My Animation Era

  Chapter 892 I don’t feel as good as Hell Girl... Quality! (seeking subscription)

  Readers of online novels have a fantasy, that is to make the novels they can’t sleep at night into animations or live-action dramas, and then keep the original flavor without missing any details.

   To be honest, this is normal!

  After all, what fans of the original book must think is that the animation adaptation should be done according to the original work, and the animation should be done according to the original work.

   But they missed one point...

  That is, the length of online novels is very long, with millions of words at every turn, and some even exceed tens of millions of words. They are really super long novels.

  How many scenes are involved in this novel of several million words? How many characters? How many episodes? How many lines?

   Immeasurable!

  It is impossible for an animation company to accumulate so many assets for a work, waste countless manpower, material resources and time, to restore every detail of the original novel.

   This is unrealistic, because the price of doing so will be extremely heavy, so heavy that no animation company can afford it.

not to mention…

  Internet novels generally have the phenomenon of "hydrology". Take a novel with several million words as an example. Is it possible that every paragraph of the plot of these several million words is wonderful and amazing?

   Pure fart!

   No matter how awesome an online novel author is, when writing an online novel with several million words, there will be a lack of inspiration and even a lack of plot.

   To put it bluntly, those online novels with four to five million words, seven to eight million words, at least half of them are watery, or even more.

  When the screenwriter adapts this type of online novel, do they still have to add those plots that anyone with a discerning eye knows to be water injection into the script?

   Impossible.

   It is precisely because of the above reasons that online novels usually encounter the hurdle of "shrunk and deleted" in the process of film and television adaptation.

   This is nothing to blame.

  Replacing Gu Miao to do the "Wild Wilderness" animation, it is estimated that the plot length will also be shortened, and the animation rhythm should be made as fast as possible, so that dozens of episodes of the animation will not be finished, and the protagonist is still a foreign disciple...

   But the shrinkage is the shrinkage, and the extent of the shrinkage still needs to be precisely controlled. Generally speaking, for such a long fantasy novel, it is reasonable to shoot one episode with 100,000 words of original content.

   Shooting an episode with 200,000 to 300,000 words seems a bit rushed.

  As for shooting an episode with 500,000 words, it wasn't a question of whether or not we could keep up with the schedule, but that the screenwriter simply didn't like this episode and forcibly skipped it.

   And like "The Wilderness", the first 1 million words of the Zongmen chapter only made one episode of animation. Gu Miao thinks there is only one explanation: the scriptwriter didn't intend to do the Zongmen chapter at all, but planned to start animation from the protagonist becoming an elder!

  Then why not cut off the first episode, and the plot starts from the second episode, that is, when the protagonist becomes an elder?

  Gu Miao guessed that the appearance of the first episode should be to "fool" the fans of the original book, to avoid being complained about by the animation that disrespects the original book, and directly skipped the most exciting Zongmen chapter, Balabala...

   Ideas are good.

   But the effect is really terrible.

  The great-leap-forward plot development of the first episode left many viewers in the dark. In addition, the VIP fee was opened in the second episode, which made many people discouraged.

Why?

  The progress of the first episode is so fast, many people wonder if the pace of the next 2-5 episodes is also so fast? Then look at a hammer!

  Even if the plot rhythm returns to normal from the second episode, the first episode is free and the second episode is exclusive to VIP, which is very embarrassing.

   "Stupid!"

   "One more episode is free, even the first five episodes are free? I have to rush to charge for VIP, this is good..."

  Gu Miao shook her head and sighed: "The plot pace of the first episode is too fast, it feels like reading the outline, and the audience's willingness to pay is very low."

   "Exactly!"

  Lao Zhang agreed: "From the perspective of the actual broadcast volume, the biggest failure of the "Wild Wilderness" animation is that it is too eager to charge."

  “The number of views of the first episode exceeded 10 million in just 10 hours, and is steadily moving towards 20 million. But since the second episode, the number of views has fallen off a cliff, to only 1.8 million.”

what does that mean?

  Of the ten viewers, only 1-2 people, after watching the first episode, decided to pay to watch the follow-up second episode, and the rest gave up.

   This paid conversion rate is outrageous.

  According to Lao Zhang, in fact, starting from the second episode, the plot rhythm of the animation "The Wilderness" returned to normal, and the production performance also met the expectations of fans.

  But the first episode was too persuasive.

  The original plot of a million words was summarized in the form of a running account in just 25 minutes. How can this give the audience the confidence to pay to watch the follow-up?

   "But fire is really fire!"

   Gu Miao's face was contorted with envy: "It's also the first broadcast, and our broadcast volume hasn't broken five million, and they have more than ten million!"

   "I can't help it, I have a lot of fans of the original book, so I can get a carload of bakers with just a call."

  Lao Zhang explained with a smile: "And the user base of our Wanbao Video is still not comparable to that of industry leaders like Penguin Video. It is understandable that the number of views is a little lower."

   No rush, no rush!

  The animation "Hell Girl" has only aired one episode, and the influence of the first episode is still fermenting, and there is still room for a significant increase in the number of broadcasts. There is no need to worry now.

   This is a long game.

   Temporary victory or defeat does not mean anything, the key depends on the follow-up trend. In Lao Zhang's view, Wanbao's "Hell Girl" has a high possibility of a counterattack due to its topicality, discussion enthusiasm, and excellent word-of-mouth.

   On the contrary, it is the animation of "The Wilderness" next door. It played a good hand and played poorly. The first episode was so persuasive, and the second episode hurriedly started VIP charges. I am afraid that the follow-up trend is not very optimistic.

   "I understand everything you said."

  After listening to Lao Zhang's explanation, Gu Miao felt a little better psychologically, but her face was still grim and distorted: "But I'm still jealous! You said that with ten million views, why isn't it from "Hell Girl?"

   "Don't worry, we can reach 10 million views by tomorrow!"

   "Let's talk about tomorrow!"

  Gu Miao stretched out her hand and said to Lao Zhang, "Where's your mobile phone? Use it for me!"

"ah?!"

  Old Zhang was puzzled, he didn't know why Mr. Gu borrowed his mobile phone, but because Mr. Gu was so anxious, he still took out the mobile phone from his pocket and handed it to him.

  Just as he was about to ask Mr. Gu why he borrowed the phone, he suddenly saw Mr. Gu open the familiar Penguin Video APP, and then use his account to give "The Wilderness" a one-star negative review.

   "It's comfortable now!"

  Gu Miao looked at the freshly released one-star negative review, nodded in satisfaction, returned the phone to Lao Zhang and said, "Don't delete it! If you delete it, your salary will be deducted."

  Lao Zhang: "..."

   Let’s not discuss whether this approach is scientific and reasonable, nor whether this negative review is meaningful. The key point is that you leave a negative review and leave a negative review. Is it too straightforward to leave a message "I feel that the picture quality is not as good as Hell Girl"?

  (end of this chapter)