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Chapter 142: The New Legend of White Snake Completed

On January 15, 2010, a few days later than expected, the Legend of White Snake finally completed the final production of the entire series. The entire series was finally packaged into 50 episodes, each 50 minutes long.

This means that Li Qi’s first film and television work as a director has officially completed all the production work.

Next, it’s time to consider how to sell it!

January 22, afternoon

In front of the CCTV office building, a Mercedes-Benz nanny car stopped steadily

Xiao Wen turned to Li Qi and said,”Boss, we’re here at the CCTV building!”

Li Qi stretched his body and said to Xiaowen and the driver,”Drive the car to the underground garage later. You guys wait for me there.” After that, without waiting for Xiaowen and the others to agree, he pushed the door and got out of the car.

Li Qi got out of the car and watched the driver drive the nanny car away from the other side to the underground garage. He strolled around for a few minutes before he lowered his head and walked into the CCTV building.

Because he had called in advance, Yu Minsheng’s secretary was already waiting in front of the elevator. When he saw Li Qi coming, he came over to greet him politely, and then took Li Qi all the way to the floor where the CCTV TV drama production center was located without any obstruction.

After knocking on the door and going in, Yu Minsheng was busy, but when he saw it was Li Qi, he asked his secretary to make tea while quickly reading the documents in his hand, then took off his glasses, walked over to 277 and sat down, smiling,”Are you anxious waiting?”

Li Qi smiled, pointed at his eyes, and asked instead of answering,”Have you started wearing reading glasses?”

Yu Minsheng raised his hand and rubbed his eyes helplessly, saying:”There is no way, as the old saying goes, spend it when you are 48 years old, how old am I! In the past two years, I feel that reading documents is becoming more and more difficult, so I had to wear one. Don’t say it, it’s clear now!”

Li Qi laughed when he heard this.

After the secretary finished making tea and left, Yu Minsheng continued,”The meeting was held this morning. Because of your play, everyone argued for a long time at the meeting. The leaders of the station had their own opinions and could not reach a unified opinion. In the end, it was Deputy Director Wang who made the final decision and said a few hard words. After all, the other directors were not in charge of this area, so they didn’t say anything more.”

Li Qi nodded and waited for the next step

《The final editing of”The Legend of White Snake” was completed on January 15th at the beginning of the month, and then it was immediately submitted for review. Xiao Jiaer asked someone with connections to help put in a call, and the film and television department was directly in charge. They completed the review at the fastest speed and issued the broadcast certificate. Of course, even at the fastest speed, it still took five working days!

Then, after the show passed the review and got the permission to broadcast, Li Qi immediately contacted Yu Minsheng, the director of the previous”Lotus Lantern”, and invited the leaders of CCTV’s TV drama outsourcing department to watch the show through him. Now, CCTV can finally give an answer.

Li Qi knew that he would definitely miss the opening drama of the new year, but even if it was not in the schedule of the opening drama, as long as he could get a prime time on such an influential TV station as CCTV, the attraction and ratings of this drama would not be much worse than those of the opening drama.

He even believed in the vision of CCTV and Yu Minsheng’s ability. As long as the deal was done, they would give him a good time slot to broadcast the film. So, what was missing now was just to reach an agreement on the terms.

Yu Minsheng took a sip of tea and said,”Deputy Director Wang really appreciates your drama.

We sat next to each other when we were reviewing the drama, and he told me more than once that this guy is amazing, he sings well and he is also good at filming!

From the storyline to the character creation, to the particularly sophisticated sense of camera and exquisite pictures in your drama, they are all first-class.

He even said that the level is higher than that of our TV drama production center!

After watching your drama, Deputy Director Wang urged me to let you be the lead actor in the drama”Magic Phone”!

”

Li Qi smiled, his face expressionless, but his heart could not help but quietly tense up. (To read the exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Any fool who starts out by saying something nice knows that there will definitely be a”but” after it.

Sure enough, at this time, Yu Minsheng sighed again and said,”But you also know that we are CCTV, a national TV station, not to mention that we have the strongest film and television drama shooting capabilities in the country, so we have strict control over the films we purchase from outside. The station needs so many films every year, but throughout the year, the number of new dramas purchased from outside is only a dozen at most!”

At this point, he paused for a moment, and seeing that Li Qi’s face was completely calm, he couldn’t help but smile,”You can guess, Deputy Director Wang has made the decision. As long as the conditions are agreed, this play can get a quota, no problem. That’s the condition. We are friends. I’m going to tell you the truth, I guess you won’t like it.”

Li Qi smiled, as calm as ever, and said,”Tell me, I am ready to be helped by the leaders.”

Yu Minsheng smiled when he heard this and said,”First, someone said at the meeting this morning that we have entered the second decade of the 21st century and we must vigorously promote new things and strive to keep up with the international standards. We can’t keep bringing out the old stuff. No one likes to watch it!”[]

Li Qi blinked and said,”Are you talking about the singing part?”

Yu Minsheng nodded,”It’s the singing segments of the actors in this drama.” Deputy Director Wang also supported this view. Everyone felt that a good TV series with a great story and great characterization was always interspersed with such singing segments that had almost no effect on the plot. It was too old-fashioned and would easily make people lose interest in the drama.”

Li Qi nodded again and asked,”So, the leaders mean to cut it off?”

Yu Minsheng nodded,”Cut it out, then add a few shots in, and replace those singing segments with a few lines of dialogue.

This way, the time of each episode can be compressed to about 42 minutes to 45 minutes!

You have to know that if you make an episode of a TV series 50 minutes, we will not be able to broadcast our advertisements, and those advertisements are very expensive every minute!

Therefore, Deputy Director Wang meant to cut out those useless and old-fashioned singing segments, and at the same time refine them to reduce the length to less than 45 minutes.

If it really doesn’t work, you can modify it to 54 episodes, 56 episodes, etc.

, which is also possible.

”

Li Qi took a deep breath, smiled, picked up the teacup and took a sip, put it down, and said calmly:”I understand what the leader means, then what?”

Seeing that Li Qi remained calm, Yu Minsheng couldn’t help but sigh in his heart, but he had to continue talking, so he said:”Secondly, you know that when our station purchases TV dramas from outside, it has always been required to buy out the copyright as much as possible.

I tried my best to explain to Deputy Director Wang, but Deputy Director Wang was very sure that this drama should either not be purchased, or if it is purchased, it must be purchased in full.

CCTV is a station.

You should understand the reasoning behind this, right?”