Zhou Yan's "Sense and Sensibility" crew stayed for more than a week, and on July 11th, they went to London again.
Huo Jianqi and the others have brought the filming team over to prepare for the filming of the concert footage. Although there was only one scene, Huo Jianqi still brought a dozen people over.
The first concert of "The Sixth Sense Global Tour Concert" is in London on July 15th. In order to ensure that it does not affect the normal progress of the concert, Huo Jianqi and the others came five or six days in advance to do Enough preparation work.
In the first two days, they only took measurements and selected seats at the concert. Later, when the orchestra came to the concert hall to rehearse, they would also start rehearsing together.
For this scene, Zhou Yan completely left it to Huo Jianqi to direct, and he basically didn’t interfere, because the concert itself was inseparable from him, and he had no time to worry about filming.
Moreover, Huo Jianqi was the one who made the plan for this scene from the beginning, so Zhou Yan was relieved to leave it to him.
At noon on July 13, after Zhou Yan had eaten, he was about to take the orchestra to the concert hall to rehearse when he received a phone call.
A middle-aged man's voice rang on the other end of the phone, "Hello, Mr. Y, I am Jeff Brown from jive, and I am also the person in charge of the Backstreet Boys."
Listen After the other party introduced himself, Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Hello, Mr. Brown, why are you calling me at this time?"
Jeff Brown said with a smile, "I want to Let me share some good news with you. "Yellow" topped the UK singles chart last week. This is also the first time the Backstreet Boys have won the top spot, and it is an airborne title."
The song "Yellow" was just released in the UK at the beginning of this month. Before the release, Jeff Brown was very confident. He believed that the song would definitely do well in the UK, but he did not expect it to be so good. First Zhou won the championship.
This is indeed the first time this song has won the championship. In the United States, the best result of this song was only the second place as a single, and then it fell down, although it is still still there. It will remain in the top five, but the ranking will only get lower and lower in the future. Unless there are some special circumstances, otherwise, it is unlikely to move up again.
There is a big gap between the second place and the first place. Whether or not you have the title of first place will greatly affect the marketing promotion.
If "yellow" can win a weekly championship in the United States, I'm afraid sales will increase a lot, and the word "top order" is still very valuable.
"Yellow" has had such a good start in the UK, and the publicity work will be better in the future, which may also affect sales in other regions.
Zhou Yan was very happy when he heard the news. This song did not disappoint him.
But he also knew that Jeff Brown must have something else to say. They had never contacted him before, and they couldn't just share a piece of good news. Jeff Brown specifically contacted him directly.
"Mr. Brown, congratulations to you, and I hope you will continue to work hard and continue to get good results."
"We want to thank you, Mr. Y, for having such a good song like yours , to achieve the current results." Jeff Brown complimented Zhou Yan, and then asked about Zhou Yan's concert, "How are the preparations for your concert now?"
"It's okay, we'll see you in the afternoon. It’s time to rehearse for the first time. Although this concert has a new theme, overall it’s still the same old repertoire, nothing special.”
The preparations for this concert went much smoother than Zhou Yan imagined.
Originally they thought that the tickets would not be sold out, but they did not expect that half a month ago, all 900 tickets for the concert hall had been sold out.
In the past half month, many people who wanted to buy tickets were unable to do so.
Originally they also thought about holding a concert at the Babbitt Center for the Arts or even the Albert Hall, but considering that there are too many seats in these two concert halls, the tickets may not be able to be sold. So I gave up.
The Albert Hall is very large and can accommodate more than 5,000 spectators. Zhou Yan has never held such a large-scale concert.
The Babbitt Center for the Arts can accommodate 2,000 people. Zhou Yan has held concerts of this size several times, but tickets are not necessarily easy to sell here in the UK.
So in the end they chose the Cadogan Concert Hall in Chelsea, which can accommodate 950 people.
Excluding some reserved tickets, the number sold to the public is basically nine hundred.
The tickets for the first theme concert were sold out in advance. Although it was not an amazing achievement, it was still a good start, so Zhou Yan was quite satisfied.
After paying attention to Zhou Yan’s concert, Jeff Brown added, “Actually, the members of the Backstreet Boys will hold a small indoor concert in London the day after tomorrow, and we will go to London tomorrow. I wonder if I will have a chance to bring the boys to meet you?”
"When will you come over?" Zhou Yan asked.
"We landed about five o'clock." Jeff Brown said.
Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "I will have a concert the day after tomorrow, and they will have a concert the day after tomorrow. I'm afraid we won't have time to meet in these two days. If it is tomorrow, it may be a little later. Wait until I'll meet again after the rehearsal with the orchestra."
Jeff Brown said with a smile, "No problem, no matter how late it is, we can wait."
"In that case, then. See you tomorrow.”
"Okay, see you tomorrow."
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After hanging up the phone from Jeff Brown, Zhou Yan took the orchestra to Kadugan Concert Hall.
Actually, Zhou Yan is very satisfied with Kadugan Concert Hall. The facilities of this concert hall are very good and are a bit more advanced than other concert halls.
The small venue is suitable for this theme. The "Sixth Sense Theme Concert" does not have any big songs. If it is to be performed in a place like Albert, it must use sound equipment. The audience Only then can we hear clearly. In that case, the effect will be much worse.
The rehearsal didn't end until 7:30 in the evening. By the time Zhou Yan returned to the hotel after dinner, it was almost nine o'clock.
When he arrived at the door, he found Zhang Youan standing at the door, and asked strangely, "Didn't you say you wouldn't arrive in London until the morning after tomorrow? Why are you here today?"
" The plan was temporarily changed." Zhang Youan smiled, "The Backstreet Boys are coming to London tomorrow. Did Jeff call you to tell you about this?"
"Yes," Zhou Yan nodded. He said, "You didn't come here just for this matter."
Zhang Youan shook his head and smiled, "Of course not, I'm here to tell you something else. You open the door first, and we go in to talk. ”
"Why are you so mysterious?"
Zhou Yan smiled and opened the door.
After entering the room, Zhang Youan took out a stack of scripts from his briefcase, "Now, look at this."
"What is this?" Zhou Yan took it in confusion. script.
The first page was blank. When I turned to the second page, I saw a line of title written on it - Band Crazy Night.
When he saw this name, Zhou Yan didn't even turn the page, so he asked Zhang Youan again, "Where does this come from?"
"Why don't you take a look first?"
Zhou Yan turned the page. He rolled his eyes and said, "Okay."
Immediately, he roughly turned over the script.
Only one-third of the story has been turned over. It’s not that Zhou Yan doesn’t give face, it’s just that the script is so rubbish that Zhou Yan really can’t stand it.
This script tells the story of the "Ghost Band". There are two boys with "unappreciated talents" who achieved nothing in school and were bullied every day. However, they both have music dreams and are determined to become musicians. In order to realize their dream, they decided to form a band, but they couldn't find anyone to join the band. Even if there were people who were willing to join, they were all idiots who couldn't even play a musical instrument.
Until one day, we met half of the band in an abandoned warehouse.
This half of the band is very strange, there are only three people in total, and they only appear at night.
In order to realize their music dreams, the two boys decided to form a band with these three people.
Zhou Yan only saw this. As for the rest of the story, he was really not interested. And he can probably guess how the story will develop later.
“You can tell me now, where did this script come from?”
“Warner gave it to me.”
Zhou Yan’s lips twitched and he asked again : "What does it mean that Warner gave this script?"
"They want to ask if you are interested in this script."
"You want me to direct?"
"Yes." Zhang Youan nodded.
Zhou Yan threw the script back into Zhang Youan's hands with a look of disgust, "They couldn't find anyone to film this crappy script, so they thought of coming to me, right?"
"Also... ...It’s not that bad.”
Zhang Youan felt that there was nothing amazing about this script, but it was not as bad as Zhou Yan said.
Zhou Yan rolled his eyes and looked at Zhang Youan, thinking that this guy had watched too many Xiangjiang movies and thought this movie was okay.
Although Xiangjiang Movies has been brilliant, there are really many bad movies like this type, and it is possible for such bad movies to get a considerable box office.
As long as we invite a few well-known actors, add a few jokes to make people laugh, and finally have a happy ending, the audience will definitely buy it.
And when Warner wants to find Zhou Yan, it must also be interested in Zhou Yan's musical talent. If Zhou Yan is responsible for the music of this movie, it will definitely make this movie a lot better.
When the time comes, Zhou Yan writes a few high-quality songs and plays them on the band, and with the promotion, won’t the box office be stable?
Zhou Yan also lamented that someone as powerful as Warner Bros. could produce such a bad script.
However, if you think about it carefully, you can see that these big companies look very powerful, but no one knows how many bad movies they have made privately.
Zhou Yan has no impression of "Crazy Night in the Band" at all, but he is not sure whether this movie has been filmed in its previous life. Maybe the movie was made, but he didn't see it because it was so bad.
Hundreds of movies are now made every year around the world, not including those unknown short films. In the future, as the times develop, the restrictions on making movies will become smaller and smaller, and the output will increase a lot every year.
The movies that can be watched by one person are just the tip of the iceberg in the history of movies.
In fact, looking at the synopsis of the story alone, it is indeed not too bad, but some of the character settings and conflict settings in the script are written sparsely, and it is weak to highlight the theme.
"Old Zhang, don't worry about the script for me." Zhou Yan said.
In fact, what Zhou Yan wants to say is that Zhang Youan should not worry too much about the movie, because as long as Zhou Yan and Xu Feng are around, Zhang Youan really doesn't need to worry about the movie.
When Zhang Youan heard what Zhou Yan said, he knew that Zhou Yan would definitely not want this drama.
"Okay, I understand. I will explain it clearly to Warner later. In fact, in addition to Warner's scripts, there are also scripts sent by many companies, but those scripts are not as good as this."
"It's not as good as this...Does Warner want to use this script to open up the Chinese market?"
"That's not true. They also know that this kind of script is difficult to pass review in the mainland."
"They It’s good to know. Apart from this script, do you have anything else to do?”
“There is another thing. The song “Yellow” is very popular now, so it has attracted many record companies. Many companies have contacted us, and the one that caught my attention the most is Crave Records.”
Hearing the name Crave, Zhou Yan thought about it carefully, but found nothing in the end, and asked: "Is this company famous?"
"This company is not famous, but its boss is."
"Who is the boss?"
"Mariah Carey."
"Oh , She actually signed with her own company. "Zhou Yan was quite surprised. Although Mariah Carey is very popular, she actually signed with her own company only a few years after her debut.
Zhang Youan shook his head and said, "That's not true. She mainly cooperates with Columbia Records, and crave is just a support, which is similar to your studio. I heard that she is preparing a new album recently. This Her company contacted us at that time, probably for the new album.”
"What did the other party say when they contacted you?" Zhou Yan asked.
“I didn’t say anything else, just asking if you have any idea to write a song for Mariah Carey.”
“What did you say?”
"What else can I say? I must ask you what you mean."
Zhou Yan nodded, "Then go tell them, I don't have time now."
Zhang Youan sighed slightly, "I knew you would most likely not agree. It's a pity. Mariah Carey is in the spotlight now, and selling her songs will bring her a lot of benefits."
Zhou Yan smiled and patted her Zhang Youan shouldered, "Old Zhang, don't sigh. Think about it from another angle. I even rejected Mariah Carey. Isn't it even more awesome? Don't think about anything else during this period. Just give my third album to the audience." Make arrangements, if we don’t release the album, the phone number in my studio is going to be overflowing.”
I don’t know how it happened, but the front desk phone number of Zhou Yan’s studio was leaked, and now fans often call. I called and asked about things related to Zhou Yan, and the most mentioned thing was the new album.
A long time ago, Zhou Yan said in front of the media that he would release a third album last year, but it has been delayed until now and has not been released. Many music fans are not happy.
“Don’t worry about this, the album will be released at the end of next month.”
"Well, that's good. Apart from these two things, do you have anything else?"
Zhang Youan shook his head, "No, that's it."
Zhou Yan is still I have some doubts. Is this matter worthy of Zhang Youan coming over in advance?
The song invitation from Crave Company can be discussed over the phone. As for the script of "Crazy Night in the Band", there is no rush. It doesn't matter if I get it two days later.
But Zhang Youan didn't say anything, and Zhou Yan didn't ask again, just nodded, "Okay, that's it for tonight. You just came, go back and rest first, I went to bed early, I still have work to do when I get up tomorrow morning ."(End of this chapter)