number of theaters has shrunk considerably, to less than 2,000 theaters.
However, the situation is already very good, at least countless times more than the number of theaters in the screening week. When the film becomes famous, it has this benefit, no matter how the number of theaters is reduced, a certain number can always be maintained, and there is no situation of reducing thousands of theaters at one time, it is impossible. The previous films like "Escape from the Lost Island" used to take advantage of it, but now that "Five Poisons" is famous, it can still be taken advantage of, and there is really no need to envy others. After my own film was made, I had everything. Even if the film ends, the number of theaters is still much higher than that of the lesser-known films.
That's the box office situation today.
Zheng Longshi went to CCTV to record a show on the weekend, and Zhou Yi definitely couldn't go with him, he had to catch up with the filming, and he couldn't always ask for leave. It is estimated that it is difficult for students to go to CCTV to watch it live, and the audience invited by others is counted.
It is estimated that the group of relatives and friends can go, but many classmates go together, and others can't arrange it.
Everyone can only watch TV at home.
And Zhou Yi not only has to film on weekends, but also shoot commercials.
On Friday, Chu Qingyi had already set up a studio, and news came that the two actors had accepted the invitation. The commercial started filming on Friday, and the first thing to shoot was the scenes of the two actors. After they finished filming the scene of "Cooking Wine and Talking about Heroes", Zhou Yi went to film the scene of "Talented Men Win the World". Chu Qingyi knew that Zhou Yi was very busy, and when it was not his turn, he naturally wouldn't toss him over.
This commercial has to shoot both the TV commercial version and the online extended version, there are a lot of scenes, they must shoot some scenes of the two actors in advance, and then let Zhou Yi go over to film on Saturday.
Zhou Yi doesn't have many shots, and he can shoot it in one afternoon.
Director Wan naturally has no problem here, after filming Zhou Yi's scene in the morning, he can go to shoot commercials in the afternoon.
In the advertising scene, several classmates who watched TV with Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi originally wanted to find Lin Yan and Liang Jiaren, but Lin Yan was still making movies, and Edison Zheng played by Liang Jiaren also had family dramas to film, so he definitely couldn't go. Famous actors can't shoot this kind of commercial supporting role for free. Tang Yan and Qiu Cao are even more unlikely to shoot advertisements for free. These actors can only let Chu Qingyi's side solve it on their own.
This matter is not difficult, I heard that Chu Qingyi went directly to Qinghua Kongtong Mountain and Qingdengzhao to bring two boys and a girl, no need to give money, just take care of the food. This is simply relying on the identity of the senior sister to wantonly oppress the younger students and sisters of the club.
Is it free labor? Even professional actors are not invited, you are really saving money and saving home.
Whoever says I'm stingy in the future, who am I anxious with! This is Zhou Yi's idea.
In fact, those younger students are very interested in being on TV, and they all come to film happily, when they come out to play during the summer vacation.
Traveling is fun, and shooting advertisements is also fun, so why not?
Shooting an ad on Saturday afternoon, the matter was settled.
The little assistant Xi Wei took the schedule and scribbled there every day to help the boss arrange work.
Don't look at her as Tang Yan's little assistant, but Tang Yan is usually fine, she honestly stays in the crew and filming, doesn't run around, doesn't cause trouble to her brother and assistant, she is really a good sister and a good actor. The work of the little assistant is mainly focused on Zhou Yi, and he is simply Zhou Yi's special assistant.
Xi Wei receives an assistant's salary, but being an assistant for two people is also a bad fate.
Couldn't the "devil muscleman" next to him help a little? It's so depressing.
This is two actors filming, an assistant is busy, and a bodyguard is leisurely watching the excitement.
When she was fine, Xi Wei looked at Teng Tiangang, her teeth were itching, and she really wanted to kick him.
It's a pity that it can't be kicked, hahahaha!
Xi Wei also informed Zhou Yi in time that Yousheng Group had set up the studio, and everyone was negotiating the shooting time.
To stagger the time of Zhou Yi's advertising and filming, everyone naturally needs to coordinate well.
Don't look at Zhou Yi is not a big star, but he is usually very busy.
Yousheng sent some crew members to shoot this easter egg, mainly the assistant director of the crew, the assistant photographer, and some behind-the-scenes and martial arts team members. Zhou Yi may go to the studio over there on Sunday to film, at least to meet with the relevant crew.
In fact, Yousheng's headquarters is not in Yanjing, and in order to develop, it was relocated to Guangdong and Guangzhou, but they must have a branch here in Yanjing, even if the scale of the branch is much larger than that of Zhengdong, and the strength is very strong.
And they also have a studio in Yanjing, but not on the side of Chaoyang District, but on the side of the North Third Ring Road in Haidian District.
The art districts in Chaoyang District were all developed in a concentrated manner in the later period.
Although Yousheng is an emerging big six, they are also old factories with a deep heritage, otherwise even if you are given a chance, you can't get up if you want to. Their studios have been contracted since the old Republic of China era, continue to develop, and have been inherited, in fact, they are all products of the old Republic of China era, but later they have expanded more and more, which is much larger than the studios in the east, even if some pictures of blockbusters are more than enough. Scenes like some plane crashes and building explosions can be shot directly in their studio, which is very realistic.
For example, the classic helicopter crash and explosion scene in "Black Hawk Down" they filmed before was shot in Yanjing's studio.
On the surface, the audience absolutely can't imagine how such a big scene could be filmed in the studio?
But it was shot in the studio, and the set was extremely well done, and some special effects were added in the post-production.
This kind of shot, Zhengdong definitely does not have the ability to shoot in the studio at present.
One is that the place is not big enough, and the other is that there is no experience.
Zhou Yi understands these and feels that it is very beneficial to cooperate with large companies, at least it can increase a lot of experience.
This is also the reason why my company does not make blockbusters at present, there were too many good films in my previous life, but without experience, I definitely can't make them. If the effect of shooting is not as good as in the previous life, it is better not to shoot. Now everyone is learning and accumulating experience, and practicing with small crafts.
It is estimated that over the weekend, Zhou Yi will go to Yousheng's studio to shoot this easter egg scene.
Time is really tight, but it's good to be busy during this time.
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