Chapter 333 This Wave, This Wave Turns Enemies Into Friends!

After returning from Venice, it was already mid-September.

"A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die", which won the Venice Golden Lion Award, has not yet been fully scheduled for release in the mainland, but another TV series produced by Light and Shadow Times will be launched first.

"Soul Ferry"

This is the first web drama in China.

The current process of launching web dramas is really primitive and wild.

There is currently no web drama review process, and the General Administration has no concept of web dramas.

In fact, until around 2015, in the wild era when web dramas just emerged, web dramas mainly adopted self-review.

That is, you need to apply for a "production license" during the production stage, but you don't need the General Administration to review it before you go online. Instead, the broadcasting video website can take your content to the General Administration for filing a case.

Now, even this kind of filing is not needed, just like when Wanhe Tianyi made a short drama like "Never Expected", it was no problem to shoot one episode a week and then go online directly.

There is only one thing, it cannot be called a "TV series". After all, this is not a film and television work broadcast on TV, so how can it be called a "TV series"?

The staff of the publicity department of Guangying Kuaibo, a newly born online streaming platform, are basically transferred from Guangying Times.

Apart from other things, they are very professional in publicity.

According to Wu Yuan's request, in early September, the publicity department of Guangying Times began to promote "Soul Ferry" on the Internet.

Their banner is "China's first online drama", without mentioning the word "TV" at all, let alone whether it will be broadcast on satellite TV.

At the beginning, not many mainland netizens paid attention to this publicity.

Guangying Kuaibo is a new online video platform after all, and it is just a preheating publicity. The platform has not been launched yet, and the publicity effect is very limited.

But after Wu Yuan returned to China, the situation was different.

Wu Yuan, who returned to China to personally guide the launch of the Guangying Kuaibo project, understood a truth very well.

To be an Internet company, you must be shameless!

September 18, evening.

After a hard day's work, Chu Miaomiao still dragged her tired body back to her rental house in the suburbs of Shanghai.

More than two years have passed. The urban beauty who was crazy about the idol drama "Fated to Love You" has changed from a new graduate who was full of longing for love to a sophisticated professional.

Don't get involved with me, don't talk about love, it will only affect my speed of making money!

However, my love for watching TV series has not changed.

It's just that compared to watching all kinds of love idol dramas before, Chu Miaomiao is now more willing to watch more TV series of other themes.

It's a pity that most TV dramas nowadays can't avoid love in the main plot.

Whether it's an urban drama, a costume drama or a martial arts drama, most of them are still related to love. Only some historical dramas and anti-Japanese war dramas don't talk about love, but Chu Miaomiao doesn't like this kind of drama.

So she has been very distressed about the lack of dramas recently.

After returning home, Chu Miaomiao simply heated up the food she hadn't finished yesterday and devoured the food, then she wore glasses, lay on the bed, and opened her newly bought laptop.

This laptop was the latest Lenovo computer that she had saved up for half a year, with first-class configuration and smooth operation.

Chu Miaomiao skillfully opened the browser and opened several favorite web pages one by one, and began today's "Taobao" journey.

Of course, it was not online shopping, but watching videos on several popular video websites.

With the speed increase of the mainland Internet several times, after dial-up Internet access was replaced by broadband Internet access, the development of Chinese video websites has become more and more prosperous.

Hundreds of new videos are released every day on video websites such as 56 Video, Ku6 Video, Liujianfang, Youku, and Tudou, many of which are film and television resources actively shared by netizens, and some are officially uploaded.

Chu Miaomiao's favorite is Youku. On July 9 this year, Youku obtained the "Information Network Audiovisual Program Transmission License" and "Radio and Television Program Production and Operation License" issued by the General Administration.

This means that Youku can produce some online programs by itself.

Chu Miaomiao likes to watch Youku's weekly updated "Entertainment New Weekly" and "Youku Starlight" columns, because these programs are videos of Youku reporters interviewing various celebrities and artists, and can get a close look at the private lives of these celebrities and artists.

However, today, Chu Miaomiao just opened Youku, and her attention was attracted by the video that ranked first in the real-time broadcast ranking.

"The first Internet TV series "Soul Ferry", the first trailer!"

Internet TV series?

Soul Ferry?

These two keywords immediately aroused Chu Miaomiao's curiosity.

Apart from anything else, the name of this TV series alone gives people a gloomy and terrifying feeling, which is exactly what Chu Miaomiao, who is short of dramas, likes!

Without hesitation, she immediately clicked on this video.

Chu Miaomiao rubbed her hands excitedly while waiting for the video loading symbol to keep spinning.

She didn't have to wait long. Soon, the video loaded successfully. After playing a 15-second yogurt advertisement, a video that was not too high-definition started playing on her laptop.

"The Buddhist scriptures record that there are five kinds of eyes in this world."

"Heavenly eye."

"Wisdom eye."

"Dharma eye."

"Buddha eye."

"Natural eye."

In the video, a voice with a heavy and magnetic tone was slowly reading the narration. Every time he read an eye, the picture would switch.

The sky, the statue of a saint, the image of the Taoist ancestor, the seated Buddha statue...

When the narrator read the word "flesh eye", a human eye pupil taken from a very close distance occupied the entire screen.

Chu Miaomiao shook her hand subconsciously and almost overturned the laptop, "Wow, it's scary!"

"The eyes of the flesh are dark and unclear."

"See near but not far, see in front but not behind, see light but not dark."

"But there is another kind of eye that can see in the dark."

"They."

The narration continued, and the video screen kept moving. From morning to noon and then to night, countless time-lapse shots of the people in a modern society appeared in the screen.

Just because of the word "them", Chu Miaomiao unconsciously became a little nervous.

"Shua——"

The screen suddenly went dark, green and blue stripes appeared on the background, and a line of blood-red words slowly emerged.

"Have you ever seen a ghost?"

"Fuck, how dare you take such a photo?" Chu Miaomiao grabbed both sides of the computer with both hands, bit her lips tightly, and felt a little excited.

"Ghosts" are something that cannot be talked about. Except for Hong Kong movies, they basically do not appear in mainland film and television works, let alone be exposed so bluntly.

After all, we are an atheist country, and we do not promote these feudal superstitions.

However, human curiosity is endless. The less you know about something, the more interested people are.

For example, Chu Miaomiao, her eyes are already full of excitement at this time.

The trailer is still going on.

As this line of words appeared, the picture suddenly switched to a dimly lit convenience store. A young man wearing an apron, with his back to the camera, stood between two rows of shelves, looking at the glass wall in front of him.

Suddenly, a bloody hand appeared on the glass.

The scene changed, and a pair of eyes with dilated pupils occupied the screen again.

These were the eyes of the convenience store clerk. In the reflection of the pupils, a figure in white was slowly approaching him.

The constantly switching scenes, the eerie lighting, the "unlucky" background music, and the various atmospheres made Chu Miaomiao feel a chill on her back.

She regretted that she shouldn't have clicked on this video.

Being too curious is sometimes not a good thing!

"Whistle--"

A sharp whistle suddenly sounded, scaring her to close her eyes subconsciously.

But then a gunshot sounded.

Chinese horror with American Iai?

What a strange combination.

Even though she was very scared, Chu Miaomiao couldn't help but squint her eyes and look at the screen.

I saw a middle-aged man wearing a leather cape, sunglasses, and a rogue look. He was holding a fancy, a little like the flower-carved flintlock pistol used by European nobles in the 17th century.

The gun was still smoking, and the man smiled at the camera in a chic way, and turned slightly. A big jeep had stopped at the door without knowing when.

"Dongqing, it's too late, get in the car!"

"Today is the Ghost Festival, the gates of hell are wide open, we have to work overtime!"

Some absurd and funny lines diluted the horror atmosphere, and Chu Miaomiao burst out laughing.

However, funny is just a seasoning.

The tone of this trailer must be as scary as it can be.

Some horror shots in each unit story in the 20 episodes of the first season are constantly interspersed in the trailer, focusing on scaring people and filling the horror atmosphere.

Chu Miaomiao, who had just relieved a little tension, immediately had her heart lifted again.

When the trailer was played to the second half, she basically didn't dare to look at the video, and her heart was beating fast.

This is really scary!

It has been many years since I have seen such a pure horror movie in China!

Even the horror movies popular in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s were mainly about zombies and beautiful ghosts. How could they be so scary!

Chu Miaomiao had never felt that time passed so slowly as it did at this moment.

The trailer, which was less than four minutes long, seemed to have been played for half an hour before it finally reached the end.

"People know that ghosts are scary, and ghosts know that people's hearts are vicious!"

"China's first online film and television drama "Soul Ferry" will be broadcast exclusively on Guangying Kuaibo software on October 1st. See you there!"

At this point, the trailer ended.

Yes, Wu Yuan shamelessly spread the trailer video of "Soul Ferry" on other popular video websites on the Internet.

Because there is almost no supervision and users can upload video resources at will, mainstream mainland video websites including Youku and Tudou have not refused Wu Yuan's promotional videos to go online.

So, under the easy operation of the company's publicity department, these promotional videos quickly topped the video playback list.

This wave, this wave is turning enemies into friends! (End of this chapter)