Depressive Screenwriter

"This is the script sent from the scriptwriting department today."

"I know! Just put it there."

Shinozaki Ikumi took a deep breath and said to the staff member who brought a box of scripts to her office.

Just like the screenwriters in the scriptwriting department are eager to be valued by the TV station, hoping that their scripts will be approved for adaptation and broadcast on the TV station.

These producers in the production department also don't want to just produce variety shows, documentaries, prank shows, and travel interview programs that are broadcast on the Internet.

In the current industry environment, doing online broadcasting projects will always be for third-rate practitioners.

Because the major capital in the domestic cultural and entertainment media industry is these top TV stations, and their capital is all tilted towards programs broadcast on TV stations.

The programs broadcast on their holding network platforms will not receive much attention or investment of resources at all.

To become an industry leader, you must produce a hit work that can be broadcast on TV stations.

But let alone works that can be broadcast on TV stations.

The romance drama "Sakurajima Love Song" that Shinozaki Ikumi led the investment and production of last quarter still suffered a major defeat in online broadcasting.

In the January winter season, Sakura TV invested in and produced more than 20 variety shows, TV dramas, and music programs broadcast on Sakura Net.

And Sakurajima Love Song's paid clicks, positive reviews, and attention among so many works ranked overwhelmingly last.

The investment cost of more than three million only recovered a little over one million.

And not only the January winter season, but also the previous October autumn season, a web-broadcast variety show she led the production of also caused Sakura TV to lose hundreds of thousands of funds.

She can already foresee that her assessment indicators for the first half of the year will definitely be the lowest D rating unanimously given by the review committee.

Moreover,

According to the company's production department's last-place elimination assessment standards.

If her KPI indicators are not met in the second half of the year, her dream of becoming a legendary TV producer, which she has longed for since she was a child, will be shattered in the first year after graduation.

Being fired is a certainty.

"No, absolutely not."

Shinozaki Ikumi couldn't help but pinch her arm, stood up from her seat, and her fair and beautiful profile showed unwillingness.

Junior high school, high school, university...

Most of her friends were playing, enjoying their youth, and dating, only she was studying.

The goal set since childhood was to be a producer, never changed, how could she fall here.

"You can do it, Ikumi, as long as you lead the production of some high-efficiency projects in the second half of the year and make up for the losses in the first half of the year, you are still that elegant and beautiful Shinozaki Ikumi who will never fail."

"Being fired for being too incompetent? This kind of thing is not in your life options."

Shinozaki Ikumi patted her face to comfort herself.

But the effect of this kind of thing is only a three-minute heat, and soon she became mentally exhausted again.

"Who else will cooperate with me?"

As a producer who inherited her mother's business and has only been working for a year.

Two consecutive works have caused losses, and Sakurajima Love Song not only lost money, but was also rated by a group of drama fans on Xia Country's Internet as the second of the top ten vulgar and bad dramas in the first half of the year.

Even the actors and TV drama directors involved were sprayed by the sprayers on the Internet and dared not speak out.

This also led to the variety show directors, film and television screenwriters, directors, and actors Shinozaki Ikumi knew before also deliberately not answering her calls these days.

Everyone doesn't want to participate in her project, become an industry joke, and add a black mark to their resume.

After a long time, she sighed.

Shinozaki Ikumi's eyes fell on the box of scripts that the staff had just brought.

Sakura TV's scriptwriting department has many members, and as long as screenwriters who have officially joined the company are eligible to submit a script to the production department every quarter for a group of producers to review.

But in reality, let alone the gold medal producers in the TV station, even producers who have only achieved a little success have their fixed cooperative screenwriters.

For screenwriters, the same is true. How could the conscientious scripts written by talented screenwriters be placed here like Chinese cabbage for a bunch of people to pick?

So the scripts submitted by these new screenwriters are likely to be carefully studied only by the new producers in the TV station.

Shinozaki Ikumi originally knew a few well-known screenwriters in the industry, but now...

"Alas!"

Although Shinozaki Ikumi felt that the hope was not great, she still began to browse these scripts.

What if one or two geniuses are recruited and officially hired as screenwriters by the TV station this year?

Thanks to her love for reading various famous books at home and abroad since junior high school, Shinozaki Ikumi's speed in watching scripts is very fast, and the effect is very good.

But as she watched, Shinozaki Ikumi began to complain.

"Vulgar!"

"Bloody!"

"I thought you were going to make a big wave, but I didn't expect you to pull such a big pile?"

"God! How did this screenwriter named Liang Heng think of this kind of plot? Is his head filled with stinky tofu? The plots he came up with are so stinky."

"Poison, NTR die!"

Time passed little by little.

Shinozaki Ikumi still couldn't find even one script that caught her eye.

And at this moment, she picked up a script called "Qingfeng".

As she watched, her furrowed brows gradually relaxed.

Ten minutes later.

"Eh, unexpectedly not bad?" Shinozaki Ikumi blinked.

A pure and beautiful love-themed script, at least she had a sense of immersion in the process of watching it.

She looked at the screenwriter name column.

Kanzaki Yusuke, Kiyota Sanji.

Her brows furrowed.

When the name Kiyota Sanji appeared, Shinozaki Ikumi dispelled her fantasy.

The relative of Vice Minister Akasaka Yoshitoki of the production department, right?

Forget it, with his name on it, his script must have a bunch of producers vying for it. Even if it's just a web drama, as long as enough money is given and the production level is improved, the paid volume and word of mouth after it's on Sakura Net will most likely be among the top of the platform in the same period.

This kind of thing that can probably determine that actors, screenwriters, and producers can achieve certain results before the broadcast...

It's impossible for her, who is currently in the bottom tier of the production department's KPI indicators, to grab it.

Sighing, Shinozaki Ikumi muttered to herself.

"Next one."

A pair of white and slender hands picked up a well-packaged document and opened it.

The four big characters "Rurouni Kenshin" jumped into view.

Because this work name was too unique, Shinozaki Ikumi had a very deep first impression.

But that's all.

Scripts don't have music, no pictures, and aren't even like novels, with a lot of narration describing landscapes and characters' inner thoughts, so reading them is indeed boring.

But for a qualified producer, reading the words will reconstruct the scene in their mind.

So, after only reading the Rurouni Kenshin script for less than five minutes, Shinozaki Ikumi's eyes had already changed slightly.

From scrutiny at the beginning to immersion.