Minglong Youth: Shared House with Cheng Yushan and Bian Xiaoxiao

"Sister Linlin, since you are so sincere, I must cooperate with you!"

"Something's wrong. Why do I feel like I've been cheated?"

Looking at Zhou Chen's calm expression, Ji Linlin suddenly felt that she seemed to have been fooled.

This kid must have known that I was coming!

Forget it, forget it. I have nothing to do anyway, so I might as well join this kid in making a big scene.

To be honest, she also watched the short drama filmed by Zhou Chen. It was quite entertaining.

"So what role can I choose? When can I shoot?"

Ji Linlin asked impatiently.

"You..."

Zhou Chen touched his chin and looked Ji Linlin up and down as if he was appreciating a work of art. Of course, the art photos taken late at night couldn't help but emerge in his mind.

"Sister Linlin, you have such a good foundation. The few scripts I picked today are not suitable for you!"

Zhou Chen pondered for a moment and said,

"I can tailor a script for you, what do you think?"

"Tailor-made? How do you say that?"

When Ji Linlin heard this, she immediately became interested.

She knew that Zhou Chen had a very unique vision in some aspects.

For example, when it comes to writing lyrics, the lyrics of each song are very consistent with my own characteristics, even when I write songs for others, they are consistent with their temperament. This is not something that everyone can do.

"Ah."

Zhou Chen nodded and said seriously,

"I'll give you the role of a stepmother, of course, the heroine, how about that?"

Ji Linlin, "???"

It was tailor-made for me, and the role turned out to be a stepmother?

Brother Zhou Chen, what do you mean?

"Zhou Chen, if you dislike my age, just say so directly. There's no need to be so insulting!"

Ji Linlin crossed her arms across her chest and said angrily.

Obviously, the role of stepmother made her think that Zhou Chen disliked her because of her age.

"Oh, that's impossible!"

Zhou Chen waved his hand.

"This stepmother is no ordinary one. So, when I write the script, you'll know. I promise, you'll feel like acting!"

That's right.

Looking at Ji Linlin in front of him, Zhou Chen thought of a popular short drama in his mind - "Back to the 1980s as a Stepmother". As soon as this drama was launched, it received 400 million recharges, which shocked the entire network.

As for Ji Linlin, although she is indeed older, she has well-maintained skin and can play both a girl in her twenties and a young woman in her thirties or forties. The key is that Ji Linlin has that mature femininity, which fits the role of a stepmother very well.

Of course, there is a more important point.

In terms of short dramas, in addition to the sinking market of people in their forties and fifties, women also represent a vast market. If we can take advantage of this drama with a female lead, perhaps we can open up a new market.

There are many classic film and television dramas in this world, but they are all serious dramas. Online novels that are specifically divided into male and female frequencies have not yet appeared.

But once it is segmented, the influence is extraordinary.

"Okay, sister, I'll trust you this time!"

Ji Linlin snorted, then walked away with her waist twisted amid everyone's shocked gazes.

"Boss, you're awesome!"

"I suddenly realized that the quality of our skit has improved a lot!"

"Mighty, Boss!"

As Ji Linlin left, Fang Yifan and others immediately gave Zhou Chen a thumbs up.

To be honest, although the first short play was very popular, for them, it was just a group of grassroots rookies entertaining themselves. After all, it was still a bit low-level.

But things are different now.

With big names like Ji Linlin participating, once it’s released, the short play will be no different from other film and television dramas!

Zhou Chen’s move is of extraordinary significance!

"Alright, alright, let's continue!"

Zhou Chen waved his hand and began to check them one by one.

After a day of screening, the roles for the four short plays were finally finalized.

With the experience from the first film, there was no need for Zhou Chen to do it himself. Fang Yifan had already taken the equipment and started filming.

Zhou Chen took this opportunity to write the script of "Back to the Eighties as a Stepmother".

"Sister Linlin, take a look at this script."

After Zhou Chen finished writing, he directly forwarded the electronic version of the script to Ji Linlin.

"So fast?"

Ji Linlin was a little dumbfounded when she saw the scene in front of her.

Although she doesn't know much about film and television dramas, she also knows that a good script needs to be constantly polished. Many film and television dramas are written by a team of screenwriters, with the chief screenwriter only responsible for checking, while below, there are a bunch of screenwriters who write stories according to the requirements.

But what about Zhou Chen? Only one day has passed and the script has been written?

He has never been so diligent even when writing novels.

Well, as expected, Doupo’s novel was not updated on that day, which attracted angry criticism from many book lovers.

Ji Linlin didn't think much about it and immediately clicked to watch it.

Then, Ji Linlin was so surprised that she was speechless.

The stepmother in the script seemed different from what she had imagined. She thought she would be a middle-aged woman in her forties, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be a young girl who traveled through time to the 1980s and married a country man instead of someone else.

But when she went to the countryside, she found out that the person she was going to marry was a millionaire in the 1980s.

Then, the plot began to soar all the way, relying on information from later generations to help her husband become rich...

Ji Linlin never expected that a period drama could be so exciting!

"Great, Zhou Chen! I can't wait to see when this drama will start filming!"

Ji Linlin called Zhou Chen directly.

Just reading the script made me so excited that I couldn’t imagine how much more exciting it would be if it was turned into a short play.

At this moment, Ji Linlin was as happy as a little girl.

"Let's wait for two days. This play cannot be filmed in school. Not only do we have to choose the roles, but we also have to choose the right location."

Zhou Chen said calmly.

Yes, Ji Linlin's drama has extremely high requirements for actors, costumes and scenes. It is not something that can be filmed casually in school.

Now it is the National Day, and there are people everywhere. I can only wait until the National Day is over and then find a remote rural area to take pictures.

There is no other way. If you want to shoot a short drama well, it will cost a huge amount of money.

Fortunately, I had accumulated a lot of money from the first drama, which was enough for filming this period drama.

Chapter 203: It's all the same old routine, is Jiang Lang out of ideas?

In the next few days, Zhou Chen was busy with on-site guidance every day.

Although we had the experience from the first part, shooting four short dramas at the same time required great coordination skills, and it was also necessary to switch back and forth between four different themes.

Such a heavy workload is not something that most people can bear.

Fortunately, due to the success of the first play, and Zhou Chen would pay everyone, this group of actors performed extra hard. In fact, many people, after carefully studying the script, knew how to add their own scenes in the performance.

Time passed quickly in the busyness, and soon the seven-day National Day holiday was over.

With the unity and joint efforts of the short drama club, all the clips of Zhou Chen's four short dramas were completed.

Next comes the important work of editing and post-production dubbing.

Fortunately, the short drama club had the support of great editing club members. Even though the volume of the four plays was a bit large, with the help of the editing club, all the editing was completed in accordance with Zhou Chen's requirements in just over three days.

After Zhou Chen checked them one by one and made sure there were no problems, he directly announced that the four short dramas would be launched at the same time.

Of course, this short drama was not only launched on its own mini-program, but also reached a cooperation with iKuXun and was launched at the same time.

As soon as the news came out, it caused quite a stir on the Internet.

Ever since The Crooked-Mouth Dragon King came online, many people have been talking about the short drama, because there is only one drama at present. In the past ten days or so, the number of people watching it every day has continued to increase. Of course, the reviews are still mixed.

Many people were wondering when Zhou Chen would release his second short drama, and then they heard this news.

"Wow, it's only been less than half a month. Zhou Chen has already filmed four dramas in one go?"

"I just heard a week ago that they were filming a new drama at school. How come it's coming out so soon?"

"Awesome! Zhou Chen is simply a money printing machine."

“It completely refreshed my understanding of filming a drama!”

In fact, whether it is a short play or other film and television drama, the shooting process is not as difficult as imagined. As long as everything is ready, it only takes about a week to finish the shooting.

For example, last year's "Man Jiang Hong" was filmed in less than a month.

It’s just that many people, in order to promote the difficulty of their own creations, deliberately say how difficult filming is.

After many people complained, they opened Zhou Chen’s mini program or directly opened iKuXun with great curiosity to watch the four newly launched short dramas.

Although the routines of these four dramas are similar to those of the Crooked Mouth Dragon King, except for one that is a female-oriented drama, many netizens are still very happy to watch it because there is only one Crooked Mouth Dragon King and many netizens are not tired of watching it.

After hearing the news, many well-known directors, actors and screenwriters did not dare to comment this time. Instead, they opened iKuXun one by one and watched the show carefully.

Then, they found out that they had been fooled by Zhou Chen.

"What Taoist priest coming down the mountain? I think the same routine as that of the crooked-mouthed dragon king is basically a copy. They are all masters coming down the mountain, pretending to be cool step by step, without any real intention!"

"These dramas are just new wine in bottles. No, they are not even new wine. They are just copied garbage!"

"I suddenly realized that it's so easy to make money now. I can make a fortune just by changing my skin?"

To be honest, the astonishing sales of the first short drama really shocked the bigwigs in the traditional industry.

I thought Zhou Chen was going to create another shocking script, but when I opened it, it was almost all a copy of the Crooked-Mouth Dragon King.

This time they were not polite at all. They all came out and attacked Zhou Chen again!

However, many bosses who invest in film and television dramas have discovered business opportunities.

They don't care whether the skit is art or garbage, they just care about whether they can make money from it.

They had invested in many film and television dramas before, but most of them were in a loss-making state. The only thing that made them satisfied was that their favorite actress made an appearance in the film.

But it's different now.

Look at these short plays by Zhou Chen. It only took him half a month to shoot so many of them. Moreover, the actors in the shooting are not big stars, so it doesn’t cost much money at all.

What’s more important is that the audience’s payment amount is very high!

With such a short capital turnover cycle, this is simply an excellent investment project for bosses!

"Xiao Li, I think you should put those previous scripts aside for now. Take a look at these short plays, why don't we do some of them too? Aren't those celebrities just showing off? If we don't want them, we can just find extras. There are plenty of them in Hengdian."

"Secretary Yang, I'll give you one million. First, you make two short plays for me. We'll test the waters. It doesn't matter if we lose money. Let's see how the market reacts!"

As a result, many big bosses also took out their own pocket money and planned to try the short drama market.

In comparison, an amount of one or two million is just a drop in the bucket for them.

But once the skit becomes popular, the profits earned will be far more than that.

Zhou Chen was too lazy to get involved in these things.