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Chapter 247 Animated Short Film
Because Zhang Songnian corrected the details almost word for word, Li Xingruo easily completed the recording of the song "Red Bean" when the album was recorded the next day.

The speed of Li Xingruo's adjustment made the album producer Zong Weiyuan couldn't help being amazed.

Immediately afterwards, Li Xingruo took Zhang Songnian to record the last song together, but because Zhang Songnian was recording a song for the first time, he seemed somewhat reserved.

After recording a song repeatedly for an afternoon, the recording was finally completed, but fortunately, the final effect is still very good.

Zhang Songnian's voice is warm and sunny, while Li Xingruo's voice is more ethereal and full of emotion. The two voices are not at all abrupt when paired together, but they have a chemical reaction.

Zong Weiyuan did not expect that Zhang Songnian could sing, and he sang well. The most important thing is that Zhang Songnian is actually quite brilliant in terms of timbre, which surprised him quite a bit.

As a professional album producer, Zong Weiyuan knows that singing skills can be gradually improved through practice, but the texture of the voice can only be said to be innate. In other words, Zhang Songnian can actually be regarded as the kind of God reward type of meal.

After listening to the last version of the recorded song, Zong Weiyuan couldn't help jokingly said to Zhang Songnian: "Mr. Zhang's voice condition is actually not bad even if he makes his debut. Do you want to consider Mr. Zhang?"

Although it appeared to be a joke, Zong Weiyuan was actually giving Zhang Songnian serious advice.

First-class lyrics and music, good voice talent, isn't this a born singer, a proper king of potential.

It's a pity that such a person doesn't make his debut.

Zhang Songnian smiled and shook his head: "Teacher Zong was joking, it's okay for me to just play with Xingruo, but I can't bear it if I really make my debut."

Li Xingruo glanced at Zhang Songnian, but said nothing.

Zong Weiyuan showed a more regretful look, "That's really a pity, the Chinese music scene in this era will lack a future king."

Zhang Songnian just smiled at this, and did not take over this, but changed the subject and said: "I will leave the rest of the album production to Mr. Zong."

"Okay, I will finish the post-production of the album as soon as possible. If there is no accident, I can finish all the work in a week." Zong Weiyuan seemed to have thought of something, and then said: "There is also the MV shooting. Originally, I planned to find Models or actors are vague, but I think the two of you are actually more photogenic, and it would be a good plan to use this point in the promotion, of course, I am just suggesting, you may wish to consider it?"

After Zong Weiyuan finished speaking, the two looked at each other, and Li Xingruo's eyes were full of emotion.

As for Zhang Songnian, he was slightly taken aback. Suddenly, a short animation flashed in his mind, which seemed to fit the core of the song "Red Bean".

Zhang Songnian immediately nodded in agreement and said: "Well, the song "Red Bean" happened to have such a story in my mind, and I was thinking of trying to make a short film. I will let the animation department lead the MV of this song. Of course, Teacher Zong’s suggestion is also good, we can appear in the chorus song, as for the shooting and production of the MV, please trouble Teacher Zong.”

After hearing Zhang Songnian's words, Zong Weiyuan's eyes lit up, he couldn't help clapping his hands and said excitedly: "Oh? It would be great if Mr. Zhang could write the script himself!"

Everyone in Jin Yu knows how good Zhang Songnian is at writing scripts. Basically, as long as Zhang Songnian is based on Zhang Songnian's foundation, the final results of that project are basically not bad. If Zhang Songnian can make a short animated film for MV, then Nature is the best thing.

Zhang Songnian and Zong Weiyuan confirmed the shooting date of the MV. After thanking Zong Weiyuan, they left the recording studio with Li Xingruo.

After returning home, Zhang Songnian worked overtime that night. The short film was not long, and there were not many dialogues between the characters. The script was relatively short. Zhang Songnian wrote the script in one night.

The story of this short film is exactly the same as what Li Xingruo wants to express in his title song "Red Bean" this time.

The title of this shop is Acacia, and it's about the earth.The love story of Wang Chutong, a celebrity in Jiaqing, and Fa Xiaoliu Niang, their childhood sweethearts and red beans, fell in love but never stayed together.

This short film uses the token of red beans as an introduction, which is just right for the song "Red Beans", and also confirms the lyrics in the lyrics, "There are times when we get together and leave, nothing lasts forever".

When Zhang Songnian mentioned the concept of MV in Zong Weiyuan, he subconsciously thought of this short film.

After all, this short film left a very deep impression on Zhang Songnian.

Because this short film is the winner of the No.15 China International Animation Festival Comprehensive Animation Short Film Gold Award. The whole story is about 9 minutes long. This short film does not have too many narrations in the narrative, and there are no cool 3D special effects. Not to mention the fierce conflicts, but it stood out among 143 domestic and foreign masterpieces by virtue of its touching and heart-wrenching plot, and won the category gold award that year.

Moreover, this short film not only has a high reputation in the industry, but also has a high playback volume on major video platforms.

If you want to talk about the most out-of-the-box content after the short film, it should be the sentence that the hero said to the heroine when he was a child, "Haven't you heard of Wang Wei, lovesick?"

One red bean, one misty rain, can entrust such heavy feelings. The Chinese poetic narrative method implicitly tells everyone a sad and beautiful past. This is probably the biggest key to the success of this short film. .

This short film was placed in the song "Red Bean" as the MV, and the more Zhang Songnian thought about it, the more suitable it was.

Of course, this script cannot be used immediately after it is written, and the duration of 9 minutes is still too long for a MV.

The song "Red Bean" is only in the early 4 minutes. Even if Zhang Songnian worked hard on the arrangement to prolong the duration of the song, it is impossible to prolong a song to 9 minutes.

After thinking about it, Zhang Songnian decided to make two versions of the short film.

The 9-minute short film is used to promote the new album, and at the same time, the plot of the original film is compressed to make a 4-minute MV.

The main purpose of doing this is that Zhang Songnian thinks that if such an excellent short film is simply placed in a song to forcefully compress the plot, it would be too good to use a song as a MV. Its excellence deserves everyone's praise .

Zhang Songnian brought him to the company the next day, and first approached the screenwriter team to discuss how to compress the plot of a 9-minute short film to about 4 minutes while retaining the original story direction and core.

Adapting this kind of operation is actually not very difficult for the screenwriter team with multiple gold medal editors. It only took half a day for Zhang Songnian to get the final draft.

After getting the final draft, Zhang Songnian ran to the animation department again, and directly brought a project team with a relatively leisurely job over to give them an overtime shift.

When they heard that they were going to work overtime, the members of the project team not only showed no dissatisfaction, but also looked at Zhang Songnian with excitement.

Has Mr. Zhang finally figured it out?At this moment, this thought flashed through everyone's hearts.

But when they heard that Zhang Songnian just wanted to make a short film, everyone was a little bit disappointed.

I thought it was a new project, but I didn't expect it to be just a temporary worker.

But even though he is only a temporary worker, he is much happier than the other groups.

They don't even have the qualifications to be Mr. Zhang's temporary workers!

And when Zhang Songnian took out the character line draft of the short film "Lovesickness" and heard the style described by Zhang Songnian, everyone present had a flash of joy.

Although this animated short film is very short, the workload is not too big.

But Mr. Zhang obviously wants to get back to work again. The Huaxia-style ink painting style sounds very interesting.

Sure enough, only by following Mr. Zhang can we learn new things.

After Zhang Songnian finished his request, he looked around for a week, and found that everyone in the conference room was eager to try, and he couldn't understand it.

Damn, this group looks eager to work overtime.

This doesn't look like the team he brought out at all!

What went wrong, Zhang Songnian looked at the group of strugglers in front of him, and began to fall into deep thought.

"As expected of Mr. Zhang, you are so thoughtful!" A praise from the staff below interrupted Zhang Songnian's meditation.

If you can't figure it out, just don't think about it, Zhang Songnian immediately raised his head and said: "This short film is used to promote the new album, and the time is relatively urgent. It is best to finish it for me in about a week. In addition, the short film The texture of the picture is very important, you should follow my line draft to determine the style, during this period of hard work, everyone will work overtime."

As soon as Zhang Songnian finished speaking, many people present reacted.

There are many fans of Li Xingruo in the company itself. The news that Li Xingruo is going to release a new album has spread quietly in the company. Zhang Songnian is making a short MV for his wife.

"No problem, I promise to complete the task!" One of the leaders immediately patted his chest and promised.

One of them suggested again: "Mr. Zhang, I heard that your lover is planning to release a whole album this time, why don't you consider writing a few more short film scripts, so that brothers from other groups can join us in joining us?" A class or something, so that everyone has a companion."

"Yes, I guarantee that the brothers in other groups are also willing. Our animation department has not been exposed to new projects for a long time, and everyone is very itchy."

Everyone immediately echoed, and for a while the whole room burst into laughter, full of joy.

Zhang Songnian laughed along with them, and then resolutely rejected the idea of ​​this group of people trying to work overtime.

A week passed quickly. After all, Golden Feather Entertainment was one of the three giants in the industry, and its efficiency was astonishing.

As for the new album, Zong Weiyuan completed the post-production of the new album in less than a week.

At the same time, the same is true for the animation group. The group assigned to the task this week completed the task assigned by Zhang Songnian as scheduled and delivered a 9-minute animation short film and a This is a MV that has been compressed on the plot, and its quality is quite good, the finished film is no worse than the original version that Zhang Songnian has seen.

After the production of the new album is completed, Li Xingruo is about to say goodbye to his vacation, and will start to be forced to go to work and participate in activities and announcements to build momentum for the release of the new album.

After all, Jin Yu is one of the three giants in the entertainment industry, and the resources to promote the new album are enough to give him a lot of credit.

With seven days before the new album will be released, Jin Yu directly plans to arrange for major music software to start pre-sale activities. Jin Yu's promotional activity is comparable to the release of a new album by a king and a queen.

Originally, Li Xingruo had no idea about the company's promotional resources. According to her experience in Spark Entertainment, as long as she broke up with the company, it would be considered easy for Xuezang, but Li Xingruo was very puzzled by Li Jianhua's approach.

Li Xingruo was puzzled and asked Zhang Songnian: "What do you think Li Jianhua thinks, knowing that we will no longer stay in Jin Yu, but still give the new album the highest level of publicity resources."

Zhang Songnian pondered for a while, and then said: "Actually, it's not incomprehensible. In fact, as far as I am concerned, there is not much conflict with Li Jianhua himself, but more of a disagreement of ideas. In fact, no matter which party's ideas about the company are different. I hope the company will become better, but his way of doing things is unacceptable, and the initiative of the company is in his hands, and I don’t want to be controlled by others, so I have the idea of ​​leaving.”

"As long as we are still in the company and can generate value for the company, then he will naturally not refuse, on the contrary, he will give us support."

After thinking for a while, Zhang Songnian gave another example: "For example, whether it's "Infernal Affairs" or "In the Name of the People" or even your new album now, although he does have a little selfishness in the middle, but after knowing what can't be done, he will I gave up, although I was humiliated, but he didn't have the idea of ​​putting on shoes for the director or me, on the contrary, he is still vigorously promoting the progress of the project behind the scenes."

Speaking of this, Zhang Songnian couldn't help dissing Li Xingruo's former club, Starfire Entertainment, and said, "Looking at this matter, Li Jianhua is actually a smart person, at least he has a lot more structure than the leader of your old club, Starfire Entertainment." .”

"Actually, I guess he also thought about cooperating with me seriously, but it may be because my existence prevented him from better controlling the company, so after weighing it, he dismissed this idea."

"But that's okay. In fact, his management style made it difficult for me to adapt. Although I didn't talk to him, we all know each other's inner thoughts. If I leave, it will be good for everyone. Yes, and before we leave, it can bring a huge profit to the company, he is naturally happy to see it, so it is not surprising that he did this."

After listening to Zhang Songnian's analysis, Li Xingruo couldn't help complaining, "It's really complicated."

"There is no simple word in the world of adults." Zhang Songnian couldn't help shaking his head and sighed.

Li Xingruo thought for a while, felt that what Zhang Songnian said made sense, and nodded in agreement.

(End of this chapter)