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Combining music and TV series?

In the next two days, the young couple discussed this issue with Liu Yi and other teachers.

As we all know, music and film and television dramas are inseparable.

But to be more precise, it should be that soundtracks and film and television dramas are inseparable.

Globally, most film and television dramas on the market are interspersed with soundtracks, that is, pure music.

Songs with vocals are basically opening, ending or theme songs.

Few songs are directly inserted into the plot. The main reason is that the matching between the songs and the plot is not perfect, which will affect the audience's perception. Therefore, almost all producers or directors only use songs as the opening, ending or theme song.

The most common thing is to insert the opening, ending or theme songs into the plot with pure musical accompaniment or humming, and resolutely do not let the vocal lyrics appear in the plot, so as to avoid unsatisfactory lyrics and situational words and making the audience upset.

It is difficult to achieve a high degree of matching between songs and plots. First, because most film and television producers do not pay much attention to music, and the quality of music has little impact on the revenue of film and television dramas;
Second, when music is included in film and television dramas, songs are usually invited from major music companies and music producers during the post-production process. The music companies and music producers will select matching music from the demos in the inventory and submit it. It's good luck to be spotted by film and TV drama producers, but forget it if they don't like you.

In other words, there is rarely music tailor-made for film and television dramas. Many film and television drama theme songs are songs from the music inventory accumulated by music companies or music producers.

The film and television producers select the music that best matches the film and television drama. However, no matter how high the match is, it is not tailor-made, and the match is not that high.

This kind of market relationship between film and television dramas and music has often occurred in recent years. Film and television dramas and songs are divided, and each has its own popularity.

For example, the theme song of "Lotus Lantern" is "365 Days of Missing You" by Queen Coco Lee.

For example, the theme song of "Talented Man and Beautiful Woman" is "He Must Love You Very Much" by Adu.

For example, in "Struggle", the theme song is "Wings" by Lin Junjie.

Now let the audience think about it again, there is a high probability that the songs are just songs and the drama is just drama. It is difficult to connect the two, mainly because of the lack of memorable points.

Unlike "Slaying the Wolf", the audience will think of the scene of Chu Xuan holding Liu Yifei and dying in love as soon as he hears it.

Unlike "Tianxia Wushuang", the audience will think of the scene of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, the fairy couple, sleeping and flying together under the moon in the play.

But these two examples are just examples. Such effects are more or less a matter of luck, and they do not represent the direction and trend of the entire market that combines music with film and television dramas.

What's more, what Zhou Jielun wants to combine is the entire album's eleven songs, not just a theme song. Such a combination is unprecedented, and how to make a drama that not only makes the drama popular, but also makes all eleven songs popular , this is a big problem.

In the past, the plot came first and then the songs. The plot was the main thing and the songs were accessories.

However, now Chou Jielun's eleven songs are confirmed, but the plot is blank. This is completely contrary to the market situation of supporting music and TV series.

how?
"The plot can only be written based on the music, and the plots of the songs must be connected together, and the connected plots must match the main plot of the male and female protagonists."

After two days of discussion, Liu Yi finally made a conclusion.

"This is the only way." Chu Xuan said.

"Let's go to the head office. Zhou Jielun will be here in the afternoon." Liu Yifei got up from the sofa.

"Let's go." Liu Yi cleaned up the drafts on the table, picked up the rough plot outline of "My Love from the Star" that he had written in the past two days, and left the literary company with the young couple, heading to Bright Times Media.

……

The national popularity of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei in the film and television industry is unparalleled among their peers, and Zhou Jielun is unmatched among the younger generation in the music industry.

The title of "National Lover" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people across the country, and the name "Dragon Jay" is even more popular among young people.

Although the two are in different fields, from a certain perspective, the development trajectories of both parties have a slight echo and fate.

In 02, Zhou Jielun's song "Peninsula Iron Box" was filled with memories of his lover. Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei met and knew each other that year.

In 03, Zhou Jielun's song "East Wind Break" completely broke the circle and broke the Chinese people's understanding of Zhou-style pop music, making him famous. In the same year, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei rose to prominence with "Tianlong".

In 04, Zhou Jielun composed a poem "Qili Xiang" to music, which added to his talent. In the same year, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei took their careers to a new level with "New Police Story".

In 05, as soon as Zhou Jielun's "Nocturne" was played, he went on stage to receive the award and won the Grand Slam of music awards. Since then, he has firmly established himself as a leader of the younger generation in the music industry. In the same year, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei sang their swan song "Sword of Immortality". How many people couldn't reconcile their feelings, and they both stepped into the front line, and the title of "National Couple" was fermented.

In 06, Zhou Jielun and Fei Yuqing collaborated on "Thousands of Miles Away", which made him appear on the Spring Festival Gala stage, making his career hit a new high. In the same year, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei fell in love with "The Condor", and they were unparalleled "immortals" in the world. "Married Couple" opened the curtain of praise and tears, making the two of them reach the top of the domestic elite, unmatched by actors of the same age.

In 07, Zhou Jielun's "Chrysanthemum Terrace" added another piece of Chinese style talent. At the end of the year, "Blue and White Porcelain" swept the major domestic music charts, allowing music fans to deepen their impression and understanding of Chinese style. In the same year, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei firmly established themselves as super first-line celebrities due to "Struggle", leading and inspiring young people to pursue their ideals.

In 08, Zhou Jielun's "Thousands of Mountains and Waters" was included in the Olympic song collection. Since then, his career and celebrity status have been booming. The ratings of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei's "Legend of Red Flame" have broken industry records. The couple's success in the TV industry The commercial value has become rare, far ahead of the entire industry.

One is engaged in music and the other is engaged in film and television. Their growth timelines are so similar, and each is a leader in the field, and both are still young people. Listening to each other's achievements all year round, there is a sense of sympathy for each other.

It's a pity that the two parties only met once at the Micro Entertainment Night in 06 and collaborated on a chorus, but they never had the chance to meet or cooperate again.

And this time there is an opportunity to cooperate in music and TV series. There will definitely be some artistic sparks between the two parties in music and movies.

"Dr. Jay, long time no see."

"President Chu, long time no see."

Outside the Bright Times Company, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei personally greeted Zhou Jielun, his agent Chen Zhenrong and two business people at the elevator door.

Chu Xuan and Zhou Jielun shook hands. The names they used came from the accidental exchange on the Internet about the "Blue and White Porcelain" incident at the beginning of the year. They greeted each other in a joking way after more than half a year. They each smiled slightly and got closer. distance.

"Hello, Jay Chou, I'm Liu Yifei. Nice to meet you again." Liu Yifei shook hands.

"Mr. Liu, it's a pleasure to meet you." Zhou Jielun heard about the change of Liu Yifei's identity from Chen Zhenrong. He was surprised and envious of the relationship between Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei. It is not difficult to see that the two couples are pursuing a high degree of integration and integration in their careers. Regardless of each other, this kind of emotional concept is rare and worthy of praise.

He followed the couple to the door of the company and said: "First of all, congratulations to you two on entering the palace of marriage, and then I want to say sorry. In addition to working on the album a few days ago, some things about the concert also prevented me from leaving. So I didn’t rush over immediately and asked my agent to come on my behalf, which is really shameful.”

"Don't mention this little thing." Chu Xuan waved his hand and said, "Is your concert tour over yet?"

A singer sings the same songs in concerts across the country. For a singer with few fans, it is good to hold one concert a year. Few fans will spend hundreds or thousands to go to concerts to listen to the same songs.

It seems that Zhou Jielun's concert tour has been going on for more than a year. He doesn't know how many singers can sustain a concert tour for more than a year, but Zhou Jielun has the confidence, and the concerts are full, and the ticket price was once raised by scalpers. Wan is still in short supply.

"Not yet." Zhou Jielun suddenly became interested and looked at the couple: "Are you free? Come to Xiamen next October to be a guest at my concert? Come and have fun?"

Many of his fans are the same as those of these two couples, and there is no interest in music or film. As a result, many of his young fans are also fans of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei.

The next concert will be in Yangzhou, and the guests have already been booked.

The next show will be in Xiamen. If Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei can come as guests at his concert, then he estimates that the tickets in Xiamen will be sold out, and it will be fun to come there.

"Aren't you afraid that we will lower the limit for your concerts?" Liu Yifei said.

Although she said that, she was still interested in being a concert guest. What she liked most was trying things she had never done before, and she happened to be a concert guest who had never tried it before.

What's more, it's Zhou Jielun's concert, so the scene must be very lively.

"I have listened to the songs in "Sword of Immortal" and they are all good. I am a singer who has been delayed by acting. It is no problem to be a guest at the concert." Zhou Jielun praised.

Chu Xuan smiled and saw that Liu Yifei was interested in this, but the first priority at the moment was the cooperation between the two parties, so he said: "Thank you very much. Singing is just a hobby at most. Let's talk about cooperation first. If there is no problem with the schedule, you can If you don’t mind, then we’ll show off our shame.”

"Warm welcome." Zhou Jielun said.

Chen Zhenrong and the two accompanying businessmen were very happy. Not everyone could attend Jay Chou's concert. They were either singers of the same level, or they exchanged resources for guest spots. Even if they exchanged resources for guest singers, The position cannot be too low, otherwise it will affect the quality of the concert.Although Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei are not singers, they have representative songs. Although they have almost no celebrity status in the music industry, their status in the film and television industry is on par with Zhou Jielun's status in the music industry.

Concert guests are basically free of charge. If these two people can come to be Zhou Jielun's concert guests, from the perspective of free benefits, it will give Zhou Jielun face.

If you look at it from the perspective of capital status, it would be even more face-saving.

They are all people who serve Zhou Jielun. They are naturally happy to see that Zhou Jielun can open up a high-level network of contacts.

"Zhou Jielun!!" As soon as a group of people entered the company, the girl at the front desk exclaimed, attracting side glances from the staff in the office area.

"Damn it, Zhou Jielun is here!" a staff member said in surprise.

"Why the hell?" Zhou Jielun couldn't help laughing.

"A way to express welcome." Chu Xuan explained.

"Really?" Zhou Jielun and the others suppressed laughter, and Liu Yifei also smiled and raised her eyebrows, amused by Chu Xuan's witty explanation.

In the chairman's office, Chu Xuan opened the door and stretched out his hand to invite Zhou Jielun and his party to come forward.

Chu Xuan then walked in, and Liu Yifei closed the door at the end.

"Zhou Jielun, the famous musical genius, welcome to the Brilliant Era as a guest." Wang Jinhua stood up to greet him.

"Mr. Wang is very polite. I don't think I should take it seriously. It's an honor to come to your company." Zhou Jielun shook his head repeatedly and shook hands with her.

Liu Yifei and Lin Xiaoya poured tea together and introduced their mother and Liu Yi to Zhou Jielun.

"This is my mother Liu Xiaoli, who is also the administrative assistant of Brilliant Times."

"This is Liu Yi, the chairman of the literary company. If we reach a cooperation, Mr. Liu Yi will be the chief screenwriter of our works."

Zhou Jielun has also heard that the relationship between this family is unusual. It is completely opposite to the common situation in society where the mother-in-law and son-in-law do not deal with each other. Now it turns out to be the case. I heard Chen Zhenrong say that Liu Xiaoli's status in the bright era is unusual. This is a family. Children are all involved in the rhythm of their careers.

This situation made him envious again. He was also brought up by his mother since he was a child, and he has a deep affection for maternal love. For this reason, he even released an album "Ye Huimei" to express his gratitude for his mother's love. Now look at Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei letting their mothers Being able to join his own career, what he did for his mother was still a bit shallow.

Liu Yi's name is not well known in the market, but he has heard of it. There are two Lius in the mainland screenwriting industry, the old and the young. The first is Liu Heping, and the second is Liu Yi.

From the perspective of qualifications, achievements and knowledge, Liu Yi is definitely not as good as Liu Heping, but from the perspective of his sensitivity to the young market, Liu Yi is in his early 30s and has achieved success in the young market with his past works. Obviously better than Liu Heping in this regard.

When he heard that Liu Yihui would be the chief screenwriter after the cooperation was reached, he basically agreed.

The two parties exchanged a brief greeting and sat down on the sofa to discuss cooperation.

Wang Jinhua and Liu Xiaoli did not interfere and allowed Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, Liu Yi and Zhou Jielun to talk.

When Zhou Jielun and his party received the rough outline of the story distributed by Liu Yi, Chen Zhenrong was surprised: "There is already a story?"

"You need to be efficient when doing things." Liu Yi said with a smile.

"You are really efficient." Chen Zhenrong was convinced. They had not seen each other for two days, and he only expressed his intention to cooperate. Unexpectedly, the other party came up with something tangible. The development of the Brilliant Era has a lot of potential. The reason is that this serious attitude towards things is worth learning from the industry.

Zhou Jielun became interested. Although there was no plot on the page, the story line of the male and female protagonists was very clear.

Virtual game + urban idol?

Are you so imaginative?
I have to say that this creativity is on his point.

If the male protagonist thinks he is just a player, what interesting stories will happen in the real world?
The female protagonist falls in love with the male protagonist who thinks she is a player. How interesting will the relationship be?

The male protagonist also falls in love with the female protagonist who thinks she is data. What kind of wonderful plot will this realization lead to?

"Oh, not bad." He smiled.

He likes this very much. Imagination that spreads thinking is the source of creativity. How can you create without creativity?Creations without creativity can only be old things, which are difficult to attract people's interest.

"Do you have any ideas about music? You must have listened to my album, right?" he asked.

Liu Yifei crossed her legs, placed her hands on both sides of the sofa, and sat upright, looking like a pretty female CEO.

She said: "Since we both want to cooperate, our drama must be closely connected with your music, so that the audience will think of our plot as soon as they hear the song, and let the audience think of your song as soon as they see the plot. To achieve this The best effect should be the goal of our cooperation.”

"I totally agree." Zhou Jielun agreed: "If it's just simple cooperation and simple results, then it's better for each to do his own thing."

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei are top-notch in the film and television industry, and he is top-notch in the music industry. If the effect achieved by such a strong alliance is just a simple cooperative effect, then why bother talking about cooperation?

Since the choice is to cooperate in their respective major undertakings, of course, they must achieve top-notch results and breakthrough results. Otherwise, it is better not to cooperate and each can gain something by doing his own thing.

Chu Xuan said: "We have discussed it in the past two days. If we follow the soundtrack form on the market, whichever plot matches which song will be used as the background music. Such a production is destined to represent the story of the music intermittently and individually. It cannot meet your demand of connecting all the music with a plot, let alone a musical story system."

Zhou Jielun nodded, he also knew that this was very difficult, and this was something that had never been done before on the market.

He and Chen Zhenrong's dream was that the entire album would have a complete story system to maintain the musical and cultural heritage of the album.

The music in the albums on the market are independent entities, and there is no connection between music and music. This song is in this style, that song is in that style, the lyrics of this song tell this story, and the lyrics of that song are in Tell that story.

This leads to fans having a strong preference for the songs in the album. Which songs are good will be listened to again and again. In contrast, songs that are not good will gradually become uninterested. This is the result of no musical story connection.

It's like an opera. Every excellent opera has a complete story. The attractiveness of a series of operas is the storytelling. After watching the first part, you want to watch the second one. After watching the second part, you want to watch the third one. department.

Why?The story is not finished yet. Of course, you have to finish it to feel comfortable. Even if the second and third parts are not very good, they can still satisfy the spiritual needs of the audience and listeners.

For example, in his album, "Daoxiang", "The Promised Happiness", and "Sea of ​​Flowers" are three songs that express completely different stories. They are separate individuals.

But if "Daoxiang" is interpreted as the beginning of love, "Where's the Promised Happiness" is interpreted as the stumbling blocks of love, and "Sea of ​​Flowers" is interpreted as the beautiful ending of love, wouldn't there be a continuous story system?
When the audience hears "Daoxiang" and associates it with the plot, they have the desire to listen to "The Promised Happiness". When the audience associates "The Promised Happiness" with the twists and turns of love in the plot, they have the desire to listen to "The Sea of ​​Flowers". The desire for consummation of love.

This is storytelling, which connects music together from the perspective of spiritual needs, thus improving the artistry, listenability and sales of the entire album.

"One result of our discussion is to write a plot based on your music." Liu Yi said.

Zhou Jielun smiled, which was exactly what he wanted.

His album has been produced, and the composition, lyrics, and arrangement cannot be changed. To complete the story, the only way to complete the story is to write a plot based on his music.

Chen Zhenrong didn't mention this request two days ago because he was worried about what Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei would think. After all, the plot was performed according to the music, which made the couple seem to be a lower rank than Zhou Jielun. He was afraid of hurting the couple's face.

Now that I heard that the other party also has this intention, it can be said that everyone is happy with this creative direction.

Wang Jinhua, who was sitting on the office chair, raised his eyebrows. He was not a professional in TV production, but judging from his position as an artist, the couple performed the plot according to Zhou Jielun's music. This felt more or less like the two of them serving Zhou Jielun. Two days ago, she I said I didn't want to see this situation, but I didn't expect it to happen anyway.

"But TV dramas are TV dramas after all. They have to pay attention to a plot rhythm. It is impossible for the actors to perform according to the rhythm of a piece of music. Therefore, during post-production, you may need to create a second version of your music and come up with some instrumental interludes. And music nodes, so that the music and the plot perfectly fit." Liu Yi added.

Zhou Jielun pondered for a moment and did not change the lyrics, composition or arrangement. He just divided the song into interludes to fit the plot. This was still very simple. He nodded: "I have the final say on how to create the second song."

"Of course it's up to you, or let me, a screenwriter, do the music?" Liu Yi joked.

Everyone laughed, and Zhou Jielun nodded: "That's okay."

Wang Jinhua was also satisfied. It was only reasonable for each other to make concessions and achieve each other's success. (End of chapter)