SQUARE Company, Development Headquarters Production Department, Naoshi Takuma just returned from the art department, and Shinji Kitasaki happened to walk to his office door.
"Shinji, are you looking for me?"
Shinji Kitasaki nodded, "Well, I'm looking for you, what's the matter with the theme song of "Call of Duty 8"?"
SQUARE has a dedicated music department and is quite large in scale. Composers, sound designers, audio engineers and music editors are all equipped with full staff.
Therefore, their company's music is basically made by themselves, and the outsourcing part is basically on the backend.
Originally, the music of "Call of Duty 8" was also handed over to their music department, but Takuma Yuki Naoki advocated pursuing internationality and snatched this job - at least in Shinji Qisaki's opinion, Takuma Yuki Naoki snatched their music department's job.
If this matter has been finalized, Shinji Qisaki would be relaxed now and no longer have to worry about it, but so far, there is no accurate message for the theme song, and I don’t know if they can make it.
There are songs, but pure music is pure music, and the theme song is the theme song, which is two different things.
In this case, Shinji Shinji must be concerned.
Otherwise, Takumatsuyuki would have to mess up the matter later, and the work would still fall on them in the end.
Although he would gloat about it, they would eventually have to do the work that fell on them.
Takuma Yuki Nao naturally understood Shinji Qisaki's thoughts. He smiled and said, "Don't worry, I had already called Zhou Yanjun yesterday. He had completed the recording of the theme song sample and sent someone to Tokyo in an expedited manner. We will hear it tomorrow at the latest."
Shinji Qisaki nodded, "Since that's the case, I'll wait a little longer, but I would like to remind you, don't think too much about Zhou Yan. People like him may not play games and will not have any understanding of "Call of Duty". Although the previous song is indeed very good, it may not be very good to make a song."
"Well, I know, let's talk about everything until the tape is here."
"I'll go back first."
Shinji Qisaki turned around and was about to leave. The front desk brought a person over, "Minister Takuma, this gentleman said he wanted to find you."
As soon as the front desk finished speaking, the person next to him said, "Hello, Mr. Tuozhen, I am an employee of Tongchen Company. I am here to give you this item."
Takuma Yuki saw the box in the hand of the visitor, and his eyes showed a look of surprise, "Is there a tape inside?"
Hearing the tape, Shinji Qisaki, who had already turned around and was about to leave, turned around and stared at the box in the man's hand.
The man took out a piece of paper and a pen from his arms, "Yes, there is a videotape inside, please sign for sale."
Takumatsu immediately took the paper and pen to sign the name, and then took the box from the other party.
"Help me give this gentleman."
After throwing this sentence off, Takuma Yuki Nao turned around and entered the office.
Shinji Qisaki hurriedly followed.
Takuma Yuki Nao moved quickly. After entering the office, he put the tape into the player. Shinji Qisaki, who was following behind, gently closed the door. Then the two of them sat on the sofa, quietly watching the player, waiting for the music to come out of it.
About eight or nine seconds later, the singing sounded.
“Iwillnotmakethesame…”
A gentle, clean, and full of inspiration came from the player, but the sound did not seem to be in a hurry to drill into the ears of the two of them, but floated in the room for a while before it fell into their ears, making it impossible to hear where the sound came from.
Shinji Qisaki couldn't help but look at Takuma Yukina. He wanted to ask who the female singer who sang the little singer was, but because he didn't want to interrupt the singing, he held back and didn't ask.
In the main song, the sound feels very unified, and it sounds like it is getting farther and farther away. At first it feels from the ceiling, then it feels from the window, and behind it makes people feel that the sound is as if it is coming from the sun through the clouds.
In terms of hearing, people feel weightless.
After entering the chorus, the emotions became intense and the voice created a huge sense of power.
This sense of power is not a swaying mountain, but rather like a huge wave. Shinji Nishisaki felt like a small boat in the surging waves, lifted up by the huge waves, and finally as the waves fell, he felt weightless again, but this time the feeling of weightlessness became even more intense.
It was not until the first chorus that Shinji Shinji focused on the lyrics.
He is average in English, but he can understand the lyrics of this song. He can understand only the repeated "because of you", and it suddenly became imprinted into his mind.
Before he could finish listening to the song, he sighed slightly, and Nobuo Uematsu had no hope at all.
If the pure music they heard before could be 8 points, then the song they heard today could be at least 9.5 points.
The singing, lyrics, and arrangement are all very perfect, much better than the pure music before.
When the whole song was played, the office was quiet for a while.
About ten seconds later, Shinji Qisaki spoke first, "I think I can prepare to talk to Zhou Yanjun about the specific details of the cooperation."
Takumatsu nodded, "Indeed, it's impossible for us to let go of this song."
Such a perfect song is placed in front of you, it shouldn't be too bad if they can still let it slip away.
What they have to do now is to do their best to negotiate the cooperation with Zhou Yan so that this song can become the theme song of "Final Fantasy 8".
"I'll go to the president's office." Shinji Kisaki stood up and said.
"Let's bring the tape together." Takuma Yuki Naoki also stood up.
"Okay."
...
Ten minutes later, Hiroshi Sakaguchi slapped the table, "Even if you can't outsource all the music from "Final Fantasy 8" to Zhou Yan, you must take this song off."
After listening to it once, Hiroshi Sakaguchi was conquered by this song like Takuma Yuki Naoki and others.
After making a song, it is much more amazing than the pure music before.
If they want the theme song to enter the international market, they must have such a level.
"I will contact Zhou Yan as soon as possible." Shinji Qisaki said.
"Okay, if you encounter any problems, you can ask Yukina to help you. He has had contact with Zhou Yan and knows more." Hiroshi Sakaguchi pointed at the table and asked again, "Oh, by the way, who is the singer who sang this song?"
Takumatsuyuki shook his head, "I don't know, Zhou Yanjun didn't tell me."
Zhou Yan only told Takumashiki to give him a sample of the theme song.
Before Takumatsuyuki got the tape, he thought it was an ordinary sample, but after hearing it just now, he realized that this was not a sample, it was completely the official version, and there was no flaw at all.
It must have taken a lot of effort to record this sample.
"This singer sang very well, but..." Hiroshi Sakaguchi only said halfway, but Takuma Yuki Naoki and Shinji Kisaki knew what he wanted to say later.
This time they want to make the theme song more international, so they naturally hope to find well-known singers. Even if they don’t invite singers of Maria Carey and Whitney Houston, they can’t find ordinary unknown singers.
Zhou Yan said this was a sample, would he look for an ordinary singer?
If so, it would be a pity, because they could not use this singer's.
"Or why don't you contact Zhou Yanjun and ask?" Shinji Qisaki suggested.
"Do you contact him directly? Do you want to find an interpreter?"
"It's too troublesome to find an interpreter. Try to communicate with music. Zhou Yan's English should be fine."
Hiroshi Sakaguchi nodded, "Okay."
Then they didn't move, and called Zhou Yan directly from Hiroshi Sakaguchi's office.
After the phone was connected, Shinji Qisaki greeted Zhou Yan in English and then asked the questions they wanted to ask.
Shinji Qisaki's spoken language is average, but he spoke very slowly, and Zhou Yan basically understood it.
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"The singer who sang the sample is Faye Wong, I'm going to give this song to her."
"Is it fayewong?" Shinji Qisaki said in surprise.
"Well, that's right, it's her."
Shinji Qisaki pursed his lips and thought to himself that he hadn't heard it was faye's voice just now.
But this is good news for them. Shinji Qisaki smiled, "I understand, Zhou Yanjun, we are completely satisfied with her and this song, and I hope we can reach this cooperation."
"For specific cooperation, just talk to Sangtian, he can represent me."
"Okay, we will communicate well with Sang Tianjun, so I won't disturb you."
Shinji Qisaki hung up the phone, and Takumayuki asked, "Who is fayewong?"
"Don't you know fayewong?" Shinji Qisaki laughed, "Last year, Neon's most popular Chinese female singer list was fayewong, and her popularity was ahead of other female singers, and even surpassed the second-ranked male singer Zhang Guorong."
Takumatsu Yuki couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He didn't know fayewong, but he knew Zhang Guorong.
"And," Shinji Qisaki continued, "fayewong appeared on the cover of Time magazine last year."
Hiroshi Sakaguchi couldn't help but nod. When he heard this, fayewong was the kind of singer they wanted.
"Zhou Yanjun solved a big problem for us," said Hiroshi Sakaguchi.
"But at the same time, we have another reason to have to get this song." Shinji Kitasaki said with a smile.
Takumatsuyuki clenched his fists and said, "So, let's try our best to get it."
"I will definitely work hard." Shinji Qisaki also clenched his fists.
"Then I'll wait for your good news." Hiroshi Sakaguchi smiled and said, "By the way, Zhou Yanjun's new movie has a good box office recently. I haven't watched it yet. Let's do this. After get off work tomorrow, I'll invite everyone to go to the cinema to watch movies."
Shinji Kisaki smiled and said, "Actually, many people in our music department have already watched this movie."
People in their music department have always been very concerned about this movie, so many people have watched it in the cinema as soon as the movie was released.
Takuma Yuki Naoki also smiled, "Actually, I've seen it too."
Hiroshi Sakaguchi shrugged, "Then let's book the next hall first, and then everyone can go freely if they want to go, and they don't want to go."
"Since that's the case, I'll definitely have to watch it for a second time." Takuma Yuki said immediately, "This movie is worth watching again in the cinema, especially the music inside, which is really nice."
Shinji Nisaki nodded, "I believe that people from our department are willing to go there again."
"Okay, that's it. I'll ask someone to book a hall for tomorrow night."
Shinji Kisaki smiled and reminded, "If it was the time period after get off work, I'm afraid there would be no way to cover it now, unless it was postponed for a few more days."
After hearing Shinji Kitasaki say this, Hiroshi Sakaguchi probably knew why. He smiled and said, "Since that's the case, then I'll get off work a little early tomorrow. Let's watch the afternoon."
It just so happened that the company's work was not very tight this week, so it could be relaxed. After this week, the company would have to enter a long period of busyness.
Hiroshi Sakaguchi invites employees to watch movies at this time, and also wants employees to relax before entering the high-intensity working period.
And with this move, I later talked about cooperation with Zhou Yan, so it would be easier to intervene.
"The afternoon game should be OK."
Generally speaking, during non-prime time periods, many cinemas have free cinemas. If someone spends a wallet, they can take out the free cinemas.
The prime time period is not possible, because the cinema will definitely not be idle during prime time. "Traveler Love in Time" is not broadcasting, and other movies are also broadcasting. As long as someone has bought tickets for a certain session, even if there is only one, there is no way to book a venue.
And the number of "Traveler Love in Time and Space" in tomorrow's prime time should have sold some tickets, and there is no way to book the show.
As for other movie sessions... In fact, most cinemas no longer rank other movies now.
"The Sleeper", which was released on the same day as "The Traveler in Time and Space", has now dropped rapidly, from more than 40% to 15%, and is still falling.
Cinemas also need to make money. Even though they know that "Traveler Love in Time and Space" can make money, they must schedule more films.
...
The proportion of "The Sleeper" screening continues to decline, and what is outrageous is that the attendance rate also declines.
The proportion of screenings fell simultaneously with the attendance rate, and the box office decline was naturally so fast that it was unexpected.
Two weeks later, the schedule of "The Sleeper" has dropped to 1.5%, with an average of 0.6 people per game, and an attendance rate of 0.5%. The box office you can get every day is almost negligible.
In this case, "The Sleeper" was drawn directly under the neon light.
In this way, a movie with a ration income of nearly 200 million neon coins on the first weekend was actually drawn after only two weeks. This is not common.
Originally, in everyone's eyes, "Traveler Love in Time and Space" and "Sleeper" were two equally matched opponents, but after these two opponents came on stage, one of them was quickly koshered by the other, which was naturally jaw-dropping.
At this time, someone joked that fortunately, "The Sleeper" and "The Traveler in Time" were released on the same day. If it were two days later, I'm afraid that the 200 million ration income would not be able to get.
Of course, this is completely a hindsight. If the producer and publisher of "Sleeper" knew that this would happen, they would definitely avoid the collision with "Space-Time Traveler". (This chapter ends)