Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 71: Going to the Moon

Su Yan looked at the three Xia Yan Award invitations in his hand.

The time is January 31st.

"Why aren't you excited at all, Su Yan?" asked Shinozaki Ikumi.

"Well, I should say I had expected it. Apart from the nomination invitation for the TV drama music composition award, I know in my heart that there is a high probability that I will be nominated for the other two awards. I can't say that I'm calm, but there are just a few ripples." Su Yan said.

"What about you, Qingyuan? You have such a cold expression on your face. This is a nomination for Best New Actress, and it only happens once in a lifetime. If you have the ability, you can win the Best Actress award seven or eight times in the future. An award with the suffix "Newcomer" only happens once in a lifetime." Shinozaki Yumi said, looking at Gu Qingyuan, who had a cold expression on her face.

"It's only been half a year since I graduated from school in July last year. I was nominated for the Best New Actress Award, which feels even more magical than the TV series I filmed." Gu Qingyuan said.

"It's not that I didn't react, it's that I was too happy and didn't know how to express my emotions."

"Come on, so you're playing a cool beauty like Tomoe Yukishiro, which is just your true self."

"I'm different. My career as a producer was in jeopardy in the first half of last year, but now I'm nominated for the Best New Producer Award at the beginning of the year," Shinozaki Ikumi said excitedly.

"When I get home, I'm going to post this message ten times in my junior high, high school, and college classmates' groups, and I'm also going to spread the word in the company's department groups." I want to get back ten times the face I lost last year because of the ridicule and humiliation I suffered because of Sakurajima Love Song. "

"Qingyuan, you are a sure winner for the Best New Actress Award. None of the new actresses in Xia Country last year could be like you. You debuted as the heroine, and the ratings of Ancient Love Song ranked in the top three in the last week. Su Yan is also a sure winner for the Best New Screenwriter Award. Compared to Su Yan, a bunch of new screenwriters in this year are really worthless. I will help you promote your work to everyone I know."

When Shinozaki Ikumi talked about Su Yan, there was a natural sense of pride in her tone.

"It's just a nomination, everything is still undecided." Gu Qingyuan said.

"If I don't win the award in the end, that would be even more embarrassing."

"There's no need to think about those things." Su Yan said with a smile.

"If you two really lose, time and history will prove that it is not your loss, but the loss of the Xia Yan Award judges who lack vision."

Upon hearing this, Shinozaki Yumi and Gu Qingyuan looked at Su Yan.

Although Su Yan was praising them, the more he listened, the more he felt something was not right.

They and Su Yan are partners, and their achievements are shared. If the jury did not give them an award, it means that the jury has no vision, and it is their loss.
This is too outrageous.

But it's not annoying.

In other words, it fits their impression of Su Yan.

After the crew dispersed, Su Yan, Shinozaki Ikumi, Gu Qingyuan, Shi Peihua, and Takezawa Kayono and her husband and wife, and other members of the creative team who were going to the moon, had dinner at a hotel near the filming base.

While eating, we discussed the scenes to be filmed tomorrow.

Over the next few days, the crew's filming progress on the moon went smoothly.

Su Yan and Gu Qingyuan's acting skills can only be described as okay, and there is a gap compared to Qiu Junlin and others.

But their acting skills are also improving rapidly, and the roles of the two doctors, Cheng Li and Shen Yi, do not require particularly high acting skills.

Soon, the filming of the first and second episodes was completed.

In the second week of the winter season, a large number of C-level dramas and even some B-level dramas were aired starting from weekdays.

The dramas broadcast by most TV stations will not compete with the main dramas promoted by the three major TV stations at the same time. Not only can they not compete, but they often hinder each other. In the end, no one's results are good. Why bother?
But as one drama after another is aired, new ratings rankings emerge in the winter time slot market.

As of Friday, four of the winter dramas had ratings exceeding 3%, with the drama currently ranked first in ratings having a rating of 3.52%.

It is a B-rated drama produced by Zhongxia TV this season and aired at 8 o'clock on Thursday night.

At 8 o'clock on Friday night, Sakura TV's A-level drama "Gate" produced this season will be broadcast at 8 o'clock in the evening.

At nine o'clock in the evening of the same day, the A-level drama "Imperfect Divorce" produced by Zhongxia TV was broadcast.

Next day Saturday
The ratings for the two dramas are released.

The opening ratings of "The Door" were 4.02%.

With higher investment, more intensive promotion, more reliable producers, and the station's top screenwriters and directors, Sakura TV's "The Gilded Man" last season failed to reach a 4% viewership rating, but "The Door" reached it in the first episode. Meanwhile, the first episode of "Imperfect Divorce", an A-rated drama with the second highest investment this season on Zhongxia TV, only had a 3.84% viewership rating.

On that day, there was cheering inside Sakura TV.

At least in terms of the ratings for the winter season, "The Door" is currently ranked first.

This result also made Yoshitoki Akasaka breathe a sigh of relief as he sat in his office.

In the last week of last season, the ratings of Ancient Acacia Song actually exceeded those of Gilded Man, which made him lose face.

This season's "The Door" is also a play created by his producers.

The performance of "The Door" can be said to be related to his position in the production department.

The show's opening ratings exceeded 4%, which helped him regain some of his dignity.

What a genius screenwriter. Akasaka Yoshitoki looked disapproving.

There are too many geniuses in this industry, but these people don’t understand that capital and connections are indispensable.

All geniuses have peaks and troughs. These people are often thrown into the abyss if one or two works do not perform well during their creative trough. At this time, if they have not accumulated enough connections and relationships in the early stage to help them, it will be difficult for them to turn things around.

Akasaka Yoshitoki had seen Su Yan's talent before and wanted to become Su Yan's network resource.
But unfortunately, this young man is not smart.

Yoshitoki Akasaka personally read the script of To the Moon.

To be honest, if Su Yan had not really made a lot of money for the station in the first two quarters, this slow-paced script, which took three episodes to explain the main storyline, would probably not have passed the production department meeting.

"You like to do slow-burn and literary scripts, right? Young people don't understand anything. Sakura TV is a commercial TV station!"

Yoshitoki Akasaka lit a cigarette and looked at another document that was covered by the ratings report.

The director of the production department, Shigeyoshi Yoshizaki, has been in poor health recently and has requested leave to recuperate in the hospital.

He will hand this thing over to higher-ups in the station later.

"Old man, you better get worse physically and don't come back. If that happens, as long as Su Yan's film Going to the Moon doesn't meet expectations, I will never let you get any investment in the TV station easily, including Shinozaki Aki's daughter Shinozaki Ikumi. If you still cause trouble for me after retirement, I will deal with you all at once."

Yoshizaki Shigeyoshi had been in poor health for several years and had taken leave several times. Sometimes he would take a week or two to recover and then return to work, and sometimes it would take a month or two to return to work.

But he is one of the TV station's veteran employees after all. He has not said he wants to retire, and the station's top management will not force him to retire.

But people are old after all, and sometimes personal will cannot overcome the laws of biology.

No one knows when Yoshizaki Shigeyoshi will really retire and Akasaka Yoshitoki will take over.

But Akasaka Yoshitoki had the patience to wait.

eight pm
The only A-level drama "Bloody Magician" of this season has started broadcasting on Shanghai TV.

This kind of horror and bizarre TV series often receives good reviews when they first air.

After the first episode was aired, the internet was abuzz with discussions about the drama.

But at the same time, as it approached nine o'clock in the evening, the ratings of Sakura TV continued to rise.

A large group of fans of Ancient Love Song and Rurouni Kenshin are already in place.

The middle-aged fans of Qiu Junlin and Takezawa Kayono are also eager to see the movie.

Although the first episode does not feature the childhood scenes of the two main characters, fans of two well-known Xia country child stars, Cao Shou and Gu Yingjie, will naturally come to support the premiere of To the Moon.

Moreover, during this time period, the other two of the three major TV stations did not have any popular dramas to air, so this was considered as giving face to Su Yan and Sakura TV.

Su Yan’s performance of “Ancient Love Song” last quarter was a bit outrageous. Many of his competitors would avoid direct confrontation with “To the Moon” when choosing the broadcast time for their own dramas.

This also led to the fact that during this period of time, many casual drama fans could only come to Sakura TV to watch the drama "To the Moon" to find out what it is all about.

(End of this chapter)