When the electronic novel industry was just emerging, the outside world was not without attention.
But potential is something that not everyone can see right away, or why does the word "vision" exist? ! Some people have a long-term vision and see the future trends in certain fields, and then cut the first piece of cake decisively. Yes... As for the remaining ones who are slow-moving, or who hesitate to move forward for various reasons, they can only follow behind and eat some leftovers.
When Boss Mo first paid attention to the field of electronic novels, the works during that period were still of a relatively raw type. Amateurs read them for fun, and professionals read them with loopholes everywhere. Boss Mo is not one of those young people who are immature in their three views. After skimming through a few popular works, he finds that they are useless to him and lets go.
After more than ten years of slow development, the current pattern of electronic novels is naturally much more mature than at the beginning, but Boss Mo, who doesn't even read paper books very much, can expect him to continue to pay attention to e-books? ! At most, I vaguely heard from the younger generation that a certain novel is good, and a certain author is very good... As for the specific impression? ! Anyway, the impression in his mind is still in the Long Aotian era more than ten years ago.
"Miss Ye recommended this laughing vassal to me today." Boss Mo took the phone back into his hand, played with it for a while before continuing: "I used to think that there was nothing worth noting in this field, but today I saw that it seems a bit biased." …The barriers to entry for online novels are low, and the quality varies to be honest, but because of the low barriers to entry, the stories in everyone’s minds can be published without restriction.”
After all, a person's imagination has its limits, but the collective imagination of hundreds of thousands of people is a resource that cannot be underestimated.
It is not easy to pick out excellent works among so many people, but it is enough to just pick out excellent screenwriting ideas. The outside world once joked that the popular themes on the TV screen lagged behind the popularity of online novels by at least ten years, although this evaluation is a bit extreme. But there is some truth to it.
For example, a certain court time travel drama that was popular a few years ago, to be honest, the stalk of the drama is very bad, and the plot arrangement is also quite naive. It is almost like Mary Su, who has been abandoned on the Internet for at least five or six years. But it became a big hit after it was put on the screen. In fact, there is no other reason, but it is just a word of freshness-it has been rotten on the Internet, but it is the first time I have seen it on the screen.
What do good screenwriters sell? ! What they sell is creative themes or characterization. Although online novels cannot be directly used as scripts, they are quite qualified to make a rough outline. As long as Boss Mo can find an adaptation team, he doesn't need to find a good screenwriter, just adapting and deleting things from the Internet is enough.
Mr. Mo asked the nanny to bring him a big tablet, and he casually searched the website to browse it and asked, "Has someone already started to adapt it? Didn't you pay attention to this before?"
"Our main focus is movies, and TV dramas are not Luo Mingxin's way." Boss Mo embarrassedly explained: "These novels have too many words. It seems that writers rely on updates to calculate their money, so the word count is at least 70,000 to 800,000. , Some fluent writers can write tens of millions of words, even if it is changed to a TV series, it will take two to three hundred episodes, not to mention that many plots cannot be used."
And it's fresh to shoot one or two films on a tricky subject. If there are too many shots, there will be no one to join in. To put it bluntly, it means killing every penny.
"Under 500,000 words." Mr. Mo nodded, ordered a novel, put on reading glasses to read, and read while reading: "Her colorful hair is flying in the air, and her tears are like crystal..."
"Dad!!" Boss Mo said in embarrassment, "Don't look at the romance site! It's all written by girls under 20 years old."
"Oh." The old man nodded, changed the website, and opened it again: "He thought he had died in a secret operation, but he didn't expect to open his eyes. Surrounded by..."
Boss Mo was almost depressed: "You watch "Ai Song", don't read these first, Xiaoye said that she will help us screen!"
"... really need to be screened." Mr. Mo's cheeks twitched. Although his eyes are blurred, his mind is not blurred. Just looking at a row of titles, he knows that most of them are unusable: "Time travel, rebirth, system, apocalypse, Space... These are all difficult. Not to mention that the plot is probably exaggerated. If you want to make a movie, you still have to choose something real."
"Xiao Yeding's themes are history and modern ethics." Boss Mo brought up several authors' pages and put them in front of Mr. Mo: "These authors are not too popular, but their writing style is guaranteed. Some rebirth themes can be changed by changing the background. But... we have to talk to the author himself, and also to the website. What Xiaoye means is that she goes directly to recruit people, and talks to the website by the way. See if we can hang a promotional event for recruiting screenwriters... "
Mr. Mo closed his eyes and thought for a while: "Won't Miao Yi come to snatch people?!"
"They can't grab it." Boss Mo shook his head: "Miaoyi itself monopolizes the most famous screenwriters in China. This is an advantage and a disadvantage. There are too many scripts, and they can't digest them at all. These people sell film and television adaptation rights You also have to see the finished product, if you just buy it out and don’t shoot it, people won’t do it either.”
"The original films..."
"Those are all produced by TV stations. They specialize in TV dramas. Miaoyi doesn't care about TV dramas at all." Boss Mo explained: "We find writers who are good at a certain type, and then sign a contract to create or adapt based on the other's previous works... It’s not that some authors can’t write short stories, it’s just that short stories can’t be sold on the website for money. We don’t pay attention to them, and they have no way to catch up with us. It doesn’t take much to find someone to change it into a script.”
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Ye Shuang didn't know the result of the discussion between Boss Mo and Mr. Mo. Anyway, after getting Boss Mo's approval, Ye Shuang drew up a draft agreement and was ready to attract people.
It is obviously unrealistic for authors to send private messages one by one. Let alone Ye Shuang does not have that skill, even if she is willing to waste this time, the authors on the website may not believe this kind of purse advertisement.
Looking for a website to talk about and not being able to contact people directly, it's not that good to tell a lot of things, so Ye Shuang's plan is also very simple, go directly to the annual meetings of major websites to hook up.
There are at least hundreds of large and small literary websites on the Internet, but there are only a few leading figures who have the strength and qualifications to hold the annual meeting. The authors who will attend the annual meeting are also excellent authors selected by the website, regardless of whether the author is good at the genre or not. Routine, at least the subscription rate is guaranteed.
So instead of running around like a chicken without a head, she might as well go directly to the scene. Anyway, there are website bosses attending the annual meeting, and it is enough to talk about the copyright of the novel.
"Sister, you don't even let the master writer go now?!"
Brother Ye was also shocked when he heard about Ye Shuang's plan. He could see that his elder sister was getting more and more restless in the house recently.
"I can't help it. The mature screenwriters are all circled by people, so I have to find some potential stocks to raise." Ye Shuang happily sketched the names of the great gods, male and female, professional and part-time, familiar or part-time. Seeing the half-familiar name shocked Ye Xiaodi, and he couldn't imagine what would happen to these people after they met Ye Shuang.
Anyway, it is certain that she will be skinned, but I don't know if his sister will go crazy and resort to beauty tricks.
"You won't be able to draw much for the screenwriter, why should the benefactors kill them all?" Brother Ye wiped off his cold sweat, and saw a familiar female author's name being circled, and hurriedly stopped: "Don't circle this one, she is a married woman , I just married my idol a few years ago, it’s not good to destroy someone’s family.”
"What are you thinking about!" Ye Shuang said depressedly, "I'm going to headhunt, not to hunt for beauty. Whether she is married or not is none of my business."
"The problem is that people have changed their hands to washing diapers. It's really not good for you to do this." Little brother Ye almost sobbed: "For the sake of my idol getting married..."
Ye Shuang thought about crossing out the name: "That's right, those who take care of children really don't have much time... According to this, female writers have to think again, those who are worried about being married and those who are married have children... It's better to be a male author. If it is more atmospheric, you can change the main theme of the movie, and it is more suitable for a female author to change a TV series or an idol movie."
"Choose slowly, don't worry, the latest website annual meeting will be next month." Younger brother Ye earnestly hoped that his elder sister would be lenient and let a few more go: "Besides, we can't rush this matter."
"It doesn't matter if you pick the other ones next month, the princes have to get rid of the problem first." Ye Shuang said firmly: "Lord Tianwang will quit next month, at least this month I have to come up with a script to fool him... I have already read it, during the Southern and Northern Dynasties That novel only has more than 100,000 words, and it can be turned into a movie after a sieve. It just so happens that he likes history, and the address and signing website of the laughing princes are all in the magic city..."
Winning the Laughing Princes can also deal with the website in advance, and then it will be more convenient for me to do this or that during the annual meeting... Ye Shuang instantly made a schedule in his mind, and he was already planning to kill a certain cultural media the next day .
Little Brother Ye really couldn't figure it out, whether or not Luo Tianwang jumped to another job was none of his elder sister's business, Tian Mo was the one who was more anxious. But these are not the main thing, the main problem is... "Sister! Remember to take me with you when you go to fool the princes!"
Pulling out the signature book and the water-based pen, Xiaodi Ye said with a firm expression, "I want to sign! There are still a few bastards who like to keep changing, just go and see if I can catch me."
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At the annual meeting, Brother Shuang showed up.
Little Singularity Author: Wow! It must be collected, it must be collected, the main room of the harem!
Little Green Station Author: Wow wow wow! Definitely attack, definitely attack the queen!
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