Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 117 New Work
On the night when the ending of Your Lie in April's if-line was released, enthusiastic April fans pushed the rating of this work to 9.7.

In Xia Country, as long as a work has a score of more than 9.5, it is basically a potential masterpiece.

By 9.7, the label of "masterpiece" is basically set in stone.

Many TV dramas may have high ratings, but in fact their scores are average. They are fast-food-style TV dramas. They don’t taste bad, but in fact, you forget them after you have eaten them.

Some works have high ratings but low viewership, because the subject matter is niche.

However, the two important criteria for a masterpiece, the ratings representing the size of the audience, and the score representing the level of fan evaluation, were fully met in April.

Two weeks ago, the film and television industry in Xia Country was still arguing over who would have the best work of the season, Xia Fenghua or Si Yue.

Now, there is no suspense about this issue.

April is not only the number one TV series in the summer country this season.

Moreover, it is the TV series and movies that have been aired so far this year in terms of performance, reputation and influence.

It was broadcast on Qingkong TV and the final ratings reached 4.7%.

If it could be broadcast on the three major TV stations, I'm afraid the probability of its final episode being broadcast would be over 5%.

next day
The first day online broadcast data of Your Lie in April Episode 12 was also released.

After just one day of broadcasting, the number of paid views reached 1645 million.

"According to this result, the if-line ending of this episode alone will eventually have more than 2800 million paid views, and the revenue share of a single episode will be more than 1400 million."

When Su Yan and Shinozaki Ikumi met in a cafe near the company, Shinozaki Ikumi said with a dazed expression.

"Why do you look like that? Are you unhappy?" Su Yan asked curiously.

"I feel a little dizzy." Shinozaki Yumi glanced at Su Yan.

"Before it aired in April, I had no idea that the show would be so popular in April. With the help of the brilliant 9000th episode, the total revenue in April is certain to be close to million."

"Do you know what 9000 million means?" Shinozaki Ikumi said excitedly.

"0.9 million?" Su Yan thought about it and said something nonsense to ease the atmosphere.

After all, in Su Yan's previous life during the Internet era, it was not uncommon for a truly popular TV series to have total sales of hundreds of millions, or even over a billion.

For example, for a show of the level of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", when it was at its peak, the overseas copyright fees, exclusive online broadcast fees, and TV broadcast copyright fees totaled more than 10 billion. Even though it was completed ten years ago, it still brought in tens of millions in copyright fees every year until Su Yan traveled through time.

Therefore, Su Yan did not think that the profit of 0.9 million in April was outrageous.

But Shinozaki Ikumi felt uncomfortable when she saw Su Yan's calm attitude.

With such good results and such outrageous profits, you will be confused for a few days at least, just like me.

Don't you make me look like a bumpkin?
"Ninety million is the investment amount for two A-level dramas. It can even be used to create an S-level film or TV series!" Shinozaki Ikumi emphasized.

"There haven't been any S-rated TV series in the Xia Country TV market for two and a half years."

Su Yan paused.

"Really? In other words, we can go all in on the next drama and make an S-level drama?" Su Yan asked with interest.

"No, no, no, your idea is too dangerous." Upon hearing this, Shinozaki Ikumi's expression changed drastically, and she quickly waved her hand to stop Su Yan's idea.

"The most difficult part of making an S-level drama is not getting a star cast, an investment of more than 60 million, or a long production cycle. The most important thing is the script. You need a script worthy of an S-level drama, and such a drama must be communicated with all parties before production, otherwise it is easy to lose money."

Shinozaki Ikumi is afraid that Su Yan will become arrogant.

In a series like Su Yan's, an investment of 10 or 20 million yuan can easily earn more than twice the return, which is rare in the industry.

The B-level drama produced by the three major TV stations, with an investment of more than 3 million and a % audience rating, only has an average of to million second-time paid broadcasts per episode on the online broadcasting platform.

A 50% return after deducting production costs would be considered good.

The TV station can earn advertising fees as a result of years of operation. The TV station controls the online broadcasting platform and is also the investor of the TV series, so the TV station can earn all the online broadcasting sales of these series.

But developing these channels and making money through them requires operating costs themselves.

The three major TV stations have a series of industrial chains to squeeze out the value of a drama.

However, private film and television company owners like Su Yan have too few channels to make their investments back. If an S-level drama has bad ratings and reputation after it is broadcast, and the profits from copyright fees and online broadcasting platforms are slightly lower, it is very likely that they will not even be able to make back the investment costs.

After listening for a long time, Su Yan finally understood what Shinozaki Yumi meant.

"So if you don't have a certainty that your drama can achieve the same results as April again, don't even think about producing an S-rank drama."

"That's right. There are a lot of private film and television companies in Xia Country. But even the most confident of them will only produce A-level dramas and cooperate with the three major TV stations. There are no more than five examples of private film and television company owners producing S-level dramas in the history of Xia Country's film and television industry. Two of them ended up with serious losses." Shinozaki Ikumi said seriously.

It doesn’t mean that audiences will buy into a drama with a big investment.

This kind of thing happened in Su Yan's previous life in the TV drama and film industries.

The same is true in Xia State.

The most typical ones are the two dramas Xia Fenghua and April.
The former is the drama with the largest investment this quarter, but its performance is not as good as that in April.

"But speaking of it, do you have any ideas for new works?" Shinozaki Ikumi asked curiously at this time.

I have collaborated with Su Yan on several works, and Su Yan would usually come up with a new script soon after the previous drama was finished.

This also made her somewhat accustomed to Su Yan's creative rhythm.

Now, the "Dimension Film and Television Company" founded by the two has seventy to eighty contract employees after the filming and broadcast of the drama in April.

Of course, Su Yan, who had just made so much money, didn't mind taking a few months off. The basic salary expenses for this number of people were only a few million.

But as a young producer, Ikumi Shinozaki, who has always been good at budgeting, doesn't like paying employees for nothing. It would definitely be a problem for a company that has only been established for a few months to do so.

"Well, I have some ideas." Su Yan said with a smile.

In fact, he is waiting for April to be completely finished. Only after he has basically earned enough emotional points will he draw the next work.

Now, he has nearly 50 million emotion points in his hands, and his mentality is somewhat inflated, otherwise he would not have asked about the S-level drama before.

Morning tea with Shinozaki Yumi ended quickly.

The two went to the company together to handle some finishing work for April.

In the evening, Su Yan drove back home and took a deep breath after returning to his room.

it has started.

First of all, what Shinozaki Ikumi said also makes sense.

There is certainly a higher ceiling if you just bet all your emotional points, draw a certain work and then the company devotes all its efforts to the production.

But if he loses the bet on this work, Su Yan will have to start all over again.

After all, not all works are suitable for adaptation into TV series.

Given Su Yan's current situation, he could be a little more cautious.

After thinking about it, Su Yan spent more than 15 million emotion points to start drawing.

Now, there are still 40 million emotion points left in the system.

The system interface began to shake, and Su Yan gradually became nervous.

One minute later, the system's lottery results came out.

When Su Yan saw the name of this work, he was stunned.

Life is Strange. This.
All the memories about this work suddenly appeared in Su Yan's mind.

This is a movie interactive game produced by a game company in an island country in the previous life.

In addition to the various branches of games that most people understand, such as combat, fighting, RPG games, etc., there are also purely story-based games.

And many of these games are extremely suitable for film and television adaptation.

For example, Journey to the Moon is a story-based game, and The Legend of Sword and Fairy is also a story-based game.

There are also masterpieces such as Clannad and Steins;Gate, whose original works are also games, but they are all galgame games.

Movie interactive games are slightly more advanced than galgames, because galgames allow players to understand the plot through pictures provided by original artists and plot texts written by screenwriters, and then determine the direction of the plot through various choices.

The gameplay of movie interactive games is basically the same as galgame, except that its plot is realized through modeled characters in the game that are similar to movie scenes.

To put it bluntly, the focus of both types of games is the plot, and one is to let players understand the plot through pictures and text.

One is a "movie game" that uses video images to let the audience understand the plot.

As for Life is Strange, in Su Yan's previous life, when it comes to story-based games, it would definitely be a game that would be mentioned by many players.

Its plot setting is actually similar to that of Steins;Gate.

But it's also like a combination of Steins;Gate and the classic movie The Butterfly Effect.

How does a girl with the ability to temporarily rewind time use this ability to save her best friend who is "destined to die"?
When the life of her best friend and the hometown where she grew up are placed on both ends of the scale and she can only choose one, what choice will she make?
This work does not have any clichéd love stories between men and women, but it does have a slight tendency towards love stories between women.

After Su Yan finished playing this game in his previous life, he was depressed for several days because of the plot.

Because he was too careless, or because he had compassion, he chose to save the town at the end of the game, sacrificing his friend Chloe.
"Life is strange." Su Yan frowned.

This work was quite famous in the gaming circle in his previous life, and before he traveled to this world, there was already news that a TV series project was going to be launched.

Su Yan is well aware that the plot of Life is Strange is excellent. From a plot perspective, he thinks it is better than Going to the Moon.

After all, the story of going to the moon was only a little explosive in the last few episodes, but the early parts were indeed too bland.

Even the early plot of Life is Strange is quite interesting.

But Su Yan still has 40 million emotion points after all.

"Let's see if we can draw other works."

Su Yan thought about it and decided to consume only 10 million emotion points this time.

A minute later, Su Yan's expression froze.

The Garden of Words.

Well, Makoto Shinkai’s Foot Fetish Garden has also been drawn.

Su Yan actually felt a little comforted after seeing this work.

In his mind, Makoto Shinkai's works are ranked as 5 Seconds first, Your Name second, The Garden of Words third, Voices of a Distant Star fourth, and all other works are of the same level and tied for fifth. But if he really has to rank the fifth, he would definitely choose Beyond the Clouds, The Place We Promised.

However, the Garden of Words can only be made into a live-action movie if Su Yan gets it. As for the lack of time,
Su Yan thought about it.

The Garden of Words novel written by Makoto Shinkai has additional plots that can be added to the script.

Anyway, the regulations of the Xia Country Film Bureau are that as long as a movie is longer than one hour, it is eligible for screening, which is more relaxed than in the past.

It’s just that Su Yan and Shinozaki Ikumi need to spend some energy and money to establish the script project, and communicate with theaters and distributors about issues such as filming.

Su Yan is only famous in the TV drama industry.

The film industry is another direction.

However, Su Yan himself knew very well that he would get involved in the film industry sooner or later.

Looking at the 30 million emotion points he still had left, Su Yan no longer hesitated.

No matter what kind of monsters are drawn from the 30 million, the results of the first two works are not bad. At least Su Yan will not have to worry about not finding a job for some time to come.

Start gambling!
The system space began to shake again.

Another minute passed.

Cyberpunk: Edgewalker

Several big words appeared in front of Su Yan.

"Huh?" Su Yan's expression was really confused.

"What kind of luck is this?"

Su Yan really didn’t know whether he was lucky or unlucky to have drawn this work.

The work Cyberpunk Edgewalker was very famous in the animation circle in his previous life.

As a derivative animation of Cyberpunk 2077, a heavyweight work in the gaming industry, it has become popular among animation fans around the world with its extremely depressing plot!
At this point, a heavyweight player has been added to the family of depressing masterpieces in Su Yan’s previous life’s two-dimensional circle.

To put it bluntly, there is not such a big difference between story-based animations, games, novels, comics, and film and television dramas.

A story that can move people, whether it is an animation, a TV series, a game, or a novel, it can move people and become popular.

Many previous works such as Rurouni Kenshin, Clannad, Steins;Gate, Fairy Sword, Black Notebook, etc. have proved this.

The premise is that the quality of the produced series can keep up with the world view and style of the work.
And the work Cyberpunk Edgewalker.

If you want to make a TV series that is not eye-catching, a conservative starting point is to use S-level production specifications.

A pure science fiction drama.

The futuristic technology and Night City scenes in it are basically produced using computer special effects.

And the production cycle is probably not short.

Winning this work basically means that Su Yan wants to produce it. Whether it is the production cycle or the production cost, it is definitely not easy.

Life is Strange was made into a TV series.

"The Garden of Words" was made into a theatrical movie.

"Cyberpunk Edgewalker" was made into a TV series, but it would take at least several seasons to produce the TV series special effects in advance.

Thinking of this, Su Yan felt a headache.

How do you feel about the company's 90 million yuan in revenue?
It’s not enough!

　A few days after I sent out this chapter, I found that many readers said they didn’t understand the work Life is Strange.

　　I thought about it and decided that this kind of novel cannot be read for the sake of self-entertainment.

　　I saw that many readers knew about Journey to the Moon before and thought that more readers should know about Life is Strange, but I took it for granted.

　　I am an author who listens to advice, and I will listen to the readers' suggestions.

　　But after all, it is not good to let the protagonist disappear after being taken out of this work. The plot of Life is Strange will be completed at a very fast speed, and then the plot of Cyberpunk and The Garden of Words will be turned.

　　When the protagonist appears in a new work, I try to pick Japanese comic adaptations, such as Code Geass, Hakubaku, Fate Zero, Madoka Magica, Tokyo Love Story, Unnatural Death. They are more famous and readers can feel involved.

　　Although some unpopular works do have good plots, if they are unpopular, it won’t work if readers don’t feel involved in the novel I write.

　　I have written a little about Life is Strange. If you are not interested in this work, you can jump directly to Chapter 126 and start reading Edgewalker!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)