Chapter 64: Memory of the Forbidden City (first update 3.3k)
Zhou Yan did not come up halfway this time, but was giving lectures on the stage from the beginning.
Li Bingyang had to deal with visa matters today, so he asked Jia Guoping to teach for him, and Jia Guoping turned to Zhou Yan.
Through this layer of outsourcing, Zhou Yan took over the class, and now Zhou Yan is already a teaching assistant in Composition 88.
After speaking on the stage for a while, Zhou Yan suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure at the door. When he turned around, he saw that it was Sun Qin standing at the door of the classroom.
Sun Qin and Zhou Yan looked at each other, smiled, and raised their hands to greet Zhou Yan silently.
Zhou Yan nodded and finished the knowledge point he was talking about first. Then he said to the students, "You guys need to digest what I just said. I'll go out for a while."
After saying that, he walked out of the classroom.
"Director Sun, why are you here?"
Sun Qin rubbed his hands and smiled sheepishly, "Am I disturbing your class?"
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"No, I'm just about to take a break." Zhou Yan looked at his watch again, "Is there anything urgent for you? If there's nothing urgent, just wait here for a while. There's still seven or eight minutes until the break. Let's meet again during the break. Chat."
Sun Qin smiled and shook his head, "It's not an urgent matter, I can wait for you."
"Why don't you go inside and wait?" Zhou Yan asked.
Sun Qin looked inside the classroom. He had never taken a composition major class and was quite curious, "Is it convenient?"
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "What's the inconvenience? We Yangyin’s classes are open to anyone.”
"That would be disrespectful."
Seeing Zhou Yan come back again and again, bringing a "big brother" in with him, the students were a little curious and guessed who this big brother was.
Sun Qin sat in the back row and listened to the class as honestly as the other students. However, for the professional classes in the composition department, no matter how profound and simple the explanations given by Zhou Yan were, he could not understand them.
You can hear the polyphony, harmony, and words, but you can’t understand them when they are put together.
After listening in a daze for seven or eight minutes, it was finally the break. Zhou Yan took Sun Qin aside while the students were resting.
"Director Sun, why did you come here today?" Zhou Yan got straight to the point.
Sun Qin knew that Zhou Yan was short on time, so he did not make any detours. He took out a tape from his pocket, "I asked for this from Director Wang. It contains your composition for "Reply from Heaven" That song "Kite."
Zhou Yan did not expect that Sun Qin actually went to Wang Junzheng to ask for the song. In fact, after meeting Sun Qin that time, Zhou Yan never thought about their promotional video again.
He looked at the tape and smiled and said, "After listening to this piece of music, Director Sun, what advice can you give me?"
Hearing this, Sun Qin waved his hands repeatedly, "No, no , I can only admire your level as a guide, I don’t dare to give you any advice. That’s right, I was really conquered by this song, and I paid more attention to the soundtrack of our promotional video this time. I would like to ask Director Zhou if he can give us some guidance on the soundtrack of the promotional video.”
Zhou Yan pondered for a moment and said, "Actually, my new work this semester is for the Forbidden City."
Students in the Composition Department of Yangyin University are required to submit a new work every semester, and at the end of the semester, At that time, the class will organize a concert of new works during the semester, and students will need to perform their own works on stage.
Although Zhou Yan works like a teaching assistant every day, his identity is just an ordinary student of 88-level composition, so new works for the semester must also be submitted.
As he said, the work he is submitting this time is related to the Forbidden City. It is "Memory of the Forbidden City" which he borrowed from the well-known new age band SENS.
There are many soundtracks in SENS's "Forbidden City Trilogy", but the most famous one is probably "Memory of the Forbidden City", which is also a typical song that is more popular than the film.
Before deciding to use "Memory of the Forbidden City" as his new semester work, Zhou Yan was a little hesitant. This piece is certainly good, but it belongs to the new century music and is neither classical nor avant-garde.
The semester works of the Composition Department are mainly to show what students have learned. Therefore, when students create semester works, they will pay more attention to the tonality of the work and classical techniques and rules.
To put it bluntly, it is to let students display their arsenal.
"Memory of the Forbidden City" obviously does not fall into the category of this type of work. It belongs to a new style between electronic music and classical music.
But in the end, Zhou Yan decided to use "Memory of the Forbidden City". He felt that there was no need to limit himself to his professional skills. He should jump out and deliver works that resonate with people.
Moreover, his own skill level no longer needs to be reflected in a semester work. It is better to express something other than techniques.
In addition, he also wanted to get in touch with and learn more about electronic music through the production of this song.
"Memory of the Forbidden City" uses a lot of electronic music technology, which Zhou Yan doesn't know much about.
Sun Qin heard that Zhou Yan’s semester work was related to the Forbidden City and said in surprise, “Is it true?”
Zhou Yan nodded, “Well, that’s why I heard that you were going to shoot a promotional photo the other day. film, I asked a few more questions, but the Forbidden City didn’t have much screen time in your promotional film.”
Sun Qin understood. Zhou Yan actually wanted to score their promotional video last time, but he heard that there was too little time related to the Forbidden City in the promotional video, so he didn't like it.
He hurriedly said, "Actually, the proportion of space can be adjusted. If necessary, we can consider adding more content about the Forbidden City."
Zhou Yan shook his head, "Director Sun, it's too difficult. Okay, your entire film is only three to five minutes long, but my song is four minutes long.”
Sun Qin was wondering if he could cut out a little bit of the song and put it into the promotional video, when Zhou Yan asked again. Said, "And this piece of music is inconvenient to be dismantled, because it is a complete narrative in itself. If it is dismantled, the narrative will be incomplete and the effect will be greatly reduced." This sentence directly conveyed what Sun Qin originally wanted to say. Blocked back.
In this way, Sun Qin is in trouble. Logically speaking, the music must be based on the photos, but the problem is that Zhou Yan has not said that he will do it for them. He came to Zhou Yan himself, and he cannot force others to cut the music. Well, that's a bit unreasonable.
If you can’t split the music, you can only extend the time. If you want to extend it by tens of seconds or even a minute or two, Sun Qin can still make the decision, but extend the content of the Forbidden City to four minutes upwards...
To do this, there are only two possibilities, either to extend the entire film several times, or to simply change the theme from a Yenching propaganda film to a Forbidden City propaganda film.
Can Team Leader Sun agree? This topic selection was finalized by Team Leader Sun himself, and the above process has been completed. Now it is very troublesome to suddenly change the topic and have to attend the meeting.
However, Sun Qin would not stupidly say no to Zhou Yan. He smiled and said, "Four minutes is no problem. Our film can be lengthened as appropriate. This promotional video is only tentatively scheduled for three minutes. Five minutes, later it is normal to increase it to more than ten minutes.”
In order to increase the persuasiveness of his words, Sun Qin gave Zhou Yan another example, "Last month we produced a program related to people's livelihood. The original duration was only seven minutes. Later, because there were a lot of materials and topics, the program was They decided to expand it into a half-hour special program."
Zhou Yan was not sure whether Sun Qin's words were true or false, but it made no difference to him whether they were true or false. "Memory of the Forbidden City." "He has already written this song.
If Yanjing TV Station can put all the songs in, then Zhou Yan will let them use it. If they can't put it in, they won't use it. He has no intention of accommodating the TV station.
"What are your plans now, Director Sun?" Zhou Yan asked.
Sun Qin thought for a while and asked, "Director Zhou, can I listen to your music first?"
"The music..." Zhou Yan looked around the classroom, then nodded and said, "That's okay. School will be over after the next class. I'll give you a demonstration then."
"Forbidden City" The song "Memory" uses many instruments, including synthesizers, and it is impossible to perform it completely live.
And even if there are enough instruments, you still need to find someone to play them.
However, during this time he was teaching orchestration to his junior brothers and sisters, so he brought many musical instruments over, including violins and flutes.
If you want a piano, that’s fine. There are two or three pianos in the classroom.
So Zhou Yan can choose an instrument and give Sun Qin a solo.
Zhou Yan said he wanted to play, which was exactly what Sun Qin wanted. Sun Qin said with a smile, "Then I'll wait until you finish class."
The two chatted for a few more words, and it was time for class. Zhou Yan walked up to the podium, while Sun Qin continued to the back row.
After the class was over, Sun Qin stood up impatiently and wanted to find Zhou Yan, but before he could reach Zhou Yan, Zhou Yan was surrounded by several students.
“Brother Zhou Yan, can you help me take a look at my semester work?”
"Senior brother, I still need a bamboo flute for my semester performance. Can you help me?"
"Senior brother, senior brother, tell us more about orchestration."
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Sun Qin looked at Zhou Yan, who was moving around among the students, with a confused look on his face. No wonder Yang Yin's level was high, and the learning atmosphere in their school was also so good.
When he was in school, he was caught by the teacher every day.
Zhou Yan pressed his hand in the crowd, "Don't be anxious, Teacher Sun and I still have something to do. We'll talk about it after it's over, or you can go back first and we'll talk about it tomorrow."
Teacher Sun? Who is Teacher Sun?
Some students realized it and turned back to look at Sun Qin, and other students followed suit.
Being stared at by the students, Sun Qin raised his hand in embarrassment, "Hello, classmates."
After speaking, Sun Qin walked up to Zhou Yan and whispered, "Director Zhou , how about we change the place..."
He couldn't say anything else because he noticed that a girl looked at him as if she wanted to eat him.
Sun Qin doesn't care where he listens to the music. He mainly thinks about Zhou Yan.
However, Zhou Yan waved his hand and said with a smile, "No, just stay here. During this time, other students will also be practicing their works in the classroom. I haven't practiced before, and I just happen to be practicing today. "
Xu Lang was the first to understand. He opened his eyes and said, "Brother Zhou Yan, do you want to play a piece of music?"
Zhou Yan smiled and nodded, "Well, my new work for the semester. .”
"Wow."
"I can hear Brother Zhou Yan's new work."
Although they didn't understand why Zhou Yan wanted to play the new work in front of Teacher Sun, they could hear Zhou Yan's new work made them very excited.
In fact, since last month, students have been practicing their own songs in the classroom. Some students will also practice and write while writing in the classroom.
But they have never seen Zhou Yan practice his music, and they have never heard him mention it.
The students are very curious, what is Zhou Yan's semester work like?
(End of this chapter)