Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Although Zhang Weijian was playing the victim, what he said was true.

It’s just that the program team will amplify the emotions through a series of means such as set words, cameras, and on-site atmosphere, thereby creating a tear-jerking effect.

"I hope that I can create better conditions for my mother through my own efforts so that she doesn't have to suffer so much!
I also hope that I can support my younger brother to continue his studies, so that he won’t be like me, who dropped out of high school to work!”

On the stage, Zhang Weijian's eyes turned red as he spoke.

Zhang Weijian's mother Yu Jiabi couldn't help but burst into tears when she heard her son's filial words and thought about his efforts over the years.

When the two younger sons saw their mother crying, they hurriedly came together to comfort her with red eyes.

The program crew seized the opportunity to take a close-up shot, and the effect was instantly maximized.

It is not enough for the contestants to just act pitifully on stage and have their families cry with them.

There were also children arranged in the audience who wiped away tears along with the others.

With a few close-up shots of eyes full of tears, the show instantly turned into a tear-jerking bomb.

Countless viewers in front of the TV cried together.

Seeing that the effect was almost there, Yang Ye began to control the situation: "Ajian, you don't have to be sad. You are already standing on the stage of "The Voice of China". Tonight, millions of people across Asia have heard your singing. You... did it!"

Yang Ye's words were powerful and the whole audience burst into warm applause.

In front of the TV, countless viewers applauded Zhang Weijian, felt sad for him, and were happy for him!

In the end, Zhang Weijian chose Zhang Guorong as his mentor.

The first episode of "The Voice of China" started with an extremely joyful scene and ended with an extremely tear-jerking scene, which was a blast to begin with!

The emotions of countless audiences were moved by the show, they cried and laughed together!

……

Yang Ye and Deng Lijun, a couple, each holding a baby, sat in front of the TV and watched the show with great interest.

When Zhang Guorong came on stage and hugged Zhang Weijian, the show ended. Deng Lijun said with some regret, "Is this the end?"

Yang Ye hugged his daughter and said, "Wait until next week."

"In fact, when we were recording the show, although the atmosphere was good, it didn't move people's emotions that much!"

“That’s the beauty of editing! We used twelve cameras and shot a ton of footage.

At the right time, the images of mentors, contestants, audience, relatives and friends are organically combined.

If paired with the right music, the show's effect can be amplified exponentially. This show will definitely be a hit!"

Deng Lijun sighed and said, "You, you made such a good singing competition so complicated. You are really bad."

Yang Ye said sternly: "Can't you say something good about me in front of Xiao Xin and Xiao Min?"

Deng Lijun burst out laughing: "Oh, you still remember to pay attention to your image as a father!"

"of course!"

"But they are all asleep!"

The two little ones were only five years old. How could they watch this kind of program? They curled up in their father and mother’s arms and fell asleep quickly.

Yang Ye held his daughter in his arms, stood up quietly, and said, "Let's go, send them back to bed."

The two walked towards the bedroom one after the other. Deng Lijun couldn't help but ask again: "Why did you cut Lam so badly? No student was willing to choose him?"

In the first episode of The Voice of China, George Lam didn’t get a single student, he was so miserable.

Yang Ye said: "This is the effect of the show. In order to increase the topic, he won't be able to recruit any students in the next episode."

"You are so bad!"

Yang Ye and Deng Lijun were chatting as they put the child back into their crib. They returned to the bedroom and were about to have sex when they received a call from the TV station.

"Sir, the preliminary statistics of Hong Kong's ratings are out, the highest is 20 points!"

Yang Ye was very satisfied and said with a smile: "Very good, we will celebrate tomorrow, you guys make the arrangements!"

The ratings of 20 points are not very high. The "How to Be a Millionaire" which was broadcast on ATV some time ago had a ratings of 60 points, which caused a sensation in Hong Kong and received rave reviews.

However, although Star TV has landed in Hong Kong, it is a Mandarin channel and Hong Kong audiences usually do not watch this channel.

It would be hilarious if Star TV's ratings in Hong Kong and Macau could usually exceed 10, but they are often in the single digits.

The fact that the number of viewers has doubled this time is enough to show how popular "The Voice of China" is.

It can break 20 points in the Cantonese-speaking area, how about in the Mandarin-speaking area?

Unfortunately, Star TV has not yet landed in Taiwan, and Taiwanese people only have two channels to watch Star TV.

One is to install a satellite antenna at home, and the other is to broadcast through an illegal third channel.

Since there are hundreds of third-party channels, and they are so numerous, diverse and chaotic, it is almost an impossible task to calculate the ratings.

But, "The Voice of China" is undoubtedly a hit.

……

Taipei, Fuxing Middle School, Monday.

Jia Jingwen had just walked into the school gate with her schoolbag on her back when Chen Yue'er caught up with her from behind.

"Jingwen, have you watched The Voice of China?"

"Of course I watched it. I watched it with my parents and my brother."

"It's really good to watch. It's super funny at the beginning and very touching later."

"Yeah, it turns out Yang Ye is afraid of his wife, hahaha!"

"Which contestant do you like best?"

"Of course it's Xiao Qi, what about you?"

"I like Zhang Weijian the most, he is so handsome!"

"Which instructor do you like?"

"I can't choose one. I think they are all very interesting and very strong. But George Lam is so pitiful. He always sincerely tells the students to choose me, but the students always choose someone else."

The two little girls were chatting and when they returned to the classroom, they suddenly found that the whole class was talking about the topic of The Voice.

……

It seemed that overnight, the overseas Chinese world and the Bay Area in mainland China were discussing "The Voice of China".

Major media outlets also quickly joined the discussion. Taiwan's China Times gave a detailed introduction to The Voice of China with the headline "The Voice of China's shocking premiere, Ren Xianqi becomes the first singer to win four awards!"

The report said: "The Voice of China" is jointly organized by Star TV, Taiwan's Rolling Stone Records and Hong Kong's Poplar Records, and the preliminary planning took a year.

The program innovatively changes the common singing competition practice of waiting for people to sign up, and instead actively searches for future stars with musical talent throughout the Chinese world.

The program team spent a lot of manpower and material resources, traveled all over the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and four places, and took a year to select nearly a hundred "good voices" to compete on the same stage.

Another innovation of the program is that it changed the traditional judging system into a mentor system, inviting four music superstars, Teresa Teresa, Yang Ye, Zhang Guorong and George Lam, to become music mentors.

Those who pass the assessment will be lucky enough to become their students and receive their guidance.

The assessment process is also very innovative, adopting a "blind audition" system. The four mentors have their backs to the contestants. They do not care about the contestants' appearance, but only look for truly good voices.

The contestants must "conquer" the mentors with their own voices and make them turn to them.

The more interesting part is the contestant's counter-selection stage. When more than one mentor turns around, the initiative is in the hands of the contestants.

Ren Xianqi from Taiwan became the first contestant to have four mentors turn around.

In order to compete for this future music star, the four mentors will each come up with unique strategies, which will become a highlight of the show.

……

Yang Ye had the idea of ​​organizing a singing competition a long time ago. At that time, he was struggling for a while over whether to choose the Super Boy or Super Girl model or the Voice of China model, but later he gave up the idea.

Before the midi technology matured, it was impossible for such a competition to become popular. At most, it would be a large-scale TVB New Talent Singer Competition, which would be held in Hong Kong.

Yang Ye had no interest in this kind of petty fighting. If he didn't take action, it would be fine. But if he did, he would at least shock Asia. Otherwise, it would be a disgrace to his reputation!
So Yang Ye kept waiting until the 1990s, when he had Star TV and the MIDI technology had matured completely, before he finally took action.

After a year of preparation, "The Voice of China" became an instant hit. It took China and the world by storm as soon as it was broadcast, causing an earthquake-level response throughout the Chinese world.

In fact, there are people who are organizing competitions for Chinese people around the world, and that is the "Miss Chinese International Pageant" held by TVB since 1988.

This competition is actually related to the "Miss Hong Kong" pageant. Its contestants basically come from various overseas places and have contractual relations with TVB.

These places will hold their own Miss Chinese pageant, and the participants are all Chinese living abroad and their descendants.

After winning local prizes, they gathered in Hong Kong to compete on the same stage with the Miss Hong Kong contestants of that year.

At that time, Hong Kong's entertainment industry dominated Asia, and this competition was still very prestigious. Many Chinese people entered the entertainment industry because of winning this competition, such as Christy Chung and Michelle Ye.

However, the influence of this competition is limited to Hong Kong. It has not achieved the same level of success as "The Voice of China", which has generated strong responses at home and abroad as soon as it was broadcast.

Following Taiwan media’s extensive coverage of “The Voice of China,” media from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asian countries also competed to report on the grand occasion when the show was broadcast.

……

A week later, in the second episode of The Voice of China, The Voice of China brought out another four-turn contestant, Stefanie Sun from Singapore.

In the 1990s, the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene was basically dominated by Wang Fei and Zhang Huimei.

In such a situation, Stefanie Sun, who did not focus on idol promotion, sang hit songs one after another and was once called the "Queen Killer".

Her songs "Moonlight in the City", "The Sun Always Comes After the Rain" and "All Are Night Returners" are classics in Chinese pop music.

What was dramatic was that Yang Ye was obviously very popular and many contestants came for him, but he failed again in the competition for the fourth-turn singer.

Stefanie Sun chose Nick Cheung, who was so happy that he ran onto the stage and sang a song with his new disciple.

Yang Ye once again played the hometown card and snatched the third-place singer Su Huilun, whose ancestral home is Hubei.

After two episodes, Deng Lijun and Zhang Guorong each gained a fourth-turn student.

And Yang Ye is the most bizarre one, he has already gained five students...all of them are girls!

There are Su Huilun from Taiwan, Liu Xiaohui from Hong Kong, Yang Yuying from the mainland...

These girls are all so sweet, not only do they have sweet voices, but they also look sweet.

Therefore, the Hong Kong media affectionately called Yang Ye the "girl-chasing expert", while the Taiwanese media affectionately called Yang Ye the "sweet girl killer".

Yang Ye was concerned about Deng Lijun being next to him, so even though he was chosen by the girls every time, he couldn't celebrate too much. The scene was very funny.

But Zhang Guorong was not quite convinced. She thought, "I am pretty and have a sweet voice, so why don't the sweet girls choose me?"
Fortunately, he managed to grab a fourth-level player and immediately felt proud.

In fact, in the original version of The Voice of China, Yang Kun collected a bunch of little sisters.

Now this character has inexplicably transferred to Yang Ye.

This wasn't intentional on Yang Ye's part. Maybe he really had a physique that attracted girls, and those sweet girls just had to throw themselves at him.

The charm is too great, there is nothing I can do!

George Lam was in a more miserable situation. After two episodes, he didn’t get a single contestant.

He even used a big move on the show, saying to the contestant: "I have 18 concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum this year, and I would like to invite you to be my concert guest!"

Liu Xiaohui was very touched when she was invited, and then she chose Yang Ye.

The Hong Kong media took advantage of the situation and put a big headline in the newspaper: "Lin Zixiang has been benched for a long time. When will he be able to open his business?"

He even deliberately went to interview George Lam and asked him what he felt about not being able to get students.

In fact, all of this is a script, a routine that was discussed in advance.

Because during the blind audition, the selection is actually completed in one go, there is no such thing as a situation where George Lam doesn't get a single spot.

However, when the program team was editing, they deliberately changed the order and deliberately created this phenomenon.

By the third episode, George Lam was about to fight back and accepted several more students.

George Lam said that he will have 18 concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum this year, and it was actually Yang Ye who gave him the idea.

This is entirely because the "Yang Sanshierlang" meme in the original time and space was very popular, so a "Lin Shibalanglang" meme was deliberately created for Lin Zixiang.

Sure enough, by the third episode, George Lam kept saying, “I have 18 concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum this year, and I would like to invite you to be my concert guest.” He won over many contestants in succession and even snatched a fourth-turn contestant, Gu Juji.

After three episodes, the audience thought that there would be a four-turn singer in every episode, but there was no such singer in the next two episodes.

Everyone now knows that four-turn singers are not common, but extremely rare.

Yang Ye’s failure every time in competing for the fourth-turn singer position became a meme and was widely reported by the media!

Some people may not know the nature of the Hong Kong and Taiwan media.

Let’s say someone died in a certain place.

Then Taiwan's newspapers, television and other media will take turns to report this incident from various angles, over and over again.

We also have to invite various "talk show hosts" to appear on TV shows and various "literati" to write columns, and discuss the issue over and over again on TV and in newspapers, which will take at least three months.

In this kind of atmosphere, let alone The Voice of China, it is still deliberately creating hot spots.

Its level of excitement was even greater than that of the "hot searches" in later generations.

As the popularity increased and gradually swept across the Chinese world, The Voice of China became a money-making magic weapon.

The advertising fees during the program's broadcast period continued to rise, and "Lindt", the title sponsor of The Voice of China, greatly increased its exposure, sales soared, and it made a lot of money.

Chinese TV stations in various countries and regions in Asia have approached Star TV to purchase the rights to rebroadcast their programs.

The Voice of China program team even made albums of the songs sung by the “Voice of China” contestants in each episode for sale.

Soon after, the first album of the "Voice of China Series" featuring chorus from mentors was released, divided into two versions: pure enjoyment version and live version.

The pure enjoyment version removes all noises and only retains the singer's singing part, while the live version directly replicates the live show.

After the album was released, it took only one month for sales in Asia to exceed one million copies.

Record companies everywhere are jealous. What the hell... one episode sold a million copies. How terrifying would the sales be for the entire show?

This is also the reason why Yang Ye waited until the 1990s to start Sound.

The 1990s was the golden age of the record industry.

Being able to adjust the sound and arrange the music at will can not only create a unique experience where the cover is better than the original.

You can even strip away all other noise in the program and create a pure version with only melody and singing.

In this way, it makes sense to record the songs sung by the contestants in the show into an album.

If it was held a few years earlier, the contestants could only sing the original version, and the result would not be good enough, so no one would buy it! (End of this chapter)