Chapter 599 Workplace Story
"Huai Qian quickly accepted the role of "Night Visit to Young Master Cheng." Chen Siqi put a piece of lobster meat on Lu Yanhe's plate. "We originally thought he would hesitate because this play is more literary, with a lot of dialogues and not much plot conflict. It is an experimental play in the Jump Up Theater, so the cost is lower. His salary is basically not much higher than that of "Whirlpool". We thought he would refuse."
Lu Yanhe knew the story of "Night Visit to Young Master Cheng". This is a short story written by Ma Chao, a traditional literary writer, for "Jump Up". It tells the story of a young writer who contacted a famous Peking Opera actress who was once very popular in order to find material for his next novel. As a result, he happened to run into the former apprentice of this famous actress who also came to visit him. The two had a fierce dispute over the adaptation of a play, which involved old grudges in the past and finally parted unhappily.
The role that Huai Qian was asked to play in this play is the apprentice of the famous actress.
This kind of play is all about the confrontation between two people. The performance of the actors is extremely important and also shows their skills.
Its subject matter is destined to be difficult to become popular and be warmly liked by the audience, after all, it is too literary--
But Chen Siqi and his team also reserved a share for this type of drama in the design of the Jump Up Theater.
They all believe that although the threshold is a bit high, the stories with good content can be produced at least two or three times a year.
"Maybe one of them will be popular and the audience will like it." Chen Siqi said, "No one can predict this. When we made "China in Classics", who would have thought that such a cultural program could have a large number of loyal audiences."
Lu Yanhe nodded.
"That's good." He said.
Chen Siqi: "Now we have to see the performance of "The Intern" next week. If the ratings can still be stable at more than 0.6%, Yuehu TV and Northern Lights Video will have enough confidence to ask for a price increase in the investment negotiation held next week. In this way, we can also increase the production funds for each subsequent drama, and we don't have to split one dollar into two dollars like now."
"Is "The Intern" starring Yan Liang?" Lu Yanhe asked.
"Yes." Chen Siqi nodded. "The actress who plays Yan Liang's female boss is called Yan Yuling. She was recommended by Liu Zi. She was a colleague of hers who had worked with her before. She acted in a drama, but later returned to her family to raise her children. I have watched the play "The Intern" in advance. Her acting is very good, but she doesn't have an agency yet. I have recommended her to Sister Zi Yan. I also asked the Jump Up Theater to sign three additional play contracts with her, as a package, with a total salary of 100,000." In order to save money for the Jump Up Theater, Chen Siqi and his team also thought of many ways. In the case of Yan Yuling, an actor with no fame at all, but good acting skills, Chen Siqi would directly sign several play contracts at once, a package price, to save money on the actor's salary. Chen Siqi didn't think that this was too unfair to her. The selling point of the play "The Intern" is Yan Liang. It is conceivable that once the play is broadcast, Yan Yuling, as the heroine of the play, will receive a lot of attention. The potential income this brings to her is far beyond the tens of thousands of yuan in salary. In the market, business is business.
Lu Yanhe understood what Chen Siqi meant.
Chen Siqi told him now, and also informed him in advance.
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Lu Yanhe went to Yuehu and met with the leaders of Yuehu TV Station, and confirmed the cooperation of several important projects in the future.
One is the second season of "The Birth of Actors", one is the drama "Legend of Sword and Fairy", and the other is the Jump Up Theater.
Judging from the two dramas "Girl's Adventure" and "Whirlpool" that have been aired so far, this theater did not explode in ratings like "Friends" and "Wulin Wai Zhuan" at the beginning, but it also exceeded the performance of Yuehu TV Station in the same period.
The key is that Yuehu TV Station has reduced its investment cost in the Jump Up Theater a lot compared with the investment cost in the corresponding period in the past.
The copyright of the dramas in the Jump Up Theater is in Linghe. However, because the exclusive window time for the plays in this theater is only 24 hours for Yuehu TV, and after 24 hours, they will be online on Northern Lights Video, so in fact, Yuehu TV's purchase price is much lower than Northern Lights Video.
Every time the Jump Up Theater releases a new play, it will drive the audience to click and watch the previous plays -
This is something that traditional TV stations cannot achieve.
It is also impossible for it to broadcast these plays in rotation 24 hours a day.
Yuehu TV is very satisfied.
The 24-hour window period, getting the ratings of the first wave of viewers, is enough to help this theater drive the ratings of the TV station.
Xu Senjin, the director of Yuehu TV, received Lu Yanhe very warmly. Not only did he personally invite him to dinner, but he also signed an agreement with him. It was mainly an agreement to hire Lu Yanhe as Yuehu TV's creative partner and provide program creativity for Yuehu TV. There is no substantive work requirement, for a period of three years, and a salary of one million per year -
Lu Yanhe didn't want to sign it.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Lu Yanhe also understood why Xu Senjin wanted to sign such an agreement with him. To put it bluntly, he wanted to bind Lu Yanhe to Yuehutai for a long time and establish a friendly cooperative relationship.
One million a year is a huge sum of money for ordinary people, but for a creator like Lu Yanhe who has made amazing achievements in movies, TV series and variety shows, it is actually too little.
If Lu Yanhe is willing, there are many platforms outside that are willing to add a zero at the end to cooperate with him.
But Lu Yanhe doesn’t like receiving blank checks——
Money is easy to repay, but favor is difficult to repay.
In this matter, the one million yuan that seemed to be given without any requirement and was almost free of charge would affect the normal business negotiations of many of his future projects.
However, Xu Senjin dispelled his concerns with a paragraph.
"Yan He, we all know that such an agreement is not even the icing on the cake for you. However, from "Friends" to Jump Up Theater, including the final episode of "The Birth of an Actor" which is about to be broadcast, In less than a year, you have injected fresh blood into our Yuehu Terrace. It has also brought huge growth to our declining ratings and advertising revenue,” he said sincerely, “So, this is not about our future cooperation, but about the work you have done for us Yuehu in the past six months. We all believe that these achievements brought by Taiwan should be expressed.”
Lu Yanhe thought for a while and said: "Xu Tai, since these three million are used to pay for my creativity, why not use this three million to establish a screenwriting bonus project in the name of Yue Hutai and I?" , how about using it to support young directors and screenwriters who may not have found jobs yet? Each person will receive 100,000 yuan, which can support 30 people in total.”
Xu Senjin was stunned.
Lu Yanhe said seriously: "Xutai, I am very grateful for your consideration for me, but please understand me that I will not sign this agreement. I am a person who cares about the benefits that I gain from hard work." , I won’t fight for any less, but like this I can't sleep at night after receiving such a salary. Therefore, it is used to support young directors and screenwriters who are still struggling in this industry. Maybe some of the future masters will be able to stay in this industry and welcome the new generation because of this funding. Come his chance.”
Xu Senjin suddenly smiled.
"Okay, since you said so, I won't persuade you. Anyway, this is what our station expresses to you. It's up to you how you want to use it."
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In the third week of May, "The Intern" finally received its first drama starring a popular actor after the previous two dramas opened up the reputation of Jump Theater.
Yan Liang has three dramas under his belt, "Friends", "Gold Rush" and "Top of the Mountain". In terms of reality in the TV drama industry, he is at the absolute top.
With his popularity and ability to carry dramas, everyone has high expectations for the ratings of "The Intern".
At this time, the last episode of "The Birth of an Actor" is finally aired.
This actor-competition variety show, which has been on the air for three months and has aroused huge discussion and viewing enthusiasm across the country, achieved a good rating of 1.26% in the final episode.
The achievements of variety shows are mostly reflected in the online video broadcast platform. Achieving a ratings score of 1.26% is already the highest among all variety shows on local TV stations in the past two years.
In this episode, Peng Zhixing devoted half a minute to introducing Jump Up Theater and focused on "The Intern" that will be broadcast on Sunday.
As a result, this episode turned out to be the episode with the most complaints from the audience since "The Birth of an Actor" aired.
Mainly because there are too many advertisements in this issue.
There are three trailers for other film and television dramas alone.
A thirty-second trailer for "The Intern", a one-minute trailer for "Love Letter", and a trailer for another upcoming TV series on Yuehu TV.
However, complaints are complaints, and the effect is still very obvious.
The three plays were on the hot search that night——
These are all natural hot searches, not purchased.
Moreover, especially for "Love Letter", this is the first trailer for this movie released in China. Fans who have been waiting for a long time can finally get a glimpse of the true appearance.
However, in this version of the trailer, there is still no scene of Zhang Ruozhi.
Just like the "cold treatment" of her at the Jose Film Festival, Wan Qingqing and the others at that time greeted the domestic media and weakened Zhang Ruozhi's relevant reports - the media itself had a good relationship with Linghe Company and Lu Yanhe , when I heard that Zhang Ruozhi was about to take the college entrance examination, and knowing their intentions, they were very cooperative. In this version of the trailer, there is not a single scene of Zhang Ruozhi.
It was already late May, and the college entrance examination was just around the corner. At this time, neither Lu Yanhe nor Chen Ziyan wanted anything to go wrong that would affect Zhang Ruozhi's college entrance examination.
As for the news released by the crew itself before, the male and female protagonists of this movie are Lu Yanhe and Chen Bige. Not many people know that there is a hidden female protagonist in "Love Letter".
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"The Intern" premieres on Sunday.
Yan Liang also fully demonstrated his current appeal as an actor in this drama.
One minute after the show started, the real-time ratings reached 1.1%. After five minutes, they dropped slightly and slowly dropped to 0.8%. After that, the ratings stabilized and began to slowly rise again.
"The Intern" tells a workplace story.
The style is lighthearted and comedic.
Even the part where Yan Liang had trouble dealing with his female boss at the beginning and had frequent conflicts and frictions was filmed very comedicly.
Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi basically kept laughing for the first half hour and never stopped.
"The watchability of "The Intern" is currently the best among jump-up theaters." Chen Siqi commented, "It's so funny."
Lu Yanhe also nodded and said, "Yan Liang is suitable for this drama. I was a little worried because I thought he used to play serious roles with deep hatred. I didn't expect that his style would be inexplicably suitable for this young intern with a bit of sultry characteristics."
"In the past, if it was a young male intern, he would definitely be young and handsome, and have the appeal of young hormones to the female boss, but this drama is not going in this direction." Chen Siqi said, "The funniest thing is that he has to endure everything in front of his boss and laugh with her. The hysterical and crazy state in private is too realistic. This will definitely resonate with workers."
Lu Yanhe searched the Internet for real-time dynamics.
"You said it right."
"Huh?"
"Many people said that they empathized with "The Intern" after watching it." Lu Yanhe said, "The discussion of "The Intern" on my homepage is very high. Many media people I follow seem to be watching it."
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