Depressive Screenwriter

【Screenwriter Su Yan Reaches Cooperation with Qingkong TV, New Drama to Premiere in July.】

【Rather Leave the Big Three for Qingkong TV than Stay at Sakura TV, Why Did Su Yan Make This Choice?】

【Leaving the Top TV Station in the Industry, Choosing to Cooperate with a First-Rate TV Station, Su Yan's Move is Utterly Incomprehensible.】

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【Talent in Script Creation Doesn't Equate to a Screenwriter's Wisdom, Qingkong TV's Influence is a Notch Below Sakura TV, Su Yan's Choice to Cooperate with Qingkong May Lead to Obscurity.】

【Young People are Too Arrogant, They Will Taste the Bitter Fruit of Regret in the Future.】

The news media and people in the television industry are extremely concerned about the news that Su Yan is cooperating with Qingkong TV.

After all, the fans and buzz Su Yan has accumulated from his three dramas are considerable, and news related to Su Yan clearly attracts more viewers.

Many reporters even found Su Yan at the film and television base in Shanghai.

As for Su Yan, he used to avoid these people when he worked at Sakura TV.

Because he was afraid of trouble.

But now, he welcomes interviews from reporters from any channel.

After all, this is equivalent to increasing exposure for "April is Your Lie."

Through these reporters' interviews,

A group of drama fans in Xia Country gradually learned some basic information about "April."

It's a drama with a music theme.

The male lead is a piano genius.

It has romance elements.

And the story is very healing and touching.

And most importantly, the male lead is still played by Su Yan.

However, the female lead is not Gu Qingyuan.

Although Gu Qingyuan has collaborated with Su Yan in three consecutive works.

Gu Qingyuan is more suitable for the "ice beauty" type of role.

And the female lead of "April", Kaori Miyazono, is clearly an energetic beauty.

Of course, with good enough acting skills, one can switch acting styles.

But Gu Qingyuan has a weakness: she can't play the violin.

Even if filming doesn't require actors to have a high level of actual violin playing, if you want to act like you can, a complete beginner won't be able to; you have to actually be able to play the violin.

Considering this point directly excludes Gu Qingyuan.

However, after Su Yan and Gu Qingyuan collaborated on three dramas, they can be considered friends. Although she is not suitable for the role of Kaori Miyazono, she can play some important supporting roles.

Among them, Su Yan gave her the role of a key supporting character in this drama, "Emi Igawa."

After all, her piano duel with the male lead in the original work is really cool, and she has enough screen time.

Although Gu Qingyuan doesn't know how to play the violin, she studied piano before college. Although her playing level is a bit weak, it's enough to handle filming.

Although the funding for "April" is not abundant, the investment is still considered a B-grade drama, and it's not a problem to invite some popular idol stars to play the female supporting character Tsubaki Sawabe and the male supporting character Ryota Watari.

Even Qiu Junlin and Zhuzawa Jiadai are willing to play some middle-aged and elderly roles in this drama as guest stars.

After reporters announced this news through interviews with Su Yan, Su Yan's fans became interested.

"So Su Yan, the old thief, can also play the piano and violin?"

"He told reporters during the interview that his piano and violin playing skills are very good, and he will do the piano and violin playing dubbing for many characters in this drama. He dares to say such things, he should be confident!"

"Really? In Xia Country's music-themed dramas, the music dubbing is basically done by professional-level musicians, otherwise there are actually many music lovers among the audience, and if the level is low, everyone will feel out of place. What Su Yan, the old thief, means is that he thinks his piano and violin playing level is comparable to professional-level?"

"There's nothing to be surprised about! In "Ancient Love Song", the female lead Lu Yuan's konghou and the male lead Shen Buyan's flute sounds were all dubbed by Su Yan, the old thief. Don't you think the music is full of emotion? The old thief knows how to play ancient Xia Country instruments like the konghou and flute, isn't it normal to know a little bit about Western instruments like the piano and violin?"

"Ah? I haven't heard of this! The music in "Ancient Love Song" was played by Su Yan himself? Those songs have made me cry many times!"

"Do you just become fans of Su Yan, the old thief, without knowing anything? I don't know about his piano and violin playing skills. But the theme song of "Rurouni Kenshin", the songs "Empty Waiting", "Wall Watching", "Tracing Back" and other songs in "Ancient Love Song", the lyricist and composer is actually Su Yan, the old thief!"

"This information is available in the work information list on Sakura TV's official website. In my personal opinion, although Su Yan, the old thief, is handsome and has good acting skills, his talent in music is no less than his talent as a screenwriter!"

"I've never heard of this. I only know that he is an actor and screenwriter in these three dramas. He can also create songs?"

"So a high appearance is just one of his most insignificant advantages?"

"Listening to you guys, I almost fell in love with him. Unfortunately, judging from the fact that all of his dramas are tragedies, Su Yan, the old thief, is probably a gloomy boy in reality, which is not my style."

"Well, that's not the case. I have a high school classmate who works at Sakura TV. It is said that he is quite popular at Sakura TV and is a sunny and cheerful boy! But why the dramas he creates all have tragic endings is unknown."

"Sunny, cheerful, big boy? Hahaha, are you trying to make me laugh to death so you can inherit the less than three thousand Xia Country coins in my bank card?"

"I've been reading comments all night and haven't laughed once, but this sunny and cheerful boy made me laugh. Hehe."

"The old thief said in an interview that this drama is a pure music romance drama, absolutely touching and healing, without any messy abusive plots. How credible do you think that is?"

"I believe him like I believe a ghost!"

"I'd be worried if he was filming dramas of other genres, but with musicals, you really can't create anything depressing, right? At worst, it's just losing a music competition or getting crushed by others. How much can that be abused?"

"Well, now that you mention it, I really can't think of any precedents for music-themed dramas with tragic endings in Xia Country's television history!"

"Anyway, I've already reserved a spot for it on my July drama list. I'll definitely be watching 'April is Your Lie' when it comes out."

"You little haters. When 'Ancient Love Song' and 'Rurouni Kenshin' ended, you all said you were going to blacklist Su Yan, but now that there's news of a new drama, and even the official stills haven't been released, you've all joined the drama list, huh?"

"There's no way, although watching the old thief's dramas makes me want to die every time. But after that depressing mood passes, I still want to watch! Maybe I'm an M!"

"That's right, me too."

Su Yan's frequent media interviews have allowed "April" to gain a lot of attention before its premiere.

And this has also given the "April" crew a great advantage in the casting process.

There are many young actors in Xia Country, and not all actors only stare at appearing in those big productions, the dramas with at least the top three quarterly ratings.

Qingkong TV is also a large domestic TV station.

Su Yan is currently very popular in the film and television industry.

From a screenwriter's point of view, he can be called a first-tier screenwriter.

From an actor's point of view, Su Yan, who has starred in three popular dramas, has caught up with second-tier stars in the actor industry.

The drama he stars in naturally attracts the attention of a group of domestic stars.

Although the "April" crew does offer low pay for the actors in order to ensure the quality of the drama, it doesn't matter if it's a little less. What's most important for stars?

That's right, fame!

As long as they become famous, they can make up for the lost pay in other places by taking on commercial performances and GG endorsements.

So in mid-April, the audition for the supporting roles of "April is Your Lie" can be said to be very lively.

Many popular young idol stars, some singers who want to transition to the film and television industry, and stars from variety shows came to audition.

These people can survive in this industry, and their looks and acting skills are definitely online, so Su Yan and Ayumi Shinozaki quickly settled on the actors for several important supporting roles.

But only the casting of the female lead, Kaori Miyazono,

The acting style is cute, lively, and has a certain degree of popularity, and must also have some attainments in the violin.

This is a bit difficult.

Su Yan has been worried about this for two consecutive days.

It can be said that as long as the role of the female lead Kaori Miyazono is determined, the "April" crew will be assembled.

"Honestly, this kind of role is really hard to choose," said Ayumi Shinozaki.

"There are many stars in Xia Country who know how to play the piano. But there are indeed very few who can play the violin..."

On Su Yan's desk, there are several documents, which are the information of several actresses that Ayumi Shinozaki found.

"Their ages don't match," Su Yan sighed after reading them.

"It's not a big problem for me to play a fifteen-year-old junior high school student at twenty-one years old with makeup! But no matter how much makeup they put on, it's impossible for them to play the teenage female lead Kaori Miyazono at thirty years old. That's not a matter of acting skills."

Ayumi Shinozaki was not surprised by Su Yan's words.

"Then there's another option now," Ayumi Shinozaki took out a file bag.

Su Yan opened it and saw a photo of a beautiful girl and her information.

"Shen Liqian," Su Yan read her name.

"We can't afford her, can we?"

Su Yan thought for a moment and extracted her information from the original owner's memory.

"Well, indeed... Although Shen Liqian is only twenty years old, she has already starred in six TV series and two movies since her debut at the age of fifteen, and all six of these TV series are A-grade dramas," said Ayumi Shinozaki.

"One of them won the first place in the quarterly ratings, and two of them won the top three in the quarterly ratings. The two movies she starred in performed generally, with a total box office of less than 200 million. Purely in terms of fame, she should belong to the first-tier actresses in Xia Country's TV drama industry, but she is one of the weaker ones in terms of popularity and appeal."

"What I just said is her resume up to more than a year ago. Since her A-grade fantasy romance drama 'Pear Blossom', which she starred in a year ago, suffered a disastrous rating failure and ended with an average rating of 2.87%, she has not had any new works broadcast until now," said Ayumi Shinozaki.

"It is worth mentioning that 'Pear Blossom' was broadcast on Sakura TV."

Ayumi Shinozaki spent some time talking to Su Yan for a long time, and Su Yan finally understood.

The ratings for 'Pear Blossom' were not good, and then Akasaka Yoshishi and his subordinate producer Sano Noriko blamed Shen Liqian, and even said that she was acting like a big shot on the set.

The best way to cover up one's mistakes is not to explain, but to magnify other people's mistakes, so that one can hide oneself.

Akasaka Yoshishi and his gang's approach was very simple and disgusting. They assumed that Shen Liqian would not dare to offend them and would swallow this bitter pill.

But Shen Liqian happened to be a lively and straightforward person who would never hold back her anger. She immediately cursed Akasaka Yoshishi, the producer Sano Noriko, as well as the screenwriter and director of 'Pear Blossom' in a news interview with reporters.

That was a live TV broadcast!

She acted in this drama according to the plot created by the screenwriter and the requirements of the director and producer, and now they're blaming her acting skills for the problems?

But impulsiveness comes at a price.

The disastrous results of 'Pear Blossom' caused her influence to decline. In addition, she offended Akasaka Yoshishi and was suppressed by Akasaka Yoshishi's operations in the industry.

An actress who seems to have an uncertain future, has an unsophisticated personality, and is resented by Akasaka Yoshishi.

The production departments of Zhongxia and Shanghai TV stations also gave Akasaka Yoshishi face.

After all, if you give Akasaka Yoshishi face today, he will also give you face tomorrow. Everyone knows some unspoken rules among colleagues.

This also led to Shen Liqian basically not being approached by any of the big three TV stations for big-budget dramas in this year.

"So Shen Liqian contacted me through her agent after learning about the conditions for the selection of the female lead in 'April'!" said Ayumi Shinozaki.

"Her pay for participating in 'Pear Blossom' was eight million Xia Country coins. But now, she is willing to star in 'April' for a pay of four million."

The Xia Country film and television industry's control over the pay of the main actors is still relatively strict.

The total pay of the main actors generally does not exceed one-third of the budget.

Compared to Su Yan's previous life in China, the pay of these first-tier actresses in Xia Country's TV dramas is not so exaggerated, often tens of millions or hundreds of millions.

But the pay per episode is not low.

Most of Xia Country's TV dramas have only eleven or twelve episodes, and a pay of eight million translates to seven hundred thousand per episode.

If you convert the pay of seven hundred thousand per episode to a TV drama like those in Su Yan's previous life in China with forty or fifty episodes, that would be a pay of more than thirty million per drama.

"She hasn't filmed for a year, does she still have influence?" Su Yan asked doubtfully.

"Of course. The failure of 'Pear Blossom' was a mistake at the management and script level. Her fans are well aware that it has nothing to do with her as the lead actress. The accusations of her acting like a big shot and her disappearance during filming, which caused delays in the filming schedule, are even more fabricated."

"So in the latest media statistics of the popularity of female TV stars in Xia Country, she, who hasn't filmed a drama for a year, is still ranked sixteenth! However, if the time without works is longer, then her popularity will definitely decline severely, so this is also one of the reasons why she took the initiative to contact us and lowered her pay," said Ayumi Shinozaki.

"She values the potential you showed in your previous three dramas. Your 'Ancient Love Song' was able to break 4% in viewership during its midnight slot. 'April' might be able to achieve even higher viewership numbers after its premiere on Qingkong TV, helping her return to the peak of her acting career. Right now, she just needs the success of one drama to prove that her value and popularity are still there, and that will make the capital of the Xia Country film and television industry, including the three major television stations, pay attention to her again."

"Moreover, you and she are the same, both have conflicts with Yoshitoki Akasaka, and have been suppressed before. You could say you are in the same boat."

Su Yan was somewhat moved by what she said.

He couldn't afford an eight million salary, but he could afford four million.

After all, he was the boss himself. It was certain that he would play the male lead, Kousei Arima, with zero salary. Otherwise, what would be the difference between moving money from his left hand to his right? He would also have to pay taxes one more time.

In this way, the female lead, Kaori Miyazono's, four million salary would be the only one among the main actors. It could be said that the main cast's salary was directly controlled to one-fifth of the budget.

"Can she play the violin?" Su Yan asked curiously at this time.

"Of course, even her agent proudly stated that Shen Liqian's violin playing level is definitely number one among the Xia Country actors."

Shinozaki Ikumi took out her laptop and played a video.

It was the final scene of the Xia Country official youth violin competition held five years ago.

Shen Liqian, who was only fifteen years old at the time, won seventh place in this competition.

And because of the super high appearance she showed in this competition, she was spotted by an acting agency and eventually embarked on the road of becoming an actress.

"The level is not bad." Su Yan listened to Shen Liqian's performance in the video.

Su Yan had never touched a violin before, but the violin specialization skill given to him by the system allowed Su Yan's brain to automatically judge Shen Liqian's level.

She was already very close to a professional violinist.

It was a pity that she chose the path of being an actress.

The level is not bad?

Shinozaki Ikumi's expression was astonished.

She was the seventh in the national Xia Country violin competition for youth five years ago!

Su Yan, your tone of high-level evaluation is too natural, as if your level is higher than hers.