1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Liu Lin is certainly not worried that Zhou Yan will not be able to select good students. What he cares about is whether the students can get higher ratings, because higher ratings mean higher salaries.

The purpose of school-enterprise cooperation is to benefit students.

There are two types of benefits: one is the opportunity for social practice, and the other is tangible benefits, such as salary and allowances.

"If you make the rating mature, other schools can learn from it."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Our rating criteria also draw on the school's evaluation model."

"Then we can learn from each other and promote each other." Liu Lin put out his unfinished cigarette. "Since the plan has been done very well, I think the school-enterprise cooperation should be implemented as soon as possible."

"Okay, this is what I think. We will conduct the selection process during the rest of this semester, and then let the students officially start working in the studio after the beginning of next year."

"Yes, sure. We'll start the selection this semester."

Nearly two months have passed in this semester. From now on, students will have to prepare for exams and semester projects. There is no need to pull students to the studio to distract them at this time.

We will select candidates this year, and take advantage of this time to explore more. Moreover, the school-enterprise cooperation is not something that Liu Lin can decide with just a word, and it will definitely take some time to discuss it.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "After the school-enterprise cooperation begins, the school will need a teacher to lead the team, right? Someone will also be responsible for the connection between the studio and the school."

Liu Lin looked at Zhou Yan, lit another cigarette, and asked, "Do you have any recommendations?"

Zhou Yan didn't beat around the bush and directly recommended, "I think Brother Ye is quite suitable. He has a high level of professionalism, experience, and vision. Moreover, he has done film music composition work himself. Compared with other teachers, he is more familiar with this business."

After the last award ceremony and a drink together, Zhou Yan wanted to sign Ye Xiaogang, Guo Wenjing and others to the studio.

Now that they have this school-enterprise cooperation, it is a good opportunity.

Liu Lin nodded, he agreed with what Zhou Yan said.

Ye Xiaogang is a graduate of the composition department with a good pedigree. He has been abroad and worked on film music. He is indeed more compatible with Zhou Yan's studio than other teachers.

Moreover, the department was also troubled by what to do with Ye Xiaogang.

Ye Xiaogang and Guo Wenjing were in the same class. All of them were very famous students. However, after Ye Xiaogang went out for a while and came back, there was no good position for him in the department for a while.

Originally, they wanted him to be a deputy director, but the position of deputy director has never been vacant.

At this time, letting Ye Xiaogang lead the student team for school-enterprise cooperation is indeed a good choice.

Otherwise, if people don’t have good opportunities after returning from abroad, the school will not be able to attract more outstanding graduates to return.

After a moment's silence, Liu Lin said, "How about this? Set up a school-enterprise cooperation office and let Ye Xiaogang be the director of this office. Give him one or two assistants."

"The principal's idea is very thoughtful. After the school-enterprise cooperation begins, a school-enterprise cooperation office is indeed needed."

"Have you told Ye Xiaogang about the school-enterprise cooperation?" Liu Lin asked.

Zhou Yan shook his head, "No, I have only reported this to you and my teacher for now."

"Then don't rush to talk about it. The implementation of school-enterprise cooperation and the establishment of a school-enterprise cooperation office all need to be discussed at the meeting. After the meeting has a result and it is confirmed that a school-enterprise office will be established, I will talk to Ye Xiaogang. I also need to seek his opinion on the transfer of this position. By the way——"

Liu Lin remembered something again and said with a smile, "I heard that your new movie is going to be released soon. I saw it on the news these two days."

"Well, it will premiere in mainland China next month."

"When exactly? If I have time, I'll go and support you. I also like watching movies. I still have that disc at home. I bought it a long time ago."

Zhou Yan smiled. The disc in Liu Lin's house was most likely a pirated one, because the disc of "The Chorus" had just been released in the mainland not long ago.

He said he bought it a long time ago, so that's impossible.

Because piracy is so rampant, the sales of genuine discs are not very good after they are released.

In mainland China, apart from the box office, the most money earned by this movie comes from the television broadcasting rights. This year, the movie channel alone broadcast "The Chorus" twice.

The movie channel was only officially launched this year, but it was very popular as soon as it was launched. Domestic films like "The Chorus" which are well-known, have high box office and have won international awards are naturally the darlings of the channel.

Moreover, the movie channel not only broadcast "The Chorus", but also made a special feature to introduce this movie and Zhou Yan.

The movie channel is so fond of "The Chorus" not only because the film won awards abroad, but also because the country now attaches great importance to the promotion of compulsory education.

Although the country implemented nine-year compulsory education in 86, it has not been fully implemented in many places and there are still a large number of child laborers.

Previously, Sun Hailang published an article titled "The Tilted World of Child Labor", which also drew the attention of all sectors of society to the issue of children's education.

"The Chorus" has a very special significance in education.

"Speaking of The Chorus, I remember one thing. The Vocal and Opera Department seemed very interested in your film, especially the Opera Performance Teaching and Research Section. They even studied the songs in the film. They said that the film is quite suitable for being made into an opera."

Zhou Yan nodded. "Well, because there are so many songs, if it is changed into a musical, there will be much less work. When I was in Houston, I met a musical director who wanted to change The Chorus into a musical."

"Do you agree?" Liu Lin asked.

"No." Zhou Yan shook his head. "I don't have any idea for now, but I might do it later."

"Then when you are done, you can let the teachers and students of the Vocal and Opera Department learn from you."

"Let's learn from each other. I actually want to write the script for another musical. I'll find time to learn from the opera department later."

"No problem, I think they will definitely welcome you."

In fact, there is no point for Zhou Yan to look for the Vocal and Opera Department. The Vocal and Opera Department of their school focuses on performance and music, not on script writing.

The teachers in the opera department are naturally capable of writing scripts, but it is definitely not their specialty.

Look at the three teaching and research departments under their department: Vocal Music, Piano Accompaniment, and Opera Performance. None of them has anything to do with screenwriting.

If Zhou Yan really wanted to seek advice from someone, he could actually go to the Central Academy of Drama, Yandian University, or Yenching University and Yenching Normal University. The first two are closer to acting, while the latter two are more literary.

Zhou Yan had said before that he would write the script for the musical "The Greatest Showman" by the end of the year, but he hasn't really started writing yet. Now it seems that time is running out.

If I don’t start writing now, I’m afraid I won’t be able to finish it this year.

However, since Zhou Yan had told Jabbar at the time that he would finish writing the script by the end of the year, he would not go back on his word and would work overtime to finish it.

It just so happened that he was going to attend a writers' congress in a while, where a bunch of writers would be together. Many of them had experience in writing scripts, including TV scripts, film scripts, stage play scripts, drama scripts, and even sketch scripts. Those writers had dabbled in all kinds of things.

Seeing that Liu Lin was about to finish his second cigarette, Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Principal, if you have time on the 20th of next month, you can go to the premiere of "Time Traveler". The premiere will be held at the Yanjing Concert Hall. I will give you some tickets then."

"Sure." Liu Lin smiled. "Forget about a few tickets. I just want one ticket." "No problem. I'll send the ticket to you later."

……

In the next few days, Zhou Yan was relatively relaxed and his pace of life suddenly slowed down.

After breakfast in the morning, he went to show up at the Orchestra Department, and then went to the studio after lunch at school.

The electronics factory is very efficient and basically everything has been moved.

The studio has already started moving the cafeteria to Building No. 4 next to Building No. 3. In addition to the cafeteria, all offices in the warehouse will also be moved to Building No. 4, leaving only Zhou Yan's office.

From now on, the warehouse will mainly be used as a functional area, as the music post-production workshop has already been in urgent need.

Li Tao had already told Zhou Yan about this good opportunity. He had been eyeing the empty room in Building No. 3, but Zhou Yan had never agreed. Now that there is a new building, Zhou Yan directly asked Li Tao and others to move the office there, leaving the original room to expand the new workshop.

After this expansion, it should be enough for a long time.

By the time of the next expansion, a new building will probably be built in the park.

Zhou Yan plans to start construction next year and will first build two buildings. One will serve as a living building with a canteen and temporary dormitories, and the other will replace the current warehouse and serve as a higher-standard recording studio and production workshop.

In a few years, their decoration and equipment will also be updated.

Every afternoon, Zhou Yan would take some time to write the script for the musical "The Greatest Showman".

At five o'clock in the evening, he got off work early, and after dinner he ran to the rehearsal room or recording studio to practice his musical instrument.

Because he was too busy recently, he neglected to practice his instruments and his performance has regressed, especially the violin. His level was not good enough to begin with, and without practicing for a long time, his level dropped rapidly.

On the contrary, the bamboo flute, because of its solid foundation, did not show any obvious decline, and recovered quickly.

He doesn't have any high aspirations for musical instruments now. He just needs to maintain his current level in the bamboo flute, piano and violin and not regress - in fact, he can still improve a little in the violin, after all, his foundation is not that good.

If he has time, he would also like to explore other musical instruments.

Knowing more about the timbres of different musical instruments is very helpful for creation.

Generally, Zhou Yan would start practicing at six o'clock and finish at nine o'clock, which lasted for three hours.

Practicing a musical instrument for three hours is already quite intense for many people, but for Zhou Yan, it is just a way to kill time.

This can be considered one of his talents, that is, he can sit still. No matter how boring the practice is, he can handle it calmly, at least he won't have a mental breakdown.

When his recreation was over, he went straight home and went to bed at ten o'clock.

Going to bed at ten o'clock was already very early for Zhou Yan.

When Zhou Yan was busy with the post-production of "Time Traveler" some time ago, he basically worked until late at night, and sometimes even worked until four or five in the morning before going to bed.

Even if he went to bed at four or five in the morning, he would get up at seven or eight, so he had very little sleep.

Now he goes to bed at ten o'clock every night and gets up at six and a half in the morning, sleeping for eight and a half hours.

After getting up, he would exercise for half an hour on an empty stomach and then have breakfast.

Such a self-disciplined pace of life allowed Zhou Yan to quickly adjust to the fatigue caused by the previous period of time.

In fact, this is also one of the talents.

Some people are used to a certain biological clock and it is difficult to adjust it.

For example, a person who always sleeps in the second half of the night basically has no way to adjust his or her schedule in a short period of time and fall asleep at ten o'clock.

But Zhou Yan can. Unless there are special circumstances, Zhou Yan can go to bed whenever he wants and wake up whenever he wants.

Of course, the premise is that you are at home. If you go out and stay in a hotel, it may take some time to adapt.

Zhou Yan continued living like this for more than half a month.

The writers' congress is about to begin, and Zhou Yan is going to start receiving guests.

On December 12, Su Tong first came to Yanjing.

After Su Tong came to Yanjing, she first found Yu Hua and Shi Tiesheng, and then they took Su Tong to Zhou Yan's studio.

On the afternoon of the 12th, Zhou Yangang had just picked up his pen to write the script for "The Greatest Showman" when Yu Hua and the other three arrived at the door.

The office door was not closed. Yu Hua poked the door with her toes as a knock, and then pushed Shi Tiesheng directly into the office.

"Zhou Yan, we brought your fellow villager here."

Su Tong was standing behind Yu Hua at first, so Zhou Yan didn't see her. He didn't react when he heard the word "fellow villager" and wondered if someone from Jinling had come.

When he saw Su Tong, Zhou Yan suddenly realized that he and Su Tong were from the same hometown.

He and Su Tong, one from Jinling and the other from Su City, belong to the same Su Province, so they can naturally be considered fellow villagers. However, usually, people from these two cities do not consider them to be fellow villagers.

Mainly Jinling and Su City. Although they belong to the same Su Province and the distance between them does not seem to be particularly far, the dialects and living habits of the two cities are very different.

It’s mainly dialect. There is still a big difference between the speech in the Wu dialect area and the Jianghuai Mandarin dialect area.

Zhou Yan stood up with a smile, "I have been wondering these past two days who will be the first to come, and I didn't expect it to be you, Teacher Su."

Su Tong knew Zhou Yan earlier than Yu Hua and the others, and Su Tong played a big role in Zhou Yan's role as the music assistant for Raise the Red Lantern. However, Zhou Yan was not as familiar with him as he was with Yu Hua and the others.

After all, we don’t have much time to get together normally, unlike Yu Hua and others, who have already regarded the studio as their home.

The two shook hands first, and exchanged a few pleasantries. Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Teacher Su, you must be tired from the journey. Please sit down. I'll pour you a cup of tea."

"Good work."

Yu Hua smiled and said, "Please help me make a cup too. Does Tie Sheng want one? Tie Sheng, forget it. Just give him a glass of plain water."

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes, not because Yu Hua ordered him to do something, but because Yu Hua actually used the word "excuse me", which was too abnormal.

Perhaps because Su Tong was here today, Yu Hua actually felt a little embarrassed to be so unsociable. (End of this chapter)