Create a great era of e-sports

"You have been working in this industry for so long, I believe you should know a few directors, right?"

Mo Yu asked.

"I know a few of you. Are you looking for a director to film a variety show?"

Shang Xingyue said doubtfully.

"Um."

Mo Yu nodded: "I told you before that I planned to create a few e-sports stars. Do you still remember?"

"Remember."

Shang Xingyue remembered it as soon as he thought about it.

During the S1 World Finals, Mo Yu told him about this and wanted to introduce several e-sports stars to attract popularity for GAG events. At that time, she herself thought Lu Zibo was very good and had an appearance that was rare among e-sports players. Condition: with a little makeup, he looks like an innocent and beautiful boy full of youthful school spirit. His appearance is very resistant. No audience will find it inappropriate to be a school girl in a TV series.

Thinking of this, she suddenly understood.

"Lu Zibo? Star plan?"

"That's right."

Mo Yu nodded: "The news of the selection will be announced soon. I plan to take advantage of the popularity and pay people to film an online drama and variety show about e-sports, and launch a few powerful players to promote GAG. Lu Zibo He is one of the candidates.”

The e-sports star plan is something he has thought about for a long time.

Through TV series, variety shows, online articles, and Internet trolls, we can promote one or more e-sports stars who are popular enough to break the circle, such as Uzi, Shy Man, and Big Nose in the previous life, or make a movie similar to Lu Han's TV series like "Crossfire" are used to promote GAG's e-sports.

And this also provides a channel for major clubs to generate income. Don’t just focus on bonuses, live broadcasts, sponsorships, and transfers. Sometimes e-sports players can also sign agency contracts, and manage the personal value of the players themselves, which is a brand new approach. way.

Shang Xingyue understood immediately upon hearing this, turned his head slightly and thought about it, then quickly opened his phone and looked through his address book.

"I don't know the variety show director, but I do know a few TV drama directors."

She handed the phone screen to Mo Yu, with several phone calls on it.

"These people are all well-known TV drama directors in the industry. They are of good quality and have produced good works. Their skills are very good."

Mo Yu took the phone and took a look at it. There were names and phone numbers of several directors on it.

He was not familiar with the situation of these people, but he could find them online.

After searching on Baidu, the information about these directors came up instantly. After reading it, Mo Yu couldn't help but frown.

The names of several directors provided by Shang Xingyue are all well-known directors in the industry. Many of their works have been featured on CCTV. Many of their TV series have received high ratings. There are also many major productions and their resumes are very impressive.

However, these people are older and may not have been exposed to e-sports at all, or even play online games. Choosing them to film an e-sports drama is a bit inconsistent with his expectations.

Shang Xingyue noticed that he was not satisfied and said, "Why, it's not suitable? These directors have all worked with the director before, and their standards are not bad."

"The resume is very good, but it's not what I want." Mo Yu waved his hand and said: "I want a director who is younger, obedient, and knows something about e-sports. It's best if he doesn't have any good works. What do you want? These people are so nice."

"Huh?" Shang Xingyue was very puzzled: "Why is it so good but not good enough?"

"Of course it's fine, but it doesn't meet my requirements." Mo Yu explained to her: "The online drama I want to shoot will have a low investment, there won't be big stars, and I'm not going to be on TV. I'm afraid they won't be willing to direct it. .”

"Web drama? What do you mean?" Shang Xingyue frowned: "I've heard of TV dramas, but I really don't understand web dramas."

"To put it simply, it is a TV series broadcast through the Internet." Mo Yu explained: "Traditional TV series sell the copyright directly to TV stations and play them on TV. Online TV series are videos shot in the name of an individual or studio and directly broadcast online. put."

"Online?"

Shang Xingyue has never paid attention to this matter at all. He does not understand and cannot imagine how to broadcast TV series online.

But it’s not her fault.

Because there is currently no concept of online dramas.

There are no video websites such as iQiyi or Penguin. There are only two major websites, Youku and Tudou, competing against each other. In addition to TV series, many people on these two websites also pay attention to some works produced by individual creators.

It is precisely because the two major websites are competing for users that they launched an activity to earn advertising revenue based on the number of clicks on videos, which attracted many people to participate in shooting and making videos.

At this point, early domestic online dramas began to gradually appear.

In Mo Yu's memory, the earliest one that appeared was a short sitcom for college students called "Things About College Students Living Together". Later, self-made animated short films like "My Name is MT" appeared, and then "Never Expected" , "Mao Liang" and other early online dramas.

Compared with traditional TV channels, most of the basic audience of e-sports prefer to go online.

That's why he wanted to shoot online dramas. It was not only convenient and fast, but also saved investment and attracted users. The biggest advantage was that it didn't require cumbersome approval procedures and could be uploaded directly after filming. Anyway, he didn't want to sell the copyright to make money.

After Mo Yu explained it to her, Shang Xingyue suddenly understood.

"So that's what it means. From this point of view, those people I recommended may not be willing to take the photo. Then there will be no suitable candidates." Shang Xingyue shook his head and said: "The ones I have contacted are all those who have had experience with Taili. The directors I work with probably don’t even care about online dramas.”

"I understand."

Mo Yu nodded.

Shang Xingyue works at CCTV Sports Station and knows all well-known directors in the industry. If he wants them to film online dramas, if nothing else, I'm afraid they themselves will not agree.

"It seems I can't help you."

Shang Xingyue said regretfully.

"It's okay." Mo Yu waved his hand: "I made a mistake. All you know are great directors. It's normal for them to look down on you. But you don't have to worry. I've already thought of two suitable candidates."

"who?"

"Bingshou, Li Hongsi, Walnut, Lu Zhengyu!"

Mo Yu slowly spit out four names.

Shang Xingyue was confused and had no idea who was who. Except for Li Hongsi and Lu Zhengyu, who looked like personal names, she would never have thought of the other two.

Seeing her look like that, Mo Yu immediately smiled and said: "Don't think about it, you don't know them. They are still unknown people and have never filmed any TV series."

"I really don't know them." Shang Xingyue thought for a long time but didn't know, and said helplessly: "But you want to make an e-sports online drama, can you choose these people?"

Can it be done?

That's great!

A smile appeared on Mo Yu's lips: "Don't worry, the four of them are all great talents!"