When Zhou Yan just returned to school, he met his teacher Shi Wanchun first. After all, he was appointed as assistant to the dean of the department. Although he didn't have much to do, he still had to follow the required procedures.
Shi Wanchun saw Zhou Yan, looked up and down, and the first sentence actually mentioned his hair.
“My hair has grown long recently, it’s time to get it trimmed.”
This opening confused Zhou Yan. His hair had indeed not been trimmed for a while, but it didn’t grow any longer either. To an exaggeration point, his hair is not even as long as that of his teacher Shi Wanchun.
Zhou Yan smiled and handed the teacher a cigarette, "Why did the teacher suddenly pay attention to my hair?"
"After some time, you are going to receive an award. Get a haircut and be more energetic."
The more Zhou Yan listened, the more confused he became, "What award?"
Shi Wanchun lit the cigarette. , said with a smile, "Don't you remember that you filled out the application form for outstanding teachers in Xicheng District?"
"Oh, that's what happened."
Zhou Yan did fill it out before Yes, but that time many people filled it out, it was more like a formality, so he didn't take it seriously.
"You have been selected. The district will organize an organization to receive the award. On the 10th, you will go to the district education committee to get the certificate."
Hearing that he was selected, Zhou Yan was very surprised, "I won the award in one semester. Can he still pass two classes?”
He wondered if the school had manipulated it for him.
Shi Wanchun rolled his eyes, "People are very happy when they hear their comments, but you don't look too happy."
"I'm not unhappy either. I’m just worried about being dissatisfied.”
Excellent teachers at the district level are of little use to Zhou Yan. If others say that there is a secret operation because of this, the gain will outweigh the loss.
Shi Wanchun waved his hand, "You are just an outstanding teacher at the district level. You deserve the award. Although you only teach two classes a week, your teaching quality is high and student satisfaction is high. You run the Piano Youth Orchestra, right? This orchestra has made outstanding contributions to cultivating young musicians, and the district also considered you for this."
"Oh, that's right." Zhou Yan. Nodding, if you want to include the achievements of the Piano Youth Orchestra, it is indeed enough.
Seeing that Zhou Yan did not respond much to the outstanding teachers at the district level, Shi Wanchun said, "Don't underestimate this outstanding teacher at the district level. If you want to evaluate the key teachers in Yanjing City later, he will get the district-level award within five years." Excellent teachers above grade 1 are a necessary condition. "
"Within five years, you will be awarded the title of associate professor, and then you can be evaluated for the outstanding teacher award of the Huo Yingdong Education Foundation and the outstanding backbone teachers of Yanjing City."< br>
When Zhou Yan heard the path arranged by his teacher, he suddenly felt familiar. Isn't this the path of advancement for his senior brother Yu Feng?
Yu Feng was an associate professor who was evaluated in the previous year. He won the first prize of the National Young Teacher Award of the Huo Yingdong Foundation that year, and was evaluated as an outstanding backbone of Yanjing University the following year.
Sure enough, even at Shi Wanchun's position, he still wants to compete with others. As Shi Wanchun's most proud student, Zhou Yan naturally cannot help but compare with Yu Feng.
Speaking of which, he does look a bit like Yu Feng.
Yu Feng does not have any teaching tasks in the school. In the past two years, he has been leading orchestra performances abroad or going to foreign schools for further studies. He has not taken as many classes at Yangyin as Zhou Yan.
Yu Feng was able to receive these titles of outstanding teachers because of his achievements in training youth symphony orchestras.
Wan Chun still had something to say about the implementation. The road he planned for Zhou Yan was even further than this.
He hopes that after Zhou Yanping becomes an associate professor, he will be able to serve as the deputy director of the composition department, and then directly be promoted to the director of the composition department in three or four years.
It’s just that it’s hard for him to say these things directly. If word gets out, others will say that their composition department is going to be “hereditary”.
Although Zhou Yan was not thinking about promotion, he was still very grateful to his teacher.
Shi Wanchun probably won't be promoted anymore. At this time, he has no idea of cultivating zz resources. Paving the way for Zhou Yan is purely for Zhou Yan's benefit.
Zhou Yan nodded and smiled, "I'll get a haircut later."
"Well, there's nothing else to do, but your band will have two performances at the New Year's Eve party later, so you can do this Serve some snacks.”
“No problem, I’ll tell them soon.”
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After leaving Shi Wanchun's office, Zhou Yan went to the command department's office again and asked Che Yongqiang, a teacher in the command department.
Che Yongqiang’s teacher Yang Hongnian formed the Yanjing Philharmonic Chorus, a children’s choir whose members are basically from primary and secondary schools in Yanjing.
Although the choir only has a history of ten years, it is developing very well. Zhou Yan approached Che Yongqiang this time to ask about the actors.
"Senior Brother Che, you are busy."
Che Yongqiang was preparing music. When he heard Zhou Yan's voice, he looked up at him and said with some surprise, "A rare guest, Junior Brother Zhou, What brought you here today? ”
"I want to trouble you with something."
Che Yongqiang asked with a smile, "What is it?"
"I have a movie here and I need some boys who can sing."< br>
Che Yongqiang understood immediately, "Want to find it from our group?"
"That's what you mean, is it inconvenient?"
"It's not inconvenient, but I have to ask my teacher for advice on this matter."
"Do you want me to go find Teacher Yang?"
Che Yongqiang waved his hand, " No, I'll just tell him myself. "How old do you want your child to be?"
"How many do you want?" br>
"You need dozens of them."
Che Yongqiang was startled, "You are trying to hollow out our group. How can we have so many children for you? You are not the size of our group." I know.”
“I’m not just recruiting from your group, I’m going to look at all the major choirs. The main reason is that your group is of high quality, so I’ll ask you first.”
The reason why Zhou Yan found Che Yongqiang first was mainly because it was easy. In fact, he was not very optimistic about Yang Hongnian and his group.
Yang Tuan is famous for his strict discipline, and those who are disobedient will basically not be allowed in.
What Zhou Yan is looking for is a naughty and talented little boy.
"Okay, I will tell the teacher." Che Yongqiang said.
"I'm sorry to bother you, senior brother, I'll treat you to dinner later."
"I've remembered it."
"Don't worry, there will definitely be a big dinner. ”
After agreeing with Che Yongqiang, Zhou Yan went to find Zhao Zhang again.
This guy stayed in Yinchuan for two months and actually gained weight.
Zhou Yan joked, "You are easy to feed. You can grow meat in Zhenbeibao. You are not harming the sheep of the fellow villagers, right?"
"How can you do that? I can't afford it. , Mainly because you bought so many things that time, everyone was addicted to it. Later, Brother Mengfei went to the market to buy things. During the next period of time, we will eat more every day."
"After I left, we were on site. How is the situation? ”
Zhao Yan took out a stack of notebooks from the drawer, "I wrote them all down."
Zhou Yan took the notebook, looked through it briefly, and then said, "Let's go to the studio and read it."
Hearing that he was going to the studio, Zhao Lao was very happy, "I was about to go too. I heard that two Steinways came?"
"That's what happened. Let’s go.”
When Zhou Yan and the others arrived at the studio, there were many people in the large recording studio, all from the Piano Youth Band.
Usually when no one is working in the recording studio, the orchestra likes to rehearse here because it is larger and has a better sound structure. The key is that there is a Steinway here.
Zhou Yan asked Zhao Lao to play with the band members, while he returned to the office with the things Zhao Lao had written.
After watching it for a while, Zhou Yan couldn't help but sigh. Zhao Lao really treated the team's diary as a diary. In addition to the filming situation of the crew, he even wrote down a few gossips about the crew. For example, so-and-so had a quarrel with someone, and so-and-so got into trouble again.
Even the gossips of Zhu Yin, Zhou Xingchi and Karen Mok were written by Zhao Ku.
Although the description is not detailed, it will be mentioned.
This guy is probably really bored on the set, otherwise he wouldn't even write these things.
If this diary of Zhao Zhang's was seen by an entertainment reporter, he would probably go crazy with joy.
Because before the filming of "Westward Journey", Zhou Yan had talked with Zhao Ku about using erhu and other musical instruments as the main instruments for this soundtrack, so Zhao Ku also mentioned these many times in his diary Musical instruments are used in different shots.
Zhou Yan had just finished reading two books and was about to open the third one when there was a knock on the office door.
He looked up and saw Wang Feng standing at the door.
"Do you have a problem with me?" Zhou Yan asked.
Wang Feng chuckled and said, "Brother, you are still hiding from us."
Zhou Yan was confused by his words, "What do you mean, kid?"
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"Senior brother, you wrote a rock song, I already know it."
Zhou Yan suddenly understood that Wang Feng should be talking about "yellow".
"Where did you hear about it?" Zhou Yan asked.
"We have a guest in our studio."
"A guest is here? Who is it, Zhao Siran?"
Wang Feng shook his head, "It's Xu Wei."< br>
Zhou Yan said unexpectedly, "Xu Wei is here."
"Well, he is in the practice room right now. He also showed us the song you wrote. Do you want to go and have a look?"
Zhou Yan looked at Zhao Ku's diary and said, "Wait for me for a while. I'll be there in half an hour."
"Okay, then we'll wait for you."
After saying that, Wang Feng left.
Zhou Yan continued to read the diaries. After about twenty minutes, Zhou Yan finished reading several diaries, then got up and walked towards the practice room where Wang Feng and the others usually stayed. Pushing the door open and entering the practice room, Xu Wei was chatting and laughing with a few people at No. 43 Baojia Street.
Long Long saw Zhou Yan first and shouted excitedly, "Senior brother is here."
Xu Wei also turned around and greeted Zhou Yan, "Teacher Zhou."
< br>Zhou Yan nodded and said with a smile, "Welcome to our studio, are you the only one? Where are the other members of your band?"
He casually asked the other members of Fei's band, Xu Wei listened. After arriving, his expression became a little depressed, "Our band broke up."
"Disbanded?"
Zhou Yan was very surprised. In his impression, Fei Band did not exist for a long time, but he did not expect it to break up so quickly. He only met Fei Band more than a month ago. At that time, everything Everything is going well and everyone is satisfied.
What happened this month? Can a band that was originally full of energy break up?
“We encountered some difficulties and we overestimated ourselves.”
Xu Wei did not go into details, but now there are usually only a few reasons for band disbandment, and those few reasons can It boils down to one reason: no money.
Playing in a band is a very luxurious thing for most people. Equipment, venues, food, drinks and lodging for the members are all free of charge.
The younger members may still be able to persist with their passion, but the older members will face a sharp increase in social pressure, making it difficult to persist.
Xu Wei did not elaborate, and Zhou Yan naturally did not ask in detail. He nodded and asked about Xu Wei's personal situation, "Are you planning to visit Yanjing for a few days this time, or do you have other plans?"< br>
Long Long followed Zhou Yan's words and said, "Xu Wei, why don't you come to our band? I'll give you my lead guitar and I'll play the keyboard or rhythm guitar."
Zhou Yan looked at Long Long, this guy is still too inexperienced and talks incoherently.
Xu Wei played the guitar well, so Long Long thought he was sincere in giving up the lead guitar, but there was one thing he couldn't understand: Xu Wei was in a band, the lead singer first, and the guitarist second.
If you want to get Xu Wei to No. 43 Baojia Street, you can only take Wang Feng's place, which is simply impossible.
Sure enough, when he heard Long Long’s words, Xu Wei just smiled and didn’t say anything.
Zhou Yan said, "Long Long, don't make random arrangements for others. Xu Wei should have his own plans."
Xu Wei also said at this time, "I am not planning to join the band for the time being."
Wang Feng also changed the topic, "Brother, let's talk about your song first. Xu Wei only knows part of it, and we can't even hear it enough."
Zhou Yan nodded, "Okay, Let’s talk about the song first.”
Then Zhou Yan took them through the song “Yellow” again. Before he came, Xu Wei had already arranged the first half of the chords and melody with Wang Feng and the others. Having said that, Zhou Yan demonstrated it to them again on the piano and violin, briefly explaining the idea of the song.
When he finished speaking, Zhao Muyang asked, "This song only has the melody but no words?"
Zhou Yan nodded, "Well, not yet."
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Zhao Muyang said with regret, "That's a pity. If the lyrics were written out and turned into a complete song, it would definitely be very popular." "
After chatting with Wang Feng and others for a while, Zhou Yan called Xu Wei to the office alone.
When he arrived at the office, Zhou Yan asked Xu Wei, "What are your plans later? Have you contacted the record company?"
Xu Wei didn't think much about it and replied, "I did contact two companies. We are chatting now and don’t know what will happen in the end.”
Hearing that he hadn't confirmed the company yet, Zhou Yan said directly, "Have you considered signing with our company?"
"Signing with your studio?"
"Wang Feng and the others didn't tell you Well, they are all signed by the Zhou family, which is actually separate from the studio."
Although Zhou Yan did not say what happened to the Zhou family, Xu Wei knew from the name that the Zhou family was inseparable from Zhou Yan. relation.
Xu Wei thought for a while and said, "Actually, I made two songs myself. The focus of my discussion with the two companies now is whether they can produce my two songs quickly."
"Can you give us these two songs?" Zhou Yuan asked.
“I recorded the tape, but didn’t bring it over.”
“Bring it over tomorrow, I’ll be at the studio tomorrow too.”
Xu Wei dialed the number Hair, said, "Teacher Zhou, I would like to ask one more question, if I really sign with Zhou, how are you going to release these two songs? Are you going to release them together with the song from No. 43 Baojia Street, or with you Will you release songs from other signed singers together?”
“Except for No. 43 Baojia Street, Zhou has only signed the Piano Youth Band. If you sign a contract, you will be Zhou’s first solo artist. singer, so there is no other singer’s song to post with you.”
"Then this song..."
The operation mode of many record companies now is to put together an album for their singers, so Xu Wei asked this question. If Zhou only has one singer, then this way will be There is no way to go.
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Don't worry, bring those two songs over tomorrow. After I listen to them, we can discuss the rest of the matter. What do you think?"
Xu Wei He still had no idea in his heart, but since Zhou Yan said so, he nodded, "Then I'll come back tomorrow."
"Well, I won't keep you for dinner today. I'll save a game tomorrow and let's go together." Have a meal.”
"Okay."
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The next afternoon, Zhou Yan was sorting out the score of "Spring of the Cowherd Class" in the office, when the phone on the table suddenly rang.
He picked up the phone casually, "Hello, hello."
No one spoke on the other end of the phone, so he spoke again, "Hello, who are you calling?"
At this time, Xu Wei's voice came from the opposite side, "Teacher Zhou, it's me, Xu Wei."
Hearing Xu Wei's voice, Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Xu Wei, when will you come over?"
< br>"I..." Xu Wei was silent for a few seconds, and finally said, "I'm sorry, Teacher Zhou, I'm afraid I can't go to your place."
Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows and asked, " What do you mean?”
“Red Star Production Company contacted me again in the morning, and they agreed to all my previous conditions, so...”
Xu Wei didn't say what he said next, but Zhou Yan understood what it meant. Xu Wei had decided to sign with Red Star Production Company. In this case, he would definitely not bring the song to the studio again.
Zhou Yan pondered, "Do you want to think about it again? Come to my place to hear our conditions?"
"I'm really sorry, Teacher Zhou." Xu Wei apologized to Zhou Yan again.
Hearing what Xu Wei said, Zhou Yan knew that it would be difficult to change his mind.
Zhou Yan understands Xu Wei's decision. After all, in the rock circle, Red Star Production Company is indeed more attractive than Zhou's.
Hongxing Production Co., Ltd. was established not long ago, only two years ago, but their boss is Chen Jiantian, the former manager of the band Beyong.
Before, Faye Wong and Black Panther were able to enter the Hong Kong Orchestra because of Chen Jiantian's operation.
After establishing Red Star Production Co., the first person Chen Jiantian signed was Zheng Jun. In May this year, Zheng Jun’s debut album "Naked" received a very good response, giving their company the first shot.
With a successful example like Zheng Jun, Red Star Production Company is very attractive to young rock singers. The key is that Chen Jiantian has a wide network of contacts in the rock circle, and the production team is also very strong. Nowadays, Yanjing Rock Many well-known figures in the industry are related to Red Star Production Co., Ltd.
In this case, Zhou Yan did not try to persuade him any more, but just said, "No need to apologize, it was originally a matter of mutual consent between you and me."
"The main thing is that I promised you yesterday that I would give you the song to listen to, but I broke my promise."
"Don't take it to heart. Although we haven't signed a contract with our company, we are still friends. If you have time in the future, we can always You can come to the studio to play. I also wish you can achieve great success in Red Star. If there are other opportunities in the future, we will cooperate again.”
The more generous Zhou Yan is, the more ashamed he becomes. If you scold him a few words, he will feel better.
"Teacher Zhou, it's really..."
Seeing that he wanted to apologize, Zhou Yan quickly interrupted, "There's really no need to apologize anymore. Big man, why bother being coy. That's it. Well, you have just signed a contract with Red Star, so you should be quite busy. I also have some things to do here. Let’s not talk about it for now. We have agreed to eat today, and we can eat later when we have a chance. "
"Okay, Teacher Zhou, bye."
"Well, bye."
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yan sighed slightly, and was finally intercepted by Red Star Production Company. I hope Xu Wei’s development at Red Star Production Co. will be good.
Actually, it was quite unfortunate that Red Star Production Co. called Xu Wei this morning. After learning that Xu Wei had been in contact with Zhou Yan, they took action quickly.
It’s not that they had any beef with Zhou Yan and deliberately wanted to steal people, but Zhou Yan was interested in Xu Wei, which became an advantage for Xu Wei.
After all, Zhou Yan is now so famous in the music industry. If he likes a certain musician, he will naturally increase the value of the musician.
When things didn't work out, Zhou Yan didn't think about it anymore and could only sigh that his fate with Xu Wei was not enough.
However, this incident also reminded Zhou Yan that in the music circle, if he wants to steal people, he may not have an advantage. Zhou's reputation in the music circle is too small now, and his scale is not enough.
It is impossible for people to defect to him alone.
Zhou Yan thought that he should sign more singers to make the company stronger.
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On September 17, the day before the celebration of "The Sixth Sense", Xu Feng went to Zhou Yan's studio.
This is the first time Xu Feng has come here since the studio opened.
After walking around and returning to Zhou Yan's office, Xu Feng sighed, "You are really cheap. This place has cost you millions. When will you be able to earn back the money?" "
"If it was to make money, I wouldn't build this studio. It's mainly for my own convenience." Zhou Yanyou then joked, "Besides, it's only a few million." , you can make money soon.”
Xu Feng curled his lips and said, "You don't sound too petty. Although you say that a few million is not a big problem for you and you can make it back with just one movie, but it's not earned by the studio. It's all yours alone." Production results.”
A few million is not particularly much for Zhou Yan now. Xu Feng roughly estimated that Zhou Yan’s final income would be about It can exceed 10 million yuan.
This does not include the money earned from the soundtrack of "The Sixth Sense". If the remake rights of "The Sixth Sense" can be sold later like "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly", Zhou Yan will get a big income.
“Actually, the studio has taken on a lot of work now, and I will no longer need to put money into it gradually. It will get better and better in the future.”
It stands to reason that the Piano Youth Orchestra makes a lot of money. Part of the money should be spent on the studio. After all, the band now rehearses here most of the time, eliminating venue fees.
In the same way, part of the money earned by Wang Feng and others in the later period must be counted here.
Zhou Yan is already considering asking the company to pay the space fee for his studio on a regular basis. After all, brothers also have to settle accounts.
Xu Feng had no intention of discussing with Zhou Yan whether the studio was profitable. After sitting down on the sofa, she couldn't wait to say, "Where is your new script? Come and show it to me." (End of this chapter)