Rebirth Begins with a Manga Adaptation

In the provincial capital of Guizhou, Jing Yu just got off the plane when he saw Fu Jing whom he had seen before.

With enthusiasm on her face, she greeted her directly.

"Teacher Jing Yu."

In the coffee shop, Jing Yu looked at the person playing the piano with great interest, while Fu Jing, who was sitting opposite him, stared intently at the script he wrote about the first three episodes of the soul of chess.

Her attitude, with the gradual study of the script, gradually changed from the enthusiasm and excitement at the beginning to the hesitation and hesitation now.

"Mr. Jingyu, I would like to ask, is this drama a love drama based on the element of chess? Just like your April and White Album 2, the protagonists know each other through music, meet and then fall in love. In fact, in the drama Soul of Chess, there will be a heroine in the back, because she is attracted by the chess skills of the hero Jing Guang, and then staged a wave of Go sadomasochism?"

"No, it's not." Jing Yu blinked, and he quickly responded to Fu Jing.

"Oh, in fact, the game of Go in this drama is just a cover. The point is that the so-called thousand-year-old chess monster Zuo Wei, in fact, the male protagonist Jing Guang on the bright side is actually a soy saucer. The point of this drama is a brief introduction. This is the love story of a thousand-year-old chess monster, right?"

"No, it's not." Jing Yu looked at Fu Jing strangely.

"Producer Fu, why do you always attach so much importance to the element of love! The name of this drama is called Soul of Chess, and the content is all about playing Go. This drama is a Go sports drama!"

Upon hearing this, Fu Jing looked at the script and Jing Yu repeatedly.

"That, so, if I understand correctly, isn't your new drama, Mr. Jing Yu, a love drama? Is it really a drama about junior high school students playing Go?"

"That's right, you, the producer, have no problem with your understanding. It's just a Go sports drama! And there won't be any romantic elements in this drama." Jing Yu has also noticed that something is wrong now.

"Are you saying that any romantic elements will not appear in the later plot?" Fu Jing took a deep breath and said.

"That's right!" Jing Yu nodded and said.

"Why, pay the producer, hasn't Orange Sea produced a lot of sports-themed dramas? Why aren't you very optimistic about this drama?"

Of course! Fu Jing complained wildly in her heart.

Jing Yu became famous by producing three consecutive romance dramas. The entire industry has positioned Jing Yu as a romance screenwriter.

Of course, among Da Zhou’s screenwriters, there are many all-rounders. Love dramas, workplace dramas, suspense dramas, detective dramas, and martial arts dramas can all create great scripts, but those kinds of people are rare.

In fact, many screenwriters are deeply involved in one subject and will not change easily.

Jing Yu's three love dramas have been well received in a row, which proves his talent in love themes, but competitive sports dramas are another matter.

Moreover, the general competitive sports drama is to engage in some simple and popular sports, interspersed with various adolescent love plots.

For example, basketball, football, table tennis, etc., the rules are simple, and even audiences who have never played these sports can understand how this kind of sports fights with a simple narration.

Or it’s ice skating, boxing, track and field, swimming, cycling, etc. Audiences don’t even need to understand the complicated sports rules, just watch how handsome and beautiful actors show off their graceful figures or play handsome.

And in Da Zhou's past sports dramas, there are basically love plots interspersed in them, and the final ending is a double harvest of career and love, so that the audience does not look boring and boring.

Go?

what is that?

Jing Yu even printed a few chess records that appeared in the first three episodes on paper for Fu Jing to read.

How can I understand Go records? Fu Jing complained in her heart.

Fu Jing saw the huge weakness of Jing Yu's drama at a glance.

Go is too hardcore. It’s different from basketball and football. Sports dramas such as basketball and football are simple and entertaining. In real confrontation, tactics, positioning, and execution are really complicated, but the audience doesn’t need to know so much. The audience only needs to understand that football is kicking the ball into the goal, and basketball is throwing the ball into the basket, and then they can watch it without too many obstacles.

But Go, what the hell?

I haven’t studied it for a year or two, but you can tell what is famous from the chess records. In Jing Yu’s script, the nouns such as sharp, long, standing, blocking, and flying are directly ignorant to Fu Jing. The game records of the protagonist Jing Guang and the supporting role Yu Liang, she After watching it for a long time, I couldn't understand why Yu Liang would admit defeat in the middle of the game, and was so hit.

As for Fu Jing, she couldn't understand it, which also meant that if the script was made into a film and television drama, the audience would also not understand it.

It's still a purely sports drama, and even Jingyu's best love story has been said by himself.

This is even worse. It shows that ordinary viewers who can't understand Go, and may be attracted by the plot of the love line, have been excluded from the screenwriter Jing Yu from the beginning.

There are more than one billion people in Dazhou, how many of them know Go?

Fu Jing Even if there are 20 to 30 million people who know Go in Dazhou, how many of these two to 30 million Go lovers will choose to watch this Go drama?

One-twentieth, one-fifteenth?

If it counts as one-tenth, then even if two or three million people watched it on time, the ratings would be pitifully low, even less than 1%.

The six major TV stations have not produced a drama with an audience rating of less than 1% for more than ten years.

Although Fu Jing was really interested in the scripts of the first three episodes of the show, a thousand-year-old chess monster possessed a junior high school student who didn't know how to play Go, and she did have a sense of anticipation for the next story.

But to put it bluntly, that's just her own thinking. Fu Jing is very clear that she is alone but her preferences are not important, what matters is the preferences of the billions of people in Dazhou.

Fu Jing sighed, with so many thoughts in her heart, it must be difficult to express them all.

"Mr. Jing Yu, do you have any other scripts besides this one called Soul of Chess? It's best a script about love." Fu Jing looked at Jing Yu expectantly.

Many young screenwriters actually have a lot of ideas for their works. If Jing Yu's game is not good, then other works may not be bad! Fu Jing is still very optimistic about Jing Yu, especially his creative ability in love dramas.

Upon hearing her words, Jing Yu looked at her.

"The script of the chess soul, is there any problem?"

"No, it's not that there's a problem with the script. I even read the scripts of the first three episodes of the Soul of Chess. It's just some textual descriptions of the plot, which makes me think the story is extremely interesting." Fu Jing said with a smile as she picked up her coffee.

"Then why?"

"But it has a high probability of not being popular."

Fu Jing's choice of words was more careful, and she used the description of high probability. In fact, she basically thought that this drama would not be popular.

"Go. It's not very popular in Dazhou! If the audience doesn't understand the rules of Go, and can't understand the game of Go, and the Go drama is not like other sports dramas, such as figure skating, in the process of competitive confrontation. It is very entertaining. Then what will the audience be attracted by this drama?"

When Jing Yu heard that Fu Jing was in such a school, his heart immediately became clear!

suffered

Jing Yu instantly realized that he had made a mistake.

Because he has the perspective of God, he knows that the work of the soul of chess has nothing to do with whether the audience understands Go. I don't know how to play Go

Even the live-action manga adaptation of Soul of Chess in China was equally popular, attracting praise from a large number of film and television drama audiences who did not understand Go.

Because of the market test in his previous life, Jing Yu was sure that it would be no problem to directly show the work Soul of Qi. Even if the audience in Dazhou didn't know Go, they would fall into a state of frenzy for watching the drama.

But Jing Yu ignored an important issue. It is the final link for a drama to be recognized by the audience. But the first link to overcome is to be recognized by the TV station.