Chapter 256 (Speed Up the Tempo) Choose songs and films, and recognize heroes with a discerning eye
After thinking about it day and night, inspiration finally hit Su Zhe.
He thought of the theme song -
Tao Zhe "Just Love You"!
Needless to say, the quality and classicism of this song, and Tao Zhe was too lazy, resulting in neither himself nor his works gaining a comparable reputation.
The most important thing is that the lyrics [I have always wanted to say to you, you give me unexpected happiness, like an oasis to the desert], is simply a portrayal of Jiang Naoki's heart.
It is normal for Yuan Xiangqin to like Jiang Zhishu, because Jiang Zhishu is handsome, studies well, sports well, and even cooks deliciously, except for the black belly, it can be called perfect (the original drama also likes cold violence, Zhu Guosong changed it, otherwise he would be scolded).
This kind of person is a public lover in any school.
But why does Jiang Naoki like Yuan Xiangqin?
The classic idol drama setting is used in the play - I like the simplicity and kindness of the heroine!
But there is another point, that is, I like her silly happiness, which complements Jiang Naoki's excellent but unhappy heart.
Give me unexpected happiness, like an oasis to the desert!
"That's it!"
Su Zhe was so excited that he finished the recording in the morning, and Jia Xin couldn't help but sigh:
"I watched you record songs every day, I thought it was so easy, until I saw Liu Heluo before, I didn't know the gap between people and people......"
After recording the song and dealing with it briefly, Su Zhe took it to Zhu Guosong, Yan Xiling, Dong Wenxue and others to listen.
When they heard it, they reacted completely differently from when they first heard "Mischief":
"What a musical talent! That's amazing! ”
"Even the theme song can be written so well, it seems that I will be stricter with you in the future."
Su Zhe begged for mercy, it was too brain-consuming to change the theme song, it was much more difficult than copying the song directly, so try to copy the original theme song next time.
There's no need to torture yourself like this.
Yan Xiling's heart moved, and she thought of a solution:
"Su Zhe, the quality of this song is so high, it's just a good time to hype it up and let pop fans call on you to make a love song! You take advantage of the trend and transform. ”
Bring the rhythm first, so as to save yourself from being scolded for directly producing love songs.
Su Zhe thought for a moment and nodded:
"Then this drama is not only related to my film and television career and the future of the company, but also related to the transformation of my music industry."
Zhu Guosong felt the pressure and hurriedly said:
"I just finished the first few episodes, how about you take a look?"
Su Zhe, Yan Xiling, Dong Wenxue and others carefully read it and determined:
"That's it! It's sure to become a classic. ”
"Director Zhu, letting you direct is really the best choice I made!"
Zhu Guosong showed a little smugness on his face, and said modestly:
"The main thing is that you write the script well."
Everyone was enjoying themselves and touting each other, and at this time, Su Zhe's system showed -
[Shaping the classic character: Xueba (0.2%)]
[Draw rewards: Recognize heroes (primary) with a discerning eye and accurately judge film and television talents. 】
Su Zhe was not surprised by the percentage behind the top students, he had already figured out that the key to the character system was the recognition of the public.
"Evil Kiss" has just been cut out for a few episodes, and no audience has seen it at all, and the progress has already shown that its quality is very high.
He cares about the reward -
Recognize the heroes with a discerning eye!
This is too important for a start-up film and television company!
Without director talent, how can he restore the classics of his previous life? Without marketing talent, how could he sell the box office of his previous life? Without management talents, how can he contact the cinema chain?
Must be promoted to the top!
Su Zhe's heart moved:
"Can Jiang Naoki push the progress of [Xueba] to more than 90%?"
He wasn't sure, but he felt that it was difficult, he had performed the best Huo Qu in two lifetimes, and the [Young General] was still only in his sixties.
No matter how classic he portrays Jiang Naoki, it is difficult to have such a high progress with only one role.
"So if you choose a movie, it's best to choose a male protagonist?"
Su Zhe thought about it, which almost excluded all of his previous alternative movies.
But there is no hurry, you can shoot it later, and after you have better talents, you can ensure that your script will not be wasted.
"And the movie of the male protagonist of the school bully ......"
Su Zhe couldn't find it for a while, thinking about it carefully, it seems that the top students are all male partners?
For example, a cut of plum in Charlotte's troubles......
After thinking about it for a long time, he remembered that the male protagonist of "To Youth" is a scholar, and so on, it seems that there is still "Sadness Flows into a River"?
It's not a classic!
Su Zhe only feels that he is a river of sadness, if he copies these two dramas, I'm afraid he will have to reverse the progress, right?!
There was no way, he had to diverge his thinking and expand the scope of film selection-
tai has two films, "Genius Gunman" and "The Little Thing of First Love", and the male protagonists are both academic tyrants.
There is also a three-piece "Three Fools Fighting Bollywood", and the protagonist played by Aamir Khan is also a scholar.
Hollywood also has them, such as "Soul Catcher", as well as some biopics......
But many details of foreign movies are different from those in China, and they are not easy to copy! You have to make a certain amount of magic changes.
Su Zhe scratched his head and sighed, he could only find a foreign movie to change, and suddenly he had an idea and thought of an excellent movie that he ignored-
Chou Dong's "The Secret That Can't Be Said"!
Although the male protagonist Ye Xianglun is not a scholar in our traditional cognition, he won the piano fight in the Conservatory of Music, and he can also win the favor of the school flower (Qingyi) and the female protagonist (Lu Xiaoyu), and he is obviously called a music scholar.
It's just that Jay Chou is acting a little bit of a dick, and he doesn't act, he doesn't have that acting skills, it's just temperament...... You get the idea, right?
This film has a score of 8.1 and has a good reputation, although the box office is average, it is obviously born at the wrong time.
If you put it in this era when bloody youth films are flooded, this youth movie with no sex and depravity, only pure feelings and a hint of fantasy is simply a dimensionality reduction blow.
In particular, this film still has a hint of suspense, most viewers can understand it after watching it once, but it takes several times to find all the details, and it is the movie that can most arouse the audience's desire to watch more.
In the era of self-media, countless semi-professional film critics like this kind of movie the most, and if they continue to interpret the details, they can get a lot of clicks, which in turn will help the movie increase its popularity.
"Dong Chou, your movie was a bit ahead of its time in the past and didn't get the results it deserved; But now it's just right, I'll give you a fair evaluation! ”
Su Zhe finally made up his mind.
It's just that he didn't expect that Dong Chou, as a big fat sheep that must be picked up by the traverser, was the first time he went to it, and what he was looking for was not a song, but a movie?
It's humorous to think about.
After having an idea, Su Zhe "created" the script in less than two hours in one night.
The crew can directly use the original cast of "Evil Kiss", and they have all run in.
But Zhu Guosong is doing post-production, so he definitely doesn't have time to direct, and he is just a TV series director, and he is not very familiar with movie lenses.
It is not impossible to use the lens of a TV series to make a movie, such as "33 Days of Broken Love", director Teng Hua T used the method of making a TV series to make a movie, and also achieved good results.
But it also leads to the fact that this movie has no movie texture, and it can't even compare to some Internet universities, and the results of the movie are counted on the screenwriter and the two leading actors inside and outside the circle, and Director Teng's biggest advantage is that he does not change blindly.
But Su Zhe didn't want to make "The Secret That Can't Be Said" into a TV series and live up to the wonderful plot.
In fact, he can choose to direct himself and copy the original play, but he didn't do it before because the lens language was too old.
But the texture of the secret is excellent in youth films, and it is not ashamed for him to copy it one-to-one.
But after thinking about it, he still felt that it was too tiring to be a part-time director, and Long Aotian Company couldn't rely on him alone, and had to cultivate some talents.
So he decided to interview, and he also happened to try the quality of [Insight Hero].
The director is different from the author, the author's creative cost is very low, and you can enter the industry with a pen or a keyboard, so whether it is traditional or online literature, many talented writers have emerged.
But the director is different, even if it is a small production, it takes tens of millions to shoot tightly.
Cinema movies are different from small productions, the cost can easily exceed millions of dollars, and if you don't have a mine at home, it is difficult to enter the industry by yourself.
If the director wants to enter the industry, he can only attract investment, boil his qualifications, and meet nobles, otherwise he will not even get the opportunity to prove himself, and it will be difficult for young geniuses to appear.
People always believe in age and experience, but in fact, even in the field of science, it is young people who are most likely to produce results, such as Newton at the age of 23 who discovered the laws of mechanics and Einstein who proposed the special theory of relativity at the age of 26.
Not to mention the field of popular art, what do a bunch of old men know about the hobbies of young people? Maybe I still despise it in my heart.
So in this industry, there must be many excellent young directors hidden, but they can't get a chance and can't prove themselves.
And now, Su Zhe has set up the crew, script and actors, even if it is filmed as a piece of shit, it can be released by his fame, only the director is in place.
What an incredible opportunity!
The young directors in the circle who were waiting for the opportunity to come out were all excited and signed up one after another.
Su Zhe had to ask Yan Xiling to help sift through a round before he interviewed in person, looked at their works and resumes, and chatted with them about his ideas in person.
It was also in this process that he discovered the role of [Discerning Heroes].
Discerning eyes cannot replace professional knowledge, and when directors talk about the directorial knowledge that Su Zhe does not understand, he still can't distinguish between the good and the bad.
But he can vaguely see the other party's character, is it honest or exaggerated? Is it true or false? Is it modesty or bragging?
That's enough.
With the help of Insight, Su Zhe conducted a large-scale interview and finally unearthed a piece of jade.
Sun Mei, a female director who is not good-looking, short and chubby, and has just turned 30 years old.
She has a stupid mouth, can't brag, and can't even be a director in the advertising industry, so she can only be an executive director and be responsible for shooting some shots.
But she is proficient in drawing, the shots she shoots are fantastic, and she is a genius who can speak with the picture.
Su Zhe gave her a script from "The Secret That Can't Be Said", and she was able to draw a storyboard script with a pencil on the spot without thinking.
Su Zhe watched it and found that it was better than the original film, so he made up his mind to enable this newcomer.
Not only that, but he decided to let Long Aotian sign Sun Mei.
"Mr. Sun, Long Aotian Company is just a start-up, I don't know if you are willing to add ......"
"I do!" Sun Mei didn't wait for him to finish, just like a money worshipper who heard the rich second generation propose, and desperately agreed.
Su Zhe realized how rare the opportunities in the circle were.
This is true for actors, and even more so for directors.
After signing Sun Mei, Su Zhe handed her the script and asked her to leave, but heard Dong Wenxue suggest:
"Su Zhe, it's better for you to be a director, publicize it, you write, direct, act and sing by yourself, and single-handedly do the movie, what a good publicity gimmick!"
Su Zhe also considered becoming a director himself, but after he saw Sun Mei's storyboard script, he realized:
"Let her come, she is at a higher level than me, and she can make "The Secret" even better."
He plagiarized the classics of his previous life, and he still has a sense of guilt in his heart, but if he can make the classics better, it can be regarded as a kind of compensation.
Dong Wenxue smiled and said:
"You, so stupid? Sun Mei is grateful to Dade for being an assistant director, she is so honest and won't go out and talk nonsense. ”
Su Zhe was stunned for a moment, and then reacted:
Dong Wenxue meant to let him be named director, and let Sun Mei, the assistant director, do the actual work.
In fact, some cross-border directors do just that-
Make your name and find an assistant director who is talented but doesn't have the opportunity to do the work that a director should do.
Don't be disgusted, how many people want to be named and don't have this opportunity! If you get a name for yourself across borders, you can get opportunities and rewards, right?
Some circles are darker, honest people deserve to be bullied, and the results of hard work are all owned by the leaders, and they have no fame and fortune, let alone a chance to rise.
Su Zhe glanced at Dong Wenxue deeply, and became a little wary of her, but he just smiled and said:
"There's no need, I don't lack this bit of fame, and "Secret" doesn't need this gimmick."
Dong Wenxue was stunned for a moment, and immediately turned to praise:
"Su Zhe, your character is so good, Sun Mei is really smoking from the ancestral grave, so I can meet you, a good boss in Huaxia!"
Su Zhe smiled and didn't say anything.
During the preparation period of the crew of "Secret", the rough cut of "Evil Kiss" was completed, and negotiations with major websites and satellite TV began.
I don't know how to see that the starring roles of this drama are Su Zhe and Liu Heluo, both of whom are big traffic, so they won't let it go;
After seeing the finished product, you can see the potential of this drama even more.
On major platforms and TV stations, "Evil Kiss" immediately got an S+ rating.
It's a pity that generally speaking, the price of modern dramas is slightly lower than that of costume dramas, S+'s modern drama webcast price is about 5 million for a single episode, and a single episode of costume drama is about 10 million.
Therefore, many TV series will be filmed stinky and long, and they will be frantically flooded, after all, by editing and cutting out a few more episodes, you can earn tens of millions more.
But in the era of the original drama of "Evil Kiss", there was no such atmosphere, and twenty or thirty episodes of TV series were the norm, and "Journey to the West" was only 25 episodes.
The same is true for "Evil Kiss", a total of 30 episodes, Zhu Guosong only modified the details, did not irrigate, and still maintained the length of 30 episodes.
If you calculate it this way, even if it is 5 million per episode, the whole show can only sell 150 million.
But if you don't add Su Zhe's salary, the cost of a bad kiss is less than 20 million, and it can earn 120 million, which is okay.
And this is just the right to broadcast on the Internet, now many TV dramas are backstage first, according to the policy of one drama double star (two TV stations), the two can be sold for another 100 million.
220 million, this is a salary that no company or any wronged boss can give him.
It's not in vain!
Su Zhe calculated the account and was quite satisfied, but he still asked Dong Wenxue to negotiate hard, and in the end, the price of the orange was the highest, but it was necessary to bet.
Su Zhe: ......
Although he is very confident in the evil kiss, Kong Yijiang has learned from the past!
There is no need to gamble so much, no matter how classic the evil kiss is, it is also an old film, and there is a possibility that it will not be adapted.
Let's settle in the bag.
In the end, it was Liu Heluo's owner penguin who gave the highest regular price, after all, Liu Heluo became popular and they gained more-
A single episode is 6 million, with a total price of 180 million, and Penguin will bear an additional 10 million marketing expenses for publicity.
At the same time, the tie-in variety show "Let's Learn" has a total price of 10 million.
Don't be too little, the cost of this broken variety show is almost zero-
Please tutors, accommodation, and plane tickets, adding up to tens of thousands of yuan.
Long Aotian Company received 190 million yuan in the account within a few months of its establishment, which is faster than grabbing money.
Su Zhe looked at the money in the account, thought about it, and still paid himself 100 million yuan.
Even if you have to pay more personal income tax to do so, it is better to put it in the company's account for your own consumption.
But cold knowledge - using the company's money to shareholders for consumption is an inflated cost, and it is also regarded as tax evasion.
Generally, no one cares about the boss, Su Zhe must be stared at, no matter how cautious he is, he can't be too cautious.
He was satisfied with his income, and even had some regrets:
"It's a pity, such a classic idol drama only sold less than 200 million, and it was made a lot by penguins!"
He also felt that he had lost, but everyone in the circle was envious.
For example, Liu Heluo, she earned 60 million a year at her peak, but the penguins took 7 percent, plus other companies that shared the money, she only had 6 million left.
An annual income of six million is very exaggerated for most people in China, but it is nothing in the entertainment industry, let alone compared with Su Zhe.
She couldn't help but call Su Zhe and sighed:
"It's nice to start your own company...... Su 200 million! ”
The sour gas came over the phone.
Su Zhe rolled his eyes:
"Are you jealous? If you are jealous, you will come out and do it alone. ”
Liu Heluo is very self-aware:
"No, the contract is too strict, and I will be miserable if I break the contract. And I don't have any skills, unlike you who have the confidence to go it alone. ”
Without Penguin's resources, how could she be on so many variety shows and TV series?
Su Zhe didn't expect Liu Heluo to see it so thoroughly, which may be her biggest advantage in addition to her appearance - honesty and truthfulness.
"That's no way, I terminated the contract with my ability." Su Zhe silently thanked Mi Shuqin in his heart, and said proudly, "And with your ability to make a drama." ”
Liu Heluo snorted:
"Ahh I'm going to die of acid! Wait for the promotion period, you have to treat yourself to dinner! I'm going to slaughter you hard! ”
Su Zhe shrugged:
"Whatever you want."
200 million, you can't eat all the gold.
After the agreement, Liu Heluo asked with a smile:
"Brother Su Zhe, let's work together okay, right?"
"That's good, what's wrong?" Su Zhe asked curiously.
Liu Heluo worked hard to pull work for herself:
"How about finding me again in the next drama? By the way, I heard that you're going to make a movie, what's your name? ”
Su Zhe said casually:
"The Unspeakable Secret."
Liu Heluo: ......
"Brother, my heart is broken."
Su Zhe: ???
(End of chapter)