Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 95: Shooting, Outlook, and News

Sakura TV.

"The heroine of his new drama is Shen Liqian?"

In the office, production department director Yoshitoki Akasaka listened to his assistant's report with anger flashing in his eyes.

Su Yan would rather leave Sakura TV and cooperate with Qingkong TV than work under him.

The heroine chosen for this drama in April is Shen Liqian, an actress who has made it clear in the industry that whoever uses her will be his enemy, Akasaka Yoshitoki.

The provocation is too obvious.

He asked Su Yan to meet him three times in a row, but Su Yan ignored him every time.

As for the first drama after Su Yan left Sakura TV, he cast Shen Liqian, who had once scolded him on live TV, as the female lead.

Ah.
"Su Yan's new drama will be broadcast at 9 pm on Sunday in July, right?" Akasaka Yoshitoki thought for a while and said.

"That's right." Assistant Okanobu nodded.

In the evening, Sakura TV released an announcement.

"Scarlet Love," a B-rated fantasy romance drama originally scheduled to air at 9 p.m. on Saturday during the July summer season on Sakura TV, was directly moved to 9 p.m. on Sunday.

Although it is very common to shift the schedule of a drama before it is aired, Su Yan has just revealed that he has chosen Shen Liqian as the heroine for this drama in April.

The next day, Sakura TV made this response.

The smell of revenge is too strong!

These TV stations in Xia Country often have a tacit understanding with each other.

No two A-level dramas will be broadcast at the same time.

Moreover, there will not be three B-level dramas aired at the same time in the same time period. If possible, everyone will try to avoid having two B-level dramas aired in the same period.

Although there are indeed more viewers on weekends.

But instead of airing several big-budget dramas at the same time, it is better to choose a good time slot on normal weekdays to broadcast them exclusively, which will get better ratings.

There are so many time periods and schedules in a week, and there's nothing wrong with that. Why do they have to be squeezed together, competing for ratings and ultimately hurting both sides?
Sakura TV's A-level campus romance drama "The Simplest Love" in the July summer season is scheduled to premiere at 8 pm on Sunday.

Now the B-rated drama "Scarlet Love" has been scheduled to air on Sunday at 9 p.m.

Now, Sakura TV's targeted intentions can be seen at a glance.

In the April crew, Shinozaki Ikumi, as a former employee of Sakura TV, naturally saw through Akasaka Yoshitoki's intention at a glance.

"You can only use these little tricks. Haha, aren't you afraid of shooting yourself in the foot?" Shinozaki Ikumi sneered.

There are still more than two months left in July. There are plenty of good broadcasting schedules but no big-budget dramas have officially announced their release dates. However, Yoshitoki Akasaka insisted on pushing "Scarlet Love" to Sunday at 9pm. This is not the first choice a normal person would make.

"It doesn't matter. Let him come." Su Yan said with a smile.

"Anyway, he is now the director of the production department. If his actions cause the TV station to suffer a big loss, he will be the first to take the blame. Do you really think you can do whatever you want just because you have Sakura TV behind you?"

"If the results after the broadcast in April are as good as those of Going to the Moon, Akasaka Yoshitoki's actions will definitely be criticized by the higher-ups of the station by the end of summer." Shinozaki Ikumi said after thinking for a while.

The number of Xiaguo viewers in the same time period is limited.

If the performance in April can be like that of To the Moon, ranking first in the ratings, then the ratings of other TV stations in the same period will definitely not be good.

"Of course. Although it's a clichéd goal, for the performance of this drama in April this quarter, I will of course still aim for the first place in the quarter. I will make Akasaka Yoshitoki regret the decision to air Scarlet Love Romance at the same time as April!" Su Yan said.

After hearing this, Ikumi Shinozaki wanted to say something.

But think about it.

The current situation and conditions are definitely better than those in the ancient Acacia Song period.

Su Yan is obviously interested in this drama and his confidence is even stronger than in Ancient Love Song and To the Moon.

Who said that Qingkong TV can’t produce a drama with the highest ratings?

After working with Su Yan for a long time, I realized that she is actually a person who dares to dream.

Next, she discussed with Su Yan in detail the advertising placement issues of several well-known domestic musical instrument manufacturers, as well as the rental, scale, and funding issues of some concert halls in April's drama.

It is a pure youth campus romance drama, so the shooting cost is indeed not high.

But musicals are another story.

Some high-end pianos with great tone are worth millions, and violins cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

Even if it is rented, the price is actually not low.

The music competition in the drama must rent some large music halls in Shanghai, and even find hundreds or thousands of extras to fill the hall to achieve a better filming effect.

Of course, there are plenty of free college students in Shanghai, and they can be asked to play extras, or to distribute lunch boxes to fans of Su Yan, Gu Qingyuan, and Shen Liqian. There are many people who are willing to watch their idols filming for free.

After all, it would be very tempting to listen to the live performances of Su Yan and Shen Liqian, two stars who are rumored to have good musical attainments on the Internet.
Then there are the judges of the competition. It would be best if we could invite some famous people from the Xia country music industry to make guest appearances.

These all need to be planned and contacted in advance.

When Shinozaki Yumi discussed this with Su Yan, Su Yan suddenly felt overwhelmed.

Looking at the densely packed work schedule on Shinozaki Yumi's notebook, she has already planned what to do in two months. Su Yan can only sigh that the job of a producer is not something that ordinary people can do.

If the 20 million yuan of funds for the April crew were not planned properly, it would be very easy to run out of money halfway through filming.

Soon, the lunch break was over.

The scene that started filming in the afternoon was the first meeting between the male protagonist Arima Kousei and the female protagonist Miyazono Kaoru.

Shen Liqian, who was dressed up as a junior high school girl and standing at the highest point of the park surrounded by a group of children playing the harmonica, was having a lot of fun taking photos.

She is a music lover, so she naturally enjoys filming a musical romance drama.

Under the sun, cherry blossoms are flying, and a lively and lovely girl meets a taciturn boy.
Outside the shooting site, Ikumi Shinozaki looked at Su Yan, who was wearing black-framed glasses and taking pictures of the corner of Shen Liqian's skirt with his mobile phone.

In the script, the male protagonist Kousei Arima thought the scene of the girl playing with the children was very heartwarming and subconsciously took a photo.

But in reality, because of a gust of wind that happened to lift up the hem of her skirt, Arima Kousei was mistaken by Miyazono Kaoru as a cellphone cameraman. If someone else played this scene, it would really look like that.

But the scene between Su Yan and Shen Liqian did not give me a bad feeling. Instead, the atmosphere gave me a youthful and heart-pounding feeling, as if a boy and a girl met for the first time and then some sweet story would happen.

"This is the power of appearance. Whatever handsome men and beautiful women do is right." Shinozaki Ikumi sighed in her heart.

"However, Su Yan's acting skills have really improved. Shi Peihua hasn't stopped this scene yet. If it were in the past, Shi Peihua would have found fault with it a long time ago."

April has passed in a flash, and the filming of Your Lie in April has officially entered into full swing.

By the time it was May, the dramas to be broadcast in the July summer schedule had been announced one after another by major TV stations.

It can be said that the film and television market was relatively sluggish during the autumn and winter seasons before Xia Guo.

The ratings of the highest-performing dramas of the quarter basically hovered around 4.2% to 4.3%.

Even if Sakura TV had not made a comeback in the late autumn season with "Gu Xiang Si Qu", Sakura TV would have set a new record in the past five years, with no drama on the station having a viewership rating of over 4% for the entire quarter.

But the film and television industry is like stock trading.

A few months of depression will be followed by a few months of growth.

In preparation for the July summer season, major TV stations have begun to make efforts.

Sakura TV invested 44 million yuan and invited first-line actress Bian Jingying and first-line actor Yan Jiuwen to collaborate on "The Simplest Love!" The pre-promotion itself was very sufficient and attracted a lot of attention.

The costume drama "Xia Fenghua", which was invested by Shanghai Metropolitan Television with 47 million yuan, also topped the Internet's hot search list when the cast's makeup photos were released.

Although Zhongxia TV has no single drama with an investment of more than 40 million this quarter, it has two A-level dramas with an investment of around 35 million: the workplace drama "Hopeful Man" and the workplace romance drama "Single Men and Women".

Not to mention that there are more than a dozen B-level dramas invested or introduced by the three major TV stations and five large TV stations.

In general, the investment in the film and television drama market in July summer season is obviously much greater than that in previous quarters.

Competitive pressure has also increased.

But even so, "Your Lie in April" still ranks among the most discussed new dramas that will be aired in the summer.

There is no other reason, Su Yan’s previous three dramas have had such a good reputation.

It is so good that Su Yan’s fans have unconditional faith in the quality of April’s drama.

So what if it's a B-rated drama?

Which of Su Yan's B-level dramas is not better than the A-level dramas of the three major TV stations in the same season?
Many media outlets directly helped Su Yan say what he wanted to say in advance.

Although Su Yan left Sakura TV, is it possible?
Can Su Yan's drama "April" create miracles on Qingkong TV, and its ratings will top the quarter like Going to the Moon?
The last time a drama not produced by one of the three major TV stations topped the quarterly ratings was thirteen years ago.

But at that time, the popularity advantage of Sakura and other three TV stations compared to other TV stations in Xia Country was far less than it is now.

The so-called Big Three have emerged from years of competition among TV stations and have long enjoyed a monopoly on the seasonal and annual ratings champions in this industry.

Normally, the industry would not have such expectations for Blue Sky TV's dramas.

It's the same no matter who wrote the show.

But Su Yan happened to have the precedent of "Ancient Love Song" which achieved a 4% viewership rating in the midnight slot.

Which is more difficult, reaching the quarterly top in ratings for Qingkong TV or breaking 4% in ratings for the midnight slot?

Everyone still thinks it’s more difficult for the midnight slot to break 4 in ratings.

Su Yan has done even more difficult things before, so it is normal for the audiences and media in the film and television industry to have some such fantasies about his new drama.

May.

There are many film crews shooting at the film and television base in the suburbs of Shanghai.

But for April's drama, a considerable portion of the plot was not filmed at the film and television base, but in a rented concert hall.

According to the original plan, in April the heroine and the hero will have several performance competition scenes in the concert hall.

Shinozaki Yumi also recruited quite a number of fans of Su Yan, Gu Qingyuan, and Shen Liqian to act as extras.

Although these people signed confidentiality clauses, they cannot reveal the plot seen during the group performance.

But things outside of the plot certainly can't be stopped.

In mid-May, an article about the talented screenwriter Su Yan being a hidden piano-playing genius went viral on the Internet.

The writer is a fan of Shen Liqian. The first half of her article mainly praises Shen Liqian's violin playing level, which is higher than she imagined.

After all, she is a top student in the music department of a prestigious university in Shanghai. When she wrote the article, she revealed her identity and school student ID information, so the content of the article was extremely credible.

But the second half of the article uses adjectives such as horrible and exaggerated to describe the feelings of seeing Su Yan's piano performance live during the filming of the series as an extra.

Moreover, at the end of the article, the author also said that Su Yan even gave on-site guidance on Shen Liqian’s mistakes and directions for improvement during her violin performance.
And give conclusions.

Su Yan's violin and piano playing are at the level of a senior professional performer.

If only the author of the article said this, perhaps this article would only be circulated in a small circle and believed by a few people.

However, in the comment section of this article, a large number of extras from the April drama crew posted messages saying that what was described in the article was absolutely true and not at all exaggerated.

Now many fans of Su Yan and Shen Liqian became interested.

But at the same time, many passers-by directly raised questions.

Everyone knows that Su Yan is a talented screenwriter. Everyone also knows that he can compose music. He can also play instruments such as the flute and guzheng.

But Su Yan can play the violin, and can even guide Shen Liqian, who once won seventh place in the Xia Country Youth Violin Finals, during live filming?
And his violin and piano playing are at the level of a senior professional performer?
What a joke.

How old is he? Maybe 21.

It shouldn't be so abnormal if you learn it from the womb, right?

You fans of Su Yan are praising him like this, can it be any more outrageous?
Is this a new marketing strategy of the April crew?

For a time, many casual fans of the film and television drama and those fans who had actually been to April's crew as extras and had witnessed Su Yan's performance level on the spot had a quarrel directly broke out on the Internet.

(End of this chapter)