Before Zhou Yan and Wang Zuxian returned to China, they went shopping in London for two days.

Originally, they were worried about being recognized, but it turned out that they were self-inflicted, let alone European and American, and even if they met some Asians, they didn't recognize them.

Of course, they didn't have any pretense, and both of them wore sunglasses.

Walking down the streets of London, no one will pay special attention to them.

When they got on the plane from London, the two took different flights, Zhou Yan returned to Yanjing, and Wang Zuxian flew directly to Xiangjiang.

When Zhou Yan returned home, it was already night, and he took a shower and went to sleep.

The next morning, Zhou Yan first sent the score of the English version of "Meteor" to Zhang Youan, and then went to the studio.

I didn't come back for a few days, and the studio has accumulated a lot of things.

He first dealt with the work related to "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class", and now the preliminary preparations for the film have been basically completed and can be started at any time.

Originally, Zhou Yan wanted to put the start-up time in late April, but now he doesn't have to participate in the start-up of "Sense and Sensibility", and the weather in Yanjing has been good recently, and all the conditions are in place, so he set the start-up time on April 10th.

Unlike the previous shoots, this time Zhou Yan is not ready to hold a start-up ceremony.

Now that the "Chidi" middle school is running in an orderly manner, like a real school, Zhou Yan is worried that holding the opening ceremony may affect the state of the actors.

It's better not to do any start-up ceremony, just go in and shoot, it's a big deal to wait until the finale is completed, and make the finale banquet a little bigger.

Of course, the director team supports this decision, mainly because Xu Feng has to handle it.

Xu Feng and the others actually attach more importance to these things, and feel that feng shui and rituals are very important, but after Zhou Yan communicated with her, she also expressed her support.

Now Xu Feng is less and less "concerned" about Zhou Yan's movies, and basically rarely asks, because she knows that Zhou Yan can handle any problems.

In this regard, Zhou Yan is much more worry-free than Chen Kaige.

A "Fengyue" made Xu Feng anxious, and the filming of "Fengyue" has not yet ended, and the crew still has a lot of things she needs to ask.

Not only Xu Feng, but the rest of the crew were also impatient, if it weren't for the success of the last "Farewell My Concubine", maybe Zhang Guorong and Gong Li would have to pick on them.

At the end of last year, Gong Li went to film Zhang Yimou's "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge", and the movie was already over.

Now Xu Feng's mind is on "Fengyue", and he doesn't have much energy to care about Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan doesn't care about this at all, as long as the money is in place, there is no need for Xu Feng to ask about the movie, he can handle it himself.

After dealing with the work of "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class", Zhou Yan went to the recording studio again.

The pre-production of the first album at 43 Baojia Street has been completed and the recording is now underway.

The whole album has been recorded for a month, and the progress has just reached the halfway point, Wang Feng's recording speed is relatively slow, but fortunately, the studio has more resources, otherwise I am afraid that this month will not be half of the time.

Recording an album in two or three months is certainly not fast, but it is also a normal speed.

When Zhou Yan arrived at the recording studio, they had just finished recording the harmony part of "Good Night, Yanjing", and they were resting at this time.

It can be seen that the recording process was relatively smooth, and several people were full of smiles.

Seeing Zhou Yan coming, several people hurriedly got up to say hello.

"Senior brother."

"Zhou Yan."

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Sit down, it's been hard to record during this time." ”

Long Long said with a smile, "What's the hard work, recording your own album, every day is full of energy." ”

Zhou Yan nodded, went to the workbench and listened to a paragraph, and it was indeed recorded well today.

In their first album, the lyrics were written by Wang Feng alone, and the songs were made by Long Long and Wang Feng.

Originally, this album was planned to be ten songs, but Zhou Yan flipped through their book and found that there were still many good tunes, so he raised the ten songs to twelve.

The production cost of ten songs and twelve songs is very different, but Zhou Yan believes that since it is the first album, he will do it well for them, whether in terms of quality or quantity, they must keep up.

Most of them are songs that Zhou Yan has heard before, such as "Little Bird", "Good Night Yanjing", "Hope" and other songs, and some Zhou Yan has never heard in his previous life.

The appearance of Zhou Yan still has a great impact on their band.

One of the most obvious is the creation of the song "Growing Up".

"Growing Up" is a song written by Wang Feng after cooperating with Senior Lu, and the style of this song is a bit like "I Love You, China", but the lyrics are completely different, not about the praise of the motherland, but about the memory and reflection of the past.

"Growing Up" echoes the song "Little Bird", the latter is a young man's desire for freedom and confusion about the future, while the former is a more understanding of life and more relief after experiencing some things.

If it weren't for Zhou Yan who introduced Wang Feng to Senior Lu and asked him to be responsible for the soundtrack of "Growing Up", the song of the same name "Growing Up" would not have appeared.

After listening to their recording in the morning, Zhou Yan drew a big pie for them again, "Come on, if the album has a good response, I will arrange for you to hold a concert in Gongti this time next year." ”

Hearing this big cake painted by Zhou Yan, several members of the band became excited, and Long Long even stood up directly, "Is it true, senior?" ”

Wang Feng smiled beside him, "Longzi, look at what you said, when did Senior Brother deceive us?" ”

"Yes, yes, my brother has always been true to his word, I'm just too excited."

"If you want to hold a concert, the twelve songs on this album will definitely not be enough, in the middle of which you can prepare a little other song, at least twenty songs, if you can't make it, then sing someone else's song."

Wang Feng immediately said, "You don't need to sing someone else's, just sing our own." ”

His tone is firm and confident, and as a creator, he definitely doesn't want to sing other people's songs at his concert.

In fact, their band has a lot of songs, in addition to the twelve songs on the album, there are many more, but they haven't been recorded yet.

And now Wang Feng is very passionate about creation, and there is no problem at all in writing more than a dozen songs this year.

After chatting with Wang Feng and them for a while, Zhou Yan returned to his office, and as soon as he sat down, the pager rang.

It was sent by Huo Siqi, and he didn't say anything, so he left the number.

Zhou Yan dialed back the number, and the phone was quickly picked up.

"Brother Siqi, what's the matter with me?"

"I have already talked to Director Zhang about the Tai Chi movie."

Zhou Yan was surprised, "You talked to them?" ”

He didn't expect Huo Siqi to go directly to Zhang Xinyan and tell them about it.

"Yes, after the second child told me about this, as soon as I inquired, I learned that Zhang Xinyan and they were in Yanjing, so I asked them to have a meal together."

"What a coincidence."

"They went to the sports school to find the actor, and they have been in Yanjing for a few days."

Hearing Zhang Xinyan that they were looking for the actor, Zhou Yan couldn't help but be curious, "Then did they find it?" ”

"Well, I saw it too, it's a pretty handsome young man, but ......"

"What's wrong?"

"But it doesn't look as dazzling as Jet Li."

"What's your name?"

"I know that the surname is Wu."

Zhou Yan smiled, it should be Wu Jing who should be looking for it. It can't be so coincidental, Zhang Xinyan didn't look for Wu Jing when they went to the sports school, but found a young man with the same surname Wu, this probability is too small.

Huo Siqi's vision is really high, Wu Jing's appearance when he was young should already be very eye-catching, and there is no need to compare with Jet Li, after all, Jet Li is now a big star.

"Director Zhang, their choice must be reasonable." Zhou Yan said.

"It doesn't matter if it makes sense or not, anyway, I don't have high expectations for this project, just connect with Zhang Xinyan and them, we can still afford to lose two million."

"Two million?" Zhou Yan was directly stunned, "How much is it to vote so much?" Is my second brother going to vote? ”

When he talked to Zhou Hong on the phone before, he said that he could vote, but it was best to vote only a little.

But two million is not a little.

Two million thrown into the mainland is enough to make a movie.

"It's not the second child, it's what I'm going to vote for. Director Zhang and they happened to be short of two million, so I made up for them in place, only investing three or five hundred thousand, half and half of them, and the money was spent, and they may not be able to get Director Zhang's favor. I can't bear the child, and I can't trap the wolf. ”

Zhou Yan couldn't help but sigh with emotion, Huo Siqi's brother was really generous.

In fact, if Huo Siqi wants to befriend Zhang Xinyan and them, there is a way, as long as he shows his family background a little, Zhang Xinyan will take the initiative to come over.

With Huo Siqi's relationship, they can be confused at any time.

However, Huo Siqi is still very sober-minded, although the power in the family is easy to use, it is better to use money to smash it safely and save trouble. To put it mildly, if money can solve a problem, then it is not a problem.

Two million is nothing to the current Qizhi company.

Zhou Yan felt that the two million were estimated to not be much back, but as Huo Siqi said, it was only two million, and if it was lost, it would be lost.

"Are they still in Yanjing?"

"Yes, but it's almost gone, if you come back early, we'll still have dinner together." Forget it this time, and when they come next time, we'll make an appointment to have dinner together. "Tai Chi" is going to be filmed in the mainland, and they will all come over at that time. ”

"Well, good. Next time I wait for them to come, I'll arrange it. ”

"Actually, I've read the scripts of a few TV series recently, and I'll talk to you when I have time."

"No problem."

Zhou Yan knew that Huo Siqi was very positive about filming TV series.

The key is that Huo Siqi is quite idle now, and the business of Qizhi Company mainly relies on him, but he usually doesn't need to do a lot of things, just go to some corporate leaders to eat occasionally.

The rest of the time, he also wanted to find something to do for himself.

Zhou Yan understood his thoughts, so it was okay to find him something to do. Although Zhou Yan doesn't think Huo Siqi can get any good scripts, this is also something that cannot be said.

It's good to be able to get it, and if you can't, it's good to let him pass the time.

……

When Jeff Brown received the score, he left the office to find the Backstreet Boys.

However, he met Alisson Hawken halfway through, and seeing Jeff Brown's hurried appearance, Arisson Hawken asked with a smile, "Why hasn't the backstreet boys' single started recording yet?" Something can't be wrong, right? ”

Alison Hawken was previously transferred from their parent company, RCA, and although JIVE's parent company has now become BMG, Arisson Hawken has stayed.

The two have always been at odds with each other, and in Jeff Brown's opinion, Arisson Hawken is a complete villain and a mouse-eyed.

And Arison Hawken has said in public more than once that Jeff Brown's vision is too outdated and lacks keen insight into what is trending at the moment.

Alisson Hawken previously thought that it was wrong for the company to change its strategy, and now that hip-pop is gaining momentum, it should be managed well, and there is no need to focus on other areas.

However, after the company's strategy was decided, Alison Hawken's attitude changed, he thought that since he wanted to enter the youth market, he should sign more energetic girls, and if he had to sign male singers, he must also find more good-looking ones.

The backstreet boys, except for fifteen-year-old Nick, are too ordinary-looking.

Arisson Hawken believes that Nick should be taken out alone and made him a few youthful and energetic "sugar songs" so as to attract the attention of female fans.

Fifteen-year-old beautiful young singers have a very wide audience, and they can basically kill female fans of all ages, and the spending power of these female fans is also considerable.

But Jeff Brown believes that since they are a music company, they should focus on music, whether it is a group or an individual, and if the work is not good enough, it will not last by selling hue alone.

In fact, if it was just a different concept, Jeff Brown would not be very annoying to Arisson Hawken, the main Arisson Hawken is a relatively cheap person, not only saying bad things about him behind his back, but also souring him in person.

At this moment, in the face of Arisson Hawken's yin and yang weirdness, Jeff Brown said expressionlessly, "Now that the backstreet boys are in my charge, you don't need to worry about these things." ”

"No matter who is in charge, the Backstreet Boys are a combination signed by the company, and I care about the development of the company."

Jeff Brown glanced at Arison Hawken, didn't say anything more, and just staggered past him.

The members of the Backstreet Boys were in the practice room at the moment, and when Jeff Brown went, they were practicing a song they had written before.

After entering the practice room, Jeff Brown first stopped their practice, then held up the score in his hand and said, "In the past two days, don't worry about other things, sing this song well, and record a sample." ”

"Is that the song "Shooting Star"?" Brian asked.

Jeff Brown nodded, "Yes, Kevin is here to get the score." ”

Captain Kevin Richardson walked over and took the score in his hand.

They have all heard the song "Shooting Star", and they have also seen the advertisements on Panasonic TV and seen Zhou Yan's playing.

After Jeff Brown said they wanted them to sing the song, they pulled out the score of the song, usually humming it or singing it with some gibberish words.

So, Kevin is very familiar with this song.

However, after getting the score, Kevin found that there were some differences between this score and what Zhou Yan played, the chords of the prelude were the same, but the melody part was very different.

And this song is not called "Shooting Star", but "Yellow".

The lyrics are very simple, that is, "I" like a girl who is as bright as a yellow star, and I wrote this song and named it "yellow".

After glancing at the lyrics and score, Kevin smiled, "Brothers, it's time to work." ”

Then several people gathered around the score and began to study the song.

Instead of leaving, Jeff Brown moved a chair and watched them.

When he got this song, Jeff Brown was very pleasantly surprised, although the lyrics of this song are simple, but it is very suitable for the backstreet boys, it is a straightforward love confession song, and it is precisely adapted to the market that the backstreet boy group wants to enter.

He didn't look at the score carefully, because he couldn't see the effect just by looking at the score, so it was better to let the boys in the group sing it and listen to it.

The song wasn't difficult in the first place, plus they had already practiced the original version before, so it was quick to pick it up.

When Brian finished singing the first few lines to the lyrics, Jeff Brown slapped his thigh, his eyes showed surprise, and he knew that this song was absolutely fine!

Compared with pure music, after this song becomes a song, it is even more charming, especially with Brian's natural voice, which makes this song particularly moving.

The boys in the group were also delighted, and the song was even better than they imagined.

The melody is simple, the emotion is sincere, and the accompaniment is quite magical, which makes the whole piece very catchy, and only the first sentence can conquer the audience, but just listening to the melody of pure music, the first sentence does not have such exaggerated magic.

The thought that this song would be their first officially released single made several people excited. (End of chapter)