Chapter 1671 Falling Behind (6)

But when I saw the finished draft, I couldn't help but tear it up.

Xia Siyu usually stays calm when facing work, but she refused to agree to this draft and almost broke up with the screenwriter.

Her strict requirements for work and her emotional memories and attachment to her mother mixed together, so that she tried her best to copy all her details. For some particularly angry points, she wanted to instill more.

But as a TV series, if it is written completely according to the original situation, it is not cool enough, but sad, and it is designed to involve decades of family affairs, marriage and childbirth. Who will watch it? Do you think this is "Parents' Love"?

Xia Siyu was dissatisfied with this. Although she agreed to write two versions, the main film is a tragedy and the extra episode is a comedy, she didn't expect that the screenwriter would directly cut off many details of the tragedy, or make a large compression, and immediately turn to a one-episode comedy extra episode after the main film.

The compressed part is actually her own experience when she lived and grew up with her mother. The part that was enlarged and written more was the love story before marriage that she was not familiar with.

After all, in many fairy tales, the prince and princess overcame many difficulties and finally got together, which was the end of the story.

He would never tell you that marriage is not the end of the story, but only the starting point of the next chapter, and sometimes it is a turning point in life. Most people's lives may be like this parabola. After reaching the peak, they began to slide into the abyss.

In this regard, Bo Yan definitely stood on the screenwriter's side.

He understood Xia Siyu and understood that she wanted to show the tragedy in all aspects. But TV, like movies, still has to be paid by the audience. He knew as soon as he heard it that the outline written by the screenwriter could touch his heart more, and the audience also liked to watch it more. He was both a participant and an investor.

First of all, if you invest in a play, if you know it will not be popular after reading the script, and there is no ratings and no on-demand volume, it will be a flop. Not only will you not be able to get your money back, but you will also be ridiculed by him and Xia Siyu: after all, it is their first time to "go into the sea" to shoot a TV series. Of course, they have a lot of blood. If the TV series fails, they will continue to act in movies. They will not destroy their brand just because one drama is not good. But since they know there are other ways, there is no need to do so.

Again, if the script is not well written, the effect that Xia Siyu originally wanted to achieve, whether it is to commemorate her mother or to satirize the Xia family, will not be broadcast and paid attention to. No one will watch it. Who will care about these things? Only if the audience is moved will they be interested in her story behind the scenes, otherwise it will become self-admiration.

In addition, for TV series, unless there is an original IP adaptation, most of the scripts are written according to this IP throughout the process without major changes, so that the general beginning, development, transition and ending can be known. Otherwise, the actors are generally given only the scripts of the first five episodes, as well as the character biography and outline. After all, the script is also a commercial secret. If you are not a super boss, you will not be shown the entire script. They can still make changes now and discuss the content and framework with the screenwriter, which is already very precious.

He knew in his heart that Xia Siyu should also know. She just couldn't get over this hurdle. She wanted to put the best and most things on her mother.

But Xia Siyu has amazing intuition about scripts and work. Before she started to study acting and work hard to learn knowledge, she relied on intuition to accept roles. Not to mention, the scripts she picked, whether they won awards or not, had high box office. The high box office means that at least the scripts have a good beginning, development, transition and ending, and the content is detailed and the story is well told.

It is said that work and personal affairs should not be mixed, but that is only when your personal affairs have not touched your work bottom line. When your personal affairs really completely control your brain and make you unable to make calm judgments, how many people can accept it calmly?

So he insisted on his own opinion: "I understand your feelings, but I still support the screenwriter's idea. The specific details can be changed, but the general framework is well written and does not need to be changed."

Xia Siyu refused: "Why? He said to erase it and erase it? What is the suffering in the back, completely cut out? This person can't write, can't write it, just change someone. I don't believe that we can't find another person who can write a good story!"

Bo Yan was very calm: "Of course you can find someone, maybe there are other screenwriters who can write better than him. But it takes time. If you don't shoot, don't start, just postpone it."

"Then postpone it!" Of course, she hopes that her mother's story will be written more perfectly. Why is it shoddy and rushed?

Bo Yan nodded: "Okay, that's the second question. Money."

In the final analysis, it's money. When they filmed "Sunrise" before, they didn't get many investors, not only did they not get paid, but they also had to pay out of their own pockets. During this period of time, several films were not launched due to investment. For example, Spring Light is still stuck. He didn’t get a penny for this drama. It was agreed in advance that the revenue would be divided based on the box office after it was released.

The money earned before was used to buy Bo Yan’s villa facing the wind. It was expensive. The Bo family didn’t give him money. He got it after he entered the entertainment industry. He also invested part of it in film and television companies, so he didn’t have any cash.

Xia Siyu didn’t have much left after paying the penalty. After working alone, she earned more, but she also had to support a team, which was stretched to the limit.

There was definitely enough money for living and daily operations, but the investment in filming was at least tens of millions, and this was only the B-level standard. A-level scripts require hundreds of millions of investments, and S-level and S+ investments are even more. There are many TV dramas that cost more than 500 million.

Although we can recruit investors, it is difficult to get such a large investment, and we have to be wary of the various sponsors who will randomly put people in and control the quality of the TV.

Bo Yan said very bluntly: "It is difficult to find a temporary replacement screenwriter. You don't know whether he will do it himself, or he may hand it over to the junior screenwriters below, and outsource it layer by layer. Even if we find one, such a famous screenwriter will cost a lot. We don't have money and can't wait, unless we sell the house."

Xia Siyu certainly knows the situation, but she still can't accept it. Intellectually, she understands that everyone likes to watch happy endings now, and doesn't like to find abuse in TV dramas, but she doesn't want to change this ending.

Still in the show, I want to take a picture of what they are talking about.

After all, under the moonlight, the two people standing on the sand dunes looking at the sky, as long as they stand together in the same frame, it is a CP sweet, and the program team doesn't want to miss any material.