my animation era

Chapter 892 I don't feel as good as Hell Girl... The picture quality! (seeking subscription)

Readers of online novels have a fantasy, that is to make the novels they can't sleep at night into animations or live-action dramas, and then keep the original flavor without missing any details.

To be honest, this is normal!

After all, what fans of the original book must think is that the animation adaptation should be done according to the original work, and the animation should be done according to the original work.

But they overlooked one point...

That is, the length of online novels is very long, with millions of words at every turn, and some even exceed tens of millions of words. They are really super long novels.

How many scenes are involved in this novel of several million words?How many characters?How many episodes?How many lines?
Incalculable!

It is impossible for an animation company to accumulate so many assets for one work, waste countless manpower, material resources and time, to restore every detail of the original novel.

This is unrealistic, because the price of doing so will be extremely heavy, so heavy that no animation company can afford it.

not to mention……

The phenomenon of "hydrology" generally exists in online novels. Take a novel with several million words as an example. Is it possible that every paragraph of the plot of these several million words is wonderful and amazing?

Pure fart!

No matter how awesome an online novel author is, when writing an online novel with several million words, there will be a lack of inspiration and even a lack of plot.

To put it bluntly, those online novels with 500 million and 800 million words, at least half of them are watery, or even more.

When screenwriters adapt this kind of online novels, do they still have to add those plots that people with a discerning eye know are water injections into the script?
Impossible.

It is precisely for the above reasons that online novels usually encounter the hurdle of "shrunk and deleted" in the process of film and television adaptation.

There is nothing to blame for this.

If Gu Miao were to do the "Wild Wilderness" animation, it would probably reduce the length of the plot and make the animation as fast as possible, so that dozens of episodes of the animation would not be finished, and the main character is still an outsider disciple...

But the shrinkage is shrinking, and the extent of the shrinkage still needs to be precisely controlled. Generally speaking, for such a long fantasy novel, it is reasonable to shoot one episode of the original content of 10 words.

Shooting an episode with 20 to 30 words seems a bit rushed.

As for shooting an episode of 50 words, it's not a matter of whether you can't keep up with the schedule, but the screenwriter simply doesn't like this part of the plot and forcibly skipped it.

And like "The Wilderness", the first 100 million characters of the Zongmen chapter only made one episode of animation, Gu Miao thinks there is only one explanation: the scriptwriter didn't plan to do the Zongmen chapter at all, but planned to start animation from the protagonist becoming an elder!

Then why not cut off the first episode, and the plot starts from the second episode, that is, when the protagonist becomes an elder?

Gu Miao guessed that the appearance of the first episode should be to "fool" fans of the original book, so as to avoid being complained about that the animation disrespects the original book, and directly skipped the most exciting Zongmen chapter, Balabala...

The idea is good.

But the effect is really bad.

The great-leap-forward plot development of the first episode left many viewers in the dark. In addition, the VIP fee was opened in the second episode, which made many people discouraged.

why?
The progress of the first episode is so fast, many people wonder if the pace of the next 2-5 episodes is also so fast?Then look at a hammer!
Even from the second episode, the rhythm of the plot returned to normal, but the first episode is free, and the second episode is exclusive to VIP, which is very embarrassing.

"Stupid!"

"One more episode is free, even the first five episodes are free? I have to rush to get VIP fees, so that's it..."

Gu Miao shook her head and sighed, "The plot pace of the first episode is too fast, it feels like reading the outline, and the audience's willingness to pay is very low."

"That's right!"

Lao Zhang agreed: "Judging from the actual broadcast volume, the biggest failure of the "Wild Wilderness" animation is that it is too eager to charge."

"The number of views of the first episode exceeded 10 million in just 1000 hours, and it is steadily moving towards 2000 million. But since the second episode, the number of views has fallen off a cliff, to just over 180 million."

what does this mean?
Out of ten viewers, only 1-2 people, after watching the first episode, decisively paid to watch the follow-up second episode, and the rest gave up.

This paid conversion rate is outrageous.

According to Lao Zhang, in fact, from the second episode, the plot rhythm of the animation "The Wilderness" has returned to normal, and the production performance is also worthy of fans' expectations.

But the first episode was too convincing.

The entire 100 million-word original plot was summarized in the form of a running account in just 25 minutes. How does this give the audience the confidence to pay to watch the follow-up?

"But fire is real fire!"

Gu Miao contorted her face with envy: "It's also the first broadcast, and we haven't broken through 500 million views yet, they have more than 1000 million views!"

"I can't help it. I have a lot of fans of the original book, so I can get a carload of bakers with just a call."

Lao Zhang explained with a smile: "Moreover, the user base of our Wanbao Video is still not comparable to that of an industry leader like Penguin Video. It is understandable that the number of views is slightly lower."

No hurry no hurry!
The animation "Hell Girl" has only aired one episode, and the influence of the first episode is still fermenting, and there is still room for a significant increase in the number of broadcasts, so there is no need to worry now.

This is a protracted battle.

Temporary victory or defeat does not mean anything, the key depends on the follow-up trend.In Lao Zhang's view, Wanbao's "Hell Girl" has a high possibility of a counterattack due to its topicality, discussion enthusiasm, and excellent word-of-mouth.

On the contrary, the "Wild Wilderness" animation next door played poorly with a good hand. The first episode was so persuasive, and the second episode hurriedly started VIP fees. I am afraid that the follow-up trend is not very optimistic.

"I understand what you're saying."

After hearing Lao Zhang's explanation, Gu Miao felt a little better, but her face was still grim and distorted: "But I'm still jealous! You said that the 1000 million views are not from "Hell Girl"?"

"Don't worry, we can reach 1000 million views by tomorrow!"

"Let's talk about tomorrow!"

Gu Miao stretched out her hand and said to Lao Zhang, "Where's your mobile phone? Use it for me!"

"what?!"

Old Zhang was puzzled, he didn't know why Mr. Gu borrowed his cell phone, but because Mr. Gu was in such a hurry, he still took out the cell phone from his pocket and handed it to him.

Just when he was about to ask Mr. Gu why he borrowed the phone, he suddenly saw Mr. Gu open the familiar Penguin video app, and then use his account to give "The Wilderness" a one-star negative review.

"It's comfortable now!"

Gu Miao looked at the freshly released one-star negative review, nodded in satisfaction, returned the phone to Lao Zhang and said, "Don't delete it! If you delete it, your salary will be deducted."

Old Zhang: "..."

Let’s not discuss whether this approach is scientific and reasonable, nor discuss whether this negative review is meaningful. The key point is that you leave a negative review and leave a negative review. Is it too straightforward to leave a message "I feel that the picture quality is not as good as Hell Girl"?

(End of this chapter)