I'm not just a director

Chapter 3 Folk Songs
It's the beginning of 1999, and everything still looks so good.

Especially Jiang Pei'an's old business, the film and television industry.

Capital has not yet entered the film and television industry, and the creation of commercial films has just started.

The fifth generation of directors who started with literary films are in a transition period.

This year, Huayi Brothers will make their mark with the Chinese New Year comedy "Endless" by Little Steel Cannon.

Private film companies have begun to take shape, and soon became the mainstay of the film market.

Also this year, China's first private film distribution company, Jingcheng Bona Cultural Exchange Co., Ltd., was established, marking the beginning of marketization of distribution.

In the field of film production, after the reform of state-owned film studios, they have established a relationship of cooperation and competition with private film companies in "joint production".

Judging from the marketization promotion of production, distribution and screening, a modern film market is being conceived and developed...

Although the overall performance of the current film market is relatively sluggish, it is not as lively as later generations.

However, the relevant favorable policies and the perseverance of practitioners have laid a solid foundation for this future market of tens of billions or even hundreds of billions.

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The film market is developing tenaciously, and Jiang Pei'an is also thinking about how to grab his first pot of gold and get a ticket to the film and television industry.

After living a new life, he will still enter his old profession that he loves.

The long-term vision and insight of future generations are his greatest confidence in this life.

He can live the life he wants without bowing his knees and begging for help like he did in his previous life.

The premise is that he has enough courage and execution ability.

What is the opportunity for its rise?
Copy songs?Copy the script?

As a film and television practitioner, Jiang Pei'an does have many excellent movie and TV drama scripts and music in his mind.

But he can't do that!
Again, identity is not equal to resources.

He is a rural grassroots who writes a good song or a good script, and when he slaps it on the table with a shock, the producer, director, and investor will feel like a treasure on the spot, happily paying for the filming and production?
Don't be ridiculous, this is not a novel.

The reality is that when Jiang Pei'an comes up with a good song or a good script, they will throw you a few thousand dollars at most as a pen fee, without even the right to authorship.

The biggest possibility is that the submitted works will go nowhere, and they will directly plagiarize if they are not particular about it!

Go sue, go to court.

How can there be sound relevant laws to protect you?

The development of later generations is so good, but it is not the same that there are many "tailor singers" and "stitch monster film and television dramas".

Talent is sometimes a kind of torture in inappropriate times and people with inappropriate identities.

Every man is innocent and guilty!
So, when Jiang Pei'an saw the black and white TV sets and VCDs all over the street, he had a bold idea.

Filming drama drama!
In other words, folk ditties!
What is a folk ditty?

"Get up early in the morning to pick up dung, I won't see my woman when I come back~"

In later generations, because of the magical singing style, the number of hits exceeded [-] million in just a few days on the Internet.

And this passage is an excerpt from the folk song "Li Huozi's Divorce" in northern Anhui.

Of course, the original version is a opera in Henan Province, which was later adapted from a folk tune in northern Anhui.

It adopts the dialogue method of characters' lines + characters' singing ditty.

If you still don’t understand, well, it’s probably the vulgar version of Zhao Yazhi and Ye Tong’s "Legend of the New White Snake".

don't understand?
"Legend of the New White Snake" is a white snake and a green snake fighting against Fahai, and the corresponding folk tune is "Big and Big Daughter-in-law Fighting Father-in-Law".

There is also a son who is angry at both ends?This is not a proper template for Xu Xian's character!
The actors were talking, and suddenly the music started, and the actors seemed to have received a signal, and immediately turned on a strange switch.

Singing a ditty tune with his mouth, his facial expressions and movements are synchronized.

Well, it can also be said to be the youth version of Ah San's musical next door...

Singers such as Jay Chou and Wang Fei may not be in the impression of every post-80s and 90s generation in northern Anhui.

But if you talk about folk tunes, they can at least hum a few lines for you.

Such as "Eighteen Touches", "Sister-in-Law Comes to My House", "Cowardly Daughter-in-Law, Strong Father-in-law" and so on.

This kind of ethical and vulgar paternity is very popular among people in rural areas and towns.

The melody is simple and catchy.

The characters are witty and humorous, and the more you watch it, the more you love it.

Yellow but not lewd, more interesting than sex.

This kind of minor tune is not only popular in northern Anhui, but to be precise, it is popular at the junction of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui.

It even spread to remote areas such as Long Province.

The reason why the scope of dissemination is so wide and the audience is so large is due to the development of VCD.

The price of VCD has been gradually lowered from the previous 2000 yuan to the current price of [-] yuan.

The reason why the price of VCD is lowered today is caused by the fierce competition among many camps headed by BBK Group and Aiduo Electronics.

Almost every household in rural areas has VCDs, and there are various discs everywhere in the market.

It will completely smash the video hall industry, which was originally sunset!
Of course, some special needs can only be met in the video hall.

For example: midnight show.

The folk ditties that Jiang Pei'an wanted to make also took advantage of the popularization of VCDs.

Of course, the disc industry used in conjunction with VCD still has a cancer that can almost drag the industry to death.

Pirated discs are rampant!

Of course, from the perspective of Jiang Pei'an, a future film and television producer, rampant pirated CDs are not conducive to the development of the publishing market, but they have promoted the development of movies to a certain extent.

Pirated discs have a very different effect than genuine discs, but most people don't care because:

cheap!
In places with a lot of traffic, such as train stations and bus stations, there will often be older sisters who come to your ear with a mysterious face:

"Big brother, don't you want a disc, foreign big ocean horses!"

This is selling pirated discs.

When you bought the disc, closed the doors and windows when you got home, your face was flushed with excitement, and you put the disc into the VCD excitedly, only to find out:

It is indeed a foreign ocean horse, and there are wild horses and zebras behind it!
Good guy, animal world!

After Jiang Pei'an's folk tunes came out, the main problem he faced was this problem.

But he doesn't care, pirated CDs are rampant, and there must be a copy of it that can be pirated!
He only earns the part of the money when he was listed, and he has a head soup!
He is not greedy, money is never enough, and he only wants his first pot of gold.

As for how the piracy will be rampant in the future, that is beyond his control.

Just kidding, this is a characteristic of the times, and the problem of piracy has not been effectively resolved even in later generations.

How could Jiang Pei'an, with a mortal body, fight against the tide of the times!
There is another main reason for Jiang Pei'an to make up his mind to make folk tune discs.

policy!

The popularity of folk ditties also benefited from the low threshold of the new Ontario audio-visual publishing industry in the 90s.

All kinds of folk opera troupes and even grass-stage troupes can get the version number casually.

Not only folk ditties, but also numerous audio-visual products have been published in Xin'an Ben Province operas such as Lu opera, Huangmei opera, Sizhou opera and so on.

With the right time, place and people, plus the policy, if you don't get involved in this industry, you will be sorry for him to live again!
Earn some start-up capital...

　New book set sail!It has been signed internally, and brothers can still make a fortune by investing now.

　　Welcome brothers to collect, recommend, and leave a message, thank you!

　　


(End of this chapter)