Chapter 566 Joining forces to collect money
Liu Wangxue still remembers what she said last year about taking Xu Qingsong back to her hometown town to have a look. She has not had the chance in the past year, so after the engagement party, she went to play in Beijing. It was brought up a few days later.
Xu Qingsong naturally nodded and wanted to go. Liu Nanshan and Gu Xuelan might not have gone back for a long time. With this plan in mind, the family took the three little ones back together, or drove themselves.
After arriving in Anshi, I first went to my uncle's house in the city. I also met Liu Wangxue's cousin's family, and the cousin's silly golden retriever.
After dinner, we didn’t stay much longer and had to go back to town. Both his uncle and cousin sent engagement gifts to Liu Wangxue. In this short half day, Pangpang also formed a friendship with his cousin's golden retriever and wanted to give him a gift from the same kind.
My aunt was worried that their house had not been occupied for two years and had not been cleaned. Going back to clean it up so late would delay their rest, so she wanted them to stay overnight and the guest room was ready. However, Liu Wangxue's house is close to her aunt's house. When her aunt heard that they were coming back, she had already helped clean it. After hearing this, my aunt stopped trying to stay.
Stayed one night at home in the town, and went back to the village with my aunt the next day. What my aunt and uncle have been busy with recently is renovating the old house.
The old house in the village is a two-story building built not long after Liu Wangxue was born. It is a common style in the village. In front of the building is a large courtyard with cement floor. On one side of the courtyard wall are two wing rooms. To the left of the door is the kitchen, and to the right is a wing. The money to build the house was paid for by Gu Xuelan and his sister together. Their rooms are all on the second floor.
Since Liu Wangxue’s grandma and grandpa passed away, the three brothers and sisters are not willing to see things and miss people, so they come back less often. The house has been empty for several years and no one lives in it. There is no popularity. Some signs of defeat.
After the Spring Festival this year, my aunt Gu Xuemei came back and took a look. She felt that it could not continue like this, so she discussed it with Gu Xuelan and her elder brother Gu Xuefeng, and said that they should renovate it so that everyone who celebrates the New Year would come back to get together.
Gu Xuelan was far away now, and it was not convenient to go back, so she discussed with Liu Nanshan how to spend more money and let Gu Xuemei and her husband Song Ningwei spend more time renovating the house. Gu Xuehui's family also contributed money. He was in the city and was relatively close. He contacted the engineering team and went back from time to time to check on the progress.
At present, the repair and decoration of the house have been basically completed, and it looks brand new from the inside out. Everyone discussed coming back for the next Spring Festival.
After that, I went to Liu Wangxue's uncle's house to sit and stayed in the town for another two days, then drove back to Taojiacun from here.
After a few days of leisure at home, and after the May Day holiday, Liu Wangxue went to Haishi again.
The auditions for "The 21st Murderous Show" are basically completed. This month is equivalent to the last round of interviews, where several leading actors and several important supporting roles have to be finalized.
When the casting process first started last year, Meng Huadong, Jing Yujun and Meng Luoqiu also sent invitations to their favorite actors.
The popularity of this game is obvious to all in the market. As soon as the news came out that it would be adapted into a film and television series, everyone knew that if nothing unexpected happened, it would definitely be a hit.
It’s just that Du Yunxiang and Sheng Zongjiang played a trick after discussing it, and asked them to attach a contract when submitting the invitation. If they can accept the terms in the contract, they will read part of the script to discuss the next step.
However, the overly stringent contract terms made the actors who received the invitation hesitate. Things during filming have to be managed, and things after filming have to be managed, and the contract lasts for three years, which they can't accept. Moreover, according to the current business style in the industry, if there is any imbalance between the drama studio and the management, let alone three movies in three years, he can only shoot one movie in three years, which is considered fast.
It’s like a costumed conspiracy drama that was launched a few years ago and was adapted from a big Internet IP. The response was unprecedented when it was broadcast. After the broadcast, the discussion on major platforms remained high. There were even many people who made long video analysis of this drama frame by frame.
This drama also left a huge suspense at the end. It is obvious that a second part will be made. Everyone thinks so and the drama team should start filming as soon as possible while the iron is hot. The audience is also hoping for the stars and the moon.
Who would have thought that I have been waiting for the second part for five whole years.
During this period, it was because of the competition between the management and the management. Because the drama was so popular, they all wanted to insert their own actors into the second part, and some people wanted to replace the leading role with someone else. The actors alone formed a fierce conflict with the show's viewpoint.
Later, because of this and that, some actors in the first part lost their houses, some investors withdrew their funding, etc. The filming of the second part was delayed for three years, and two more after it was completed. It was aired in the year.
The audience went to see it excitedly, but were disappointed.
The crew seems to be only focusing on dealing with chores. They haven't even polished the most important script, and the actors who have changed roles have not been selected...
In short, compared with the grand occasion of the first part, all major online platforms are basically It's a complaint.
Even if there are no lessons learned from the past, the market trend is not static. When some people who received the invitation hesitated, they could not help but think that if Jingshan Technology's client game was not done well, it would probably have a certain impact on the drama, or the script of the film and television drama was not solid and the result would not be good. It's nothing more than harvesting leeks from a wave of traffic...
In fact, I'm just making excuses for my rejection.
After the invitation was sent out, only a few people responded in the affirmative.
The crew is not panicking, there are many good actors, look for them!
After the audition is basically over, those who stayed for the final competition after several rounds of screening have been training in Junxi Entertainment venues for several months.
In addition to lines and body shapes, there are also some characters with martial arts scenes that require sword and gun training. The training intensity is also quite high. If you can endure the hardship, you can hope to win the role. If you cannot endure the hardship, you can get the subsidy and leave at any time.
So, when Liu Wangxue saw these actors at the audition venue, his eyes lit up - from their appearance to their temperament, from their speech to their manners, everything about their behavior was pleasing to the eye.
After watching it for a while, Jing Yujun asked Liu Wangxue for his opinion, and joked: "You have to give a true evaluation, don't be blinded by beauty."
When Meng Huadong heard this, he glanced at Jing Yujun angrily, thinking that he was just blinded by the glitz of the industry. Didn't he even read the script seriously? She said angrily: "Don't listen to him. You know the script you wrote best. You have to choose the most beautiful one for this role."
Meng Luoqiu felt that her father was really always the best when it came to serious matters. Old-fashioned, didn't even catch a joke.
Liu Wangxue snickered, pointing to the actress No. 3 recorded in the notebook and said: "I think this one is pretty good. Although she is not the best in terms of figure and appearance, her acting skills are completely acceptable. To make up for it, I was really aroused when I watched her acting. When the time comes, let the makeup teachers and costume teachers in the team work hard. After dressing up, it should be the one that best suits the character."
Meng Huadong nodded, but he thought the one on the seventh was pretty good too. Ask the casting director on the side to take the two people in for a fitting.
Another round of auditions was over, and the two actresses had finished their makeup, so they replayed the scene they had just auditioned for. Sure enough, No. 3 was the better one, so she was chosen.
At the end of May, all the characters in the play were finally decided, and filming started non-stop without any rest.
As planned, we will shoot the location first, and the crew will be in the northwest throughout June. At the end of June, the first phase of the "Dazhao 21" theme amusement park project was officially completed, but it will not be open to the public for the time being.
In July, the crew went to the southwest and shot scenes in some ethnic minority villages.
At the beginning of this month, the drama "Halo Effect" was announced and will be broadcast exclusively on the Shenghai Video platform starting from August 5th, with two episodes per day.
At the same time, the game was officially announced after improvements and two rounds of internal testing in the previous three months.
Jingshan Technology’s game fans are quite confused. They haven’t heard any news before. Why is a game suddenly released? According to the introduction, it’s a single-player game, plot-oriented, and the key words are “puzzle solving” and “escape”—oh, I’m so curious! Could it be a modern version of "The Twenty-One Cases of Da Zhao"? Can't wait to wait!
Some people say that they have never seen a TV series and a game of the same name released at the same time. They ask who adapted whom? Neither official responded.
The official announcements of the drama and the game were released almost at the same time, and they were interactive. As soon as I saw the product name, I no longer had to think about it. Netizens joked that this was clearly the Du family's brother and sister "joining forces to make money." Who adapted who? It probably doesn't exist. Maybe it's just a script that was developed in two ways. When I looked at the screenwriter again, I saw that there was no running away, that’s it!
Then someone asked, why is there still something about Sheng Hai when the Du family brothers and sisters are trying to make money? Naturally, Junxi Entertainment has not established its own broadcast platform. Du Yunxiang entered the scene relatively late, and the broadcast platform is almost monopolized by a few players, one of which is Shenghai Video.
Du Yunxiang originally wanted to build one, but after market research, he found it was unnecessary and uneconomical, so he gave up the idea. In the past few years, the quality of Junxi Entertainment's dramas and variety shows has been guaranteed. If it can be broadcast on satellite TV, you don't have to worry about it. If it can be broadcast on the Internet, you don't have to worry. If you use your strength to speak for itself, people will buy it. If it doesn't work, you can just use the old one. Dad's name.
This time it is estimated that Liu Wangxue’s influence is also involved. Junxi and Shenghai have plans to cooperate in depth, starting from the broadcast platform. Shenghai plans to open a separate section for Junxi, specifically for broadcasting. The content they produce. However, the cooperation has not been officially announced yet.
After the official announcement of the game and the drama, the first story trailer was released together. It is a romantic and beautiful emotional line, focusing on a story of sweet love, happy marriage, and success in career and life.
Audiences who want to follow the drama: Oh, the anticipation was in vain, it’s love again, the protagonist’s perfect life is something we ordinary people can’t sympathize with, goodbye!
Studio game fans: What is this? This B game? Isn’t the B-game market already occupied by the four major players? Jingshan Technology may not be able to get much of the pie if it enters the market at this time, right? I would like to express my opinion first, tut, I am not interested.
Two days later, the game and the show simultaneously released a trailer for the second story, which is from the perspective of the perpetrator, mixed with several fleeting shots of the victim.
The crew did not do any publicity from the beginning of the casting, and the filming was also kept secret. The audience did not know the protagonist or the general plot.
Unlike the first trailer, you can tell who the actor is at a glance. After this trailer was released, Ni Jia retweeted and interacted with it, and everyone realized that the heroine was her.
Audiences who want to follow the drama: Oh my God! What is this? What's going on? Isn't it a sweet drama? And Ni Jia, is it really her? I can’t see it at all! Who is this male protagonist? I was so frightened that I lost my memory...
Studio Game Fan: It is indeed a modern version of "The Twenty-One Cases of Zhaozhao"! The theme of this blind guess is domestic violence. The player needs to help the female protagonist escape from the male protagonist's control and then punish the male protagonist to pass the level.
The third trailer is a suspenseful story line. The editing, narration, soundtrack and actors' acting skills are all very gripping. It is full of mystery and makes people want to find out.
Audiences who want to follow the drama: Oh, it’s Shen Xun and Ran Anyu. Are they dating again? It looks like they are in love but they are hiding something from each other. It's not like "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", right?
Studio game fans: No more running, no more running! Suspenseful detectives, I love them so much! Get online soon!
The fourth trailer is a revenge line. The showrunners also wanted to hit the right amount of traffic as a guarantee for the show, so they added the character played by Lou Rui to the trailer, which mainly focuses on male and female protagonists— -Yes, in the end the role of Meng Luoqiu, the hero’s younger brother, was given to Lou Rui. The revenge in the trailer is the revenge of the character Lou Rui, and it is also unfolded from his perspective.
Lou Rui fans: Surprised! Ruirui gets a makeover in the drama directed by Xiao Meng! The contrast in this personality is so touching! It turns out that cowards can also become evil!
Audiences who want to follow the drama: let the bullets fly for a while, and then evaluate it after watching the drama. I hope the trailer is not all the highlights of this traffic.
Studio Game Fans: Online! Why are you waiting for August? Come on now!
The last trailer is from the perspective of all the villains. Whether it is a literary drama or a martial arts drama, it is very exciting to watch. The official WeChat accounts of the crew and Jingshan Technology were almost flooded with comments, all clamoring for them to go online as soon as possible.
【We are an online drama, and it is not broadcast on a star. It is still on Shenghai's own platform. Isn't it said that it can be broadcast at any time? We still have to wait for August 5th, right? Is this a special day? Do you have the heart to make the audience wait for more than twenty days? ! 】
[Same as above, the game is fully developed by Jingshan Technology itself. Why are you waiting? Why does it have to be bundled with the drama? Let’s play the game first, my wallet is all ready! 】
[Well, let me ask, since the drama and the game are the same script, can I just pay one share? One needs to be a member, the other needs to be purchased to play...]
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There are so many messages, Jingshan Technology’s official Weibo did not reply to any of them, only this one was chosen, and the reply Said: [Dear, it’s up to you to decide. If your wallet is big enough, it is recommended to start the drama and the game at the same time. After all, the details of the drama and the game complement each other, and some escape clues in the game need to be answered in the drama. ~】
The crew’s official WeChat account retweeted this reply with just two words, “Yeah, yeah.”
【Well, you are big! The money trap is so blatant! 】
[Okay, this is forcing gamers to watch the show, and forcing ordinary viewers to buy games! 】
【Friends, keep your wallets tight! Don't let the thieves worry about you! 】
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This idea was also proposed by Liu Wangxue, and Du Yunkai asked her to read the last script she had revised. Du Yunkai felt that the plot was indeed better than the previous versions. He was worried that after the show was launched, it would overwhelm the game and affect sales, so he also planned to make some modifications according to this version of the script.
Liu Wangxue believed that if the similarity between the game and the drama was too great, no matter which one was launched first, each other's audience would be lost, so he suggested changing to the current model——
The characters and the main plot remain the same, but the supporting roles and branch plots are different. The details of the drama and the game complement each other, and some clues to the game are hidden in the drama. This should be able to retain the audience of both parties to the maximum extent, and perhaps also achieve mutual benefits. effect.
It doesn’t matter if you really don’t want to pay twice. These complementary details will not affect the viewing or game experience, they just make the characters and plot more vivid and vivid.
As for the clues to pass the level, they are all related to the law. They look like puzzles in the game, but practical steps will be given in the play. Players who are not familiar with the law can follow the prompts in the play and follow the steps to complete the level.
The purpose is still the one originally proposed by Shu Mingyuan, "educational significance", and also hopes to help some people who need help and are actively trying to save themselves.
On the day the drama and game officials announced the release date, Wenxi went to the crew to find Liu Wangxue.
Wenxi told Liu Wangxue the year before last that he would go to ethnic minority areas to collect folklore when he had time, and Liu Wangxue also expressed his desire to go with him. Now, Liu Wangxue went with the crew first. Wenxi arranged all his work in advance to squeeze out time and give himself an annual leave, so he took his assistant with him.
Liu Wangxue usually spends most of her time on the set. Meng Luoqiu's martial arts group does not need her presence. She mainly runs between Meng Huadong's literary opera group A and Jing Yujun's literary opera group B. Sometimes Wenxi would come to the crew to take a look. After all, some of the crew's costumes were sponsored by "Chunjian". When the crew is not busy, Liu Wangxue and Wenxi will visit the village to learn about and experience the culture and art here.
Wenxi went back after staying for more than 20 days. In August and September, the crew still shot scenes here, and most of the shooting locations were in the mountains.
Xu Qingsong also took the time to come over and take a look, and bought a lot of food and supplies for the crew, especially some anti-mosquito medicines.
In October, the crew went to Huai City to shoot indoor scenes in the first phase of the theme amusement park.
All indoor scenes were filmed at the end of December, and the crew left for the Northeast right after that. Because it was not yet winter when the exterior scenes were shot in the previous few months, the scenes that required snow scenes were shot last.
In winter, it is very cold outside in the Northeast. Filming is like turning on the difficult mode, which is a test for the crew. Fortunately, there were sufficient funds, and measures such as warmth, medical care, and safety were taken into consideration, so there were no accidents even when shooting in the mountains and forests.
The days when the crew was about to wrap up production happened to be at the end of January, and this year’s Spring Festival was in early February. Jingshan Technology had an early holiday, so Xu Qingsong went to the Northeast first to wait for the crew After finishing filming, I played there with Liu Wangxue for a few days.
After hearing this, Du Yunkai made an appointment with Wenxi, bought tickets for the same flight as Xu Qingsong, and went there to play together.
Then Wenxi and Liu Wangxue returned from the ice and snow world to the small courtyard of Taojiacun, which happened to be New Year's Eve.