This star’s style is wrong

Fang Xing has an office in the music production department of Songshi Records.

However, you don’t need to come to work every day.

If there is work to be arranged, agent Qiao Yinghong will send a WeChat notification in advance.

Yesterday, I received a work WeChat message from Qiao Yinghong after several gatherings with Shao Yu and Lu Ming, so I arrived at the office early this morning.

Qiao Yinghong came in with a dozen folders, spread them out in front of Fang Xing, and said, "This is a film and television drama theme song project that the company has received. See if you can accept it."

Fang Xing pointed with his finger and said speechlessly: "Fifteen copies, why are there so many?"

""Painted Heart" is very popular, and it is extremely popular. For such a popular movie theme song, one may not be released in a year. Such good results will certainly attract the attention of many film and television companies..."

Qiao Yinghong paused, arranged the folders neatly with her hands, and continued:

"This has been screened. There are 70 or 80 song invitation proposals sent by major film and television companies. We have initially screened out these 15 theme song invitations. See if you can accept them."

"Suddenly there is so much work, I can't possibly finish it all by myself." Fang Xing looked at the theme song invitation spread out in front of him, a little confused.

"You don't need to do every project, pick the ones you think have ideas. The company also cooperates with other producers. Whoever can do it can record a demo and give it a try." Qiao Yinghong explained.

"Okay, let me take a look and tell you if I find something suitable."

As Fang Xing spoke, he picked up these documents and looked through them slowly.

Qiao Yinghong added: "Some of these film and television dramas have trailers, which have been sent to your work email. Take a look at the trailers, maybe you will get more inspiration."

After explaining the work, Qiao Yinghong mentioned another thing: "By the way, the first installment of repayments from major music platforms has arrived, and the company will settle the settlement this month, mainly the share of "Nocturne" and "Wild Bird". About eight million. Have you figured out what to spend the money on?"

Speaking of the last half of the sentence, Qiao Yinghong also used a joking tone.

Fang Xing heard that he could get the money, and he could finally start preparing for some things.

Because I had no money before, I couldn’t start many things I wanted to do.

Now it’s time to get started.

Fang Xing thought about it and said, "Sister Hong, I'm going to open a studio, mainly to help the previous team members release songs. Can you come over and help?"

So far, neither Lu Ming nor Guo Keda has signed with a brokerage company.

Shao Yu originally had a brokerage company, so he was quite busy during this period and kept making announcements.

Lu Ming was preparing to take the Dongyin test and learn falsetto tenor. He didn't have much time to attend notices, so he simply didn't sign with an agency.

Guo Keda's idea was very simple. Anyway, he just followed Fang Xing and didn't sign a contract with a brokerage company.

Moreover, he is a social worker. Although he has not signed a contract with a talent agency, he is very familiar with the directors of various programs. He receives announcements by himself without having to split money with the agency, and his life is quite comfortable.

Fang Xing promised before that he would try his best to help them with the songs.

So I thought about giving them some songs so that they can sing their own songs during commercial performances in the future.

When Qiao Yinghong heard that Fang Xing said he wanted to open a studio, he immediately agreed: "That's no problem. I'll handle the matter of opening the studio. I'll find an acquaintance to handle it. It won't take a week."

Several singers under Songshi Records have opened studios.

For example, the studio of Yao Liying, the first sister of Songshi, is already very large, not much different from a company.

The studio opened by Fang Xing is also owned by Songshi Records.

After this period of cooperation, Fang Xing felt that Qiao Yinghong had good abilities, so he hoped that she could come over and take charge of the studio's work.

However, Qiao Yinghong is still Li Caiwei's agent, so she may not be able to come over. It depends on how she arranges it.

If we don't open a studio and give Lu Ming and others a few songs, the songs will definitely be produced and released by Songshi Records.

Given the situation of Lu Ming and others, it would be difficult to get a share of the songs.

If Fang Xing releases songs for them in the name of the studio, then the share ratio will be based on Fang Xing's ratio.

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After talking about opening a studio, Qiao Yinghong went out to prepare the information for registering the studio.

Fang Xing continued to read the fifteen film and television drama materials in front of him.

Since it was a theme song invitation, the invitation materials sent by the film and television company included detailed introductions to the movies and TV series.

From the plot summary, to the cast and crew, as well as the Fuhua Dao team and so on.

Fang Xing flipped through a few of them, but there was nothing he was particularly interested in.

In the film and television industry, not every project is a big production or investment.

Most movies and TV series are still based on small budgets.

Therefore, the asking prices for theme songs in these projects are usually not high.

At least it won't be like "Liao Zhai Painted Skin", which paid such a high price and spent over 100 million in publicity and distribution expenses to directly let the theme song reach the top of the hot song list.

The most important thing is that Fang Xing feels that the content of these film and television projects is quite average, so he has little interest in them.

After reading the fifteen theme song invitations, Fang Xing picked out two of the slightly interesting ones and took them away, planning to take a closer look when he went back.

When I walked out to the front desk of Songshi Records, I saw a man talking to the front desk.

"Let me go in and find your general manager, and I'll just say a few words."

"Sorry, you can't come in without a reservation." The front desk refused his request very politely.

The man refused to give up and continued: "I have a cooperation project that has raised 1.5 million through crowdfunding. This project can be done well, but now we need a theme song."

"You can give the information to me and I will hand it over to the company department." the front desk said.

"No, I gave you the information a few days ago, but you returned it to me. My project is really good."

This person still refused to give up. He took out a notebook made of A4 paper and said, "I am making an animation. This is the background story I wrote for the animation. It has a total of 50,000 words. Have you read it? "

Fang Xing was a little curious, so he walked over and asked, "Show me?"

When the young man saw someone talking to him, he turned his head and looked stunned. Then his eyes began to light up: "Fang Xing, you are Fang Xing, I just want to find you."

He immediately put all the information and the background story book into Fang Xing's hands and said, "This is the animation information I wrote. I hope you can help me make a theme song."

Fang Xing opened his animation project information and took a look. The name of the animation was "Fish in the North Dark".

The background of the animation is taken from Zhuang Zhou's "Xiaoyaoyou".

Seeing this theme, Fang Xing's heart moved. This animation was somewhat similar to the background of an animated movie on Earth.

However, this person just said that he had sent information a few days ago, but it was returned.

It shows that the company is not optimistic about this project.

Fang Xing took a brief look at the information on this project and knew what was going on.

Because there is no money at all for this project, I just raised 1.5 million through crowdfunding on the Internet, and I want to make it into an animated film.

1.5 million is not enough to produce an animated film, not even a fraction of it.

Therefore, the main creator saw that the theme song "Drawing Heart" became popular some time ago.

I thought of a way, hoping to make a theme song based on the background story of "There Are Fishes in the North Ming".

If the theme song becomes popular, we can continue to raise funds and attract film and television companies to invest in filming.

This idea is indeed very clever. If it succeeds, it can be said to be a legendary experience in the film and television industry.

However, it is not easy to succeed with this kind of small-scale idea.

Finding someone to make a theme song is very difficult to succeed. Even if someone is willing to make a theme song, the theme song must be popular before you can get financing for the next step.

Therefore, from a normal perspective, his idea is a bit whimsical.

Of course, if the quality of the song is not so high, he can actually spend 200,000 to 300,000 yuan to make a theme song.

However, it is very unlikely that a song at this price will become a hit.

Fang Xing saw the title "There Are Fishes in the North" and had some ideas in mind, so he planned to take a look at the background story of this project first.

"May I have your name?"

"Hello, my name is Liang Jing." The young man quickly grabbed Fang Xing's hand and shook it several times.

"Leave me your contact information. I will go back and look at this information. If I have any ideas, I will contact you." Fang Xing said.

"Okay, I'll leave you a mobile phone number." Liang Jing took out a pen and paper from the front desk, wrote a mobile phone number, and stuffed it into Fang Xing's hand.

Fang Xing took the information and left the company, returned to his residence and continued reading.

Because this animation project of "There Are Fishes in the North" is somewhat similar to the background materials of an animated movie on Earth.

Therefore, Fang Xing read this information first.

"There Are Fishes in the North Dark" is based on Zhuangzi's "Xiaoyaoyou". Judging from the background, it is indeed the story of Kunpeng.

In the information, in addition to the text description, there is also a stack of original paintings of animation design.

This Liang Jing is an animator, and he drew all these original drawings.

Judging from the painting style, it is a bit of ink style and a bit of the popular 2D comic style.

The background of the story is a story about a young fish that wandered into the world and was picked up by humans. The end of the story is that the fish grew into a huge Kun and could no longer stay in the world. It grew wings and flew into the sky.

The background of this story is actually that an alien life fell into the human world and a series of stories happened between it and humans.

There are many similar stories.

The novelty of this animation project is that it puts such a story in the context of "Xiaoyaoyou·Beiming Youyu".

However, the outline of the story written by Liang Jing is not exactly the same as the "Big Fish and Begonia" on Earth.

But there is a common problem, that is, such a fantasy-style animation must be written as a love story, and it is also a Mary Sue love triangle.

This makes the story cliche.

"Big Fish and Begonia" on Earth has a score of 6.9 on Douban.

The reason why this animation has this score is entirely supported by the soundtrack and style of painting.

The plot cannot be flattered.

If the score of the soundtrack is removed, the score of this animation can be directly cut in half.

Judging from the current direction of the story "There Are Fishes in the North Dark" written by Liang Jing.

If he was given the theme song for "Big Fish", it would indeed be appropriate based on the content of the story.

However, this animation project has not yet been completed.

A theme song was made for him, and he had to use this song to raise funds.

Even if he succeeds in financing, it will still take another year or two to make an action movie.

Whether it can be produced in the end is hard to say.

In the film and television industry, countless projects are abandoned halfway every year.

Especially animated movies may not be able to be made at any time, and investors’ money will be wasted.

Pine Rock Records was right to send back his project proposal. There was not even a shadow of this project in sight.

Moreover, Liang Jing couldn't get much money from a record company to produce a theme song.

Fang Xing thought about it for a moment, picked up the phone and dialed Liang Jing's number: "Hello, I'm Fang Xing."

"Hello, hello, has my project passed?" Liang Jing's tone was full of surprise.

"You should know that this kind of project is impossible to pass, right?" Fang Xing felt that he was too whimsical, so he asked him to calm down first.

In fact, there was no need for Fang Xing to remind Liang Jing that there was nothing in this project except an idea.

His voice dropped and he said, "I know, but I'm very confident that I can do a good job on this animation project."

Fang Xing told him his thoughts directly: "It's unrealistic for you to make it into an animated movie directly. However, I still like your style of painting.

“So, I suggest you first make a five- to six-minute animated short film, and the picture and frame number requirements can be lowered.

"If the animated short film you produce satisfies me, I can make a theme song for the animation and treat it as a stake in this project."

When Liang Jing heard that there was still hope, he quickly agreed: "Okay, okay. In fact, I am already making an animated short film. And it is almost completed. I asked a record company to make a theme song. In fact, I want to release it together with the animated short film, and then raise funds. "

When Fang Xing heard that he had made an animated short film, he frowned and said, "I have another question."

"What's the problem?" Liang Jing asked quickly.

"Do you accept the suggestions in the script?" Fang Xing asked directly.

"This..." Liang Jing hesitated.

"To be honest. I think the theme of animated movies about the Mary Sue love triangle is too vulgar. I think the emotions in animated movies should be purer and more ignorant. If you agree with this point of view, I would be happy to participate in this project. ." Fang Xing stated his position directly.

When Liang Jing heard this, his tone suddenly became excited: "Do you think so too? In fact, I also think that the emotions in animated movies should be simpler and more innocent. Although the audience is adults, the animation itself is It shouldn’t be too worldly.”

"Then the plot you wrote..." Fang Xing took another look at the plot summary on the information. It was clearly a Mary Sue love triangle.

"This was actually written by the screenwriter I hired. He felt that the story had to be written like this to be interesting. I'm an animator and I'm really not good at scripts, so I asked someone else to write it." Liang Jing's tone was full of excitement. There was helplessness.

"If I proposed changing the screenwriter, would you agree?" Fang Xing asked again.

"Okay, but I have already spent money on the current script..." Liang Jing felt that it would be a waste of money if the script was not used.

"If it's only a hundred thousand, it doesn't matter." Fang Xing said.

"Okay, I also think this script is too cliché, but my funds are really tight right now, and it's hard to hire a famous screenwriter." Liang Jing was a little embarrassed.

"Send me the script and animated short film. After I read it, we can talk about the rest." Fang Xing requested.

This request is actually a bit abrupt.

After all, the animated short film has just been completed and has not yet been released. Sending it to random strangers is a very risky thing.

However, when Liang Jing thought that Fang Xing was currently a top player and it was impossible to lie to him, he handed over the script and the finished animated short film without much hesitation.

The animated short film is not long, only five minutes, which is a little longer than a movie trailer.

After watching this animated short film, Fang Xing's eyes suddenly lit up.

This animated short film is too short to tell the entire story of the Mary Sue script.

Therefore, the content of the animated short film was entirely produced by Liang Jing. The main style of the animation tells the story of a big fish living in the world, interacting with humans, and flying into the sky with longing for it.

Judging from this animated short film alone, Fang Xing felt that it was done very well.

However, if this animated short was to be expanded into a half-hour movie, there would be too much to add.

If the Mary Sue love triangle in the script was included, the whole story would be lowered by three levels.

Although I'm not sure whether it will be a bad movie once it's made into a movie, the quality of the animated shorts I've seen so far is very good.

Fang Xing felt that this animated short film was worthy of the song "Big Fish".

You can think of this animated short film as the MV for "Big Fish" and release it first.

Later, Liang Jing was asked to produce the movie "Fish in the North Ming".

While Fang Xing was watching the animated short film, Liang Jing never hung up the phone.

He counted the time and waited for five minutes. After making sure that Fang Xing had finished watching the animated short film, he asked, "Teacher Fang, how are you doing?"

"This short film is okay. I will make a song as the theme song and release it together with the animated short film. However, there is a prerequisite. The song is worth 2 million and I will invest in the animated film."

When Fang Xing said this, he paused and added: "In addition, I will make additional investments and join the main creative team of this project, and I will provide some plot opinions at that time.

"Of course, now that I'm talking empty-handed, you may think my request is a bit excessive.

"You can make a decision after hearing the demo of the theme song I produced, and then we will sign the contract."

Liang Jing said quickly: "No, no, no, no, I couldn't be happier that Teacher Fang is willing to join the creative team."

Seeing that he was sincere, Fang Xing said, "That's it for now. There are still some areas of this animated short that are not perfect. You should improve it as soon as possible. Then it will be released together with the song."

"Okay, okay, I have been thinking of ways to raise funds during this period, and the work on the animated short film has been left behind. Now that the project is settled, I can concentrate on making animations." Liang Jing agreed.

After the call ends.

Fang Xing thought for a moment and sent a message to Lu Ming: Are you free tomorrow? Come to the demo recorded by Pine Rock Records.

Lu Ming: If you are free, what time will you go?

Fang Xing: It’s ten o’clock in the morning. I haven’t booked a recording studio yet. I’ll see if I can use the recording studio then. The score will be sent to you tonight.