Chapter 313: ATV Whirlwind
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After "A Bite of China" was broadcast on CCTV, it did not cause a huge sensation like later generations, but this is because the network is not as developed as in 2012, and there are various communication tools such as Weibo that can be used, but with the broadcast of this film, it still triggered a craze for watching movies. ww.vm) shared their feelings about the documentary through tools such as QQ, forums, and websites. At the same time, the media also expressed a high degree of attention to this film, which is basically a political task, and when China is preparing to host the Olympic Games, the promotion of the national image has become an important content, because the West has been demonizing China for a long time, and if we promote our country to the people of the West, it is a very difficult problem. Our country's propaganda department is blindly top, and the more others don't like something, the more they want to do it, and they have almost no progress in innovation.
And this time, "A Bite of China" can be regarded as the best thinking development, whether the food appearing in this documentary is high-end or low-grade, expensive or cheap, prestigious, or unknown, this kind of documentary that tells the process of food making zuò while telling the daily life of the Chinese people bypasses ideology and directly hits the unification of the people of the world - that is, eating.
Chinese people have been ignited by this documentary with a certain nostalgia, memory, interest in comparison and examination of their own experiences, and foreign friends are attracted by novel food, and their interest in understanding is born from curiosity. So this documentary, which CCTV itself claims to co-produce with ATV, not only opened up the situation in China, but also had a certain impact on the world. Not only was it accompanied by various foreign Chinese versions broadcast on international channels, but also because of the broadcast of ATV and NHK Japan, the documentary quickly became a hot topic in Asia.
Not to discuss how Japanese and South Korean middle school netizens are engaged in a war of words on the Internet, only a few specific real-world influences - that is, Japan's NHK TV announced that it will produce a documentary "A Bite of Japan" and strive to release it in 2007, and South Korea is not to be outdone by saying that they will also shoot the documentary "A Bite of Korea", and said that because of South Korea's long historical tradition, they will tell Korean historical recipes in the "film". This was collectively complained by Chinese and Japanese netizens that they were going to use the TV lens of "Da Chang Jin" to fill up.
And that's not all. The documentary has also attracted attention in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and other places, and Taiwan immediately announced that it will shoot Taiwanese food promotion programs and will not lose to the mainland. There are also voices of praise from Hong Kong, but there are more many who claim that the entire film was completely shot by ATV, and CCTV has no credit for it, and finally rushed to sign the film by Fang Yunyun, and. This is not just an ordinary voice of a single media, but a large number of media outlets that have gathered to question it. In turn, some newspaper reporters came to ATV to interview them about their views on this statement, and several leaders of ATV were so angry that they were dizzy, but if they kept silent, they were taken by the newspaper to say that they were completely aware of the situation, but they did not dare to say it, and they thought that what they reported was correct.
In the end, ATV had to issue a statement, claiming that "A Bite of China" was the brainchild of Mr. Shen Zhenghui, chairman of the board of directors of ATV, and Mr. Shen wanted to make a documentary that reflected the cuisine of all parts of China, while also documenting the culture of the country. This documentary is hosted by Deputy Director Guo (with resume), who previously served as a high-level figure in CCTV, and at the same time, in the process of filming in the mainland, it did get the assistance and help of CCTV, and CCTV did have a team to join ATV's shooting team, and the two sides did complete the filming of the documentary in the form of cooperation. ATV reserves the right to pursue further action.
However, whether this kind of statement can achieve the effect is not something that ATV can consider. And at this time, CCTV, a pig teammate, took the initiative to announce that they would independently start the filming of the second season of "A Bite of China", of course, they implicitly said that when they chose special food in Hong Kong for filming. Will consider cooperating with ATV. This is simply a direct slap in the face, and for this kind of thing, ATV doesn't know what to say. Deputy Director Guo was so angry that he almost had a cerebral hemorrhage, and he felt that his old face had been completely lost. Shen Zhenghui had to call to comfort him, persuading him that in addition to food documentaries, he could shoot other documentaries or put his mind on other aspects, after all, ATV will be in the future for a long time. It's very stressful to work, and it's not too crowded at all. For CCTV's behavior, don't stick to them for the sake of the leader's face, anyway, filming a documentary burns money and consumes time.
Of course, the person in charge of CCTV also called Deputy Director Guo and Director Wang privately to explain their hardships. First, in terms of propaganda awareness, they are one step behind and have been criticized, and they must try their best to find a way to get back face, and there is a suspicion that there is no distinction between priority and priority if they continue to cooperate with ATV, and CCTV must show that it also has the strength to fight independently; The second is to complain to these two former colleagues that ATV is too faceless and the film is too expensive to sell - according to him, the cost of your shooting is definitely not so much, basically we paid for you, and you yourself paid for it; Third, he even wanted to dig Deputy Director Guo back because he was faced with a huge political task. Of course, Deputy Director Guo naturally cannot hold real power when he goes back, and can only act as an adviser. Deputy Director Guo immediately rejected this.
Another point that CCTV did not explain is that "A Bite of China 1" is the copyright of ATV, CCTV has no overseas distribution rights, and the good results of this film overseas are all ATV's, they are not only distressed about the cost of buying the film, but also the overseas income, so after weighing it, they finally made their own decision.
Shen Zhenghui generously thanked the leader for the call, saying that he could authorize the name "A Bite of China" to CCTV.
Regardless, ATV has earned enough attention. Their main focus is still on profitable projects, and CCTV is also a situation where they have to fight and cooperate.
In addition to continuing to do a good job in the project of "The Voice of Asia", ATV also develops a variety of variety shows, actively learns from South Korea and Japan, and vigorously introduces Japanese and Korean TV dramas in TV dramas, and at the same time develops new genres of Hong Kong dramas, this new genre. It's obviously an adaptation of a web novel.
The Miss Asia beauty pageant was full of controversy from beginning to end, especially the fact that Lin Zhiling, as the hostess, outperformed the vast majority of contestants, which caused countless people to complain, but the more controversial it was, the more it attracted attention and increased the ratings. Zeng Yingdi and Lin Zhiling are a tall and short, fat and thin match, with a hoarse voice and a doll voice. The audience couldn't stop it, and those beauties from the mainland, Japan, and South Korea came to participate in the beauty pageant. It has a curious gaze that really attracts men. In the end, the top three beauty pageants were all signed by ATV, and it was announced that they would soon launch a TV series starring Miss Asia.
This TV series is another time-traveling drama, which is the female-oriented web novel "Step by Step" published in 2005. Shen Zhenghui helped his company advertise again, these beauties can be used as vases or true colors in the TV series, taking advantage of the Qing palace drama to return to popularity.
In addition, another online red book, the production of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" was also put on the production list of ATV, after having a TV station. Shen Zhenghui has achieved great results in promoting it to become an upstream enterprise in the entertainment industry. I also pay more and more attention to the content of my own works, and take the initiative to cooperate with ATV in this regard.
But in the market, ATV is indeed too small, and Shen Zhenghui is seeking to obtain the right to broadcast in the country like Phoenix Satellite TV, but at present, it seems that the difficulty is not ordinary.
On the other hand, ATV's "The Voice of Asia" is unprecedented. The thirty-six trainees were selected by four mentors, and after many rounds of competition, they finally came up with a ranking order that seemed acceptable to everyone. Reiko Kuroki, a singer from Japan, won the third place, and as a contestant who speaks both Mandarin and Cantonese and mainly sings Japanese songs, it is not easy to get this result. But throughout the show, her popularity is always at its highest. Countless boys and girls, mainly boys, were her staunch supporters. She herself is pleasing in appearance, and her singing level is not bad, with her dance moves, she is very standard. Under the leadership of Aunt Miyuki Nakajima, most of the songs selected are Japanese original songs from Chinese cover songs, so that's it. Even the feelings are there.
The first and second place are both male, both of them are from the mainland, and they are both very distinctive types of voices, the second place has a deep and magnetic voice, and the bass of the singing is rich, which makes people feel like drinking and getting drunk; The first place has a high-pitched and loud voice, can sing on a very high scale, and many ordinary songs have a different charm after his interpretation, these two are widely loved by female audiences, and they also conquer some male audiences with their strength. After winning the first and second places, they also entered the music scene with the fame of participating in the show, and began to emerge in various variety shows of ATV.
The program "The Voice of Asia" was very successful, but some Hong Kong media still had to sour, saying that the mentors and singers in the mainland and Japan had stolen the limelight, and the level of contestants in Hong Kong and Taiwan was a lot lower than others, and in addition, even the level of mentors was a lot lower than others. Liu Tianwang has no characteristics, and the students he teaches have no characteristics except for being handsome and singing. Zhou Xiaotianwang is too young after all, singing is a popular level, being a teacher is also a popular level, and his students are basically copies of imitation shows, no matter how you look at them, they look like other famous singers and not like themselves.
Sarcastic aside, the report makes a lot of sense. Although Taiwan and Hong Kong are greatly disparaged, what they say is basically to the point.
However, such a report also aroused the anger of some bystanders, many people called or wrote to ATV, asking for a change of mentor, to change the level of Taiwanese music producer zuò or Hong Kong music producer zuò to participate in "The Voice of Asia", just when ATV responded that it was still considering a new mentor candidate, Liu Tianwang himself couldn't bear the pressure and announced that he would not participate in the third season of "The Voice of Asia". Immediately afterwards, Zhou Tianwang announced that his energy would be mainly focused on film shooting in the future, and he would not participate in the production of the third season of "The Voice of Asia". In an instant, two more positions were vacated for the position of the Mentor, and anyone who had any hope of feeling worthy of this position began to stir.
After a round of urgent consultations, ATV hurriedly announced that Miyuki Nakajima and Professor Liu, the mentors in the third season of "The Voice of Asia", will continue to participate in the recording of the show, which can be regarded as stabilizing half of the people's hearts. Before the start of the third season, ATV was quiet. Keeping silent about the selection of new mentors, this has stimulated the interest of small newspapers, and every day newspapers and magazines are speculating who the mentors will be in the next season, and listing the well-known music producers one by one. Other musicians have to stand half a short time in front of Miyuki Nakajima.
Because of ATV's topicality. Even the overall situation of ATV seems to be better, and a large number of young people who dream of becoming famous overnight rush to ATV. At the same time, TVB, which is limited by the past system and the elderly, seems to be a little powerless in this round of competition. Compared with ATV, every time something is announced, it quickly becomes a hot topic in society and arouses everyone's discussion and attention, TVB's news, whether it is a new TV series or a new actor, does not arouse everyone's interest. Lin Zhiling served as a host on ATV for a period of time, attracting countless men to lock in the program channel she hosted every day, but soon, she said goodbye to the Hong Kong audience on a certain episode of the program. She is not going back to Taiwan, but going north to the mainland to play an important role in Shen Zhenghui's "Magic Apprentice" movie.
This time, it has aroused a new round of attention, and everyone was stunned to find that the first film of Asia's No. 1 commercial director, the first part of "Magic Apprentice", with an investment of 200 million, seems to have seen the news of its release.
At a time when Sony had not yet put into publicity. ATV's inadvertent news leaked out, which suddenly aroused a new focus mainly on Hong Kong audiences: What role does Lin Zhiling play? What happened to Shen Zhenghui's "Magic Apprentice"? What did the first part of the release match with the plot of the novel, and where did it develop? This qiē quickly spread throughout East Asia with the propaganda of Asia Television, and continues to spread unceasingly to the world.
Many people are waiting with some trepidation for the market to test this hugely invested work, not only the general audience, but also those in the industry who are paying close attention to it.
Jack Cheng's son is in charge of the crew. Many times what he does is actually sit on the sidelines and watch other people's performances, watch Shen Zhenghui shoot, and then dress up as a dragon when there are not enough actors. Because there are too few faces of white people in the West, many white crew members of the crew have the experience of playing tricks in movies, even if they are yellow, sometimes they have to dress up and then hang out in front of the camera. That kind of scene of thousands of troops fighting. A lot of the time, they rely on Chinese extras to act, and of course, they have to put on a lot of makeup.
Mario During this time, with more and more familiar performances, he accumulated a stomach of self-doubts, many times he couldn't judge whether his acting was good or bad, he didn't even see what he looked like in the first performance, so he followed Shen Zhenghui's progress to shoot the fourth part in a daze. The junior brother, who has never appeared on the movie screen, feels a little stunned, and sometimes even if the director says that he looks good, he is full of doubts about his performance.
This introverted kid is different from his brother, Marco has a certain heartless attitude, as long as he can appear in front of the camera, he is very happy, and he has no heart to reflect on what he is from beginning to end. Mario is a young man who is a little more literary, although he has been affirmed, but he does not see his own effect, and finally, after playing with a beautiful yellow model, his self-doubt has developed to the extreme. He ran over and said to Shen Zhenghui, "Director, I'm very confused, although you said that I acted very well, but I am not too sure about my performance." ”
This is also the result of Shen Zhenghui's filming too fast, he has not yet felt the love of his character in a certain period of time, and the scene is over.
At the same time, not only Mario, but other signed actors feel the same way. Judging by their own experience, they thought that this series of movies would be like Harry Potter, which took ten or eight years, but who would have thought that Shen Zhenghui didn't want his actors to grow up by then, so he seized the time and didn't let go, he had the movie in his mind after it was formed, so he was not confused about the scene, and he didn't try the possibility of building various scenes, he just copied it step by step in reality according to the movie he had already made in his mind.
This makes those actors who sign contracts according to the schedule rather than according to a single film complain, they themselves know this progress, and they have moved towards more than half a stable progress, according to this speed, 2006 is enough to "shoot" this series of films, of course, as for the post-production, that is another matter. But this speed also makes the actors have some doubts about the quality of the film.
This suspicion was accompanied by this incident of Mario getting a general outburst, and it was not so much that the actors cared about the quality of the film as they cared more about their income. At the beginning, their contract was signed in accordance with the way that the film producer can directly renew the contract for a period of time, and at the time I thought it was very stable, but now it seems to be a big mistake.
So everyone wanted to pause and see the results of the first part. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )