Chapter 6: A Mission That Seems Impossible
The scene in front of him made Xiao Yuxuan can't help but think of the past.
His wife hates him for smoking, which is not only expensive but also bad for his health. Because of smoking, his wife quarreled with him many times, so he tried not to smoke at home.
In order to persuade him to quit smoking, his wife reasoned with facts and nagged countless times, what is for the sake of children, money, health, etc., and even equates quitting smoking with love.
He couldn't understand his wife's strange logic, and he couldn't find a reason to convince himself to quit smoking, and even when he was seriously ill, he would occasionally light one.
It's like a very ironic painting, the person in the painting sits on a chair, caress his forehead with his left hand, holds a cigarette in his right hand, spits smoke rings in his mouth, and scatters many cigarette butts on the ground, but thinks about the ultimate meaning - how to quit this cigarette?
Is it hard to quit smoking?
It's not hard!
Because he has quit smoking, more than once, he has also satisfied his wife for various reasons.
He quit for a year for love, but love didn't stop smoking a little more; He quit for a year for his children, but he didn't make his children better off just because he quit smoking; He also quit for half a year in order to save money, but he didn't have more money in his pocket because he quit smoking; He is for the sake of health...... Well, he didn't quit smoking for the sake of health, because that didn't make sense anymore.
Whether he was making excuses for himself or not, he felt that smoking was one and the only luxury he could get in the days when there seemed to be no hope.
At this time, if his wife finds herself lying in bed smoking, and dares to stain the bedside table and quilt, a stinking scold is inevitable, and she must have pointed at him angrily at the beginning and asked, "Where did you get the courage to smoke in bed?!" β
Familiar recipes, familiar tastes.
Xiao Yuxuan's stress reaction as always was to get up quickly and carefully pack up the "incriminating evidence".
But this time, staring at the cigarette butts and the traces of soot on the quilt, I didn't hear the familiar scolding, but I was not used to it.
"Slut!" Xiao Yuxuan scolded himself in disappointment.
Light a cigarette, always want to see your face clearly, and suddenly discover: this cigarette, don't quit!
Outside, it was gray, gloomy and cold.
Xiao Yuxuan walked out of the guest house, habitually buttoned up his sweatshirt and hat, and found a random noodle restaurant on the street to fill his stomach before walking back to the TV station building.
With the sound of footsteps from near and far, people passed by in the corridor from time to time, the men were glamorous, the women were beautiful, different from Xiao Yuxuan's out-of-place dress.
Ignoring those scary or puzzled eyes, Xiao Yuxuan walked straight to the recording studio.
All right! The inner room has been occupied, and through the soundproof glass, you can see that there are three people busy inside, and one of the backs is the master Zhou Xianjun.
Xiao Yuxuan didn't rush in to say hello.
There are also workbenches and many musical instruments in the outside of the studio, but the sound insulation is not as good as the inside.
Xiao Yuxuan sat down directly in front of the only piano outside, and there was a movable table on the side of the piano, which was convenient for writing without affecting playing the piano.
Xiao Yuxuan took out a stack of papers from his backpack, which was given to Xiao Yuxuan by Director Liu Peng yesterday, according to Director Liu Peng: "This is my simple idea of the interlude soundtrack, you can take a look first...... The specific ones can be talked about in detail, and they can even be communicated in combination with the edited episode plot. β
Xiao Yuxuan looked at it a few times, wondering if Director Liu Peng had made a mistake, and directly took the script over - good guy! This is estimated to be twenty smaller?
Fortunately, it is not printed on the front and back!
Even so, you tell me it's just a simple idea?
Xiao Yuxuan pouted - Teacher Liu really didn't treat himself as an outsider!
Putting away his complaining thoughts, Xiao Yuxuan looked at it from the beginning.
The first part is the background and story synopsis of the whole play, and after watching it, you can make up the context of the plot: the setting of two female protagonists and two male protagonists, there is a family and a country, a court and a river and lakes, oppression and resistance, thunder and tenderness, a love costume idol drama that interweaves all kinds of love and hatred.
What blood!
After a cursory reading, Xiao Yuxuan was not interested in this part.
The screenwriter has the essence of "sadism".
Next, it comes to the "simple ideas" part of the interlude and soundtrack, first of all, the detailed description of the scene, and in some places even the use of the sub-scenes can be explained clearly, and then point out what the purpose of the interlude and soundtrack is, what kind of feelings you want to express, and what the effect you expect to present......
After reading it, Xiao Yuxuan was speechless.
It's so easy enough!
Elementary school students will do simple math - not counting the ending song, a full six interludes, two soundtracks!
In fact, how did Xiao Yuxuan know that this was the detailed requirements and list that Liu Peng sorted out when he asked a special music studio to help create interludes and soundtracks, and gave him a reference by the way.
Liu Peng didn't think about replacing the entire set of music including the opening and ending songs, the music studio has paid in full, and if it is reproduced here, it will definitely incur costs, no matter how losers can settle this account, where is there no money that is not used as money?
This is just a matter of cost, but also to consider the factor of time, three days to write six interludes, two soundtracks and three ending songs, Liu Peng is just naΓ―ve, he doesn't think Xiao Yuxuan can do it.
Besides, the substitution of interludes and soundtracks means that the corresponding places have to be re-edited, which affects the whole body...... It's not much work.
In the end, even if you don't consider the cost and time factors, the music studio has cooperated many times, replaced all the songs, and when the TV series is released, people will see: Okay! The custom music part is all shot! Isn't that offending?
This kind of thing of spending money to find guilt and offend people, Liu Peng will definitely not do it!
It just so happened that Xiao Yuxuan was busy arranging the music for "You Are the Wind, I am the Sand" at that time, and Liu Peng did not explain.
So, the misunderstanding arose.
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Xiao Yuxuan brushed his forehead, closed his eyes and rubbed his temples: Counting the soundtrack is 8 songs, at this time, if you create a new one, 1 capital is very difficult, and this is still under the premise of not considering the effect.
It seems that the only way to rely on the "exclusive music library" is to rely on it, but the question is, can you match the right songs?
Even if you match it, if you can't remember the lyrics or tunes clearly, you have to fill it in slowly, can you keep the level in your memory?
Even if none of this is a problem, based on yesterday's experience, even if you remember almost all the lyrics, you can still sing them, but it's not easy to just get the score out, let alone arrange it.
It took almost 6 hours to make the MIDI version of "You Are the Wind and I am the Sand", which means that you can only get 4 MIDI songs at most without eating or sleeping 24 hours a day.
What about the post-production process?
Don't dare to think!
The only consolation is that, as Mr. Liu Peng said...... A whole drama has 52 episodes, 2 episodes are broadcast every day, and if the opening and ending songs are solved, you can record them in the order in which they appear, and then re-edit the parts of the episode that need to be replaced, only in this way will things not be delayed.
This is the only solution to this problem!
If you follow this logic, the first thing you should do is to get the brief score out, and then the arrangement work can be coordinated by Mr. Liu to coordinate with professional musicians to be responsible, and you can put forward some opinions based on the version in your memory.
As for the rest, let Mr. Liu have a headache!
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Just do it!
Xiao Yuxuan took out a pen from his backpack and carefully looked at the description related to the first episode:
The song is written about one of the heroines of the play, that is, the twelve princesses of the royal family...... As the emperor's favorite princess, she has not been afraid of heaven and earth since she was a child, and regards the rules as nothing...... In front of the emperor is a good girl, and behind the emperor is a rakshasa. Follow the great Confucian study for many years, write like a chicken crawling, fight big words can not read a basket, do not love red clothes love arms, rely on the kung fu of the three-legged cat, go to the house to uncover the tiles, go into the water to catch fish, turn out of the palace to fight and cause trouble is more common, is the Kyoto gentleman of the "Kyoto tyrant".
Xiao Yuxuan thought for a moment, and his eyes lit up - this song should be very appropriate!
Directly turned the paper over, and quickly wrote the song title "There is a Girl" on the back, and before he could write a few sentences, Xiao Yuxuan had a headache again - forgot the words!
It doesn't matter that much.
If you forget the words, make it up yourself, anyway, the general impression is in, just pay attention to the overall style and rhyme!
While constantly pondering the "fill-in-the-blank questions", I played the piano keys a few times from time to time to proofread the corresponding melodies and tunes.
Xiao Yuxuan was busy for most of the time, and a song "There is a Girl" was freshly baked, and then he wrote down the key signature beat 1=D4/4, with cheerful and naughty feelings, and marked the part of the change of key in the simple score, and then remarked below: The arrangement can be made with musical elements such as grand piano, flute, electric bass, and bass drums.
Although there is a difference between using the piano to make accompaniment and playing the sheet music directly with the piano, Xiao Yuxuan still played the sheet music directly and felt quite satisfied.
Next, "There is a Girl" came to an end, and Xiao Yuxuan began to work on the production of the second interlude.
The second episode is about Liu Ruyu, another heroine of this play.
Liu Ruyu was born in a down-and-out scholarly family, since he was a child, he was frail and sickly but loved poetry, calligraphy and painting, and gradually had a lot of attainments in this, "the heart is more than the dry, and the illness is better than three points" may be the best interpretation of Liu Ruyu, in line with the imagination of "classical beauty".
The theme of this episode is to describe the haze of the beginning of love, and the scenes presented are: the night is slight, the white moonlight is swaying quietly, the crystal dew is clinging to the serenity, Liu Ruyu stands in front of the window, looking into the distance......
The sense of the picture is very strong, is there any song suitable for humming softly in the quiet of the night, singing that kind of tactful imagination?
Xiao Yuxuan searched his stomach and scraped his stomach, but he helplessly found that most of the most familiar ones were about breaking up, either they were bitter and aggrieved, or they were reluctant to give up their words, or they were heartbreaking and betrayal...... Anyway, all kinds of disease-free moaning, complaining about the sky, complaining about the air.
I'm so hard!
Xiao Yuxuan thought of that expression in this situation: one eye was covered by his hand, and the other eye was full of tears, so he asked you if I was crying or laughing?
Xiao Yuxuan leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and tried to slowly empty his head!
"I want to say I love you out loud"? ..... No way! What about yelling in the middle of the night to scare ghosts?
"Sand in a Bottle"? ..... No way! It's about memories and not expectations!
"The Rose of Shame Blooms Quietly"? β¦β¦ No way! The description of roses is so modern! Besides, just remember the title of the song and the first lyrics, and the first lyrics are the title of the song, which means that the words and songs are remembered, pass!
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Hazy expectations are always beautiful, imagining that expectation, the corners of Xiao Yuxuan's mouth slowly turned up, humming a brisk melody: "The lake is your eyes......"
Uh, what's next?
Regardless of the lyrics, Xiao Yuxuan hummed the tune gently, there may be some places in the back that do not match the original, but there is no problem overall.
At least it's perfect for a person to hum softly and hope quietly.
What? You say there's a little sadness in the brisk music?
Don't bother to pay attention to you, isn't it the most correct way to open the lovesickness with hazy feelings?
Finally having the best solution, Xiao Yuxuan sat up straight, picked up the pen, and wrote the first lyrics: The lake is your eyes.
If the previous "There is a Girl" was a fill-in-the-blank question, then this one is an essay question.
The picture in his mind continued to scroll, and the pen in Xiao Yuxuan's hand no longer paused:
The lake is your eyes, twinkling with stars; The night breeze wakes up the smile and blooms with endless tenderness; There is a dusty door in my heart, waiting for the one who opens it, the ancient and beautiful legend, the vicissitudes of life. The moon is round and missing, the night is bright and dark, and the oaths of the sea are rotten one by one; The flowers that bloom again and again, the wind that gathers and disperses, and the wishes of the earth and the sky over and over again...... Gazing at the night sky flashing a pure and warm face, holding the starlight and dreaming forever, gently piece by piece, over and over again, whether the quiet evening breeze can convey this thought.
After writing the words, I still relied on the piano to fill out the simple notation, marking the key signature beat 1=C3/4.
Xiao Yuxuan routinely played the simple score completely with the piano, and sang it again in combination with the lyrics, slightly modifying the places that felt jerky, and gained a full sense of achievement.
I feel that this "Wish" should be sung lightly and ethereally, and the elements of the instrument do not need to be complicated, and the instruments should be piano, guitar and flute or flute.
Xiao Yuxuan rubbed his sour neck: It's not easy, I finally passed another level!
The production of these episodes gave Xiao Yuxuan the feeling of breaking through the level when playing the game, and every time he passed a level, he would breed the cool kuaiga who killed the boss
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glanced at the time on the phone, and before I knew it, this song "Wish" took an hour and a half. The hour and a half of racking his brains made Xiao Yuxuan extremely tired.
The completion of the two interludes is equivalent to the completion of a quarter of the progress, and there is no excitement of "the revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still have to work hard", only "Hey! Go on".
In desperation, Xiao Yuxuan opened the third level.