Entertaining Children

   Chapter 1126

Seeing that Zhao Rui was so happy, Lin Qisan said to Xiao Yao in a deliberately sabotaged atmosphere: "August Yi, you don't care so much about your music? Don't say wait for them to edit and check it out, in case they shoot. How bad is it? A bad movie uses your song as an interlude, and you will be ashamed of it too!"

   "Are we filming a bad movie?" Zhao Rui glared at Lin Qisan, raised his fist and threatened, "Isn't you looking for a beating?"

   "What are you doing? Do you want to fight?" Lin Qisan said without fear, "I have studied with Bayi for four years, and now I am not afraid of fighting!"

   "No," Xiao Yao waved his hand and smiled, "If it's really a bad movie, everyone must know that I just gave him the copyright of the song because I can't save face, and I won't scold me if I scold it!"

   "You two!" Zhao Rui said angrily.

   "Okay, okay, just kidding!" Xiao Yao turned his head to Lin Qisan, "I guess that's what the stone is looking for. What about you? Why are you coming over to find me?"

   "I'm okay, I just came over to see you!" Lin Qisan said, "Our TV series has been finalized, and there are only two final episodes left. We never look for you in post-production!"

  Listening to Lin Qisan talking about the TV series of Shen Opera students, Xiao Yao also asked with concern: "By the way, where is our TV series? How is the response?"

This TV series with Shen Opera students as the production team started in mid-July. The broadcast time is one episode in the evening on Saturday and Sunday each week. There are only two episodes in total each week, which is basically achieved. Xiao Yao's idea of ​​broadcasting and filming.

   When this TV series first started, Xiao Yao was still instructing the 101 women's group in singing and dancing, and he also paid attention to it. When it first aired, thanks to the gimmicks of the brand-new Quanshen actor, the drama started off well and attracted a certain amount of attention. The ratings were pretty good. However, the broadcast time of two episodes a week similar to American dramas is different from the watching habits of most Chinese TV viewers. Afterwards, he was busy preparing for the movie, especially after he came here, Xiao Yao no longer had the energy to pay attention. I don’t know what happened later.

"Twenty episodes have been played now, and the last four episodes are left." Lin Qisan said, "In general, the response is not bad. After all, we are all newcomers, and the expectations of ourselves and the audience are not equal. It’s not particularly high. The broadcast time of two episodes a week is indeed unaccustomed to domestic viewers. Many viewers have complained online, but it seems that the viewers are not unacceptable. The ratings on the TV station are compared to the latter. It has been lowered a bit in the front, but the decline is not large, and it is within the range that the TV station and us can bear. The video site is better, and the click-through rate is still considerable."

  Nowadays, Chinese audiences are watching more and more American dramas and British dramas online, and some TV stations have also begun to adopt a weekly broadcast system for certain domestic TV dramas. Although most of them are three or four days a week, two episodes a day, that is, every Saturday to eight episodes, which is much more than the extreme situation of two episodes a week like Xiao Yao and others, but after all, the audience's habits are slowly changing. . It is not totally unacceptable to treat TV dramas as a weekly variety show.

   "The ratings and click-through rates are OK, what about the ratings?" Xiao Yao then asked.

   "If you don't start the broadcast, you don't know where it will be broadcast, or how many ratings. You really don't care at all?" Lin Qisan smiled, "Isn't this a project you started for your two roommates?"

"The way I thank them is to open a project for them and give them a chance to play a leading role, not to say that they have to be popular." Xiao Yao said, "The project has started, and the team in front of and behind the scenes has helped set it up. I have not only been guest appearances in the crew, but also contributed personal network resources so that the crew invited a bunch of stars to guest appearances. I think I’ve done enough? I’m all making movies. Do I have to stare at the ratings every day? Besides, if I ask you now, am I just caring?"

"Okay, okay, you are always reasonable!" Lin Qisan waved his hand, "The score is not bad. The score on the scoring website is above seven, and the score on the video website's own scoring system is higher, around eight points. Qin The popularity of Hao, Xu Liang and the other four starring actors is pretty good. At least one or two years later, there should be no need to worry about not being able to receive the show."

   "Oh!" Xiao Yao nodded.

   "Speaking of this," Lin Qisan said again, "I just want to ask your opinion on some things later."

   "What?" Xiao Yao asked.

"I remember you said that you wanted to make this drama into a series. First, test the waters for the first season. If the results are good, you will have to shoot the second season and the third season later." Lin Qisan said, "In this situation, Do you think it will be filmed for the second season? When will it be filmed?"

"I can't judge now!" Xiao Yao said, "After all the episodes are broadcast, let the company find professionals to make a detailed assessment, and then see if you want to shoot the second season. If you want to film, you will definitely get it. Next year is coming. The so-called one season is one season each year, and strive to maintain the same shooting time and broadcast time every year.

"Judging from the current response, this drama has a certain topicality. If the second season is filmed, the income is expected to be higher than that of the first season. It should still be possible to film the second season." Lin Qisan said, "but now it is behind the scenes. Those people are now somewhat famous, especially in terms of actors, the pay will definitely rise. If we continue to shoot the second season with the original crew, the production cost will definitely rise a lot, and then it will not be a loss. Sure. So in the second season, should we increase investment and continue to use the original team, or will we also find fresh graduates from the Shenxi Acting Department next year to shoot?"

"Try to use the original crew!" Xiao Yao said, "We can appropriately increase the production budget. But it also depends on how the actor's salary increase matches our budget increase and the actor's own wishes. At that time, let people make a plan. !"

   "Are you okay?" Xiao Yao turned his head and asked Zhao Rui and others.

  If you want to shoot the second season, it must be the company's project. Zhao Rui and others can also express their opinions.

   "No comment!" Zhao Rui and Zhu Zitong shook their heads together.

"I don't have any problems," Lin Qisan also shook his head, "but if that were the case, we might as well directly sign Qin Hao, Xu Liang and the others! If it were our own company's actors, this aspect would be easy to grasp. too much."

   "I said that our company does not sign artists, you all agreed at the beginning!" Xiao Yao smiled.

   "I know," Lin Qisan said, "I just said that."

  The reason for not signing artists, Xiao Yao made it clear to several friends at the beginning, and everyone really agreed.

"Even if it's a secret contract, we insist on signing season by season!" Xiao Yao said again, "Even if we decide to shoot the third season before shooting the second season, even if Qin Hao and Xu Liang behave well on this project No matter how active we are, we will not sign a two-season contract with them at once."

"Why?" Lin Qisan asked strangely, "If we decide to shoot the third season, it means that we are also very optimistic about the prospects of the second season, which means that their pay will also rise further. We will sign two seasons at once. Isn't it possible to save costs more?"

   "I don't want to tie them, nor do I want to tie us!" Xiao Yao said.

"I agree with Bayi," Zhao Rui said, "This matter is indeed better to sign the contract separately from season to season. No one can say whether those people will suddenly explode in the past two years, or whether it will suddenly happen. What other opportunities are particularly good. If you have a contract, it involves contract issues. He came, maybe because the remuneration is not in line with the worth or missed other opportunities, he has an idea, if he does not come, it is a breach of contract. Do you let him lose money or not? Let him lose money? Losing money affects the relationship. If you don’t lose money, what is the spirit of the contract? At that time, who knows if there will be any conflicts between you. Or as Bayi said, sign every season, and then confirm the schedule before the start of the shooting. The contract is better."

   "Okay!" Lin Qisan saw Zhao Rui also say the same, nodded, "But now there is no need to rush to announce whether to shoot the second season, these things are not in a hurry, and it will be too late to deal with them after a while."

   "We are obviously here to visit Bayi and have a dinner together. How come it feels a bit like a shareholder meeting?" Nina Ayiguli suddenly laughed.

   "I have this feeling too!" Xiao Yao put a piece of mutton into his mouth, "I just missed someone. Why didn't you call Haozi together? Don't you be afraid to go back and he will ask you to complain about not taking him to play?"

"Go to the training camp again!" Zhao Rui said, "This can't blame us. Whoever makes him is an athlete. And he is here, and there is no room for expressing opinions. He wants to really integrate with us completely. , I have to wait until he retires and moves to the showbiz. Before that, he doesn't care about anything, don't worry, just wait for the end of the year to receive the dividends, what else can I complain about?"

   "Speaking of dividends by the end of the year," Zhu Zitong said, "It's not long before the end of the year. Are we going to have a company year-end summary meeting, or even a company annual meeting?"

"The summary conference is definitely going to be held." Xiao Yao said, "make clear statistics on the financial aspect, let us know in mind, and then plan the projects to be done next year. I first declare that I will have at least one TV series next year. The project is not the second season of Shen Xi’s "Co-rented Youth". In the second season of "Co-rented Youth", I didn’t even do the producer. I plan to completely let go. I’m going to start another TV drama project. The script outline and general plan were brought out and discussed at the meeting."

  "You are the largest shareholder, you want to open a project, what else can you discuss? Just open it!" Lin Qisan smiled.

   "Are you going to start a TV drama project again? What are you going to do? Has the script been written?" Zhu Zitong also asked, but she was concerned about another point.

"No, I just had an idea. I was talking about the script outline at the company's summary meeting at the end of the year. That is to say, there is no script outline now!" Xiao Yao said, "but I think about the subject matter. I want to make urban idol dramas! And this time I will not be a director, I will only be an actor, and I will play the leading actor!"

  "Are you going to play an urban idol drama?" Everyone looked at Xiao Yao in surprise.

   "You are boring for the strength group, do you want to transform to become an idol group?" Zhu Zitong smiled.

Xiao Yao has only made three movies so far. Whether it’s "127 Hours" or the "Donkey Gets Water" that is currently being filmed, his character image is not very good for most of the time. It is the parkour movie. The performance in it is regarded as an action actor. Judging from the roles Xiao Yao once played, he is not very close to idols.

   "I want to be pretty once, can't I be a second idol group? Is it wrong?" Xiao Yao smiled.

   "Of course, you are the big boss. What's wrong with starting an idol drama project and being the leading actor?" Zhu Zitong smiled, "Who dares to say that you are wrong?"

  "Are you playing with Doer again?" Nina Aiguli continued, "You two continue to act as a couple?"

"In this movie, he and I are not a lover. Sister He Ying is his wife." Sun Tingting corrected Nina first, and then shook her head. "His TV drama project next year is not for me. It is for goodbye. The female protagonist has been set up by the woman who opened it. It's not my part! Alas~" Sun Tingting even sighed deliberately.

   "What? It was for other women?" Everyone stared at Xiao Yao. They all knew what the previous paragraph meant, but the sentence after Sun Tingting surprised them a lot.

  Zhao Rui rolled up his sleeves and said, "Xiao Bayi, are you gutted? Even if you don’t consider Uncle Sun, don’t forget Duo’er and our older brothers!"

   "Well, this matter, I stand on the side of the stone!" Lin Qisan also nodded again and again, "Don't see if you can fight, I don't believe that we can pull Haozi, three people can't beat you one!"

   "That is, Xiao Bayi, despise you!" Zhu Zitong and Nina Aiyiguli also said.

   "Is it interesting you guys?" Xiao Yao sighed with a wry smile, and said to Sun Tingting first, "I told you about that project, and you not only agreed to it at the time, but also said it was fun and looking forward to it!"

"And you," Xiao Yao turned his head to look at Zhao Rui and the others, "What kind of pretense? I cooperated well with Duoer! I haven't acted as a couple before, but I am still acting with Sister He Ying. What about husband and wife! Stone, you have never acted as a couple with anyone other than Zitong? So many people in the entertainment industry who get married can no longer act as a couple with others? Do you want to live?"

   "The point is that you specialize in setting up projects for others. This is not just as simple as acting as a couple!" Zhu Zitong said.

   "I just started a project for my college roommate!" Xiao Yao reminded, "How complicated can it be?"

"Can men and women be the same?" Zhao Rui took over, "Don't say it was for Aunt Ye! Mother and son acting as a couple, or in an idol drama, that's so much for a show, can you watch it? Even if you are so weird, I don’t believe you are so weird to play like this!"

   "My mother?" Xiao Yao said silently, "Zhao Shitou, your brain is bigger than me! Are there any other related actresses beside me?"

"Sister Cheng Xi?" Lin Qisan said, "But Sister Cheng Xi is an artist under your studio, not our company. Even if you want to open a project for Sister Cheng Xi, it should be your family's Qijia studio that accounts for the bulk of the investment, and you can find our company at most Cooperative investment. It’s okay to find you to play the leading role, but it would be unreasonable to let you be the main investor and start a project."

   "Are there no one besides Cheng Xi?" Xiao Yao said, "Yin Xi is not a human? Yin Xi is not an actor? Can't I open a project for my sister?"

   "Sister Xi?" Lin Qisan was stunned, and then quickly changed his face, "Then you said earlier! Open a project for sister Xi, of course there is no problem!"

  Lin Qisan and Nina Aiguli have not been to Yin Xi’s studio in recent years, and Yin Xi treats them like his younger siblings. Lin Qisan originally had some admiration for Yin Xi in terms of models and fashion. In the past few years, looking at Yin Xi is like seeing her sister.

Based on Lin Qisan’s observations in Yin Xi’s studio over the years, he felt that although Yin Xi treated Xiao Yao better than himself, it was also the same kind of sister-brother relationship. It was just that the relationship was better. There were no other feelings in between. Naturally, it is impossible to affect the relationship between Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting. Xiao Yao opened a TV drama project for Yin Xi. Whether he was acting as a sibling or as a couple, Lin Qisan agreed with both hands and feet.

   "Did you let me talk?" Xiao Yao snorted.

   "Aren't we being led into the ditch by you?" Lin Qisan said.

   "Huh?" Xiao Yao was surprised.

   "No, I was brought into the ditch by Doer!" Lin Qisan realized that it was wrong, turned to look at Sun Tingting and said, "Duoer, did you deliberately? I didn't expect you to learn badly too!"

  (End of this chapter)