The day after Zhou Yan returned to Yanjing, he went to the school to meet with his teacher Shi Wanchun, and then reported to the principal Liu Lin.
When he arrived at Liu Lin's office, Vice Dean Wang Cizhao was also there.
Seeing Zhou Yan, Wang Cizhao said with a smile, "Zhou Yan, you're back."
Although Zhou Yan is the assistant to the dean, he spends less time in the school. There is also less time spent dealing with each other.
When Zhou Yan was studying as an undergraduate, Wang Cizhao was still in the Music Aesthetics Teaching and Research Department, and the two had little intersection.
"Well, I just came back yesterday, and I came here to report to the principal today."
Wang Cizhao joked, "Why should you come to report? We will know what you are doing by reading the newspaper. This time you The tour in the United States was a great success, and the teachers and students of our school are also very excited.”
Although Zhou Yan has had little contact with Wang Cizhao, he knows Wang Cizhao somewhat.
Wang Cizhao speaks heartily and generously, has a very high emotional intelligence, has a good academic level, and is also very good at interpersonal relationships.
Actually, Wang Cizhao’s qualifications are not very advanced. Although he is almost fifty years old this year, he has only graduated thirteen years ago, and he is in the same period as Tan Dun and his golden generation of composers.
Because when he was in middle school, he happened to catch up with the special period and went to the Construction Corps to work as a farmer for ten years. By the time he was admitted to the Central Academy of Music in 1978, he was already close to thirty years old.
But in just these thirteen years, he climbed to the position of deputy dean, and he is still the most promising deputy dean to succeed Liu Lin.
As expected, Liu Lin retired the next year. If no one else emerges by then, the position of principal will definitely go to Wang Cizhao.
Although Wang Cizhao graduated from the music theory department, he was actually from the composition department. He had a good relationship with Yu Runyang and Wang Yuhe.
Of course, he also regards Zhou Yan as one of his own.
Although Zhou Yan never thought about forming a clique, people in the world cannot help themselves. Even if you do nothing, someone will naturally divide you into factions.
In fact, doing nothing means doing everything.
After Zhou Yan graduated, he never took the initiative to do anything in the school. Whether he became the assistant to the department head or the assistant to the dean, others asked him to do it.
But he didn't refuse. Since he didn't refuse, people naturally thought that he belonged to the composition school, and he was also the backbone of the composition school.
Principal Liu Lin smiled and said, "This time your ten concerts in the United States have also attracted a lot of attention at home. According to media reports, your concerts are all sold out. This is Is it true or is it exaggerated by the media? ”
"There are some exaggerations, but it is basically true. The ten concerts this time will definitely be sold out, and the response from the scene is also very good. In fact, the time is still short, otherwise we can add a few more concerts."
"It doesn't matter. Let's go step by step. This year there will be ten games in the United States, and next year we can have fifteen or even twenty games. What are your plans next? Director Shi told me before that you only have one major elective left this semester. Are you in class?"
Zhou Yan nodded, "After school starts, I have a new movie to shoot. If there are too many classes, I'm afraid it will delay the students."
"It's okay to do this, teaching. Work is certainly important, but you have more important things to do, so it is a wise choice to separate from academic affairs and focus more on other important things. However, this last elective course cannot be taken anymore. Minus. After all, you are a teacher. If you don’t even attend a class, it doesn’t make sense.”
“I understand that as long as I have time, I will definitely give priority to school matters. ”
Liu Lin smiled and said: "Besides teaching students, you have nothing else to do at the school for the time being. Although you are currently holding the position of assistant to the dean, you don't need to pay attention to the specific affairs. I will leave everything to others."
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Zhou Yan sat in the principal's office for about half an hour. Although he said that he was going to report on work, during this half hour, they did not talk about work at all.
After all, Zhou Yan didn't do much work at school last semester, and there was very little he could report.
After coming out of the principal's office, Zhou Yan went directly to the studio.
I haven't been back for a while, and I have accumulated a lot of piecemeal work, especially the preparation for the filming of "Time Traveler", which is finally about to be officially launched.
He first called Liu Hang over and asked about the recent situation in the studio, and then he called Xiao Can and Li Hong over for a brief meeting.
During this period, Zhou Yan was outside, but Xiao Can and the others did not rest for a day, and were all busy preparing for the filming of "Time and Space Traveler".
Zhou Yan contacted various departments and learned about their recent progress.
After roughly understanding the progress of each department, Zhou Yan said to Li Hong, "Li Hong, please invite the actors here to audition according to the candidate list."
"What time?" Lihong asked.
"It's up to you to decide the time. I can do it in the near future. Just try to concentrate on it within a few days."
"Okay, I will contact you, and I will give you a call tomorrow morning at the latest. You answer."
Zhou Yan nodded and asked, "What's the situation with the clothes now?"
"Teacher Dong will come to meet you this Sunday."
He didn't ask Dong Wenmiao what time he would come over on Sunday, because he would also call Dong Wenmiao later to ask about the situation.
Actually, the costume design this time is nothing special. Because it is fashion, there are relatively few details that need to be paid attention to. Just focus on matching the characteristics of the character. Zhou Yan and Dong Wenmiao also talked a lot on the phone before.
Furthermore, Dong Wenmiao has the script of "Space Traveler" and even a small part of the storyboard. I think these things will be very helpful for her in designing the movie costumes.
Zhou Yan has always attached great importance to the costumes in movies, and always spends a lot of thought and money on them.
There are probably only a handful of domestic directors who can spend as much money on film costumes as Zhou Yan.
Of course, this refers to fashion movies, which are definitely not comparable to those costume movies.
Under normal circumstances, domestic directors pay little attention to clothing when filming modern dramas. Some directors even directly let the actors wear their own clothes.
Even if they have enough budget, they don’t want to spend money on it.
And Zhou Yan’s money spent on costumes was not in vain, especially when he was filming "The Sixth Sense". Clothes played a big role in why the heroine looked so good in the filming.
……
After the meeting with Xiao Can and the others, Zhou Yan returned to his office alone.
During the filming of his fourth feature film, he felt a lot more relaxed. As long as he gave a direction for many things, Xiao Can and the others would implement them and they did a good job.
After resting for a while in the office, Zhou Yan called Xu Xiangjie from Huanyin again.
Xu Xiangjie was very happy to receive a call from Zhou Yan. He first congratulated Zhou Yan on his successful tour in the United States, and then reported to him the development of Wang Lihong and Mayday. Wang Lihong and Mayday are both signed to Phantom Music. Since the former is a "second-hand artist" and has just released a record, the company is basically still cooperating with the promotion of his new record.
Mayday is an amateur band. In the early stage, the company needs to spend time to find their position and then give them a complete development plan.
The plan has been made, and the time for their group performance has been determined, which will be at the end of this month.
"Wang Lihong is still in Taiwan?" Zhou Yan asked.
"No, he just went to the United States, but he will be back in a few days. Once some things at the school are settled, he can come over."
Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "Let him come directly to Yanjing and record "How Long Will I Love You"."
"Okay, I will tell him."
"There is one more thing. I want to find a female singer with good English. Do you have any recommendations for suitable candidates?"
"A female singer with good English? Are you going to record an episode for a new movie?"
"Yeah."
Xu Xiangjie smiled and said, "Okay, let me sort it out and list a few people. Choose for you.”
"Okay."
After saying this, Zhou Yan hung up the phone. There are many songs in "Time Traveler" that require both male and female vocals, and they must be in good English.
Zhou Yan’s idea is to search domestically first. If he can’t find a suitable one, he can also give the song to a European and American singer. Anyway, the episode of his movie is to break into the European and American market. , with a few European and American singers mixed in, the songs are a little easier to hit.
Because there are a lot of pop songs in this movie, when he plans to release the movie soundtrack, he will follow the routine of pop singers releasing albums, and create a few hits, and maybe it will hit the charts in Europe and the United States. You can also get a championship single.
……
After Xu Xiangjie hung up Zhou Yan's phone, he sat in a chair and thought for a while, then called Zhang Gengyu, the boss of Foremost Records.
After receiving the call from Xu Xiangjie, Zhang Gengyu said with a smile, "Mr. Xu, if you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for anything, you want to poach people from our company again, right?"
" Mr. Zhang joked, I’m here to seek cooperation with you.”
“Cooperation?” Zhang Gengyu expressed interest.
One of the main reasons why he readily handed over Wang Lihong to Huanyin was because he wanted to cooperate with Huanyin. Now that he heard that Xu Xiangjie wanted to cooperate, he was of course happy.
"Didn't you say before that you were the agent for Kelly Chen's Mandarin album? She studied in the United States before, so she should have no problem singing English songs, right?"
"Of course, her English is very good, but she has no problem singing English songs. Question, Mr. Xu, why do you ask that?”
“We may have English songs to sing, and we want to find a female singer with good English. You mentioned Kelly Chen last time, so I immediately sang. I'm here to find you."
Zhang Gengyu raised his eyebrows and asked tentatively, "Is it a song from Zhou Yan's new movie?"
No wonder Zhang Gengyu guessed it. , after all, when Wang Lihong was still at Foremost Records, he had already negotiated with Zhou Yan about singing a new movie episode, and that episode was an English song.
Now Xu Xiangjie called and said that he was looking for a female singer who could sing in English. Naturally, he thought of this.
Although Zhang Gengyu guessed it, Xu Xiangjie did not give him a definite answer. He just smiled and said, "Since Kelly Chen can sing English songs, I will consider her as an alternative."
Hearing that Xu Xiangjie only considered Kelly Chen as an alternative, Zhang Gengyu hurriedly said, "Kelly Chen will definitely have no problem singing English songs. Otherwise, I will send you a sample of her singing English songs this afternoon."
Since Zhang Gengyu said so, Xu Xiangjie naturally would not refuse. He nodded and agreed, "That's okay, then please send someone to send the sample. I will make a decision after hearing it."
……
Here Zhang Gengyu got up and walked out of the office again and found Li Yaming.
"Yaming, are you busy?"
Li Yaming was listening to the song demos that the company had recently collected. When he heard Zhang Gengyu's voice, he raised his head and said, "I am listening to the songs that were collected recently. Xin Ge, what do you want to see me for?"
Zhang Gengyu didn't rush to say anything, but first came over and looked at the music sheet, "How are you? Did you receive any good songs? "
Li Yaming shook his head, "It's not that easy. There have been quite a few songs sent to me recently. It seems that more and more people can write songs, but there are only a few of high quality. Most of them are of high quality. They are all very similar.”
Their company produces songs for its singers, either by inviting well-known musicians to sing songs, or just like this, waiting for others to deliver the songs to their door.
This type of door-to-door delivery is also divided into many types.
Some are behind-the-scenes musicians who have signed with the company, but they are not well-known. They send songs everywhere to promote themselves. There are also some who are not in the music industry at all. They have only been playing music for a few years and want to give music to singers. Write songs.
Many of the songs that their company collects every month are even sent by fans of the singer.
Some fans were quite generous. After sending the songs over, they threatened not to charge any fees.
But usually, this kind of songs cannot be used because they are basically garbage.
There are also some people who blatantly plagiarize and send over some classic songs with slight changes.
As the boss of the Mandarin Department, Li Yaming insisted on listening to all the collected songs because he was worried that there would be a hidden gem in the ocean. But in the end, the hidden gem was not found and his ears were listening to it every day. Be devastated.
Zhang Gengyu said with a smile, "You don't have to have high expectations for this kind of thing. It's more reliable to find someone to invite you to sing."
"Maybe you can pick it up. "Where's the leak?" Li Yaming shrugged and asked, "Why did you come to me?"
Only then did Zhang Gengyu get down to business, "Do you have a demo of Kelly Chen singing an English song here?"
Li Yaming looked confused, "Yes, yes, what do you want this for?"
" It's like this..."
Zhang Gengyu briefly described the matter to Li Yaming. After the latter thought for a moment, he said, "That sample is not very good. I think if you really want those of them She can record another song alone.”
Hearing what Li Yaming said, Zhang Gengyu also thought it made sense. And because the Mandarin album is about to be released, Kelly Chen is in Taiwan now, so it is easy for her to come over. (End of chapter)