Behind the scenes of the entertainment industry

"It's too hard to find your place." Under Zhou Cheng's command, Feng Chong parked his car in an open space at the entrance of the alley.

Feng Chong said that it was difficult to find here. He mainly had to go around the main road of Liuliqiao twice before he found this inconspicuous auxiliary road.

"This area is the dormitory of Yanjing Railway Bureau, and it is estimated that it will be demolished soon."

"Demolition, I'm afraid you will become a nouveau riche now." Feng Chong looked envious. In the past few years, every demolition will create a large number of rich people, and demolition will soon be linked to getting rich overnight.

Zhou Cheng shook his head with a smile and did not continue the topic. He looked at the man with 46-and-a-half-length hair who got off the co-pilot and asked: "This guy looks familiar, I don't know who he is?"

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"Hello, I am Wang Yang, you can call me Lao Lang."

Although Feng Chong has been in the underground music scene in Yanjing, he is quite famous in the music circle. In addition to having a set of professional recording equipment that is the envy of many professional singers, his own musical quality is better than that of ordinary professional singers.

Don't hesitate either.

A few days ago, when Zhou Chenggang started to take out the song "Live Hard" and hummed it for Feng Chong to help compose the music, he was also surprised.

He knew that Zhou Cheng was a screenwriter in the literature department, so it was natural that he could write good lyrics. But he didn't expect that he could even hum the songs. This made him, like Chu Ran, have a doubt about his professional abilities.

A hint of doubt.

Then he saw that the song's relatively straightforward lyrics and cathartic expression of emotions were completely similar to a popular internet song. When Zhou Cheng hummed a very ordinary tune, Feng Chong finally felt relieved.

This kind of song is just like "Mouse Loves Rice", "Autumn Never Comes Back", and "Pray to the Buddha" that have emerged in the past two years. They often become popular for a period of time after being spread on the Internet, and then slowly become popular as time goes by.

And forgotten. Maybe many years later, you will feel familiar when you accidentally hear this song again. If you ask who the singer is, you may not remember it.

So Zhou Cheng said that this song would be sung by Lin Shan, and he hoped that Feng Chong would help guide him. Feng Chong readily agreed, after all, he would not push out the money-earning deals.

Based on Feng Chong's understanding of Lin Shan, the opponent's upper limit is at most a second-tier singer. At this stage where the future is not clear, if he can become famous with the help of such online songs, there may be some opportunities.

When Zhou Cheng took out the lyrics of the song "I Want You" before leaving, Feng Chong initially thought it was the same type as the previous song. Although Zhou Cheng hummed a line to set the tone for the song, Feng Chong

I didn't care. After all, just looking at the name of this song, it seems that it has the same tune as "Live Hard", and both are as popular and straightforward as Internet pop songs.

It was only when Zhou Cheng said it was a soundtrack for a movie script that Feng Chong became interested. When Zhou Cheng sent him the script and asked him to compose the music with reference to the content of the script, Feng Chong finally became serious.

After all, there is a certain difference between movie inserts and online songs. Many movie inserts have gradually been sung due to the influence of movies. There are also some cases where the movies are not good, but the songs have become classics. No matter what the situation is,

Has some potential to become a classic.

Movie scripts are different from novels in that their writing techniques and story structures are different. Feng Chong can only find a character that the song mainly expresses based on the outline. Then based on the plot of the character, he compares the lines and the emotions expressed in the lyrics of the song.

It’s easy to compose music.

Only then did Feng Chong realize that the song "I Want You" was different from what he had imagined. According to the tone set by Zhou Cheng and the emotion in the lyrics, this song was completely a story, a gentle and sad story. In this

There are responses, sighs, and a hint of determination.

Then Feng Chong read the script sent by Zhou Cheng in full and was also attracted by the story.

"It's all this night, the sultry madness... My lover, where are you..." The ambiguity revealed in these lyrics is completely similar to Zhang Yiman's sentence "I'll go to sleep with him".

wonderful.

Feng Chong then began to compose the music. He initially used piano chords as the main accompaniment, but found that the sound of the piano was too exciting and could not match the artistic conception of the characters in the play.

Later, he switched to a more low-pitched and melodious clarinet as the main accompaniment, but found that it was still a bit unsatisfactory, with a touch more sadness but less elegance.

In the end, he gave up all complicated accompaniments and instead used the simplest guitar chords, which gave the piece a sultry temperament. Paired with the clarinet accompaniment, it was not only melodious and slow, but the melody was clean and simple, refreshing.

"This must be my most proud work." After the finished product came out, Feng Chong cried with joy while listening to the recorded soundtrack, completely immersed in the music.

"Wang Yang, I have a song here. Come over and help record a demo... If you don't come, I think you will regret it..."

Feng Chong thought about his friends and found that only Wang Yang could control the tenderness and coolness in the song.

After Wang Yang recorded the demo, he also fell in love with this song. When he hoped that Feng Chong could sell the copyright to him, Feng Chong realized that the copyright of this song belonged to Zhou Cheng. And Zhou Cheng should have already accused himself, so

He will set the tone. The job he is responsible for is just to help compose the music with money. If Zhou Cheng does not agree, he will not even have the right to sign the song.

For a moment, Feng Chong had the thought of taking it as his own. He accidentally glanced at the special Chinese cigarette tin can that he had finished smoking but had not been willing to throw away. He used it to show off and threw away this idea.

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After thinking about it, Feng Chong decided to talk to Zhou Cheng. The first was the issue of signature rights. If Zhou Cheng could let himself sign the composition column, he would not even need to pay for the composition. As for Lao Lang wanting to buy the copyright of this song, then

Let him talk to Zhou Cheng alone, and Feng Chong can be responsible for the recommendation.

"Brother Wang, hello." He had met many stars, and even popular actresses had fought with him. Zhou Cheng saw that Wang Yang didn't have much excitement or surprise on his face, and just treated him as an ordinary star.

Moreover, Zhou Cheng did have a relationship with Wang Yang, but he didn't know if the other party still remembered him: "We have met before, do you remember Liu Tian? My cousin-in-law."

"Oh, it's you. I remembered, you are Zhou Qian's younger brother? When Liu Tian was getting married, were you blocking the door as a relative of the woman?" Liu Tian was Wang Yang's roommate in college, and the two had a very good relationship.

, when Liu Tian got married, Wang Yang even went to be his best man and gave a wonderful performance at the scene. Even now, the two still meet up to drink together from time to time.

"You haven't given me the red envelope you promised to give me yet. When are you going to give it to me?" Zhou Cheng stretched out his hand to Wang Yang and teased.

When my cousin Zhou Qian got married, Zhou Cheng was only seventeen years old and a half-grown young man. At that time, he was very excited when he saw a star like Wang Yang, but then he was fooled by him and didn't even ask for a red envelope. Because of this,

Zhou Cheng was ridiculed by Zhou Ya for several days.

"You also know that in that kind of situation, you can't throw out red envelopes randomly. If you find that there are not enough red envelopes when you walk in, wouldn't it be more embarrassing?" Wang Yang smiled to hide his embarrassment: "It's just that you were so easy to deceive at the time. We fooled you."

In a moment, the door opened."

"Okay, remember you owe me. Let's have two drinks later as an apology." Zhou Cheng smiled and said to Feng Chong: "I didn't know you brought Brother Wang here today. What I arranged is

Don’t be surprised by this little restaurant.”

"It's my fault for not saying hello to you in advance." Feng Chong saw that the two of them knew each other and knew that today's work was half done, so he hurriedly took all the responsibility on himself.

"Donkey meat hotpot is very good, and I'm not a famous person." Wang Yang shook his head mockingly: "Besides, any of us Yanjing people who haven't seen famous celebrities have long been accustomed to it. What's more, people like me

A has-been singer."

"Okay! Since Brother Wang said so, I won't be polite." After saying that, Zhou Cheng stretched out his hand to make an invitation: "Let's go, it's hot outside, let's talk inside."