Yang Can Shasha flipped through the script of Chengshan, and the people on the ATV side seemed a little impatient. It has been more than ten minutes. After he announced the start of the meeting, he was silent, neither announcing the meeting process nor talking.
A group of people at ATV felt a huge inexplicable pressure, and they were a little restless.
This meeting was a temporary emergency meeting. Cai Yanming ordered all the screenwriters to stop their work overnight and spend half a day to communicate with top representatives. It is conceivable how important it is.
Yang Dapao, a top media company, a new media celebrity in the mainland, and the producer of the trendy drama "The Good Wife", for these ATV screenwriters, they only know Yang Can's halo.
The appearance of being in his twenties really makes everyone feel puzzled that Director Cai Yanming attaches so much importance to him, but in any case, ATV’s people also know that this cooperation is a breakthrough, and it is also the first time ATV has cooperated with a mainland media company. The model of cooperation and no money is completely risk-free, and it is no wonder that the high-level meetings are passed so quickly and unanimously.
Yang Can flipped through the scripts of ATV over the years, and deliberately took advantage of this time to deliberately create a tense atmosphere to deter the ATV screenwriters. It was not until the signal light came on that Yang Can called up another scene, the one by Mai Weijian. The face of the sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks appeared in front of everyone.
"Well, everyone is here. I think many people are meeting for the first time. Let Mary introduce all of us present." Yang Can smiled and closed the script.
The ATV screenwriters were all in an uproar. It turned out that Manager Yang was waiting for someone after waiting for so long. He was still such a wretched guy, and felt like he was insulted, but when they heard the name Mai Weijian At that time, his face "color" improved slightly.
Everyone introduced one by one, the top core personnel here are naturally Yang Can and Mai Weijian, while the counterparts on the ATV side have been famous for a long time. The flat-headed man with a round face in his early fifties is the director and chief producer of the drama department. Consultant Liang Liren, as a screenwriter, who is behind his name is a series of masterpieces "Bao Qingtian", "Great Inner Heroes", "I'm from Chaozhou".
The gentle man with a baseball cap and sunglasses is the soul of the ATV screenwriter. He has participated in the screenwriting of "My Spring Have a Date", "Jing Wu Men", "Young Fang Shiyu", "My Zombie Has a Date" The talented genius screenwriter is thirteen, and his wife is also the famous ATV head Hua Dan Wan Qiwen.
Except for these two people, the other screenwriters are unknown, or they are newcomers who have been in the industry for less than five years. Since the death of the gold medal screenwriter Xian Zhiwei, the director and producer together with Wei Jiahui left to follow Du Qifeng, and the talents behind the ATV are gradually increasing. Withered.
"Today's meeting, we are mainly going to choose the script for this collaboration. You have seen the main actors, Yang Xiuya and Lu Zibo, let’s talk about your opinions first." Yang Can took a sip of coffee and finally said the meeting. Spindle.
Liang Liren is the oldest and oldest of the ATV screenwriters. He coughed twice and spoke in that Hong Kong-flavored Mandarin:
"This time our two cooperation should be based on the principles of honesty, mutual trust, reciprocity, and sincere communication. Then I won’t be too nonsense. My opinion is that Manager Yang can give us some time for this cooperative drama series. Our creative team creates the script you want, you only need to provide a rough genre..."
Looking at the look of the young ATV screenwriters eager to try, Mai Weijian couldn't help but laughed. It was obviously a taunting, which made everyone at ATV a little "fascinated."
Mai Weijian stopped his smile and said, "Sorry everyone, this person can't hide my words." He opened the ATV repertoire over the years, pointed to it and said:
"Frankly speaking, I have watched some of your ATV TV dramas in the past few years. They are really not so good. In 2009, the combined ratings of your four TV dramas were not as good as any of the top five TV dramas. I am really not sure to let the screenwriter rights. Leave it to you."
Mai Weijian is notorious for his professional arrogance. These words immediately aroused the anger of more than a dozen ATV screenwriters. One of the young people directly complained in Cantonese: "Okay, since you have drunk it." The ghost of Hollywood coffee, then you can write it yourself. What do you want us to do."
"Don't you find us just for you to write an outline, and we come to lay hands with you?" The other one felt a little bit dumbfounded.
Mai Weijian shrugged his shoulders indifferently and said, "It's okay, but our head Yang doesn't agree."
Chen Shisan, wearing sunglasses, was silent, and Liang Liren felt that Mai Weijian was a bit too big, and couldn't help but tentatively asked Yang Can: "Manager Yang, take the liberty to ask, if you mean you this time Let us cooperate with the director, but we have no objection, but since the two are cooperating, the script must be able to pass our level. The series broadcast by ATV are subject to review by our department according to the rules."
Yang Can was very satisfied with each other's swords, and knew that it was time for him to come forward. He created this kind of atmosphere for this effect. He didn't have time to put his fingers on the table with his fingers on the hearts of those who conquered these people. Everyone It quieted down immediately.
"Although Director McKenzie’s had a bit of experience, I agree with him. I am afraid that the time to write the script will not keep up with our progress..." After stabilizing the situation, he said his true thoughts: "My idea is to use our existing ones. Resources remake ATV’s classic repertoire."
As soon as this proposal was put forward, the people on the ATV side suddenly became silent, and their expressions were obviously relaxed. Liang Liren couldn't help but feel a little surprised. Yang Dapao was really not simple, and his words were too level.
If Yang Can proposes to remake the ATV series at the beginning, I am afraid that everyone will feel that there are lumps in their hearts, and they will feel that the other party is despising themselves as incompetent, but it makes Mai Weijian so arrogant. It sounds natural to people, as if the top side also sacrificed and compromised a lot.
Liang Liren still felt a little panicked and frowned, "Manager Yang, don't you believe in our existing screenwriting skills? It's not that I am arrogant. If we concentrate our screenwriting team's existing ability to develop new themes, it will be very good. has potential.."
Taking advantage of the opportunity of this collaboration to involve their own screenwriters in the cooperation, let them learn that experience growth is Liang Liren's wish. If it is a remake of the classic drama ATV, the team behind the scenes will benefit less.
Yang Can listened to Liang Liren’s words with strong protectionist thinking in some places, and could not help cursing him in his heart. I kindly laid down the steps for you. You even fooled me as a layman, and finally couldn’t hold back the fire and changed your tone of voice. Cooled down, I directly clicked on a report.
"This is the data of all your episodes from 90 to the present." Yang Can moved to the top of the report: "In the year of 1990, ATV produced the top ten viewers in Hong Kong, including "The Driver", "Chinese Hero", etc. There are 36 episodes in total, and then the trend begins to decrease year by year. In the 1990s, the average number of episodes produced per year was about 20." Move the mouse down and the table changes:
"After 2000, the number of episodes per year has been reduced to about ten, and no one can enter the top ten at the same time in Hong Kong. Only four episodes were produced last year."
The screenwriters such as Liang Liren are a little embarrassed. It is true that ATV has vigorously introduced foreign dramas in recent years. The best-performing mainland dramas such as "Huanzhugege" and "Yongzheng Dynasty", and even "The Great Jangjin" and "Meteor Garden" have won This is a very good result, but the self-produced drama has less than one-third of these ratings.
From the perspective of ATV's top managers, the benefits of dramas produced with manpower and material resources are not as direct as foreign dramas purchased directly. Of course, the number of self-made dramas should be reduced.
The most important thing is that Hong Kong dramas are now collectively declining. In the last ten years, they have lost their Asian market share during the golden age of the 1990s. ATV's dramas are filmed and watched by themselves. They cannot sell overseas copyrights. They can only struggle in the small market of Hong Kong.
"Oh, this is the taste of the market has changed, and the world is not as good as before." "I think our dramas are not worse than before, but now Korean dramas, mainland dramas, and Taiwanese dramas have too much impact." "Now they are all in. Taking the business route of mother-in-law and mother-in-law, we can only follow the trend. Naturally, the ratings will not go up. If it was before..." ATV's screenwriters are all making excuses for themselves and discussing.
Yang Can looked at these new screenwriters who complained again and again, and felt very disgusted. This is the current situation of ATV, complaining about the sky and others, and the talent is withered. The low voice can not help but carefully draw everyone's attention back to him:
"Director Liang, with all due respect, the external market environment has been changing, but the current dilemma of ATV is caused by you screenwriters."
Facing the indignant gaze of these people in the camera, Yang Can became more and more rude:
"In the area of commercial TV dramas, you have been following the trend over the years. You have been eating your laurels, learning wirelessly to shoot family Hong Kong dramas and family dramas. The themes are too similar. Instead, you have lost the most precious thing as a screenwriter." Yang Can paused. Looking at Chen Shisan wearing a baseball cap:
"Business does not mean compromising someone or catering to someone. The core of commercial TV dramas is creation. In the 1990s, ATV had a surreal martial arts drama "Chinese Heroes" adapted from comics. For King, the sci-fi firearms film "The Gun God", the action film "Jing Wu Men", the combination of ghost film and police and gangster film "A sir series only ghost 1", each film is a temporary choice, these are all in the mainland, In Southeast Asia, it has caused a good response.
And now, where is your creation? "Yang Can's powerful questioning left everyone speechless.
Originally, the screenwriters of these ATVs all looked down on Yang Can, a layman who was a reporter, but he didn't expect to be "forced" to the corner by a word.
Suddenly the hull trembles, Yang Xiuya and Lu Zibo can't help but their faces change slightly. It's just that Captain Hart's face is cautious, and his eyebrows are wrinkled together. Obviously, the sea trial was not very smooth. But Yang Can didn't realize it, and just said to these people in the camera:
"If you have the confidence to come up with any subject that is equivalent to the script of the drama I mentioned just now, I can let you write it."
Back then, ATV’s gold screenwriters were all co-produced with a TV series, and only then have such a good script. The scripts alone are masterpieces with an energy of over 350. It depends on who of you guys who dare to shoot their breasts and say I can do it!
Liang Liren was taken aback for a moment, and instinctively turned his head and looked at Chen Shisan. Chen Shisan thought about measuring for a few seconds before shook his head with a wry smile, so that the other young screenwriters looked at each other, and none of them dared to speak out.
They obviously made a mistake in their judgment. Not only is this Yang Dapao not a layman, but he is also very knowledgeable. Even Mai Weijian sincerely admires Yang Can's insight just now.
Yang Can's face is calm. During the first ten minutes of reading the script in the meeting, he has been observing the consciousness of these screenwriters. At that time, he had already "touched" Liang Liren and Chen Shisan about this time. The thoughts and thoughts of the cooperative script, what he said are the arguments from the bottom of the hearts of Liang Liren and Chen Shisan, but they have never made it clear inside ATV due to their identity.
When Yang Can said it at this time, these people would naturally feel a little shocked when they heard it for the first time.
At this time, Yang Can proposed his plan to remake "I Have a Date with Zombies", and there was no objection at all.
During this period of time, Mai Weijian also studied the script repeatedly in accordance with Yang Can’s instructions. In fact, he also admired the screenwriter Chen Shisan very much. In his words, he did not know that "I have a date with a zombie" spread What is Chinese culture, but the concept of this script alone is higher than other Chinese dramas.
If you want to enter the European and American markets, apart from innovation and quality, the most important point is that values are in line with the world's "tide" flow. In this regard, Asian TV dramas, including Chinese, Korean and Japanese, are obviously lacking. .
Yang Can understands that this is caused by different levels of consciousness. Although as a Chinese, he also has to admit that China is currently lagging behind Western society in terms of the level of consciousness in the media industry. This is not a gap in knowledge or ability. The gap between the two, but the breadth and breadth of a kind of thinking.
This gap is particularly obvious in those commercial TV series and movies. No matter how vulgar and flattering the subject matter of Western commercial films, the core behind him is salvation, family affection, love and even beyond these humanistic cares, whether it is the serious theme of "Xin Delek’s List, or the commercial blockbuster "Titanic", is after all.
In Asian films, it is easy to put personal love on top of these things, turning love, family affection into a junior, mother-in-law, and personal material struggle, whether it is ancient costumes or the pattern behind the city.
Therefore, Asians will like to appreciate some Western movies, but it is difficult for Westerners to understand those story patterns in Asian movies.
The reason why Yang Can chose ATV’s "I Have a Date with Zombies" is because his layout is beyond the average Chinese drama. In the story of the trilogy, although the second part of the story has some flaws in shooting, the supporting actors are also somewhat incompetent. As a result, the average energy of the series after filming is 356, but the consciousness energy of the script alone has reached an astonishing 447, which is basically the height of the movie!
Yang Can also saw it accidentally. He still doesn’t understand how Chen Shisan and Xian Zhiwei’s collaboration was done so far, but obviously this drama satisfies everything he wants, the high degree of intention, the story of the drama " "Sex", the protagonist is profound and the supporting role is brilliant. The original work has reached a very exciting level. If you get rid of the technology and financial constraints of the time, Yang Can believes that they can produce an unprecedented drama.
"This time the initial budget is 60 million, 30 episodes."
"60 million investment budget!?" Everyone at ATV, including Liang Liren and Chen Shisan, opened their mouths slightly. Hearing this number, they all looked at each other, and some couldn't believe it was the truth.
In this era, Hong Kong dramas have rarely invested more than 10 million yuan, and even the wealthy wireless TV dramas can never reach the production cost of two million yuan for one episode!
Feeling that he has completely controlled the initiative of the meeting, everyone's thoughts are kneaded to the point, Yang Cancai turned his head and smiled and asked Chen Shisandao:
"Scriptwriter Chen, this is your work, do you have anything to say?" This drama used to be the heroine Ma Xiaoling played by his wife Wan Qiwen. They also came together because of this drama. Wen Jing's screenwriter has special meaning.
Everyone looked at Chen Shisan unconsciously. The screenwriter of the original work naturally had the most say. Chen Shisan straightened the brim of the baseball cap, picked up a small note, and published his own for the first time rather cautiously. opinion,:
"The remake is okay, but there are three problems. First, although the original version has been more than ten years old, it is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The mainland Youku recently bought the copyright of the three zombies. If we want to remake, we will face great pressure. Big, those original audiences will definitely criticize us because they are preconceived.
Secondly, Miss Wan Qiwen has been seriously injured and can no longer play Ma Xiaoling, and Ma Xiaoling is a very special role. At the beginning, I tailored it for Miss Wan Qiwen. Both literary and martial arts have a certain degree. The average actress may Can't handle it, Miss Yang's words... I'm afraid I will force her too much. "
Although Chen Shisan said something straightforward, no one had any objection to the top level. Others said it was reasonable. This is true of classic remakes. After all, the original success lies in it. It is not easy to go beyond that. Which of the many remakes of TV series are not bloody ones who were scolded before they were released.
The image of Ma Xiaoling is even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Many people on Douban.com and Baidu Tieba regard Wan Qiwen as a goddess. Although Yang Xiuya is very popular, she will definitely compare her with this role if she wants to challenge her. Chen Xiaoxu's Lin Daiyu, Weng Meiling's Huang Rong, Zhao Wei's Little Swallow, these are already out-of-print personal labels. Whoever dares to touch them is tantamount to death.
Yang Can nodded, these should wait for him to return to Hong Kong before communicating with them, and asked in a deep voice, "So what about the third?"
"The third point I personally think is the most troublesome. To satisfy the audience's tastes, like this type of film, you must make the special effects cool and cool. Although the special effects were immature at the beginning, The conception has reached a very high level. I did it according to the comic strip. If I retake the shot, these shots will have special effects." Chen Shisan sighed deeply.
Liang Liren noticed that the faces of the top people were "confused" and "confused" and explained: "This is the case. Due to the reduction in the staffing of our atv in recent years, the computer production department simply does not have enough manpower to produce so much. The special effects of the camera are probably unrealistic. Just the fight between Kuang Tianyou and Domoto Jing in the downtown area of the commercial building in Central, and the battle between Jiang Chen and Kuang Tianyou on the plane. It is necessary to re-model 3D and make animations. The amount of work is too much. huge."
After all, Hong Kong is not Hollywood, and ATV does not have so many resources to realize so many ideas. If you outsource special effects, the cost will be overwhelming.
Yang Can figured it out in his heart. These are the details he has considered. The problem is not big. After watching Captain Hart's yacht trial, he finally did not answer. He just waved his hand at the camera:
"Okay, I see. Today's meeting is here. Director Wu, you and the screenwriter Chen are responsible for revising the details of the script. When I return to Hong Kong, we will start selecting actors." Don’t wait for ATV’s side. When people react, turn off the video.
The people in the Hong Kong ATV conference room couldn't help being stunned on the spot. Liang Liren and Chen Shisan looked at each other with a wry smile unconsciously, somewhat helpless. Depending on the situation, this high-level partner appointed him to do it brutally.
Several young screenwriters couldn't help but cursed with complaints: "Who does he think he is? Just decide by himself?" "Do you know how to make a movie? How come these people like Cai Dong find such an idiot!?" They can shoot by themselves, what do they want us to do!"
Chen Shisan cleaned up his own things, and reluctantly walked to Liang Liren's side and asked, "Uncle Liang, can I ask for leave and not participate in this filming?"
Liang Liren shook his head resolutely, "How can it be done? You are the most important person on the top side. How can you retreat." Suddenly it came to a realization: "You shouldn't be afraid..."
Chen Shisan smiled bitterly and nodded again and again: "Well, if my wife knows that my screenwriter "Zombie" is remake, and the protagonist is not her, if the filming is not good, it will be difficult for me in the future.
Liang Liren sighed deeply and hugged Chen Shisan's shoulders: "Thirteen, let's start work, that's it. If we want to do it, we have to do it. If we are scolded or beaten, we have to do it. Who told us to eat this bowl? Where is the person who eats?" I felt a little guilty after speaking.
On the other side, while packing up their instruments, Lu Zibo and Yang Yan both fell in admiration with Yang Can. They sighed again and again: "I have gained a long experience, and I have learned a long time. I only know what leadership is today. It made Hong Kong shook like a cat."
"Did you look at their appearance just now, it was too funny to be speechless by Manager Yang's argument, I almost couldn't help laughing~"
"Look, I was worried that Hong Kong people would have difficulty coping with it before, which is really unnecessary haha.
When the people in the top media in the captain's room were all laughing and joking, Yang Can calmly approached Captain Hart and asked about the results of the trial voyage.
"What happened, Hart?"
Hart reluctantly shook his head and opened the gprs positioning map on the screen: "Not optimistic, very not optimistic..." (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to ***(* **.***) Vote for recommendation, ***, your support is my biggest motivation.)