This star is wrong

Chapter 117 "Fish in the Dark North"

Fang Xing has an office in the music production department of Songshi Records.

However, it is not necessary to come to work every day.

If there is work to be arranged, the agent Qiao Yinghong will send a WeChat notification in advance.

After several gatherings with Shao Yu and Lu Ming yesterday, I received Qiao Yinghong's work WeChat, so I went to the office early this morning.

Qiao Yinghong came in with a dozen file folders, spread them out in front of Fang Xing, and said, "This is the theme song project for a film and television drama that the company has received. See if you can take it."

Fang Xing pointed with his finger and said speechlessly, "Fifteen copies, why are there so many?"

""Painting Heart" is very popular, and it is very popular. A theme song of such a popular movie may not be produced once a year. Such a good result will of course attract the attention of many film and television companies..."

Qiao Yinghong paused, arranged the folders neatly with her hands, and continued:
"This has been screened. There are [-] or [-] song invitation proposals sent by major film and television companies. These [-] theme song invitations have been selected after preliminary screening. You can see if you can accept them."

"There's so much work all of a sudden, I can't do it all by myself." Fang Xing looked at the invitation to the theme song laid out in front of him, a little dazed.

"You don't need to do every project, just pick the ones you think you have ideas for. The company also cooperates with other producers, whoever can do it, just record a demo and try it out." Qiao Yinghong explained.

"Okay, let me take a look and talk about it if there is something suitable."

As Fang Xing spoke, he picked up these documents and slowly looked through them.

Qiao Yinghong added: "Some of these film and television dramas have trailers, which have already been sent to your work mailbox. If you watch the trailers, you may get more inspiration."

After explaining the work, Qiao Yinghong brought up another matter: "By the way, the first installments of the major music platforms have arrived, and the company will settle the settlement this month, mainly for the share of "Nocturne" and "Wild Bird". About 8 million. Have you figured out what to spend?"

Speaking of the last half sentence, Qiao Yinghong also used a joking tone.

Fang Xing heard that he could get the money, so he could finally start preparing for some things.

Because I had no money before, I couldn't start many things I wanted to do.

Now it's time to start preparing.

Fang Xing thought about it and said, "Sister Hong, I'm going to open a studio, mainly to release songs for the former team members, can you come over and help?"

So far, neither Lu Ming nor Guo Keda has signed a brokerage company.

Shao Yu originally had a brokerage company, so he was quite busy during this time, and had been making announcements.

Lu Ming was going to take the East Yin test and learn falsetto tenor. He didn't have so much time to run the announcement, so he simply didn't sign with the brokerage company.

Guo Keda's idea is very simple, anyway, he just followed Fang Xing's thigh, and did not sign a brokerage company.

Moreover, he is a social cow. Although he has not signed a brokerage company, he is very familiar with the editors and directors of various programs.

Fang Xing promised before that he would try his best to help them with the song.

So I think about releasing a few songs for them, so that they can sing their own songs when they perform commercially in the future.

Qiao Yinghong heard Fang Xing said that she wanted to open a studio, and immediately agreed: "That's no problem, I will handle the matter of opening the studio, and find acquaintances to do it, and it will be done in less than a week."

Several singers under Songshi Records have opened studios.

For example, Songshi's first sister Yao Liying's studio is already very large, not much different from a company.

Fang Xingkai's studio also belongs to Songshi Records.

After this period of cooperation, Fang Xing felt that Qiao Yinghong's abilities were good, so he hoped that she could come over and take charge of the work of the studio.

However, Qiao Yinghong is still Li Caiwei's manager, so she may not be able to come, it depends on how she arranges.

If you don't open a studio, give Lu Ming and the others a few songs, and the songs must be produced and released by Songshi Records.

With the situation of Lu Ming and the others, it is difficult to get the share of the song.

If Fang Xing uses the name of the studio to release songs for them, then the share ratio will be according to Fang Xing's ratio.

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After talking about opening the studio, Qiao Yinghong went out to prepare the materials for registering the studio.

Fang Xing continued to read the fifteen film and television drama materials in front of him.

Since it was an invitation for the theme song, the invitation materials sent by the film and television company included detailed introductions of movies and TV series.

From the outline of the plot, to the cast and crew, as well as the Fuhuadao team and so on.

Fang Xing looked through a few copies, but was not particularly interested.

In the film and television industry, not every project is a big production and big investment.

Most movies and TV shows are still based on small costs.

Therefore, the asking prices for theme songs of these projects are usually not high.

At least it won't be like "Liao Zhai: Painted Skin", with such a high price, and a publicity fee of over [-] million yuan, which will directly make the theme song rush to the top of the hot song list.

The most important thing is that Fang Xing felt that the content of these film and television projects was quite ordinary, so he was not very interested.

After reading the [-] invitations for the theme song, Fang Xing picked out two interesting ones and took them away, planning to take a closer look at them when he went back.

When I went to the front desk of Songshi Records, I saw a person talking to the front desk.

"Let me go in and find your general manager, and I'll just say a few words."

"Sorry, you can't come in without an appointment." The front desk politely rejected his request.

The man refused to give up, and continued: "I have a cooperation project, which has raised 150 million in crowdfunding. This project can be done well, and now I need a theme song."

"You can give the information to me, and I will give it to the company department." The front desk said.

"No, I gave you the information a few days ago, but you returned it to me. My project is really good."

This person still refused to give up, took out a book stapled with A4 paper, and said: "I am making an animation, and this is the background story I wrote for the animation, a total of [-] words, have you read it? "

Fang Xing was a little curious, walked over and asked, "Show me?"

Seeing someone talking to him, the young man turned his head to look, his expression froze for a moment, and then his eyes began to glow: "Fang Xing, you are Fang Xing, I just want to find you."

He immediately put all the materials and the book of the background story into Fang Xing's hands, and said, "This is the animation material I wrote. I hope you can help me make a theme song."

Fang Xing opened his animation project information and took a look. The name of the animation is "Fish in the North".

The background of the animation is taken from Zhuang Zhou's "A Happy Journey".

Seeing this theme, Fang Xing's heart moved. This animation is somewhat similar to the background of an animation movie on Earth.

However, this person said just now that he sent materials a few days ago, but they were returned.

It shows that the company is not optimistic about this project.

Fang Xing took a look at the project's information and knew what was going on.

Because this project has no money at all, it just raises 150 million in crowdfunding on the Internet, and wants to make it into an animated film.

150 million to make an animated film, not even a fraction of it.

Therefore, some time ago, the main creator saw that the theme song "Painting Heart" became popular.

I thought of a way, hoping to make a theme song based on the background story of "Fish in the North".

If the theme song becomes popular, continue to raise funds to attract film and television companies to invest in filming.

This idea is really ingenious. If it succeeds, it can be said to be a legendary experience in the film and television industry.

It's just that it's not easy to succeed with this kind of idea of ​​making a big difference with a small one.

Finding someone to make the theme song is very difficult to succeed. Even if someone is willing to make the theme song, the theme song must be popular before the next step of financing can be obtained.

Therefore, from a normal perspective, his idea is a bit whimsical.

Of course, if the quality of the song is not so high, he can actually spend 300,000 to make a theme song.

However, songs at this price are very unlikely to become popular.

Fang Xing saw the title "Fish in the North", and had some ideas in his mind, so he planned to read the background story of this project first.

"What's your name?"

"Hello, my name is Liang Jing." The young man hurriedly grabbed Fang Xing's hand with both hands and shook it a few times.

"Leave me a contact information. I'll go back and look at this information. If I have any ideas, I will contact you." Fang Xing said.

"Okay, I'll leave you a mobile phone number." Liang Jing took out a pen and paper from the front desk, wrote a mobile phone number, and stuffed it into Fang Xing's hand.

Fang Xing left the company with the documents, and went back to his residence to continue reading.

Because the animation project of "Fish in the North" is somewhat similar to an animation film on Earth in terms of background material.

Therefore, Fang Xing read this document first.

"Fish in the North" is based on Zhuangzi's "Xiaoyaoyou". From the background, it is indeed the story of Kunpeng.

In the information, in addition to the text description, there is also a stack of original animation designs.

This Liang Jing is an animator, and he drew these original drawings.

From the perspective of painting style, it is a bit of ink style, but also a bit of the popular 2D comic style.

The background of the story is a story about a young fish that wandered in the world and was picked up by humans. At the end of the story, the fish grew into a huge kun, could no longer stay in the world, grew wings, and flew to the sky.

The background of this story is actually that an alien life fell into the world, and a series of stories happened between it and humans.

There are many similar stories.

The freshness of this animation project is to put such a story in the background of "Xiaoyaoyou·Fish in the North".

However, from the outline of the story written by Liang Jing, it is not exactly the same as the "Big Fish and Begonia" on earth.

But there is a common problem, that is, such a fantasy-style animation must be written as a love story, and it is still a love triangle with Mary Su.

This makes the story fall into a cliché.

"Big Fish and Begonia" on Earth has a score of 6.9 on Douban.

The reason why this animation has this score is entirely supported by the soundtrack and painting style.

The plot can't be complimented.

If the score of the soundtrack is removed, the score of this animation can be directly cut in half.

Judging from the direction of the story of "Fish in the North" written by Liang Jing now.

If "Big Fish" is made as the theme song for him, judging from the content of the story, it is indeed appropriate.

It's just that this animation project has not yet written a word.

A theme song was made for him, and he had to use this song to raise funds.

Even if he succeeds in financing, it will take a year or two to make an action movie.

Whether it will be produced in the end is hard to say.

In the film and television industry, countless projects fall by the wayside every year.

Especially animated films, they may not be able to continue at any time, and then investors' money will be wasted.

Songshi Records was right to send back his project proposal, and there was not even a shadow of this project in sight.

Moreover, Liang Jing asked the record company to produce the theme song, and they didn't pay much.

Fang Xing thought about it, picked up his phone, and called Liang Jing: "Hi, I'm Fang Xing."

"Hi, hello, did my project pass?" Liang Jing's tone was full of surprise.

"You should know that this kind of project is impossible to pass, right?" Fang Xing felt that he was too whimsical, so let him calm down first.

In fact, Fang Xing didn't need to remind him, Liang Jing also knew that this project had nothing but an idea.

His voice trailed off and said, "I know, but I'm pretty confident I can do this animation project well."

Fang Xing directly told him his thoughts: "It's unrealistic for you to directly make an animated movie. However, I still like your style of painting.

"So, I suggest that you first make a five-six-minute animation short film, and the picture and frame number requirements can be lowered.

"If the animated short film you made satisfies me, I can make a theme song for the animation as a share in this project."

As soon as Liang Jing heard that there was still hope, he quickly agreed: "Yes, yes, actually, I'm already working on an animated short film. And it's almost finished. I asked a record company to make a theme song, in fact, I want to release it with the animated short film, and then raise funds. "

Fang Xing heard that he had made a short animated film, frowned, and said, "I have one more question."

"What's the question?" Liang Jing hurriedly asked.

"Do you accept the suggestion in the script?" Fang Xing asked directly.

"This..." Liang Jing hesitated.

"Let's be honest. I think animated movies, with the theme of Mary Sue's love triangle, are too vulgar. I think animated movies should be purer and more ignorant. If you agree with this point of view, I would be happy to participate in this project " Fang Xing stated his position directly.

Hearing this, Liang Jing's tone suddenly became excited: "Do you think so too? Actually, I also think that the emotions of animated films should be simpler and purer. Although the audience is for adults, the animation itself is It shouldn't be too worldly."

"Then the plot you wrote..." Fang Xing glanced at the plot summary on the document again, it was clearly a love triangle with Mary Su.

"This, actually, was written by the screenwriter I hired. He felt that the story had to be written like this to be interesting. I'm an animation artist, and I'm really not good at scripts, so I asked someone else to write it." Liang Jing said in a tone Showed helplessness.

"If I propose to change the screenwriter, do you agree?" Fang Xing asked again.

"Okay, but I've already spent money on the current script..." Liang Jing felt that it would be a waste of money if the script was not used.

"If it's only about a hundred thousand, it doesn't matter." Fang Xing said.

"Okay, I also think this script is too clichéd, but my funds are really tight now, and it's hard to hire a famous screenwriter." Liang Jing was a little embarrassed.

"Send me the script and the short animation, and I'll talk about the rest after I finish watching it." Fang Xing asked.

This request is actually a bit abrupt.

After all, the animated short film is just finished and has not been released yet, so it is a very risky thing to send it to strangers casually.

However, when Liang Jing thought that Fang Xing was the top class at the moment, it was impossible to lie to him, so without much hesitation, he passed the script and the short animated film to the past.

Animated shorts are not long, only 5 minutes, which is a bit longer than movie trailers.

Fang Xing's eyes lit up after watching the short animation.

Due to the short duration of this animated short film, it is impossible to tell the entire story of Mary Sue's script.

Therefore, the content of the animated short film is entirely produced by Liang Jing, and the main style of painting is to tell the story of a big fish wandering in the world, intersecting with humans, and flying to the sky with longing.

Judging from this animated short film alone, Fang Xing thinks it's done really well.

Still, if this animated short was to expand into a half-hour film, there's just too much to add.

If the Mary Sue love triangle in the script is included, the whole story will be lowered by three levels.

Although it is not sure whether it will be a bad movie after it is made into a movie, the quality of the animated shorts I have seen so far is very good.

Fang Xing felt that this animated short film was worthy of the song "Big Fish".

This animated short film can be regarded as the MV of "Big Fish", and it will be released first.

Later, Liang Jing will be asked to make the movie "Fish in the North".

While Fang Xing was watching the short animation, Liang Jing didn't hang up the phone.

He counted the time, waited 5 minutes, and asked after Fang Xing had finished watching the short animation, "Teacher Fang, how are you doing?"

"This short film is okay. I will make a song as the theme song and release it together with this animated short film. However, there is a prerequisite. The song will be discounted at 200 million yuan, and I will become a shareholder of this animated film."

When Fang Xing said this, he paused, and added: "Besides, I will make another investment and join the main creative team of this project, and then I will give some opinions on the plot.

"Of course, now that you're talking empty teeth, you may think my request is a bit too much.

"You can make a decision after hearing the demo of the theme song I made, and then we will sign the contract."

Liang Jing said quickly: "No, no, Teacher Fang is willing to join the creative team. I couldn't be happier."

Fang Xing saw that he was very sincere, so he said: "Let's do it first. There are still some parts that are not perfect in this animation short film. You should complete it as soon as possible. It will be released together with the song."

"Okay, okay, I've been trying to find a way to raise funds for a while, and the work on short animation films has been left behind. Now that the project is settled, I can concentrate on making animations." Liang Jing agreed wholeheartedly.

After the call ends.

Fang Xing thought for a while, and sent Lu Ming a message: Are you free tomorrow?Come to the demo recorded by Songshi Records.

Lu Ming: If you are free, what time will you go?

Fang Xing: It's ten o'clock in the morning. I haven't booked the recording studio yet. I'll see if I can use the recording studio then.The sheet music will be sent to you tonight.

(End of this chapter)