The mainland of China, the magic capital.

Just when Wu Yuan was distressed about the start of his light and shadow fast streaming media platform career.

In his plan, the first webcast drama "Soul Ferry", which is going to start the software of light and shadow express, has also been launched in a low-key manner in the magic capital.

Director Liu Meichuan, starring Liu Zhiyang, Jiang Combing, Yu Yi.

As for the protagonists of the stories in each unit, they all use the company's artists.

From Jinsha to Luo Jin to Zhu Yawen, Jiang Xin, Zhang Yi, Duan Yihong and other old artists or newly signed artists, all of them have roles in this movie, and they are each responsible for the protagonist in a unit story.

It can be said that this "Soul Ferry", from the director to the actors, are all their own people in the era of light and shadow.

This is also the basic operation of producing TV dramas in this era, from Sugar Man to Huayi to other film and television companies, they basically use their own artists to shoot TV series.

It's just that after 2012, film and television companies no longer sign artists on their own, and film and television production and artist management have gradually separated, which is rare.

Therefore, later, when the big power of Jiaxing Tianxia engaged in "The Legend of the Ancient Sword", she brought eight or nine newcomers from Jiaxing to cover the main roles of this TV series, but she was ridiculed by netizens, saying that she was too much of a newcomer.

Later, several signed male artists in Jiaxing partnered with Reba back and forth in several TV series, and the male and male duo took turns to act, and they were also complained by the audience.

As everyone knows, this is actually the normal operation of the Chinese TV drama industry, but it was a little out of place at that time.

But for now, it's still very timely.

Offering incense to God and lifting the red cloth, Liu Meichuan led the crew members to smoothly complete the start-up ceremony, and hung ""Soul Ferry" is good luck!" Under the banner, after leaving a boot photo with all the smiles of all the staff, the crew started work in full swing.

A convenience store located at the corner of the magic capital Xuhui has been rented by the crew and replaced with a green "No. 444 convenience store" sign.

Liu Zhiyang was wearing the uniform of a convenience store waiter, and Yu Yi, who was wearing a leather coat, leaned against the door, watching the drama crew arrange the scene.

"Brother Yu, have you heard?"

"This TV series will not be broadcast on TV stations, it will be broadcast exclusively on online platforms, and it is a video website made by the company itself."

"It's the same as Tudou.com, Six Rooms, and Cool 6."

Liu Zhiyang's tone was a little apprehensive, as a young man, he is very familiar with the current Internet video platform.

He also knew enough about it, so he was very puzzled by the company's decision.

It's also a little embarrassing to say, although he is also one of the practitioners in the film and television industry, he usually likes to watch all kinds of pirated film and television resources on the Internet, and he is reluctant to spend money to buy genuine discs.

Now the company wants to build an online genuine video website, Liu Zhiyang's first thought is that this will definitely fail.

Even if you don't pay for anything, just broadcast it exclusively on the website, the audience can still watch it for free, and Liu Zhiyang doesn't think this strategy will be successful.

Because online video piracy is so rampant nowadays, if the front foot uploads the video to the network, the back foot will be quickly spread and shared on various websites.

Now Tudou.com, Six Rooms, Cool 6 and other video sites can become popular because their website library is full of film and television resources of various movies and TV series at home and abroad.

It is said that it is uploaded by the users themselves, but in fact, it is all pirated resources uploaded by the staff of these websites with their own registered accounts.

Whoever has more pirated film sources will have more users and be more loved by netizens.

In such an environment, isn't it nonsense that the era of light and shadow wants to put a TV series on a video website for exclusive broadcasting?

"Decisions at the company level are not something we can influence." Yu Yi shook his head, he was not interested in these rumors, "What we can do is to work hard to make this drama well and contribute the best performance." ”

"We don't need to worry about anything else."

is different from Liu Zhiyang, who acted in Liu Meichuan's "Don't Knock on the Door" after his debut, won more than 40 million box office, and had a very smooth acting career.

Yu Yi's acting career is very bumpy, he was born in 1978 and entered the showbiz in 2001.

But because his appearance is not a cream boy in the mainstream aesthetics, he has never been able to play any good roles, and he has been up and down in the circle for seven years, and he has only been able to play some supporting roles for the third, fourth and fifth male numbers.

The light and shadow era suddenly came to the door, saying that he wanted to sign him, and arranged for him to star in the TV series "Soul Ferry", this opportunity is already very rare for him.

He is not like Liu Zhiyang, who is still worried about whether this TV series will be broadcast online or on the stars.

No matter how this TV series is finally broadcast, Yu Yi is already very satisfied, what more bicycle does he need to play the leading role?

patted Liu Zhiyang on the shoulder, Yu Yi said very freely: "With this kung fu to think about this, we might as well play again while the camera hasn't started yet." ”

"Today is the first day of start-up, and it would be unlucky if there were more NGs."

Liu Zhiyang also reacted, he was worrying about nothing, nodded with a smile and said, "Brother Yu is right, let's play against each other." ”

The two walked into the convenience store with their shoulders hooked up and began to face off today's filming scenes.

What they didn't know was that Liu Meichuan, who was chatting with the producer less than a hundred meters away from them, was also talking about this topic.

"The company still decided to go webcast, not to consider going to the stars?" Liu Meichuan asked helplessly.

His producer, also from the era of light and shadow, Yang Huan smiled awkwardly: "Director Wu, the scale of this drama, it is impossible to get on the stars, and radio and television will not pass the review." ”

"And being a streaming media platform is a strategy set by Director Wu himself, and as a brother company, we must fully cooperate."

The producer, on the other hand, didn't care about the webcast or anything.

From the perspective of the company in the era of light and shadow, after the company produces a TV series, it is actually the same no matter who it sells to, as long as it can make money.

Because Light and Shadow Times and Light and Shadow Express are two independent companies, although the boss is the same person, the business cooperation between the companies is still normal.

"Soul Ferry" will sell the exclusive broadcast rights to Light and Shadow Express at the market price, and the company will not lose money, and it will make a small profit.

It's just that Liu Meichuan is not very satisfied, after all, it takes three or five months to shoot a TV series, Liu Meichuan has to pay a time cost, if the broadcast channel of this TV series is not good, and the final results are not good, it will have a negative impact on his reputation.

After impulsively agreeing to take over the TV series project, Liu Meichuan has become more and more regretful in recent times.

Once "Soul Ferry" premieres on the Internet, it is stolen by other websites, and the number of broadcasts and clicks is diverted, then the results of this TV series will not be easy to count.

This is not like a TV station, which can directly count intuitive ratings.

And there is no way to count the results, and there is no way to blow any publicity such as "ratings breaking X%", "popular TV series in the first quarter", "the hottest film and television drama this summer", then this TV series has no value to Liu Meichuan.

"Whether it's at home or abroad, I've never heard of any TV series that started on the Internet first." Liu Meichuan's tone was full of resentment: "Isn't it to rush to make it easier for others to pirate." ”

remembered the rumors on the Internet that Wu Yuan was a pirated disc dealer before he became a director.

Liu Meichuan also had to complain in her heart, the wise and martial Director Wu didn't want to give benefits to the former pirate brothers, right?

"Director Liu, don't worry so much." Although Yang Huan was not optimistic about this project, she still comforted casually: "I listened to what Mr. Li said. ”

"Over there, it seems that I have mastered some very powerful video playback technology, and I can customize what private transmission protocol."

"It is said that users cannot directly steal the video resources on their websites, which can effectively eliminate piracy."

"Maybe when the time comes, there will really be only light and shadow on the whole network, and you can watch our "Soul Ferry", maybe it's okay."

"At that time, it will depend on whether our drama itself can attract the audience to watch it and become popular on the Internet."

Liu Meichuan was stunned: "Is there such a thing?" ”

If Light and Shadow Express can really make it impossible for other video sites to pirate, then the situation will be much better.

If "Soul Ferry" can get millions of views, then he can be regarded as able to blow a wave, and even blow titles such as "the first drama on the Internet", then this project will be valuable.

Liu Meichuan immediately got energetic, shook a few times, stood up and picked up the loudspeaker and shouted:

"Are all units ready?"

"Everyone's cheering up!"

"Ready to shoot!"

"This is our first modern urban drama with a supernatural horror theme in China!"

"If you shoot well, you will be remembered by the film and television industry for a lifetime!"

"It's all a little slippery!"

"One shot, one preparation!"

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