China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 14 Finalizing the theme song

Hu Yanbin had to admit that the melody Li Yu spent several months writing was indeed very good.

From a conceptual point of view, the sense of fate mentioned by Li Yu fits the situation of the male and female protagonists very well, and can be called a tailor-made theme song for "Full House".

"Director Li, what you said about the sense of fate is really good.

Just listening to the melody of your intro, I can already feel the sadness and destiny. "

As a person who loves music, Hu Yanbin immediately gave a very high evaluation.

Hu Yanbin's next performance showed his profound musical literacy.

Li Yu provided a good melody, which aroused his desire to create.

He said with some excitement: “I think we can add bass and electric guitar to the intro part to make it more layered.

When it comes to the verse, add the drums and then the vocals..."

Hu Yanbin talked eloquently and quickly outlined an arrangement route for Li Yu.

Li Yu didn't know much about music, so his old father, who was a foreman and led a mining team, educated him since he was a child.

Never point fingers in areas you don’t understand, leave it to professionals.

Li Yu has been familiar with this truth since he was a child, so he said to Hu Yanbin: "Yanbin, I don't understand the arrangement. I only look at the finished product.

You don't need to discuss this with me, just do it according to your own ideas. "

Hu Yanbin was very happy with Li Yu's approach of not giving blind orders.

It means that Li Yu only provided him with a main framework, and the rest is up to him. He has enough free space to develop and will not be restricted by others.

The two chatted happily.

Li Yu then provided several more important interlude melodies and Chinese lyrics to Hu Yanbin, such as "The Original Position" and "I Think I".

Hu Yanbin had to marvel at Li Yu's talent and said in shock: "Director Li, is your main job really director?

Why do I think you are more of a talented music composer and lyricist?
  You write better melodies and lyrics than many professional songwriters and lyricists. "

Comparing people to others is so irritating. He is so handsome yet so talented. God is so biased.

Li Yu smiled modestly and said nothing.

He couldn't tell Hu Yanbin that he was cheating.

Before parting ways with Li Yu, Hu Yanbin suddenly made a request that Li Yu didn't expect: "Director Li, do you want to sell the copyright of the song? I want to include your song "Destiny" in my next album."

As a musician with high musical literacy, Hu Yanbin can certainly tell that the song Destiny is of high quality.

Of course, the quality of Li Yu's other interludes is also very good.

But Hu Yanbin's next album "Civil and Military Upgraded Edition" is somewhat special. There are ten songs in it, nine of which he participated in the production of.

His album focuses on personal creation, and as an excellent producer, he allows more people to hear his own music.

If you add too many songs written by others, it will destroy the original setting.

It’s okay to add just one song.

Because there was a song written for him by someone else, so he just replaced that song with Li Yu's fate.

In his opinion, Li Yu's Destiny definitely surpasses that song by a lot in terms of quality.

It could even be put directly on his album as the title song.

Hu Yanbin's request made Li Yu a little stunned.

He invited Hu Yanbin here because he wanted to pay Hu Yanbin to sing the theme song and interlude for him.

In the end, Hu Yanbin actually wanted to give him money? Li Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "Forget about selling it, but I can authorize you the copyright to use Destiny."

Maybe Hua Liu will have to ask Hu Yanbin to sing the theme song for future projects. Li Yu thinks it's a good deal to use the copyright of the song to win Hu Yanbin's favor.

After negotiation between the two parties, Li Yu finally asked Hu Yanbin to help produce four songs including Destiny at a price of 25,000 yuan a song.

This price is obviously a bit low for Hu Yanbin, who is already well-known in the music industry.

The cost of recording a song alone ranges from several thousand to tens of thousands of yuan.

Twenty-five thousand yuan per song, if the quality is higher, Hu Yanbin may not make much money.

However, both Hu Yanbin and his agent accepted the price, which was not worth much money.

Because they signed an additional contract with Li Yu, Hu Yanbin only has the copyright to use these four songs.

In other words, twenty-five thousand yuan a piece is the cost of producing a song.

Hu Yanbin's own singing fee is exchanged for the copyright of four songs.

Both parties were satisfied with the result.

……

The days passed quickly, and it was the end of June in a blink of an eye.

After more than twenty days of post-production, twenty-two episodes of "Full House" have been edited.

The four songs produced by Hu Yanbin were handed over to Li Yu a week ago.

At this point, the total cost of Full House was over three million, which was considered to be within Li Yu's expectations.

"Now that everything is ready, we will contact the TV station next."

In the conference room of Hualiu Company, Li Yu tapped the table with his fingers skillfully and said in a deep voice.

It has been three months since Hualiu Company opened.

After three months of development, the company did not stop recruiting people even when Li Yuren was filming in Liancheng.

Today, Hualiu Company has begun to take shape and is no longer the original leather bag company.

In the company, Li Yu established a distribution department specifically responsible for exporting films.

The current head of the distribution department is Ma Guangfa, who was originally a middle-level and senior manager of a television station.

He has not been promoted for many years. In order to seek better development, he left the TV station.

Li Yu took a fancy to his connections and qualifications and hired him with a high salary.

Take the current year of 2003 as an example. This year, a total of four to five hundred TV series were produced in the mainland market.

Most of them cannot be sold and no one wants them. Even if a TV station buys them, there is still a question mark as to when they will be broadcast.

Hualiu Company has just started, and it needs Ma Guangfa, a veteran who has been working in TV stations for many years.

He has connections in major TV stations and can help Hualiu Company sell TV series.

Therefore, Ma Guangfa also attaches great importance to the company's first project.

The failure of this project is related to his future.

After all, he had received a high salary, and he didn't want his new boss to think he was a jobber.

Ma Guangfa cleared his throat and began his speech.

(End of this chapter)