China Entertainment's My Artistic Career

Chapter 176 New Projects

After the Feitian Awards, the broadcast of "The Age of Awakening" also came to an end.

When the plot came to the end of the campaign, when Mr. Zhongfu was released from prison, and Yannian and Qiaonian went to study in France, the whole drama also reached its final climax.

In the original 27 episodes, Guo Xingang, played by Zhang Ruoyun, was just brilliant overnight. He was full of enthusiasm and awakened the people with his life. The scene where he left a blood book before his death made countless viewers shed tears.

Now Yannian and Qiaonian are heroically sacrificed with a smile, which even caused the audience to burst into tears, scolding the screenwriter for not being a human being, and filming these "heart-abusing" scenes.

At the same time, they also remembered what Liu Yifei said in "Art Life": "In Hefei, there is a road called Yanqiao Road, and the end of this road is the prosperous avenue!" Many media quoted it to attract readers.

After He Hua saw it, he just wrote a paragraph on Weibo, and attached some photos he had taken on Yanqiao Road in Hefei:
Now on Yanqiao Road, there are residences, police stations, elementary schools, thousands of lights, anti-violence and peace, flowers of the motherland, and hope of the country. I think they will be very happy.

As soon as Weibo was posted, netizens left messages one after another:

[This sentence is simple, but it has a poetic romance]

[I just checked the historical deeds of the two brothers, read word by word, admiration, nostalgia, heartache]

【This prosperous world is as you wish】

He Hua also randomly found some comments, liked and replied.

It has to be said that the interactivity of Weibo is much stronger than that of blogs. Coupled with the strong real-time performance and dissemination, as well as the low threshold, more and more netizens like this platform.

On September 9th, the closing day of "Age of Awakening", when the familiar song "The Internationale" sounded on the Jiaxing cruise ship, the ratings instantly broke through 12, reaching 14%, and the average ratings even reached 14.17%.

It became the first TV drama with an average rating of over 10 in the past five years, and this achievement also made "Awakening Age" reach the same height as "The Mansion Gate" and "Kangxi Dynasty".

Of course, this is just to say its ratings results.

In terms of word of mouth, this drama has also been loved by the audience. Douban scores continue to rise, from 8.6 points in the opening to 9.4 points in the finale.

With the momentum of the first round, the second round of the drama naturally attracted countless satellite TV and terrestrial channels.

In the end, BJ Satellite TV, Mango TV, AH Satellite TV, Zhejiang Satellite TV, Dragon TV, 5 David TV, and 4 terrestrial channels won the second-round broadcast rights of "Awakening Age" at a price of 210 million yuan for a single episode and a total price of 9450 million yuan.

In addition, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and some countries in Southeast Asia also came to inquire about the price. Although it has not yet been negotiated, it is appropriate for the second round of hundreds of millions.

As soon as this number came out, the industry instantly lost its voice.

After all, at the very beginning, the 8000 million investment in "The Age of Awakening" scared away a lot of small companies, and the other companies participating in this project all came with the purpose of making a small loss and enhancing the company's influence.

But what they didn't expect was that this project was actually made by Youhua Entertainment to make money.

The transaction price of the first broadcast + the second round of a single episode reached an astonishing 310 million, which is unimaginable today when a single episode breaking one million is a high price.

So He Hua once again raised his status in the film and television industry, making others dare not underestimate him.

"Now Singapore can only talk about 2 US dollars for a single episode, and they won't talk about it any higher."

Huang Lan took a notebook and reported the results of the recent negotiations to He Hua.

"Is this less than the price of a terrestrial channel?" He Hua was speechless.

"No way, Singapore is just that big."

"Okay, let's sell it, let's make a little bit."

After talking about these things, Huang Lan reminded He Hua again that the company's projects are now in the final state, and many people are idle.

It's not that Huang Lan, the general manager, is incompetent, and he is all counting on He Hua.

The two screenwriting studios of Tianma Xingkong also produced some works, but He Hua rejected them after reading them, so the company did not have follow-up projects to keep up.

He Hua scratched his head, feeling a little distressed, it wasn't that he was picky, it was really
Let’s talk about Tianma first, the studio formed by He Hua’s three roommates. Ever since "BJ Love" became famous, someone has invited them to write another book of the same type.

However, Gao Jian and others also had pursuits. They did not choose to continue working on the same theme. Instead, they went to write a script on the theme of the Anti-Japanese War. But later, the investors asked for this and that, and the plot was changed in a mess.

The three couldn't accept it and directly withdrew from the project.

When they quit the project, "Snail House" was on the air, and the three of them were inspired, so they planned to tell a realistic story. It's just that they just entered the society, and without the accumulation of life, how could they write a deep book? Taking pictures of cats and drawing tigers is nothing more than imitation, so when he came to He Hua, he was killed.

There is also Xingkong Studio, after this group of people have successively completed the adapted scripts of "Snail House" and "Floating and Sinking", they also have some ideas and want to come up with an original script.

It's not that He Hua doesn't believe in original scripts, it's just that they set their sights on the mythological themes that have emerged in the past two years, and He Hua hesitated. After all, the company has not produced this type of TV series, so they finally decided to let it go.

This caused Youhua's production to be interrupted.

But He Hua already had an idea:

"Gao Jian and the others are already working on the adaptation of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern 1: The Exquisite Ancient City". From now on, Sister Lan, you will help find a director and production team."

"Try to sign them as long as possible, and we'll make it a series."

"After filming "Exquisite Ancient City", "Longling Miku" and "Yunnan Insect Valley" will become the signs of our company."

Huang Lan also applauded when she heard it, saying that she would check it out.

"As for Xing Kong Studio." He Hua gently rubbed his chin with his right hand: "I need their help with a notebook."

"Your book? What subject?" Huang Lan's eyes lit up when she heard that He Hua had a new script.

"The theme of the Anti-Japanese War."

"Like "Bright Sword"?"

It has to be said that the current anti-war TV dramas have not yet opened the era of divine dramas, and there are still a group of specific audiences. As long as the quality of the dramas is decent, the ratings will not be low.

So Huang Lan didn't bother with the subject matter at all, but was just interested in how He Hua would write about the War of Resistance.

He Hua nodded first, then shook his head, making Huang Lan confused, but instead of explaining to her, He Hua asked her to find two people for him.

It has to be said that Huang Lan's executive ability is really strong. At noon on the third day, He Hua sat down with one of the people he was looking for and had a meal.

".The story is like this. I have read your novels. You are very talented in history and military affairs. How about it? Do you want to try it?"

The lean middle-aged man sitting opposite He Hua put his left hand under the table to hold his stomach, frowned and said, "But I haven't written a script, I'm afraid I'll mess up such a good story of yours."

He Hua interrupted him with a wave of his hand, and explained: "You don't have to worry about this, we will arrange a studio to cooperate with you, you can follow along if you haven't written a script, or you can write a novel first and let them adapt it, these are not important, the most important It's all about these characters and the storytelling, and you're really talented!"

Hearing He Hua's affirmation of himself, the man's frowning brows were gradually smoothed away:
"Since you have said so, then I will try."

"Right, let's do it first, then talk, come, come, eat something"

He Hua is very happy, after all, there is another general under his command.

The person in front of me is Zhang Lei, whose screen name is Xueliang Saber. He is an online writer. He has created and published a series of novels such as "Snow Liang Saber" and "City North Gangster". .2006).

At first, He Hua didn't pay attention to this person either. After all, those who engage in physical literature creation don't think highly of online writers, and feel that the threshold for online creation is low, and the works are difficult to be elegant.

However, after watching a work by Zhang Lei that was aired in 2011, He Hua's jaw dropped in shock.

It is really a TV series that can stand shoulder to shoulder with works such as "My Leader, My Group" and "Bright Sword". Although the plot of blowing up the devil's plane with a grenade in the play is indeed a bit funny, it is undeniable that it is really A rare good work.

Especially the portrayal of the characters in it, each one has flesh and blood, and was even dubbed the anti-war version of "Water Margin" by barrage netizens, which is almost as good as Lan Xiaolong.

This drama is the pioneering work of the absurdist anti-Japanese war drama "The Indelible Number".

Why do you say absurd anti-Japanese war drama?
Because before it, our TV dramas are used to two ways of telling: the realistic style, wishing that every second has a real basis to be verified; the romantic style, wishing to travel through 5000 years without asking the origin.

"The Indelible Number" gives another possibility of thinking:
Using an absurd metaphor of narration and a crazy comedy shell, it packs a central theme that cannot be more correct, so as to achieve the double height of word-of-mouth and ratings.

Prior to this, Ning Caishen used "Wulin Biography" to try absurd techniques in the field of sitcoms, thus gaining super high ratings.

But to transplant this technique to the anti-war drama with red themes, it undoubtedly requires more ingenuity and courage, and even has a taste of careerists and adventurers.

The attempts of Xu Jizhou, Zhang Lei and others are undoubtedly successful.

They abandoned the traditional methods of traditional dramas. Leaders and turning points are not the main objects of its description, and wars are not about answering the phone and giving orders in front of the sand table.

From the beginning, this drama refused to enter the temple, full of grassroots, market and rivers and lakes.

For example, Sun Chenghai created the "Nine Route Army", and the devil sent a telegram saying that he had captured a "marching pot", but his superiors mistook it for the "teacher commander" and misjudged the location of the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

This kind of seemingly absurd plot is absolutely impossible to appear in traditional anti-Japanese war dramas, but it has a fatal appeal to the audience.

At the same time, "Number" does not copy the methods of Jianghu dramas, it always knows what the theme is to express, so everyone's behavior is exaggerated and restrained at the same time.

For example, Li Daben, who is quite similar to "Grassroots Wei Xiaobao", although he is glib and full of mind, he never hesitates in the direction of right and wrong, resisting the enemy and protecting the country;
"Lone Ranger" Sun Chenghai is indeed capable, but there is no scene of flying over the wall and floating on the water.

They exaggerate, but they are not divorced from reality.

So it is difficult to explain in one sentence what kind of TV series "Number" is, just like it is difficult to describe "Wulin Biography" in words.

Therefore, these descriptors are simplified to two words: alternative; or more academically: absurd.

These undoubtedly touched He Hua's heart, making him very interested in the director and screenwriter of this drama, but Xu Jizhou is not in BJ right now, so we can only wait and see.

"I see you are always covering your stomach? Are you feeling unwell?" After finishing the business, He Hua chatted with Zhang Lei.

Zhang Lei forced a smile: "It's just an upset stomach, it's an old problem."

"Then you have to pay more attention, the body is the capital of the revolution."

"Mr. He, may I ask how much I can get for writing this script?" Zhang Lei hesitated for a while before asking the question he was most concerned about.

Seeing Zhang Lei's reluctant smile and slightly pale face, He Hua understood instantly. He put down the chopsticks in his hand and said seriously:
"Generally speaking, screenwriters in our company's first contact with a project can get a remuneration of 5000 yuan/episode. I specially invited you here, and I can make an exception and give you 8000 yuan/episode."

"After the whole project is completed, the income of about 20 yuan can be obtained."

Seeing the smile on Zhang Lei's face, He Hua continued:
"If you're tight now, after the contract is signed, I can ask the company to pay you some in advance, and you can use it first."

"No, no, I'll talk about it after I finish my work." Zhang Lei quickly shook his head and refused.

"Okay, you decide for yourself."

While chatting, He Hua realized that Zhang Lei and Xu Jizhou knew each other.

"I served as the literary coordinator for Director Xu's "Killing the Tiger's Mouth" last year."

"So that's the case. That's just right. When he comes back, you can help him get in touch."

"Ok, no problem."

After dinner, He Hua drove Zhang Lei to the company, signed the contract and got to know the other screenwriters at Xing Kong Studio.

Two days later, Xu Jizhou returned to BJ, and Zhang Lei took him to the company to meet He Hua.

Hearing that He Hua said that he wanted to find him to direct a TV series, Xu Jizhou immediately said that there is no problem. After all, Youhua's works can not only praise actors, but also directors.

Look at Kong Sheng's momentum now, companies big and small are desperately handing over the notebooks to him, and they say whatever conditions they want to open, they are so envious.

After they left, He Hua said to Huang Lan:
"In the second half of this year, I will prepare the two works "Exquisite Ancient City" and "The Indelible Number"."

"What about you?" Huang Lan asked with wide-eyed eyes.

"What me?" He Hua was puzzled.

"The script of "Exquisite Ancient City" is being written by Tianma, and "Number" Xu Jizhou, Zhang Lei, and Xingkong have taken over. What are you doing?"

He Hua was speechless: "Can you let me take a break, I haven't rested for several years?"

"Didn't you just go out to play with Sissy a while ago? Why did you rest again?"

"I, I. Am I telling you? I, get up, I'm going home."

(End of this chapter)