Perfection of Rebirth

Chapter 427 Brilliant Films Enters the United States
On September 1928, 9, General Motors piloted "The Queen's Messenger" in New York.This is the world's first TV series in the preliminary sense, marking the birth of a brand-new drama genre in human history.

In the 1930s, the two giants of broadcasting, NBC and CBS, made a number of salutary attempts, airing experimental productions, mostly adaptations of Broadway plays and classics, and establishing their own television stations.

On April 1939, 4, NBC broadcast television publicly, marking the official broadcast of American television.

After years of prosperity and development, American dramas are now generally divided into three types: soap operas, sitcoms, and episodic series.Some episodes combine the characteristics of two of them, or even interleave the three.

American commercial TV broadcasts from mid-September to late April of the following year. During this period, the weather is colder and people generally seldom go out. The TV start-up rate and ratings naturally increase significantly.Every year around December, due to the continuous arrival of Christmas and other festivals, most of the drama series will stop broadcasting "Winter Break".So most regular seasons are around 22-25 episodes long.

But this practice is gradually changing, with more new shows premiering in non-broadcast seasons, and the number of episodes in a season is getting shorter and shorter, with some episodic series running around 12 episodes.

It is already October, and it stands to reason that planning has only started now, and I have missed this year's broadcast season.But this is not a bad thing for Guanghui Film and Television.After all, as a brand new outsider, it is very difficult for the American dramas produced by Guanghui Film and Television to get a good time slot in the peak season before they have achieved good results.After staggering this peak, there will be more choices.

Considering that American TV attaches great importance to ratings, especially the four major public TV networks, a TV series with low ratings cannot survive. As long as it cannot attract the attention of the audience, no matter where the plot of the show goes, the TV station will Cut in half without mercy.So when Jiang Hui was considering which movie to release, he really thought it over carefully.

Originally, Jiang Hui was thinking about whether to show "House of Cards". This is a hit movie that has been filmed for five seasons. Even the speech draft of the Chinese leader's visit to the United States used him as an example.However, thinking that the influence of Guanghui Film and Television in the United States is still relatively low, making this kind of political film is easy to be labeled by others, so Jiang Hui temporarily suppressed this idea.

After much deliberation, Jiang Hui thought of "Breaking Bad", a classic American drama that was launched in 2008 and ended in 2013.

"Breaking Bad" is a typical American TV series, which has the characteristics of American TV series full of imagination and conflict; it also has a heroic character, who creates difficulties for him to solve, and promotes the image of characters who dare to challenge the system and break through the status quo features.

These characteristics are completely different from Japanese dramas, Korean dramas, and Hong Kong dramas.Most Japanese dramas promote the power and value of the human spirit.Generally, when a person or a family encounters problems one by one, let them overcome the sublimation of the beauty of human nature in the process of self-improvement and self-breakthrough.On the other hand, Korean dramas are delicate, exaggerated, and simplistic in expressing love; they are generally in the form of a love triangle, or comedy, or bitterness, and have an obvious function of social and moral criticism.As for Hong Kong dramas, they are good at expressing the life circles of small people in the market place, pay more attention to the description of the family atmosphere, and like to use family ethics and social ethics such as love, hatred, and hatred as themes of expression.

"I plan to shoot a crime-themed TV series. This kind of drama has a lot of restrictions on filming in China, and it is difficult to broadcast on TV stations. It just happens to be used to enter the US market," Jiang Hui said.

"Criminal themes? It's not very easy to shoot. Can you tell me about the plot?" He Ling said.

"I named this drama "Breaking Bad". It tells the story of an ordinary high school chemistry teacher who learns that he is terminally ill. In order to leave property to his family, he uses his extraordinary chemical knowledge to create Drugs, and become a legendary crime story of the world's top drug king," Jiang Hui said.

"I plan to make this drama into several seasons. The first season will be shorter, and we will start filming the second season after making some progress," Jiang Hui continued.

"The story of the first season took place in New Mexico. High school chemistry teacher Walter White is an ordinary little guy. Walter was originally a top student in chemistry at the University Research Institute and participated in the cooperation of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He gave up becoming a chemist for an ordinary life and worked as a chemistry teacher in a high school. However, he was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Facing the sudden misfortune, he first thought of the future livelihood of his family, because there was a family member in his family A pregnant wife in her 40s and a son with mild cerebral palsy. And he is the only source of income for the family..." Jiang Hui spent about [-] minutes explaining "Breaking Bad" to He Ling the plot.

"The story is very exciting. After listening to it, I can't wait to see the effect of the shooting," He Ling said.

"Soon, you arrange for people from Guanghui Film and Television to communicate with Tudou.com, and ask them to help make arrangements for the filming as soon as possible," Jiang Hui said.

"No problem, I will deal with it as soon as possible," He Ling said.

From being jerky at the beginning to now becoming more and more strong woman demeanor, He Ling has gone through a journey that many women take more than ten years to complete in just two years, and she has put in a lot of effort.

The cooperation between Guanghui Film and Tudou also made Jiang Hui feel whether it is necessary to strengthen Tudou's investment in TV drama production.

The big video websites in the future will produce some online dramas for their own platforms. Once these unique resources are loved by the audience, they will be very helpful to increase the popularity and traffic of the website.

The so-called web drama refers to a type of web series specially produced for computer networks and played through the Internet.The difference between web dramas and TV dramas is mainly due to the different broadcast media.The broadcast media of traditional TV dramas is mainly TV, and the main broadcast media of web dramas are network devices such as computers and mobile phones.

Internet drama will be a new art category. Different from screen TV series, it can be ordered by the audience at will. It has the advantages of fast and convenient, and it will be favored by young netizens.

And for a large video site like Tudou.com to produce online dramas, it must first win over all competitors in terms of broadcasting channels.When you want to release it and how you want to promote it is up to you.

The most important thing is that this unique online drama will provide infinite help for Tudou.com's charging business.Many viewers who follow dramas will unknowingly convert into paying users, and finally provide sufficient fertilizer for the development and growth of Tudou.com.

This kind of Tudou.com, which has the attributes of both channels and resources, has a bright future.

(End of this chapter)