Although Cheng Qian was caught by Huang Yuan in the form of catching a strong man, but taking other people's hands short and eating other people's soft mouths, Huang Yuan specially gave him a gift for this matter, and Cheng Qian was not perfunctory, so he couldn't help but be shocked after reading Liang Yu's script with the idea of "pointing out a few key mistakes to the other party".

Because Huang Yuan sent this script to him in the form of a fax, he did not urge Cheng Qian, considering that Cheng Qian, as a professional screenwriter, also has his own job, so he asked him to give a revision as soon as possible. But when he received a call from Cheng Qian a few hours later, he was still taken aback.

"Hey, Ah Yuan, what's going on with this manuscript you recommended!" The other party's tone was fiery.

Hearing the first sentence of the question, Huang Yuan couldn't help but be stunned, could it be that Liang Yu's script was very bad? No, he read it when he received it from Liang Yu before, and it looks pretty good. However, considering that he is a layman, maybe in the eyes of Cheng Qian, an insider, there is a lot of omission, so with an attitude of calming things and appeasing, he asked softly: "What's the matter, Lao Qian, didn't I tell you, this author is still a female high school student in school, and she has been engaged in the original painting of comic stories before, and she has never written a script, so some mistakes are inevitable, and your requirements can't be set too high from the beginning." ”

"Why not!" Cheng Qian seemed to feel that his tone was a little too rushed, and Huang Yuan on the other side of the phone showed a dissatisfied voice, so he examined himself, and then said: "No, I don't mean that, I mean that this kid who writes scripts is really a genius!" ”

"Do you mean this in a positive or negative sense?" Huang Yuan asked suspiciously on the other side of the phone.

"Of course it's a compliment!"

Hearing him say this, Huang Yuan smiled reassuringly: "Hahaha, I said that my vision will definitely not be wrong, how about it, Lao Qian, from your professional point of view, is there a drama in this script?" ”

"There is a play, of course there is a play. Although I would like to say this, the real decision on whether to adopt the script or not depends on the director and the sponsor's representatives, as well as the quality of other scripts. ”

The first half of Cheng Qian's sentence made Huang Yuan's heart bloom, and the second half of the sentence brought him back to reality. Huang Yuan smiled bitterly: "I have some kind words for you, but the result is to take off your pants and fart." ”

"Don't mind, I'm serious." Cheng Qian picked up the script draft on the table, looked through it carefully, and said: "Not to mention anything else, in my professional eyes, the most direct way to judge the quality of a script is whether it sells well or not, and whether it attracts the attention of others." This is the basis of all actions, and then subdivided, it can be divided into three elements: character, plot, and theme. ”

In the case of this "idol" joint project, the main story is the story of the nine heroines of Otonogi Hakuin Gakuin who challenge the stage called LoveLive and grow up to win the championship. Because this is a semi-propositional script format, everyone will naturally associate with the story of who the opponent is, what kind of difficulties they encountered, how to overcome these enemies, and then triumph all the way, and finally defeat a strong opponent and win the championship.

The same template can be applied to Koshien, green field, basketball hall, mahjong table, anyway, it tells the story of idols, everyone pays attention to the cute idols, and those beautiful costumes, so the plot of fighting with the opponent is simply the royal road in the royal road.

It can be said that if Cheng Qian was asked to write this story (although the script he is good at is not this type, but a hard-core theme), he will basically write a similar story, but the script he just read is not the same, it gives a reason that has almost nothing to do with idols, and abolish the school.

Because the number of students is decreasing year by year, the old school Otonogihan Academy is facing the crisis of abandonment, and the naïve heroine Takasaka Honogo tries to find a solution to the problem in order to avoid the crisis of abandonment of the school, and when she sees A-Rise's performance, she is determined to become an idol of the academy to save the school she loves so much.

This is extremely unreliable at first glance, because the name of the story is called LoveLive, which has nothing to do with the theme for a long time, but deviates from the course and cannot quickly enter the topic, which is a big taboo for the script writer itself, but if you scrutinize it carefully, you find that it is not, because the important reasons and opponents of the story here have been reasonably debuted, which is also what surprised Cheng Qian, Huang Yuan said that this author is writing a script for the first time, although inexperienced and slightly imaginative, It's unexpectedly shrewd, and those mentioned above are not necessarily disadvantages, under the excellent coordination ability of the other party, some places that were originally looked like shortcomings have played a huge foreshadowing role in the middle and late stages of the script.

The story is gradual, and the second thing that surprised Cheng Qian was that the setbacks came unexpectedly fast and unexpectedly big.

With the efforts of Sui Naiguo and them, the first live performance of her and Haiye Xiaoniao was officially launched on the day of the admission of new students, but despite the hard work in practice and handing out flyers in advance, the carefully prepared audience was empty, which made Cheng Qian dumbfounded. According to his experience, this kind of story that is joyful in itself rarely abuses the protagonist so explicitly, although tears and frustration are also part of youth, but this must be risky, you have to take into account that some people don't watch it because the plot is too abusive, and some people will say that you deliberately create tears and hypocrisy, so generally speaking, when the screenwriter deals with this situation, many of them come to such a plot near the end after a large period of foreshadowing, to create a climax atmosphere, but you actually do it directly at the beginning of the story, simply don't give yourself a way to live.

But it turned out that the other party's ability to shape the characters and control the plot once again played a role, not only making this seemingly collapsed plot the most important node in the connection, but also really unveiling the curtain of LoveLive, just like Honoka's oath to the empty auditorium: "One day, we will fill this place." ”

Seeing this sentence, Cheng Qian knew very well that there would definitely be a line in the future script that reflected this sentence, and a vein had already unfolded in front of his eyes.

"Just these 3 plots have made me understand how strong this author's ability is to plan the plot, and she also has extraordinary skills in creating a tense atmosphere and setting off emotions, but what really surprised me was her ability to shape the characters."

There are many TV movies with idols as the theme, and animation is not without precedent, but the real difficulty lies in how to use the limited time to reflect the personality of idols and make the audience hooked on them. In the past, the practice was to try to reduce the number of characters as much as possible, because there were many people, the time and shots allocated to each character would be reduced accordingly, and then "events" were created to highlight the personality.

But there are 9 roles planned for this project, and it is simply a difficult thing to make each character deduce his own personality, but Liang Yu did it, she brought out the vivid side of every member of the muse through the organic combination of events and plots, so that the characters who were not masked, only sketches and existing in the script, really appeared in front of Cheng Gan's eyes.

He couldn't figure it out a little, how could such a shaping ability be created by a novice who has never written a script, but if it is a reader of "Chess Soul", this will definitely not be surprising, to say that Liang Yu's words, the two points of character emotion and plot contradictions are officially what she is best at.

Finally, what I want to talk about is her arrangement for the main line.

"I don't know how to judge her design, if it's a director who appreciates her, she will regard this as a genius idea, if it's a conservative, maybe she will treat this as useless garbage," Cheng Qian said on the phone with Huang Yuan: "The most important LoveLive has only appeared three times from beginning to end, and the opponent is only A-Rise, I don't know if this is a subversion of the past, but how to say it, I personally still highly recommend such a script." ”

Cheng Qian promised to help Liang Yu continue to refine the script, and divide the episodes according to the original script, many components are not qualified enough, what Cheng Qian has to do is to improve it. However, Huang Yuan could hear from his voice that Cheng Qian, who took the initiative to ask for this, did not have any far-fetched dissatisfaction, but seemed very excited, perhaps in his opinion, this was a quite meaningful job.

Maybe it can be done.

This is what Huang Yuan really felt after putting down the phone.