A few days later, Treasure Island.

The Mayday Band is doing a signing event for their compilation album "We Are Mayday" in Ximending, Taipei.

The current Mayday definitely belongs to the first-line singers on Treasure Island, just a collection album, and in the absence of new songs, the signing site has attracted thousands of fans.

The five members of the band signed from the morning to more than three o'clock in the afternoon, and their hands were all signed until they were unconscious, and the signing party finally ended.

Dragging their tired bodies, with the enthusiastic farewell of the fans, they got into the nanny car and left the scene.

"Whew, today is the last signing, right?" Bass Martha shook his long flowing hair as if relieved.

IN THE PASSENGER SEAT, MAYDAY'S AGENT JOE ROLLED HIS EYES: "MORE SIGNINGS CAN BUY MORE RECORDS, HOW MANY ARTISTS WANT TO COME TO XIMENDING TO SIGN AND NO ONE IS CHEERING, YOU STILL COMPLAIN." ”

can hold an album signing party in Ximending, and can also attract hundreds of thousands of fans, it is a first-line or quasi-first-line in Baodao, which is a thing that many artists envy to death.

Martha opened her mouth, a little aggrieved and wanted to justify, he really didn't mean to complain.

BUT BEFORE HE COULD SAY ANYTHING, JOE'S PHONE RANG FIRST.

"Hey."

“...... What? ”

"Are you sure you're looking for us Mayday?"

The short call ended quickly.

JOE turned his head excitedly, looked at the five members of the Mayday Band, and said excitedly: "The big director from the mainland, who won the best director in Berlin, and the one who filmed "Juno" in Hollywood, wants to invite you to write songs for his new movie!" ”

"Best director in Berlin?" Ashin was stunned and asked uncertainly, "You mean Wu Yuan and Wu Dao?" ”

"The genius director in the mainland, the one who won the Berlin Award at the age of 20?"

"Yes!" JOE NODDED EXCITEDLY.

"The Undertaker" has not yet been released on Treasure Island, and the policy does not allow it.

Compared with foreign films such as Hollywood, which can enter the Baodao market without restrictions, mainland films must pass the quota system if they want to enter the Baodao.

Only 10 mainland films can apply for release on Treasure Island every year, before 2013, this application all depends on hand speed, and last year, "The Undertaker" was released relatively late in the mainland and did not apply.

I applied this year, but it's still scheduled and hasn't been released yet.

If "The Undertaker" is a movie released after 2013, you don't have to worry about this.

After 2013, the quota of Treasure Island was relaxed.

As long as the mainland film has won any competition award at the Oscars, Cannes, Venice and Berlin Film Festivals, it can apply for direct release on the island without being restricted by the release quota.

But at the same time, the original "first-come, first-served" quota has also been changed to a lottery system, and among the mainland films applied for, Baodao decided by lottery that ten films will be released on Baodao.

However, this lottery is non-public, and everyone who understands what the final lottery movie is.

In short, although "The Undertaker" was not released on Treasure Island, Wu Yuan is still quite famous on Treasure Island.

Because "Juno" is a Hollywood movie, it is not limited by quotas, not only was it released on Treasure Island, but also achieved good box office results, with a total of more than one million views, and even more people have watched pirated copies on the Internet.

In addition, the Oscars have been broadcast on Treasure Island, and the news of the Berlin Film Festival has also been promoted on Treasure Island.

Although Wu Yuan has never been to Treasure Island, he is already famous here.

The public may be a little unfamiliar with him.

But everyone in the entertainment industry knows that there is such a talented director in the mainland, and he is really good at coming to the dock and winning the best director in Berlin.

"He asked us to write a song for his new movie?" The monster in charge of composing and arranging the music in the band has an eager expression on his face.

"Hmm." JOE flipped through the Mayday schedule and crossed out all the itinerary for next Monday without too much hesitation.

"Next Monday, we will fly to the capital to meet this Director Wu."

......

Mayday's actions were fast, or their company took Wu Yuan's invitation very seriously.

China Film contacted Rolling Stone Music through a relationship on April 22, and on April 25, Mayday got a pass and flew to the capital.

On this day, Wu Yuan just didn't need to rehearse the drama, and when he received the news, he received a group of people from afar in a private recording studio in the capital in advance.

"Eh, Director Wu, hello!"

Under the leadership of JOE, as soon as Mayday's several people saw Wu Yuan, they bowed down respectfully to greet him.

JOE ALSO SMILED ALL OVER HIS FACE AND STEPPED FORWARD TO SHAKE HANDS WITH WU YUAN.

Wu Yuan, who usually treats each other as equals whether he gets along with actors in North America or the mainland, is the first time he has encountered such a respectful scene.

The five young men, as soon as they entered, kept bending down and shouting "Director Wu is good", which brought him a feeling of a gangster brother seeing the boss.

Nodding a little uncomfortably, Wu Yuan shook Mayday's agent's hand: "Sister JOE, right?" ”

"DIRECTOR WU JUST CALLS ME JOE." JOE shook her head again and again, although she was indeed older than Wu Yuan, she couldn't catch this "sister".

Wu Yuan's Berlin Best Director is nothing, and the treasure island does not value the three major European awards as much as the mainland.

But Wu Yuan's identity in Hollywood is a little scary, because of some historical factors, the influence of US imperialism on the treasure island is very high.

A director like Wu Yuan who can get ahead in Hollywood in the United States is really a great big man in the eyes of the treasure island entertainment circle.

JOE said with a smile in a glutinous Baodao accent: "As soon as I received the news, I immediately brought them to meet you." ”

"It is an honor for our Mayday Orchestra to participate in the production of the soundtrack for Director Wu's new film."

As she spoke, she also waved back, and the two young people in the band stepped forward and looked at Wu Yuan with a somewhat apprehensive smile.

JOE also followed the conversation and introduced: "This is Ashin, the lead singer of our orchestra, and the other is the leader of our orchestra, whose stage name is Monster. ”

"The two of them are usually in charge of music creation, Ashin writes the lyrics, and the monster composes and arranges."

Wu Yuan nodded with a smile and said a brief hello to the two soul figures of Mayday.

Of course, he has admired the name for a long time for these two, but he has admired the name for a long time in his dreams.

In other words, it is rumored that Ashin's father is still a big man on the road on the treasure island, why does he himself look very shy.

Although they were both older than Wu Yuan, they were very shy in front of him, and they only knew how to giggle after saying hello.

Seeing this, Wu Yuan had no choice but to take the initiative to say first: "I know you, your songs are very good, and I have heard them in the mainland." ”

"Otherwise, why would I ask you to write a song for my new movie!"

After complimenting, he turned his head to look at JOE, "The contract has already been signed, right?" ”

"Signed." JOE REPLIED QUICKLY.

The price given by Wu Yuan is still good, he needs three songs, four pure music, and seven soundtracks with a package price of 1.2 million yuan, which is a price that meets Mayday's current value.

Didn't give more, and didn't deliberately lower the price.

JOE is already very satisfied with this, and writing songs for Wu Yuan's new movie is different from writing songs for other movies.

With such a resume, if JOE works well, it can add a lot of popularity to Mayday, and even improve the style.

"Shall we start as soon as possible?"

Wu Yuan stretched out his hand and motioned for Mayday to follow, and led them into the studio of the recording studio.

After everyone sat down, Wu Yuan handed over the script of "The Name of Ling" to Mayday, who had signed a confidentiality agreement.

I waited patiently for half an hour, and after Ashin and the monster had read the script roughly, Wu Yuan spoke:

"I actually already have some ideas for the soundtrack for this film."

"When I was writing the script, I had a few scattered melodies in my head that felt like they fit the film perfectly."

pouted, and a whistling sound sounded from Wu Yuan's mouth, which was the climax of the chorus of the song "Before, Before, Before, Before, Before".

Wu Yuan didn't know any musical instruments at all, so he learned to whistle when he was a child, and he was always scolded by his grandfather for hooliganism.

Now Wu Yuan is only glad in his heart, glad that he can whistle and not sing the melody of "ahhhh

After humming the melody of "Before, Before, Before, and Before" in his memory as much as possible, he hummed "Dream Lantern" and "Fireworks" to Mayday.

All three songs had only partial melodies, and that was all he could remember.

He doesn't necessarily have to reproduce the soundtrack of the original "Your Name", but he just thinks it's a good thing to have such excellent examples of soundtracks in front of him.

It's a pity that Wu Yuan also remembers the chorus more deeply.

After listening to the scattered melody hummed by Wu Yuan, both Ashin and the monster looked at Wu Yuan with a magical expression.

I didn't expect this great director to write songs?

Although these melodies are too fragmentary, both of them with rich knowledge of music theory can feel that these melodies are very good.

Is this really what Wu Yuan thought of when he was writing the script?

That's amazing!

"The melody is very good, can Director Wu hum it again, let's record it with a tape recorder, and then take it back to try to perfect it and see if we can write a complete song." Ashin said with admiration.

Wu Yuan nodded with satisfaction: "No problem!" ”