Attention and ratings are not always better.

People in the entertainment industry and people in the media industry must understand this.

Only by staying calm and having a clear understanding of your own works can you better play the entertainment industry, ignoring everything to pursue "big and happy" may not be a good thing, you must have the corresponding ability to keep up.

Like Fuji TV, there has always been such a tendency after 2013, the short-sighted pursuit of profit by the management, so that Fuji TV always hopes to create wonderful programs overnight and create higher ratings, for which they do not hesitate to invest a lot of things, but unfortunately, this expectation often cannot be transformed into wonderful.

It's like Fuji TV's TV series, the ratings have bottomed out again and again, refreshing the audience's patience, in fact, the audience's patience with Fuji TV is very high, almost every time the first episode of Fuji TV's new drama has achieved very good results, but unfortunately Fuji TV has disappointed the audience again and again, and the decrease in ratings is a result of their continuous squandering of the audience's trust.

Zhou Xiao is most afraid of this, especially in this time period.

There is one thing he thinks he is very good, that is, most of the time he is relatively calm, he will try to deal with problems from a calm perspective, such as the current situation, if you are another producer, after ten years of such a legendary life, your confidence in yourself is probably unimaginable, but Zhou Xiao is not the case, he has always remembered one thing clearly, that is, all his achievements come from his experience in his previous life.

It is precisely because of this that he has not lost his cool but carefully examines his results.

He knows very well that during this time period in July 2013, no media and television person in the world can take it over unscathed, because his previous work was "Naoki Hanzawa", which got an average of more than 35%. A legendary episode with almost 50% of the final ratings! Such an achievement is a legend that cannot be replicated even if the current situation creates heroes, even if the successor is Zhou Xiao, even if the same lineup is repeated, this number is equally brilliant and cannot be surpassed.

There is no one before, and there is basically no one who will come after.

Zhou Xiao, who knows this very well. Why raise the audience's expectations, the quality of the drama "Sorry Youth" is very good, the content also has a certain depth, and more importantly, the presentation of the drama is interesting, and there is no unhappiness in the whole drama.

But it is precisely because of this that the seriousness of this drama is far less than that of "big dramas" like "Hanzawa Naoki", "main drama", this drama will be liked by many people, but to be honest. He can't be compared with "Naoki Hanzawa".

People will always have their own preferences, even if Zhou Xiao's works are well-known in the Japanese entertainment industry for their changeable style, and the audience has already been mentally prepared, you can't expect those who like the seriousness of "Hanzawa Naoki" to like the light-hearted humor of "Sorry Youth".

It is impossible for the audience to get along with their own preferences, if Zhou Xiao uses the influence of "Naoki Hanzawa" in the last quarter to make a fuss, and deceives the audience who once liked the layout to stay in front of the TV to wait for his new drama, once the audience is disappointed, the situation may be even worse.

The relationship between the quality of the work and the level of expectation is very subtle, if you have extremely high quality but not a high level of attention. It is likely that the work will not be publicized enough and will not receive enough attention in the end.

But if you have a very high level of attention, the quality is insufficient. When the audience is disappointed, they are likely to smash your sign.

Attention and strength need to match each other, otherwise, either the work will not become popular, or it will be evaluated as a big disappointment, and it will get more attacks that it shouldn't have.

Since the announcement of "Sorry Youth", Zhou Xiao has stayed on the show with AKB girls. On these shows, he almost always made the same statement: "This drama is my game with the AKB members, and it is a gift from them before they graduate, please don't expect too much from the quality of this drama, I want to do it." I'm just teaching Maeda Oshima and the rest of the AKB what I know about being a human being. ”

Repeated reiteration of this has helped, and the attention of "Sorry Youth" is still very high, but people no longer expect the ratings of "Sorry Youth" like "Naoki Hanzawa", which expects "50% ratings".

The expectation has dropped, but the attention has always been there, so it has caused a very delicate situation, everyone is still paying attention to the drama "Sorry Youth", but the focus has changed from the expectation of the quality of this drama to the expectation of Zhou Xiao, and what everyone is looking forward to is not to see Zhou Xiao's extremely wonderful performance, everyone is just curious, curious about what kind of achievements Zhou Xiao, a man who has been a director and producer for so many years, will make in the role of the leading actor.

In the attention of countless people, the time finally entered July, and on the night of the episode's broadcast, countless people were sitting in front of the TV, waiting for Zhou Xiao's TV series to be staged.

Even ordinary people, on the night of the broadcast, in the villa that Zhou Xiao specially bought for the girls, more than 30 girls who had no work at night gathered in the movie screening hall here, and "formed a group" to wait for Zhou Xiao's new drama.

This even includes two starring roles in Maeda Oshima.

What would the thirty-odd young girls do in an environment that is already considered another home, without having to worry about reporters and cameras? Kindness...... Especially when there is an unrestrained woman like Yuko Oshima in this group of girls......

Let's not talk about anything else, let's just talk about Yuko's state at this time, can you put the mask on first...... Sitting at the front of the theater, did she tease the girls around her, looking like she would jump in front of the screen at any time to take off. Clothing. Dance......

……

Well, she can't actually dance this dance, because she can't take it off at all!

Maeda is much more reserved than Yuko, she just sits there laughing and watching Yuko play treasure.

"Yuko-san! Why didn't Brother Zhou Xiao come today!? In the back row, Nana Owada asked.

This girl can be regarded as an actress's debut, in the drama "Naoki Hanzawa", she does not appear much, each episode is only about less than a minute, and only two or three lines. However, the popularity of a drama, especially the current state, its popularity is all-round, especially the girl Owada Nanna is still quite topical, her surname is just right, and she was born. As soon as she entered the group, she was called a top-notch appearance, which brought her a lot of help.

Especially AKB rice, there are few people who don't know Owada now.

Owada's girl is very innocent and cute, so in the team, whether it is Takahashi Minami, Oshima Yuko or Maeda Atsuko likes her very much, in fact, such a cute girl, I am afraid that she has spent her time in people's love and pampering from childhood to adulthood.

Owada, who is innocent and quite free, has no stage fright. When she saw Zhou Xiao, she could talk to Zhou Xiao very easily, and when she saw Maeda Oshima, she dared to go over and pat the heads of these seniors and even pinch their faces.

For example, now, when the girls such as Miin Mukai next to her are a little nervous and afraid to talk to the seniors in front of her, she can stand up and ask the seniors questions loudly.

"Little Na Niang likes Brother Zhou Xiao so much, can't we have us? Moreover, are you sure that your current state can see Zhou Xiao? Yuko asked.

That mother was wearing a pink one-piece pajamas at this time. But it seems that because of the relationship with the members just now, the clothes are already a little crooked. In fact, not only her, but also a few well-dressed members in the entire screening room, this state cannot be seen by any man.

In this villa, which has been regarded as a girl's home, the only man who is most likely to come is Zhou Xiao, and even Zhou Xiao, except for the initial period of time. By now he had to inform the girls before he came, otherwise he would have seen too many things in this villa that were not suitable for being seen.

If you want to ask the girls themselves, they may not mind showing Brother Zhou Xiao, but that is in a separate situation, in the presence of other people. Then it would be too shy to show Zhou Xiao directly.

"Of course I like Yuko-san, too! But...... Didn't he say he wanted to teach us something? The girl asked.

"It's to teach you something, but the thing to be taught is already in the series, so he doesn't need to come over in person, so you just have to watch it." Yuko said.

Hearing Yuko say this, Owada sat down with some disappointment and focused on the screen from the beginning.

In the anticipation of the girls, "Sorry Youth" has finally begun.

Zhou Xiao, who played the actor Hara Heisuke, appeared in front of the camera with a gentle face.

"Hahaha, obviously there has never been such an expression in reality!" The girls complained.

Zhou Xiao is a person, it can never be said that he is a carnivorous man, but after working in the entertainment industry for so many years, he is definitely not the kind of otaku in his previous life, he has a literary tone or something, a teacher-like temperament or something, it is rare here in Zhou Xiao, and the experience of many years of top artists has made him very imposing now, and he will never expose his weakness in his usual work. That's why the members complained about the role he played in the series at this time.

The plot is moving forward little by little, Zhou Xiao's character, the plot of the episode, etc. are revealed little by little, five minutes before the start of the episode, the girls in the screening room will still chatter a little, but as the plot progresses, everyone gradually quiets down.

The plot of the drama "Sorry Youth" is also very attractive, the various bonds between the monk boys' school and the Catholic girls' school, with the story of Zhou Xiao and Maeda Oshima, make the most obvious feature of the series is that it is very informative, although there is nothing surprising about the story in essence.

It's nothing more than an imperative merger, plus some resistance, telling some truths, attacking a few people, and then advancing the merger plot normally, but for a TV series with only ten episodes, the content is already very sufficient after a main line and some subplots.

What's really good is the fun of the series, under normal circumstances, Zhou Xiao, who has always been the controller of the MC, plus the boys in his class who seem to be free-spirited, with strong men and gangster roles, are a group of boys who are bullied very thoroughly in the series.

In addition to them, unlike in his previous life, Zhou Xiao focused on actresses, after all, this is his work for the members.

Yuko Oshima is also well prepared, during the filming, she took a group of girls, plus other actors, and completely abandoned her image and went crazy, pretending to be stupid and complaining without taboos. The girls who did not participate in the recording of the TV series watched the eyebrows flying, and the joyful laughter of the girls continued to sound in the screening room.

What amazed the girls even more was the performance of Maeda and Yuko.

Especially Yuko.

Ah Chan appeared in the memory plot in the first episode, and the girl's performance was quite amazing, and the pure and cute appearance of the girls also frequently shouted cuteness.

But Yuko's performance in the first episode made people really feel a little scared.

In the previous life Jin Hu Liang's version of "Sorry Youth", Hikaru Mitsushima's interpretation of the heroine is actually perfect, even if it is Zhou Xiao. I didn't expect Yuko's performance in this drama to reach this level, during the filming of the series, Yuko showed a completely different level of preparation from Maeda Zhou Xiao and even the entire crew at the beginning.

She prepared every shot and every performance of her very perfectly, maybe during the filming process, for various reasons, she couldn't be perfect every time, but even the most layman can see that outside of filming, this girl must have made a lot of preparations for this drama. This can support her to have such a perfect shooting performance.

In the series, Yuko completely liberated herself, her laughter and scolding were unrestrained and free, in fact, sometimes the sudden outburst of girls during the filming would startle Zhou Xiao a lot, and Yuko's performance beyond imagination even made Zhou Xiao laugh many times and had to reshoot some shots.

The broadcast continued, and when the plot was halfway through, the girls in the screening room whispered their opinions on the show: "Brother Zhou Xiao and the two seniors performed very well, and the plot was also very good. ”

"But I'm halfway through the episode. According to the general habit of TV dramas, it should be serious to tell stories later. ”

The girls' understanding of Japanese TV dramas is quite good. Generally, Japanese TV dramas will indeed start to tell stories and reason when they are halfway through the series, but Zhou Xiao's drama is a little different, the drama has been advancing the plot from the beginning, and even after the drama is halfway through, the interest in the whole plot has not decreased at all.

Heisuke Hara meets Yuko Oshima. I recalled Ah-chan again, and when we were discussing the merger, I proposed that each school should pick out a class as an attempt to merge.

It wasn't until the end of the episode that he finally gathered the boys in his class and started the "first lesson" in the episode.

In Ryo Nishikito's "Sorry Youth" in the previous life, the theme of the protagonist's lecture here is "Lose face as soon as possible." Courage to face your own ideas", this theme is not only for AKB girls, but also for girls who are interested in becoming idols, but have not taken that step.

Although Zhou Xiao was lecturing to the boys, the girls in the entire screening room in the villa were also quiet, and they could tell that Zhou Xiao was not only talking to the boys on TV, but also to the girls in AKB.

In the "course", the content of his speech has changed slightly.

"The leap from zero to one is far more difficult than from one to one hundred, if you always think about safety first, think about the same to respond to all changes, the final result can only be no change."

"Seventy percent of East High School students will become silent after graduation, because they can't communicate with women normally, and eventually their bodies will collapse, lose their hair, miss the age of marriage, have no friends, and the only text messages they receive when they come back to their senses are invitations from the East High School Alumni Association......"

"I'm not a teacher now, but a senior to tell you, if you lose face, it's better to be early!"

Zhou Xiao's words made the girls in the screening room nod.

The entire first episode of "Sorry Youth" boils down to the core concept of "losing face as soon as possible", and Zhou Xiao completed it all with a story and a lesson.

For the countless ordinary viewers in front of the TV and even the girls of AKB, this class was also very beneficial for them.

Especially the girls of AKB, unlike ordinary people, they are actually people who have already taken that step, and when most of the girls who want to be idols hesitate not to take their own step, they have bravely handed out their audition applications and entered the national group AKB48 after layers of screening.

This step alone is actually very brave.

But because of this brave step, they actually have a deeper understanding of Zhou Xiao's course, and they know that Zhou Xiao is praising their courage to take that step, and at the same time encouraging them to take another step.

The meaning of Zhou Xiao's lesson for them has changed from "taking the first brave step" to ordinary people: "Since they have already taken the most difficult step, what is there to hesitate about the second and third steps?" ”

Everyone's perspective on things is different, and Zhou Xiao's purpose is ...... reached.

The episode quickly progressed to the end, Zhou Xiao took fifteen boys to the Three Girls High School, and saw the true side of the girls, and the first episode of "Sorry Youth" ended after another big twist.

The girls in the screening room couldn't help but applaud, and although it was only the first episode, the vast majority of the girls felt that they had fallen in love with the show! (To be continued......)