Chapter 284: "Soul Ferry" Starts Filming

Mainland China, the magical capital.

Just when Wu Yuan was worrying about the start of his Guangying Qvod streaming platform career.

In his plan, the first online drama "Soul Ferry" to launch the software "Light Shadow Quick Broadcast" was also launched in the Magic City in a low-key manner.

Directed by Liu Meichuan, starring Liu Zhiyang, Jiang Sumying, and Yu Yi.

As for the protagonists of each unit's story, they are all artists from the company.

From Jin Sha to Luo Jin to Zhu Yawen, Jiang Xin, Zhang Yi, Duan Yihong and other old artists or newly signed artists, they all have roles in this movie, and each is responsible for the protagonist in a unit story.

It can be said that in this "Soul Ferry", from the director to the actors, they are all from the era of light and shadow.

This is also the basic operation for producing TV series in this era. From Sugar Man to Huayi to other film and television companies, they basically all use their own artists to make TV series.

Only after 2012, film and television companies no longer signed artists themselves, and film and television production and artist management gradually separated, so this situation became rare.

Therefore, when the powerful Jiaxing Tianxia later produced "Gu Jian Qi Tan", she brought eight or nine newcomers from Jiaxing to fill the main roles of the TV series. Instead, she was ridiculed by netizens, saying that she had too much breast milk for newcomers. Too much.

Later, several of Jiaxing's contracted male artists partnered with Reba in several TV series. The male and female actors alternated, and the audience complained. Jiaxing's TV series always featured these familiar faces changing partners.

As everyone knows, this is actually the normal operation of the Chinese TV drama industry, but it was somewhat out of date at that time.

But now, it is still very timely.

Lifting incense and worshiping God, Lifting the red cloth, Liu Meichuan led the crew members and smoothly completed the booting ceremony. Under the banner that read "Good luck launching "Soul Ferry"!", and after leaving a booting photo with all the crew smiling, The crew started working in full swing.

A convenience store located at the corner of Xuhui, the magical city, has been rented by the crew and replaced with a green "Convenience Store No. 444" brand.

Liu Zhiyang, who was wearing a convenience store attendant's uniform, and Yu Yi, who was wearing a leather jacket, were leaning against the door, watching the drama staff setting up the scene.

"Brother Yu, have you heard?"

"This TV series will not be broadcast on TV stations. It will be broadcast exclusively on an online platform. It is a video website built by the company itself."

“It’s the same as Tudou, Liujianfang, and Ku6.”

Liu Zhiyang sounded a little worried. As a young man, he was very familiar with the current Internet video platform.

He also knew it well enough, so he was particularly puzzled by the company's decision.

It's a bit embarrassing to say that although he is also one of the practitioners in the film and television industry, he usually likes to watch various pirated film and television resources on the Internet and is reluctant to spend money to buy genuine discs.

Now that the company wants to build an online genuine video website, Liu Zhiyang's first thought was that it would definitely fail.

Even if there is no payment and it is only broadcast exclusively on the website, viewers can still watch it for free. Liu Zhiyang does not think this strategy will be successful.

Because online video piracy is so rampant now, if you upload a video to the Internet, it will be quickly spread and shared on various websites.

Today's video websites such as Tudou, Liujianfang, and Ku6 are popular because their website libraries are full of film and television resources for various domestic and foreign movies and TV series.

They claim to be uploaded by the users themselves, but in reality they are all pirated resources uploaded by the staff of these websites using their own registered accounts.

Whoever has more sources of pirated films will have more users and be more popular among netizens.

In such a general environment, the Light and Shadow Era wants to put a TV series on a video website for exclusive broadcast. Isn’t this nonsense?

"Decisions at the company level are not something we can control." Yu Yi shook his head. He was not interested in these rumors. "All we can do is work hard to film this drama and contribute the best performance."

"Other things are unnecessary and shouldn't be our concern."

Unlike Liu Zhiyang, who debuted in Liu Meichuan's "Don't Knock on the Door" and received more than 40 million in box office, his acting career was very smooth.

Yu Yi's acting career is very bumpy. He was born in 1978 and entered the entertainment industry in 2001.

But because he doesn't look like a young boy in mainstream aesthetics, he has never been able to play any good roles. He has been in the industry for seven years, and he has only been able to play supporting roles for male leads.

Light and Shadow Times suddenly came to the door, saying that they wanted to sign him, and arranged for him to star in the TV series "Soul Ferry". This opportunity was already very rare for him.

He is not like Liu Zhiyang, who is worried about whether this TV series will be broadcast online or star.

No matter how this TV series is eventually broadcast, Yu Yi is already very satisfied. What kind of bicycle do you need to play the leading role?

Patting Liu Zhiyang on the shoulder, Yu Yi said very freely: "If you don't have time to think about this, why don't we start the movie again and do the scene again."

"Today is the first day of startup. It would be unlucky if there are too many NGs."

Liu Zhiyang also realized that he was worrying unfoundedly. He nodded with a smile and said, "Brother Yu is right, let's do a duel."

The two of them walked into the convenience store arm in arm and started chatting about today's filming scene.

What they didn't know was that Liu Meichuan, who was chatting with the producer less than a hundred meters away from them, was also talking about the same topic.

"The company still decided to broadcast online and not consider satellite broadcasting?" Liu Meichuan asked helplessly.

His producer, Yang Ping, who also came from Light and Shadow Times, smiled awkwardly: "Director Wu, the scale of this drama is impossible to broadcast on satellite TV. The radio and television will not pass the review."

"And the streaming media platform is a strategy set by Director Wu himself. As a brother company, we must fully cooperate."

This producer, on the contrary, doesn't care about online broadcasting.

From the perspective of Light and Shadow Times, after the company produces a TV series, it is actually the same no matter who it sells to, as long as it can make money.

Because Light and Shadow Times and Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast are two independent companies, although the boss is the same person, the commercial cooperation between the companies is still going on normally.

"Soul Ferry" will sell the exclusive broadcasting rights to Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast at the market price. The company will not lose money, and will even make a small profit.

But Liu Meichuan was not very satisfied. After all, it takes at least three to five months to shoot a TV series. Liu Meichuan has to pay the time cost. If the broadcast channel of this TV series is not good and the final results are not good, it will have a negative impact on his reputation.

After impulsively agreeing to take over this TV series project, Liu Meichuan has been regretting it more and more in recent times.

Once "Soul Ferry" is stolen by other websites after its premiere on the Internet, and the number of views and clicks are diverted, the results of this TV series will be difficult to count.

This is not like a TV station, which can directly count the intuitive ratings.

And the results cannot be counted, and there is no way to brag about "ratings breaking X%", "first quarter hit TV series", "this summer's hottest TV series" and other publicity, then this TV series has no value to Liu Meichuan.

"Whether in China or abroad, I have never heard of a TV series that was first broadcast on the Internet." Liu Meichuan's tone was full of resentment: "This is just to make it easier for others to pirate."

Remembering the rumors on the Internet, Wu Yuan was a pirated disc dealer before he became a director.

Liu Meichuan couldn't help but complain in his heart, the wise and powerful Director Wu would not want to give benefits to his former pirate brothers?

"Director Liu, don't worry so much." Although Yang Ping was not optimistic about this project, she still comforted him casually: "I heard from Mr. Li."

"It seems that Guangying Kuaibo has mastered some powerful video playback technology and can customize some private transmission protocols."

"It is said that users cannot directly steal the video resources on their website, which can effectively prevent piracy."

"Maybe by then, Guangying Kuaibo will be the only one on the entire network that can watch our "Soul Ferry."

"At that time, it depends on whether our drama itself can attract audiences to watch it and become popular on the Internet."

Liu Meichuan was stunned: "Is there such a thing?"

If Guangying Kuaibo can really prevent other video websites from pirating, then the situation will be much better.

If "Soul Ferry" can get hundreds of millions of views, then he can brag about it, and even brag about the title of "the first god drama on the Internet", then this project will be valuable.

Liu Meichuan immediately became alert, shook himself a few times, stood up, picked up the loud speaker and shouted:

"Are all the units ready!"

"Everyone cheer up!"

"Get ready to shoot!"

"This is the first modern urban drama with supernatural and horror themes in our country!"

"If it's shot well, it will be remembered by the film and television industry for a lifetime!"

"Hurry up!"

"Prepare for each shot!"

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