Exploring the Entertainment Circle [Ancient and Modern]

The Yan family is strict with their children.

Small things are not easily decided, but big things must be reported. This is a tacit principle for many years.

Unfortunately, Yan Dan is often on the verge of challenging this principle.Or to put it another way, what he thought was a small matter that "can be decided" later developed into a major event that almost scared the parents out of a heart attack every minute.

Such as taking exams in elementary school, marathon in college, and reporting in graduate school...

Because of Yan Tan's tried and tested "records", his parents often feel insecure, and have to have a meal with him every week to feel at ease, fearing that this kid will cause something serious again.

Just when Yan's mother thought that the youngest son had finally settled down in the past two years, she suddenly heard this bomb-like news on the phone.Her eyes were almost darkened, and she held on so she didn't fall down: she just rejected another blind date last week, saying that she didn't want to fall in love, and she was going to buy a ring and get married in a few days? ?

The mother of the Yan family was well-educated, but she had never been a mother-in-law. It was too late to use experience to regain her sanity, and a natural indignation arose uncontrollably:

which woman? ? ? ?The ability is so great? ? ?What means were used? ? ?only a week? ?

The poor sales manager stammered and repeated in the microphone: "Mrs. Yan's family, your son ordered a pair of wedding rings." He had a very strong desire to survive, and he pretended to add, "I thought You know it."

The Yan family's mother finally regained her composure. She inquired carefully about the date of ordering the ring, which was made two weeks ago. Naturally, it was not a "one-week flash marriage" decision, but her son kept it secret.

After the Yan family's mother hung up the phone, she felt aggrieved: racking her brains, why did Yan Tan hide it from the family.Do you think your parents won't agree?What is the origin of that woman?

The Yan family has never had any rivals or enemies.Could it be that the woman has a bad criminal record, or has an embarrassing social status?The more Yan's mother thought about it, the more frightened she became. She picked up the phone a few times to ask questions, but she forced herself to calm down.She thought to herself: Xiao Dan is now dazzled by love.But don't stimulate him lest he be impulsive.Anyway, Yan Tan will come over to pick up her phone today, so she just needs to wait patiently.

Yan's mother was very preoccupied, and she hesitated to speak at the dinner table.Yan Tan's father asked, "What's wrong?"

The Yan family's mother told Representative Yan about the custom-made ring, and sure enough, the corner of the other party's mouth, which has remained unchanged for thousands of years, was about to crack, and said in amazement: "...you tell him to come here immediately."

The Yan family's mother persuaded: "He's coming to dinner tonight, let's ask him carefully then." She called the Yan family's second brother again, and only asked him to come over first.

The second elder brother of the Yan family returned home first, and received a bomb thrown by his mother as soon as he entered the door.

"Do you know your brother is getting married?"

Yan Fang was dumbfounded: "Who? My brother? Which brother?"

It is usually described in this way, just a younger brother, but because the "marriage" is too far away from Yan Dan, Yan Fang couldn't believe it for a while, and thought he was some kind of cousin from his family.

"Are you talking about how many younger brothers you have?" The Yan family's mother was heartbroken: Why are the one and two off the chain.

Yan Fang was speechless: "But Xiao Dan... who is he with?"

"You really don't know?" Yan's mother looked at the collapsed and tangled look of the second brother, and then she calmed down, and said, "We don't know either, so let's ask together at night." She told the cause and effect, and sure enough Yan Fang also had an expression of disbelief.

The entire Yan family was preparing for the three trials.

Yan Tan felt that tonight's meal was very strange.His parents and his second brother all looked at him with complex eyes that could not be described in words.Yan Tan even asked "Is there something on my face?"

Yan's mother held her last breath and asked, "Xiao Dan, do you have anything to tell us?" There was still a chance of voluntary confession, and she even reminded: "For example, what girl have you taken a fancy to recently?"

It's a pity that Yan Tan didn't know that the car had overturned, so he said truthfully: "Looking at a girl? No."

Conscience of heaven and earth, this is absolutely the truth.

"Still pretending!" The Yan family's mother broke out. In the tacit sight of Representative Yan and Yan's second brother, the Yan family's mother jumped up and said angrily: "The rings are all done! How long are you going to hide from us?" !"

There was a flash of panic in Yan Tan's eyes, he immediately remembered that he forgot his mobile phone at the villa, and immediately understood what was going on, and immediately said: "Mom, listen to me to explain..."

"Explain?" Yan's mother scolded: "I didn't tell my family after I ordered the ring. That's the way for the girls? Do you have to wait for the raw rice to be cooked, and then you will confess after three years of hugging each other?"

Yan Tan said in embarrassment: "And, it's not what you think..."

"What's so shameful?" Yan's parents exchanged glances. Although Yan's father didn't say a word, Yan's mother's problems were basically his thoughts.Yan's mother continued to ask: "Why do you think we will disagree with that girl..."

"Mom, have you seen the photo of the ring?" Yan Tan asked calmly.

"Didn't watch it, don't change the subject, I'm not in the mood to appreciate your aesthetics right now."

Before the words finished, Yan Tan had already called up the photo of the ring from his mobile phone and pushed it to the front of the table, "Let's take a look first."

This is a rendering of the design, two diamond rings of the same size, the rings are platinum gold, inlaid with two identical drop-shaped diamonds.The inscription on the inside of the ring is still LOVE on the advertising pattern.

The mother of the Yan family glanced at her as she said, and her expression changed drastically. She stared at Yan Dan in disbelief and said, "You..."

Yan Tan was silent, his mother was smart and observant, she saw the effect picture of the ring, two of the same size, she knew it well.

The Yan family's mother pushed the design of the diamond ring to Representative Yan with complicated emotions. Representative Yan was stunned for a while, looking at his son with an unpredictable expression: "No wonder you don't want to get married."

Yan Fang was also curious and came over to take a look. He didn't react for a while. After all, he was never married. He didn't think that there should be subtle differences in the size and style of authentic diamond rings for men and women. He wondered why his mother reacted that way. .As a result, after hearing Representative Yan’s words, Yan Fang also quickly realized that he spoke the common heartfelt voice for his parents:

"It's a man?"

The three of them looked at each other for a moment.They also looked at each other meaningfully, as if wondering if it was a genetic problem.

Yan Tan took a deep breath and said, "Dad, Mom, Brother, I'm sorry. I know you disagree. So I didn't say anything. But I only recognize him in my life. I..." There was a certain loneliness on his face "I know it's useless to discuss. But, it's not the kind of thing that can be discussed..."

Yan Fang was unhappy when he heard this, and said angrily: "You can't even discuss it? What kind of obsessed are you? I want to see which wild man it is—"

The Yan family's mother stopped the second son, took a deep breath, and used the utmost self-control to communicate with respect: "Xiao Dan, your... your..." She said with difficulty, "Who is my sweetheart?"

On behalf of Yan, veins were throbbing on his forehead, obviously he did not approve of his wife calling Yan Tan "the other's sweetheart", but he remained silent without saying a word, and only looked at Yan Tan with a pair of penetrating gazes.

Yan Dan hesitated, opened his mouth to speak but stopped.

Yan Fang sneered and said with a mocking smile: "Don't dare to say? Are we afraid that we will spend hundreds of millions of 'breakup fees' on that man like in the novel?"

The Yan family's mother cast a reproachful look at her second son, and said softly, "Xiao Dan, we will not embarrass the person you like. We don't have enough tolerance."

Representative Yan also spoke concisely and said deeply: "Speak."

Only then did Yan Tan speak slowly: "Actually...you've all seen him before."

Having said that, it is enough for the smart people of the Yan family.Yan's mother gasped, representative Yan opened his eyes wide in astonishment, and Yan Fang pointed out in disbelief:

"It's Tao Qingfeng?! The last time you brought him back for dinner, you really had ulterior motives!"

Yan Fang recalled the close relationship between his younger brother and this "friend" in the past. At that time, he thought that his younger brother finally found a like-minded friend.Who knew that this relationship would span too far from friends all of a sudden.

Yan Dan looked at his parents' complicated expressions, and immediately started to say good things, saying: "It's him. He is really nice. He is an excellent person, and he has a good personality. We have been together for almost a year, and our relationship is also very good. I can't find another one in this world..." Yan Tan felt a sudden pain in his heart when he said this: Tao Qingfeng was not from this era, and God knows how lucky he was to meet this lonely soul who died in vain. Firm, "I must be with him in my life."

Representative Yan has been secretly suppressed and angry since just now, and now his lips are turning pale, and he is quite heartbroken: "It's ridiculous..."

In fact, Representative Yan felt a little more comfortable when he heard that it was Tao Qingfeng. He saw the excellence of that child, but he might rather say that he was angry that Yan Dan found a man, or that he was worried about social responsibility, "You Ah! People always want to start a family and start a business, what is it to start a family and start a business with a man! How do you carry on the family——" He coughed so angry.

Yan Tan hurriedly stepped forward to pat his father's back, and said in a low voice: "...there is still a big brother and a second brother in the lineage."

Yan Fang, the diamond king who has just passed the age, hates this kind of transfer of responsibility: "I will drag others into the water!"

After being silent for a while, the Yan family's mother scrutinized Yan Tan for a long time, and finally asked the question that had been entangled with her for a long time: "...how did people fall in love with you?"

On behalf of the father and son, Yan looked back at her together: Isn't the point of star chasing mother wrong? ? ?

But this made Yan Tan smile for the first time today, and said: "He has taken a fancy to me in his previous life."

Yan's mother: "Hehe."

Really, Mom, I didn't lie to you.Yan Tan said in his heart.

"Call someone over here, let's have a good talk." Representative Yan still frowned and sighed heavily.

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Before Tao Qingfeng received the call, he was eating takeaway with Xia Xinghen while discussing the issue of the release of "Return to the West".

That's right, although they've only been filming for about a month now, Mu Xia, who is the best actor, has already been approached by a broadcasting platform interested in discussing a deal.Xia Xinghen was the major investment in this film, so the platform found him to talk.

Xia Xinghen turned to Tao Qingfeng to discuss it.

Tao Qingfeng didn't understand after listening to it: "Is this 'Video Media Channel' a channel of a TV station? How many lines? Why have I never heard of it?"

Xia Xinghen said: "This is a newly launched cable paid channel. They started as a video website. Now the video website and cable paid channel are developing together. I want to buy out the right to broadcast this drama."

Tao Qingfeng asked suspiciously: "Cable pay channel? Do viewers have to pay to watch TV? I'm afraid it won't spread like this?"

Xia Xinghen nodded and said: "Indeed, there are not many mainstream TV viewers in China who are willing to spend money to watch TV dramas. The cost of TV dramas is mainly recovered from advertisements. The limited paid channel is another model. It does not sell advertisements, but relies on user subscriptions." Fees. This model is more common in foreign countries. If it can be done, the income will be very good. In addition to the one-time buyout fee in the contract, the follow-up subscription fee will also be shared.”

Tao Qingfeng said: "Then what this model pursues..."

"It's not the audience rating in the usual sense, because it doesn't need this indicator to give back to advertisers. It's the subscription rate and satisfaction." Xia Xinghen said: "The audience group in this model has a new portrait. If they need to pay for it If you subscribe to a channel, the quality of the TV dramas broadcast must be very high. Even between TV and movies.”

In other words, I'm afraid it's not the kind of TV series that aunts watch casually when they are knitting at night.

Tao Qingfeng asked the most crucial doubt: "Are you ready to agree?"

Xia Xinghen said: "That's why I came to discuss with you."

Limited paid channels have not been developed in China for a long time, and so far they have not achieved much success.But they offered a very generous price for Xia Xinghen's "Return to the West", which is no less than the cost of being bought by any first-line satellite TV. Even if there is no subscription share, the buyout fee can be regarded as a profit after the cost is paid back. up.

But Tao Qingfeng knew why Xia Xinghen was still hesitating: he couldn't be like a hands-off shopkeeper, selling the film and everything would be fine.The playback platform directly affects subsequent word-of-mouth.Even if it is broadcast on Satellite TV, even if the purchase price is a little lower, so that more people can watch it for free, is there any advantage in spreading it?

However, the person in charge of the video media channel vowed to Xia Xinghen: They are going to create a new chapter in the TV industry in Huaguo, and what they are looking for everywhere now are all kinds of high-quality drama series.I hope Xia Xinghen can join them and be the "pioneer" who created the era.

"Boutique? How do you define it?" Tao Qingfeng asked doubtfully.

Xia Xinghen said: "Take the relatively mature American cable pay channel as an example. The volume of dramas they launch is about one episode per week, and each episode is about one hour. There are only a dozen hours in one season. But the content is very full. .The amount of information is very large. This is convenient for people to aftertaste, digest and discuss after reading it.”

There are even some big-budget weekly episodes where each episode is a one-hour short movie.This is a completely different concept from the "weekly drama" in China.

Tao Qingfeng said honestly: "Although I haven't watched many American dramas, but hearing what you said, if we want to make this 'boutique' that eats crabs, our user portraits will be different, and the script will have to be refined. Many shots have to be shot in more detail, even in accordance with film standards."

It is said to be a reshoot, but it is actually adding richer content. It took fifty or sixty hours to shoot, and edited it into ten hours of compact content.

Xia Xinghen thought for a long time, and finally said: "Let's make a high-quality product. This is also consistent with the ideological core of "Return from East to West."

Another sense of "creating a new era".

Tao Qingfeng nodded: "Okay, then let's adjust the script and shooting plan."

Xia Xinghen pondered and said, "You come and polish the script, and I'll reshoot the shots. We need to make full use of each other."

This is actually the line "We must make full use of each other" when Yun Xianglei and Yu Song were forced to cooperate in the middle and late stages of the script when they had not resolved their misunderstanding.When used here, it was Xia Xinghen who hinted at Tao Qingfeng's good literary skills to polish the screenwriter, and Xia Xinghen's own rich shooting experience to make up shots.Everyone has shortcomings. For the same thing, different people come to check it separately, which can achieve better results.

At this moment, Tao Qingfeng received a call from Yan Tan saying: "My parents found out by accident, so I must come to my house." He was eating takeaway with Xia Xinghen while discussing the script he was planning to shoot tomorrow. Hearing this, he was almost choked to death.

Xia Xinghen looked at Tao Qingfeng in surprise, no matter how tired he was from filming, his demeanor would not change.But after answering the phone call, he panicked and was at a loss, with anxiety in his brows and eyes.

Tao Qingfeng packed his things with hands and feet, Xia Xinghen couldn't help asking, "What's going on?"

"It's a lifelong event, and I'm very anxious." Tao Qingfeng waved his hands and ran all the way, making phone calls while running.Xia Xinghen looked puzzled, but the matter that Tao Qingfeng needed to discuss today was over, and he would not delay the progress if he came back tomorrow morning.Lifelong events are naturally more important.

This is Tao Qingfeng's second visit to the Yan family's big villa. The impression of the last time is still fresh in his memory, but his mood is completely different.There was no psychological pressure to pretend to be good friends last time.This time, the relationship between the two was exposed and they confessed to their parents, which felt like a public execution.Even the smile of the housekeeper who greeted him at the door made Tao Qingfeng dare not look directly at him, feeling extremely guilty.

He took a deep breath and walked through the door.