Zhou Yan asked Wei Yuru and the others to rest for a day and then report to the studio the next day.
But the next afternoon, Wei Yuru brought four other people to the studio.
When Xiao Li at the front desk brought them to Zhou Yan's office, Zhou Yan was quite surprised, "Sister Yuru, why are you here today? Didn't I let you have a day off and come back tomorrow?"
Wei Yuru smiled and said, "There is nothing to rest for. Come here early and feel more at ease."
Zhou Yan patted his forehead, "Oh, I didn't communicate well. Your office is actually It hasn’t been sorted out yet, but don’t worry, come with me first.”
Wei Yuru and the others did not come empty-handed, they all carried their own instruments.
Fortunately, their instruments are not big. The largest one is Mei Min’s guqin, which is not very difficult to hold.
Zhou Yan took them to the third floor and opened the door of a practice room. "This is rehearsal room No. 6. It is relatively small, but it is fine for you to use. And don't look at this The rooms are small and the facilities are very good.”
After entering the rehearsal room, Zhou Yan turned on the light.
When the indoor lights turned on, the eyes of several lesbians also lit up.
Zhou Yan said that the rehearsal room was small, but in the eyes of Wei Yuru and the others, it was not small at all. The room was at least 150 square meters, and the ceiling was very high.
Although I haven’t used it yet, just looking at the roof and walls, I know that the sound field effect and sound insulation effect of this rehearsal room are not bad.
The rehearsal room is basically empty, but there is a set of radio equipment that does not take up much space.
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "How about it, are the conditions satisfactory?"
"So satisfied!"
The smiles on the faces of several lesbians almost overflowed. Zhu Lanxi was younger and more lively. She looked up and down in the rehearsal room with her erhu in her arms: "Tsk, tsk, when have we ever fought such a prosperous battle? Teacher Zhou, Will this rehearsal room be used by us from now on?"
Zhou Yan nodded, "Well, this will be your exclusive rehearsal room from now on. I'll have the nameplate on the door changed later."
Listening to Zhou Yan talking about the nameplate, Zhu Lanxi asked, "Teacher Zhou, what is the name of our band? Has it been decided yet?"
"It's called Qingyinfang, the purity of the water and the sound of the music."< br>
Hearing this name, several people nodded. This name is simple and easy to remember, which is quite good.
"You guys can play here for a while. I'll take someone to clean up your office. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me."
"Okay, I'm sorry to trouble you, Zhou Yan." Wei Yuru said.
Zhou Yan smiled and went to prepare an office for them.
In fact, the office is ready-made, and it does not take time to clean up. Zhou Yan and his people simply collected two rows of workstations and came out, then went to the Piano Youth National Band and called Yu Jia and the others. out.
In addition to Wei Yuru and the other five, Zhou Yan also selected four people from the Piano Youth National Band, making a total of nine people.
Zhou Yan took the two parties to get to know each other.
Wei Yuru has performed with the Piano Youth Orchestra before, so she is quite familiar with the members of the orchestra.
Yu Jia is the daughter of the leader of the folk band, and she is familiar with the people in the folk band, so they quickly got to know each other without Zhou Yan having to introduce them.
After they chatted for a while, Zhou Yan said, "There are no rehearsal tasks these days. If you don't want to be idle, just find some music to ponder and practice. Tomorrow afternoon, Teacher Dong's studio I'll send someone over to measure you."
"Measure, are you going to make costumes for us? Is it the same as what Sister Yuru wore before?" Yu Jia said excitedly.
When they were in the United States, the performance costume Wei Yuru wore left a deep impression on them, and the girls all wanted to own one.
“The costumes for this performance are specially designed. There are two sets in total. The style must be simpler than Sister Yuru’s previous one. But you know the level of Teacher Dong, it must be very good-looking. . ”
“Of course we believe in Sister Miao Miao’s skills. Will Sister Miao Miao come to take measurements tomorrow? If she comes, I will ask her what color clothes she plans to design for us this time. "
"Probably...won't come."
Since last year, Dong Wenmiao has become quite alienated from him. The two of them haven't seen each other for a long time. What's the matter? Everything was communicated over the phone, and Dong Wenmiao had a business-like attitude every time.
Zhou Yan sometimes wanted to reminisce with her, but there was no good time.
"That's a pity." Yu Jia said regretfully.
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Okay, I'm going back to the office first. If you have any questions, remember to come to me. Sister Yuru, if you have any questions, you can also ask Yu Jia and the others."
< br>"Okay, go and do your work, you don't have to take care of us here."
……
After returning to the office, Zhou Yan was not idle. He began to list the performances for Qingyinfang.
Zhou Yan will definitely write some exclusive songs for Qingyinfang in the future, but now that Qingyinfang has just been established, Zhou Yan first lets them play his other songs as a transition.
The first thing he thought of was "Missing Through Time and Space" and "Drinking the Water of the Yangtze River Together". These two songs are relatively simple and easy to change the orchestration.
In addition, there are also "Walking in the Snow in Search of Plum Blossoms" and "Nightingale", which are not complicated to make.
In addition, Zhou Yan also wanted to change the orchestration of "Guanghan Palace".
The version in the album is played with violin and other Western instruments. Zhou Yan wants to change the violin to an erhu and add several other instruments. In this way, the music will become a different style.
Listing these songs is not as simple as writing a name. Zhou Yan also has to rearrange them according to the instruments of the Qingyinfang members.
If necessary, Zhou Yan will make some modifications to the music to match their instruments.
Zhou Yan was not in a hurry to tell Zhang Youan about the establishment of Qingyinfang, because he wanted to arrange a few songs first and let Qingyinfang try the effect.
If the effect is good, take them to Neon.
...
More than a week later, Zhou Yan took Qingyinfang to practice "Missing Through Time and Space" and the new version of "Guanghan Palace", and the effect was better than he imagined.
Especially the new version of "Guanghan Palace (Night of Confession)", Zhu Lanxi's erhu performance surprised him very much.
The erhu version of "Guanghan Palace" has a more tearful and complaining feeling. Compared with the violin version, the emotion of sadness is stronger. Supplemented by pipa, guqin and other musical instruments, the sense of space is very special. powerful.
The only regret is that their costumes have not been made yet. According to Dong Wenmiao, one set of clothes takes more than a month.
In other words, even if we wait until April to go to Neon, Qingyinfang will only be able to wear a new costume at most.
But one set is enough.
Zhou Yan called Zhang Youan and told him that Qingyinfang had been established and he could go talk to Music House about the program.
"It's pretty fast. You give me the personnel information first, and I'll have someone go through the procedures first."
"Okay."
"Also, what songs is your Qingyinfang playing now?"
"I have temporarily rehearsed two songs, "Missing Through Time" and "Guanghan Palace". I should still rehearse before going to Neon. Two to three songs.”
“If they go to the Music House, two songs are enough. But they have to go to Neon, and it must not be just this one activity, otherwise it will be a waste, I think. Let’s see what activities they can participate in.”
“It’s up to you to arrange this.”
“Well, the contract for “Titanic” has been settled. Fox is planning to announce the news after a while.”
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "It's just a soundtrack, do we need to make a special announcement?"
"Normally, there is no need to make a special announcement when signing for a soundtrack, but aren't you very popular recently? Of course Fox doesn't want to waste it. They waited until the Academy Awards ceremony was over before announcing this news. Maybe you won the best score. Isn’t the popularity coming again?”
Zhou Yan is not particularly concerned about the Academy Awards. , he is more concerned about the release of "The Sixth Sense".
"Is the premiere of "The Sixth Sense" going to be held?"
"Yes, it will be on the third day after the Academy Awards ceremony, that is, in March On the 27th, the movie was officially released on the 29th. I talked to Bregman two days ago, and he was very sorry that you couldn't attend the premiere. "
"No way, I don't have time to run there every day."
"He told me that you told him that as long as the box office of "The Sixth Sense" exceeds 100 million US dollars, you will participate in their Celebration party?”
“I’m talking about the North American box office exceeding 100 million US dollars.”
“This is quite difficult, but from Bregman’s tone, there seems to be some hope. Didn’t you just win the Special Jury Award? Now Columbia is helping you promote it in North America. They are also helping to promote it well and the effect is pretty good. "The Sixth Sense" is currently very popular in North America, and there are no competitive movies at the same time. "The Sixth Sense" does have a chance."
The movie was originally released in March and April in North America. There are only a few, and most movies are released in May, June, July, August, and November and December.
Some of the more popular movies this year, such as "Independence Day," "The Ops" and "Tornado," were released in July, and the latter two were released in May.
So far in the new year, only one film, "The Birdcage", has performed well.
"The Birdcage" is a movie released in early March. It has been released for almost two weeks, and it cannot compete directly with "The Sixth Sense".
The movie is released in March and April, which has its pros and cons. The good thing is that there are few competitors, but the bad thing is that the popularity of the movie is relatively low during the schedule, so it is not easy to get good results.
"If the North American box office can really exceed 100 million US dollars, I will definitely go to the celebration banquet." Zhou Yan said with a smile.
"Haha, of course you are going. If the North American box office can really exceed 100 million US dollars, you Zhou family will make a fortune."
"The Sixth Sense" remake, Zhou family invested 400 The matter of ten thousand dollars is not a secret, Zhang Youan certainly knows about it. Although he didn't know how much of the share Zhou would get, the investment of four million US dollars would definitely get a lot.
The North American box office is US$100 million, which means that the global box office may exceed US$200 million, which is ten times the budget.
Ten times is actually nothing to Zhou Yan’s movies.
Because Zhou Yan has made three feature films since his debut, and the box office of the first two films far exceeded ten times the budget.
"Springtime of the Cowherd" is now only released in the Mainland, and the box office has already exceeded 50 million. When it is released in other places, it does not seem to be difficult to achieve ten times the number.
But the budgets of Zhou Yan's films are relatively small, the cost is low, and the box office is slightly higher, the multiple can go up.
The budget of "The Sixth Sense" is US$21.5 million. With this budget, the box office has reached ten times. The profit is huge.
With a box office of US$200 million, Zhou could conservatively earn US$10 million.
"It's better to talk less about things that haven't happened yet."
Zhang Youan said with a smile, "Okay, let's not talk about this for now. I want to tell you another thing."
"What's going on?"
"The global box office of "Sense and Sensibility" has exceeded US$140 million. It is predicted that the final box office of this movie will be between US$170 million and US$200 million. The business in Colombia is really good."
Zhou Yan was not surprised at all when he heard that the global box office of "Sense and Sensibility" exceeded 140 million US dollars.
The basics of this movie are good, and it has received such high box office in North America. It also won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival last month.
Nowadays, this movie is very popular, and it is normal to get tens of millions of dollars at the box office outside North America.
The follow-up movie has been released, and the audio and video products will definitely sell very well.
Think about it, after "Sense and Sensibility", An Li will become the darling of Hollywood, and a large number of commercial movies will find him.
"It seems I have to find time to call An Li and say hello."
"It's better to wait until after the Academy Awards. "Sense and Sensibility" has been nominated for several awards, so it will definitely win an award."
"That's okay."
...
On the morning of March 26, when Zhou Yan went to the office, he saw Han Sanping sitting on the sofa in his office drinking tea.
Zhou Yan looked at his watch, it was only half past eight.
"Third brother, why are you here so early in the morning?"
Han Sanping held the tea cup and smiled, "I miss the tea in your office. Come and have a sip."
Zhou Yan twitched the corner of his mouth, "Have you had breakfast?"
"Have you eaten, what time is it. You don't really think I'm here for tea, do you? You know what day it is today. ”
“What day is it today, Tuesday?”
Han Sanping rolled his eyes, "Today is the time of the Oscars. News will definitely come from the United States later. I came to you to get first-hand news."
" Just for this?”
“Ang, just for this, isn’t this a good enough reason?”
Zhou Yan scratched his head, “If you are anxious to know, let me know as soon as possible. I’ll just call you as soon as possible. If that doesn’t work, I’ll ask Zhang Youan to inform you first and then inform me.” Trouble.”
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Okay, third brother, please sit down and wait for a while. I still have some music scores that I haven't finished yet."
These two days he is compiling "Drinking the Water of the Yangtze River Together" for Qingyinfang. There was still the last bit left to finish the music score. He planned to finish it today, so he started working on it early in the morning.
Seeing Zhou Yan working as soon as he arrived, Han Sanping shook his head and sighed. Zhou Yan's determination is really not comparable to that of ordinary people.
Not to mention young men in their twenties, even if it were Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, they were eagerly looking forward to the results of the award ceremony at the moment, and how could they have the mind to do other things.
I don’t blame Zhou Yan for his success. With this determination, what can he do or not?
After a while, Zhao Zhang rushed in from outside and said, "Brother Yan, is there any news from the United States?"
Zhao Zhang rushed in without thinking and saw Han Sanping sitting on the sofa. , the person suddenly stopped.
"Han, Director Han, you are here too."
Han Sanping smiled and nodded, "Well, I'm here to wait for the news too."
Zhou Yan is confused Zhao Ji glanced at him and said, "You are so grown up, but you are still so frizzy."
Zhao Zhang shrank his head after being scolded by Zhou Yan.
Despite his usual calling of Brother Yan, Brother Yan, Zhou Yan’s weight in his heart is not ordinary. There are so many teachers in the college, and he respects Zhou Yan the most.
“I’m worried about you.”
Zhou Yan pursed his lips and smiled, “If the American Film Institute knew you were so anxious, they would definitely give me the award.”
Looking at this situation, Zhao Zhang also knew that the result should not be out, so he said, "Then I will come back later?"
Zhou Yan waved his hand, "Don't leave, stay for a while, or you will die of panic."
"Oh, okay." Zhao Ku immediately became happy and went to carry the kettle diligently, "I'll do it Add some hot water to Director Han.”
About ten minutes later, the phone on Zhou Yan’s desk suddenly rang.
Zhou Yan hadn't moved yet, but Han Sanping and Zhao Gao moved first, both of them stretching their necks to look this way.
Seeing their eyes, Zhou Yan smiled and picked up the phone.
"Hello?"
Yu Hua's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Is there any news from Oscar?"
Zhou Yan curled his lips and said, "Why are you paying attention to this?"
"Why can't I pay attention? We agreed before that if you want to win the prize, you have to treat us to a drink."
"Even if I don't win the prize, when will I stop drinking with you?" ?”
"It feels different. You won the award, and I drink your wine, and I feel more at ease."
"There is no news yet. When the news comes, I will call you. I won't call you now." Let’s talk.”
“Okay, let’s not talk anymore, otherwise your phone will be busy.”
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yan said to Han Sanping and others, “It’s Yu Hua, so is he. Let’s ask about Oscar.”
Han Sanping and the others also heard what Zhou Yan said just now, and they knew it was not from the United States.
"It seems that we are not the only ones paying attention to this award."
"Yu Hua is paying attention to whether there is a drink."
"Everyone who meets you has a share. If you win the award, you have to treat me to a drink." "
"No question..."
Before Zhou Yan finished speaking, the phone on the table rang again, and he picked it up.
The call was from Zhang Youan's assistant Xiao Wu. After Xiao Wu said a few words, Zhou Yan nodded, "Yes, I understand."
After that, he hung up the phone.
Zhao Zhang couldn't wait to ask, "Is this news from the United States?"
"Yes." Zhou Yan nodded, and then sighed, "Oh, what a pity."
< br>Hearing what Zhou Yan said, Han Sanping and Zhao Gao were both a little disappointed.
Although they know that it is normal for them not to win this award, they still feel extremely disappointed. For such a good opportunity, they don’t know when they will have to wait until next time.
Just when Zhao Zhang was about to say something to comfort Zhou Yan, he heard Zhou Yan say with a smile, "What a pity, I can't keep the wine at home."
Zhao Before Zhang could react, Han Sanping next to him slammed the coffee table, making it tremble, "You kid! You're teasing our nerves!"
Zhou Yan said with a smile, "You're just playing with your heartbeat. , Third brother, just say it’s not exciting. The results have come out, and "Sense and Emotion" won the best soundtrack."
Zhao Wei clenched his fists excitedly, "That's great, that's great. Okay! ”
He spun around twice and then ran outside quickly.
Before Zhou Yan asked him what he was doing, he heard his high-pitched voice coming from the corridor facade, "Extra number, extra number, Teacher Zhou won the Oscar for Best Score!"
Zhao Lao's voice resounded through the entire building, and it was so penetrating that Zhou Yan wondered if this kid had gone to the vocal music department to steal lessons when he was fine. (End of this chapter)