Shizuka Kudo only stayed in Yanjing for four days, and after her work in Yanjing was over, she followed Nangong Matsuko and them back to Neon.

Just a few days after she left, Zhou Yan suddenly received several requests from Neon to buy songs.

It turned out that after the full version of "Meteor" premiered on TV Asahi, it attracted the attention of many music companies.

The complete version of "Meteor", not only has accompaniment, but also a melody, anyone can hear it, this is a song, you can sing it by filling in the lyrics.

Maybe there are already singers who have tried to fill in the lyrics and start singing.

The song "Meteor" is indeed very catchy, and it is also an advertising song of Panasonic, and those music companies naturally do not want to miss it.

These companies contacted Panasonic first, and they thought that the copyright of the song was in the hands of Panasonic, but Panasonic told them that the copyright of the song was very clear, and if the singer wanted to sing it, the company could not call the shots at all, so they could only go to Zhou Yan.

However, Zhou Yan ignored none of these requests, he was not ready to give this song to the neon singer to sing, at least not the first version to the neon singer.

He had two choices, one was to fill in the Chinese lyrics and give them to the Chinese singer to sing, and the second was to give them to the English singer to sing.

In fact, at the earliest, Zhou Yan considered Xu Wei.

Zhou Yan believes that Xu Wei is the best choice among Chinese singers to sing "Meteor", but Xu Wei's songs are all written and composed by himself, and he may not be willing to sing songs written by others.

Moreover, in the end, Zhou Yan did not sign Xu Wei.

On the domestic side, now he can't think of any suitable person to sing this song, and he can only wait for someone who is destined for the time being.

……

Zhou Yan didn't think about letting the neon singer sing this song, but the neon fans were very concerned about it.

TV Asahi even got a poll for viewers to choose the neon singer they would most like to sing "Shooting Star".

Among the popular candidates are veteran singers Tanida Shinji, Seiko Matsuda, Takuro Yoshida and others, as well as rising stars such as Sakai Izumizu, and even Nakamori Nakamori, Shizuka Kudo and Miyuki Nakajima.

The audience voted, and they didn't care if these singers were suitable for the song "Meteor", they only relied on their own preferences.

However, there is also a group of people who believe that Zhou Yan's tunes should not be made into songs, so it is enough to just listen to pure music.

In fact, this kind of argument has always existed, although the two songs "If Love Has Providence" and "Walk with Me" are very popular in Neon, but there are still people who believe that Zhou Yan's tune should not be made into a song, which will ruin the tune.

Zhou Yan has also heard about the vote made by Asahi TV, but he doesn't know who the audience voted for.

After Shizuka Kudo left, he threw himself into his work.

The school of "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" has already started, and Zhou Yan took the time to take the director team to the scene.

But they didn't know anything about civil engineering, and they couldn't see anything until the house was built.

This set project not only includes the construction of the school, but also the transformation of some nearby environments.

The location of the school is relatively remote, and there is no decent road nearby, so while building the school, the crew will also build a new road next to it, and will also transplant two rows of trees next to the road.

For the crew's initiative to repair the road, the local government welcomed it.

Although the road built by the crew is only two or three kilometers long, it is a road that has a positive effect on the local economy.

When Zhou Yan went to Jiangjuntuo, the local mayor was very enthusiastic, and to the mayor, Zhou Yan and them were the God of Wealth.

The construction of schools and roads used a lot of labor.

It's not the farming season, and the villagers have nothing to do to help, and they can earn a lot of money.

After looking around the scene, Shu Guangji, the project manager, ran over and asked Zhou Yan, "Mr. Zhou, do you want to take a photo?" ”

"Group photo? All right. ”

"No, you use a shovel to shovel a spade of cement, make a look, keep a memory, in the past, leaders inspected the project, there was such a process."

Hearing Shu Guangji say this, Zhou Yan waved his hand, "Forget it, I still won't delay the workers' work." ”

"What about the other directors?"

"No, no."

Huo Jianqi and they also waved their hands again and again, Zhou Yan had already refused, how could they agree.

Seeing that they all refused, Shu Guangji didn't say anything, since the leader didn't like to do this, he also saved trouble.

"The directors are really very pragmatic." Shu Guangji also slapped a fart a little stiffly.

Zhou Yan himself is a master of sycophants, and his immunity to sycophants is very strong, he smiled and instructed, "It doesn't matter if you work slowly, the main thing is to pay attention to the safety of workers." ”

"Director Zhou, don't worry, our project department pays attention to safety again and again to ensure that there will be no accidents."

Zhou Yan nodded, he just mentioned in passing, their project is not big, and the school is only two and a half floors in total, with such a height, the possibility of a safety accident is relatively small.

This project is still led by Tomson, and the management must be stricter than the general construction team.

"Oh, by the way, Shu Gong, there's one more thing I want to trouble you."

"Director Zhou has anything to do, just tell me."

"Please help me bring two people."

Zhou Yanchao beckoned to Li Haining, who was not far away, and Xia Guobao, "You two, come here." ”

The two children were watching the workers work, watching with relish, and when they heard Zhou Yan's call, they ran over.

When Shu Guangji heard that Zhou Yan asked him to take two people, his face was full of doubts, and when he saw Zhou Yan calling the two children, his eyes widened.

"Director Zhou, do you want me to take them?"

Zhou Yan nodded, "Please arrange some work for them." ”

Shu Guangji was a little embarrassed, "They ...... Isn't it a little too small? ”

It's not just a small problem, Shu Guangji doesn't know where these two children came from, and depending on the situation, it is likely to be a relative of Director Zhou.

The two young masters came to experience life, and they were the ones who suffered when the time came.

Director Zhou said that he wanted to arrange some work for them, so can he really arrange work? He must take care of it, and if something goes wrong, he can't afford it.

"I look at many construction sites, don't they all have such big children, and there are quite a few."

Zhou Yan's words made Shu Guangji unable to refute.

Although there are no minors in their team now, many construction sites in other places do have children as old as Li Haining and others, or even younger.

Some children didn't finish elementary school and went out to work with the adults in the family.

Although these children have a weak labor force, they are also paid very low, they may only be able to do one-fifth of an adult's work a day, but they are paid one-tenth of their wages.

For the contractor, with more such labor, he can make more money.

Shu Guangji has seen the most outrageous team, the entire team of bricklayers came out of a village, except for the contractor in his forties, the other workers are between twelve and eighteen years old, a total of about 20 people.

These children are basically the children and nephews of the same village as the contractor, and they can't afford to go to school, so they go out of society with their elders, and the contractor only needs to pay a little salary to support the whole team.

As long as the children don't die outside, their parents will have to thank the contractor when they return home.

If the contractor has a little more conscience, and during the Chinese New Year, he will give the children a big dozen yuan, and those parents will be very happy. After all, when children stay at home, they have to eat when they open their mouths, and when they go out, they not only save food, but also earn some money to supplement their families.

A few dozen yuan is not a small amount for some rural families.

Although there are many cases outside, Shu Guangji still has difficulties, "These two children are both thin and tender, but they are not suitable for ......"

Before Shu Guangji's words were finished, Zhou Yan smiled and said, "It's because of the fine skin and tender meat that I want to come to you to exercise." ”

When Li Haining and Xia Guobao first arrived at the studio, they were both thin and discouraged.

But after staying in the studio for so long, the two of them ate and drank well every day, and both grew a lot of meat and looked radiant.

If they continue like this, these two boys will be further and further away from the character setting.

Zhou Yan doesn't ask them to be disgraced, they look like rural children, but at least they can't be fat in vain. The lens is inherently easy to make people fat, and if you look slightly fat in reality, you may look fatter in the lens.

And let them work on the construction site for a period of time, which can also hone their mind.

Seeing that Zhou Yan insisted, Shu Guangji couldn't say anything, so he could only nod his head and agree, "Okay then." ”

Zhou Yan smiled, and said to Li Haining and them, "You work here, and you receive wages every day, and I will settle it for you when the time comes." ”

Hearing Zhou Yan say this, the two boys were very happy, they stayed in the studio for a long time, and the passion cultivated in the middle gradually weakened, and they began to feel that the study of music was becoming more and more boring.

Compared to learning music in the studio every day, they find it more interesting to work on the construction site, which is much more interesting in their eyes than learning.

"Alright, you guys go play, and start working tomorrow."

"Okay."

After Li Haining and the others left, Zhou Yan said to Shu Guangji again, "Shu Gong, be strict with these two boys, give them a job to do, as long as there is no personal danger, it doesn't matter how hard and tired you are." ”

Shu Guangji gritted his teeth and said, "I understand." ”

……

When Zhou Yan and the others left the general's house, they kept Li Haining and Xia Guo at the construction site, and Zhou Yan also left their luggage to them.

Seeing Zhou Yan give Li Haining two bags of luggage, Huo Jianqi said with a smile, "Director Zhou, it seems that you have premeditated." ”

Lou Ye also laughed, "Director Zhou, your trick is quite bad, these two boys are happy now, it is estimated that they will cry for their father and mother in a few days." ”

"They've been so comfortable for a while." Zhou Yan said casually.

Li Haining: They were indeed too comfortable during this time, so comfortable that they didn't cherish the hard-won learning opportunities.

Don't look at Li Haining, they are all children, but in fact, they have not suffered too much, and there are many things that are carried by their parents.

It's not a bad thing for them to throw them into the construction site now and feel some suffering.

"Director Zhou, aren't you afraid that the two of them will work for a while, they really fall in love with the work on the construction site, and they don't want to go back to learn music?" Xiao Can asked with a smile.

Zhou Yan also smiled: "If this is the case, then I don't mind sending them to learn civil engineering, they will definitely become construction site wizards." ”

When they heard this, they all laughed. Xiao Can asked this, naturally, it was mostly a joke, how could anyone in this world be willing to do tiring work.

It's amazing that people who can't even endure the hardships of learning music can fall in love with working on a construction site.

The car drove for a while, and Lou Ye suddenly asked, "The road behind is repaired, is it just the end here?" ”

Zhou Yan stretched out his head to look out the window, then nodded, "Well, it's probably this location." ”

After getting Zhou Yan's confirmation, Lou Ye said to the driver in front, "Master Huang, please stop the car." ”

Master Huang is a person who doesn't like to talk, and when he heard Lou Ye say this, he didn't ask, he directly stepped on the brakes and stopped the car.

After Lou Ye got out of the car, he took several photos of the dirt road under his feet.

After filming, he returned to the car and said with a smile: "Take a picture, leave a souvenir, maybe the next time you come, it will be completely different here." After leaving the image, people may feel a little more emotional when they look at the previous pictures and look at this road again. ”

Huo Jianqi also turned his head to look at the road behind him, and said with emotion: "If we make a movie like "JYL", we can shoot the changes before and after, so that a strong sense of contrast can be formed. The changes of the times are hidden in these concrete changes. ”

Wang Xiaoshuai joked, "Lao Huo, you can make a movie in the future, the name is "A Road", ten years ago, there was only one path in the barren grass that people stepped out step by step, ten years later, the barren grass was gone, and it became a big road with hardened soil, people rode bicycles, and after 20 years, it became a road paved with stones, everyone rode motorcycles, and 30 years later, it became a cement road, and there were cars on it. The film doesn't need other scenes, it locks the camera all down the road, and all the stories take place on it. ”

Huo Jianqi pouted and said, "That's not called a movie, that's called a propaganda film." But the road movie is a bit interesting. ”

"The road movie is good, I think Lao Hu, you might as well remake "Journey to the West", it is a real road movie."

“……”

After a few gags for a while, Wang Xiaoshuai suddenly asked Zhou Yan, "Director Zhou, I heard a few days ago that "The Sixth Sense" is going to be released in North America, how is the situation now?" ”

Hearing Wang Xiaoshuai's words, everyone else turned their eyes to Zhou Yan.

Although "The Sixth Sense" has nothing to do with them, they are also very concerned that Chinese films have not achieved good results in North America.

In fact, very few Chinese films have been released in North America.

If there is any Chinese director's film that is most likely to achieve good results in North America, it is undoubtedly Zhou Yan, so "The Sixth Sense" was released in North America and attracted a lot of attention.

First of all, "The Sixth Sense" has already been a huge success in Neon, showing that the film has the ability to conquer overseas markets.

Secondly, "The Flying Piano Boy" is very good at the box office in Europe and the United States, and this movie is a remake of "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly", which shows that Zhou Yan's story has the ability to attract European and American audiences.

On the whole, "The Sixth Sense" is indeed promising.

Zhou Yan replied with a smile, "The movie will not be released until the day after tomorrow, and I don't know what the situation is now, but I advise you not to have too high expectations, after all, it is a Chinese movie, and the film schedule is not ideal." ”

Although "The Sixth Sense" got the opportunity to be released in North America, it did not get a good film schedule, which was also expected by Zhou Yan, this movie did not have any gimmicks in North America, it is still a foreign language movie, and it is normal for cinemas and distributors not to be optimistic.

In Asia, Zhou Yan's influence in music can still play a role, but it is not easy to use in Europe and the United States.

In Europe and the United States, Zhou Yan's music is not without fame, and the soundtrack of "Flying Piano Boy" also sells well, but those who bought the soundtrack do not pay much attention to who created the music in it.

It was the soundtrack of "Flying Piano Boy", not "Zhou Yan's album".

When American listeners hear tunes such as "Tears", "Reunion" and "Wind", they may say, "This is the music in "The Flying Piano Boy", or even "This is the music from a French-language movie I watched", without thinking of Zhou Yan's name.

Even if the distributor uses this to do marketing, explaining to the audience that Zhou Yan is the creator of these music, those people will most likely only say "oh" and then praise it, and they will not spend money to watch movies because of this.

Although Zhou Yan advised them not to expect too much, their enthusiasm remained undiminished.

"I'm optimistic about this movie anyway, if the box office can have a ...... of 10 million"

"It's very good to have five million dollars, and Chinese movies have broken five million dollars at the North American box office?"

"Yes, didn't "Farewell My Concubine" say that it grossed more than $5 million at the North American box office?"

"Didn't "The Wedding Banquet" also pass five million dollars?"

"Can "The Wedding Banquet" be considered a Chinese-language movie?"

"Forget it."

"Well, it should be counted, in fact, Xiangjiang has more than 10 million movies in North America."

"Really?"

"Yes."

……

Listening to their discussion, Zhou Yan looked at the scenery outside the car window, he didn't expect these directors who didn't care about the box office the most to get together to discuss the box office so hard. (End of chapter)