Chapter 149: Strange Rules of the Competition
In March, spring has just begun in Kyoto. The cool spring breeze blows with fresh air, which always provokes pedestrians to stop and take a deep breath.
However, Yu Xian didn't have time to hang out. At this moment, he is in the hotel room arranged by the "Voice of China" column group, staring at the screen of his laptop alone with indifferent and slightly sleepy eyes. Oh no, to be precise, it's a constant move of Hitomi up and down - copying the script in the [Archives].
......In the huge room, only Yu Xian's keyboard tapping sounded a little lonely and desolate.
"Ding Ding ......" Suddenly, Yu Xian's laptop sounded the sound unique to QQ when it received a new message.
"Who?" Yu Xian subconsciously asked, but unfortunately, his laptop was not loaded with any high-end artificial intelligence software and would not answer his question. It doesn't matter, Yu Xian is seeking the answer himself.
Yu Xian moved the mouse to the upper right corner, and the hidden QQ window pulled down, and the top dialog box was the sender of the new message - Li Ling.
"Da-da." Yu Xian double-clicked the mouse, Li Ling's dialog box popped up, and then, a message forwarded by Li Ling appeared in front of Yu Xian's eyes.
"We have received your copy of Love Apartment. After negotiation, it was decided that Pilgrimage Entertainment would support and help you obtain the broadcast rights of the TV station, however, due to the subject matter, Pilgrimage Entertainment required to watch the first two installments of "Love Apartment" before deciding the amount of investment funds. It is now expected that the total investment capital will not exceed one million. ”
After reading this piece of news feedback from Pilgrimage Entertainment, Yu Xian finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although Shengchao Entertainment is obviously not optimistic about "Love Apartment", this is reasonable and natural.
In Yu Xian's previous life, Wang Yuan and Wei Zheng, who created "Love Apartment", also faced a similar situation. Or rather, but a difficult situation.
Although the title of this film is "Love Apartment", its plot does not completely revolve around love, but "tells the story that young people will experience". In addition, unlike the single-line model of previous TV sitcoms in China, "Love Apartment" is a multi-line life group drama, and when you read the beginning, especially the script, it will give people a very messy feeling.
All in all, in the final result, it seems that Shengchao Entertainment can show that it will support and help you obtain the broadcast rights of the TV station, and there is a certain amount of investment capital injection, which is already good.
Not more than a million? One million, for a TV series with more than 40 minutes per episode and 20 episodes in a quarter, it is too little, too little, and it will be consumed in minutes. But well...... Compared with Yu Xian's previous life, the original creators only received 700,000 start-up funds, and even the filming locations were rented abandoned huts. From this point of view, it is enough.
The subject matter is novel, but this does not mean that it will be successful, which is what Pilgrimage Entertainment has always been determined to be. If it weren't for the precedent of the online comedy "Never Expected", I'm afraid Yu Xian would have to roll up his sleeves and stuff his head and do it alone like when he filmed "Never Expected".
"Roger." Yu Xian let out a long sigh, typed these two words with his keyboard and sent them over, and then closed the dialog box.
After a while, Yu Xian reopened the originally closed dialog box and added: "When I finish the game, let's go back to the magic capital to discuss publicity, casting and filming." ”
"Okay."
Seeing Li Ling's affirmative reply, Yu Xian breathed a sigh of relief, finally relieved his heart, and closed the dialog box again.
The difficulty of filming "Love Apartment" is much higher than the difficulty of filming "Never Expected", in order not to destroy the original work, Yu Xian decided that this time he would personally handle it.
"Knock knock!"
Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.
"Who?" Yu Xian saw the laptop closed, shouted and asked, and walked to the door.
"Me." This is Jay Zou's voice.
"It's you, mentor, what's the matter?" Yu Xian opened the door and invited Jay Zou in.
"It's about the finals of "The Voice of China"." Jay Zou gets straight to the point, "Like the promotion competition within the team, the mentor and the students have to sing a song together. ”
"Oh...... It's the opening show again, huh? Yu Xian gave up his seat, made a "please" gesture, and motioned for Jay Zou to come in. After all, it's not okay to stand at the door and talk about it.
After Yu Xian closed the door, he walked to the coffee table, picked up a bag of tea bags given by the hotel and put them in the teacup, and when he wanted to flush the water, he found that he was too lazy to boil the water, and there was only air and a small amount of water vapor in the kettle. It's a little embarrassing.
"No need to pour tea." Jay Zou waved his hand and declined, "This time it's not a performance, it's within the scope of the schedule." ”
"Within the schedule?" Yu Xian couldn't help but be a little suspicious.
"Yes. The requirements for the first round of the finals are: each student and his team's mentor sing a complete song together, and then 31 media or companies invited by the "The Voice of China" column group will comment and vote, and the two students with the most votes will directly advance to the top four of this season's "The Voice of China". The remaining four contestants will be drawn by lot on the big screen to compete in pairs to determine the other two semi-finals. Jay Zou briefly described the general schedule of the game to Yu Xian in as calm a tone as possible, with a sense of dissatisfaction and helplessness in his tone.
Dissatisfaction and frustration? That's right!
"The Voice of China" is a music talent show, the protagonists are the participating students, and the tutors are just seasoning supplies. If there is a cooperation between mentors and participants in the previous competitions, this is acceptable.
However, this time it was in the finals, and it wasn't the opening performance that had nothing to do with the game, but whether or not to advance!
Different instructors have different styles, strengths and strengths, and the same is true for the students under their command. Yu Xian and Jay Zou are okay here, Yu Xian is an all-rounder, and there are inexhaustible resources in terms of songs.
In addition, "each student sings a complete song with the leader of their team". Compared with Na Sakura, who has three contestants who have reached the finals, Jay Cou, Wang Feng, and Geng Chengqing can be said to have picked up a big bargain for nothing.
At first glance, this strange game rule seems to be invisibly biased towards Yu Xian's side. However, for some reason, Yu Xian always felt hairy and uncomfortable.
Because the judges of this round are not the four mentors, nor the audience live or in front of the TV, but "the invited thirty-one media or companies".