In the conference room, Zhou Hui frowned as he looked at the information of the 27 players displayed on the big screen.
This list was compiled by the entire program team working overtime. The 27 people were divided into three groups, nine sports school reserve teams, nine college athletes, and nine retired athletes. Under each person's photo, there is a concise text description, listing each person's personality characteristics and "publicity points" on them.
Although this program is to choose "amateurs", ordinary people who are thrown into the crowd will definitely not be favored by the camera and the audience.
When Yang Xiao selected players, he selected some players with "story" in a targeted manner to facilitate the packaging.
"Hope of the whole village" who came from a poor family vs. "Young Master" from a wealthy family; arrogant court ruthless man vs. Wannian assists with a warm style of play; retired players whose abilities have been questioned vs.
conflict, turning point,
conflict, reconciliation,
Trust, hostility.
The script has been written, and the actors are already in place; Yang Xiao was the first time to work on such a large-scale project, she made countless versions of the plan, and she was exhausted, and her hair fell out one after another.
But this kind of success failed to win the favor of the Queen Mother—
"If you just rely on this list of appearances, the show's ratings will not exceed 1.5." Zhou Hui pointed out, "A group of unknown people, chasing a ball, run around the field, and they have to run for three months, Twelve episodes? You tell me, why do viewers turn on the TV and watch such an unknown program?"
Yang Xiao: "…"
Yang Xiao almost felt like she was back in the third year of high school. She was carried to the podium by the teacher and answered the last question of the last big question on the math test while all her classmates watched.
Is this question overkill? Not out of line.
Did the teacher speak? It seems to have been said, and it seems that it has not been said.
Can she answer it? She can't answer... She has to bite the bullet and answer!
Yang Xiao smoothed his train of thought and hesitated to answer: "As a reality show, the contestants are our biggest selling point. We have carefully screened these twenty-seven contestants, and everyone has a full set of characters, so we can use a small theater format. , tell their stories and let the audience get to know them.”
"Stupid! - Do you think this was a music talent show ten years ago? When a contestant appeared, he started playing sensational music, telling the sad story of how difficult it was for him to continue singing because his father died and his mother had cancer. Zhou Hui's disappointment was beyond words, she completely denied Yang Xiao's opinion, "The character of the contestants is indeed very important, but this should be left to the audience to dig, not the show team to shake it out. You take the draft ten years ago. Routines, to cater to today's audience, is really ridiculous."
If you use an analogy, the previous talent shows were more like "pizza", all the fillings were clearly placed under the eyes of the audience, and it was clear at a glance whether the audience liked it or not.
Now the show is like a "pie", hiding all the dark tides under the crust, and only when the audience tries to take a bite can they dig out the deliciousness. This is why many fans call their idols "treasure boys" and "treasure girls", which means that they are like treasures, the more they dig, the brighter they become.
Yang Xiao tried her best to keep up with Zhou Hui's rhythm. She bit her lower lip and deleted all the points about selling people in the document.
In the original script, all the starting, turning, and closing all depended on the characters of the contestants. After deleting the selling points of the characters, the shortcomings of the show were immediately exposed - the program competition system lacked real highlights, and they have been forming teams, Competitions, teams, and competitions are indeed a bit boring for audiences who don't understand basketball.
And for fans who understand basketball... If they have time to watch three groups of chickens pecking at each other, why don't they buy a ticket to watch cba
The rest of the team also realized the problem, and for a while, the entire room was filled with buzzing discussions.
It’s not long before the official start of filming. Are they going to overthrow the script and create a new competition system now
"I think, please invite a few stars." The planner suggested, "Isn't there a lot of stars in the entertainment industry who like to play basketball? As long as they have money, who can't invite them? Just put a name, such as... team manager ?"
The publicity immediately followed: "If it's the team manager, I think it's better to hire a few female stars directly. Just like Akagi Haruko, go the first love route. The players are all big-hearted guys, and the manager will hire a popular girl. In the group, handsome men and beautiful women are paired together, so I have something to fry on my side."
The business patted the table and stared: "Stop talking nonsense! Do you think female stars are the ones you want to invite? Now even Douyin Internet celebrities have to queue for a month or two to push goods, and the girl groups that can be named in the circle, All jobs are scheduled for next year!"
Buzzing on the left, buzzing on the right, this group of TV station elites held a topic selection meeting, which was even more noisy than the wet market aunt.
Zhou Hui didn't speak, just watched them quarrel quietly. If you encounter a problem and ask the teacher to point out the correct answer without thinking and discussing it, the student will never make progress.
There were messy discussions in his ears, Yang Xiao was not influenced by them, but fell into his own world.
There is not much time left for her, the show is about to start filming, and the competition framework cannot be changed any more. If it is overturned and rewritten, it will not catch up with the filming. But how to make the competition system full of ups and downs without changing the original framework...
Fun enough, difficult enough, reversible enough, exciting enough—
"I figured it out!" Yang Xiao suddenly stood up, slapped the table with both hands, and stopped everyone. Her eyes brightened, as if a fire was burning from her soul, "I know how to do it!"
"Oh?" Zhou Hui sat upright with his legs crossed and asked with interest, "Tell me about it."
Yang laughed loudly and replied: "9 reserve athletes, 9 college athletes, 9 retired athletes - this combination is indeed 'the chickens peck each other'. So we have to introduce new roles!"
"More people?" Someone exclaimed.
"That's right, Jiaren." Yang smiled and nodded, "Everyone here must have heard a story. In order to ensure that sardines do not die during long-distance transportation, they should be packed with their natural enemies in the shipping container to stimulate natural enemies. They, stimulate their awareness of survival; the same is true for our show. What's the matter with the chickens pecking at each other? Let's put in a few eagles, won't we?"
The weak fight against the strong, this theme will always be the audience's favorite.
Whether it’s the weak counterattacking and defeating the seniors, or the great devil who will keep winning forever and teach newcomers a lesson; both of these developments will stimulate the ratings, and the audience will be full of expectations for the development of the show and the growth of the players. This is the truly interesting show. design.
"Crack, snap, snap", three crisp applause sounded.
Everyone looked at the sound, only to see Zhou Hui, who had always looked cold and stern, with a smile on his face, and looked at Yang Xiao with admiration.
"Very good." Zhou Hui said with satisfaction, "Being able to come up with this solution in such a short period of time, it seems that among so many people here, you are the only one who brings your brain to work."
Others: "..." QAQ, praise her when you praise her, without insulting others!
Zhou Hui asked again, "How many eagles are you going to introduce?"
"Three. Adding up to the existing players is exactly 30, which can just make up six groups of 5 teams. The third team has 'Eagle', and the third team does not have an 'Eagle', so it is interesting for the two teams to fight. In the later stage, It can also be turned into a 3v3 bullfight.”
Zhou Hui nodded: "Then do you have a suitable candidate?"
Yang Xiao replied: "Well... there is already one. He has been on my show before."
"Okay, then you are responsible for contacting this player, and I will come to the remaining two."
…
On weekends, outside the dormitory area of the CBA Hwaseong basketball team.
As usual every weekend, on both sides of the small alley leading to the dormitory area, many enthusiastic fans shivered in the cold wind of early spring. Some of them are holding gifts, some holding sneakers and jerseys, hoping that the stars they support can stop in front of them.
Feng Xiang, who went to the city with his teammates for a tooth sacrifice, felt dizzy when he saw the crowd in Wuyang. He pulled up the hat of his sweater, covered his head, and walked quickly to the dormitory.
His teammates were stopped by the fans. With them as shields, Feng Xiang carried him to the dormitory door with his long legs.
At this moment - "Captain Feng! Please stop!"
A crisp female voice sounded behind itself.
Feng Xiang's footsteps paused. The female voice was familiar. At first, he thought he had heard it wrong, but soon, the footsteps of high-heeled shoes got closer and closer, and the voice rang again.
"Captain Feng, hello, I'm Yang Xiao, the variety show director of Hwaseong TV, do you remember..."
"Of course I remember." Feng Xiang turned his head and looked down at the young girl who couldn't reach his chest. "I don't have Alzheimer's, I just appeared on your show a few months ago, and..." He also gave her a room card.
He's a romantic man, and he doesn't have any moral values of chastity. Even if he knew that Yang Xiao's famous flowers had owners, he couldn't control his lower body and wanted to loosen the soil for the famous flowers.
However, what stood in front of him was not a delicate flower, but an overlord flower.
And he just passed her bloom.
Then he was stabbed by the thorn in her body.
tsk tsk. Now that Feng Xiang saw Yang Xiao, the air defense alarm sounded in his mind, and Zier shouted: "This girl is a big trouble, her boyfriend is a big trouble, the farther away from them, the better!"
Feng Xiang subconsciously took a step back to distance himself from her, and asked, "Director Yang, do you have anything to do with me?"
Seeing the gazes of other fans around, Yang Xiao immediately lowered his voice and said a long story short: "I want to invite you to my show."
"That... What's that "Midnight Bell" called?"
"...It's "Midnight Mind"." Yang Xiao suppressed his desire to complain, "but I have been transferred from the "Midnight Mind" column group, and I am now working as a director of TV's "King of Rebounds", this is a basketball Competitive reality show, I want to invite you on this show."
Feng Xiang has always been a frequent visitor to variety shows, but because of the small setbacks he encountered during the recording of "Midnight Heart", he was suspended from business activities for two months by the team. Yang Xiao counted the days, he should have lifted the ban, and immediately came to him without stopping. "
"The King of Rebounding?" Feng Xiang made a few gestures disdainfully, "Sorry, you are late. A few days ago, the "Basketball Mania" of Kiwifruit platform also came to me, and they wanted me to be a mentor. , I offered this price, but I rejected it. We are half acquaintances, and I will not say those polite words to you. If I am a mentor, I will sacrifice my time to lead that group of miscellaneous soldiers, which is thankless. The deal is too bad, unless you give me a double, I will not…”
"Sorry, you misunderstood." Yang Xiao looked up into his eyes and interrupted his rhetoric, "I didn't come to ask you to be a mentor."
"… what?"
"I want to invite you to be a player."
"???"
From the mentor of program A to the contestant of program B, the gap is too big! ! !
Feng Xiangqi laughed and asked her back: "Director Yang, do you think I'm fed up? What benefits can I get from being a contestant for your program group?"
"Hmm..." Yang Xiao thought for a while, "Can I assign you to Meng Yufan's group and give you more shots?"
Feng Xiang was so angry that his nose was crooked: "This is a benefit for me, this is obviously a benefit for your boyfriend! Listen carefully, I am the biggest coffee, wherever I go, your camera must follow him. It is his honor to be in a group with me and rub my camera!"
Yang Xiao immediately said, "So, do you agree to be on the show?"
Feng Xiang: "..."