My Animation Era

  Chapter 105 Theme Song Outsourcing (for subscription)

  The music of "Dragon Fighter" is relatively unpopular.

  Especially the opening song "STEP" and the ending song "Hot Adventure" of the first season, I believe many people have never heard of it.

   Don't believe it!

  In fact, Dragon Fighter is the first two seasons of the "Majin Heroes" series of animations. Many people have never even watched the animations, let alone OP and ED.

  The "Dragon Fighter", which has been watched the most by domestic audiences and has the highest awareness, is actually "The Legend of the Super Devil Heroes" translated by Liao Yi in 2003.

   This is the third work in the series!

  Everyone is familiar with the melody. The two opening songs "ひとつのハートで" and "POWEROFDREAM" are also the two OP songs of "Super Demon Heroes".

so…

   The OP and ED songs of the first animation, there should be only a small number of people in China who have heard them.

   Among them, Gu Miao was not included.

  The "Dragon Fighter" he watched when he was a child is also the third work in the series translated by Liao Yi. It was only after many years that the first two seasons of animation were supplemented through the Internet.

   As for OP and ED songs?

  Because it’s all in Japanese, he just dialed the progress bar and skipped it. It’s not like there’s really someone chasing up the episodes, and patiently watching the OP and ED of each episode, right?

  That is too idle!

  Can't remember the original music melody, plus the animation needs to be localized, OP and ED music, of course, must also have a "Chinese" feature.

  So, for the opening and ending songs of the animation "Dragon Fighter", Gu Miao chose the most "easy" way.

   Outsource!

   Spend some money directly, hire a music team, and create two original songs that meet the requirements according to the "plot" and "personal design" requirements of this work.

  It is equivalent to spending money to "customize".

  In the animation industry, this kind of "spending money to buy songs" operation is really common.

no way!

  Even if animation industry giants like Disney, Toei, and Pixar are as strong as Disney, Toei, and Pixar, it is impossible to spend huge sums of money to support a music team for the opening and ending songs, right?

   Oh...possible too!

   After all, these big companies still have money, and it doesn’t matter if they have a professional music team, as long as they don’t need money, they’ll be done.

   But in general…

  Animation companies can handle animation episodes, cutscenes and ambient music by themselves. But the opening and ending songs are basically outsourced to professional music teams.

  Prices vary!

  For a better team, the quotation must be ridiculously high, but the corresponding song quality is also guaranteed. The quotation is cheap for a team that is not close, but the quality of the songs is not sure...

   It may be missed, but the high probability is horrible.

  Gu Miao didn't intend to "dig for gold".

  He was looking for a music team that charged a lot of money but had a good reputation and specialized in customizing theme songs for anime works.

   "I want to burn!"

  Gu Miao gestured with both hands: "The blood is surging, the feeling of a passionate teenager, do you understand?"

  I understand you banana stick hammer!

  The composer surnamed Su who was in charge of coordinating the project said with a numb expression: "This is too abstract, Mr. Gu, can you be more specific?"

  Be reasonable.

  Although Party A's father is difficult to take care of, this is the first time he has seen Party A's father as abstract as Mr. Gu.

  People say it directly, I want the lyrics to contain XX elements, I want a fast/slow song, I want to add a little folk/rap/rock/lyric, I also want Cantonese/Mandarin/English Balabala...

   Mr. Gu is fine, the request is only one word!

   Burn!

  It sounds like this Party A is better served than those chatty Party A? After all, the word "burning" covers a wide range, and he can display his talents at will.

   But experience told Xiao Su.

  The simpler the requirements of Party A, the more difficult it is to meet the requirements. In the end, I don't know how many brain cells I have to burn to get his approval.

   And those requirements sound a lot harsh, but Party A has already "delineated" the scope of composition, but it is the easiest to meet.

   "Xiao Su, can you do it?"

  Gu Miao frowned and said, "You can't even satisfy such a simple demand? How dare you call yourself a gold medal composer?"

   "My my..."

  Xiao Su laughed awkwardly: "My business ability is indeed a bit poor, I'm sorry, Mr. Gu, I made you laugh."

"fine!"

   Everyone sincerely admitted their mistakes. Mr. Gu Miao has a lot of people, so she naturally wouldn't argue with him, so she waved her hand and said, "Then I will describe it more specifically..."

   Burning is a must!

   At the same time, because the animation is called "Dragon Fighter" and the Ryujin runs through the whole play, the lyrics must include important elements such as "Dragon" and "Chuangjieshan".

   As for composing music...

  Gu Miao thought about it, and felt that the most important thing for an anime theme song must be "to the point", that is, it fits the content of the animation.

   You can’t have a festive melody like “咚咚唱咚咚唱” in a “dark and sad” work, right? That's too inconsistent.

  The theme of Dragon Fighter is very clear.

  Fantasy adventure in a different world, full of funny elements, the core is "save the world". So the arrangement idea can be roughly summarized in one sentence:

  A group of energetic young people embark on the road to save the world amidst laughter and laughter!

   "OK!"

  Xiao Su nodded, took a note to write down this point, and then asked: "Should the tune be more relaxed, or more serious?"

   "Take it easy!"

   Gu Miao thought for a while, then added.

  Compared to other anime savior characters with "bitterness and deep hatred", Xiaodu is undoubtedly a very optimistic person.

  The animation is actually quite funny.

  Whether it is Takeichiro Kenbe with the "hippo face" or the cute Ninbe Himiko, they can all be counted as "pistachio" characters.

  With such a funny style of painting, of course the theme song cannot be made too "serious and solemn", as it sounds like mourning and music, and that would spoil the atmosphere too much.

   "Okay, I remembered."

   After confirming that there was nothing missing, the composer surnamed Su turned around and left Wanbao to start composing lyrics and music.

  Hope it was worth the money!

  After sending the guest away, Gu Miao said with a little distress: "It costs 200,000 yuan just to compose the music, and that's not counting the money for writing lyrics and singing. How dare they ask for a price?"

"well enough."

  Huang Kun, who came to report work, said: "I don't know much about the market situation of composing and writing lyrics, but I heard that this music studio has cooperation with many film and television companies."

   "I know that."

  Gu Miao said angrily: "I mean, even though they are famous and famous...but this is Jiang Chuan!"

   Really don't give Gu some face?

   The name "Gu Miao" is in Jiangchuan. I dare not say that everyone knows it. It has some social status, right?

  When he went out to make a bowl of noodles, the store had to give him a 5% discount. The last time he took a taxi, the driver didn't dare to charge him.

   Let me ask...

  He Gu so-and-so, when did he suffer this kind of grievance? Don't ask for free, can't you just give a 50% discount to save face?

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  (end of this chapter)