Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

"What? Are you timid before participating in the competition?" Chen Wendi couldn't help joking.

But seeing Li Wei's young face, Chen Wendi couldn't bear to continue to speak harshly.He naturally knows how difficult it is for such an artist with no roots to mix in the entertainment industry. He only made a comeback by relying on a talent show after being in Beijing for several years.

"I can't help you make a decision, but I can help you analyze one or two. If you choose a competition area like Jinguan City or Xingcheng City, it is true that you will face much less pressure, but such a competition area will also receive much less attention. Although the East China Sea Division is the main competition area, the pressure it faces is higher than other competition areas. However, in a horizontal comparison, the Yanjing Division, Nanhua Division, Mingzhu Division and Beidao Division are also divisions of the same scale. If you can enter the country in the East China Sea Division If you are in the finals, then the finals will become your main competition. Since you want to return to the top of the entertainment circle, does this difficulty make you shrink back? If you encounter other troubles in the future, will you have to shrink back again? "

"I understand!" Li Wei nodded and said, "Registration only needs to submit personal information, three ID photos, and a full-body, half-body, and head-close-up daily photo. Finally, you must attach your own a cappella and There are two recording files with accompanying vocals. It seems that they are really professional!"

Li Wei has worked in the firm for many years, so he naturally understands the basic requirements of various brokerage firms for selecting candidates.ID photos and daily photos are to see how much potential the applicant has. If you want to use artistic photos to deceive the world?These people also underestimated the talent scouts in the artist department of the agency.As for a cappella and accompaniment, that is to understand the characteristics and potential of newcomers.

For a brokerage company, singers with characteristics are better than singers with singing skills. After all, singing skills can be cultivated later, but singers with characteristics are too rare to meet.

"By the way, the original song can still add some points."

Li Wei found a rule that suits him.Although Smart Firm treats trainees very harshly, they teach them without reservation.In addition to training such as singing and dancing, the trainees are taught how to stand on the platform, walk, and even the angle of taking pictures. In addition, they will also be involved in writing lyrics, composing music, making arrangements, playing musical instruments, stage design, lighting and costumes, etc.Therefore, many trainees will switch careers and become behind-the-scenes after their debuts are hopeless.Over time, Smart & Associates has become a company with a strong family atmosphere.From the front stage to the backstage, except for a few key figures, the rest are all cultivated by themselves.

Li Wei not only received such training when he was in the firm, but also a serious doctoral student in composition at the Juilliard School.Li Wei turned on his laptop, selected a few songs, and prepared to let Chen Wendi try them out.

"Your songs are too commercial." Chen Wendi frowned after listening to them, "Basically, if you sell these songs to the record company, the probability of being accepted is probably quite high. Then, it is estimated that there is a half chance of being included in the album Medium. However, these songs are definitely B-side songs, they will not become the main song, and they will not leave an impression on people. If you want to impress the judges with such a song, I guess the difficulty is a bit too high."

Although Chen Wendi knew that Li Wei had received special composition training at the Juilliard School, his style was too European.Moreover, Li Wei's training in the firm also made his style lean towards J-Pop and K-Pop, but it is a bit incompatible with Chinese pop music.Chen Wendi has a lot of popular songs from the earth plane in his mind. I believe that with Li Wei's ability, it will not be too difficult to compose such a thing.

But Chen Wendi now has a question, "Have you considered your style?"

"Style?" Li Wei was trained in the style of pop music. Although he received a series of training in classical music at the conservatory, Li Wei still felt that the style of pop music was more suitable for him. "Just want to sing like everyone else, can't you?"

"If you are the same as everyone else, where is your style? People without style have no packaging value." Chen Wendi complained, "Even if it is pop music, there are so-called bubblegum pop music and space age pop music. , Sunshine Pop and other subcategories.

——For your age, the positioning of teen pop music is the most suitable.First of all, teen pop itself is for teenagers in the age group of 15 to 25 years old, and this age group will be the potential user base of your first fans in the future.Secondly, teen pop is not simply pop, it also incorporates elements of modern rhythm and blues, country pop, dance pop, electronic pop, rap, pop rock, and pop punk.

I think once the style settles down, TV stations will love you, because teen pop is meant to be stage ready.It requires a brisk style of music, a sunny lead singer, dazzling dancers, and a harmony group to create an atmosphere for you.

But in the early stage, you still have to sing some songs with skill, or songs with a little depth.Generally speaking, the upfront investment of this kind of program is not particularly high, so folk or country music with a single guitar going all over the world will be safer.I have the song "You at the Same Table" here, how do you listen to it? "

Chen Wendi also won the championship of a music talent show when he was on the earth plane, so there is no problem with his singing skills. Coupled with years of life experience, Chen Wendi's "You at the Same Table" sings with a special feeling.Even Li Wei, who has always been somewhat reserved, was so moved by this song that his eyes turned red, "Your song is amazing! You plan to let me use this song as an original? Is that okay?"

"What's wrong?" Chen Wendi shrugged.

In a certain country on the earth plane, copyright consciousness has long since collapsed, and it would be good if people still remember to sign your name.There are also many people who simply take the songs of the people they are listening to and sign their own names as their own.However, copyright protection on this planet is very strict, so Li Wei immediately felt something was wrong.

"This song is original on this planet. Legally speaking, Gao Xiaosong and I do not exist, so this song can only be 'original' by you. If you feel bad conscience, you can set up a publishing company company, and then sell the copyright of these songs to this publishing company. In the future, others will need to pay copyright fees to this company, and you can use these copyright fees to do charity. Besides, these excellent music, Don’t you think it’s a pity not to share it?”

Li Wei thought about it and agreed with Chen Wendi's statement.After all, legally speaking, the copyright of these songs really cannot find the owner.Instead of these songs being used for free, it is better to register a company to represent these copyrights and use the copyright income to do good deeds.

So Li Wei turned on his computer and registered a private company called Gaia Music Publishing Company.Immediately afterwards, Li Wei logged into the Huaxia Music Copyright Association, first registered his own account with his real name, then uploaded the lyrics and score of "You at the Same Table" respectively, and finally checked the "Already represented" option and sent Fill in the name and organization code of Gaia Music Publishing Company.

After Li Wei chooses to submit, the system will show that the song is under review.The lyrics and music copyright registration system of the China Music Copyright Association will strictly compare the works submitted by the creators. The scope of comparison is not only the copyright library of the association, but also the music copyrights of other major countries in the world through the International Music Copyright Exchange Center. library for comparison.Even with the support of supercomputers and extremely fast networks, a comparison takes half an hour.

There are three results of the comparison: pass; doubt and rejection.Passing naturally means determining the copyright ownership; rejecting means that the song is plagiarized and returned; if there is any doubt, the system will send the submitted song and similar songs to five senior members of the association for anonymous evaluation.If there is no unanimous ruling of plagiarism, then the song will also pass the copyright review.Because the censorship is so complex, the registration fee for each track is 100 yuan (65 yuan for the song; 35 yuan for the lyrics).

"You at the same table" naturally has no similar or similar songs in this plane, so half an hour later, the Huaxia Music Copyright Association confirmed the copyright of this song.At the same time, the International Music Copyright Exchange Center also updated this information synchronously.

After completing the copyright registration of the music, Li Wei began to record the song.The single apartment that Li Wei bought has one bedroom and one living room, the living room and the dining room are integrated, but the owner gave a sun room in the bedroom.Li Wei was very obsessed with creation at that time, so he spent a lot of money to convert this sun room into a recording room.Although the equipment is not so professional, there is no problem in completing the sound recording.

In particular, Li Wei specially purchased a top-end MacPro computer for making music, and then bought the related iRig keyboard and MIDI input device. Finally, the best thing is the built-in LogicStudio software.Although this software is regarded as heresy by the professors of the Juilliard School, it is a wonderful software for independent music creators.From composing, recording, editing, mixing to the final performance, LogicStudio can perfectly present it; if the MainStage plug-in is added, the final effect can be a studio version, a LiveHouse version, or even a concert version.

Li Wei first sang a popular song, "More LOVE".The difficulty of this song is not high, but it is not so easy to sing well.For a professionally trained person like Li Wei, it is natural to record two songs and pass it, and then Li Wei picks a recording that performs better and transcribes it into an MP3 file.

As for "You at the Same Table", Li Wei specially found a guitar to play and sing by himself.Although not as emotional as Chen Wendi, but technically speaking, Li Wei still passed the test.Interestingly speaking, Li Wei has always had a special ability, that is, his super imitative ability.As long as Li Wei has heard or seen it, he can imitate it.So Li Wei imitated Chen Wendi's folk tune so closely that Chen Wendi couldn't laugh or cry.

After finishing the recording of "You at the Same Table", Li Wei directly converted it into MP3 without doing too much processing.Finally, Li Wei downloaded a registration form from the official website, filled it out and signed it, and scanned it into the computer.Li Wei sent the relevant documents and information to the registration mailbox of the "Asian Avenue of Stars" East China Sea Division, and then stretched himself to take a bath.

Li Wei cleaned his face carefully before taking a bath, and then soaked in the bathtub with a moisturizing mask.This is also Chen Wendi's request to Li Wei, no matter how late or tired, cleansing and moisturizing are absolutely necessary.Even at Chen Wendi's request, Li Wei, who is only 22 years old, was forced to purchase some repairing and soothing skin care products.Although Li Wei often finds it troublesome, he has to say that under Chen Wendi's supervision, his skin has never had any problems.

To be continued...

The author has something to say: Regarding the copyright ownership of records or albums, this is a very complicated issue. Let's take a song as an example.

The most original copyright of a song is the so-called songwriting copyright, which belongs to the songwriter and songwriter.

However, most record companies will buy out this copyright.

As far as Chinese original music is concerned, the selling price of first-line songwriters is about 5 yuan, and that of lyricists is about 2 to 3 yuan.

After the record company (mainly refers to the production company) buys the copyrighted work, it will arrange an arranger to process the music.

Therefore, many people who graduated from orthodox composition majors are reluctant to use the word composer to call pop music composers, but call them songwriters.It means that the works of you popular music composers are all semi-finished products, and in the end you need arrangers to reprocess them.

Because of the great role of arrangement, the income of arrangement is actually higher than that of composition, especially the top arranger.It is normal for them to get 10 to 20 for a song.

After the arrangement is completed, the singer and the chorus will go into the studio to record the song.

After recording, editing and mixing, a song is born.That's how sound recording copyright came into being.

If you have read the copyright page of the record or tape, the recording copyright is represented by ? (P in the circle), which means Soundrecordingcopyrightsymbol.

In the end, your recording work will enter the market through packaging and other means, then the copyright of the music work will appear at this time, which is usually represented by ? (C in the circle), which means Copyrightsymbol.This copyright is very complicated. In addition to recording copyright, it also includes cover design copyright, singer photo copyright, etc...