China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 155 Time Management and Film and Music Blossoms

In mid-September, the recording of Cao Xuan's album has basically come to an end. These days, he is planning to free up his schedule to shoot the MV starring himself.

Now that Fanxing Company is growing and its team has stabilized, he basically doesn't need to worry about many small things.

For example, in the MV, Cao Xuan used to write the script himself, and also helped the coders. The time could not be staggered, and all parties had to coordinate the time.

But now he only needs to come up with a general idea, and the screenwriting team will finish the script directly. Chen Hanzhu, Cao Xuan's queen MV director, will personally form the crew and arrange everything around Cao Xuan's schedule.

If you don't want to be your own boss, it would be so cool to arrange work according to your own wishes...

Cao Xuan first took half a day to record the singing parts of the other 8 songs.

The operation is very simple, except for a small part of the location, the rest is a curtain, and even Cao Xuan doesn't need to sing, as long as the mouth shape matches, the rest is left to the follow-up editing.

After filming these "dramas", Cao Xuan became much more serious when it was his turn to star.

Previously, the two parts of "Stars" received rave reviews and sold well. Apart from the quality of the songs, the MV has always been a bright spot.

In the current music scene that doesn’t pay much attention to MVs, Cao Xuan’s "Fairy Tale" and "Those Years" are two MVs that tend to be micro-movies. The effects achieved can’t be said to be groundbreaking, but they are definitely impressive.

Many fans even bought the album specifically for the content of Cao Xuan's MV.

Now some singers are following suit. A large number of micro-movie-style MVs have appeared on albums, and the production cost of albums has risen rapidly. Many directors, actors and staff who are not satisfied in the film and television industry have turned to the MV circle.

To a certain extent, Cao Xuan can be regarded as indirectly promoting the positive development of music and film and television circles.

Due to schedule and time factors, the number of MVs starring Cao Xuan this time is small, and the quality must be improved.

Especially "Fireworks Are Cold", this poignant love is extremely gripping, parting, infatuation, dryness, yin and yang are separated, all kinds of sad elements gather together, it is hard not to make people remember it.

The heroine asked Zeng Li to play the role. On the one hand, her face and temperament are more suitable for this kind of infatuated woman. In addition, referring to the plot, the heroine will cut her hair short. Zeng Li's hair is not long, and she has no follow-up scenes. Compared with Hu Jing, it is more convenient .

During this time, Cao Xuan was busy, Zeng Li had a lot of things to do when he just started school, and there was a troublesome Hu Jing in the middle, the two hadn't seen each other for ten days.

Looking at it now, Beauty Zeng still has the same demeanor, with a bit more momentum.

It is also understandable that Zeng Li is one of the only two students who stayed at the school in Class 96 of the Chinese Opera, and is highly regarded by Teacher Chang Li.

Just after graduating from class 96, Chang Li began to supervise the 00th grade of the Chinese Opera Acting Department, which had just entered. Zeng Li, a former student, was also transferred by her to help temporarily.

It is said that during this time, Senior Sister Zeng watched the military training of new students during the day, and went to the girls’ dormitory at night to check the dormitories. The management was strict, garbage bags could not be hidden, wallpaper could not be pasted, and the eight thermos pots in the room had to be placed neatly...

Staying in school has both advantages and disadvantages. Since the beginning of school, Cao Xuan has heard her complain about all kinds of unnecessary and strange systems.

But she is a first-year graduate student who is not even counted as an intern teacher. She can't help it. She just accepts it honestly.

However, he complained, Zeng Li still liked this kind of stable life at school.

Relatively speaking, the school is the place with the least intrigue and intrigue in the entertainment industry. It is stable and quiet, and it is in line with her major, and her social status is not bad.

After experiencing scandal troubles in the first half of the year, Zeng Li, who is from the Buddhist family, is less and less interested in entering the entertainment industry.

If it hadn't been for the four-year course, her enthusiasm for acting had not died down, Zeng Li might have quit the circle and devoted herself to teaching and educating people.

Cao Xuan is happy with Zeng Li's choice. To put it bluntly, his career is booming, he is very busy, and he has very little private time.

If there are two busy girlfriends, the three of them will get together less and leave more, and it will be difficult to get along with each other for a long time.

Zeng Li chooses to be a teacher now, which is considered a semi-retirement, and it also creates conditions for this relationship to continue.

It's not just her, Hu Jing always wanted to stand with Cao Xuan, and didn't want to be left too far behind by him, so she worked hard on filming and career.

But after being "stealed" by Zeng Li, and after getting along with Cao Xuan day and night in the crew of "Youth Bao Qingtian", she also learned to be smart.

Career and so on can take your time, first grasp the man in your hands and then talk about it.

The two girlfriends unanimously relaxed their pursuit of acting career, which has a lot of benefits for Cao Xuan, at least he doesn't have to lose sight of people for a few months.

Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages. If two people stay in the capital, Cao Xuan will not worry about having anyone to accompany him, but if he is worried about who to accompany, he can only slowly temper the "time management method".

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In the MV of "Fireworks Are Cold", the main perspective is actually on the heroine played by Zeng Li, while Cao Xuan, the heroine, doesn't have much role in the scene.

The plot is also very simple. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, when the North and the South fought wars, Cao Xuan was the general of the Southern Kingdom, and the lady played by Zeng Li was a pair of lovers who loved each other.

The two wanted to get married, but the military emergency on the front line, the general Cao Xuan had to go to the rescue urgently. Before the expedition, he and Zeng Li made an oath of eternal love - "I will marry her when I return triumphantly".

Like all flags, this one has a tragic ending.

But the one who died was not the promised one, not the general, but a beautiful lady. After the general went out, she had to go to the city gate to wait for him to come back every day. However, due to frequent wars, the general still couldn't come back.

Everyone's lady has been waiting, and her family forced her to marry, so she became a nun, wearing a green robe and hat, and still guarding in front of the city gate until her serious illness passed away.

And a few years after her death, the general finally ended the war and returned to Luoyang. He heard that she had been guarding him all the time, so he came to her tomb and chose to take off his armor and become a monk. He spent the rest of his life guarding the tomb to practice.

You wait for me in the first half of your life, and I will accompany you in the second half of your life!
This story is somewhat different from the original one, and it is adapted in this way to highlight the affection between men and women.

After all, it's a MV, it's just a general story, there are many details that don't need to be considered, so it's natural how sad it is, the purpose is to abuse the audience.

The harder the knife is, the more impressive the audience will be!
In order to make this "Fireworks Are Cold" MV well, the crew specially found a film and television base, and even teased hundreds of extras for Cao Xuan's expedition.

Zeng Li also neatly shaved half-length short hair, and used that hood to wrap a bald head to pretend to be a nun.

She was already exquisite in appearance, but after cutting her short hair, she had a sassy and heroic look, and at the same time was a little lively and playful, which made Cao Xuan's heart itch.

Every day after filming, I have to talk about the script with Zeng Lili in Haidian Apartment, and share my experience in acting.

It took nearly three days for Cao Xuan to finish filming "Fireworks Are Easy to be Cold", followed by filming "Ten Years" with Hu Jing.

There is not much to say about this MV. It is probably a couple who fell in love and broke up. Cao Xuan, the male protagonist, has no more love.

It's a pity that Hu's father and Hu's mother didn't know whether they found out that their daughter's situation was wrong or what, they didn't mention going back to their hometown at all, and even set a time for Hu Jing to go home, and called from time to time to check on the post.

Cao Xuan had no chance to do anything. Every night, he hoped that his father-in-law and mother-in-law would be homesick and would go back to his hometown to visit his parents and fellow villagers.

Regardless of time management between the two girlfriends, Cao Xuan didn't forget about business.

After filming the MV, Chen Hanzhu and the others took the material back and worked overtime to edit it.

And Cao Xuan and Warner have researched the current progress of the album production, including album ending, MV editing, plus album recording, distribution, etc. If all goes well, it should be completed by mid-October.

Therefore, Warner and Fanxing officially announced the release date of Cao Xuan's new album - October 2000, 10.

It is advisable to open the market, trade, and collect money, and the fortune will be good.

At the same time, Warner also decided that starting from September 9nd (weekend), "Bright Stars" will start to hit the charts.

After that, one song will be played every weekend, and a total of 5 songs will be released, and then the album will be officially released on October 10st.

Such situations are still rare, after all, under normal circumstances, a singer's album only has 1~3 title songs, and the quality of other songs is relatively weak.

Therefore, for the sake of sales, usually 1~2 title songs are released, and they are promoted on radio and TV stations to attract fans to buy.

Including the previous two albums of Cao Xuan, only two title songs were released in the early promotion.

It happened that he had 5 title songs, 2 of which were released, and 3 were left. After the fans bought it, they felt that it was not a loss.

If too many title songs are released in advance, fans will feel cheated when they see that there are not many good songs left in the album.

The long-term business of physical albums is still very important to the early word-of-mouth. If they bear the infamy of "deceiving", it will be a big blow to sales.

The current record industry is still very simple, the song is played first, let the fans taste it, and attract the fans to buy.

It's not like later, let the fans pay first, and then don't give people a song, futures album, it's a bunch of tm showy.

In 2000, this kind of operation could be sprayed to death by the media and the industry, and it would be in the eyes of money.

The album's title songs are limited, so many singers only dare to release 1~2 songs during the promotion period of the album. However, Cao Xuan's new album is different this time. All 10 songs are high-quality goods. Even if 5 songs are released, the remaining 5 songs will still be the same Not afraid to smash the brand.

That being the case, Cao Xuan and Warner played with all their strength, and the fire of "Bright Stars" was ignited ahead of schedule.

In addition to the publicity plan of "Bright Stars", Cao Xuan also has a good momentum booster right now.

On September 2000, 9, the first TV series "Youth Bao Qingtian" starring Cao Xuan will be broadcast on the golden channels of Beijing Satellite TV and Shanghai Satellite TV.

Before Cao Xuan participated in four TV series, three supporting roles and one cameo, his performance was not bad, even the performance of "The True Colors of Criminal Police" was nominated for the Golden Eagle Award for Best Supporting Actor.

But supporting roles are supporting roles after all, actors, especially rising popular actors like Cao Xuan, everyone sees whether he can provoke a TV series.

Cao Xuan himself is still a little nervous. The next two months will directly affect his efforts in the past half a year and his future career development.

Whether next year can continue to flourish in both film and television and music circles depends entirely on whether these two hurdles can be overcome...

(End of this chapter)