Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 8: Passed the audition, copied the song

"Zhou Yongxuan is good. He has worked with me on Ah Du's "I DO" before. If there is no suitable candidate next time, I suggest using him."

In the audition room, MV director Zhang Yuankui suggested to Wang Xinling next to him while waiting for the next auditionee.

Wang Xinling, who was sitting next to him, sat casually, holding a milk tea in one hand and taking a sip from time to time.

After listening to Zhang Yuankui's suggestion, she nodded and said, "Let's look at the people behind us. If there is no suitable one, use him."

As the two were chatting, Wu Zhuo was led in by the staff.

Wang Xinling didn't care at first and just glanced at it.

When she saw this, her eyes suddenly lit up.

"Wu Zhuo?"

Wu Zhuo was just about to introduce himself when he was stunned when he heard Wang Xinling calling out his name.

Does Cyndi Wang know herself?
Wu Zhuo searched for relevant memories in his mind, but couldn't remember when he had ever dealt with her.

In Wu Chao's impression, although Wang Xinling studied at Huagang High School, she debuted very early and was rarely in school.

However, this is a good thing for Wu Chao.

"Senior, do you know me?" Wu Zhuo deliberately added the word "senior" to bring her closer.

"I attended the school's anniversary celebration last year and saw your performance on stage. You played Liang Shanbo very well."

Wang Xinling replied with a smile on her face.

Hearing this, Wu Zhuo suddenly remembered.

During last year’s anniversary celebration, the school did invite a few alumni to come back to add to the celebration.

Among them is indeed Cyndi Wang.

I just didn’t expect that my performance would be noticed.

"Do you know?"

Zhang Yuankui next to him glanced at Wu Zhuo and frowned slightly.

"We all graduated from Huagang Arts School."

Wang Xinling explained, then looked at Wu Zhuo, "Which company are you in now? I remember that many agencies have contacted you."

"I'm in Tianxi now!"

Wu Zhuo glanced at Wang Xinling strangely.

How does this person know that many brokerage companies have contacted the original person?

"Tianxi is good, with great resources." Wang Xinling nodded, then turned to look at Zhang Yuankui, "I think Wu Zhuo is very suitable to be the male lead in 'Curly Eyelashes', what do you think?"

Zhang Yuankui showed an unpleasant smile, "It is indeed very suitable. His image matches you very well, Miss Wang."

While saying this, Zhang Yuankui was cursing in his heart because his extra income had gone down the drain.

But he couldn't help it.

He is just an MV director, and he has to listen to his boss's orders.

Otherwise, he might even lose his position as a director if he is not careful.

Wang Xinling was very satisfied with Zhang Yuankui's answer. She turned around and looked at Wu Zhuo with a sweet smile.

"You should have heard it. The male lead in this MV is yours."

"Thank you, senior!"

Wu Zhuo always felt something was strange, but he still thanked him with a smile.

……

Coming out of the audition room, Wu Zhuo looked sad.

It’s different having the background of a good school.

He finally understood why most of the famous people in the entertainment industry were from those few schools.

This circle is indeed a circle.

The round ones, holding hands.

If it weren’t for the fact that he was from Huagang Arts School today.

Judging from the fact that the director doesn't like it, there's a 100% chance that he won't get the role in the MV.

"How about it?"

Huang Zekai came over. Wu Zhuo nodded to him implicitly, then walked back to his previous seat and sat down.

There were a few people who didn't audition.

Even if you have decided to use him, you still have to go through the necessary procedures.

Therefore, it is not convenient for him to leave directly now.

However, this time won't last long.

This was indeed the case. The next few people who went in stayed for less than two minutes each before coming out.

It seems that I just introduced myself.

What made Wu Zhuo laugh was that after seeing this situation, Zhou Yongxuan on the other side seemed to think that it was confirmed that it was him, and looked at Wu Zhuo with contempt.

As if to say, "Look! I am the winner."

Then, the moment when the staff announced that the male lead of the MV was Wu Zhuo.

He was completely stunned.

Then he looked extremely angry. If his assistant hadn't pulled him back, he would have gone to question the director in person.

Artists also need to sign contracts when appearing in music videos.

But this has nothing to do with Wu Chao, these matters will be handled by Huang Zekai.

While Huang Zekai was taking over the business with Avex, Wu Zhuo went to thank Cyndi Wang.

The two exchanged phone numbers and chatted for a while. After Huang Zekai finished dealing with his matters, Wu Chao said goodbye to Wang Xinling and left.

……

After returning home, Wu Zhuo did not stay in the store to help, but went straight back to his room.

He has been busy lately copying songs that he covered in his previous life but have not been released in this period of time.

Human memory is limited in time. If you don't watch or listen to a movie or a song for a long time, over time, even the most familiar works will be slowly forgotten.

Therefore, Wu Zhuo planned to copy down all the songs that he had covered in his previous life and still remembered clearly, and register the copyrights at the same time.

Before copying a song, Wu Zhuo would first log into his computer and check whether the song existed in several known online copyright libraries.

Although the current online copyright library is not as complete as in later generations, it has begun to take shape.

Combined with some information that can be found on the Internet, it is still possible to avoid conflicts with the original author as much as possible.

Besides, Wu Zhuo generally doesn't plagiarize songs from the past two years.

Unless it is a song that is definitely not created in this period, he will generally choose to copy songs that are more than two or three years old.

The same thing happened today. Wu Zhuo first logged into several websites and searched before starting to copy.

Because he graduated from a music college in his previous life, he had a good grasp of the basic musical knowledge and was familiar with musical notes.

It was easy for him to copy the songs he had sung before.

This is like using Chinese characters to reverse the pinyin.

As long as you can remember the melody and understand the notes, it is not difficult to copy.

It's just a bit of a brain drain...

It took Wu Chao about half an hour to copy the song "I Only Have Feelings for You". After checking it again and again and making sure it was basically correct, he stood up, rubbing his wrist.

After taking a sip of water to moisten his throat, Wu Zhuo did not continue transcribing. Instead, he picked up the song he had copied before and began to ponder.

He was considering whether he should submit one or two songs.

This actually has both advantages and disadvantages for him.

The advantage is that if you are accepted by a record company, you can quickly gain popularity and create a label for yourself as a talented creator.

The downside is that this is a one-time deal, and when record companies acquire songs, they directly purchase all the copyrights.

Although creators own part of the copyright of their works because of the good copyright awareness in Taiwan, this part of the copyright is actually not much and is not as cost-effective as owning the copyright themselves.

After thinking about it carefully, Wu Zhuo shook his head.

He was still reluctant to give up the copyright.

In a few years, when digital music reaches its peak and China's music copyright laws gradually improve, the value of music copyrights will increase exponentially.

Take Jay Chou for example, his copyright fees alone are tens of millions or even hundreds of millions every year, although it's not just one song.

But it also illustrates the importance of copyright.

(End of this chapter)