1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Zhou Yan's "Sense and Sensibility" crew stayed for more than a week, and on July 11th, they went to London again.

Huo Jianqi and the others have already brought the filming team over to prepare for the filming of the concert footage. Although there was only one scene, Huo Jianqi still brought a dozen people over.

The first concert of "The Sixth Sense Global Tour Concert" is in London on July 15th. In order to ensure that the normal progress of the concert is not affected, Huo Jianqi and the others came five or six days in advance and made sufficient preparations.

In the first two days, they only took measurements and selected seats at the concert. Later, when the orchestra came to the concert hall to rehearse, they would also start rehearsing together.

In this scene, Zhou Yan completely left it to Huo Jianqi to direct, and he basically did not interfere, because the concert itself was inseparable from him, and he had no time to worry about filming.

Moreover, Huo Jianqi was the one who made the plan for this scene from the beginning, so Zhou Yan was relieved to leave it to him.

At noon on July 13, after Zhou Yan had eaten, he was about to take the orchestra to the concert hall to rehearse when he received a phone call.

A middle-aged man's voice rang on the other end of the phone, "Hello, Mr. Y, I'm Jeff Brown from Jive and the person in charge of the Backstreet Boys."

After listening to the other party's self-introduction, Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Hello, Mr. Brown, why are you calling me at this time?"

Jeff Brown said with a smile, "I want to share some good news with you. "Yellow" won the number one spot on the British Singles Chart last week. This is also the first number one for the Backstreet Boys, and it was airborne. champion."

The song "Yellow" was just released in the UK at the beginning of this month. Before the release, Jeff Brown was very confident. He believed that the song would definitely do well in the UK, but he did not expect it to be so good. First Zhou won the championship.

This is indeed the first number one this song has won. In the United States, the best result of this song was only the second place as a single, and then it fell down. Although it can still remain in the top five, The ranking will only get lower and lower in the future. Unless something special happens, otherwise, it is unlikely to move up again.

There is a big gap between the second place and the first place. Whether or not there is a title of champion will greatly affect the marketing publicity.

If "yellow" can win a weekly championship in the United States, I'm afraid sales will increase a lot, and the word "top order" is still very valuable.

"Yellow" has made such a good start in the UK, and the promotion work will be better in the future, which may also affect sales in other regions.

Zhou Yan was very happy when he heard the news. This song did not disappoint him.

But he also knew that Jeff Brown must have something else to say. They had never contacted each other before, and they couldn't just share a piece of good news. Jeff Brown specifically contacted him directly.

"Mr. Brown, congratulations to you, and I hope you will continue to work hard and get good results."

"We want to thank you, Mr. Y. It is precisely because of your good music that we can achieve our current results." Jeff Brown complimented Zhou Yan, and then asked about Zhou Yan's concert, "Your concert How are the preparations going now?”

"It's okay. We have our first rehearsal in the afternoon. Although this concert has a new theme, overall, it's still the same old repertoire, nothing special."

The preparations for this concert went much smoother than Zhou Yan imagined.

Originally they thought that the tickets would not be sold out, but they did not expect that half a month ago, all 900 tickets in the concert hall had been sold out.

In the past half month, many people who wanted to buy tickets were unable to do so.

They originally thought about holding concerts at the Babbitt Center for the Arts or even the Albert Hall, but considering that there were too many seats in these two concert halls, the tickets might not be able to be sold, so they gave up.

The Albert Hall is very large and can accommodate more than 5,000 spectators. Zhou Yan has never held such a large-scale concert.

The Babbitt Center for the Arts can accommodate 2,000 people. Zhou Yan has held concerts of this size several times, but tickets are not necessarily easy to sell here in the UK.

So in the end they chose the Kadugan Concert Hall in Chelsea, which can accommodate 950 people.

Excluding some reserved tickets, the number sold to the public is basically 900.

The tickets for the first theme concert were sold out in advance. Although it was not an amazing achievement, it was still a good start, so Zhou Yan was quite satisfied.

After paying attention to Zhou Yan’s concert, Jeff Brown added, “Actually, the members of the Backstreet Boys will hold a small indoor concert in London the day after tomorrow. We will be in London tomorrow. I don’t know if there will be one by then. Any chance to bring the boys to meet you?”

"When will you come over?" Zhou Yan asked.

"We landed around five o'clock," Jeff Brown said.

Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "I will have a concert the day after tomorrow, and they will have a concert the day after tomorrow. I'm afraid we won't have time to meet in these two days. If it is tomorrow, it may be a little later. Wait until I lead the orchestra to rehearse. See you later."

Jeff Brown smiled and said: "No problem, no matter how late it is, we can wait."

"In that case, I'll see you tomorrow."

"great, see you tomorrow."

……

After hanging up the phone with Jeff Brown, Zhou Yan took the orchestra to Kadugan Concert Hall.

In fact, Zhou Yan is very satisfied with Kadugan Concert Hall. The facilities of this concert hall are very good and are a bit more advanced than other concert halls.

The small venue is suitable for this theme. The "Sixth Sense Theme Concert" does not have any big songs. If it is to be performed in a place like Albert, it must use sound equipment so that the audience can hear it clearly. In that case, the effect will be much worse.

The rehearsal didn't end until 7:30 in the evening. By the time Zhou Yan returned to the hotel after dinner, it was almost nine o'clock.

When he arrived at the door, he found Zhang Youan standing at the door, and asked strangely, "Didn't you say you wouldn't arrive in London until the morning after tomorrow? Why are you here today?"

"The plan has been temporarily changed." Zhang Youan smiled, "The Backstreet Boys are coming to London tomorrow. Has Jeff called you to tell you about this?"

"Yes, I told you." Zhou Yan nodded, "You don't come here just for this matter."

Zhang Youan shook his head and smiled, "Of course not. I'm here to tell you something else. You open the door first and we go in to talk."

"Why are you still so mysterious?"

Zhou Yan curled his lips and smiled, then opened the door.

After entering the room, Zhang Youan took out a stack of scripts from his briefcase and said, "Hey, look at this."

"What is this?" Zhou Yan took over the script in confusion.

The first page was blank, and when I turned to the second page, I saw a line of title written on it - Band Crazy Night.

Seeing this name, Zhou Yan didn't even turn back and asked Zhang Youan, "Where does this come from?"

"Why don't you take a look first?"

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes, "Okay."

Immediately, he roughly turned over the script.

It's only a third of the way through. It's not that Zhou Yan doesn't give face, it's just that the script is too rubbish and Zhou Yan really can't stand it.

This script tells the story of the "Ghost Band". There are two boys with "unappreciated talents" who achieved nothing in school and were bullied every day. However, they both have music dreams and are determined to become musicians. In order to realize their dream, they decided to form a band, but they couldn't find anyone to join the band. Even if there were people who were willing to join, they were all idiots who couldn't even play a musical instrument.

Until one day, we met half of the band in an abandoned warehouse.

This half of the band is very strange, there are only three people in total, and they only appear at night.

In order to realize their music dreams, the two boys decided to form a band with these three people.

Zhou Yan only saw this. As for the rest of the story, he was really not interested. And he can probably guess how the story will develop later.

"Can you tell me now where this script came from?"

"Given it by Warner."

Zhou Yan's lips twitched and he asked again: "What does it mean that Warner gave this script?"

"They want to ask if you are interested in this script."

"You want me to direct?"

"Yeah." Zhang Youan nodded.

Zhou Yan threw the script back into Zhang Youan's hands with a look of disgust, "They couldn't find anyone to shoot this crappy script, so they thought of looking for me, right?"

"It's... not that bad."

Zhang Youan felt that there was nothing amazing about this script, but it was not as bad as Zhou Yan said.

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes and looked at Zhang Youan, thinking that this guy had watched too many Xiangjiang movies and thought this movie was okay.

Although Xiangjiang Movie has been brilliant, there are really a lot of bad movies like this type, and it is possible for such bad movies to get a respectable box office.

As long as you invite a few well-known actors, add a few jokes to make people laugh, and finally have a happy ending, the audience will definitely buy it.

Moreover, when Warner wants to find Zhou Yan, it must also be interested in Zhou Yan's musical talent. If Zhou Yan is responsible for the music of this movie, it will definitely make this movie much better.

When the time comes, if Zhou Yan writes a few high-quality songs and plays them to the band, and cooperates with the promotion, won't the box office be stable?

Zhou Yan also lamented that someone as powerful as Warner Bros. could produce such a bad script.

But if you think about it carefully, you can see that these big companies seem to be very powerful, but no one knows how many bad movies they have made privately.

Zhou Yan had no impression of "Crazy Night in the Band" at all, but he was not sure whether this movie had been filmed in its previous life. Maybe the movie was made, but he didn't see it because it was so bad.

There are now hundreds of movies made every year around the world, not including those unknown short films. In the future, as the times develop, the restrictions on making movies will become smaller and smaller, and the output will increase a lot every year.

The movies that can be watched by one person are just the tip of the iceberg in the history of cinema.

In fact, looking at the synopsis of the story alone, it is indeed not too bad, but some of the character settings and conflict settings in the script are written sparsely, and it is weak to highlight the theme.

"Lao Zhang, don't worry about the script for me," Zhou Yan said.

In fact, what Zhou Yan wanted to say was that Zhang Youan should not worry too much about the movie, because as long as Zhou Yan and Xu Feng were around, Zhang Youan really didn't need to worry about the movie.

When Zhang Youan heard what Zhou Yan said, he knew that Zhou Yan would definitely not want this drama.

"Okay, I understand. I will explain it to Warner later. In fact, in addition to Warner's scripts, there are also scripts sent by many companies, but those scripts are not as good as this."

"It's not as good as this... Is Warner trying to use this script to open up the Chinese market?"

"That's not true. They also know that this kind of script is difficult to pass the review in China."

"It's good that they know. Apart from this script, do you have anything else to do?"

"There is another thing. The song "Yellow" is very popular now, so it has attracted the attention of many record companies. Many companies have contacted us, and the one that caught my attention the most is Crave Records."

When Zhou Yan heard the name Crave, he thought about it carefully, but found nothing in the end, so he asked: "Is this company famous?"

"This company is not famous, but its boss is."

"Who's the boss?"

"Mariah Carey."

"Oh, she actually signed with her own company." Zhou Yan was quite surprised. Although Mariah Carey is very popular, she actually signed with her own company only a few years after her debut.

Zhang Youan shook his head and said, "That's not true. She mainly cooperates with Columbia Records, and crave is just a support, which is similar to your studio. I heard that she is preparing a new album recently. At this time, her company contacted us The contact should be for the new album.”

"What did the other party say when they contacted you?" Zhou Yan asked.

"I didn't say anything else, just asking if you have any ideas to write a song for Mariah Carey."

"what do you say?"

"What else can I say? I must ask you what you mean."

Zhou Yan nodded, "Then go and tell them that I don't have time now."

Zhang Youan sighed slightly, "I knew you would most likely not agree. It's a pity. Mariah Carey is in the spotlight right now. Selling songs to her brings a lot of benefits."

Zhou Yan smiled and patted Zhang Youan on the shoulder, "Old Zhang, don't sigh. Think about it from another angle. I even rejected Mariah Carey. Isn't it even more powerful? Don't think about other things during this time, just take care of yourself." I have arranged my third album. If I don’t release it, the phone calls in my studio will be busy.”

I don’t know how it happened, but the front desk phone number of Zhou Yan’s studio was leaked. Now fans often call to ask about things related to Zhou Yan, and the most mentioned one is the new album.

A long time ago, Zhou Yan said in front of the media that he would release a third album last year, but it has been delayed until now and has not been released. Many music fans are not happy.

"Don't worry about this, the album will be released at the end of next month."

"Well, that's good. Apart from these two things, do you have anything else?"

Zhang Youan shook his head, "No, that's it."

Zhou Yan was still a little confused. Is this matter worthy of Zhang Youan coming over in advance?
The song invitation from Crave Company can be discussed over the phone. As for the script of "Crazy Night in the Band", it's not urgent. It doesn't matter if I get it two days later.

However, Zhang Youan didn't say anything, and Zhou Yan didn't ask again, just nodded, "Okay, that's it for tonight. You just came here, so go back and rest first. I went to bed early. I still have work to do when I get up tomorrow morning." (End of Chapter)